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iiiii!!iijaj'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiH illlilllillllllll lacuoi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii On S-mlnuU blast on sirens and whlitUt ti th signal lot blackout In Klamath Fall. Another long blast, during black out, la signal lor all-clear. In preceu tlonaty parlods, watch your atraat llghu. Jun 14. High 77, Low 47 Precipitation a ol Jun I. 1941 Stream yaar to dat ......... 13.08 Last yaar .. ..... ...12.48 Normal , 11.25 ASSOi THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES tin 'MN'.'IDIIH ,, ,, ,,,, ,v StU Mill I KLA MATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. 1942 Number 9516 Nl I TJDir'Il' vivir PITMTQ t o !rptiw! Ill :i nCiii in ! M fill WE i'iiiiifflii!i:!::-i'f I ! i ! ll ii1 : w mmm Millilli ! iliiii!,: III I IlilH I II I H l I I: News m iiili!:i;:!:!iii:':! ihilllillllllliliil L By FRANK JENKINS npHE British say ioduy tho Malta and Tobruk convoya w o r a a "limited success," achieved at "comtldcrnblo cost," But It was ncccsmiry to Inko the risk Biid tiy tiio price. A commentator In London says: "If Multn wore neutralized by the onemy, or In his hands, tho axis supply problem In northorn Africa would bo a comparatively Implo one." pROM tiny Malta, In the nnr " row teas between Italy and kAfrlc. allied LAND-BASED 'Dlunca operate. These narrow seas are tho shortest, easiest routo for axis reinforcement to Africa. After the news of the past fow days, you don't need to be told of tho importance to our ide of such a base. nrllB situation at Tobruk l In- ereaslngly critical, Rommel has It surrounded on three aides. Ha fate may depend upon tho supplies brouKht by the convoy that has )ut readied It. Tho Germans, today's dis patches tell us, are In the favor able position of having more and HEAVIER tanks and anti-tank Him. ' Weeks of flKhtlng hava depleted tho supply of US-made tanks tho British had lit the : etart, forcing, them to full back on older tank! thai are no match for those Rommel la using. , t . ) There aro hlnU In the-news that Rommol'a tank aro STILL SUFKRIOR in fire power. Also his anti-tank guns. pLANES again scored heavily In the Mediterranean battlo. London any the Italian naval squadron that sat out to Inter cept the Tobruk convoy was ao badly bnttorod by British and American airmen that It NEVER MADE CONTACT with its ob jective. One Italian battleship was hit 20 times by US fliers and an other IB times. Major Kalbcrcr, who led the Americans, says to day at Colro: "It was like shoot ing fish In a barrel." CEVASTOPOL shares tho spot light today with Tobruk. Its dofenscs are IS miles deep. Unlike Singapore, they are point ed towurd tho land, from which the attack is coming. The Russians evidently fore saw that if Sevastopol were) at tacked It would bo BY GER MANY,' and honco the attack would come from tho landward side. In fnlrnes to tho British, it should bo recalled that when Slngnporo' dofenscs were built Japan was an ally of. Britain and thu countries to the north of Malaya wcro weak. By all the ordinary expecta tions, It then seemed that any attack on Singapore must come from the sea. (As it probably seemed to the Russians when they built Sevastopol's defenses that any major nttack must come by land.) TF you want to understand the r persistence of tho German at tack on Sevastopol, get out your map. It will show that tho shortcut route to the Caucasus is by way of tho Crimean penin sula. Sevastopol, as long as Russia holds It, wilt be a threat on the flnnk of any Gorman advanco toward tho Cuuansus. No com' matidcr has over wanted to leave a threat on his flnnk. . WIIY tho -overall Importnnco , of tho Caucasus? ' Tho answer Is OIL. Moro than 85 per cent of Rus nin'M oil supply comes from tho Caucasus (tho strip of land lying between the Black and the Cas pian seas.) Approximately 70 per cent comes from tho great fields around Baku, , ERMANY needs oil des pcratcly. But that isn't ell. SO DOES RUSSIA. If Hitler, at one stroke, can GAIN OIL FOR HIMSELF and TAKE IT AWAY FROM RUS' (Continued on Pago Two) : iTk"niiii!Mi'iim iil'lilln i I lilitlii.l' H n n a Wvw Anvnns.viin,ira Hft M lfU UB CAN BE LOST Statements Based Confidential Telegrams on MELBOURNE, Australia, Juno 17 (A') Prime Minister John ' Curtln ' told Australians somberly today that the war nows was not good, that "Aus tralia can bo lost," and that the fall of this continent would lay Hawaii and the wholo North American coast open' to Japan ese attack. In a radio address appealing for war loan subscriptions at the rate or 5,uo,uou a day for th remaining five days of a currant drive, Curtln based his state ments on confidential , official telegrams. 1 Ho declared tho axla was en gaged in three powerful separate thrusts against the United Na tions and that each was of vital Importance to Australia. i Tho dynamic operation now proceeding, said Curtln, are the uowcrful: G rm art onslaught against Russia, tho thrust In Libya and 1 the sustained and widespread submarine attacks on Billed ampping. ' "Australia is Irrevocably link ed with the wara In Libya and Russia," ho aald. Libyan News Bad ' "The news from Libya is not good. Rommel has mado. gains at great cost, but nevertheless . (Continued on Pago . Two) ! . British Resume : Bombing of Ruhr, Rhineland LONDON, June 17 (P) Brit ish bombers smashed again at nazl war plants In the Ruhr and Rhineland regions of Germany last night although bad weather which had forced a week-long lull still had not fully cleared. Eight British bombers failed to, return from tho nights of fensives, which Included mine sowing In' enemy waters, the air ministry said. Its communique added that a German fighter was shot down attempting to Intercept the RAF bombers and that a British fighter also was lost on daylight offensive patrol over northern Franco yesterday. Tho sizo of the raiding forma- tlon was apparently average, ob servers said, appreciably below tho scope of the 1000-pIane at tacks upon Cologne and Essen May 30 and June 1. . Tho Berlin radio reported seven bombers had beon downed during attacks, described by DNB as nuisance raids, upon sev eral places In western and south western Germany. CURTIN WARNS AUSTRALIA Roosevelt Signs Fighting Forces' Pay WASHINGTON, Juno 17 (F) A moasuro boosting the mini mum base pay for tho nation's fighting forces to $00 a month was signed today by President Roosajvolt. ' j K For most of . tho men, .it means nt least $20 moro each month for necessities and enter tainment on tlmo-off, or to send back homo to dependents. " Tho bill makes the increase rotror active to June 1. .'.'- The measure covers ranks up to and including that of second lieutenant In tho army and tho comparable grade of ensign In tho navy, whoso base pay would bo increased from $1500 to $1000 a year. Tho bill also wiil boost rental allowances for officers. Under existing law, on listed men abroad or on sea duty receive a a riiwi c,uynu uuvinui Commandos Launch Victory Dance Ticket Sale w. - - t fj 7-V '.-v 4f;t"i: I lm Si - A oroup of Klamath' "Commandos," girl war .service organlaatlon, li' shown her making a landlna from Uooeri Klamath be held July 3.Th agar ,vlctima and Ed Ball. Victory celebration talnment it a special actlrlty of - U. S. Airmeni RAF Smash Italian Squadron Aimed M Convoy, British Claim LONDON, June 17 W) An Italian naval squadron in the central , Mediterranean' was so battered and hurt by United States army airmen and , the RAF that it never made con tact with the Tobruk-bound con voy if had sot out to intercept, a British source stated, today.; ' i It was declared officially that- convoys early this " week ' had delivered necessary supplies to both Malta and Tobruk "at con siderable cost."' . ' What . this cost ' was. In ships and men wos not disclosed,; but the' convoy operation were de scribed officially as, 'a limited success.!' ; (The British radioi in a broad cast heard . In . New .' York ' by CBS, said there had been allied losses but "they will bo with held until their revelation can no longer help tho enemy.") There was no London com ment on German reports of yes terday that a United States bat tleship was among the escort of one of the convoys. r' The British admiralty and air ministry yesterday, dismissed as fantastic the declarations of the Italian and German commands that axis forces sank or dam aged 83 or moro warships and merchantmen In the ' Mediter Boost Measure an extra 20 per cent and of ficers 10. per cent' of their monthly pay. . Meanwhile, legislation to pro vide financial Assistance for de pendents of soldiers and sail ors and slating a congressional policy that tho selective service should "not break up the in; slltutlon of the homo" as tem; porarlly held up on Capltot Hill for an editorial correction to be made by a concurrent resolu tion. ' . " , . i The house approved a com promise version, of the measure yesterday, in the same form that it was accepted by the sen ate, but a check-showed that a date hod been omitted from one clause where it was intended that It should be, Tho house Im mediately adopted the correct (Continued m Page Two) n n lake .with batch ol. ticket for on tri'dt.ck.ar-C. BrRocertauw proceed will go to th troop the Commandos. . : ranean battles of Sunday and Monday. British communiques yester day announced the sinking of an Italian heavy cruiser (ad mitted by the Italians) and two destroyers and damaging of six other warships. Including , two Italian battleships hit and set afire by American bombers and rRAF torpedo planes. s On both the allied and axis sides shore-based aircraft appar ently did the major portion of damage to the opposing surface forces.' ..''.' Mussolini's Lesson The failure of the heavy Ital ian squadron even to get Into contact with the Tobruk con voy was declared to (havo taught Mussolini's navy that "like the Jopancsc fleet in the' Pacific," (Continued on Pago Two) Ickes Approves Oil Pipe Line Across Florida, WASHINGTON, ' June 17 () Petroleum Coordinator Harold L'. Ickes announced today ap- Droval of plans for the coa struction of an 8-Inch petroleum products pipe line across north ern Florida, to help supply the Atlantic coastal areas as far north as Norfolk, Va. Tho project was "proposed by the American Liberty Pipe Line comnany. Dallas, Tex., to be built with second-hand pipe ex cavated In Texas. Ickes said the company now was negotiotlng financing arrangements - with government agencies. With a dally capacity .csti' mated at 38.000 barrels, the pro' posed conduit would extend from Port St. Joe on the Florida gulf coast to Jacksonville on the cast coast, a distance of 220 miles. - Sugar Ration Ruling Changed WASHINGTON, Juno 17 (IP) Consumers who were unable to obtain ration books because they had excess supplies of sugar will be permitted to obtain books it tho excess has been depleted by home canning, the office of price administration announced today. Application may bo mado to local war price and rationing boards. n th Victory! celebration dance to Andfy Collier. Lynn Roycroft entertainment f una. Troop enter ( . "i, : EN DARWiN RAID Damage Described, by Headquarters ' as' "Negligible"' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Australia, June 17 - (P) Japa nese bombers tried again for the fourth successive day -yesterday to score an air blow against the for northern Australian port of Darwin and again achieved noth ing to repay their costs, General MacArthur s headquarters an nounced today. - . Although the Japanese sent over waves of 27 bombers on three of the four days, the allied headquarters communique each time has described the damage as ''slight or "negligible." On the other day, last Sunday the bombers never reached their objective because United Na (Continued on Page Two) Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE . . R. H. New York 0 5 1 Detroit i 1 6 Breuer and Dickey; Trout and Tobbetti. NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. Chicago 1 4 Brooklyn , 5 , 7 Lee and McCullough; Higbe and Owen. . ' . R. St. Louis ; 3 New York 0 M. Cooper and W. H. 9 5 Cooper: Melton, , Adams . (9) and Van- nlng.' ' (First game) : ; R. H. Cincinnati 4 6 Boston . 2,7 ' Derringer and Lamanno; Ear- Icy, Hutchings (5),; Donovan (8) and Kluttz. Salvage ' That Rubber . . .,- . . . , 1 f , Thirteen days from now you'll b out of luck If you haven't ransacked the hall closet for, old rubbers and galoshes, because the rub bar salvage campaign ends on th 30th, and you want your galoshes to be some of th 1Q00 pairs that are going to provide the scrap for one bombing plane, don't your tyvil UVLVlUld A Municipal Field Under Lease to Military Authorities Klamath's municipal airport has been taken over by the United States army, it was an nounced Wednesday after pub lication of the information was approved by Colonel J. L. Stromme, commanding officer of the Portland airbase. The - city council this week agreed to a contract whereby the government leases the airport from June, l, l4z to June ju, 1943, ,with the lease, rei.'jwable each year' until the war is over and for six months after the end of .the. war. : ... City Engineer E. A. Thomas said that the army is immediate ly taking over and will operate all facilities at the field, which is located on Summers lane and the. Spring lake road and has recently undergone extensive dei velonment by , the civu aero nautics authority. ' Personnel Expected r While full significance of the move; has not- been , revealed. Thomas said he was given . to Understand the army would move personnel here within fortnight in connection with op eration of the airport. The city engineer said he un derstands the pilot training pro gram at the airport will con tinue for the present, although possibly . under, changed status now that the army is operator of the field. The training program heretofore has been operated by a private government contractor, Louis Soukup, under the civil ian pilot training program. 'Military use of the field, if (Continued on Page Two) Lexington Men Here, Report Swen Hut Safe Three Klamath area survivors of tile sinking of the aircraft car rier Lexington were safe at home today and brought with them the good news that fourth local sailor, of whom no previous word had been heard, was safe in a west coast port. Back home on 14-day leaves were Jack Walts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Waits of West Klam ath; Wesley Yancey, son of Mr and Mrs. Frank L. Yancey of 1920 Gary street: and Joe A. Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rogers of Malin. They brought word that Swen C. Hult, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hult of Altamont drive, had sur vived the Coral sea sinking in early May and was back on United States soil. Yancey and Waits arrived last (Continued on Page Two) RI ASSIES OPERATION OF AIRPORT HERE Klamath Scrap Passes 30-Ton Mark Today Klamath's scrap rubber pile crept over the 30-ton mark to day as housewives and young sters began to contribute tennis shoes, overshoes, rubber boots and garden hose to add to the huge assortment of wornout tires already turned in. . Promises of more than 20 tons of additional rubber were re ported by oil dealers and dis tributors and pickups were ex pected to be made today and to morrow. ' '? R. O. Snodgrass, chairman of the Klamath Falls campaign, said that hidden rubber, "bonan zas" are turning up in abandon ed truck logging camps where used tires have been cast aside and forgotten. Leads Task Force y & JUS". r Rear Admiral Robert C. Grif fon commands a powerful U. S. naval- task fore - serving with th British bom fleet BUSS FORCE AXIS Battle for Sevastopol Swirls Around Big N Highway By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, June . 17 CP Soviet ' counter-attacks on the Kharkov front were reported to day to have forced the Germans to abandon several, lines in one sector . where they tried -to dig intrt niw nnstttonal '- " While -the 'nazis 'Tyore " rolled back there, , Russian dispatches told -of other red army counter attacks in several other Kharkov sectors.-. ". ' : '' '"' In' the battle for Sevastopol the 'fierce -fighting ' swirled around an important highway against ' which : the- Germans launched masses of troops, tanks and planes in six vain assaults. Soviet dispatches said the Germans also attacked the south ern defenses of Sevastopol five times only to be repulsed in every case. .... . The Red army, the dispatches said, was still holding Balaclava, the fishing town seven and a half miles south of Sevastopol made famous by Tennyson's poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade " which occurred during the Crimean war. : The battles for Kharkov and Sevastopol now appeared to be stabilized. The assaults, by the Germans on the Kharkov front were reported to be on a smaller scale today.. . The newspaper Red Star said one nazl attack cost the enemy 13 tanks, five, field guns and a number of men: killed and (Continued on Page Two) Thursday Is Last Day for Sugar Sign-Up Here Earl Reynolds., clerk of the Klamath rationing board, today warned all housewives that to morrow is the last day for reg istration for canning sugar. He said that 20 registration places will be open throughout the county from 10 a. m. 10 d. m. tomorrow. Through the cooperation of County School Superintendent Fred Peterson and City School Superintendent J. P. Wells, the local schools are being used .tor registration offices. Rubber Pile : Snodgrass noted that most rub ber was being sold rather than donated to the drive and urged that more bo given outright, Entire profits from the nation' wide campaign are being given to the United Service organiza tions, tho Red Cross and the army and navy relief funds, he said, and the more rubber do nated the more those groups will benefit. If rubber is donated, he point ed out, virtually air of the $23 per ton government purchase price will accrue to the organ izations whereas, if the rubber Is bought by the oil companies at $20 per ton and later resold to the government at $29, only (Continued on Page Two) ATTEMPTS TO CUT OFF Germans - Have Tank Superiority, Military Expert Says . By FOWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, June 17 (P) British. guns and tanks were reported to day to have beaten off two axis attacks at Sldi Rezegh and Acro ma as Field Marshal Erwin Rom mel sought to storm Tobruk be fore the vital supplies, newly landed at the port under cover of British and American war- planes, could be put Into the fight.- - '-:- . ' A military commentator, said the "position is substantially un changed" with the British hold ing a semicircular defense posi tion west, south and southeast of the port, and the German! smashing steadily, at that line with tanks and artillery. Germans Superior The commentator said the Germans, for the moment, were in the favorable position of hav ing superiority' In numbers of . tanks and anti-tank guns.. , - Three weeks of. intensive fight ing were said to have, depleted the strength of United States built General Grant tanks .which the British , had at the outset. thus forcing -the . British ' to fall back on oTdBf-iype reserve tanks described as no match for, the Mark Fours ,whicn " Rommel's 1 forces have thrown into 'action. Some, sources, expressed .' the belief that the supplies' landed at Tobruk .might include the. neces sary weapons to enable the Brit ish to counter-attack and perhaps regain damaged but repairable tanks which they left behind In withdrawing from the Knights bridge area and their Aln El Ga-zala-Bir Hacheim line '" - Tanks and trockloads of Infan try of both sides were reported engaged in ; fierce fighting be tween Sidif- Rezegh, 25 miles, southeast of Tobruk, and fel Adem,18 miles south of Tobruk. The axis forces were believed to have been reinforced by a new column whichmoved, up to this area at mid-day yesterday.. . Klamath Firms: , ' ! Urged to Take Part In Celebration . " . . . - - Organization's and firms throughout the Klamath basin are ; receiving letters- from the Victory celebration committee asking -them to participate , In the mammoth, celebration parade to be held at 10 a. m. on July 4.. Many organizations are al ready shaping plans for floats, marching groups or comical.' en tries. . :. ' v:v';. ;' Klamath . county chamber of commerce directors referred tho matter of a chamber of com merce float to the community ad vertising committeo Wednesday. Klamath Junior chamber of commerce is in general charge of tho parade, which is to be a basin-wide affair. A feature of the parade will be appearance of. the victory queen and her court. Girls of the basin interested in participat ing will meet at the Elk hotel at 7:30 p. m. Friday. Lunch will be served. Chinese Abandon Shangjao After All-Day Battle : CHUNGKING, June 17 (P) Shangjao, important station , on the Cheklang-Kiangsl railway, has been abandoned to the Japa nese but only after an all-day battle in which 8000 casualties were Inflicted on the invaders, the Chinese high command an nounced tonight. , News Index City Briefs ...Page 5 Courthouse Records Page 3 Comics and Story. .........Page 10 Editorials ....Page 4 Information .-...Page ft Market, Financial Page 2 Pattern ... Page 3 Sports.....,...... Pages 6, 7