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'PlPfllll!!! weatner reews liliuiiiiUiiiiiiiiiliijiMiiniiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiilililliililiiillli:, On 6-mlnut bloat en sirens and whlatlei li th ilgnal lor blackout In Klamath Falli. Another long blast, during a black out. It ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your etreet llghti. Juno H. High 71, Low 43 Precipitation aa of Juno 12. 1841 ' ' .Stream year to data .i...;..-....-..,..'....;lS.OI Lt Year ............. ..............ia.4$ ASSOC. ATmWLKSS in the shastacascade Wonderland NEA FEATURES Normal .,.......; .. 11.58 ,.,, 1 PRICK 1 ", '"Niion:, !ATH FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 19, 1942 Number 9518 n n rt r : j-s mi A j roe HI 111 Mil ' III Mh l , I I' lilili-ll i i! i i!i,l : l i PBSflfiWIIllipiWlWra TT"V ! i raiiiiiiiiii:;!' i ' 111! !!!S!iE!llPil!lilll II! li Mi!: iil!l!il!li!;!!l!ilii:l!iii!fflSI nH-:;i:iii!"'i'i- Bv FRANK JENKINS M Churchill has com to the United States. You know tho . answer In advance. Ho li hero to set nil tho Amer ican help he can ai soon aa pos sible. ft Mr HIS much U certain! 1 All tho help we can glva will be forthcoming. Churchill knowa that. 1 The real question li WHERE tho help wo can give will be moat effective. ' On all the hot ipola of the earth, American help U wanted. And NEEDED. In Ruula, for example. And In the Mediter ranean, in inaia. in auiuuu And In China. EVERYWHERE. .... . ,. : . OUT we can't be everywhere at D once. If we try to spread ourselves too thin, wo ahall crack tomawhor. And we muitn't crack. Too much depends on us, - Our help must be given where it Ts moat- VITALLY NEEDED NOW and where It will be moat effective. - - j -. -That is the problem. ". - V OYou may be reasonably sure tat It li to dlicuti thli problem and to arrive at a decision con cerning it thai Churchill is here. . - i TODAY'S dispatches tell us that "Informed circles" In London think Churchill would like to have more US tanks, ships and planes in the Mediter ranean area, even if it means delay In the much-discussed in- WD.Inn nf ITurAnft. As it probably would ships being too senrco to moke pos slblo the transportntlon and sup- Jily of ADEQUATE Amcrlcsr; orces In BOTH places. .... So It bolls down to this: In tho opinion of Informed Circles In London, the Mediter ranean area Is tho most critical aot In the world at the present omcnt. TF that la true, WHY Is It true? Get out your old stand-by, the piap. It will tell you (if It Is a good one) that outsldo the Western Hemisphere the greatest oil producing area In the world Is in the Russian Caucasus and the Near and Middlo East Iran, Iraq, etc. The Oormans are driving at tills oil from two directions through Russia and ' through Libya toward Egypt and Suez. If not stopped, they can reach It from either direction. , TF they get It, they will have the oil with which to power their huge war machine. But that isn't all. If tho Germans gat the oil RUSSIA WON'T HAVE IT Qd without oil Russia's war ma chine will bo helpless. '. Tho oil of tho Caucasus and the Near and Middle East must be saved at any cost. THERE are two ways to stop 7 Hitler's march toward oil. - One Is to stay between him and his coveted goal with FORCES POWERFUL ENOUGH to stop him. - The other Is to hit him In the rear with farces powerful enough to compel him to withdraw forces from the Russian front In ordor to meet the now threat, thus relieving the pressure on the Russians and enabling them to hold out. ; VESSEL SUNK 0' WASHINGTON, June 19 VP) e navy announced today that a small United States merchant vessel had been shelled and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Caribbean and that survivors had been landed nt an cast coast port. ' Pi GERMANS CLAIM SEVASTOPOL LINEJWED Russ Counter -Attack Collapsed, Axis Reports BERLIN, (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS), June IB (AP) Reporting ."decisive success" for the axis assault on Sevastopol, the high command declared to day that German infantry at tacking from the north had pierced "the last defense lines of the enemy and reached So wernaja bight, opposite . the town of Sevastopol."- "The entire northern part of tha fortress with the exception of one coastal fort In the south western sector. has thus .fallen Into German hands after 12 days of heavy fighting," the high command's communique said. , . "Capture of this last fort Is imminent." . "Desperate counter attacks of tha Russians' oolopicd. - "In the southern sector of tha fortification front Rumanian troops succeeded m driving the enemy out of Important posi tions after violent combats." ' 7583 Prisoners The war bulletin said that from June 7 to 17 the number of prisoners taken in . the as sault on tho big Crimean naval baso increased to 7S3S. , The capture of 20 tanks, 68 guns and an anti-tank battery was reported. The Germans claimed the cap ture of 1288 Russian, pillboxes In heavy hand-to-hand fighting and said 48,230 mines had been removed from the path to Se vastopol, On the, front west of Moscow the high command reported for the third successive day that Russian units behind the Ger man lines were being mopped up. "On the Arctic coast." It add ed, "harbor, - installations of Murmansk and Jokonga were attacked with bombs of heavy caliber and one merchantman of 8000 tons was sunk. Another large freighter was damaged." Scrap Rubber Score Zooms Over 50-Ton Mark Here Friday Zooming over the ' 80-ton mark, Klamath Falls' scrap rub ber pile today was well on its way toward tho second 100,000 pounds. 1 More than 110,000 pounds of old tires and. household gadget were In local oil dealers' yards this afternoon and more scrap was still pouring In. Housewives and youngsters were in full contributory swing after a slow early-week start. Fliers Unfold New Chapter In Stirring Coral Sea Fight By VERN HAUGHLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Austrnlla, Juno 19 VP) A new chapter in tha stirring story of last month's Coral sea battle was unfolded today by American land-based army filers who told how they dcllvorcd tho first of a series of blows that sank IB Japanese ships, set mors than 20 afire and sent the scattered remnants of a great Invasion armada fleeing northward. For four solid days, the fliers disclosed, , they ranged the Sea in relays, striking at tha Jan anese fleet land returning to their bases only for fresh loads of bombs and gasoline. In adding new details to the accounts already given from naval and other quarters, the flicrsoalct the action was fought Mm Led Raid Major Alfred F, Xalbarer (above), commanded the -.flight of V.. S.' B-24 bombers.' .which aeorsd '85 ijircct bomb hits eif two Italian bat tloihipr in -: trj Mediterranean. ; Ha la a former United Airllnea pilot with mora than 1.300.000 miles aa a earn, mercle! flier. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Eitlberer, live in Lafayette, Ind. - FEELS 62ND RAID Allied Fighters Chase Bombers 100 Miles-:, After Attack " ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, June 19 (.P) Attack ing for a third time in tho past three days, Japanese . heavy bombers this time 18 strong with a formidable fighter escort struck today at Port Moresby's harbpr installations. It was the 62d raid on the allied base In New Guinea. The allied fighters based there were reported to have been out numbered by the enemy but the defenders dcllverd strong oppo sition. One allied pilot attacked three zero fighters, broke up one with his cannonflre and saw an other go diving with smoke pour ing from the' motor. '. . During the brief combat two enemy planes were hit by, can non and machlncgun fire. Allied fighters pursued the Japanese more than 100 miles af ter tho raid.' Seven zeros wait ing" for tho return of the attack formation joined the Japanese after tho attack on their way home. ' '. 1 Japanese fliers were reported by an air force spokesman to be using two new type planes In tho southwest Pacific a light ened zero fighter and a cannon bearing medium bomber and loosing their explosives even (Continued on Page Two) out over a wldo area, .'with the rival surface squadrons at least 200 miles apart, probably a rec ord rango for a naval engage ment, and with tho aerial mis siles entirely replacing fleet broadsides for the first time In history. - Turned Back ' Had the Japanese failed to turn back, declared Capt. Harry Spieth of Portland, Ore., not one of the 70 to 80 vessels which originally composed ,tha armada would have survived, Credit for striking the Initial blow against the Japanese fleet was given to Lieutenants Mau rice Hnrgan of Joplln, Mo., and Willis B. Campbell of Chicago, pilots of a plans which sank a large transport In a harbor (Continued 611 Page Two) - j I "1 i i i.' i (' i lit' 1 , k . i AXIS FORGES ' COASTAL AREA : , . (-,.- ; . i i Tobruk Garrison Pre '3ares For Long ' 1 : ' 7: "i Defense " . -CAIRO, Egypt, June 19 (P) Axis forces have occupied the Libyan coastal area between To bruk and Bardia, thus surround' ing Tobruk' by land,. It was ac knowledged today, but British desert: fighters lashed out from their Egyptian border positions to harass the enemy's -left, or landward. ' flank - and reduce pressure on the besieged fortress The Tobruk garrison was pre pared for a long stand. It has been no wly supplied, its barbed wlrsi reinforced, minefields new ly laid and pillboxes strength- wed.-: . ..:"..; - : ' The Germans were busy mov. Ing up great 210-milllmeter guns (8.28 inches in diameter) the largest mobile weapons ever used. in. the desert to bring them ia, beac on. Jpbruk's eqnr centric, defensive system? il t-i'J .;. jne Bluish headqimrtersiofn: munique aia liieui. nuonv nen M. Ritchie's' -eighth army hwas noiaing "strong lortuiect posi tions": oh , the Libyan, frontier. This was interpreted I to mean thai the old familiar, border bat tlegrounds, .Salum and Halfaya ("HeUfire . Pass") again' '.were .partof the. British line, , -,-.-,'.r":.BrltIsh Hold Ground" f The difference this time is that It la the British Instead of the Germans who - hold : the - high ground at Halfaya and nazl Mar shal Rommel's, most difficult task If he is bent on an inva sion' of Egypt Is expected to be that of battering .his way-forward from- low ground which , (Continued. on Page Two) . j Sub War Toll Since Pearf X Harbor Is 278 '-, .-.' , .v ; : : By Tha Associated Preta . ' The announced toll of submarine-sunk allied and neutral ships in the western Atlantic ' since Pearl Harbor stood at 278 today while from Bogota, Colombia, another victim was reported un officially. . V ' . .-. i ' ' j Latest 1 announced ainkingr, which brought to 14 and pos sibly 18 if the Bogota report was true the number of merchant men reported lost, this weekd were those of a. small Norwe gian vessel in the Gulf of Mex ico, a small Dutch freighter and a small American merchant ves sel in tha Caribbean. j Survivors of the American vessel said that a lookout spot ted' the submarine surfacing nearly a mile astern of the ship at 7:30 a, m. (EWT) the day of the attack. ' Captain Charles Hendrlck zig zagged the ship, aa the submar ine opened fire and began pur suit. After 15 minutes of shell ing, the ship caught f Ire. Twenty-one men and the cap tain took to a lifeboat, and nine men to a raft and pulled away as the submarine continued the shelling, The boat made land at noon the next day, and the men on the raft were picked up by a small patrol vessel and taken to a Caribbean. port.' A single torpedo from an axis sub sank the Norwegian ship in . (Continued on Page Two) Civilian Defense Practice ' Postponed ''" No practice "Incident" will be held by the Citizens' De fense council either tonight or Saturday night, it was an nounced. The next emerg ency practice will take place Wednesday evening, June. 24, OCCUPY LIBYAN Axis-Armored Legions Encircle Tobruk Again, Threaten Egypt -AXIS THRUSTS- r BRITISH DEFENSES ' . j. TOLMET Gulf of Sidra (SirteJ s EL AHE!LA 'YT ELMECH.L.V In . ; '-'.'" NEA' Telaphoto '. Mapped hare ia how Col. Gen, Erwln Rommel's axis armored columns- hava aucceeded in' an circling Tobruk again,, driving the main' British body to. the border and placed the slagaf city of Tobruk , In grave peril. A drive eastward toward the Egyptian frontier U threatened. : ; Molotov Underlines Urgency Of Second European Front , MOSCOW, Jijne lpjflV-For- elgn Commissar Vyacheslav Mol' btov ernphaslj,dne.tf)eii'vr geht tisk" of creating si second European front' in' 1942 before the supremo soviet last" , night and expressed the-' hope:. lhat "our1 common enemy will jsoon. experience- to his cost the re sults, of the ever-growing mill- tart.jpltaoor:ttpn '; of .... soylet :Ru5slarvBrltain and the 'United .states; i:V' ,'-. 'a ;v. : '. , Home'irom'hls Wstorit meet ings in London and Washington, Molotov; presented to the,- su preme soviet the 20-year mutual assistance treaty -he-. neoorJatiid in London and' received its:c'ere monlal approval, Wlttt Premier Joseph Stalin watching nd ..oc casionally nodding - Agreement,' Molotov, Mid the treaty .consoli dated - British-Russian, -relations Into a "stable alliance" for the war ana wie puai-wui pctiuu. . : The foreign 'commissar ,told. of the "serious attention' etng given to the question- of a sec ond front'in Lbndoh'and 'Wash ington and said that in the sec ond half of 194Z "deliveries oi munitions'' and supplies to the USSR by the allies will be in creased and accelerated.""-' "This is confirmed above all," he said, "by the increasing .di mensions of the deliveries from the United States." -; ' Molotov said the significance of the understanding he reached In Washington . was not only in the "recognition of the fact of a fightihg collaboration" between the two nations, but also In the provisions for ."coordinated ac- Japs Make New V ! Advances South From Kwangfeng 1 J " CHUNGKING. June 19 ( The Japanese threat . of . over land Invasion of Fuklen province In a. smash- south from -eastern Klangsl Increased tonight, as the Chinese high command disclosed that the; Invaders have made new advances uth .from Kwang feng. ' . . v ' A communique reported fight ing st many different points in Klangsl province, as well as in Chekiang,,to the east, while the Chinese strove to disrupt Japa nese communications. '' ' The Chinese were said to have recaptured Klnkl, 80 miles south of tha Japanese Klangsl base at Nanchang, thus checking one- of the Invaders' thrusts toward Fuklen. -The high command added that "the siege of Nanchang contin ues'.', and said the defenders of the Japanese base were, being pressed hard and suffering heavy casualties. (Nanchang has been under" attack 'for more than . a week by the Chinese who have driven near the city from the west in an effort to divert Japa nese pressure; from the. south and southeast.) ... ' TWO DIE IN CRASH . SANTA ANA, Calif., 'June 19 (yp) -Two aln force pilots Were killed yesterday when their pur-; suit planes collided' In mid-air and crashed on a routine. fin ing flight five miles , west;-of here, -.. '; yt ; , '-. ' v,. "... , . , - - T-JsHsaliakf V .n . f-' jsa LlbT A Won between the two countries In: the .pbsf-war period." iiiJHri. stressed the fact-thaUln his 'talks. In both Washington and. Iondon . "complete, under standing was reached with re gard to, the task of creating a second front In Europe in 1942;"- - It was " tJoted "that .deputies from Latvia Estonia' arid : LlthU'.' anin, me .uuw pauic suki s sqrbed by the soviet union In 194): and.' now.: under '.German occupation,., all seconded . ;the ratification. -Non-Russian observers-took this as an indication of RuMta's 'intention of 'keeping the -three states In ' the soviet 'union - after the - war. . (Russia asked, for a guaranty of her "wisstern" boundary; to Include thft Baltic states, In the London negotiations but was prevailed 6rf ; ta drop. the., issue ior. the present). ,' . . --...'.' . .'-.-! - ) Lexington : Men i - to ' Be Heard oi I Rally Tonight f r I Five' Klamath' men,' veterans of the Coral sea battle and mem bers, of. the Lexington crew, will be Interviewed at the war bond and-navy recruiting rally 'slatr ed- for Friday i night on the courthouse- lawn, at promptly 7:45 o'clock.'. .' ., The' men arrived in Klamath county this .week, to spend well earned furloughs with their fam ilies. They are Jack Waits, Wes ley Yancey and Weston Watson, all from Klamath Falls, Norman. King of Merrill and Joe Bogers of Malin.'-?; ' : --Chief Gunners ' Mate : F. H. Duncan, local recruiting officer, 'twill be on hand to recruit , men lor the United Mates navy n rder that Klamath's quota for the month be -tilled as soon- as possible. . Speaker of the evening, will be! Wilson Wiley. Captain Day tort E. Van Vactor, city attorney and soon to report for duty (Continued on Page Two)! ' Japs Will Try Smash in CHUNGKING, June 19 !(flV-High- Chinese quarters asserted today that fresh, private informa tion just received here convinced them that Japan , Intended ''to' Strike at Siberia - some time. In July. , . . '-, (Soviet Russia and Japan have a five-year neutrality and friend ship pact which was signed April 13, 1941, and which has been respected 'despite the. fact that Japan is at war against . the United States and Great Britain, aiders of Ktissia ana co-iigmcrs against Russia's great foe, Ger many). ,., ., - .. t ... .. , ,,. They 'said' that withdrawals from th Philippines, The Neth erlands East, Indies and, other theatres of war1 brought Japan ese forces in Msnrhnrja buck to the original, strength of 33 di visions,' . . . . These forces, .together with xx OPES AtC A l-xlV . J MEDITERRANEAN SEA ' r'T ii " ' EGYPT SCALE df 'MILES 0 so Wild - Sea - Air Melee " Downs Axis- Dive -; - - Bombers - - :.-' .,. ' "-CiJ ' ;' LONDON,' u n 19 (IP-k wild sea and air melee 100 miles off the French Atlantic coast on Wednesday -which resulted'in the destruction of -four Spanish- fishing- trawlers -. the : 1120-ton-British "destroyer-"' Wttd Swan -and h!f-of an attackirig force r'i2 German.- diVe-bombers was dis closed today by the British' ad miralty:'; -:. :' ! -.Chronologically,;'thui wis What happened,- according to the" ad miralty; commuhique:'1. "' ".-; 1. A dozen Junkers-88's roai ed In ion . the ' 23-year-old . de stroyer on Wednesday .' evening and ".-Iso. turned' their attention to a'l.janish trawler fleet which was fishing in the vicinity," as the admiralty expressed it. ) ' : J. Three of the little Spanish vessels were sunk and-a fourth was damaged; - ". ':: ' ; . ; 3. The Wild-Swan shot down four of: the 12 Junkers, and-two others which ' probably "were winged by the-destroyer's guns, collided - and crashed- -into the sea. ; -'im'i " t ;..,v:':' . ' ' .4. The. Wild , Swan,, . herself damaged, collided accidentally with the damaged Spanish traw ler, sending, the fishing boat un der..." .... .V-'J ' 5. The ? Wild, ; Swan - subse quently sank, ;, ; r .... Eleven members-, of the; traw ler, crew, and the bulk, .-of the Wild Swan's, complement were saved. ' ; -, . . ., COFFEE RATION UNLIKELY " WASHINGTON, June 19 (JP) Card, rationing of coffee is un likely in the Immediate future but grocers will have to keep a .-close .reirt on - the- amounts sold!. to '.customers, under, the quota system, Harold B. Rowe, director of food rationing, Indi cated today. i ;"';''.'.' . Sibieriany- 1 VChineseSay special railway garrison and others,-were stated..to hava glvei) the' Japanese close on to 1,000, 000 men in that region. - i " There was much speculation over whether the: Japanese army or navy would play the leading role 'in any prospective attack 6n Siberia.' ', . i ', ' kJ "Chinese quarters said Japan ese conquests in' the southwest Pacific .had. been more ' military than naval and that consequent ly the Japanese navy was eager to, shine,- especially . as it . had lost face "in the battles of the Coral sea -and Midway. ,a . , Weather 4deal .-.V, . Weather conditions for a naval offensive .against , Vladivostok and Kamchatka would be ideal during the next few weeks, they sa)d, but it was considered that tha fall especially i- early Oc- ' (Continued on Page Two) GiARABUB CHURCHILL HELD SEEKING HELP IN MIDDLEEIIST Hit - Run Commdnqlo Raids on , Europe ; May. Grow ' By ROBERT BUNNELL -LONDON, June- 19 (ffl One of the main purposes of Prime Minister Churchill's - current visit, to Washington is believed . in some quarters to be enlist' ment of. additional United States help In holding the middle east against expected German thrusts from Libya toward Egypt and from .the Russian Ukraine Into the Caucasus. ' : , :i- .The. extreme gravity of the Libyan-Egyptian situation was viewed today by competent sources as likely to postpone until 1943 any really big United Nations .land offensive In .west ern Europe, although commando raids may be increased. - The hit-and-run - raids would meet ..the clamor for a second European front now something which - the ; British man-in-the-street . hopes -will - result from ChurchiUs newest. Washington visifc- ' - Strategists know - that Egypt must be held if the allies are to bar Hitler from the middle east ern.. .oil ; fields . and they.' know tfia'f iV'1S '.the main bastion against-tiasrr union with the Jap anese 'somewhere east of Suez for a sharing: of the. riches of the indies and a cutting of al lied - supply ' lines to ' southern Kussia. ....... " The , preaeiiceP. of .. American army bombers and other war equipment in this theatre proves President' Roosevelt's regard f6r the importance of Egypt and the Suez canal, just as the successes of -the axis Libyan commander. Marshal Rommel, prbve that the present forces in the middle east still are not enough for safety. -J From, a purely military stand point Rommel's success means:' : '' ii The 'British - mav have to '; ' (Cphtihued on Page Two)' )' ' Local Labor ; Decision Bared; ; Huddle Planned y - The balance of the wai1 labor board decision No. 90, governing CIO workers' labor hours and vacations in the Klamath" area, was in the hands of. employer and '.union, officials today but both groups said it would take a joint huddle to Interpret it to a previous basin agreement. . , Tha decision two weeks, ago awarded 4500 CIO millworkers from McCloud to Bend a 7i-cent per hour pay Increase, but held off settlement on hours of work and vacation' Issues. The . WLB ruling applies to ClO-employer" negotiations in the fir belt of Washington but representatives of the Pine Industrial Relations committee and the CIO here agreed to' abide by It. , . , i M.'T. Owre,; secretary-manager of the PIRC, said that the groups will meet again Tuesday to clarify the decisiori as It ap plies' to the local situation. , '-' George Brown, ' chief district representative of the CIO In the Klamath area, said that he would withhold comment until final settlement .was ' made Tuesday, He said that many of the provi sions - require ; joint study and discussion, by '. both groups. ' : Baseball , ; NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Chicago ...i..'............... 1 13 0 New York ;.; 4 13 1 Olsen, Blthorn (8), and McCuti lough; Carpenter, McGee (3),; Koslo(8). Feldman (8), Adams (9), and Dannlng. ; . 1 ' i News'lndex j City! Briefs .........i Pag B! Church News ..Pages 9, 1' Comics and Story . Pag 10 , Editorials Pag 4 Fsrrh Page ..Ps 9' information Pega 8 Market, Financial ,.,. Page 8 Pattern '..; ..,. .Page 14 Sports Page U