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. Blackout fswiilliiipiiwrfiiiiipiiiipii eatner lllblllillillulliliiM I u.-1. 1 ; , , ; , , I !, , ! I. i I ; l iii:ll;J!,l On 5-mlnute bint on lirtna end whlillti li the signal lor blackout In Klamath Juno It. High S3, tow 33 Precipitation oi Juno . 13, 1341 Straam yaar to date ........,.....13.03 Last Year ;............ ................. 13.43 Normal ...-........... 11.33 out. ! alanal for allcltar. In precau ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES Number 9519 I tionary parioaa, wnon your Him ugnia. TWO SECTIONS PRIOR ni FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1942 ll'.'.'i '"MIDilM ifiinMP IMl nn SI iinrncr ana Yrvl ii sis By FRANK JENKINS nrO tuidcintund tin) nowa today, one has to do a lot of rending between tho Hoes und guessing at conclualona. WK know that Churchill la in " Washington. Wo don't know why. Wo enn only giicsa, baaing our gucsaca on surface hlnta In Uiu news ami our uunurul knuw led"e ef the situation. For example; The oxla crowd la probably up . to aaim'thlnir. Wo don't know Juat wlmt. Hut It la likely to bo SOMETHING BIG. (Our aplca may havo tipped our govern tfnenla off to thnt. T;at la what plc arc for. It la why wo hnve to have them.) ' VVIIKN (nnd 10 tho blow folia. " declslona will hnvo to bo mado aa to how brut to meet it, Thorn, decisions will have to ' bo mado QUICKLY if the count-er-moaaurcs decided upon tiro to bo effective. They will havo to bo mado SECRETLY if tho enemy la not to know our pinna. (Tho radio phono from WimhlnKton to Lou . don can bo TAPPED.). DOOSEVELT and Churchill will make the doclalons (In broad outline, with tho mllitnry men giving advice and filling In detulla.) , - , So Churchill comes to Wash ington, where.lie' Bnd Roosevelt can bo In constant and SECRET -communication. Q It It only a guess. Take It or Icavo It. . , ', ' ! nrHE Britlah public la worried about Libya. It doesn't knpw what la wrong, but auapecta that SOMETHING la. So it la clum orlng for an investigation by parliament, Thla SURFACE HINT la con tained in tho nowa: "Tho black day for tho Eighth Army (tho British army in Libya) waa a week ago today when a strong force of Britlah tnnka FELL INTO AN AMBUSH boforo German 88-mllllmctcr guns. Thla CHANGED THE COURSE of tho Libyan cam paign." TTHE dlapatch, which comes ft from Cairo, explains that a Britlah division wna In trouble . A radio message called for help. British reinforcements respond ing to tho message and going to tho dlvialon'a aid fell Into tho trap. (That la to say, tho message was probably a DECOY.) Tho dispatch adds it Isn't be lieved In Cairo thnt Rommel hnd rolnforccmcnta for his Inter thrusts. Ho DIDN'T NEED THEM after luring tho British tanks Into tho trap nnd smashing them with his OB-mUllmctcr nntl tnnk guns. TN tho first hnlf of our own wor between tho states, Lincoln's trouble with tho Army of tho Potomac was gonorals who weren't as smnrt as Loo. Ono suspects thnt Britain's troubles In Libya nro duo lnrgo- y to genernls who AIIEN T AS MART AS ROMMEL. A WORD horo about these 88 millimeter nnli-tnnk guns. Twonty-flvo millimeters nro roughly nn Inch, which menns thnt tho bore of an 88-mllllmcter gun is nbout three and n hnlf inches. Tho French 78, which was long tho backbone of field artillery, Is of approximately 3 inch boro. At first, ordinary machine guns woro used ngninst tnnks, (Continued on Pngo Two) How About Your Rubber Suit? So your last year's rub ber bathing suit won't S-T-R-E-T-C-H to cover your this year's flguro? Then use it to strotch your pllo of rub ber scrap, And do it now, be cause you can't stretch time nnd tho rubber salvage cam paign lnsts only 10 days more. ALLIED ATTACK WATS PROPER TlitCfilPPS "I Won't Help Hitler By Saying When," Deputy Says LONDON, Juno 20 (IP) Brit ain and tho United Slides will launch a grcnt, successful uttuck on Hitler In tho west when tho proper time comes, Sir Stafford Crlpps, parliamentary deputy for Prime Minister Churchill, de clared today. "Wo enn not say" when the uttuck will come. Sir Stafford told a meeting observing tho an nivarsnry of tho June 22 Ger man attack on Russia and the British-Soviet alliance. "I nm not going to help Hitler by telling you or him" the time of the attack, Sir Stafford snld, adding thnt Russian Foreign Commissar Vynchcslav Molotov, who recently was In London, "knows much moro about it than I can tell you." The nltiick must not fall, he said. Sir Stafford, who was Brlt- ains ambassador to Russia at tho time of, tho German Inva sion, praised the recent British Russian pact aa tho "laying of a great foundation atone for tho structure of the post-war world." MacArthur Greeting Among greetings sent, to the meeting was ; this from Gon, Douglas MacArthur In Australia: 'Today the- froo peoples of a free world unite In solute to great army and a great mnn who so nobly strive with- us for victory of liberty and freedom." Russian Mnrshnl Semeon Tl moshenko sent thia message: "1 greet most warmly our English nlllcs. . . . The rod aYmy will continue to fight tho Ger mans until complete Victory." The British press and public gcnorully - were observing the weekend as tho anniversary of "tho day on which. Hitler lost tho war." Germany Invaded Russia Inst June 22. The question of a second front Is on cvory,Brlton s tongue. "With tWe help of the United States and its Industrial forces ndded to our own and the sov iet union's productive resources, wo should be able to launch a great and successful attack upon Hitler in the west." Sir Stafford snld. Ho warned, howover, thnt (Continued on Page Two) RAF, American Bombers Raid French Coast LONDON, Juno 20 (P) RAF fighters, "many squadrons" strong, escorted Amerlcan-mndc Boston bombers in nn attnek on LcIInvro this afternoon, nn nu thoritntivo source snld. Four axis plnncs woro destroyed nnd six British fighters were reported missing nftor tho attnek. LONDON, Juno 20 (P) Tho RAF blasted tho docks of Em don, German nnvnl bnso, nnd tho rail junction of Osnnbruck Inst night In tho hcnvlest air smash nt Gormnny in two weeks, tho British disclosed today. An nlr ministry communique reported thnt a "strong forco" usunlly Indicating nn air nrmadn of 2B0 plnncs was used In the operntlons, tho first nftor n two night lull forced by bnd weather. Emdon, which tho nlr minis ters snld Wednesday had suf fered "major damage," has been hnmmored In 73 RAF rnlds. It wns the 3t)th rnld reported oh Os nnbruck, which hnd been froo from Britain's bombs since last Aug. 12. The communique snld nine British planes were missing from tho night's missions which also included the bombing of enemy airfields !n the Netherlands, - ELK PREXY NAMED BEND, June 20 (P) Hnrvoy L. Armes of Bend was ejected president of tho Oregon State Elks association here todny and Baker was selected for tho 1043 conclave as tho 1942 convention closed. rrv ... Bt,. 1 t .' t f - 1 ' 3 t, ,l i-trf itf , , 4 . t .,4. kit Shown abova la a imall portlon of the crowd which gatharad at th war savings and nary of Klamath'a permanent Victory Center on the atapa of- the courthouse Friday night . BATTLE CONTINUES Russ Keep Axis Guess ing oh Reported , New Drive . ' - BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts), June 20 (JP) Bitter fighting ia in progress for the Inst rcmninlng coastal fort on the north part of Sevastopol's de fenses, tho German high com mand asserted today, while on the Ukraino front northeast of Kharkov a soviet division was declared surrounded and almost annihilated. . - . By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, June 20 (P) Keeping the enemy guessing as to their real intentions, the Rus sians remained silent today on a German report that the red army had launched a huge new offensive against Smolensk while the Germans continued to exert enormous pressure In the smoke-obscured bnttle about Se vastopol In the Crimea. (A BBC broadcast from Lon don snld tho Russians hnd recap tured a Inrgc town on the Kal inin front in the sector north of Smolensk.) Tho German report, as heard here, said Russian Infantry In tho central sector west of Mos cow was nttacking in waves with tank nnd Infantry support,' but there was no confirmation from any soviet quarter, t . , Rusaiana Silent It was recalled here, however, that when tho Germans began their early Mny offcnslvo on tho Kerch peninsula in tho Crimen, tho Russians begnn their own offcnslvo ngninst Kharkov Mny (Continued on Pngo Two) , Committee Will Not Consider Any Form of Sales Tax WASHINGTON, Juno 20 IP) Tho house wnys and means com mittee voted todny not to con sider In the pending tnx bill any form of consumption or, sales tnx. Chairman Doughton' (D-N.C.) snld tho committee also had de cided tentatively, to adopt tho trensury's scheme of pny-as-you-go collection of individual In como taxes through pay roll de-, ductlons starting next January 1. - - In view of the committee's decision against a sales tax, the totnl of the new bill probably will be ' around $6,840,000,000 compared with tho treasury re quest for $8,700,000,000. - The committee may complete its work next week. . Victory Center 'Zf-ttt stTST British Demand Desert defeat r - .'.'. ;V.' ''X' 'V, tbrTi ' LONDON. June 20 (P) Libya was pictured in tno Times today aa a ready-made second front for an allied offensive even while bitter demands arose for a par liamentary airing of current re verses suffered by Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie's desert army. "Egypt and the Mediterran ean will have their rightful place in the survey of this de cisive year on which President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are engaged," the In fluential newspaper said in a lead editorial. - Assured all along that success was within grasp, the British were totally unprepared for the sudden reversal in the wild Lib yan fighting nnd for the explana tion of military observers that again there was "too little" agninst overwhelming enemy might. The Daily Mall, joining a cho rus of newspaper criticism, de manded an inquest in parlia ment. in broad terms, the unconsol lng analysis of British military critics was that - the British eighth army lacked what It needed to stem Rommel's thrust ' foresight to gauge the en emy's strength correctly, ade quate armored equipment and the skill to use what it had to best advantage. CAIRO, June 20 (P) Light mobile forces of Lieut.-Gcn. Nell M. Ritchie's eighth army screen ed hurried dispositions for the defense of Egypt today and two (Continued on Pago Two) , Jock Waits, "Lex" Veteran, Last Moments of Big Airplane Carrier (Editor's noto Jack Walts, 21, a graduate of Klamath Union high school with the class of 1938 nnd son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Floyd Wnits of West Klamath, wns a member of a gun crew on tho aircraft carrier Lexington, sunk in tho bnttlo of tho Coral sea on Mny 8. Homo on lenvc, young, six foot-two-inch Wnits told tho following story. His is the first of a scries told by Klnm- nth county survivors of tho -cnt- tie, -Others by Wesley Yancey, Norman King,- Joe Rogers nnd Weston Wntson' will appear In following issues.) By JACK WAITS at told to Bob Leonard Considering tho number of at tackers, tho big Lex was struck surprisingly few times in what was to bo her last engagement that In the Battle of the Coral Sea on Mny 8. I should judge there were at least 70 planes some of them Dedication Jim s, IT Fred Ryan Hood" 44, Dies Instantly ; In Crash' Fred Ryan Hood, 44-year-old Chlloquin Indian, was killed in stantly about 1 o'clock Satur day morning, when. . a car In which he was riding struck the rear of a parked truck on 5 j the city . limits Df "Fort " Klam ith. Hood's leath marks the Klamath's 1942 Auto Toll fifth traffic fatality in Klamath county since January 1. . State police were called to the scene of the accident.- They re ported Hood had been a passen ger in the front seat with Al Courville, 40, Montana Indian; in . the rear was George Crain, 57, Chlloquin. Crain told offi cers the three had been drink ing at Chlloquin and had gone to Fort Klamath in search of liquor. " As they left Fort Klamath, Courville, who also lives at Chlloquin, drove the right por tion of his car into the left rear end of a L a I r d Freightlines truck parked in ' front of the homo of Leon Milton Johnson, driver. The truck was not more than four inches off the pave ment, officers snid. The road is :. (Continued on Page Two). , Gorman Messerschmilt 109's In the attacking Jap forco which bombed, torpedoed and strafed our ship for 24 minutes shortly before noon of the glnnt air craft . carrier's last day afloat. My job during the fight was that of an assistant loader on a battery of pom-poms amidships. Normnlly, I'm a storekeeper sec ond class assigned to . the dis pensing or pay office. , - Although tho crowded 24 min utes were all thnt our crew ac tually saw of tho enemy during the entire Coral sea battle, we had known for two days that our pilots hnd been in contnet with the enemy. The enemy, however, 'during that time hnd not been in contact with the Lex except for occasional pntrol plnnes wo saw at times during May 6 and 7. Our personal battle began at 11:16 in the morning when we first sighted a formation of three Jap planes breaking out of the MiM LiT L.J racriiitlng rally and dedication Klamath Zooms $500 Over Bond , Quota at Rally ' 'e Four - boys from the Lexing ton, standing before, a bank of American flags, lent the proper spirit to the navy recruiting and war bond rally , held Friday night on the court house lawn. Klamath's quota of $10,500 was passed by exactly $500, accord ing to Andrew Collier, war sav ings program chairman.: ' Chief Gunners Mate F. R. Duncan and Chief Machinists Mate James P. Scadding were in charge of enlistments, - which they termed satisfactory. . Biggest bond buyer of the evening was Webb Kennett, who purchased $4800 worth of war savings. A $1000 bond was sold to John Panacek of Malin; Louis Mann bought $600 worth of bonds, and Walter and Richard Beane, father and son, purchas ed a $500 bond. Richard is one of Klamath's navy recruits. Earl Shepherd was another $500 bond buyer and there were many $25, $50 and $100 buyers from Klam ath's Industrial employes. Klamath's goal of $10,500 was set by the treasury department to equip the local quota of 38 navy recruits from the time they leave here until they board ship at San Diego. The Klamath men will take part in the big ; rally in Portland on June 26. . Lee, Jacobs served as master of ceremonies at the Victory center on the court house steps. Those taking part Included Re cruit Officer Duncan who inter viewed the Lexington veterans, Jack. Waits, Wesley Yancey and i. (Continued on Page Two) Describes clouds at about 10,000 feet and off to port. Wo had known, how ever, thnt enemy aircraft were in the vicinity, having picked them up on our phones while they were still several miles away. ' ' Wo' were at bnttle" stations when tho first Japs were sight ed. The three plnnes begnn their glide nt 10,000 feet and several miles away. j They came directly In on the "beam" at right angles to the ship and directly toward our gun. ' " , . Tho order to firo came when they were still 9000 feet away and over 1000 feet up. None of our guns took effect, however, nnd tho three dropped their "flsh" 1000 feet off the port side while they were about 160 feet above the surface of the water. Saw Insignia t could see the red circle in signia on their wings as they ; (Continued on Page Two) : FDR, Churchill Held Mapping Counter Blows WASHINGTON, June 20 (P) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were be lieved t o d a y to be mapping counter blows to a desperate axis summer offensive in Eu rope, Asia and Africa. The -White House continued the strict official silence im posed when the strategy con ferences were announced on Thursday night, but the official encouragement to speculate on invasion of the European con tinent, the grave turn of the war . in Africa and the rising fury of conflict on the eastern front indicated to many in the capital that decisions were 'be ing made in the knowledge that Berlin and Tokyo already were sending new forces toward a battle - whose zero . hour was drawing near. - The allied high command, it was ihought, would certainly have received advance intelli gence of any tremendous Ger man move in Europe. Observers pointed out that diplomatic - sources in London had - known of German troop movements for the Russian war several months before it started and. that the British had tried to -stem the German drive through the Balkans with troop convoys which bad to be planned weeks .in advance. ;. Any large-scale, c h a n g e ' in German dispositions now, it was said,, could hardly have been concealed from air , reconnais sance or the eyes of the tens of millions of -defeated peoples in .'eoutttrieii .'through which the troop trains might-have to pass. Most erf -the eatiled -governments in - London1-have 'been'; abje; to keep In touch with .sources in their homeland - and would get such information. -' ? .v. . London : reports that Prime Minister Churchill was seeking quick United States help -in stabilizing , the' Mediterranean front' were taken to indicate (Continued on Page Two) Baseball BROOKLYN, June 20 . VP) The Brooklyn Dodgers pounded out 15 as they whipped the St. Louis Cardinals for the . third straight day 10 to 4 and stretch their National league lead over the Redbirds to seven and one half games today. , ' NATIONAL LEAGUE ' - -, - . :. R. H. E. St, Louis ...... 4 9 1 Brooklyn ...:. .10 13 3 Warneke, Gumbert (6), Krist (7), Dickson (8) and Cooper; Davis, Casey (3) and Owen. - Chicago ... . 1 5 2 New York ;....:..8 10 1 . Passeau, HanyzewskI (8) and McCullough, ' Scheffing; Schu macher and Danning.' ' Pittsburgh 0 ; 3 ? 3 Boston :.............'....:.......4 . 11 ' 0 ' Heintzelman, Hamlin (3), Ror nicki (8), and Phelps; Javery and Kluattz. Cincinnati .....'.:.7 11 0 Philadelphia .1..0 '22 Riddell and Lamanho; Melton, Beck (5) and Livingston, Warren- (8). ' -. AMERICAN LEAGUE . ' R H 1 K New York .'...:..."....!.....0 10 Cleveland 1 5 2 - Bonham and Rosar; Smith and Denning. ',- ' ' ' ' ' ' : . Washington ........'......6 12 , 0 Detroit 7 10 2 Masterson, Wilson (2), Zubcr (9) and Early, Bridges, Trout (9) nnd Tebbctts. Philadelphia 0 7 . 2 St. Louis . 5 6 ' 0 Wolf and Wagner; Gatehouse and Hayes. U. S.' Bombers Hit Rumanian Town In June 12 Raid .' ISTANBUL, Turkey, June "19 (Delayed) () A report reach ing allied authorities today Indi cated that the United States four-motored ' bombers ' which raided Rumania June 12 had missed the refinery center of Ploestl but hit another .nearby town of similar topographical features. . - -. - . Ploestl is said to be so cleverly camouflaged that some Russian pilots who tried to hit the refin eries last year are reported to have missed them. HITLER ASKS CESSION OF FRENCH SHIP British Army Occupies English Section Near Holland By ROGER D. GREENE ' Asaociated Presa War Editor British dispatches a!d today that Adolf Hitler, apparently bent on a full-scale invasion of the Middle East, had urgently requested France's pro-nazi Pre mier Pierre Laval to cede 1,000, 000 tons of French merchant shipping in the Mediterranean to Germany. ' Other developments indicated . strongly that the great battles of ' this summer were to be fought, in the ancient lands of Egypt, Iraq, Iran (Persia) and possibly Turkey. That would be Hitler's choice of a second front Safely away from his own reichland it still affords him a battleground more accessible to his sources of sup ply than it does the allies, whose supply ships either must run tht gantlet of axis sea and air air tacks in the Mediterranean ol use the longer route arounij Africa and to Cairo. However, Sir Stafford Crlpps. Prime Minister Churchill's dep uty in the -house of commons, declared bluntly that Britain and the United States would launch a great successful attack on Hit ler in the west when the proper time comes Hace- of Time - - . i Balancing Cripps' - statement against reports of a vast nazl offensive impending in the Mid dle East the situation appeared to be shaping into a race of time to -see which side would strike first and force the locale of battle... ' - ... i -: Meanwhile, the British war of fice disclosed that the British army was taking over a 36-mile block of East Anglia, the section of England nearest Holland, with every civilian required to leave the district by July 20. ' - Simultaneously, the- Swiss radio said German authorities had warned navigators' ;that minefields in the Skagerrak be tween Norway and Denmark had been widened -on the approach to the nazi-dominated western Baltic. - ' . , i ;' General Strengthening ' London sources said this- was part of a general strengthening of German defenses against pos sible invasion of the continent., : In Washington, London re , (Continued on Page Two) j British Army Takes 1 Over Block of East ,( Anglia Near Holland LONDON, June 20 (IP) The British war office disclosed to day that the army is . taking over a 36-square-mile block of East Anglia that portion of England nearest Holland with every civilian, - villager and farmer required to quit the dis trict by July 20. . , ' t The only explanation given was that the whole area, includ ing villages, Is needed for train ing.' ..- a.-'j- Declaring that there was "no story in It," one military source said the army needs such a large area for "realistic training in present day warfare." This source smiled away the suggestion that ; Britain- might be preparing a special area as a jumping off point for attack on the continent. 1 ' - ( However, he did not explain why the army should have chosen as a training area a pop ulated district where maneuvers might most easily be watched by German' reconnaissance planes or actually attacked from the air. . j 1 News Index j City. Briefs ' . .'. ...Page 3 Comics and. Story ....:...Page 10 Courthouse Records ....Page 4 Editorials t..:........ .......Page .4 Information ....'. .......Page 3 Market Financial Page 11 Pattern Page 9 Society ; Pages D, 8, 7, 8 Sports .......Page ,9