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THERE l plenty of newt In the
uinrlH (nrliiv AI T. nt II hnri
, TOBRUK falls. Rommel's via
torloua army swcop on to
the Egyptian border. Suez Is in
ilium dWiiiii:!1 KHi jeM'" ! :i; n:: m . mm at an IB .
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It Suez falls. India and AuS'
valla will be In new peril.
, CEVASTOPOLIs tottering, "
Today's Moscow dispatches
tell of ENORMOUS German
pressure there, EXERTED
CEASELESS Li Y despite. casUBl
ties estimated at 100,000 suffered
by tho axis forces in the past
three weeks,
VVITH the Tobruk bastion gone,
Rommel pushes on without
delay toward Suez, which Is his
next objective.
If, or when, tho Sovastopol
bastion falls, the German armies
wlU press on toward the Cnuco
' sus, which Is their next objec-
,. tlve.
' The ULTIMATE bjeetlv. ef
both Is the ultof Jhe Caucasus
and the Near and Middle East,
which Gormany needs and with
Oput which Russia CANT OPER
ATE, .
fUR own particular bad news
W today Is that Japan still re
tains her foothold In tho AloU'
tlans and Is - undoubtedly pro
cecdlng with' all the speed sho
can muster to establish bases
there. .
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TJ7HV did Tobruk fall?
" Cairo snys the British lost
so much of their armored
strength In the savage desert
fighting that they were unablo
to offer effective resistance to
the final assault upon Its de
fenses. Tbo worst losses came on Juno
13, when British tanks fell Into
a German ambush and were
laughtered 'by heavy German
ntl-tank guns.
But that doesn't seem to be all.
Rommel had a better system
for REPAIRING his damaged
tanks and getting them back Into
action. Ho organized repair
shops on heavy trucks guarded
by tank squadrons, and thoso re
pair outfits dashed In and sal
vaged damaged German tanks.
A tank PUT BACK Into action
equals one shipped long dis
tances over dangerous communi
cation lines. And gets Into the
fighting quicker.
TN the post mortem, don't ovor
A look this point: -'v;r.
Tho real cause of Tobruk's
fall was the crippling of British
naval power In 'the Modltorran-
. can by GERMAN AIR POWER,
thus making It Imposslblo to con
tinue to supply Tobruk ade
quately from the sen.
Q Wherever one turns In, this
war, air power seems to be tho
; decisive factor,
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i npHE bad nows of the past
Weekend falls upon us out-
;. elders suddenly. To our lenders,
, who aro on the Inside, with ac
cess to world-wide intelligence
reports, it wasn't so unexpected.
1 More thnn a week ago, Pre
mier Curtin of Australia issued
a gloomy statement that at tho
moment appenred unjustified.
Ha know something,
Much more than a week ago,
Churchill dodder! to como to
Washington. It wasn't good nows
, that influenced his decision.
j Ho also knew something. .
IIURCHILL and Rooscvolt aro
.IIJIIIR JII1,,D tu much h II V
Ituntlon that broke Into tho
icws over tho weekend.
Tho answer Isn't easy to find,
A big American expeditionary
force at the right place at tho
right time would bo useful, but
pig overseas expeditionary
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IN MIDDLE EAST
Few Garrison Troops
Escape After Fall
Of Tobruk
CAIRO, Egypt, June 23 VP)
The Gorman attack on Tobruk
was ' a lightning blow that re
duced the Libyan stronghold
with such rapidity that It stun
ned the British defenders.
- Many of them never had a
chance to offer, any real resist
ance whatever.
Details of tho British debacle,
which can now be told for the
first time, show that the opera
tion against Tobruk was one of
the swlfte.it blows yet delivered
In this war of speed and sur
prises,. Once having smashed through
the perimeter of tho port's out
er, defenses, Marshal Rommell
tanks mado straight for the wat
er front. j.-...- ........
; Standing at the water's edge
they put. British minesweepers,
trawlers, tank-carrying barges
and smaller craft under imme
diate fire. ' v
By EDWARD KENNEDY
CAIRO, Egypt, June 22 (A1)
Driving forward without a pauce
from their capture of Tobruk,
nazl mobile columns have clash
ed with British forcos only a few
miles from tho Egyptian border,
the British reported today, as the
allied position In the entire mid
dlo east appeared threatened by
the disastrous rout In Libya.
The British command said the
clash occurred 12 miles north
west of Fort Capuzzo, which is
just across the border In Libya,
It.was indioated that a few of
tho garrison troops British,
South Africans and Indians
had escaped from tho Tobruk
disaster. Some small craft moved
out of tho harbor while it was
under shcllflre from German
tanks and other parties fought
. (Continued on Page Two).
Season's First.
Fire Reported
At Doming Creek
, The first fire of the season
occurred Monday, and It was a
fisherman's fire. '
Klamath Forest Protective of
ficers reported the blaze on Dem
tng creek, north of Bly, and said
that a fisherman apparently built
a Jlro In a log or threw- burn
ing cigarette on the log. The
fire was discovered In time to
prevent Its spread. . .. I
'Sore f Was Scared" Says
Norman King, "Lex" Veteran
(Editor's Note TUs is the sec
ond of a series of stories told by
five Klamath survivors of the
sinking of the aircraft carrier
Lexington In tho battle of the
Coral sea on May 8. Others Will
appear in succeeding Issues.)
By RUTH KING '
MERRILL "Sure I was
scared a little," admitted 'Nor
mnn King, 20, aviation machin
ist third class, who Is homo this
week with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Claud G. King, of Morrill,
after escaping tho torpedoing of
the USS Lexington without a
scratch. '
As unconcerned over his ad
venture as though he had Just
missed a stomach ache after a
full meal, young King, who en
listed Juno 11, 1040, Is anxious
to get bnck into action and is
scheduled to . report for duty
Juno 87. j
"Anybody who went over
board from tho Lexington must
be boosting a little If they, say
Dr. Ernest Grusnlng, gover
nor of Alaska and long an ad
vocate of Increased defenses
there, has bean ordered by Sec
retary of Interior Ickea to or
ganise an Alaskan war council
tor mobilisation and defense of
the territory. '
BLI6HTEDJEP0I1T
Libyan Set-Back Faces
i Allies With. Crisis, .;
' BritisHrtSdy" A
By DREW MIDDLETON i
LONDON. June 23 m A
military disaster In Libya of
such magnitude that it may have
blighted the allies' hopes for a
second front In Europe this year
and prolonged the whole war
was acknowledged by the Brit
ish today with deep and undis
guised anxiety.
All sources agreed that the al
lies were faced with a crisis.
The next few weeks, they said.
will decide whether Germany
can bo beaten In 1942 or 1943
or will bo able to fight' on for
years using the oil of the middle
east and the tin and rubber of
tho for oast. - ,
It was expected that Prime
Minister Churchill will have an
aroused house of commons when
he returns from the - United
States, and some political ob
servers said many members of
parliament were angered by
what they called tho "rosy pic
ture" painted by the prime min
ister after the first clashes in
the current campaign.
A military commentator In
London, however, said that axis
claims of at least 23,000 pris
oners taken at Tobruk ' were
"exaggerated." It was believed
little shipping was caught in
the'harbor. y .
Decisive Battle
The general . view was that
Gen.?.. Sir Claude Auchlnlecki!
eighth army faced , a decisive
battle within 80 days; with Nazi
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they were not scared," King said,
"because most of thoso I saw
looked pretty serious. We never
lost a single man that went into
the water and 03 per cent of us
were OK when it was over. I
was in the water for 21 hours
.before they pulled me into an
old whaler. Most of our lifeboats
were shot away or so badly dam
aged they wore out of commis
sion and boats .---we're lowered
from tho rescue ship," . (
' Volunteered ' ' 1
Ori deck when his bomber sta
tion was left vacant when the
b!g craft sailed Into battle, King
voluntcored for -an 'ammunition
train to help man the anti-aircraft
guns that blazed qpntinu
ously at tho approaching' enemy
planes. An ammunition train, ho
explained, is a group of men
standing' shoulder to shoulder
who pass shells from tha am
munition storo to the gun. ' 1
"Tho deck got pretty hot," he
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FORCE SET UP
IN ALEUTIANS
US Bombs Small Force
Of Enemy Ships
- At Kiska
WASHINGTON. June 22 IPi-
Under cover of fog and thick
weather, Japanese landing forces
have inched along the Aleutian
island chain toward Alaska and
now are establishing thomselves
at Kiska, which Is only S8S miles
from the United States navy
Das at .Dutch Harbor. '
This was-disclosed In a" com-'
munique yesterday that told of
the bombing of "a small force"
of enemy ships in Kiska harbor,
Army:.f!Jcrs 'reported hitting one
cruiser and sinking a transport.
i While the. number of ships ac
tually in Kiska harbor may have
been small, -observers pointed
out that presence' of a cruiser
might indicate that a force of de
stroyers and. auxiliaries was
somewhere in the vicinity.'.
The communique' said, opera
tions in mo Aleutians "continued
w Ty - wstiictea . by K;idra
Hons of 'weather arid great- dis
tances'." '' '.': .:
. . Weather Cleared
Within the last faw .davs.
howvfr," it added, "the wtather
was sufficiently clear at times to
permit some restricted. air opera
tions against Kiska where tents
and minor temporary structures
were observed to have beep set
up on land."
' The navy reported on June 12
that a -small enemy force had
landed on Attu, a barren, rocky
Islet marking the westernmost
tip of the Aleutian chain. At that
time the presence of enemy ships
at Kiska was noted, 'but they
were reported shortly afterward
to have been driven away. 1
A 13th naval district spokes
man in- .Seattle said Saturday
the Japanese invaders of the
Aleutians "are getting smacked
whenever there is a rift in the
fog banks," - - '
He said the weather explains
why the army and navy haven't
driven the Japs out of the Aleu
tian;. "It's one thing to get at
them in clear skies and another
to get at them when the weather
Is foul and thick and snow is in
the air, and quick forming Ice
burdens the wings of planes." he
said,;. . ;. , ,.v
Business and War
To Be Topics at; .
Chamber Dinner
wb effort and 'whaYll can look
forward; to' In the post-war. per
iod will be discussed by Dr. Vic
tor P. Morris, dean of the school
of business administration of tho
University of - Oregon, when he
addresses tho annual meeting of
the Klamath county chamber of
commerce Tuesday evening. .
Starting at 7 p. m. at the Wil-
lard hotel, the dinner and meet
ing are for all members of the
chamber of commerce and any
one else Interested In hearing Dr.
Morris' talk. Reservations should
ba .made at the chamber or the
hotel, v " ' - .";
There Will be special music
and other features and a full at
tendance was urged by the com
mittee, which is headed by Fred
Southwell. t ,
Part With Those
Golf Balls Today!
.' Remember those old golf
clubs you tucked Into the bot
tom of the bag for an emerg
ency? Now is the emergency
-the. Rubber Salvage cam
paign which ends eight days
from todayPart with those
old balls even if it hurts. They
may end up In the recoil
mechanism of a field gun and
make a hole in one Jap.
U. S. Score
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- This Jap; sere fighter got through to Its objective over Darwin, Australia, but was- knocked
out of the air by defenders.- It wreckage lies in front ol bomb-gutted barracks at Darwin. It's
the flrfc picture of the Jap navy's fighter-to arrive in the "United State. t (NEA Telephoio)
camw PROPOSED
FulfiHy ATTORKEY
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Successor to Dayton
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"I ned Tonight
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Tht ime tf J. H. Carnahan
submitted to the city
Ionaay nignt djt Mayor
coune
John Houston as the 'suc
cessor '. City Attorney Dayton
E.;Va actor, who has left for
activ ,ttiy with. the United
State Aityialr corps. .
Cast nan ' has. served, a total
oMv Mra In various terms in
the -capacity of city attorney,
Houston stated, and the appoint
ment, is being made, in view of
his familiarity with city affairs.
Carnahan'a last service was un-
ver former Mayor Mah'oney.
The ' mayor will . also make
recommendations for a vacancy
created on-the -civil service com-
' (Continued on -Page. Two) .
Navies Reported
Seeking Jap
Sub Off Canada
VICTORIA, B. a, June 22
(Canadian Press)-Royal Canad
ian and American naval units
today were believed .seeking an
enemy submarine, presumably
Japanese, which made an abor
tive shelling attack on a Domin
ion government radio station at
Estevan Point, remote-settlement
on the rocky western coast of
VncouvtWa.r1t3r
The firsfnttack bFtni w'ar on
Canadian soil occurred Saturday
night at 10:35 p. m. PWT (1:35
a. m. EWT) ' when' flashes of
gunfire and exploding shells lit
up the shore but did no damage.
The submarine' fired at' the
station half an hour with its
deck gun but failed to' lilt the
building."- ! ""' '' '
"The shells landed on k the
beach or on the rocks well be
yond the building," Lleut.-Gen.
Kenneth Stuart, comtnander-in-
(Coptintied on Page Two)
LaVal.isciose'sv'--'
Prisoner Exchange":,.
VICHY. Unoceunied France.
Juhe 22. (AP) Pierre Laval dis
closed tonight that Adolf Hitler
had agreed "to the liberation of
an important number of farmer
war prisoners who will be able
to return to France" as soon as
F rench laborers go to Germany
to help th reich. . . -
France,, the chief of govern
ment sr. In a broadcast appeal,
"cannot ba passive now and in
different to the sacrifices of Ger
many," and he added, "I desire
Germany's victory." t
The release of the prisoners,
he said, as well as "the French
position in the new Europe," de
pended On the workers' attitude.
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WASHINGTON, June 23 (AV
Vital conferences between Pres
ident Roosevelt and Prime Min
Ister . Churchill were described
today, by the White House as
progrtsslngjiay and; hKhV. In a
'very 'MtimciojjrTwa.-V.a'iioOt
was disclosed that the two Unit
ed Nations leaders expected to
issue a joint statement later on.
. They are conferring together
and also with military,' naval
and' air. experts of both' coun
tries. ' ' ' '-..' .:'-.. ;:.
; This much was disclosed by
Presidential Secretary ' Stephen
Early. But be had nothing to add
on specific details of the confer
ences,, such as whether Roose
velt and the prime minister were
focusing their attention primar
ily on the question of opening a
second fighting front in Europe
or oa possible steps to stave off
an even more decisive defeat at
the hands of the axis armies In
North Africa. ';
The. statement' from - Early
that conferences still , were con
tinuing was the first word. about:
the. secret deliberations of the
president and Churchill, since
the latter' arrived- in .this coun
try Thursday, ...t-v-.-'.x..-
-. The presidential secretary was
informed that London-, news
papers were splurging Washing
ton reports that Lieutenant Gen
eral A. G. L. McNaughton, com
mander of Canadian overseas
forces, was being heavily favor
ed to command .United. Nations
forces that might be employed
in opening any second front, j
Vote oh Today , , . j
At nigh School
The Klamath Union hieh
school budget7 election and
naming of one director for the
five-year term was underway
at the higri school Monday aft
ernoon; Polls will be' open un
til 7p.m. - ,
In the'elisctlon, the voters are
asked to authorize expenditures
above the- 6 per cent increase.
Non-Residents Urged to
v Leave Hawaiian Islands
v By WALTER CLAUSEN
'HONOLULU.-June 22 (APH
Warning that the United States
victory over the Japanese in the
battle of Midway '"has given
many people a false senso of se
curity," Lieut. .General Delos C.
Emmons today urged all non
residents to leave the Hawaiian
islands as soon as possible. i
'-Although American air and
naval forces .early this month
routed the largest fleet : Japan
ever sent across the Interna
tional . dateline in what may
have been an attempted invasion
of the United States west coast,
it is dangerous to. assume the
enemy will not return, said Gen
eral Emmons, commander of the
Hawaiian , department, U. S.
army.
"The outcome of the battle of
Zero Fighter
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Stret 'Fighting Occurs
'.ln Northern Edge'
Wt Lf' Sevastopol
' BERLIN. (From. Gerrnan
Broadcasts), June 22 (JPj In
hard street fighting,, house after
house-'in the shinhuilHinff wvttnn
along Sewernaja bay on Sevas
topol s nortnern ,-defenses' .were
stormed i by German troops to
day,,according to high command
sources,..,, i-... -.- .j'jX.t I'
"A group of Russian forces was
surrounded and annihilated, it
was said.-- . , '. :
r On the- south side of Sevasto-'
pol, too, Rumanian -and German
troops drove a wedge-into the
Russian defense belt, capturing
a chain of strongly 'fortified hills
under cover of -a heavy batter
ing by artillery and anti-aircraft
batteries firing horizontally,
these reports said. ....
-The German high command
9"r(Ciontiiiued on Page Two) ;
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Coast's Dim-Out ;
. SALEM, June 22 (F Last
night's, dim-out : of the . Oregon
coast was fairly effective;: State
Defense Coordinator J e r r o 1 d
Owens-said-today.
The dim-out was ordered by
the 13th naval district, and will
remain in force until the sub
marine threat is removed. Its
purpose is to reduce glare so
that ships at sea won't be sil
houetted against the shoreline,
thus making them ideal targets
for submarines. '" ," " ' ' . !
- The regional office of civilian
defense in San Francisco is
sending a lighting engineer to
Oregon tomorrow to survey the
whole' coast and' to make, the
dim-out totally effective.
Midwajf -has given many people
a false sense -of security,". Em
mons said in a statement. "Noth
ing can be more dangerous than
such an attitude. To assume the
enemy will not return in force
and .utilize every weapon at his
disposal is. the most dnngerous
kind of wishful thinking. : ,
"It Is Important to our. war ef
fort that all civilians, especially
all non-resident women, children
and dependent persons who are
not engaged in essential, war
work, make plans for evacuation
to the mainland and depart as
soon as possible. .
. . "I urge all non-resident Who
are not needed In war work U
place their affairs In shape and
depart for the mainland as soon
as space becomes available. Prac
tically all army and navy de
pendents have been evacuated."
9 PROJECTILES
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PORT STEVENS
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Mi lit a ry Establish
ments Undamaged, j
Reports. Say "''
SEASIDE. Ore.. June 22 f APV
For the first time since the civil
war. enemy shells fell in the
proximity of a United State
military reservation . near . mid
night last night. .... . . p. ,
iAt least nine projectiles' from
a submarine peppered the .'Fort
Stevens, area, north of this Pa
cific ocean resort town, for ap
proximately 15 minutes, begin
ning at 11:30 o'clock. The fort is
just south of . the Columbia
river's mouth. ." -.',", . ;
They struck and exploded, in
a practically deserted beach area-'
containing: but few houses apd
did no damage to military estab
lishments, installations . or to
private property. There were no
casualties. but: one family had a
close call. ... lt .
One shell fell near a new road
leading from Delaura beach to
the fort and made a crater about
five feet in diameter in a swamp.
Fragments were found by means
of which the kind and size of the
projectile could be Identified.
' Westerly Direction .
The shell came from wester
ly. (almost southwesterly) direc
tion and from the time the'.first
JhdtsjEerp, iired until the -last
the. submarine either proceeded
or -drifted about three- miles,
army observers said. It 'was sev
eral miles offshore.--
Col. Carl S. Doney, command
ing officer of the Columbia har
bor defenses, said the fragments
indicated the projectiles i were
five inchers and about 18 inches
long, weighing about 60 pounds.
. .All told nine shells were. fired
andmost of the craters have
been .found.. When asked h o w
: (Continued on Page Two)
Churchill Tells - -y
Stalin! Treaty-Is : 'A
Pledge for Peace ''.
- LONDON, June 22 (AP) A
message - from Prime Minister
Churchill to Joseph Stalin on-the
first anniversary of the German
invasion of Russia said today
"the fighting alliance of our two
countries and of our other allies,
to whom there has now been
joined the vast resources of. the
United States, will surely , bring
our enemies to their knees."
He told the : soviet premier
that' the recent- British-Russian
20-year pact reflected the pro
gressive strengthening , of rela
tions between the two countries
during the past year and said:
"That treaty is a pledge that
we shall confound our enemies
and when the war Is over build
a sure peace for all freedom
loving peoples."
Chinese Hold Japs :' '
To No-Gain Score :
CHUNGKING, June 22 ' (AP)
The high command indicated to
day that the Japanese had been
held to virtually no gains in six
days ot fighting for the 50-mile
central section of tha Chckiang
Klangsl railway which remains
in Chinese hands. . ' '
A communique said that. Chin
ese troops who were forced aside
when the Japanese, smashed
through to their advanced posi
tions had closed in on key points
behind the Japanese lines in
sharp ? threat to - the Invaders'
cdmmunications and supply sys
tem. ' 'V . ': I. '. -. ' -.
Chinese, force's were reported
attacking Lungyu, on the rdil
line east ot the Chcklang-Kiangsl ,;
border, and assaulting Japanese
position, hrnimt (h v.'Sllcd iC'.VS
of Chuhsien. ,
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