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IIIIIIIIIIIWIIS'WU weatner On 8-mlnut bleat on atrana and whlitUi li Hi algnnl tor blackout In Klamath Fall. Anothtr long blml, during black out. It ilgnil lor ll-cl. In precau tionary ptrlodi, watch your itrt light. Jun 38. High 85. tow 48 j ' Precipitation a of Jun 22. 1842 Lait yar .............. 13.U i Normal .........'.....;............i.'.. 11.81 Stream yar to dat .............. ......IJ.87 9l ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PHI f ! Iji. tVJ YFo fiJffiCT? '''-''"' Tf 1 A M A T H PAU.S, OREGON. MONDAY. JUNE 20, 1942 Number 9626 . ... 'an Lt'.l ft it rtl v V 0) u n 9Lm o MIS m warns liiiNews1 By FRANK JENKINS HPHE Germ ana and Hnlliini claim todny to have taken Mutruh Ilia plncn where tho British were expected to make their flrat ctunct, In Egypt. Up to noon, tha British haven't admlttd Mntruh'a full, but new ourcca in London are Inclined to believe it. TTIIE buttle of Egypt wbb atari ed by Rommol at S o'clock Saturday afternoon, when tho iunraiild be worat in British eyes. (Duck huntora will under atund wrmt this means. A bird coming In out of the aim la hard to get because it la hnrd to ace.) It raged all Saturday night in thvbrlght deaart moonlight and ppurcnlly all duy Sunday, it la described In todny a dlspntchea a swirling battle of swift movement, largely between tank end MOBILE artillery (preaumnbly anti-tank guna.) The dispatches add that pitch' cd battles between tanka have been comparatively rare. - flNE gueuci from paat dla- w cloatire that the German tanks OUT-GUN tha'Drltiah and American tanka, which are thero fore compelled to avoid ahoot-lt' out action.) A LONG that line, the Rusalans , report an Interesting chango in German tank tactic at So vaatopol whero, they say, tanks formorly LED the assaults, but now atay BEHIND tho infantry, like mobilo artillery, and fire on tho Russlon positions. No reasons for tho chango aro offered, but ono guesses tho Rus lans have been hnndllng tho German tanks pretty roughly. TVHAT may bo tho main all-out ,7 Gormnn offonslvo la launched todny from Kursk, about halfway between Kharkov and Moscow. . It is presumably wnlmcd at tho general region "around Voronezh, which lies cast of tho Don river on tho main north and south railroad that focdx tho Russian lines.' Watch It. If this rail Una Is broken, it will bo a serious loss to the Russians although they will still hnvo lesser mil lines in their rear for receiving sup plies and moving troops. TF you wont to follow these moves at all Intelligently, you'll have to consult your map. Without a good map, tho news Js merely a meaningless Jumble of unfamiliar names, 'THE navy gives out new sta Unties today on tho lossos In flicted on tho Jnps In tha Mid way fight. According to these figures, ton Jap warships, Including FOUR carriers and two heavy cruisers, rs known to have been sunk, Two mors aro bollovcd to hnvo been sunk nnd between 10 and 12 damaged. Heavy dnmngo Is believed to havo bcon dono to Jap battleships. That adds up to a real jolt to Jap sea power. ..- pAUSE hero and consider a fact of tha utmost lmportnnco: All this dnmnga.was DONE BY WARPLANES, both land . based and cnrrlcr. Not a big gun was fired by a navy ship on cither side. Tho big ships never enmo in sight of each other. Only their nntl-alrcrnft guns wcra fired. Naval wnrfaro, you aco, lins ENTERED A NEW ERA. N this new era,' aircraft car riers aro immensely important, Eiattlcshlns are rolntivolv UNIM. PORTXNT. Tha nlr men, however, insist that carriers aro only TRANSI riONALLY Important. Bv that they menu Ihnt carriers will be (Continued on Page Two) Proves SEVASTOPOL1 FIGHTS OFF Russ Counter - Attack in Kharkov Region, Win Ground By HENRY C. CABSIDY MOSCOW, Juno 20 (P) Probing tho long, resilient Rus alan lino for a weakness, the Germans were amashlng out from Kursk, about 280 . mllea south of Moscow, today In a new drive presumably aimed Bt cut ting tho vital railway connecting the southern and central fronts. Tho new offensive tho fourth started by the Germans thla spring came as tho battered and weary aovlet defender of Sevastopol fought off a succes sion of brutal axis blows at the Black ara fortress, now under attack for tho 23th day. Other rod army units wore counter attacking flercoly In tho Khar kov region and winning back soma lost ground,- front dis patches said. - ' , Today's midday soviet com munique gavo no detail of the fighting east of Kursk, saying merely -Ihnt during tha night "In the Kursk and Sevastopol direc tions our troops engaged the en emy In battle." ' A supplement to the communi que said tho Gtrmans had open ed 25 field hospitals at Simfero pol, northeast of Sevastopol in tho Crimea, to handle' the large number of wounded from Sevas topol. Axl on Offentlr Tho new blow In the Kursk sector come Sunday and tho Rus sians said only that the Ger mans "had gono over to the of fensive" there. Tho drlvo was pointed directly at Voronezh, 120 miles to tho east, an Important railway center 300 miles south of Moscow and about 400 'miles north of Rostov, tho gato to tho Caucasus now held by tho Rus sians. Tho Russian winter offensive had failed to dislodge tho Ger mans from Kursk and tho Rus sian line In litis region runs roughly north and south to the east of Kharkov, Kursk and Orel. A German break-through east of Kursk would not only threat en vital Russian communica tions, but also could bo maneu vered to bring tho Russian forces (Continued on Page Two) Third July Call Announced for Draft Boards A third July call for both Klnmnth county draft boards was announced todny by selec tive service headquarters. Tho office said that 25 men from Bnnrd 2 will lenvo here on the lilght of July .20, and 25 more from- Board 2 aro ached tiled to leave on July 21. Nnmos of tho men will be an nounccd Inter. BRUTAL BLOWS Army Deserier Jailed at Yreka After Mountain Chase YREKA, Calif., June 21) (P) A. youth Identified by Sheriff Bon Richardson as William Croy, 10, an army deserter, was' held In Jail horo todny after tho at tempted hnldup of an elderly couplo and a' mountain chaso that ended in Croy'a capture. ' Army nnd county authorities were debntlng which should havo custody of tho youth,: Sheriff Richardson said Croy visited his former homo at Ash creek, on tho Klamath river, go( a rlflo frnm the house, tied a handkerchief over his face, and went to the nearby homo, of James Reynolds, 70, and his wife, 85. : At Vita Churchill Sees War 4. i, ... . . .. jir v , (NEA Tcicphoto) Scortt of U. 8. Army psrntroopi drop from th sky at Fort Jackson, S. C, as Bflg. ,Gn. W. C. Ltt, left explains th American ttchnlqut to British Prim MinUter Winston Churchill, who la smoking hia prnnll cigar and. carrying a "walkl-talkl" radio set aerial of . which atlcka up ebor his hat.'!.. ;, ..- ,' K-'i t'l-.V"'''V.'!'". J:CV '. mm bill Score of Wa r Agencies Taken Care Of in Appropriation By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, June 29 (IP) Tha house appropriations com mittee fired another financial salvo In tho war program today, sending to the. floor a $1,810, 4B7.615 supply bill which It esti mated would boost to approxl mately $228,000,000,000 the amount projected for national defense sinco Juno 1040. . Tho new bill carries funds tor almost a score of war agencies for the fiscal year starting July 1. Most of them havo been op erating in the past on emergency allocations. While mora than one-half the total, $1,100,000,000, is for the war shipping administration, a $75,000,000. item for Leon Hend erson's office of price adminis tration was expected to bo the only part of tho bill over which a controversy of ..any conse quence would develop. Tho committee more than halved Henderson's original re quest ond shaved $80,000,000 from tha budget bureau's recom mendation. To make certain the $75,000,000 would bo . all that Henderson's agency would have to spend during tho. new year, the committee wrote Into the bill a restriction that tho OPA funds "shall not be augmented by allocations or traiiRfera of funds from any other appropria tion." Tho OPA Hem was almost cer (Continued on Pogo Two) There, .the sheriff declared, young Croy demanded tho keys to tho Reynolds' car. They ar gued, and a shot was fired at Mrs. Reynolds. H grazed her heod. Reynolds leaped at Croy and a bullet whistled past his head, Mrs. Reynolds grabbed a shotgun off a wall rack but It was unloaded, She started beat ing, the Intruder with the wea pon and he fled. A posso was formed and Sher iff Richardson said Croy was cap tured several hours later by Deputies Henry McNeil and Thorne West, after a pursuit over mountain trails. rassiaon Maneuvers Done "The Kangaroo Court Takes in $50 For, Troop Fund . Fifty round dollars were add ed to the troop entertainment fund as the result of the kan garoo court held Saturday night in connection with.' Klamath Buckaroo Davs -"Victory" ccle- (bratlon. Men appearing on Main street without the tradi tional big hat were victims of the court conducted by Police Judge Leigh Ackcrman along Main street. All money derived from tho court went into the en tcrtaiimient fund. Judge Ackcrman was assisted by Bud Enthcrton, Clarence Adams and Pot Hogue. Plans arc now being made for tho big Fourth of July par ade which will form promptly at 10 a. m. Saturday at Second and Klamath. The line of march will proceed along Main street and pass In front of tho review ing stand tit Ninth and Main streets, whero the winners will bo tngged by three judges, W. E. Lamm, Henry Scmon and G. A. (Continued on Pago Two) . Fifth Draft Registration Starts Tuesday Tho nation's fifth draft reg istration, for 'all male .persons born on or after January 1, 1022, to on or beforo June .30, 192, will bo held tomorrow and Klam, ath county is expected to fur nish 1200 names to tho counr try's roll call, ; Major Ted Case, county select tive director, wild 'thai-registration places In each community and hamlet throughout the en tire county will be open from 7 a. m, to 0 p. m. Tuesday., In Klamath Falls, the Fremont school gymnasium will be the only registration office. Don Fisher of tho National Park ser- (Continucd on Page Two) ;'. RAF Raids Yards At Hazebrouck LONDON, June 29 (P) Brit ish fighter planes raided ! the railway ynrds at Hazebrouck sharply today In a followup of Inst night's assault on Iho, Ger man submarine base at St. Nn zalre In occupied France.) Five British and three Ger man plnucs were shot down, au thoritative sources said. British fighter planes also blasted German airfields and railway objectives In northern Franco during tho night, the air ministry said. Loss of one plane was acknowledged. , American Way' 10 FDR Orders Extension Because Total Is Disappointing WASHINGTON, June 29 (AP) President Roosevelt extended the . rubber collection drive to day for an additional ten days because collections through Sat urday had brought irt a dis appointing total of 219,000 tons. Originally scheduled to have ended , at midnight tomorrow, the campaign now will continue through July 10. . ., The continuation was ordered upon the recommendation of Secretary Ickcs, in his capacity a; petroleum coordinator, and William R.. Boyd Jr., .chairman of the petroleum Industry war council. Speaking for : Mr. ' Roosevelt, Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told reporters: 1 ' "In the face of the very seri ous needs for rubber, the total collections as reported today are ' disappointing. Hence the continuation of the drive." The total of 219,000 tons was exclusive of' rubber turned In since Saturday and also of that in the hands of some 20,000 Junk dealers in the country, , ' (Continued on Page Two) Restrictions on Fuel Oil To Be Modified, Report WASHINGTON, Juno 29 (P) Representative Angcll (R-Ore.) said today that the office of the petroleum coordinator had noti fied him fuel oil restrictions in the Pacific northwest would be modified in a few days and all heating plant owners would be urged to fill their tanks to cap acity. . ' , i Angoll sought a modification of the restrictions after the Port land ..Apartment House associa tion notified him its members could not get fuel oil. He said it was planned to store as much fuel oil In the northwest as possiblo while It could be moved to that section, . The OPC declined to comment. 323 SHIP SINKINGS . Three small merchant ships, a Norwegian, a Yugoslavian and an American, have been sunk in the Atlantic, the navy announced today, hrlnglng the unofficial Associated Press toll of western Atlantic sinkings since ; Pearl Harbor to 323. ; ' railway U. S. BOMBERS LASH AT JAPS Air Field, Shore stal lotions Held . Damaged n- WASHINGTON, June 29 UP) The navy announced today that United States bombers had at tacked Japanese-occupied Wake island in the Pacific last Satur day, damaging the enemy's air field and various shore installa tions. - j.i. . The 'navy's communique,. based on reports received up to. 11 k m..lP WT) today, aJci: '"Central Pacific arear:, i ,; .V-" '. 1. U. 5. bomber attacked Japanese-occupied Wake '.island on June 27. V -r; ."2. Under favorable , condi tions of weather, and' visibility, our planes, attacking in forma tion, damaged the air field and various shore installations. .tr. ''3. Enemy anti-aircraft and fighter defense was. weak and although one bomber suffered minor damage during the attack, all of our planea returned safe ly- v ' :- '- "' "-01 Nar Hawaii ' j ' . Tiny Wake island, which ' over? whelming enemy forces: wrested from an American marine garri son, Dec. 23, is Japan's nearest base to the Hawaiian area. It is 2000 nautical miles west of Pearl Harbor and little more than J0OO miles southwest of Midway,, the American outpost , nearest to Japanese territory. . . . , ' The raid reported today was the second made by - American aircraft on ' the atoll. Planes from a task force led by Vice Ad miral William F; Halsey. wiped out shore installations and some minor surface units Feb. 24. It was considered probable by authorities' here that American raiders on Saturday were look ing for a concentration of enemy shipping of the sort which they found in the Marshall ana tU' bert islands raid Jan. 31. when they destroyed 16 ships as well as 41 planes and land marks.. If that was their hope, apparently they: were disappoinjed since the communique mentioned no damage to shipping. . . . ' U. S. Fliers Get Four Axis Planes, Balkan Source Says TKTAKmilT. Tnrkev. June 29 () Balkan sources reported to day that the u. s. army Domo- ers which raided the Rumanian nil flnlHc .Time 12 shot down four axis planes and damaged the railway stations ai rioesu and Buzau. The railway bed ' between those towns was shattered In three places, they said, A near ml um rennrteri registered on one of the biggest refineries at Constanta. ISLAND Navy Communique Reveals More Jap Losses at Midway By EUGENE BURNS PEARL HARBOR, T. H., June 29 (p) The defeat of the Jap anese Invasion fleet off Midway Island was even worse than. first reported. The navy, walling until it had rounded up all the reports and checked them, flatly wrote off as Japanese losses: the alrcra(t car rier Altagl, 26,900 tnn; the air craft carrier Knga, 26,900 tons; the aircraft carrier Soryu, 10,050 tons; the aircraft carrier Kirku, 10,050 tons; two heavy cruisers, probably the 8S0O ton Mogaml and the 8500 ton Mlkuma; three destroyers and a cargo or trans port vssel, ' ' Unofficial estimates placed the probable Japanese death list at 18,000 or more Hawaii Air Chief v . S"V tA -m J f Jr f I .sag hlrfgjYiTflittli.lllilH itBW "TNI I II hi timji Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hal la t h new commando- of th Seronth Air Fore in ' of tha Hawaiian area. He . : is Maj. Gen. Clarenc L. linker, hot down in th Midway Tie lory. '.: ! . nnnriay r xnuDnpi r ESEEN Henderson VP r e d i c t s cti6h;tp Help vv Car Dealers WASHINGTON, June 29 (AP) The house ' appropriations com mittee and Price Administrator Leon Henderson predicted today that-! heavy demands on two groups of basic cost of living items would- mean - "a. general rationing program for the en tire country" .before the end of the year. ' '. ' v "It 'would be folly to name any specific items which are likely to be rationed," the com mittee said, in a report on a $1,810,487,615 defense appropri ation bill. "TO do so. would cause immediate runs on exist ing stocks and bring about rationing earlier than ordinarly would be. necessary." . - Henderson told the committee during hearings on the bill that there wpuld .be a need: for ra tioning of 15 major groups of (Continued on Page Two). Agitation For Replacement of Churchill Mounts LONDON, June 29 () Agita tion for .'Prime - Minister Chur chill's replacement as minister of defense mounted today with the axis asserting that Field Marshal Rommel's forces had seized Matruh and swept ..on. to the coast. , ' ' . Some of London's most in fluential newspapers gave sup port to the advocates of rernoval of war strategy from the hands of the prime minister, who, just back from his American confer ences, will face a . "no confi dence" motion In an imminent parliamentary debate. -- Churchill's stated conviction that "Egypt will be held" is likely to become a political is sue. The government's optimism at the start of the current Afri can campaign, which events haye shown to be unjustified, is one of the chief targets of the opposition. ' That, added up to at least 10 ships sent to the bottom in the big sea-air battle earlier this month off Midway. The definite report of four carriers sunk con trasted with tentative reports on June 10 of "two and possibly three;" Tho same reports listed only one other Jap ship as defin itely sunk, a destroyer. Sharp Contrast The loss of 10 likewise was in sharp contrast with Japanese admissions that only one ship, a carrier went down. The navy, summarizing the losses in a communique issued yesterday, ' said that a fourth destroyer very probably was sunk and that considerable dam age was wrought on two or three - (Continued on Page Two) BATTLE MOVES TOWARD HEAR! OE NILE VALLEY British Indicate Re' ":- tirement Made in , '; Good Order. ' - CAIRO, June 29 (AP) The British defenders of Egypt have evacuated Matruh, coastal an chor of the defense line . 178 miles west of Alexandria, Brit, ish authorities . announced to night. -t The bitterly fighting eighth army fell back in the third day of a great tank battle in which it had sought to stem the drive of Marshal Erwin Rommel's armored columns toward the Nile valley and the Suez canal. The British used the terra "evacuated," indicating that the main British forces were retiring in good order and fully capable oi turning to give Rom. mel battle when the time' and ground was favorable. - i Matruh was abandoned as th battle, a wild melee of men'ano) machines, spread over an' even broadening battlefield .southeast of that town. , (Both Berlin and Rome an nounced the capture of MatrulJ together . with , 6000 . British, troops arid there was ; little ,d?uCjo tQ.don. Jtbkt- . their claims were true.) . . U. S. in Fight , Many newly , arrived planes, including those of the United States air corps, were thrown into the battle to help stem the axis. tide. .... . . : The desert struggle has been in progress: without - a break since Saturday afternoon; when an axis armored force from the west, taking advantage- in the glare of : the sun', in th e 'de fenders', eyes,- struck ' at posi tions southwest of Matruh.-- - Marshal Rommel' loosed' tha (Continued on Page Two) -' Jap s Fail to Reach. Tung sten Fields - CHUNGKING, .June 29 (P The Japanese- have . failed - to reach, one of their major objec tives in their present drive in east China the Tungsten fields of Kiangsl an official Chinese government 'statement declared today. " . And meanwhile Chinese pilots, flying under the tutelage of vet eran American . volunteer . air men, have sunk two Japanese warships in the Yangtze and in flicted heavy losses on the Jap anese ground forces, in eastern Kiangsl, 'the Chinese reported,-. Tho official -.. statement said that while the enemy accom plished much to prevent the'use of the bases from which the Chinese hope to bomb Japan,' the tungsten deposits are still far from the most advanced Jap anese spearheads. Oregon Japanese , -Allowed to Vote ' SALEM, June 29 , (AP) Ore gon Japanese who are Ameri can citizens will be able to Vote by absentee ballot in the No vember general election,, even though they now are in concen tration camps, the state elec tions division said today. It would be impossible to de prive them of the right to -vote, the division said, because vot ing rights of . all citizens are guaranteed by the constitution. NAVY PAY RAISE -! WASHINGTON, June 29 (P) Naval officers were made eligi ble for the $5 an hour addi tional pay allowed enlisted men for diving operations under a bill signed today by President Roosevelt. 1 : News Index City Briefs ..: ...Page 8 Comics and Story ..Page 8 Courthouse Records ........Page 3 Editorials ..........Pag 4 Information ........Page 3 Market, Financial ....Page 7 Sports ;. .Page 5 ; " l
