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''ri'iiiiiiiiiiiiNWit.'ii'VtiMi'ihiii11'!1 iiMifii.imwiiJiliiiillllilllillSSlfll worn mmmm Iilullillii.llliliill. On S-mlnute blast on sirens end whistles It the signal for a blackout In Klimith rails. Another long blast, during a black out, la a liana! for all-elear. In precau tlonary periods, watch your itraat lights. Jun 29 High 92, Low 94 ' Precipitation ai oi Jun 23, 1942 . Straam year to data 13.U Last Yaar -........... 13.07 .Normal U.B4 ACtrtn ATtri ooec . IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES -him -MNannin . , , fauiun VI','. " KLAMATH PALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1942 him 'MNaiiiDra Number 9527 V . -.- r L n cm M nnn n m ram i i li 1 hi ' .! ! I, By FRANK JENKINS rrODAY In a nutshell: The situation In Egypt looks bad. mnybo worm, In Ruiuln, It may bo looking shndo more hopeful. RUT don't Jump to conclusions J on the strength of any SIN. ffl.V. Hnv'a nl-WR. I.nnlc ftir Ihn OVER-ALL picture. ' TN Egypt Auchlnlech, the com x mandcr-ln-chlef, tnkca over at the . front, displacing Ritchie, who has been out-thnught and out-fought by Rommel, -Rltchlo succeeded Cunning ham. Cunningham succeeded Wavell. It sounds llko the long procession of commanders of the Army of the Potomac. , - What Britain needs down thero It to find a Grant. , THREE slants In todny's news era on the hopeful side. AP Correspondent Crockett reports from Cairo that "an long tha roads at tlio front no German aircraft are to ea seen, despite British -wsmsport- COD' centratlons." That Indicate con trol of the air so fur for our side. ' . Crockett nays the evacuation o! Matruh hos been successfully completed and adds: "The Brit ish never had much there but fooled the enemy Into believing It was strong, thus gnlnlng time to. prepare tholr defenses farther back." ' RolruOfcorrionio of tough New Zealnnders brought In . from Syria and Iraq are reaching the British In Egypt. A RRIVAL of the New Zen V landers 1 temporarily hopeful, but tho fnct that they are moved OUT of Syria, which may be a hot spot nt any mo ment, shows how dospcrato Is the need In Egypt.) 'T'HE hopeful possibilities In Russia are outlined by Honry Cassldy, AP correspondent In Moscow, Quoting Rod Star, tho Russian army newspaper, his dls patch today tells how tho now German offcnslvo at Kursk was met. First the Ocrmnn ATTACK Is described, as follows: "Whllo endless streams of btft shells screamed over, German air rnldors In groups of 20 each blasted tho soviet fortifications with bomb and bullet. Under an umbrolln of MORE planes nazl Infantrymen charged through tho pulverized Russian positions, FOLLOWED by tnnks In waves of 80 to 75 each." Rod Star then describes tho Russian defense: ... "Soviot artillery, anti-tank bat teries and SAPPERS HEAVING HAND GRENADES AND BOT TLES OF GASOLINE met tho ndvanclng tanks and slowed hem down while red Infantry- torn by Hitler's foot troops. . "By 0 a. m. of the first day of tho Gorman offcnslvo tho bat tlefield was cluttered with burned-out hulks of S3 Gorman tnnks." A WORD hero as to' these bot tics of gasoline, which aro not now. They break on tho tank. Tho gnsoHno Is Ignited by tho tank's exhaust, thus sot ting fira to the machine, 'T'HE point Is Hint tha Russinns seem to bo stopping these tank-and-plana-loam spearheads, which era tho backbono of nazl blitz warfare, before they can break through and fan out In the Russian roar. EVASTOPOL still holds, and todny's Russian dispatches as sert that tho Germans, after penetrating tha city's inner ring of defense, were thrown back to their original positions bv a do (Continued on Page Two) : I m'I It . I i I l!!!ll!l!l!!illiii;:!:ii!llii!':li!li,i:r!l!! liliiiilllillll lllS'li! mam i .1 . Si' Pilots E REACHES AREA EAST OF FUKA New Zealand Troops Reinforce British Defense BULLETIN CAIRO, June 30 VP) Qerman armored columns have advanced past El Daba, 75 miles aast of Matruh and 100 milts from Alexandria, It was announced tonight. El Daba was tha second strong position In Egypt at which tha British eighth army had boon ex pected to maka a stand. It was apparent, however, that tha swift progress of even tha advance enemy unit posed a grave peril to tha great naval base of Alexandria and the rich valley of tha Nile. By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO. June 30 (P) Heavy raids by augmented United States army air forces on German-Italian tanks in the Egypt Ian desert battle area and on battered Tobruk were announced today as" the British " indicated that tho enemy had thrust east ward to the vicinity of Fuka, 140 miles west of Alexandria and 45 miles southeast of Matruh. ' (Both tho German and Italian communiques asjerted Marshal Erwln Rommel'i men already had reached the area east of Fuka' and the Italians said sev eral thousand . mors British troops ' had been captured at Matruh.) British hcadqunrtors said largo forces of axis tanks and vehicles were met and forced back Sun day west of Fuka, but acknow- (Continued on Pago Two) No Notional Forest Closures Seen Until After July 4 PORTLAND, June 30 () Unless fire dananr lnrrnn,m muA. denly, no additional closures In tho nntionnl fnrentji nt Cimann and Washington will be made until after July 4, Regional For ester Lyle F. Watts- said Mon day .... ; Althouizh some rltv wnton. sheds and other critical areas already have been closed, favor ablo weather and fnrit fnnl conditions make other closures unnecessary until probably July 7 or 8, Watts snld. Ho warned however thnt far. est travelers will need cnmpflre permits beginning July 1 ox CCDt at Dosted camnffraiinds. They wero advised to contact local forest officials for Infor mation about restrictions.- . IT WAS HOT Tito mercury , hit a Hew high for tho season at mid-afternoon Monday and government 'ther mometers rend 02 degrees at the peak.' Minimum ' temperature was a warmish 84. 1 c 7800 Japanese From Area 2 To Be Evacuated to Newell SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 (AP) All. Japanese wero order ed removed from 20 northern California counties today in the first mass evacuation from mili tary nrcn 2. Tho 1800 persons affected un der tho three now orders of Lieut, General J. L. DoWllt will be ovneunted directly to the Tulolnko relocation center at Newell, In Modoc county of Cal ifornia, This eliminates tha In termediary step of removing Jnpnncso . first to assembly cen ters, followed In all evacuations from mllltnry area 1 of Coll fornln, Washington, Oregon and Arlrona. The area. Involved, the most Blast Fire Zone for Suburbs to Be Asked of Court . Klnmuth county court will be asked to establish a fire zone In tho suburban areas as a result of n meeting on fire protection hold nt tho Altomont Junior high school Monday evening. . It was agreed by those at the meeting that a committee be un pointed to meet with the court and ask that the area be zoned under tho forest : laws. Under these statutes, tho court can set up a zone, and a levy up to 4 mills can be imposed for fire pro tection purposes. It was further agreed that pe titions now In circulation for es tablishment of a flro district be continued. In tho event a dis trict is formed, any money raised or equipment purchased under the zono plan would be turned over to tho district. - Tho committee to meet with the court Is composed of Leon Crnpo, Altomont drive; Lloyd Seeloy, Bryant avenue; Clifford McClellan, Knno street; Everett Mettler, Wiard street, president of the suburban lengue; Harold Ashloy. Hone street.- The group will meet with the county court at 2 p. m.. Wednes day. A permanent advisory com mittee will probably be appoint ed at that time. Don Hollowoy presided ; at Monday night s meeting. ... . SIR Churchill Makes No Statement on ' Libya LONDON, Juno 30 VP) Prime Minister Churchill an nounced today that General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinlcck, com mander In chief of British forces in tho middle east, had taken command of the British eighth army In North Africa on June 25, superseding Lieut. Gen, Nell M. Ritchie. Rltchlo had commanded the desert army since last Dec. 11 when ho took over from Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Gordon Cunning ham. Churchill, who spoke on his first appearance In the house of commons after his return from tho United States, was received tumultuously In. the chamber. The prime minister, who faces a challenge to his war leader ship, gave the house- no ac counting of his conferences with President Roosevelt and , only this brief statement of the shift in command of tho eighth army: . I do not propose to make any statement today about the momentous bnttlo now being fought in Egypt but I feci the house would wish to know that on Juno 25 General Auchinlcck decided to assumo command of the eighth army personally In succession to General Ritchie. 'As. soon as Auchinlcck in formed the government of the decision ho-had taken ho was (Continued on Pago Two) . extensive of any of tha 102 such orders yot issued by General DcWItt, blankets all of military area 2 from the Oregon border 360 miles down the eastern Cali fornia Rtnto boundary to the Mono-Inyo and Madera Fresno county lines. This comprises ap proximately a fourth of the state's area. It will leave only Inyo cqunty and parts of Sun Bernardino, 'Fresno, Tulare and a corner of Kern county yet to be cleared of Japanese, i Tha migration, starting July 0, will bo completed by noon July 13. This movement will lift the population of tho Tululnke relo (Continued on Page Two) ks SUPPLY BILL No Debate on Record Breaking Appropri ation Measure WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) With no debate, the house quick ly-completed legislative action today on a record-breaking J42,- 800,000,000 war department ap propriation bill. Representative Snyder (D-Pa.) called up the measure, which had been approved by the sen ate a little earlier with 31 min utes of debate, and obtained con currence of the house in two minor amendments, -one of which would moke certain that the money would be available starting tomorrow, upon Presi dent Roosevelt's signature. ' The other would prohibit the carrying of advertising by army camp newspapers. . Thus In less than 35 minutes the house- action today took very ' little - time "the '- two branches of tbncrcM wound np their work on theblgest appro priation bill in history; The house used six hours last week in first approving the bill. The senate also adopted today a conference report on a bill ap propriating $280,000,000 for the Works Projects administration during the next fiscal year. . This bill, it is. estimated, will take care of 400.000 on the WPA rolls during the nxt year. It now goes -to - tho White House for the presidents approval. The senate also adopted and sent to the White House legisla Hon appropriating $32,000,000 for war housing In the District of Columbia. A plan for vast federal busi ness subsidies to block a threat ened break-through In price ceilings has been recommended to congressional leaders by high ranking government officials. - Farm Plan : Informed sources said today that Price Administrator Leon Henderson and Secretary , of Agriculture Wickard had ' sug gested Informally a scheme built around government purchase of farm products and other raw ma- (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Fliers Make Longest : Bombing Flight By WALTER B. CLAUSEN HEADQUARTERS' HAWAI IAN AIR FORCE. June 30 VP) American army bombers, strik ing at tho enemy in probably the longest over-water bombing flight, over made,, have ; dealt new destruction to tiny Wake island, .which the Japanese seiz ed at a high cost last Dec. 23. Sweeping over the strategic atoll under full moonlight last Saturday night, the bombbrs hit all their targets, set tho main building afire, leveled . every thing on the surface, and re turned .to their base without casualties and without the loss of a plane. - . Col. Art W. Mcclinn, pilot of ono of tho bombers and a form er quarterback nt West Point, said it "probably was the long est range over-water bombing flight ever achieved. " Wake is 2000 nautical miles west of Pearl Harbor and a little more than 1000' miles southwest of Midway Island. . ' ! Announcement of tho raid was made by headquarters of the Hawaiian air force yester day after air the planes hod returned safely. Col, Mechan sold Saturday night's raid "crippled this Jap- ancso stepping stone at least until the Japs can repair the damage and fly in new planes. "We govo them . everything 1m KEIi I wa took over." I 18, a Lu,trtt.,to rn. . hi nun is .1 Two possible future soldiers were snapped today in the Fremont school gym registering in the United State's' fifth draft registration. Left to right, above,' are Grace Cleveland and Caroline Ackerman. registrars, and Edwin Woodrow Larson of Portland and Boyd Payna of Klamath Falls. The registration, for youths born between January 1, 1922. and June 30, 1924, in Klamath coun ty was expected to add from 1200 to 1500 names to the nation's manpower rolls. Approximately 2S0 of an estimated 700 enrollees In Klamath Falls had signed up by' early this afternoon. .. ' IN CHINESE DRIVE NewPhase' of Battle 'About to Start. " . ' Report By The Associated Press Fignting in a torrential rain storm, Japan's invasion armies were . reported in a Tokyo broadcast to have gained an other 20 miles in a two-way drive along the vital Chekiang- Kisngsi -. railway in eastern China today. . The broadcast said that three Chinese armies the 26th, 49th and 74th were retreating south ward from the Chinese-held strip of , the railway and that Japanese spearheads now were only about 30 miles apart. A Chinese army spokesman said- the invaders were still 50 miles opart, but implied that a new phase on the battle was about to start. Commenting that it was difficult to predict what the Japanese would do next, the spokesman said possibly they would try to Invade coast al Fukien province in a further attempt to eliminate air bases from which Japan could be bombed. . ' . The spokesman said fighting northward on the Shansi-Honan border was "very complicated," with three Japanese columns at tacking the Chinese from Shansl and three from Honan. Baseball American League R. ' H. E. Washington 8 10 '4 Boston .. . 9 14 i 1 Wynn, Carrasquel (8) and Early, Evans (1); Newsome, Ruba (5) and Peacock. R. H. E. New York ..::.;.:.;..;.:.:;, 5.. 8 1 Philadelphia ;.. 8 11 " 0 Borowyj Murphy (6), Branch (8) and Kcarse; Besse and Swift. National League . . R. H ' E. Boston .4 11 0 Brooklyn ....3 10 0 Donovan, Salvo (4) and Lom bards Casey, Webber (5). Kim ball (7), Rowe (8) and Owen. MocArthur Gets Medal of Honor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, June 30 (P) The con gressional medal of honor was presented , Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur In a simple ceremony today for extreme valor and ex ceptional leadership in the bat tle of the Philippines. Attended only by his imme diate staff, the allied comman der ,Jn the southwest Pacific re ceived ' the' " decoration from United States minister' Nelson T. Johnson. Congress voted General Mac- Arthur the medal, the highest award of the nation, March 25. 19 - Year - Olds Sign for Draft ir it II 5 1 11 Plane Flight : -Will Open K. F. "Whiteours A mass flight of airplanes over Klamath Falls at 11:45 p. m.' Wednesday will mark the opening ' of Klamath''- rotrrity' pun in we nationwide :;Aeiaiiers for Victory" drive, it was an nounced by Nick Long, chairman of the , Klamath . Retail Trade bureau. Fifteen minutes later Klamath stores will join in- a nationwide "whiteout" and from then ou the big campaign for war bond and , stamp sales will go full blast for an entire month. Louis Soukup of Oregon Air craft service has offered eight planes for. the flight, Long an nounced. Soukup and a group of flight instructors will pilot the training planes over the residen tial districts, dropping leaflets announcing the sale of stamps and bonds in retail stores. They will then fly over Main street and drop leaflets in the business district. .... Main street will be decorated and all merchants were asked by Long to put flags on the curbs. Store windows and inter iors will feature war stamps and bonds in decorative schemes. Scout . Executive Dwight Gil christ will have. Boy Scouts at the intersections of Msin street and at 12 noon bugles will sound (Continued on Page. Two) . House Votes to End CCC Program WASHINGTON.'June 30 (AP) The house voted a second time today to end the Civilian Con servation corps program tonight. -The action came when the members refused, by a roll call vote announced as 229 to 121, to instruct its conferees on a billion dollar labor-federal security bill to agree to a senate decision, ap proved by Vice President Wal lace's tie-breaking vote, to con tinue the activity into the new fiscal - year starting tomorrow with a $78,000,000 appropria tion, i First Rocket Cannon Seems Secret of Rommel Victory By HOWARD BLAKESLEE ' Wide World Science Editor NEW YORK, Juno 30 The first rocket cannon appeors to bo the reason for Rommel's vic tories in Libya and Egypt. : This gun Is the 88 millimeter weapon, firing shells which are bigger and which outrange any tank projectiles possessed by the' British. -.- i Many things point to this ex planation. Edward Kennedy of the Associated Press, in a dis patch from Cairo on June 23, wrote: "Shells from .this gun are of a semi-rocket type, said to. gain greater range by gases produced after being fired. ! "The 88 was thus able tn dri stroy many of the best tanks on this side, such ft the U. S. Gen 1 I r. E ciimi uuim MTin iv I lb Total United Nations Loss Stands At ' ' -326 to Date The sinking of two more United States merchant vessels, with, a presumed loss of 43 lives, was announced today by the navy. : ". : The latest losses raised to 326 the total of United end neutral nations' .vessels unofficially tab; uiatea-by- the Associated Press as lost in the western Atlantic since Pear) harbor. Six, seamen, sole survivors of the crew -of 38 of a medium sized .vessel sunk ' more than. 500 miles- from land, said they believed they were torpedoed by two raiders because immedi '(Continued on Page Two) Military Control Established Over Travel to Alaska - SAN; FRANCISCO, June 30 GTO-Strict military control over all' civilian' travel to and from Alaska was established today by Lieut. General J. L. DeWitt, ef fective July . 11. " 'A military pass will be re quired for any civilian entering or leaving the territory, under the first such order involving the Pacific area. . . General DeWitt, commanding the western defense command, fourth army and Alaska defense command, announced that only six reasons would be accepted for granting permits. They are official business of the United States government, definitely ar ranged legitimate - employment, business reasons, return of bona fide 'Alaska residents to their homes, -close domestic' relation ship and school Interests. 1 eral Grants, which have 73 mil limeter guns, before the tanks could get -within range of the German artillery." Another confirmation comes from the Associated Press photo June 25 of the 88 millimeter gun, a picture which came from Portugal showing a remarkable looking weapon a light . gun, with an' exaggerated Jong bar rel, appearing almost too slen der to hold a shell of 88 milli meters (about 3H' Inches). Photos Talk Photos in previous wars have revealed important enemy se crets, and Edward F. Chandler, New York engineer and mem ber of the American Rocket 30 clety, says this picture virtually (Continued on Page Two) NAZIS IKE NEWGAINSAT SEVASTOPOL Indecisive Fighting Still Raging on' Kharkov Front ' v - By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, June 30 VP) Soviet forces on the Kursk front above Kharkov have cut off" German . infantry forces which : pierced ; their lines in several sectors and more than 200 nazi t a n k s have been smashed in two days, the army publication' Red Star reported today in the first detailed ac count of the massive new battle raging in that area. : ; The frontline account said that Marshal Timoshenko's do fenders closed iiv quickly be hind the wedges driven by the nazis before supporting tank! could be brought up in thU battle which perhaps represent! the beginning -of Hitler's gen, eral offensive up . and dowq the front. In the two other violently ac tive battle sectors, Sevasto pol's war weary defenders ral lied to beat , back reinforced German shock troops to posi tions from which they launched a .48-hour assault and- on the Kharkov' front heavy but indfe.. cisive fighting- still- raged, j -:. Despite the rally by Sevas topol's valiant . garrison, -the Germans subsequently . made new gains, particularly in the northeast sector of the Crimean fortress. ' . Elaborating its account of tho Kursk fighting, Red Star said the Germans began their big push there Sunday with artil lery and air assault against Russian front; positions "after massive; nazil concentrations of infantry, motorized and tank forces had been brought up. ' While endless streams of big shells screamed over,- German air . raiders in groups of 20 planes each blasted at soviet ' iortifications with bomb and bullet, v i , Then under an umbrella pt more planes the nazi infantry men charged through pulver ized Russian positions, followed by tanks in waves of 50 to 75 each. - - , I ' ' Tanks Slowed ' Soviet artillery, anti-tank bat teries and sappers heaving bond grenades and bottles of gasoline met the advancing tanks and slowed them down while red infantrymen closed the breaches torn by Hitler's foot troops. 1 The battle of Sevastopol had appeared near a bloody climax, for the soviet information bur eau announced last night that, at a heavy cost, the Germans made fresh gains. 1 A noon communique, how ever, reported that, having lost more than 1500 men in attempts to breach the defenses, "the Hitlerites retreated into their Initial positions." . ; , ..,.' I Board 2 Draftees - I Leave Here Tonight j A group of Board 2 draftees, numbering approximately" 40 men, will leave here tonight for Portland and induction into the ormy, selective service head quarters said today. . . - . i The office said that 75 reg istrants have been ordered to re port but that many of them now live in other sections of the country. I The group will report to the draft office in the basement of the courthouse at 7 o'clock for final Instructions before entrain ing at 10 o'clock. ) A Board 1 contingent of ap proximately the same number will leave here Thursday night for Portland.' i News index City Briefs ; ...Page 6 Comics and Story ...Page B Courthouse Record .....Page S Editorials Page 4 Information Page B Market, Financial Page 7 Pattern ... ....................Pege 4 Sports Page A
