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J : 'Mllll Herald t&nft On 8-mlnuta blait an tlrini and whistles Is the signal tar t blackout In Klamath Ftlli. Another long bltit, during a black out. U signal lot all-olaar. In precau tionary pirlodi,. witch your street tights. June 30 High 9S, Low SI ' Precipitation ai oi June 24, 1143 ,, '.,. Stream year to data ......19.JT Last Yaar . ..,.,.IS.0T Normal n.a . ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES I ",....,....,.. B.., FpR f.'.'.. ',!?.,i,'?,t?. ... juiKiiJWlNrt MATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY'l, 1942 Number 9628 M nil til ii i i t n u li I i i ) mm !!!i:i!!!!ll!'i'!!!!lll!l!lllllilll!l!llili!:L!S!!i!!:! . IS I M3W t, i! In The uavs sMm . ! If i ' l , 'I. " .1 M . hi IliiiPtfiMIPl iiiii! By FRANK JENKINS HE German today ore 70 miles from Alexandria. There has bean no niojor bntllo alnco Tobruk. The British have retired steadily, fighting only rear suaTd actions. Rommel hai followed along. Supposed alrong point have been pawed by one after another. CO much la clear from the (cen' sored) dispatches of the past few days. To those of us on the outside, seeing only as much of the pic ture as we are permitted to see, NOT MUCH ELSE IS. , CROM the Insider coma only i expressions oi commence, Churchill, before leaving Washington, said (in effect) not to worry, that Alexandria and the Nile valley would be HELD, , Today (with the enemy 70 mile nwny) Auchinleck says: "The battle Is not over yet and won t be until wa have defeated the enemy-i-and DEFEAT "HIM WE WILL. . 1 General Robert Stone, com' mandor of the British garrison forces In Egypt, chimes In: "The position ' seems pretty satis factory, ' We scored sovoral sucr cesses yesterday." ; The leaders on our sido aro TALKING a good war. YOU are puzzled, of course. All of us outsiders are puzzled. It comes down to this: i Either the insiders KNOW SOMETHING wo don't know or they aro just TALKING. The events of the next few ay will probably tell tho story as to Egypt. TF Rommel Is beaten and tho Nile valley and Alexandria and Suez aro saved, we shall all ba happy and our leaders will be great men. IF NOT, thoro will bo an ex plosion. COR the moment, remember 1 that this desert fighting is DIFFERENT. From tho begin . nlng It has swirled back and j forth, with victory first on' one aide and then on the other. Fixed strong points aro relatively un i important. y TTHIS odd nolo of confidence comes even from realistic 1 Russia, as well ns from Egypt. In Kuibyshev today, General "Nikoltil Zhurvalcv, Russian mil ' Oitary expert, says: "Hitler's pres ent offensives show that tho Gor mans no longer aro cnpnblo of strategic operations on a large scaloi Axis forces aro worn out ' and Gocbbnls Is trying to save foe by playing up local of fonslvcs as vast operations of strategic Importance." The goneral may be expressing only his own opinions and mil , Itttry experts aro NOT Invariably right. But remember that his expression of opinion Is per mitted to PASS THE RUSSIAN CENSORSHIP, which Is any thing but loose, That adds to tho oddity.. ,, , '" A NOTHER minor oddity: Egypt, whoso soil is being , fought on, ISN'T at war with tho , axis.. Tho fighting there Is a BRITISH affair with our holp. f N Iho Mediterranean, the U. S. Currier Wasp has delivered ' serial reinforcements to Malta. They aro described as British planes, INCLUDING RAF pilots. ; The Implication Is that they also , Include U. S. pilots. . , ' - The Wasp appears to have ! brought these planes WITHIN 1 FLYING DISTANCE of Malta. I'hey took off and finished the (Continued on Pago Two) Iters fciaoim ENEMY FORCE Auchinleck.. Promises That "Defeat Them We Will" ... By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, July 1 (AP) German Marshal Erwln Rommel's arm' ored forces were 70 miles from the Nilo delta today and a bat tie which may settle the fato of the middlo cast was building to a climax; - Advunce element of the axis a nn 1 e s, thrusting powerfully eastward, havo been In contact with the British positions at El Alnmeln since yesterday, it was disclosed tonight. This village Is 70 mites by rail from tho great naval baso of Alexandria, on the, western most of tho Nile's mouths. Between axis forces and the Nile river stand several lines of defense, thousands of soldiers and hundreds of cannon while other allied unit harass the Gorman flanks and allied air planes strike from overhead. , .. The ' main . anomy fore - Is hammering ahead In -tne big column . while smaller groups aro making sallies to the sides. Other unit are desperately try ing ' 10 mane tneir way over desert . stretches under ' heavy allied attacks.' , ' ' ' . "Battle Not Over" British Commander Gen. Sir nUdu AiiOiiinicCki iil uii Order of the day, said "the battle is not over yet and will ' not bo over until we hove defeated tho enemy, ' and defeat them we will." - The steady advance of Ger man , tank' and ' armored car units has brought , a definite threat to Alexandria, on the western Up of tho Nile delta. Tho llttlo coastal vIIIheo of El Dnbn,. which the enemy has occupied," was formerly tho main supply point for the desort. Virtually all the supplies were removed or destroyed be- lore ii was evacuated, as the British withdrew toward El Alnmeln, only 65 miles from Alexandria. (Berlin said Rom mel already was attacking El Alameln.) Near Alexandria The British commander's con- fldcnt message to his troops was published as Field Marshal Er- win Rommel's armored spear heads rolled nearer Alexandria and tho Nile, their advance Units somewhoro cast of El Daba, only 100 miles from Alexandria. Gen. Robort Stone, command er of British garrison forces In Egypt said "the position seems pretty satisfactory. We scored several successes yesterday." NAVY NURSE BILL WASHINGTON, July 1 (Pi House passage sent to President Roosevelt today a senate bill to moke the rank of navy , nurses comparable to that of nurses in tho army. ... , . ; , HAMMERS AHEAD DIN American Bombing Crews Meet Challenge, Hale Says By WALTER CLAUSEN HEADQUARTERS. Hawaiian Air Forces, 'July 1(P) Ameri can bombing crows are "meet ing tho 'challenge of long-range combat operations which in the Pacific area have opened a now chapter In nlr warfare," Major General Willis II. Hale, com manding US' nlr forces in the mid-Paclflc, said today;" p Ha cited ihcr Jtme 27. raid on Jap-hold Wake island, 2000 nau tical miles west of Pearl Harbor, as an example. " : . , General Hale disclosed that Col, Roger M. Romey, of Den ton, Tex., led tho army bombers on toclr long ovcr-wnter mission whir.h leveled, the ground de fenses on Wake, and commend Local Talent Plentiful for Buckaroo Days Local talent will not be found wuntlng In arena events as the annual Klamath Buckaroo Days show gets under way Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and S, at 1:30 p. m. at the fulrgrounds, Both days of tho big show will see amateur bronc busters, rop ers and riders In a fust run-off of events and tickets were going like hot cakes ut rodeo head' quarters, 418 Main street. Fifty-two members of the Klamath Mounted Reserve will appear In the grand entry, color ful opening event of the show, and will perform immediately after the entry, it was learned here Wednesday. Major Lloyd L. Low will lend the reserves with Drlllmostcr "Pat" Ivory, Captain Louis bvrruys and Lieu tenant Leigh Ackcrman In the front line. Organization of the two-day show was completed at a meet ing of Klnmulh Buckaroo Days directors Tuesday night and it wos announced that Jimmy Doss, top-notch trick rider, roper and singer would appear on tho pro- (Continued on Pago Two) OPPOSITE SIBERIA Tokyo Claims Seizure Of Strategic Railway ; ; Japan was reported massing troops and planes on tho Man. chukuo border opposite Russian blberla today and London mili tary quarters declared there was very little doubt" that . tho Japuncso were making prepara. Hons tor an eventual attack on Russia. . Tying In with this report, the Domcl (Japanese) news agency announced that Japanese troops had launched a general offen sive on the far northwest China front in Suiyuan province pre sumably aimed at the dejttuc tlon of Chinese armies which might embarrass a Japanese thrust Into outer Mongolia. Outer Mongolia, adjoining both Siberia and the Japanese "puppet state" of Manchukuo, is under Russia's protection. A London spokesman said there had been a general move ment of Japanese forces north ward and that the Japanese were evidently preparing to at tack Russia "at their chosen moment." 'I don't wish to Imply that their preparations are complete (Continued on Page Two) Baseball American League R. H. E. Washington 3 B 0 Boston 3 , 10 0 Newsom and Evans; Chase, Terry (7), Conroy. . ed the pilots, navigators and bombardiers for their "fine team work." , .. 1 , Tho general in his firsi Inter view since being appointed to his new command, said, that air forces "will be the controlling factor In tho Pacific" and that American forces "are fighting as ono team army, navy and mar ines.' i ' ! :', , Women Pilots Ha disclosed that one bf the actions in the southwest Pacific had revealed tho Japanese, wore using women as warplano pilots, Ho gave no further details ex cept to sny that none of the wom en pilots has henn raptured, ' Prior to this,- it was known (Continued on Page Two) ?' ' U.S. DELIVERS IS E Plane Carrier Makes "Several" Trips ' Without Hurt ; WASHINGTON, July 1 W) The American aircraft carrier Wasp, venturing dangerously into the mid-Mediterranean bat tlo area, r e c e n 1 1 y delivered aerial ' reinforcements to ' Brit ain's bomb-battered island of Malta, it was disclosed officially today, .... , ' The Wasp made several ferry trips without damage to Itself or escort vessels to the British stronghold flanking axis supply lines to Africa.' The dateof the trips was not given In thenavy's formal announcement, but . au thorities s a 1 d it was "a few weeks ago" apparently about the time that the Germans and Italians were ; pouring v peak quantities of supplies into Afri ca .to ..build , up: General Erwin Rommel's Libyan campaign.- On ona trip the Wasp carried British fighter 'Strctal'l manned by RAF pilots deliveries on the other trips weie not identi fied but probably, also were British-manned, planes and they arrived lust as the enemy was attacking, the navy . relat ed. The new British forces im mediately engaged the enemy planes which, being surprised by the strength of resistance, suffered "considerable losses. Stcond Engagement. . Thereupon tho British fight ers landed hastily at a Malta field, refueled and took to the air again, the communique said, to engage tho enemy a second time within 30 minutes after their arrival over the island from the Wasp. . "The expertly timed arrival of reinforcement planes on the Wasp was most fortunate for the heroic defenders of the British (Continued on Page Two) Labor Shortage Tackled on Several Lines Klamath's farm labor prob lem will be tackled along several lines, it was reported to 'the board of directors of the cham ber of commerce Wednesday by Henry Scmon, chairman of the chamber agricultural committee and tha county farm labor com mittee. Scmon said that the latter group met at tho county agent's office Wednesday with repre sentatives of civic organizations and others, and worked out a program along the lines of that adopted in Utah, where a similar problem exists. A committee will confer with officials of tho War Relocation authority to determine what can bo done toward contracting 'tor labor from the Japanese project of tho WRA at Tulelake. War board officials will be asked about tho possibility of giving Klamath service men' fair- (Continued on Page Two) -; Germans Weakening, Russ Expert Says , KUIBYSHEV, July 1 (ff) ' Major General Nikolai Zhurva lov, Russian military expert, de clared today that Adolf Hitler's present offensives show that the Germans no longer are capable ot tackling strategic operations on a largo scale. The general asserted that the axis forces were worn out and that Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbcls was "trying to save face by playing up Ineal offensives as vast operations of strategic Importance." PLANES PILO AT MALTA DAS 1 I I MM1II .gBySIMWM ftf ssf (pj - . -' $ - l !' ' ' " A " 1 At i -t wSiWIiaMMIMii I I MM Ml lli'lifrtfffri1i'riir'11Hlliihiillia . Klamath Buckaroo . Days President O; D. Matthtwi, right, and Director, Marshall Cornett take part in the 12 o'clock "whiteout" of stamp and bond sale Wednesday' a they make pur chases from pretty Virginia Cilhoun, hosiery clerk.'.'". , "; ' ;'-'' : -': '-V ' ' ; '-r : Minister; Denies-:- Lack Guns Tanks . , In Libya .'. Bf DREW MIDDLETON " LONDON, July 1 (AP Brit ain's war production minister and his predecessor denied to day that, lack of guns, tank; and planes were responsible for British military defeats in North Africa- as Winston. Churchill's critics launchPd their "no con fidence" attack on his direction of tho war. Oliver -Lyttleton,-minister of production, told the house of commons that manufacture of six-pounder guns and of tanks and the supplying of American made dive-bombers to British forces in the field was pro gressing steadily and added: "Shortly we are . going to sur pass the equipment of. the enemy in several important weapons." In the house of lords, Lord Beaverbrook, former production minister, said he did not think there w a s - a n y shortage' of equipment in Libya and he had never heard it suggested that there was any shortage of air craft. ' He declared that the British 3.7 anti-aircraft gun with arm or piercing projectiles is "a better gun" ' than the . German 88-mlllimeter, , credited ; with . a large s h are. of winning the Libyan battle. , , . They s p o k e . in . reply to charges by Churchill's -critics that production was not provid ing British forces with adequate (Continued on Page Iwo) , Newell Nodo Is First Baby Born at Center Newell Kazuo Noda is the name of .the first baby born at the war relocation authority's Tulelake project for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Little Newell, named after the postoffice at the project,' was born at 'the community hospital on the project last Sunday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Noda. George Noda Is a berry worker who formerly lived at Florin, Calif.; Dr. Mas Seto, Sacramento evacuee, attended the mother. ,! RANCHER GORED .VALE, July 1 (A) Fred Rus sell, . one of the first ranchers to settle on the Vale irrigation project 10 years ago, was fatally gored by a bull', on. the Chad wick ranch near Ontario. ' He was one of two Oregon men to din in similar mishaps t h I y week, Raymond B. Lowe ot Myrtle Point being the other.- ; 'Two Pair and Some Stamps!' Retail Drive on ' : War Savings Off To Flying Start July sales' of war savings stamps and bonds got off to a running start .Wednesday - with retail merchants - of the, - city staging a "whiteout" . at noon. In a 15-minute period, the sales organizations of all business houses .devoted themselves en tirely to stamp and bond sales. Nick Long, chairman -of .the general . committee,, estimated that the day's sales In business houses totaled $3000 in stamps snd $1500 in bonds.. lie said no definite figures- were . available, but that all merchants reported the "whiteout" a success., . In July, patrons of. stores will be asked to take their change in stamps. - ' Ten airplanes from the muni cipal airport flew over the city just before noon under a plan arranged by Louis Soukoup, head of the Oregon ; Aircraft service. They dropped '5(50(Ueaf lets urging purchase , of , war stamps and bonds. eff ;.. 115 Czechs Get v , ": Death Sentence at Court Martial . LONDON, July 1 (P) Courts martial in Prague and: Bruenn sentenced 113 persons to death yesterday, the ; Vichy radio, quoting reports from Budapest, said today. . . The sentences were given on charges of having been in con tact with enemy agents, for ap proving the attack on. the late gestapo leader, Reinhard Hey drich, for failing to report to the police or for Illegal posses sion of arms, the French radio said. . , . , . . Included in the number were two . "parachute agents who came to the protectorate, In a British plane to commit acts of sabotage," the radio said, add ing that "one of these agents shot two German customs offi cials with a revolver." Women, as Well as Men, Can Help Out Hay Crews If you can't wield a pitchfork how about cooking for the hay crews? . ., ...... .,- Women as well as men are needed during the coming hay ing season in Klamath county and several Inquiries havo been made at the US employment of fice and tho county agricultural agent's office by public spirited women who are willing to go into the fields in an effort to save the 150,000-ton crop soon to be harvested. ' Oddly enough 1 the Inquiries have hppn made hy lynmn now employed in offices who feel that this might be a patriotic E converted Airliner Carrying Army Personnel WELCH; W. Vs., July 1 (P) Eleven men were killed when a converted airliner apparently carrying army personnel lost a wing and crashed into a hillside in, the southern West Virginia mountains today. The plane caught fire imme diately after ploughing through a "victory garden" plot at Pre mier three miles -from here and before the bodies could be re moved.- . . State ; Troopers Earl -Yeager and Tom Harrison said that ten bodies1 had been removed from the-charred hull and that most of the victims were believed to be army men. - They, said the plane had borne insignia of American Airlines. ' . The plane crashed in a garden about a half mile from the min ing village of Premier, three miles from Welch.. - Eight bodies were first re moved and then: two more. , (Continued on Page Two) Serruys, Gove, Slated for Match Race, on Sunday A match race between Louis Serruys and Jack Gove, well known Main street business men, is slated for Sunday's show , at Klamath Buckaroo Days rodeo it was learned here late Wednesday. -,.; Serruys, weighing ' in at 220 pounds, will ride an English saddle, and Gove, who tips the scales-at 1S5 pound3, will-ride western. The three-eighths mile race has caused considerable Interest among supdrters of the, two men, both of whom are members of the Klamath Mounted Reserve. '' way to spend a Vacation. Both women . volunteered for the pitchfork brigade which will march Into the hay fields soon after July 4, The hay harvest Is usually ovor at this time, but the enily cold spell has delayed the cutting according to County Agent C. A. Henderson. Better than 80,000 acres of hay are to bo harvested in the Klamath basin this year, t Women .may contact the em ployment office and those who feel that working in the fields might be n bit too strenuous may sign up for cooking for the hay crews. , . , , . NAZIS ASSERT Al German Offensive At Gzhatsk Frustrated; , Reds Report - bulletin ' - ; ' BERLIN (From German Broadcasts). Jnlv 1 VptTh great Russian fortress and naval base of Sevastopol in the Crimea has fallen tn the Herman, anrl Rumanian armies, Adolf Hitler's nign , command announced tn. night . (The city had been under Im. mediate attack by axis armies totaling about 250,000 men for 27 days and the Russians defense had taken a heaw toll nf tha enemy In one of the staunches! stands of history. -' (Sevastopol actually was in vested by Hitler's forces hut Nn. vember 7 and therefore - hati withstood almost eight months of siege.)- '" " -' .'". A special communique said: ' "Sevastopol has fallen.' Over the bastion, city and harbor th German and Rumanian war flags are flying: Under the leadership of Col.-Gen. von Mannsteln, Ge man and Rumanian troops bravely supported by the exceb lent Col.-Gen, Baron. Freihert von- Richthofen ' and his lufb waffe, after a 23 days' hard fight : have today: at iioon forced the surrender-sof the most powerful land - and sea fortress in- the world. -.' 'i.-.jv -.V-',1 .,: "Strong forts, fortification hewn - in -rocks, ' subterranean fortifications, complete pillboxes as well as innumerable fortified positions were cantured In e. emplary cooperation of all arms. me number of prisoners ta ken and the amount of war' ma terial seized cannot vet be sti. mated." ..; "The remnants of the beaten soviet Sevastopol army have fled to the Khersones peninsula; -- -"Pressed closely together with in the narrowest space,- it Is fac ing destruction." ; - - ; By HENRY C. CASSIDT MOSCOW, July 1 (P) A Ger man attempt to launch a new of fensive near Gzhatsk,' advance point 100 miles west of Moscow, has been frustrated by powerful Russian counter-attacks, the army newspaper Red Star re ported today. . . . : ; The seventh German-infantry regiment lost more than- 2300 (Continued on Page Two)-- ; No Main Street . . Parking During - 1 Parade, Order ,,' . No parked cars on Main stret between Fifth and Eleventh on Saturday morning, July 4. - This is the order of Chief bf Police Frank Hamm and motor ists are asked to observe the or der to the fullest extent. -Thore will be no parking from 7 a. m. until after the big Fourth of July parade, in order that pedestrians witness the parade, to the best advantage. . ' ' -, i Cars parked on Main between the. two delgnatett streets will be hauled to the police station where owners can "ball them out," Hamm stated, ' Weather Record . ; ; I Broken Tuesday v ; .j Another, seasonal record was broken Tuesduy when the ther mometer reached a new high qf B5 degrees, according to: reports from the desk of the US weather man. ' 1 ' ' : '. ' 'f The mercury ranged ' higher than at any time during 1841, when maximum for the summer months was recorded at 84 on July 21. Minimum temperature Tues day was 58 degrees. ,, News Index City Briefs Page 0 Comics and Story ........Page 10 Courthouse Record Page 3 Editorials Page 4 Information Page S Msrkct, fliieUlal Pago i Pattern ..................Page 4 Sports ., Page y