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On t-mlnute blast on tlrens and whltllM U Ih signal for blackout In Klamath FalU. Anolhaf long blait, during a black out. It a signal lor all-eUar. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your itraal lights. - July 8 High 90, tow 51 ' Precipitation aa ol June 30. 1942 Last rear' ..19.89 Normal ; .......:.'..........'...l 1.99 Straera yaar to data .............13.1I ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICK F M)ii) 'MSStiiw 1 1 1.' ii a , I S . t ITHFALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 7. 1942 mm itt) AllVMwl l MiHUiiiiniiggBawaaMBMBBawaamBBiiiiM W:mtmaamiBmmmmammKMMmBB lain. l!lj Ml I km mm II By FRANK JENKINS "THE wnr spotlight today playi directly on Russia, where Ifitlnx I. ttn. ..I.,.. - niltllft.. n.M.. aiiii-'I in tiiifivriiiH nu v.. Into a do-or-dlo attempt to break through tha red linen, surround T 1 m o h o n k o, sweep down 'tlirouiih the Caucasus from the north nnd muybo encircle Mos- cow with another prong of his Invading forco, I THE Germans clnlm to have " taken Voronozh. If that l true, they hnvo cut the main north and south mil line supply- Ing Tlmoihonko s armies und permitting shuttling of Russian forces to meet German uirust Th nniulnns do not admit loss of Voronezh, and speak of a ter rific struggle along an "import ant water lino" probably the Don river. The Germana inti mate they hnvo PASSED Voro neih nnd ore driving on toward Porovlno, a lesser rail Junction 140 miles to tho east. There are Indications that they have got their bill technique back Into operation. ICHY dispatches (always un reliable) say that Tlmoshcnko lias launched a flanking move ment northward from Izyum and Kupynnsk. That would be Inter esting It It should prove to bo true. It might slow or slop the Cwmnrt tlrlve. -' ' .. (Get out your map, If Interest ed In details. Without your map these thrusts and counter-thrusts re meaningless.) A WORD here aa to Hitler's million men. Don't visualize them as sweep ing into battle all at once, on one grand front. That Isn t happen ing. He dooms to bo using up wards of 200,000 men In his main thrust. The rest are held in reserve or at places that are relatively quiet, to bo thrown In as needed s replacements or to strike at .weak . spots developing In the Russian defense ' The size of the Russian forces Is unknown to us, but It is well to keep in mind that tho Rus sians are using the samo system, which la fundamental in war faro. DOMMEL is temporarily stopped In Egypt, and to day's dispatches Indicate that he is being outflanked to the south and penned up along tho Medi terranean coast. But Cairo says tho British are "under no Illusions that the threat to Egypt and the Alexan dria naval base has been erased, Rommol Is waiting and HOP ING for adequato reinforce ments. If ho gets them ho will go on the warpath again. The Brit ish meanwlillo mo using every thing they have to bco that he doesn't sot thorn. V"EEP an cyo on this situation. v If Hitler CAN'T AFFORD reinforcements for Rommel and has to leave him with such help as tho Italians can give him It will be a good sign that dcr fuohrcr is shooting the works In Russia and leaving his Egyptian drive to take care of itself. "H1NA today enters the sixth year of hor war with Japan, nd a Chinese spokesman says tho Japs hnvo lost a million killed and a million and n half wounded In tha five-year struggle, The Jap propaganda depart ment retorts that China has lost 2i million dead and another 2i million wounded and missing, adding that 111,111 Japs have betm killed in China. This serves as notice to us to keep, our fingers crossed as to ALL claims of losses Inflicted on tho OTHER follow. The Ger mans and the Russians hava been playing this gamo of telli lng of tho other fellow's losses, and the figures ere getting as tronomical, ; , rN this fifth ' anniversary of W Chlna'g war with Japan, . (Continued on Page Two) U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON BUND ACTIVITIES 57 High Officials of Group Involved in Indictments " NEW YORK, July 7 W1) A smashing blow at the German American bund Involving 67 of Its highest officers' and active members over the nution was be gun today by federal agents on newly returned indictments charging conspiracy to evade na tional defense regulations. Twenty-six were named In In dictments charging conspiracy to evade the. selective service act and conspiracy to counsel bund members to resist service In the armed forces of tho . United States end of conspiracy to con ceal bund affiliations In filling out alien registration forms. Three more were accused, of all but selective service violation.-., P. E. Foxworth, assistant FBI chief, announced that all 119 war In federal custody.' He e Id our had been In Internment camps. The balance of thoso sought among them national and sec tional officials and - principal pal leaders of the bund were the object of denaturalization proceedings. ' - , "Wo Intend: to. put the bund out of business,'; , said United States Attorney Mnthlss Corroa. ( . Xuhn Involve .-t n ,j Frit Kuhn, former; national bund leader now In prison, and Gorhard Wilhelm Kunte, sub sequent bund ehleftain arrested rccontly in Mexico and returned to this country yesterday,- were Involved in the federal proceed ings.' Also indlctad waa William Ottcrabach, Seattle. . ' ' Denaturalization' proceedings wero Instituted against Kuhn, serving a term for larceny, and Kunze was charged with evasion of Use solective service act, a charge upon which ho was held in $00,000 ball yesterday. Kunze Is wanted , also In Hartford. Conn., to answer a federal chargo of violation of the 1617 espionage act. , - Kunza pleaded Innocent when arraigned later on an Indictment charging him with violation of tno selective service act for fail ure to report his address. He ap peared before Federal Judge (Continued on Page Two) Canadian Units, RCAF, Stationed In Alaskd VICTORIA. B. C July 7 P Canadian army units as well as squadrona of the Royal Canadi an air force are now stationed in AlOBka, Air Minister C. G. Power disclosed In a statement issued, here today;. ' Accompanied by Air Marshal L. S. Brcadncr,: chief of air staff, tho air minister arrived unheralded In Victoria last night after a flight of several days which took them from Ottawa along tho northern air route to Alaska. They will1 leave for Ottawa again today.. Compromise Plan Proposed For Food - Handlers' Exams A compromise plan for, divid ing the cost of food handlers' examinations between employers and employes was proposed to the city council Monday night by Dr. George D. Massey, city health officer, who urged the council to take action for the protection of public health here. under the suggestion made bV tl health officer, employes would pay for the, first examina tion. Subsequent examinations, required every six months In the proposed' food handlers' ordi nance, would be paid for by the employer, . ' f Dr. Massey Pointed out that this plan would answer the as sertion by employers that ,be- cause of rapid turnover In labor, they would be unduly burdened by being required to pay for ex Grim - NEA telephoto - Here's a hide-and-seek game that's deadly serious a British South African armored scout ear cautiously circling the wreck age of a German stuka dive-bomber downed during the drive of nasi and Italian forces across Libya. " SPAATZ TD HEAD E Air Force Commander GiVest3omber Crews. ; ".'Flying Awards 1 LONDON. July . 7 () Major Gen. Corl Spaatz, who In 1929 made aviation history as com mander of the army endurance plane, ' "Question . Mark," has been ' appointed- i.oommahder-lh-, chief of tltf United States army 811 forces in "the European thea tre of war, ii was announced to day. ' - As hit first public act in his new post, General Spaatz today awarded distinguished flying crosses to three members of one of the American bomber crews who participated in the first United States air raid on Gor man-held western Europe July General Spaatz 'himself wears both the distinguished service cross and the. distinguished fly ing cross, .the former for bring ing down two Gorman planes during the St. Mlhlel offensive In the first world war and the latter for piloting the "Question Mark" to its then orecord contin uous flight of ISO hours, 40 min utes and 13 seconds over Los An geles in January, 1629. The red-hatred, Sl-ycar old commander has been in England since June, preparing the ground work for the American bombing against Germany. The men to whom he award ed the DFCT today were:- Second Lieut. Randall M. Dor- ton, Jr,, of Long Beach, Calif.; Sergeant Robert. L. Golay of Fre donia, Kas and- Sergeant Bon nie B; ' Cunningham of Tupelo, Miss. Captain Charles C. 'Kegelrnan, of El Reno, Okie,, was awarded the distinguished service cross Immediately following the raid on the Netherlands,, .having brought his badly-damaged plane home on one engine after strik ing the ground when hit by Ger man' gunfire.- 1 General Spaatz,- who has been assistant to the chief of tho air corps, also announced that-mem-bet's of. tho twq Amorlcan-oper- luonunuea on. page uwoj ; aminations of every new em ploye hired; '' ; ' ' . The proposed ordinance limits the cost of examinations to $3. Dr. Massey offered the sugges tion for a compromise plan after the council had discussed the touchy problem for-some time. Councilman Rolljn Cantrall turn ed to Massey and said: "Off the record, what Is your Idea as to who should' poy. for these examinations? Maybe you don't want to be quoted, but we would like to know." - , "I don't mind being quoted on anything I say," answered Dr. Massey. He then offered the plan. He said he believed It fair to em ployes, who would only be re quired to pay. for one examina tion, and to employers, who (Continued on Page TWO) - , .,..,,!.v,:; Cat and Mouse Game .-wf?-- WPB Lightens Restrictions On Inventories WASHINGTON, July 7 OP) Tho war production board re vised restrictions on inventories today, freeing hundreds of thou sand: of 'tons of copper, alum inum,- rubber, silk and other critical war materials now idle because of WPB regulations. Officials said the new order would release about 250,000 tons of copper and copper-base al loys alone for free movement into Industrial channels.' and provides Immediate relief 'for hard pressed firms which ,bave mucn oi ineir capnai. una up in frozen Inventories. WPB - said it was Impossible to estlmato the total Idle stocks affected, but placed their value at. hundreds of millions of dol lars, v.i" . Most important change was elimination of the necessity for obtaining formal. WPB permis sion for transfers of idle critical materials. Companies now may make sales without obtaining approval from Washington. .' All existing priority, regula tions and JS'PB orders will con tinue to apply to buyers, how ver. The regulation also estab lishes certain restrictions cover ing persons to whom war mate rials may be sold, the uses to which they may be put, and which priority ratings, If any, are necessary in buying them. Churchill Says Army, RAF Training Jointly - LONDON, July 7 (VP) Prime Minister Churchill Informed the house of commons today that "Joint training of the army and the RAF already Is proceeding on a considerable scale, and Is be ing continually extended." . He made the statement in re sponse to. questions which sug gested that some members still were not satisfied that coopera tion between, the land and air services had been adequate In North Africa and elsewhere. . Laval Has Trouble Getting Volunteers : , VICHY, July 7 &) Pierre Laval, French chief of govern ment, by his own declaration Is finding It -"difficult"- to recruit volunteers to work In Germany so that there may be an exchange for war prisoners. In a letter to industrial organ ization -committees he said that 5000 Frenchmen in German pri son camps have been picked to bo freed as soon as enough work men overcame their "prejudices" and volunteered for. service, and asked for cooperation ' In the effort. . ;' ' Postal Receipts Show Good Gain Postal receipts for June, as re ported by Postmaster. Burt E. Hawkins, helped to -bring the total for the first six months of this year well over that, of the corresponding period in 1841.' Tho books showed receipts for June as $12,048; for the first six months of 1941 as $72,072,' and for the first llx months of 1942, $73,03p.- .' . ' ) in Egyptian Desert Warfare Agriculture Geti Stop Gap Funds?. Pend-i -ing Settlement " v: WASHINGTON, July 7 OP) The. senate and .house finally agreed today on stop-gap' legis lation to provide funds for the department of agriculture pend ing settlement of a plUer.disput ovn terms fi the .$680,00,000 annual' aupply. PUI. i &!' The 'senate accepted house amendments td its own. resolu tion, sending the temporary Meg islatlon to the. White House.; It was agreed that tha depart ment, would be advanced July funds on all non-controversial appropriations, in the big farm bill, which means the depart ment will receive about $56, 000,000 this month. Tbe senate yesterday had approved a reso lution continuing funds at the rate prevailing in 'June, under legislation which expired at the end of the fiscal year. The senate verslon.would have given the de partment about $93,900,000 this month. Resolutions Same "I think this resolution has the same purpose and -effect as the one whioh passed the senate yes terday," said Senator Russell (D-Ga.), "but our friends in the other chamber are so Jealous of their prerogatives, they had to make some .revision of our- pro posal." . V . House members abandoned temporarily their stand for pro hibitions against below-parity ' (Continued on .Page Two).. . Warehousemen Get ! $15 Pay Boost , : , - - . i A $15 per month pay Increase across the board for approxi mately 38 Klamath Falls ware housemen was' incorporated in an agreement recently signed by the AFL Teamsters' - union and local employers, it.) was , an nounced today by. the union. . : Earl Edsall, business, agent of the Klamath local, said the con tract was made retroactive . to April 1. , ,7 ! The agreement also gave vaca Hons with pay to all truck drivers, he disclosed. , '. .-. , ,- Hiring Started ' For Isle Jobs ' " , D. ' K. Burgher, employment agent' for.' Morrlson-Knudsen company) is here for a week or 10 days hiring skilled And un skilled construction workers for work in the Hawaiian islands. . Work to-be done includes navy yard construction, under ground fuel storage, salvage, loading docks and air bases. Burgher can be reached at the U. S. employment office or- at the Hall hotel In the evenings. , . SHIPS TORPEDOED -WASHINGTON, July 7 (APV-1 The navy announced today that two small merchant vessels,, a British and a Norwegian, had been torpedoed In the Caribbean and survivors had. landed at a Caribbean port. ', ' . . . Senate Passes Bill for Loans At Full Parity WASHINGTON, July 7 Vf- The senate passed and' sent to jhe house -today legislation pro viding for' .government Joans at full parity on six major crops, which would enable farmers to borrow 38 cents more(on a bushel of wheat than the cur rent market price, and 15 cents more on a bushel of corn. The senate passed the bill by a roll call- vote of :28 to 2V, alter' reject! ngzi;!' as, .a -motion, by . Senator.' OTOathoney, (D;Wyo.) to return it to the ag riculture ' committee for further study.'-,' -'?' . The bill faces, an uncertain reception in the hou$e, which is deadlocked .with ' the senate on terms of the ; $68O,OOO,QO0 supply- bill for the department of agriculture.- The loan measure, approved over- objections it would place practically- all -of the nation's 1842-grain crops In mortgage to the government, also would per mit full parity loans on cotton, rice, tobacco aidi peanuts. . . The agriculture-department would -be directed' to. provide loans up to $1.34 on wheat how selling for about ' 85'.7- "cents a bushel pn the' farms. The corn loan would be 87.6 cents, com pared ' with .'. an ' average ." farm price of 81.8' cents on June 15. British Announce , New Wire-Trailing Rockets Weapon LONDON, July 7 (AP)-l-Wlre-trailing -rockets were disclosed officially today as one of Brit ain's newest weapons of defense against aerial raiders. The weop'on, which" has" been in use to, protect, merchant ships for more than- a year,, was de scribed as an apparatus which shoots a projectile that opens into a parachute from which long wires dangle.- The rockets, fired up as planes swoop to attack, ' often force them to veer off course or risk entanglement in the wires. Battered China Asks U. S. Concentration in Pacific ' By The Assdclated Press In the . far; Pacific theatre, China marked the beginning of her sixth year of bloody struggle against Japan's Invasion armies with a renewed plea that the Pa cific, instead of Europe, be made the United ,' Nations' "second front."- " V - . '-, A Chinese government spokes man declared the United States and China could knock out Ja pan this year if full-' American power were thrown Into the Pa cific conflict; - So far, the spokesman - said, "very few" planes ara -being down Into-Chine M aid Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's be leaguered armies. - . Meanwhile, a Chinese army spokesman declared Japan had lost 1,000.000 killed ana t.ouu,- 000 wounded since the war began on July 7, 1937, as well as 2504 planes and 28,824 prisoners in 14 major battles and 10.375 minor engagements. The spokesman es- FDR Says Tires May Have to Be Commandeered WASHINGTON, July 7 W) President Roosevelt asserted to day that If things get worse it might be necessary for the gov ernment to commandeer all the automobile tires in the country. He told . a press . conference that, he was not trying to save rubber or gasoline, but the na tion. And he added he thought the nation was willing to make any sacrifice in. the emergency confronting it. - The chief executive expressed a hope that the tire and gasoline problems could be - separated, and' he said ho decision had been reached yet on nationwide, ra tioning of motor fuel.; Roosevelt would not say defi nitely whether he thought, the (Continued on Page Two),-; INU.SJIH!EhSE English .Speakers' Do More Harm Than : ' ' Good, Report -: LONDON, July " 7 OP) The house of commons cheered to day as Brendan Bracken, minis ter of information, declared that ''A high powered publicity mis sion instructed to force Britain down the throats of the Ameri can people'-WLOtild 4o mor harm Than wood, . and that o more British lecturers would be sent to- -tha ..United State, be cause -their efforts already, bad turned out that way.-. : '. Bracken spoke In; reply, to criticism of '.Britain's propagan da, effort from both , right and left. , .-U.V.;.-;;;.. y .; j 'Respondlhg"to complaintrthat he had sent "socialites" ,t6 propagandize, in the ' United States, Bracken said he had laid, down an "absolute- rule .that no more lecturers be sent. "They did so much more harm- than any , possible . good that X thought they should stay nome; -. .ne aeciareu. 1 He added that ' a ' prominent American - had - estimated that less than 8 per cent of the American population was irre concilably ' antl - British' and Vcquld only be ' cured by : the undertaker." ' - i ' Bracken disclosed ' also that he had created a political war fare executive to' coordinate the work of many, diverse propa ganda agencies. . ' . -.. He ' said Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden formulated the policy. ,and he himself .admin istered It. and "we have always been in complete agreement.": With some critics charging-Inefficiency and others alleging leftist . tendencies-, in British propaganda services. Parliamen tary Secretary Ernest Thurtle disclosed that- Britain would spend about $34,400,000 on pronaganda at home and abroad during the current fiscal year, an increase of $8,740,000 over last year. '''- timated 800,000 Japanese troops were involved in the China cam paign. ' ." ' ) In Tokyo, Imperial headquart; ers said. only 111,000 -Japanese had been killed in China and as serted that Chinese losses ex ceeded 5,000,000 killed, wound ed and missing, Including 2,338, 000 slain. , ' . . In AVashlngton, War Secretary Stimson and -Navy Secretary Knox saluted the Chinese as comrades in arms and in a Joint order-of-the-day read to alt army and navy iforces pledged Amer ica's determination to help China "expel the aggressor from every foot pf Chinese soil." In the battle of Australia, Gen. Douglas MatArthur's headquart-. era allied bombers struck again at Tula gl, Japanese-occupied base in the Solomon-- islands. while -33 enemy planes raided' the allied outpost at Port Mores by, New Guinea. . , AXIS CU MS SOVIET RAIL British- Press Forward For Third Day in -, ' .Libyan Battle . . . By GEORGE D. GREENE , . Associated Press War Editor . Adolf . Hitler's invasion arm ies, exploiting a swift 120-mlle break-through, appeared to have cuti direct communications be tween. Russia's northern and southern armies in a grave turn of events In the soviet campaign ipaay, while In Egypt the Brit ish reported they had bent the axis. southern. flank back to the West-for a third successive setback.- . (...:, ... -. . .. . A bulletin from British - Im perial headquarters said .Gen. Sir Claude J.'.E. Auchinieck's eighth army, bolstered by fresh troops and big American tanks. 'continued their pressure on the enemy, who extended his south ern flank to the west.". ; . r This evidently, meant that . Nazi Marshal Erwin . Rommel had been forced to weaken his forward .. line, within. 70 miles of the great Alexandria, naval base, and build a protecting or ;'extende,d" wall against British flying columns hacking at .his flanks.' -; ... . ... .i'VOUr battle'' BroiitM pntmrort and :'.;. dispersed . several', small enemy columns," British ' head quarters' said, while front-line dispatches', Indicated . that . Gen. Rommel's ...weary, .' troops were refusing battle. '. A German communique as serted -tersely that "in the fight for EI Alamein, several enemy counter-attacks supported by tanks failed."--' - v nam uiaim victory - . On the soviet front. Hitler's field .- headquarters V reported. tank-led ,'nazi troops had cap tured the important city of Vo ronezh, on: the Moscow-Rostov railroad, "Which is the principal rail, communication between the red. armies of the north and south.- -. . i - While- the Germans lunged across the upper Don, a Vichy broadcast reported that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's armies had opened a Violent counter offensive at Izyum and Kup yansk, on the southern flank of the Ukraine battle front, and had driven the nazu back across the Krasnaya river, . ' The Paris radio said the Mos cow-Rostov railway,' the last major rail connection between Moscow and the Caucasus, had been cut. The line runs through Voronezh. ' Over Don While . the Russians gave no indication that Voronezh' had fallen, red army headquarters indicated that Gen. Heinz Guder ian's nazi tank columns, sweep ing 50, miles beyond the line of their greatest 1841 advance, had fought their way across the up per Don. Soviet dispatches said fresh German divisions were moving into the battle and that almost 200,000 nazl troops were now throwing their weight into the drive.; which ultimately ' could turn either south for a thrust into the great Caucasus oil fields or north for a flanking i sweep ardund Moscow. Although military experts ex pected Hitler to strike for the oil treasures of the . Caucasus, they did not discount tho pbssl blllty that he might also be' in tent on the prize that so bitterly eluded him in 1841 the capture oi Moscow. German communiques recent ly, have stressed action In. the Rzhev zone, 120 miles northwest of Moscow, and today Hitler's field headquarters reported: "In attacks in the Rzhev area. . (Continued on Page Two). . CENTER TAKEN , News Index ; . , City Briefs .. 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