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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1942)
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As to the situation there, Red Stur, tho Russian army ncwipnper, anys: 'The fighting has itwcllcd to a gigantic icnlo, with tho Germans pouring In mniwoi of fresh ro- scrve and tunks." ftEMEMBER that the Germans are allocking, and hnvo tho natural advantage that goes with Uie offensive. That is to any, they can con centrate for a blow at a CHOSEN POINT, whereas the Russians must keep their forces so disposed as to be ready to meet an attack In force WHER EVER It may come. Any good quarterback under stand! this situation fully. "O conclusions are possible on the basis of tho news at noon today. We'll hove to wait for developments. "TUB news from Egypt today x , leons -toward tho favorablo aide. . Cairo report hint that Auch Inleck Is "slowly squeezing the axis invaders Into a POTEN TIAL death trap." ' The British seem to bo creep ing around Rommel's right flank. hnnins to Den him in olomi tho Mediterranean coasl and fi nally liquidate him. - If they can keep him from get ting reinforcements, they may manage It AT this point, we come back to communications, and to day's dispatches rcpor that a Rrltlsh submarine operating In the Mediterranean has sunk an Tixls merchant ship and an axis naval auxiliary, Thcso ships were part of a strongly escorted convoy carrying supplies to Rommel, They tell also of a 8000-ton allied merchant ship torpedoed in the eastern Mediterranean by an Italian plane. Rome says It was carrying armored cars and other vehicles to Auchinleck, of course. nUSSIAN pianos today bomb German basos In Norway and Flnlond from which nu7.1 planes hnvo been raiding tho British-American supply lino to Russia by way of tho Arctic beean. -' A big fight has been going on Up tliero for days, with llttlo In the way of dependable news leaking out. Tho Germans have been raiding a convoy headed 4.for tho Russian port of Mur- Jmnn.ik. First they claimed to have sunk 10 out of a total of 30 ahlps In tho convoy. Today they claim to have sunk a tntat of 38 out of tho 38. Russian reports have asserted that tho convoy reached Murmansk more or less Intact. ' i Moscow reported a doy or so ago that a Russian submnrlno in the Arctic torpedoed and heav ily damaged the German battlo ship, Tlrpltz, which with other German surface craft including cruisers was said to be operating against Russia's Murmansk sup ply routa. Tho Germans denied flatly that the Tlrpltz was hit. A BOUT all wo can glean from these conflicting reports is that the Murmnnsk routo Is tre mendously Important to our side in keeping Russia supplied with tho war materials she needs to atop tho German drlvo and that tho Germans nro Booking dospor- rntcly to break It up. Our aide Is trying just as hard to keep It open. Again tho Importanco of com munications Is emphasized, 'THE U. S. navy today adds Its x by this time more or less (Continued on Page Two) ; BRITISH PUSH IR R ED MEN NAZI FLANK TOWARD SEA U. S. Bombers Search Out Axis Ships in ; Mediterranean CAIRO, July 10 (VP) Be tween 400 and BOO axis vehicles were destroyed or damaged yes terday In a concentrated raid on a mass of enemy transport in the Egyptian desert, and huge Amer ican four-motored bombers at tacked shipping In the Mediter ranean during daylight, it was announced tonight Tho British said 85 other ve hicle were destroyed by fighter bombers, aside from those in the concentration. The land fighting was de scribed as extremely mobile and relotivcly quieter ond at one point the enemy was forced back slightly south of El Alamcln. By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, July 10 (P) British mobllo columns southwest of El Alameln squeezed Field Mar. shal Erwln Rommel's armored right flonk back toward the aca today whllo United plates bomb er and British submarines sought to cut his Mediterranean supply lino. (A British broadcast quoted reports from Ankara that tho axis was moving reinforcements to north Africa from the Bolk ans, pulling German troops from Yugoslavia and even Crete In an effort to restore Rommel's strik ing power.) British headquarters an nounced that long-rango United States bombers hunting axis ships In tho Mediterranean shot down two German fighter planes which attempted to Intercept them. (An admiralty communique In London credited a single British (Continued on Page Two) Hitler Calls Back Ousted Army Chief, Stockholm Says LONDON, July 10 (&) The Dally Mall published a report to day that Adolf Hitler had called back his ousted army commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Wal ther von Brauchitsch, yielding to tiio Insistence of his high com mand. There was no confirmation of this report, which came from the nowspapcr's Stockholm corres pondent, who said It was brought by noutrals arriving In tho Swe dish capital from Berlin, Von Brauchitsch, who engi neered mast of tho nazls' con quests, was supplanted as com mander by Hitler himself last Dec. 22. Tho Dally Mall report said he was back again, directing the general staff work of the new German offensive In Russia. . Ration Board Warns Tire Requests Far Over Quota Klamath rationing - officials warned Friday that there Is an apparent public expectancy .of tiro rubber horo that Is beyond all hope of fulfillment. ' The rationing board Is flooded with applications for tires that exceed the county's quota many tltrtcs, and these applications In creaso day by day, Last week, It was revealed, thcra were 108 applications for now tires, against a quota of only 3, Thus tho applications number more than 35 times the number of tires available for al lotment. At the same meeting, the board recolved applications for 222 passenger tiro recaps, against a quota of 15; applications were received for 77 new trqpk tires, nulb Supply Line y ; ; : f A I f V -J r : J P Major Canaral Carl Spaats (aboyo), of Boyoritown, Pa., has baan named commander in chief of U. S. air forces In th Eur opean theatre. RED AIR FORCE German Bases onVArci ?.';tic Sttpply Line' . Bombed MOSCOW, July 10 (P) Bombing Gorman airdromes In northern Norway and Finland, the red air force has inflicted heavy new damage on the bases from which German planes have been raiding ports and shipping of the Arctic supply line to Rus sia, war front dispatches report ed today. The raids followed the Rus sian torpedoing of the powerful German battleship Tlrpltz as it led a cruiser and destroyer force In an attempted attack on an al lied convoy bringing Russia sup plies from England and the Unit ed States, the Russian accounts said. A strong - Gorman air fleet based In northern Norway and Finland repeatedly has struck at such convoys and at Murmansk and other cities of the Kola pc (Contlnucd on Pago Two) Two-Pound Sugar Bonus Goes Into Effect Here Today Commencing today, sugar stamp 7 In war ration books Is redeemable for a two-pound sugar bonus, according to an of ficial rclcaso notice received this noon at tho local war price and rationing board. The sugar may be purchased any time be tween today and the night of August 22. Executive Secretary E f f i e Gnrcelon, announcing tho offi cial release, warned ration book noldora not to remove stamp 6, as It will be used at a later date. against a quota of 20; applica tions for 37 truck recaps, against a quota of 20. Situation Serious That Is tho statistical picture of a situation that Is growing In creasingly serious for users of tire rubber, and there Is no re lief in sight, tho rationing offi cials said. They stated that pcopla hero must now rcallzo that there aro virtually no tires to be had, and that they must resort to prac tices that will moke for tho greatest possible uso of what rubber Is left. At the same time, the ration ing board clamped down on loose use of rationed tires, following receipt of new rcgulotlons which . (Continued on Page Two) INLINE FOR AUTUMN DRAFT Family Heads Without Children, Others To Be Called With the service men's depen dents allowance act of 1942 a reality, Klamath county draft registrants today were being re classified Into four categories preliminary to early fall induc tion of men with dependents other than a wife and children. Officials of the two Klamath selective service boards said that effective Immediately, under the new regulations,, registrants would be called In the following categorical order: Category 1 Man with no dapandtnti. Category . 2 Man with de pendant but not maintaining a home for wife or children. CaUgory 3 Man with no children but with wife with, whom thr maintain a ihoita. -V Category " 4--Mn with-.a"; rife UneTehildirerrW widow- ' art w i children with whom thay uikintala a home. - - Category 1 will probably fur nish enough men for pending Au gust calls but early autumn will probably see the induction of all Category 2 and the first of Cate gory 3 men, officials of the two county selective service boards said. Category 3 Succeeding calls will be com posed almost entirely of Cate gory 3 men until that list is ex hausted, according to tho offi cials, . . ' The selective service office said that no figures were yet available on the size of the four classifications. Under the new set-up, the of fice said it was imperative that men whose dependency had changed and who had not noti fied their draft board of the change, to do so at once. . Files Up to Date x Classifications are based, the office declared, on information in the men's files and those files should be up to date. Board officials said increased need of the armed services for men requires speeding up of in duction and men receiving or ders to report for preliminary physical examinations should re port Immediately to their board all changes in status or address so they may be properly classi fied. Men will be celled In their numbered order. The army is now drafting men between the ages of 20 and 44, Inclusive. Men who were 44 at time of registra tion but have since passed their 45th birthday will also be called, the office said, Gandhi Continues Congress to Free India From Britain WARDHA, India, July 9 (De layed) (fl3) Wizened Mohandas K. Gandhi brushed aside his physicians'- advice to rest and went ahead with his Indian congress collcngues today In a conference seeking agreement on action to free India from British rule without paving the way for the Japanese to coma In. Indians said' the meeting may call for general civil disobedi ence or for some specific demon stration such as the "salt marches" when Gandhi led thousands of his followers to the sea to moke salt in violation of tho salt monopoly. It might, also, decide on some thing relatively harmless In keeping with Gandhi's recent policy of avoiding anything which might assist the Japanese, they reported. An Egg? No, a "Fish"! Jt fc f: r ' Ban1, Aradt olnatrly holdsl m camehurding througb...iha..ai r--: Iff ; i ):rJ I r il - ' ,rA 1 :-z n him as ha wai working in his victory garden on South Sixth street. Apparently dropped from, an airplane orerhead. It em bedded Itself two feet in th ground. It bax been Identified as a "fish."' - ; , .-- :.- : : Victory Gardener "Bombed" From Plane Overhead A flurry of excitement was caused by a whistling sound, a dull thud and the unearthing of a metal object embedded two feet in the ground, as reported Friday morning by Ben Arndt, linotype operator for the Klam ath Shopping Guide. Arndt appeared at the police station, bearing a pear-shaped cast metal object, l inches in diameter and 4) Inches long, weighing three pounds and hav ing a slotted brass plug in the large end with HT-7-A stamped on it. There was a small hole in the tapered end. He told of hearing the object fall and seeing it land not 15 or 20 feet from him as he was work ing in his victory garden on (Continued on Page Two) Jap Convoys Said Moving Steadily Toward India NEW DELHI, India, July 10 (fP) The RAF, in announcing a new series of destructive raids on the Japanese in Burma, dis closed today that Japanese con voys of troops and supplies are moving steadily toward India under a continual rain of Brit ish bombs. In the past 46 days 200,000 pounds of bombs have been dropped on these Japanese, a communique said. Today s announcement said many casualties were lntiictea on Japanese troops In low- level bombing of a barracks at Myltkyina and heavy damage was done to locomotives and the right-of-way on the Mandalay Myltkylna railway In. northern Burma on Wednesday. Chinese Recapture Town of Chungshu CHUNGKING, July 10 m The Chinese high command an nounced today the recapture of Chungshu, 45 miles southwest of Nnnchnng, In a new repulse of the Japanese and a sharp set back of the Invaders' latest push along the Kiangsl rail line to Hunan province. Also recaptured, the Chinese said, was the town of Tsungjen, 70 miles south of the Japanese base at Manchang. 1 f er-ihpe4 metal 'objart that to. Jand. uncomfortablv clow ..to WASHINGTON, July 10 (P) The senate appropriations com mittee approved today an ap propriation of $120,000,000 to operate-the office of price ad ministration for the current fis cal year $90,000,000 less than Administrator Leon Henderson originally requested but $45, 000,000 above the sum voted by the house. - . - Explaining committee reduc tions in Henderson's. revised re quest for $140,000,000, McKel- lar asserted "We. thought the amounts asked for attorneys, in spectors, travel pay, printing and other items, should be reduced." Members, of the sub-commit- ;. (Continued on . Page Two) . Baseball . ' AMERICAN LEAGUE ' - R. H. E. Detroit . 17 3 Boston 6 9 0 - Trout, Henshaw- (3) and Teb betts, Parsons (7); Hughson and Conroy. ... R. H. E St. Louis 2 9 0 New York 5 5 0 Niggeling, Fehrens (1) and Ferrell; Donald and Rosar. Trial of Nazi Still Shrouded in Secrecy WASHINGTON, July 10 P The two big vans carrying eight accused nazi plotters to their life or death trial swung into the Justice department court yard 45 minutes earlier than usual today as the secret proceedings moved one day farther, toward a deel sion on their fate. Whether the early arrival meant a stepping up of the trial's gait or whether it was just anoth er maneuver to evade the curious was only one of many questions left unanswered by the military commission's policy of almost airtight secrecy. - j War Information officials con tinued their efforts to expand the information available to the pub lic, perhaps by securing the re lease of two bulletins daily. ," ' First Break The first break in the barrier against publicity which was WPB Extends Lumber Freeze For One Month WASHINGTON, July 10 M1) The war production board today extended its lumber "freeze" or der for a month, pending devel opment "of a system of distribu tion," based on need of lumber for war purposes. Officials declined to say what form of .distribution would be adopted, emphasizing that plans had not been worked out. At the same time, WPB re vised the freeze . order, per mitting sale and delivery of lumber for repair and mainte nance of railway cars and allow ing small sawmills to resume re tail sales. - Arthur T: Upson, chief of the lumber products branch, said the shortage of many types of con struction lumber - had become more serious since sales were halted May 13 and that demands of the armed services "are large and rapidly increasing." He said requirements for box ing and crating ' of munitions would "soon be vastly expanded, adding to the already heavy bur den, of lumber ; producers who are furnishing wood as a sub stitute for many articles former ly made of metal. Under the revised order, mills sawing less than 5000 feet of softwood a day are exempt from the restrictions.- Further, saw mills which normally engaged in local-retailing because their com munities are not served by regu lar retail yards may resume such sales to the local trade. ' . ; Government to Be Signatory to Aircraft Pact : - ' LOS ANGELES, July 10 UP) The federal government today assumed virtual veto power over any collective bargaining agree ment which - labor unions and aircraft plant management may reach . in ' government-sponsored conferences now underway. Paul R. Porter, chief of the war production board's wage stabilization section, announced that the government would be a signatory to any pact. He de scribed the action as a departure from previous custom, taken un der delegation to the WPB of President Roosevelt's broad wage powers granted through the war emergency act. The conference has been de scribed as a keystone in the president's drive to prevent in flation. Meantime a sliding scale for wages, rising automatically with the cost of living, was suggested. The "escalator plan," backed by the AFL, would call for a salary, increase whenever the U. S. bureau of labor statistics' cost of living chart rose 5 points or more. . . " Before the conference was the demand of union representatives for a minimum of 95 cents an hour for unskilled workers, com pared with the present 60 cents starting wage, and a minimum of $1.60 for certain skilled em ployes now receiving $1.52. JAP PLANE DOWNED - CHUNGKING, July 10 OP) Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters said in a communi que today that a two-engine Jap anese observation plane was shot down yesterday at Hengyang. Saboteurs raised in the interest of national security came late yesterday with the issuance of two brief statements by Maj. Gen. Frank R. ' McCoy, president ; of the seven-general trial commission. The information was limited to a disclosure that the proceed ings began on Wednesday with disposal of some "preliminary procedural motions"; that seven witnesses testified during the first two days, and that all par ticipants were sworn to secrecy. It took a determined effort by Elmer Davis, recently-appointed OWI director, and a conference among President Roosevelt, Sec retary of War Stimson and Da vis to wrench that much loose. Firm Grip The military kept a firm grip on the information to be released (Continued on Page Two) RUSS ADMIT SITUATION IS 1ILICATEQ' Second Bitter Battle Flares to South Near Rossosh " - By HENRY C. CASSiDT ' MOSCOW, July 10 (Ger man tank forces which crossed the upper Don bit into the soviet defenses before Voronezh today while 100 miles to the south a second furious battle raged full force at the ap- proaencs to Kossosh where re inforced German troops ; had driven a new salient 90 miles into the Russian line.' Red Star, organ of the soviet army, said conditions west of Voronezh were becoming' "more complicated and those near Rossosh "very difficult" with combat close to the city. An important red army coun ter-attack designed to relieve pressure on Voronezh was re ported threatening the German flank, however, and Red Star said "stubborn battles there may have a serious influence o'.-cr the position near Voronezh." It was not disclosed whether this counter-attack was in the Orel sector 165 miles northwest of Voronezh where the Germans have, reported Russian troops on the. .of fensive. , . , ; . ' .. Tank Lead y . Russiantanks, leading an at tack on one position where the Germans were described as par ticularly . vulnerable,.: were:, said to have rolled the nazi line back and reoccupied . several points. . In the battle before Voronezh, key rail link between the Rus sian central and southern , arm ies, the : Germans have . estab lished two m a i n bridgeheads across the Don at tremendous sacrifice of men, accounts from that front said. ;' . . However, the Russians said the main force of Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's fourth tank army was massed west of the river waiting under Russian aerial - attack and long-range bombardment to cross for a re newed attack as soon as - the nazi foothold on the east bank could be widened. The Russians also were re ported battling hard on the de fensive in the Rossosh region where the Germans drove an other deep salient toward the big bend of the Don 100 miles south of Voronezh and 200 miles north of Rostov, north gate to the Caucasus. Good Order ' The Russians reported they (Continued on Page Two) . House Committee Eyes Subsidization. Of. Small Business " WASHINGTON, July 10 (P)- Awaiting an explanation from Administrator Leon Henderson of the effect of price regulations on small enterprises, members of a house committee voiced gen eral nnnrnval tnHnv nf a TjrODOS- al for subsidization of small business operators to help them survive during the war. rVinirmnn Pnlmnn fD-TeX. of the small business committee said Henderson would testify next Wednesday and would be nclrnrl nmnnff nthpf' things, for his opinion on the subsidy plan outlined yesterday by rnuip u. Reed, head of . the industries branch of the war production board. - Reed told the committee that unless something were done nuiflrlv - nnnrnxlmaielv 24.000 small industrial enterprises, un able to fit into the war program and lacking materials for civil ian production, "will be forced to shut down before October 1." News Index City Briefs ... Page Church News Pages 9, 11 Comics and Story Page 12 Ccirthouse Records ... 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