' f. iKilTlilliiUliiiJilm'llluNiilii.llJlilili'llililllll On 8-mlnuU blast on slrent and whistles li the signal lor a blackout In Klamath rail. Another long bint, during a black out, li a signal ior all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your itroat llghta. pMiiiiiiilii Wlflussies Bolder ftrinifOifMite SB mil ALLIES STAND L., Xmmm l-M-iSllDI wiiiiniii'ii'iriiiii1 iiiwTr-Tirn i iiiiw mrnT nr t - -. : v--. :w- . nrninT nr nr v a i " By FRANK JENKINS -TODAY'S wut" news at a glance: ' Tho altuutlon In Russia la defi nitely worao. : In Egypt (temporarily, at leosl) it li illHhtly bettor. TN Russia, you'll have to rains your alghta to tnka in Stnlin- oirad. on tlio Volga a big lump Jbontwurd on your map. Stalingrad la im important In dustrial city. It" factories, along with those of Moscow, nro prob ably supplying the bulk ot tho Russian munitions for tho pres ent Krnit buttle apart from air craft replacements, which can be flown In from long distances. Tho Volga la not only an Im portant defense line, but a great Russian artery of commerce. On It oil moves In bargea from the Caucasus fields. At Its upper nd, Moscow Is connected with It by a canal. At compared with this coun try, river transport la vastly im portant In Russia. 'THE Germans aro now within zuu miles oi oianngrua. incy Jnave advanced 170 miles In a week. ; Tliey aro following down the right bank of the Don, through valley containing few natural defense lines. From the valley of the Don, where It bends south ward west of the Volga, It la only 50 miles to Sttrttngritd. . TODAY'S dlapotchc aay the , nails are achieving their suc cesses at tremenaouaoat of men and equipment. - 'r: i That la doutiHWfril: ' But Granfe-sitccesiws In' hla final drivo on Richmond were also achieved at tremendous cost. Ha lost half his army In less than month. 1 1 , , . Yet he won. ' t He -won because Lco'e losses were RELATIVELY MORE cost ly. . THE final result In Russia will J depend on the comparative oi5c.and the COMPARATIVE RESOURCES of.. Hitler and Stalin. Plus whatever help OUR SIDE can give to Russia. . ? rON'T glvo up the ahlp. Don't 7' let yourself get as gloomy now as you were probobly cocky a few weeks ago. ..... ; Be REALISTIC In your ap praisal -of the progress of the war. Keep the long pull In mind. But don't let yourself think the Russians have the war won. VN Egypt tho hard-hitting Aus- trallans have coma Into tho picture again. One gathers from the tone of the dispatches that their arrival la tho chief reason for the temporarily favorable turn In the battle. ; Where-they came from Isn't Stnlcd. Possibly from Australia. There has been time for them to ntnA -lni frnm hnmn - As usual, Rommel gave way before lliulr deadly bayonets. T H E British Mediterranean navy entered the plcturo to day for the first time since the present battle began, shelling Malruh.. i Appearance of the navy sug gests that our side still has con trol of the air In Africa. Other wise, naval participation In the fighting along tho Egyptian coast would have been too dangerous to be risked. -Egyptian fighting on a decisive icalc seems to bo still waiting for REINFORCEMENT ON A DE CISIVE SCALE. ; Whichever side gols adequate reinforcement FIRST will hove the edge. ' , THERE has been an Intriguing ' development on the Western front. ; Tha British strike flY DAY LIGHT with new, last-word, four motor, up-to-now-secret Lancaster bombers at tho Ger man' U-bont nest at Danzig, on the Baltic. The number of these bombers participating la not an nounced, but it is stated that tha loss was under five per cent, ' (Continued on Page. Two) , . EL ALAMEIN Both' Sides Gather Re inforcements for Big Push CAIRO, Egypt, July 13 (AP Rritaln's army of the Nile, once again bolstered by Australians, atood firm In Its newly won posi tions 10 mllea west of El Ala mein today after repulsing sharp German attacks, but .Marshal Rommel was reinforcing his forces by air and sea and pre paring for a new thrust toward Alexandria, ' - Gen. Sir Claude Auchlnleck also was drawing new strength from his store and reserves In Egypt. , .... With both sides thus hastily gathering power f or . now test, present activity In the desert woa viewed by British 'military circles as probing for (a'vorablq ground for future operations.; : Tho newiy won British.. posi tions at Tl El'ErsaV.weat oVfel Alumoln,. wore bcllcvocLso vital let ROtnmol's of fcnslrr Malls' ttfat the British expected he would continue to attempt to recapture, them before he begins a new bid for a complete Egyptian victory. Repulse '' ' v.. The British communique today said they had repulsed all' Ger man counterattacks on tl .posi tion so far. ' ' At tha same time British1 shock troop .and artillery were reported harassing the enemy on the southern end of the front, Just obovo the Qunttnra depres sion, whilo In tho. center axis (Continued on Pago Xwo).", Sinking of Ships In St. Lawrence Told in Canada ' : OTTAWA, July 13 0P) wavy Minister Angus MacDonald an nounced In tho house of com mons today that three United Nations ships had been torpe doed and sunk in tho gulf of the St. Lawrence river "about a week ago." Four crewmen were killed, four aro missing, and 89 were rescued, he said, This brought the total of ships sunk in the river to at least five. Tho government announced tho loss of two shlpa May 13, and survivors at the time said they believed a third had gone down. . Simpson Charges Rubber Firms With WASHINGTON. July 13 fP). Elliot E. Simpson, an Indepen dent rubber dealer who Is coun sel for a house sub-commltteo Investigating tho rubber situa tion, charges that "four large scrap rubber firms have reaped enormous profits from the coun try's scrap rubber drive." Simpson, In a stntcmont re leased yesterday, said: "Tho four companies which have been appointed as tho sole rubber reserve 'agents' are H. Meuhlsleln and Company, Inc., A, Scliulmflii, Inc., Nat E. Bcr zen, Inc., and the Loewcnthal company. All -four havo branch es extending from coast to coast, and all four are due, to obtain tremendous profits from this deal." , , , , , ., Subsiding The Rubber Reserve corpora tion is a government subsidiary of tha Reconstruction, Finance corporation. ., 'The latest wrinkle In war- profiteering la In scrap rubber." Simpson said, "with four so called 'agents' of the rubber re serve pocketing gigantic profiU at the expense ot the millions of ASSOCIATED PRF PRICE?',',1,!,1., Tn y!i'!ii i K"w"','.A.'!'4'..tATII FALLS. OREGON, ia r' This waterfront Ttew, which came from a neutral notion through London to the United States, was described as showing a German , submerlne "garage" on the Trench coast. Atop the concrete-covered U-boat docks e protect the structure. Br;lt1sCDr6():High:!Ex; ' 1 plosive Shells ir on V , Vital Base, , ' By LARRY ALLEN . WITH THE BRITISH NAVY A1RFORCB IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT,' July 12 (Doloycd (P) British ' warships; hurled more than 700 rounds of high explo sive shells irilo-thc axis vital supply, base at Matruh before dawn, today, causing great de struction In'tho enemy's material dumps close behind tho Egyptian battlefields. . Naval aircraft bombed the western Egypt seaport Installa tions while scores of steel pro jectiles from the great throats of the sea guns silenced short bat teries and beat much of the, sec tor Into smoking, ravaged pulp, The surprise bombardment caught a mass of small supply ships and swift motor torpedo boats resting at anchor' In the harbor.-A number were set afire; The great-shells from the fleet set lingo blazes ashore. The" warships pumped shells Into Matruh' for nearly a. half hour.-The. first round fell square ly on tho target area and blasted the heavy nazl anti-aircraft guns Into rubble ot twisted steel. Aft erwards, there. was only the rat tle of machlncgun fire and 'bursts of small arms from ashore. Profit - Reaping Americans who patriotically co operated" In the president s rub ber drive. i Simpson said the four com panies ho named "arc being granted 'commissions' of $1.50 on every ton or scrap rubber which la collected for the rub ber reserve, whether or not they wero Instrumental in collecting the scrap. On top of that,, they are paid u considerable sum for sorting tha scrap once It Is in their warehouses. But the great est bonanza of all will come aft er the scrap Is sorted, after such Items as crepe soles worth $462 a ton are separated from run-of-the-mill grades." i AKRON, Ohio, July 13 (VP) M. A. Goldberg, local repreaen tatlve of the Loewenthal Co., Chicago, denied today a charge that Rubber Reserve' Corp. had allowed "enormous profits" to his and three other firms under agreements connected with the scrap rubber drive. The charge was mBde by El liot E. Simpson, counsel for a house sub-committee lnvestlgat- (Continued "on Page Two) - v V . ' 1 THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND fortification was. being built. ,. . ,., Nazis Plan More Terror For frpjff ' VICHY, Julyv.t '-M .'.St.''T Germ n W'afi ripu ne'ed ,'louny.. In, . IirjrtheWUWrWl!fiales over the ago of 18 years who are members of families of fugitives from German military Juntlce ac cused of terrorism, or sabotage. This applies to "all near male relatives In the ascending line as well m. brothers-in-law and cou sin,". Women- of the same de grees' of kinship will' be: sen tenced, to hard, labor and chil dren of adults thus punished will be' sent to reform schools,' the an nouncement said. ... A notice issued by the gestapo director over-night to-the press In the occupied area said: . . "After having observed the at tllude of the French population la; the occupied zone I -have noted that a majority of the pop ulation is continuing to work in calm.. . Terrorists attacks, sabo tage, etc., instigated by the Eng lish and Soviets are disapproved of and It Is known that it is' only the peaceable French population which suffers the consequences. "1 am resolved to guarantee to the French population in abso (Continued on Pago Two) Slot Machine Cose-down Starts in State SALEM, July 12 (AP) Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague dis closed today that state police and county sheriffs are attempting to wipe out all slot machines operating In the state. ' ' Governor Sprague, at the re quest of Lt. Gen. J. L. De Witt, commanding general of the west ern defense command,' asked the officers to make ' the raids -on July 1. Many of the raids al ready have been made. - ' In a letter to Charles P. Pray, superintendent of stote police, tho governor wrote: "I request that you Instruct the officers of the state police to take Immediate action to con fiscate all such; slot machines observed to be operating. in the state of Oregon and further re quest that you ask tho coopera tion ot local police authorities In continuing to suppress this form of gambling." General De Witt asked the governor, In a letter written June 10, to shut down all slot machines operating near bar racks a d encampments of troops. ' -' ' i Genernl DeWitt said he had requested similar action In other western states. Governor Sprague explained that he delayed the announce ment In order .to give police a chance to catch slot machine op erators by surprise. Ho said that, uubllclty would havo given the operators a warning and chased them' Into temporary hiding. ; . WM MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942 Aircraft were to be assigned to ' . . ShS'o$tr5ini HaVbbf' Now Stand ! ' At 364-: ' l -V. . , . '.' ' .1 ;,.:! - . , . By the As'soelited Presi ; 1: ' The loss of ;thr A 'United Na tions merchant vessel" , one of them a United States vessel tor pedocd approximately 90 miles off the Atlantic -coast,'-Was 're ported today by the navy,' " Earlier, the torp'edoeing of two merchant ships, one in the Gulf of Mexico and the other, in.ithe Carlbben, was announced' bythe navy. . ; -v' -V-v,' Eleven of tho 32-man 'srev ot a small armed Norwegian cargo ship were lost in' the sinking of the ship ' one - week ago. In -the gulf.- All 22 of the: crew'.of the other victim, a' small" 'unarmed Panamanian cargo vessel,-were saved when their ship sank May 23. " In Havana; the Cuban navy general staff said a -U; S: mer chant ship was torpedoed and sunk off the north coast of Cuba yesterday. : i. 1 ' j The three sinkings announced by the navy today and the two reported yesterday raised to 364 the unofficial Associated Press tabulation" of allied and neutral ship losses, In, the western At lantic since Pearl Harbor. The Cuban and Canadian-announced sinkings were not included pend ing further. Information. French "Reds", Germans Battle VICHY, Unoccupied France, July 13 OP) French gendarmes Joined German police in a pitch ed battle against defiant, hand grenade-tossing Frenchmen at Houdin, in the Pas De Calais department, reports reaching Vichy said today. One of the. recalcitrant group was reported killed and a by stander wounded before the French and nazi police stormed the house in which the French men, described as "commun ists," wero barricaded, The Germans said a cache of firearms and explosives was found in the house along with Information which led to discov ery of another cache containing dynamite and railway sabotage tools. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit ...,.......v...'.: 3 , 4 .'. 2 New York 4 6 1 Trout, Gorsica (7) and Teb hetts; Gomez and Dickey, Rosar (2 ' ..' !, NEA FEATURES Number FUTUO ISLAND Newest Jap Threat to Vital Port Held Smashed . By The Associated Press ' Generalissimo- Chiang Kai Shek's high command declared today that the Chinese had re captured Futuo island, Just off the Fuklen province coast from Fpochow,- smashing the newest Japanese threat to one of the biggest ports still In Chinese hands. - ,-.;' -The 'Japanese seized 'trie" Is land; last Thursday .but "weire driven off Saturday, a Chinese communique announced.. It said fighting still . was in. progress northwest of Wenchow, in Che klang province, the second of the . two big remaining Chinese port.'. The1 Japanese claimed yes terday. thaV they-had occupied . Fighting continued Inland Irt Xisngsi province where the Chi' nese.! said the Japanese .weri ruining up iretmorcements in 4 effort to save 30,000 of their' troops hemmed in. by the pbi,-nese- between the Kari "and Fu rivers. - . . , .Second Front ' ylfree China's leading newspa Wr, Ta K'ung Pao, called upon the United States, to. bring the war to a turning point thjs sum mer or autumn by opening a second front in -Europe, starting a naval of tensive, against Japan, and. turning the: full power of her,, air force upon ithe axis In Europe end Asia. ..The newspaper said. talk, of a sepbrid front so far recalled a Chinese proverb:,- : "There is . XContinued. on. Page Two) .. ''i . ' 1 Nazis Wipe Out . Norwegian Town, ; Soviets-Report , LONDON, July 13 (IF) Reut ers said : today, that the soviet information bureau had broad cast' a. report that the nazis have wiped out a village, in Telemark province of southern Norway and 'shot, all its. .residents, including women ana cnuaren. - -A spokesman here for- the Norwegian gover,nment-Jn-ex.ilei however, said "We have1 received no ! Information that a village was wiped out in' Telemark pro vince." : - : Daylight Raid on Danzig Shows New Strength in Air LONDON, July 13 (&) The new potency of Britain's air cam paign to drive the U-boat from the seas, by smashing Germany's replacements before she can get them-into the water, is the story behind the RAF's sensational daylight raid on Danzig Satur day.: '.-:; .' . That neither daylight, dis tance nor foul weather deterred squadrons of British bombers from sweeping low over Ger many on a 1750-mile round-trip in daylight showed that the nazis are exposed now to mighty air assault any where and at any time. The test of the Danzig raid is comparison with the dramatic daylight air attack on the Ger man submarine plant at Augs burg just last April. Only 12 planes made that stab, only about half as far from home as the' former free city, and only five returned. The attack on Danzig cost but three planes and unofficial in dications that this, was less than five -per cent of the attacking ea . - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9538 I : j Police- Chief- Frank Himm, who was nominated Monday by President Rooserelt to be Unit ed States' marshal for Oregon. ISO. F." R. ' Proposes .Klam ath Chief for Fed-! erdl Post' WASHINGTON. July 13 (AP) President Roosevelt today nominated-Steve F. Hamm'of Ore? gort to be yrjlted iSta tea marshal for Oregon. - . . . - --y;- -"5 A-'rrn. ". f Steve F. Hamm, whd'is Frarjk Hariitn - In - Klamath : Fallsi -has been police chief here -for -seven years. :'. '-- ? -'- . He was first appointed by for mer Mayor Willis Ma-honey, and served through two terms of for mer Mayor Clifton Richmond's administration, as well as Mayor John, Houston's . administration to date. He had police experi-ence-with the Pendleton and Los Angeles police departments be fore movinfe to' Klamath Falls. . , Got Strong Support y ' Hamm became an active can didate for the U. S. marshal's appointment about the .first of this year.. He was strongly sup ported by the Klamath -county democratic central committee, and was widely recommended by other central committees in the state,- particularly those of neighboring counties. He was en dorsed for the appointment: by Congressman Walter M. Pierce, and former Mayor Willis , Ma: honey is understood to. have as sisted in placing Hamm's. quali fications before the Vpowers that be." .Vi .') .:!. -: Vacancy .Here ' . , i The. nomination-by the .presl dent now goes to the' senate for confirmation. Confirmation . will be followed,-by. assumption of thex office.- and Hamm -will-then mpye to Portland., where head quarters ot .the U.;S. marshal's office. are'malntalned. ; " Incumbent' In the marshal's of '. (Continued -on Page Two) : : force meant that at least; 60 borhbers made It. ' : Risky 1 ; On this longest and riskiest daylight operation" by the RAF so-far, the British' sent out their Lancaster's great, four-motored bombers which are the newest and highly secret bomb-carriers in their air fleet. For hours these tough planes flew over Germany's heavily guarded coast before they sliced down to lay their heavy bombs on Danzig's submarine yards In the bright light of the northern evening. . Other bombers at the same time raided another U-boat base, Flensburg, on the German -Danish border 400 miles nearer Eng land than Danzig. . To get to Danzig, the British bombers had to buck thunder storms, treacherous winds and icing for hours over Germany's defense-studded home precincts. 1 ' Bad weather over the conti nent prevented the RAF from following up the Danzig assault with another raid on Germany last night, the British said. ther New July 12 High 82, tow 43 : Praclpltatlon at o( July 8. .1943) '-:',; .j Last year ... ;-..-.:.-.,..j.;...13.8i Normal ;.: ............ 11,17 -j Straam yaar to data ..........' H.H '! - 1" iioinnrnniminrifi nruimji.i' Mighty ' Blitz; Carries .: Swastika Toward .'. Xaspian:.Sea:;;- '.."'. By JAMES LONO ', Associated Press War Editor . 'The.. Russian- army, ; giving ground -.but keeping its front unbroken, was. hammered back today into the big -bend; of the Don. river -where the Germans' deepest .drive Into soviet, soil carnea me swasuKa war. nag within 200 miles of the Volga in a sweep to ward, the, Caspian sea. that. would' cut off the Cau casus. :- m .', '! -v The ' gravest ' threat'- to the hard-strained Russian-southern front developed at Boguchar, 50 miles beyond Rossosh; 200 milei east of Kharkov,- whence the German -drive began, and' bare ly 200 miles short of. Stalingrad on' the Volga river. ' - - ' Voronezh Held' ' To the north the Russians ported still . holding Voronezh though' under Intensive assault, but to the southwest they were forced to give up.Lislchansk and drop "back to' the east bank of the Donets river against) a third German spearhead being driven In ipoutji .of. Izyum ..between , Kharkov and Rostov, f roni door -to the Caucasus..,-: . t fi. ''Intense fighting continues, al the approach. to Voronezh, dur ing which the:, enemy is suffer ing enormous losses," a. soviet communique .'declared. , . .- Defensive Fight '. '-In tthe neighborhood- of - Bo guchar,"' -it-said, -."'our troops-' are waging a : heavy defensive- en gagaments against advancing en emy '-forces Having evacuated Lisichansk and occupied new pbsitions,bu.t troops" are .waging a . battle ; against enemy . tanks and infantry-.'' a. ; ; Boguchar. --where-' the Don veers sharply east to-wlthin' 50 miles' of the broad Volga; is-439 miles' from Astrakhan .' where the. Volga pours' into the 1 Cas pian... . ,The Vichy .radio .broadcast a report , that . the-. Germans i nad occupied. Pokroysk, -40. .miles northwest 'of Rostov,-, in. a nev and . fourth. . spearhead . of., the . southern-drive.;: - -. .' : The; German - high; ' command, said the Russians' .-were'.:,!peirig pushed .on a broad' front" irt the southern sector"' and' that'.'Rus-. riart tfeffehses" had been' reached; ahdi30,p00 . Russians '.. captured in.a bjg new encirclement.soulh west: of Rzhevv.135. milee. north west of Moscow.-a " :" ;' .. .: ) -Close: to: Capital it - The -Rzhev - salient is-;the closest' foothold ' ' to the soviet which' the Germans were .able to hold throughout ' th winter of Russian offensive..: '... v.V- ;A,i special announcement by Hitler's. high command said-several - Russian -Infantry - and -cavalry 'divisions' and a 'tank bri gade had been trapped 'in' vio lent fighting which" started .11 days ago througha forest line of fortifications.. .... '"The number of prisoners and tlie amount of booty Is still in creasing," the announcement said,- - "- ''--- - Powei" Asked, to ::' Take Over Autos - WASHINGTON, July 13 ,() Senator Reynolds (D-NC) asked congress today to empower Pres ident Roosevelt to take over au tomobiles and other transporta tion for war purposes. ; v "f 'n , . ' t.1,1 I J 'M..fUAL NPVni) KM U11I WUU1U BUUIU1- Ize. $3,000,000,000. of appropria tions with which to pay owners of cars or equipment, 'acquire by the government. It would be effective through 1944, - ; News Index City Briefs Page S Comics and Story ...'.......Page-10 Courthouse .Records ......Page 4 Editorials ..Page-, '4 Information .....!.....Page '5 Market, financial: ..;....:..Page li Pattern .......................Page - ,8 Sports ....'....M..'..H..,.......Page v 0