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('Piipiiiiliiiwil lockout Imimii iiii.iiN.ii. ,,, n Weather Ne On l-mlnute blast on sirens and whlstlas It the signal tor blackout In Klamath rail. Another long blast, during a black, out. It a Ignal lor all-claar. In precau tionary periods, wtch your street light. July It High 81, Low 41 Precipitation o July . 1942 Last yaar .,.,.. , 13.SI i Normal .. ...,....,.. 11.89 Btraara yaar to data , ......1J.18 : AS! '""O 'MNMDtlM IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES Number 9541 I '' -J llHMi;) A II VIIUI'I A.M'iHMAI.VI PRICE FIVP! CKN'I-S niVM ATIf FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16. 1942 Wn )D Mm wwW& M)Hm MMwm ' ; ; : : III I n n . . i-v ' VI VI German Drives Threaten to Reach Stalingrad JIYIQ jiPHinir-Q 'Voronezh Attack tepisei i "Sh kips e -suiwTMs TtLO mm mm- Di'liiir:;! ! l tlin;l! ! li'rli t : ' ill l: ,Ti.. ' : !!. I r ! 1 1 r II I I i M ' ' :, 1 1 . .Kit ii Mi;: IIISII iii!'-nti!i;iiii!'iii:.iitiH:i;iii'iililllil,!ll!h By FRANK JENKINS a. i, mat- nil . i in ;i-1 i - ii in. ",i ji .r i ! t vt - t i i an. " a 1 i!iiii:ijiimi';i!!iiiiiiii'iui!iiM,m it i . aan ana) flat i r" mr ASjji.a w-... i.. -. ol i at laaaF aai r j .a tt ' IwITH news of definite military accompllshmenta lucking, second front talk continue to day. "Informed British loureo" Is tht principal speaker. Ha aayi: ' "It Ii evident the Germans ara throwing their entlro weight Into the present offensive with the Intention not merely of reaching the Caucasus oil fields but of DEFEATING RUSSIA IN THE FIELD before a British American Invmlon can be launched." He then adda that It la evident Invasion Is being prepared for but says he doesn't believe It Is possible IN TIME to relieve present pressure on the Russian armies. O-fyJEANWHILE a British "mil itary commentator" (anon ymous, please note) confirms Russian reports Hint German di visions recently withdrawn from Franc have arrived on the east ern -.front but adds: "There has been- NO REDUCTION In the regular nazt garrison holding Western Europe against In vasion." ' H continues: "The Germans form and train a division In Frnnce and then send It to whatever front Is re quired. The troops sent to Rus sia are from this category only." A LONDON dlspntch adds: "British promptness to em phasize the strenKth of the Gor man garrison In western burope led Informed British observers (still anonymous) to conclude that the Western powers nro NOT IN A POSITION to open t ,up a second front on the conlln- " 'ant this summer." VOU are puzzled, perhaps, by all this talk and wonder why It Is Indulged In with the ob vious consent of the censors. Consider this: Large forces of men and equip ment are being nssemblcd In the British Isles, Thcso forces arc certainly being assembled for some Important purpose, The natural conclusion Is that they are being got in readiness for an attack on Hitler s rear when ever sttch an attack seems ad vlsable or NECESSARY. In these days of air observa tlon and swift communication It la no longer possible to CON CEAL tho assembling of largo forces from the enemy. Since they can t bo concealed, (he na tural thing to do Is to use their presence to WORRY the enemy (m much as possible. "GLANCE at your map. You will note that this force being assembled in the British Isles CAN strike ANYWHERE from Norway to Spain. Barring an unbelievable leak In high quarters, Hitler can't know where It WILL strlko or WHEN. So ha hns to keep large forces scattered all along tho coast of Western Europe. These forces can't be thrown Into the battle of Rusnln, for tho risk would be loo great. Thus the mere threat of an liv vaslon helps to relieve the pros sure on Russia. nUSSIA (wild the consent of tho censor) Is calling loudly and PUBLICLY for help. Prob pbly she. means It. H Isn't human not to want nil the help you can Ret when a powerful and skilful foe Is it your throat. But don't forget that Russia! calls for help EMPHASIZE the likelihood of a British-American offensive In Western Europe and to that extent make It even more Imperative for Hitler to keep Western Europe garrisoned against attack. All this may help to explain why the growing allied strength (Continued on Page Two) IIIIILHILI1U J - I UUVVIl IILIVIUIIU. : BEL , voromzh Boguchar, Millerovo Abandoned by Soviets By EDDY QILMORE MOSCOW, July 18 WO Two German salients were driven within 178 miles of Stalingrad on tho Volga today while at Voronezh red army counter at tacks were said to have smashed a nazl encirclement arm north of the cily and repelled axis ad vance forces from Its outlying streets. -; - . The deepest axis penetrations Into the big bend of the Dot) river, where It curves close to the Volga, were at German-won Boguchar, 130 miles southeast of Voronezh, and southeast of Mille rovo where the new Russian stand presumably Is along the Kalltvla river, 125 miles north east of Rostov. Tho danger to Stalingrad, guardian of the lower Volga, and Rostov, rail gato to the Caucasus, grew hourly with large part of the Important Don river basin In the hands of the Invaders. - Russian dispatches said -the most critical situation of the war had developed there In the vast treeless steppe a plain barren of natural obstacles and perfect for tank operations. Spreads There were indications that the fierce upsurge of fighting was spreading over more hun dreds of miles of the battlefront, dispatches from the Bryansk area, 220 miles southwest of Moscow and 230 miles north west of Voronezh, said a "more serious struggle" was Impending. At Voronezh, key to the Gor (Continued on Pago Two) McNutt Warns Job-Freeze , Violators WASHINGTON, July 10 (F) Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutl, building methods to halt the pirating of skilled labor from war plants, sold today gov ernment contracts or materials might be withheld from manu facturers who violate the Job freczlng policy. Admitting that the stoppage of materials might hamper war production and would bo diffi cult, therefore, to apply, McNutt Indicated In response to qucs. lions at a press conference that legislation might be necessary ultimately to guarantee an ade quate labor supply for essential Industries. Neutral Describes Japan As Cold, Somber Country By FRANK MARTIN ANKARA, Turkey, July 18 (Delayed) (P) Japan was de scribed today by a neutral ar riving from Tokyo as a cold and somber country where people with grim faces are tightening their belts because of hardships brought on by the war. The Informant, who.se name must bo withheld, was a young woman of a neutral country. Slio was ono of tho first to ar rive In the middle east from Tokyo and she reachdd Ankara after a 33-day trip across Rus sia. She said she was having lunch In Tokyo when the American bombers attacked, but she paid little attention to the sirens be cause Japanese officials have sounded so many false alarms. No Details She said she heard only ma chlneguns firing from Die planes and no anil-aircraft guns. Later, she said she knew Japan had been raided because the Japan ese gave out no details except r. ,Vti A Y French Protest Assign- msichansiA C5-INeRAD I "Ai '1fflE!BrML if 1 ment" Ambassadors fZJU fS ' JS4 ' (Am1 I To De Gaulle V- kSoTw ' I 7. VICHY, July 16 OP)- The ? i .' ill ; vo.v i r r Mrs. Lillian McNabb Parsons (above), 15, was htld at Jasper. Ttnn., on charge of murder In connection with tht fatal shoot ing of a mountaineer neighbor, Hollts Redmond. 20. Mrs. Par sons', husband, alio II, else was arrested. OF Threatened Collapse Of Price Control Brings Move WASHINGTON, July 18 OP) Threatened with a partial col lapse of the price control system, tho administration was reported today to be preparing a request for a new legislation built around some form of wage stabi lization. President Roosevelt has dis cussed the situation wilh con gressional leaders several times In recent weeks. Informed con gressmen who declined quota tion by name said the president was about ready to make known the remedial steps he and price control officials believe should be taken. As a result, members of con gress who. had been looking for ward to a recess of several weeks starling In about ten days were being told quietly that they might havo to revise their plans. . Rising farm prices, which have (Conltnued on Page Two) MEXICAN ARRESTS MAZATLAN, Mexico, July 16 (VP) Federal troops searching for a mysterious radio station spreading axis propaganda from this Pacific coast region arrested a Japanese and a German near here yesterday and wcro report ed unofficially to have seized a radio transmitter. to say that American bombs fell In school grounds. (Tokyo Is a huge, sprawling city, tho city proper covering some 228 square miles, and bombs falling in the industrial suburbs, which wero tho Amer ican raiders' targets, might be littlo noticed In the central dis trict). She related how foreign dip lomats listened dally to broad casts from San Francisco for de tails of the raid which never wero forthcoming. The traveler declared men and women in the United States embassy were confined to their quarters for the first four months of the war and not allowed to receive visitors,- News of ' tho Coral Sea and Midway naval battles were play ed up as great Japanese victor ies, sho said. She added that the people teemed confused be cause tho Japanese boasted open ly that they wero going to take Australia within a few days and (Continued on Page Two) VICHY, July 18 OP) The Vichy French government an nounced today that it had of ficially Informed the United States that the proposal by Pres ident Roosevelt to move In terned French warships from Alexandria to Martinique had to be "rejected as contrary to the honor and Interests of France." The French note, sent July 13 to Washington concluded: "By exposing these dismantled war ships to attack by British forces President Roosevelt would as sume a responsibility of extreme gravity which the French gov ernment must once more- under score." . The announcement was made on the same day that the Vichy government officially protested to - Washington against assign ment of United. States: military representatives to' JQen Charles De Gaulle because, It was Said, this "constitutes an attack on the sovereignty of France." Defend Fleet With respect to the fleet, the announcement disclosed that in structions had been sent to Ad miral Godfroy, commanding the French ships at Alexandria, that "In no case should they follow British forces in their retreat"' and that if the British attempted to "molest" them they should (Continued on Page Two) War Contract 4 gents Admit Big Earnings WASHINGTON, July '16 OP) Horace Ward, of Washington, a war contract commission agent, acknowledged earnings of 5431,463 in on 18-month pe riod today, and said he enter tained coast guard and naval officers with whom he did busi ness because "I'm socially In clined." Word appeared before the house naval committee, now' in vestigating the operations of commission agents who obtain war contracts for manufacturers throughout the country. He said that ho had plenty of manufao- turcrs as clients. - In response to questions. Word testified that he charged off parties and presents to naval and coast guard officers as part of his sales expenses. Thot statement came after William Shaughncssy of com mittee counsel introduced a let ter in which Ward wrote . a client thot "When I tell you I can do something In the coast guard, I mean that and nothing more. A Washington family of four acknowledged before the house naval committee today thot It had realized profits amounting (Continued on rage Two) Watch for First Pictures of Life at Newell A series of Interesting pic tures from the Tulelakc re location project for people of Japanese ancestry will appear In Saturday's Issue of The Herald and News. These are the first pictures of the project since Its oc cupation by evacuees, and they show the various activi ties of the colonists in the big settlement on Tulelake. Watch for them In Satur day's paper, Photo-Magazine page.- , , German drives in Russia (black arrows) threatened a wtp to Stalingrad (A), and the lowtr Volga which would as the way lor penetration of the oil-bearing Caucasus. On gained around the south of Boguchar, lost of which tht Russians admitted today-, and anothtr mortd att from Lislchansk. Further north, the battl for Voroneih. northern anchor of tht red Don batin forces, gained in fury. Migullnsk, southeast of Boguchar, marks tht deepest axis advance so far. House Opens Debate On Tremendous . Tax Bill ,,); ,,y.l,il.i,;..;.'tltV'-j WASHINGTON, July 16 lfl The senate' passed and returned In lh hniic fnrlav a. tl.f!S7.- 000,000 supplemental appropri ation bill. It. carried $125,000, 000 for .the office of price -administration. ' Althnnah thn OPA anmoorla- tlon was increased $50,000,000 nhnvn thn sum voted ' by; the house, it still was $15,000,000 short of- Administrator -l, 0 n Henderson's "rock bottom" e iimoia r,f nsHli and contained a restriction against use of any of the money lor subsidy pay ments. a uri nf compromises ar ranged yesterday, however, de leted a proposal for senate con firmation of all OPA employes paid more than $4500 a"year and softened the procedure- for AcinVtlichtntf nrice ceilings : on goods processed from farm, pro ducts. The measure was passed after !, oimt had shouted down a proposal by Senator , Clark (D-Mo.) tq eiuninaie a pruvrawu (Continued on Page Two) Second July Group ,i Of Selectees ' Leaves Tonight The second contingent of Klamath county Board 1 se lectees will leave here tonight for Portland and Induction into the army, the draft office dis closed today. Another Boord 1 group Is scheduled for deporture July 21. The second group of Board 2 men left Tuesday night and the third July group will leave July 20. Men have been ordered to re port to selective service head quarters in the basement of the county courthouse at 8 o'clock. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE . . R. H. E. Brooklyn 0 8 2 Chicago 7 14 1 Davis, Kimball (7) and Owens; Schmiti, Wameke (9) and Mc Cullough. AMERICAN LEAGUE R. H. E. Cleveland 6 7 2 New York 8 11 1 Harder, Mllnar (2) and Hegan, Denning (3); Bonham and Rosar. R. H. E. St. Louis ., 8 8 0 Philadelphia 17 0 ; Holllngsworllt and Ferrell; L. Harris (9) and Wagner, ' Swift ().-.- . R. H. E. Chicago .. 8.8 1 Boston 2.; 8 1 Ross, Haynes (B) and Turner; Newsome, Brown (7), Dobson (9) arid Confoy. RAF Launches Daylight Raid On Germany LONDON, July 18 Ofl-ABrlt-ish bombers raided Germany in daylight this afternoon, it was announced, authoritatively. Lone . bombers protected by clouds dropped bombs on separ ate missions in th industrial Ruhr plief parts of northwest uermany ana in me einer. lands. V.-rf---!; Fighter activity was restrict ed by bad weather but some pa trols attacked railway yards and other-- objectives along the French coast. , ; ; ' : German .raiders attacking in the east midlands this morning machine-gunned men and women going to work and bombed one, town, causing fires, and some property damage. i. ; Informed British said bad fly ing weather over the continent kept the RAF from, raiding Ger many last night for the second night in succession. Two hundred fighters yester day and early last night, how (Contlnued on Page Two) . Elder Named to Jackson County Juvenile Post MEDFORD, July 18 OP) Robert M. Elder of Klamath Falls was appointed juvenile officer lor-Jackson county Tues day by County Judge ; J. B. Coleman. He will assume office August 1. . Robert Elder, named juvenile officer in Jackson county, is now desk sergeant of the Klam ath Falls police department and has been a member of the force here for-the past six years. Elder came here from Bend, and before joining the police deportment was plant agent of the General Petroleum corpora. tion. He was formerly drum major of the American Legion drum corps here, and also was drum major at Bend. Mrs. Elder will remain in Klamath Falls until they dis pose of their property Interests here. Ndzf Garrisons in West Europe Intact Report LONDON, July 16 (fP) A British military commentator confirmed today Russian reports that German divisions recently withdrawn from occupied Francs had arrived on the eastern front, but he said there had been no reduction in the regular nazl garrison holding western Europe against Invasion. "The Germans form and train a division In France and then send them to whatever front Is required," the commentator de clared, adding, that the troops sent to Russia were from this category only. He asserted that the German garrison forces in France are "not spearhead troops, but the good soldiers nevertheless.", British promptness to em phasize the strength of the Ger man garrison, Jjlus other indica PUBLIC UTILITY E Klamath Figure for '42 Reported At . $10 Million h' Klamath, county publie utili ty Assessed values, are up again for this year,, it wag. . disclosed Thursday when the state tax commission announced public utility assessments for all coun ties. . -: .. The Klamath figure for the current year is $10,017,411, against $9,831,215.36. The -full cash value of Klamath utilities and public service corporations is $23,296,305. Lake county's figure for as sessed value of utilities is $420, 487. Full cash value is set at $678,688. Coast Defense To Be Probed WASHINGTON, July 16 (P) Declaring that the problem of defense coordination, on .the west coast and Alaska was !"rather fantastic," Senator Brew ster CR-Me.) said today tbV special subcommittee of the sen ate would fly to the area tomor row to' probe conditions. Brewster, said .that Senators Hatch (D-NM.) and Burton (R Ohio) would make a three-week inspection of the whole west coast, starting from Its south ernmost point and projecting in to the Aleutians, where Jap anese offensive activity already has left its mark. "It isn't clear," Brewster told a reporter, "just who is in com mand out there." .The army command, he declared, is located at Anchorage, Alaska, and the navy command is based at Seat tle. It would be interesting, he said, to know just how these two commands "get together." tions, led informed British ob servers to conclude that the west ern-powers are not in position to open up a second - front on the continent this summer. An informed British source said that large scale exercises in which the Canadian army is en gaged are "evident that we are preparing for Invasion." but he declared he did not believe that "invasion was possible in time to relieve present pressure on the Russian armies." "It is evident,": he said, "that the Germans are throwing their entire weight into the present offensive with the Intention nut merely of reaching the Caucasus oil fields but of defeating Rus sia in the fieM before a British American . invasion can be launched." . i British Artillery Bom bards Rommel At Tel El Eisa ' By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, July 16 OP) Heavy bombers of the United States army air forces made a daylight attack on the axis base of Ben gasi, Libya, yesterday, starting a large dock fire. The bombing was one phase of the continuing battle of the western desert, in which RAF and allied airmen attacked Ben gasi and Tobruk, both far- west of the fighting zone, and attack ed the axis armies "in force" :at the front. On the ground the German- Italian forces of Marshal Erwin Rommel were reported to be giving ground on the central front, west of El Alameln, but British headquarters acknowl edged that the Germans had achieved some gains in the coast al zone and "partially succeed ed" in re-establishing themselves at Tel El Eisa. : . - As the result of an -attack launched before dawn yester dayj British troops pushed for ward in the central sector to secure objectives at the western end o( of ' ride 'south' of "El Alamein, a communique said. ' '"Prisoners were taken, 1 but their numbers are not known," the' bulletin added. The assault apparently was launched to relieve pressure on Australian forces holding-recently-won positions at ."Tel El Eisa the "Hill- of . Jesus' and evi dently was at least partly, .suc cessful,', for the communique an nounced that imperial' troops continued ' to hold high ground in that area. t ..... : : Enemy forces which succeed ed in occupying positions 'at 'Tel. EI Eisa Tuesday night were heav ily bombarded all day yesterday by British artillery and planes and a- number of axis tanks were knocked out of action, the bulletin reported. . ', Wide-ranging RAF bombers struck heavily last night at. the important axis supply bases at Bengasi and Tobruk, far , west of the fighting zone, headquar ters declared. .- ' ' "Enemy bombing ' increased a little, but our intercepting fight ers ;shot down seven enemy air craft and damaged others," the communique said. . ' ' .. The Australians who are hold ing the northern end of the line occupied Tel El Eisa last Sat urday after' a two-day 10-mile advance from El Alamein Rommel's forces have been attacking steadily in the coastal -zone since dusk Tuesday. '"': Married Men, Youths May Be Drafted, Report . WASHINGTON, July 18 UP) Secretary of War Stimson ex pressed his belief today that young married men and youths of 18 to 20 would have to be drafted for the armed forces before a victory over the axis Is, won. : Asked at his press conference whether the war department still believed these men would be needed for the army, Stimson replied that "We have never had a great war in which we did not find It necessary to call up both these classes." : He reminded reporters that some young married men al ready were being drafted under the selective service law, and. said also he believed it -would be necessary eventually to low er the draft age to 16. i "However," he said, "young men in . that group should not feel it necessary to alter their plans for the Immediate future'," News Index . City Briefs Page 8 Comics and story .. ...J"age 8 Editorials , . 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