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By FRANK JENKINS
TN Kuiutlu whiit will doubtless
rate as tho greatest buttle of
all time Is In progress. Its ob
jective is tho oil Hint powers
most of Russia's unci much of
Britain's war effort.
If Hitler am scire this glllicr
Inil prize, lie will grciilly
strengthen himself and greatly
weaken his enemies.
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OjNTO the effort to seize It. he
hns thrown tho armies ho bus
been collecting and training over
tho whiter and spring, ulonit
with tho masses of wnr machines
and niutcrlnl his factories hnve
been turniiiK out.
Tho Russians ure putting
everything they hnve Into their
biiltlo to stop him. They aro
fighting stubbornly nnd skilfully,
with no signs (lis yell of Hie
rout nnd disorder Unit Hitler
had hoped to creute.
That Is the brond picture. Its
detnlls are still confined, No
clear pattern of victory for
either side Is yet emerging.
"PUB supremo importance of the
A buttle in Russia Is Indicated
Oby Iho quint on other fronts.
, Tho British In Egypt nro con
centrating on nnnlliilntlng Rom
mel's air force and so buttering
his supply ports ns to prevent
his successful reinforcement.
Outside Chlno, the. Jups are
doing no fighting at all nt thq
present 'time. (Tho Aleutian
fighting of which we aroibegln
nlng to get first details occurred
weeks ago.)
Tha eyes of the world are on
Russia.
TJMGK British and U. S. officers
"and officials (including
Churchill) are conferring In Lon
don today on the possibilities of
opening a second front In order
to help the Russians.
It is indicated that if tha Rus
sian situation DETERIORATES
something will HAVE to bo
done,
Tho talk Is of a "limited" sec
ond front NOT, that Is to soy,
Oa fiill-scnle assault on tha shores
of Western Europe. Thoro Is
emphasis on tha need to main
tain tho northern supply row to
to Russia, A hlgh-ranklng Brit
ish officer says: "Russia needs
MATERIALS, not men."
That points to Norway.
But remember that this Is talk
for publla consumption, passed
by the censor. What the SECRET
decisions, of the London confer
ence nro we don't know and
shouldn't know.
A BRITISH "source" whose
Identity is not permitted to
be disclosed says tho Japs' pre
parations 'for an attack on Si
beria are almost complete and
If necessary they "could press
lha button now and start to move
In." He says they hnvo massed
about 30 divisions (around 450,
000 men) In Mnncbukuo. He
points out .that their only real
activity is In the Solomon is
''lands, from which they can hope
to attack U. S. communications
to Australia.
Ho adds that there aro no
signs of a further Jap invasion of
India.
CIBERIA, this British source
says, is tho real danger point
of the allied strategical situation
in East Asia.
The Japs, ha thinks, will at
tack Siberia when It suits
THEM not tho Germans.
He says their occupation of
Islands nt tho western tip of the
Aleutians hns given them a use
ful strategic situation, placing
them on tho flank of a possible
American Invasion nf Japan.
If EITH WHEELER, Chicago
Times correspondent, has an
other story on tho Aleutians
fighting In this newspaper to
day. Road it.
OOut of Wheeler's heavily cen
sored stories, held up until
WEEKS AFTER THE FIGHT
ING, stands this conclusion:
WE WEREN'T PROPERLY
PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
ALEUTIANS, although 20 years
(Continued on Pago Two)
ies
HASTY AID TO'
REDS TALKED
AT STAFF MEET
"Limited Diversion"
Possible to Draw
Nazis West
LONDON, July 2t (P) Unit
ed Stntps and British staff of
ficers nre seeking some means
of aiding Russia through a limit
ed diversion on tho continent In
second front conferences which
will continue for some time, it
was reliably reported today,
Prlmo Minister Winston Chur
chill, who initiated the second
front talks In Washington in De
cember, 1041, and continued
them there- during his June visit
ngnln met with high British and
American officers.
The chief problem before the
group Is to frame measures for
immediate aid to tha soviet
n miles f the present grava situa
tion In south Russia further de
teriorates said a relloble Inform
ant whose Identity It was not
permitted to disclose.
Since a lar( scale1 Invasion
seems to bo unlikely this sum
mer, It Is ponsibl tha strategist!
aro mapping s limited diversion
such as a small 'scale mburslon
at a point which would draw
Germun forces from Russia and
at the same time safeguard com
munications with Russia. ' .
There has been much emphasis
among British .and American
military men on tha need of
maintaining tha nnrthorn supply
routes to tho soviet union.
"Russia needs materials, not
men," one high-ranking British
officer said,
Tho problem of securing com
munications with Russia grows
In importnnco as Russia faces
the winter with much of Its
wheat lands lost to the enemy
and means of distribution de
voted to war purposes.
Barkley Opposes
Agency to Produce
Rubber From Alky
WASHINGTON, July 21 (IP)
Senator Bnrklcy (D-Ky.) op
posed today a proposal to estab
lish a separate agency to foster
production of synthetic rubber
from grain alcohol, asking sar
castically If it would not be as
s o n a 1 b 1 o to have separate
agencies to manage tha pro
duction of guns, planes or tanks.
Bnrkley, majority leader of
tho senate, asked that tho ques
tion after Senator Thomas (D
Okln.) explained It was his
hopo to establish a separata
grnlnrubbcr authority while
leaving tho war production
board in charge of production
of synthetic elastic from pe
troleum sources.
US Fliers in Aleutians
Add a Chapter to Heroism
(Editor's Note: This is the sec
ond In a scries of stories by
taff Correspondent Keith
Whcelor of "tho Chicago Times
on action In the . Aloutlan
Islands).
By KEITH WHEELER
(Copyright, 1942, Chicago
Times, Ine.)
AT SEA WITH PACIFIC
FLEET, June 18 (Delayed)
Some day when tho Japs are
driven out of Klskn and the
Aleutians are blocked as a road
to conquest, tho people . con
cerned with such things will
find time to hang medals on the
men flying and fighting this
command's C a t a 1 1 n a flying
boats,
In a war where brnvory Is
commonplace there has been
nothing to excell the stubborn
courage with which this hand
ful of men drove tho brash Jap
back from Dutch Harbor and is
now pounding day and night at
Reopen Second Front
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Jap bombing ploTies had been there once when this picture of the attack on the U. 8. naval
base at Dutch Harbor, June 3 and 4. were made, witness the burning oil tank in background.
But these marines were alert Iq their trenches for another attack. (U. S. navy photo).
-Wf SHIPS
Raid Challenges Jap
Control of Air on
Route to China
By SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING, July 21 Ol1)
Fighter-escorted United Slates
bombers sank two Japanese
ships yesterday at the Yangtze
river port of Klukiiing, south
east of Hankow, in a raid
which challenged Japan's long
held control of tho air over her
waterway supply route Into
China.
Not ono of tho United States
planes was damaged, said a
communique from the head
quorters of Lieut. Gen. Joseph
W. Stllwell. It said the Jap
anese ships were of 1000 to
2000 tons each.
Presaging nn evcr-lncrcnsing
aerial chnllengo to tho Invaders,
a Chinese government spokes
man snld the United States
would be asked through Lnuch
lln Currle, special adviser to
President Roosevelt, for more
planes, along with a "rather
long list" of other military sup
plies. Message
Currle returned to China
July 18 with a message of un
disclosed contents from Presi
dent Roosevelt to Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek.
Gen. Cheng Tseh-Jcn, director
(Continued on Pago Two)
his bases on barren Kiska and
Attn.
There, were few . Catallnas
here when tho battle began
nearly two weeks ago and If
(Continued on Pap.e Two)
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, July 21
(yP) The navy announced to
day that United States sub
marines had sunk three mora
Japanese destroyers In the
vicinity of Kiska, in the
Aleutians.
This brought to total of IS
the Japanese warships an
nounced by army and navy
sources as sunk or damaged
In the Aleutian activities,
j The navy communique add
ed that several air attacks
against tha enemy occupied
Aleutian islands had been
carried out throuqh combined
efforts of the United States
army and navy aircraft.
Waiting for Japs to Try Again
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WPKEnCI O Union :
Shop Dispute;"
CertifleMoWLB
WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP)
Two industrial disputes invol
ving 6580 Pacific coast workers
today had been certified to the
War Labor board by Secretary
Perkins.
j . There was no work stoppage
m either of the esses, which in
volved: The Pino Industrial Relations
Committee of Klamath Falls,
Ore., a combination of 15 lum
ber companies, and the Interna
tional Woodworkers of America
(CIO), 4500 employes, in a dis
pute over the union shop.
The Washington Metal Trades
Inc., 40 machine shops in Seat
tle, and five AFL unions, 2080
workers, disputing wages.
Tho union shop issue Is the
lone point left unsettled follow
ing recent negotiations between
the PIRC and the CIO here. It
(Continued on Page Two)
Public Will Act
If Labor Fails,
Morse Asserts
WASHINGTON, July 21 (IP)
Wayne L. Morse of the 'war la
bor board asserted today that if
labor failed to settle Its . own
jurisdictional controversies and
insisted on wartime work stop
pages, the public would take
drastic action "even to the ap
plications of the laws of treason
if necessary.
"The public is not being taken
care of In these jurisdictional
disputes,' said Morse, University
of Oregon law school dean who
Is one of the four representa
tives of the public on the 12-man
board.
"As wo go further and fur
ther Into this war it becomes
clearer and clearer that we can
not permit any stoppages of
work, I don't care whether they
are over jurisdictional disputes
or what they are over; they sim
ply have to stop. :
"And If our pleas to Mr.
Green and Mr. Murray (Presi
dents William Green of the AFL
and Phillip Murray of the CIO)
are not sufficient to get them
to settle the disputes, I haven't
any doubt but that the public
will not only look to this board
to settle them but will back us
up In whatever 'settlements we
decree."
Morse was speaking to repre
sentatives of unions who are con
tending over whether AFL or
CIO painters shall have the jobs
In connection with conversion of
a Dayton refrigerator factory to
war work. .
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British Push - Deter
mined Campaign
In Desert
CAIRO, July 21 (AP)--The
third and heaviest naval bom
bardment of the axis-held port
of Matruli in three nights, and
two aerial assaults which d e -stroyed
more than 60 axis planes
on the ground in a single day
were reported by the British to
day, all part of a determined
campaign to destroy the enemy's
African air force and ruin his
reinforcement efforts.
Buildings, . jetties, schooners
and other craft in harbor at
Matruh 105 miles behind the
German-Italian lines were hit
by the naval shells early Mon
day" morning. Explosions could
be heard for miles.
Salvo after salvo covered the
entire harbor and the adjoining
shore In a well-defined geomet
ric pattern.
One small oil tanker was seen
to have sunk, either in this bom
bardment or in those on the two
previous nights, naval officers
said.
, British planes scored their
smashing blows yesterday at El
Daba and Fuka, 25 and 60 miles
respectively behind the lines.
The raids were the second and
third in two days.
Other long-range fighters
blasted axis barges northeast of
Sidl Barrani, 185 miles behind
the lines. Land operations on the
Egyptian front were confined to
patrols while the British concen
(Continued on Page Two""
Pilots, Negro
Troops Arrive
In Ireland
WITH UNITED STATES
FORCES IN NORTHERN IRE
LAND, July 21 .iff) American
pilots and negro troops have
arrived here, swelling the ranks
of United States invasion forces.
There are air force maintenance
crews with the pilots. '
The pilots, drawn from all
sections of the United States,
are commanded by a 40-year-old
colonel, who declared:
"You will hear from these
fellows. They are among the
best of the lot."
They immediately mingled
with British forces, Inspecting
British planes and exchanging
shop talk.
All expressed eagerness to get
into the air immediately.
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alk
RAF SLASHES AT
FRENCH COAST,
GERMAN BASES
Yank Eagle Squadron
Pilots Man Some
Of Planes
LONDON, July 21 (P)
The American Eagle squadron
of the RAF for the second
successive night 1 e d a raid
orer - German-occupied terri
tory of the continent tonight,
sweeping in at dusk at a low
lerel over Ostend and Dun
kerque and bombing German,
troop concentrations, gun pos
itions, .. locomotives, army
trucks and armored cars.
LONDON, July 21(ff)The
swelling British air might
flashed 'at nazi installations on
the French invasion coast and
the prime industrial targets of
northwest Germany yesterday
and last night in another dem
onstration of things to come.
The four-engined RAF bomb
?fR'h,:h scattered x.plasive
and ' incendiary bombs on the
shipyards '.and U-boat nest at
Vegesack, .' Germany.- S u, ri d a y
i gMi t- had . skimmed. In fro'iti
their; night's work, oniy a few
hours before some 200 Spitfire
fighters 'roared across the Eng
lish channel.
. Ranging ; up the coast from
Le Havre with American Eagle
squadron pilots manning .some
of ..the planes, the Spitfire squad
rons swooped down on military
targets as far north as Le Tre
gort. They shot up the radio
masts at Fecamp, attacked gun
posts and factories.
Early last night Wellington
bombers swung out over the
continent and blasted targets in
northwest Germany without los
ing a plane.
Defenses Prodded
They followed a group of
Boston bombers which prodded
the German defenses in occu
pied France into action and at
tacked a power station in the
Mazingarbe. area.
This display of British aerial
(Continued ' on Page Two)
Safe Stolen at
Klamath Agency -
Robbers . entered the Elliott
general store at Klamath Agency
some time last night and stole
the safe, containing all post
office records for Klamath Ag
ency postoffice, according to
Deputy Sheriff Dale Mattoon.
Sheriff Lloyd Low and Indian
Officer John Arkell were mak
ing an Investigation on the scene
of the robbery Tuesday after
noon, arid further details were
not available.
Rubber Industry Proposes
New Plan for Tire Users
WASHINGTON, July 21 (fP)
The rubber industry today pro
posed a plan which ' It said
would provide usable tires for
everybody for at least the next
two years. t
This became known in con
nection with an exhibit- pre
pared by the industry in a
Washington hotel to . demon
strate to government officials
and the , press means of utiliz
ing the industry's facilities to
make as many tires as possible
under war conditions.
The plan, it was learned from
sources who declined to be
quoted, would provide for. ra
tioning tires under an entirely
new system, and would enable
every one to get tires provided
he took good care of his rub
ber. Thlokol Used
A feature of the program is
that new tires would be made
out of thlokol, a substance here
tofore believed to be usable only
for recapping. Thlokol Is a new
New Chief
Ki --o
F
Comart
Earl Heuvel, made acting po
lice chief of Klamath Falls by
appointment by Mayor Hous
ton. He succeeds Frank Hamm.
GH1EF0F POLICE
Houston to Ask Plac
ing of Chief Under
.' Civil Service .
Earf Heuvel, assistant police
chief for the past two years, was
named acting chief of police Moa
day night by Mayor John
Houston. :
Heuvel succeeds Frank Hamm,
who tendered his resignation as
chief in view of his nomination
by President Roosevelt to be
United States marshal for Ore
gon. .
Before announcing the ap
pointment, which was confirmed
by four councilmen with Coun
cilman Bussman absent, Mayor
Houston mentioned discussion
and controversy that had de
veloped over the appointment.
He said he would ask the
charter revision committee to
consider placing the police chief
under civil service in the char
ter to be offered to the voters
this fall. . Under civil service,
the police chief's office would
not be filled by mayoralty ap
pointment as at present. .
Mayor Houston said he felt
the new chief should come from
the ranks of the officers now
serving the city, and added that
he had been guided by opinions
from Chief Hamm and the mem
' (Continued on Page Two)
LONE BOMBER
LONDON, July 21 (IP) A
single German plane bombed a
point on the south coast of Eng
land early today, but official
circles said little damage and
no casualties were reported.
substance something like rub
ber, for which the war pro
duction board has given a go
ahead on production for tire
uses. ,
A key point In the program,
the . sources added, would be
some system of severe penalties
for motorists who waste rubber
by excessive speed and long,
unnecessary trips.
There would be three classes
of rationing, with preference
given to most essential needs,
but with some tires provided
even for pleasure driving.
' Exhibit Open
Further details were not
available Immediately, but the
exhibit which was to be open
ed to the press today was ex
pected to show that new tires
can be made from available sup
plies about as easily as old tires
can be recapped or retreaded.
T.he plan would require about
15 per cent of the nation's sup
ply of reclaimed rubber, a small
(Continued on Page Two)
SOVIETS FALL1
BACK FOR NEW
STAND III SOUTH
Hand-to-Hand Battle
Rages on Banks
Of Don
By EDDY GILMOHE
MOSCOW, July 21 (IP) Th
forward wall of German tank
and motorized infantry pushed
southeast of Voroshilovgrad tow-,
ard Rostov today down the rich
Donets basin coalfield region,
left ablaze and wrecked by the
Russians falling back for a new
stand at the . northwest gate to
the Caucasus. . , .
At the north of the curving:
300-mile battleline red army
forces were battling hand to.
hand with the Germans on both
banks of the Don river in
fight to sweep the nazis from
the last of their bridgeheads and.
trap those holding on. in newly
fortified positions between tha
river and Voronezh, 10 miles
to the east. ;
The Germans apparently were .
massing their forces in the great
grain area between the Donets'
and the Don from Boguchar to
south of Millerovo for an all-'
out effort to take Rostov from
three directions and Stalingrad
from two. - ' :
Rostov Aflame " '
(The German communique said
Rostov already was aflame arid
under assault from the west,
north and east, and that German,
forces Jaxtfaes-north-have pushed
about 50 miles closer to Stalin
grad, watchdog of the lower
Volga.)-.-
Red army seizure of the initiative-
in the Voronezh area, '
however, was accompanied by a
further withdrawal of the Soviet
left flank southeast of Voroshi
lovgrad, to escape encirclement, .
a fighting retreat into hilly
country of the lower' Donets
basin.
Pravda, the communist news
paper, said the Russians left the
coal mines of. the abandoned
Donets basin region in ruins as
they withdrew to the southeast.
Swift
Movements in the battle of
Voronezh were so swift, a dis
patch said, that one red army
group which had driven back to .
the Don plunged across without
waiting for extra support, swim
ming and wading to grapple with
the Germans on the western
bank.'
The principal crossing still is
. (Continued on Page Two)
Churchill Declines :
Commitment on
Election Call
LONDON, July 21 (IP)
Prime Minister Churchill de
clined today in the house.' of
commons to commit himself on
the calling of a general parlia
mentary election before the end
of 1942 in response to demands
from some quarters for a new
reflection of public sentiment. --.
Debate' also opened on Brit- .
aln's wartime security regula
tions under which Commander
Robert Tatton Bower, retired
naval officer and conservative
member of parliament, said
Home Secretary Herbert Morrl-.
son , had "powers that would
make Hitler absolutely green
with envy." ' !
Bower said the home secre
tary's power to "arrest and de
tain all, from the. archbishop
of Canterbury down to tho
humblest laborer In the land"
might "establish a precedent
which would have terrible con
tingencies later on."
The request that Churchill
make a statement on a new
election stemmed from the fact
that because of the war Britain
has - had no general election
since 1935, when most of tha
present members were seated '
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