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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1943)
1 Kili;il!llll!IIJl.llll!!!filffi,,Sfl!!l HAS On S-minute bltit en sirens and whistles li the signal lot blackout In Klamath ralU. Anoihar long bltit during black tut. It algnal lor all-clear. In jrtcau tlonsry pailodi, watch your ilraat llghti. Juno U High 70, Lew 41 Proclamation aa ei Juna t, 1143 ' ". Stream year to data- .........:............. 1T.14 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES Lilt year ...13.0 Normal. ......... II. 2t PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1943 Number 9822 MHO 'MNHilllM (I.I A M Vlltf I I IMI(1.UI Blackout Sianal mm KlillllllllllllUI J) n n rv n r-i n n yz El v n rn ii iiii i . .. w 1 1 i i ii i i i n jtocordF to In illici IP Br FRANK JENKINS WAR In the air post, present W aiid FUTURE 1 the thread on which the newt bcadt of to day ar strung. DANTELLERIA turr mderi, and almpit without a pauae our vlctorloua North African planet twitch their attack to Lampedusa, tho little two-by- i I ln.wl 100 mllea touth of four-by-elght mile Pantollerla. A' surrender ultimatum had been, delivered to Lampcdusa't defenders. - i WRITA.N'S RAF tondt the u "greatest force of heavy bombert of the war" against the Ruhr valley last night, concen trating on Ducsseldorf, with minor attack! on adjacent Ruhr towns. Forty-three bombert full to return: Estimating a crew of ten for each bomber, that meant a loss (Including prisoners) of 430, Bo fore thinking of that at large, es timate hastily thecost ot a LAND attack on the Ruhr. . planet of all typct wero sent againit Cologne, where the first experiment in massed-plane night bombing waa made. Note the intimation that last nlght't attack . on Ducsseldorf was the largest HEAVY BOMBER raid of the war. rTHE Duesscldorf night raid followed by a few hours a daylight attack by 200 Ameri can four-engine bombers at Wll helmshaven and Cuxhuvcn tub marine baset. Cti the eastern front, the Ru.v sians hit the German! with 700 planet. Thli Is the largest Russian air attack of tho war to duto. Tho Russians previous high murk inns n, f)ml n fn.tr A n v oun when they used 520 planes. Nolo the RISING TEMPO of the air war EVERYWHERE, AT Pantollerla, we hit to TAKE and KEEP. In Ger many, we're striking at war fac tories and transportation. - German airfields behind the lines were the principal target of the Russians 700-plane blow Prom these fields will come the planes that will attempt to form an umbrella of air power over German troopi and tonka IF AND WHEN a new German of fensive Is launched against Russia. The Russians are using air power to BREAK UP (if possi ble) tho German offensive in ad vance. TN the South Pacific there Is a break In tho weather, and MacArthur'i planes take prompt advantage of it to strike at Jap bases In the ring of islands to the north of Australia. - In monsoon-bound Burma, our planes raid Jap troops, military Installations and railroad rolling atock. Kiska is raided four times In day. . JENERAL DOOLITTLE lays today In Africa: "Forcing the surrender of Pantellorla from the air is defi nitely LANDMARK In the his tory of military aviation and proves conclusively that NO AGENCY can stand up under bardment of properly selected objectives," - TJITLEU Is reported today to be rushing air reinforce ments to southern Italy, fearful : (Continued on Page Three) DEVASTATING BLOW DEALT P Raid Biggest Since Cologne; Yankees Hit Navy Bases By EDWARD D. BALL LONDON. June 12 W) The RAF, resuming Its deadly offen sive against the armament cen ters ot the relch, sent the great est force of heavy bombert of tho war to attack several targets In the Ruhr and Rhlneland last night, concentrating lit greatest deluge of bombs in Ducsseldorf, It was announced today, Muenster wot the biggest tar get among the secondary objec tives, the air ministry said, and 43 bombers were lost in the as sault which followed by only a few hours a heavy daylight precision raid by 200 American four-englncd plnnes against the naval bases of Wilhclmshavcn and Cuxhaven. Biggest Since Cologne The weight of bombs dropped undoubtedly exceeded "the rec ord 2000 tons loosed on Dort mund May 22. and thtf number of planes used probably waa the largest since 1230 RAF bombers of all types large, medium and light were sent against Cologne the night of May 30, 1042. (Although this dispatch stated that the formations used last night made up "the greatest (Continued on Page Three.) Zoot-T rouse red Negro Youths Beaten in East PHILADELPHIA. June 12 m Four negro boys wearing zoot trousers and "pancake" hats wore attacked and badly beaten on a street corner early today by 23 whlto boys in a melee in which "several shots" were fired, Patrolmen Arthur Pan eerie and Thomas O'Ncll re ported. Tho zootcrs were treated at a hospital for head and face Injur ies then were arrested "for their own protection," tho patrolmen said, on charges of breach of the peace. Their assailants escaped. The attack created a ten-mln-uto disturbance in which wom en leaned out of windows and screamed and a neighborhood of several blocks was thrown into a state of excitement, Pancerle and O'Ncil said. D Pageantry, Air Medal Gift To Feature Flag Day Event The history of the American flag will be reviewed in page antry at the Elks Flag Day exer cises to be held on Monday eve ning in front of the Elks temple on Third and Main streets with the public invited to attend. An outstanding feature ot the program will be the presentation of . the Air Medal to Mrs. John Rcber of Malln on behalf of her son, Captain Ehle Rcber, missing Flying Fortress pilot. General S. M. Council, commanding officer ot the fourth bomber command, will present tho decoration. The program starts at 7:30 p. m. William McAllister, speak er of the state house ot represent atives will deliver the Flag Day address, after officers of the Elks lodge present the colorful ritual istic ceremony assisted by the Oregon Women's Ambulance corps and the sea scouts. Members of these groups will carry the banners which show the evolution of the American flag. Draped overhead will be the (Continued on Page Three) Bombs teis OPA Official Lee W. Jacobs, former dis trict rationing officer for the of fice of price administration, who will begin hit dutitt at ad ministratis head and chief of the rationing division July 1- L Walkout Stops When Ickes Relents in Stand on Fines Br The Associated Press . WASHINGTON, June 12 The approximately 613 Alabama coal miners who had started a parade of new strikes turned back to work today, given an "out" by Secretary Ickes to avoid fines he had proposed for their June 1-5 walkout. They had left three mines yesterday in protest against the fines, but prepared to resume digging coal after Ickes, as fed eral boss of the mines, an nounced that whether the fines would stick was a matter for col (Continued on Pago Three) Judge Reeder Named To Forestry Board Word was received here from Salem Saturday morning that Klamath County Judge U. E. Reeder has been appointed by Governor Earl Snell to the state board of forestry. Reeder will represent the Association ot Oregon Counties. The Judge was chosen as their recommendation to the governor last week by the executive com mittee of . the Association of Oregon Counties, following a Joint meeting in Portland June 5 of tho executive committee, public lands committee and ex ecutive committee of the Ore gon and California association. Speaker William McAllister (Courtesy Oregon Journal) ' ; . Li .I.,,,,?, f&.-r.wMtii'M i.'i ' JACOBS WILL HEAD STATION F A Ration Board- to Move To Old District Of fice Wednesday Lee W. Jacobs was named ad ministrative head of the office of price administration field station here and, chief of the rationing division in the move changing the local OPA office status from district office to field station. His appointment, and the change in status of the office will go into effect July 1. The field station here will be under orders from the district office- in Portland, The Portland district will include all of Ore gon, except Harney and Malheur counties, and in addition will in clude five of the southern coun ties of Washington. The change in the status ot the office here was a result of the move which took ' two California counties from this district, leaving a dis trict population ot 100,000, two thirds of the former population. OPA officials. Lea r. Gehtner; rglorir executive 'officer "from San Francisco, and ' Diehard Montgomery, district director from Portland, met here Friday to discuss changes in the office with local members of the staff. Board to Mora The war price and rationing board will be moved to the same quarters used by the OPA field station. The move will be made Wednesday, a n d the rationing board office will be closed all during that day, and perhaps Thursday morning. . The status change of the OPA office will involve a decrease in personnel from about 36 employ ees to about 17. However, Ja cobs said, nearly 100 per cent ot those employees wishing to remain with the OPA will be re tained, and either employed here of transferred to other districts. Already about 10 have received transfers. Edward Ostendorf, (Continued on Page Three) Mexican Labor Aids Oregon Shortage PORTLAND, Ore., June 12 (P) Twelve hundred more Mexicans and Jamaicans will be channeled to critical farm labor shortage areas in Idaho and Ore gon this weekend, regional farm security administration head quarters announced today. A tralnload of 950 Mexican nationals, the second to arrive in the northwest, is due at Poca tello late today from Denver. Two hundred will be assigned to Idaho, SO at Blackfoot and ISO at Emmett. Four hundred for the Freewater district will leave the train at Pendleton tomorrow morning. Two hundred more will get off at The Dalles and Hood River tomorrow afternoon and the remaining 150 will go to Hillsboro. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE ' (First game) Philadelphia 3 9 0 New York 2 6 1 Rowe, Kimball (8) and Living ston; Lohrman, Mungo (8), Adams (9) afid Lombard i, Berres W. , ! Boston 2 8 1 Brooklyn 1 3 1 Barrett and Poland; Davis and Owen. s AMERICAN LEAGUE - Washington 1 5 0 Boston !..,......'...0 : 3 0 Candlni and Early; Terry and Partee. RUE New. York ..... 14 18 1 Philadelphia 5 8 5 Donald and Scars, Hcmsley (7); Black, Clyde (2), . Kuczyn ski (3), and Wagner, Swift (2). Scouts In this picture several Boy Scouts are shown handing books- ts be sent te service men to Bob O'Sullivan, president of the Klamath county junior chamber of commerce, and Don Rice, chair man of the Jarcee book committee. Shown left to right are O'SulUvan. Scouts David Vandenberg Jr., Harlan Botworth, Horace Kephart. Gordon Scott and chairman of the book committee, Don Rice. These bookt were donated in advance of the drive to collect reading material for service men. The campaign will be bald Monday. June 14. Anyone wishing te donate books should have them ready Monday morning, and they will be picked up by the tcoutt tometlme during the day. If any bookt are mined, take them to the city library on the corner of Klamatb and Fifth street. Do not give pulp magatina or "funny books." Anyone wishing to donate cash may da so. Three good oeks eaa be purchased -tor, every dollar, contributed. (. .At. ., , ,- -. .,.; ... Loyal Japanese Beaien bly Hooded Hoodlums at Poston I.OS ANGELES. June 12 Fl Boulder and Parker dams, vast sources of water and electric power, are in constant danger of sabotage from "external " a former official of the Japanese relocation center at Poston, Ariz., tola a uies congressional subcommittee to day. ' T.OR ANGELES. June 12 W) Eight hooded Japanese beat members of, their own race De fore a tumultuous five-day frlk heiran at CamD No. 1 of the Poston, Ariz,, relocation Escaped Lions Spread Terror Among Shoppers ELIZABETH, N. J., June 12 (P) Eight lions broke loose to rinv from caee waeons and a training ring at the Gilbert Brothers circus and terrorized a nearby shopping district for more than an hour. Six of the animals were quick ly rounded up'by roustabouts in a lot near the circus, but two others wandered into a residen tial section where they were fi nally captured, v . One lumbered into a garage at 1050 Sheridan avenue. Quick thinking neighbors slammed the doors shut and called police. His companion crawled under a porch at 1060 Sheridan ave nue. Patrolman Hans Mogensen of the Elizabeth police depart ment, curious as -to what a lion would do under a porch, bent down and glared at the lion. Startled, the lion leaped over the patrolman's back and ran onto another porch. A cage wag- nn woe hmnffht tn the norch and the animal transferred. - , . Kaiser Launches Ship Number 200 PORTLAND, Ore., June 12 (P) Henry J. Kaiser's original llckety-split shipyard, the Ore gon Shipbuilding corporation, launches No. 200 today. The 11-way yard which won for its chief the sobriquet of World War II's miracle man pre pared to cut the halter on the Edward Canby and let her slide into the Willamette river. Mrs. Earl Snell, the governor's wife, was ready to sponsor her. The Canby was named for a general assassinated by Modoc Indians in 1873. All Set for Book Pick V W rA.. sll , i- center last November; says Nor ris Edward James, former head of the .camp's receiving center for evacuees. The Japanese who were beat en had been aiding the camp ad ministration in its work, James testified yesterday before the Dies congressional sub-committee. . He declared the hooded gang attacked Joseph Seta and Seta's uncle in the camp barracks, leav ing - a - wooden - imitation of a Samurai sword. James added that three men attacked the rec reation director, Hatsumi Yam- ena, and later beat the director's mother and sister. James said the Jailing of Isamu Uchida, head of the camp's Judo wrestling ' organization, was the immediate cause of the strike. He explained that Uchida was taken into custody on an assault charge after Kay Nishimura, James' chief interpreter, had been beaten with pipe lengths by several of the hooded men. Trouble , first began at the camp, last fall,- James .stated after Poston had received a total of 365 Japanese, regarded by the FBI as potentially . dangerous. from internment camps in North Dakota and New Mexico. The former camp , executive said that beginning then a defi nite attempt was made to de- (Continued on Page Four) Klamath Service Men Have Part in Fighting Exploits Exploits of two Klamath men in widely separated areas today received publicity In radio and press dispatches here. Sergeant Russel Matheson. stationed in Englaiffi, and 'Corporal George Merrich, now in Attu, were the two former Klamathites men tioned. ' In a press dispatch received to day. Sergeant -Matheson was mentioned as being on a Flying Fortress over Emden, Germany. A gunner on the same plane felt a draft arid thought that the door of his ball turret had blown open. He later discovered that the door had blown off and that he was being held by a safety belt sev eral miles above German soil. :A hurry call over the intercommu nication system brought Ser geant Matheson scrambling back to help the gunner climb back into the plane and restore the oxygen line which had broken. Sergeant Matheson's parents live in Atwood, Kansas, but be - up mi Axis Reports Attack; Red Planes Rake Enemy Fields LONDON, June 12 OP) The German radio said tonight that several waves of Russian infan try attacking on a broad front northeast of Orel broke "the main German line in some places" before they were thrown back in counterattacks. The Orel front is about mid way - between . Moscow ' and Kharkov and almost due south of the capital. Heavy German concentrations have indicated that the main nazi thrust might come in that sector. The German account, record ed by the Associated Press, said the Russians attacked after heavy artillery and aerial prep aration. 'The enemy, however, was1 thrown out in . immediate- coun ter thrusts in hand to hand fighting and suffered heavy losses in dead, wounded and prisoners," the broadcast said. .. Neither of the last two Rus- (Continued on Page Four) worked here for Metier broth ers before being inducted on May 14, 1942. Klamath people were thrilled to hear of the adventures of Cor poral George Merrich over t news' broadcast last night.' The former Standard Oil salesman from this city was credited with cleaning out a foxhole- in the Aleutians single handed and "re peating the ' procedure ' eight times. After .his ammunition ran out he used the butt of his rifle. Sitting down to mop his brow he discovered that he had been wounded three times. A lieutenant colonel from McCoy, Oregon, ran to kiss his Oregon buddy and promised that he would recommend him for a sergeancy. ;. Merrlch's parents live in Bend. He entered the service before war broke out, but before that he was employed at the Stan dard Oil station at Sixth and Klamath. 1 AND BOMBARDMENT T, 24 Hours of Intermit tent Attack Gets' f Results LONDON, June 12 VP) Thaj Algiers radio reported tonight that 30 enemy planes attempted) to attack an allied landing fore after Lamped usa surrendered today but were driven, off. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June IS (P) Lampedusa island has been occupied, a special communique from Gen. Eisenhower's head quarters announced tonight. . The little Italian desert Island; lies 80 miles south of Pantel leria, which fell only yesterday. It was subjected to aerial and naval bombardment. The text of the special com munique said: , "After 24 hours ot Intermit, tent-naval and aerial bombard ment, the island of Lampedusa today surrendered and is being occupied by our forces. ' No Details - No details of the occupation were immediately given. ; Two companion islands of Lin osa. and Limpione lie near Lam pedusa,' but they are barren wastes, important only for their strategic position near the Medit, . terzanean narrows. - - ' v- - No mention was made of the) fata "of the "companion islands, but it. is believed that they to must topple ' swiftly, if indeed they have not already done so. , " - Lampedusa ; ' had -" previously' disregarded an allied ultimatum to surrender and the pattern ol attack apparently-was the same) as the longer battering which) ; (Continued on Page Four) i ? . . : ..' Japs Raked by ; U. S. Bombers in j South Pacific ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Australia, June 12 (JP) Im proved flying weather sent bombers of the Fifth Air Force on wide and devastating sweep against the Japanese yesterday. With but little opposition they blasted Koepang with 42 ton of bombs and poured more than 19 tons on oft-battered -Rabaul, the big sea and air base on New. Britain island, The Japanese did not choose to seize. this break in the bad weather to try an offensive, but 15 Liberators struck Koe pang, capital of Timor- shortly after noon, leaving it "a mass of flames," the allied high com mand reported. r The powerhouse was destroy ed, gasoline and oil dumps went up in flames and the water front area suffered "widesnread destruction," the communique saia. Search Still 6n For Beat-Up Duo PORTLAND, June It VP) State police pressed the hunt for the kidnapers ot Amos Smith, 67-year-old Grants Pass lumberman, today but as yet had been unable to locate Smith's car in which the two men are believed to have made their getaway. : . State police headquarters here said they had no more clues! than those given by Smith yes terday after he was found lying ' in the woods near here. : Smith said the men, attired Is) khaki , shirts and trousers and overseas caps, forced him at gurt point to drive them north from Grants Pass Wednesday. Smith said he had been beaten. Two U. S. Subs Presumed Lost ! ' WASHINGTON, June 1J (JPi The United States submarines Amberjack and Gramput, car rvina an -estimated 60 men ftKLS ISLAND each, have failed to retard from patrol operations and "must be presumed to be lost," the navy announced today. - V':.; -r
