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Newspaper Page Text51 cralb and Ur lHKSwlllilnlii JiiXlwiiMl ,' : June 13 High 59, Low 31 Precipitation aa oi Juna 7, 1943 On (-minute blait on sirens and whtttlai li tha ilgnal lor a blackout In Klamath Falli. Anolhar long blait. during black out, li a ilgnal lor all-elaar. In irecau tlonary periods, watch your ilraat llghti. Stream year to data 17.14 Lait year 13.08 Normal 11.34 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1943 Number 9823 HI" ':hn:i:i;im Sj mm I1W Ann M1K E ''iiiiiitf By FRANK JENKINS AIR war dominates the news " again today, lo tlio practicul exclusion of everything cine. Only In Russia I ground fight lug mentioned at all. and there It is on a minor sealo patrol actions, etc. WITH the I tul Inn minor Islands (notiiblv Pantrllcria and Lainixduiia) out ofNho way. tha final, all-out assault on bicny seems only a mutter of tlmo. At ready the softcniug-up process la well under wuy. - Regardless of whut may be in the wind for the Italian main land, the Sicilian struil will not 4e safe for our ships as long as "Sicily Is itroniily held by tlio enemy. Your map wltl mako that clear. WE'RE hitting hard at axis W airfield! nn Slcllv. notiiblv at Catania and Ccrblni and at the same time aro smacKing mainland fields and banes to sto enemy planes that might come to the aid of the Sicillun fields under our attack. We're sending heavy bombers from North Africa, which oro picked up by the shorter-ranged lighters based at niomi. xou ....... Win alirA WA'tt VlM llxllttf Pll IV lelleria In the same. W.W,."". oon as we can get tho capture'd fields there Into condition tor pur lighter.. t t JNESCORTED Flying Fort ressrs hit the Cicrman sub marine nest at Bremen ana vii finnriuv ninrnins. Twenty six of them are shot down olir heaviest loss of the war so far. (The severest previous loss was l nr.mpn nn Aorll 17. when 10 Klvine Fortresses wero shot down.) II s. General Anderson, com mandins one wing of the Bremen-Kiel operation, says ti, r.rlr- 2fl American bomb ers) was NOT TOO HIGH for the RESULTS achieved. We must remember that for every military odvanlago gained a prlco hus to uc pain. o ATURDAY nluht. tho British " raided Bochum, In tho Ruhr Q alley, dropping two-ton bomos n German chemical plants and armament works at the rate of FIVE per minute. In this raid, the British lout 34 bombers. THE Russian air force today begins its seventh week of fierce air battles which, tho Russians say, have cost the Ger mans a total of 3319 planes. A special Russian communique asserts that in June alone 1230 German planes have been shot down. In tho LAST WEEK, this special communique says, tho German losses have been 408 nliines to the Russians' 133 ' ,'l-t.lu rl ,ni,i-un la nvlrnmrlv V Important, If true, as it Indicates - nnr v w i ti ins clown oi ucr- man strength In the air.) U'X is quite possible that our purpose is to weaken tho Ger mans fatally In the air before attempting further heavy land operations against them even In Russia. Ono way to do this is by constantly challenging the enemy, forcing him to send up his fighter planes to bo shot down. Tho scheme works only when you aro BETTER IN THE AIR than the enemy. Tho Germans tried it against England but It didn't work because the British planes and pilots were better than the Germans and shot down TOO MANY of .them. The British, however, realized tho danger clearly, and instead of Bonding up their defending fighters In swarms to bo shot Qiwn In swarms by an enomy ho was numerically superior used them sparingly, depending upon the individual excellence and personal heroism of thoir fighter pilots. It was of this phase of tho bat tle of Britain that Churchill (Continued on Page Four) REJECTED IN MAY STILLCET SERVICE CULL Lower Standard Seen As Aid In Delaying Fathers' Induction WASHINGTON, June 14 fP) Many of tho more than 2,800,000 men rejected by the armed ser vices for physical disqualifica tions may bo reclaimed as a re sult of lowered standards, de laying the Induction of fathers, testimony before a house com mittee Indicated today. Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hcrshey, in testimony hist month at hearings on the wor manpower commission's bp propriation bill which were made public by the committee today said lowered navy standards might postpone the drafting of fathers three or four months. Sinfce then, the navy has drop per Its requirements. Although official indications have been that the drop was not sufficient to produce enough "reclaimed men to postpone the father-draft three or four months, there have been hints it might be held off beyond that date last mentioned officially, August 1. Brighter Outlook And while Hcrshey and War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutl told the committee that eventually "great major Ily" of physically fit father might be In uniform, there were many points In their testimony suggesting a brighter outlook for family heads. One was McNutt's statement that the armed forces by the end of June will have 9,200,000 men toward their top planned strength of 10.900,000 by the end of this year, and that army inductions (Continued on Page Four) Dempsey Denies Use of Fists in . Domestic Ruckus WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 14 (Pi Jack Dempsey s suit for divorce and his wife's counter claim for separation wont to a supremo court refcroo for de cision Into today after the for mer heavyweight champion had denied that he punctuated mari tal life with his Broadway beauty by socking her with the fists Hint made him famous. Rcforco J. Addison Young promised to reach a decision "as promptly as possible." The trial began May 25. Denying emphatically that he ever struck his wife, tlio former Hannah Williams, Dempsey ac knowledged, however, that he once assisted three men out of his kitchen by slaps, shoves and grasps at the scat of the trousers. He also denied that he ever pointed a gun at his wife, and threatened to kill her, as Mrs. Dempsey had testified earlier. U. S. Airmen Outswimming By LEO BRANHAM A U. S. BOMBER STATION IN ENGLAND, June 14 Of) After crash landing their burn ing, shell-riddled Flying Fort ress in the choppy waters of the English channel, nine Unit ed States airmen won a race with death by out-swimming spreading gasolino flames on tho water. Tho Fortress, which they called "Barrelhouse Bessie from Basin street," quickly sank but its fuel leaks fed the firo. An hour and a half after the crash, as the survivors, clinging to a damaged and only partially Inflated rubber dlnghey de spaired of help and were about ready to give In to the bitter cold waters, a British boat res cued them. Tho sole casualty of the crew of tho bomber one of tho 13 which failed to return from the It's Flag Day r . T.v-T i ij nMilliWJgXIsQi, f ;;J,.v aflirrlami Wal . .. "i i i i "vv ijf rAN "This year the Slan and Stripes is a battle rmblem flying in the ietertt and jungles and over Arctic tnow$. It lies with our men in Arica, Auslrolia, Neu Zealand, China, Burma and the Aleutian and In the valines 0 th world so remote that the American flag has never been seen there before. FIERCE FIGHTS IN Nazi Plane Loss Put At 3319; Russians Gain In Orel MOSCOW. June 14 (P) The red army air force has begun its seventh week of fierce air battles which Russians say have cost the Germans 3319 planes and soviet scouting detachments reported offensive gains in the Orel "hinge" sector of the front. Striking in that region south of Moscow, where the Germans havo been expected to attack, tho Russian patrols cap tured four settlements, accord ing to the soviet midday com munique. A special communique indi cated the ferocity and scope of the Russian air assaults on Ger man communications and sup plies which were launched in May. The Germans' June losses alone were 1250 planes shot down, it said and it put German air losses last week at 498 craft to Russian losses of 153. 300 Nails Killed Three German planes were shot down last night in the fighting near Mtscnsk, which is about 50 miles northwest of Orel, and about 300 Germans were Kiuca, cigiu ianns were (Continued on Page Four) Win Race With Gas Flames in St. Nazairc raid of May 29 was Sgt. Ralph Erwin, 31, of Tlio Dalles, Ore, tail gunner. The blazing waters- apparently became a funeral pyre for Er win, who was suffering from shock before tho bomber crash ed. His body was not recovered. The Fortress was riddled Just before tho target was reached. The controls wero so badly damaged tho big bomber was almost unmanageable Tho left wing was perforated and then set aflro by an ignited gasolino tank. A foot-square hole was torn in the tail section and the radio compartment was riddled. Sgt. Chester W. Hack, De troit, left waist gunner, was wounded slightly In the shoul der. Erwln suffered shock from a bursting shell, the fragments of which missed him by only 10 inches. - Although the crippled ship - Here and On the Global Battlefronts - - . rsaMaMaaaav . ' Jh, ., . 1 .. V. . fKI yrankiin pooatreit, . f , , - Prpgrom Given y For Flag Day Event Tonight , The program for this evening's Flag Day exercises, to be held in front of the Elks temple with the public urgently invited to attend, was announced by Char les Seavey, chairman of the Elks Flag Day committee. It will start promptly at 7:30 p. m. Seats will be provided for the audience. The program: Raising of Colors American Legion. Raising of Old Fort Klamath Flag. Presentation of Air Medal to Mrs. John Rcber in behalf of Captain Ehle Reber, by General S. M. Connell, of the Fourth Bomber Command. Tribute to Capt. Reber by Lynn Roycroft. 1 Elks Flag Day Ritual Offi cers of the Lodge. . History of tite American Flag. Address Hon. William McAl lister, Speaker, Oregon House of Representatives. Closing Lowering of Fort Klamath Flag. SHIPYARD DEATH PORTLAND, June 14 (if) A woman shipyard worker, Helen B. Russell, 47, died at a hospital today of injuries suffered June 2 in a fall while at work. Her death was believed to be the fiP in,.ii a woman ship- iyard employe. Death by Channel was unable to keep up with its formation, Lieut. James ' G. Stevenson, Alamogordo, N. M., the pilot, maneuvered it be neath the following formation for protection from enemy fighters and continued until' the target was readied and Lieut. Clarence F. Vcach, Salina, Kas., got his bombs away. As they headed homeward, the ship dropped from 26,000 to 6000 feet. Off the French coast a Spitfiro escort appeared and flew protectively around tho bomber. The fire, meanwhile, had gained headway. Flames shot up from the bomb bay, singed Stevenson's hair and filled the plane with smoke. The crew's efforts to use the fire extinguishers were futile and they brought the bomber (Continued on Page Four) , ' I Ull ! III .Ull-M, IIM. II. S. SUBS-SINK " 12 ,f VESSELS Undersea Craft Now r Credited With 256 Ships WASHINGTON, June 14 (P) American submarines on battle patrols in the Pacific have sunk 12 Japanese ships, including one destroyer, probably sunk t other and damaged three, the navy announced today, - Pursuant to policy, the navy gave no details on the actions which brought, the -number of Japanese ships sunk, probably sunk or damaged by submarine action to 256. Communique No. 411: "Pacific and Far East: "1. United States submarines have reported the following re sults of operations against the (Continued on P-go Four) M'Nary, Holman Favor Bill To Outlaw Strikes WASHINGTON, June 14 (Pi The vote of northwest senators on legislation to outlaw strikes in government-operated war in dustries and to curb walkouts in privately - controlled , plants, which won congressional ap proval Saturday with adoption of a conference . report by the senate, follows: Republicans: F o r Holman and . McNary, , Oregon,, and Thomas, Idaho. Democrats: Against Bone and Wallgren, Washington. , The bill to outlaw strikes in government-operated war factor ies and curb walkouts in priv ately-controlled Industries has passed both houses of congress and is expected to.be signed by Speaker Kayburn, of the house, and Vice President Wallacq, as president' of ' the senate,' and placed on President Roosevelt's desk. The president will then have the option of signing it, vetoing it or permitting it to become a law without his signature. If the bill is to become a law be fore the current truce In the soft coal dispute expires at midnight Saturday of this week the presi dent will have to sign it, as the ten-day period for it to become a (aw automatically will not run out until aftor the truce dead line. - F. R. RECEIVES L FORFODDCZAR Bipartisan Proposal Made; Ceiling Eyed As Obstacle WASHINGTON, June 14 VP) Senator George. (D-Ga.) said a bipartisan congressional delega tion urged President Roosevelt today to establish a food czar with authority to make final de cisions on production, processing, distribution and price of agricul tural commodities. . A similar appeal is to be made to Mr. Roosevelt tomorrow by members of the house agriculture commit tee. Asserting that "we just can't afford to have a food shortage in this country," George said he personally is convinced that it price ceilings threaten to hold down the maximum production and preservation of food. "then price ceilings must, yield . and there must be increases." Alternative As an alternative President Roosevelt was reported to have urged congressional leaders to provide between $1,500,000,000 and $2,000,000,000 in subsidies to effect a rollback of commod ity prices to consumers sugges tion said to have met with sharp opposition from republicans, in ciuding Senate Minority Leader McNary (Ore.). Without commenting on the president's attitude, George told reporters the congressional group which attended the White House conference was not so vitally interested "in how this problem is met as in obtaining the establishment of an over-all food authority." Members were reported to have complained that, while Food Administrator Chester Davis ex ercises controls over production he has only veto power over price ceilings and little or noth ing to say about the wages that can be paid by processors. . Some suggestions were report ed to have been made that Davis be given the over-all authority, but others were said to have urged that it be exercised by War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. W. R. Roberts of Bonanza Held By Japanese . Another Klamath county boy was reported today as being held a prisoner in a Japanese prison camp. He is Private Wil liam R. Roberts, listed as. the son 61 , Colen Roberts of Bo nanza. Roberts was employed by Lamm Lumber , company at Yamsay, Ore., prior to his en listment on July 28, 1941. He was born at Alberta, La., and is now 24 years of age. . . STRONG APPEA Tulelake's "Missing" Tokyo Flier Believed To Be Prisoner ' TULELAKE Mr. and ' Mrs Jess Dieter this week learned through a story of the Tokyo raid, published in the June 19 is sue of Collier's, that their son. Sergeant William Dieter, report ed for many months by the war department " as missing, was among crew members' of two bombers captured by the Japan ese: ' The story, written by Captain Ted W. Lawson, pilot of one of the crashed bombers, placed Ser geant Dieter and a second crew member, Bill Farrow, in a cell adjoining one occupied by J. B. Powell, newspaper man and Wendell Furnass, who both re turned on the Gripsholm. Capt. Lawson stated that following his recovery he had talked with Fur nass, who told him of seeing both men. v The Japanese government has made no announcement of the capture of Sergeant Dieter, ail- Honored Captain Ehla ; Rebar, Malin airman missing 1b action over Europe, will be honored at Flag Day exercise tonight when his mother, Mrs. John Rabar.wUl be presented with the .. Air Medal the Malin pilot won.. TO Woods Dry but Glades Wet; Small Blazes Reported An unusual condition resulting from rapidly drying woods and still swollen streams and wet glades was responsible for five fnre.t tirn w'ifhin the last few days.' : HeaVjr Rainfall' this spring has increased the How 01 water in the woods and has made transportation to fires extremely difficult, according to local for estry officials. Fires were located on the south side of Hamaker mountain, near Keno, near the Weyerhaeuser camp at Bly, in the Long Bell tract at the north end of the Indian . reservation, and at -the Klamath river near Keno, and near the Greensprings highway. The fire on Hamaker mountain covered 20 acres, burning brush Continued on Page Four) Ralph Wood Dies In Sawdust Bin Mishap at Mill Another industrial accident oc curred on Sunday at the Ewauna Box company when Ralph Wood, formerly of 253 Broad street, fell into a sawdust bin at the mill and smothered. An inhalator was used, - but Wood had been buried -in the sawdust for too long. Wood was a fuel feeder for the main boiler at the Ewauna Box company.' William Big, a fireman, no ticed that the fuel had stopped coming into the boiler and when he investigated, he found Wood covered up. The accident occur red at about: 10 a. m., and the body was. later removed to the Earl Whitlock Funeral home, Wood was 54 at the time of his death and is survived by three daughters and two sons, none of whom live in the City. though his parents were official ly notified some weeks ago that he was believed to be a prisoner of the Japanese, although still listed on the records as missing. J. B. White, brother of Mrs. D. E. Alexander, Klamath Falls and Napa, Calif., who also re turned with Mrs. White on the Gripsholm, stated upon his re turn that eight crew members of the famous flight were held at Shanghai. White, an Associated Press man was under surveil lance for months at Shanghai while Mrs, White was interned at Santa Thoma in Manila. Chase Nielson, Hyrum, Utah, gunner on the plane on which Sergeant Dieter served as bomb er, was reported in the article to have been ' bayoneted and Dean Hallmark, pilot of the craft was reported by the Japanese govern ment , as among those held in Japan, part of whom were re- (Contlnued on Page Four) By mi BOMBERS BASH ISLAND B Aerial Offensive On Europe Continues; ; U. S. Loss Heavy LONDON, June 14 OP) A Reuters dispatch from North . Africa said tonight that tha' Italian Mediterranean Island of Pampoine, near Linota. had been captured. , ; By CARL C. CRANMER Associated Press War Editor ; While Sicilians watched from their headlands for the coming of the massed air fleets - of the northwest African forces which already had smashed into sub mission all the lesser islands of Italy's guardian ring, American Liberators dumped tons of bombs on air bases of the threat ened axis stronghold, allied dis patches said today. - -- Escorted by Spitfire fighters from Malta, a strong force of the . four-engined - bombers raided Gerbini and Catania airbases at the eastern end of Sicily y ester-' day, blanketing the Gerbini base ' where about 25 planes were seen in the target area,' and leaving! smoke clouds mushrooming from : the hangars at Catania from the explosions of - about 230,000 ' -pounds of bombs ... J: r-,, Germany Hi The RAF, continuing the of-' fensive on Germany, again struck at the Rhineland last night but the British air minis try did not name the specific targets. The German radio as serted no bombs were dropped.. ' The foray served to keep going the new western aerial offensive ' begun last Friday night and con-, tinued yesterday when two large raiding forces of American bombers smashed effectively at' two prime German targets, the naval centers of Bremen and Kiel, and suffered their greatest loss of the war 26 four-engined bombers. s Elsewhere around the globe: China American planes car- . ried out furious bombing and . strafing raids against Japanese strongholds in northern Kiangsi province, a feeder area for the1 : (Continued on Page Four) , ' Davis Asserts Capital News Poorly Covered BOSTON, June 14 (P) Sug gesting that Washington news was "less adequately covered than any other news in the world," Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information, declared today that, despite in evitable bickerings, Washington had provided leadership for war production and organization un paralleled in history. ' Davis said that some Wash ington correspondents had been covering the capital for years. "But," he continued, "the war has suddenly compelled them to cover an immensely complicated story quite outside their familiar field. "It Is not surprising if some of them have found some diffi culty retooling for conversion to war production, and still seem to feel that a battle between a couple of administrators is big ger than a battle between the American and Japanese navies. A row between two administrat ors would have been big new in 1938, but is conceivably of somewhat smaller relative Im portance in '1943.' Ration Board Move Changed to June 26 ; The war price and rationing board, formerly scheduled to move into of.'ice of price admin istration quarters in the Balslgcr building on Wednesday of this week, has postponed the move until later. , The move will take place June 26. The office will be closed all day Saturday, June 26, and will open again Monday morning in the new quarter.