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Newspaper Page Texttuft muH'iiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiii i 1 1 wm III; mm II? ill:illllliliiillil.iim.l'lilllll.'W,:lllliMNIH On 6-mlnut blast on sirens and whistles is the signal lor a blackout In Klamath Talli. Another long blast, during a black out, is a signal for all-clear. In jrscsu tlonary periods, watch your strast lights. June lSHlgh 73. Lit It Praclpltatlon aa ol J una t. 114 J Stream year to date ;..'. 17.14 ' Last year 13.01 Normal ........U.t ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1943 Number 9825 mm fin il rain uui 0 . mm irlll II ri m 1 1 ir"ff ; in i n i illi r mm ii By FRANK JENKINS 'T'HKRE'S nothing much In the news toduy but rumor oiul speculation at least up to the timo this is written. "THE Turk-Syrian border clos Inn Is still a mystery, but axis sources are muttering about "In trigues" designed to bring Tur key Into the war soon, giving the Impression that whatever is back of tho Incident hus been engineered by our side. London sources, who refuse to permit their nuuies to be uhccI, think the closing of Turkey's southern frontier might be a pre caution to cover tho secrecy of allied military movements. THESE same London sources .. , ,, . i . . ij. cnnjrcuirc uiui uur sine may attempt simultaneous cap ture of Sicily from North Africa and Crete from the Middle East. They point out that both will bo difficult to tako and offer . thit atifii .Itnt ,n,fitf,l cam. pnlgn against Sicily might re quire two or three months. Tho Germans and 1 to 1 Inns have been talking nervously for weeks about heavily increased allied naval strength in the Med iterranean. fNE of the interesting inystcr ' Irs Is why the Germans don't attack In Russia or. if one chooses to look at it from tho other side, why. the Russians don't attack. TO long-accepted favorite season for fiihtlns in Russia is at hand. One giiesscsl Stalin knows what WE'RE going to do and is waiting to Join in when the time comes and that the Germans AREN'T SURE and are waiting to find out before sturting some thing. 'T'OJO sounds off today to the diet which Is Japan's pup pet parliament. (It has no power whatever, but on propaganda oc casions such as this Is useful to tho militarists who run Jupan.) Ha speaks of the war situation as "increasingly tense," with signs of a British-American of fensive on a big scale which, he says, Japan Is fully prepared with tho aid of her huge new Asiatic empire to meet and UPSET. All ll.lu I. .I....I.I.. U....I...1 ... .1110 ,B UUUUIU'UII I I U1UU eyewash, one burrcl for us and intended ' to mnko us nervous and tho other for the pcoplo at home and intended to reassure them that tholr invlnt-iblo lead ers have the situation well in hand. plIEN he gets down to business. He speaks of Japan's purposo to HELP INDIA "expel and eliminate Anglo-Saxon influ ences, which ore the ENEMY of India in every true sense of tho word." Ho hints at Indian In dependence BROUGHT ABOUT BY JAPAN'S AID. He prom ises independence within n year to Burma and tho Philippines. Ho is TALKING TO INDIA that is, to the undoubtedly large clement in India (probably in- Ctantlnilnri i.ll Pan. e-. .... . . ngu CUUI Flier Identified In Portland Crash PORTLAND, June 16 (P) Tho Portland army air bnso to day identified as Second Lieu tenant Jim Ed Duncan of Poca tcllo, Ida., the pilot who lost his life lato yesterday In tho crash of a mirsuit nlnnn. Tim lurnnt. ago oi inc Airacobra (P-39) which plummeted Into a truck garden south of the base was being examined today by a board of investigators. The crash occurred during a training flight. VOLCANO ACTIVE HEADQUARTERS. ALASKA 'EFENSE COMMAND. Jnnn 14 (Delayed) (PI AddoH In thn perils of bombing to tho Japa nese on Kiska Is the renewed activity of tho volcano on the island, returning bomber pilots have reported. War JAPS PREPARED IN DIET TALK Extravagant Claims Of Allied Losses Announced By The Associated, Press Premier General Hidvki Tojo, addressing an extraordinary ses sion of the Japanese diet today. declared that the war situation is becoming "Increasingly tense" and that there are Increasing signs of Impending British- American offensive on a large scale, the Tokyo radio reported The premier assured the diet however, that new blows being developed by the allies "arc things which Japan naturally has foreseen, said the broadcast which was transmitted by Domei for foreign consumption and re corded by U. S. government monitors. "Seizing the opportunity of such counter-offensives of our enemies," Tolo said, "the Imper ial forces aro meeting them wherever they come. Our forces are not only inflicting terrible blows on .them but also are de veloping new method to defeat them." Admiral ShigeUro Shlmada, Japanese naval minister, report ed to the diet that total Jap anese losses since the war began were 878 planes, one battleship, three aircraft carriers, three cruisers, 19 destroyers, 11 sub marines and 13 other warships. In his address, broadcast by the Tokyo radio and recorded by The Associated Press, Shj mada made tho highly exagger ated claim that the Japanese had stink 13 allied battleships, 11 air craft carriers, 55 cruisers, 66 de stroyers, 128 submarines and 60 other warships, besides sinking 360 merchant ships totaling 2.250,000 tons. Ho said that 3214 allied planes had been shot down or otherwise destroyed. Mum on Attu The premier did not refer to recent Japanese defeats on Attu Islund In tho Aleutians and in central China, tho offico of war Information reported, but told the diet that Japanese troops were carrying out. "grand scale" operations in China, along the (Continued on Page Two) Reconstruction of Crime Gets Results PORTLAND, Juno 16 (Fl it was cosy for George G. Root of 'Portland to reconstruct the tragedy that occurred during his absence in his summer cottage near Rhododendron. A window had been shattered. Tho object that shattered it had traveled In a downward trajec tory toward the kitchen door, knocking over a lamp. Root took some sights and decided the object must have struck the kitchen wall about whore the dlshpan had been hanging. The dishpan was laying top down on tho floor. . Root lifted It. Underneath was a pheasant, its neck broken. Dog Wakens Owners When Fire Begins VANCOUVER, Wash., June 16 (P) "Baby" is a hero today. The little black and white dog is'credited with waking his own ers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Avcncll, after fire broke out in their kit chen yesterday. Tho alarm was given In time so that Patrolman Dewey Crowley was 'able to carry to safety an invalid woman who lived on the second floor of the apartment house. Tho fire, believed to have started in the electric wiring system, caused considerable damage, . s s OISIOII Candidate Kenncll-Ellls Barbara Adams, chosen as the Elks' club candidate for rodeo queen. - Barbara Adams to Be 'Ellc"Ast3irant;" Oth ers to Enter First candidate to be chosen for the rodeo queen contest is Barbara Adams, sponsored by the Elks club, it was announced today by Webb Kennctt, Elk queen candidate chairman. Miss Adams graduated from Klamath Union high school in 1941, and is now employed in the Kestcrson offico at the Med ical Dental building. She is S feet 2 Inches in height, and has brown hair and eyes. The Lions, Rotary, Soropti mists and Kiwanis clubs are each expected to sponsor queen contestants. The .queen will be chosen at the Queen's ball on (Continued on Page Two) Condemnation Cases Heard in Medford MEDFORD, Juno 18 (P) Fed eral Judge Claude McColloch Portland, opened a session of the U. S. district court here yester day to hear several condemna tion cases Involving Camp White land. In the first case, a jury award ed Elmo Stalllngs $2150 for 65 acres In tho Beagle district. The government offered 1 $1350 and Stalling.1) contended the land Was worth $2775. Another jury today heard the case of F. L. Tou Velle, who asked $32,300 for 550 acres against a government offer of $16,900. Epic Story of As Congress By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 16 (P) A $2,921,441,504 omnibus ap propriations bill, bundling up tho fiscal needs of 18 govern ment war agencies, was turned over to congress today as the na tion's economic war chiefs told an epic story of American pro gress in the battle of the home front. It was the first annual rpytt the balance sheet for the past year and the budget sheet for the next for such war-born bureaus as the office of price administra tion (OPA), the war production board (WPB), censorship, the of fice of war information (OWI), and the war shipping administra tion (WSA). Spread over 2100 printed pages of testimony were the ex planations of - top officials ' in S1S0S CIVILIAN MEAT SHORTAGE DUE, TAFTASSERTS Brown Denies Charge Rollback Confusion To Blame WASHINGTON, June 16 (P) Criticizing attempts of Price Administrator Prentiss Brown to roll back retail prices. Sen ator Taft (R-Ohio) told Brown at a congressional hearing today that because of "demoralization" of markets "you are not going to have any meat for civilians in the next month." The Ohlan contended that ef forts of the office of price ad ministration (OPA) to cut back prices charged by packers with the promise of subsidies had virtually halted packer pur chases on all of the major meat markets in the country. Brown Replies Brown, defending plans for subsidy payments to hold prices down in testimony before the senate banking committee','' re plied that Unusually large meat' purchases for the amy are to blame for any threatened civilian shortage, rather than confusion over the roll back proposal. He said the army andnavy now aro (Continued on Page Two) Rioting in South Result of Rape BEAUMONT, Tex., June 16 (P) One man was fatally in jured and 11 others were In hos pitals after 13 hours of sporadic rioting today, precipitated by the rape of a young white wom an, mother of three children. The situation quieted down this afternoon under the watch of patrols who sought to pre vent further clashes between whites and negroes. Ellis Cleveland Brown, a white carpenter on a war proj ect, died in his hotel room from a fractured skull. Sheriff W. W. Richardson dis persed a crowd of white men at the courthouse, accusing them of delaying law enforcement of ficers in their search for the ne gro suspect hunted for the . as sault. Richardson took a committee through the county jail to show them the suspect was not under arrest. Texas Rangers arrested 75 white men during the morning and defense guards, state police, rangers and local officials pa trolled the city after ordering all negroes to remain at home. Some stores closed to keep crowds off the streets. Home Front Progress Told Gets $2,927,447,504 Request charge of directing the country's economic life, from war produc tion to consumer prices. There was praise and criticism from the house appropriations commit tee which approved their 1944 allocations with these words: "Great credit is due the war agencies for what has been ac complished. Mistakes have been made and will be made. They tjjire toje expected. There has been lost motion. The speed of action would not have been at tained without it. Certain Criticism Welcome "Improvements h a V e been made and will continue to be made in the functioning of the war agencies. Constructive crit icism has been helpful. It should continue and will be-welcomed by the agencies. The type of criticism which serves only to o Savs I! Bet zer Furniture Stays Here on Second Try Roy Bctzcr, state highway employee from Salem, finally got his furniture moved here. He is trading jobs with N. H. Jones, veteran employe, who is moving to Salem. After packing up his poods in his apartment, he decided to hire a drive-it -yourself truck and move his furniture to Klamath Falls. Heading south, he pulled into Klamath Falls exhausted and went to bed in a hotel, after- phoning instructions to men on how to unload the truck. When he woke up, he found that the men hadn't quite un derstood, but had turned around and driven the truck back to Salem to unload. However, things were un scrambled and Betzer now has his furniture here. He left for Salem this morning to get his wife and his car, and if nothing happens this time, Mr. and Mrs. Betzer will be at home in Klamath Falls to morrow. E FEELER REPORTED Axis Satellite Nel3 Ready to Bargain With Allies ANKARA, Turkey. June 15 (Delayed) (IP) Semi-diplomatic sources here said today that Rumania, an axis satellite, had extended peace feelers to learn how her withdrawal from the war would be received by the allies. Allied authorities in Turkey were said to have been ap proached through the medium of a neutral diplomat. The purported peace feeler was said to have been accom panied by an intimation that the Rumanians would leave the nazis flat at the start of the 1943 campaign in soviet Russia if they were permitted to retain at least parts of Bessarabia and Bukovina, claimed by Russia. The war-weary Rumanians were believed hopeful also of retaining Transylvania if they should capitulate before the Hungarians do so, it was said. These sources said it was be lieved here that the Rumanian offer is under serious considera tion in London, Washington and Moscow. There was no confir mation of the report from allied sources. PROBE ORDERED : NEW YORK, June 16 (IP) In a hectic post-midnight session, the New York city council to day approved a resolution calling for a sweeping investi gation of departments under the La Guardia administration. create public distrust is not help ful to the war effort." Part of that criticism was re flected in the accompanying ap propriations bill. Few of the agencies escaped reductions as the committee inquired into such details as the need for expanding staffs, why the OPA's renting division should have used 80 tons of carbon paper. War Production Chief Donald Nelson testified that "we are rapidly approaching the limit in our productive capacity in this country." ; He said tho total out put in 1943 would reach approx imately .'. $180,000,000,000 and said about half of it would be for direct war production. Striking Power ...."From both the military and the productive point of view," . (Continued on Page Two) - JAP BASES I SQUTH PACIFIC BLOWS 19 Liberators Make It Home From Raid; Nip Losses Told ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 16 (P) Fires which could be seen 60 miles away and a series of violent ex plosions were started' among Japanese planes on Lakunia air drome, Rabaul, New Britain, yes terday by 23 tons of allied bombs. Increasing to - 135 tons the bomb weight to fall on Rabaul's airfields during four raids made within six days, 19 Liberators joined in the latest attack and all got home safely after weath ering intense anti-aircraft fire and the weak opposition of seven enemy nightfighters. (Rabaul, on the extreme north ern tip of New Britain, is second only to Truk as both an air and shipping base of the enemy. Re cently Charles H. McCurthy, As sociated Press war correspondent at Honolulu, "wrote concerning possible military strategy in the southwest Pacific that Rabaul might well become the next al lied major objective, pointing out that its seizure would bypass Japanese holdings between It and allied-held Guadalcanal in ' the Solomons). Damage Done For two hours, beginning shortly before midnight June 14, the Liberators kept their bomb bays open over Lakunia. Later, allied fliers on reconnaissance over the field in daylight hours reported all planes crowded into one area with workmen busy on the runways. This was taken as an indication that the latest raid dealt extensive damage. WASHINGTON, June 16 (P) United States planes attacked Japanese positions in the central and northwestern Solomon islands Sunday and Monday, the navy reported today, and enemy fliers countered with an attack on Guadalcanal early Tuesday. No estimates of damage in flicted by the American attacks was given, but a communique said that' no personnel or mate rial damage had been reported here as a result of the Japanese assault. ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, June 16 (P) South Pa cific force headquarters official ly announced today that 1337 Japanese planes have been de stroyed in this war theatre since last July 31. . T,he headquarters announce ment did not disclose United States plane losses in the same period but said they were far less than the attrition toll exact ed on enemy air power since the week before the U. S. ma rines landed on Guadalcanal last August 7. The 1337 total covers only enemy aircraft definitely report ed destroyed and does not in clude planes probably destroyed or damaged, v Nipponese plane losses passed the 1300 mark during the first two weeks of June, during which 69 enemy aircraft were brought down. Board Punishes Logging Operator PORTLAND, June 16 ' (P) The state highway commission today suspended for 10 days the license of Leo Howard, logging operator, charged with overload ing his trucks by 7000 pounds. Howard asked that the suspen sion cover only the one truck which violated the load limit but the commission ordered all four of his trucks off the road. Chaplin's Bride Oona O'Neill, (above), daugh ter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, and Comedian Charles Chaplin, obtained a marriage li cense today. She Is 18, he 54. Comedian and Daugh ter qf Playwright," - 1 8, Get License ' ' " SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 16 (PJ Charles Chaplin, motion picture comedian - pro ducer, and Oona O'Neill, daugh ter of Playwright Eugene O Neill, obtained a marriage li cense here today. Deputy County Clerk Ira Alt schul said he issued the license at 8:40 a. m., and that Chaplin and Miss O'Neill left the court house a few minutes later with out announcing their marriage plans. Chaplin gave his age as 54. Miss- O'Neill said she was 18. Miss O'Neill, prominent New York debutante of 1942, recently was given a screen role, and friends of the couple said Chap lin had been coaching her in dramatics. Wonderful Teacher Their appearance at the mar riage license bureau here fol lowed by less than a week the stipulation of- a suit brought against Chaplin in which Mrs. Gertrude E. Berry of New York charges he is the father of the (Continued en Page Two) Allied f lanes Scare Berlin on Long Flights LONDON, June 16 (P) The British announced that RAF bombers ranged the continent from Denmark to France last night as the renewed allied aer ial offensive continued through its fifth successive night, and the Germans indicated some of the raiders were near Berlin. ' ' A DNB broadcast recorded by The Associated Press said the reich capital had an.alert lasting more than half an hour, but de clared "there were no particular events, no damage and no casual ties reported." The report was not immediately confirmed here. RAF bombers ripped at enemy airfields, railway communica tions and water transport. British sources said Berlin's alert probably was the result of British reconnaissance flights in which some bombs may have been dropped. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE RUE Philadelphia ..... 2 7 0 Boston 3 11 0 Arntzen and Wagner; Terry and Partee. ' ; . (1st game) R. H. E. St. Louis 5 10 1 Chicago 2 9 1 Gatehouse, Caster (8) and Fer rell; Wade, Swift (8) and Tresh. VISIT VIEWED AS PRELUDE TO EARLY ACTION Eisenhower Decdrat ed; Enemy Invasion Alarms Rise By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Editor' King George VI has arrived secretly in North Africa on whit may be a final "pre-zero hour" visit to the British and American armies girding for . an invasion) of southern Europe. " While axis, invasion .alarm) rang with peak intensity, up and down the Mediterranean,. rang ing from Gibraltar to the Turkish-Syrian frontier, allied head quarters announced that the king had already Inspected his vie torious armed forces in the "field and bestowed on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower - the insignia ; of Knight of the Grand Cross, Order -of the Bath. . Axii Jittery Mow f It was the monarch' first trip) to an active war theatre .since he visited the British army . In. France early In 1940, : a few month - before: Adolf Hitler armies .(wept into France and the low countries on the march that led to-Dunkerque. - .-- - Today the situation was - re versed, with the axl nervously awaiting the next allied blow.' "Enemy ' broadcasts variously vision; fleet was massing in the western half of the Mediterran ean, that the United Nation had built up an "invasion army" in Syria, and that Britain was "try- ing to bring Turkey In. on her side but the . Turk' will- not be Dispatches" fnm;-l;'LInea, Spain, said another 'big; allied -convoy had . entered; Gibraltar harbor, and art Italian commun ique reported.- that-axis? plane - were attacking;.-allied' ship off the Algerian' coast "and landing ooau ai rameueria. . , - In the Mediterranean, the put-, verizing assault -on Italy's anti- invasion stronghold of Sicily con tinued in force yesterday a wave of Ui'S. Flying Fortresses, Mitchells and Marauders, escort ed, by fighters, battered the axis Cajtelvetrano, Siaccft and- Bor izzo. Allied fighter planes shot ur targets at Marsala. - Sicily Pounded ' jiauan neaaquaners reported that : the raiders also', attacked localities near Palermo and Tra pani and in Arigento province, . Sicily. : v .' . ors said the almost continuous ed to that island as one' of the first objectives on the allied in vasion scneauie, ana acciarea that a synchronized attack on Grecian Crete might be expect ed as a prelude to actual inva sion of the European mainland. Observers saw . the reported sealing of the frontier between allieH-nerunipH - Svrin anH Tur key as screening important mili tary movements at the far end of the Mediterranean. Dispatches from allied head quarters revealea mat rung George arrived in North Africa last Saturday and immediately began visiting scenes of the al lies' greatest victory and talk ing with the soldiers and sailors who won it. In London, Buckingham palace (Continued on Page Two) - Red Army Claims Local Success MOSCOW, June 18 (P) The red army has cut off a chunk of strongly fortified German de fenses northwest of Mtsensk to the north of Orel in soma of the most violent local fighting in recent weeks, front line dis patches said today. The Russian communique -early today said the German counterattacked strongly yester day in an effort to retake four populated places captured by the Russians in the local of fensive, but were forced to with-. draw at sundown ' when the Russians beat off their attempt for the second day.