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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1943)
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Ax Tnju was sounding off to Hie diet the other diiy about how Jun waa all act to chew her enemies up and spit 'em nut of tho cornera of her mouth the Japs at tucked Guadalcanal with a heavy force of bombers pro tected by Zero fighters. Final score, as reported today: Thirty-two Jap bombers and 43 Zero fighters ahot down, with MX of our planes miing (sonic of them may yet, return.) THE last time the Jupa attacked Guadalcanal In force (lining DB planes) they lost 30 of 'hem. We lost seven planes and three ships. (That was April 7.) We're Retting better or the Japs are getting worse, rrUE little yellow men have ' been experimenting. A few days ago they were hunting in wolf packs composed entirely of fighters their probable Ideu be- Ing to pounce on a forco of our bombers and overpower them. They lost HALF or their first pack in their first bruih with our fighters. The pack idea was evidently not a good, one. , TP1 1 Y are the Japs attacking Guadalcanal In such force? You guess. It still seems to be true that nobody knows what a Jap will do. IlUT let's not tiakc the mis- lake of underestimating them. We did that consistently up to Pearl Harbor, and it was costly.) , TPHE Turkish border incident Is clearing somc(what. It seems probable today that the frontier was CLOSED BY THE BRITISH to prevent leak ago of news of movements of allied military forces in Syria. (Turkey, as a neutral, is over run by nxls spies whoso snoop ing would be made easier by on open border.) THE Algiers radio (which can't always bo trusted) says Tur key has broken off relation.! with France's Vichy government (now ALL German.) It add3 that Germany has asked for the recall of tho Turkish consul in the Greek Aegean Island of Mytclinc and that tho Turkish consul in Salonikl has already been recalled. Keep In mind that Turkey is our natural route Inlo the Bal kans. Maybe tho Turks arc get ting ready to open the gate for us. - ' nUMANIA Is reported (uncon firmed) to be angling for a separate peace with us Is sold to want to get under our tent beforo Hungary docs, thus por linps pulling a fast one and get ting Transylvania back from the (Continued on Pago Two) Liberty Ship PORTLAND, June 17 (P) A torpedo struck a Portland-built Liberty ship In tho Atlantic, breaking her In two. But she didn't go down. Another torpedo blasted tho forward section. Again tho ship shuddered. But still she didn't sink or what was left of her didn't. Such was tho story of tho S. S. Anne Hutchinson, 41st Liberty turned out by Oregon Shipbuild ing corporation, disclosed by Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the maritime com M King Cohen I Redio-Telepholo Hare's tha "King of Lampe duia." Ha t Sgt, Sidney Cohan, 22-year-old former London tailor's cutter who received the surrender of Italian-held Lam peduta laland when his airplane, on a rescue mission irom Malta, was forced down on tha Island fortress. The Itollans welcomed Cohen and eagerly surrendered Radioed London-New York. OIL LEASE DEAL DECLARED ILLEGAL Navy's Agreement on Elk Hills Reserve Under Attack WASHINGTON, June 17 (P) Tho navy's agreement with Standard Oil company of Califor nia for developing the Elk Hills oil reserve wos termed "illegal and Invalid" today by a justice deportment official who said It violates a 1038 potrolcum conser vation act. This description came from Norman Littcll, assistant attor ney general, at a house public lands committee hearing in which Rep. Elliott (D-Callf.) said the deal had "something of the inkling of tho Tea Pot Dome scandal of some years ago." The contract provided for navy purchase of company land ( .ontinucd on Pago Four) Whiskey Business Hit by New Rule The pinl-a-wcek whiskey rule that went into effect June 7 has cut down the business of the local liquor store quite a bit, it was reported today. Moro than a wock s supply of liquor of nil tkinds Is on hand, ana snipmcnis arrive wecKiy. Thcro is no danger of a "whiskey famine" such as was reported two weeks ago unless some fu ture shipment should be held up. Splits, Floats mission, in a communique prais ing tho workers of the yard. The first torpedo struck in the No. 4 hold, almost lifting the ship out of the water and prac tically ripping out her bottom, Lund said, adding that the. aft section sank only after being buffeted by storms, Tho second torpedo hit the starboard engine room, destroy ing the boiler and shifting the main engine 10 feet to port, Ho said tho vessel remained upright and was towed to an African port. BUSTERS BASH GERMAN I E Three Enemy Ships Go Down Under Attack By Allied Planes By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Editor British block-buster armadas thundered new destruction on the German homcfront before noon today, hammering the Rhincland war foundarics city of Cologne' for the 116th time, while RAF fighters shot up trans port and other targets in nazi. occupied Holland and Belgium, By daylight, allied planes car ried on the round-the-clock of fensive across the English Chan nel and destroyed six axis fight ers against a loss of one RAF aircraft. Fourteen RAF bombers and one fighter were listed as missing in the night's operations. Three Ships Sunk In the Mediterranean, allied long-range fighters attacking from bases in the Middle East sank three more enemy ships In tho Acficou sea, while the maas Of Lieut. Gen. Carl A: SpaauT northwest Africa air force took a day off after violent assaults Tuesday on five axis airdromes in Sicily. Swift RAF Mosquito bombers from Malta continued to blast Sicily and southern Italy during the night, pouring cannon and machine-gun fire Into road trans ports, rail targets, bridges and military hut camps. "A destroyer escorting a con voy was gunned, causing a bril liant flash astern," the British announced. A Moscow broadcast said Pre mier Mussolini's high command had started withdrawing demor- (Continued on Page Two) Three Killed in ditto's Plunge Near Ashland ASHLAND, Ore., June 17 (flt Three persons were killed and another critically Injured last night when an automobile plunged 200 feet down a moun tain from the Siskiyou highway six miles south of here. State Police Officer William Phillips said the dead were James Halo Mosley, 17: Rose fcmma Kerrigan, 16, and Claud- inc Ida Pect, 12, all of Ashland. Gene M. Dawson, 28. Siski you Station, driver of the car, was in a hospital here with brain concussion, a broken leg and oth er injuries, Phillips said. The accident occurred about midnight, Phillips said, but the wreck was sighted only this morning by an unidentified mo torist. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE . First game: Philadelphia 4 9 2 Boston S 9 2 Christopher, Fagan (7) and Swift; Lucicr, Brown (8) and Partee NATIONAL LEAGUE R.. H. E. Cincinnati 6 9 0 St. Louis 1 5 2 Riddle and Mueller: Krist, Dickson (8), Munger (9) and Odea. Brooklyn 5 10 1 Now York 8 9 9 Hlgbe, Head (3), Webber (8), Macon (8) and Owen; Wittig, Feldman (3) and Mancuso. Chicago : 3 4 1 Pittsburgh 2 6 0 Derringer and McCullough; Herbert, Podgajny (5), Lannlng (8) and Baker. (Called end 7th Inning.) FRONTS Using compressed air and pneumatic -tools, U. S. army engineers cut a roadway Into the steep side of a hill. Note their bivouac HEADS FOR FIGHT Some Solons Suggest Tempering Fund -Limitation '. By JOHN H, WIGGINS -n. WASHINGTON June?. 11 (W Opppnents of. suWldjr"byiflenti( to cusnion ' price decreases ap peared headed today for a con gressional floor fight over wheth er use of government ' funds should be limited or prohibited entirely in the administration move to roll food costs back to lower levels. . . Some members of the senate banking - committee who ' pre viously approved legislation to halt any subsidies without' con (Continued on Page Four) ' Residents Get Night Thrill From Low Plane An airplane, apparently a service craft on a navigation flight, zoomed the town about 12:30 a. m. today, arousing many a resident from sound sleep. The plane, which local avia tion enthusiasts believed to be a two-motored . Job, swept, north and then returned over town at a low altitude. It flew at such speed and so low that some householders be lieved the unusual noise it made must have been a' meteor or the escape of steam from an engine house. A few minutes later a plane, possibly tho same one, was seen going east at a considerably higher altitude. ' Texas Town's Negro Area Wrecked in Race Rioting BEAUMONT, Tex., June 17 (yP) Col. Sidney C. Mason, rin command of state troops enforc ing martial law here, said to day the negro section of Beau mont was "literally stomped in to the ground" during race dis turbances . precipitated by two recent rape cases In which ne groes were suspects. "From a destructive stand point, it equals the Meuse-Ar-gonnc sector of the first World war," Colonel Mason added. Col. Mason's, comment on the damage was made as this south east Texas city, of more than 100,000 persons ' awoke - today under the watchful eye of some 2400 peace enforcement person nel under his command. The city had its first undis turbed sleep in two days after rioting which started late Tues day night had taken the lives- of one white man and one ne gro. 1 I Bus transportation resumed today and most retail establish ments .were again open for bus iness. - . Hillside) Highway in background. Secret Food Stock Hoards At WRA Center Described LOS ANGELES, June .17 (A3) Testimony of secret . hoards of food stocks, some of which hi said he believed had been traded by Japanese for whiskey and chickens, was given a Dies con gressional sub-committee by a former employe of the Heart mountain, relocation .center in Wyoming. ' ; : .EatUAj Best," a Wounded vet- erao of Punkejqiie -who said his son, Clifford was killed in Afrl ca last January, told the commit tee yesterday he was sent to Heart mountain last December aa an associate steward after Gas Supply Low in All U. S. Except Pacific Coast . WASHINGTON, June 17 UP) Gasoline' stocks were reported by the bureau of mines today to be "rapidly approaching crit ical levels' everywhere in the country, except the west coast April and May, it said, re corded heavy dips into stored supplies. - The bureau added to indica tions that tighter restrictions on civilian motoring may be in prospect for the mid-continent area' before summer is out by saying: . "Generally, April is the month, in which gasoline stock withdrawals begin, but . this April, the withdrawal reached a high peak of about 5,500,000 barrels.. This was followed in May by another decline. .. . "The total (military, civilian and export) demand for motor fuel in April was about 51,600,- 000. barrels, which was several million .barrels greater than ex pectation and only 1 per cent below a year ago." . Some - establishments ; had closed because of lack of help after negroes wen ordered off the streets. Defense guardsmen, Texas Rangers and local law officers had the city under guard during the night. Numerous arrests were made for violation of the curfew order barring from the streets . all persons not having essential business through the night hours. ' The destruction in the negro section, Colonel Mason ex plained, included the - burning of up to 20 negro houses and es tablishments. ' The dead were Ellis Cleveland Brown, who suffered a skull fracture, and John Johnson, 44-year-old negro who died of gun shot 'wounds. He said a group of white men fired on him as he was entering a car at the ice plant where he was employed. The riots starting early Wed nesday morning were followed by a. declaration of martial law last flight., ' . having served for a time as chief steward at the Postoni Ariz.',-re location center. -- . ' - Supplies In . Attics During a month-long inven tory of food at the Heart moun tain camp, Best said, he found 36 of the' center's 42 kitchens had supplies hidden in the attics. .In one of them, he declared, a Japanese cook, showed hint ss- creffpanlrles. reached , by sliding doors id the kitchen, walls,. one of them about five by IS feet in size and piled to the ceiling with iooosiuiis. . ':;... In another, mess hall .the Jap anese had built a stage and the space beneath it was packed with canned goods, Best said. He noti fied the project director-. about the secret store rooms, he added, but no action was taken.: "At one time while I . was there, there were 10,000 gallons of. mayonnaise, when they were using only 600 gallons a month. Best testified. "Much of this supply had gone back to oil. "There was a 65-months' sup ply of corn meal. There was. a five-year supply of canned toma toes, at. the rate they were using them, but on the ration point sys tem there was enough for 'eight years. , "Expressing the ' belief that "it was a case of their, wanting to steal it and trade it for whis key 'arid other things,". Best de clared he had heard from Japan ese at the camp that a chef was trading hams for whiskey with Japanese soldiers from the Unit ed States army who visited the camp on furlough. ... He said the garbage collector was selling chickens to the Jap anese... : . . . .-.- No we to Havinear Is Kiwanis Choice For Rodeo Queen Second candidate to be an nounced for the rodeo - queen contest is Noweta Havinear, wno is- sponsored by-, the : Ki wanis club. Miss Havinear, a junior In high school,- was a princess at the Lakeview roundup last year, She is 18, has brown eyes and dark brown hair, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall.- She is employed at the Pelican cafe. Three more candidates are ex pected to be chosen for . the queen contest. The queen- will be ' chosen at tho queen's ball on June 26. Proceeds from the ball and the rest of the Fourth of July celebration will go' . to the Commandos, to enable them to bring wounded service men .(Continued on Page Two) FAIR CANCELLED SALEM, June 17 (P) Ore gon's state fair will be cancelled this year for the second succes sive year, State Director of Agri culture E. L, Peterson announced today, - The state board of agri culture, meeting secretly, decid ed yesterday against holding the fair, .but Peterson withheld the announcement until this after noon Great Guadalcanal Battle Costs Only Six U.S. Aircraft WASHINGTON, June 17 CP) of the Pacific,- American planes shot down 77 Japanese aircraft over Guadalcanal island Wednesday . while losing six of their own number, the navy announced today. . .- ' . Never before had the enemy s air losses in the Guadalcanal area been so heavy. The 77 total was almost exactly twice that of the Japanese losses last April El Unconfirmed Rumors Fly in European Circles By The Associated Press . Diplomatic relations, of Tur key with the Vichy government of France were broken off to day by the withdrawal of Am bassador Behic Erkin of Turkey, according to an Algiers radio broadcast recorded by 'The As sociated Press. While this withdrawal was not considered a rupture in re lations between Turkey and Vichy France, an unnamed Bern source reported it could be a step in that direction. The withdrawal was said to be a protest against . nazi sur veillance of the embassy- in Vichy." '--Another -reason- given for the recall of the ambassador .Wa- said te e pressure) on the part of the Allies, who. thereby hope that Vichy will take a sim ilar : action . and recall Gaston Gergery from Ankara, . London- diplomatic quarters which. - normally . would be -informed of any such break could not confirm the report and said they were inclined to doubt it No direct confirmation was given by Ankara or Vichy, and the broadcast was without con firmation from other, quarters. - A subsequent broadcast from Algiers recorded by Reuter, said Germany had asked Turkey to recall, her consul in Mytilene, capital, of the Greek island of Mytilene in the Aegean sea off the Turkish coast 170 miles north of Athens. The Turkish consul at - Sal continued on Page Two) Liquor Board Suspends Two Local Licenses PORTLAND, June 17 (P) The state liquor control com mission today reiterated its policy of suspending for 30 days the licenses of liquor dis pensers found guilty of selling to minors. The decision was reaffirmed after the commissioners Chair man L. J. Wentworth, George P. Lllley and Hugh Kirkpatrick heard pleas- for lesser penal ties. .... Capt. Clyde Warren, chief of the commission's enforcement division, notified the board he had received orders to -report for military duty June 24. The commission named no succes sor. .'Among suspensions ordered today: Ole ' Egeland, Ole's Tavern, Klamath Falls, retail beer Class B, 30 days, sale and service to intoxicated person and disorder ly premises. C. S. Edison, Night Hawk, Klamath Falls, retail beer Class C, 14. days, sale to intoxicated person. . Wedding Trip . LOS ANGELES, June 17 (F) The office of price administra tion is taking an interest in Charlie Chaplin's marriage, it disclosed today, but not in its romantic aspects. Samuel L. Leask Jr., southern California, OPA administrator, announced . his operatives are trying to determine where Charlie got the gasoline for. his trip to Santa Barbara yesterday to marry Miss Oona , O'Neill, daughter of "Playwright Eugene O'Neill. . In one of the great air battles 7 when 39 enemy craft were 'destroyed during a single raid. NavT- eommuntaiift No. All said: "South Pacific! , ; . "1. A brief report received from the South Pacific, re veals that In an air battle over Guadalcanal hUnrf June If United State planes shot down 32 Japanese bomb ers and 45 Zero fighters. Six' United States planes are mist ing. . ..' "2. Ma further details have been received.' ' The description of the" AmerL can ' planes as ."missing." auk. gested that some of them; or at cut Bums oi meir puois, migns turn up later. t Probable Record " The 13 to 1 score turned he by -American combat- fliers in mw ouiomons, . wno nave in the Miujr, nrvj ants marine pilots, was one of "' thv best, possibly the best, ever re corded in a single action: in the action of April 7 : the Japanese - attacked shipping- at Guadalcanal with 8 planes, in cluding- so Bombers, and while they lost 39, American losses, were three ships and seven planes. Only two American pilots failed to returns front - Thm larfeet raid- fir the Guadal canal area prior to Wednesday's action was on last - Saturday when the Japanese sent a force of 40 -to SO fighter planes into the vicinity of the Russell Is lands, American-' air base- terri tory lying immediately-north iof Guadalcanal. Their-move' then appeared to be aimed at win ning aerial supremacy- by over whelming .American- fighter planes forces and driving them Chaplin and Bride Elude Public Eye AHer Wedding SANTA BARBARA, Califs June .17 (P Charles Spencer Chaplin and his fourth youthful bride, Oona O'Neill, married yes terday in a- perfunctory three minute ceremony that was made noteworthy, principally by their efforts to elude, the public eye, had apparently achieved -today' the seclusion they desired, ii Their immediate whereabouts': and their honeymoon plans ret mained undisclosed, o "i; Meanwhile, in Hollywood,'- i . , . , - puj9ii.-iaiia miu apvciui guttros at tended 23-year-old Joan Betty,' wno received word oi tne mar riage with hysterics, - her at torneys said. Her mother, Mrs. Gertrude E. Berry of New York, has chareed in a civil suit that Chaplin is the father, of. Joan's expected child. - - i -,'.... '? : Chaplin was so fidgety when, he visited the courthouse to get the license, said Deputy County Clerk Ira.Altschul, that he could hardly hold the pen and even, forgot to remove, his' hat. .He was still nervous during the mar riage in the Judge's home. Shortly after - the : -wedding ' party left the house Chaplin also discovered that Judge Clinton V. Moore, - 78-year-old- retired Methodist minister,' likewise had been a bit nervous. . He had spelled Chaplin's name "Chap man" on the certificate. The' comedian hastened back , for a corrected copy. . Gets OP A Eye .; -Leask 'said also he is interest ed in unverified reports ; that, at one time Chaplin's car sped 80 miles an hour as the actor elud ed newsmen. He is - trying .it check, the ownership of the car,, but admitted he is handicapped' because no one hereabouts seents to know where Chaplin-and. his bride are honeymooning. , "The whole trfp may hay been entirely legal," Leask com mented.. "It . probably -was; . but w want to know," :- v ,
