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Newspaper Page Textr feralo I ILJfclh !mmir,iiillL'BiTrfiilii(!ii1!i((ii mm a Ont 5-mlnut blast on siren and whistles It the signal for a blackout In Klamath Falli. Anolhar long bint, during black out, li a signal lor all-elaar. In ireceu tlonary ptrlodt, watch your ilraat llghu. in j i: ! i! ! II Hlii;iU!l'l In HII I !! I!! ! ii ii r iiii'iiii III, Hi! !:: II I: : I X',,1!, Vr rr Wj.; ;! By FRANK JENKINS nrVO dayi of clbow-rubliing with the near-great (nt the annual mooting of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers bmocIm lion) have brought to this writer an interesting conclusion: Wanhlnglnn officialdom l HEARING FROM THE COUN TRV. and i It hurl from the ) country It is less mire of the wl ,l(.m of ruling BY DIRECTIVE and more reroptlve to the Idea of telling people what II In all nbnut and no GETTING THEIR CO orERATION, Hence the appeurmice of the Washington neargrent In such large numben at affairs like the annual convention of Oregon newspaper publisher. "THIS condition, it should be explained, In a purely per sonal one, based on personal ob inrvallon and deduction. It has not been stated to this writer In so many words by anyone In au thority In Washington, But it does seem a reasonable deduc tion from the presence and the ATTITUDBUMrtPS representa tives of the Washington govern- ent. Through all their utterances ran the thread of awareness of widespread criticism of Wash ington and of desire to take the fieople of the country Into Wash ngton's confidence to do more leading and lets bossing. If that Is true. It is a significant and hopeful development. ("NE of the Interesting near great was Bruce Smith, spe cial assistant to Paul McNutt, head of the manpower commis sion. His attitude was clearly con ciliatory. Ho repeated, over and over, that Washington alono can not hope to handlo the complicat ed manpower problem all by It self. Only the LOCAL PEO PLE, he said, can fully under- itand LOCAL SITUATIONS. Thi-nnffhniiL his lntercstlnff and Intelligent discussion of this sun jeet he was asking for tho HELP of local communities In the hand ling of manpower problems. Ho thought of himself obviously as there to explain rather than to tell people what they had to do or else. TTYJ VR. SMITH was In London for A 1 several months during the terrible bombing. He Is fiat in his opinion that the bombing of England was a mistake. It HARDENED British determina tion to fight tho war through to victory, no matter what tho cost. He, Isn't certain what the effect of bombing Germany will be the effect, that is, on German will to fight. Bombing, he thinks, Os too new In the world for us o be able to judge accurately. He had unusual opportunities to see the damage that was done and to feel the grip of fear that Is Inspired by falling bombs, and he aays that AFTER THE FEAR, which no ona can avoid, his per sonal reaction was always ono of anger. That, he said, was plainly tho reaction of tho British. Bomb ing made them mad. ..,. (pOLONEL CARLSON, men- tloned here yesterday, offers an interesting opinion of the Jap. As long as the fighting follows the book, he says, tho Jap Is a cool, determined, stubborn fight er. When it departs from tho book that 'Is to say, when wo tart Improvising rather than Qollowlng the established rules the Jap is Inclined to be puzzled and not to know quite what to do. In his training of his famous Raldor battalion, ho took full ad vantage of this Jap peculiarity. His men, all volunteers, were , (Continued on Page Two) L WLB Tells President Orders Should Be Backed WASHINGTON. June 22 (IP) Tho war labor board (WLB) In formed President Roosevelt to day It believes unanimously that all the powers of the government necessary should be exercised to enforce Its order to operators and striking coal miners to en ter Into agreements settling the coal dispute. With mines now closed by the strike, William H. Davis. WLB chairman, sent the president 'a loiter recalling that the board last Friday had directed the par ties to formulate agreements based on the Appalachian con tract "with certain special age adjustments within the stabili zation program." UMW Refuses He said the operators had Of fered to .comply that John L, Lewis' United Mine Worker re fused. ... , . "Although 1 the wary labor board was not unanimous In vot ing for the directive order. of June 18," Davis : said, 'It Is unanimous in advising you that in Its opinion the directive ordor (Continued on Page . Two) . Elk Hills Oil Contract Flayed At Committee WASHINGTON, June 22 lP) Assistant Attorney General Nor man Littcll told the house pub lic lands committee today that the contract between the Stan dard Oil company of California and the navy department for Joint operation of the Elk Hills (Calif.) petroleum reserve "went beyond agreement involved In the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandal of the Harding ad ministration." Declaring the present - Elk Hills contract, now being inves tigated, resulted in a form of "partnership" between the gov ernment and Standard, Littell said that terms of the contract conveyed to the company land owned by the government. "This contract," he asserted, "goes beyond the Fall (Albert Fall, secretary of interior dur ing the . Teapot Dome leases) contracts. FORCE GOA AGREEMENTS Military Crisis Faced by Nazis on Second Anniversary of Russian War LONDON, June 22 (P) Ger many, shocked by recent, re verses, is facing a military and political crisis, but the -allies must open a second front in Eu rope this year if they hope for a quick victory, the Russians de clared today on the second an nlversnryi of Hitler's invasion of the soviet union. , . In a .special communique broadcast by the Moscow radio, the soviet Information bureau said: "During the past year the Ger man army has had no military successes. On the contrary, . it has suffered one defeat after an other on tho soviet front and in North Africa. Thus, as a result, the German military power has been shaken and a criss caused. Not Enough "But this is not enough for victory, everything now depends on how the allies will use the favorable situation for a second front, 'Without which victory- Is Impossible." Rovlowing tho two years of the bloodiest struggle in history, the .broadcast placed . Germany's ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS. WHO 'MXMJVIM : dtwi.j AllVllliri . Temperamental Pigeon Out of Dogh louse Now OAKLAND, Calif.. June 22 (IP) Elmer, the temperament al pigeon, is out of the dog house. Released at Klamath Falls on a race to Oakland recent ly, Elmer got bored and stop ped off at Mrs. Martha Mc Collum's in Klamath Falls for refreshments. Then he decid ed, to heck with flying home. So ' they put Elmer in a crate and sent him to Owner John H. Fitzmaurice at Oak land by rail. This week, Fitzmaurice an nounced proudly, Elmer not only flew all the way from Crescent Lake, Ore, but won the race by 15 minutes over his closest opponent. He was clocked at 11 hours and 45 minutes for the 400-mile trip. NAPLES FIRED BY E Daylight Attacks Blast More, Italian " Cities ', .:v-"; v. .r .HAROLD -V.-OYt.r n ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. June 22 (P) Twenty-five great fires, one covering an area a mile in diameter were left blazing in the Port of Naples and In the near by Air stores depot of Cancello by - allied bombers yesterday which began their attack before dawn and continued it into the afternoon. . . In a similarly timed assault, British and American . heavy bombers from the Middle East command raided the Italian toe cities of Regglo Calabria and San Giovanni before dawn and again by daylight, demolishing a har bor mole and scattering destrue (Continued on Page Two) School Election Names C. S. Elliot, Okays Tax Increase ; Voter placed the stamp of approval on the question of tax increase over the 8 per cent limitation on the budget for school district No. 1, and named C. S. Elliot as director for a five-year period In Monday's election. ' The vote stood, C. S. Elliot, 97; Willard Constans, 1, (write in); question of tax increase, yes 76, no 13, total, 89; adop tion of the budget, yes, 76, no, 10, total, 86. Russian front casualties at 6,400, 000 killed and missing and Rus sian losses at 4,200,000 in dead and missing. . ( ; German Losses Germany has lost 42,000 tanks, 56,500 guns and 43,000 planes as compared with Russian losses of 30,000 tanks, 35,000 guns and 23,000 planes, said the commun ique, which was recorded by the soviet monitor here. It asserted that the Germans have lost the main part of their, first-line di visions and described Hitler's de feat before Moscow "as the de cisive event of the second world war." ''.....' Today's annivcrsary'found the millions of soldiers, facing each other along the front virtually deadlocked, with activity ...con fined to artillery exchanges, scouting forays and a continuous exchange of aerial blows. , Hitler Delay - , ' Hitler's delay in launching his third summer offensive the 1942 drive was. begun on June 11 and reports that he is mov ing substantial - reinforcements into France, -have led- some ob rP tat I IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND ...KLAMATH F.LLS, OREGON, A.l.lHlia.SI.N't) PLYING FORTS LAY WASTE TO U. S. Raiders Follow RAF Night Raid On Krefeld - LONDON. June 22 Fly ing Fortresses flew unescorted Into the Ruhr for the first time today to attack the Huls Synthe- tic Rubber plant at Reckling hausen while another formation attacked the former General Mo tors plant at Antwerp, a United States communique said tonight. Twenty bombers were lost, but the Fortresses shot down "a considerable number" of attack ing enemy planes. . .The daylight raids followed a pulverizing RAF night attack on Grefeld, an industrial city in the Ruhr. Recklinghausen is about 30 miles northeast of Kre feld. Result Good "Bombing result were good and fires were started in both target." the eighth U. S. air force announced. The Hula plant supplies inc, v""" ."" considerable buna rubber. ' ; : While the bomber were doing the heavy work, "many squad ron of American, British, do minion and allied fighters car (Continued on Page Two) Fourteen Jap . Zeros Destroyed By Lightnings ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 22 (P) American Lightnings swooped down upon a large formation of Japanese Zeros over New Guinea yesterday, destroyed at least 14 and probably 23 and came home without' a' single plane missing. . The 14 Zeros blew up in the air or crashed to the ground in sight of American pilots. "Tho remaining nine were in flames and losing altitude," a communique from General Mac- Arthur' . headquarters said. "Their complete destruction was most probable.". There were 36 Zeros in the en emy formation when the P-38's, outnumbered about two to one, came upon them over the Lae area. Despite the great oddd the communique said that "our damage was slight" and a head quarter spokesman declared all our plane returned. servers to predict, that he has abandoned hope of knocking the soviet union out of the war. - v The special communique said that while the' red army has been strengthened with hundreds of new factories, German industry is powerless to replace it losses. "Our . allies are increasingly helping the . soviet . people with material," it said, and declared the soviet alliances with the United States and Great Britain "have proved their strength dur ing this year." V RUHR FACTORY Knox Promises "invasion" WASHINGTON, June 22 (P) Navy Secretary Knox said today that preparations are moving "right along" for . an allied in vasion of Europe; - Knox was asked at press conference for - comment on a new Russian insistence that an allied army be thrown. onto the German dominated continent. The Russians f aid that while the German army has been defeated TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1943 Rioters Chase Twenty-three negroes and white wore killed and more than 200 persons Injured la wide spread rioting la Detroit. Mich. Her a group of whit mea pursue negro (extreme right), acros Woodward aTenue, Detroit's main thoroughfare, in one of the series of disturbance that started on Bell Isle bridge and spread to the city' big negro district. - French Crisis Settled; General's Keep Commands ALGIERS. June 22 CP) Sur mounting the greatest crisis In it short history, the French com mittee of national liberation agreed today for General Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle to remain in command of their re spective armed forces while ap pointing a subcommittee which ultimately might unify all French A suhcnmmlttoe of uteht mom- b.vtnt-hjaing De Gaulle and Giraud, is to be charged with the responsibility of eventually merging the two forces, it was Mid. - The plan answered the stipula tion disclosed to have been made by the United States and Great Britain that Gen. Giraud remain as the supreme authority over the French military establish ment in North Africa, a vital base for allied operation. ' Reaches Decision The committee, which took nearly three hours to reach it decision this afternoon, now is expected to divert its attention to less controversial issues. It is to meet again Friday. De Gaulle and Giraud were reported to have shaken hands Three Jap Bases In Solomons Hit By Heavy Bombs WASHINGTON. June. 22 tJP A(r attacks on three - Japanese bases in', the Solomon islands were . announced today by ;the navy which said also that a Mitsubishi bomber had been shot down. ; . . -. . Navy- communique No: 421 said: "South Pacific: (all riatne ara east longitude). . . "1. On June 20: "(A) -During the afternoon, three ' navy Wildcat - (Grumman F4F) fiehters interceded and shot down a Mitsubishi bomber north of Florida island. . "(B) During the evening, army Liberator - (Consolidated B-24) heavy bombers, attacked Japa nese positions at Kieta,' Bou gainville island, and Kahili, Buin area. Results were not observed. ' ,"2. On June 21: "During the afternoon, navy Dauntless (Douglas SBD) dive bombers and Avenger (Grum man TBF) torpedo bombers es corted' by Wildcat fighters, at tacked Japanese installations at M u n d a, New Georgia island. Hits were scored on the anti aircraft positions and several were silenced." several times during the past year, and while the military situ ation is now generally favorable to the allies there can be no vic tory without a second front. ' - Knox said he would make "no comment at -all", on the subject of a "second front," a term that he has repeatedly avoided using. However, -he. said that, prepar ations ' for an attack on Europe "are going forward right along." NEA FEATURES Number 9830 Negro in Riot That Kills Seven heartily after the committee's agreement. . , Informed sources said the United States and Britain had informed both Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Giraud that Giraud must retain full command of the French armed forces at least as long as French Afiica remained a base of United Nations military operation; - - - - . ' The intewfetioiJli waa said. stemmed from the satisfaction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower' high command with Gen. Gi raud' performance in getting a substantial French fighting force into the field in Tunisia early in the campaign and maintaining it there as an effective combat army despite severe shortage of equipment. ' Last Amsterdam Jew Deported To Poland LONDON, June 22 (iP) Aneta, Netherlands news agency, said today that the last .W in Am. sterdam had been deported to r-oiana Dy the Germans, which it said comnlptpri tho Holland's entire Jewish popula tion. - The news acrenrv caM that Netherlands had .apprixomately 180,000 persons classified as Jews by nazi standards at" the time of the 1940 German inva sion. ' Their deDortation was rar. ried ' out in three stages, on a geographical basis. April 10 was set for the bezinnine nf tVo ro. moval ot Jews from eight of Hol land's -11 provinces. Jews in the- remaining, three - provinces were ordered removed beginning fiprii a, except lor the city of Amsterdam. . .. In Amsterdam, where a large concentration of Jews was held behind ghetto barriers," the final stage -began with a deportation decree issued nn Mav id Aneta said some Dutch" Jews were . tlioueht to have an-A and were hiding in the prov inces, neipea by Christian com patriots. The Germans have ar rested scores for harboring Jews. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 4 9 1 Brooklyn 7 in s Fischer," Feldman (6), Saylos t7, and -Mancuso, - Berres (8) Higbe, Head (7) and Brogan. ' Philadelphia 6 10 Boston 7-9 Kraus, Beck (6), Dietz (8) and Livingston; Salvo, Odom (7), ana Masi. Pittsburgh 0 7 1 Chicago 14 0 Podgajny, Butcher (8) and Lopez; Derringer and McCul- lough. . AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 3 8 i 1 New York -..J...:.. 2 6 : 0 Wynn, Scarborough (8) and Early; Bbrowy, Russo (8) and Sears. -. 1 GRADUAL RELEASE Hershey Says . -Might Ease the Post-War . :, Unemployment . By GEORGE J. XIENZLE COLtTMBDS. O.. Son, 33 UP) Ma. Gen. Lewis B. Harsher? Ofxj tlonal selective service director, suggested today that release1 of eight- to 10 million men from the armed services only as they are needed In business and in dustry might "help relieve the pressure of possible post-war un employment. Speaking before the annual gov ernors' conference, Hershey said that mustering out of men at a rate comparable with mobiliza tion, or as they become needed in civilian jobs, would help to ease any strain after the con flict ends. . '. . , He added that "We will keep under arms more men than we (Continued or, Page Two) Sportsmen fo J Protest Doe Tags at Meet , The Klamath Sportsmen's . as sociation and the Izaak Walton league have called an open meet ing Wednesday at 8 p. m., at the Willard hotel to protest the pro posed issuing of 6000 doe tags in Klamath and Lake counties. . , John --Ebinger, ' president ;of both organizations, is- in Port land conferring with the Port land Sportsmen's association and the Oregon' Wildlife federation in connection with drastic reduc tion the the amount urged by the two Klamath organizations. - The state ' game commission, which proposed 6000 doe ; li censes to be issued, is to make its final decision on the matter June 28. Sportsmen- in Klamath county were urged to attend the meeting at the Willard hotel Wednesday. A dutch lunch will be served and a picture on wildlife in Alaska will be shown.-- ' ' ; . Saturday Night Frosts Damage Basin Spud Crop ' TULELAKE . Considerable damage "to potatoes, barley ' and oats has' been reported through out this - section of the Klamath basin as the result of heavy frosts Saturday night and Mon day. ... Little permanent harm- is an ticipated by . growers, however delay in crop harvest and some damage to the yield is expected. Virtually all potato growers were out in their fields Tuesday morn ing, cultivating crops in order to minimize the damage as much as possible. , ... . - Tulelake and Matin appeared much harder hit than the Mer rill and Henley sections, r. The frost struck in a peculiar man ner... Six or seven. vine. would Jum 11 High It, Low 40 ".; ' . Preclertatiea aa ol June IS, 1M f troaaa year te data :..:......J......,....1M4 Last ytar ..........13.12 Normal 11.I4 . If A I Assembly Barred by ' Governor's : :A . Order . -DETROIT, June 22 (IP) Grim, steel-helmet ed federal - troop backing their command with, rifles and machineguns enforced calm today in riot-torn sections of war-buiy Detroit where 23 persons 20 of them negroes were killed and 700 injured in racial fighting Monday. - The soldiers, marching on pa trol part shattered store . and) residences or rolling - through; empty streets in Jeeps and armor, ed can, operated under the au thority of presidential procla mation and under order front' their officers to "fix your bayon ets, load your funs and don't take anything from anybody." White and negro antagonists who engaged in bloody battling that even swirled about Detroit's venerable city hall on downtown Woodward avenue, skulked into) hiding. ' - . - Assembly Barred ' Under an order by Governo Harry Kelly of Michigan barring assembly of persons in Wayna (Detroit), Oakland and Macomb) counties, . an ' American, league) baseball game between the Das trojLanXUsyeiand teams sched uled for rp. m. tonight was post ported. . Officials of the .Detroit club hoped it would be possible) to play double-header tornor row. : . , Officials of the; Detroit race, track and operators of theatres throughout the three-county area awaited the resntts-of a confer enee with Governor , Kelly . a noon before - announcing thebf plans.; -'.'-.- ' .- - What provoked the widespread) outburst of violence that quickly got out of control of Detroit's force of 3500 policemen remain ed -undetermined today. . The spark that, touched it off was an. isolated fist fight on the Belle Isle bridge Sunday night; under lying racial unrest has been reo ognized. to. exist here for three year.. .. : - -.. A .... . Mot Planned - John: S. Bugas. head of the Detroit office of .the federal bu (Continued on Page Two) . -, HUMBLE ELECTED Clarence Humble of Klamath Falls was. elected district gover nor of the Lions club at a Lions convention held at Roseburg this week.' Humble was formerly deputy district governor for the organization: ... Fighter Plane Bond Contest Standings Henley Merrill ... Malin .. Sprague. River ....... Gilchrist Keno .......1....... Chil.-Ft. Klamath Bonanza , Bly-Beatty ...... $26,191.25 . 24,797.50 . 23,066.25 . 11,602.50 . 7,675.00. . 6,297.50 5,165.00 . 4,966.25 . 4,208.75 23 DEAD AS RQOPS CALM RAGE FIGHTS be blackened,, but adjacent vine in the same row .would be un touched.- Fields where seeds had been cut, seemed to suffer more , than. others. .The fields recently irrigated also seemed to fare bet ter than those' where little water had 'been run in 'recent nights. - Otto Schultz, member of the Tulelake Growers association, whose place Is. three mile west of Malin on the state line, re ported Ice on hi property Mon day night. Other farmer were reporting widespread damage In their fields. Gardens were cow ered as much a possible to save the table stuff. . -Although-barley and bats weft" hit, the wheat appeared too far along to suffer much hurt.. ..... y k. ;