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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1941
Number 9450
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In The,
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Br FRANK JENKINS
TODAYS highlights:
I. Tho German! are still
rntrpiitlna from Rostov, and in
Qpwr to have been chocked at
Moscow.
2. Tlie British hnvo suffered a
setback In Libya, but appear to
bo confident of ultimata victory
there.
3. Tho Japs HAVEN'T START
ED, SHOOTING.
rTO theio three, we might as
x well add a fourth: Tho Vichy
French are still talking . half
heartcdly about collaboration
with Hitter, but haven't done
anything yet.
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DOSTOV, as your map will tell
you, la tho gateway to the
Caucasus. The Caucasus eon'
tains the oil Hitler needs so
terribly. If ha gets the Caucasus
oil, he will be In a position to go
on.
If ha foils to get It, it will
HURT. . .
Being thrown back from the
O Caucasus gataway is a sotbuck
that ho can't conceal or laugh
off.
TT is obvious from the dls
1 patches that tho British; ara
taking their present (oversea in
So far, they have prevented
axis reinforcements from getting
acroM the Mediterranean.' K
they can keep, that up. tho fate
of the Germans and Italians In
Libya will be sealed.
No army can go on fighting
without supplies and relnforco
ments. THE Japs and the French are
moving slowly and very
cautiously. They are WATCH
ING HITLER. If he is stopped
in Russia and Africa, they will
be much more interestod In GET
. TING LOOSE from him than in
- becoming more deeply entangled.
6n
APOLEON, who upset the
world a century and a quarter
ago, was finally bottled up in
Europe. Eventually, ho cracked
Up.
It is beginning to look now as
if it might bo possible to bottle
Hitler up in Europe.
T)ON'T expect It to happen
right away. Hia bog is still
not empty of tricks. Churchill
warns that It they are stopped
in Russia, the Germane will be
likely to turn on Britain in full
fury.
But keep in mind that bottling
Hitler up In Europe is the big
objective.
fN the homo front, Senator
George (of Georgia) says he
is convinced tho cost of tho de
fense program will have to be
spread over two or mora genera
tions by borrowing which may
boost the. national dobt to 180
BILLION DOLLARS.
He says he Is Informed that
federal expenditures for the
alendar year beginning Janu-
ry 1, 1942, will probably aggre
gate 38 billions while tax re
ceipts are not expected to exceed
16 billions.
That will mean a 20 billion
dollar deficit In one year.
THE defense effort, of course,
HAS to be gone through with.
There's no way out of that.
"' But let's keep In mind that the
debt we are piling up will be
contracted with INFLATED dol
lars whereas the payment of It
will have to be made with DE
FLATED dollars.
: If you came out ot the 1020
depression heavily In debt, you
will Know what that means.
.
pEPEATING, for purposes of
emphasis:
Wo can't pull our punches on
tho defense effort. That has to
bo carried through, no matter
O hat the cost.
But wa should (and probably
MUST, if we ara to avoid nation
1 bankruptcy) cut off EVERY
POSSIBLE DOLLAR of non-da-flense
spending.
Turkey Gets
MOVE VIEWED
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IN NEAR EAST
British Report Libya
Battle Slackens
For New Test
" WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 OPy
President Roosevelt announced
today that Turkey had been
brouitlit under the benefits of the
lend-lease act.
A statement by the White
House said:
T h e president announced
that he had found the defense of
Turkey vital to the defense of
the United States and had direct
ed Lend-Lease Administrator E
R. Stottlnlus Jr., to see that the
defense needs of the government
of Turkey were filled as fast as
possible.
No other details were given
and White House officials would
not amplify the one-sentence an
notincemont.
The announcement was re
garded by observers as signific
ant, comma as'it' dm ai m
height, ot Brltlsh-axla fighting li
North Africa and European de
velopments pointing to Turkey
as an Important route to near
eastern oil fields. ... .
It comes also at a time when
the president Is sending William
C. Bullitt, former ambassador to
Russia and Franco, es hit special
representative to the Near East,-)
to. ascertain the needs of British
and other forces opposing the
Italians and Germans in that
region. Bullitt is expected to
leave lato this week.
Lend lease materials have
been going to the Near East for
several months via the South
African and Rod sea routes. Just
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60 Persons on
Trial for Plot
Against II Duee
ROME, Dec. 3 (VP) A vast
revolutionary plot which includ
ed a before-thc-war assassination
attempt against Premier Musso
lini la charged to 60 persons on
trial before a fascist court at
Trlcsto today.'
The 60, including students,
were declared officially to be
members of an anti-Italian ter
rorist band of 71. The other 11
defendants were reported miss
Ins:, presumably fugitives abroad
A revolt In the northeast cor-
nor of tho country, annexed from
Austria after tho world war, was
tho aim ot tho conspirators, the
state contended. Prosecutors
said communists dreamed of a
soviet republic that would em
brace the Slavic regions of Italy,
Austrian Carlnthla and Yugo
slavia.
The state said it had "definite
and material proof" of espyonago,
three powder factory explosions.
blowing up of railroad tracks, an
attempt to dynamite a bridge,
slaying of a couple and an- at
tempt to kill Premier Mussolini
while he was visiting Caporctto
in 1038.
Mussolini's escape from death
at Caporetto was declared by
fascists to have been miraculous,
but exact details of the Incident
wore not disclosed. There have
been eight other announced at
(Contlnued on Pago Two)
Looking Backward
By The Associated Press
Or year ago Greeks capture
11000 Italians on Albanian front,
but run into heavy resistance at
Arglrocastro.
Two yor.rs ago British fliers
bomb' German warships at Hel
goland. Twenty -five years ago Ger
man forces in encircling move
ment draw closer to Bucharest. ,
AS HPORTUN
Dutch Man Outposts As
Jap Forces Strengthened
By The Associated Press
The Dutch Eait Indies' mobil
ized guards in her outer defenses
as Japan was reported massing
powerful land,' sea and air forces
in southern Indo-China.
Observers were quick to point
out that Japan, operating from
Indo-China bases, could strike
against either Thailand or the
rich Indies with their resources
of rubber, tin, oil and other war
needs. . j
Outer Defenses '
Dispatches from Batavia, the
Indies capital, said Holland's far
east colony had placed its army
and navy on a war footing and
that troops had taken their sta
tions In the outer defense sectors
presumably in Borneo, Celebes
and New Guinea, north of the
Malayan Archipelago and nearer
Japan.
Terming the arrival of British
warships at Singapore "the last
strong warning to JapanV the
Indies newspaper Javabode de
clared: .
"We hope Toyko is not yet too
blind to understand this warn
ing." Dispatches from Bangkok, the
Thai capital, said reports ot war
TAXES WEAR LIMIT
ft' 'li!'
Defense Borrdwing to
150-Billion Mark.
Predicted
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 OP)
Senator George (D-Ga.) said to
day he was convinced that fed
eral taxes had reached near max
imum levels and that the cost
of tho defense program would
have to be spread over two or
more generations by borrowing
which might boost the notional
debt to $180,000,000,000.
George said he believed a ma
jority ot the senate finance com
mittee, of which he is chairman.
agreed with him that federal
taxes already were so high as to
be only a little under the maxi
mum amount that could . be
drained out of the national in
come "without tremendously
weakening our whole economy
While the Georgia senator told
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Engineer Reverses.
Wheels as Train
Goes Into Canal
EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Dec. 3
OP) The engineer of a passenger
train perished In his submerged
cab last night after throwing his
locomotive into reverse and pre
venting the coaches. from plung
ing through an open bridge Into
tho Indiana harbor ship canal.
The only victim of the acci-
went In which six coaches were
derailed but remained upright
was Jack O'Connor, 70, of Gar
rett, Ind., engineer of the Chi-
cago-to-New York "Shenandoah"
ot the Baltimore and Ohio road.
A. E. McCurdy, mechanic, of
Pittsburgh, and Rush B. Moody,
firemVn, Garrett, escaped. Mc
Curdy was In the front unit of
the dlescl locomotive which
hurtled through the - gap and
burled its nose under about 20
feet of water.
Railroad men reaching the
scene snid the wheels of the de
railed locomotive were spinning
In reverse. They theorized O'Con
nor had missed a warning signal
because ot fog, then threw the
locomotive into reverse when he
first sensed danger. They said a
more disastrous accident might
have occurred had not the engine
been reversed. V f ;. -
7000 PRISONERS
ALEXANDRIA, v Egypt, Dec.
3 (P) Seven thousand axis pris
oners, captured on ;the Libyan
desert, many of them . German
fliers, arrived here today and
were transferred to . internment
camps. They came on warships,
in truck convoys and aboard a
14-coach train. . f ' '
I ' I r-
L.ena-L.ease
like preparations on all sides of
Thailand caused deepening anx
iety there, and officials expressed
surprise at a statement circulated
by the Japanese -news agency
(presumably Domei) asserting:
"Even a Japanese attack on
Thailand Is not expected to lead
to war between Japan and the
United States."
Thailand has repeatedly warn
ed Japan as well aa other nations
that she would resist any attempt
at invasion.
In Washington, Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox told news
men that the United States had
been Informed In advance of
Britain's fleet reinforcements at
Singapore headed by the new
39,000-ton battleship Prince of
Wales and that ona other of
the craft was a battleship.
In Tokyo, the Japanese people
were told that President Roose
velt had asked certain questions
about "Japan's intentions re
garding current problem" but
the nature of the questions was
not made public.
. What Mr, Roosevelt asked
Japan, in forthright terms, was
wna japan meant By increasing
her armed forces in Indo-China.
far North Base
War
'i'ASHINGTON. Dec! 3 OP)-
The establishment of a new Unit
ed. States air base on the Arctic
Island of Jon Mayen In the far
north Atlantic was proposed to
day to checkmate any German
attempts to: set up bases on the
east coast ot Greenland.
.The strategic advantages of
occupying Jan Mayen were dis
cussed in an article published in
the semi-official periodical, US
naval institute proceedings.
The little Norwegian island is
located in the Greenland sea
northeast of Iceland and about
halfway between that (north At
lantic outpost and Spitzbergen
so that in addition to serving as
an air patrol base it might also
furnish a refueling base for fer
rying planes to Archangel, Rus
sia.
The article was written by J.
Raymond Dyer. ANA Airlines at
torney, Arctic traveler and stu
dent of naval affairs. He said
that Jan Mayen. which he de
scribed as having an excellent
natural airport, would be avail
able to this country through
agreement with the anti-nazi
Norwegian government-ln-exlle.
The nazls have a thorough
scientific knowledge of the east
coast of Greenland, Dyer said,
and bases undoubtedly will be
established there in deep, pro
tected fjords "as the battle of the
north Atlantic grows hotter.''
And this could be done, he
wrote, despite the fact that
American bases have been set
up on the southern part of the
island, which has been taken
under US protection. . j
22 Youths To '
Leave Tonight
For Army Posts
Twenty-two youths will leave
from the Southern Pacific depot
tonight for Induction Into the
army in Portland, local draft
headquarters announced Tues
day. The men are filling the De
cember ' quota from Klamath
county.
Eight are City Board No. 1
registrants and 10 from County
Board No. 2 rolls. Four ot the
men are transfers from other
boards. Ten draftees from Lake
county will board the train at
the same time. . ' '''
Tho group-is expected to be
the last of the smaller units to
be 'called from here. January's
call for 1290 men. from the state
Is expected to raise individual
counties'. quotas, over the past;
year's monthly average. . -.
NEW COMMANDER ; !
FORT LEWIS, Dec. S OP)
Brig. Gen. Horace , H. Fuller
took over command of the 41st
"Sunset" , division i today, o . "
HOUSE VOTES
ANTI-STRIKE
60-Day. .'Cooling-Off
Period Included
In Features
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 m
Far-reaching legislation de
signed to curb defense strikes
by requiring a 60-day coollng
off period for - the disputants
and by prohibiting violence and
Jurisdictional and sympathy
strikes was passed by the house
today and sent to the senate.
The vote was 252 to 136.
The bill, sponsored by Rep
Smith (D-Va.) and termed by its
opponents as repressive and
"anti-labor," was adopted on a
roll - call vote.
Registration
It would require registration
of unions, would recreate the
national defense board, and
would direct that settlements of
defense. ' labor disputes be at
tempted ; through ,. conciliation,
,'Uo'ri.' .Z'": .
Defense strikes ' would be
prohibited-unless they were ap
proved by a majority -of work
ers voting by secret ballot' Em
ployes who violated the ' law
would lose their rights under
the Wagner labor relations, un
employment compensation and
social- security- acta." : '.
The- bill would freeze . open
and closed shop arrangements
In defense plants. . ,
- The bill was a substitute for
less drastic bills offered by Rep.
Vinson (D-Ga.) and Rep. Rams-
peck (D-Ga).
. Smith's bill would compel
labor disputants to maintain the
status quo for 60 days during
which the national defense
mediation board would seek a
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Montana Governor
Signs Extradition
For George Parks -
HELENA, Mont, Dec. 3
(JP) Extradition papers for
the removal of George Parks,
34, to Klamath Falls, Ore.,
were signed yesterday by
'Gov. Sam C. Ford.
- Parks, arrested in Great
Falls in a forgery case, will
be returned by Sheriff Lloyd
L. Low to Klamath county,
where Low said, he is
charged with slaying Dr.
Salem A. David in the Buf
falo Lunch robbery last
March 16.
German Raider Set
Afire by Sinking
Warship, Report
MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec.
3 OP) The 9400-ton German sur
face raider Stelermark scored
direct., hit on the 6830-ton Aus
tralian cruiser Sydney in an en
gagement November 19 and then
was set fatally ablaze by a broad
side of the sinking warship, Ger
man survivors said today.
Two boatloads of men from
tho crew of. the raider, also
known as "No. 41" and the Kor
moran, were landed last week at
Carnarvon, West Australia, au
thorities reported.
(The Australian government
announced yesterday that the
Sydney - was missing and pre
sumed lost after an engagement
In which she destroyed the
Stelermark, which was charged
with sinking-nine British, British-allied
or neutral ships in the
Atlantic and Indian oceans.)
German survivors of the No
vember 19 engagement were said
to total 320, some of them
wounded. All were made prison
ers. : The, captain of the raider
was picked up by an Australian
ship, authorities said. ' . ;
No survivors , of- the . Sydney
have been reported. :
LEGSLATON
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Vyazma . . "fc . ' . f.TT V"
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Sol of Milf t WOJ V '.
jo 501 j, I To Roxorl rTftfLrfi.
. .-.!. . 1500 Mill 'fuiaVMfc,
While the Russians reported routing the German armies west
of Rostov, other tierce battles raged at threa points indicated by
arrows above, where nasi forces have cracked red def ansa lines
in the two-month-old battle of Moscow. ' :
Pons Curfew
Spreads As Nazi
Officer Slain
PARIS, . Occupied France,
Dec 3 ',(P)k The German com-
mana in raris ajnnonncaa Toaay
that a German - medical corps
officer had been shot last night
In the Boulevard Magenta, and
immediately imposed a 6:30 p.
m.' curfew on the entire tenth
arrondissement. .
The announcement said 'the
curfew would continue indefi
nitely and specified that Ger
man authorities ,"reserved the
right to take graver measures"
later. .
Streets throughout the dis
trict were ordered cleared and
all .public places closed at the
curfew hour. Subway stations
there also were closed, just as
they have been in. Montmarte
since similar restrictions were
imposed there a few days ago.
The tenth arrondissement is
a working class district includ
ing east station where a Ger
man soldier was shot by terror
ists some time ago.' -
It was the fourth district of
Paris hit by restrictions for ter
rorist activity within a week.
Besides Montmarte the others
were the Latin quarter and
Montparnasse.
The Germans have warned
of "serious consequences", if . at
tacks were repeated in any of
the districts.
More Troops Stop '
Here Wednesday -
The 116th quartermaster de
tail under command of lajor
C. C. Holcomb were due to ar
rive In Klamath Falls in 73
trucks Wednesday afternoon:
Quarters in the armory were
provided for the 107 men and
two officers under arrangements
made by Lieutenant Olds, ad
vance man.. .
Grand Jury Gets Back to Work
After Jones
E. M. Hammond, well known
Merrill farmer, was drawn for
duty on the Klamath county
grand jury Wednesday, filling a
vacancy which developed Tues
day as a result of confusion over
the name of Jones, The jury,
whose operations had been held
up for a day, then went back to
work and . presumably was in
vestigating the . case of Eugene
Hugh Smith, now serving time
for failure to stop at the scene
of an accident in connection with
the death of Marie Etta Russell.
The. place now occupied by
Hammond on the jury became
vacant after Circuit Judge David
R, Vandenberg discovered that
H. E. Jones, summoned for jury
duty, was not the H. E. Jones
whose name and address was on
the jury list.
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Huge - Outlay to Lift
Y ear's r-Expenses" 7
To 67 Billion
WASHINGTON, Dec. t (IP)
An additional $8,243,839,031 ap
propriationalmost entirely for
defense' . but '.including 'lend-
lease funds for a vast increase in
production of tanks and guns for
British' and Russian forces was
approved today by the house ap
propriations committee.
The huge new outlay would
bring the total of cash land con
tract authorizations provided for
defense since July 1, 1940 to the
staggering sum of $67,990,234,
096. ..
Leeway Refused
In recommending the new ex
penditure, the committee turned
down a request by the war de
partment for broader leeway in
transferring to other counties, on
a lend-lease basis, ' equipment
purchased ' for the army with
funds appropriated since last
March 11, the date of enactment
of the lend-lease act.
Instead, the committee recom
mended a $1,536,496,246 in
crease in the $12,985,000,000 al
ready appropriated for the lend
lease program and proposed that
the army be authorized to trans
fer as much as $500,000,000
worth of additional equipment
if the military situation warrant
ed it. .
Both funds would provide
tanks, anti-aircraft material,
anti-tank weapons and artillery,
combat vehicles, small arms and
ammunition, the committee said.
and Gen. George C. Marshall,
army . chief of .. staff, . declared
their production in large quan
tities was essential "if the nec
essary superiority of force is to
be obtained over the axis pow
ers." . i ....'.''"
Mixup Cleared Up
' The man on- the jury list is H.
Edwin Jones, 614 Lincoln street,
a machinist. - The man served
with a summons, who also start
ed service on the jury, is Harry
E.; Jones, 3526 Blsbee street.
When Judge Vandenberg discov
ered the wrong man had been
served, he ordered H. Edwin
Jones summoned, but excused
him from duty because of busy
private work. ' -..-'. '
In court Wednesday morning,
Judge Vandenberg referred to
the mistake that had been made
and stated that the summons for
Jones, prepared in the sheriff's
office, had carried only the name
and Initials. The summons should
include the address and occu
pation of the juror, he said. If
that is done, there should be no
' (Continued op P age Two
RPRMANQ HFPi
Nazi Claim of, Gairr
. . Around Moscow , ; '
: Rejected ;; '.
By The Associated Press .
Russia's Ukraine- armies,
pressing triumphant ' "counter
blitzkrieg," : were reported to
day to have advanced into tho
suburbs of Taganrog,- 40 miles
west ' of - Rostov-on-Don, - .and
driven the Germans out of 40
villages, while on the blizzard-
swept Moscow front, . other
soviet troops sent the German
reeling back 12 to 24 miles....'
A soviet radio broadcast an
nounced that "bloody battles
were fought yesterday, evening
in the" suburbs of Taganrog,"
and soviet dispatches said the;
nazls were in headlong flight.
. A Reuters (British . new
agency) dispatch said the Get
mans had fallen back 36 miles
in three days in -the retreat
from Rostov.- , ,
Burning Equipment '
A soviet broadcast said the '
Germans were putting up sign
posts pointing "to - Mariupol"
and. were fleeing eo precipitate
ly that they were burning and
abandoning tanks, trucks, -carta,
and other equipment?
- "All attempts to halt the ad
vance of our troops . have
failed," the Russians said. "Yes
terday and today our units on
the southern front continued in
pursuit -of tne enemy,' . Who la
fleeing in disorder." ...-.-" A
' In Reverse -
On. the central front, the
nazis were apparently suffering;
further reverses.
Quoting latest advices from
Moscow, the British radio said
the Russians had sent the pan
zer forces of Col. Gen.; Heinz
Guderian spinning la reverse.
A communique from -Adolf
Hitler's field headquarters
claimed fresh gains in violent
tank and . infantry battles .be
fore Moscow, but the Russians
id the Germans had been
thrown back into two key sec-..
tors . and generally painted . a
brightening picture of the two-month-old
struggle for the capi- '
tal. . : -:- -- ; ..-'. - . '
In the Ukraine, soviet dis
patches said red - armies counter-marching
back through the
Donets river industrial, basin,
were finding the frozen bodies
of Germans wrapped in flimsy
blankets, ' huddled in roadside
ditches, and that to save them
selves from the bitter cold the
nazis were fighting with sui
cidal fury to hold villages where
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Touch of Winter -
Brought to Basin ' , -By
North Wind
A biting north wind swept
over the Klamath basin -and a
touch of real winter sent chills ,
down the spines of southern.7
Oregon residents. The i min
imum temperature was 33 de
grees. ' r ' .
A spitting snow fell around,
8 o'clock Wednesday morning, '
and- again at 2 o'clock the north-,
wind carried snow in the city
limits. . .- v
Three Inches of snow fell on
the summit of Sun mountain
and It was still snowing early
Wednesday morning according
to , the state, highway depart-,
ment. Snow also fell on Sand
Creek where a minimum of 28 -degrees
was reported. A light
snow was reported on Green.
Springs and Bly mountains. . '
Colder weather was forecast
for Thursday. . ...
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City Briefs ...... .;..:....."..".Pag , 9
Comics and Story ........Page 10
Courtnouse Records Page 4 ,
Editorials ;.....Pago '4
High School News ...Page 12
Information ..,..........V...Page - 6
Market, Financial Page fl
Midland Empire News, Page ' T
Pattern Page 6 ,
PTA Notes ..........Psge 4
Sports ........................ Pagee 8, ,
3