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Sunday, December 14
Sunrise . 7i22
Duck bunting to 4 p. m.
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In The
:News
By FRANK JENKINS
HTODAY'S particular brlyht and
shining spot In tho news:
America's fighting forces have
recovered from the first shutter.
In shock of surprise and are
f IllhtlnR doggedly, determinedly
and SKILFULLY.
TN the Philippines they are bear-
Ing tho brunt of a MAJOR Ja
panose attack. What happened at
Honolulu was a daring, hit-and-run
exploit, not (as yet) followod
up. Tho attack on Manila la a sus
tained affair.
One suspects that American
forces there are outnumbered.
They are far from sources of re
inforcement and supply, t They
Oare putting up a REAL fight.
At tiny Guam, Wake and Mid
way, we know only that small
American forces are fighting de
terminedly and effectively.
' i
THE axis hope of catching us
off balanca-imeV-eripplIng u
before we can get going has been
shattered. .. ' '
That is the big development
of a hectic week.
TT is still nocessary to remem-
ber that wa are fighting In
WORLD war. What happens on
ANY front concerns as almost as
directly as what Is happening on
our own particular fighting
front.
' Plenty Is happening.
, ...
(GERMANY'S early-ln-the-week
announcement that she is
withdrawing her armies In Rus
sia to "new defenso positions"
for tho winter foreshadows some
thing Just what can not yet be
ft said with certainty.
Moscow says Hitler's Russian
campaign has been crushed. A
soviet communique today claims
85,000 nazls have been killed and
23 out of a total of Si nazl di
visions have been smashed,
routed, surrounded or forced to
rotreat in tho Moscow zono since
November 16.
Tho Germans are still foiling
back along tho Black sea.
...
fAPINION In London Is that
Hitler is pulling out of Rus
sia In order to hit harder some
where else.
A "British source" says today
t , that tha German air forces re
ported to bo withdrawn from
Russia may bo thrown full
strenath at tho British Modi
terranean fleet which has been
preventing reinforcements and
suDolles from reaching axis
'forces In Africa.
Hltlor. watching the spectacu-
lar successes of aircraft against
surface croft In the Japanese war
Ois expectod to strike swiftly and
with1 all his power against tho
British in the Mediterranean.
.
THE British havo been making
nroaress In Africa In this
week when our eyes hove been
turned elsewhere. If Hitler is
unable to relieve his hard'
pressed forces there, ho will suf-
for another dofcot.
...
ERMAN forcos continue to
mass In southern Bulgaria.
Bulgaria declares war on Britain
and the United States.
There Is growing expectation
that Hltlor will strike through
Turkey to reach tho oil fields of
the Middle East.
Turkey Is on an extremely hot
spot. , 1
t -,,'.
XJKANWHILE, the Nether-
lands goes spectacularly
Into action.
s ! A Dutch East Indies subma-
w rlno, operating In the Gulf of
Slam, sinks four Japanese trans'
ports carrying 4,000 soldiers to
tho fighting in British Malaya
(The British at Singapore soy
t , (Continued. On Page Two).
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE
'
o)m
One Long Blast
Blackout Signal
Friday Night Surprise for All, But Success
Attained in 33 Minutes
A new blackout signal one
fVmlnuta blast wus offlclully
established here Saturday for
future blackout periods, includ
ing tlie experimental blackout
set for Sunday night somo time
between 8 and 10 o clock.
Inadequacy of the warning
signal was given as tho chief
reason for the spotty start of
Friday night's surprise black
out, which began slowly but
after 33 minutes brought almost
complete light extinguishment
in Klamath Falls.
The defense coordinator's
office announced that here
after a S-mlnuta blast will
start a blackout, and another
long blast will be the all-clear
signal. The blasts will com
from the Southern Pacitlo
whistle, various mill whistles
and a whistle at the state
'highway shops for the benefit
of the suburbs.
In addition, state police
sirens will be used to Inform
DUTCH KILL
ON KSELS
Submarines Active in
Malayan Waters;
4 Ships Sunk
BATAVIA, Java, N. E. I., Dec.
13 (IP) Dutch submarines wero
credited tonight with destruc
tion of about 4000 Japanese sol
diers and their four transports
off southern Thailand and an
other naval forco was said to
havo liquidated a Japanese set
tlement on tho cost coast of
Borneo.
Tho transports wero smashed
as the Japanese reinforcement
were being moved to the Mola
yan battlcfront,
Tho submarine victory was an
nounced hy tho Butavla radio
but the N. E. I. mllltory-naval
cominunlquo reported the Bor
neo action, saying "a unit of our
naval forces has dealt with a
Japanese settlement on tho cast
coast of Borneo." -
SINGAPORE, Dec. 13 (VP)
The British Indicated In to
night's communique that tho
Japanese invasion of uppor and
middle British, Malaya had been
substantially checked.
Combat continued on the Ke-
doh province front, facing Thai
land In the north. It was so d.
and the sltu.Alon there was little
changed while In the Kuantan
area, on tho east coost about
midway between Singapore and
tho Thailand border, there was
no alteration in positions.
DO
Official blackout signal on. 5-mlnute ' whistle blast.
- Official all-clear signal another lona blast.
, Watch your street lights. When they go off, there is a black
out.
Don't mistake any other whistle for the long blast, '
Sunday's trial blackout time
10 p. m. Extinguish every light
Put out all lights when you leave
Drivers of unauthorised cars
subject to arrest. Pedestrians keep out of tha street, . ,
Blue eellophane by itself is of no value on ear lights and may
lead to arrest. It is a violation of the law in all-clear periods It
is Inadequate as a protection in blackout periods and again may
lead to arrest, . .
If driving when a blackout
CURB and turn off lights.
(Bead other blackout instructions on page
CKNTS
u", ' V1
suburbanites, who are expected
to cooperate In future local
blackouts. The suburbs did not
bluckout Friday nignt. because
suburbanites did nqt hear the
warning signal.
But Poll co Chief Frank
Mumm told tho defense council
Saturday morning that the citt
zens, in general, did a good Job
of blacking out onco they got
the general Idea. ..
The blackout of Friday
night, which,, tasted approxi
mately on. hour, started when
the Southern Pacific com
pany received blackout In
structlons from San Francisco.
Tha S. P. relayed tha report
to city police, who set the '
wheels in motion here.
The pre-arranged signals
sounded at about 8:15 p. m.
Street lights wont black at
8:17 p. m. An all-clear signal
and re-lighting of streets came
t 9:17 p- m, . ;f- t ,i; .
' -..dl8but ,0
"""The blackout" dIoT,noi result
from airplane activity in this
area but was an offshoot from
a Son Francisco darkening. Ash
land and Mcdford did not black
out but reported unconfirmed
reports that unidentified planes
were observed In the vicinity
of Mt, Shasta. . .; :X
For the first time, radio sta
tion KFJI went off the air;
from 7:43 to 10 p. m. This had
nothing to do with the local-
rules. KFJI, It Is understood,
receives its instructions from
tho fourth interceptor command
at Sari Francisco. Station and
defense officials emphasized
that -a rodlo blackout here has
nothing to do with a local gen
eral blackout.
Klamath people generally took
tho new experience of blacking
out In good spirit and after u
(Continued on Poga Two)
Colored Headlights
Unlawful at All
Times, Says Pray
SALEM. Dec. 13 UP) Use
of colored automobile head
lights that reduce road il
lumination below tha plain
requirements of tha state
law must be stopped, in the
Interests of safety, Charles
P. Pray, superintendent of
state police, declared today.
"Motorists driving with
these colored lights outside
of blackout periods era sub
ject to arrest,' Pray warned,
"And, of course, they must
not drive at all during black
outs unless they are properly
authorised."
This warning wus repeotcd
by all local authorities Satur
day. Reod motor vehicle In
structlons on Pago 4,
will be some time between 8 and
the moment the signal is sounded.
home ANY, TIME.
moving in a blackout will -be
4 . . . . ,
occurs, park your car AT THE
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 13,
m
Wsi
TO CONTACT
SMALL BASE
20 Jap Planes Shot
Down in Raid on
Hawaii Sunday
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 VP)
Tho war -department reported
today, that more than 20 Ja
panese planes were . destroyed
in last Sunday s Japanese air
attack In Hawaii.
In an official communique.
the war department said Lieut.
Gen. Walter C. Short, com
manding tha army's Hawaiian
department, cited six ' army
fliers for performing some of
the "numerous spectacular feat
of heroism in the action.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (P)
The navy announced today that
It was unable to communicate
with the Pacific island of Guam
by .either, radio or cable fand.
added that csptui of. the if la
by the Japanese was probable?'
A force of fewer than 400
naval personnel and 155 marines
were stationed on the island,
said the navy communique, and
these defenders had been repeat
edly bombed.' , r-. .
' Furthermore, Japanese troops
were said to have landed at sev
eral points on the island.
Wake, Midway Hold
The navy said that Wake and
: (Continued - on Page Two)
Weed Sirike
Ends; Work
Starts Monday
Twelve hundred employes of
the Long-Bell Lumber company
of Weed, Calif., who have been
out on strike since October 20.
wjll go back to work next week
beginning on Monday, the Lum
ber and Sawmill Workers union
(AFL) announced Friday night.
The return will be in response
to a request by Ernest P. Marsh,
federal labor conciliator, who
asked the union Friday after
noon to go back to work with
no settlement pending the find
ings -of an arbitration board
which will meet "not later than
December 29." :
Wilbur E. Yeoman, AFL rep-
resentative here, said that it was
a certainty Local 2907, the
striking unit, would accede to
Marsh s request.
In Weed, J. M.'' White, Long
Bell manager, stated that most
of the men would return Mon
day and that others would go
back as soon as mill machinery
had been re-conditioned.
According to Marsh's .tele-
gram, the arbitration board
which three weeks ago at
tempted to find a settlement in
the elght-weck-old shutdown
will reconvene in Weed within
two weeks. Marsh asked that if
the men returned to work in re
sponse to his request that they
and the company accept the rec
ommendations which the board
will make. .
Yeoman regarded tha develop-
. (Continued on Page Two)
Red Cross Lists
Places to Take
Contributions
Contributions to Klamath
Falls' voluntary Red Cross
drive for war funds will be
received at the following
places:
Red Cross Headquarters.,
' First National Bank.
U. S. National Bank.
First Federal Savings and
Loan Association. '
Radio Station KFJI V, , ,
Herald and News.
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.This is a view of the harbor
bean, cut off from communication
part of the native village of Sumay.
HITLER MAY SEEK
Indicptions Ppint
to
""Neat. East "After
A Loss to Reds
By The Associated Press
A disastrous end to Adolf Hit
ler's invasion of Russia was free
ly predicted by London military
quarters today as Moscow pro
claimed the utter, defeat of a
750,000-strong German army and
signs multiplied ' that - Hitler
might be planning a new cam
paign through Bulgaria into Tur
key and the middle east.
The prospect that the nazl
fuehrer, heartily sick of bloody
losses and bitter hardship suf
fered on the frozen steppes of
Russia, may have decided to lash
out in another direction found
these supporting omens: , .
1. Britain announced that she
was sending immediate aerial re
inforcements to the.middle east
evidently to meet a new
threat, since British armies al
ready had the Germans and Ital
ians on the run in North Africa,
, 2. German-dominated Bulgar
(Continued on Page Two)
14 Convicted of '
Selling Secret
Plans to Nazis
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 P) The
conviction of 14 tight-lipped de
fendants accused of supplying
military information to Germany
today capped the government's
drive against one of the most
fantastically-operated spy rings
In recent history.
Against a backdrop of the day
old war between the two coun
tries, the 14-week-long trial end
ed early today with a compara
tively speedy verdict. A Jury of
nine men and three women de
liberated only eight hours be
fore finding the 14 guilty onJ
Dom counts ot an indictment
charging conspiracy to avoid
registering os German govern
ment agents and conspiracy to
deliver to the nazi government
Vital American defense-secrets.
The verdict corried a maxi
mum sentence of 22 years. Fed
eral, Judge Mortimer W. Byers
said in his 21-hour charge to the
jury that it was "unfortunate"
that war started during the trial,
declaring it was "probably no
exaggeration" to say tho defend
ants had "manifested deep sym
pathy for Germany."
Those convicted wero Herman
Land, 40, a Norden company em
ploye: Conradln Dold, 35; Hein
rich Ellcrs, 42; Paul Scholz, 41;
Franz Josef Sttgler, 34; Erich
Strunch, 32; Adolf Walischew
skl50, all employes of American
Steamship lines; Frederick Ldu
quesne, 63; Rudolph Ebeling, 43;
Edmund Heine, 50; Josef Kloin,
38; Carl Reuper, 37; Leo Waa
len, 34, and Axel Wheeler-Hill,
who admitted he was paid to re
port ship movements in the U, S.
UNITED PRESS
1941
Number 9459
AMI
Guam Believed in Jap Hands
at Guam, tiny island in the Pacific,
and probably occupied by Japanese forces. In the foreground is
Litvinoff Hints Russia To C
Stand With U. S. in Orient
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 OP)
Russia virtually took - a stand
with the United States in the
war with Japan, today- when
Maxim. ;'Ltfvlnoffr soviet ambas-.
saaor, aeciarea Nippon -was. a
common enemy", belonging ' to
the' same bunch of axis gang
sters' ' ''r'- ." ' :.:...,:
But, In a formal statement on
Russia's position and in answer
to questions at a press confer
ence, the ambassador carefully
WAR
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12
(IP) The Polish government
notified the state department
tonight that as of December
11 state of war existed be
tween Poland and Japan. i
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13
JP) The OPM today f rose
sugar stocks in the United
States and limited new de
liveries by importers and re
finers to 1940 levels. The
move was designed to "pre
vent possible hoarding or
speculation."
' WASHINGTON, Dec. 13
(fP) Creation of the war in
surance corporation with a
capital of $100,000,000 to pro
vide "reasonable - protection"
. against losses resulting from
enemy . attacks on private
property, in the continental
United States was announced
"today by the federal loan ad
ministration. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13
(P) Navy department an
nounced today that i a fishing
' vessel of U. S. registry oper
ating off the west coast of
Costa Rica had been boarded
and found to haye seven Japa
nese in the crew. They' werV
taken into custody .p.
Tr vessel was said - hare
been loaded, with I" gal
lons of diesel oU..-.
Eye-lV.'tness Tells
Over Nippon
( MANILA, P. I., Sunday Dec.
14 (P) Hundreds of Japanese
parachutists and land troops
were wirlcd out in several hours
of hand-to-hand fighting , with
Filipino soldiers in the moun
tains of north central Luzon
island on Thursday, an eyewit
ness told reporters today,
Francisco Villanueva, a civil
ian communications technician,
returned to Manila and said he
witnessed the encounter which
lasted -for several hours be
ginning about noon on Thursday.
His story was the only first
hand account of parachutists
having landed In the Philippines.
Reports of parachutists in the
Uagan area JTO miles north
-which the navy reported had
avoided making at this time any
commitments concerning actual
soviet military operations in the
far east i . ;' v :.j:;
,Ai)d. : when" asked' (Whether
Russia; would permit' allied
forces to fight on Russian terri
tory, or permit the Unted States
to use air bases in Siberia for
attacks against Japan, he re
plied: : .; .-. .
That, the soviet union "would
welcome help on any front in
the common cause.
Litvinoff received the corres
pondents at the soviet embassy
and, seated at a small desk with
a golden bust of Lenin behind
him, first read them a prepared
statement. " . - :, ' . ' ' '
"Complete understanding ex
ists, or will be arrived at," he
said, "in decision concerning the
sectors in which the great pow
ers concentrate their strength,
with the decisions to be made
solely in the interests oi the
common cause.
. That declaration? was inter
preted generally ;as meaning
that Russia felt her greatest con
tribution to the defeat of the
axis could be made by maintain
ing an offensive on the eastern
front, with the possibility of war
with Japan in the Pacific de
pending on eventualities.
S. F. Learns to
Turn Lights Off
SAN FRANCISCO,, Dec. 13
(IP) San Francisco, undergoing
its fourth blackout ot the war
last night in an air raid alert
that lasted 2 hours and 34 min
utes, 'proved, to the army that
it knows how to turn out the
liehts.
A score of persons were Irf
lured, one man dropped dead,
there was violence, and proper
ty damage. StraJMowsaets'
bla; V .fd'?'" .
4 ' tSmfl drily military . announce
ment was one from fourth army
headquarters saying that army
detectors had located unidenti
fied planes flying over the area.
of Victory
Parachute Troops
west of Luzon were circulated
several days ago.
Villanueva said he' saw hun
dreds of Japanese swooping
down upon the mountains. Some
were land troops coming from
an unknown source, he - said,
and others were parachutists
attempting to make a landing in
a coordinated attack. t
Many of the latter were killed
while dangling from their para
chutes, he said, and others were
captured upon landing.
The Japanese, force was out
numbered and finally surrender
ed, he added.
He said the parachutists car
ried small gasoline tanks which
he believed were for the purpose
pf starting fires. ,
COLD
RAZED
75 KILLED AS
FIELDJISSEO
Landing Party Wiped
. Out North of .'
Capital
MANILA, Sunday, Deo. 14 VP)
Blackened and smashed ruins of
more than 100 small residences:
and stores littered a three-mile
area bordering Nichols air field
where Japanese bombs killed at
least 75 persons and wounded
300 in yesterday's air raid.
The long pathway of destruc
tion showed that the Japanese
airmen both overshot and under
shot their Nichols field objective;
in their most destructive . raid
thus far on Manila. -; , .,, , .
The casualties brought the
city's death toll so far to more
than 100, The final figures may
exceed this, however! .
-At least four planes were r
ported shot down from the 4J
planes which bombed Manila otx
Jectives and the other planes
which attacked Clark field to
the north and another field in
Nueva Ecija province, which al
so is In the north central part' of
Luzon island. -,., .
Three of the 12 plane forma-
tlion were reported shot down
by anti-aircraft, f ire to the north
ana one of the Manila harbor-de
fenses, i
The Japanese planes wheeled
over Manila in their first attack
since Wednesday and left a trail
of small fires among flimsy Nipa
shacks which still glowed early
this morning. One small blaze
was still visible at a remote
end of Nichols field.
The area of ruins was desert
ed and the flickering firelight
grotesquely outlined the gutted
framework c stores, beer halls,
some small stucco - dwellings.
and abandoned horse drawn car
riages turned over at ludicrous
angles.
Among the victims were many
horses, still in harness.
By R. P. CRONIN JR.
MANILA, Dec. 13 (3 p. m, 4
a. m., EST) (IP) Japanese land
ing forces which won a foothold
at Lingayen on the west coast
of Luzon, 100 miles from Manila
were declared officially today to
have been wiped out. ;
A communique from the head
quarters of Lieut. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur indicated that the
Japanese had made no gains at
other landing bridgeheads and
that no new landings had been
reported. r
"The situation on the ground
has not changed," the war bulle
tin asserted.
It added that "mopping up in
the Lingayen area has been con
cluded." . '
The Japanese ' struck anew
during the day at United States
air bases around Manila and
elsewhere in the Philippines, but
a communique said that - al
though reports so far were mea
gre "it is believed our losses
ere slight." , air sAtz-.n, ?
number Uhom.,..
ported shot down, . a ..
fense anti-aircraft ' battery .-
credited with bringing down one
of the attackers. 1
In possibly their heaviest at
tack of the day the Japanese
bombed military objectives in
the Manila area particularly
Nichols field.'
QUICK TRIP
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Dec. 13
(P) Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox arrived by airplane
from Hawaii today and left lm.
mediately for - Washington, the
eleventh naval district announ
ced. :-. V ::;; :-(.:
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Comics and Story ........Pago 14
Courthouse Records ... Page 4
Editorials : -..Pago 4
High School News ........Page II
Information ...Page I
Market, Financial ..Page 13
Pattern ...Page 3
Sports Pages 12, 13
Society ....;.Pagcs 0, 6, 7, 8, I
Weekend Pictures ...5... Page H