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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
UNITED PRESS
Number 9459
JATH FALLS. OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1941
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Thaia thraa plcturai, takan from tha top ol tha hill at Savanth and Lincoln itraati, show
tha prdgraiilon o! Sunday nlght blackout In Klamath Falli. Abora, bafora tha tlran aoundad.
Straaki on Savanth atraat wars mada by moving Ctrl. Cantar, a ilva-mlnuta axpoiura atartad
twn mlniilM tha alrn hinan mi Q,17. T.AMT. an tvDQiur madft Iram filSB ta S:41. Tha lait
axpoaura was anappad oil aa tha all-claar aoundad.
Lights Snap Out All Over Towp As
Klamath Undergoes Blackout Test
Klamath Fall and auburbs
blotted themaolvca Into Inky
blackness Sundoy night in a
practice blackout that was pro
claimed an outatondlng success
by civilian defense officials.
Observers on high points
agreed that within 0 minutes of
the first signal at 6:17 p. m., the
community had achieved a more
complete blackout than in 33
minutes In last Friday's surprise
blackout.
, Lights Snap Off
An alert citizenry, forewarned
thora would be a blackout some
time between 8 and 10 p. m.
Sunday, snapped off thousands
of lights simultaneously as sirens
and whistles walled the blackout
signal. Lights flared up again
Before the Blackout
J-
, . The Lights Go Out
at 9:41 p. m. when the all-clear
signal was blown.
Directing tho blackout was a
large organization with the air
raid precautions commlttco of
tho civilian defense program and
civil authorities working hand
In hand.
Two Herald and News ob
servers on tho hill at Seventh
and Lincoln streets roportcd tho
moment tho siren sounded lights
began going out, with tho resi
dential district from Seventh
street to the Hot Springs hills
plunged immediately into dark
ness. ,
Quiet settled over tho city as
traffic came to a stop and down
town signs wont out. One red
sign, in front of the Cancade
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Blackout Complete
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Laundry on Seventh between
Walnut and Onk streets, burned
until 0:35 when, according to a
police, someone threw a rock or
a bottlo and broko the neon
fixture.
The suburbs moved into dark
ness slightly behind the city
proper, duo to a short delay in
sounding the warning signal at
the highway shops.' But in con
trast to Friday night, the sub
urbs went almost completely
black.
At 9:23 p. m. tho Seventh and
Lincoln watchers noted every
thing dark but the Seventh street
sign and a scattering of dim
lights out Sixth street in the
distance, tome of which ap
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ombers Hit Jad broods
JAP RAIDERS
ATTACK OVER
LUZON AREAS
u.
S. Fliers Taking
Heavy Toll of
Transports
MANILA, Dec. 15 WV-Unit-ed
States army bombers, re
sisting Japanese attempts to re
inforce troops landed at Leg
aspl, on the southeastern tip of
Luzon island 250 miles from
Manila, heavily damaged two
Japanese transports yesterday,
U. S. army headquarters re
ported today.
Announcement of the new
American successes followed by
24 hours an official bulletin
declaring that during the first
week of the war army bombers
sank four Japanese transports
and badly damaged three more
off northern Luzon, where the
invaders effected landings at
several places. ' ' .'(.
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. Japanese air raiders, mean
while returned to the attack on
Luzon, sweeping over the Man
ila area about noon (8 p. m.
PST' Sunday) and dropping
bombs which a brief commun
ique said fell In the vicinity
of Nichols field.
The communique, issued at 4
p. m., (midnight PST), said that
enemy activities throughout the
day were confined entirely, to
the air.
' Four Japanese fighter planes
were shot down during yester
day's action off Legaspi, a com
munique declared.
The picture evoked by these
succeeding announcements,
coupled with reports of suc
cesses achieved by Netherlands
submarines off Malaya, was one
of heavy Japanese losses.
The Dutch announced yester
day from Batavia tljat their
submarines, previously reported
to have sunk four Japanese
transports in the Gulf of Siam,
also had sunk a Japanese tank
er and a freighter in the same
area.
"Wall in Hand"
The situation in general in
tho Philippines, which Lieut.
General Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters said Sunday was
"well in hand both on the
ground and in the air," was
described officially this morn
ing as unchanged.
Unofficial reports said that
Japanese forces established
around Vlgan, on the Luzon
west coast 200 miles north of
Manila, had sent out patrols
during tha weekend in an at
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Sentry Arrested
After Woman
Shot to Death
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (ff)
A 19-year-old army private who
fired his gun when a motorist
ignored his command to halt
was in jail on a suspicion of
murder booking today as the
army issued an appeal for co
operation with sentinels and
patrols.
The army gave Private Eugene
I. Tuttle of Divide, Mont., into
custody of the sheriff last night
after Mrs. Adele Brandcl, 52,
socially prominent Los Angeles
woman, was shot to death near
the municipal airport.
Sheriff's Inspector Walter
Hunter said Tuttle, of the 65th
field artillery, told him a motor
cycle officer asked several sol
diers to help strip blue cover
ings from automobile headlights.
When the automobile bearing
Mrs. Brandel and her husband,
Dr. Harry M. Brandel, failed to
stop at Tuttle's command, said
Hunter, tho youth fired.1 "I
thought I fired into the air." the
soldier was quoted as saying.
Dr. Brandel said ho failed to
stop because he thought the sol
diers, were trying to get ride.
Kowoon Strip
Evacuated By
British Force
LONDON, Dec. 15 W) A
British source announced today
that British troops were with
drawing from Kowloon, a part
of the British crown colony of
Hongkong which is on the Chi
nese mainland, to the island of
Hongkong.
The withdrawal Is still in
progress and "progressing ac
cording to plan," he said.
A reutcrs dispatch from Sing
apore at almost the same time
saidt "There now is no doubt
here that Kowloon on the Chi
nese mainland opposite Hong
kong is in Japanese hands." .
In the fighting in Malaya, a
British official said there had
been a "slight withdrawal" of
British troops as "very heavy
fighting" progressed in the Ke
dah sector, northwest of Singa
pore. Casualties on both sides may
be severe, he said.
He said the Japanese had
landed on the east side of the
Kra isthmus and had crossed it
to enter Burma. Their success in
cutting the Malay peninsula, he
acknowledged, would affect air
communication between Burma
and Singapore because of air
fields Involved,', 1
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Balkan Rebels Fight
Big Forces of
Nazis, Claim
By The Associated Press
Coming out openly against an
order of the German occupation
authorities for the first time
since the armistice, France last
night condemned a German or
der for the execution of 100 al
leged Jewish communists and
anarchists in occupied France.
The French acknowledged the
100 were "delinquents" instead
of hostages such as the Ger
mans have executed in groups
this fall but said the very high
number provoked "profound un
easiness among Frenchmen."
The Germans said Saturday
the 100 would . be shot in re
prisal for "recent attacks against
the occupation troops." They
also fined the Jews in the oc
cupied zone 1,000,000,000 francs
($20,000,000).
In partitioned Yugoslavia and
Greece, several hundred thou
sand axis soldiers were reported
tied up with steady and strong
resistance by Serbs and Greeks
in a small-scale war.
Praja Mihailovlc, a colonel
in the Yugoslav army before
the Germans over-ran his coun
try last spring, has been pro
moted to the rank of a full gen
eral for his "magnificlent work"
in organizing the Serbs resis
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Axis Powers Meet
To Discuss New
War Problems
BERLIN, Dec. 15 (Official
Radio Received by AP) Rep
resentatives of Germany, Italy
and Japan met today In a special
conference which a German com
munique said was "summoned
for the purpose of discussing
new and important tasks result
ing from the common war
against the Anglo Saxon
powers."
German Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop review
ed the situation created by the
widened sphere of the big war
and declared that tho closest
cooperation between the three
big axis powers was necessary.
Field Marshal Gen. Wilhelm
Keitel, chief of the German
high command, welcomed Jap
an's armed forces as new com
rades In arms.
RUSSIANS SEEK
10
L
OF NAZI
If
Capital Hails End of
Siege; Germany's
Toll Held Large
By The Associated Press
The Russian army was report
ed today pressing an offensive
for the extermination of all Ger
man ' armies on Russian soil.
Pravda, communist party organ
in Moscow, said the soviet troops
already had 'destroyed "an en
tire generation of nazis."
As the Russians took the of
fensive after reporting the suc
cessful defense of Moscow, Len
ingrad and the Caucasus, they
claimed Adolf Hitler had lost,
since the invasion began June 22,
6,000,000 men, more than 15,000
tanks, 13,000 planes and 19,000
cannon.
German forces in the southern
Russian Port " of Tananroe. 40
mile- westtrf " Ptostorynow-are-i
surrounded,: : the - Russians de
clared. ,;t'.
MOSCOW, Dec. 15 VP) The
red army, snapping back from its
successful defense of Moscow,
Leningrad and the Caucasus, is
turning to a general offensive
and is now fighting especially
hard to restore the main Moscow-Leningrad
connection
through Klin, soviet reports said
today.
Pravda. communist nartv nr.
gan, in a broadcast report, - said
suviei troops naa cut tne Moscow-Leningrad
road at one point
and taken 42 settlements and 75
tanks in a single day.
In one village in the Klin dis
trict Pravda said the Russians
found a report from the com
mander of the 239th German in.
fantry regiment showing that his
unit nad lost half of its remain
ing strength of 400. men in one
day.
(In London an authoritative
military source said the initi
ative appeared to have passed
definitely to the Russians in the
Moscow sector. It is clear that
the Germans are, not succeeding
in readjusting their line because
their plans are being constantly
disturbed by soviet nnslmioht
he said).
150th Year of
Bill of Rights
Observed Monday
' By The Associated Praii
Americans commemorated to
day the 150th anniversnrv nf the
adoption of the bill of rights
me constitutionally guaranteed
basic freedoms of United States
citizens.
President Roosevelt will speak
on a bill of rights program to be
broadcast over all networks be
tween 7 and 8 p. m. (PST.)
It .was Virffinin urhlnh t,naJ
on December 15, 1791, the final
state ratification necessary to
make the bill of rights the law
of the land. AnH it w n Vir
ginian, George Mason, who draft-
ea tne Dill.
The library of coneres nlnenri
on public display th Journal of
the House of Representatives for
August 21, 1789, tha day when
the members oted to submit'the
bill of rights to state referenda
as the first ten amendment tn
the constitution. ;
The Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution called special
meetings of all chaDters to com
memorate the day.
President Roosevelt's procla
mation requesting the observ
ance remarked that "those who
have long enjoyed such privi
leges as we enjoy forget In time
that men h e died to win
them." It added:
"We, however, who have seen
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CLEAR
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Relief Rushed
To Disaster
Zone in Peru
LIMA, Dec. 15 OP) Govern
ment agencies speeded relief to
day to the stricken departmental
capital of Huarz, where more
than 500 persons were reported
to have perished in a tremend
ous avalanche of water, mud,
rocks and volcanic lava which
swept through the town Satur
day. Advices reaching here from
Huaraz last night said the cause
of the disaster still was uncer
tain. First reports indicated an
eruption of nearby Rataquenha
volcano, which long has been in
active, but this possibility sub
sequently was discounted.
Manuel Palma, owner of a
Lima-Huaraz bus line, declared
a large part of Huaraz had been
destroyed and that few persons
residing in the northern section
had escaped. Two thousand were
reported homeless.
. Rescue work was hampered
yesterday by . the most, violent
earth tremors felt in the section
since the disastrous earthquake
of May 24, 1940.
TRAFFIC S19NALS
TO START
Drivers, Pedestrians
Asked to Observe
Lights Closely
' Klamath Falls' long awaited
traffic signals throughout the
business section will definitely
go into effect upon the arrival
here Tuesday morning of State
Traffic Engineer John Beakey
and his assistant, Wayne Taylor,
according to an announcement
made late Monday by City En
gineer E. A. Thomas.
The "walk and wait" glasses
arrived Friday and have been in
stalled. Both Beakey and Taylor
advised Thomas - they would
leave Salem Monday night to ar
rive by train here Tuesday. They
hope to put the lights in oper
ation as soon after their arrival
as possible. Exact time of oper
ation was not given.
"Motorists are asked to be pa
tient and to observe the signals
to the best of their ability,"
Thomas stated Monday. "There
is bound to be some difficulty at
first with the complicated elec
trical system and parts, but we
are sure all this will be ironed
out and within a short time the
lights will be operating smooth
ly and with good effect."
Flasher
There are seven lights in the
district, on Main at Sixth, Sev
enth, Eighth, Ninth and Elev
enth streets, at Ninth and Pine
and Sixth and Klamath.
Motorists coming down Tenth
from Pine street to Main will
observe a traffic signal on the
opposite side of the street.- It
has on it two lights, both, red,
Thomas explained. One light is
flashing red, the other is steady.
When the light is on "steady,"
traffic shall stop. When . it is
"flashing," traffic may proceed
and turn either to the right or
the left, the engineer stated.
Old Glory Flies
Despite Danger
MANILA, Dec. 15 (IP) Old
glory will still fly from the Far
Eastern army headquarters no
matter how much the flag
serves as a target to Japanese
airmen who might wish to de
stroy .the headquarters person
nel. To the suggestion of an of
ficer that the American flag on
the headquarters might serve as
a guide to enemy airmen Lieut.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
with a smile: 'Take every oth
er normal precaution for pro
tection of the headquarters but
let's k.e.ep. fta, flag f.lyhy,"
KNOX REVEALS
2700 LOST IN
EIRSTJIIACK'
U. S. S. Arizona Sunk;
Jap Planes, Subs- . .
- - Lost in Fight
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (JP)
Secretary of the Navy Knox re
ported today the battleship Ari
zona -and five other warships
were lost in Sunday's Japanese
air raid on the Pearl Harbor1
naval base in Hawaii.- - -
He said 91 officers and 2638
enlisted were known dead.
- Known Japanese losses, Knox
said, included 3 submarines and
41 aircraft. -
v After reporting to President
Roosevelt on his return from a
hurried five-day round trip t
survey-the effect of the raid at
first hand, the naval secretary
told a : press Conference that -aside
from the Arizona, ship
destroyed included the old tar
g;t. ship Utah, . 3 destroyers ,
the C3isin7 Downes, and Shaw '
and-also the . mine layer Og
Iala. t y. ''..Vi-v'f
, x Oklahoma Damaged
. Damaged vessels included the
old battleship Oklahoma, which
capsized but can be repaired.
. . "The . entire balance of tha
Pacific, fleet with its aircraft
carriers, its heavy cruisers, its
light cruisers, its destroyers and
submarines, are uninjured and
are all at sea seeking contact
with the enemy," Knox said.
Japs Fail . ' . .
Quickly he told a questioner
that the fleet included battle
ships as well.
"The Japanese failed," Knox
said, in their purpose "to knock
out the United States before tha
war began."
Investigation Set
Knox said flatly that the
"United States services were not
on the alert against the surprise
air attack."'
. A formal investigation, ha
said, would be instituted by
President Roosevelt immediate
ly. In the meantime, he said,
there had been no changes in
command. .
Subs Caugnt ' s '.
Taking part in the Japanese
attack, Knox revealed, were
two-man submarines.
Of the three submerslbles
known to have been lost, ha
said, one was normal size, ona
small and the third, which was
captured, was also a small one.
- Aside from those killed, 20
officers and 636 men were listed
as wounded. .
The ratio of dead was heavy,
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Big Seattle Fire
Tests New Civil
Defense Workers
SEATTLE, Dee. 15 UP) Flr
department inspectors sought to
day to determine the origin of
a three-alarm fire, which last
night gave Seattle's civilian de
fense organizations their first
workout in an emergency.
Auxiliary firemen, many of .
whom only a few hours before
passed their physical examina
tions, ' joined regular firemen
in controlling the biazo which
destroyed the three-story San
itary Public Market on First
avenue.
A battalion from Seattle'
homo defense infantry regiment
aided police In regulating thous
ands of spectators attracted to
the scene by tho flames, shoot
ing from every window .of the
upper floors. '
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City Briefs ......Page fj
Comics and Story ...Page 13 -
Editorials ..Page 4
Information Page 8
Marhet, Financial Page 10
Midland Empire News.. ..Pago 7
Pattern ....... Paga 9
Sports ............JSne 8, g