Blackout Signal On 6-mlnute blast on sirens and whlitlw li the signal (or blackout In Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during a black' out' la a signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your atraat lights. WEATHER Low 23 PRECIPITATION 24 hours to 2 a. m. . Saason to data Normal precipitation Last yaar to data ... ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS PRICK FIVI4 CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WrDDNKSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1941 Number 9467 SNOW rsn .Tracj rl m mm mom A , . In The Day's News ; A : .-. . By FRANK JENKINS TODAY'S dispatches are not 1 pleasant reodlng. ' Japanese forces, landed from Wan armada of Jap troopships at Llngayan bay, are moving aiininst Manila from tho north. Another Jup force, landed lust night from troopships at Atimonn, a fishing villnao some 79 miles to tho south. Is moving on Manila tho purpose being the now fam iliar ono of catching the Amorl- can defenders between plneer jaws. This morning's brief army communique from Manila says American and Filipino troops, greatly outnumbered, aro resist ing stubbornly. The communlquo adds: 'Tho enemy continues to land reinforcements." General MacArthur and his staff havo left for the front. Thero Is talk of declurlng Manila an "open city" to save it from destruction by bombardment air and otherwise. WfAKE Island, after an epochal defense by outnumbered American marines, has apparent ly ly fallen. An Inferior British force at Hongkong, fighting as heroically aa did the American Marines at Wake, Is still holding out as these word are written, but little nope la held that Hong kong can conttnuo to hold out. North of Singapore OUTNUM BERED British forces, fighting bravely and skilfully, are being forced slowly back by superior Japanese forces. EVERYWHERE, in the fighting D around the China Sea, the story is the same: NOT ENOUGH AIRPLANES. Especially fighter planes to beat off the Jap bombers. That has been the sad story flnce the war began. TF you haven't done so already, take time out now to read ''Reveille in Washington." You will find in it needed encourage ment. , The North, as pictured therein, own utterly unpreparod for war. When tho crisis broke, Washing ton could only go round and round in holpless circles. Yet, out of this pandemonium, came ultimately the machine that eventually crushed Leo at Appamatox. CUPERIOR ' resources, when possessed by a TOUGH peo ple, eventually make their weight felt. ' Americans are slow In starting, but they are TOUGH. The war bctwoon the states, starting In confusion and unread iness, became one of tho grim most, most determined, most ef ficiently waged wars of all his tory. ' Its military lessons havo been textbook for soldiers the world over ever since. ' That i something for the Japs to think about. THEY are thinking about It. From the momont when they deolded to move, they hove moved with lightning speed, throwing in from the very out 9set all tho military and naval force they possess, risking every thing on the hope of knocking us out before we have time to get started, They WON'T. Eventually the crushing weight of the United States will be brought to bear, and when that time comes Japan will be OUT. TONIGH-RMJl bo Christ - eve. ! Christ nfcWMs traditional time ojcacon earth, goU will to mini Trfeffi Is little pen (Conajnued; Oy 'Pago Two) No Jfoper Oiit Christinas W In keeping with a long established tradition. The Eve ning Herald will not be pub lishad on Thursday, Christmas day. The Klamath News will not appear on Friday morning. The Herald and News family wish all very Marry Christmas. T TRIPOLI LOOMS Attack Through Spain Termed 'Nerve War' Scare by Nazis LONDON, Dec. 24 VP) A swift British sweep across the desert fur on nttuck on Italian bases around Tripoli to smash tho cntrywuys for axis rein forcement lo North Africa was predicted widely tonight. Military commentators de clared thut although Gen. Erwin Rommel's remaining German mechanized forces would try to fight their way through British lines now athwart their route of rctrrut, their plight seemed desperate. No Choice The Italian divisions attempt ing a stand near Bengasi were regarded hero as even more surely doomed. Ono source said this force tho remnant of four divisions left with little or no mobile or armored equipment had no choico except a futile fight, surrender, or an attempt to escapo by sea that would prove In hn "nnnthnr rtinlrfmn " Observers said that even (fTf uoni'rai nummci s lorces on DRIVE AGiS AFRICA IR 351 through to the cast they p amy would find their cache fuel and, supplies destroyed,' b.! the British patrol which Jisawadrjf hat penetrated ISO m Trlpoiitanla. It woe pointed out hrt"Aih,it the capture of Barce amUjidntea gave the British possession of the last major nlr in eastern Libya. Thlsf ft,wai sain, would forco Gonnan and Italian planes to rlJKftttie. Jise of Improvised field! liable' to sudden capturo, or Soise thoirj to withdraw to far rrtngo bancs in inponiania. Ti kf i By The Associated -4ret "t today that Adolf HltloZyth?J.VW battered armies retrttttfiiB'id Russia and North Afeicl wtK In stlgating a new "wnrrf Wrves by floating rtimors at Sns Jmml. nont German invoslom of .Spulti1, Whllo Pone Plus XIE.n?i Christmas eve broadcast. Uniicht ed that "harsh violence tnges ull over the world like a sjocin,". n London foreign office spokesman sold tho Germans thcmsrlvee were fostering fears of ye ati other outburst of violence byThe nazl war machine. Not Confirmed The spokesman said there was nothing to confirm cither rumors of an Impending German thrust Into Spain or Turkey or other reports circulated by tho Brit ish news agency, Reuters, and (Continued on Pago Two) Second Shipload -Of Evacuees From Alaska Arrives SEATTLE, Dec, 24 (P) A sec ond ship bringing evacuees from Alaska Points, most of them families of service men or of civilian employes .working on defense projects in the north, has arrived here, thirteenth naval district headquarters an nounccd today. Most of tho 724 evacuees were women and children, a navy spokesman said. Red Cross workers mot tho ship and nr ranged to assist some of the families but many arranged to find their own atiarters or go, to. r4WTnVncarVy Jidcd 47 vvTv.es tye&fcnd ehil enlisted men J2 wivesfend y enlisted nn !8mSv ship similar group, includ ing 38 children, south from Sit ka, Alaska. ARP WARDEN LIST A list of air raid wardens and maps showing the air raid precautions sectors in the city and suburbs will be found on Pages 8 and 7. raasLMheir hntMi hfj Vlitles. J 1 i - T 1 bMWTho ftun lil Re'i tuo cltopiayts, 71 J dlen m lAvV aid 1 L woolcih brought a Commands U. S. Fleet V-N.lt$t& .... Wl v. Admiral Ernest J. King (above), was elevated to ceorni mand of the United States jffUeftnsMl and will have suprenmrs-crpn of the operating foreae i in Aha, Atlantic. PacWr nd AtatlciiiLjr-addltlon to the 12 lighter waters, SeereUyol.. tp 'VI Frank Knox, nnerjcjju jfyVSfl l-J..'rl a' If if Amount to ought irv f House Bi HINGTON, Dec. 24 (P) an Doughton (D-N.C.) said todny4ho house ways and means Mrmmice might havo to write new tax bin next year car chViil'"S to bring In "every do! 1uL.W can reasonably get" in atSHjd of Just a fixed amount of neuir revenue. k!lV have to obtain all the 1 1 ' .jlinfTnev jtlfTney we can as expeditiously fc-fwraiblc." Doughton P"Wrs, and that me told re- means per- hiiB I tapping new sources of fevefitc. increasing some of the etIslfhK rates and tightening up wnerever we can, especially no mintsttativcly." Tho group will jl)irfXpnsidcrotlon of the new I uiu. juiHiury 19. ' BolIN3ouRhton and Reprcsen- -1attvo'f-eD,dway (R-Mass.), an other cotriniittce member, said scope nf trfty measure could not be dett-rtliineA until the commit tee pWi(l recommendations pys'Trcasirrjl n(V congressional ttul WtnllnJcuAsY But fnemhorst DuUtan (D-Mo.) W Roed. (f.y iSriKilfctcd the bill jinfilil Wie.huco;ehUhks out of miiSidual: ana;,corRQition lncott!"wIthout niacins much cmphirMg Aitjiew x.6ioyfes.lpremacy Treadwatiuld QVrwcVSwdiSsrted heard or-a-pianTp- sKUn oft By taxation all incairie!ajveraixcd xigure. f I Vjn-'T;. Many commll.toenleri-'' jblf d away irom a aiscunionik.en1 crai saics tax plan -cr trnit' withhold for tho governrrfeitf V per cent of all salaries at the source. They also said It was prema ture to discuss suggestions that the 1042 tax bill be collected immediately on 1042 incomes. Federal taxes normally are col (Continued on Page Two) Mysterious Blast Wrecks Factory BROWNTON, Wis., Dec. 24 M-A mysterious explosion, Allowed by ttroWday dMtroy- orowniowmf auica company , whlcB hndibeen engn&ed in shp- 'plying aillua, VacV irt processing steel, to detente-. industries. No' mhvas iirfured. ,. ' PtW. Palmer, onoMthe own H5PmBi damage ,t $150, i0. Ilo sfiid ho could" not ex- V - 1 .. . l-. orn, 000, plain tho explosion as thero was nothing in the plant that could cxplodo. Normally about 25 men work in the building, Palmer said, but there were only two at work when the blast let go. Both ran to safety. FBI agents at Milwaukee were notified. j. NAVY PRAISES IKE DEFENSE BY TIN! UNIT 14 Assaults Driven Off by Less Than 400 Marines WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (IP) Fewer than 400 marines with 12 fighter pianos and a small quantity of weapons held Woke island for 14 days against heavy Japanese attacks, the navy de partment said today after con ceding that Wake probably had been The ed bMs'taoW, rnsrfiwWfWra, J6; ncs, one olukm and six fatal' meOlatgf ratings (enlisted Jutl)4tie announcement said. with which the beleaguer- ed.gjirrlson sank one Japanese 1 cruiser ana tnree destroyers, the Imnrinps nn lhA tinv Pnrifftn mil. marines on the tiny Pacific out post had six five-inch guns; 12 three-inch anti-aircraft guns; 18 SO-calibre and 30 30-calibre anti aircraft weapons, plus the usual light weapons, said the navy. They also had six searchlights on the island. Apparently cut off from all outside aid as soon as Japan struck at Pearl Harbor, the garrison-at -Wake withstood 13 'raid! from December 9 to December 23, inclusive. On the final day, however, the Japanese launched another heavy attack in which they effected a landing on the island. - The navy said earlier in the day that radio communication had been severed. At the same time, the navy announced that Palmyra island and Johnston island, both in the mid-Pacific, had been shelled by enemy submarines with no cas ualties resulting. Damage at Palmyra island was negligible, the navy said, and there was no damage to material at Johnston island. The communique said the S.S. Larry Doheny was shelled by an enemy submarine in the eastern Pacific but reached port safely. TOKYO, Dec. 24 (Official Radio Recorded by AP) Japan ese reports said today that Wake island was occupied completely at 1 a. m. yesterday (8 a. m., PST) by Japanese naval forces defying blazing American de fense guns, raging seas and a' violent gale to carry out a night assault. In tho Philippines, these re ports acknowledged, the Japan ese were locked in a fierce strug gle but they declared successes at all points "and absolute su- of sea, air and land" ed Jhfi Philinni I e JaW Wue'isaldsio verflrfdBtttoyed craft SUB! Large, fluffy flakes of snow fell early Wednesday afternoon on an already snow-covered city and promises of a beautiful white Christmas were fulfilled by the weatherman. Crowds filled Klamath stores as last - minute shoppers hurriedly replenished stocks of gay ribbon ties and tags, bo4 bought the cc-rAd for Christmas dinneaT JJppartment storcsJana special ty shops were dohtft a "land qfflec" business ahd shoppers rondo up Wednosd!fiK-.what they forgot to buy on Tusnay. Merchanti plannJ - ,fcrly Christmas eve - , afye employes the 5f sharing the hollda Merchants plannedSto close TIKMHVIO op sharing the holiday with their families. Few places in tho city were expected to remain open Christmas day and stores, li braries and some restaurants were to be closed, . Union Service Ministers of the city have planned a union Christmas night service at 8 o'clock Thursday in the FJrst Christian church with lost to the rirfonijFoairm'andJ herolswar Major Tlamesl hneatcal Wfl&re. -V tifc world feiiSkV! Al'TW.WBf Anerteam -dllifeTT. BTiAtinlfhaioiir'-JvJ'1Tf airTroectIoi Ih 'WtaclWVonl thtbiAaAds nnntfrarl i'mttSrfKlihtl A w nitnrjpwtcwmeworur British Score Small Success At Hongkong LONDON, Dec. 24 UP) Forced back to Hongkong's mountainous-strongholds, British defenders of the besieged crown colony off the China coast were reported tonight to have won lo cal successes in counter thrusts against ' the Japanese on the southern part of the island. Reports which trickled out through Hongkong's 'crippled communications facilities de clared that civilians and British administrative officers were helping the defense by holding out in armed stands at isolated vantage points where repeated Japanese onsets were repulsed. Although competent observers still gave tho hard-pressed de fenders little chance of holding out unless aid could be gotten through to them, one source thalatheir present Po well suited An Chungkmgton Hongkong area Chinese had two attac (Continued on Page T Bethlehem Center of ; Worship for Many -Wc ar 'Refugees By The Associated Press The faithful climbed the dark ened Judean hills to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem late today to utter their prayers lor peace in a world of war. As men fought and died on distant continents and far-away Pacific islands and bombers droned over black-out lands, Pope Pius XII in Vatican City broadcast his third war-time Christmas appeal for peace. Blackouts In most warring lands tradi tional Christmas lights flickered behind closed shutters. Rations and other restrictions made this Christmas a subdued affair. The main exception was the United States, where blackouts were only trial affairs and where stores were piled high with goods. After sending his personal greetings to the armed forces in which he expressed confidence of a triumph "on all fronts against the forces of evil which are arrayed against us," Presi dent Roosevelt planned the usual ceremony of lighting the nation al community Christmas tree on the White House grounds at dusk. ; Prime Minister Churchill of Britain will participate in the ceremony, and both leade ;oadcast the Rev. Victor Phillips presid ing. Music will be presented by the host church. The public is cordially invited. Following is the order of serv ice, organ prelude, hymn, "O Come All 'So Faithful," Invoca tion, scripture, "The Christmas Story," by tho Rev. Hugh Bron srjni anthora, pm9'eahjhe Rev. Charles fA, ljates.HWtnotjnce rhejlts, offeaorAhymn, "'Q liittle Tdwn of Bfthleliam"; the Christ sale byflfle Rev. i. the- ir.f smith: khV'TJarTedic hymnr'Silent fen post- lulotta I ft tradilftnaf (ifcaervert' far turies Scandinavian people, will be held at 8 o'clock Christmas morn ing at the First Covenant church, 823 Walnut avenue, according to tho pastor, the Rev. Gottfred J. Anderson. There will be a beau tiful candlelight ceremony with a program of music. The ser mon will be in Swedish, the program in both Swedish and English.; T ' -Wi.' r 1 1 A-S At J - YperKtiorr IreWTert:' i . .. nun ninnrni urnni n ijvr?rv in nu n mini- in u i rh ajx linll IIIUULII IIU LU FrWhar..,1 UBbtK tS HULIUM ucs in- broadcast Chr almas message! ti K2?.t,Krs.ay FREIGHTER HIT MAGARTHUH IN nil RESCUE TRIED Ninth Attack Seen by Watchers Along West Coast LONG BEACH, Calif., Dee. 24 (JP) The McCormick freight er Absaroka was torpedoed but not sunk today by a submarine off the California coast and at tempts were made quickly to tow it to a harbor. The submarine remained on the surface for some time after the attack, and some observers from shore said it appeared to have been crippled. Later, how- er, it disappeared. Lifeboats Seen al headquarters an- e torpedoing, but de- ent on reported y the sub. First leexnent said the n aDanaonea tion. eriraVjifeboats seen arJoundT nbeLVessel. SeveralVnoTJrafter h&. tor- pedoeing4hei bd.'Trdfc t(bt tempt to raKh HheicnV-'irie Absaroka : 5696 tons. has a normal men. - Almost elmulAneouim .the attack, the n that the Canai Rosebank, 241 "reached a- s earlier had been lis! ing and probably ton. The. torpedoing of saroga was the ninth e marine attack on Ame sels in Pacific waters -ffnc .'ihaf outDreaK of the war vARr JapanJ uecemDer y. Tnree definitely Berlin Identifies Aircraft Carrier Claimed Destroyc BERLIN, Dec. ' 24 Broadcast Recorded bJXkP)) The British aircraft ca: a German submarine last Tuesday to have sqTittui the Atlantic was identified the uerman high tgjrima At the samA mtrior'r tiisK- command declared thir ubdr-l sea boats had sen' British shipping 1 vessels and a (fe the bottom ofSrje tween GibBalraflsrAEilgl une yrac9rn4rofrn air craft cirrif JM WlSW;iPftp-tc)n fleet fir ftufjnly U&'saliT rij ISSand not irtocUflaciion. denlatjfffieially l ineir air In been at- Sxiliary ves- torpedoed while duties with a Appeals For lore Ships, Planes WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 W Admiral Ernest J. King, new commander-in-chief of the Unit ed States fleet, declaring that the road to victory will be long and hard, emphasized in a state ment today that "we must have more planes and ships at once." King said: "The way to victory is long. The going will be hard. We will do tho best we. can with what we've got. "Wa m,,c I,.,.. mn nl.n.. rW sbJpsJ&Jco!hev It' .win f)t our turn to Ytte iWUl tt. through in time.?- HighV5pe(ihip lUoins U. 5 Forces rae SOOMetr cruiser Atlanta, a ship capable of speeding more than 50 land miles an hour, be came a unit of the American navy today in commissioning ex ercises at the navy yard In Brooklyn. Launched only three rhonths ago, the Atlanta will be com manded by Capt. Samuel P. Jenkins, an Indiana-born vet JrWff icouia n jyrjMJBjitish, eran of tho last ear. Holiday Talk To Frenchmen VICHY, Unoccupied France, Dec. 24 (JP) In a pessimistic Christmas message to his con quered nation. Chief of State Marshal Petaln declared today that peace is "farther off than ever" and said the families of France still were broken up by German detention of prisoners of war. He said in his message, which was addressed principally to those French prisoners, that the war bad been extended by the outbreak of hostilities in the Far East between Japan and the United States and Britain. Hopes Dashed He told the prisoners that his hopes that they could be re leased -and returned to their homes by this Christmas had been disappointed, but he as sured his former soldiers he was working for their liberation. This was being done, he said, "by showing our vanquishers of yesterday how much you seem to us to be worthy of esteem." While still hopeful of seeing (Continued on Page Two) s Propaganda Chieftain ' Asks Hearers to ;T H6ldPdsts v ; Switzerland. Dec. 24 )Vji- Paul Joseph Goebbels, any s minister of propa- appealed openly tonight mans in countries abroad in at your posts!" You pioneers," he said, ur fatherland. ledging that they ve to see their films and to gather in se- cretvffcffli assured his invisible TOlumtW&f listeners that "time witness a German n" as in lia. , he admitted, the Ger sk at home is not easy because of the air raids areas. ng Germans abroad, said: often live in a com- y strange, not to say hos- ileaaMflrld. It is not surprising thCrou are not very popular outside your own country, for rmany is fighting for her vital rights. There is no one who tonight oes not lift his eyes upwards. Var has taught us not only to be strong in the face of the enemy, but also to be humble in the face of destiny.1 LONDON, Dec. 24 (ff) German propaganda minister, Paul Goebbels, declared today in a radio broadcast from Ber lin that Germany will hold out until victory has been won. Goebbels said "our gifts were very small this year" and added that even "our Christmas tree candles were sent to the front where our soldiers needed them German Channel Guns Rake Coast FOLKESTONE, Eng., Dec. 24 (fP) Germany's big cross-channel guns broke the peace of Christmas eve tonight by shell ing the Kentish coastalodlstrtct. Children were singing Christ mas carols at some of the towns along the white cliffs of the Dover Strait when the guns acri 'e-Hz nn fWU&hroat. f -v - -it --T --J jr xi a moomu cnpnnai swung iwijrjip CftnnrW irfirnr.n core LONG BRANCH, N. J.. Dec. 24 (P) Heavyweight Fighter Buddy Baer suffered scratches about the face and was shaken up today in an automobile col lision, but his handlers said the injury was not severe enough to interfere with his championship bout with Joe Louis in New York January 9. FIELD TO RUN T New Points Attacked in Effort to Thin ': Forces, Claim , WASHINGTON. Dec. 24 VP) The war department said today General Douglas MacArthur had reported Japanese troops had landed in two additional areas on the island of Luzon and consid eration was being given to the withdrawal of the common wealth government and military forces from Manila. MANILA, Dec. 24 VP) (9:50 p. m 12:50 a. m. PST (De layed) General Douglas Mao Arthur and his staff are taking the field at once in personal command of the fight against Japanese invasion spearheads, the army headquarters an nounced today. The Philippine defense forces were said to be outnumbered and hard pressed north and south of the capital. ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 VP) The war department announced uxiay me appearance ot enemy trnnn ahina eft Datanaa. . .V. n I southern"' 1ip of Luzon island about 65 miles from Manila, indi cated the probability of another thrust in that region. . s v. - The enemy has landed a heavy force in the vicinity of Antimon an, 75 miles southeast of Manila. The new threat would give the Japanese two points, apparently trying to decoy Gen. Douglas MacArthur into splitting his de fending force. Antimonan is on the southeastern coast of Luzon on Lamon bay. By R. P. CRONIN JR. ' MANILA, Dec. 24 VP) The defenders of Manila, battling a Japanese invasion army 125 miles north of the capital, faced a grave threat from a new direc tion today as the enemy succeed ed in landing heavy forces 75 miles southeast of the city from 40 transports which crept up during the night. . The new landing was effected at Atimona, a small fishing port on the Luzon east coast. A communique issued from US army headquarters at 4 p. m. (2 a. m. EST) said that American and Filipino troops were "resist ing stubbornly" on both fronts, but added ominously: "The enemy continues to land reinforcements." The official bulletin, which de-. scribed fighting in both sectors as "very heavy," failed to say (Continued on Page Two) F. R., Churchill Continue Parley On World Plans WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 VP) President Roosevelt and Prima Minister Churchill ; continued work nn their nlan of anti-avls strategy today, with a weather eye open for a sudden nazl coup which might put French bases' and the French fleet under the ' swastika. Naval matters have been fig uring prominently in the Anglo American consultations, and any change in the status of tho French fleet would' present a grave complication for the al lied plans for the future war at oa. iBoth th 'States and shown great icern o'i ultimate di.ipo- fcn of fleet ever stnee Fran has been DEFENSE F GH Lai We . e the asntttnen 11 mjde plain to the? vify govern- " Tiiif that tho iin-ona,. n tVi Ao Ge: ould be aered News Index City Briefs Page S Comics and Story Page 10 Courthouse Records ....Page 4 Editorials Pago 4 Market, Financial ...Page S Pattern .....Page 0 Sports ..PBge 8 unuSw