.PAGE TWO
MAN DIES III
FIRE AT PDE
(Continued from Paee One
Fadden were burned and were
brought to the Hillside hospital.
Prultt was placed In the coun
ty Jail on a charge of drunken
ness. The Investigators said they be
lieved kerosene or diesel oil had
been used in replenishing a low
fire, starting the blaze in the
building. The structure had 10
Inch walls filled With sawdust,
and soon turned to a raging in
ferno. Campbell was burned be
yond recognition.
The fire was first sighted by
the Barton ranch cook. The
bunkhouse stood across the road
from the ranch house.
Campbell was a native of
Olean, Mo., and a sister, Mrs.
Minnie Evans, survives at Eldon,
Mo. Campbell had worked two
weeks atthe Barton ranch and
before that was employed as a
taller by the Kesterson Lumber
company. The remains are at
Whitlock's.
Mr. Thrash, who was secre
tary of the Klamath Sportsmen's
association, was widely known
in the community. He was office
manager of the Peyton Wood
company and had lived here
since 1932.
Dies At Dinner
Grants Pass visitors were in
the Thrash home at 915 Market
street when Mr. Thrash sat down
at dinner and started to carve
the Christmas turkey. He died
almost instantly.
A native of Ellensburg, Wash.,
Mr. Thrash had been active in
lodge and sportsmen's circles
since coming here. He was a
thirty-third degree Mason and a
member of Hillah temple of the
Shrine. He had been nominated
for re-election as secretary of
the Sportsmen s association.
Survivors include Mrs. Thrash
and- two daughters. The obitu
ary will be found elsewhere in
this paper. The remains are at
Ward's.
. Mr. Hawk passed away sud
denly at the Hall hotel, apparent
ly from a heart attack. His
home was at Dorris. where he
had lived for 20 years. The re
mains are at Ward's.
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YORK, Dec. 24 VP
Laurence - Di Benedetto, presi
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Charles la Ornstein of New York
as chairman of a special national
committee for the sale of United
States defense bonds and stamps.
The AAU recently invested $15,
000 In defense bonds and urged
that its 41 district associations
do likewise.
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On Christmas
Through the medium of this
newspaper, another Klamath
citizen played Santa Claus to
a needy family Christmas day.
Smiley LaLonde. ex-city po
liceman, called before Christ
mas and asked that the news
paper locate a family in se
rious need. He left an order
for all the supplies for a good
Christmas dinner.
The family was found
through a welfare agency, the
Christmas dinner was deliver
ed, and everybody was happy.
STORIES TOLD BY
(Continued from rase One)
cause Japanese submarines have
been preying on shipping oil
the uauiornia coast. :
Stirring scenes took place at I
entrances to piers. No public
announcement was made of the ;
convoy's arrival, but it was seen i
moving through the Golden
Gate. There was a rush toward
the waterfront.
Soldiers and sailors carrying j
rifles and pistols had blocked i
off an area extending three I
blocks from the docks. I
Ambulances hurried to the j
waterfront and removed the j
navy and army wounded. The i
city sent four ambulances to
care for the civilian injured.
Threw Potatoes
A wounded sailor told of the
heroism of his skipper who or
dered some of his idle men to
throw potatoes at the Japanese
raiders.
"Our skipper was a little fel
low," the sailor said. "But he
certainly was full of fight.
"We had only a three-inch
gun where we were, but he
wouldn't let anybody else fire
it. He peppered away at the
Japs as they came over.
"All of a sudden a bomb hit
nearby and blew our skipper
into the water. Our executive
(officer) gave the order to aban
don ship."
The sailors started down and
just then the skipper's head
bobbed up from the water. They
told him they were abandoning
ship.
"The hell you are!" he shout
ed. "Get back to your stations!"
He ordered a messenger to
get a.'eack of potatoes.
"I mean potatoes,"'- the skip
per cried to the surprised mes
senger. "I got to keep the men
occupied at a time like this.
Let 'em throw potatoes at the
Japs!"
Christmas Party
Football players of Willam
ette university at Salem, Ore.,
and San Jose, Calif., State told
on their return of doing guard
duty after the raids. Coach R.
S. "Spec" Keene said his Wil
lamette squad worked their way
home by caring for wounded
men.
The three children of Captain
Merle Williams of the air corps
told of a Christmas party on
the convoyed ships at sea which
was long on fun but short on
candy and nuts.
Danny Williams' faith in his
father, who remained in the
islands, was evident.
"My daddy," said the 6-year-old,
"can lick any 10 Japs."
Family Gets Best
Christmas Gift
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 26
OP) What was possibly the most
wonderful Christmas present in
this area came yesterday to Mr.
and Mrs. Burton P. Smith of
the Battle Ground district near
here. Notified by the navy De
cember 11 that their son, Russell,
had been killed in the Pearl Har
bor raid, they received another
telegram Christmas morning
from the navy stating that Rus
sell is alive and well and a let
ter from him is en route.
In Tunis, North Africa, coffee
served is as sweet as molasses,
as black as ink, and almost as
thick as chocolate.
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FORME
(Continued from Pace One)
United States the same day. no
one can say what disaster might
have come."
By 1943. he said, production
"will enable us to assume the
initiative on an ample scale."
Applause halted his remarks.
Long War
The British leader said he and
President Roosevelt did not
hesitate to forecast a "long and
hard war" because "our people
would rather know the truth."
With the spirit which has de
veloped he said it did not matter
if it was 1942, '43 or '44. The
task ahead, he said, is "not be
yond our strength and endurance
as Ions as we have faith in our
own cause."
"Mighty strokes of war al
ready have been dealt against
the enemy," he continued and
with mention of Russian victor
ies, the audience again applaud
ed at length. Maxim Litvinoff.
the Russian ambassador, sat un
smiling. Equal Weapons
For the first time since the
war began, Churchill declared,
the British had been able to
fight the axis forces with equal
weapons in Africa.
"For the first- time." he said,
"we have made the Hun feel the
sharp edge of the tools with
which he had subjugated Eu
rope." He noted that the axis had
about 150.000 men in Africa,
one-third of them German. The
British had set out to destroy
this army, he said, adding:
"I have every reason to be
lieve this aim will be fully ac
complished." If the United States is faced
with certain "short-comings" in
Pacific preparedness, Churchill
said, this was in "no small part
due to the assistance you are
giving us in the defense of the
British isles and in the battle of
Libya, and, above all, the help
you are giving us in the battle
of the Atlantic."
The prime minister, frequent
ly interrupted by applause, said
when one took into account the
resources of Britain and the
United States as well as China
"which'so long and so valiantly
withstood invasion" it was dif
ficult to reconcile the Japanese
attack on America with pru
dence "or even with sanity."
One point he set forth was
that this country and Great
Britain should make it certain
that the catastrophe of war does
not come again.
'These pestilences break out
in the old world," he said, but
soon spread to the new world.
He added that both nations
should join forces to see that
"germ centers of hate" are dis
posed of in the future before
war "spreads throughout the en
tire world."
Churchill said the present war
could have been averted five
years ago without shedding a
drop of blood, if this country
and England had forced Ger
many to abide by her signed
agreement.
With scorn the speaker re
ferred in passing to the "boast
ful Mussolini," who, he said, has
"crumpled already" and "is
nothing but a vassal and a serf."
His listeners laughed.
Ohio's population increased
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The "Boston News Letter" of
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Isle Seizure
(Continued from Page One)
governor here, had been taken
into custody by Free French
forces, and thnt L. E. Emerson,
Newfoundland defense ntinistcr,
had wired his congratulations to
Admiral Emile Muscller whose
seamen occupied the island.
People in Favor
Ninety-eight per cent of the
3500 population voted in favor
of Free French rule, the news
agency said, with only 10 op
posing votes cast in yesterday's
plebiscite.
(The United States government
was reliably reported to be en
deavoring to restore the status
quo of the islands in conformity
I with an agreement made recent
1 ly with French authorities in
Martinique to keep France's
western Atlantic islands out of
the war line-up. The purpose
of the Martinique agreement was
to keep the Vichy government
from moving farther toward the
axis. The U. S. state department
' yesterday characterized the sell
j ure as "an arbitrary action con-
trary to the agreement of all
! parties concerned and certainly
without the prior knowledge or
consent in any sense of the
United Slates government."
(British officials in London
also reported "complete sur
prise.") VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Dec. 26 OP) The French declar
ed here today that they "wel
comed with satisfaction" the
United States state department's
condemnation of the DeGaullist
occupation of St. Pierre and
Miquclon.
LONDON, Dec. 26 0P The
French national committee (Free
French) charged today that it
was "common knowledge" that
the radio at St. Pierre, when it
was under Vichy domination
"was broadcasting meterological
information useful to the enemy."
Japs Using Small a
Guns in Luzon
Attack, Report
(Continued from Page One)
section said the .23 caliber bullet
would not kill a man unless it
struck a vital spot.
The battle in the Lingayen
area started at 2 a. m. with an
artillery duel between Japanese
warships and American shore
guns. '
Opposing the Japanese were
Americans and young Filipino
troops who are being welded
into a first class fight force.
I spent four days in and
around the fighting front, in
cluding a two-day hike over
mountain trails after the Japan
ese cut the main road south
ward, forcing me to abandon and
burn my automobile.
Part of the Japanese forces
turned southward, and by
Wednesday night, when I left
the foremost area, they had
reached Pozorrubio and Binal
onan on the main highway to
Manila.
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land, on which Manila Is sit
uated. Meanwhile, Australia's Prime
Minister John Curtin hinted that
momentous counter-measures are
under way by Britain, tho United
States and other allied powers
to reverse Japan's offensive ad
vantage in the Pacific.
"We are mobilizing the allies
against the axis," he said.
Dutch 8hlp Sinks
Simultaneously, d I s p a t ches
from Batavla said Dutch war
planes slashing at sea-borne Jap
anese invasion forces had sunk
two Japanese transports and a
destroyer.
The destroyer and one trans
port were sunk off Kuchlng, tho
capital of tiny Sarawak. North
Borneo, whero the Japanese have
landed in force and apparently
captured Kuchlng, only 475 miles
across the South China sea from
Singapore.
The other transport was sunk
by a plane on a reconnaissance
flight, a Dutch communique said.
Manila Open City
General MacArthur formally
proclaimed Manila an open, un
defended city to savo it from
the ravages of air and ground
assaults by Japanese invasion
hordes.
An army spokesman emphasiz
ed that the action of proclaiming
Manila an open city would not
affect the course of the war
"which will continue . . . more
vigorously than at present," and
U. S. High Commissioner Francis
B. Sayre declared:
"We will fight to the last
man."
Civil officials at the mountain
top summer capital of Baguio,
140 miles north of Manila, were
likewise empowered to designate
their city undefended.
Baguio Doubtful
There was some doubt, how
ever, whether Baguio had not
already fallen to the Japanese,
who were reported driving swift
ly against it from two directions.
Many Americans, Including wo
men and children, were feared
trapped in the city.
A U. S. army bulletin issued
at noon, Manila time, acknowl
edged that Japanese pressure
was increasing on the south
eastern front from Atlmonan,
75 miles below Manila, to Mau
ban, on Lamon bay 20 miles
north of Atimonan.
On the northern front, other
Japanese columns driving from
the Aparrl beachhead, 250 miles
north of Manila, were reported
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Klamnth Boy Scouts will
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Gilchrist said Friday.
Local people ura nsked to
bind magar.lncs and papers
with string, and to put looso
papers in boxes. Call 6018
on Saturday morning, and a
truck will bo sent (or the
wusto paper.
Muyor John Houston Friday
endorsed the waste paper
program of the scouts.
CHRISTMAS TRADE
' HITSJPEiK HERE
(Continued From Page One)
every list, but a generous one
with plenty of $1 to SS Items
under every tree.
Christmas eve buying held up
until tho minute stores closed
and stocks ran low.
No "runs" on merchandise
that Is expected to run low were
reported and the American peo
ple have evidently adjusted
themselves to the (net thnt many
staple items will not be obtain
able until the need for drfensc
production is over. Sales of
woolen, cotton and small metal
goods, however, averaged fur
higher thon in previous years.
Stricken Miner
Taken to Yreka
MEDFOUD, Dec. 26 (P)
Fred Smith. 77, of Copper,
Calif., prospector found stricken
with parnlysis in his lonely
cabin by a neighbor last Mon
day, was removed to a Yreka,
Calif., hospital Thursday. The
aged man is believed to have
lain for two days without food
or caro before discovery. Hos
pital attendants said his condi
tion was as good as could be
expected. Smith's only known
kin is a sister living in Los An
geles. DOUBLE-TEAM KINNEY
HOUSTON A year ago.
Clair F. Bee paid "Bat 'cm
Bob" Kinney the compliment of
double-teaming a pair of Long
Island university players on the
Rice captain and center in a
basketball game at Madison
Square Garden.
to have reached Taguegarao, 50
miles inland.
With the fall on Britain's
Hongkong island, where Japa
nese attacks cut off the garri
son's water supply, allied atten
tlon swung toward the defense
of Singapore. British troops
were reported holding the Japa
nese along a pcnlnsula-wide line
about 300 miles north of that
naval base.
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SPRAGUE niVElt The
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tho best ycor In the history of
the town, according to'Mra Hen
Wolford, postmaster. In fuel the
Increase is almost 100 per cent
greater than ever before. In
order to acconiinodiite the milled
business It was necessary for the
Wolford's, who own the build
ing to add a large room to the
rear of the present quarters. A
number of now shelves, desks
and tables have been added to
make room for tho large number
of parcels.
Various speculations have been
nitKla as to the reason (oi such
an Increase during the war year.
This has been a very busy sea
son at the Crater Lake Box and
Lumber company and the work
urs have put In good timo and
luivo received fat checks. It Is
thought that many figure nn
staying over to work Instead of
going uway on vacations iluu to
the mill closure usually occur
ring about this time of year. The
mill Is still going strong with
tho big problem of finding
chance to close down to make
necessary repairs. If tho men
plan to work right up to Christ
mas, packages will be mailed lo
friends and relatives instead of
being delivered In person as be
fore. Another speculation made by
a residont was that many feel
that this may bo tho last Christ
mas for several years, that they
will bo able to buy gifts. If so
they are making hay while the
sun shines. Tha curtailment of
goods due to the war will un
doubtedly affect Christmas pur
chases next year. This argu
ment will have to wait until
next year to be proved.
Whatever the reason Is Mrs.
Wllford and her assistant, Miss
Pauline Crane are working many
hours overtime and they will
hcavo a terrific sigh of relief
when this unusual rush Is over.
SEEDINGS
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 26 (HI
Ted Schroeder, national doubles
champion, has been seeded No.
1 In the Sugar bowl tennis tour
nament opening Saturday.
Wayne Sabln Is second. Gardner
Mulloy third and Byran "Bltsy"
Grant fourth. Seventeen are to
compete.
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In Christmas
Light Contest
(Continued from Pnge One)
place went to Mrs. C. D. Groves,
2310 Orchard avenue, who hud
muiiu un llliiinlnutud villain
using the Chrlstiiiua tlionio.
Sectional uwurds wunt In n,. .
Iiiira King, 2103 Auburn strai-t;
leu Jgi. " noun inirn street;
C. U. Long, 24U0 Oregon avenue
II II Trlnnett. 4'JU Nnrlli Tl,,rj
street; Jimmy Crlnman, 2219
Garden avenue; Mr. niul Mrs.
II. P. Ilnaworth Jr., 544 Conger
nvenue; Mrs. F. X. Sextnn, 2is
South Ulvernlclo; Mr. and mO
llandall K. Smith, 2253 Vino av
enue. Donald Montgomery, 471 La
l! u nu street, and Niuiuu linker.
Cypres street, will be
awarded bicycle by tho Junior
chumber of commcrco for ob
taining tho greatest number of
entries In the contest. Donald
represent the Honscvclt district,
ond Norma the Hlversldo school'
district. Tim awards wero made
Frlduy morning.
More than 200 displays wrr
lighted In tho city during the
holidays, these to remain nn
until New Year's at the request
of the Junior chamber of com
merce. Displays officially rg.
istered totaled 134, according to
Kstle Affleck, chairman of tha
contest. This Is the greatest num
ber urrauged during the history
nf III, riintunt Afflt'rW hIiiIkH
"It was through the coopuft
Hon of the seven Purent Teacrn
er associations In the city Hint
wo were abltt to have such a
splendid Christmas lighting dis
play, AIlleCK sunco.
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