3 eralo
o
Blackout Signal
On S-mlnute blest on sirens and whittles
It the signal for blackout In Klamath
Falla. Anothar long blast, during a black
out) li a signal lor all-clear. In precau
tionary periods, watch your atraat llghta.
1 .,v.XV
By FRANK JENKINS
TTHE Jnpi bomb Manila, after
It has bnn declared an open
city and Its defenders huvc
moved out. Uomb It mrthodirut
ly. killing and woundinu civil
ians. Setting great (Ires Hint arc
burning i theso words ara writ
ten, CAVE your anger. Blind, tin
reasoning anger never helped
any fighter to win and this Is
a fight to tho finish.
Permit yourself only tho cold,
calculating fury that looks for
ward to VICTORY, no matter
what ths cost.
This is war. Modern war. In
modern war, chivalry Is OUT.
DEMEMBER that In bombing
" Manila after It bus been de
clared an open city the Jups
are INVITING the bombing of
their own crowded cities.
That will come In time as
and when wo can get around to
It.
INSTEAD of shaking your fists
In futile anger, WORK HARD
AND EFFICIENTLY at your Job,
no matter what It may be.
Wa lack ships. We luck planes.
We lack tanks. We lack guns.
Only by working harder and
more efficiently than wo ever
worked before can we provide
theso vitally necessary weapons
In sufficient quantity and IN
TIME to win.
And win we must
TN today's dispatches, these
sentences stand out:
"Japanese planes roar over
Manila WITHOUT ANY OP
(J POSITION."
'The enemy Is being CON
TINUALLY REINFORCED from
fleets of troopships in Llngnycn
gulf and off Atlmonun.
Remcmbor:
The Philippines are far from
the supporting mainland of the
United Stotcs. They are CLOSE
to Japan. Tho problems of trans
portation and supply are diffi
cult for us, relatively easy for
the Japanese.
In The
Day's
: News
, It if not improbable that the
Philippines may be lost. But it
is as true now as ever that it is
tho LAST battlo that counts.
Our job is to win tho last but-
r
T'HE Japs, for all their ad
vantages of nearness and ad-
vanco preparation, aren't com
ing off unhurt.
U. S. and Dutch army, navy
and air reports for the first three
weeks of .the war in tho Pacific
list 26 Japanese merchant vessels
sunk or seriously damaged by
f submarine or air attack in Phil-
w ipplne, Borneo and Malayan
waters.
The Dutch alone have account
ed for 16 Jap ships sunk and
five , damaged, Including ono
cruiser, two destroyers, four
troop transports, thrco freight
ers, four supply transport ships
and two lighters. Their average
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Rooking Backward
By The Associated Press
One year ago today Germans
rain Incendiaries and explosives
on London after unofficial three
day Christmas "truco"; nozl big
guns pound Dover. Italians fight
desperately to hold Klistira, gate
way to Valona.
' Two years ago today Finns
report Russians driven back no
miles on northern front, with
loss of 8000 men: Russians bomb
-Finnish 'port of Turku.
25 yrrg ago today French
cruiser t Vtoia sunk by mibmn
, rino in I dlterranean. Gormans
I close in i i Bralla, Rumanian oil
and grali, center on Danube.
ASSOCIATED PP"
Kills
T
L
Germans Report Four
Ships Sunk in
Black Sea
By Th Associated Press
An attempt by Russia's red
armies to storm buck into the
cant Crimean city of Kerch and
ultimately to lift the eight-weeks-old
siege of Sevastopol
was Indicated by tho German
high command today In a bulle
tin reporting that nu.l bombers
had sunk four soviet troop
transport and damaged five
others in the narrow Straits of
Kerch.
The straits lie between the
Caucasus mainland and Kerch
on thu German-overrun Crimean
peninsula.
Tho nuzl high command said
tho Russians suffered "heavy
Iosm'S In men and material," in
dicating it was a sizeable Rus
sian expeditionary force. .
1 ' Leningrad Battle '
Heavy fighting has been re
ported raging at the approaches
to Sevastopol for the past week.
Only yesterduy, a soviet com
munique reported that 20,000
German troops had been killed
In a six-day battle on tho outer
defenses of the big Black sea
naval base.
Far to tho north, Russian
troops battling to end the flvc-months-old
siege of Leningrad
(Continued on Pugo Two)
Jap Premier Says
Borneo Oil Wells
To Be Restored
BERLIN, Dec. 27 (Official
broadcast recorded by AP) Pre
mier Tojo of Japan told ' the
houso of peers that about 70
Borneo oil wells can be restored
In about a month and that Japan
can reckon on about 700 tons of
oil doily from the Borneo oil
ficjds, a German broadcast of a
Tokyo dispatch said today.
The premier was reported as
saying tho British destroyed
about 190 oil well derricks and
other oil field establishments be
fore withdrawing from the areas
of Sarawak now occupied by the
Japanese.
Japan's occupation of Hong
kong and of Pcnang island off
tile west Malayan coast wero de
structive blows by which Singa
pore has been Isolated from In
dia, tho premier sold, according
to tho broadcast.
At Penong the Japanese were
said to havo captured 1000 mo
tor cars, 1300 tons of tin, 2000
tons of rubber and to havo taken
tho biggest tin producing area in
tho world In Malaya,
RED THRUST A
SEEN
N REPORT
Contributions Received in Red
Cross War Relief Fund Drive
Contributions previous
ly acknowledged $3555.88
Contributions received
Saturday 133.00
Total t. $3688.88
The Shaw Lumber company
Saturday met the challenge to
aid in tho voluntary-contributions
drivo for $10,000 for Red
Cross war relief work, with a
second contribution. The follow
ing letter accompanied their
contribution:
"I note tho contributions to
tho Red Cross are a little slow
In coining in and whllo we havo
already donated $25 I am hand
ing you herewith another check
for $90, which will bring our
donation up to $75." .
Contributions were received
Saturday from:
Mr. and Mrs. T. J,
McKinncy $5.00
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Eycrly.. 10.00
A Friend 10.00
,n '
AMATH
Local lir
Aliens Ordered
To Turn Over
Radios, Cameras
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 UP)
The Justice department today
ordered Japanese, German and
Italian nationals in seven Pa
cific count state to turn in all
short wave radio equipment and
cumeras in their possession by
11 p. m. Monday.
It was reported authoritative
ly that similar regulation for
the rest of the country would be
issued next week.
Today's regulations apply to
California, Washington, Oregon,
Montana, Idaho, Utah and
Ncvadu.
The equipment must bo sur
rendered to local police auth
orities who, the Justice depart
ment said, would be asked to
Issue receipts.
Ths prohibited radio equip
ment includes not only trans
mitters but home receiving
sets with short wave bands.
Large studio cameras need
not be turned in but they
must be registered and may
not be used except by specific
permission of U. S. attorneys.
The penalties for willful fail
ure to obey the regulations are
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Churchill Sits in on
Six Meetings With
Allied Envoys
WASIUNGTON, Dec. 27 (P)
President Roosevelt scheduled
eight major war strategy confer
ences today and Invited Prime
Minister Churchill of Great Brit
ain to sit with him at six of
them.
Starting off with a gathering
of American army chiefs, the
meetings embraced engagements
with representatives of all the
American republics, all nations
arrayed against Germany, Japan
and Italy, and even some of the
German-occupied countries, in
cluding Norway, Belgium and
Denmark.
Denmark Surprise
The Inclusion of Denmark
came as somewhat of surprise
since that country, unlike most
of the other occupied European
nations, has no refugee govern
ment. Tho conferences, designed pri
marily to Inform anti-axis na
tions and those within the west
ern hemisphere solidarity group
of tho progress of unified world
wide war steps, began at 10 a. m.
with tho president receiving
Secretary of War Stlmson, Gen
eral George C. Marshall, army
chief of staff, and Lieutenant
General Henry H. Arnold,
deputy chief of staff in charge
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Mrs. Wm. Lorcnz 2.00
Mrs. W. A, McMillan 2.00
E. Nccso 5.00
Mrs. Eva Jenks Olson........ 1.00
Arthur Omig 1.00
E. F. Reynolds . 2.00
Thor Newman 2.00
Congregational Community
Circle ..." 5.00
Hank O'Brien 1.00
Friendship Court No. , 11,
Order of Amaranth 5.00
Charles and Bessie Morgan 2.00
Dclbcrt Denton, Fort
Klamath". 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Wil
son, Fort Klamath 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. F. M, Den
ton, Fort Klamath 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Looslcy,
Fort Klamath 4.00
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Brat-
taln, Fort Klamath . 4.00
Floronco H, Kirby .............. 5.00
Mrs. Stanley Berry ............ 2.00
A Friend . 5.00
W. H. Hlbbard 3.00
Shaw Lumber Co. 50.00
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1941
ELLA IRPLE
FATALLY
HURT
NEAR
I
Two Cars Collide in
Early Morning on
Weed Highway
Another tragedy marred the
holiday week and Klamath
county's 21st fatality was chalk
ed up with tho death of Mrs.
Delia Marplc,
26, who died
early Saturday
morning from
injuries receiv
ed a short time
21
before in an au-Klamath's 1941
tomoblle crash Xut0 Toll
one half mllo
south of Wordcn on the Weed
highway.
Mrs. Marplc was a passenger
in a car operated by Fred
"Mickey" McGuire, 29, employ
ed at the local fire station. They
were en route to Klamath Falls
about 1:43. a.,.rn'iv'.whep Jhelr
coupe and a car operated by
William Hunter, 41, Tionesta,
sideswlped. The Hunter car was
going south, state police officers
said. Hunter is employed by
the Shaw Lumber company.
Rushed to Hospital
Mrs. Marplc was rushed to
Klamath Valley hospital by
George Tucker, 5334 North
Eleventh Btreet, who was en
route from Dorris to his home
here when he camo upon the
accident. The young woman
died 15 minutes after Jhe was
admitted to the hospital. Death
was attributed to chest and in
ternal injuries.
McGuire suffered body bruises
and Hunter, knocked unconscious
by the impact, had a cut on the
jaw. Neither required hospitali
zation. Mrs. Marplc, daughter of Mrs.
Mabel Ruiter of Shedd, Ore.,
was well known here. She was
employed for more than one
year at Castlcberry'a fountain,
later worked at Wood's drug
store, and during the holiday sea
son wos working at Newberry's.
Police were Investigating the
fatal crash, they reported. Fun
eral arrangements will be an
nounced by Ward's.
i
Australia Views
Pacific War as
Sepai
rate Conflict
MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec.
27 (fP) Prime Minister John
Curtin, in an article written for
the Melbourne Herald, declared
today that despite Australia's
links with Britain her closest
partner in war In the Pacific is
the United States.
VTho government," ho said In
the article, "regards the Pacific
struggle as primarily ono In
which tho United States and Aus
tralia should have tho fullest say
In the" direction of tho fighting
plan."
He said his government's pol
icy "is shaped toward obtaining
Russian aid and working out
with the United States a plan of
Pacific strategy along with Brit
ish, Chinese and Dutch forces."
"We refuse," he asserted, "to
accept the dictum that the Paci
fic struggle Is a subordinate seg
ment of tho general conflict."
Curtin disclosed that before
the war Australia had attempted
to get an agreement with Russia
for defense against Japanese at
tack, but said the effort then was
"wrongly regarded as prema
ture." PICTURE PAGE NEXT WEEK
Because of apace require
ments, the weekly picture
page does not appear today
but a year-end picture page
will appear at midweek. To
day's paper has two pages of
comic.
Contest
hi ifcWHtirafitMii
A nativity scene in a window
greens won for Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. McKim, 1S30 Crescent
avenue, the sweepstakes award in the Junior Chamber of Com
merce Christmas lighting contest.
mm pace
Largest Jap Vessel
W Off Sarawak Hit -By
Bombers
BATAVIA, Netherlands East
Indies, Dec. 27 (IP) The largest
ship in a Japanese concentration
was sunk by direct hits from
Dutch army bombers off Kuch
ing, capital of Sarawak on the
island of Borneo, and a lighter
also was sunk, a Dutch communi
que announced today.
Six or seven bombs burst on
the ship, the communique said,
and it spouted a huge column of
flame, smoke and steam into the
sky.
The sinking kept up the Dutch
pace of a ship-a-day toll on Jap
anese shipping.
The Aneta News agency said
the official tally puts Japan's
losses at 16 ships sunk and five
damaged at Dutch hands since
the war in the Pacific began.
One was a cruiser and two
were destroyers, it said, and the
others were four troop trans
ports, three freighters, four sup-
(Continued on Page Two)
Britain at War
With Bulgaria
Since December 13
LONDON, Dec. 27 (Brit
ain disclosed today that she has
been at war with Bulgaria since
Dec. 13.
The announcement of a state
of war was made in a supple
ment to the London Gazette.
Tho action, it was thus divulged,
followed by two days the Ger
man and Italian declaration of
war on the United States and
the United States declaration of
war on Germany and Italy.
Today's notification said that
Britain never had been official
ly informed of Bulgaria's own
declaration of war on Dec. 13.
Editor Criticizes
Manila Disarming
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec.
27 UP) In a telegram to Presi
dent Roosevelt, Basil Brewer,
publisher of tho New Bedford
Standard-Times, Mercury, today
criticized the removing of Amer
ican defenses from Manila.
The message, copies of which
wero sent to Secretaries Knox
and Stimson, read:-
"Tho stupidity of removing
defenses from Manila and de
claring it an open city with the
expectation that Japan would
respect its civil population finds
Its expected answer in tho death
and destruction wrought there
today,
"Such profound lack of real
ism after Pearl Harbor raises
questions In the people's mind
as to whether army and navy
heads are capable of promptly
learning the ominous and ob
vious lessons - Pearl ' Harbor
taught." :
UNITED PRESS
mm
Winner
banked with colored lights and
Warship Ban
Ordered for
French Isles
ST. PIERRE, St. Pierre t
Miquelon, Dec. 27 lPJ-WVice-Ad-miral.
Emile Muselier, cpmman-der-Di-chlef
of free French naval
forces, today barred the territor
ial waters of St Pierre and Mi
quelon to "all warships of any
nationality except under special
permission previously asked for
and granted."
"Flying over these islands
without previous permission is
also prohibited to all airplanes.
All lighthouses may be extin
guished as from tonight," the or
der said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 ,()
Gaston Henry-Haye, the French
ambassador, said today after
seeing Secretary of State Hull
that he had "no reason to doubt
that French sovereignty will be
reestablished and maintained
over St. Pierre and Miquelon."
The two small islands off
Newfoundland have been taken
over by the Free French forces
opposed to the Vichy govern
ment. Henry-Haye told reporters he
was confident an amicable solu
tion would be arrived at in the
very near future and indicated
'that a basis for settlement had
been arrived at during conversa
tions already held. He said he
was communicating with his
government, recommending that
a settlement be made which
would guarantee French sov
ereignty over the islands and,
at the same time, satisfy all the
governments of this hemisphere.
Secretary . Hull conferred also
on the situation with Prime
Minister MacKenzie King of
Canada. . . '.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (ff) -A
Vichy broadcast addressed to
(Continued on Page Two)
SOUTH WINS
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec.
27 UP) A fast and versatile
South squad vanquished its foes
frorr the North today 18 to 0,
In tho annual blue-gray football
game beforo 15,571 fans. The
South victory evened the series
at two wins each.
Jap Shipping Suffers Heavy
Losses Since Start of War
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (IP)
Japan is losing troop and sup
ply ships at the rate of more
than one day, fast enough to
reduce her great merchant
marine to insignificance in two
years if losses go unchecked In
a Pacific naval war of attrition.
United States and Dutch army
navy and air reports for the
first three weeks of the war list
26 Japanese merchant vessels
as sunk or seriously damaged
by submarines or air attacks in
Philippine, Borneo and Malayan
waters despite heavy naval and
air escort.
Although Japan has 23 ship
yards with 69 hcrtha for con
struction of large craft, her
steel resources are limited and
WEATHER
Low IS
PRECIPITATION
24 houri to 2 a. in. ..... .00
Season to data 8.68
Normal pracipltatlon
Lait year to data .
Number 9469
Toll Uncounted in
'Open City1 After
Daylight Attack1
Jap Planes Skim Low
Over Undefended
' Luzon Capital
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 UP)
The navy department an
nounced late today that two
United States destroyers sus
tained "minor damage" during
enemy bombing attacks in the
Far East but there were no
casualties.
By R. P. CRONIN JR.
MANILA, Dec. 27 (10 p. m.,
5 a. m, PST) A large area of
Manila's ancient walled city was
a roaring mass of flames tonight
as the Japanese air force an
swered General Douglas Mac
Arthur's proclamation of this
capital as an open city with a
devastating rain of death and
destruction.
While waves of glistening
bombers methodically roared
over the stricken city, reports
reached it that the Japanese, ad
vancing more than 30 miles, had
driven down the corridor lead
ing southward from their beach
head at Damortis toward Manila.
Invaders Near ' '
"One report, telephoned to the
Manila Bulletin said they were
at Moneada.Hbdiit 83 miles north
of Manila, and other sources said
they had pushed still another
five miles further and captured
Paniqui.
-' Baugio, the commonwealth's
summer capital, still was in
American hands up to this morn
ing, high military sources said,
and was being defended by
American - regulars guarding
roads leading into the mountains
both from the north and south
from the Lingayen gulf shore.
Landmarks Hit
- Fire and bombs ruined many
of the Manila's most ancient re
ligious institutions but by sun
down the flames appeared to
have been confined to an era
of about six blocks.
The dead - among Manila's
more than 600,000 inhabitants
were estimated tentatively at
about 50 and scores of others
were wounded most of them by
a direct hit on the roof of the
treasury building.
From atop the Manila hotel on
(Continued on Page Two)
Americans Held
In Occupied China
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 UP)
The state department was in
formed today that Americans in
Swatow and Amoy, in Japanese
occupied China, had been taken
into custody by the Japanese
military authorities.
Americans taken into custody
at Swatow are believed to num
ber 60 in addition to Kenneth
Yearns of Washington, D. C, the
American consul there.
At Amoy, according to the last
census of Americans in China,
there were 29 Americans, and
Leland C. Altaffer, Toledo, Ohio,
is the American vice consul
there.
The report to the state depart
ment, from the American embas
sy at Chungking, said that ac
cording to information received
there the Americans taken into
custody were being well treated.
building facilities are believed
to be far below what would be
necessary to make up for even
half of such a rate of losses. ;
At the start of the ' war
Japan's merchant fleet was
third largest in the world,
trailing those of Britain and the
United States. In eea-going ves
sels of 2000 tons or more it
consisted of 898 ships of 4,754,
699 gross tons. Of these, 717
were freighters, 132 were com
bination passenger-cargo ships,
49 were tankers and two were
primarily refrigerated cargo
vessels.
Britain had 2644 ships of
16,806,379 tons and the United
States had 1150 ships of 7,078,
909 tons.
4.21
3.97
COLD
Hull Assails
Jap Attack on
Helpless City
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 UP)
Secretary of State Hull assert
ed today that Japan, in bomb
ing the "open city" of Manila,
was practicing the same bar
baric methods of cruelty and in
humanity that Hitler has been
using in Europe.
Tbe secretary's statement
came in reply to a request for
comment on Japan's apparent
lack of respect for International
law in bombing Manila which
has been declared an open city,
undefended, to spare civilian
suffering.
Hull said Japan had an en
tirely consistent record in re
cent years especially since the .
invasion of China in 1937, in
practicing the- same barbaric
methods, . the same methods of
cruelty and inhumanity as HH
ler practices and has been prao
ticing in Europe. -
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 OP)
The German radio,' in a broad
cast recorded by the NBC short
wave listening post, said today
. Continued on Page ..Two),,
Hutton Commander in
Burma; Pownall
At Singapore .
LONDON, Sunday, Dec. 28 (IP)
Lieut. Gen. T. J. Hutton, chief
of the general staff in India, has
been appointed officer command
ing in Burma in a move placing
responsibility for defense of that
colony under General Sir Archi
bald P. Wavell, commander-in-chief
in India.
General Hutton," 51, replaces
56-year-old Lieut. Gen. D. K.
McLeod, a cavalryman who has
been general officer commanding
in Burma since 1938.
LONDON, Dec. 27 (P) Gen.
Sir Henry Pownall, 53, why and
energetic artillery , specialist,
faced today the task of halting :
the Japanese invasion of Malaya
as the new commander-in-chief
of British forces in the Far East.
General Pownall,. who has
been boosted over the heads of
100 high-ranking officers from
(Continued On Page Two)
Violent Quake
Felt at Lisbon
LISBON, Dec. 27 UP) A. vio
lent earthquake shook Lisbon at
6:25 p. m. (10:25 a. m. PST) to
day, sending the frightened pop
ulace into the streets.
The epicenter was outside Lis
bon but was believed to be some
where in the Iberian peninsula'.
Although the Lisbon observa
tory described the quake as vio
lent, it said it was less severe
than the one which shook Lis
bon, the Azores and Madeira on
November 25. . . "
REINFORCEMENTS '
LONDON, Dec. 27 UP) Thera
was a growing belief among Lon
don observers today that Ger
many and Italy are rushing!
heavy reinforcements to Tripoli,
capital and chief port of Llmya,
and thence eastward into the
Libyan battle zone in spite of
heavy losses of ships in the Med- ,
itcrraneon, -
News Index
City Briefs Page 'J
Comics and Story.. ..Pages 10, 11
Courthouse Records ....Page 4
Editorials Page 4
Information Pago 3
Market, Financial Pago 12
Pattern ...Page 8
Sports Paga 9
Society ....... fages 3, 6, 7,