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U.S. FORCES
- WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 (UP)
Corrcgidor Island, jock-hewn
fortress whose guns still seal
Manila bay to the Japanese,
today stands out as the bastion
around which American and
Filipino troops will rally for
continued defense of the Philip
pines. The fall of Manila and the U.
S. naval base at Cavite admit
tedly were serious; but the sting
was lessened greatly by the fact
that neither Manila bay nor
Cavite can be of much use to
the Japs so long as Corregidor
remains In American hands.
. The guns of the fortress, as
formidable as Britain's Gibral
tar, completely dominate the
bay and can spew destruction
In abundance up to a range of
15 miles. Thus It will be haz
ardous for any Jap warships at
tempting to enter the bay.
Wartime secrecy conceals the
exact place where the heroic
American - Filipino defenders
will make a major stand. But
there are these possibilities:
v 1. General MacArthur, a sol
dier who keeps on fighting
when others think the cause is
lost, may lead his forces into
the mountainous wilds of Lu
zon island, there to wage pro
longed and sanguinary guerrilla
warfare. The enemy would find
It virtually Impossible to send
an organized army, with heavy
supporting weapons, into the
dense Philippine jungle. The
defenders could strike In sud
den forays, systematically re
ducing the numbers of their foe
and terrorizing the remainder.
2. Gen. MacArthur, with as
large a force as possible, might
retire to Corregidor. The is
land Is only four miles long
and a mile in breadth at the
widest point and could there
fore accommodate only a limit
ed number of men. But it has
abundant provisions, "bomb shel
ters and an underground hospi
tal that will enable the defend
' Ing garrison to give an excel
lent account of itself.
. 3. If MacArthur decides that
further resistance in the Philip
pine theater is inadvisable, he
might attempt to evacuate men
and materials to the Dutch East
Indies, Australia, or Singapore.
This, however, appeared remote;
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson said only yesterday
that he had not advised Mac-
Arthur to leave the islands in
event Manila fell.
Some experts believe Corregi
dor can hold out indefinitely.
The island is 27 miles across
water from Manila. Seven miles
of water separate it from the
mainland to the south, and only
two miles from the mainland to
the north : all within easy
range of its guns. It is well
equipped with anti-aircraft
guns.
Many of the gun emplace
ments are hewn out of solid
rock, and the numerous large
crevices are ideal bomb shel
ters. Provisions and ammunition
are stored underground.
Corregidor could thus con
tinue to harass the enemy for
a long period regardless of de
velopments on the mainland.
Mill Has Tough
Time Explaining
Newspaper Error
When news gets started, it is
hard to stop.
That is the opinion of officials
of the Crater Lake Lumber and
Box company, who complained
about a newspaper story the
other day erroneously stating
the firm needs more men at
Sprague River.
The story was corrected, but
In the meantime it got into other
mediums and more men needless
ly applied for work. Company
officials said Saturday the com
pany is running on "slow bell"
and has its hands full trying to
find enough work for its old employes.
BASTION
NOTICE
The ennuol meeting of the Members of the
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
of Klamath Falls will be held Wednesday,
January 21 at 2 p. m. at First Federal Savings
and Loan Association's office at Sixth and
Main.
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Eldora DeMots
P FI GIRLS
EKE DEFENSE I
"National defense may give
the Camp Fire girl new interests
and duties to perform." says
Eldora DeMots, associate field
secretary of the Camp Fire Girls
for the northwest district, "but it
gives her good reason, too, to
carry on what she has been do
ing in service to her home and
community, only doing it better
than she ever has before.
Tall and friendly, with a hum
orous twinkle in her eye. Miss
DeMots is particularly gratified
in these times to be carrying on
a program of education in Camp
Fire leadership and membership
extension. For the past three
years she has concentrated her
work in the states of Washing
ton, Oregon, Montana and Idaho.
The second Camp Fire law,
"Give Service," holds the spot
light these days for 300,000 Camp
Fire Girls, according to Miss De-
Mots, who points out that by
stressing this phase each girl
may carry out her regular pro
gram, winning honors in the
seven crafts, at the same time
contributing to the national
emergency.
"Our purpose is to provide
well-rounded personal develop
ment through group experience,"
Miss DeMots explains. "The girl
who enters into the spirit of the
Camp Fire program not- only
should increase her skill, but
find enriching experiences."
In line with this constructive
aim, Miss DeMots points to a
national high school poll carried
out by the older Camp Fire Girls
this year to determine popular
ity among their classmates of
The Three-M s," movies, maga
zines and microphones. The girls
have put their finger on high
school tastes in entertainment.
according to Miss DeMots, and
startled their elders with con
structive criticisms and sugges
tions for improvement in the
three fields that they tackled.
"There is an educational pur
pose behind all the fun that
Camp Fire Girls have," Miss De-
Mots explains. We hope to give
each member a happy group ex
perience and at the same time
teach her cooperative living
which forms the backbone of
democracy.
We want to bring out creative
ness, originality and self-expres
sion. That is why we have such
a wide program of handicrafts,
citizenship projects, nature lore,
study of the home, and so on.
covering over a thousand fascin
ating things to do. Through these
actmties-w i t h-a-purpose, each
girl can find something which
specially appeals to her."
Born in Minnesota, Miss De-
Mots has behind her a long pio
neer ancestry from the Nether
lands. She took her B.A. de
gree at Fresno college, where she
majored in health, physical edu
cation and recreation. She was
in charge of the health and phy
sical education department of
the Kern county high school and
junior college in Bakersfield,
Calif., before coming into the
Camp Fire Girls organization. A
college course in group leader
ship led to Miss DeMots' interest
in the program of the Camp Fire
Girls. Later, when she began
teaching, she became guardian
a Kimm falls
DECEMBER BIG
COST MONTH,
SAYSTREASURY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 0P
The treasury reported today it
spent in December, the first
month of the war, more than in
any other month in United
States history.
December expenditures ag
gregated $2,557,103,354, includ
ing $1,846,555,311 for direct
defense activities. This exceed
ed by a half-billion dollars the
peak spending of the World war,
which was $2,061,000,000 in De
cember, 1918, the month after
the armistice.
The December figures were
announced as the new war bud
get, calling for the greatest
spending effort in world annals,
went to the printers.
The total of direct defense
costs in December reflected the
sharpest set-up since the begin
ning of the defense program ear
ly in 1940. The December
total exceeded November de
fense spending by $400,000,000
and was more than three times
the size of defense spending last
January.
Also, the treasury statement
of its finances on December 31
showed results of the first half
of the current fiscal year. In
those six months, the treasury
spent $11,552,859,863 including
$8,214,186,367 for defense, took
in revenues of $4,165,910,978 and
had a deficit of $7,386,948,885.
These were all records for a six
months period.
The war brought still an
other record, with the sale of
$536,285,664 of defense savings
bonds in December. This was
more than double monthly
sales figures of other recent
months, and eclipsed the month
ly record of $349,818,000 last
May when the defense savings
program began.
President Roosevelt and Bud
get Director Harold D. Smith,
after working through the New
Year's holiday, sent all but a
few pages of the history-making
budget to be set up in type.
Those final pages were practic
ally done, too, but were held for
possible last minute changes.
Contents of the budget a
book of about 1000 pages of
small type were still secret and
guarded to prevent premature
disclosure before presentation
to congress some day next week.
But the president already has
hinted publicly at war costs of
$50,000,000,000 for the next fis
cal year (the 12 months begin
ning July 1, 1942), indicating a
total federal budget of Toughly
$55,000,000,000 after allowing
for non-military activities.
of a group, and directed camp in
Bakersfield for four summers.
In 1931 she joined the nation
al staff of the Camp Fire Girls.
Miss DeMots, who has attended
summer sessions of Fresno col
lege, the University of Califor
nia, University of Hawaii, and
Columbia, is alert to modern edu
cational methods and believes
that the recreational setting of a
Camp Fire group stimulates girls
to learn through their own ex
perience. Miss DeMots will meet with
the Camp Fire council, of which
Mrs. Percy Murray is president,
at noon January 7. She will be
a guest at a dinner meeting of
Camp Fire Guardians, Wednes
day evening, Jan. 7 in the Blue
room at the Willard hotel, 6:30
p. m.
Read the Classified page.
I he distributor and
producers of Oregon
dedicate the...
ear.on.4th Hntm Building
Portlsnd, Orton
THE EVENING HERALD.
Duchess Heads
List of World's
10 Best Dressed
NEW YORK, Jnn. 5 (UP)
The Duchess of Windsor heads
the list of the world's 10 best
dressed women, replacing Mrs.
Harrison Williams who held
the place five years, it was an
nounced today.
The duchess last year re
ceived only two votes from the
50 designers, fashion editors and
stylists who select the list.
This year's list also included:
Second and third places, tied
by Mrs. Stanley Mortimer und
Mrs. Byron Foy; 4, Mrs. Har
rison Williams; 5, Mrs. Rodman
Arturo de Heeren; 6, Mrs.
Thomas Shevlin; 7, Mrs. Felipe
A. Espil (wife of Argentinian
ambassador to the U. S.); 8, Mrs.
Robert W. Miller, Burlingame,
Calif.; 9, Mrs. Robert Sherwood,
and 10, Rosalind Russell.
Rosalind Russell, the only
Hollywood name on the list,
Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Mortimer,
Mme. Espil and Mrs. De Heer
en, replace such standbys of pre
vious years as Barbara Hutton,
Mrs. Gilbert Miller, Gladys
Swarthout, Mrs. Harold Talbot,
Gertrude Lawrence and Ina
Claire, all of whom received
some votes.
Latest figures released by the
Klamath county school district
Monday, show a total of 3819
students actually in attendance
at schools throughout the coun
ty. Total registration amounts
to 4409, but it was pointed out
that this figure probably con
tains many duplications due to
families moving about in the
county.
Largest registration was re
ported at Altamont junior high
school, with 422 students in at
tendance. Smallest school regis
trations are at Weyerhaeuser
camp on the Green Springs
mountain and at Modoc Point,
with 10 students registered in
each school.
Two Accidents,
No Injuries on
Klamath List
Two minor accidents were re
corded for the Klamath district
weekend, but no injuries had
been reported. Chiloquin was
the scene Saturday evening for
a minor collision between Elmer
Andrew Peeler and Willard Hull,
both of Chiloquin. The accident,
which occurred on the main
street, was caused by an icy
road surface.
Late Saturday night, Floyd L.
Thomas of Midland and C. E.
Moss of Tennant were involved
in a collision near Worden. Icy
surface and soft road shoulders
were held responsible for the ac
c.'dent. FRIENDS DESPITE IT ALL
LOS ANGELES, (P) Evicted
from their home, a couple moved
the household furniture onto the
sidewalk and left a German
Shepard dog on guard.
Still guarding, the dog allows
only one person to approach
the manager of the house from
which his master was evicted.
The manager feeds the dog.
FOR RENT
TRUCKS and BICYCLES
You D ive Move Yourself
Save 54 Long and
Short Trips.
STILES' BEACON SERVICE
Phone 8304 1201 East Main
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
FARM
GOI
HITS 20-YEAR
PEAK IN 1941
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 M
The agriculturo department re
ported Saturday that prelimi
nary estimates indicated farm
ers received a total cash income,
including government benefit
payments, of $11,600,000,000 in
1941. the highest slnco 1920.
This estimate compares with
a 1940 income of $9,120,000,000
and with a depression low of $4,
682.000,000 in 1932.
Officials have predicted that
0k HERE ARE SOME TYPICAL VALUES:
ail
(WTM. Girls' Coots. Were 7.98. Now pPA
fe JVyK 0n'y 4 f ,heS! W'fh f Wi,hout ,UI" in Q" W001 aE''''
fy 0t W0' Qn r0yn' ""''
W--A Women's Coats. Wcr 9.98 and 10.98. Now r
I V n ' '"y women will get one of these stunning sports gf 3(J
VJi'Dsg" 1"a ll 's coats! Warm fleeces and tweeds. in all wool, wool tk
nd ry0n' '2'52'
frxr Women's Coats. Wore 12.98. Now n ...
: JJ V There are only 23 of these beautifully tailored sports tU
I coats left! Fine all wool fleeces and tweeds. Some III
rt. Afl . with rayon. 12-44. I ,W
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HISS Women's Coats. Were 14.98 and 16.98. Now mm nA
rttAfct' 37 sports and dress coats In the smartest styles of II J ZtV
yjor" the season! Even fur-trim included. All wool, wool I I
U o wit'1 ryn' '2-44. I I
z Fur-Trimmed Coats. Were 24.75. New aa
M fli-illfti eftR 4! That's oil! Furred cosuols and dress coats. Fine 1 tl IO
M NvVV wool and rayon blends. 12-44.
v Q Better Coats. Were 29.95. Now 4 n
Yi. tkl V J usf 4 .. They won't last long! Dress coats In fine mrM
woolen fabrics. All wool or wool with rayon. 12-44. JF I .
Ill L1 0
sjefv; Sport Coots. Were 8.98. Now Hi CO
gL-a Just 13 of these warm fleece and tweed sport coats 3U
1 left. In wool and wool with rayon. 12-44. 0
f (pllrObs- Womon's Suits. Were $14.98. Now mm mm -
'4 mannish tailored and dressmaker suits In tweeds Tl Tfl 3U
i and plain colors.
CATAIOO ORDER SERVICE '4lPkJMW W
saves you money on thousands flfirmFvVry Jf -v
of Items we haven't room to stockl mYTIV m A
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PAYMENT PIAN TELEPHONE 3188 NINTH STREET, Cor. Pine jf JFCyr
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farm Income In 1042 would ex
ceed $13,000,000,000.
Benefit payments in 1041 to
taled $600,000,000 compared
with $7(15,71)9,000 In 1U40 and
with $807,065,000 ill 11)30.
Tim cash Income for major
commodities for 1940 and 1941
respectively, included:
Wheat $447,044,000 mid $710,
000,000; corn $:t9,777,000 und
$330,000,000; oats $58,590,000
and $77,000,000; barloy $46,860,
000 and $52,000,000; liny $00,
515,000 and $90,000,000.
Citrus fruits $130,870,000 and
$152,000,000; apples $01,417,000
und $120,000,000.
Truck crops $397,770,000 and
$513,391,000; potntoes $165,062.
000 mid $158,000,000; sugar
boots $54,749,000 and $58,405,
000; nuts $440,233,000 mid SBIO,
000,000; dairy products $1,52(1,
702,000 and $1,860,000,000; wool
$110,058,000 and $143,000,000.
Read the Classified page.
Dorothy Thompson
Granted Divorce
WOODSTOCK, Vt Jan. B
IJlh Tim mnrrlnffn of Dorothy
Thompson, nowapnper column
ist, and Sinclair Lewis, auinnr
and playwright, has ended In
divorce.
She won the decree, which
will become absolute Feb. 1.
after testifying Friday that
she last saw Lewis In April,
1037, and that he had reiterated
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pressed desire to tormlnnta their
marital relationship.
Custody of the couplo's
year-old a on, Michael, wits' 9
awarded Ml Thompson. No
flnanclnl arrangements were
considered In the court.
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about twlco as strong as onk.
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