f r I I
0 blackout oigna
i Mhii ir nniip in in uiiri m .
Ont S-mlnute blast on sirens and whlstlas
li the signal lor a bUckout In Klamath
Falls. Another long blast, during bUck
out, li a ilgnal lor all-olaar. In precau
tionary perlodi, watch your treat llghti.
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I PRIC" ' ... KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6. 1942 Number 9477 ' - ,
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News ANOTHER JAP 1--: tr: iTTrii?" BRITISH BASE
I X J iiiinpiiin nmu t
By FRANK JENKINS
I1HKS1DENT Roosevelt, uddrcw
lug congress and tho notion
on the atato of the union, says
tho war program for the nex
fluent yrur (beginning July 1
1042) will rrauirc .Id billion dol
lura moro thnn hulf of our es
timated natlonnl income.
Thnt. ho addrd, "meuna toxei
and bonda and bond and taxes
It mcana cutting luxtirlca one
other non-vucntliila. In a word
Alt moan on ALL-OUT wor by
"'Individual effort and family cf
fort In a united country."
JJERE U our anawer:
"If our aona and our broth
era and our nephews and our
cousins con tuka it on tho fight
Ing fronts, WE CAN TAKE IT
AT HOME.
"THEY can Hike It
They proved thnt apectne
ularly at Wake. Thcy'ro proving
it over and over, day after day,
In the unequal, lnat-atand fight
ing tit Corregldor and tho Butan
peninsula.
We can take It, too.
TTIIE time la hore to laugh off
the 86 billion and all the
. other billions that may bo need'
Oed.
Dollar no 1 0 n t r count;
they're now only device for
measuring productive effort.
The thing that count are
plane, tanks, ships and gun.
Our job at homo I to produce
theie things in greater volume
than such thing were ever pro
duced before since the world be
gan.
AFTER, all, our task here at
home 1 a simple one.
In the past, we've produced
the thing that go to make liv
ing fuller and richer and more
pleasant. Thing uch as auto
mobile and radio and mechani
cal refrigerator and electrical
appliance of all kinds. All the
thing that have kept our stand
ard of living rising steadily. We
have produced these things In
vast abundance.
Now, suddenly, our need 1
Jfor weapon with which, to de
fend this American way of life
we have been so happily build'
Ing up.
All we have to do to meet this
need I to turn our productive
energy Into producing weapon
Instead of device for making liv
ing richer and fuller and pleas
enter. TN order to do that, we shall
have to DO WITHOUT (tern
porarlly) the things that have
made our American way of lifo
o pleasant for we haven't the
capacity to produce both kinds
of things at onco.
And if wo don't produco wcap
ons we need we may LOSE our
pleasant Amorican way of living
""EASE worrying about taxes,
Cease worrying about DOL
LARS. Dollar ore only COUNT
ERS In this game wo are called
-upon to play.
J If we work loyally and effi
ciently, if we produco to tho ex
tant of our great capacity the
tning we must novo to win the
war and leurn intelligently to
do without (temporarily) the
thing we don't HAVE to have,
if each of us docs hi Job in tho
best xvny ho know how, tho dol
.Inrs will bo forthcoming to pay
whatover taxes novo to bo paid.
When wo stop thinking in
terms of THINflS. w win imun
begun to make real progress.
rjON'T get excited. Don't hoard.
Don't try to do without the
things that are present in abund
ance uch as food and clothing
and shelter. (After all, metals
and rubber, certain chemicals,
-.tc, are about all we're short of).
Jut go ahead and do your
lob the best you can, accept what
deprivations are necessary with
out complaining, buy what there
is to bo had (and there will be
plenty of a lot of things). Do
your share to keep the useful
life of the nation going at full
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HAnan r nnAi r
DESTROYED
Manila Bay Defenses
Down Seven Planes
In Strong Raid
' WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 UP)
Tho war deportment said today
that It seemed "probable" that
on additional enemy warship
had been sunk by ormy bomb
ers in tho raid off Davao In the
southern Philippine whero a
Jnpanrae battleship was hit
three times.
Later Information, the tie
partmcnt sold, mode It appear
probable that more than one de
stroyer was sunk in the raid
first told of yesterday. Then It
snld also thnt numerous hits
were made on other vessels
which were believed to have
wrought great damago.
But today, the army said, U
S. plane had come upon
Japanese fleet of one battleship,
five cruisers, six destroyer,. .12
submarines and 12-transports,
'Additional Information indi
cate, the army reported, "the
damage inflicted on enemy ves
sels was probably greater than
first reported."
Br The Associated Press
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
let allp what seemed an ad'
mission today that Japanese
troop have mado little pro
gress In attempting to drive
Cen. D o u g 1 a Mac Arthur's
force back into Baton penin-
ula, and more good new came
with the reported arrival of
American aerial reinforcements
In the Philippine conflict.
U. S. anti-aircraft gunners
wore officially reported to have
hit at least seven Japanese
planes during a four-hour aerial
assault yesterday upon Cor
regldor Island fortress and Marl
veles. Casualties Light
Marlveles lies at the southern
tip of Bantan peninsula, near
Corregldor Island at the en
trance of Manila bay.
A war department communi
que said SO Japanese planes
took part In the attacks but
that 'material damage and cas
ualties were light."
The war deportment added:
"While ground activity was
considerably less than on the
previous day, enemy pressure
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Fiqure-Viary
Women Start
Girdle Run
Husbands may hiko to work
and cotton stockings may sweep
the country, but the women of
Klamath Falls apparently have
no Intention of losing tholr fig
ure to Iho national emergency.
Specialty shops about town re
port a sudden flurry in the
glrdlo market touched off by
tho reported clamp-down on
rubber.
Motivated by a firm determin
ation to be prepared for any
emergency, Klamath's feminine
contingent la demanding two
girdles where before one was
enough and ordering ahead,
for good measure.
Store buyers, however, antici
pate no immediate shortage.
Spring order nre already mode
up and ready for shipment, ny
lon should fill up tho greater
part of any shortage, and so far
government regulation do not
apply to rubber yarn already
mado up. Stool stay for the figure-conscious
aro fast becoming
a thing of the past but at the
present, a return to the whale
bone contraption grandmother
wore seems remote.
"And anyway." the w e a r v
shopper glgh, "If we can't use
the car, we'll walk It off." I
u ' r ,4,989'48 - mill I
Needed ' .1 QLJ EJ
ASStV'-;-; ..m" IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS .oio.sa " RED CROSS
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Klamath Indians are activity Interestad in helping "lick the Japs" through defense bond pur
chases. Individual Indians have already bought S235.000 worth of bonds, and the Investment of
I190.00Q or more In tribal fund ha bean proposed br .the lndlan,,Th above picture was takan
at Klamath Agency Monday, showing a group looking ovar. thaU aatoposal to co tgrasa Jo, pernJat
fhb Invoitma'nt of tb tribal cash. Left to rlghti Agancy Superintendent. B. G. CourtrighU ,Lvi
Walkar, tribal delegate Dice Crane, praiident of the business committee, and A. M. Collier, coun
ty defense savings chairman. v .
Right-of-Way.Will Be
Purchased for Use
After Emergency
South Sixth street widening
to four lanes will be assured by
Immediate purchase of right-of-way,
but construction is "not in
the cards" until after the present
emergency the state highway
commission disclosed Tuesday.
Following up surveys and
right-of-way negotiations that
have been underway for several
months ,tho commission at Port
land this week voted to go ahead
with the acquisition of property
to give South Sixth an 80-foot
right-of-way. This indicates in
tcntlon to construct a four-lnnc
highway on this heavily traveled
section.
Highway commissioners stated
that work will not begin until
after tho war Is over. Construc
tion cannot stop until tho end of
the emergency because tho South
Sixth Job has not been approved
by tho army as a defense meas
urc, It was reported.
The commissioners said In
Portland they would go ahead
on the right-of-way purchase be
cause they have already been
committed on the South Sixth
program.
British Offensive
Against Nazis Seen
'Cinched' by F. R.
LONDON. Jan. 6 (AV-British
observers who have been pre
dicting that Britain will launch
a direct offensive against Ger
many this year tonight declared
it had been "cinched" by the
refcrenco to stationing Amer
ican forces in tho British Isles
mado by President Roosevelt In
his m ingo to congress.
Tho British man and woman
in the street lapsed into
Americanism to call the mes
sage "terrific" and "okay" and,
from early Indications, tho en
tiro British press planned to
give tho speech wldo play and
columns of fnvorablo editorial
comment.
There was no Imniedinto of
ficial reaction, but from the
broad smile in certain quarters,
thero wo no doubt tho message
evoked tromendtnis satisfaction.
i ' - . -.
BUY,
Sevastopol Garrison Cuts
Nazi Ring in Crimea War
By The Associated Press
Russia's long-besieged gar
rison at Sevastopol appeared to
have broken German lines
around that key Black sea naval
base today, while soviet trans
ports boldly attempted to land
troops on the Crimean west
coast 40 miles to the rear of
tho nazl siege armies.
Front-line dispatches said
Russian troops had sallied forth
from Sevastopol, advancing at
a number of points to smash
German outposts and destroy
fortifications.
Lin Broken
At the same time, the Berlin
radio acknowledged that the
red armies had broken "the
German main line" before Mos
cow perhaps referring to the
vital Mozhaisk sector, 57 miles
west of the Russian capital,
where the Germans have con
centrated powerful forces.
A bulletin from Adolf Hit
ler's field headquarters, indicat
ing that the Russians are now
in full command of the Black
sea waters around the Crimea,
said German warplo'nes bombed
soviet troop transports off
Yevpatoriya, 40 miles north of
Sevastopol.
The communique said three of
tho Russian transports were
damaged and a protecting speed
boat was sunk.
Trap Laid
It seemed clear that the Rus
sians, already over-running the
Contributions Received by Red
Cross in War Relief Campaign
Contributions previous
ly acknowledged $4733.38
Contributions received
Tuesday $ 235.90
Total $4989.48
Not quite eleven dollars to
go, and Klamath will have
reached the half-way mark on
its drivo to raise $10,000 for
the Red Cross $50,000,000 war
relief fund.
' Individual contributions pour
ed in Tuesday to a total of
$235.00:
Mrs. C. E. Newcom $ 1.00
A Friend, Keno 1. 00
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J.
Schmitz, Beatty 1.00
W. E. PhilHpson, Beatty.. 1.00
General Fund, Beatty 90
A Friend, Fort Ord,
Calif 1.00
Mr. Walter West ,. 2.00
Verna Ostrom 2.90
E. G. Kay 2.80 1
n 7 -.' ' J
eastern Crimea in a tempestu
ous counter-invasion, were seek
ing to gain a toehold on the
west coast where they could
trap the Germans by cutting
off the escape route north to
the narrow Perekop isthmus.
Dispatches to the soviet gov
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Farm Bloc Demands
Price Authority
For Secretary
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (IP)
Claiming support of at least 42
senators, the senate farm blol
agreed today to demand that
the secretary of agriculture be
given equal authority in fixing
price ceilings for any farm pro
duct or article manufactured
from form products.
Senator Bankhead (D-AIa.)
said ('general agreement" on his
proposed amendment to the
price-fixing bill awaiting senate
action Wednesday was reached
at a closed conference of sen
ators from agricultural areas
held In the senate agrlrulture
committee room today.
"No ona was bound by our
session but it looks pretty good
for senate passage of my amend
ment," Bankhead told reporters.
The amendment will require
"prior . approval" by the sec
retary of agriculture for any
price maximums established by
the price administrator under
the proposed legislation.
Mr, and Mrs. A. L.
Harvey 2.00
Ed Gordon 2.00
Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Call.. 2.00
Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Gustafson . 1.00
Bruco Hull 2.00
H. P. Bosworth, Jr. 10.00
H. Ringsmyer 2.50
Wlllard Hotel 25.00
Katherine Lanier .....
Albert Cametto
Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
8.00
2.50
Smimmln. 8.00
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Bliss 2.00
Ladclla Harnden 1.00
Veneta Hunter 2.00
Klamath Lank No. 460,
Vasa Order of America 8.00
Mr. and Mrs, Clifford
' P. Lowe -2.00
Wesley McKaig
Joe Milan!
6.00
1.80
Dorothy F. Revell 8.00
Mr. and Mr. Harold
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Fresh Attacks Force
- Singapore Defense
Lines Back
SINGAPORE, Jan. 6 (P) The
tide of battle, rolling down the
Malayan peninsula, crept nearer
to - Singapore today as hard
pressed British forces yielded
further ground at both ends of
the ill-defined front under fresh
Japanese attacks by land and
sea.
On the eastern side of the
peninsula, a communique dis
closed, British troops were
forced to withdraw yesterday
from Kuantan, only 190 miles
from Singapore.
Sixth Stata
On the western side, the Ma
layan war front moved south.
ward into another, the sixth,
native -ruled . state as Japanese
forces filtrated down the Malac
ca straits coast into Selangor.
Japanese appearing in the
area of Kuala Selangor, 240
miles from Singapore, were be
lieved intent upon planking the
British out of their positions
farther north along the Perak
river. ;
The British said these Japa
nese - -detachments- apparently
were a part of the force which
landed along the lower Perak,
60 miles north of Kuala Selan
gor, on January 2 and "which
then moved southward, along a
coastal footpath. - "r-Tr
Air Threat
Kuantan, 190 miles from Sin
gapore, on the east coast, is
connected with . central south
Malaya by a single poor road
through roughest jungle coun
try infested with tigers and
crocodiles.
. (London military .commenta
tors pointed out that possession
of the airport at Kuantan, now
would permit the Japanese to
send their bombers with fitrhtor
escorts to raid Singapore).
Japanese infiltrations inland
along this road, official quar
ters said, already had "inter
ferred" with British troop
movements westward and had
resulted in casualties on both
sides.
From Kuala Selangor, good
roads run eastward and to the
railroad to the south which con
nects with Kuala Lumpur, sec
ond largest and most important
city in Malaya still in British
hands. Kuala Lumpur is the
center of a rubber producing
district.
Today's war bulletin said
there had been no landings
south of Kuala Selangor, how-
J. E. Bodge, New
Year's Eve Auto
Victim, Succumbs
John Edward Bodge, 71, for
the past 36 years a familiar fig
ure in Klamath Falls and one
of its best known residents, died
Monday afternoon at Klamath
Valley hosnital. Mr. Bnrlee nf.
fered injuries about 5 o'clock
xvew i ear's eve when he was
struck by a car at Eighth and
Main streets. His hurts wera
not considered serious and Sun
day he seemed in good spirits
and was ablo to be in a wheel
chair. Coirmlicationa develnneri
which caused his death.
Mr. Bodge was born Fehrnnrv
17, 1870, in Ohio. Ho came to
Klamath Falls in 1905 and nin.
ed a tailoring shop and for a
numDer or years operated under
the firm of Alt and Bodge, later
runnins his own bus! ripen Ma
had a tailoring shop on North
Eighth street at the time of his
death.
An ardent snnrtsman. Mr.
Bodge enjoyed hunting and fish
ing. He suffered a broken leg
while fishing on the Rogue river
a number of vaar aen. nnH nonln
broke his hip, both injuries con
fining him to hi bed for a num
ber of months.
Mr. Bodffa in fsurvlvprl hv hlis
wife, Mrs. Daisy Bodge of Port
land, and one daughter, Mrs.
John (Janet) Holnier of near
uinuviu.
125,000 Planes
To Be Built in
1943, Says F. R;
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP) President Roosevelt,
assuring the nation of ultimate victory in "a bloody war,"
told congress today the war program for the next fiscal
year would require $56,000,000,000, to help produce
185,000 airplanes and 120,000 tanks by the end of 1943.
All Over World
To hit the enemy "wherever and whenever we can
reach him," Mr. Roosevelt said American armed forceg
would operate all over the world, including the British
isles and the far east ; -
Cheered time after time in the delivery of a message
to a joint session of the house and senate, the president
told of vast production plans which, he remarked grimly,
lOnly Small Fraction
Escaped Changsha
Defeat, Claim
, CHUNGKING, Jan. 6 (P)
Forty thousand Japanese troops
are caught in a Chinese trap on
the plains between the Laotao
and Liuyang Rivers northeast of
, Changsha In Hunanprovfhce and
Chinese forces are confident qf
wiping out most of them, a Chi
nese spokesman said today.
- Estimating that the Japanese
had suffered 30,000 casualties in
the -battle before Changsha, the
spokesman said only 30,000 of
the original force of 100,000 had
escaped toward their jumping off
point at Yochow, 100 miles to
the north.
i Reduction
The spokesman's estimate of
30,000 casualties was a reduction
from previous estimates of 52,-
000.
The Japanese had retreated
more than 10 miles from the Hu
nan province capital, dispatches
said. i
The third major Japanese de
feat at Changsha in three years
was attributed to their inability
to move heavy armament south
of the Milo river because of water-filled
rice fields and oblitera
tion of the ; roads by Chinese
forces who for the first time
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1
Log Operators
Assured Tire
Needs Covered
Klamath county logging truck
operators were -.assured Tuesday
that their operations came with
in the scope of'truck tire allot
ments and thati they need not
worr yabout curtailment of oper
ations due to a tire shortage.
The assurance, was given by
Don Drury, , chairman of the
county tire rationing committee.
He said that logging trucks fell
into the classification of raw pro
ducts conveyors and were defi
nitely covered.
Drury warned truck owners,
however, that applications should
be mado now for tires which
may be needed later this spring.
Each monthly allotment, he said,
must be taken up because one
month's ration will not carry
over to the next if It is not en
tirely taken up. The chairman
asked operators to make their
applications as soon as possible.
"We do not as yet have statis
tics on the number of tires used
each year by Klamath loggers,"
Drury said, "but I don't doubt
that the Klamath county truck
quota will be sufficient to han
dle the county's needs. How
ever," he asserted, "tires will
not be allotted if present rubber
will stand re-treading."
Drury's statements were seen
as laying to rest lumbermen's
fears that the tire rationing pro
gram would result in a serious
curtailment of . lumber produc
tion, an industry vital to na
tional defense. .
The Klamath county allotment
Is 150 truck tires and 64 pas
senger car tire per month.
would give tne Japanese and
nazis "a little idea of just
wnat tney accomplished m
the attack on Pearl Harbor."
He disclosed these production
plans: .
1942 60,000 planes (10,000
more than the goal set a year
ago), 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti
aircraft guns, 8,000,000 dead
weight tons of merchant ship
ping. 1943 125,000 planes, 75,003
tanks, 35,000 anti-aircraft gun
and 10,000,000 tons of shipping.
"Give It Back"
Admonishing the tense legis
lators and others gathered in th
crowded ' house chamber thai
America may suffer further set"
backs in this war, the president
asserted that American fighters'
wiIL"?ive back with conv
pound interest to'the axis." v
A page boy, sitting in tho
aisle, led his elders in enthusi
astic applause as the president
asserted that the Japanese had
failed in their plan to stun the
American people by the sneak
attack on Pearl harbor. .
A noisy demonstration came
when he said that the stars and
stripes again would fly over the
Pacific isles of Wake and Guam.
The first outburst of apulause
came early in the speech when
Mr. Roosevelt said that the na
tion s spirit "was never higher."
Figures Applauded
When he started to outline the
nation's new production prcK
gram, applause greeted his enu
merations, and a low whistle
arose from the floor when ha.
spoke of 45,000 tanks this year.
rne president diverted from
his prepared text to say of the
armament program: '
"I hope that all these figures
I have given will become com
mon knowledge in Germany and
Japan."
Handclapping broke out when
the president said that he and
Prime Minister Churchill of Brit
ain understood each other. Mr.
Roosevelt'si wish for Churchill's
safe return home was seconded
by applause from the senators
and representatives. -
Mr. Roosevelt completed read
ing his address at 1:11 p. m
(EST), after speaking 36 minutes
and the legislators arose, ap
plauding and shouting. . . '
Time Short
In his speech, the chief execu
tive laid emphasis on the fact
that America's task is hard and
unprecedented, and the time to
perform it is short.
He spoke of sacrifices to coma
and said that it would appear in
his budget message tomorrow
that "our war program for the
coming fiscal year will cost fifty
six billion dollars, or, in other
words more than one-half of the
estimated national income." .
All-Out Effort
"This means taxes and bonds
and bonds and taxes," Mr, Roose
velt asserted. "It means cutting
luxuries and other non-essentials.
In a word, it means an
"all-out" war by Individual ef
fort and family effort in a unit
ed country."
The chief executive mentioned
American reverses at the outset
of the conflict, but he declared
that "powerful and offensive ac
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