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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942
Number 9480
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By FRANK JENKINS
"TWO brief dispatches todoy
toll tho story of the South
rfieas fighting.
Here ii ono:
"In Uio Philippines the Jap
anese, pouring In a itcudy stream
of reinforcements to multiply
their numerical superiority,
inasod for an all-out uttnek
agalmt the remnants of Cuncrul
Douglas MucArthur's wenry
army northwest of Mnnllu."
Hero Is the other:
O "On tho Muluy peninsula the
British are being forced back
relentlessly by tho weight of un
ceasing enemy drives which are
carrying the battle flugs of Nip
pon ever closer to tho greut
Singapore stronghold.
OU hava read and thrilled to
the story of Lconldas and his
Creeks who held the puss of
Thermopylae against the Persian
hordes.
On the Island of Luion and
the Malay peninsula a similar
nrutrntlmi Is taking nlucc.
MacArthur and his Amcrlcons
and Filipinos and tho British
Kotnninla nra mnklnff a lust ditch
fight against superior enemy
forces to UAiN unit, tor me or
ntntyntlnn nf an adenuoto do
fonse against tho Japs in trj
U That Is What Lconldas did at
Thermopylae.
THE Persian hordes of Darius
tramntort nvap Leonidna and
his 14UU Greeks and captured
and ournea Ainens, sui in uk
tlms gained at Thermopylae tho
lllrri r.rcrlf fleets rallied and
came together and destroyed the
Persian fleet in a great c-ouie ai
ssiamis.
THERE aro signs todoy that in
A their all-out effort to smnsh
Manila and Singapore beforo al
lied resistance can bo orgunlzcd
lit tho South Seas the Japs have
weakoned themselves farther
north.
Chungking reports that Chi
nese armies have penetrated the
outer defenses of Canton and
Nanchang and that the Japs are
still rotrcatlng from Changsha,
sdnp air strength In China has
Ween so weakened that tho small
Chinese air force has been able
to take the offensive on several
occasions.
Chungking also reports that
Chlneso troops In British Burma
are moving up to "designated
positions and that more Chi
nese troops are ready to enter
Burma.
Burma Is a threat on the flank
and rear of the Jap drive toward
Singapore.
THE bad news continues today
as yesterday, to como from
the South Seas and tho good
news from Russia and Africa.
The Russians claim to have
virtually broken tho sieges of
Leningrad and Sevastopol. Mean
while, Premier Slkorski of the
Polish govcrnmcnt-ln-exllo in
London asserts that in the next
three months the Qermans will
be hurled back to a line based
fn Smolensk, 210 miles west of
floseow, und odds: "Tho careless
ness of Hitler has been so great
I would not bo surprised if he
had failed to propnro ANY new
defense lines In his rear."
THAT is ono man's opinion, of
course. But carelessness on
the part of a commander can be
FATAL.
At Smolensk, on his way to
Moscow in 1812, Napoleon was
strongly advised by his generals
to pause and bring up supplies
and organize his campaign sys
tematically. But Napoleon, like
Hitler, was IN A HURRY. Ho
wanted to SMASH RUSSIA, and
ho COULDN'T WAIT.
So ho pressed on recklessly.
His failure to organize his sup
ply lines In tho rear was respon-
aims' for tho starvation and do-
Viorallzation of his Grando
Armee demoralization so com-
, pleta that of the nearly half a
, million who entered Russia In
June only 8800 answered the
' roll-call after the disastrous
(Continued on Page Two)
Crdp Values Set Record
RECLAMATION
LANDS YIELD
$8,000,000 Grossed
On Farms Inside
USRS Project
Klamath reclamation project
farmers have experienced the
biggest year In gross agricultur
al returns in the history of pro
duction in this area, with an
average crop and livestock re
turn to $04.28 per acre, accord
ing to officials of the US bureau
of reclamation. This figure per
tains to the Main and Tule lake
divisions of the Klamath project.
Furmors who have weathered
killing frosts, poor mnrkct
prices, as well as topnotch years,
huvo seen nothing like this since
1036, when tho agriculture re
turns per acre averaged $77.86.
The 1040 figure was given as
$60.16. These are the throo out
standing years sine -1030, rec
lamation officials stated. ' "
An estimated $8,824,993 crop
was harvested on the project dur
ing the past year according to
government figures, surpassing
the better than avera'go year of
1B40, when the crop totaled $5,
$42,080. A total of 12,074 carloads of
hay, grain, livestock, potatoes,
small seeds, wool and sugar
beets, were shipped from. Janu
ary 1 to December 31, 1941,
from tho Klamath project. It was
loarned and following is a table
which shows tho monthly car
(Continued on Page Two)
Sugar Rationing
Eyed as Curb on
Hoarding, Report
WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 W)
The government may order su
gar rationing for consumers, au
thoritative sources said today, In
order to halt an unwarranted
hoarding epidemic.
Disclosing that such. action was
being considered, these sources
declared that the supply situ.
atlon in Itself did not require
rationing, but that regulation ap
peared necessary to assure an
equltnblo distribution among all
users. Present supplies were said
to be ample, and prospects were
that they would continue suffi
cient throughout tho year.
Nevertheless, officials report
ed, many consumers have been
buying in excess of normal needs
and storing the extra supplies
for use in event of a shortage and
higher prices, such as occurred
In tho first world war. It was
explained that these practices, If
allowed to continue much longer,
might result In acute shortages
later for non-hoarders.
Lumber Workers
Pay
for Red
Contributions previous-
- ly acknowledged $5261.35
Contributions received
Friday 759.55
Total $6020.90
Klamath county's lagging Red
Cross war fund quota was sub
stantially bettered Friday morn
ing when G. A. Krause, head of
the dl Giorgio Fruit corporation,
formerly Klamath Lumber and
Box company, announced that
every employo of the plant had
volunteered to give a half day's
pay to tho Red Cross. A check
for $430.09, representing em
ployo contributions, and a per
sonal check for $100. from Mr.
Krause, accompanied tho an
nouncement. This spontaneous and gener
ous donation led tho Red Cross
board to hope that similar gifts
This
Hare's a sight Americans would Ilka to see rapaated mora
torotdo olana belna lifted from
aircraft or plane attack. This Is
plana was salvaged following
6000 Acres of Tule
Lake Land Sought
For Filings
Homcsteading of the Coppcck
boy area of 6000 acres on Tule
lake was recommended by the
land use and agricultural com
mittees of the Klamath county
chamber of commerce at a joint
meeting Friday.
This was ono of a number of
proposals which the committees
asked Earl Reynolds, chamber
secretary, to carry to reclama
tion officials in Washington,
D. C, on a visit to the capital
at the middle of this month.
The committees proposed that
tho Coppeck bay land be opened
to entry at tho expiration of the
present leases In 194b.
They also suggested that a
study be made of the feasibility
of homestcadliig other reclaimed
lands In the sump area.
The Coppcck bay acreage is a
part of tho sump area set aside
for possible flooding in case of
the presence of excessive water
in the Tule lake area. Use of the
land for this purpose has not
been required, and it has been
leased for farming purposes.
With tho completion of the
Tule lake sump and tunnel pro
ject, chamber committeemen
pointed out, the danger of flood
ing the Coppeck area will be
greatly reduced if not eliminated
because excess Tule lake waters
will be delivered through the
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Give Half-day's
Cross War Relief
will be forthcoming from other
industrial plants of Klamath
county.
To date, 60 per cent of Klam
ath county's $10,000 quota of the
$30,000,000 national Red Cross
war fund has been paid in. No
solicitors, however, havo been
sent out here, and tho $6020.90
so far collected has been volun
tarily contributed. In other
counties of Oregon, full-fledged
drives with door-to-door canvas
sing, have been resorted to.
Voluntary contributions to the
fund are coming in to tho Red
Cross headquarters at tho rato of
about $100 a day. The bulk of
these gifts Is from small donors,
and so far thore has been a rela
tively light response from the
business and industrial districts.
Largo gifts have been received
from a few firms, but by far the
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Is a GOOD Jap Bomber
the water after It was knocked
an official U. S. navy picture
the Japanese attack December 7.
2 Soldiers
Play Dead to
Escape Japs
, ..... .
: (The following dispatch by
39-year-old Clark Lee of Oak
land, Calif. is the first received
from any of the three Associated
Press reporters in the Philip
pines since Dec. 31, and the first
from any American correspond
ent In the islands since the fall
of Manila two days later.
(Lee apparently was able to
evado the Japanese forces which
marched into Manila and reach
Fort Mills on the fortress island
of Corrcgidor, whence he com
municated with San Francisco by
radio. His dispatch did not men
tion his colleagues of the AP
Manila bureau, R. P. Cronln Jr.,
chief of bureau, and Russell
Brines.)
By CLARK LEE
FORT MILLS, Luzon Island,
P. I., Jan. 9 (By Radio) (P) - A
strange story came to light today
In the adventure of five youthful
American soldiers who escaped
encirclement by Japanese invad
ers by a daring ruse in which
three of them "played dead" for
28 hours.
The men were Sgt. Emll Mor
rello and Sgt. R. H. Mitchell, and
Privates William Anson, Joe
Gillis and William M. Hall, all
of Salinas, Calif.
Their unit engaged the Jap
anese in southern Luzon on
Christmas day but was cut off
by an invading force which
greatly outnumbered them.
Mitchell and Anson made their
way through Japanese lines
whilo the other three convinc
ingly played dead. Japanese re
peatedly paused over their pros
trate forms, and one Invader de
tachment ate lunch within a few
feet of them.
All five met in tho hills later
and made their way over rugged
country to r e j o In the main
United States forces.
Marine Lieutenant
Gets Navy Praise
WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 UP).
Marino Lieutenant John Frank
lin Kinney, of Endlcott, Wash.,
was given special praise in a
navy department communique
today for his "outstanding bra
very and fortitude" in the de
fense of Wake island.
Major Paul A. Putnam, who
commanded' the marine air
squadron at Wake, said he
wished to comment particularly
on "the Iik" (fatigablo labor, and
Ingenuity, " skill and . technical
knowledge" of Kinney, The re
port was written December 20
and Putnam said tho fact that
the squadron was operating then
was due largely to the efforts of
Kinney, U ' '
often wreckage of a Japanese
from the skies by U. S. anti
taken at Pearl harbor-where the
British Blast' Effort
To Aid Rommel's
. Desert Army
By The Associated Prats
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 9 With
its land supply routes under al
most incessant assault from the
air, the axis has attempted by
sea to provision the retreating
Libyan corps of General Erwin
Rommel, the British announced
today, but the coastwise ships
drew a storm of direct hits
from the RAF.
"Our air forces operating in
support of our Mobile columns
over a wide area, had a par
ticularly successful day, destroy
ing a number of enemy air
craft in aerial combat," said a
general headquarters commun
ique. "Enemy lines of communica
tion west of El Agheila also
were repeatedly attacked. A
number of direct hits were ob
tained on transport vehicles and
also on coastal shipping which
was being used to bring stores
forward from Tripoli to beaches
at various points on the Gulf
of Sirte."
The supply effort of the axis
indicated that Rommel, falling
back onto El Agheila, at the
Innermost curve of the Gulf
of Sirte, might try to make a
stand there if supplies could be
assured.
- His main force was moving
from the Agedabia area toward
El . Agheila, 70 miles to the
southwest, ahead of a stubborn.
ly resisting rearguard which
used extensive minefields - to
supplement the hazard of mud
in hampering the pursuit of the
British imperials.
Meanwhile, more than 300
miles to the east, units of the
British navy joined with land
artillery and air forces In an
effort to destroy axis hold-out
forces In the Halfaya (Hellfire)
Pass area, along the Egyptian
border of Libya.
Army Inductions
Stepped Up Sharply
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (JP)
Officials disclosed today that In
ductions into the army were be
ing stepped up to double or triple
the peacetime rate, and indica
tions were that the immediate
goal , was a hard-hitting land
force of four million men.
The army is accelerating the
Induction of present registrants,
which include about 1,000,000
already classified as 1A, without
waiting to draw from the 9,000,
000 men between 20 and 44 in
clusive who are expected to reg
ister February 16,
1
SHIP
E
IN EMS
One Killed; Survivors
Reported Safe in
Friendly Port
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (P)
The loss of the ship Ruth Alex
ander of the American President
lines, attacked by an enemy
plane in Netherlands East In
dies waters, was announced to
day by the navy department.
One member of the crew was
killed and four injured, the
navy said. The balance of the
survivors were reported safe in
a friendly port.
The Ruth Alexander was a
vessel of 8000 gross tons.
In the Central Pacific, said
the navy in the communique
telling of the ship's loss, opera
tions continued against enemy
submarines, but the Hawaiian
area was quiet. Coastal de
fense plans, the navy said.
have narrowed enemy sub
marine operations off the west
coast.
The navy also has investigat
ed ""without tangible results," a
report that an enemy submarine
Was operating in New England
waters.
TOKYO, Jan. 9 (Official
Broadcast Recorded . by1; AP)0i-r
Imperial headquarters declared
today the United States aircraft
tender Langley had been sunk
by Japanese airplanes yesterday
southwest of Johnston island.
(The Japanese have previous
ly made various assertions that
they had sunk or damaged the
Langley in what Americans have
construed to be fishing expedi
tions" for information).
Civilian Defense
Board Place Made
For Dean Landis
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (m
A partial reorganization of the
office of civilian defense to give
a large share of its responsibility
to Dean James M. Landis of the
Harvard law school, but with
Mayor LaGuardia of New York
continuing as director, was an
nounced today by the White
House.
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early said Landis would have
the title of "executive" of the
OCD and that he and LaGuardia
would fashion, in consultation,
broad matters of policy.
Early was asked whether Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt would con
tinue as assistant director of the
OCD and replied that he had
heard nothing about the matter.
Landis is to be responsible
for the creation of the necessary
organization to effectuate the
policies decided upon and for
personnel to put the policies into
effect.
Considerable criticism had de
veloped in congress and else
where because LaGuardia was re
taining both his job as mayor
of the nation's largest city and
directing the OCD. Many per
sons had contended he was un
able to devote sufficient time to
civilian defense needs and only
yesterday the house voted to
turn over funds for civilian de
fense to the war department.
PLAN
Tokyo Sounds Possibility of
invading
TOKYO, Jan. 9 (Official broad
cast recorded by AP) The Ja
pan Times and Advertiser, con
trolled by the foreign office, de
clared today it was within the
realm of probability "that the
armed forces of this country will
land on the American continent"
in the Pacific war.
Once such a landing were
made, the newspaper said, "it
will be a simple matter for a
well-trained and courageous
army to sweep everything before
it."
. "Can the United States be In
vaded?" was its heading.
"Tho contention that tho Unit
ed States cannot be invaded," the
article declared, "Is as much a
myth as that the Maginot line
could not be takn, or that Sing
Chinese Army
Threatens Two
Jap Positions
CHUNGKING, Jan. 9 WP
The Chinese reported today that
then forces had penetrated the
outer defenses of two of the
most important Japanese-held
cities of South China, Canton
and Nanchang, capitals of
Kwangtung and Kiangsl prov
inces. The Chinese claimed successes
on a half-dozen other fronts of
Central China and announced
that while fresh expeditionary
forces awaited only the word to
enter British Burma, troops al
ready massed there were taking
up "designated positions," most
ly in northern Burma.
An army communique de
clared that two Chinese columns
had driven into the northern
and northeastern suburbs of Can
ton in the course of an assault
the outer defenses of that
million-population city that be
gan three days ago. Fighting
was still in progress. .
Chinese dispatches said heavy
casualties had been inflicted on
the defenders of Nanchang in an
attack that penetrated the outer
barriers of the city.
Canton and Nanchang have
-- (Continued on Page Two)
SEVASTOPOL SIEGE
Leninarad , Rinq Also
t r Broken by Red v
Army Report
' By The Associated Press
Russia's armies were declared
today to have virtually broken
the . long-drawn sieges of Lenin
grad and Sevastopol, and soviet
dispatches reported that "east
of Leningrad the Germans have
now lost everything they have
been able to capture in the past
three months."
This would indicate that the
invaders had been thrown back
from the eastern arc of then
siege ring, with defenders of
the old czarist capital once
more in direct communication
with the rest of Russia.
Wave After Wave
At one stage of the siege, the
German high command assert
ed that Leningrad was "com
pletely isolated" from the south
and that the only outlet was
the precarious passage across
Lake Ladoga. .
Advices reaching London re
ported that red army storm
troops now were battering the
Germans in wave after wave
in a. sai.guinary four-day-old
battle at Poventsa, at the mouth
of the Stalin canal.
While maps failed to show
Poventsa, presumably it was a
village in the vicinity of Sch
luesselburg, 25 miles east of
Leningrad, where the Neva
river flows into the Stalin
canal.
The canal itself, a link in
Russia's Baltic-to-Arctic water
ways system, extends 100 miles
eastward to Lake Ladoga.
Crimea Siege Broken
.In the Crimea, red army
troops who stubbornly defend
ed Russia's great Black sea
naval base at Sevastopol for
two months were reported sally.
(Continued on Page Two)
West Coast of U. S.
apore and Pearl Harbor are im
pregnable."
Japanese naval craft already
have carried the war near the
Golden Gate and air attack
alarms have sounded in many
Pacific coast cities, "bringing
panic among the frightened citi
zenry," it said.
It said British had invaded
the United States in 1812 be
cause "the American navy was
not strong enough" and declared
"it will be invaded again." The
newspaper's premise was an as
sertion that the US Pacific fleet
had been badly crippled at Pearl
Harbor.
The fall of both the Philip
pines and Singapore was fore
cast soon. After that, the news-
(Continued on Page two)
NAMELESS SUB
HITS VESSEL
NEARJDKYD
New Assault Looming
In Luzon; Malay
Forces Battle
By The Associated Press
Jac-an got a nreview taste .to
day of the thing she dread
most a possible blockade of
her ' densely-populated , island
empire as imperial , headquar
ters ackrinwlpriepd ' an nlllH
submarine raid within 1(1(1 mile
of Tokyo in which the 2223-ton
ireignter . unKai Maru No., 1
was torpedoed and damaged.
" The nationality of the attack
ing craft was not given.
Transport Supply Ships
Previously, a U. S. navy bul.
letin reported that submarines
of the American Asiatic fleet
had sunk a 10,000-ton Japanesa
transport and three 10,000-ton
Japanese supply ships.
in uie fhilinnine camrjaien.
the war department reported
that "combat orjeratinn. hart
dwindled to minor skirmishes"
as the Japanese moved un trnnn
for a climactic drive airainst
Gen. Douglas MacArthur'g
forces on Batan peninsula. ,-
Reports Delayed ,
The navy's communique W8
the-iirst retxHrt-'hr manv rinv.
from the, sizeable .-, undersea
force operating in Far :;ast
waters at the start of the war,
a month asb. but naval nffirini
emphasized that the dangerous
missions of the submarines made
prompt reports foolhardy while
operations are proceeding.
imperial Tokyo headauartorr.
said the attack in Japanese
waters occurred early - yester
day morning off the Izu Shichi-
10 islands, 1W miles south . of
Tokyo and Yokohama. .. .
On the , Malayan fishtlne
front a Tokyo communiaue as
serted that Japanese troops had
driven the British out of defense'
lines at Troika, on the north-'
south Singapore railroad SO
miles north of Kuala Lumpur,
.ssu mues above Slngapoie
where the British had taken a'
new stand. .
Slaughter Reported -
Domei asserted that Jananesa
columns had advanced 20 miles
beyond Tanjong Malim, withirt
30 miles of Kuala Lumnur.
while a German broadcast de
clared that British defenders of
Kuala Lumpur had been cut off
continued on Page Two) v.
Separate Air Force -
Proposal Opposed
WASHINGTON. Jan! 9
The general staff has made it
unmistakably plain to members
of congress, Senator Chandler
(D-Ky.) said today, that it is op
posed to creation of a separata
airforce. .
Moreover, Chandler told re
porters, war department repre
sentatives have urged the senate
military affairs committee to re
verse a previous order for hear
ings this month on a proposal
by Senator McCarran (D-Nev.)
for the establishment of a de
partment of aviation, which
would have full charge of alt
wartime air activities. :
French People Get ii '
Words of F. R. i
T WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (P)-
The White House disclosed today
that the RAP had carried out
successfully its first mission for
the United States government
the distribution over occupied
France of more than 2,000,000
French language leaflets con
taining excerpts from speeches
and . statements by President
Roosevelt. . . - . - j .
News Index '
Church News .......Pages 8,11
City Briefs Page 6
Comics and Story Pago 8
Courthouse Records -..Pago 2
Editorials Page 4
High School News .. Pane 12
Information ..Page 8
Market, Financial ...Page 0
Pattern ........... ...w..PAge 4
! Sports ..........v...Page 10