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By FRANK JENKINS
"yOU'ltE familiar, of course,
with the old saying thnt runs
something llko thl: "More haute;
less speed."
There ore Interesting (even
sensational) hint In today's dls
putrhca thut luilli the Germans
nnil the Jii) hnve been making
tno much haute for their own
good.
'yl IE Japa are booming Into the
South Sena with Irresistible
A i roc.
Everywhere from Munlln,
from Malaya, from Surawok,
from Davao the report hnve
told of overwhelming number
nf Jnp plnnei. Jnp ships. Jnp
troops. Jnp tanks.
Obviously, their purpose has
been to get Into the South Seas
with the "mostesl men fustest."
It Is undeniable thnt they have
succeeded In thnt purpose.
fiUT ominous rumors are com
u lug from China.
Something approaching culum
Ity has happened to tint Jnps at
(.'hungsha. So precipitate hua
been their retreat before the t hi
nese there that they huvo left
behind hundreds of their dead
for the Chinese to dispose of.
(Like all barbarians, the Jup
jwncsa huvo a horror of leaving
Whclr. dead behind.), i
Chines troops are ' reported
fighting In the outskirts of Cart'
ton (only a short distance back
of Hongkong) and of Nanchang
from which both rail and wuter
route lead to Shanghai.
Jap prisoners say SHORT-
ACES of food and supplies were
the main factors In the Japanese
collnpso at Chongshn.
"THE Implication back of these
Chlneso reports Is that the
Japs have put EVERYTHING
THEY HAVE Into their gamblo
In tho South Seas, hoping to
knock us out beforo wo can get
slurtod.
If they full
Woll, that's part of the gamblo.
THERE aro rumors of Internul
troubles In Germany. Some
of these rumors havo told of
placing of machine guns In an
Wiclputlon of possible attempts
at revolution.
Tho nazl foreign offlco Is said
to have called correspondents out
of bed In the middle of tho night
to deny theso rumors.
Foreign correspondents con
firm today that no open or or
' gunized revolution exists in Bor-
lln, but express surprlso thnt tho
rumors caused so much concern
to the nazls that an Immediate
denial wns considered necessary.
TN dispatch from "somowhere
on the German frontier" the
AP says today thnt INCREAS
INGLY Information from reli
able sources Indicates that the
German army's troubles began
when Hitler over-ruled General
von Bruuchltsch's plan, which
reputedly was to fnll back to the
Bcreslna river before winter set
In.
Hitler Is said to have been
ctermlned to press on to Mos-
ow (as was Nnpolcon when his
generals counseled against it)
whereupon von Brauchltsch re
signed. Other high commundcrs
declined to take responsibility
for an effort to continue tho Rus
sian offensivo. It is mild to have
been at this point thnt Hitler
took over porsotinl command,
By thnt time (tho rumors go)
It was too late to turn back.
Real winter set in before con
struction of barracks for housing
tho German nrmy during the
winter could bo started.
'T'lIE Gcrmnn press acknowl
x edges todny thnt tho situation
on the Eastern front Is sorious,
but denies reports thnt a de
fense line is being built along
tho Oder river in EASTERN
(GERMANY.
AS to all theso rumors, you will
ba wlso if you watch, wait
and keep your fingers crossed.
Authoritative sources in London
warned yesterday thut there is
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Berlin Mm
REVOLT ITS
DRAW DENIAL
FROMJFFICE
Russians Claim Toll
Of J 2,000 Nazis
At Leningrad
By Tht Associated Prats
Adolf Hitler's own press chief
prepared tho German nution for
a jolt toduy, solemnly ucknowl
i edging that nuzl military opera
tions "have reached an extreme
ly serious and Indeed critical
; phase" as the Ruaslona swept on
to new triumphs.
At the same time, advices
from "somewhere on tho German
frontier" said persistent report
of incipient revolution in Ger
many coinciding with the de
bacle on the Russian war front
had Impelled tho German foreign
office to issue a mtddle-of-tho-nlght
denial.
Immediate Denial
Theso advices said tht Wll
bclmstrasM called foreign cor
respondents from bed on night
this week and told them of the
reports and the official denial.
The foreign office asserted that
the reports were spread by Brit
ish and American sources.
Some of tho correspondents
expressed surprise that the
stories created so much concern
In the Wilhclmstrasse that It was
felt necessary to make an im
mediate denial.
Russians Advance
On the fighting front, the
British radio quoted a Moscow
announcement that 12,000 Ger
mans had been killed In the
Volkhov and Tikhvin sector on
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Youth Killed by
Sentry's Bullet
Near San Diego
SAN DIEGO. Calif., Jan. 10
W) Gath Meek, 18, of Im
perial Beach, was shot to death
early today when he failed to
heed the challenge of an army
sentry In the South Bay area.
E. A. Turner, deputy coroner,
reported Meek was driving a car
in which his sister, Mary, and
two friends were passengers.
Entering tho area under mili
tary guard, ho apparently failed
to hear or misunderstood tho
sentry's warning.
Two shots were fired. Ono
pierced the car and struck Meek
In the heart.
Army officials did not Identify
tho sentry.
Contributions Received by Red
Cross in Wor Relief Campaign
Contributions previously
acknowledged $6020.90
Contributions received
Saturday 226.00
Total $6248.90
Growing rosponso in tho in
dustrial district to tho Red Cross
war relief fund was indicated
Saturday, with a check for $100
from the Kcstcrson Lumber com
pany added to the drive. Com
bined with tho steady flow of
Individual contributions, this
tipped tho total so far received
to $6240.00, just $3753.10 short
of tho local $10,000 quota.
Saturdny's contributions were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kim
ball $25.00
Lula B. Lcftwich . 8.00
Mrs. F. J. Long ... 8.00
Mrs. W. H. McMillan 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sim
mers 8.00
Mrs, Robert A. Thompson 18.00
Howard Cantrall 1.00
G. J. Hllyard ., 8.00
Mrs, Ella P. Mlnnls 1.00
American Newsman Writes
Of Rescue After British
Warship Sent to Bottom
(Editor's note: On Dec. IS.
the Associated Press received
word that Lurry Allen, its corre
spondent with the British Medi
terranean fleet, wus In an Alex
andria hospital lifter having
swallowed much oily water and
suffered cuts and bruises in a 45
minutc plungo into the sea.
Todny, recovered from his In
juries and permitted by British
censorship to explain how he
come by them, Allen tops a long
list of dramatic eye-witness ac
counts of sea wor in the Medi
terranean with the following
first-person account of the de
struction of the British cruiser
Galntca and his own narrow es
cape from death.)
By LARRY ALLEN
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 10
(P)Tho British light cruiser
Galntca, struck by three torpe
does from an axis submarine,
flopped over like a stabbed tur
tle and went down within three
minutes off the Egyptian Medi
terranean coast In the Inky dark-
VALLEY-EXTENSIVE
Trees Ruined During
"Silver Thaw'
Roads Icy
PORTLAND, Jan. 10 (P)
The army decided today It
would be all right to announce
there had been some snow,
sleet and a silver thaw earlier
in tho week. Under censorship
regulations such Information is
not publishable for 48 hours.
Tho weatherman Indicated
that Portland was on the edge
of tho storm, which centered
somewhere In the middle Wil
lamette valley. Damage was
much more extensive in Salem,
Albany, Corvallis and Eugene.
Salem estimated that 80 per
cent of its trees were damaged,
some ruined. The storm did not
spare the rare trees on the capl
tol grounds. Many orchards
were severely damaged.
The Pacific highway was a
sheet of Ice that all but stopped
traffic. Wires were down to
many sections and service was
intermittent everywhere.
Salem called the storm its
worst in 20 years.
People coming here from Eu
gene earlier In tho week de
scribed the "silver thaw" thero
as the worst in 30 years. They
told of great damage to trees,
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Mrs. Albert Clawson 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Moore 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. Mnck W.
Dickinson 2.00
P. M. Kennedy and Bob
Kennedy 5.00
Knppa Chnpter, Beta
Slgmn Phi 5.00
Hnttie V. Lewis 2.00
Mr. and Mrs. W. McDan-
icla 2.00
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Pcairs 2.00
M. II, Mitchell 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Balin . 10.00
Miss Frances Bnlln 2.00
Phil B Motsehenbacher. .. ' 3.00
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton C.
Wiard 2.00
Mrs. Joe Mlksch, Sprague
River 1.00
Mrs. Leon Harling, Sprn-
guo River 1.00
Mrs. Tom Coffman, Spra-
guo River 1.00
Loy J. Barker, Clilloqiiln 8.00
Teamsters Local, No. 811 10.00
Kcstcrson Lumber Co 100.00
So-and-Sow Club ..... 2.00
Mrs. W. L, Edwards 1.00
Its IRevoirses
ncss Just after midnight the
morning of Dec. IS.
The torpedoes, launched from
close range, smashed in swift
succession against the Galatea's
after port side, amidships and
forward, tearing into her inter
ior with loud blasts and spurt
ing flame.
Flung Into Sea
On the dying cruiser's quar
terdeck I clung tenaciously to
the starboard rail until the list
of the ship flung me into the
cold, choppy sea.
Then I battled through thick,
oily scum for 45 minutes before
being rescued.
(The British admiralty an
nounced yesterday that a sub
marine had sunk the 5220-ton
Galatea but did not specify the
date, place or number of casual
ties. The Germans claimed on
Dec. 16 that they had sunk a
cruiser of this class in the Medi
terranean.) We had been dive-bombed for
more than seven hours on Dec.
14 while patrolling with a squad
ron of cruisers and destroyers off
the Libyan coast, but the Galatea
successfully beat off those at
tacks and headed eastward.
At midnight on Dec. 15 the
cruiser's announcer a y a t m
warned: ' J v-". "-,
"First-degree readiness heavy
armament."
Gunners thus were ordered to
stand by for expected action.
A marine sentry aroused me
from a nap in the captain's cab
in, and I ran to the commander's
cabin and informed the Reuters
naval correspondent, Alexander
Massy Anderson.
Adjusting lifebelts, we stepped
out Into the inky blackness of
the quarterdeck and raced to
ward the bridge.
We had barely started when
the first torpedo smashed into
the after portslde with a burst
of flame, heavily rocking the Ga
latea. The time was 12:02 a. m.
Torpedoes seemed to chase us
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Explosions,
Fire Wreck
Grain Plant
SUPERIOR, Wis., Jan. 10 (ff)
Two explosions, followed by
fire, destroyed the Great North'
crn railroad's elevator X, giant
grain storage plant, today with
loss estimated at $2,250,000
Seven persons, including two
firemen, were injured fighting
tho blaze in subzero tempera'
tures.
Around noon, Fire Chief Ed
ward Nelson said that unless
there was a shift in the high
wind fanning the still-burning
heap of grain, other elevators
and oil storage and coal docks
in the heart of the city's vital
defense production center
would be safe.
Origin of the fire was not de
termined immediately. The prin
cipal theory advanced was that
it started when grain dust ex
ploded. Tho railroad, FBI, state
fire marshal and Superior police
started investigations.
The first explosion rocked the
building, injuring five em
ployes. The second blast hurled
two firemen nearly 100 feet.
Tho authorities were unable
to determine the origin of the
explosion immediately. Firemen
fought the blaze in 12 below
zero weather.
The Injured men were taken
to St. Mary's hospital where at
tendants said they were not
hurt critically.
Elevator X contained 1,500,
000 bushels of grain, valued at
$1 a bushel. Damage to the ele
vator proper was set at $750,
000, but officials said it could
not be replaced for less than
$1,000,000.
Elevator X and elevator S
situated 1500 feet away, formed
a joint grain storage pool de
scribed as the largest in the
United States. The buildings
had a total capacity of about
12,000,000 bushels.
SENATE VOTES
TO LIFT PEAK
FAMES
Price Bill Approved
After Farm Bloc
Wins Change
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 UP)
The senate approved a broad
wartime price control measure
today after its powerful farm
bloc forced a higher ceiling limit
for farm prices a change op
ponents of the revision said
might boost food prices 25 per
cent.
The legislation, intended to
curb costs of war and rising
living expenses, now goes back
to the house. It had passed a
price control measure November
28, which senators described as
weaker than the senate bill.
Overruling a d m i n 1 s tration
leadership, the senate voted
earlier, 55 to 31, to raise the
limit on farm prices before war
time controls (could apply.
.Adoptib in. amendment, by
Senatoc O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) to
the pending price control bill,
the chamber voted to link farm
prices to urban wages by revis
ing upward present basic "par
ity" levels. These revisions
would be effective only for price
fixing purposes.
Amendment Restored
The revised O'Mahoney amend"
ment also restored to the bill a
house approved provision, prev
iously eliminated in the senate
banking committee, providing
that no price ceiling should be
fixed on farm commodities which
was below the 1919-29 average
price of those products.
As it came from the committee
the bill carried a section pro
viding that no price ceiling could
be established which was lower
than 110 per cent of parity, a
computed price calculated to
give farmers comparable pur
chasing power with others.
The O'Mahoney amendment
would boost this parity level
about 10 per cent for price-fix
ing purposes. The O Mahoney
proposal also provided that no
ceiling should be fixed lower
than the October 1 or December
15 price of a product, which
ever was higher. The house
previously had approved the
October 1 date as one of the
limits on farm price fixing.
Dorris Again Tops
Northern California
Travel Entry Points
Travel at the Dorris gateway
on tho California state highway
system again led all 'other sta
tions in the north, according to
figures just ' received for the
month of December from the
California state department of
agriculture, and released by the
Klamath county chamber of
commerce.
The Dorris gateway leads the
Hornbrook travel by 27 per cent
for tho month, and it is signifi
cant to note that travel into Cali
fornia through all stations is up
2 per cent. In December, 1940,
the Dorris gateway was slightly
behind the Hornbrook station.
Travel figures for December,
1941 are: Dorris, 7358; Horn
brook, 5788; Redwood highway,
1739; Coast highway, 1603; Al-
turas, 809 and Tulelake, 332.
Rumor Says Lanqell
Valley Men Safe
LANGELL VALLEY Mrs.
Lloyd Pepplo and Mrs. Wes Car
ter have heard indirectly that
their husbands are safe and on
their way homo by way of South
America, they told friends.
Pepplo and Carter left hero
July 7 to take defense work on
Wake island and no word has
been received from them since
the island was bombed by the
Japanese.
Japs Push Down Peninsula
SUMATRA
Invading Japanese, striking by land and air In British Malaya,
reported Saturday the British had abandoned Kuala Lumpur in
the face of a drive down the main road from Ipoh. No confirma
tion of the claim was forthcoming from the British who merely
announced further withdrawals from the north.
Fire Destroys
Planing Mill,
Shed at Baker
BAKER, Jan. 10 (P) Fire, be
lieved of incendiary origin, com
pletely destroyed the planing
mill, box factory and dry shed
early this morning of the Stod
dard Lumber company plant and
threatened for a time to take the
sawmill, located adjacent to the
planer. Loss was estimated in
excess of $200,000 by Fire Chief
Otto Karg. ;
Flames from the mill shot 150
feet into the air and blazing em
bers were distributed for a ra
dius of at least 20 blocks over
the city. Only the fact that a
heavy snow covered rooftops
saved many residences from
burning.
Chief Karg stated today that
in his opinion the fire must have
been set since it gained such a
foothold. The blaze started
around a moulding machine.
Firemen believed they had it un
der control when it suddenly
jumped a 14-foot fire wall and
spread throughout the plant
Several firemen were dragged
from the building, overcome by
heavy smoke. However, none
was seriously injured.
Two watchmen discovered the
fire and laid company lines at
its base. A frozen water hydrant
prevented use of the lines and let
the fire get still more underway
before firemen reached the
scene. A pumper truck prevent
ed spread of the flames to the
sawmill. Fifteen lines were laid
to the fire.
Insurance was carried but the
amount is unknown.
EVACUATED
ONTARIO, Jan. 10 (P Ros
eoe Conklin of Ontario has been
evacuated from Midway island to
Honolulu, his wife learned to
day. He was with a civilian con
struction crew.
Survey Shows Klamath Old Age
Assistance Load Below Average
By MARY JANE JENKINS
Klamath county holds the
record for a consistently lighter
old age assistance load than that
carried by other Oregon coun
ties of comparable size, accord
ing to a survey compiled Friday
by the county public welfare
commission. The small number
of assistance grants here is ex
plained by the fact that only 3
per cent of the population of
Klamath county is over 65 years
of age, in comparison to 7 per
cent of the state population.
According to statistics com
plied for November, 1941,
Klamath county's old age as
sistance grants averaged 224 per
1000 population of 65 years and
over, as against an average of
324 for the state. These are the
most recent full statistics avail
able, but later figures will not
vary significantly, said Altha
Urquhart, welfare head. '
In November, for example,
Klamath county paid 247 old
nge assistance grants at an aver
age cost for each case of $22.53,
making a total of $5568 for the
BR. MALAYA
aSjNGAPpREg
JAPS REINFORCE
More Vessels Appear
Off Mindanao,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 UP)
The war department reported
today intensive patrolling and
artillery duels between the Phil
ippine defenders and the Japa
nese and said heavy enemy rein
forcements were being brought
up.
These reinforcements were ap
parently ordered in preparation
for a renewed Japanese offen
sive drive on Luzon, a
Also the department said, a
considerable number of enemy
vessels had appeared off the
coast of the southernmost Phil
ippine island of Mindanao, indi
cating the probability of addi
tional Japanese landings there.
Lull in Fighting
Hostile air activity again was
said to be limited to observa
tion . flights. It was the third
successive day of a relative lull
in fighting between General
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Louis to Join
Army Next Week
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 UP) Joe
Louis, heavyweight champion,
appeared at local Board 20 of
the selective service board this
afternoon to have his Induction
papers transferred to New York
preparatory to joining the army
probably next Wednesday.
His appearance came a short
time after it was announced in
Chicago that he had been order
ed to appear there Monday for
a physical examination.
month. The state average per
case was $22.05.
"It should be noted," Mrs.
Urquhart stated, "that old age
assistance is supplemented in
case of necessity for extra med
ical care, from the general as
sistance fund."
In the November budget,
$3600 was allowed for general
assistance, $1400 for aid to de
pendent children, $60 for blind
assistance and $5800 - for old
age assistance figures which
Indicate that old age assistance
received, more than all other
programs combined. This ratio
will, vary as the general assist
ance costs increase in the peak
months of January, February
and March. Other forms of aid,
administered by the county
court, in November included
$100 for the soldiers' and sail
ors' fund, $1800 for the county
farm and $300 for tho county
hospital.
Old age assistance is given,
under Oregon law, to any per
son who is 65 years old, has re
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IIFT ADVANCE'
i SUCCESSFUL IN
I lALAjULAINI
No Confirmation Seen
On Loss of Vital
Rubber Capital
By The Associated Press
JaDanese field dbmntehpx 1m
dicated late today that British
troona had nhanrfnnprl . Knala
Lumpur, the world's crude rub.
Der capital, mues norm or
Singapore, as Japanese troops
advancing 50 mile in 24 h.-inr
through the Malayan "Green
neu" jungles reached the out
skirts of the city ,
CBS 1iqtpnintf.nvtt n San
Francisco heard an official Tok-.
yo broadcast asserting that Jap
anese tronns had eanturari Ttitnls
Lumpur in attacks from the
norm ana west.
There was. hnwpvsp nn mn.
firmation from the British thai
they had yielded Kuala Lumpur,
Withdrawals
British Far Faot hpnrlmiartartf
tersely acknowledged that bat-
tie - wearied tiniisn imperial
troops had withdrawn "farther
to the south" from the latest of
a series of defense lines 50 miles
north of Kuala Lumpur. No de
tails were given. , i ;
On the Malayan battleground,
Domel, -Japanese- -news agency,
said the Mikado's invasion forces
were closing in on the city from
two directions one moving
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Japanese Ship :
Losses Reach 28; .
U. S. Loses Six
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 '
Japan has lost at least 28 naval
vessels and transports and the
United States, six, since hostil
ities broke out between the two
nations a month ago.
A compilation of official re-'
ports by the army and navy;
shows these Japanese losses: '
One battleship (the Haruna),'
along with one light cruis-:
er, five destroyers, five submari
ines, one gun boat, one mine'
sweeper, 10 transports, four sup-'
ply vessels. t
United States losses reported
by the navy were:
One battleship (the Arizona),
one target ship (the Utah), three
destroyers, and one minelayer,
all lost in the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor on December 7.
U. S. Nationals
To Be Interned ;
TOKYO, Jan. 10 (Official
Broadcast Recorded by AP)
The Domei news agency report
ed today that the Japanese com
mander in the Philippines had
ordered all Upited States and
British nationals to report to the
army immediately for intern
ment "for their own protection."
Those failing to comply by
Jan. 15 will be "dealt with ap
propriately on the presumption
that they are engaged in anti-
Japanese activities," the agency'
added.
Army Gets Big f
Transport Glider
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 W)
The war department disclosed to
day that the first of a number of
largo transport gliders designed
to carry air-borne infantrymen
with full, fighting equipment
had been delivered to the army
air forces.
Similar to those employed by
the nazi air force in the conquest
of Crete, the gliders have a wing
span of more than 80 feet.
News Index '
City Briefs ..Page
Comics and Story ......Page 10
Courthouse Records Page 4
Editorials Page 4
High School News .....Pago 4
Information ...Page 3
Market, Financial '...j. Page 11
Pattern Page 4
Soclaty ....Pages 6, 6, 7. 8
Sports .......Page 0
Weekend Pictures ... a. Page 12 ,