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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1942)
etitttg krauts 1 Blackout Signal GIVE Klamath'a Quota 110.000 Received to Data 18.339.62 Naadad l3.aao.3a W On 5-mlnut blast on sirens and whittles li th signal lor a blackout In Klamath rails. Another long blast, during a black out. If signal for all-claar. In prcu tlonarr periods, watch your itraat lights. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS RED CROSS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942 Ml 1 Ml A Ml la J Jl HWJgf P.'a"'" ... iM mm h ; rrrr. ' II kv uannon - News GHOUND Oil" r By FRANK JENKINS iAPAN. striving dcsDcrutcly J get In th early punch that will win tho fight bcforo her bigger opponent can get going, spreads her attack to the Dutch Kant Indiei Island of Celebes and Borneo using piirnchuto trnnrui to anln a foothold. Thero it OIL at Turukun, whnrn tlvrv ilriko lii Borneo Tho stubbornly fighting Dutch ay the Turaknn wells are mined and will bo dynamited if they Oave to bo abandonee;. CTILL attacking with heavily " superior forces, tho Japs take Kuala Lumpur, cruoe ruo lr renter 240 miles north of Singapore. Tho dispatches relate that rubber groves ana accumu lated rubber supplies are being destroyed. ThA 'Wnrrhert Mirth" DolicV worked against the Japs In China. It worked against the .German! In Russia. It Is bolng applied In the South Seas. KTAVY SECRETARY KNOX. 4 addressing th U. S. Confer ence of Mayors assembled In Washington, answers the que- tlon that Is In every mind, lie says: "th U. S. fleet Is not Idle, but Uo early, conducive showdown with the Japanese fleet can b expected.'! 1 He tells the mayors that Cer many, bringing Japan Into the war, sought to divert British . and U. S. attontlon from the bat tie of th Atlantic, which Is still th war's most Important Strug cle. We were too smart, he says, to be caught In thot trap. He adds: "It is HITLER we must de stroy. That done, the whole axis fabric will collapse." A BOUT the only news from Luzon as these words are written I that the Japs are still gathering their forces for the expected all-out attack on Mac Arthur and his little army. They want these heroic rear -guard fighters out of the way so they can concentrate on Singapore, QntERESTINQ newt cornea .to- day from Chungking, where a member of a Quaker ambu lance unit returning from a round trip over the Burma rood says: N "The road Is full of Chinese troops moving WESTWARD to ward the bordor with tanks, motorized artillery, Bren guns and light weapons. On both trips I met thousands upon thousands of Chinese troops, well-equipped, crack tighten ALL MOVING WEST." Your map will tell you that a military force moving WEST WARD from Burma would have as ita objective taking the Japs In the flank and tho rear, thus relieving the pressure on Singa pore. QNLY a little while back (as time moves In these days) we were . saying commlseratlngly: aVThe poor, helpless Chinese;" O Now we're looking eagerly to the Chinese to help us out of the hole we're In In the South Seas. AND only recently we were cursing the Russians heartily for putting In with Hltlor. Now it ts the Russians who are run ning Hitler ragged. We look longingly at Vladivostok and think how easy It would bo for the hard-hitting Russians, now our buddies, to smnck tho Japs from thore. World wars are full of sur prises, TONDON report today that a "foreign source whose Infor mation about Germany has al most Invariably proved accur ate" says Germany's army dis sensions have spread to the navy. According to this source, Vlce Admiral Doonltz, nazl submarine chief, accuses Grand Admiral Raedcr of misleading him about successes of the submarine raid era and AVAILABILITY OF RE (Continued on Pag Two) ,JU tH Abu An FORCE 6RDWINC Island Fort Blasted By Nippon Planes In New Raids WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 !) A heavy artillery battlo along the entlro front in the Philip pines was reported today by the war department, with ground activity Increasing as fresh Jap anese troops moved up, accom panied by renewed air attacks on Amesican and Philippine de fenso. Corregldor, the Island fortress guarding the entrance of Manila bay, as well as front line defenses of General Douglas MocArthur's troops, were subjected to new assault from the air, the depart ment said, as fresh enemy troops increased the pressure on the de fending forces,' . . . , . Radio .Ban . . The text of th morning com munique, number 68, based on report received her up to 0:30 a. m. PBT. "Philippine theater: "A heavy artillery battle Is In progress along the entire front "'Ground activity la increasing as fresh Japanese troops move Into front lino position. Enemy air attacks are being renewed on defensive Installations and forti fications. "General MacArthur report that Japanese troops occupying Manila aro attempting to sup press the use of radio receiving sets by civilians. This apparent ly 1 designed to prevent the re ception of broadcast from the United State and England, even though tho action also prevent reception of propaganda broad casts from Tokyo. "2. There i nothing to report from other areas." Nazi Discontent Sp reads to Fleet LONDON. Jan. 13 (P) Grow ing dissension in the nazi high command wa reliably reported to nave spread to the navy to day with a sharp disagreement between Grand Admiral Erich Raedcd and his submarine chief, Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz. Earlier the London S t ar quoted a Moscow broadcast that Field Marshal General Wilhelm Koltel, chief of the nazl high command, suddenly had been taken ill. A foreign source, whose infor mation about Germany has al most Invariably proved accurate, said Doenitz had accused hi su perior of misleading him about successei of submarine raiders and the availability of replace ment. He flatly charged Raedcr with "being responsible for the miscarriage of submarine warfare." Bloek-by-Bloek Canvass Slated For Red Cross in Business Area Contributions previously acknowledged $6,426.90 Contributions rclvd Monday 92.72 Total $0,339.62 Machinery for a bang-up finish to Klamath county's Red Cross war rollef drlvo was set up Mon day, with a special block-by-block canvass of the business dis trict by tho Merchants' bureau, under tho direction of Nicholas Long. Officials expect the drive, aimed at a $10,000 quota, to finish by tho end of the week. In tho canvass of the business district, two men will cover each square block. Sinco the drive began hero Decembor 12, S6,- IT" sua Maui, 'iVro explosions, followed grain storag plant, with loss Bond Pledge' Use Local Klamath county's regular elec-, tlon machinery will be put Into! operation on January 20 to re-1 ceive defense savings stamps and bond pledges from citizens throughout the county, It was announced Monday. January 20 has been deslgnat- Western Style'. Defense Force Formed Here Twentieth century mcchan ized warfare Is succumbing to methods of the old west In Klam ath county. Sheriff Lloyd Low Monday an nounced formation of a Klamath Mounted Reserve, a group of horsemen recruited from the Sheriffs Posse which will act as a home defense capacity for use in areas inaccessible to mo torized equipment. As captain of the ncwly-form ed organization, Low said that the group Is presently comprised of about 20 men In Klamath Falls and Fort Klamath. Units will Inter bo established in Ma- lln, Merrill, Bly and other out lying locations, he revealed. Tho organization will billet their mounts In a central loca tion, Low said, whero they will be ready for instant transporta tion to troubled areas. Trucks and trailers will be available for transporting the horses as close as possible to thoir destination. The reserve is primarily for service In mountainous and other wild areas where trucks and cars (Continued on Page Two) 339.62 has been contributed, largely by Individuals. Still over $3000 short of tho quota, it Is anticipated that tho business dis trict canvass will put Klamath county well ahead of its goal. By Monday, the following weekend contributions had been recorded: Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Mis- feldt ; $2.00 Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Moretz 2.00 George Engles 2.00 A Friend fj.oo Mr. O. S. Campbell 2.00 E. P. Brosterhous B.OO Poe Valley and Olene Ex tension Unit 2.67 C, H. Conroy ... 2.00 Clarence Hill a.SO (Continued on Page Two) me Obh Seven Men Injured in $2,250,000 Fire V"', by fir destroyed th Great Northern railroad's elevator X, giant estimated at $2,250,000. Svn persons, Including two firemen. Campaign to Election Polls ed as "bond pledge day" and every citizen in the county is asked to visit hi precinct polling place on that day. There he will receive a pledge card which; if signed, will be an agreement to buy bonds or stamps. Even those who do not feel they can buy should call at their polling places, in order that their names may be checked off. Otherwise, they will be hunted up and in terviewed after the "election day." Pledges Confidential Polls will be open on January 2J from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m., and regular election boards will be there to hand out materials and receive the pledges which, inci dentally, will be kept in strict confidence. Plans for the unique effort in this county were shaped at a meeting called Saturday night by William Kuykendall and Jack Henry, chairman respect ively of the county republican and democratic central commit tees. County Clerk Mae K. Short will work with the committee chairmen as co-chairman and on Monday notified election board officials that they are asked to volunteer their services for bond pledge day. Sheriff Lloyd Low will have charge of distributing pledge cards and other material to polling places, as in the case of regular elections. Party Chairman In general charge in each pre cinct are the democratic and re publican central committeemen and committeewomen of that precinct. Committeemen who (Continued on Page Two) Pedestrian Suffers Skull Fracture in Downtown Accident Gust Erlckson, 911 Walnut avenue, is in Klamath Valley hospital suffering from a skull fracture as the result of an auto mobile accident which occurred shortly after 1 o'clock Monday morning at Seventh and Main Lstreets. At a late hour Monday after noon Erickson had not regained consciousness, according to hos pital attendants. Investigating police said Erlck son was crossing Main street at Seventh when a car, driven by Loyal B. Hopkins Jr., 21, Wey erhaeuser, struck him some 10 feet from the curb. He was moved to tho hospital by ambu lance. Hopklna was not held. Erlckson Is said to be unem ployed. He formerly worked for tiiouwauna Box company, j n - -t '1 u. S. Fleet Not Idle But Atlantic No. 1 Job WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 (.TV Secretary of the Navy Knox said today that while the American fleet was not idle no early con clusive showdown could be ex pected with the Japanese fleet and that the battle, of the At lantic was still the war's most important struggle. The navy's number one job, he said in a speech prepared for the annual United States con ference of mayors, is keeping the sea lanes open between America and Britain to bring about the defeat of Hitler's Germany "our great enemy.", . Frank Statement ' "I would not be frank with you if I led you to believe that you could expect favorable, dra matic developments of triumph continued on Page Two) Rutherford's Last Wish Hits Legal Obstacle SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 12 (P) Lying on his deathbed, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, 73, world leader of Jehovah's wit nesses, voiced a last wish. He asked disciples to bury him at dawn of the day after death In a hillside crypt at Beth Sarim, the estate he built here for the Biblical King David' re turn to earth. Rutherford died at the estate last Thursday in a passing kept secret until Saturday. ' But today Rutherford s body was still unburied, his last wish thwarted by a county law for bidding burial on the estate be cause it is not a legally zoned cemetery. Followers of the Jehovah's Witnesses' movement obtained a hearing date Jan. 24 to present their burial permit petition be fore the county health commis sion. . ;. . . Rutherford, who once termed 'organized Christianity" an "un holy alliance against the com mon people," had been ill here for two months. Chief of a movement that spread to 36 countries, Ruther ford claimed 2,000,000 follower ; (Continued on Page Two) . MALAY ATTACK IVES BRITISH DEFENSE BACK Line Forms South of Kuala Lumpur, 1.50 Miles From Base SINGAPORE, Jan. 12 (P) Loss of Kuala Lumpur, import ant rubber center and capital of the Federated Malay states, was indicated by the British to day in a communique announc ing that their troops had retreat ed to new positions before Ser emban, 35 miles airline south east of that city, under heavy Japanese assaults. (The Tokyo radio broadcast an official announcement this morn ing that Japanese troops had en tered Kuala Lumpur Sunday.) ' ' ISO Mil North Tho British withdrawal drop ped the battle lines to little more than 130 miles north of Johore strait, the narrow channel over which a causeway connect Sing apore island with the Malayan mainland. More than two-thirds ' of Malaya thus were left In Jap anese, hands and the invaders were reported, jcontinuing.tlielr. a'ttack on the land and in the air; . . "Our withdrawal- was closely followed up by enemj? infantry with, continued- attacks,- from enemy aircraft,' -said-P:itrse-communique announcing ', .the British retreat. While intimating the loss' of Kuala Lumpur, the communique indicated that Selangor state, in which the city isi situated,' had not been entirely surrendered to the Japanese. . . , , . "Severe fighting continues in the Selangor area," the bulletin said. Seremban, on the main rail way leading southward to Singa pore, is in Negri Sembilan state, which borders Selangor state on the south. The British bulletin also an nounced that the Japanese had landed a party of nme men dressed as Malayans from fish ing boats yesterday- in the Bu kitchurang - area ' of southeast Johore province but said that all had been captured. It was the first Japanese land ing reported in Johore. Cigaret Tax Fight . Started by West SALEM, Jan. 12 (P) Oswald West, Portland attorney, came here today to file a supreme court suit attacking the law tax ing clgarets two cents per pack age. The Nlaw went into, effect last Thursday. , . West said he would file the. suit this afternoon, but he would not give details nor tell who would sponsor the action. ' Synthetic Rubber Program May End Rubber Shortage for U. S. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 UP) Jesse Jones, federal loan admin istrator, announced today - a $400,000,000 program for mak ing synthetic rubber which he said, would virtually end the American rubber shortage in about 18 months. Jones told reporters that the president had authorized him to go ahead with a plan to build enough new factories to urn out 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber year. He estimated the plants could be ready by the middle of 1943 and, along with, other rub ber sources ' would be enough not only to fill all military, but limited amount of civilian needs, including automobile tires. Process Pooled In the meantime. Jones said. there is enough rubber to meet all essential needs of the United States until the new plants can bo completed. ; . . . , Jones announced that he had Chinese Make Gains on Four Separate Lines CHUNGKING, Jan. 12 UP) A new-found offensive power of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces has wrested successes from drive against the Japanese on four widely separated fronts, a communique announced today. On one front, the announce ment said, two villages have been captured in a -new offensive which apparently endangered the entire position of the Japanese forces along the Lunghai rail road south of the Yellow river. Third Victory Chinese attention continued to be centered, however, upon their third great victory at Changsha In Hunan province, where the communique said the Japanese were fleeing northward "in great confusion',' after suffering 6000 more casualties and losing 1000 prisoners, . .The Japanese force of approxi mately 100,000 .which had set out from it bases around Tung . (Continued on Page Two) ALLIES SEEK EIRE SITESFOH BASES Report Shares Notice With Red Smash , Through Nazis - By Th Associated Press ' Reports of a renewed Ameri can-British diplomatic effort to why;wat bases In neutral Eire shared; Importance today , with advices that: Russian armies bad breached a new German winter defense line on the central front, putting themselves in good po sition to close their pincers on perhaps 150,000 Germans in the Mozhaisk sector. . . , The envisioned effects of air and sea bases in Eire were- far reaching, but most immediate of all was their potential effect on Germany's already dwindling battle of the Atlantic sealanes. Nasi Powerful . That Germany . still holds a great striking power in the At lantic despite the curtailing ef fects of United States naval par ticipation in patrolling and con voy protection was emphasized by a German communique an nouncing that another British destroyer had been sunk in the Atlantic by submarine action. -The Hitler command said that still another was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, presumably only damaged. The Russian recapture of Ly- udinovo tightened the vise on the Germans at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow and the closest position to the capital still held by the nazis. Salients have been driven westward both below and above Mozhaisk. The red armies reported for ward smashes there and else where along the vast front from the Arctic to the Black sea. The . British radio quoted a spokesman in Kuibyshev, alter nate Russian capital, as saying the Russians were within 80 ' (Continued on Page Two) arranged a pool of nearly all the leading rubber, oil and chemical companies in the country to make the plan possible. These companies will pool' their pat ents, scientific and technical processes and other facilities, Jones said. How large the program was could be judged from the fact that all the synthetic rubber plants now in operation or under construction In the United States have a total capacity of 90,000 tons a year. Jones added that additional quantities of natural rubber will be available from South America and Africa, and some rubber may be made from the guayule plant. . , Before, the Pearl Harbor at tack, virtually all United States rubber came from the Far East, but the Japanese move imperil ed or blocked that source for an indefinite time - U.S. PLANES HELP DUTCH E Cruisers, Transport Ships Struck in -Aerial Attacks , BATAVIA, N. E. 1. Jan. 12 (P) Hard-hitting forces of the Netherlands Indies' allies (pre sumably ' bomber and fighter squadrons from ' the United States and Australia) were de clared officially today to be tak ing part in vigorous counter ac tion in which the fiffhtintf Dutch battled strong Japanese v imrar; elfins r4 SnnicA t rtri Cam-m ' Reporting the Joint itlorr' " 2 stroyer and two transport! terday and today, an ofucial Dutch announcement in-aied. that "our allies are energ'cal ly taking part in the , fi' .tins? against the invaders.',l ?27i ' Ship Attack4"-3? (The war department t 'Wash ington said in its Sundry com munique that American plant "attacked an enemy cruiser and . two large transports in the Ce lebes sea with undetermined re suits. The Batavia report spot cifically mentioned Australian planes in action also in that area.).. , . ; f A'JapaaeJacach,utists and sea borne forces were battling dog gedly in an effort to improv the positions they won early yesterday at the oil center is land of Tarakan, off northeast ern Borneo and on the northern arm of Celebes. i. , Stubborn Defense The fight at both invasion points continues stubbornly," a special NEI armed forces state ment declared. ' . , Of the NEI and allied aerial blows at the shipping which car ried and supported the invasion, the-special statement isid: : "Our allies are energetically taking part in the fight against the invaders. . . j.- Hits Scored -. "Allied planes yesterday shot down four Japanese plane, over Minahassa (northern Celebes) while they further scored two direct hits on a Japanese cruiser and a near miss on a destroyer. "This morning two Australian planes near Menado (where the Japanese landed on Celebes) were shot down in flames by the Japanese. "Our bombers this morning scored a direct hit on a Jap - (Continued on Page Two) Seven Killed in Auto Crash Near 5 Fairfield, Calif. FAIRFIELD, Calif., Jan. 1 (IP) Seven persons were killed today in an automobile accident and subsequent fire. : Highway Patrolman Leo Boyle said military buttons and piece of clothing indicated some of the victims, possibly five, were members of the U. S.' marine corps at Mare Island navy yard. Hours elapsed before the vic tims could be identified. The identified dead were: Adrlel C. Jones, 20, a marine stationed at Mare Island. - W. H. Kennedy, 25, of Vallejo, Mare Island civilian workman. Donald R. Gehl, 25, also ' civilian workman. Private Rowe C. Kennedy, 19. Huttig, Ark., a marine and brother of W. H. Kennedy. Corporal William L. O Don- nell, 28, a marine, of Billings, Mont. . Corporal Charles W. Webb Jr 22, of the marines, EUisvllle, Miss. - Lawrence Breckinridge, Marysville, truck driver. Private Jones lived in Fulton. Miss. Six of those killed were in the Kennedy car. News Index City Briefs Page S, S Comics and Story ....Page S Editorials .-....-.....Page 4 Information .Paee 4 Market Financial M..Pag 7 Pattern .-.,...........Pag 4 Sport -m..-. ........Jagt SCO T