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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
UNITED PRESS
RED CROSS
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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
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,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,-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Comics and Story ....Page S
Editorials .-....-.....Page 4
Information .Paee 4
Market Financial M..Pag 7
Pattern .-.,...........Pag 4
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