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In The
Day's
News
By FRANK JENKINS
yHE Jpi enpturo tha little oil
.- Island of Tarnkhan, Just off
tha northeast conit of Dutch
Bornoo, where It faces on tho
Celebes (ca.
Bxtnvla, Dutch E a s t Indloi
capital, add officially:
"Tho stubbornly fliihtlug llttlo
Dutch garrison held them off un
til all oil flcldi and oil equip
ment were THOROUGHLY DE
MOLISHED." t
01 IE dlapatche Indicate that
tho Jnpi literally overwhelm
ed Tarnkhan, pouring upward!
of 20,000 men onto It first par
achute troopi and then soldier!
landed from transports.
Wherever they attack (so fur)
In the South Seas, tho Japs have
overpowering u p e r 1 o r Ity of
troops and equipment.
AN interesting sidelight of
V this particular attack: The
Takharnn oil Is said to be of such
high grade that It can be pump
ed Into ships for Immediate use
without any refining processes.)
VfACAHTHUR'S little army
m still fights stubbornly.
Today's dispatches tell us his
artillery broko and scattered at
tacking- Jnp formations and
flashed It Jap batterers. (A
Vfettery ordinarily Includes four
guns.) Loss of 44 guns Isn't any
thing for the Japs to be happy
about ' '
MacArtltur's American gun
ners aro said to bo definitely su
perior In their marksmanship.
DUMORS of Anglo-American
reinforcements spread today
in the South Seas.
A British dispatch says: "An
announcement can bo expected
at ANY MOMENT which may
change the Malayan (Singapore)
situation considerably in Brit
ain's fovor."
This is taken to Indicate that
powerful allied counter-blows
may ba struck soon.
AGAINST this optimistic feel-
Ing must ba sot this state
ment from Washington:
"Some observers here see the
O'lm possibility that the United
atlons may be forced back as
fnr as Australia before a major
counter-offensive can be launch
ed." In order to keep your thinking
straight, remember that the
whole South Seas area Is far dis
tant from Britain and America
but relatively close to Japan.
.
CROM airports only ISO 'miles
v away, the Japs are bombing
Singapore heavily. Recall at this
point that If thoy can't take
Singapore outright they may be
able to dostroy Its Usefulness as
naval base.
Plenty of allied fighter planes
Is the way to head off that
scheme, but allied fighter planes
are scarce In that part of the
world.
Bombers can ba flown in, but
the shorter-ranged fighters have
to be transported by ship.
(QROM Europe today 'come re
v ports that Hitler M massing
Germans In Italy for a drive on
Malta. (Malta is tho British na
val base Just off the southern
point of Sicily, the big Island at
the too of the Italian boot.)
Malta has been useful to the
British In raiding axis supply
lines between Italy and Greece
and northern Africa.
. British filers report large
movements of axis troops west
ward toward tho channel coasts.
(Maybe to Invade England. May
be to forestall a British attempt
to cross the channel.)
,.
TN London today tho govern-.ments-ln-exlle
of eight axis-occupied
countries Holland, Bel
gium, Yugoslavia, Norway,
Greeco, Luxemburg, Poland and
(fjroohoslovaklB meet and lay
vHo groundwork for post-war
punishment of axis officials and
soldiers "Judged to have acted
contrary to accepted ideas con
cerning acts of war mass exe
cutions, mass expulsions, execu
(Continued, on Pago Two)
LtflZM
russia
OREL
PINGEHSTHAP
British Capture Solum
In Libya as Malta
Attack Eyed
By The Associated Press
Russia's armies wero unof
ficially reported today to have
recaptured the key rail city of
Orei, 200 miles south of Mos
cow, where a forco of 200,000
Germans was believed virtually
encircled by tho southern claw
of a giant sovlot pincers aimed
at Smolensk. '
Tho British exchange tele
graph agency quoted Berlin
sources as saying Adolf Hitler
already hud moved his field
headquarters from Smolensk,
210 miles west of Moscow, to a
city in southern Russia.
Approaohlng Vyasma
A London broadcast said the
BBC "understands unofficially"
jhat soviet troops .had, reto ken
dref, vnllo1- other red army
forces driving northwest from
Kaluga, 110 miles southwest Of
Moscow, were reported more
than halfway on 1 their. 90-rallo
trek to Vyazma, on the' Moscow
Smolensk road.
In tho north, Hitler's high
command admitted that the bat
tered German armies had been
thrown back to the Valdai hills,
the upper starting-post of last
October's Gorman drlvo against
Moscow which the fuehrer
boasted would be the "last
great, decisive victory" of 1041.
Driving on Kharkov
Tho nazl high command also
reported quickening action on
the southern (Ukraine) front,
where tho red armies of Marshal
Scmeon Timoshenko are driv
ing to recapture Kharkov, the
Russian "Pittsburgh."
German troops on reconnais
sance raids east of Kharkov
were reported to have killed
210 Russians and captured 63.
Salum Recaptured
On the north African front.
Hitler and his axis ally, Pre
mier Mussolini, suffered a now
blow as British troops were of
ficially reported to have recap
tured tho desert town of Salum,
on the Egyptian-Libyan frontier,
where axis forces had hold out
as a threat to communications
of tho British counter-invasion
into Libya.
More than 300 miles to the
west, British vanguards have
reached the road from El
Aghella, on tho Gulf of Slrte,
to Marada, a desert city' 70
miles to the south, "along which
general Una the enemy appears
to be preparing to make a
stand," middle east headquart
ers said.
Amid these reverses in Rus
(Contlnued on Page Two)
CLOSING
Retail Trade Workers Canvass
For Downtown Red Cross Drive
Contributions already
acknowledged $6,339.62
Contributions received
Tuesday 290.00
Total
.16.629.62
Pledging all their time until
the Job is finished, the following
members of tho Klamath Rotnll
Trsdo Bureau are covering the
business district in a whirlwind
campaign to bring In the down
town share of Klamath county's
$10,000 quota of tho national
$90,000,000 Red Cross war fund:
Muhr Roymers, Dick Reedor,
Vic Vchrlng, Keith Moon, Louis
Serruys, Rudy Jacobs, Webb
Kennett, Ed Livingston, Lou
Langworthy, B. E. Hnrdonbrook,
R. R. Procbstcl, C. Roy Whytal,
Clemens A. Lundy, Walt Wlesen
danger, Vcrn Mooro, George Da
vis, John Fowler . and Ralph
Howard.
Tho business district-drive' Is
TOM'S
War Labor Board Handed
Job of Speeding Defense
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (P)
President Roosevelt Indicated to
day that he hoped to enlist the
services of James A. Farley, Al
fred E. Smith, and Charles Ev
ans Hughes, to assist the new
war lobor board, o i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 P)
President Roosevelt has selected
Wendell L. Wlllkie, the mon he
defeated for tho presidency in
1640, as one of a number of um
pires and arbitrators to assist the
new 12-man war labor board,
and discussed the Job with Will
kie today.
Stephen Early, presidential
secretary, indicated Wlllkie had
not definitely accepted tho posi
tion, and said the list was incom
plete. . -(
The labor board, with William
H. Davis as chairman, was cre
sted late yesterday by executive
order and is armed with author
ity to submit labor disputes to
binding arbitration to keep war
Industries operating at full speed.
PRESIDENT FLAYS
Inflation Compelled
By Farm Clause, -j
F. R. Claims
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 UP)
President Roosevelt described
the price control bill ss It pass
ed the senate, at a press confer
ence today, as one that would
compel inflation.
The president made his views
known following a conference
earlier in the day with five
house members who have been
appointed to attempt to work
out a satisfactory bill In. confer
ence with a senate delegation.
The president said he thought
the house conferees were pretty
sympathetic toward his views.
He said he had pointed out to
them two important things:
First, that the overwhelming
majority of farmers In every sec
tion of the country did not want
to be accused of starting a kind
of spiral which, in the long run,
would be costly to them and to
everybody in the United States.
The majority of farmers, he said,
do not want to be responsible for
having so-called farm leaders up
set the entire apple cart of the
war effort.
Second, the O'Mahoney amend
ment, i It became law, would
start a splra.1 sooner than any
thing that could be suggested
and would do more than any
thing else to saddle a huge debt
on this and later generations.
Furthermore, he said, It would
encourage people doing other
things, such as producing bombs
or tanks, to demand wage In
creases to meet higher cost of
living. ,
being directed by Nicholas Long.
It is hoped to have it completed
by Saturday night.
Tho board of directors of the
Klwanis club, meeting Monday
night, led off for the city's ser
vlco clubs with a donation of
$25, voted unanimously by the
members of the board.
. Meanwhile plans are taking
shape at many of the county's
Industrial plants to follow the
lead taken last week by em
ployes of the Dl Gldrgla Fruit
corporation, : successor to the
Klamath Lumber St Box com
pany; who donated a halt day's
pay each to the Red Cross war
fund. It these plans go through,
as hoped, a large ' sum will be
added to the fund. : .'
Tho city of Portland, using a
staff of hundreds of canvassers
In house-to-house calls, hopes to
complete Its war fund quota by
the end of this week. In Klam
. ' (Continued on Page Two)
NEW PRICE BILL
It superseded the defense media
tion board, and will absorb its
functions and most of Its em
ployes. The war labor board Is sn
outgrowth of the recent Industry-labor
conference in Washing
ton which agreed to end strikes
and lockouts during the war and
to settle all disputes by peace
ful means.
Davis, the New York patent
lawyer who also headed the de
fense mediation board, will be
one of four men representing the
public. Industry and labor will
be represented by four each,
with labor's representation di
vided equally between the CIO
and the AFL.
Wayne L. Morse, dean of the
University of Oregon law school
and chairman of the presiden
tial fact-finding committee which
settled tho threatened nation
wide railroad strike In Decem
ber, is a member of the new
board.
First Traffic
Death Marked
For Klamath
- Klamath county's first traffic
fatality was chalked up shortly
after 12 o'clock noon Tuesday
with the death of Gust Erick-
- son, 43, 811 Wal-
- nut avenue, who
died following
Injuries received
early Monday
morning - when
he was : struck
Klamath's 1942
Auto Toll
by a oar., "" ;
According to
state police, Erlckson suffered
injuries when he was struck by
a machine driven by Loyal B.
Hopkins Jr., 21, Weyerhaeuser,
at Seventh and Main streets
about 1 a. m. January 12. He
was moved to Klamath Valley
hospital by ambulance, expiring
almost 36 hours later without
regaining consciousness.
' Death was attributed to a
basal skull fracture and internal
injuries, it was reported. -Police
were .investigating the accident
late Tuesday. Erlckson has lived
In this vicinity for the past IS
years. He was a native of Swe
den and officials of the Oregon
State Employment office said he
had not become a citizen of this
country.
Civilian Flying
Ordered Grounded
Along Coast .
SEATTLE, Jan. 13 UP) Brig
Gen. Carlyle H. Wash, command
ing the 2d Interceptor command,
today grounded all civilian air
craft, with the exception of ap
proved air lines, in western
Washington and Oregon as a mat
ter of "military necessity."
His order said classes already
being trained In the official civil
ian pilot training schools would
be permitted to complete their
courses, but that . no new stu
dents might be enrolled.
The prohibition applies to all
offshore areas and to all of west
ern Washington and Oregon
bounded on the east by the 21st
degree meridian, north of the
45th parallel, and by the 121st
degree, 30 minute meridian south
of the 45th parallel.
Gen. Wash's order means the
grounding of all private flying
from the Klamath Falls munici
pal airport, J. C. Hamakcr of
the airport ' said Tuesday.' . He
said the 121st degree, 30 minute
meridian lies in the 'region of
Olene. ,., . . ",
There are ' approximately 15
private planes In the local han
gar, he said. Disposition will de
pend on the owners of the planes,
he believed. ' , . ,
MATCH FATAL AT 107 !
RIVERSIDE, Calif.,: Jan. 13
George McFarland, 107, ac
cidentally placed a burning
match in his pocket. Ho died
yestorday ; of ' burns, . ,. .
fflepujsed
I JAP ARTILLERY
SILENCED BY
U.S.
Huge Price Paid for
Attack by Nippon
Troops, Report
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (JP)
American and Filipino artillery
batteries have "proved definite
ly superior' to the Japanese, the
war department said today in
announcing that columns of
enemy tanks, other armored
units and infantry had been
"shattered and dispersed" in a
Z4-hour battle. , K
Eleven Japanese batteries
were silenced and others were
forced to fall back under relent'
less shelling by the American-
Filipino guns in defense posi
tions on the Batan peninsula
west of Manila bay, the depart
ment said.
' (The usual artillery battery In
the , world's armies consists of
.four jjuni. Oil' this basis tho re
port from the Philippine would
credit the defenders .. with. Wip
ing out 44 field gunsv. a consid
erable measure of fire power in
the comparatively small -.fight
ing area). . . ',
Japanese losses were called
"heavy,' while that of- the de
fenders Were labeled "relatively
slight.
- Japanese dive bombers sup
ported the enemy artillery fire,
the morning ' communique said.
but there were no enemy bomb
ing attacks on the fortifications
at the southern tip of Batan or
Corregidor island, the guardian
of Manila bay. -
Klamath Receives
More Road Money
Than Expected
Klamath county's road fund
was richer this week than any
one had anticipated,, with re
ceipt of a state appropriation
check for $14,000 more than the
budget-time estimate made here.
The additional apportionment,
made over Klamath's $85,742
share of the basic $2,000,000
state fund, amounted to $34,
843.01. The estimate here was
for $20,500.
Total 1941 BDDortionment fnr
all counties amounted to $2,815,-
071.60, or 15.7 per cent of the
receipts from motor vehicle and
operators' registrations, fuels
taxes,, carrier fees and fines for
motor vehicle law violations.
Bond Pledge
Card Shown
On Page 4
A copy of the defense bond
and stamp pledge card ,to be
used in the bond pledge day
campaign here January 20,
will be found on Page 4 to
day. -
The treasury department
has asked that every citlsen
be reached with a request
that he sign one of these
pledges.' In Klamath county,
cltlsans are asked voluntar
ily to visit their precinct
polling places on January 20,
either to sign a pledge or to
have their names checked off
to show they have been "eon
tacted." . The bond pledge card Is
published In this paper,' at
the request of defense sav
ings officials; so that cttisans
will , have time to study the
matter and decide what they
can pledge in savings toward
the American war effort.
The pledge Is not an order,
and. can' be revoked at any
time by the pledger by writ
ing to defense savings head
quarters. .
Fort Drum Guns
6
Tfrfl Wlin 'V iTH!
l 4. 'A
, - .These 14-inch rifles, shown, in target practice, are located on
Fert Drum. In Manila, bay and Wits) be eeptuced' before .tha- Jep
nese can use Manila's harbor.. Fort Drum literally is- a concrete
battleship, built ea bedrock, and is one of a series of island
fortresses guarding the entrance to the bay. i. V - .
Willkie Claims S i
U. S. Paying
Price of Ease
NEW YORK, ' Jan. 13 MP)
In this war the United States
"is paying the bitter price of
our worship of expediency, our
endless seeking of the easy way
out," says Wendell L. WUlkle.
"We will , be doing our job
the hard way because we have
so long sought the easy way,"
the 1840 republican presidential
candidate said last night. !
."It . would, have been hard to
guard democracy in 1831 when
Japan' broke the peace of the
League of Nations by marching
into Manchuria. It would Have
been hard to guard it when
Mussolini moved on Ethiopia,
or in -1838 when Czecho-Slov-ekia-
was betrayed.
"In all those cases the
guardianship of democracy
might have meant war. And
yet today, when we can no
longer put It; off, today when
the easy way' is at . last closed
to us, the task is even harder."
Willkie called on the people
to "pour out our . wealth, our
energies and if necessary our
lives into this overwhelming
effort," declaring that we can
not hope to meet the presi
dent's war program "unless we
lead spartan lives."
- He said U, S. standards had
been too low and "the econom
ists have become the high
priests of our civilization."
Vice Lid Closing in Klamath
Following Army Clean-up Order
The vice ltd, which was said
this week to be slowly closing
on houses of prostitution in
Klamath Falls as well as other
cities in the state of Oregon,
will probably be clamped down
securely this week, according to
information received here from
Salem where the state board of
health was called in session by
Dt. Frederick ' Strieker, state
health officer.
The board, complying with an
army request that houses of
prostitution "adjacent to mili
tary establishments ' be closed,
met to discuss measures for. con
trol of -venereal disease among
prostitutes. - According to city
police, 1 no word had been re
ceived to take, final steps in
closing the houses, and Dr.
Peter H. Rozendal, Klamath
county health officer, said he
Roar at Japs Now
Contracts Given for
12 to 15 Million
Feet of Pine
Orders totalling an. estimated
12 to 15 million feet of ponderosa
pine for defense construction usej
were granted Klamath area mills
at last week's government auc
tion in Seattle, it was learned
here Tuesday.
Over 300,000,000 feet of lum
ber of various species, grades
and dimensions were purchased
from west coast mills at the auc
tion. It was estimated that over
80 per cent of the orders went
to fir manufacturers. Virtually
all orders for dimension in speci
fied lengths went to fir mills. -
Names Of successful- bidders
of the Klamath area were not
divulged. ' i
Five Medford mills at , the
same time were awarded orders
totalling from 18 'to 20 million
board feet, according to valley
information. B. L. Nutting, gen
eral manager of the Medford
corporation, said that the Med
ford area mills took orders pri
marily for green fir.
- The' lumber will be used in
cantonment construction in Med
ford, Colorado Springs, . Colo.,
(Continued on Page' Two) -.
had received no definite instruc
tions. By placing Klamath Falls "ad
jacent to military establish
ments," rumor was rife ' that
Klamath might be selected for
an air base site, or would be
too close to the Medford area
where a cantonment was as
sured. Three officials of ' the
army medical corps were in
Klamath Falls Monday. Police
said they were not aware of
their presence. , "
It is understood here that a
survey has been completed by
the state board of health In re
gard to existing houses in Klam
ath county. . ' ' '
Dr. Rozendal made the fol
lowing statement in regard to
closing the houses in this area:
' "If the houses in Klamath
(Continued on Page Two)
DUTCH BLAST
1 SEA ARMADA
' DFFBDRNEO
Hints of Coming Aid
.: Seen; Oil Works -Destroyed
By The Associated Press
'Dutch bombers were reported
slashing today at a Japanese in
vasion armada off the Japanese
conquered island of Tarakan,
Dutch North Borneo, as cheer
ing word spread that Anglo
American reinforcements were
en route to the new Far East
battle zone, ; . . y
Simultaneously, British dis
patches declared cryptically tnat
an important announcement
could be expected at any. mo
ment ' "which may change the
Malayan situation considerably
in Britain's favor." ' ,; .,; , ,
Forces Thinned
Taken together, these seemed
to Indicate that powerful allied
counter-blows , may soon be
struck.:.' vv-.-v- -,U-
Washington military observers
further pointed out that the Mik
ado's invasion hordes, striking in
Malaya,- China, the Philippines
and the, Dutch East Indies, had
now spread out dangerously thin
I and become vulnerable to a con
ceo!rHed ounterjstroise! .-rv--
' .uuicn ast indies headquarters
at Batavia acknowledged i that
its garrison at Tarakan had been
compelled . to surrender in the
face .of overwhelming odds, but
said Japanese conquest of the
tiny, 1 oil-rich " island, off the
northeast coast of Borneo was
"very costly to the invader."
T".':"' 20,000 Attackers
A small part of the garrison
escaped, it was announced.
. Authoritative quarters said
the small Dutch garrison "fought
bravely for two days" until Jap
anese sea-borne and parachute
. (Continued on Page Two)
Suit Filed to
Challenge New
Cigaret Tax
SALEM, Jan. 13 (JP) - Suit
challenging the two-cent cigaret.
tax law. was filed in state su
preme court today by the state
Retail. Grocers, association, . tbe
court accepting jurisdiction and
ordering Secretary of State Earl
Snell to show cause on January
23 why he should not be com
pelled to place the measure on
the referendum ballot next No
vember. No effort was made to restrain
the state tax commission from
collecting the .tax, pending out-,
come of the case, but there were -indications
that : such action '
might follow within a, few days.
The . - association contended
that Snell had accepted its refer
endum petitions as adequate, and
that the attorney general's rul
ing, that the association's ex
pense statements were not suffi
cient, has no bearing on the
validity of the referendum.
. The law was passed a year
ago, but. enforcement was de
layed by the referendum. After,
the attorney general's opinion,
the state tax commission began
collecting the tax last Thursday.
- If the court holds in favor of
the association, the tax will be
suspended and the people will
be permitted in "November to
decide whether they want the
tax. ' ,i ; s
If the ruling is in favor of
Snell,' the tax will continue.
The tax was expected to raise
about $1,200,000 a year, with
five-sixths of the revenue to be
used for old age . pensions, and
one-sixth for , vocational educa
tion. ' -
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