t entoci Ifetal Dll i C I I GIVE RED CROSS Klamath's Quota 110,000 .-. Received to Data " , $8,629.82 , ODidCKoux oignai - ft Ul . I J 1. 1 I - li the signal (or blackout In Klsmeth Fall. Another long blast, during blsok . out, li a signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your street llghti. : Needed 13.970.3 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS i-.-.r.r n(inwwwiii'iii"irnriJi'Vii'iriiiri PRICE FIVE CENTS v, . .,-, M' ?AU, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942 Number 9483 Ml mm . ' . . 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. ' - News Index City Briefs Comics and Story ......... Courthouse Records ..:... Editorials ...., High School News ., Information' Market, Financial .... Midland Empire News ... Pattern Sport , 4. Page 3 Page a Page 2 Page 4 Page 3 Page 3 Page 7 Page 8 Pago 4 Pegs ft