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i uuui.riAn rui.nri"irr"ii r"r !-
GIVE
Blackout Signal
On 8-mlnut blast on (Irani and whtitUi
ti the signal for a blackout In Klamath
Fall. Anothtr long blast, during black
out, li ilgnil (or all-olear. In precau
tionary periods, witch your street llghti.
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By FRANK JENKINS
'THERE'S lull In tho shooting
1 today. At alwayi when the
hooting lull, talk rises.
That U perfectly normal.
Shooting and talking have
worked together In war as far
back aa tho record go.
MAW SECRETARY KNOX,
4 talking to tho reporlora at his
press conference, soys:
"These stories of Internal un
lest In Germany are SPURIOUS
and are being deliberately spread
to tako the edge off America's
war eflort."
lis adds:
"German withdrawals In
Russia should not be regarded
as sign of a Gorman debacle.
There has been hasty retirement
but I don't bellevo there Is a
German rout In Russia.
fN tho other side of the fence,
"usually reliable Inform
ants" In Europe say today that
German reverses on the Russian
front hove upsot th whole axis
aonle cart.
Germany, they-add, wants des
perately to get tho Italian fleet
through the Dardanelles to
smack the Russian fleet In the
Block sea, but Turkey, Impressed
y Russian successes, la sitting
inht as the guardian of the gate,
Travelers from Franca ana
elsewhere In Europe report that
the nazl forces moved recently
Into Franco and to the Spanish
frontier are battle battered
troops from tho Eastern front
and are replacing fresh troop
which are being moved to the
Russian and Bulgarian fronts,
TAKE your choice.
This writer ha an Idea the
truth lies somewhere between
the skepticism voiced by Knox
and the wishful thinking arising
out of Hitler's definite failure to
smash Russia this winter.
GERMANY has had a hard Jolt
in Russia, but is FAR FROM
LICKED.
Napoleon got harder Jolt In
Russia than Hitler has got, com'
i i" v '
In The ,
DayV
- News
ing out with only a shattered
Q-emnant of the veteran army he
went In with.
But he left his demoralized
army insido the Russian border.
hastened back to Paris, put down
an Incipient revolution, raised a
new army, hastened back across
the Rhine and fought for nearly
two years, winning most of the
actual battles,' before being fin'
ally finished off and sent Into
exllo.
The thing that finished Na
poleon off was superiority In
number and equlpmont on the
part of hi enemies, so that
if whorever ho turned ho fnced
TOO MANY MEN AND GUNS,
That Is what will finish Hit
ler.
rN the home front, we have a
w new dcol a war production
board that supplants tho old sup-,
ply priorities and allocations
board.
Donald M. Nelson, former mall
0rdcr house man, Is to be its
chairman and FDR announces
that his doclsion a to questions
of procurement and production
will be FINAL.
-,
WHEN your business faces an
emergency, you hire tho best
man you can lay hands on and
tell him to go ahead and got
results.
That I what the U. S. Is
doing.
Nelson is the man, and ap
parently he's being told to go
ahead, and got results
TN our part of World War I,
A Bernard M. Baruch was the
man. He and hi war Industries
board did their job so well that
in .. his memoir Field Marshal
Ovon Hlndcnburg acknowledged
grudgingly:
"They (Baruch and his war In
dustrles board) UNDERSTOOD
WAR.", ;
, ; .
NJELSON says: 1 .
4 ' Our goal la to substitute
(Continued on Page Two) .
ASSOCIATED '
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Nells! Takes war
Reshuffle of
British War
Cabinet Seen
LONDON, Jun. 14 (IP) A re
shuffle of tho, British cabinet
as a result of criticisms over war
management and changes in mln
istcrlal assignments were de
scribed as Imminent today In
parliamentary circles.
It was stated that announce
ments might even precede the
return to London of Prime Mln
liter Churchill from his confer
ence in Washington with Presl
dent Roosevelt.
Some Informants said the
changes likely would Involve ap
pointment of a new minister of
supply not because of dissatis
faction with Lord Bcaverbrook,
who now holds the post, but be
cause he Is expected to bo kept
(Continued on Page Two)
'COLLAPSE' IES
Stories Planned for
Effect on U. S.r
Soys Secretary
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 CP)
Secretary of the Navy Knox to
day sold he believed stories of
Internal unrest In Germany were
spurious and deliberately spread
to take the edge off America's
war effort.
"Almost everyone of the stor
ies about tho terrible situation In
Germany originates In territory
controlled by Germany," Knox
told a press conference. "This
alone should raiso suspicion."
Assuming that they are doing
It deliberately, it Is Intended to
take the fine edge off the sense
of urgency and singleness of pur
pose with which this country is
pushing Its war effort."
Knox said also that German
(Continued on Pago Two)
Precinct Boards
Taking Part in
Bond Pledge Day
County Clerk Mae K. Short
said Wednesday that precinct I
election boards are responding
wholeheartedly to the plon for
using the boards In conducting
tho "bond pledge day" program
throughout the county Janu
ary 20. '
Mrs. Short on Tuesday night
completed sending out notices
and Instructions to tho boards.
They will open precinct polling
places from B a. m. to 7 p. m.
January 20, and every citizen in
the county Is asked to visit his
polling place to obtain pledge
cards.
A number of volunteers of-
forcd tholr services Wednesday,
and Mrs. Short said more volun
teer service will be acceptable.
She also Is taking applications
for work on election boards at
the primary election In May.
Contributions Received by Red
Cross in War
Contributions previously
acknowledged S6.629.82
Contributions received
Wednesday 268.50
Total ....$8.89B,12
War relief funds for the Red
Cross $80,000,000 nationwide
drlvo poured in by dollars and
two-dollars and on up tho scale
of voluntary contributions Wed
nesday, to bring Klamath $268.80
closer to Its $10,000 quota. Of
ficial were hopeful that tho
drlvo would be completed here
by Saturday, as Individual con
tributions continued at the peak
and the business district canvass
progressed. -
Wednesday, tho following con
tributions wero recorded:
Mr. and Mrs. M. L,
Thomas S 2.00
Paul Henna ......., 1,00
.mill ': .i
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Eastern Front Now in
Motion, Say Reds;
Kharkov Hit
By The Associated Press
Russian troops wcro report'
ed advancing within 100 miles
of Adolf Hitler's winter head
quarters at Smolensk today,
while In the south, red army
forces wcro pictured as storm
ing at the outer gates of Khar
kov, Russia's "Pittsburgh ' In
the Ukraine.
Soviet military dispatches
said collapse of a German wing
defending a flank of the Mos-cow-to-Mozhslsk
highway had
knocked out the Germans' "last
zone of positional warfare" be
fore Moscow and that "the
whole front Is now in motion."
200.000 Killed
l The Russians declared . that
Hlllertr Tceling-artnlosi Had Jost
200,000 killed between Novem
ber 16 and January fl, with 20,-
000 slain In recent fighting In
the - Donets ' river - industrial
basin. ---.Soviet
troop were described
as now battering heavily against
German defenses at Mozhaisk It
self, 87 miles west of Moscow,
where a nazl garrison of 100,-
000 men still held out despite
the danger of being trapped by
(Continued on Page Two)
Defense Stamps,
Money Stolen at
Riverside School
The meanest man In town
added another feather to his
cap and erased all doubt as to
his right to tho title when he
broke Into Riverside school
some time Tuesday night and
took money, defense stamps.
and defense stamp books which
children of the school were fill
ing.
City police were baffled by
tho activities of tho marauder
who added Riverside to a list
of other schools including
Joseph Conger, Falrvlew and
Fremont, as well as several
churches which he had Dlun
dcred within the past few
weeks. Methods used at River
side wero similar to those env
ployed In the robberies of other
buildings, police officers said.
In each of the four schools
entered by the robber, a quant!
ty ot defense stamps was taken.
A total loss of $80 was report
ed by city police.
NAMED RIGHT
CAMP FORREST. Tenn.. Jon.
14 (yPl The newlv annotated
camp transportation officer here
is first lieutenant Pullman
Carr.
Relief Campaign
A. M. Klrkland 1.00
Charles Benny ....... 1.00
W. T. McGaughoy 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Law-
son 1.00
Bertha Kandy 1.00
J. Marvin Hilton : 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dill-
strom 2.00
A Friond 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Eng-.
gllsh .50
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lund-
strom 1.00
Ovgard Family .................. 3.00
Ella Chltds 2.00
Mr. and Mrs. William Gray 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. V.1 C. Rex
ford ; 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thorn.. 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Miller.. 2.00
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bush..... 10.00
(Continued onPage Two)
RSI POSITION
NEAR
ICI
KNOCKED
OT
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
- KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON,
Tire Rationing
Board Grants
4 Applications
Klamath's 1 1 r rationing
board has acted on ceven appli
cations, granting four ot them,
It was announced . Wednesday.
The board will meet on Friday
of this week to pass on further
application.
Application were granted as
follows:
One obsolute size tire, to a
railroad worker.
One passenger car tire, to a
women who drives a mail route,
Two truck tires to an oil com
pany transporting fuel;
Two obsolete size tires. (Ob
solete tire can be rationed to
anyone who needs them, regard
less of other eligibility factors),
. The board rejected the appli
(Continued on Page Two)
Argentina Withholds
Support; Ecuador
EyesPispvtel.
By ALBURN WEST '
. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 14 W)
Twenty-four hours before f its
first' official, session, - the Pan
American conference Ot foreign
ministers, appeared to ,. have
struck two obstacles today Ar
gentina's reluctance to commit
herself to any military alliances
or "acts of pre-belligerency," . and
Ecuador's determination to set
tle her 100-year-old boundary
dispute with Peru before enter
ing into any general discussions.
In the behind-the-scenes diplo
macy aimed at creating a united
western hemisphere front
against the axis, Argentina was
considered the chief obstacle. Its
policy was reaffirmed at Buenos
Aires last night by President Ra
mon S. Castillo, who said his
government could not assent to
any "measures of belligerency
which might come before the
conference, and earlier had been
laid down along the same lines
by . Foreign Minister Enrique
Ruiz Guinazu.
(Private advices from Buenos
Aires have indicated ' that the
Castillo government is under
strong popular and political pres
sure to change its isolationist at
titude. Argentine sources in the
United States say the govern
ment might even face a coup if
it does not adopt a more pro-allied
stand.)
From a most authoritative
source it was learned that Tobar
Donoso, foreign minister of Ecua.
dor, had declared he would not
take part in the conference ses
sions unless a basis of settler
ment was reached in the bound
ary dispute with Peru.
The same source said a third
problem had been created by
the apparently unswerving de
termination of the Central
American and Caribbean na
tions to force the conference to
act on a proposal calling, for all
the American nations to Join in
the war against the axis.
Oldster, Anxious
To Help, Appeals
To County Clerk
Because he couldn't afford'
to pledge even - 29 cents - ft1
week to Klamath's defenfY jl
bond and stamp campaign,'
one 70-year-old man was '
upset he took his troubles- i
the county clerk's office
help. - -'.-
"I'nt already getting' -fe--lief."
he explained, "and I
don't see what I'm going to
do about this pledge day
they're having. I'd sure -like
to help, but I can't." '-.
Mae K. Short, county elrfrk,',
advised him - to ' lgrf Jnei '
pledge card January 2 and
write his explanation jit.;.
In such a case, good 1nte" Ions,
are worth great der t aba
felt. . '.UiH ;
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14,
He
CALL SHAKE-UP
TO
T
Entire ' Production of
War Put Under
One Man
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 VP)
America's new war production
boss, Donald M. Nelson, told the
army; navy and OPM today that
he was ready to shake up the
entire defense etup if necessary
"to lick Hitler and the Japs."
"Any organizational changes
that have to be made In nrHpr in
do this Job will be made," Nel
son declared In a letter to Wil
liam S. Knudsen, OPM director
general: Undenuvrotnrv nt War
Robert P. Patterson; and Under
secretary of the Navy James V.
Forrestal.
First Act
The letter marked Nelson's
first official act since his selec
tion late' yesterday by President
RmWVlt Ifl 4V.s nnA.mBH 1 1
of the1 nation s -ntire war- pro
duction s and procurement ma
chinery. . - -.
. "We have lust nni Inh n on
to make enough war material to
iick mtier and: the Japs, and to
do it in the Khortert nnxihls
time," .the brief said. - .
Everyone connected with in
duction and procurement In nil
agencies of the government, must
carry on with the utmost devo
tion and energy."
Earlier Senators Connolly. (D
Tex.) and Wiley (R-Wls.) urged
in the senate that Nelson h
given -complete authority" over
me nation s machinery of pro-
aucuon and supply.
At the WhitS HOMUV Sionhan
Early, presidential secretary said
an executive order formally
establishing a war production
board Was in Drocess nf nmnnrn.
tlon but. that its promulgation
awaited word from Nelson on
the type of setup desired.
EarlV indicated tha nrAar
would be drafted to conform to
Nelson s recommendation, mil
wishes.
President Roosevelt nnnnllnA&n
yesterday that . Nelson would
nead up the war production and
supply efforts. An executive
order makine this etun f fonti.
is yet to come.
It Will be Nelson's 4oh in rli.n.
licate, if not surpass, the master
ly economic generalship which
"onunuea on Page Two)
Klamath County
Car Owners to
Pay U. S. Tax
lire lJ.iio owners or cars
operating in Klamath countv
will line up In the Klamath Falls
postoffice starting January 26.
and plunk out $2,09 for the fed
eral auto tax stamp which, after
February 1, will bo required for
legal operation of a motor ve
hicle.
A stamp, costing $2.09, will
carry the motorist through to
next July 1, according to an As
sociated Press report from Wash
ington, D. C. A new stamp, cost
ing 5, will bo required for the
ensuing 12 months' operation.
The Internal revenue bureau, in
'speeding Issuance on the stamps,
said some points of tho country
would not bo supplied immediately.-Klamath
Falls apparent
ly fell in this category as the
local postoffice said they did not
expect the stamps before Janu
ary 28, giving local operators but
four days in which to buy the
stickers.
State police said the stamps
were green with a Liberty bell
printed in the center. The stamps
will be affixed to the lower right
hand corner of the windshield
much as a temporary sticker is
used. The stamps aro to remain
on the windshield. Postal author
ities said two windows would be
open for the sale of stamps. ,
m
NEWBOSS MAY
11
FIGH
1942
AfpM
Nazi 'Secret Weapon' in Libya
- -1
Two views of captured German tank, which British say was
a "secret weapon" In Libya. Top:
rmorea venule. Bottom: turret, stripped, revealed a a thin
metal shield for heavy caliber gun firing armor-pUrcing shells
with range of 5000 yards. British say such tanks were used as
mobile artillery, covering advance of regular tanks. .
Chinese Caff :
For Action fn ;
...... t r. f -'!'; ' j
Pacific Area
; CHUNGKING, Jan. 14 W) r
The Chinese press declared today
that signs ot British and Ameri
can reinforcements in the ' Far
East were lacking, that tha sit
uation allowed of no optimism,
and turned severe criticism upon
the conduct of the war in the
Pacific. . . i - i
"British authorities in Malaya
have shown themselves wanting
in both vision and determina
tion" was the blunt assertion of
the Chinese army organ, Sao
Tang Pao. -
Easier Said
'The term 'Pacific war" , ap
peared in publications 20 years
ago and was the subject of con
stant . discussion in Japan, yet
Americans were caught off
guard at Pearl Harbor, and the
Philippines are left to look after
themselves with a small force,"
it continued.
"Signs of Anglo-American re
inforcements are absent while
British and American authorities
continue to indulge in side-tracking
remarks. Both Knox (United
States secretary of the navy) and
A. V. Alexander (Britain's first
lord of the admiralty) urged the
allies to strike Hitler first. If
Japan is allowed to take Singa
pore and the Netherlands East
Indies it will be easier said than
done for America and Britain to
start the counter-offensive."
While other papers strongly
supported demands for the
speedy dispatch ot land, naval
and air reinforcements to the
Far East, Sao Tang Pao took the
gloomy view that if Japan gained
control of Malaya and the Dutch
Indies she would attain self-suf-
(Continued on Page Two)' .
Scrap Steel Collection Sought '
To Uphold Production for War
By IRVING PERLMETER
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (P
A group of responsible govern
ment officials today saw the na
tion's huge war program threat
ened In 1942 by a possible short
age of from four to six million
tons of scrap steel the very
metal which Japan bought up so
avidly here - in tho pre-war
yeara.
Accordingly, they urged an
immediate rummage of the na
tion's vacant lots, backyards and
cellars for all available scrap.
in a special memorandum for
circulation among administra
tion leaders, these officials as
serted that unless scrap collec
tion were stimulated the 1942
production of steel so urgently
needed for munitions would
bo smaller than 1941'..
The supply of scrap steel an
essential to the Industry it last
year's production is to be sur
Klamath's Quota
110.000 ,
'Racelved to Dat
I6.898.ia
J Needed
I 13,101.88
UNITED PRESS
Number 9484
o)
tank has appearance of heavily-
.3.
Jap Hospital Vessel
' Sunk by American -,
" Sub,- Claim
TOKYO, Jan. 14 (Official
Broadcast Recorded by AP)
Japanese imperial, headquarters
declared today that a Japanese
submarine had scored two tor
pedo hits on a United States air
craft carrier of the Lexington
type in waters west of Hawaii.
(The Lexington and her sis-
tershlp, : the Saratoga, both of
33,000 . tons ' displacement, were
built in 1925 and normally carry
a crew of 2122 officers and men.
. (They have a normal carrying
capacity of 81 aircraft and . a
maximum capacity of 90.
(The Japanese . repeatedly
have reported- the " sinking or
damaging of US aircraft carriers
but the claims have been put
down by Washington officials
as "fishing expeditions" for in
formation.)
A communique issued by im
perial headquarters said the sub
marine commander was not able
to state whether the aircraft car
rier had sunk, because he had to
dive his craft immediately to
evade a counter-attack by de
stroyers.
TOKYO, Jan. 14 . (Official
Broadcast Recorded by AP)
Imperial headquarters charged
in a communique today that the
hospital ship Harbin Maru was
sunk on Jan. 10 by an American
submarine in Chinese waters.
passed was said to.be so low
that at New Year's only one
month s supply was on hand.
Shipments of scrap iron and
steel to Japan climbed to a peak
of 2,035,000 tons in 1939, but in
1940 'the United States required
export licenses for the scrap and
shipments dropped - to ' 963,000
tons. No figures were available
for 1941, due to wartime restric
tions, : but . officials Indicated
shipments were below, those ot
1940. -
. The United States last year
made a record total of 83,000,
000 tons of steel. . The govern
ment experts figure that, theor
etically,, tho steel industry this
year could .turn out 89,000,000
tons, but. probably would turn
out between 82,000,000 and 85.
000,000 tons. Last year' output
included 44,000,000 tons made
out of pig iron and 39,000,000
made out of scrap."
RED CROSS
MacArthur Halts Jap
Attacks; British .
Still Retreat ;
By The Associated Pics .
Land and air -reinforcement
for hard-pressed British forces
in the Far East have arrived in
Rangoon, on Japan's Burma
flank, it was announced today.
The landing of anti-aircraft
units and ground crews for ad-
oiuonai aircraft, along with ful
ly equipped British and Indian
soldiers, was disclosed t th.
same time that cancellation of
some postal services from Singa
pore showed that the defenders
Of that baxtion in
Asia had been forced into a fur
ther retreat. - .- !--.
Counter ; Action -.rlr.S '
The Ransoon Announcement
said, more reinforcements were
on me way. xne new units were)
Sent at once to, suard alrflelH.
some of which are hidden in the
jungle near the Thailand fron.
tier. ' ;
These were glens that tho all
lies in the Pacific war were get
ling sec tor counter action.
... Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
commander-in-chief of the new
allied. Ear.- East command, has
arrived in the Dutch East In.
dies and already launched,
series of dynamic counter-blowa
against. Japanese Invasion
forces, military dispatches said
today. .
Dutch trooDS were, renorted
moving into action on the border
of the "White Rajah" kingdom
of Sarawak, where . Jananesa
troons had seized the ranltnl
Kuching, and most of the north
ern territory. . ..
Gen. Wavell's second in com
mand. Lieut.-Oen. flenrtfn' TT
Brett,, former chief of tho US
army air corps, arrived . at tne
same time to help direct strat
egy for the Indies' fishtinff de
fense.
Dutch Indies soldiers were al
so reported battling hand-to-hand
with Japanese invader'
near Lake Tondano, on tho
northeast tip of Celebes Wand.
. Simultaneously, Dutch war-;
planes bombed Japanese-occupied
Tarakan island, off tha
coast of Dutch North Borneo,1
and a Japanese base In the
southern Philippines. ... .
Americans Attack . .
- The Philippine base , was pre
(Continued on Page Two)
Officers Listed
For Klamath Unit
Of State Guard
Thomas B. Abbott and Nelson
Reed were listed as commission
ed officers and the names of 14 -non-commissioned
officers dis
closed today in an announcement
by D. E. Van Vactor, captain of
Company B of the First regi
ment, Klamath Falls unit of the
Oregon State Guard. -
Van Vactor said the appoint
ments, made by him, have been
forwarded to state headquarter!
for . issuance of certificates.
Abbott was commissioned a
first lieutenant and Reed a sec
ond lieutenant. :
Other appointments were:
First sergeant, . Robert A.
Thompson; supply sergeant,
Louis A. Tureen; mess sergeant,
Darrell E. Christie; other ser
geants, Don R. Chase, Arthur L.
Anderson, Paul O. Landry, Rob
ert O. Odell; corporals, Charles)
L. McDonald, Harry L. Kellls,
Newton B. Nelson, Joy A. Ustlck,
Abraham M. Neslin, Walter H,
Hansen, William E. Call.
; A complete roster of the guard
is scheduled for publication to
morrow. . ' '
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