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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1942)
If tralb WWWWWWWWWW MM ,11, WW IWMI,MM)I, Wm WEATHER ' PRECIPITATION As oi January t, 1941 Present atraam yaar . ............ 1.91 Normal to that data ...m.....S.0t Last yaar to that data .,. 4 if J Blackout Signal Is the signal for blackout In Klamath rlli. Another long blast, during a black out, li signal ior ali-olaar. In precau tionary periods, watch your street Ughti, y' .a PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS f'RIC RICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942 Number 9485 IU1 n i m JM In The Day's News By FRANK JENK1NB HPHE story told by today's dli A patchu suggests Inovltnbly these well-quoted lines from "Maud Mullen" "Of all sad words of tongue or poo, "Tho saddest are these: It might have been." "THE British, outnumbered and lacking adequate air support, are being pushed back on Singa pore. Japaneso air atturks on 3 the city aro increasing In strength, Indicating the possibil ity that an all-out drive on the great South Seas baso may be In the making. In tho past year the British might have been strengthening Singapore more adequately rather than telling the world how Impregnable It had already keen made. COR years Americans have been r hearing and to some extent BELIEVING tales about the poor, Inefficient Japs who can't shoot and can't fly and can't bomb and who are so nearly broko for money and muterials they'll collapse at the first block ade. Instead of leaning toward be lief of these tales, we might rofitably have been mora In lolligently skeptical of them, yHE senate defense lnveitlgit- - Ing committee cnargos in a report made publlo today that "American war production nas been hampered seriously by montlis of official bungling, labor selfishness and management greed. We might have been eliminat ing all that during this past critical year. OUT the British DIDN'T ade- quately protect Singapore. We DIDN'T sense the very real menace of Japan. We DIDN'T organize our production as ef ficiently as we might have done. It will do us no good to waste time crying over the milk thus spilled. What is Important is what we're DOINO NOW. E'VE named a production czar (Nelson) and today he define his new Job as "making enough war material to lick Hit ler and the Japs and doing It In the shortest posslblo tlmo." We're more than tripling the size of our army AT ONCE. We've devoted our entire vast automobile Industry to arms pro duction and are preparing to do without cars when our present ones wear out. SUPPORTING those dcclsivo and Important and tremendously necessary moves and accepting cheerfully whatever personal sacrifices may be involved will get us all a lot farther now than crying over what we MIGHT HAVE DONE. npHE Russians today are doliv erlng a direct, frontal attack against Mozhaisk, tho point where tho Germans are still aAvlthln 57 miles of Moscow. At Jho same time they aro pushing their pincers around it on two aides, seeking to pinch it off and trap 100,000 Germans. Watch this battle. Its success or failure will be important. "IANO (Italian foreign minis ter) and Rlbbontrop (nazl for eign mlnistor) are in Budapest today, Diplomats In Turkey say their purpose is to "obtain great er Hungarian participation in the war against Russia." . War isn't all shooting. Getting allies, keeping allies and taking Allies away from the other fellow have always been vital In warfare. , Gottlng more allies is an Im portant Job for German diplo mats right now. URKEY is one ally Hitler .would give his right eye to possess at this moment,- and you may be suro his diplomats at Ankara aro leaving no atones unturned In their efforts to bring Turkey over to the German side.) Tire Dealers Ask Federal Aid Grants WASHINGTON, Jun. 15 (P) Independent tiro dealers recom mended to tho house small busi ness committeo today that the government arrange for long term, low-cost loans and business debt moratoriums to tide them over the period of tiro rationing. They compluincd, also, against tho refusal of government ration ing officials to permit the deliv ery to buyers of tires bought and paid for prior to the rationing order and merely held by dcol ers for storage. This brought from Representa tive Bulwlnkle (DN.C.) a recom mendation that the committee take the case up Immediately with the proper officials. "These tires should be releas ed Immediately," Bulwlnkle said. Through Its president, L. Clare Corglle of Texarkanna, Tex., the (Continued on Page Two) AT Ml Frontal Attack Made " OnMbzhaislTiiv Decisive Move MOSCOW, Friday, Jan. 16 VP) Red army troops have recap tured Sellzharovo, 100 miles due west of Kalinin near the head waters of the Volga river, the Moscow radio announced today. By The Associated Press Russian shock troops were re ported smashing In a direct frontal assault today against 100,000 Germans massed at Moz haisk, 87 miles west of Moscow, in what appeared to be one of the greatest arid perhops most decisive battles of the war. Mozhaisk is tho keystone of the dwindling German defense corridor on the Napoleonic road from Moscow to Smolensk. The British rariln unlrl Ihnt n savage battle was raging at the goies oz nioznnisK and that "one key position is sold to have changed hands several times." Other red army forces, slow ly closing a giant trap around Mozhaisk, were officially report ed to have recaptured the town of Mcdyn, 39 miles to tho south west. This meant that the Ger mans now had only a 70-mile-wldo escape route from Moz haisk, with soviet troops press ing down from Volokolamsk in tho north and Mcdyn in the south. Volokolamsk Is 35 miles north of Mozhaisk. A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's high command, tersely noting "defensive battles" on the Mos cow and , Leningrad fronts, ac knowledged that the Russians were making a new drlvo along the lea of Azov toward Tagan rog, 40 miles west of Rostov-on-Don. Klamath Contributions Jor Red Cross War Relief Flood Office Contributions previously acknowledged $7,079.12 Contributions '-received and acknowledged Thursday 136.00 Total $7,214.12 Contributions to Klamath's Red Cross war relief fund flowed Into tho Red Cross of fices in such numbers Thursday, that full acknowledgement of Individual contributors could not be published in full today, but will follow within the next few days. A correction in the total pre viously acknowledged, printed above, Is made today. The er ror was1 the result of a mistake in addition, although all con tributions received up to Wed nesday have been acknowledged. Stag un FORCES IN ILL BE DOUBLED Men From New Draft February 16 Will Be Included WASHINGTON, Jon. 15 VP) Draft Director Lewis B. Hor shey said today It would be necessary to draw from the 0,000,000 men between 20 and 44, Inclusive, who will register February 16, to achieve the 1942 army strength of 3,600,000 an nounced curlier In the day by Secretory of Wor Stimson. General Horsiicy told a press conference that the additional 1,000,000 men to be sought by tho end of this calendar year present army strength is around 1.700.000 could be raised from present registrants, but added "I don't think that would be public policy." Provides Reserve Estimating that 1,000,000 of the. additional' men could.be pro-f vldcd from present registrants already classified in 1-A, Her- shey said he believed another 1,200,000 could be raised from the 2,000,000 men to register February 16 in the 20 to 211 year bracket, and another 400, 000 from older February 16 reg istrants, of whom there are to be about 7,000,000. These estimates total 2.800, 000, and are large enough' to provide a reserve, Hcrshcy said. He added that because of de pendents, trade skills and physi cal defects he doubted that many men in their lute 30's and 40's would be called. Lower Standards Hcrshcy announced there would be a re-examination of all existing deferments and that 100,000 to 150,000 men might bo picked up from present reg istrants by lowering physical standards, particularly as they relate to teeth. He said he hoped to maintain existing require ments for dependency defer ments until it was absolutely necessary to change them .to get more men. The army expansion would moro than double the strength of existing ground and air forces. Stimson said the Increase, au thorized by President Roosevelt, would be made this year, with the first three divisions to be organized by March 23. Camp Expansion Looking to further increases of undisclosed size next year, camp facilities are to bo ex panded In the meanwhile. The expansion, announced at a press conference, calls for: More than doublo the num ber of air combat units. Creation of 32 motorized or triangular divisions, in addition to the 27 conventional ground (Continued on Page Two) Tho total printed here, It should be noted, does not represent ac tual cash on hand but Is taken from the list of contributors' names. Actual cash on hand probably lags a little . behind, as outlying districts have not yet completed sending; in actual money. . Following Is a partial list of Thursday's contributors: Hnrry R. Doyd , $2.50 Mr. and Mrs. U. E. Beck.... 2.00 Ewauna No. 002, L. A. ' to B. of R. J ........... 8.00 Ordinary Good Citizen........ 8.00 Estollo Wheeler ....... 1.00 J. C. O'Neill 8.00 Frank L. Weaver 10.00 Specialized Service Co 20.00 Klamath Foils Teachers . association 25.00 (Continued on Page Two) ' ' til Books for Service Men i,wvwMsseassjBnp V'?rrw-'v'.7w:w'- Ft; : r., - Mrs.'' J. A. Nixon Is shown with a few of the books, which Klamath people are contributing to the "Keep Em Reading" drive in behalf of libraries at eamos of the nation's aimed forces. Books may be left at 602 Main street from 12:30 to 4 p. m. each day. - "" Shortage of Burlap Hits Klamath Potato Growers; Other Containers Sought War conditions have brought a shortage of burlap bogs for Klamath's booming potato indus try, but potato men expressed confidence Thursday that con tainers will be found for the en tire 1B41 crop even if some sup plies of burlap are actually ex hausted. Cotton bags, paper bags and wooden crates and boxes are container possibilities to be con sidered in the event the burlap shortaga becomes acute, and some dealers have already made inquiry as to cotton bag pur chases, it was learned. Nearly all of the United States' Identification Cards Ordered For Aliens WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 VP) Attorney General Biddle today ordered all German, Italian and Japanese aliens in eight western states to apply for special identi fication certificates between Feb ruary 2 and February 7. Nationals of those three enemy countries residing elsewhere in the United States must apply for the identification certificates be tween February 9 and February 28. Tho attorney general said that dates would be fixed later for identifying enemy aliens Jn the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Acting under a presidential proclamation issued yesterday, Biddle announced at his press conference that the alien enemies over tho ago of 14 would be re quired to carry at all times an identification card bearing a photograph and one fingerprint. At tho time of applying, for the card, aliens will be required to answer certain questions, par ticularly relating to relatives both in this country and abroad and whether tho relatives are in tho armed forces of an enemy nation. The group which must register first comprises tho 138,843 enemy aliens in the western command Arizona, California, (Continued on Pago Two) ncreased supply of burlap comes from In dia. Normally, agriculture uses 75 per cent of the burlap im ports, mostly for bogs to package commodities which farmers buy and sell. -Now, under OPM or ders, two-thirds of the burlap available will be used for mili tary purposes, such as sand bags and camouflage materials. Nearly 3,000,000 100-pound bags are needed to ship Klam ath's 1941 potato crop. That is based on an expected shipment of 8000 carloads. Up to Janu ary 13, shipments had totaled 4086 carloads, leaving nearly 4000 carloads (1,440,000 sacks) yet to be shipped this year. Dealers Worried Dealers, who usually furnish bags, are frankly worried about the burlap situation. One deal er said that dealers can expect to get only half as many bags as they got last year. Pro-rata of bags is expected. Thla dealer said he had In quired about 100-pound cotton bags, but learned that the gov ernment is making heavy pur chases of flour in cotton sacks. Some 80-pound cotton bags were found available, but the supply of these containers was not gen erous, it was learned. Neither is the paper bag supply too plenti ful, this dealer reported. Wooden Boxes While there has been much talk in recent years of shipping (Continued on Page Two) Weather Figures One Week Old to Be Published Since the outbreak of the war all weather data has been elim inated In newspaper columns. A number of requests from farm ers and others vitally interested In the water supply in this area have been received and a pe tition to the regional director of the US weather bureau, Seattle, resulted in permission to pub lish data one week old. The Herald and News has re sumed publication ot weather data up to one week ago, and those reading the figures should remember they are not today's figures but in arrears Just seven days. ' . :. - . VITAL BATTLE AT SINGAPORE DRAWING NEAR Japs Occupy Most of Malay States, Hit Neighbor Isles . By C. YATES McDANIEL -SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 UP) Sobered by the fact that only one-fifth of British Malaya re mains in British control after five weeks of the Japanese of fensive, imperial armed forces and civilians knuckled down to day for the major test which all believed to be in the offing: the battle of Singapore. New positions were consolidat ed in the dripping green jungles of southern Malaya. While rain squalls and stiffened defense tac tics gave this naval base-metropolis comparative respite from Japanese air attacks. One Break-Through Relays of British and Dutch fighter planes, however, battled raiders over the Singapore area, using rain clouds for conceal ment. . ! , ; Japanese planes broke through the fighter defenses for at least one raid on the city itself dur ing the day, but caused little mil itary damage and lost one of their planes in a dogfight. - The people of Singapore and Johpre the only .one -of the nine Malay states not-" occupied : or penetrated on any considerable scale by the ' Japanese nave been brought face to face with the full Japanese' threat by the simple official notification that! delivery of Malayan mail-could be assured only for -destinations in Singapore or Johore, . ' j Islands Attacked.' '. ; (The British news, agency, ex change telegraph,, recorded to day a Rome broadcast quoting a Tokyo report that Japanese forces had landed on an island of the Rhio Archipelago, just south of Singapore, and that the town of Endau, just north of the Jo hore border, about 100 miles north of Singapore, had been outflanked. - .... (The northernmost island of the Rhio group is separated from Singapore . only by . the narrow Singapore strait. (Official broadcasts from Tok yo said that Japanese troops, forging down the west side of the Malay peninsula, crossed in to Johore last night, occupied the railway junction of Gemas (Continued on Page Two) Rationing May Be Extended to Tire Retread Material WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (IP) Rationing of retreaded, as well as new tires, appeared probable today, with disclosure' by OPM officials that only 300 tons of crude rubber had been made available this month to make re treading material for passenger car tires. This amount, it was estimated unofficially, could take care of only about 20 per cent of the heavy demand by motorists re sulting from the new tire ration ing program. OPM rubber experts said rub ber shortages had forced estab lishment of a quota on crude rubber available to make "camel- back," the material used for re treading and recapping tires. The January quota was set at approximately 2300 tons and OPM directed manufacturers to devote 2000 tons to the manufac ture ot camelback for truck tires. When February's quota is fixed, officials said, it Is probable that increased needs of trucks in essential operations would force a further reduction in the manu facture of retreading material for passenger car tires. , WAR PROJECT WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 VP) Charles A. Lindbergh will not return to active duty with the army air corps, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today, but for the present will engage in technical research on a com mercial project in which the war department is directly Interest ed. . . Navy Reports Jap Merchant Liner Sunk WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 VP) The navy announced today that a 17,000-ton Japanese merchant liner had been sunk by an Amer ican submarine. The vessel was of . the fast Yawata class, owned and oper ated by the NYK lines, and prob ably convertible Into an aircraft carrier. , No other, details of the sink ing were supplied. The navy said also In a com munique: ! The menace of enemy sub marines off the east coast of the United States . remains substan tial.". A navy spokesman said at least one vessel of the Yawata class of three ships, frequent visitors to west coast, ports,- had been con verted into an aircraft carrier, but It was not known' whether this was the one sent to the bot tom. . BY LUZONDEFENSES Harsh-Measures Show Fifth" Columnists Aiding U. S. VVTASHJNGTON Jan. IS (JPy A. mighty army xf ,600,000 men is In the making, Secretary of War Stimson said today, as an army ' communique ' told -' of 'greatly -outnumbered" troops holding lasf against the Japanese ia 'the Philippines. .. . .' . The daily-report on the Philip pine 'defense told of another whittling at the axis air forces. with si statement that two heaw Japanese bombers, were shot down and others hit, while the casualties among the defenders were few. 7 ' v ' . Fifth Column ' ' -Japan's resort to a ruthless firing squad role for the con quered areas of the Philippines pointed evidence that a fifth column of Filipino patriots is at work for General Douglas Mac- Arthur - -behind the invader's lines. - ;''- . y-MacArthur's communiques for some- days past have shown that he was able to secure prompt in formation on what was happen ing in enemy-held territory, but it remained for Tokyo to ac knowledge the effectiveness of this undercover intelligence serv ice by invoking the death pen alty. Well Posted Advance knowledge of enemy movements and dispositions, it was pointed out here, would be of incalculable value to Mac Arthur's army In. its last stand on the rugged Batan peninsula, northwest of Manila, and would prolong its ability to hold out. In seeking to appraise the ex tent of Filipino fifth column ac tivity, the capital ' noted that everytime the Japanese have at tacked since MacArthur fell back on the Batan peninsula, they have . found themselves without the advantage ot sur prise. - Instead,. American- and Fili pino troops have been waiting to meet them "in previously pre . (Continued on Page Two) Chinese Forres Arrive to Aid Burma War Move , RANGOON, Burma,' Jan.. 15 VP) - Chinese army advance units thave reached points in Burma from which an offensive against Japanese-held territory ultimately may be developed, It was disclosed today. - A communique said that "pre parations for cooperation with China are well in hand. Liaison between Chinese and British staffs proceeds." , The possibility that the Japan ese may attempt simultaneous attacks on Singapore and Burma is recognized by military circles here but they gave assurance that defensive preparations for such an eventuality are being made as well as the longer range development of striking power. ATTACK ONLY 19 MILES OFF L Survivors Brought In By Coast Guard; Others Sighted NEW YORK, Jan. 15 VP) Enemy warships for the second time in two days struck at com mercial shipping in New York waters when a tanker was at tacked today within sight of watchers on the south shore of Long Island. The coast guard at Quogue, Long Island, said that survivors were being brought in and that some had landed by midafter noon. A coast guard plane had dropped food and whisky to about 10 survivors seen in a lifeboat and on a raft. 19 Miles Off Shore The name of the ship was not Immediately learned. Details of the attack, about 19 miles from shore, also were lacking, but it was believed the attacking vew sel was a submarine. . Reports from Hampton Bays, Long Island, about 75 miles from New York City, said onlookers from shore had seen the tanker during or immediately after the attack. . It was learned that the attack occuxted about 9:30 a- m. (EST), 32 hours after a submarine rose to the surface and thrice tor pedoed the Panamanian tanker Norness about 50 miles from the scene of today's attack. -- : Police Chief John H. Sutter of Hampton Bay said late in the afternoon, he had been notified by the coast guard that one of their patrol planes sighted a tanker in distress 23 miles off Shanecock inlet and that fast cutters dispatched at once from the Tiana coast guard station had searched the area but returned without finding any survivors. The report .from the patrol plane, Sutter said, was that 10 men had been sighted in a life boat and four on a raft. H added that guardsmen who made: the trip in the cutters called the sea 'very rough." , . ' At 4:45 p. m., an hour and a half after the news broke, Rear Admiral Adollhus Andrews, com mandant of the third naval dis trict, said through a press of ficer that the navy would have no immediate comment on the attack. NEW YORK, Jan. 15 VP) Disclosure that an enemy sub (Continued on Page Two) Arrival of Auto Tax Stickers Awaited Here Klamath motorists may have to provide their own glue to stick ' the automobile-use tax stamps on their windshields as the result of a mix-up in Wash-, ington, according to an Associat ed Press story which reached, here Thursday, In 23 states of the union stick ers are prohibited on wind shields. The glue was put on' the back instead of tne front but-subsequently most of the states waived the rules to per mit display of the stamps Just when the stamps arrive here was not known, postofflce officials stated, but the publia will be advised Immediately upon receipt of the Liberty bell stickers, R. L. Griffith, assistant postmaster, stated Thursday. Griffith has filed the amount needed with the Portland office which receives the stamps di rectly from Washington, D. C. . Price of the stamps, to be ob tained by February 1. Is $2.09. On July 1 a $5 stamp will ba necessary for the operation of a vehicle for a One-year period. ; "News Index Agriculture Page 9 City Briefs Pages 6, 7 Comics and Story .... Page 10 Courthouse Records Page 4 Editorials .....Pag 4 High School News ..Page 12 Information .... Page 6 Market, Financial ...Page 11 Pattern .... ...... .Pago 4 Sports Page . 8 ON G ISLAND