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UNITED PRESS
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942
Number 9485
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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)
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Books for Service Men
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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
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