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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1942)
Blackout Signal On B-mlnute bloat on sirens and whistles It th ilgnal for a blackout In Klamath Falli. Another long blast, during a black out li ilgnal (or all-claar. In precau tionary periods, watch your itraat lights. AAnAnAfVWVrViiirir anfc AlimLlUl MM News !2 CP LOST i .I 4 1. 1 nrr ninniim By FRANK JENKINS TN the Pacific war situation to- day Slnsaporo Is vividly spot lighted. An AP dispatch says: "With the Japanese still ad vancing, Mnlaya's steaming Juti- lo land, which the Urttlsn hud looked upon as a sort of nutural Muglnot Una for Slnguporo, hus taken Its place. s anothor out worn deftmsivo concept and the battlo for Singapore toduy be rime purely test of fighting "Tnen ond their weapons." rrHE dispatch adds: A "Some of tho fiercest hand-to-hand combat In tho history of war Is In store, If not already In progress, along the narrowing, fluid line of defense in Johore state, welt within 100 miles of the pivotal base (Singapore) which the British call their Gi braltar of the Orient." CINCE the remotest times of " which we have any record, man has sought an impregnable wall behind which he could hope to be' safo. Ills earliest cities were walled. The Chinese built a vast wall along their whole northern bor der. The French built their Mag Jnot line a wall of forts and guns. ' . .: But throughout history FIGHTING MEN AND THEIR WEAPONS have provided the ONLY defense that could be permanently relied upon. T ET us note with pardonable pride that in Luzon Mac Arthur and his men DID NOT retire to the walls and tho under ground chambers of Corregldor, but STAYED OUTSIDE and ro lled upon their discipline, their fighting skill and their weapons to hold back the Japs. They will (oil back to Correg ldor only as a last resort. DARRINQ miracle, Mac u Arthur's magnificent stand In Luzon can be only a delaying action. Today's dispatches say of It: a. 'The gallant band of Ameri cans and Filipinos is contributing materially to the defense of Sing apore and the Dutch East Indies by HOLDING IN CHECK a large army of Japuncso on Luzon, but there seems no doubt that Its situation Is DETERIORATING." This hard-fighting little army has been forced back 20 miles In two weeks and there are signs today that the Japs are grouping PREPONDERANT strength for a fresh offcnslvo to defeat it as soon as possible and press on to richer fields. RUT at least we know these u Americans in the far outposts DIDN'T rely upon walls or citadels. History tells us that over the long pull reliance upon walls and citadels and Intricate forti fications such as tho Maginot line has been a sign of spiritual deterioration of a national in feriority complex. ' As i nation, China was be coming doendent when she built nor Great Wall. Asa nation, France was be coming decadent when she built her Maginot lino and rotlrod smugly and confidently behind It. - AMERICANS, as typified by MacArthur and his tough little army In Luzon, still choose to FIGHT IT OUT IN THE OPEN in a test of fighting men and their weapons. , Wo arc NOT DECADENT, p We have what the lesson of history tolls IT TAKES TO SURVIVE. CRASH REPORTED TACOMA, Jan. 19 (IP) The sheriff's office reported an army jombcr crashed near Parkland, Wash., about five' miles south east of here, shortly before 3 o'clock today. The sheriff's of fice said laud explosions were reported soon after tho plane foil near the Intersection of B6th and Park avenue. ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS Missing Men Feared Victims of Fire After Blast By Th Assodsttd Press Twenty-two crewmen of a United States tanker, caught in a whirlpool of flames touched off by the torpedo that shat tered their vessel, were given up for lost today the latest re ported victims of an axis U-boat challenge to the defense of the western Atlantic. The tanker, the oeSS-ton Al lan Jackson, of the - Standard Oil company, was en route to New York yesterday off the coast of North Carolina when, In the gathering dusk, a-torpedo struck her amidships. She was the third tanker so destroy ed within five days. Flra Every where One of the 13 survivors of tho SB-man crew, said, "the ship seemed to lie parting In the middle and there was fir every where." So far as could be learned the 13 were the only ones to escape the holocaust. . Even that group came near to being chopped to death in their lifeboat by the churning propeller of the Allan Jack son before the ship settled In Its death agony. They finally pull ed away with a strength born of the knowledge of certain death If they failed. The explosion' spewed flam ing crude oil onto the water and the glare lighted the sea for miles around. Although the Allan Jackson was the third reported victim of the U-boat offensive Into the coastal waters of North Ameri ca, the arrival of survivors of another sunken ship, an unldcn (Continued on Page Two) Federal Potato Marketing Plan Set January 26 The potato marketing agree ment which concerns five coun ties In southern Oregon and northern California will go Into effect January 28, according to word received Monday by C. A. Henderson, Klamath county ag ricultural agent. Following Is a telegram sent by A. E. Mercker, head of the potato division of surplus mar keting administration, depart ment of agriculture: "Oregon California potato marketing order issued today, effective January 26. Extent of opera tions this season are undeterm ined until the committee or ganizes." A hearing was held In Klam ath Falls in July followed by a referendum in the five countlos affected, Klamath, Deschutes and crook In Oregon, Modoc and Siskiyou In California. Tho agreement regulates the marketing of Irish potatoes In Interstate commerce. Growers In tho Klamath basin wero In accord with the agreement espec-. lally as It regulates the market ing of undergrades of potatoes. (Continued on Page Two) U bflnULNfl TN Citizens of Klamath county aro osked to go to the polls Tuesday, which. is Bond Pledge Day In Klamath , county. " ' ' ' ... Available at all poll which will be open In each precinct will be bond pledge cards. Every citizen finan? daily able to buy defense savings bonds or stamps, in-. eluding those already buying, is asked to fill out one of these blanks. Those who do not feel they can pledge may Indicate as much on their cards. ; , D mm ... : ft : rur- .-4- Flv persons were dead and thirty others Inurd 40 miles a switch angina and a passenger train collided headon. Coaches shown. Many of the victims were soldiers. PARKING METEHSr ASKED BY BUREAU Additional Revenues For Police Force Sought by City Parking meters on a limited number of downtown streets may result from the proposal to be presented Monday night to the city council by the Klam ath Retail Trade bureau. The bureau at noon Monday adopted a recommendation pro posed by the directors and rep resentatives of the Klamath Truckers association and the city planning commission, with one change. As amended, the proposal will leave to-the dis cretion of the city council whether parking meters should be placed on Main street or on side streets from Fourth street to Eleventh street, between Pine street and Klamath avenue. Mayor John H. Houston told the Klamath merchants at their Monday luncheon meeting that parking meters are the only method the city fathers can de vise to secure additional reve nue at this time to increase the police force as well as give a small raiso in salary to police officers. He said that any other suggestion for raising more rev enue would bo eagerly Investi gated, but merchants had no other plan to suggest. The proposal to be presented to the city fathers tonight in cludes the recommendation also that one loading zone be main tained in each block on Main street between Fourth street and Eleventh street, for the use of commerclnl vehicles only. Need More 'Cops' Mayor Houston pointed out that this city attracts a tremen dous number of out-of-town cus tomers and that an addition to the pollco force Is necessary, es pecially in tho way of traffic offi cers. The city council he said does not believe the cost of the in crease In police should be paid only by residents of Klamath , (Continued on Paga Two) GO TO THE POLLS TUESD AY, BOND PLEDGE DAY HE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND V' ..H FALLS. OREGON. Snrc By Sai Five Killed, 30 Injured in Roil 74 D Bodies Brought Down From Site Of Plane Crash . i LAS VEGAS, Ncv.. Jan. 19 (IP) The shattered bodies of Ac tress Carole Lombard and eight other persons among 22 killed In a mountain-top plane crash Friday night lay in a, Las Vegas morgue today while men toiled through snow to bring the re maining 13 victims down from the crash scene. . ' The dead included Miss Lom bard and her mother and two other women, the actress' press representative ' and 15 ' army fliers in addition to the pilot and co-pilot. Recovered from the plane wreckage late yesterday were tho remains of two women and seven men. . . Wisps of blonde hair "and the general contour of her face" served to enable Edgar J. Man nlx, vice president of MGM stu dios, to Identify one body as that (Continued on Page Two) Price-Control Split Widens on Farm Amendment WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (IP) Chairman Brown (D-Mich.) said a joint senate-house conference committee appeared today to be farther away from agreement than ever before after a two hour study of farm amendments to the administration's price con trol bill. ' "Both sides seem to be stif fening in their resistance," Brown told reporters. Senator Danaher (R-Conn.) another con feree, said there appeared to be no agreement in sight. ' Chief provision in contention is a senate approved amend ment linking farm prices to in dustrial wages. Opponents have charged this would permit a 25 per cent! increase in present good costs. Another wartime economy measure to provide a paid schooling period , for 4,000,000 made jobless by ' civilian plant shutdowns appeared assured, however, of both republican and democratic support. . . This voluntary effort is expected to put Klamath ; , county In the -forefront In a statewide bond pledge cam paign. Cooperating are the republican and democratic precinct committees, the county clerk, county sheriff, ; - precinct election boards and defense savings committees. Polls will be open from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. See list of polling places on Page 10. Special events In connection With bond pledge day MONDAY. JANUARY 10. uui Collision from Little Rock. Ark when were left shattered Ilka the one T Pelican Bay Employes Boost Fund Above $10,000 Based on records at Red Cross headquarters at noon Monday, Klamath county has reached its $10,000 quota of the $50,000,000 national Red Cross war fund. Credit for actually putting the quota over the top goes to the employees of the Pelican Bay Lumber company, who on the basis of contributions of a half day's pay each had up to Mon day -morning given a total of $1202.12 the largest single con tribution to the fund. Employees of the Kesterson Lumber Cor poration, with a total of $748.17, were the second largest contribu tor. Employees of di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, with a total of $430.05, were third from the top. Employee contributions at all these operations were on the basis of a half. day's pay from each worker. The fund was lag ging until employees of indus trial organizations entered the picture on this basis. After that, it rose rapidly. With the exception of the re tail business district of Klamath (Continued on Page Two) Non-Belligerency Plan Up at Rio RIO DE JANEIRO. Jan. 19 (AP) Mexico presented a pro posal to ine Fan American con ference today to extend to all tha united nations the status of non-belligerents in their fight against the axis powers. Led by Argentina, most of the Latin; American countries al ready have declared tho United States' a non-belligerent. Among other things, this means that United States warships can en ter and leave their ports at will, free of the regulation forcing ships to limit their stays to 24 hours. . i 1 1 1. Vssak k. n M QUOTA REACHED !. V; RED CROSS DRIVE UNITED PRESS 1942 11.5. JAPASSAULT. Nine Jap Warplanes Downed by Yankees In East Indies WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (JPh- The war department reported today that American army bomb ers had shot down nine enemy planes in a fight in the Nether lands Indies and. striking for the first time in Malaya, had suc cessfully raided a Japanese held airdrome. ' Two American bombers, are missing and a third was dam aged in the air battle, a late day communique said, which took place Saturday near Menado, on northwest Celebes island. WASHINGTON, Jan., 19 (JPh- Japanese patrols have been ac tive against American and Fili pino forces in the Philippines during the last 24 hours but re sults have been' indecisive, the war department reported today. Ground operations have been of a desultory nature since Amer ican troops smashed a heavy Japanese attack, the communique said.--- - - . , Enerny air activities war con fined to frequent, reconnaissance flights: 1 -' r General Douglas MacArthur reported that Filipinos in the oc cupied areas had been, deprived of their means of. transportation. He said.. farffiersU had Tbeeri evicted from their farms ' and formed into labor : groups' and the invaders had seized harvest ed crops and food stores. ; TOKYO," Jan. 19 .(Official Broadcast Recorded, by AP) A Domei dispatch from- the Japan . (Continued on Page Two). Blind Buck Wandering in Bly Mountains A blind, three-point buck is wandering through the moun tains near Bly, colliding with trees and other obstacles.' He even ran Into a CCC boy. - Assistant Ranger Miles Langdon of the Fremont for est observed the buck on a ski ' trip from Bly to Finley Cor rals. The animal was first seen crossing the road about a mile below Swede Cabins. A CCC boy was with Langdon on the trip, and the sightless buck staggered into the boy. The animal then made a wide circle in open timber, and collided with a dead tree which knocked him down. He got up and ran toward Lang don and the CCC enrollee, ap proaching within 20 feet. Both eyes appeared to be covered with white cataracts and the animal was bleeding at the nose. He had broken' his horns in previous collisions with trees; . , , ' .. . ' , : , In the same vicinity, Lang don found .a four-point buck down in the snow with his jaw broken. His neck was stiff and one horn was stuck In the snow and mud. He was badly emaciated .and near death.. . . . ..' ...'''; Langdon reported deer tracks were noted as far east as Brownsworth creek- and all of them were pointing south. Numerous coyote tracks were seen between Camp creek and Finley Corrals. About 34 inches of snow were found at Finley. .. SMASHES rr r FNALSTAND: ACTION WANES include a parade in downtown; Klamath Falls at 2 p. m. -Tuesday. On Monday night at 7:30 o'clock a rally for precinct committeemen," election boards and others inter-, ested, will be held at the circuit court room. President Charles W6lker of the Northwest School of Commerce, , Portland, will be speaker. ..." For a "question and answer feature on Bond Pledge -Day, see today's editorial column, Page 4. i. ' Number 9488 r "f jpc-i ATSINGAPQRE Warren Clayton Gillette, 21. son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Gil lette of Montalius street, report ed milling In action by the United States navy" following the bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7. Young Gillette is the second Klamath boy to lose his life since Pearl Harbor. He was s q n a d leader and range finder on the Oklahoma. T Operations Hinted : in New Axis Military i Convention By The Associated Press -' Hints and actual circumstan tial evidence that Adolf Hitler is plotting new Swve; which have appeared from time to time since his Russian off enstve was thro wn into reverse, were given official axis stamp today although what be has" in' mine) is sUU ooscure. .The;. German.' radio- declared that a miptarr convention signed yesterday by Germany, Italy and Japan provided for "proper and appropriate distribution of mili tary forces in preparation for operations of great striking pow er which will be of outstanding significance." ' . . . 'i j ' - - . Possible Lines Speculation, now as before, naturally turns to the Mediter ranean zone, newly strengthened by the fact that Hitler's naval chieftain, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, and Premier Mussolini s chief of naval staff, Admiral Arturo Riccardi, talked high strategy last week at a Bavarian rendezvous. " " But the Mediterranean Is big. A move in that region might be against Turkey with the idea of winning control of the entire eastern Mediterranean zone, in cluding the Suez canal, or through Spain aimed at reduc ing Gibraltar; or a carrying of the 'war to West Africa, or final ly the plainly indicated objective of turning the British offensive in Libya. . In all these possibilities, the strategic position of Malta, the little British island just south of Italy and Sicily, figures promin ently. . - Meanwhile, the Italian high command was. getting another shakeup. . The replacement of General Mario Roatta as army chief of staff by General Vittorio (Continued on Page Two) Wake Islanders in Japan, Says Tokyo TOKYO, Jan. 19 (Official Broadcast . Recorded by AP) Showing little signs of their or deal . except beards and soiled uniforms, 1235 men captured on Wake -island by the Japanese arrived at Yokohama yesterday, ' The party -consisted of 30 of ficers who wore their uniforms, 423 - non-commissioned officers and enlisted men and 782 civil ians, most of: whom were em ployed ' on defense construction projects. - This group was the second to reach Japan. The first prison ers were from Guam, , - WEATHER PRECIPITATION -Ai of January Vl, IM - . Present stream yar .........,..........i.i.8i Hormal to that data ... 8.S2 Last year to that data ..w....4.7 Hot Battle in Johore Expected as Line Narrowing By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH Associated Press War Editor , The Australian Imnprlnl Inm turned back waves of Japanese attackers today . in the fierce defense of Singapore,- fulcrum of the united nation' riefarwn system in the southwest Pacific region. , . .-j. . .. Malor General Rnnlnn. JRni nett. commander of the ATF an; nounced that some of his troops" naa Deen sent "to stabilize the position" in the Muar river area, Where British Indian trnnna naA fallen back before the attacks. . Tanks Halted .,. "Almost immediately t r the Australian! haii tabnn : positions the enemy launched a vigorous tank attack which was beaten off hv nnr trMnw Tlu enemy lost eight tanks," Ben nett, reported to the Australian army ministry at Melbourne. , ' "Aeain this mnrninff Mnn. day. i-- the -enemy attacked) again, and again were- defeated' by. our troops. Australians are holding -i - their ground 1 every t yfrSzL'. itr if.t--.sf. .it - Jungle-' No Bar f The Muar river zone, '.about 90 miles northwest : nf. Singa pore, had developed as the soft- v iiic.cjjuuv. aeienset line thl-OUffh. Jnhnm miatn-- .Th Japanese had threatened to turn the entire defense line by infil- irauons and direct asssaults in that region, near the coast. '.J With the Jinanna -tin - ad vancing, Malaya's -steaming; iun- gie iana, wmcn the British had looked upon as a sort of natural Maeinot line for Sinffanm-a hn taken its place as. another, out worn aetensive concept and the battle for. Singapore today be came purely a test of fighting, men and their weapons; Some of the fiercest band-to - (Continued on Page Two) ' Fire Sweeps Two . Sacramento Oil Company Plants SACRAMENTO, Jan. 19 (AP) Damage totalling $200,000 Was listed by Fire Chief Torrence Mulligan following - a spectac ular fire, which swept through two oil company plants-on the north outskirts of ' Sacramento early today. - -. Five firemen and seven civil ians were injured. - Approxi mately 180,000 gallons of oil, nine, large oil storage tanks, sev eral corrugated iron 'buildings and some trucks and a freight car were burned. ,' ; ';. Officials said the fire, broke out when a motor, used to trans fer gasoline from a tank to a storage tank, exploded , and ig nited the truck and .storage tanks. - - A second explosion shook the entire city and was felt as far distant as Folsom, 20 miles from Sacramento. Destroyed in the blaze were the plants of the El Tejon Gas Co., owned by the Weltz Oil Co.; Lodl and the Signal Oil Co. Par tially burned were, the plants of the Sunshine Biscuits. Co., and the Hancock Oil Co. '- Several civilians " were " In jured in the mad rush to safety by workers and residents near the explosion and fire. Soldiers aided police In controlling the thousands of spectators. , - Earlier reports that a man had been knocked down by the explosion and . cremated proved erroneous, officials said. r - Chief Mulligan and Fire Cap tain T. J.1 Healy were slightly injured. ,- Two firemen were forced to leap from a high wall by the intense heat and sus tained possible leg fractures. . : ' News Index ; City Briefs ............. ;....Page 5 Comics and Story Page 8 Editorials .........:.m....Page 4 Information .... Page . 9 Market, Financial ..Page 7 Pattern Page T Sports ....Pga- 4