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Ik 1 era r Blackout Signal WEATHER On 6-mlnut blast en siren U the signal for a blackout Falls. Another long bleat, during a blaolc. out. la a ilgnal for all-clear.. In precau tionary periods, watch your itraat lights. V'lrinnnr rv"i"i'i"iii"i"iii"ii"ii" By FRANK JENKINS CINOAPORE still holds tha con- tor of tho apotllsht, Tho Japs aro reported today to bo within 00 miles of the fortress island, their SEA DOHNE troops having again, the dlspntches tell us, CUT IT BE LOW the main battle lino on the Malay peninsula. Tlmo and ngnln the Jups have thus outflanked the British by water. Indicating; their sustained Oavnl and air superiority. A USTRALIAN sources In Lon don say the zero hour In Singapore's defense can bo ex iicri.-n vnrv soon. Unless rein forcements, especially fighter planes In largo numbers, arrive soon, the only safe guess la that Singapore will fall or te ren dered useless aa a naval base. IN London Churchill, facing mtlva house of commons tells It member he share their anxiety about operation In the Pacific, but adds that he ha "growing confidence In EVbNT UAL victory there." That must be taken as lndl nilnu that tha newa from the Pacific will get worse before It can begin to got better. ?., A"rMB news from th Faclfl API In The . YDayV yNews . J, II I III .1, 1 -"I cLn set better 'only a nod whan the nations lighting the Jap are able to overcome jap an s present overwneiming su periority In ships, planes, guns and men. li. : : take a look at your man. It will show you that allied planes, both bombers and the shorter-ranged fighters, COULD h ni.hrH from Cairo and the Middle East by way of India to Singapore. It wouldn't do easy but It could be done. Whv lun't It doneor tried? This writer doesn't know, but there Is still no law against guessing. Hitler Is resnrded as Enemy No, 1, and If northern Africa and tho Middle East are stripped of allied planes lor me aeienso oi Singapore Hitler's air forco will hit there and HIT HARD per naps nullifying all the gains the iritish have made In months of hard fighting. AT Waterloo, Napoleon was do celved Into sending In his cavalry TOO SOON, so that when the supreme moment of tho battle came and the Old Guard made Its do-or-dle charge it lacked cavalry support and was cut and destroyed by at tacks on Its unprotected flanks. Because ha lacked cavolry at the critical moment, Waterloo was lost and Napoleon's career was definitely and decisively ended. ""THE grand strategy of the al lied nations Is to confine Hitler WITHIN EUROPE, starve him down and ultimately con front him with superior force WHEREVER HE TURNS. That la the way Napoleon wa fin ished. Q If a weak spot Is left through which Hltlor can break into Af rica and the Middle East with Its aupremoly important oil, this grand strategy will go by the board. , Stripping northern Africa and the Middle Enst of planes for the defense of Singapore might be leaving Just such a weak spot. TT should be understood, of A course, that what Is here said is the piiro.it kind of guesswork. Only a few men In tho world (of whom Churchill Is one) know the disposition of the forces In- volved on both sides nd what Is available to strike here and defend there. ' We. amateur strategists . can only guess - and our guesses, Jacking knowledge of tho U'ACTS, are worth exactly noth ing at all. They ore merely games to pass way tho time. -; ''."., '. ..I.. ., RUT this much Is evident: " The nations primarily In . (Continued on Page Two) i and whlttUt In Xlamath ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CEN' $87, Municipal Fund Helps As Citizens Sign Pledge at Polls The city of Klamath Falls bought $07,000 in defense bonds Tucsdoy, adding momentum to I the Klamath dclense savings pro gram as nuncirccu of citizens flocked to polling places to pledgo bond and stamp purch ases for the future. Although the pledges were for future Investment, Andrew Col lier, county defonse savings chairman, said that Tuesday would probably prove the "big gest day" In defense savings pur chases experienced In Klamath Falls thus far! Not only did the city make Its big buy, but many private Individuals made Tues day the day to Invest more money In tho United States. Mayor John Houston and City Treasurer Ruth Bathlany an nounced the defonse bond pur chase by the city. The 850,000 In cash for the series F bond came from bond sinking fund money, and the official declared their opinion that this was the soundest possible Investment for the. city.. ,;k..V,-t:.iA ', Both city, and county npw made havy-defense bond purchase from slaking fund money, t Also, city and county employes are jolnlnf payroll al lotment plan worked out .by the Southern Oregon--Underwrlti ers association members, .'and Collier paid warm tribute Tues day to the efforts of the -under writers as well as the patriot ism and thrift of the public em ployes. ' ' : Everything was V r u"n ri In g smoothly In the bond pledge, day effort, it wa reported at mid afternoon by County Clerk Mae K. Short, whoso election boards wero receiving pledges at the county 66 polling place. The pledging went (lowly. In the morning, following the pat tern of election voting, with a rush expected In the late after noon and early evening.' Prob ably the busiest polling place was at the courthouse, where the supply of pledge cards was exhausted by noon and new ones wore called for. Bill Kuykendall and Jack Hen. ry, republican and democratic county chairmen, respectively, reported satisfaction with the progress of the pledging. Henry said that ho bad signed many peoplo personally after inter views on the streets. Precinct, committeemen and committeewomen were at the polls or working their precincts for larger representation. A feature of bond pledge day (Continued pn Page Two) , Brazil Minister Says Rubber, Tin Supplies on Hand RIC) DE JANEIRO. Brazil. Jan. ' 20 (fP) Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's foreign minister, said In a radio Interview broadcast to the United States today that 20, 000,000 rubber trees in the Ama zon jungles could be , tapped to produce rubber lit a hurry for the war program.. i "If you would pay half of the $1.20 you are paying for syn thetic rubber to get our wild rub ber you would start a gold rush to the Amazon and would get rubber in a hurry," he said. At present the United States Is only paying about 30 cents a pound for, Amazon rubber, he said. . . . 1 ,:'r. "When I was In Washington I tried to tell the state department that we had everything in South America that you were getting from Asia and Africa," he added.-' ' . v , .. v. "Bolivia has nlentv nf tin hut you were bringing It half way around the world from the Ma- layas. Ecuador has cocoa but you were getting it from Africa. Brazil has 'coffee and rubber but you were getting all your rub ber and some coffee from Java and Singapore." . . t 000 BOND CITY TUESDAY CEN ',. ..,v,fv The General Learns How to Pledge fo pf w aWV v-r-rV-M asMiswaaaiiii,(iiil- i i .i , Major-General Charles H. Martin, ex-governor of Oregon, above. Is Instructed on how to fill out a defense bond pledge at the city library polling place Tuesday morning. Seated on Gen. Martin's ' right is Frank Drew of . the Junior chamber of com merce. Standing are State Senator Marshall Cornett and Repre sentative Henry Btmon, Gen. Martin will address the. : Junior chambers tonight at ($' annual Wlll.rd hqtl.y;-;-.j. : - DEPTH BQMBS HIT E Navy Keeps Quiet on Destruction of Enemy Craft WASHINGTON,- Jan. 20 VP) The sudden death of depth bombs made Atlantic coastal waters . an unhealthy hunting ground today for axis subma rine-raiders, but the navy was keeping mum for the present on the subject of enemy mor tality. Despite the character of the enemy effort, one Informed source remarked that the known results to date wero likely to fall short of axis expectations. Ship Make Port The latest submarine attack to be announced was not as suc cessful as Its predecessors, . for the raider failed to make the kill. . He torpedoed and shelled the 8206-ton Malay yesterday but she managed to stay afloat and limped into port, with a casual ty list of ono killed and four missing out of a crew of 34. : Like the three ships which torpedoes have sunk since last Wednesday, the Malay was a tanker but there was no dlspo. sitlon here to draw conclusions on that account. While It Is true , that tankers have been a favorite target, it is also true that : they are normally more numerous In Atlantic coast ship ping lanes because of the east's heavy dependence on tanker borne petroleum supplies Nevertheless, as a precaution ary measure the government recommended to - the big oil companies that they Increase the use of railroad tank cars for transporting their products to both coasts. Women Needed in Air Defense Work WASHINGTON ' Jan.' 20 m The i army needs about 12,000 women at once, a congressional committee was told today, for use in the airplane interceptor service and other army branches. . . , Lieut. Col. Ira Swift of the general staff told the house military committee there are certain Jobs, such as the vitally Important telephone operators In i air raid spotting organiza tions, which women could do better than men. . .-, f THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND TH FALLS, OREGON, 'Founders', day banquet In the rrW "--.X -f'fm Daylight Saving To Take Effect On February 9 - WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 VP) President Roosevelt signed the daylight-saving bill today and it becomes effective at 2 a. m. on the morning of iebruary 9, for all interstate commerce and federal government activities. During congressional debate it was said that it was assumed the observance of daylight time, by moving all clocks ahead one hour, would - become general throughout the nation until six months after the war ends,' un less congress votes to terminate It before then. Stephen Early, presidential secretary said that it had the same, objectives as the daylight saving act of the last world war "greater efficiency In our in dustrial war effort." .. . The federal power commis sion estimated there would be a saving of 736,282,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually by adoption of the daylight-saving measure. It said the nation used .144,684,565.000 kilowatt hours in 1940. The real bene fit from the change, the FPC said,, would come by relieving the present peak demand for power between dark and bed time. . , Congressional action was necessary, Early pointed out, so that there would be a .uniform (Continued on Page Two) ' Martin Endorses Klamath Bond T : Pledge Day, Comments on War Major-General Charles H. Mar tin, ex-governor of Oregon, Tuesday endorsed the Bond Pledge Day - Idea of Klamath county by appearing In the bond parade which marched down Main street at 2 p. m. Gen. Martin, here to speak at the annual Founders' day ban quet of the, junior chamber of commerce tonight in the Willard hotel, expressed interest in the bond plan and said that as far as he knew Klamath county was the first to use It. The ex-soldier,- who headed the state from 1935 to 1939, ar rived in Klamath Falls Tuesday morning from Portland where he has lived since his retirement. He spent the, morning renewing old acquaintances in the county courthouse and strolling about the city. , The silver-haired veteran of the Boxer rebellion and service 1 TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, jl TINKER LEFT BURNING OFF JDLOJSLAND Enemy Warplanes Hit In Attack on U. S. Forces in Baton WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 UP) The wa-' department said today American bombers sank a Japa nese cruiser and scored direct hits -on a tanker, leaving the latter in flames 100 miles off Jolo in the southern Philippines. Three -enemy airplanes were shot down as the Japanese re newed their attack on General Douglas MacArthur's forces on Batan peninsula. on the island on Luzon, the .. department's communique also said. ' Fight Near Davae , At the, same time, the first indication for many days that the Japanese were still opposed by American forces on the is land of 'Mindanao came In a re port from, MacAxthur that sharp fighting- was in "progress' be tween Philippine; troops' and a Japanesd- force about 35 miles north of Davao, which Is on the southern end . of Mindanao. - The attack-on the Japanese cruiser and tanker was: carried out by six army bombers, -".'r-: Jolo, , an . island - of - the- Sulu group, -lie - between . Mindanao and north Borneo. By CLARK LEE ' With the-. Vsaffe on Batan Peninsula, Jan. 19 (Delayed) UP) Filipino and American ar tillerymen are more than hold ing their own in bitter day and night death dueling with Japa nese - gunners, despite severe handicaps and - hardships im posed by lack of aerial support. The Japanese have an edge on experience and aerial ob servation, plus the powerful weapons -of air bombing and straffing. But the defenders of these is lands have offset these disad vantages by .courage and re sourcefulness. . Equipment on both sides ap pears about equal. Both the Filipino and American defend ers and the Japanese are using 75MM guns at close range and 155s against more distant tar gets. The Japanese also are equip ped with 105s, believed supplied by Germany, American 75s mounted on "half-tracks" have proven ex tremely effective. Most of the artillery action at Batan is taking place along the American right flank where U. S. guns last week checked Japanese attempts at a break through, and paved the way for a successful Infantry counter attack. Japanese observation planes (Continued on Page. Two) - In the Philippines will speak to the junior chamber ' on "What It will take to win a war with Japan." . , - "It is inconceivable-that we could lose this war," he said this morning. "We have everything supplies, productive capacity, and . the will to win; but the American people 1 must toughen up." . . , The Japanese have been at this business for 10 years, Gen. Mar tin said, and by now are a first class fighting unit. ' -"They have had time to eliminate weaklings, both among" their enlisted men and their officers and they can live on so: little," he added. Gen. Martin, still erect with a soldier's bearing, had nothing but praise for Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's gallant stand on the is land of Luzon. He said the ter rain Is one of the worst battle (Continued on Page Two) (SAME is Sin Jap yiiseir ' ' ' UNITED PRESS 1942 Russians Take Mozhaisk, Cut Off 700,000 Germans LONDON. Jan. 20. W The Russian high. command tonight announced capture of Mozhaisk. - This was the first word on the situation in Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, since the army newspaper Red' Star an nounced early Monday that red troops -were fighting the Ger mans in the streets and that the city was in flames. Some 100,000 crack. German troops have been reported in the Mozhaisk salient, with three di visions defending the city itself. By The Associated Press Russia's armies, executing a gigantic crack-the-whip move ment, were reported to have further narrowed the - "escape corridor" of 100,000 German troops at Mozhaisk today and smashed Adolf . Hitler's- winter defense line at two important points. " The battle 'for "Kharkov, .Rus F. R. Declares : U. S. at Worfc In All Zones ; WASHINGTON, Jat. 20 ") President Roosevelt assured -!sj press Conference today thai the United States was contributing to. the war against the axis .In alt most, every part of .the globe.. ; . He said he-could not be spe? olflci But he. told' reporters to look-at, a map of the , world and they could assume that we were doing something- there.- Staff talks, he said, cover offense, de fense, all the continents, every pne of the seven seas, -war sup plies and the movement of things, shlfis .and human beings' from one part of the World to an other.. ' '- ; . -" ; ' The chief executive's remarks were of .'a type , to give reassur ance to . China . and Australia, where some uneasiness has been reported over the possibility that American supplies. might go more into the battle against Hitler than into the fight against Japan. A reporter-called' the presi dent's attention to these reports and the chief executive declared that., he thought nobody need have)' any fear 'at all. We. are doing the best we can, he added. Welfare Clients 1 Cut Expenses to ; Sign Pledges Considerable, counting of change and earnest questioning of welfare authorities preceded Klamath's . "bond pledge day" among the applicants at . the public welfare commission of ficewith the result that 10 'at least .of these applicants decid ed on their' own volition to pledge themselves to a . 25-cent a week purchase of stamps. ' . . Such pledges, according to Altha Urquhart, welfare head, were made possible by the ap plicant's . decision to - get ; the w e e k 1 y '25 cents by cutting down on food or heat, used! "1 Practically every applicant for relief inquired as to whether it would be all right for him to sign the pledge Tuesday,. Mrs. Urquhart said, regardless of whether or not he could prom ise to purchase stamps. ; Canadian Airmen I Reach Britain ' A . BRITISH PORT, Jan." 20 (JP) Thousands of Canadian airmen, one of the largest con tingents to reach Britain since the start of the war, . disem barked here today from a con voy which also brought further reinforcements for Canadian troops in England.. , i It was the first troop convoy to arrive from Canada this year. Aboard its big vessels were pilots and navigators as well as ground crews, wireless ' Opera tors and mechanics for the air force and foresters, mechanics', ordnance, infantry, artillery and service men for the ground forces.." . w , . ' . : i Normal to Last yaar to Numbor 9489 sia's' "Pittsburgh". In the Uk raine, also was reported enter ing a decisive phase. - Soviet dispatches said red army troops, supported, by hard riding Don Cossack cavalrymen, had scored gains on both flanks of the Mozhaisk' hold-out garri son,' 57 miles west of Moscow. Soviet forces stormed across the Lama' river 75. miles north of Moscow, sharpening the pres sure above Mozhaisk, while other Russian forces intercepted the road to Warsaw 140 miles south west of Moscow, it was reported. Front-line dispatches said the Russian winter was now ap proaching its peak, with temper atures colder than 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. - Meanwhile, In tones approach ing panic, the Berlin press de clared that - the "on-rushing enemy must be stopped, no mat ter, when, where or how. . FERE KILLS 14 IN E 21 Injured; ;lnf irm Tenants Trapped r On Top Floor '::Y4 s:i V"'j.f-.'. '";.' . ;se; LYNN, Mass., Jan. 20 UP) Flames " swept'' through a five story apartment-and rooming house here today, sending. fire from basement to roof as if it were a huge brick, surf ace and leaving 14 dead and 21 in hos pitals - while firemen ' worked through smoking embers in search of eight persons still miss ing, t .'"'. The fire started in thebase ment and swept upward so quick ly that dozens of tenants, many of them aged and infirm, were trapped on the top floors of the structure, Melvtn hall, in the center of the city. "Firemen found, many clinging to high ledges, as flames enve loped the building. Others had jumped and lay moaning and screaming on the ground. . , "I saw a number of persons come to the windows on the top floor, and then fall back," said Police Sergeant William Gilles pie. .. ... v .. ... .The fire was one of the most costly in loss of life in the his tory, of Lynn, and one of the worst in New England since the early 1900s. - ;. :: Klamath' Defense Board Prepares Raid Articles L. Orth Sisemore, chairman of . the air raid precautions committee, and . Colman O'Laughlln, chief - of air raid . wardens for Klamath county, are preparing a series of ar ticles on bombs and raid gases to appear, in this paper, be- - ginning tomorrow. - The articles will be based on Instructions given by. the' U. S.-army at a school for civilian defense held recently in Portland, and are a brief summary of a course now be ing given wardens and their staffs, place officers and their deputies, and . others. : ' Clip ' these' Important in-' ; structions and keep them. Not That Crowded, Says Landlady i WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (JPh- "How many share the bath? asked - an inspector ' for the de fense housing registry, which tries to find rooms for the hun dreds of new government em ployes who arrive each week. . Well, admitted the prospec tive landlady, things are certain ly, crowded "But we still take our bath separately." ' ' PRECIPITATION L , ; Aa ol January 13, 1941 ' . Present atraam year ....,.u....ii..-$.M that ,,.,.... ..... . .t that data ..4.77 Invaders Push Within , 60. Miles of Big: : ' r Navy Fortress .: ; , ; By ROGER D. GREENE . ., Associated Press War Editor : i Japanese invasion troops, at tacking only 60 miles north of Singapore island, were officially reported exerting "heavy pres sure on the entire front" in west ern Malaya today, and a crisis la the -defense -of - Britain's' $400, 000,000 stronghold was apparent ly imminent as sea-borne Japan ese forces cut in below, the main) battle line. - . , - Dome!, official Japanese news agency, said Japanese vanguards late . yesterday . had . advanced withl nl8 miles of the causeway across Johore strait to Singapore) island. ; . -: -, ,; : . . -. v ... Landing Parties .' ...Qfficjal dispatches said Japan ese patrols and landing parties were swarming along a 30-mile coastal belt in western Malaya from the Muar river, 90 miles north , of Singapore,., too Batu Pahat, barely 60 miles away. - .On the Malayan ..east coast, Japanese . forces were reported to: have reached the Endau area, 75. miles north Johore strait. - -British headquarters said RAF fighters machine-gunned' enemy barges at the mouth of the Muar river, in the Malacca straits set tlement, where British, Austral lan and Indian troops were striv ing to stabilize the front.' : , ' Chinese intelligence reports said 5000 wounded Jap&nesa were -crowding the hospitals in Saigon,' French Indo-China, and that- urns containing the ashes of another 5000 dead were await ing shipment to Japan attesting; the high cost of Japanese, con quest on the road to Singapore. Dispatches from the Malayan jungle front credited Australian troops with smashing 10 Japan ese tanks and holding out all day after: they had been sur rounded, until British troops fought their way through to relief.- - . .-'., -. . -. . Gas Dealers Told To Keep Prices at November 7 Level i WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 VP) Retail dealers in all. grades of gasoline received notice from Price Administrator Leon Hen derson today that their prices must remain at or beloxv the level of last November 7, or a price celling will be imposed. . - The warning was contained In a general letter to producers, refiners and marketers of pe troleum products clarifying price questions on petroleum and a list of specified petroleum products which temporarily are pegged at the November 7 level. While gasoline sold at service stations, curbslde pumps, marine service stations and other retail outlets was not formally Includ ed In the list of affected pro ducts, Henderson's letter said: "It must be understood, how ever, that these prices should remain substantially at or below November 7 levels. If they da not, a formal ceiling order will be promulgated placing then under full control." News Index City Briefs .............. Page - S Comics and Story ........ Page S Courthouse Records ...Page 4 Editorials ............... Page 4 High School News ...Page 10 Information ...Page S Market, Financial .........Page 7 Midland Empire News ..Page 3 Pattern ... .....Page 3 Sports Page " 4 ' '''; .... ' LANDINGS GUT BEHIND MALAY JUNGLE FORGE
