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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1942)
a .Blackout Signal WEATHER uni o-minute Diast on sirens ana wnuun li the signal lot blackout in Klamath Falls. Anothar long blast, during black out, la algnal ior all-claar. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your atraal llghta. PRECIPITATION At of January 14, 1941 present atraam year Normal to that data Laat year to that data Ml .8.44 .8.24 , IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942 Number 9490 if. rtn fin uu ASSOCIATED P, LB . , , , . : v Two Vessels jj , .In The. . Day's -News' Br FRANK JENKINS "TlIE British concede today A that Jnp troopn uppnrently arriving in amull boala thut hu Qie shore continue to land long the Malay coast. These relatively small forces work AHEAD cf the main Jap Invading army. They Innd In tho HEAR of tho British dufenso line and go to work immodlntcly disrupting communications and otherwiso hamstringing the de fendlntf forces. Their Job Is essentially the same as that of parachute troops. Parachute troops JUMP OVER. These boat -borne Japs sneak around the end. The difference Is merely one of dimension. Both ar,o variations of the ages old maneuver of outflanking. CROM Tokyo today comes news r that allied warships are op erating In the strait of Malacca (consult your map here), pound- dug these Jap flanking operations those results hove become ser ious onouKh to muke 11 necessary to risk allied naval forces In waters dominated by Jap planes. JAP warplancs are ranging over the Islands of tho Indies as far as New Britain, east of New Guinea and slightly northeast of Australia. The Japs are hurry ing to close the entrances to the South China Sea against allied reinforcements they know are sure to come sooner or later. Consult your map again at this point. It tolls the story much more clearly than words con. Australia Is worried. Premier Curtln says today: 'These moss attacks (of Jap planes) show the peril to Australia la nearer, clearer and deadlier than ever." "THE Jap navy minister, Vlce- O1 Admiral Shigctara Shlmada icnrd on the Jap radio) says to day: 'Tho Japanese navy virtual ly commands the Pacific from the Indies and Malaya to the west coast of the United States." He Is ecliocd by Premier Gen eral Hldckl Tojo, who puts In this as his two bita worth: "Japan plans Increasingly vig orous operations In the Pacific and will continue fighting until the U. S. and Britain are brought to their knees." iA ... 'THAT, of course, la pure boast A ing, Intended to muke the Jups at home feel good. If Japan rcully did have command of tho Pacific and really did plan vigorous operations clear up to the coast of the U. S. her big shots would be keeping qulol about it, hoping to take us by surprise when they did strike. ... TN Burma, where fow days r" ago heavy Chinese forces were Supposed to be gathering to take the Japs in the, rear, the Japs are reported to be Inking the offensive. (Recalling the tlent story of tho horse with fha epizootic, the Japs appear toP have "blowod first.") :Vj , There's a sere lnnso In Burma, whose tm ler, U, Saw has Just boen . arretted by tho , British and charged, with trea son, When he failed! to. got do minion status from! the British government, ho la .V to have started dickering w He Jnps. Burma Is import. jth as a gateway to India l as, the southern terminus d Burma road. There will bo J fight ing there sooner or it .,'. j.1nu,iyi v,oiro comes I r siory V' that the worst rain and sand storms seen In ton ye-"I f are hampering tho movom of British land and nir fo In Libya against German C Aeral Rommel's African forces. : , There is probably mete be- V (.Continued on Page Tf TV -V. 7DD0 PLEDGE CARDS PILED KLAMATH Many Precincts Stil Unheard From as Drive Goes On Klamath citizens by the thous ands marched to the polls Tues day to plcdga their support of the American war effort through defonse savings bond purchases. Late last night, officials esti mated that more than 7000 had signed pledges, and 25 of the county's 88 precincts were yet to be heard from. The mounting pile of signed pledges at the county clork's office denoted un mistakable success for the unique "election" method, de vised and carried out In Klam ath county alone at the start of a statewide bond pledge effort. Actually, 4D43 slips were counted last night, but many car ried the names of two signers and it was estimated they repre sented more than 7Q0Q pledgers. Twenty-one outside 'and' four Klamath Falls precincts were yet to be heard from. r ' Still Can Pledge ' ' Believing Jarge numbers of Klamath citizens were not able to get to the polling placet Tues day but still want to pledge, the defense savings officials an nounced that pledge books will be available at the banks, fed eral savings and loan. associa tion, county agent's otfloe, and the- chamber of commerce for all who wish to sign, today or later thla week. "... "It was a grand day In the history of Klamath Falls." said Jubilant Andrew ' M. Collier, county defense savings chair man. Not only did thousands of citizens pledge defense bond purchases for the future, but actual purchases of bonds may have set a record here for the campaign so far. City Makes Buy The city of Klamath Falls purchased $87,000 In bonds. In addition, Collier estimated that Individuals bought $30,000 (Continued on Page Two) . Pelley Sentenced For Violation of Suspended Term ASHEVILLE, N. C.,, Jan. 21 UP) Superior Court Judge F. Don Phillips sentenced William Dudley Pelley to serve from two to three years in state prison yesterday after ruling that the 52-ycar-old leader of the Sliver Shirts of America had violated the terms of suspended sent ence. It was seven years ago tomor row that Pelley was convicted of using fraudulent advertising to sell stock: Upon payment of a fine and court costs his sent ence was suspended on condi tions of good behavior. Judge Phillips hold that Pelley, who once told the Dies committee on. un-American ac tivities that hla organization was anti-semltic, had during hla pro bation period: ';' v, Violated a atate law relating to the publishing of false and llbolous statements, particularly about the president of the United States; shown contempt for the court; had fraudulently and de ceptively advertised; and violat ed a law relating to the Joining or operating of a secret political organization. DEMPSEY JOINS GUAM) NEW YORK, Jan. 21 UP) Former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, who was refused by .the army because of his age, 46, was sworn in today as a lieu tenant in 1 the New York' state guard and assigned as aide-de-camp to tho commanding gener al, Major General William Ott- man, , . IU1 A Navy Airmen Rescued After 7-Day Drift BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan. 21 UP) Seven crewmen of a United States navy plane which was forced down at sea by motor trouble have been rescued and brought back to port after drift ing for seven and a half days, navy . headquarters announced today. The navy said the heroic work of the crewmen made possible their rescue The crew consisted of Lieut. William Sutherland, Normal, III., Ensign William Lahodney, Milton, Pa.; Radio Man First Class Laverne Weiss, Watcr twn, S. D.; Aviation Machinists Mate Second Class Jesse Miller, Ashland. Ky.; Seaman First Class Harold Martin, Lynch burg, Va ; Radio Man Third Class William Valyou, Burling ton, Vt., and Radio Man Second Class John Carlson, Olympia, Wash. On their arrival here, the men (Continued on Page Two) EMMIES Soviets' Push ' Beyond Mozhaisk on Way !, ' To Smolensk" By The Associate Press Russia celebrated her greatest victory of the war' today as the red -armies drove six miles be yond fallen Mozhaisk, 87 miles west of Moscow, In pursuit of Adolf Hitler's battered invaders along the Napoleonic road of re treat to Smolensk. , London military quarters esti mated that 200,000 Germans had been forced to withdraw to ward the narrowing Vyazma gap as a result of Mozhaisk's cap ture. , , Vyazma is about half way be tween Moscow and Smolensk. Simultaneously, a bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters acknowledged that soviet troops had broken through German lines on the upper Donets river presumably in the fierce bat tle for tjie big Donets river steel city of Kharkov, Russia's "Pitts burgh" in the Ukraine. The high command asserted, however, that nazl counter-attacks had thrown the Russians back. No hint of the defeat on the central (Moscow) front was given the German nation. In London, soviet quarters declared that the fall of Moz haisk would signal a - "titanic continuation of the battle" and that the Russian army now had hundreds of thousands of com pletely fresh reserves ready to hurl Into a giant offensive along the entire 1200-mile front, Speedy Pursuit Plane Dives Into Richmond Park RICHMOND. Calif., Jan. 21 UP) One of the army's fastest pursuit planes came "Whistling 9000 feet out of clear - sky late yesterday and crashed Into a Richmond city park with an Impact which shook the ground for miles around. Second Lieut. . Richard J. Sandner; 24, of Moccasin, Calif., pilot of the single-seater, was burned almost beyond recogni tion. - The P-40 from Hamilton field struck a clump of eucalyptus trees in Alvarado' gardens, Just within the city limits and a mile from a busy highway, with such force it sheared -off three trees and scattered plane parts fqr hundreds of yards. . It exploded and burned so fiercely that for mora than an hour it .was impossible to' re move Sandner's body. ' ' Thousands of persons saw the plane . hurtle to earth from a formation of three at about 4:20 P. n). ' ins . NEW ATTACKS LEAVE 46 MEN One Vessel Believed Sunk by Shells . Or Torpedoes WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 VP) The navy department announced today two more attacks on steamers by enemy submarines off the Atlantic coast with one ship sunk, the other believed sunk, and a lost of 46 men dead and missing. The steamers were the Amer ican ship City of Atlanta, which was sunk either by shell fire or torpedoing, and the ' Latvian steamer Ciltvalra. - Both' ships were attacked January 19. t The attack on the City - of Atlanta occurred in the morning of that day off Cape Hatteras, N. C. The Ciltvalra was tor pedoed "off the Atlantic coast' the navy said, and 21 members of the erf w arrived at the coast guard base at Charleston, S. C.J ye.Txeroay .-atjoarq, . a American utility, , v... ; . t ' . y X - The heaviest loss was aboard the City of Atlanta. .The navy reported 4$ missing" and one dead out of a crew of 48. Two survivors are in a hospital In New York.'.'. !' '.:-.'' ; Two men were reported to nave lost their lives aboard the Ciltvalra and survivors included,- In. addition' to' the 21 mem bers of the crew taken into Charleston. - nine . officers and crewmen- picked up by another rescue snip ana now en route to port. ' The navy could not say defin itely, officials said, that the Ciltvalra was sunk but indica tions were that she had gone to the bottom. Today's report of casualties raised to 79 the number of dead and missing in the week-long raids by axis submarines off the Atlantic coast. Previously four ships had been attacked, three being sunk and one damaged witn a loss of 29 dead and missing. Railroad Passenger Fare Increase Approved by ICC WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (IP) The interstate commerce com mission granted today an in crease of approximately 10 per cent In railroad passenger fares, except for special rates to mem bers of the military or naval forces on furlough and certain extra fares applying to particu lar trains. The order did not cover the railroads' application for a simi lar Increase in freight rates, which the commission said it still has under consideration. The railroads filed a petition on December 22 for the Increase, basing their plea on increased operating costs, particularly the new pay schedule granted to railroad workers after a long dispute. Soto Accused in Pendleton Trial ; On Triple Slaying " PENDLETON, Jan. 21 UP) Sheriff Robert Goad of Umatilla county told a circuit court Jury yesterday that John A. Soto, 17, had confessed killing from am bush a Hermlston farm family of three. " . ' : Soto, who had been boarding with Mrs. Cora Tobln, her son, Kenneth Gorsuch, - and her nephew, Marvin Adams, before their deaths, is on trial, charged with the slayings. Goad testified Soto admitted shooting the trio and fleeing to Kennewlck, Wash., where he was arrested. Sheriff A.' M. RIchter'of Prosser, Wash., and District Attorney K. E. Serler of Benton county, Wash., cor roborated Goad's statement. - Outstanding X J Don Drury, manager of Kal- pine Plywood company, who was chosen the "outstanding young man of Klamath county for 1941" by a Junior chamber of commerce committee. General Martin Gives Speech on War at ' Joycee Banquet Don Drury was designated Klamath's, outstanding young man irt '-civic activity in 1941 at last oiight's Junior chamber of mrnjatee ;. founders' Iday , .ban '(Juct,. which featured a hard-hit ting patriotic address by General Charles,; H. Martin, Oregon's former governor. .-',. ;! . Drury, who is manager of the Kalplne Plymood corporation, is chairman of the Klamath coun ty tire rationing board, director of the senior chamber of com merce and the Kiwanis club., ad' visor of the Junior chamber of commerce and chairman of the governor's committee on mobil ization of labor. The junior chamber award is made annually to a man 39 years of age or un der. General Martin told the audi ence of 300 about the misery, privation and horror of war. But, he said "we must bear our cross like men and women, we must harden ourselves to the awful task before us, and we must win. The white-haired. 1887 grad uate of West Point, former as sistant chief of staff under Gen eral John J. Pershing and a friend of General George Mar shall, present chief of staff, was strictly "in his element" . in an address that took full advantage of his own varied experiences of nearly half a century in his country s service. . 'There Is nothing worse than war," said the speaker. "We will get sick of it. To the men in the field, the burden will become . ,. (Continued on Page Four) Resubmission of Parks Case Asked In Motion Here A motion to re-submit the murder case of the state versus George Parks, held in connection with the Buffalo Lunch slaying, to the grand Jury was filed In circuit court Wednesday by Dis trict Attorney L. Orth Sisemore. The motion said the state did not possess enough evidence to support the murder indictment "as it was worded." It said the state could support a felony charge. . Postponement of : the . trial, originally scheduled for January 28, and continuance of custody of Parks was also asked. . STORMS . - CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 21 UP) The worst sand and rain storms seen in Libya in 10 years are hampering the movements - of British land and air forces at tempting to strike. at Gen. Er win Rommel's axis forces along the Gulf of Slrte, British head quarters said today, .,; MINERS KILLED VICHY, Unoccupied France, Jan. 21 (JP) Thirty-three min ers were killed and 30 injured today in a fire-damp explosion in a coal mine at St. Etienne, only Important coal mining town 111 unoccupied France, MOSQUITO BOAT DARING DESTROYS SHIP u. S. Navy Hails New Hero for Attack On Jap Craft ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 UP) For a daring exploit brilliantly accomplished, the navy wrote a new name on the role of its war heroes today and added one more ship to Japanese losses for the Philippines invasion. The name belonged to 30 year - old Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley of Long Island -City, New York, who rocketed a swift motor torpedo boat into enemy held Binanga bay and torpedoed a 5000-ton Japanese vessel, de spite a storm of enemy fire.. Spectacular Debut - '- Thus did the navy's new "P. T." boat make its spectacular debut in the Pacific war theatre and the action undoubtedly her alded many similar attacks in the future. ' - The nocturnal assault, sug gesting anew the steadily wider operations of Admiral Thomas S. Hart's Far Eastern command, was reported by the navy de partment in a communique last night which said that Bulkeley "has beea commended for exe cuting his ' commission; 'success. ftiliy. ,..u..--',v? -itf.is Bulkeley had eisht seamen,: as yet unidentified, fat his crew, .but the matter-of-fact navy state ment hardly hints at the nerve racking peril of their mad daste It reports merely that,- ;ihis small boat carried out its diffi cult task while under fire of ma chine guns and three-inch shore batteries. ... The greatest protection the men had was the speed of their powerful craft , whose 4200 horsepower engine is capable of producing a maximum of about 70 knots, or 84 miles an hour. Besides speed, there was the element of surprise in the night surprise increased by the fact that Binanga bay, tucked away inside Subic bay on Luzon is land, is far from any known base of allied operations in the Far East. The Japanese might reasonably have expected Amer ican submarines in that vicinity but they apparently were not on guard against a lightning attack by a lone small boat. Oregon People Sign Pledges in Bond Campaign PORTLAND, Jan. 21 (A1) Oregon's defense bond-stamp pledge drive got under way yes terday and was to end tonight as minute-men made house-to-house calls asking residents to pledge regular purchases. . Ray Conway, acting adminis trator of the state defense bond staff, said encouraging reports had come from many counties. ; He said that in Klamath county $100,000 worth of bonds were sold Monday and Tues day, in addition to a $87,000 purchase by the city of Klam ath Falls. In that county polling places were opened and voters in every precinct reported as in election time. Eight hundred minute men covered the many highways and byways in rural - Yamhill -coun ty. From St. Helens industrial employes of Columbia county were said to have averaged $10 a month in pledges. -The. response in Multnomah county was. generous, with sev eral solicitors reporting average pledges of a defense bond ' a month, Conway- stated. Big Navy Bill Passed by House WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (JP) A $3,300,000,000 authorization for construction of 1799 minor auxiliary, combatant and patrol naval vessels and authorization for expenditure of $790,000,000 In additional ship-building facil ities were passed swiftly by the house today. Action came on volco vote. Just two days after the legisla tion was intrgatrcec,. Gigantic War Plan Revealed For Hemisphere WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 UP) A gigantic war production plan, for the western hemisphere which includes abolition of all trade barriers, establishment of a common- currency of all anti axis nations and use of United States naval and air units to convoy hemispheric shipping was disclosed today by a high commerce department official.. The program, drawn up by the United States, was expected to be agreed upon at the American- conference of foreign min isters, now in session at Rio De Janeiro The commerce of ficial, who declined use of his name, predicted it would be ap plied to all nations subscribing to the plan. - If : Argentina, Chile, or any other nation, does not enter the (Continued on Page Two) Six Divisions Set Up .'-To Handle Defense :v? la; Production' WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (IP) Donald M, Nelson announced to day he would abolish the office of production management .and ring all of- its functions and ac tivities .under - his authority -as chairman of the new war pro duction board. - .-'Nelson told a press conference he-was setting up six major di visions under- the board, elim inating the old contract distri bution division entirely, and in corporating the priorities and al locations system under a new di vision--of- industry -operations charged with full responsibility for the conversion of all pos sible American industry to war production. - . - - He said an important branch of the new set-up would be a re quirements committee, headed by William L. Batt, Philadelphia in dustrialist, and composed of rep resentatives of the army, navy, lend-lease administration and all other agencies concerned with production of raw materials. The reorganization, "effective as soon as the orders can be drawn," was described by the war production chief as an in terim plan subject to possible future revision. "Any revolutionary changes would only bring delay," he com mented. " . As a first move in the conver sion program, Nelson appointed Ernest Kanzler, long-time asso ciate of Henry Ford and formerly In charge of Ford production, to head up the automobile conver sion program with "all the au thority I've-got to get that Job done. - ; . Illustrating the authority dele gated to Kanzler, Nelson as serted: "If there are tools In Ford's factory that are needed In Gen eral Motors ... they will be moved over. . . - The, reorganization will strip Sidney Hillman of his title of as sociate OPM director but will leave him as director of the WPB labor division one of the six major board branches Nelson will establish. The production chief said he "would like to see both Hillman and William S. Knudsen, former OPM director general, remain as members of the war production board," although the jobs which entitled them to positions on the board have been abolished. Youngster Signs Big Bond Pledge One youngster in Klamath Falls made a big decision Tues day, and went straight to the Weyerhaeuser polling place to get action on h. - Early on "bond 'pledge day' the boy, a Herald and News car rier,' signed his' name with a flourish to his pledge of $150 In cash 'from his savings ac count and the intention to buy bond month until ' the amount reaches $250. liinniii rnopec; LUlUI. i uiiulj - REGAIN LAND EDOhft MP PONS Furious Counterblow Struck by U. S. -Defenders ' By ROGER D. GREENE : Associated Press War Editor . Allied warships were report. ed shelling Japan's- invasion armies swarming down ' the Malay jungle coast 60 miles north of Singapore today, and the United Nations were further heartened by President Roose velt's disclosure that "the Yanks Are Coming!" with AEF van guards already in action or en route to far-flung battle zones. In the Philippines, a war de partment bulletin said Gen. Douglas MacArthur's valiant American-Filipino defense forces had driven back the Japanese invaders with heavy losses "in particularly savage fighting" oq the Batan peninsula. " Hurled Back ' ' The communique said Japi anese troops had gained "some initial successes" by Infiltration! and frontal attack near the cen ter of the line before counter attacking U. S. army, forces hurled them back and recap tured all lost ground. :'-': "Enemy .c Jasaes -were " very heavy," the communique said. "Our casualties were relatively moderate." . Guerrilla Raids Far north of the main battle sector, in upper Luzon island, the war department said a guer rilla band of Gen., M&cArthur's forces staged a sunrijeiaid on a Japanese airfield ,f t sTugue garao, killing 110 t troops and putting 300-eth i to flight. Coinciden tally, ' Russian army newspaper Red Star esti mated that about '600 American and 32,000 Filipino native troops . were opposing 100,000 Japanese in Luzon. ......... An official Tokyo broadcast asserted that allied warships had entered the critical battle of Singapore even as Japan's navy minister, Vice Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, boasted that the Jap anese navy "virtually commands the Pacific from Malaya and the Indies to the west coast of the United States." . - Tojo Exultant : ' ':- On the same exultant note. Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo as serted that Japan planned "in creasingly vigorous operations" in the Pacific and would con tinue fighting until the United States and Britain were "brought to their knees." " Japanese front-line dispatches said battle flags of the Rising: Sun were advancing southward along the Malayan west coast . "In spite of gunfire from enemy ships" in the Strait of Malacca, which lies between the Malay peninsula and the Dutch East Indies Island of Sumatra. , British military quarters con ceded that Japanese troops ap parently arriving in. small boats which hugged the shore con tinued to land along the Malay coast during the past 24 hours, striking ahead of the main Jap anese invasion army to harass the British west flank. . Strong Japanese pressure also . was reported against a British communications highway run ning southeast from the Muar river sector, 90 miles north of Singapore, where British, Aus tralian and Imperial Indian troops were struggling to halt the main Japanese onslaught. It was in this sector that , Tokyo asserted 20,000 British were trapped. ' A Tokyo broadcast said Jap continued on Page Two) News Index City Briefs Page ' S Comics and Story .......... Fage 13 Courthouse Records ...Page 4 Frlltnrlnl. ' .Paaa 1 4 High School News . 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