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0 jferalti .iiliiliimiWillii'i-J'1) LWsather News JBECIPITATJC ' A of January 3?, ?J1 VJ ......., ...,.?, Koraut to' sii . .... last Jm to that dato .. . j,ta Willi. Jjl.llt ...'.lij.WjlV.t!! IliuMMiliUil W. (ndilid'iil'ilfi On 8-mlnuta blast on aliens and whUtlet ia the signal for a blackout in Klamath Falia. Another long blatt. during a black out, ia a algnal for all-deer. In precau tionary ptriodi, watoh your street lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS "HE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS FAUS, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942 Number 550 1 ' .. a State Smoke Tax o Collection Halted By Supreme Court V r.i s," i, 'J.. Day's News By FRANK JENKINS TJEADED touth. Not raining f yet, hut Shaita haa that gray lh look that tells of rain to come. - They oukM to conceal Simula from tho Jnp. It la a urc tip off on the weather, and o far isn't covered by tho censorship rule. gJAYBE they could put l 1 crew of WPA artists to work painting camouflage on the now. They could change the pattern every day or no, thus nerving4 the double purpose of fooling the enemy and providing more work.) pHt'CK in at tho bug station aouth of Dorria. Inquire of the attendant why that kidnaper'i victim the other lny didn't kick tip mor of disturbance. Get the logical an wer that gun in your rlbt mtUcea a lot of difference, ' rlt waa only .22," ha ex plains, "but a .22 makes a nasty hole." Check. And double check. Reasoning like that can't be got around. JJOLDING between 40 and SO, even on these straight, lev el roads. This la 1942, and when tirea are gone it will be just too bad. That thought, in these days, hung over you like bad news just about to break. At first it seems like creep ing. In a little while one be comes adjusted to it and higher speeds seem needlessly reckless. Thafa the way Jt will be with a lot of these war-time depriva tions. At first they will be awful, and we'll be inclined to squawk, i As we become accustomed to them, the Inconvenience will vanish, CO far, at least, this tire bus! ncss la as it should be. We aren't saving tires because they're TOO HIGH PRICED. We're saving them because when they're sons there won't bo any more. Not for ANYBODY. We hope. And believe.) The guy with a million dol lars in his pants pocket won't be any better off when his pres ent tires are gone than you and I. (If it isn't run that way, some body's hide ought to come off.) Running It that way will make everything all right. TF the war goes on as long as it looks now like it will and rubbor stays as scarce as it now seems to be, a lot of oars are going to be laid up and a lot of people are gafng to start walk ing. It isn't going to bo too tough. Mores why: EVERYBODY ELSE is going to bo walking. That wiil take all the sting out of it. If YOU had to lay YOUR car up while everybody else went on riding, you'd be so humili ated you'd want to go off some where in a corner and die. But if everybody else ia in tho same boat you're in, you'll stick out your chest and your heels will hit the pavement hard and you'll whistle as you go. Human beings are that way, A THOUGHT at this point: V If your tires last TOO LONG and you'ro riding while everybody else Is walking you'll begin to feel llko a heel and In f a little while you'll lay your car up along with the rest. Just see If you don't.) . A HEAD is a lady driver with j a Washington license. She' (.Continued on Page Two) 1 Legislative Measure Referred to Public In November Poll SALEM. Feb. 3 W The state supremo court today or dered unanimously the two-cent clgnret tax placed on the ballot at tho next general election In November, and compelled the state tax commission to cease collecting the tit Immediately. Earl B. Day, member of the tax commission, said the commis sion would stop collecting the tax at once. Collection Stops "Tho commission," Day said, "won't have any formal state ment. The decision stops col lection of the tax. And I can't imagine any clgarct dealer send ing in any more money to the commission after he hears about the decision." Tho law was passed by the 1941 legislature, but the State Retail Grocers association (lied a referendum agnlnat It. Attor ney General 1. H. Van Winkle then advised Secretary of State Snell not to accept the referen dum. Van Winkle holding that the association's expense ac counts In connection with the referendum movement ware In adequate." .; - : i 'V:V' - i'j .Sneil then accepted Van Win kle's advice, and ordered the tax commission to begin collecting the tax.' Collection, began '. on January 8, after which the assoe-. lotion filed the supremo"- court suit against Snell, - "'.'-' ' - - The commission' has collected about $45,000, which wilt be placed lh the state treasury and kept there until the people de cldo next November whether they want the tax. Today's decision, by Justice Bailey, said that the statute re quiring filing of expense state ments by sponsors of referen dum movements "docs not re quire that the service for which money la paid be minutely de scribed or that everything an employe does to earn his stipend be get forth in the statement of disbursements. It is our opinion (Continued on Page Two) Fido May Lose Canned Foods For Duration w The nation's Fidos, whose tummies have carefully been led canned dog food consist ing of such delicacies as meat. cod iiver oil, and vitamins This and That, will feel the pinch of war time rationing with the announcement Tuesday that no more canned dog food would be available following the con sumption ot the now existing pack. Along with dog food wilt go that old standby of picnickers and campers canned pork and beans. Joining the ranks . of "there won t be any more ' pro ducts is the delicacy, canned brown bread. Sauerkraut In tins Is also listed. Whether or not canned soup will come under the column of foods to be eliminated from grocery shelves, was not quite determined, although rumor has it that as long aa the housewife can tako a handful of fresh vegetables and a 10-cent soup bone, canned soup definitely be comes a luxury. The run on sugar took a back scat tho first of the week as the housewives decided they had enough on hand and started to lay In a supply of jar rub bers and lids. One wholesale house reported selling as many lids and iar rubbers Saturday aa during a normal canning seasonday. There has been no federal rationing order on sugar, al though merchants have set their own rationing figures. It was learned here Tuesday. The wholesale houses hero will re ceive 80 per cent of the total amount of ' sugar purchased i February, 1B40, as the local al- i lotment,' " ' " . : Good News ft " f 1 ri Jt Harry Namlts of Klamath Fsltc typifies th average citizen who Issmsd Tuesday that one tax had actually been removed. H Is buying cigarettes, on which the tax ot 2 cents paekese was lit tsd by action ot the state supreme court Tuesday. ' RUSSIANS SURGING WlflSMUSK Wfco.th.er 40 Below as Reds Say Break Imminent By The Associated Press Russian troops dragging machine-guns and cannon on sledges at 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero wcrer reported surging for ward at several points today In a drive aimed against Smolensk, 210 miles west ot Moscow. At the same time, the British radio said German generals had demanded that Hitter send 20 fresh, picked divisions to the soviet front immediately, threat ening that otherwise It would be "very difficult U not impossible to . prevent a general Russian break-through." Soviet dispatches said German etr and tank reinforcements ar riving on the southern tKraine) front were being more than matched by red army weapons. A London broadcast reported that Marshal Semeon Tlmoshcn ko's Ukraine armies were "less than 20 miles trom Dnepro petrovsk," sito of tho huge hy droelectric power dom at the bend of the Dnieper river which the Russians destroyed lost sum mer. British North African troops, thrown back 225 miles in less than two weeks, were reported attacking Field Marshal rJrwjn Rommel s armies "wherever found" in western Libya today in an attempt to check the heaa long axis counter-oflensive. A British spokesman, empha sizing the prime necessity ot de stroying tne enemy's forces in desert warfare, declared: "Area is not important. Tanks, men and trucks are." Cairo headquarters indicated that Gen. Kommai'a vanguards had reached the vicinity ot Sten ts, 105 miles northeast of Ben gasi and 225 miles northeast of Ei Agheiia, highwater mark of the British January offensive. Thief Gets Away With Auto Stamp U started when tno van on tires wont Into effect and the "rubber robbers" entered on a new system of picking the tires off cars parked overnight on streets ond in alleys. Now there seoma to bo a de mand for the federal vehicular use stamps which must be in evidence on every car now in operation. The stamps cost $2.08 If you buy them this month. There is a certain amount of at traction for the stamps, espe cially If you don't have the $2.09 handy, Mrs. Lillian Mor ris, 1814 Johnson street, was the first to report the theft of i the green Liberty Bell stamp : from her car. On Tax is Off 61 Per Cent of Potato Crop Now Shipped Klamath.' 184 1.42 potato crop shipments hit 63.5 per cerS-. of tne season a crop on February 1, it was estimated Tuesday by Boss Aubrey, state-federal in spector. An. '. eight-year : averse for shipments to February - t is S7.4 per cent. Inspector Aubrey reported that total shipment of this years crop at the. first, of the month was 5064 carloads. This includes truck shipments, seed and other shipments omitted from the daily reports, but brought in for the count at the end ot January. Aubrey estimates that this year a crop win total 8000 car loads. That indicates there are 2918 carloads of potatoes yet to be shipped from the basin in this season. Last year, 3867 carloads were shipped after February I, Aub rey reported. Japs Shoot Down Austraf tan Airliner MELBOURNE, Feb. 3 () Japanese fighter plsnes brought aown an Australian civilian fly ing boat, killing 13 persons, in an attack Friday near the Timor island port of Koepang, it was disclosed today. This apparently was the reas on for an unexplained announce ment yesterday that Empire air man from Australia had been suspended for the time being. TYPHUS SPREADS BERN. Switzerland, Feb. 3 Spotted typhus has spread from the eastern front to Ger many and the nazi-occupied areas, the German health min istry announced today, listing 128 cases in Germany and 138 in the occupied eastern count-tries. Nipponese Learning Respect for American Gunners, Says Writer By CLARK LEE ; WITH GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S FORCES ON THE BATAN FRONT, Feb. 1 (De layed) Buiiseye shooting by artillerymen of the United States armed forces of the Far East is teaching the Japanese a healthy respect for 155 waa, field pieces. Artillery officers told their men's accurate fire haa repeat edly broken up thrusts against the American and Filipino lines. , When I visited the front, single Japanese 105 mm, gun was firing. Battery commanders said they had silenced many of the Japanese batteries in the past few days, bringing wel-i come relief to the troops,,., ... j P. aons now PI HIJIIE Civilians Labor With Soldiers to Fight Bomb Flames Br C. YATES McBAKISL SINGAPORE, . Feb. 3 Wave alter wave ot Japanese bombers hurled high explosives at this great Britistt bastion to day while Nipponese troops con centrated at the tip of conquered Malaya tor an attempt to storm the island. With imperial forces drawn up along the mile-wide moat of Jo- nore strait and watchful around the entire 70 roiie perimeter of this stronghold, firemen and po lice were kept busy throughout the interior controlling fire lit by the Japanese bombs. . Cii? 5 Siunt In the section of .Singapore city ' which bore the bmnt of thia.TOoming bombing- rthar- Mies: and ARF sousds . cleared away "foe 4ebriis; wi&Br few trucks (Which quickly played water da number of higil leap- In fires. :f !.-." . -4- - When one o the shirt-sJeeved civilians who is faying hose straightened vp for a. moment, I reeognleed Sir Sherttoa Thomas, governor of the straits settle ments. - He was working along side scores of natives. Aside from the air attack vir tually no miiitary action worthy of mention occurred during this fourth day of siege. The big guns poised along the narrow Johore strait fired in termittently, but so far the tar gets have bees weil concealed Lid Clomped on Vice Here on Army Orders The lid has been clamped tightly on professional prostitu tion here in accordance--. -with army' orders. Police Chief Frank Hamm said Tuesday. ; ' Action was taken here follow ing army announcement some time ago and a visit here by the regional field representative of the federal bureau of social pro tection. The army announced that no houses of prostitution will be permitted to operate.. In areas where defense forces are located. The federal man conferred with city, county and state- of ficials here and stated that rec ords show a decrease in vener eal disease in army areas where prostitution has been rigidly pro hibited. Japanese aerial activity also has lessened. In this sector American guns command the sole road aiong Mantis bay over- which the Japanese were trying to bring up artillery and tanks for an assault on the American posi lions. . - -. - - " America's ISS'a' had destroyed several Japanese truck convoys, with the reauit that the enemy rarely attempted, to bring up troops in large units. - The Japanese' were using car- abas to pull their field pieces and other equipment through the rice jtielda .to the west of the road. : ' . j . '.'. ; . ' It Is reported from Manila (Continued on Page Two hmm Soig Chinese Report Jap Troop Convoy Moving Southward 8y SPEffCEH MOOSA CHUNGKING, Feb. 3 m A: huge Japanese convoy including 41 warships and enough trans ports to carry aa entire division has been sighted steaming south in Formosa strait off Amoy in one of several moves fey the Tokyo high command to make up tor its heavy losses In manpower in the southwest Pacific, a Chi nese army spokesman, said to day. He satd the convoy consisted of 8S ships In all, with nine large, one medium and eleven small transports, six launches and a hospital ship in addition to the warships. - Other ' Derisions Hove , -The spokesman said several other divisions which had been reported moving south along the Tientsin-Pukow railway on Jan uary 23 were diverted at Tstoaa to the north China port of Tstng tao, where they embarked ort waiting transports. Tens of thou sands of additional Japanese troops, he said, were pouring into Shanghai by brain to board ships there. As one of the heaviest blows to the Japanese in the Pacific area, the spokesman reported the DantelRvdmoii indicted on SACRAMENTO, ?b.-3-8i.S A. federal grand jury Monday in dicted Manuel Zuinga, 22, and Frank A. Cortex,- 42, : both of Marsioa, Ida, aad' i Daniel J. Hedmon, 23, Kiamatn Fails, Ore,, on kidnaping charges. . : Judge Martin i Welsh set fcaii for Zuinga and Cortea at- $10,008 each and for Bedroon at $2500. . . Zuinga and. Cortez'a3so were charged ; with violating white slave laws in connection with transportation of two young girts from Marston to Davis, Calif., last Oct 16, Bedmon was accused ot kid naping R. B. Boyd, Klamath Falls, last Jan. 25. FBI agents said fee forced Boyd to drive him from Klamath Falls to Mt Shasta, Calif. U. S. SfiH Gets Rubber Output of Dutch East. Indies "'" WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 CP Secretary of ; Commerce Jones declared today the United States stilt wai receiving - praciicaliy the entire rubber output of the Butch East Indies and that II, 00 tons had arrived in this country from the western Pa cific and other sources since the war began. - V . Jones told the house banking and - currency committee that rubber was arriving at an aver age rate of 83,000 to 40,008 forts a, month. During January, he said, 78,608 tons were received and 70,500 tons allocated so thai the stock pile actually was increased. - V Rubber tosses in shipping la the war, he testified, amounted to only 3 850 tons. : Jones said he doubted if rub ber imports would reach normal by neat year "hut I believe we'll have enough to get along if we're careful." - Shipyards Sta it Bock to Work Move j ' TACOSJA, 'Wash., Feb. S m With employers reporting a back-to-work move under way, idle welders of the Puget sound area - announced today they would- pursue an undisclosed new course in their rebellion against compulsory membership in AFI unions. - The change In tactics, "which Shelly Knutson, ' new dealers leader at Seattle said he could not reveal yet, followed sting ing Indictment by war leaders of the welders' walkout In Seat tle and Tacoma shipyards. - Yard officials at Seattle re ported welders returned to work today "practically 100 pet cettW virtual annibiiaiioB of the Japanese- iSih division at Johore Sahru, across ihs narrow Johore strait from Singapore, He said 1S.005 bodies already Jiad ar rived at Saigon, in French Indo china. The- spokesman fold a press conference tfce Japanese were making thorough preparations for a drive into Burma from northern Thaiiand, and already had : thrown pontoon . bridges across the Saiween river. Con centration point for the Japanese forces, he said, was at Chieng maf,' 130 miiea due east of the river and 175 miies sorfbeast of Mouimein, city at the Saiween river mouth which already has feeea evacuated fey the Brilisb. A Chinese war communique to day said Chinese forces had counter-attacked ia . the Jfan chang area of central China af ter repelling two Japanese thrust south and west of that city, capital of Kiaagsi province. More than 350 casualties were inflicted on the Japanese west of the capital and 530 oa the Vos river to the souib, it said. Actons the dead listed waa .a Japanese lieutenant colonel.' - IBEfflSK Hershey ' Tel h Bodrd : Manpower Short , : For Wor Needs WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 m Brig. Gen. Lewis Hershey, selective service director, said today that army entrance stan dards Inevitably would fee low ered as the need tor manpower developed, and predicted that men with minor defects- would be' taken la for limited service "by the hundred thousands." He appeared before a special house committee investigating migration of defense workers and concentrating now on meth ods of mustering all avaiiabie manpower for prosecution of the war effort, - - ; A prepared statement Hershey brought with him said: ; "Allowance and allotment leg islation has been proposed, and - Continued on Page Two . Strangles Child Found in Wash After Bike Ride SAW BERNARDINO, Caiif Feb. 3 t&t The body of Shirley Marie Bell. 8. stranded to death wife her Jump rope, was found partly buried in wild and brushy i T.vtio rnwlc iukV ?if m;)S northwest of here today. She bad been missing since rfarifcw in school vestewie v morning. She later was seen on tha handlebars of a bicycle rid den by a man about S8 years old, Bicycle tracks were followed to the ,wash, where Police Offi cer Lee Bobb found the body T.nv4t-w vo.lr Ceputy Coroner E. P. Boyle said no immediate evidence thai she had been cwminaJiy attack- ed was found, but that a roedi- cal examination was feeing made, - A playmate and H. C. Boone, Muscoy district rancher, both re- ported seeing Shirley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seii, with the stranger on the bicycie . .j... i. o tJ th rirt w crvta ht h .jFort Hail, Idaho, Indian irri- pected nofein at fee time, 1 7nm TO . said there was evidence of a struggle at one place in fee! wash. Farther along the girl's lunch pall was found partly bur-i led and covered with brush- There were signs that the man had dragged the body part of tho way to the place where he had caved in a bank in aa f- tuck ia bury a, ' ; . SI I0W Americans Ready for Nips in Drive on : Bcfcn Cocst r soger - assess s Awcciatad ?r W Editor Australian Army Minister Francis M. Fords declared to day that "a big movement by the allies ia under way" to counter Japan's sweep Jo the far Pacific, even as Japanese dive bombers 'struck violeniJy at Singapore and a Tokyo military spokesman said that a direct as sault on the island strosghoid was imminent - In c broadcast to the Augral iact- imperial torce at Singapore Forde declared that each bout japan's siege armies were held at bay pemutted the massing and deployment of more reinforce ments and the accumulation of more weapons. ; ij JeatArtbar Keii .;;Z'"' ; ;RifcfldeesT5oT issf my -wojtij to impel you, therefore, to fcoisi on," he said, j - : - J Fords did not specify fee na ture or-, direction of fee allied movement - . - - , In fee Pfcilippiaes, Geo. &jue- las MacArfeur's AiKericatt-Fiii-piho -defenders wrote c hecsla new chapter is the battle of Sa tan peninsula, heating off tw tresh Japanese attempt! to land on the Satan west coast, on tfca night of February 2, and auc cessfuliy cottzzfer-a&ac&ing the' Japanese right fJaniu Three toes of enemy trenches were overrun, a war apartment bulletin said, a large amount of Japanese equipment fe!3 . into American hands. . Wailing so Bst& Gen. JdacArftur reported feat picked shock troops first . t- tempted to land on fee west coast, oniy to be driven ctf by artillery fire, . . "A second and more serious afe tempt was made at midnight," fee communique said, "A larga; number ot barges under naval escort approached the coast. Tfee raid was discovered by a few of our night-flying pursuit planes which immediately attacked th convoy with light feombs and machine-gun fire. American troops and arU3JKry gunners waited on the beac& as the Japanese approached, in flicting bioody casualties wife their deadly fire. "None of the invadmg group reached shore," Gen. 33BcArfeur reported, adding feat in ths morning a number ci shot, smashed barges, some burning, others adrift, were found along coasi, 3sv Rtd4 j Japanese warplanes strucfc foe g tl"? a i tu iast t the big Soerabaja naval bate. - Java is the headquartera of. Gen. Sir Archibald P. Waveli's (Continued on Page Two) IffXMAJT Bin - ... WASB3XGTCS, Feb. 3 yr P18 se553te lr,Zizn affairs "" today approved bill to authorise TB Indian ?f lhs Klamath sffn J y11 "i government it 32? de?iTe5 legislation 1& tmit psyat of io wven white iand o- a for damage done to their nroneriy in tonstrsscfes th p0 V ." i 1 j - - ; ISWf ltfa4X City Briefs ?age S i Comic end Story Page Courthouse Records i Editorials .Peg 4 Psae a i High School New i Information .. fees i Pag i Market, Financial Patters iSports $ 9 V-