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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1942)
r If era uiacKOuiDiqnpi i . i : . , m : :i . . i i i . - - j i . : . , 'iiinnraiii On 6-mlnute blast on sirens end whittle! U the signal tot biickout In Klamath Fells. Another long blast, during black out, Ii a ilgnal for ell-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your atrtat llghti. PRECIPITATION Aa of February 14. 1941 k - Praaanl atraam yaai ASSOCIATED PPr' ..i THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Last Tsar to data Normal to that data PRICE FIVE C KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1942 lira Number 9517 . - -, ... BLAST M MB . . - Sny Farm !J,I,.:: ;,! : Ii ih.i.M I I, 'Vu'llli'! IR! Hi t II In The l !l l! wmm, Li'', m , mw m m w , av .. il!i!!li!!iiyii!'iiiiiliil!i!ili:iiii!i,fi:i Blii'piililfiliiiP By FRANK JENKINS TYE are at war. Thlnua ara not " going well. Tha news la 4Yractlcally all bad. We are dla "pleosed and aomewhal dis turbed In our minds. So w feel tha urge to criti cise. fHE British are at war. They have been at war for more than two years. During all thla time there has been little enough good news, but a great deal of bad. They too are displeased. Their displeasure comes to a head when three German warships slip out of the French harbors In which they have been shut up, tteam through the British channel ' practically - unharmed and reach harbor In Germany. The British criticise sharply. nrHE Germans also have been , at war for two and a half Qeara. Of lata,' things haven't oeen going altogether to their liking. They DON'T criticise. They DARE NOT criticise. They could be shot against wall If they did. 'THE right to criticise whatever and whomever we choose la one of the thing we are fight ing for. It la one of the things the British are fighting for. It is a precious right. It Ii WORTH FIGHTING FOR. It is worth dying for, If need be. ... ... THE British lose Singapore. 1 Its loss is a blow. Watching our own men fighting day after day on Butaan, it seems to us that Singapore should not have been lost at least as quickly as it was. So we criticise the British. Q TOTE admire the fight the " Russians have been putting up. Yet we look at the map and aee that Vladivostok is only a few miles (comparatively) from Japan. It would be so easy to send Russian bombers across those seemingly few miles of water and smack the Japs in their great cities at homo. Because they don't do It, we are tempted to crlticiso the Rus sians. CRITICISM, If It Is to be of value, must be CONSTRUC TIVE. If we ara to criticise con structively, we must know what we are talking about. When we criticise the British and the Russians, we DON'T know what we're talking about. Only their leadors know the facts on which their decisions fcave been based. . TVHEN wo criticise our army " and navy for fighting de fensively rather than offensive ly In tha south Pacific, what do we really know about the whole ' vast subject thnt la Involved? Very little. We CAN'T know very much. Only those at the top, with access to tha reports of the thous ands of agents of various kinds who are working throughout the world to got the facts thnt ara so jealously and so rigidly gunrdod, can know enough to take tha tremendous responsibility of do (Continued on Pago Two) WAR DRUMS BOUND PENDLETON, Feb. 21 (P)--War drums of tho Umatlllas, vhich onca sent their braves battle, will resound again for 'the same purpose tonight at Mission. Young tribesmen, who will take tho warpath through tho draft and enlistments, will be honored at a war dance which wilt also commomorate Washington'! birthday. imouk AXIS PREYS ON ATLANTIC! I L TANKERLINES Survivors Land From U. S. Ship; Other Attacks Told JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 21 (IP) The sinking of the tank er Pan Massachusetts off the At lantic coast Thursday afternoon by an enemy submarlno was an nounced by the navy today after the landing here of IB survivors. They told a harrowing story of their escape and the death of 20 fallow crewmen In an Inferno of burning oil. The Pan .Massachusetts was the 31st ship officially an nounced as attacked In the cur rent aerloa of sinkings in north Atlontio coital waters. ! . BeaAilre i Capt, Robert E. Christy, 82-year-old sea veteran' who lost tha first ship of bis carerr said two torpedoes exploding In quick ittcceaston turned' the ship into a mass of flames and "tha sea soon was afire for half a mile around us aa tha gasoline and oil spread." , "Three or four aholla also ex ploded on us after wa were ablate" but tha submarine "was not seen by any of us tha two lookouts died in the fire aboard ship, and they are the only men who might have aeen It." Tha survivors were picked up by a ship which Captain Christy said was about five miles back when the Pan Massachusetts was torpedoed. He declared the men on the rescue ship cams to their assistance despite the danger of also being torpedoed, "launched boats and aaved all who were alive that is bravery." The survivors were landed here yesterday afternoon but the navy withheld news of their ar rival and of the sinking until to day, presumably as a precaution for tha safety of the rescue ves sel. Others of the survivors told (Continued on Page Two) Uruguay President Ousts Congress, Cancels Election MONTEVIDEO. Feb. 21 (IP) President Alfredo Baldomir kept a firm grip on the Uru guayan government today in an interior political squabble which resulted In dissolution of con gress, cancellation of scheduled national elections March 29 and placed an army of 17,000 men in control of the country. By an unexpected executive decree, he blocked Uruguay's leading opponent of Pan-American cooperation, Luis Alberto de Hcrrera, from forcing his hand on a technical Voting dis pute by which members of De Herrera'a opposition party might hold cabinet posts and at tho same time combat the gov ernment In congressional de bates. Do Herrcra has long opposed Bnldomlr's foreign policy and has been an outspoken critic of the administration's plan to build naval and air bases from United States funds. . Gas Tax Revenue . Up in January ' SALEM, Feb. 21 (P) Who said tire and aulo rationing had cut motor traffic In Oregon? Those facts dispute such an assertion: - Gasoline tax collections last month slightly exceeded those for January, 1941,' incomplete returns at the secretary of state's office indicated today. The same office reported that motor vehicle registrations to day were 11,783 higher than year ago. IUI it s tord JU Portugal Votes Proiest on Jap Island Invasion LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 21 (!") Premier Antonio Olivelra do Saluzar told the national assembly today that Portugal al ready had entered an "energetic protest" to Tokyo against Japa nese occupation of the south west Pacific island of Timor, jointly the territory of Portugal and The Netherlands. The assembly unanimously approved the protest, and Sal azar urged the nation to regain calm. Salazar said that the Japa nese knew that Portuguese troops were on the way to take over the protection of the P rtugueso portion from Dutch and Australian troops, who oc cupied it last December. "We have remained faithful to the thesis that there can be no strategic reasons for the violation of the sovereignty of states," Salazar said. 54 Arrested : irr "Wide Roundup by FBI; ; Other Forces' " SAN FRANCISCO, Feb..' 21 dip) Fifty-four enemy aliens, some of whom were members of organizations rooted in enemy countries, were seized today by the federal bureau of investiga tion in wide-spread raids ' in northern California. Hundreds of local officers, sheriff's deputies and state high way patrolmen participated in the raids conducted by more than 100 FBI agents. Nat Pleper, head of the San Francisco office of the FBI, said the 84 already in custody were booked as en route to the immi gration department as potential ly dangerous aliens. ' Among those seized were (Continued on Page Two) Paisley Defeats Merrill in Close Consolation Tilt ' Paisley, only Lake county en trant In the Klamath-Lake B lea gue basketball tourney In pro gress at the Altamont gym, edged into the finals of the consola tion round Saturday afternoon with a narrow 20-25 squeezer over the Merrill Huskies. - At half time of tha second afternoon game Gilchrist led Bly, 22-16, as the two squads battled for the right to face Paisley to night at 7:30 for the consolation title. In the final game, slated for 8:30 tonight, Chiloquin will meet Bonanza for the Klamath-Lake title. Beaverton Man Shot During Visit At Fiancee's House PORTLAND, Fob. 21 (jP) Shot three times, once in the chest, Arthur E. Milter, 47, Beaverton, was in a critical con dition In a hospital here today. Detective John Abbott : said Miller was shot while visiting his fiancee, Jessie Hawkins, at the home of her mother, Mrs, Marie Trainer, 83, here ' last night. . He quoted Mrs. Trainer as saying she believed a quarrel was impending and ahe fired as a warning, thinking the pistol was pointed above Miller's head. Mrs. Trainer was held with out charge, DIRECT HIT NEW YORK, Deo. 21 VP) The British 'radio aald today that Japanese planes scored a direct hit on one of their own ships at Koepang, ' capital of Dutch Timor. -V- , BASIN STOCK, CROPS WORTH siupo Potatoes Return Over $5,000,000; Total Tops 1936 Mark Klamath basin agriculture yielded an income of $13,698,900 in' 1941, shattering all previous records by a wide margin. ; Even the fabulous returns of 1936 went by the boards Satur day when County Agent Charles A. Henderson compiled and re leased his final report on the 1941 values. His figures show that crops brought $9,897,900 in the year, while livestock produc tion hit an aggregate of $3,801,- ooo. ' . ; Tops 1938 Total, , In 1936, tha previous record holder, total agricultural returns for tha basin was slightly under 12.000.000.. The fisure for U41 topped that by -nearly . a4 ...11 1 ! iLMB 'TO.-I- HUUWM 1 1 V. .11. W IJUH Wlh Alia margin was much greater in a comparison with 1940, when the basin production value was -88,-864,848. -' -'Potatoes "i the 1941 crop jKUi being sold front tha basin zoomed to an estimated high of 88,148,842. -Here again. 1936, remembered as history's banner potato' year, la relegated to sec ond place. .The spud return in 1936 was $4,800,000. -,' In the crop division, . potatoes led all field crops. The total for field crops was set at $6,100,930, - Here is the breakdown: - Potatoes 17,215 acres; 6,197, (Continued on Page Two) Germans Withdraw As British Patrols Move in Libya CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 21 VP) German troops and armored forces withdrew to the north after an encounter with British patrols on the Tmimi-Mechili line west of Tobruk, the British announced today, . The war bulletin' said: ' "Operating over' a wide front west of Aln El Gazala, our fight ing patrols again reached several points on the track from Tmlmi to El Mechlli. . , "Parties of the enemy includ ing tanks were encountered but the general tendency of enemy patrols was to withdraw northwards. Question of Amputating Girl's Distorted Arm Raised in Court SEATTLE, Feb. 21 (P In the face of a mother's opposi tion, Washington's highest court must decide whether a court can order the amputation of an 11-year-old girl's grossly distorted arm. Patricia Hudson, born with her left arm disproportionately large, Is the pawn in the trag edy that has aligned her mother against her four brothers and five sisters in the controversy. Tho children first brought the case before Superior Judge Wil liam G. Long in juvenile court here. Little Patricia, wearing a cape to shield her greatly over grown member, supported their appeal for an amputation order, even in the face of what she knows Is a grave risk. Seattle doctors to whom Judge Long recently submitted the case expressed the fear that death would be almost certain within a few years if the arm la not amputated. After arguments yesterday, which showed the arm to be 10 times the weight of the other, the court assigned the case for a written opinion. The mother, Mrs. Nora Hud son, asked tha supreme court to I U .JAi. CAtCUTT:iJ;i-ni;:H;H5N5 V t fOIMOSA V 1 10.:: T :Mlt::r. lw::... r BANGKOK!-:. Va I EQUATOR S?J& - INDIAN OCCAN 8ANGKCM!i!i MANlltelUND8 NJL V ioeniM tOAVAO , EOUATOR Ji OCEAN V3 T'kc jL- MORESBY OAR WIN pi. o soo 7AUSTRAilA "- - , MILES y ----- AT EQUATOR P -- - gfflfl Port Darwin (I), north Australian naval base, was bombed by large concentrations of Jap bombers, probably from bases in Celebes and New Guinea (broken arrows), while tha invaders fought a pitched aea and air battle with the United Nations around the island of Java (2), heart of tha rich East Indies, Japanese thrusts into Burma (3 and 4) mat stiff British resistance. '' Crimean War Revived By Soviet Force At Feodosiya By The Associated Press Adolf Hitler's high . command asserted today , that German tank forces had killed 27,000 Russians and captured 5000 prisoners in a four-week battle of encirclement near Rzhev, key nazi i invasion base ' 125 miles northeast of Moscow, while the London ' radio . reported that fresh soviet troops had landed in the Crimea. Russian front-line dispatches had previously declared that the German hold-out garrison at Rzhev, guarding the north flank of the nazi retreat from Moscow, had been surrounded. Crimea War . In the Crimea, a BBC broad cast, said Russian troops were advancing upon the port of Feodosiya, at the neck of the Kerch peninsula. Soviet . war planes aiding in the defense of Sevastopol, Crimean naval base, were declared to have killed nearly 30,000 .Germans in a se ries of 300 offensive thrusts. On the Moscow line. Hitler's headquarters . said German troops, fighting in bitter sub zero cold, had "destroyed the bulk . of an enemy army and beaten a large part of a fur continued on Page Two) prohibit a court order for an amputation, expressing fear that the operation would bring death. The father, Claude E. Hudson, 68, is an invalid. "I'm afraid that the operation will kill her," the mother ex plained. "But even if I knew that she would come through alive, I would still be against it, because I believe that there's a chance that some day medical science may find some way to cure her arm. "I don't think It will kill her if she's left alone, as the doc tors claim, I had her examined myself, and was told that the arm . isn't getting bigger any more than the rest of her gets bigger as she grows. "She skates like other children and even sews. She doesn't run and hide when people come to the door, like it was claimed. She only runs sometimes to get her cloak to cover her arm." The father indicated to news papermen he did not share his wife'a whole-hearted opposition to the operation, but said he was "leaving it up to mama." The girl dropped out of school twq yean ago, and now has a tu tor 'at home. Japs Smash Into Indies - .:!!:!!:1: .' itttWI 1 "1 L VMIIMIH n : .n I r- ' 5 '''i f MANILAS I8LAN08 J! f& - M" i&J?? g ........ v j it m ,u1a)ui JTJAVA SOERABAJA. iat Evacuation of ; Darwin Ordered By Australia ;" CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 21 (A Evacuation of civilians from Darwin, northern Austral ian .naval station which was bombed by Japanese air raid ers Thursday, 'waa ordered to day as ' military authorities clamped strict . control on all activities in the area. . All women will be -removed from Darwin except nurses, an announcement said. Australian authorities, mean while, issued a flat denial of Japanese claims that heavy dam age had been inflicted on allied naval units in the Darwin raid. They said, however, that for military reasons a - detailed statement of the damage actual ly inflicted by the raiders could not be made at present. Prime Minister Jonn Curtain, denying a statement by the Tokyo radio that a hospital ship at Darwin was not at tacked ' during a Japanese raid on that port, said that the "hospital ship was attacked and damaged and there were casualties" Offices to Close Monday in Honor of George Washington The 210th birthday anniver sary of George Washington which falls on Sunday, February 22, will be observed in Klamath Falls Monday with the closing of public buildings. Both the courthouse and city hall will be closed Monday and the postoffice building will be closed. There will be one morn ing delivery by carrier, Post master Burt E. Hawkins an nounced. The state liquor store will be closed from Saturday at 10 p. m. to Tuesday at 10 a. m. Schools and libraries will re main open as usual. There will be programs dedicated to the anniversary of - Washington's birth, according to School Sup erintendent J. Percy Wells, . Convoys Eyed for Trade Between ' U. S., Brazil - WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 P) Acting Secretary of State Welles said today the question of con voys for inter-American com merce would be considered soon by the hemisphere defense board. Commenting at his press con ference on the sinking of two Brazilian merchant ships by axis submarines, the acting secretary remarked that convoys constitut ed one of the means by which the American republics would cooperate for their mutual de fense. He then added that correspon dents could take it for granted that practical measures of that character would be worked out in the near furore, ALLIED FLIERS STAB Americans Down Jap Planes Along " . Battle Line RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 21 VP) . American and ' British fliers made strong offensive I sorties against Japanese positions-today, causing heavy cas ualties. ' ,.: -- The Americans shot . down three Japanese - fighters which attempted to interfere, the Ran goon radio said. There were no American ' The allied forces strafed Japa nese troops on the ground near the Bilin river front and at tacked enemy . . transport col umns and supply dumps. - RANGOON, Burma,- Feb. 21 The railhead town of Bas sein on the ' Bassein mouth of the Irawaddy river west of Ran goon was bombed today by the Japanese, a civil defense com munique announced. , . TOKYO (FROM JAPANESE BROADCASTS), Feb. 21 VP) Japanese, forces, advancing: on the Bilin river front on Burma, less than 80 miles from Ran goon, have destroyed more than 300 British mechanized units, the newspaper; Asa hi reported today. Klamath Airport Officially O keyed For Private Flying The Klamath municipal air port has been officially desig nated by the civil - aeronautics authority as sanctioned for pri vate flying, it was announced Saturday. Tho airport is now open to all flying, private and commer cial, having been taken outside the banned military zone by the CAA decree! Sometime in early April the port will be the site of a large Civilian pilot training- program course of 60 students from the University of Oregon. French Battleship Reaches Toulon VICHY, Unoccupied France, Feb. 21 (P) The French battle ship Dunkerque, , seriously dam aged during the British attack at Mers-El-Keblr in 1940, has arrived at . Toulon under her own power, Admiral Jean Dar lan, vice premier and navy min ister, told the cabinet today. The announcement was the first indication that the power ful battleship had been repaired since having suffered grave damage in the engagement with units of the British, fleet, ONE CRUISER SUNK. OTHER American Bombers In Thick of Battle ' Around Java - . By ROGER D. GREENE ' Associated Pzess War Editor - United States and Dutch war ships, aided by dive bombers and fighting planes, smashed back at Japan's invasion horde in a flaming sea battle off the Island of Bail today, and by latest ac counts bad already blown up a Japanese cruiser and inflicted damaging blows on two other cruisers, two destroyers and four transports. ... ,' As the battle raged Into' its second day in the shark-infested Java sea, dispatches from : Ba tavia said it was potentially greater than the fight for Macas sar strait, the scene of Japan's worst naval disaster of the war. - Blasting at Invaders - United States destroyers and heavy bombers, combined with Dutch cruisers and . destroyers under the aggressive command of the Dutch Vice-Admiral O. E. L. Helfrich, was reported blast ing furiously at the invaders. ---A.aR Apartment bulletin," issued in Washington, said, at least 10 heavy American bomb ers attacking the Japanese ar mada off Bali scored direct hits on three enemy cruisers and four transports, and also shot down four Japanese planes. Four American planes were acknowledged lost. First Offensive- I - Batavia dispatches said 1 tha Java sea fight was the first allied naval offensive in tha critical battle for the Indies. . . ' One allied destroyer was tor pedoed and sunk. . A bulletin from United Na tions headquarters in Java said the planes sank a large Japanese transport and scored a series of direct hits on enemy cruisers and destroyers. ' , "One of the cruisers, which re ceived two direct hits of heavy bombs, was seen to be stationary and on fire," a communique said. Dispatches from Batavia said the fighting began shortly after midnight yesterday in Lombok strait, east of Bali, and continued on a major scale today as tha struggle for the last United Na- tions stronghold in the Indies thundered toward a climax. Allied submarines and treach erous coral reefs were reported playing havoc with Japanese landing forces. :-!.. - Bali, already invested by - (Continued on Page Two)- ' Filipinos Resist ' . . ; Jap Control of Luzon, Report WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 VP) A rising tide of resistance to tha Japanese invaders in the occu pied areas of the Philippines was reported today by the war department. . ' . . A communique said that Gen eral Doitglas MacArthur had re ported that despite the harsh ness of the Japanese military rule "the spirit of the liberty loving Filipinos remains un daunted." - - . .. . Secret Group Many native informers have mysteriously disappeared, and a secret society known as "FFF". or '.'Fighters for Freedom" has been formed to foster civilian resistance. . ,, - v . . MacArthur's report contrasted with Japanese propaganda an nouncements that a Filipino ad ministration had been set up to cooperate with the invaders. , ' News Index City Briefs Page ' t Comics and Story : Page 12 Courthouse Records .....Page 3 Editorials - Page 4 High School News Page 3 Information -..Page 3 Market, Financial Page 11 Midland Empire News, Page 11 Society ... Pages 8, 6, 7, 8, 9 Sports .......,....i....Page 10 Weekend Pictures .L...Pag 14 UNITSSTRUCK T V
