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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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