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By FRANK JENKINS
LIEUTENANT DOVER NOR
GENERAL I1UBERTUS VAN
MOOK arrives In Auntrolla to
day from Java. He hns with him
a party of Dutch officials, both
civil and military. They took
off from Java, the dipatchci
tell ui, from the lout atrip of
runway available.
Arriving In Auatralia, he says:
"Wo are here to collect oil
the forcci we can got together
to CONTINUE the truggle."
""THAT Is by thli time an old
A itory.
It was thus that a little rem
nant of Poles gathered after the
fall of their country to continue
the strugglo.
Likewise Holland Dutch. And
Bolgians. And Norwegians. And
Yugoslavs. And Greeks. And
Free French. Now the East
Indies Dutch.
All had DEFENDED their
countries.
In each of these cases, the
strategy of dafonneiBs failed'-
VfcTHYT
" In an effort to answer
that pertinent question, let's do
a little historical thinking.
It may be good for us.
"THE machine gun, by multiply
ing the fire power of the de
fenders unbolluvnbly, gave the
advantage to the defense World
War No. 1 was essentially a war
of defense, fought from trenches
and pillboxes.
Against these deadly Instru
ments of defenso, the Germans
wore themselves out and were
eventually driven back and com
pelled to give up.
The success of the defense,
made possible by the multiplied
fire power of the machine gun,
gave rise to a DEFENSIVE
SCHOOL of military thinking.
I 1.
':
the defense was granted an ad
vantage of at least three to one.
That Is to say, it was held that
one soldier on the defense was
the equal of THREE on the of
fense. Some authorities put the de
fense advantage as high as four
to one.
e e e
THE Germans, wasting their
A strength against the deadly
fire power of a successful de
fense, were finally boaten. But
their military men didn't com
mit sulcldo. They stayed on.
Some of them STARTED
THINKING.
Out of their thinking came a
new concept of warfare based
upon teamwork between the air
plane, which Is able to FLY
OVER trenches and pill boxes
and their mnchlno guns, and
the armored tank, which stops
machine gun bullots.
This offensive team, backed
up by trained infantry carried
In motor vehicles and thus able
to move swiftly from place to
place, searching out the defend
ers' weak spot and striking hard,
UPSET the advantage the ma
chine gun and its terrific fire
power had given to the defense.
Our first shock of amazement
came when we learned how
really small were tho German
forces that had shattered France.
e
"THERE Is nothing new about
this shift of advantoge from
the defenso to tho offenso.
Always men have sought to DE
FEND themselves. Always em
phasis In thinking has tended to
fall most heavily on defense.
The phalanx was a device of
defense. Upon Its massed spears
the attackers dashed themselves
to- death.
Body armor and walled castles
were DEFENSE devices, which
for a long period turned the ad
vantage in favor of the defense.
Open order infantry and train-
, (Continued on Page Two)
IB II
FOOTHOLD ON
NEW GUINEA
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Potential Bases for
Attacks on North
Australia Seen
MELBOURNE, Australia, Mar.
D (fl Strong Japanese land
ing forces were engaged today
In consolidating two footholds
which they won on the northeast
coast of New Guinea yesterday
in lightning thrust covered by
the big guns of warships.
The landings - at Salamaua
and Lae, the capital of New
Guinea forged another link
In the chain of potential Invas
ion bases threatening Australia,
and the commonwealth cabinet
was summoned hastily to an
emergency session to decide
upon measures to meet the new
danger.
Scorched Earth
New defense regulations' gave
the commonwealth military u-thorUUrrpower-
to" "carry 'out
complete destruction of roads,
railroads, canals, waterworks,
airdromes, docks and wharves
necessary for Australia's defense.
Ten heavy Japanese bombers
attacked Port Moresby, only ISO
miles and an hour's flying time
from Salamaua, the Australian
air ministry announced at Can
berra. Port Moresby la only
300 miles from the Australian
mainland. .
Bombs caused some damage,
but there was no casualties.
Reports from Sydney said 400
men and 1800 women and chil
dren reached safety In Australia
from New Guinea. All of the
men were elderly or unfit for
military service.
The Sydney Morning Herald
predicted that the next move of
the Japanese would be an all
out air assault on Port Moresby,
which can be reached in less
than an hour by planes based at
Salamaua. Port Moresby al
ready has been bombed several
times from out-lying Japanese
bases.
An air ministry communique
announcing the landings said
Australian warplanes had struck
back at the Invasion armada be
fore the Japanese had complet
ed their operations and had
scored direct hits on ships.
Credit Buying
Again Slashed
ByU. S. Order
WASHINGTON. March S (P)
The federal reserve board has
laid down new installment buy
ing regulations which will cut
the credit period from 18 to 18
months on most articles com
monly, purchased on time and
require greater down pay
ment. The order, announced yes
terday, is effective March 23.
Exempted from the new time
limit were residential moderni
zation, plumbing, furnaces, wa
ter heaters, water pumps and
pianos.
Down payment minima were
increased as follows: refrigera
tors, washing machines, ironera,
vacuum cleaners, electric dish
washers, room unit air condi
tioners, sowing machines, ra
dios, phonographs and musical
instruments, from 20 per cent to
33 1-3; furnaces, water heaters,
water pumps and plumbing,
from IB per cent to 20; home
air conditioning systems and at
tic ventilating fans, from IB per
cent to 33 1-3.
Added to the list of articles
under regulation were bicycles,
lawn mowers, silverware and
photographic equipment, on
which a 33 1-3 per cent down
payment will be required, and
. (Continued on Fag Two)
Flying Boat
Dives in River;
Eight Killed
TONGUE POINT, Ore., March
9 (P) Attempts were made to
day to salvage a big Catallna
flying boat which nose-dived
into the Columbia river on a
take-off attempt yesterday, car
rying a naval lieutenant and
seven enlisted men to their
deaths.
Only the navigator. Ensign H.
R. Garrett of Fort Worth, Tex.,
survived. Ho was thrown clear
as the seaplane, taking off on
a patrol flight, plunged Into the
river after a brief rise and sank
almost immediately.
The victims as announced by
the 13th naval district headquar
ters at Seattle:
Lieut. (JG) Charles J.' Rel
mann, Shelbyvllle, Ind.) the
pilot. .
Robert H. Bryant, aviation
metalsmlth, San Jose, Calll
Marvin E. Crump, machinist,
(Continued on Page Two)
T
General 'Yamashita Ho
Oppose MacArthur
In Bataan War,
WASHINGTON, March .()
The war department announced
today .that .. the Japanese con
queror of Malaya, General Tofno
yukl Yamashita, had been trans
ferred to command of the in
vaders in the Philippines.
General Yamashita succeeds
Lieutenant General Masaharu
Homma, who is reported to have
committed suicide because of
chagrin over his failure to de
stroy General Douglas MacAr
thur's outnumbered - defending
torce.
The shift of commanders was
reported In a communique which
said for the past 24 hours, fight
ing had ceased altogether on the
Bataan peninsula front. -
Some 600 miles to the south,
however, brisk skirmishes were
reported In the vicinity of DIgos,
on Davao gulf, on the southern
Philippine island of Mindanao.
. The nature of developments
of Mindanao, where the Japan
ese have extended their occu
pation from the area around the
city of Davao . to the city of
Zamboanga, was not disclosed.
General Yamashita, the new
commander In chief, has estab
lished field headquarters at San
Fernando, in Pamanga province
some 40 miles from the Bataan
front lines. ...
Whether the shift portended
a renewal of full-scale attempts
to . crush General MacArthur's
little army was said by a war
department spokesman to be a
matter of speculation.
13 Points Cited
In Appeal From
Zuckerman Verdict
STOCKTON, Calif., March B
OT All 13 points for granting
a new trial were cited by the de
fense today in arguments seek
ing a rehearing for Maurice
Zuckerman, 63, convicted of
manslaughter for the bar room
killing of Otto Dander.
Defense Attorney John Taaffe
took particular exception to Su
perior Judge C. W. Miller's in
struction to the jury that a man
must exhaust all means of flight
before killing another man in
self defense. Taaffe cited su
preme court decisions that a
man was entitled to stand his
ground and could kill in self
defense rather than retreat.
Zuckerman, a wealthy pro
duce broker, shot and fatally in
jured Dander, prominent Stock
ton American Legionnaire, after
Dander had repeatedly struck
him in a bar room fight last
Armistice day
Taken
BRITISH BLAST
LEAMCITY
5000 British, U. S.
Troops Captured,
Tokyo Reports
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTK
Associated Preu War Editor
The Japanese claimed mastery
today of all the Dutch East In
dies, hitherto a barricade on the
invasion road to Australia, and
appeared to have planted -a se
cure foot in the Burma doorway
to India, where they reported
the winning of Rangoon.
The British war office insist
ed as late as 8:20 a. m., PWT
that It was still in communica
tion with Rangoon, but a British
announcement at New Delhi
said that the defenders were
withdrawing after dynamiting
facilities of value to the enemy
in that great port city.
88.000 Captured
The Japanese declared that
Rangoon had, been occupied
since Sunday. '---.'-v .,- f.--The
Dutch had not yet con
firmed the Japanese account of
general capitulation and uncon
ditional surrender in Java. Tok
yo said that 08,000 soldiers gave
up at the last two strong points,
Bandoeng and Soerabaja, and
that . besides.' the main Dutch
force the captives Included S000
British arid American soldiers.
. If true', the loss in manpower
was greater than in Malaya and
Singapore.
"Whatever the outcome of
military operations in the Neth
erlands East Indies," said a
Dutch government statement,
"the powers of the Netherlands
East Indies authorities there,
whether military or civil, do not
extend beyond arrangements re
garding cessation of local mili
tary operations."
No Retreat
Bandoeng, war capital of the
NEI and the last main seat of re
(Continued on Page Two)
Snyder Files for
New Term, Fails to
Try Congress Race
Representative Burt Snyder
of Lakeview on Monday filed his
candidacy for re-election.
Snyder is the first legislative
candidate in these parts to de
clare himself definitely. He is
a republican, and represented
Lake and Deschutes counties in
the legislature two years ago.
Snyder's filing eliminates htm
as a possibility in the second dis
trict congressional race. The
republican candidates ' in that
race now are Lowell Stockman
of Pendleton and Marvin
Klemme of Burns, while Con
gressman Pierce is still alone
on the democratic side.
Still publicly silent on their
plana are State Representatives
Harry Boivin and Henry Semon,
democrats of Klamath county.
2000 Acres of
Land To Be
Approximately 2000 acres of
land on the east side of Lower
Klamath lake in Califo.nla will
be thrown open for grazing and
agriculture, according to the
United States bureau of reclama
tion and sealed bids will be re
ceived until 2 p. m. March 18
at which time . they will be
opened, it was announced Mon
day. All leases will be made for
the period ending December 31,
1942, with the option to extend
the term of the lease for succes
sive ' additional periods of one
year each, but In no event be
yond December 31, 1946.
No potatoes shall be grown on
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This debris resulted when a truck and trailer loaded with 30.000 pounds of munitions ex
ploded near Smlthlield, N. C, killing at least four persons and injuring approximately 100.' At
left is a wreckage of a roadside
Permits Required to
Hold Big Public
Gatherings ,
SALEM, March 10 () Lieu
tenant General John L. De Witt,
San Francisco, commanding gen
eral of the western defense area,
advised Governor Charles - A.
Sprague today that restrictions
will be imposed next summer
and fall on the attendance at all
large public gatherings. : ' . - .."
The . governor . directed Leo
Spltzbart, manager of the'-state
fair, to obtain information on
all' proposed fairs, shows and
other celebrations throughout
the state.
All inquiries relative to pro
posed large public gatherings
should be sent to Spitzbart.
General De Witt said that any
approval of public gatherings
might be withdrawn at any
time, and that no approval would
be given more than three months
in advance. Any approval will
be given on the understanding
that the enemy . situation will
not get worse.
In areas where blackouts are
probable, such events will be
limited to daylight operation.
Plans for proposed large pub
lic gatherings west of the Cas
cades, where such gatherings
have an estimated attendance of
more than 5000, must be sub
continued on Page Two)
Alert Sounded in
Portland Area
. SAN FRANCISCO, March 9
(") The Portland coastal area
underwent a 45-minute air raid
alert Saturday night, the weiv
ern air defense announced, on
orders of the 4th interceptor
command controlled at Port
land. The alert was called at
10 p. m., on reports of uniden
tified aircraft offshore, and the
all-clear was signaled at 10:45
"when Investigations did not
bear out the first reports," of
ficers said.
Lower Lake
Open to Lease
these lands during the term of
the lease, it was stated. None
of the land Included shall be
purposely burned over at any
time including the period when
the fields are in stubble, with
out permission from the project
superintendent.
. The land shall be used for
grazing and agricultural pur
poses only and the lessee's use
will be limited solely to these
uses. Necessary protecting dikes,
drains and Irrigation ditches
shall be constructed and main
tained by the lessees.
Further information may be
obtained from the USRS offices
in the federal building, according
to B, E. Haydcn, superintendent.
Four Dead, Scores Injured in Munitions Blast
&
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a f "ir
hotel which was demolished.
Ceiling on Pine
Prices Revised
By Henderson
WASHINGTON," March 9 JP)
Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson established new ceilings
today for western pine lumber,
slightly increasing the maxi
mum prices which- can be
charged. . . .. ... .......
r ' The order" was lssuedafter
lumbermen had protested the
ceiling levels decreed en Febru
ary 3. Meetings were held with
office of price administration of
ficials here. '
.' The new prices. ' covering
species accounting for about 21
per cent of the nation's total
lumber production, brings the
quotations more closely into line
with those prevailing in the
period October 1-15, 1941, Hen
derson said.
Covered by the revision are
prices on ponderosa pine in se
lect, shop, commons, box lum
ber and "moulding or better"
grades; Idaho pine, and to some
extent sugar pine.
In select grades of ponderosa
pine, prices for specified widths
were increased in a majority of
cases, but there was virtually no
change in random widths.
Box lumber, a small mill prod
(Continued on Page Two)
Entertainment to
Send Selectees Off
To Camp Tonight
Special entertainment tonight
in the Klamath . armory will
comprise Klamath Falls' - fare-
well to 132 county selective
registrants, scheduled for de
parture for army training camps
Tuesday morning.
Men have been ordered to re
port to the armory at - eight
o clock. They will be given fi
nal instructions by members of
the two county .draft boards
and presented with stationery
and writing kits by the boards.
The youths comprise the
largest group of draftees to
leave Klamath Falls since in
ception of the draft act a year
and one-half ago.
Friends and relatives have
been invited to attend tonight's
armory festivities. Motion pic
tures and music have been
planned.
F. R. May Speak
On Farm Prices
, WASHINGTON, March 9 (ff)
Administration opposition to a
rider barring sales of surplus
crops at below parity prices
faced a test today as the house
plunged into its sixth day of de
bate on the $695,000,000 agri
culture appropriations bill.
Congressional sources predict
ed that President Roosevelt, Vice
President Wallace and Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard would
back up the administration op
position in radio talks tonight.
The White House would not con
firm or deny this report.
The talks are scheduled at
6:45 p. m., PWT to a series of
community farm dinners. Mr.
Roosevelt is expected to talk
about five minutes. -
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Berlin1 Says Defense
Battles . Rage 1 on
Southern Front ;
By The Associated Press '
The red army has struck the
enemy a powerful blow on the
Kirsk-Kharkov front southeast
of Moscow, Where a number of
villages 'have been recaptured,
the Moscow radio announced today.'-
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The Russians said they broke
fierce resistance in the area,
where Berlin conceded earlier
that the Germans were engaged
in heavy "defensive battles" in
the south.
Pending materialization of ri
val war plans for spring, the
conflict in eastern Europe re
mained generally today an of
fensive for the Russians and a
defensive for the Germans, by
their- own admission, but in
western Europe there was a rena
scent flurry of German bombing
as if to overtake the RAF. .
In Africa, the war marked
time once more with no fresh
word of last week's Free French
sortie which smashed three forti
fied positions at Fezzaa oasis
500 miles south of Tripoli, the
Libyan capital. From the main
front, in eastern Libya, the Brit
ish and the axis reported patrol
clashes, each side claiming suc
cess. .-. ....
Prisoner Dies T
Of Heart Attack
At City Jail
. Hans Hansen, 911 Walnut ave
nue, was found dead late Satur
day . afternoon in the trusty's
room of the. city jail by fellow
jailmates, according to city po
nce.
' Hansen was arrested Wednes
day on a vagrancy charge and
was serving time. He complain
ed of feeling ill earlier in the
afternoon and officers took care
of him. Death was due to a heart
attack, according to Dr. George
H. Adler,' county coroner. There
are no relatives in Klamath
county, police said.
Brazil Freighter
Sunk; Crew Saved
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 9
(fF) The 7878-ton Brazilian
freighter Arabuton was sunk
Saturday night, 70 miles off
Newport News, Virginia, but all
aboard were saved. Permission
to publish, the news was given
today. .
The Arabutan, the third Bra
zilian vessel sunk off the east
coast of the United States, was
operated by the Lloyd National
line.
Besides her 61 crew members,
it was reported here that she
also had aboard some members
of a Brazilian tanker which is
being repaired In the United
States.
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PLANE CARRIER
OUT OF ACTION
Three Cruisers Also
Hit By Torpedoes
In Past Week . V
WASHINGTON. Mnrrh O IB
The navy announced today that
u s. submarines in the west
ern Pacific had sunk a Jim:
nese destroyer and naval tank
er ana put out oi action an air'
craft carrier and three cruis
ers. . ;''
The submarine ' actions ' cov
ered the week ending March. 6.
They raised to 18 the total of
Japanese vessels sunk by Unit,
ed States submarines, and to
138 the total of all types of
enemy ships sunk by the army
and navy in the western Pa
cific. 1(
Last Weak '
Word of the sinking was giv
en out in navy communique
number 52 of the war, based
on reports received up to 1:30
p. m. (PWT) today. " . .. -
The communique said: ' "'
Far East During the. week
ending March 6, United States
submarines operating in Far,
Eastern waters reported the fol
lowing casualties inflicted on
the naval forces of the enemy:
i,'.'One destroyer leader sunki
"One" large naval tanker
sunk. " . ...... L -
"Ships damaged and definite
ly put out of action: .- .
"One aircraft carrier two
torpedo hits. " .-. ;
"One cruiser one torpedo
hit. - - -.:':;:
"One cruiser one torpedo
hit. :. -
"One cruiser two torpedo
hits. ... a. . . .
: . "These vessels have not been
mentioned previously In any
other communiques.
"There is nothing to report
from other areas."
A destroyer leader was de
scribed as a large destroyer
which served as a leader of a
flotilla of such vessels: -
The aircraft carrier was not
identified as either a regular
warship or a converted merch
ant ship. Previously the navy
had reported sinking one air
craft carrier and .the probable
sinking of another, and the ar
my had reported that a third
had been damaged.-
Train Wreck Kills
Seven; Three-way
Inquiry Ordered ,'
GRANBY, Mo., March 9 WV
Three investigating bodies as
sembled evidence today in the
collision of two Frisco passeng
er trains, one of. them carrying
troops, in which seven person
were killed, and 27 others in
jured. .. - . .. -
The accident occurred lata
Saturday on a trestle near this
southwest Missouri town. - Of
232 soldiers, all recruits from
Camp Grant,: 111., four were
killed and 20 injured. The other
victims were trainmen of tho
special and the Will Rogers. ;
Besides the railroad, the army
named a board of inquiry an
Dr. J.: R. Reynolds, Newton,
county coroner, swore In jury
for an inquest.
L. B. Clary, division superin
tendent of the railroad, said tho
cause of the accident had. not
been determined.
RENO LICENSES ;
RENO, March 9 (P) Mar.
rlage licenses Issued here in
cluded: Vernon DuBols, 19, and
Frances Chambers, 16, both
Klamath Falls; Omar L. Bel
lows, 27, and Beatrice F. Brak
er, 21, both Klamath Falls.
: News Index '
City Briefs ..............Pages 9, S
Comics and Story ,.Page S
Editorials .........Pag 4
Information , ,.... ...Page 4
Market, Financial ........ .Page 3
Midland Empire News, Page 3
Pattern ............. ......... .Page 10
Sports ...........,..J'age ,7
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