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By FRANK JENKINS
TTHE battla of Java 1 all but
over. The rich Island I prac
tically In Jap hand.
Tho conquest ol Java com'
pletea tho Jap conquest o( the
Dutch East mates.
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WHAT nextT
" Will tho Jnp m o v e on
Australia? Will they move on
India?
Will they mov on BOTH?
Or will they ettl down to
development and exploitation ol
tho rich emplr they have al
ready seized?
Your guess U probably aa good
aa anybody a.
MEANWHILE
Thn .Inm tivfav make their
third landing ol troops on the
Island of New Guinea, your
map will tell you Now Guinea I
a good Jumplng-off place lor an
attack on Australia.
Today' dispatches tell us the
British havo, abandoned the
southern tip of Burma (Includ
ing Rangoon) and have with
drawn "successfully" into the in
terior. Thera 1 OIL In Burma.
It'i a fairly tale gues the Japs
will move TOWARD OIL, wher
ever It may b located.
AS long a the Japs can keep
US worrying about where
they will strike next, they will be
in the driver' scat.
When we can MAKE THEM
WORRY about where WE'RE
GOING: TO STRIKE, we'll be in
a better position.
That time will come, sooner
or later.
WfHEN you are annoyed by
hornet that soem to be
everywhere you turn tlnglng,
gottlng In your food, making you
miserable generally there are
two thing you can do:
1. Kill every hornet that
comes along. '
2. DESTROY THE NEST.
Your experience will toll you
that destroying the nest i about
the only way you can get rid of
the hornet permanently.
Killing those that come against
you 1 too slow.
JETTING back to India.
Today' dispatches tell us
tho Moslems aro threatening re
volt If India is made self-governing.
Thcro are 80 million Mos
lems and 240 million Hindus in
Indie. They are deadly enemlea.
The Moslems figure that solf
government for India would
turn them over to their enemies.
It Is the Hindus that aro de
manding Independence.
BRITAIN'S problem In India,
you see, isn't as simple as it
might be. It isn't just a case of
giving India her freedom so that
the grateful Indians, FREED at
last, will fight like wildcat to
preserve the British empire.
'
QNLY tho Bataan peninsula
v remains to cloud the glory
of tho Japaneso conquest of the
Philippines and tho East Indies.
Today's dispatches tell us they
are transferring their best gen
eral to Luzon to GET MACAR
THUR. Homma, the former general, is
said to havo committed hari
, kiri In chagrin over hlsfallure
' to do the Job.
The time will come when we'll
give MORE Jap general occa
sion to commit hari-klrl.
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YESTERDAY you read the U.
S. navy statement that to
date 138 enemy (Jnp) ships have
been sunk in the Western Pa
cific by combined army-and na
vy forces.
TODAY tha Japs claim 767
enemy vessels sunk or damaged,
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KING NAMED
1 CHIEF
Stark Takes Command
Of European Navy
Operations
WASHINGTON, March 10 VP)
The supreme command of all
United State. naval operation
was concentrated today In the
hands of Admiral Ernest J.
King, a triple threat specialist
in surface, air and submarine
warfare.
King, who was already- commander-in-chief
of the U. S.
fleet, took over tha duties here
tofore entrusted to Admiral
Harold R. Stark a chief of
naval operation.
This consolidation of author
itya possible hint of further
streamlining In the navy's or
ganisationgave King control
not., only ol. combat activities
but also of the general planning-
and fleet maintenance,
formeYly -the province of tha
chief ol naval operations.
Stark) 'Vant to Europe
Secretary of -Navy Knox an
nounced the chang In a formal
statement last night whloh dis
closed the assignment . of - Ad
miral 8tark to a newly created
post of "' "commander, U. S.
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IWAioRequest
UVi-Cent Raise
In Lumber, Pay
'the Klamath basin district
council of the International
Woodworker of America (CIO)
ha set Monday, March 16, as
the date for a simultaneous re
quest by all locals in the coun
cil for-a 12H-cent increase in
pay, George Brown, IWA rep
resentative announced here.
Brown said the dato was set
at a council meeting Sunday In
the union's headquarters at 919
Klamath avenue. Tho council
several weeks ago voted to re
quest the 124-cent boost.
Brown said that over 4000
men in the council' jurisdic
tion will be Involved In the de
mand. The council extends from
McCloud, Calif., to Prlnevllle,
Ore., and from Klamath Falls
to the Rogue River valley.
Acceptance of the demands
would boost CIO workers' pay
to 85 cents per hour. '
The IWA in the basin repre
sents employes of the Chiloquin
Lumber company, mill and
woods; Lamm Lumber com
pany, mill and woods; Pelican
Bay Lumber company, woods;
and the Algoma Lumber com
pany, woods crew.
Changes in Loading Zones
Downtown Eyed By Council
Sweerjlnff chnnaMi In InnHlna
zones and other prohibited areas
on Klamath's downtown streets
were embodied in tho recom
mendations of a special commit
tee, adopted at Monday night's
city council meeting.
Starting from "scratch," the
committee worked out a plan
which will increase available
parking space in the affected
area bv nrowlhlv 80 nr An run
Manv of tha nnumnt "nn nurli.
ing" zones wore relclalmed for
parking, and many zones were
re-located or otherwise changed.
While the committee's recom
mendatlons were voted as adopt
ed, they will be embodied in a
general traffic ordinance now In
the making and it will be a few
weeks before the new set-up act
ually becomes effective. Every
prohibited area -not specifically
Principal
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ICennell-EUls
Rolls S. Goold. assistant prin
cipal at Klamath Union high
school, was elected KUHB prin
cipal at a meeting of the school
board Monday night.
SP1CI
Teachers Chosen for
Coming Year at ;
Board Meet
Rolls S. Goold, for the 'past
year assistant principal of Klam
ath Union high school, was elect
ed to the post of principal at a
meeting Monday night of the
school board. Reelection of
KUHS teachers took place with
all but two on tho present staff
named for the coming year.
Goold is one of the youngest
men in the state to hold such
a responsible executive position.
His training includes graduation
from Eugene high, tho Univer
sity of Oregon where he received
his BA degree, graduate work
at the University of Washington
and University of Oregon and
summer work at both the Uni
versity of California and Oregon
State college. At the latter school
ho studied vocational education.
The principal-elect is - now
completing work on his master's
degree at the University of Ore
gon. As teaching experience Goold
listed supervision of social prob
lems at University high school,
Eugene; social studies during
1937 at La Grande high school,
heading vocational trades and
Industries at that school in 1939,
and in 1940-41 serving as assist
ant principal and as trades and
industries and defense coordi
nator at La Grande. In 1942,
he served as assistant principal
at KUHS.
Goold's other employment in
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established under the new plan
will be wiped out and ' public
parking permitted therein.
The committee recommended
the elimination of all prohibited
areas in front of hotel entrances
within the area it surveyed, and
it was informally agreed that
similar action will be taken
with regard to hotels outside
that area.
The committee surveyed
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth streets
between Klamath avenue and
Pine street; Pine street from
Fourth to Eleventh streets and
Klamath avenue from Fourth to
Eleventh streets.
It recommended that the
mayor appoint a secret three
man committee to allow or dis
allow requests for special park
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ANKER BLOWN
IN TWO; 19 OF
Axis Attack Closest
Yet to Eastern
U. Si Coast
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NEW YORK, March 10 VP)
An axis submarine torpedoed
the 6766-ton Gulf Oil tanker
Gulftrade at 12:40 a. m. today
only a few miles off Barnegat,
N. J., in the closest approach
undersea raiders have yet made
to the eastern American coast.
Third naval district headquar
ters, announcing the . sinking,
said 16 of the 35-man crew were
rescued by coast guard boat and
landed at Tompklnsville, Staten
Island,
The navy said the torpedo
split the 22-year-old tanker in
two, 60 miles from New. York
City. She was bound, fully load
ed, from a southern port to New
York.
Captain Torger OlserV 66, of;
ron . Annur, irxas, a , survivor,
said all the crew members left
the ship safely and that tho miss
ing men were in two lifeboats
which were carried away by
high waves. .
"After we got as far as Barne
gat we thought we were safe,"
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Selectees Given
Sendoff Monday
Night at Armory
The Klamath Falls armory
was filled to capacity Monday
night as friends .relatives and
visitors gathered to bid fare
well to 132 county selective reg
istrants. A program was spons
ored by the Elks club.
Men reported to the armory
at eight o'clock Monday evening
and roll call was taken. Boards
one and two stood at opposite
sides of the floor with visitors
seated in the middle. The balc
ony was packed.
After roll call the house was
darkened and two pictures of
army life were shown. The first
was about the work of the cav
alry and the second was "Wings
of Steel," a picture about the
air corps.
Dutch Lunch
Angus Newton, who presided
at the mass meeting ,gave the
boys final instructions and hand
ed them a few tips on army life.
At 10 p. m. a Dutch lunch
was held for the registrants by
the Elks lodge and stationery
was given so the boys could
write to tho "folks back home."
The American Legion passed
out booklets entitled "Fall In"
telling a few experiences of the
AEF in World war I.
After the ceremonies the
draftees intermingled with the
crowd and familiar "farewells"
were exchanged.
The men boarded the train at
12:40 to start their basic training
In the south.
The registrants comprised the
largest group of draftees to
leave Klamath Falls since in
ception of the draft act a year
and a half ago.'
British Bombs Set
Fires at Essen
LONDON. March 10 (P)
British bombers raided the great
Krupp munitions works at Essen
last night for the second night
in a row and the air ministry
declared today there could be
no doubt that they caused "great
havoc."
Bomber crews said the fires.
visible for 100 miles, must have
slowed production appreciably.
Successive : waves of planes
spread the fires "of great size"
swiftly, making a blazing beacon
of the target in the heart of the
busy Ruhr Industrial district.
GREW PING
New Jap Thrusts Indicate Australian
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Mapped bar are newest threats to Australia, with Japanese
Naw Guinea (3) indicating an invasion attempt is imminent. Japanese troops, Janata en tns
north coast of New Guinea, are 425 miles from the Australian continent. -Conquest of the island
would bring tham within 100 miles of Australia, across the Torres, strait.
Naming of Lakeview
Man Approved by
, Comment Here
' Theodore R. Conn, Lakeview
attorney, is the new member of
the state, game commission, nil
ing the vacancy created by the
death of Francis it. Olds, Klam
ath Falls. .-. i
'.Conn's appointment was made
by Governor SpragUe late Mon
day.. It came as a surprise to
interested Klamath men, who
said they .had planned to ad
vance a local candidate for the
post, ibut they expressed their
confidence in -Conn and their
satisfaction that a man from
this section of Oregon got the
appointment.-
Comment Favorable
Conn is a lifelong resident of
Lake county, and has been
president of the Lake County
Sportsmen's association. He is
an attorney and those close to
the situation say he is In a po
sition to bring about a better
understanding between livestock
and sportsmen s Interests.
Elmer Myers, president of the
Klamath Sportsmen's associa
tion, said he wanted to con
gratulate Conn upon the ap
pointment. -
"I am sure Mr. Conn will
consult with the representative
sportsmen's groups of his terri
tory with regard to game and
game management problems.
said Myers. -"Naturally, we are
keenly interested in all matters
of this kind relative to this ter
ritory, and we must count upon
the game commissioner from
this region to represent us."
Dan Eastman, president of the
Izaak Walton league, and John
Ebinger, past president, ex
pressed their confidence in
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Stay Issued to
Permit Zuckerman
To Appeal Verdict
SACRAMENTO, March 10 (IP)
The third district court of ap
peals today issued a writ for a
stay of. execution in the man
slaughter conviction of Maurice
Zuckerman, Stockton.
The appellate court made the
writ returnable March 23.
Object of the writ is to permit
Zuckerman's attorneys time to
perfect their appeal of the jury
decision last week and to pre
vent Zuckerman from being sent
to San Quentln prison pending
outcome of the appeal.
STOCKTON, Calif., March 10
VP) Surrendered to sheriff's of
ficers in a wheelchair, 63-year-old
Maurice Zuckerman, wealthy
farm operator, goes to San Quen
tln prison today to begin a term
of from five to 10 years for the
barroom killing of Otto Dander
last Armistice day.
Turning down a motion for a
new trial, Superior Judge C. W.
Miller sentenced Zuckerman late
yesterday and twice refused De
fense Attorney John Taaffe's
pleas for a stay of execution
pending appeal.
Zuckerman was convicted of
manslaughter in the fatal shoot
ing of Dander, 43, Stockton
American Legion leader. He tes
tified he fired in self defense.
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-AUSTRALIA'1
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Pork Wholesale
Prices Frozen
By Government
WASHINGTON, March 10 VP)
The government temporarily
froze wholesale prices of SO per
cent of the nation's pork prod
ucts, including .ham and bacon,
today at the highest level pre
vailing between March 3 and
March 7. , '
The ceiling, effective March
23, applies to dressed hogs and
wholesale pork cuts, and Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
declared it . was expected "to
help importantly . in . holding
down the cost of Hvina" '
"Last year, consumers - spent
more than $2,000,000,000 : ior
pork and other hog products. .
- Indirect Effects . t -s .
Neither farmers . nor retail:
outlets are covered directly by
the emergency price- schedule
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Hitler Digging ,
Into Reserves,
Russia Claims
By ROBERT E. BUNNELLE
LONDON.. March 10 VP)
Adolf Hitler was reported dig
ging deep into his reserves of
manpower today and moving up
his forces for a gigantic spring
offensive from Leningrad to Ros
tov to smash Russia and end a
growing threat to Germany
proper.
The Germans were said - to
fear that if anything went wrong
around Leningrad the Russians
might smash right through the
Baltic states into Germany.
Reliable sources said confiden
tial advices coming from so
many quarters that they are "al
most certainly accurate" indi
cate the Germans had abandon
ed earlier plans for a defensive
war in the north and a sharp of
fensive in the south.
Instead, these informants said,
Hitler appears to be planning a
general attack because of the
red army's unexpected successes
in the Staraya Russa area and a
weakening of the Finns.
A steel ring the Russians had
thrown around the trapped 16th
German army at Staraya Russa
was contracting, Moscow dis
patches said.
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Jap Conquerors Charged
With Hongkong Atrocities
LONDON, March . 10 (P)
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden charged in the house of
commons today that the .'Jap
anese army in Hongkong had
been guilty of wholesale atro
cities in the occupied . crown
colony and declared that the
Japanese emperor and govern
ment and "the whole Japanese
people" were to blame.
Fifty British officers and men
were bound hand and foot and
then bayoneted to death follow
ing the capture of Hongkong;
women, both European and
Asiatic, were raped and murd
ered, and one whole Chinese
district was declared a brothel
without exception for the status
of any of the Inhabitants, Eden
declared. '
These happenings, previously
reported to the government,
were not made publio until it
had confirmation from reliable
Invasion Attempt
GUINEA" BRiTAiNr-i
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thrusts In Java (1) Timor (2) and
ALLIES MAY TAKE
Attempt to Forestall
Axis - Domination ".
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LONDON, March 10 VP) Un
official quarters discussed the
possiblity ' today- : that allied
troops might soon, move to oc
cupy the ..Vichy-controlled is
land of Madagascar tji the., west
ern part 'of the Indian ocean,
close to Africa's east coast and
in a strategic position to con
trol allied supply lines.-.
They ' pointed out 'that since
the fall .of Singapore the im
portance - of Madagascar has
been doubled, and that such an
allied move might have to be
made to forestall Japanese oc
cupation of the island. ;
- They emphasized, too, the fact
that , a Japanese mission is re
ported to have been in Mada
gascar for the past six weeks,
negotiating for naval and air
bases. v : .
One Informed but. unofficial
source said occupation of the
island was imperative because
the axis already is in possession
of one-naval base in the south
Indian ocean, on Vichy-owned
Kerguelen island (desolation
land) southeast of Capetown.
LONDON. March 10 VP)
The Ankara radio in Turkey,
reported - today that six light
naval units of the French fleet
had been transferred from
Dakar, in French west Africa,
to Madagascar, French island
off the African east coast.
Jackson Trial
On in Portland
PORTLAND, March 10 (P
The trial of Lawrence D. Jack
son, Klamath Indian on a mur
der -charge,- opened before Fed
eral Judge Claude McColloch
today. .
Federal District Attorney Carl
C.-Donaugh said Jackson was
accused of beating Merle Chock
toot, another Indian, to death
with a rifle barrel on the Klam
ath reservation last December 9.
eyewitnesses recently escaped
from the colony, Eden said.
"Their testimony established
the fact that the Japanese army
at Hongkong perpetrated against
their helpless military prisoners
and civil population without dis
tinction of race or color the
same kind of barbarities which
aroused the horror of the civil
ized world at the, time of the
Nanking massacre of 1937,"
EUen continued. - ;
i He referred to the Japanese
capture of the ,u-mer Chinese
capital on Dec. 13, 1937.
; Substantiated accounts at that
time said a reign of terror ex
isted for days, with thou;nds
of women, raped and murdeied
and -other thousands of the in
habitants - killed during the
burning,. looting and pillage of
Nanking.
Japanese statements at the
time described the disorders as
a "mopping up" operation.
INDIA 'REVOLT '
THREATENS IF
DEMAND
Battle of Java Over
As Japs Occupy
Main Points-
LONDON, March 10 (JP)
British forces have abandoned
the southern tip of Burma to
the Japanese and withdrawn
"successfully" lr.to central Bur
ma to continue their fight "side
by side with our Chinese al
lies," official war reports said
today. .
Rangoon has been evacuated
of military defenders but not
before all dock Installations, oil
refineries and other valuable
equipment bad been destroyed
by demolition squads.
Additional destruction, plan
ned and executed by American,
engineers and drillers, 1 pro
ceeding at Bassein, an impor
tant port 90 miles west of Ran
goon and key city of the Irrai
waddy river delta. .
Br ROGER D. GREENE ;
Associated Press War Editor
Threats of a "revolt" by Britr
ish-ruled India's 77,000,000 Mos
lems further complicated the al
lied effort In the far Pacific war
theatre today, as Japanese troop
surged - on westward beyond
fallen . Rangoon toward the Ira
waddy oil fields and the fabulous
riches of India.
Rangoon itself, the Burmese
capital, was a city of fire-blackened
ruins. ...
On other fronts:
. JaTa Battle Wanes .
: 1. The battle for Java waa
apparently . a closed chapter,'
with Japanese forces occupying
Bandoeng, former allied military
headquarters, and presumably
the big Soerabaja naval base.
Dutch army officers said it
was believed the Japanese had
landed 50,000 reinforcements on
Java last Saturday and now had
three divisions (perhaps 75,000
troops) near Soerabaja alone.
Blacked- o u t communications
hid the extent of any fighting
which might be continuing. .
Aneta, the Dutch news agen
cy, said NEI officials were work
ing out plans for continuing the
struggle against Japan from out
side the overrun-Indies and de
clared "new machinery" for that
purpose would soon be set up
in. "certain parts of the world."
Bataan Attempt '
2. In the Philippines, Japan's
assignment of her most success
ful army commander to lead the
campaign against Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's heroic defenders in
dicated that a supreme attempt
was forthcoming to wipe out
American-Filipino resistance on
Bataan peninsula. ' '. !
Lieut.-Gen. Tomoyukl Yama
shlta, conqueror of Malay and
Singapore, was appointed com
mander in chief of the invasion
forces, succeeding Lieut.-Gen..
Masaharu Homma, who was re
ported to have committed sui
cide in chagrin over his failure
to crush MacArthur's little army.
Third Landing
3. . Australian planes kept,
sharp watch for the expected ap
proach of a Japanese Invasion
armada toward Australia from
New Guinea, where the enemy
had already established three
beachheads on the Australian
mandated island.
Sea-borne Japanese force
made a third landing on New
Guinea today, and enemy bomb
ers blasted anew at Port Mores
by, New Guinea, only 280 miles
from the Australian mainland. It
was the tenth attack there.
Tho situation in India hung
in delicate balance. r
Dispatches from New Delhi
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City Briefs ...'......'.........Page B
Comics and Story .......Page 12
Courthouse Records .-...Page 4
Editorials ....Page 4
Hlb School News ...Page i
Infbimatlon .Page 8
Market, F'nanclal Page 7
Midland Empire New . Page- 6
Pattern ..... . Page 11.
Sports ............. reg