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Falls. Another long bleat, during black
out, ti a ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau
tionary parlodi. watch your itraat lights.
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By FRANK JENKINS
"TODAY'S highlights lu tho
Pacific war:
Tho Jupnnosti nro attucklng IN
FORCE tho Now Gulm-o ap
proaches to Austrulln. They al
ready HOLD tho other ap
proaches In Tokyo, a government
spokesman warna Australia to
yield without a fitiht or "Sutter
tho sumo Into that hae befallen
Singapore and Java." Ho adits:
O "They (tho Australians) should
sea tho handwriting on tho
wall,"
London "authoritative quart
ers" ussert today that tho
strength of tho Jnp main
battle f 1 o e t hus not been
impaired by Jupun's "far
flung sweeps of conquest" and
adds that Japan can now b ex
pected to lush out In three di
rections to CEYLON (westward
CLEAR ACROSS tho Boy of
Hernial), to Auatralla, and EVEN
FARTHER EAST toward tho Fiji
Islands.
A CONSIDERABLE school of
thought In this country holds
that Japan will bo content (tem
porarily, at least) with what she
has already seized.
But remember:
A VERY CONSIDERABLE
O school of thought In this coun
try held that Japan wouldn't go
to war at all.
We know bolter now.
AT this point, get out your map
(or. better, your globe.)
Take a look at the empire
Japan has already overrun
coastal China, French Indo
Chlna. Thailand, Malaya, lower
Burma, tho East Indies, the
Philippines (all but Botoan.)
Rocall the SPEED AND EASE
with which she has accomplished
all this.
Then look at Auatralla, with
only seven million Inhabitants,
Industrially weak and FAR RE
MOVED from American and
British help.
Look at India ripe, internal
ly rotten and ready for plucking
by a strong and bold hand. Re
member that India has been the
O ultimate goal of all world con
querors since Alexander.
nrHEN take another look at
Japan ruled by an insanely
ambitious military clique that
for 20 years has been preparing
for the conquest of ALL ASIA.
Remember that sine history
began conquest has roused hun
ger for MORE CONQUEST.
Recall that as long as a year
ago Japan announced to the
world her intention to taka over
the wholo South Pacific and
we laughed, end said: "Oh,
yeah?"
a
THEN ask yourself this clucs
A tlon:
IS IT SAFE to believe that
Japan will settle down quietly
to exploitation and development
of the area she hat already
seized?
:MOW turn your eyes home
Qword. Last night In a radio address
to the country Donald Nelson,
dirodtor of wnr production, said:
"Our war Industries are op
erating at only HALF CAPAC
ITY though we are face to face
with an enemy DETERMINED
TO DESTROY US,"
. Then remember the fate of
France, whose factories operated
at half capacity while tho Ger
mans were massing for attack,
-
AT this point, you will prob
ably bo Inclined to say!
"It looks like a terrlblo mess,
but WHAT CAN I D07" ,,
This is the answer: " -You
can wrlto to your con
gressman and your senators,
snylng (In your own words): "I
OS:
want all-out war production
NE HUNDRED PER CENT,
not 80 per cent.
"I don't want to go the way
of France.
"Congress, IF IT WILL, can
COMPEL all-out war production,
"If you aren't willing to do
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terman
Passes
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Kennell-EUls
Word of ths death of R. Paul
Roberts. 34, well known Klam
ath Falls Insurance man, was
received hars Wednesday. Mr.
Roberta' death occurred In a
Das Molnas. Ia., hospital Wed
nesday at noon.
ILLI.ESSFATALTD
II. PAUL ROBERTS
Prominent Insurance
Man Passes at
Des Moines
Word of the death of R. Paul
Roberts, 34, well known Klam
ath Falls Insurance man, was
received here shortly after his
passing at noon Wednesday In
a Des Moines, la., hospital. Mr.
Roberts had been In ill health
for the past year and seriously
111 for several months.
Mr. Roberts came to Klamath
Falls In March of 1037, as dis
trict manager of the Northern
Llfo Insurance company. One
and one-half years ago he ac
cepted the position as assistant
goncral agent for tho Aetna Life
Insuranco company, a post he
held until closing his offices
here February . 10, at which time
he left Klamath Falls for Des
Moines.
In Clvlo Work
Whllo a resident of this city
Mr. Roberts took part In civic
affairs and at the timo of his
death was president of the Klam
ath County Health association.
Ho was a member of the Elks
lodgo, the Klwanls club, Klam
ath county chamber of com
merce, and vice president of the
Llfo Underwriters association.
Mr. Roberts completed his
early education in Dos Moines
and was then graduated from
an Iowa university at tho age of
IB. He later spent one year
studying medicine. He Is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Rob
erta of Des Moines, both of whom
survive as docs one young daugh
ter, Jeannlne.
Final services will be held
from the Dunn Funeral home in
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Independent Barber
Meeting Increases
Scale ot Prices
At a mooting of the Independ
ent barbers of Klamath Falls
and vicinity last night, it was
decided to up tho prices of
shaves and haircuts, in lino with
other rising costs, according to
Tom Miles, spokesman for the
group. A prlco ot 60 cents for
haircuts and 39 cents for shaves
was the figure agreed on.
The Independents who algnad
the agreement were the South
Sixth Street Barber shop, 2407
South Sixth; Quality Shop, 2329
South Sixth; Bill's Barber Shop,
811 East Main; Stowart-Lenox
Shop, Stewart-Lenox addition;
The St. Francis Barber Shop,
4828 South Sixth; Community
Barber Shop, 4842 South Sixth;
Bill Butler, 810 East Main; and
L. F. Orroll Baldwin hotel.
Tho list takes in. nearly all
of tho independents In town,
according to Miles, -
marshp mad
HIRER CALLS
L
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Fuehrer Seriously in
Need of Manpower,
London Hears
By Tha Associated Press
Adolf Hitler was reported to
day to have called upon Italy,
Hungary and Slovakia for 2,
600,000 fresh troops to bolster
the heralded nazl spring offen
sive and fill the gaps left ty
nine months of slaughter In the
war with Russia.
Advices reaching London said
Hitler, desperately needing man
power to replace the nazl losses
in dead, wounded and missing,
had demanded 1,000,000 troops
from Italy,-1,800,000 from Hun
gary and 100,000 from Slovakia.
Snow Melting
Soviet authorities declared on
Feb. 22 that Germany had lost
9,000,000 ipen on tho Russian
front. ;.v i,, . '.V-i- "
""Wth pre-spring thaws' already
molting snow on the long battle
Una, dispatches indicated that
the Russians were smashing with
ever increasing fury to -demoralize
the Germans and keep them
reeling backwards instead of or
ganizing a spring counter-drive,
. A bulletin from Hitler's field
headquarters acknowledged that
the red armies were striking In
mass attacks on the southern
(Ukraine) front and holding the
initiative on the Moscow and
Leningrad fronts.
"Heavy and bloody losses were
Inflicted upon the enemy," the
Gorman high command said, in
a communique which also noted
"uninterrupted heavy defense
fighting" by German troops.
Soviet dispatches reported the
capturo of an important junction
In the Lake Ilmen sector, where
trapped survivors of the German
16th army originally estimated
at 06,000 soldiers were reported
suffering from lack of food,
clothing and munitions.
A red army bulletin also an
nounced the capture of three
villages on tho central front,
where nazl garrisons at Rzhev
and Vyazma were described as
virtually surrounded.
United States-built trucks and
motor cars, some still bearing
tho olive drab paint of tho U. S.
army, mingled with Russian ve
hicles In Moscow today as fresh
evidence of allied supply aid for
the red army.
Highway Worker
Struck by Car
On Keno Road
Frank Stroberg, employed as
maintenance section man with
the Oregon state highway de
partment and located at Keno,
Is in Klnmath Valley hospital
suffering from broken bones and
multlplo abrasions as the result
ot an accident which occurred
on the Keno highway early Tues
day night.
Stroberg was walking on the
left side of the highway toward
oncoming traffic when a car at
tempted to pass a truck, striking
Stroberg and hurling him some
distance, Ho was admitted to
tho hospital at 8:30 p. m. His
condition is considered serious
but not critical.
Contracts Let on
Legion Hall Job
Contracts were let Wednesday
morning In county court session
for remodeling of the Veterans
Memorial building to make
room for county offices and a
Klamath museum, authorized
by statute In 1040. Work should
be completed by July 1.
Leo N. Huls was awarded the
general contract on a bid of
$15,905. . The heating contract
went to the Waters company
for $5,088.90. ; i
ON
LIES FOR
IN
REPOR
Nelson Reports
War Industries
Short of Goal
WASHINGTON, March 11
W) The nation's war industries
were told today that they were
operating at only 50 per cent
of capacity, although "face to
face with an enemy determined
to destroy us."
Bespeaking a determined pub
lic demand for faster "produc
tion, end no fooling," Donald
M. Nelson blamed the current
output lag on these main
causes:
Reluctance to Increase the
number of shifts;
Lack of imagination In meet'
ing production problems; -
The issue of extra pay for
holidays and Sundays;
Faulty flow of materials;
Time required to train new
men; . . ;
Shortages of certain special
ized facilities. ' . ' -
The war production chief. In
radio address to the country
last night, voiced his belief that
these difficulties could be over-
come by government, labor and
management working together
In concerted effort.
"It all our equipment now
involved In war production
were used 24 hours a day,
seven days a week,",, ha do-ijlaicd.V-'wa
would - practically
double the man-hours being put
Into military production."
Torpedoing of Fourth
Ship Answered by
Vargas Decree
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
March 11 (P) President Get
ulio Vargas issued a decree to
day giving himself the authority
to declare a state of war or a
state of emergency throughout
the country in case of foreign
menace, imminence of internal
disturbance or existence of a
plan of conspiracy.
Promptly 'answering the tor
pedoing of the fourth Brazilian
ship off the United States coast
in three weeks, the decree clear
ed the way for imprisonment of
axis subjects and seizure ot axis
property.
Orders for seizure of axis
property were expected within
48 hours.
Tho decree, issued as Brazil
was experiencing Increasing
shipping losses as a - result of
axis submarine activity off the
United States Atlantic coast, de
clared that "from the time the
use of the armed forces for the
defense of the state becomes
necessary, the president will de
clare a state of war in all na
tional territory or in part of it."
At the same time the govern
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Fliers Baiile Sea, Hunger
In 1000-Mile Raft Voyage
PEARL HARBOR, T. H.,
March 11 (P) Accept the words
of three United States navy fly
ers who wero tossed by and
sometimes in the stormy south
seas during 34 days adrift on a
rubber raft, there - are times
when one is tickled to death to
see a shark.
Shark liver ... the meat of
an albatross which chanced by
. . , a fish caught with a pocket
knife ... a tern snatched by
hand', . . a floating coconut.
These sustained the courageous
trio R9, naked and baked by the
sun, they used shoes for oars to
travel 1000 miles to the safety
of an island - after their land
plane ran low on fuel and they
were forced to alight In the
ocean Jan. 16.
Tampers Short .
Today they are recovering In
Pearl Harbor Harold Dixon,
BRITISH FIND
NEW GRAFT IN
NORSE WATERS
Effect of Torpedoes
On 35,000 - Ton
Ship Unknown
LONDON, March 11 (JP)
Germany's newest and mightiest
battleship, the 35,000 tonTlrpitz,
made its first known contact
with British forces Monday
when It was attacked by torpedo
planes off the Norwegian west
cop.st, the admiralty announced
today.
The damage. If any, could not
be determined, for the Tirpitz,
sistership of the ill-fated Bis
marck, was last seen retiring
under cover of a heavy smoke
screen.
Not Located
British warships which steam
ed toward the scene of action,
near Trondheim, some 800 miles
from tha German coast, were
unable, to locate the huge Ger
man battleship. - - .
"Any attempt to attack our
convoy was frustrated,"- the ad
miralty said, without Indicating
whether the Germans had at
tempted a raid on supply ships
on a voyage to Russia.- -- "
In London it has . been sug
gested that the Germans were
organizing strong battle forces
at Trondheim perhaps for raid
ing the Russian supply lines from
Britain and the United States.
The communique said the war
ship put out of Trondheim and
took a northward course, but
was sighted by reconnaissance
planes and then attacked by the
torpedo planes.
"It was not possible to observe
the result of this attack," said
the admiralty.
Jackson Murder
Case Goes to Jury
In Portland
PORTLAND, March 11 (fP
The case of Lawrence Dale Jack
Son, 17, charged with slaying an
other Indian, Merlen Chocktoot,
on the Klamath reservation last
December, went to the jury just
before noon today.
Jackson is on trial in Federal
Judge Claude McColloch's court
Jackson, on the stand late yes
terday, said he struck Merlen
Chocktoot, another Indian, over
the head in self defense on the
Klamath reservation December
5 of last year.
LEASE-LEND
WASHINGTON, March 11 (IP)
The United States and Peru
signed a lend-lease agreement to
day providing for an undisclosed
amount of arms and armament
for the South American repub
lic. 42, of La Mesa, Calif., aviation
chief machinists mate and pilot;
Gene Aldrlch, 24, of Sikeston,
Mo radioman; and Anthony J.
Pastula, 24, of Youngstown,
Ohio, aviation ordnanceman.
Let Dixon describe the day
before they sighted land:
- "All our clothes were gone.
We had failed rapidly in phys
ical and mental condition. I'd
already lost three seta of skin
from sunburn and I was cooked
like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Our, tempers were short. I
would get so mad I couldn't see
when I would say something
and the boys would sit and ap
peal not to hear.
"Things looked pretty sour
but we agreed this was no time
to give up. We tried to sleep
in huddles that night, but part
of th time we had to ball out
' (Continued on Page Two)
Named Commander in Burma
-7o pjjj
Accompanying news ' of tha
Burma was the announcement that Lieut. Gen. Sir H. R. L. G. Al
exander (right), had been appointed general officer commanding
in Burma. He commanded tha first army that corered the Tetreat
at Dunkerque.
F.R. Says All
Strength Needed
For Offensive . ..
-, '"-'-.'- "
WASHINGTON, March U VP)
President Roosevelt informed
congress today in a message
analyzing the first year's opera
tions of the lend-lease program
that the offensive - the united
nations "must and will drive in
to the heart of the axis" would
take "the entire strength that
we possess."
"The war can only be -, won
by contact with the enemies,'
and by attack upon them," he
asserted in a letter transmitting
the lend-lease report. "That
takes time, for the united nations
need more and still more equip
ment and transportation. Suc
cess will come dearly, at the
price of defeats and losses."
Mr. Roosevelt said lend-lease
was a prime mechanism through
which the united nations were
pooling their entire resources. ;
The report, covering opera
tions since the original lend
lease law was signed a year
ago today, showed that the total
value of aid was $2,570,452,441.
This aid Includes not only
military items such as guns,
tanks and planes, but also raw
materials, machinery, f o o d,
ships, expansion of production
facilities and services.
Hart Declares Japs
Paid Heavily in
Indies Invasion
WASHINGTON, March 11 W)
Admiral Thomas C. Hart de
clared today that the Japanese
had won the first great cam
paign of the war in the Pacific
because of unfaltering aerial su
periority but had paid a cost in
ships sunk and damaged which
must give them "great future
concern." -
The former chief of allied
naval forces in the western Pa
cific, just returned to Washing
ton from the theatre of oper
ations, discussed the western Pa
cific conflict in a statement is
sued at Secretary of Navy Knox's
press conference. 1
Afterward reporters asked
him whether the allies' offensive
counter action would be a frontal
attack designed to roll Japanese
forces northward from the Dutch
East Indies and Hart replied:
"A frontal attack is always
the most difficult kind of attack
and a flank attack is usually
easier."
U. S. Freighter .
Lost in Pacific
1 WASHINGTON. March 11 (!P)
The navy announced today that
the Matson Navigation com
pany's freighter "Malama" is
presumed to be lost in the Pa
cific. .
The Malama, a 3278-ton steam
vessel, was built In 1919 at New
ark, N. J., by the Submarine
Boat corporation. Her home
port was SanJfranclsco.
desparata allied resistance In
Cripps..to i Travel to
; Orient to Check
tprjgNew Plan : '
LONDON, . March 11 n-
Prime.-Minister Churchill re
peated today Britain's promise
of dominion status for imperilled
India after the war and an
nounced that his ranking aide,
Sir Stafford Cripps, would go to
India us an emissary to seek as
surance that a precise plan al
ready drafted by London would
gain general Indian acceptance
The promise of Indian self
government with ii the British
commonwealth of nations after
the war, first made in August,
1940, so far has failed to molli
fy Indian nationalists.
But Churchill, in a long
awaited statement to the house
of commons, disclosed that the
government, in order to "clothe
these general declarations with
precision and to convince all
classes, races and creeds in In
dia of our sincere resolve," had
gone a step forward and agreed
to a detailed plan.
He did not, however, disclose
the exact nature of the conces
sions by which his government
hopes to win the loyalty of In
dia's 350,000,000 peoples for the
defense of the rich sub-continent
now threatened by the Japanese
advance in Burma and to the
Indian ocean. 1 .
Woman Missionary
Confirms Reports
Of Jap Terrorism
CHUNGKING, March 11 OP)
Phyllis Harrop, first foreign wo
man to escape from Japanese-occupied
Hongkong, gave an eye
witness account today of the
atrocities committed by the in
vaders, in complete confirma
tion of the report before Britain's
house of commons yesterday by
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden.
Miss Harrop, whose anti-vice
crusades won her the name of
"Hongkong's District Attorney
Dewey" said both Chinese and
Europeans were victims of the
Invaders.
"My own houseboy was killed
bayonetted in the stomach for
no apparent reason," she de
clared. "Fourteen other Chinese
in the same house were killed.
My own amah (woman servant)
was raped by three or four Jap
anese soldiers and left In a Very
serious condition.
"Foreign women also were
raped, including an English
woman I knew who first was
slashed in the face with a sold
ier's belt. Her husband after
wards found her dead with bay
onet wounds In tha stomach."
U. S., AUSSIE
FLIERS STRIKE'
SEVEN VESSELS
Invasion Force Still
Forming in New
Guinea Area
WASHINGTON, March 11 (IP)
The war department reported
today that eight heavy Ameri
can bombers, raiding Japanese
shipping in the harbor of Sala
maua, New Guinea, left two
ships sinking, four on fire and,
one beached on th6" 3hore.
The force of bombers, com
manded by Major Richard H.
Carmichael, dropped 18 tons of
bombs on Japanese ships in the
harbor, the department ,, said.
None of the planes was danv
aged. ' 1 ; ' , .
CANBERRA, Australia, March
11 UP) Beating violently at Japanese-
invasion flotillas which
nevertheless apparently still
were being marshaled above the
mainland, the royal Australian
air force reported tonight that
seven enemy ships were known,
to have been sunk or damaged
and two others probably dam
aged in the waters of . New
Guinea. ' 5 ; ' ;'. . -. -
Of this number two ships def
initely were sunk, our were set .
aflame "and one. was beached, '
said an official announcement
listing results of a series of
smashing assaults yesterday on
Japanese ship concentrations In
the harbor of Salamaua, on New
Guinea's east coast. . i
New Convoy'- J :
' But even as' the air arm con-,
tinued its running counter of
fensive action a large new Japa
nese convoy was reported head
ing; for. Port Moresby on the
southern. New Guinea coast, in
an. area only ' 300 miles from
Cape York on the mainland. -
--The -Australian Associated
Press observed that the govern-.
ment had no denial to offer of
these reports. -. )
...Port Moresby likewise was
under hew enemy aerial assault,'
12 bombers participating in this
thrust, although there was no
immediate announcement of
damage there.
The RAF's action was describ
ed in its communique as "one of
the heaviest aerial attacks so far
launched in the New Guinea .
Medford Wins in
Tourney Opener;
Locals Play Tonight .
SALEM, March 11 (flV-The
Medford Tigers battled their
way into the second round of
the Oregon State high school
basketball tournament today by
upsetting McLoughlin High of
Mil ton-Free water 31 to 28.
Medford led at the end of
each quarter, leading 15 to 12
at the half, but the Tigers never
were more than three points
ahead at any stage. 1
- The Klamath Union high
school Pelican basketball team,
champion ot District 3, meets
McMinnville tonight at 6:45 In
their first game of the Salem.'
state tournament, i"
The News and Herald office
will have the final score at 10
o'clock. It will be available by -dialing
3124. . .- -
GAS RATIONING
WASHINGTON, March 11 (P)
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes an
nounced today the petroleum In
dustry had recommended to him
rationing of gasoline in tha east
by a card system to meet tha
supply emergency caused by the
sinking and. war transfer of
tanker ships. .
News Index
City Briefs ...................'...Page B
Comics and Story ..........Page 10
Courthouse Records -... Page 4
Editorials ..1 ..Page 4
Information .... ,..i.Page 5
Market, Financial Page 0
Midland Empire News ..Page 6
Pattern .....Page 7
PTA Notes .. .. Pog 1
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