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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942
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By FRANK JENKINS
TVHILE we aro waiting to ice
" whothcr the Japs really
mean to take on all ol Australia,
thus stretching themselves
farthor, spreading themselves
thinner and making It easier for
us to tackle them on the flank,
India and what Is likely to hap
pen there are Interesting sub
jects for speculation.
INTERESTING, but not very
l V encouraging. If the Japs
take all of India, they will be In
a position to effect a Junction
with Hitler If that Is part of
their plan. Your mop will tell
you what that would mean.)
THE situation In India doesn't
look hopeful.
About the only way India con
be saved Is by giving tha people
of India an Incentive to FIGHT
THE JAPS. The British them
selves have no armies to sparo
for fighting in India.
Providing such an Incentive
AT THIS LATE DATE looks
like an Impossible task.
yHE basic trouble Is that the
peoplo of India don't really
care much who rules them.
Thoy'vo always been RULED.
Through all these, centuries of
I rulershlp they haven't got much
for themselves. Their living
standards arc unbelievably low.
Grinding poverty is all the
musses hnvo ever known.
Giva the governing British
all tho credit that Is due them.
Admit (as historically you must)
that Britain's rulershlp has been
bettor for tho masses of India
thun that of tha native princes
who were there when tho British
came.
The fact remains that these
masses are too poverty-stricken
(as well as casto-ridden, disease
ridden and superstition-ridden)
to car greatly who governs
tnem.
At least, they aren't willing
to fight and dls to prevent a
chango of rulers.
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"THE situation Is complicated
by religious and other lssuos.
OThe 80 million Mohammedans
won't submit to being ruled by
the 240 million Hindus as
would happen If India wcro
given aolf-governing domination
status. They say they'll revolt
if that happens.
Hindu nationalist leaders say
they won't fight for Britain un
less India Is given self-govorn-ing
dominion status NOW.
That will give you some Idea
of the mess.
IJRITAIN (too late, as usual) Is
moving harolcally to clean
up the mess.
Churchill is sending Sir Staf
ford Cripps to India to see what
ha can do. Cripps is an extrome
liberal. For jhut reason, It Is
hopod that ho may be able to
talk to tho peoplo of India in a
languago they will understand,
respect and BELIEVE.
Cripps is also Churchill's lead
ing opponent. It is Cripps who
Qwlll probably take over the gov
ernment If Churchill should fall.
If he saves tho situation In India
ha will be the MAN OF THE
HOUR.
If he FAILS there, ho will bo
discredited,
Churchill displays high pa
triotism when ha sends his lead
ing opponent Into a situation
that may mnko him tho man of
the hour. Cripps displays high
patriotism when he accepts a
mission that will break and dis
credit him if he falls as he is
likely to do.
DOTH are to bo admired for
doing what thoy are doing.
But to an outsider It looks as
If it is being done too Into.
Such jobs normally take time.
The crisis In India is a matter
not weeks perhaps days.
nrHE situation In India brings
Into sharp relief tho prob
lems of world empire. '
This writer (admitting that
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CRIPPLE PART
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Tojo Hits Australia,
India in Blast
At British
By ROGER D. GREENE
Auociattd Press War Editor
Heavy U. S. bombers were
credited today with crippling at
least part of a Japanese Invasion
armada soiling down tha coast
of New Guinea toward Australia,
while in Tokyo Japan's war
lords unleashed a new verbal
bombardment directed at the two
most likely targets of Japan's
next military moves India and
Australia.
Premier Gen. Hidckl Tojo,
boasting that allied sea power
had been crushed in the far Pa
cific and that Japanese armies
hnvo taken moro than 210,000
prisoners, declared Japan was
bent on erasing tho last vestiges
of British control in India. Ha
warned, Australia , she would
"follow In the tracks" of the
Dutch East Indies If she did not
fall In line with tha "greater
East Asia sphere."
Qhandi Doubtful
In India, Mohandas K. Ghandl,
supreme leader of the Hindu na
tionalist majority, professed to
see littlo hope for a solution of
India's political problems in
Britain's promise of post-war
dominion status. Britain first
must confess and undo her pri
mary crimo of imperialism,
Gandhi declared.
'Tho main fleet of tho United
States and Britain has already
disappeared from tho surface of
tho Pacific," Tojo asserted, in a
speech celebrating tho conquest
of the Dutch East Indies.
In Washington, the army , re
ported that eight b I g United
States bombers dealt a stagger
ing blow to Japanese ships Tues
day in New Guinea waters, drop
ping 18 tons of bombs which left
two vessels sinking, four in
flames and another stranded on
the beach. The American forces
returned intact.
An Australian government
spokesman declared the assault
was "only the beginning" of
allied counter-blows to snag
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Civilian Aviation
Program Doubled
For War Effort
WASHINGTON, March 12 (P)
Tho CAA civilian aviation train
ing program today was ordered
more than doubled in size and
geared completely into the war
effort as a part of the urgent
expansion of tha nation's air
power.
The war department an
nounced tha move, explaining It
was worked out In cooperation
with tho army air forces.
The number of students given
elementary pilot training is to
be raised from 29,000 to 48,000
a year, and the facilities of the
secondary flying courso tripled
to train 30,000 students annual
ly. In addition training Is to be
provided for the first timo tor
ground technicians. About 31,-
uoo are to be given this training
annually.
Bataan Fighting
Lull Reported
WASHINGTON, March 12 (P)
Tho war department In one of
the briefest communiques of the
war reported today that the lull
In fighting on the Philippines'
Bataan peninsula continued.
It was the fourth consecutive
day that tha department report
ed absence of activity on tho
fighting ' front, v
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which Japs might attempt from springboards established by their coflquasts into Indo China
from tha south) across Burma into India for a drive to tha Mlddl East; across tha Indian ocean
to Madagascar; or into Australia.
HUGE FOR Fl
Vote ori fSVC i II Levy
On Continuing
Basis Eyed
A vota at tha May primary
on a proposed continuing levy
of 8 mills to support the Klam
ath Falls fire department will
bo recommended to tho city
council Monday night by a spe
cial citizens' committee named
to look Into the fire department
problems.
Eight mills would raise ap
proximately $78,000 annually.
The fire department now re
ceives about $38,000 a year out
of the general budget.
Under tho committee's pro
posal, tha budgeted amount
would be eliminated entirely,
and the fire department here
after would be supported ex
clusively by a fire department
levy, similar to the method of
financing the city library,
parks and recreation depart
ments. Obsolete Equipment
Tho committee, composed of
G. A. Krausc, chairman, Alfred
Collier and P. O. Landry, was
appointed to study physical
conditions of the fire depart
ment. "We have found that tha
present equipment has been in
service many years, is obsolete
and In bad physical condition,
and improperly manned," the
committee report states.
It added that one fire station
is not sufficient to protect prop
erly tho heavy-risk district, and
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Six Killed in
Crash of Bomber
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March
12 Three officers and three
enlisted men were-killed last
night when their army B-23
medium bomber crashed and
burned nlno miles oast of Yoa
kum, Duncan field officials an
nounced today.
Eslcr field authorities an
nounced at Alexandria, La., that
the following were killed in the
crash:
First Lieut. Angus M. John
ston, 23, Taft, Calif. Wife, Hud
dle street, Plnevllle, La., form
erly Miss Betty Pleasant, Palo
Alto, Calif.
Second Lieut. Dana W. Brad
ford, . 24, pilot, born at Town
send, Mont, Mother, Los An
geles, Calif.'
Second Lieut. Ronald C. Hock
ing, 22, co-pllot. Father, Ab
saraka, N. D.
Master Sgr. C. G. Frailer. 37,
wife, San Rafael, Calif. .
Tech, Sgt. Earl F. Ricks, 42,
Bridgeport, Ind.
Sgt. Stanley A. Smlthwen
Bison,' S. D.
Ma
Jury Acquits
Jackson on
Murder Count
. PORTLAND, March 12 (P
Lawrence Dale Jackson, 17, was
acquitted in federal court yes
terday of the murder of a fel
low Klamath Indian, Merlen
Chocktoot, 20, on the Klamath
reservation last December 6.
Jackson pleaded self defense.
He had been accused of beating
Chocktoot to death with the
butt of tho letter's rifle.
Manufacturers
Suggest Sales
Tax for U, S.
WASHINGTON. March 12 )
Tho National Association of
Manufacturers suggested a $7,
600,000,000 tax program to con
gress today, featuring a $4,400,
000.000 sales tax and moderate
increases in individual and cor
poration levies.
The recommendations, present
ed to the house ways and means
committee by J. Cheever Cow
din, called for only one-third of
the Increases In individual and
corporate tax rates proposed by
Secretary Morgenthau, and con
templated making up the dif
ference through either a manu
facturers' or retail sales tax
which Morgenthau forthrightly
opposed.
"Grant all the objections to
a war tax on consumption," Cow
din observed. "How else can
you meet the nation's need for
tremendous amounts of new
revenue?"
For corporations, Cowdln pro
posed a combined normal and
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83 Survivors Landed From
Two Ships Sunk By U-Boais
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,
March 12 (4') United States na
val district headquarters auth
orised the publication today of
the arrival hero Monday night
of two United States ships bring
ing 8J survivors of a Britisn
tanker and a Swedish freighter
torpedoed and sunk in the Carib
bean area last Thursday and
Friday nights. ,
The American motorship Ida
ho landed 40 officers and crew
members of the medium-sized
British tanker, and a few hours
later tho waterman liner Ipswich
brought in 34 survivors of tho
small Swedish freighter. a
No lives were lost In tho sink
ings, which occurred approxi
mately 20 miles apart.
NEW LONDON, Conn., March
12 VP) -Fourteen crewmen of
the torpedoed Brazilian vessel
Cayru died during a three-day
ordeal In one of the ship's life
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Crowd Attacks Store
Owned by German
After Decree
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 12
(P) An angry crowd of several
hundred persons, seme shouting,
"Kill them!" broke the show
window of a blacklisted German
firm today on Rio De Janeiro's
main street, Avenida Rio Branca.
The outburst, directed chiefly
at the German storo, Casa Loh
ner, came just after noon and
followed upon anti-axis meas
ures taken by the Brazilian gov
ernment.
The government confiscated
up to 30 per cent of the funds
of axis subjects in this country
in a decree which branded Ger
many, Italy and Japan as ag
gressors and strengthened belief
that a declaration of war might
follow.
The decree by President
Getulio Vergas said the con
fiscations were based on "acts
of war practiced against the
American continent," and singled
out Germany as particularly re
sponsible.
Since Germany, Italy and
Japan are allies, they are "united
in aggression," the decree stated.
It blamed Germany for failure
to pay admitted obligations for
damage to a Brazilian ship in
the Mediterranean some time
ago and for attacks on peaceable
unarmed Brazilian merchantmen
at least four of which have
been eunlc recently off the At
lantic coasts of the United
States.
boats, the navy reported today
after landina sir others, erontlv
suffering from exposure, at this
port, i aiso Drougnt ashore was
the body of a passenger.
Two of the survivors were able
to stand with the aid of sailors;
the others were carried ashore
on stretchers, and all were
taken immediately to a hospital
Their lifeboat was sighted last
night by a naval vessel search
Ing for, survivors with the aid
of aircraft. The navy said 38
men and women from tho Cayru
still were unaccounted for.
BOND RALLIES
PORTLAND, March 12 (P)
A roped-off block in downtown
Portland for noon-hour defense
bond sale rallies has been asked
of the city council by tha de
fense bond sales staff. In the
first World war a liberty temple
was constructed on Sixth avenue
for patriotic rallies.
BY U.S. SUB
. INfAR EAST
Enemy Seaplane Shot
Down Off Midway,
Says Navy. Note
WASHINGTON, March 12 (JP)
The navy announced today that
three enemy freighters and a
passenger cargo ship had been
sunk by a U. S. submarine in
Japanese waters and that an
enemy seaplane had been shot
down west of Midway island.
These new actions against the
Japanese were reported in navy
communique number 33, based
on information received here up
to 1 p. m, PWT, today. The
communique:
"Far East A U. S. subma
rine has sunk three enemy
freighters and one passenger
cargo ship in Japanese waters.
"These sinkings are in addi
tion to those reported in all
previous communiques.
"Central Pacific On March
10 two large Japanese four-en-gined
seaplanes were detected
west of Midway island. - They
were intercepted by four of our
fighter planes based on the
island. One of the enemy planes
was shot down. The other es
caped. One of our fighters was
damaged and the pilot wound
ed,- He succeeded par Returning
to his base safely.'
"There is nothing to: report
from other areas." . "
The report was " ' the second
this week on American subma
rine activities in the ' western
Pacific. On Monday the navy
announced that a Japanese de
stroyer leader and a.naval
tanker had been sunk and an
aircraft carrier and three cruis
ers torpedoed , in the preceding
week to bring to a total of 138
the number of Japanese vessels
of all types sunk and damaged
by American forces. Yesterday
the war department announced
the sinking or damaging of
seven vessels north of Australia,
raising the total to 148, and to
day's action raised it to 149..
Pelicans Ousted
from Tourney By
Eugene, 45-34
SALEM, March 12 (JP) Eu
gene's Axemen eliminated Klam
ath Falls, tallest team in the
tournament, from the Oregon
state high school basketball
tourney today by defeating the
Pelicans 45 to 34.
The victory kept Eugene, elim
inated from championship play
last night by Astoria, in the con
solation play for fifth place.
Eugene, trailing 7 to 10 at
the end of the first quarter, got
its attack clicking in the second
period, taking the lead and
steadily increasing its margin.
Eugene led 21 to 16 at the half.
The Axemen made a complete
rout of the second half, running
through and around the Klamath
Falls players who, despite their
height, could not get the ball
off the backboards.
Mainstays of the Eugene at
tack were Bob Hodgens and Ray
Cain.
Salem's inspired Vikings, one
of the favorites until knocked
over by Corvallis Tuesday night
in the opening round, staged a
terrific comeback in the conso
lation round of the state high
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Troops Moved to,
Alaska Road Site
EDMONTON, Alberta, March
12 (IP) Th third trainload of
United States troops to . pass
through Edmonton on their way
to Dawson Creek, British Colum
bia, where they will work on
construction of the Alaska high
way, arrived here today and
left three-quarters of an hour
later for the north.
The troops will bolster Ameri
cans, already arrived at the rail
end town in British Columbia
The Canadian censor approved
publication of news of the arrlv
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Music Director
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Andrew J. Loner, La Grand,
named director of public school
music in Klamath Falls for
1942. Ha win servo both tha
alamantary and high school dis
tricts.
La Grande Man Heads
Department for All ;
City System.
' Andrew J. Loney Jr, of La-
Grande, has been elected direc
tor of music education for the
entire , public school system 'of
Klamath Falls, it was announ
ced Thursday.
Loney's election was com
pleted at a meeting of the elementary-
school board Wednes
day evening. He had previous
ly been approved for election by
the Klamath Union high school
board. . i
Good Record
' The new music education di
rector has headed public school
music at LaGrande for the last
eight years, and is at present
studying for a degree in music
at the University of Oregon. He
is on leave of absence from La
Grande. Loney has a record of wide
spread accomplishment in the
music education field, and
groups under his direction have
won contests in divisional and
national competition. At La
Grande he was several years as
sociated with Arnold Gralapp,
superintendent of the Klamath
schools, who recommended him
fqr the position here. He is the
third key man from LaGrande
to be selected for the school sys
tem here, the others being Gra
lapp, former LaGrande superin
tendent, and Rolla Goold, principal-elect
of the high school.
Reelected
Both Charles Stanfield, pres
ent music supervisor at Klam
ath Union high school, and Lillle
Darby, elementary school music
supervisor, have been reelected
to the music staffs of the respec
tive districts. Their exact stat
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Child Killed by
Accidental Shot
TOLEDO, Ore., March 12 (IP)
A bullet accidentally fired by
her five-year old brother late
yesterday claimed the life of
Darlene Downing, 18 months,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Downing of Chitwood.
The baby died in a hospital to
day. The brother, Donald, found
the gun in the glove compart
ment of the car. The children
had been left in the car, parked
in front of the local postoffice,
by the mother who was transact
ing some business.
The father operates a sawmill
at Chitwood.
DISTILLERS INDICTED
DENVER, March 12 UP)
Nineteen of the nation s major
distilling companies were indict
ed by a federal grand Jury to
day on charges of fixing whole
sale and retail liquor prices in
violation of the federal anti
trust statutes. The indictment al
so named eight wholesale liquor
dealers, two liquor associations,
and o individuals.
1,500,000 MEN
HURLED
ACROSS
SOUTHERN LINE
Simultaneous . Drives
Start at Central,
Northern Points j
By The Associated' Pros ..
The Russians were reported
today to have hurled 90-odd
armored and infantry divisions,
perhaps 1,500,000 men, into
great offensive on the southern
iront stretching from Taganrog
on the sea-of Azov up to the
vicinity of Kharkov in the Up
per Ukraine. . - i
- Simultaneously, they were
heavily attacking in the Orel sec
tor, some 250 miles above Khar
kov and ' 200 miles south of
Moscow.' and about Staraya
Russa, the area where the 16th
German army is encircled below
Leningrad. ,.... .... ' s
,v Llnoa Penetrated .v. v..
In the Orel fighting, the Get
man high command aeknowb
edged that its lines had been
penetrated northeast of the city
and that nazi forces were wholly
on the defensive.' -
All this indicated that -the
soviet command had embarked -upon
the greatest offensive ao,
tion since the beginning -at tha)
Russian campaign. .m , ;, .
., . BedarmjL troopa,' scored an-"r
other ' Important . break-through
north of Lake Ilmen on the Len
ingrad front,' it' was' reported,
smashing strong German defense
positions..f;:: ;-:.r.-': ; ',-a,
- i , Suicides Reported, . '
. Soviet ' front-line dispatches
said the remnants' of the 96,000
German soldiers trapped in the
Staraya " Russa - sector, ; below
Lake. Ilmen, were bolstering
their dwindling food supplies
with horsemeat and that suicides
were, increasing among . the. be
leaguered naziS.. ;; -i ;
. The : trapped German . 16th
army, which , had already lost
12,000 -men, was said to- have
suffered additional thousands of1
casualties in the last, few days.!
Heavy new blows against the
allies at sea were claimed' by
the axis today, with the Ger
mans asserting that 823,200 tons
of shipping had been sunk in
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Tokyo Admits Three ?
Warships Damaged
Off New Guinea Y
TOKYO (From Japanese
Broadcasts) March' 12 (JP) Im
perial headquarters acknowledg
ed today that three of its war
ships were damaged and six
other ships sunk, beached or
damaged in landing operation
Tuesday at Lae and Alamaua oft
the northeast coast of New
Guinea. ' ; -
' The announcement said one
cruiser, two destroyers and three
"requisitioned ships" were dam
aged slightly. Two other "re
qulsltloned ships" and one mili
tary transport were reported
sunk or grounded. -
: (A Berlin version of the an
nouncement referred to the
requisitioned ships as "enemy"
vessels taken over by the Jap
anese.)
Newberg Man Asks -Wooden
Tire Permit
SALEM, March 12 (JP) li.
O. Nelson, Newberg, asked the
state highway commission for
permission to use wooden tires
on state highways. ; .
Nelson said ho has applied for
a patent on his wooden tire In
ventlon. The commission will
consider the request at its meet
ing in Portland March 19.
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City Brief :.. Page 3
Comics and Story .Page 10
Courthouse Records ..-..Page 4
Editorials Page 4
High School News ..Pago 14
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