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li the signal lor blackout In Klamath
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out Is a ilgnal ioi all-clear. In precau
tionary parlodi. watcb your street lights.
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942
Number 9434
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IS BRITISH FORGE
By FRANK JENKINS
fllE Jups slackim temporarily
tliclr altnck on the eastern
tip of the Island ot New Guinea,
and today's dispatches report
that considerable Japanese forces
have been sighted well to the
eastward, In the neighborhood
of Uio Solomon Islands.
This might mean:
1. That they are attempting a
fake play, hoping to draw U. S.
ftind Australian forces away from
New Guinea and northern Au
tralla.
2. That they are moving east
ward along the lino ot islands
dotting the South Pacific to
threaten tho supply lino from
America to Auslrulla.
IT must be accepted from the
start that Australia will be
unable to defend herself without
aid and the United Suites is
tho only place effective help can
come from.
If wa are to help Australia,
tha sea lanes must be kept opon.
THE Japs probably got some
thing of a Jolt In their latest
New Guinea attack, finding com
bined American and Australian
air strength tougher than they
expected.
Q Admiral Mart, former com
mander ot tha U. S. Asiatic fleet,
told us bluntly the other day
that we lost the first round
against Japan because the Japs
had complete command of the
air.
Maybe we are making pro
gress toward building air
strength In Australia.
"THE Japs have already spread
A themselves reasonably thin.
If they undortake the conquest
ot Australia, they Will spread
themselves thinner still.
1 f, simultaneously, they
TACKLE INDIA, the spreading
process will be carried much
farther.
We know from Britain's ex
r perlenco what getting spread too
far and too thin may mean.
Because Britain was already
ipread too far and too thin, she
Owas unnbla to do anything about
lilongkong and Singapore.
TF we can keep from getting
spread too thin, we can soon
er or later mass our forces at
ONE POINT for an effective
counter-blow at Japan.
XEANWHILE, on the other
AVi side of the world, the
Russians unleash a now counter
offensive, using, todny's dis
patches tell us, from a million
and a quarter to a million and a
half men, with 90 armored di
visions. Tho Gorman line la re
ported to be bending under the
blow.
Red Star, the Russian army
newspaper, says:
"The offensive this spring will
be RUSSIAN not Gorman."
Red Star Insists that tho nazl
war machine Is wearing out as a
result ot Its costly fall drivp and
the battering It has received
0 luring the winter.
WISHFUL thinking leads us to
believe this statement. CAU
TION points out that there have
been no reports as yet of Gor
mans SURRENDERING In large
numbers,
On the contrary, there have
been repeated reports ot sur
rounded Gcrmnns fighting stub
bornly and bitterly as the Rus
sians fought when they were be
ing driven bnck lost fall.
When we get authenticated re
ports of Germans surrendering
In largo numbers wo can begin
to believe the nazl war machine
is wearing out.
Until then, we'd bettor keep
' our fingers crossed.
.
MOTE that the Russians 'are
Qr striking NOW not retiring
''behind the barrier of mud that
will be created by the melting
of the wlntor snows.
The Germans are masters of
mechanized warfare. The Rus
sians have demonstrated their
ability to use cavalry effectively
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Mr I Ini I DKIir NEW YORK. March 13 (P), the 'explosion. These section Mill fll .IflUfl i it, ' K ' ' j : 1
lILL 111 LjlllUL Police said today that " direct broke Into minute particles and LUU I III Unlls If' I l
SCALE AHACK
Allies Beat Germans
To Punch in Two
Heavy Blows'
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
Associated Press War Editor
Germany's springtime offen
sive waited today on the cal
endar, propitious circumstances
and Adolf Hitler, but Britain's
and Russia's offensives In the
air and on the land, respective
ly, were in full swing.
The British announced a flre
ralslng raid on tha great Ger
man naval base of Kiel while
the red army, having beaten
Hitler to the springtime punch,
was battering its way across the
Donets basin.
New Reserves
' Via Stockholm came word
that Marshal Semon Tlmoshenko
and his. southern army ot from
one and a quarter to one and
half million men had forced the
enemy to draw once more on
reserves being prepared for Ger
many's own offenslvo effort.
The Germans admitted they
still were on the defensive
against "strong enemy forces"
In the DoneU region gateway
to the Caucasus. .
London observers -held that
the objective ot Tlmoshenko's
90 divisions was the Dnieper
bend, natural defense line In the
heart of the Ukraine.
Near Goal
Unofficial reports have placed
thorn only SO to 40 miles from
this goal. . .
Although the calendar spring
is but a week away, snow on the
Staraya Russa front, below Len
ingrad, was reported so deep
that ski troops still had to carry
the burden of the fighting
against the entrapped 16th Ger
man army.
The Russian army newspaper
Red Star declared there would
bo only one spring offensive
the Russian.
.. It described the German In
vasion machine as worn owt
and run down, with Hitler's
soldiers trying desperately to
hold on, counter-attacking re
peatedly but at heavy cost and
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Losee Appointed Juvenile
Officer
Circuit Judge David R. Van
donborg Friday morning ap
pointed Forrest C. Losce, Klam
ath Insuranco man, new county
Juvenile officer. Losee takes
over the office vacated Thurs
day by Gerald (Spec) Murray,
who has left, for Utah to serve
Forrest C. Losee
NEW YORK, March 13 (P)
Polico said today that "a direct
hit" from an anti-aircraft . bat
tery which accidentally un
loosed eight shells In tha Met
ropolitan area had knocked oft
a section from the Equitable
building In the Wall street dis
trict. Lieut. James Pyke of the po
lice bomb squad said he was
convinced that "a direct hit"
was made on the office build
ing. Wide excitement resulted
In the financial area, with po
lice emergency cars and many
fire trucks rushing to the scene.
The "direct hit" caused some
damage to the 40-story build
ing. Part of the cornice on the
38th floor end one small piece
of the wall on - the 39th floor
cracked off under the force of
HOUSE PIS FARM
BILL BEFORE VOTE
56 Millions Cut Off
Big Measure in .;
9-DaV- Debate '"rh
WASHINGTON, March 13 VP)
The house passed late today the
1943 agriculture" appropriations
bill, carrying a total of $771.-
853,137 in authorized expendi
tures and loans. A total ot S, 69,
810,722. wa out from the-blU
In nine days, of .debate. ;?.'A
A last ditch attempt to restore
a $25,000,000 reduction In the
allotment lor loans, grants ana
expenses of the farm security
administration met defeat on a
standing vote.
-As finally passed, on a voice
vote, the measure still carried
the controversial clause designed
to forbid the sale ot government
held crops, a ban to which Presi
dent Roosevelt has objected
strenuously.
Dale New Chief of
Air Raid Wardens
R. C. (Bogue) Dale, local real
tor, has been named chief of air
raid wardens of Klamath Falls,
It was announced Friday by Orth
Slsemore, head of the air raid
precautions section of the civil
ian defense setup.
Dalo succeeds Coleman
O'Loughlln, who has resigned.
Ho will take over his new duties
immediately.
to Fill Vacancy
as second lieutenant In the re
serves. , . ,
Losee is well known in Klam
ath Falls, where for the past
eight years he has been man
ager of the Security Life and
Accident company and active in
civic affairs. Losee has with
drawn from the insurance busi
ness, and will assume his new
duties Immediately, he said Fri
day. Background for his new Job
includes six years' experience
in general police, traffic and
Juvenile work in Coronado,
Calif., where he served as presi
dent ot the San Diego Highway
Patrolmen's association during
1929, a Job placing him in
charge of all county peace of
ficers. Losee left police work
in 1930 to enter the insurance
business, but has retained an
active Interest in Juvenile af
fairs. In Klamath Falls, he holds
the district commissioner's of
fice for the Modoc area ot the
Boy Scouts and has taken an
active part in development of
the junior police. Losee has also
served as president ot the Klam-ath-Modoo
chapter ot the Iznak
Walton league, and Is a member
of the board of. directors of the
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the 'explosion. Theso sections
broke Into minute particles and
fell into Nassau street. Some
pieces, of steel which fell into
the street were about two inches
long.
Fragments also flew ' Into
open windows of the building
on the 37th - floor, but did no
damage. No windows were shat
tered, No one was reported- injured.-
Shortly after tenants' in the
building telephoned, police that
an explosion had occurred.
members of an anti-aircraft,
unit reported to police that they
had accidentally fired eight
shell from one of their guns.
Tbi t gun, they reported, was
pointed south in the general di
rection of lower Manhattan. .
Unions Squabble
Oyer Results of
NLRB Election
' .; Unleashed union tempera were
the only victors Thursday when
a bitterly contested National La
bor Relation board election "ftt
tw.eyerraeuiBr.Timbr . com
pany woods camps jsnded with
no majority for either the) AFL
or iiie CIO and an AFL protest
almost certain to' be filed.
-The rWA. pqlled. 96 votes, the
at.ii, ana nenner union -o
out.of ;183 ballots accepted but
14 others .were challenged and
laKen unaer advisement oy Hen
ry -PentleldV- NLRB conductor,
Ohenailot was mutilated and
not accepted. One hundred votes
were necessary for a majority.
...Wilbur E.' Yeoman, AFL rep
resentative, said Friday that his
union- would protest the election
and also the refusal of Penfleld
to accept 19 additional AFL chal
lenges. He charged that the 19 whose
ballots were questioned were not
fulltlme employes of the timber
company and that many of them
had not been on the Weyerhaeus
er payroll since late last fall.
. Most or them, ne said, have
since been working in Portland
and Seattle shipyards and ap
peared here only for the elec
tion.
"There Is no assurance that
these men will ever appear on
Weyerhaeuser payrolls again,"
Yeoman asserted.
"We believe," he said, "that
every man who works for the
company the year around should
be allowed to. vote but do not
accept the fact that part time
employes should determine the
will of regular workers.
College Youth Shot
After Robbery
MALDEN. Mass., March 13 UP)
An 18-year-old college student,
son - of a prominent physician,
died this Friday the 13th ot a
bullet wound inflicted by police
as he emerged from a drugstore
that had been robbed of $13,
The youth, Louts B. Grand!
son, was Identified at a hospital
by his father, Dr. Louis J. Gran.
dison, who was described by po
lice as amazed to find his son
involved.
. Police Sergeant John J. Buck
ley said Special Officer William
J. Butler fired the shot after
watching the boy rob Joseph Ep
stein, proprietor ot the Elmwood
pharmacy, at gun point
Defense Activity
On Ceylon Reported
NEW YORK, March 13 (P)
The British radio, heard in New
York by CBS, reported hurried
defense preparations' on Ceylon,'
the island off India's- southern
tip, and said "more troops -are
being brought In and Ceylon is
being put into the fullest form
of defense." It added that "all
non-war workers" presumably
meaning' British residents had
been ordered to leave the island..
BYAUSTRALIA
Americans Credited
With Five. "Wins:'
On-New Guinea,.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sat
urday,. March 14. P) Prime
Minister -John Curtln announced
today the presumed loss of the
cruiser Perth- and the sloop
Yarn, with loss of. 833 Uvea.
He said both warship -had
fought successfully and with
out damage in -the Java-sea' and
had later put In at a Java port,
but had not: been heard "from
since they left there for-home.
. The' Perth, is an Australian
cruiser of 6980' tons; the Yarra
a. sloop of 1060 tons. "V"
WASHINGTON. March 13 'UP)
The war department 'reported
today , that ava American amy
heaivjf f bomber, dsstroyad ft v
enemy jlano-ln afraid two-day
age on (7iipanese-hel4 airdromes
at Silarnaua and Lae In New
Guinea.-. i - ;vr -
A etmununlQUe-sTafl build
ings wew destroy edfKMyyk"!
age lrnud:cm.Jronw and.
direct . hit rn&de orir plen. in .the
harbor of. I..iasnriafc'
.... Xkeni'Vvakaiir
AlUthe Awerlcan; brnnbf;e
caped; damage in the Hght;wlth
a tonnatioruot Japanese pursuit
plane)..' which isuflared-,th 'Joss
of five crafty -' ''
- A spokesman, said- the raid
presumably was among those re
ported in dispatches from Aus
tralia, but the results of the air
attack were Believed new.-
. - Bataaa Quiet
Meanwhile the situation on the
Bataan fighting . front ' in - the
Philippines ' was reported un
changed. ' For five consecutive
days, - following the - disclosure
that Lieutenant General Tomo-
yukl Yamashlt had been shifted
to command of the Invaders In
the Philippines, military activity
has been-at a virtually complete
halt on the beseiged Philippine
peninsula.' . . .
Mt. Angel Wins;
Salem, Eugene Go
Out of Tourney
SALEM, March 13 () Mt
Angel.'defeated Hillsboro 44 to
40 in a state high school basket
ball ' tournament game - today
eliminating. Hillsboro from the
tourney. ' t
. Mt Angel , will meet the win
ner of- this afternoon's North
Behd-McMlnnville game at 10:35
a. m. tomorrow, the-latter game
to decide .' fourth, ' place In . the
tourney. ;
' SALEM, March 13 (P) Ore
gon City and McLoughlin High
of Milton-Freewater won their
consolation. semi-final games to
day und the right to meet each
other at 9:30 a. m. Saturday in
a game to decide fifth place in
the Oregon state high school
basketball tournament.
Oregon City defeated Eugene
96 to 43, while Mac-Hi nosed dut
Salem, 33 to 32. The losers
were dropped out of the tourna
ment i '.'.- i .
In beating Eugene, Oregon
City staged a furious last half
assault Eugene held' a half
time lead of 27-21, but Ray
Cain, Eugene forward, and Bpb
Hodgl.j, Eugene guard, who al
most' single-handedly dominated
first half play, were checked. ton
closely in the second half.
: ' PRICE FROZEN ' ' "
WASHINGTON, March 13 (P)
The office of price administration
today damped a temporary price
ceiling on finished piece goods
made of cotton, rayon and their,
mixtures to check what it called
a "rapid and unwarranted rise In
prices." , ;
.Gilbert Roney, Santa Monica,
even-a bicycle uses too much rubber. He built himself a unicycU
BO. into, la how h 4ogks yedWP9J to work every nonung.
a.'..- -.-.af'jsss1a1 ' SV sjat '".
Man luueajty y;
Fall From Train '
arMmeii- ;
"William Hinetz, a native of
Bremerton, Washington, was
killed around 9:30 Thursday eve
ning when he fell from the
Southern Pacific freight train
stopped on the siding near Wor
den Thern was some question
as 1 to the- cause of the death,
which may have resulted from a
heart attack, according to Coun
ty Coroner George H. Adler,
and', an autopsy ' will, be made
lateV Friday -or- Saturday morning.-':
- . ' - -.
- Hinrtr, thought to' be about
60, was on his way to Weed
with a companion, John' Leon
Percy, to take a Job felling tim
ber. The two men had gotten
out of the' lumber car in which
they were riding when the train
stopped, and gone close to the
engine to warm themselves, ac
cording to Percy. Hinetz, he
said, crawled into a "gondola,"
or. gravel car, and was leaning
out the back to pull down the
canvas curtain when' he slipped
and fell between the tracks.
, Hinetz had worked In lumber
camps up and down the coast
for the last 40 years,- Percy said.
.The body is at Ward's funeral
home.. - .- : !
Nonagenerian 'Says r 1
Modern Girl O. K. .
PORTLAND, March 13 VP)
The modern girl is all right take
It from 90-year-old Anna Ruhl.
. As ; she observed her 90th
birthday anniversary, she said
talk of the "good old days".-was
all bosh. - If the modern- miss
wants to smoke, -that's all right
too, she said.
Student Petitions Go Out
After Music
Agitation spread on the high
school campus - and downtown
Friday as an aftermath of the
announcement of changes next
year in the public school music
staff, personnel. ..
. Students reported that 700 or
more names of students had been
signed to petitions to the school
boards urging the appointment
of Charles Stanf leld, present
high school music supervisor, as
director , ot all public school
music here.- A movement was
also "Underway downtown for
circulation of similar petitions
among adults.'. .
The city elementary and high
School boards this week elected
Andrew Loney, La Grande, as
director of puHlc school music
for next year. This is a new
Calif., aircraft worker, thinks
EBOW TO DEFENSE
Local ' Group Accepts
' Possibility of
' Forest Ban . -
. Klamath Sportsmen's associ
ation was on record Friday with
a declaration of willingness to
support whatever measures may
be taken by constitutional au
thority to protect -forest lands
and natural resources, even to
the closure of any and all areas
of the state to hunting and fish-
tag. .
. A resolution from the directors
of the association, announced by
President Elmer Myers Friday,
states that the association recog
nizes that in the war emergency
there is an extremely acute dan
ger of sabotage in the forests.
, "This organization also is fully
aware that it may be deemed
advisable in the interests of na
tional defense and safety to re
strict to a greater or less extent
the activities of fishermen and
hunters, particularly during that
period of the year when the fire
hazard is greatest" read the
statement'
"It is further recognized by
the . . . . association that during
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."WEST INDIES ATTACK
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, British
West Indies, March 13 (jP) An
enemy submarine has attacked
Castries harbor, damaging two
ships and causing slight casual
ties, British authorities disclosed
today.
Head Named
position, created in connection
with a coordinated education
program for both grade and high
schools here.
v Students at the high school
held a brief "We want Stanfleld
assembly at 1 p. m. Friday. The
auditorium was nearly filled,
and Wayne Chase, a student, ad
dressed the youngsters briefly
to the effect. that he believed
there will be an assembly next
week at which Arnold Gralapp,
high school superintendent, and
Stanf ield would appear. :
The assembly had been un
derway a few minutes when
Rolla Goold, - principal-elect at
the high school, entered and con
ferred with Chase on the plat
form. Chase then asked the
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Burma Line Forms as
. Australia Attack :
Still Looming
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
Japan's offensive against Aus
tralia, still taking form in the
welter of Islands curving along
the vast northern shore of tha
continent has speared off In a
tangent of naval penetration of
the Solomon islands.
In the second chief theatre of
the war with Japan, the British
imperials withdrawing north of
Rangoon have for the first time
joined Chinese troops, attempt
ing u consolidate a . front be
tween two main routes out of
Rangoon, 60 to 80 miles from
the abandoned Dort citv nt th
Irrawaddy delta.
Japan's Solomon Islands move
was evidently either a feint to
distract attention from establish
ment of New Guinea bases for
the prospective lunge at Aus
tralia or. actually a thrust to
ward the New Hebrides and
New Zealand along the Island
chain pointed at the United Na-tibr'.a'otrte-to"'
Australia,
ahead of any direct attempt to
invade the continent ;.i . r
.vr-'- : ge Force -Sighted
The move was disclosed by
Australian air- reconnaissance
over - the Australian-mandated
part of the Solomon group. 'The
warship force was sighted three
days ago off Kessa, on tiny Buka
island, a stepping stone from
New Britain to the Solomons.
There was no further indication
that the Japanese had landed
there.- '.'.,' :' '
. Buka Is 180 miles southeast
of Japanese-occupied RabauL
New Britain, and 900 miles
northeast of Australia's north-:
eastern extremity, the Cape
York peninsula.
New Britain Bombed
Australian bombers smashing
at the potential island route to
ward New Zealand attacked the
enemy-held airfield at Gasmata,
on the south coast of New Brit
ain, yesterday.
"All our bombs fell in the tar
get area and columns of smoke
rose fron the ground," a com
munique said.
. The . Japanese , offensive "was
crippled to some extent in the
sinking of seven ships by air at
tack last Tuesday off Salamaua,
a Japanese foothold, in New
Guinea. Closer at home for the
enemy, a single United States
submarine has picked off four
vessels, boosting to 14P the total
of Japanese ships destroyed or
damaged by US forces. ... .,
Profitable Fireplug -Nets
Extraordinary
Offender at. Dorris
DORRIS One : sure money
maker for the city of. Dorris is
the fire plug opposite the city
hall. . Hardly a week goes by
without a' fine of $1 being as
sessed by Police Judge L. M.
Chase against an unwary mo
torist who parks by the plug. '
. Recently, the Judge heard an
extraordinary case and boosted
the fine in the interest of the
national emergency which de
mands that fire equipment ot
all kinds be kept clear at all
times.
"It is ordered by the court
that you yap a fine ot 39 or .
serve three days in the city
Jail," he solemnly told the of
fender standing before him.
Fire Chief Fenwick sheepish
ly paid the fine. .
News Index
Church News .-......Page 13
City Briefs ...."...........Page 5
Comics and Story ........Page 10
Courthouse Records Page 4
Editorials ... Page 4
High School News ..Page 14
Information .Page &
Market, Financial .......Page 6
Pattern Page S
Sport . - ...Jage U