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By FRANK JENKINS
JVJEWS Irom the Pacific front
1 Moday la alack. Either noth
ing much Is happening at the
moment or nothing l being told.
Probably n little of both.
TTlIE Jupa have won the first
A round. They hove taken the
East Indies. They have all the
Philippines but Uataan. They
ihava closed tha Burma road.
They must either stop and
consolidate their gains or GO
ON. The only safe assumption
Is that thry will go on. .
If they are going on, they are
busy now preparing their next
blow. Obviously they aren't
going to tell us where It will
fall. Equally obviously, we
aren't going to tell them how
we are going to meet It.
In such situations, censorship
Is Justifiably rigid.
ANY good quorterback knows
thnt tipping off his plan of
attack (or his plan for defense)
to the other team would bo fatal.
It works tho samo way In
war.
Hanca censorship.
Censorships are ADMINIS
TERED BY GOVERNMENTS.
lovoxnmenU uro not Immune
to tha temptation to toll their
people only what the Individuals
who mnko up tho government
think the people OUOHT to
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know. - -
Because of this fact, many
mistakes are made by tho
censors.
VWE learn by our mistakes.
w In the first year of the
war, the Inclination of tho Brit
ish censors was to tell the public
nothing going on tha principle
that the less the public knew
the less the enomy could find
out,
It didn't work.
Knowing NOTHING, the Brit
Ish people became confused. Be
ing confused, they soon BE
CAME SCARED. Or cynical.
Fright and cynicism led to DIS
TRUST of the government.
OMoralo began to suffer.
Fortunately tho British cen
sorship learned Its lesson In time
and began to tell people In con
siderable detail what HAD HAP
PENED. British morale Immediately
roso.
HPHIS writer thinks our own
government has been leaning
too for In tho direction of tolling
us only what the government
thinks we OUGHT TO KNOW.
Peoplo aro beginning to fear
they aren't being told tho whole
truth.
Distrust of tho government Is
spreading.
MORALE IS BEGINNING TO
SUFFER.
Just as happened In Britain In
tho first year of tho war.
fUR government Isn't dollb
crately misleading us. It is
Omorcly sotting itself up as tho
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New Oil Burning
Equipment Banned
By War Board
WASHINGTON, March 14 (?)
Acting to conserve fuel stocks
In coastal areas, tho war pro
duction board Issued orders to
day to discourage installation
ot new oil burning equipment
In 17 eastern states, tho Dis
trict of Columbia, and Oregon
and Washington on tho Pacific
coast.
Tho orders forbid delivery of
fuel for use In any now equip
ment unless Installation ot such
equipment Is complotcd within
the next 30 days, or In any con-
0 verted facilities unloss the con
version Is completed within the
next 10 days.
Now construction Is exempt
ed if the foundations are com
pleted within tho next 30 days
and If oil burning equipment
' Is speclflod in the construction
i ' contract.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUTCH STILL
EAST1NQIES
Communication With
Island Continues,
Chief Reports
MELBOURNE, Australia,
March 14 ()) Dutch troops still
uro carrying on u largo scale
fight agulnst the Japanese In
Java, Sumatra and the Celebes,
Lieutenant Governor Hubcrtus
J. Van Mook of tho N. E. 1. de
clared here today.
"Wo aro still In radio contact
with Sumatra and hopo to estab
lish additional communication
with Java," he said in un Inter
view. '
Tho Dutch reslstunco might
continue indefinitely, tho lieutenant-governor
said.
Von Mook said he had
learned from a filer who es
caped as the Japanese arrived
In Bandoeng that Die Invaders
had been delayed an entire day
by the unexpectedly successful
delaying tactics of Dutch troops.
Without air protection, these
troops had been expected to fall
quickly, he pointed out.
"Their valiant day-long strug
gle gave our forces in Bandoeng
many additional hours in which
to escape,
"Japanese claims of capturing
the entire forces are false and
our men aro fighting In tha hill
now, ;" - ,. .;- ;v
auerrllla Warfare
"They are fighting a guerrilla
warfare which does not require
hugo munitions and : j upplios
and can live mostly off the
land." . . .
Bandoeng, former ' military
headquarters of the N. E. I
was badly bombed last Satur
day, it was said. Previously
the airports and , military ob
jectives were tho principal tar
gets but tho Japanese, roused
by the staunch ground defense,
finally turned loose a heavy at
tack upon the partly deserted
city itself.
Van Mook, who left Bandoeng
last Saturday on the last avail
able runway strip, came here
from Canberra with 14 N. E. I.
ministers and officials with
whom bo is seeking to marshal
Dutch forces to continue the
war. He said he soon would
visit President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill again.
Ho asserted the scorched earth
policy of tho Indies was the
most thorough of the war.
"It Is Impossible to estimate
the valuo of the property de
stroyed but it was even more
than was Intended," he said.
"Our engineers say the Japanese
need four to six months un
interrupted by bombs to restore
even the easiest oil sources."
Aircraft Workers
Wounded by Shots
Fired by Sentries
SEATTLE, March 14 (P)
Two Boeing aircraft workers
wore shot by army sentries when
they drove lan automobile
through army barricades at
plant No. 2 at 3:30 a. m. today.
Jack Vandclaar, 42, mechanic,
Woodinvllle, listed in police re
ports as the driver, was shot in
the neck. He was booked with
out charge.
Georgo M. Smith, 28, laborer,
Seattle, was shot in the back of
the head, not seriously.
Charles Rex, 22, laborer, Se
attle, also In the car, was unin
jured. Ho said he did not real
ize they were running through
a road-block.
Only yesterday, authorities at
Fort Lewis reiterated warnings
that tho public must heed sen
tries' orders, 1
THEFTS INCREASE
PORTLAND, March 14 fF)
Police records showed today that
100 automobllo tires have been
stolen in Portland since Janu
ary 1, and police warned that
thefts aro Increasing,
GOVERNOR DIES
MONTGOMERY, Ala,, March
14 (IP) David Bibb Graves, 68,
twice governor of Alabama and
a candidate for a third term
died unexpectedly at Sarasota,
Fla., early, today.
FIGHTING
;jIUCE FIVE CENT, ,v, '$,,v,
Sportsmen Congratulated
Theodora R. (Tad) Conn of Lakeview, left appointed this
week to the unexpired term of the late Francis Olds as state
game commissioner, looks on as Elmer L. Myers, president oi
the Klamath Sportsmen's association, points to tha newspaper
story of the association's resolution to support tha war effort
even If it means closing Oregon forests. Conn congratulated the
group on its self-sacrificing attitude toward hunting and fishing.
Stanfield Says Plans for
Next Year Clarified, to
j j Continue onKUHS Staff
' Charles TSranf Icld. ' Klamath
Union high school music super
visor, said Saturday that his
work for next year had been
more fully clarified and that it
is his present Intention to remain
in the school system the coming
year.
He made the following state
ment:
"On Friday afternoon. Sup
erintendent G r a 1 a p p and
Chairman Murray of the high,
school board talked to me at
some length about high school '
plans for next year. As an
outgrowth oi this conference,
I feel that it is possible for me
to continue my work In tha
system, as has been urged upon
me by my many fine friends.
"Mr. Gralapp stated I would. .
Man Crushed
Under Tractor
Near Merrill
MERRILL Jerry Johns,
about 60, was crushed to death
by an over-turned tractor at a
farm three miles cast of Merrill
at 4:30 Friday afternoon.
Johns was working alone
when the accident occurred and
Mrs. Danofky a neighbor, dis
covered him lying beneath the
tractor unconscious and called
for aid.
Attending physicians said that
his chest had been crushed.
Surviving him are his widow
and two sons, a brother, Joe
Johns of Mai In, and a sister,
Mrs. M. M. Stastny of Malin.
Remains are at tho Earl Whlt
lock funeral homo.
Brothers Die Same
Way, in Same Area
ASTORIA, March 14 (IP)
John Dahlstrom, Knappa, Ore.,
was killed four months ago by
logs spilling from a railroad
car.
Less than a mile from the
death scene, his brother, Andy
Dahlstrom, 84, Knappa, was
killed In the same manner yes
terday. Yanks in Ireland
Get Shaves, Shines
A NORTHERN IRELAND
TOWN, March 14 (IP) Shaves
and shines American troops de
manded 'em and got 'em.
The first shoe shine boy got
tho first license after soldiers
complained they missed that old
American custom.
Three $200 barber chairs were
Installed in one camp when sol
diers likewise complained of Ul
ster barbers: "You get so much
lathering you'd think they were
trying to rub your beard off."
' SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
.1, ALLS. OREGON,
AT
J'
in
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hare full opportunity to choose '
the work which I will handle
next year. This more 'fully
clarifies ' the' action ' taken at '
, this week's school board meet-
.taB.;V'--.:-.
"I am strongly for coopera
tion in any coordinated pro
gram in tha public , schools
hers in fact, no one knows
better than I the great need
for such coordination for the
success of our music program."
Informally, Stanfield declared
his strong feeling for the welfare
of the high school and his desire
to further the interests of the
school. .- .
Stanfield's status for next
year became the subject of wide
spread discussion and agitation
In the community this week
when it was announced that
Andrew Loney, La Grande, had
been selected by the two local
school boards for director ot all
public school music. Students at
the high school held an un
authorized assembly and circu
lated petitions urging Stanfield's
selection for the post of general
director, and Stanfield's support
ers declared his successful work
here in the last four years justi
fied giving him this position. '
Stanfield's statement Saturday
Indicated a n understanding
whereby he will continue to con
duct the high school work of his
choosing In the coming year, In
connection with the coordinated
program in the two systems
high and elementary schools.
Superintendent Gralapp con
firmed this understanding.
Loney will be general director
of all public school music. Miss
Lllllo Darby, present supervisor
of elementary school music, will
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Zuckerman Defense
Witness Charged
With Perjury
STOCKTON, Calif., March 14
(P) -District Attorney Raymond
Dunne said today that Walter
J. Green of San Francisco had
admitted tho testimony he gave
as a defense witness in the trial
of Maurice Zuckerman was
false.
Green was arrested yesterday
in San Francisco on a perjury
charge and. made a written con
fession in Dunne's presence, the
district attorney said.
Ho was arraigned In justice
court today, admitted the charge
and was held to answer in su
perior court Wednesday. He
was jailed in lieu of $5000 ball.
Green's arrest followed an in
vestigation by Assistant pistrlct
Attorney Maxwell .Wlllens and
Ray Rowan, San Joaquin county
detective, which uncovered evi
dence indicating thore was no
factual basis for the . witness'
trial testimony. . .
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SATURDAY, MARCH 14,
MA
Red Trap Stall 0si
20-MILE
LEFT AS
ESCAPERDUTE
Heavy Fighting Rages
Around Smolensk
Key Point
By The Associated Press
Russian troops were reported
to have narrowed the "escape
corridor" of Adolf Hitler's arm
ies on the Moscow front to 20
miles today as the soviet counter-offensive
rolled on toward
Smolensk and crushed desperate
German attempts to strike back.
Smolensk, 230 miles west of
Moscow, is the key - nazi base
on the entire central front.
Closing Jaws
Advices reaching London said
the Russians were steadily clos
ing the jaws on a trap around
German forces now . virtually
bottled up in the Rzhev-Vyazma
region. ' - -' i
t The ' lone channel ' of retreat
WM cut to a width-of 20 miles
presumably " A ear Durovo, on
the tVyazma-Smblensk', highway
abodOtf miles west of Vyazma.
Russian troops had last been
reported ' 70 . miles apart in that
area, driving.; down -from Bely
in the north and up fronxJ)oro
gobuzh in the south. i;iv,.v
A soviet .bulletin reported
tersely, that " "our troops con
tinued' offensive : i( operations
against the German fascist in
vaders and advanced' ;i :r
Information ' was .lacking . on
the number of German , troops
threatened by the huge, red
army encirclement, but at the
peak of the, nazi offensive
against Moscow between 600,
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Sugar Rationing -Still
Month: Away
WASHINGTON, March 14 (fl)
Sugar, rationing probably will
not become effective until some
time next month, the office of
price' administration Indicated
today,'
Details of the program still
must be ' worked out, - officials
said, and a decision to determine
Industrial- allotments on an .in
dividual basis will require addi
tional time.
Local
4-'-., '1-1 foly-i
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When the above picture appeared In The Herald and News this week Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
Doty, 173S Menlo Way, recognised their son, Norris Doty, as the airman on the extreme right.
Young Doty, 25, is a former employe of Big Basin Lumber company and the California Oregon
Power company. Ha enlisted more than a year ago in the United States air corps and has seen
foreign duty for soma time. A week ago his parents received word he was "OK" but had pre
viously been advised tha young flyer was in Australia. This picture is tha first to reach tha United
States showing America's armed forces in .Australia. Above is a crew of a "flying fortress"
leaving this plane after arriving from action In the Philippines. The ship carried scars of bat
tle. Doty is unmarried, was graduated irom Klamath Union high school where he was student
body president, and attended Llniield college before going Into the service. His father is em
ployed at roofer at Big Basin, . , .
UNITED PRESS
1942
British, Nazi Planes Stage
Dogfights Above Channel
LONDON, March 14 CP)
British fjghter planes shot down
10 German Messerschmitts in
repeated dogfights over the Eng
lish channel today in a mid
morning followup of overnight
raids in which the Rhineland in
dustrial city of Cologne was hit
hard by British bombers, an of
ficial announcement said.
The statement declared that
not a single British plane was
lost in the channel battles.
(The German high command
said earlier that eight British
planes had been downed by Ger
man fighters over the channel.)
The raid on Cologne was an
President Asks
40 Mile Speed
Limits Fixed
WASHINGTON, March 14 W)
President Roosevelt has written
state governors asking their co
operation to conserve rubber by
limiting the maximum speed of
all motor vehicles to 40 miles
an hour and requiring frequent
checking ' of tires for possible
repair or retreading. .
. Th White House, announced
today-that Identical, letters h.ad
Keen sent to the "governors of
alio 40 states. ..; '
"Reduction " of speed limits
and regular inspection of tires,"
the president saidv. "constitute
another important means of federal-state
cooperation in the war
effort.',
, SALEM, March 14 (Ore
gon "will do its utmost" to com
ply with President Roosevelt's
request to fix maximum high
way speeds at 40 miles an hour
and to require checking of all
tires, Governor Charles A.
Sprague said today.
. -The present limit Is 55 miles
per hour, but the state highway
commission was given authority
by the 1941 legislature to fix
either higher or lower limits.
Survivors Land
After 80 Hours
AN EAST COAST CANADI
AN PORT, March 14 (P)
Twenty-nine exhausted, frost
bitten seamen from a torpedoed
allied merchantman have been
landed here after being tossed
for 80 hours in lifeboats on the
north Atlantic.
Airman Identified by Parents
; PRECIPITATION
As ot March 7. 1943
Present atraam ysar .......
Last year to Data ..
Normal to that data..
Number 9435
nounced by the air ministry
which said a "great weight" of
high explosives was dumped on
the city in a continuation of the
RAF's pre-spring aerial offen
sive. Many large fires were left
burning In Cologne, the center of
a maze of water, highway and
rail transportation lines, the air
ministry said, by this attack in
force. Other raids upon Ger
many were implied In the state
ment that Cologne was "the main
objective."
Four bombers were reported
missing.
Three Torpedoings in
Atlantic Listed by
Government
NORFOLK, Va.i March 14 UP)
A small American steamer was
torpedoed and auwVoff- the. At
lantic coast early Wednesday
morning by an enemy submar
ine which cruised brazenly about
the area for four hours after the
attack, showing a strong yellow
light from its conning tower.
: - Seven members of the steam
er's crew landed at Norfolk by
a rescue ship, which picked them
up after they had been adrift 10
hours on a life raft, said there
was little chance their 21 ship
mates had survived.
The fifth naval district an
nounced the sinking today. -
WASHINGTON, March 14 ()
Two, possibly three, more mer
chant ships have been torpedoed,
and marine underwriters have
raised war risk insurance rates
for Atlantic coastal cargoes "as
a direct result of the continued
submarine menace in these
waters."
The navy announced the tor
pedoing of a small US merchant
ship in the Caribbean area. The
captain of the Norwegian vessel
was killed and five men are
missing. k Fourteen survivors
reached shore.
The torpedoing of the 7005-ton
US freighter Texan,' was an
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United Nations Navy
Sinks Eight Jap ,.
: Warships,. ,
WASHINGTON, March 14 (JP)
The American cruiser Houston,
the American destroyer Pope
and 10 other warships of the
United Nations were lost in the
battle of Java, the navy disclosed
today, adding that a 13th allied
ship was reported beached and
presumed lost. . -
In the great battle in which
they went down British, Aus
tralian and Dutch along with
the United States vessels the
United Nations accounted for
eight Japanese warships.
Devastating Fury 1.:
The action started on Febru
ary 27 between Bawean island
and Soerabaja and broke in its
devastating fury-through efforts
of the United Nations forces to
blockthfc-lartding of - Japanese '
troops from convoys.
The Houston, a 10,000-ton
cruiser launched in ' 1929, was
once the flagship of the- com
mander in chief of the Asiatic
fleet and was a favorite of Presi
dent Roosevelt for use on ocean
cruises.- .......
The Pope, a "four stacker"
World war type ship, was launch- ;
ed in 1920 at Philadelphia. Tha
Pope was a 1190-ton vessel.
The allied losses made public
in a joint British admiralty and
U. S. navy department - com
munique which listed the allied
losses as: Cruisers the Houston,
United States; Exeter, British;1
Perth, Australian; Java, Dutch;:
Deruyter, Dutch,
Destroyers Pope, United'
States; Korteney Dutch; Elec
tra, British; Jupiter, British; En-
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250 Klamath Men
In Draft Quota
Slated for April
. Klamath county will send 250
men into the army in the April
selective service group, draft
headquarters officials announ
ced Saturday,
One hundred will be furnish
ed by Board 1 and 150 by Board
2, the announcement revealed.
The group will be by far the
largest sent from the county
since inception of the draft act.
The draft office said that
Board 1 registrants will leave
here the night of Friday, April
2, and Board 2 men will depart
Tuesday night, April 7. - A list
of the entire group is scheduled
for publication next week.
Honolulu Has
Air Raid Alarm
HONOLULU, March 14 VP)
Air raid .sirens screamed an
alarm over Honolulu today, for
the third time in three weeks.
The alarm sounded at 9:46 a.
m. (12:16 a. m. Pacific war time.)
The warning lasted for 67 min
utes. No enemy planes appeared.
Radios were on the air right
up to the timo the alarm sound
ed. A week ago today, when
the . last previous alarm was
sounded when enemy planes
were heard off the Hawaiian Is
lands, the radios went off tha
air half an hour before tha
warning. .
cu
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City Briefs ........... ....Page -8
Comics and Story .......... Page 12
Courthouse Records ......Page 4
Editorials ...............-...Page 4
High School News ....... Page 11
Information ..........,....Pag 3
Market, Financial ......... Page 11
Pattern J.,-.ui..i.Vw
Society ,. .....Pages 5-6-7-8-B
Sports Page) 10
Weekend Pictures j. Page 14