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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1942)
ft ra li&miiHiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiito On S-mlnut bint en lin end whistle li the signal tor i blackout la Klamath rails. Another long blt, during bUok out, U ilgnil ior ll-olar. la proem tloniry porlodi. witch your itrost llghti. a a a a am m -.....-. iHSaH mmm ijallliill By FRANK JENKINS 'T'HE heroic defenders of BaUan have been finally over whelmed by hopelessly auperlor number. We have known from the be ginning that no other end war possible. Wo have been merely waiting. SECRETARY OF WAR STIM BON reveali that an effort was made In early January to Several ihlploadi of luppllei were ont. Part of It arrived moitly ammunition;' very little food. "But," Stimson adds, "for every ahlp that arrived w loft nearly two ahlpi." The oddi were too heavy. t v : SECRETARY STIM SON toll ui that at th lent check, a few days ago, General Wainwrlght' force numbered 30,653 effective troops. Add to that the wounded and the alck. - Ho Indicates that the bulk of thi. force murt bo either killed or captured. , Ha ays Corregldor and the other forU itlU (tand, but de cline to make a prediction a to how long they can hold out. -': .. ' IT I two mile from the tip-! Bataan to Corregldor. Re tirement from beachet in the face of a vlctorlou and over whelmingly auperlor enemy I one of the most difficult of all military operation. ."l . Th Brltlah found that out at Dunkerque. . and they had v at hand all the resource of a -going nation. In distant Bataan thore 1 no protecting American fleet, no covering American plane, no boat for transport. " Remembering thl, you-wlU know how alight is the hope of retirement to the fortress of Cor regldor. THE break came on the eastern, or Manila bay, ildo of the peninsula. Exhausted troops--short of food, wearied by month of constant- fighting! gave way in tho face, of staggeringly u porlor enemy force. General Wainwrlght tell briefly and tragically what fol lowed: "An attempt to relieve the ltuatlon (by counter-attack) failed due to COMPLETE PHY SICAL EXHAUSTION of the troop." That 1 to say, they fought until they dropped from fatigue. LEONIDAS and hi 1400 Greek won everlasting fame at Thermopylae. Their Job wa to hold a vast Persian army while the defense of Athens was being orgunlzed. The job of the men of Bataan was exactly similar to hold up the aps and Interrupt their time table while a baso of operation for defenso and offense was be ing organized in' Australia. Con sidering the difforences between ancient and modern warfare, tho odd asalnat them were as hope lessly great as were the odd against Leonldas and hi band. They acquitted themselves equally well. . SECRETARY STIMSON says: 43 "This I only a temporary loss. We shall not stop until we drive out the invaders from the islands." That must be a pledge a pledge for EACH of us. . TJOW can we keep thla plodge? n In this way: When we are tempted to give LESS THAN WE CAN or feol inclined to say: "What Is there in" it for ME?" wo can remember the men of Bataan. Tho memory will spur us on to whatever it may be necessary for us to do to win. TF each of us will give ALL he can, fully and without reserva tion, of blood, of property, of loyal and disciplined co-operation, NOTHING can keep us from winning and so redeeming tho pledgo made to the men of Bataan by the leorelary ol war. " ( ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIV Allies " ' " ' - NEA ToIephoto In on of tho first picture to roach th United Statee from Now Oulnta line tho Japanese Invasion thrtut into AustraUa water, a hangar of th Guinea Airways at Salamaua U shown biasing florcoly during a Jap attack attempt to tabllh a tpringboard for an invasion of th land "down undor." an. MacArthur' rapidly growing Australla-basod air fores ar ."boaring down" now to avenge tucb doitruetlon. -iv - '. mwm F o r e c ast Committee i - FindsiSouthern ?dregon Dr ' ' ' MEDFORD, April 6 WV-Tho Southern Oregon water fore cast committee at it sovonth annual meeting here Thurs day made the following forecast for Douglas, Josephine, Klamath and Jackson counties for the coming season'. ' In Klomntli county in . the Klamath basin Hie growing sea son i about normal, but early farm, operation have been fav ored, by a dry March, and omo water . 1 being used for newly ceded ground. All lands re ceiving water undor tho Klum ath " project are assured an abundant supply during tho coming season, even though a larger area . will be irrigated, the report says.- ' Irrigated lands In the Med ford and Rogue river districts of the Roguo River valley are facing a water shortage.' Under normal summer conditions both the storage supply and the un (Continuod on Pago Two).. Senate Approves Big Forest Bill WASHINGTON, April 0 (P) A recommendation by Senator Clark (D-Idaho) that an addition al 416,100,000 for emergency forest fire control be included in the sixth supplemental defense appropriation bill (HR 6868) has been approved by the senate. The appropriations bill, which carried only $2,000,000 for for est fire work when It passed the house, has been placed In the hands of conferees , to consider differences In the senate and house version and . to make recommendation regarding its form for final passage. Seven Drop Dead; Circus Goers Shiver in Blackout LOS ANGELES, April 9 (IP) Seven persons died of heart at tacks and an air raid warden fell off a two-story building as the Los Angeles area blacked out an hour and 51 minutes Inst night. The warden was injured critically. The blackout was ordered be cause of tho "presence In the Los Angeles area of unidenti fied pUncs which later wore identified as friendly," report ed Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWItt of . the western defense com mand, at San Francisco. There -was no gunfire, a in Los Angoles' last blackout, Feb. 25. Los Angeles and Orange counties, the only ones blacked out, doused their lights quickly and nearly 100 per cent. msm Now Avenging Jap Destruction niu i i 5Kat' "lvt- 'riT British Naval Base on Ceylon Bombed By Japs COLOMBO, Oylon, April 8 (Ft Th city , ..of Trlncpmal. when the, Brltlh h4v a naval bate, wa bombed -this morning, it was officially reported today. A . British communique (aid first report Indicated no civil ian casualties. )' t '.. At the, same time, two enemy plane , were, sighted over .Co lombo but no bombs were dropped."-.' -: . .';. Trlncomale is , on tho north-' east coast of -thi Island otl Xit southern tip of -India. .., MELBOURNE,:; April 9 WV Five ' Japanese bombors flying at 15,000 feet raided Tulagi, lu th'e Solomon Islands, this morn ing ' and dropped between 30 and 40 bombs, Prime Minister John Curtln announced. (Tulagi lies almost 000 miles southeast of Japanese-occupied Buka, at the tip of the Solomon chain, across the Coral sea from Australia). High Schools To Help Train Flying Cadets . By FRANCIS M. LE MAY WASHINGTON, April 9 () The' nation's high schools soon will be geared to the elementary training of pilots to fly Amer ica's, great air armada. J. W. Studebaker, U. S. com missioner of education, disclosed today that the plan contemplates the teaching of aeronautics in all high schools where . 15 or more prospective air cadets can be enrolled. "It is expected," Studebaker said, "that recommendations for pro-pilot refresher courses in physics and mathematics soon will be sent to all school systems of the country these recom mendations to be followed soon (Continued on Page Two).. ; - Thousands of aircraft workers continued making warplanes, in blacked out buildings, but all shipyards halted production from 9:03 p. m. until the all clear at 10:64 p. m. Roars and howls of wild ani mals sent shivers along the spines of some 4000 persons blacked out In a circus tent. Near the close of the show, the master of ceremonies an nounced the blackout, Every one laughed ... thought he was clowning. Then out went the lights. At) eerie shriek sounded, A hyena' laughing? A, roar. A lion? "That's all - right, folks," shouted an ustif r. "The animal (Continued on Page Two)..' IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, CUT E Average iSefJ . ' WASHINGTON.-April ft (Ph-The-war production board today ordered gasoline -deliveries to service -station; -In 17- eastern state.': Oregon,'. Washington and the District of Columbia cut one- third . compared -' with... average deliveries, last December,- Janu ary and February, -t a ; The ' curtailment V conipares with a 20 per cent cut already in-effect,, resulting from tanker sinkings and transportation shortages. In addition to the states al ready affected, WPB included the city of Bristol, . Tenn., on grounds that Bristol was partly in Virginia when is In the cur tailment area and partly in Tennessee, which is not. Sot April 16 The new reduction, effective April 16, will require' propor tionate reductions In gasoline deliveries during the latter half of AprU. Meanwhile, Secretary Ickes, the petroleum coordinator, told his weekly press conference that rationing by use of cards might be avoided if the public coop erated in the filling station sup ply limitation program. . "If this works satisfactorily," he said, "we may go to Mr. Hen derson (the price administrator) (Continued on Page Two).. Marshall Confers With Empire Chief LONDON, April 9 (P) Gen eral George C. Marshall, U. S. army chief of staff, conferred throughout .this morning with Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Francis Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff, presumably on grave developments in the east ern Mediterranean area and on the Burma front. Harry Hopkins, chairman of the British-American munitions assignments ' boards, ' conferred with William A. Harrlman, war production . representative in Britain, and talked with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. WAR QUIZ Answor on Pago 4 1. When you see this insignia on the cap of an American serv ice man does it indicate he is a sailor, a marina or a soldier? 2. The Japs recently bomb ed the Anda man island off India. Are these islands" noted for their spices; convicts, pine apples 6f dancers? . , 8. Do you know how many American officer have held the grade of general? . , . THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942 JAPJOMBERS Bay of Bengal Scene Of Fight; London Gives No Date By Tho Associated Pros LONDON, AprU 9 Two Brit ish 6-lnch-gun cruisers,' the 10,-000-ton Cornwall and the 9975 ton Dorsetshire whose torpedoes finished off the German battle ship. Bismarck little less than a year ago, have . been sunk by Japanesa bombers ranging the Bay of Bengal an battering at thin-stretched British naval com munications to India, the admir alty announced today. - The shock of the-loss of the two powerful ships rubbed, the gilt off the admiralty' announce ment two hour earlier that British submarine -had sent a lO.boOtton Italian cruiser to the bottom cr the- feptral .Wedlferv raneani f IjV ; .-'"'rr'Blow' to Navy ". .. ; The Sinking of the .Cornwall and Dorsetshire, was . a blow to the . British naval . strength im mediately available to. cope with Japanese aircraft carriers and warships -reported increasing their activities' astride the tea lanes to Calcutta in the bay be tween the bombed coast of .India and invaded Burma. - ; - Japanese , broadcasts .'quoted imperials, headquarters - claims that In , addition to tho cruisers Japanese forces sank .-21 allied merchantmen in the Bay of Bengal up to last Tuesday,- and badly damaged 23 .other , ships. Gorman Report - Heard, too, but without any other confirmation,' was a Ber lin broadcast quoting dispatches purportedly from : Tokyo that Japanese expeditionary forces supported by cruisers and de stroyers landed last Sunday on the Burma west coast and were ' (Continued on Page. Two) U.S. Airmen Bag 10 Japs 4bove Burma CHUNGKING, China, Friday, April 10 (f) The American volunteer group of fliers report ed today the destruction of 10 out ; of 20 Japanese fighter planes in an air battle Wednes day afternoon over Leiyun, in southern- Yunan province. The AVG suffered no losses.' Two other Japanese planes were so severely damaged that they were not expected to be able to reach their base, said the AVG communique, issued at headquarters "somewhere In Yunnan." All the Japanese planes were of the navy, "Zero" type. ... CHUNGKING, April 9 () A four-day-old attack on Chi nese advanced positions on the Burma front, south of Yedashe, by a Japanese detachment that moved northward from Toungoo was reported in today's Chinese communique. Sharp fighting ensued, but the result was not given. As for . China's own fronts, the Chinese claimed- many pri soners and much booty captured in ejection, of Japanese troops from Sutzekow, northeast - of Nanchang, in Kiangsi. province, 4 day in which to . register to vote. " mm DOWN BENEATH UNITED PRESS raiiMi A i BntDS Army Reported Considering Moving Japs to Tule Lake The army is considering es tablishment of a Japanese evac uation camp in the Tule lake district,' it was learned reliably hers Thursday. Engineers representing' the army have been in this section to survey, possible sites.. Army representative were reported in the Tule-lake district Thurs day. . It. is understood the military authorities are considering es tablishing the camp on govern ment land in the Tule lake dis trict, and some of the leased land there may be used for farm ing purposes by the camp occu pants. Whether a final decision has been reached is not known, as the army has made no announce ment, but it was believed that the matter is certain to come to a head soon because of the neces British Meet Axis Forces Near Tobruk ,' CAIRO, Egypt, AprU 9 m British headquarters, announced today that a number ' of- axis T soldiers had been captured from a' detachment "which wa try ing to establish a strong point between ; Tmlml- ' and - Ain" El Gazala."' '.-.-. s:A-. : ,.(Ain El Gazala is 40. miles west of Tobruk and Tmlmi 20 miles further west of that British-held port.)' ',-'; ; '. ."One of our columns Is en gaging the enemy at Sidi Bre gisch," the British communique said, indicating swift counteraction- to, meet the threat of a new drive by Field ' Marshal Erwin Rommel's - German and Italian army. -Sidi Bregisch is 26 - miles south of Tmimi. Germans Hint at French Surrender Of Entire Fleet ISTANBUL, Turkey, AprU 9 WV "Informed German circles in Istanbul today were talking about "a final settlement be tween Germany and France" which, they said, would involve cession of the entire French fleet to the German navy. . This talk began- with the re turn to Turkey of Franz von Papen, Germany's ambassador, from a brief trip to Berlin. In addition, according to this story, the Germans want France to sign over both Casablanca in Morocco and Dakar in Sengal. Germany, in return for these major concessions, would release all French prisoners of war, al low. Marshall , Petain's govern ment to return to Pari and sign a peace treaty.- ' (Recent Vichy developments, notably markedly better rela tions between the Petain regime and the United States, indicates strongly that Petain would not hear of such a deal at present.) MacArthur Calls Confab on Hearing of Bataan' s Fall By CLARK LEE MELBOURNE, Australia, Friday, April 10 (A1) General Douglas MacArthur was inform ed late last night of the fall of Bataan, whose defense he direct ed on tho scene until his trans fer to Australia in March. TTn wpnt Into a conference with his aides and was expected to issue a statement later. The headquarters staff here was deeply affected by the news because, as one officer said, "All our friends are there." ' Appear Surprised The " officers' appeared sur prised that the end had come so sooo, stating that military operations reports received from General Wainwrlght In the past Number 9457 - sity of moving large numbers of fhe . Japanese . from areas near the coast. " It is presumed that if the camp Is established, ' several thousand Japanese will be lo cated there. . Men interested in the situation here said they ex pect the proposed camp .will be operated on a basis similar to that being -established in the Owens valley, in south-central California. ... - . . . - . Government farm land in the Tule lake district Is under pri vate lease,- which will expire this year. .'Lease land farmers are now preparing to plant their 1942 crops. Possibility of the location of a Jap camp at Tulelake has been widely discussed for several weeks. ' Some time ago a meet ing was called at Tulelake, at . (Continued on Page Two).. National .Government r:'Untilar;i.Over-v. Near Approval ' 4:1 W-lfhVll STIMSON " --p. NEW DELHI, India, AprU, 9 (P)A general understanding on the main 'points -at issue be tween -the British and politically articulate " Hindus appeared to be at hand today, with reported assent by leaders of the all-India congress party and the Hindu Mahasabha ' to establishment of a national government for India. , Such a government ' would serve India pending the post-war dominion status offered by Brit ain. ' ---; , No Objections Britain's chief negotiator, Sir Stafford Crlpps, was understood to have ' telegraphed Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, president of the Hindu Mahasabha, asking if that organization of political moderates had any objections to joining a national government. Savarkar was-understood to have replied through the govern or of Bombay, Sir Roger Lumley, that his organization had no ob jections, even though it still op posed a clause In the British plan allowing provinces to re main outside the proposed Indian union. . . . It was reported that the Ma hasabha would get two seats in the national government. Reports on the status of the negotiations with the congress party, the dominant political group, varied between state ments that "a - general under standing is nearly reached" and that it was "as good as reached." As a result of reports circu lated throughout the country that the British government and the congress party had finally come to terms, President Roose velt's personal minister to ' In dia. Louis Johnson, was charac terized by commentator as "the hero of the hour.". 24 hours had not indicated any sudden worsening of the Amer ican position, although that po sition had been critical since the all-out Japanese land and air offensive was launched last week. .'. At the time I left Bataan, some supplies alread were be ginning to run low, . especially medicine and certain types of ammunition, (Lee left Bataan shortly be fore MacArthur did. after cov ering most of the Philippine campaigns). Artillery was beginning to wear out and there was too lit tle artillery to begin with. Gasoline stocks were dwhvi (Continued on Page Two).. i Msirs Iml ! PRECIPITATION . As ol AprU 1. It42 ' - "'!'"V Prat oat strum ytor - ,.. ,,,, tn.li ' Last ya to data ..,..,..H Normal to that data ......................i.23 J.?.l E Wainwright's Forces Too Exhausted ta - ' Turn Attack , . By ROGER D. GREENE ' -Associated Pros War Editor Heroically defended Bataan, the American keystone in. the Philippines,- apparently fell' to day, and Secretary of War Stinv son indicated that the, bulk ol 36,853 effective : defense troop faced, death or surrender in th climax to three months of blood? conflict against Japan's invasipa armies. . . .'-,. , ... . Other ' American force were reported still .holding out on Corregidor . and 'nearby, island fortresses in Manila bay ' " Reinforcement Fail ,,M ' . 'For the first time; Stint son re vealed that urgent' efforts were made beginning last Jan. 11 to reinfnnrev.tha -rberioyd Philip-' pine forces and that several ship loads - of supplies sent - from ' a base in Australia actually reach ed Corregidor and Bataan. ' '- .."But for every ship that ar rived, welort nearly two ships," Stimson aaict i- '. ' c;'.- --s :. - The war secretary also dls closed "that: -President Roosevelt has authorized the. American - commander. In the - Philippines to, make any decision he-deemed necessary in the light of events. "This is only a temporary loss," Stimson said. "We shall not stop until we drive out the invaders from the islands." Stimson's report on the end of America's heroic chapter of Bataan followed a. war depart ment bulletin, announcing that wave after wave of Japanese shock troops bad engulfed the-battle-exhausted defenders' east , flank, on ManUa bay. ; : ' The communique said: . Full details are not available, but this situation indicates the probability, that the defenses on Bataan have been overcome," : ' A communique at 5:15 a. nt eastern - war . time, , said Lieut Gen. Jonathan M. . Wainwrlght had messaged from fort - Mills on Corregidor island that an at (Continued on Page Two) - Russians Claim NaiiWarpiane v Losses Heavy KUIBYSHEV, Russia, AprU () Soviet flier and ground gunners were reported today to have destroyed 139 nazi trans' port planes assigned to supplj isolated northwestern front units in three days of a 10-day period which cost the Germans a total of 545 aircraft. - ' Evidence that Germany, is rushing new aircraft into war service was announced in a com munique, i '''.- ' 'Anti-aircraft men of one unit shot down a Junkers 88 (dive bomber) which was released from the factory Feb. 22, 1942, No. 6719" it said. "Men of thi group a few days later shot down three more planes released by the factory In March, 1942. One . airman who balled out Was cap tured." Infantrymen on a Kalinin front sector, attacked by num erically auperlor forces, were declared to have crippled several nazi tank by well organized fire (Continued on Page Two) r News Index Agriculture .......Pae 8 City Briefs .... ...Page 7 Comics and Story ... Page 14 Courthouse Record fag Editorial Pago 4 High School New ....... Page 16 Tnfnrmfttlnn ....PlM 1 Market, Financial Pag 11 Pattern f....;.Pag 3 Sport Page 12 13 0 IN CAPTUR DOR LAN FEAR
