Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, November 07, 1942, Page 1, Image 1

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One 8-mlnut blast on sirens and whistles
. la tha signal for a blackout In Klamath
Falli. Another long blast, during a black
out, it ilgnal for all-clear. In preeau-
tlonary pariodi, watch your
Ml
, By FRANK JENKINS
yHESE . words aro written In
Bend.'ln a HOTEL. Not only
that but In a hotel room ob
tained without a reservation.
; Just wnlked In and asked 1(
any room wore left, and tho
kroom clerk answered pleniuint-
Jliy: "Oh, surely."
Juat like that.
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""THEREIN Ilea n atory, more or
, less -significant, of what Is
happening to Hi la western coun
try, and to tho United Slate as
a whole, at a remit of the war
: effort," : ; ',
' Thebig eltlei where the war
fort. Is ..centered aro . boiling
with activity. The hotels nro
crowded to their rooflreea. The
room clerka aro harried and
nervous worn with the strain
of turning people away.
The same li truo of tho small.
r cities -near which army or
: other service camps aro located,
Especially during the period of
construction.
After the construollon period
rnd, the boora. In1 the smaller
.plttei where the camps aro- ilo
. eated tends to subside. Their
I streets are full of men on leave.
but the - business boom dies
down- 1
, In the shipyard, airplane and
munitions centers it keeps on
booming. .'''
END is duo to pass soon Into
tho brotherhood ' of smaller
' cities near which csnfpa ore lo-
' tated. An engineer cantonment
Is to.be built In the Deschutes
flats some Id miles to the south,
and it is expected to contain at
least 18,000 men. -
, Construction is to begin as
toon as possible. It Is expected
to: chango tho character of the
city, materially, as, has been tho
fcaso everywhere, .
, Its coming is arousing great
interest, naturally, but its ef
fects on business are not expect
ed to bo important retail busi
ness, that Is. Hotels, rooming
O houses, eating places, entertain
ment enterprises, etc, will ben
efit in the way of increased; pat
ronage, and a housing shortoge
will doubtless follow.
? But rotall business can't ex
t. pect to benefit much for tho
'Simple reasonthat retail busi
ness Is already face to face with
the problem of replenishing
', stocks when present ones aro
,m sold.
This problem. will grow more
acute as time passes and more
end more of our production ca
pacity goes into war gqods.
, - -
TN'modorn all-out war, rcduc
". '.,tlon of the supply of goods
for civilian consumption Is in
; ,'evitable and NECESSARY,
i : Modern war uses raw mator
. ;Jals especially metals and cer
tain baslo 'chemicals in unbe
lievable quantities, Its appetite
O Is Insatiable. Guns, planes, tanks
and ships- these aro the csscn
'tlal tools of modern warfare,
; . (Continued on ' Pago Threo)
Nci Cut Ordered
In Oregon Draft '
Quota For December
- PORTLAND, Nov. .7 (AP)
Col. Elmer V. Wooton,' Oregon
selective service director, said
: -ioday that no reduction in the
' state's 'draft - quota had .been
ordered -for December.
; The Novomber : quota was
v sliced 58 .per cent and some. of
the men scheduled for. Indite
' tlon then will be taken this
month, Wooton said. Those held
over tfrom November had high
er order - numbers than . those
, taken, hence they , will bo tho
'first called, this month. .
Q ' pregbn hos only a few single
rhen . eligible for induction,
Wooten said,, and quotas tare
. being mqde up largely of mar
ried men without' children,
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EXPLOSIVES ON
ITALJANPORT
Genoa Re-Visited; As
sault Termed "Ef-
fective"
LONDON, Nov. 7 VP) Brit
(tin's big, home-based bombers
revisited Italy last night for tho
fifth time since last October,
showering Genoa with fire and
explosives which, by tho Ital
ians' own word, Inflicted "nota
ble damage" on Italy's most im
portant supply port for the axis
armies in north Africa. . , ',
The air ministry- colled the
attack "concentrated and effec
tive" and tho Italian -communique-
Itself sold that "particular
damago was reported in the cen
ter of tho town, and in the "east
ern port notable damage was
caused."
Clear Targets
. The long haul . to and from
over virtually the length of con
tinental Europo and twice across
tho Alps was made In bad weath
er, the British communique said,
but the night skies, opened over
Genoa arid the Biltiah,.bpunbcrs
wcrtf- bo" to unload fi '"blear
targets, i . .:' ,' -
The air ministry said photo-
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Allied Convoy
Fights Atlantic
U-Boat Pack
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (AP)
An allied convoy recently
fought a three-day 'batila with
an enemy submnrlno pack In
tho North Atlantic, tho navy
disclosed today, and at least one
allied merchantman was- sunk.
Tho fact that the battle had
been fought with depth charges
and torpedoes churning the
ocean for so ' many hours on
end, was glvon out by tho navy
incidental to its announcement
of tho sinking of (he merchant
vessel, a medium sized craft of
Panamanian registry..
There wore 40 survivors of
this ship who were landed at
an allied port after four days
in lifo rnits and rowboats. A
neutral ship picked them up
and brought them to shore and
they since have returned to this
country. ...
Tho ship went down "on a
Sunday afternoon in Septem
ber," tho navy said, declining
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Bulletin
LONDON, Nov. 7 (JP) Unit
ed .States heavy bombers raid
ed tho German submarine
base at Brest today.
A statemont from the Brit-:
lsh air ministry and the Unit
cd States army European com-'
mand said , the bombers, es
corted by allied fighters,
struck at both the Brest docks
and submarine- pons.
One of the U. S. fighters is
missing. :-',
RAFSHDWERS
Camp White Men to March
In KF Armistice Parade
Two ' hundred .. officers and
men and an assortment of equip
ment will come to Klamath Falls
from Camp White to participate
in the parade -and local observ
ance of Armistice day, it was
announced Saturday by James
Fowler,, chairman of the Ameri
can Legion committee In charge.
' Tho parade, whloh will- start
at 10:30 a. m. from the Legion
hall, will feature a detachment
of the 363rd Infantry, with1 one
section, on anti-tank unit includ-
348th field artillery- battalions.
After the- parade ' the Csmp
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.Targets in Italy
The Genoa-Turln-Mllan Indus
trial triangle In northern Italy
and cities in the' vicinity have
been the targets of heavy raids
by RAF bombers from England.
Two-fold objectives of the allied
raids- have been to destroy Ital
ian, war industry and to delay
ehlpmerits to 'Africa through the
MPPiS. pert; of, Genoa.' .;' V.
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Mighty Allied , Fleet
; Reported Near
XSibraltar (
..'NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (IP)--4-Axis
and neutral reports- that a
mighty allied 'fleet! has put' out
from Gibraltar on a mysterious
expedition into the Mcditerran?
tan were capped today by an
open German expression of fear
that, the United Nations were
sotting, tho stage for a second
front in Europe. i
-All allied sources' have "been
silent .on theso, reports which
began in, the past week with a
dispatch from La Lines, Spain,
that 125 war vessels and other
ships had assembled at Gibral
tar and pyramided today Into
these developments:
1. A broadcast by the. nazl
controlled radio at Hllversum,
that there is no doubt In Berlin
that the British aim is to capture
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Price Control f
Put on Onions,
Spuds, Turkeys
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.(P)
Price Administrator- Leon Hen
derson today Issued . new price
controls on potatoes, onions and
turkeys, which will mean some
what higher retail prices for on
ions -and some potatoes, and
leayo turkey prices at substanti
ally present levels.
. The controls apply at every
stage of distribution from the
time the products leave the coun
try shipper's hands, until the
housewlfo makes her purchases
at the neighborhood store. .
, Prices of turkeys, potatoes and
onions had been frozen at the
levels of September 28-October
2 under a temporary order,. ;
-Also frozen at-the September
28-October 2 levels were butter,
cheese, eggs, poultry, dry edible
; (Continued on Page Three),
White men will set up equip:
mentdlsplays. at the armory,
where the' Armistice exercises
will bo hold. ,
This military feature' is ex
pected' to bring out one of the
largest' Armistice.-day " parade
crowds iti recent years 'in Klam
ath Falls. ... ,. .
' The Camp White units will
bring 20 vehicles, ranging from
peeps to 4-ton trucks. ':
.Entries will include -an infan
try combat team, one 105 howit
zer section, one 105 -howitzer
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16 2oo AricAp? -Tn Is)
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1942
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LEATHERNECKS
REPULSE NIP
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MacArthur's ' Troops
Meet. Stiffened '
Resistance
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON. Nov. 7 VP)
At least 5188 -Japanese have
been killed by. the United
States forces in the Solomon
islands land fighting since the
American invasion of those is
lands began .August' 7, the
navy announced today. ...
-.' A communique said this fig.
ure was bjd on "an actual
caont of enemy. killed In ac
tion -ashore" and did not In
clude any estimates of , Japs
killed within their own lines
by1 naval bombardments and
aerial bombings. '..,'
"The losses inflicted on the
enemy occurred, so far as land
. fighting was, concerned, in the
iuiagt-guadalcanal area of the
southeastern Solomon,-where
the big, American - drive, cen
tered, lit the early days et h i
ptaZpSA.
No figur of Amerleah dead.
In the Solomons-was tflven.. .
- .The navy communique also
said that during the month; of
October- alone, ,-369 - enemy
planes were destroyed by U. '
-S. forces in the south, Pacific
area,-which includes not . only
i the - Solomons,' but 'surround
ing Islands - In that section of
. the ocean. The figure 969 coin-'
pared. . with., a - total . ol . 329
planes which the navy has re-
' ported destroyed in succes
sive communiques throughout
-the Solomons operations.
'.T At: a press conference yes
leiday. Secretary of Navy
Knox said that Japanese loss
es were more than five times
as great as American losses
which - could ' Indicate - that
American losses to date may
have been, as. great as 1000
men. '
i WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (P)
The -navy reported today . that
American ' troops had advanced
to the eastward of their positions
on Guadalcanal island in the Sol
omons in what appeared to be a
maneuver to isolate a threatened
.: (Continued on Page Three)
American Doctor.
Gives Own Life in
Saving Wounded
CAIRO, Nov. 7 . ' (-Capt.
Edward R. Stone of Washing
ton, D. C, an American doctor
serving as volunteer with Brit
ain's desert forces, was disclosed
tdday to have given his own life.
trying to save those of the badly
wounded on the open front.
Dr. Stone was. in a front' line
slit trench,, taking cover, when
he heard a shout that an Injured
man was lying about 200 yards
away. - . ' . '
With two British soldiers, he
set out to help' despite a hall of
machinegun, mortar - and artil
lery fire.
They had gone only a few
yards when a' shell burst and
killed. all three.;' . ' ' ;
Major-General
Proposes A Toast
HEADQUARTERS ALASKA
DEFENSE COMMAND, Nov. 7
(fl5) Maj. Gen. -Simon B. Buck
ner, Jr.,: commander' of the Alas
ka defense command, -returning
from a front line tour which in
cluded a 'flight Over Klska, . was
entertained--by . tho officers .of
one of the 'natlon's .most famous
Infantry regiments.
- A highlight of ( the evening
was when Gen.' Buckner offered
this toast: ; ; , .
'May you walk through the
ashes of Tokyo,", ,: - "
COUN
er dr ve -n mrr
jiyjiyjpviiuj uiji i5i!3ru ir l
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The shores of Milne Boy, New-Guinea, where Australian force beat back a Japanese Invasion
attempt present a picture of tropic splendor to this Australian, soldier.
REDS HOLD FIRM
i AGAINSIIIWADER
1 ,000 N a z i s Perish
'Friclay In Staiin--
grad
muoiiuvr, -inov, .T- w--xne
red army1 threw the Germans
from' twd fortified positions in a
factory area of Stalingrad today
and held flrmly:fifom the Arctic
NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (P) The
German high command In : Its
communique, today reported Rus
sian troop and air . concentra
tions and movements which sug
gested the Russians wore ready
ing a winter, offensive northwest
of Moscow. ,
'-'Troop concentrations in d
transport movements of the so
viets in the area of the source
of the Dvina aiid Volga were
fought by the air force," said the
communique.
to the deep - Caucasus : against
nazl efforts to crack the defense
lines.- " "'
Grey-uniformed . dead contin
ued to pile up before Stalingrad
gunpits. The Russians were re
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"Tough" Policy ;
Freezes Wages at
Sept. 15 Level
WASHINGTON, Nov., 7 (AP)
Realization . that an "early
freeze" had stunted growth, of
their pay envelopes - last Sept.
15 dawned on the nation's work
ers today as they were con
fronted with the strict terms of
a new wage-salary stabilization
order issued by' the -war labor
board. : - -. ,- -- :'
Empowered i by -.President
Roosevelt's Oct. 3 economic sta
bilization order, the WLB vir
tually froze most wages and
salaries under $5000 a, year, at
the mid-September levels, and
Chairman William H. -Davis
served .notice it would be
"pretty damn tough" to break
the ice.
Adopted unanimously by the
public,-labor and industry mem
bers, of the board, the order af
fected all non-agricultural wages
and salaries tinder $5000; ex
cept' salaries paid supervisory
or professional employes. . Farm
wages come under the agricul
tural department's jurisdiction
and the treasury controls' other
salaries. . ' .
"We Were Just
Looking," Fumed
Two Axis Captives
CAIRO, Nov. 7 (fP) Two high
ranking Italian officers captured
in the Egyptian desert ; fumed
and fretted today because, they
explained to their British cap
tors, they were sent to the front
as observers of British methods
and not as combatants.
"This is an outrage," one of
them complained., "We were not
fighting,-we were just looking."
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NEA FEATURES j Nov. 8, Sunrise. ..,. 7i39 Sunset ..v 8i90, J
,' TOWARD LIBYA
Tfcev StillTalk
By MURLIN- SPENCER .
"'"SOMEWHERE IN 'y NEW
GUINEA, Nov. 6 ' (Delayed)
(JP-1he battle - of Milne-, Bay
now' belongs . to . the ; history
books but the boys of a United
States '.army anti-aircraft unit
wbof," helped;' to . defeat ih.? Japr
anesen there are still-( talking
abbuMts heroic dash and- screwy
moments. - : ''""'.T; 'r' :-i :
Lieut. Frank." BuVrAws of
Muskegon, ' Mich; w ; talking
to a group sprawled .around a
sunbaked: tent - which "overlooks
the ah-drome. - . i; 5 . .';
' ; ". '"The most exciting moment,"
he - said, "was . on : August . 27
when; the Japs -thought; their
ground troops had taken' ' the
airdrome and sent their fighter,
planes in to .land. ' .V I
."Wehad a field -day threw,
everything, at them ' except -our
Middle-Aged
Woman Believed
Thrown From Cor
RED BLUFF,. Calif., Nov.! 7
(AP)r The body of -a middle
aged woman was found today in
a ditch, along. Highway : 99-W,
and there was. evidence that she
had been thrown - from an auto
mobile. ' .' " ' .' -
Sheriff ' James Frbome said
she ; carried a social security
card issued -to.'- Ada " Weisman
Johnson. - She . " was about SO,
and well dressed. In her purse
was some: : Oakland street car
tokens and a letter which indi
cated she had a son.' Jack, "in
the army,, stationed at Medford,
Ore.". " ' - '::,--; ' ' '.
Sheriff Froome said wording
of the letter suggested "she had
just visited the son in Medford
and- was -returning home.' There
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Latest Football Results
NOTRE DAME SLUGS CADETS, 13-0
: YANKEE STADIUM, New, York, Nov. 7 (AP) Held
in check for two periods by an underdog Army team that
failed to give ground' when backed into its own territory,
Notre Dame -finally -battered, down,. the defense, in the
second half and defeated-the, Cadets, 13-0, in their 29th
annual grid: clash befbre a sellout crowd of 76,000 here
today. ' ' .!.,-',.''- - -' -, , . '.
iowa knocks Wisconsin, 6-o
IO W A CITY, la., , Nov.! 7 . ( AP) Iowa knocked Wis
consin out of first place in; the Western conference, today,
6 to 0, before 32700 homecoming fans. The score came
on a 21-yard pass from Tommy Farmer to Bill Burkett in
the second period.- The first half( ended with- Wisconsin
only one foot from the'Hawkeyes' goal line.- .
First: UCLA 0, Oregon 7
First: Montana 0,' O r e eon
State. 7. -'- - -'--' ., . .- .
Third: Ore.. Frosh 0, Wash 6.'
.Maine 8, Bowdoin 12." , '.
. ' Navy 7, Penn 0. ' ! V '
'-' St. Mary's 7,'Duciuesne:7.' - ;i ;
'. Syracuse 13, Penh State i8.'i ;
Louisiana State. 26, Fordham
13. -' ' ; ;, ".,: ,. .''
Notre Dame 13, Army 0. ' . ' V
! Kentucky 7, Georgia. Tech' 47.
Randolph Macon 0,, William
and Mary 40.- " j'"'
About
mess kits and shot down sev
eral. Some .B-25s came along
and got the others. .
"There were some funny inci
dents,:, like the time Jap planes
raided .us v after , a . particularly
heavy rain. , ; .. - V- -i '-:'-4.
v.- "Corporal Campau (Donald E.
: Campau1-' of "Saginaw, "Mfch.)"
cuvea zor .B trencn ana came up
blowing water. , The -trench was
filled to the. Wim. : - Sfi.
j ' "When another- man- Came
along Campau was crouched low
with the: water up to' his chin.
Campau -warned 'Don't stir up
any waves' as his buddy entered
the trench." . - :. --
The anti-aircraft force was
composed' "primarily of Geor
gians. -Included in the group at
the tent were lieutenants Rich
ard W; Titus and James Davenport-
of Atlanta and C. H. Mar
tin of Savannah. ,. . , . -n .
" Lieutenant Martin said the
Japanese weren't the only men
ace. in New Guinea. He pointed
to' his head, .slightly bruised. "
"We had an air raid the other
night," Martin- said. - "I had a
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Two Round Up
Support for State
Senate President
' PORTLAND, Nov; 7 (P) The
contest for' state senate presi
dent' . apparently . lies 1 between
Wiljiam H., Stelwer, Fossil, and
Dorothy McCullough Lee, Port
land.". ' .?. ': .'.-';.." ::' ,', IU
:Each .rounded, up support .in
the' Multnomah - county - delega
tion this week but Steiwer left
fqr Fossil' yesterday without dis
closing "the ' number Of; .votes
promised to him.
. 'Each - senator - predicted the
contest would .be decided within
a few days. -
' ; Northeastern; 6, Boston U 37.
Western. Maryland 6, Dickin
son' 0.-',--.
. Johns Hopkins 13, Susquehan
na 13 (tie).
Colgate 35, Columbia 26.
..North iCarolina 3, Davidson
14. -' ' . t
VMI 0, Wake Forest 28.
Maryland 0, Duke 42. i
; ' Wisconsin 0, Iowa 6.
' Indiana 7, Minnesota 0.
Harvard 7, Michigan 38.
V. Holy- Cross . 14, Brown 20.'
Berlin G i v e s Vague
Hint Rommel May :.
Be Captive -
. .. By ROGER D. GREENE ,
.' Associated Presi War Editor,
v Britain' 'victorious Egyptian
armies were reported to hav ,
captured or " trapped 100,000 -German
' and Italian troops', to '
day, crushed a desperate axis St
tempt to rally and -swept -100
miles across the desert nearly
half way to the Libyart lrontttr.
-. The German- radio hinted, .
vaguely that Nazi Field Marshal '
Rommel, - the so-called "desert
foxi", may: himself have been.
captured in the wild melee of,
plunging tanks and tattered de
fense lines. .'----.' - " - - :- ";,:- '' .
' More than- two-thirds, of the
total . axis forces of 140,000
troops were said to have -been
eliminated from the battle, ;with
the' British- in, swift pursuit of
the broken enemy. j
Italians Wait Capture "
-- A British communique! said
20,000 axis troops already had
been captured, along with 350
tanks and -400 guns. Six Italian
divisions were reported cut off,
without food or water, meekly
waiting to surrender. ,' -
': The crack Italian Trieste and v
Bolognsdivfoions' were reported '
among the beleaguered -fascist
waiting- to be picked up when
the. British-could get around to
them.- , ( - ,
:, "The " advance of the eighth
army, continues," British- head-,
quarters announced. - i
S '1 j-. Nail Claim . ' '
- Latest dispatches saidBritish
armored columns had. now
pushed beyond - Matruh, fi-104
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U. S. Troops
Guard Struck
Railroad Line
' PAINESVILLE, Ohio, Nov.' T
(IP) United States troops guard
ed the right of way of the strike
bound Fairport, Painesville and
Eastern railroad today and their
commander, Col. J. C- Daly,
said the line would resume)
quickly the transportation of
war materials.
...The railroad runs 3S miles
from Fairport to Painesville,
connecting - at Painesville with
the New York Central and Bal-:
timore & Ohio roads. The small
line, , with six locomotives,
serves plants of Diamond Alka
li.Co.,-Diamond Magnesium Co.,
and Industrial Rayon Corp. :
Troops stationed a machine
gun equipped truck in. Fairport,
and sentries guarded intersec-.
tions. A mobile kitchen waa set
up.
William Ulle, president :of a
local in district 50 of the United
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No Outdoor Lights i
This Christmas, .
Requests WPB
1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (IP)
The war production board today
requested civic -officials, bust
nessmen, and the general public)
to dispense this year with out
door Christmas lighting. '
- Officials, said the request did
not apply to indoor Christmas
decorations, however, t
WPB said 50,000,000 kilowatt
hours of electricity -enough
power to supply all the needs of
a city of 50,000 population for
year could be saved by cutting
out the customary holiday decor
atibn of streets, store fronts and
homes. . -
News Index
City: Briefs ..............Pages. 2, 11
Comics and Story ......... Page 10-
Editorial .-...Pago : 4,
Market, Financial .......... Page ; 4
Our Men In Service .....Page 12
Pattern ........Page 4
Society .....-Pages S, 6, t, 8
Sports .u...Paga 8