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jniyvULA ui jr.r.rn -i r-rr" " a r-i - -!i ! I lf it'll II On 6-mtnute blast on sirens and whistles November 20 High 33, Low IB Praclpltation aa oi November 14. 1942 Straam year to data .1.40 Ltit year :..1.83 Normal 1.77 Nor. 22 Sunrise 7i58 Sunset Silt It the signal lor a blackout In Klamath Fall. Anothtr long blast, during a black out ii a ilgnal lot all-eleai. In precau tionary partodi, watch your atraat llghta. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE HVB CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1942 Number 9649 "WHO 'WNW!);i:.i !' ftjUO AM VHUI1 .UlfcHSArNfi o) mi ji 7 m 5? It H I ' ! ' H'PIWiir' av s Bill I I I' I: mmm ii jsmm 'By FRANK JENKINS TT look. Ilka a big battle la shaping up for , Blierte and Tunis. . : The Germans yesterday tried blitz tactics, but lulled to brenk through the ring of steel the Bi les are drawing around these wo key point. Today they seem to be settling down to a ToyruK like defense. . (Like Tobruk because they are uppllad from the sea.) Their problems will be to get In reinforcements and supplies from across the Sicilian strait. The Miles' problem will be to PREVENT supplies and rein forcemenla from reaching thorn In sufficient volume. . - . . - :.-. 'TODAY'S " dispatches mention t much -activity by British submarines' In the Mediterran ean, with several axis ships sunk. Every axis ship that can bo lopped will weaken the defend ing Germans by Just that much. ... Mention continues of Gormun iu upplle arriving by air. 0A PTER ignoring Rommel for ' days, the Berlin radio today announces that his African Corps has escaped entrapment by the British at Bengasi ami - aftar receiving reinforcement of guns and tanks is now "deployed In full fighting strength In thor oughly prepared and strongly -fortified positions of conslder- ' . ablo depth." Probably just west of El Ag heila. where the coastal route Is . narrowed by a salt sink similar to the Quattara depression where the British army modo Its . successful stand before Alexan dria., ' TOMMEL has olrendy relrcnt n ed 700 miles and It Is 400 miles on to Tripoli. When ho gave tip Bengasi without a fight ' he abandoned his last chance to escape by sea and evi dently alms to fight It out. THI-IE Italian .arsenal city of J' Turin lost night was given -Its hardest bombing of tho war. The 'bombers came clear from England, a round trip of 1300 miles,. Two-ton "block-buster" .bombs were used, ond heavy damage seems to have ' been done. , The British radio says King Victor Emanuel pf Italy recently .-visited the bombed Italian cities of Genoa and Milan and was greeted with cries of "Pcaccl" by the Itallon people. . . The governor of Genoa was deposed as a result. , . nUMORS ara multiplying that ! . the Italians ore getting -heartily weBry of, the war' and would like to quit. The trouble Is the Germans won't let them. .'Italy now is little different from the other conquered small nu- .'tlons, ., i ' . ,'T AVAL, In a radio speech In '-'.'Vichy, advocates a French ,'alllance with Gormany as Eu ,'rope's ."solo hope of peace." Ho :sayg he Is certain of a Gorman victory..: .: What ho REALLY, means Is that nn alliance with Gormany is the only way now to SAVE LAVAL'S SKIN. ' :' Their . skins, rather than their 'country are tho chiof, consider ation pf the scum politicians 'who haye brought France to her present sad state. AeRMAN. GENERAL HITTER V VON TIIOMA, captured In frlea and brought to London, Is said to have talked to tho effect .that "Hitler has ruined tho war I machine built up by n great gen eral staff."' .;-. Von Thorns belongs to Ger many's professional soldier class, (Cpntlnued .on Page Two) aps lash Allied Generals Swim for Ii After Sinkings By MURLIN SPENCER WITH ALLIED FORCES NEAH BUNA". New Guinco, Nov. 10 (Delayed) (VP) Tho officer at headquarters who writes the communiques used a hulf dozen words Wednesday to tell how Japanese bombers, sank two al lied trawlers off tlic Buna coast al area, but he didn't mention that two allied generals were aboard the trawlers and had to swim to shore. One general watched the bombers swooping In for their attack and called for a rifle. He blazed away until he was forced to leave the sinking craft. The other also took tho attack with fine disdain and remained at a commundlng post. Both officers had to swim nearly a holf mile to shore with the men and both refused any help, ,'nslstlng that others need ed it more. Their names are still a military secret. . . .v t- , Lieut. W. H. Tlwckston bit An derson, S. C, telling of the, ex perience, said that "as soon as ono man reached shore, he (Continued on Pago Two) JEFFERS CALLED IITOEXPLI Appeal to FDR Seen To Delay Gas Ration WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 W) Rubber Administrator William Jeffers today convinced a con gressional committee, opposing nationwide rationing of gasoline, that he meant no reflection on members of congress by his re mark that the opposition was fi nanced "by people who should know bolter." Ho spent two hours In an ex ecutive session of a subcommit tee representing the antl-ratlon-Ing bloc, and at its conclusion, Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla.) said that the members wero satis fled. ; However, Johnson reported that "we got no assurance out of him that he would agrae to (Continued on Poge Two) Germans Claim Annihilation of Sabotage Troops BERLIN (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS, Nov. 21 (AP) Two British planes towing troop filled gliders landed In south ern Norway for purposes pf sabotage and all the occupants were annihilated, the. German high command said today. "On tho night of November 10-20 two British bombers, each towing a glider, flew over South Norway," Ihe communique said. "One bomber and both gild ers wero forced to land. Sabo tage troops on board were at tacked ''and exterminated. Laiesi Football Results GEORGIA DEFEATED, 27-13 COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 21 (AP) An inspired Auburn football team led by fleet Monk Gafford and hard hitting Jim Reynolds, whipped previously unbeaten Georgia to day, 27-13, in a thundering. upset. ,'. . , BOSTON COLLEGE WINS, 37-0 . .. BOSTON; Nov.. 21 (AP) Unbeaten Boston 'College was fairly well shackled today by soggy going arid by, a spirited Boston University, defense for three periods, but the Eagles broke loose in. the last frame to roll up a 37-0 decision before a crowd of about 10,000 at Fenway park-. First: Stanford 6, California 0. First: W.S.C. .0, Second Air Force 0. . ..',.' First: Washington 0, UCLA. 7. ' Second:1 Oregon State 20, Uni versity , of Oregon 0. Out lALLIES CLOSE E American T r o o p s on Guadalcanal Ex tend Hold By DEAN BCHEDLER SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Nov. -21 (AP) Jap anese fprccs trapped in a nar row coastal strip in the Buna Gona district of New Guinea were reported lighting back des perately today as American and Australian ground troops moved In relentlessly to drive them into tho. sea or force their ,ca- pltUUtlon.- ! : ; One United - States force was within. a.,mile:of Buna, and en gaged . hoavy,: fighting anil . an other was attempting to-wrest a landing field on tho outskirts of the vlllag? from the defend ing Japanese. This second unit reported that It had met heavy machine-gun fire within 800 yards of the field. -,.:. Bad Weather Japanese; fighter planes enters d the fighting near .Buns, -yes-terday and seven Zeros strafed allied' troops already under at tack from light : artillery and mortars. , Allied observers said the Buna area also, had been reinforced with ' anti-aircraft guns.. ..' ; Bad weather prevented allied air units from giving the ground troops the aerial support which they have had In the difficult ; (Continued on. Page Two) $7.05 Loan to Support Grower Price of Spuds WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (A) The agriculture department an nounced today that it stood ready to support grower prices of potatoes by making loans at rates averaging $1.05 per hun dred pounds for No. 1, bulk, un graded lots stored in approved warehouses by cooperative assoc iations of producers or potato dealers. This rate, the' department said, was equivalent to $1.30 per hundred pounds, or 78 cents a bushel for No. 1 late crop pota toes, FOB shipping point. , Other grades will bo support ed at rates reflecting normal price differentials. Officials said tho' prices were in line with those tho department said last March 11 would support', if such support was deemed necessary to Insure formers fair returns. While potatoes have been sell ing at prices considerably above the support levels, officials said markets had shown . signs of weakening, Hence, today's ac tion wos taken as a stabilizing move, ' ' ; The department said it would buy potatoes at the - support price as well as make loans oh them. . . ' N ON TRAPPED ENEMY FLIRC PINAL SCORES . : ' , Nebraska 0, Iowa Navy. 46, Dartmouth 26, Columbia, 13. Northwestern 20,;Notre'Dama a.-" ' ':: ' ' : Florida 7, Georgia Tech' 20. ' - (Continued, on Page' Two), ' '.'. U One r. is ,A vl i. ,- IS,"..,' n .ai. .7. jasan tit' s Mr. and Mrs-William Boaeman and their children. Pearl, 13, hera-recently In this covered Phoenix.' near' Medford, they did not want to part with their faithful team, and made arrange ma'ntf to drive through. The covered wagon was equipped much Uka -a trailer house with' beds, stove, table and seats. They averaged 18 to 23 mues a day. They gasoline or tire troubles and no trouble with speed cops. One hurry. The picture above was taker by H. H. Ogle when the Greenspringt highway. ' E Nazis Struggle to Re pair Lines Souths Of Nalchik - MOSCOW Nov. 21 (P) Suc cessfully storming height at Stalingrad in the Caucasus, the Russians were reported showing fresh strength today in their bloody give-and-take with the German' invaders. ' During the night a red army unit dislodged the enemy from a strongly fortified height south east of Nalchik in the mid-Caucasus and killed 300 Germans, the midday communique said. In the Mozdok sector to' the northeast of Nalchik another soviet unit was credited with killing 100 foemen in a small scale attack such as the Rus sians . have been launching in increasing numbers for several days. Nails Repair Lines : The red army lines In Stalin grad were reported to have stood up under all German as saults since a gap made by a re cent breakthrough into a work ers' settlement was filled in and tho enemy ejected. Tho German command, de feated In its Caucasian drive on Ordzhonikidze apparently was struggling to -repair its broken lines southeast of Nalchik and recapture positions . lost to the Russian tounterblows. , Similar accounts of German repulses came from northeast of Tuapse, the active sector aleng the Black sea front. On the central front west of Moscow, 620 German officers and men were declared wiped out In a heavy exchange of ar tillery, rifle and machine-gun fire. . Brigadier-General Has Close Shave . In African War ' CAIRO, Nov. 21 (AP) Brlg. Gen. Patrick Tlmberlake, chief of the U. S. army air force bomber ... command in the middle east, narrowly missed being shot down by axis fighters when he was returning from one of the longest .bombing flights of the war, It was disclosed today. V' More than 70 bullet' and can non shell holes were counted In the plane in- which he was a passenger. : Part of its rudder was destroyed and made Jem pdrorlly useless and an engine Went dead but was restarted. Two crewmen were wounded but 'the general escaned unhurt Way to Travel in 1942 wagon, which they" drova' from Fallon.-Ntv Desiring to locate, at . -. Marihes on Guqtfafcanaf. fl vneerea ay v ic tory, look i For New Isles to Conquer PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov. 21 (AP) The United States marines on Guadalcanal, cheer ed by the navy's great triumph over the Japanese fleet ' last weekend, are looking for mPre Islands 'to conquer. Lieut. DeWitt Peterkln, first American naval officer tP ar rive here from the Solomons since the navy's victory Novem; ber 14-15, said he believed some 10,000 Japanese have been kill ed on Guadalcanal. . "The marines and other forces felt better after last weekend's big naval battle than anytime since I was there," said Peter kin, of New York, an assistant Crisis Passed ' For Over 400 1 Poison Cases SALEM, Nov. 21 (A3) xne crisis appears to have passed for the more than 400 Oregon state hospital patients who were poisoned Wednesday night by an egg dish containing sodium fluoride. . . - Their recovery seems assured, Dr. J. C. Evans, superintendent, announced shortly before noop today. Forty-seven patients died, the last on Thursday. '' " The heroic woman attendant, Mrs. Allie Wassell, who was credited with preventing deaths in her ward when she sensed an odd taste to the scrambled eggs, also is improving steadily, Dr. Evans said. She lay critical ly ill for two days as the result of the sample of the eggs she ate before she ordered her charges to eat no more. None of her 63 patients died and only a few became seriously ill. . A tedious oral, examination of approximately ' 30 patients and 10 employes was yielding "some progress toward solution of the case" as it continued to day, Capt. Walter Lansing of the state police reported. .''I am working on the theory now that the poison got Into the kitchen the day the scram bled eggs were served to the five wards involved," Lansing said. "We have determined also that the last .time officially-approved use of. the. roach poison (w hie h contained the' sodium fluoride) was made was about a week prior to October 18." -' Lansing also reported that his laboratory aides had determined that the scrambled eggs con taihed much more of the poison than was necessary to constitute a-fatal dose. ' . and Nolan, 4, passed through report an enjoyable trip with no M. P. told thtm not to get In a party reached Long Prairie, on to ' the J. P. . Morgan partners before he entered the service. "They feel that they- have been through ; everything, ; and have taken everything the Japs could give. They're optimistic and already are: talking about the next move westward.'.' . Peterkin,' attached to an air squadron, arrived - on Guadal canal late ' in- August and left there November 16." His squad ron sank 13 Jap ships and prob ably sank a fourteenth. r He praised the spirit of com radeship among the army, navy and marne. corps fighters on Guadalcanal. Most of" the action against Japanese land forces on the Island ; has . been in , the deep vales and .on ; the ridges of the west front. ' . "The , marines could, catch bunches of Japs; 300 at a time, In the vales and wipe them out. Killing a thousand in one night in one sector is not unusual. We killed' a hell of a lot. I (Continue on Page Two) Six, Killed In Bomber Crack-Up WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 21 (AP) The army today announced that two officers and a crew of four were killed in the crash, yesterday of a light army bomber . taking off from Morrison field headquarters of the army air transport com mand's arr)bbean wing. The dead included: The engineer, Corp. James Beeson' of Bakersfield, Calif. British Doer Rommel's Heels; Nazis Deny Trap CAIRO, Nov. 21 Racing westward at a speed unequaled in: modern desert warfare, the British 8th army today hurled its . forward elements against Marshal Rommel's rearguard at Agedabia, some 70 miles from the narrow El. Aghella defile. The British,, apparently mak ing .a supreme, effort to keep Rommel ' from ' organizing a de fense at Agheila, pressed ' on without pause at the heels of. the enemy after triumphantly hoist ing the union jack over Bengasi yesterday for the third time-in this war. ' .--.. Already the eighth army was half way to ' Tunisia from Its starting point at El Alamein In Egypt, and -more than half way to Tripoli. . Contact was . established with Nazis Pin Hope On Defense of Bizerfe, Tunis By The Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 21 Allied armored forces streaming- into Tunisia closed with German forces, today in the open ing phases of a full-scale assault on a Tobruk-like arc of defenses within, which the axis has been herded with' its back to the sea, around. Bizerte And Tunis. United States, British and fighting' French troopa al ready were reported by North -African radio stations to' hold all of Tunisa except those two bridgeheads, which . the axis, with air-borne reinforcements, is defending be hind barricades hastily Hung DPITIQU HflMUCPQ ' Ufll I lull UUmULIIu S T TIIkIIiI I I linill Three Planes Fail to Return From; Heavy Assault LONDON, Nov. 21 (AP) -The arsenal city of Turin was r at tacked last night by RAP bomb ers In a raid which an authori tative British source termed the "heaviest yet made on Italy." . Of the scores of Stirlings, Halifaxes,- Lancasters and Wel lingtons assigned to- the; mission, three failed to return. The others made ; the 1500 mile round trip successfully in another of the mass attacks that are proving- an conomtcal'-w8Y to tear at the industrial vitals of the axis. '.: . . The . attack was heavy and concentrated but . dense smoke from many fires made observa tion of the results difficult.'' .- Clear weather gave the- tar gets sharp outlines,- however; and an Italian communique -itself said the British, attacking in waves, . ''dropped Incendiary bombs in great quantities, main ly in the central district of the town." The Italians said the British inflicted damage . and spread fires and listed casualties at 29 dead and 120 wounded. The London Daily Sketch has reported that General Ridel, anti-aircraft defense, chief for Germany. Is being sent to Italy at the request of Premier Mus solini to reorganize Italian de fenses against British raids. : The writer ..of... this . news paper's "Inside Information", col . (Continued on . Page Two) . Final Tunnel of Alaska Railroad Cut Thursday SEATTLE, Nov. 21 (SV-The final tunnel in the portage Junc tion cut-off of the Alaska rail road was cut through Thursday, according to a report received here by the army engineers'-office. The report said the cut-off,- put through in record time, would save shipping time and costs to the interior of Alaska. - Col. Otto F. Ohlson of the railway and Col. Benjamin B. Talley -of the engineer corps shook hands through the first hole cut In the final wall of rock in the last tunnel. ' . the axis rearguard at Agedabia, on the coastal road 100 miles south of Bengasi, by one of Gen eral Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery's forces which made a bee line across the Libyan hump. Other 8th army forces followed the longer route around the hump and marched into Bengasi. Supporting the two-way allied drive against the axis in Libya and Tunisia, Malta-based bomb ers yesterday bombed Catania, Augusta and Cosimo airdromes in Sicily and struck new blows against axis shipping In the Med iterranean, Flying from Malta to the sup port of American and : British troops closing in on Bizerte and Tunis in Tunisia, British bomb ers also attacked a large axis ves- - (Continued on Page Two) out anout 30 miles in a semtr : 'circle about each port. ed that the struggle would grow ' in ferecity hourly and axis re- pons moicaiea mat me enemy already v,as throwing all the air 8nd submarine resources at its the closing circle of allied steel and choke off its supplies.,. .' - Nasi Decision .,.- r Reuters said British . forces had captured their first axis pri soners within Tunisia and. that in one clash British . parachute troops also bad destroyed six enemy armored cars. , : . The situation apparently was revolving about a German 'de- cision to pin axis resistance to a strong defense of Tunis and Bi zerte but there still was no off 1-. dal Indication that the axis forc es in Libya had been effectively isolated from those in Tunisia -by strong British or American forces reaching the Mediterran ean south of. those places.' : Initial Encounter , , ' An allied force from the Chad area deep in - Central iAfrlca, : however.'again was reported by the :.- Brazzaville radio, to ba thrusting north in an effort to cut off Marshal Rommel's: Una " of retreat between El Aghella and Tripoli. -, -. :A German broadcast reported Initial major encounters between the axis-and the atlies In' Tunisia -first disclosed yesterday In al lied d i s p a t c h e s. The Berlin radio, however claimed that 12 (Continued cn Page Two) : Yank Bombers Unload Trouble On Lungling Japs WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN CHINA, Nov. ' 20 (Delayed) (iP) Fighter-escorted American medium bombers, striking down the'. Burma road from Free China,; unloaded three ions oi explosives today . on the Japa nese army base at Lungling, starting several fires and in flicting heavy damage. The mission was led by Lieut. Col. Herbert (Butch) Morgan of. Freedom, Pa., and was, aimed chiefly at a large munitions dump and barracks; After' two rUns" over -the target the bombers had caused fires which billowed smoke so dense that the crews were un able to assess full results. - A big cache, of .munitions, however, was believed hit. ..- . ' Commdr. Hubbard , Killed in Action In the Solomons - NEW YORK, Nov. 21 0PH-. Commander Joseph Charles Hub bard, 42, who served for three years as damage control officer of the heavy- cruiser San Fran cisco, has been killed in action in the Solomons, his brother, William Hubbard, said today, - Mrs. Hubbard, who is living with her two children at her parents' home in , Urbana, O., said that while she had received two letters from the commander written October 27 with the. ad.-' dress "U. S. S. San Francisco,- , the navy did not Indicate that he was killed aboard the cruiser. Rear Admiral Daniel J.' Cal laglian and several of his officer lost;their lives aboard the ship, .which, did valiant duty, in 'th recent rout of the Japanese ar mada off Guadalcanal. . :- ' News Index City Briefs Page 8 Comics and Story ... ;.Page 10 Editorial :....1...i.......Page 4 Markets, Financial .......Page 11 Pattern Page 3 Society , ...Page B, 9, 7, 8 Sports Page ' 9
