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ant . Oni 8-inlnute blast on sirens and whistle It tho signal for a blackout In Klamath Folia. Another long blast, during black out, la a algnal (or all-clear. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your street light. November 24 High 49, Low 33 Precipitation at of November 18, 1941 Stream year to date....;.......,.. '.....,.,.3.24 Laat yea? 3.24 Normal 1.89 Not. 28 Sunrlie ; 8i03 Suniet 8il4 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942 Number 9652 fo) 0) fBaaM! j I,,..'.',,, Ifetato n AIT I m :-. ' 111 SI ! il ! i 1 V. ! Ill, lit at m afJ i I i I '! I : !i il 'II , KT J i ii iiiiii . 1 : ii liiii'i'!'iiii!li!l By FRANK JENKINS 'T'HG good newa today continues ' to coma from Russia. In London a British military aource whoso identity, the dis patches assert, cnn't be revealed aaya: "The nazl besiegers of Stalin trad are In an AWFUL MIL ITARY PflSlTIDN Thrv hnv to withdraw through a menaced, curving corridor between Rus sian armies and have to get across tho Don river. "A German counter-nltack to relieve them will bo tremend ously difficult." THIS "menaced, curving cor- . Hdor" between the Russlun armies Is now down to 30 miles In width, with the attncklng Rus sians pressing In from the sides for tho kill. DUSSIAN estlmutes of the losses Inflicted on the Germans are mounting, , i Moscow today places the total at 50,000 killed and 80,000 CAP' TURED. , , CAPTIVES. "Lnrgo numbers of captives CAN MEAN dcmorali- rntlon. Wo don t know yet that It does. But history tolls us that the taking of large numbers lot captives OFTEN means tho be ginning of a brenkduwn In moralo, TVDN'T Jump to unwarranted conclusions. But It Is worth remembering Hint up to now relatively few Germans have been captured In Russia even last winter, when thry wero re treating. DUSSIAN estimates of German losses Include only killed and captured with no mention of wounded. A Reuters (British news sen Ice) dispatch from Moscow, np plying the slandnrd ratio of three wounded to one killed, places the total of German wounded at 120,000. THIS British military source In T n. n 1 . II ...... uuiiuiiii iiic.ixirs niiuiiitri villi' tlous but INTERESTING ob servation. He says this Russian offensive may be the first major land ac tlon of the war NOT ACCOM- PANIED by heavy nlr fighting. He offers two reasons for tho lack of air activity on the Rus sian front bad weather and DIVERSION of German air strength to the Mediterranean. He Is supported by an Aus tralian correspondent in Algiers who says today that a German air squadron raiding North African towns yesterday was on the Stalingrad front thrco weeks ago. THIS suggestion that Hitler has been compelled to withdraw his planes from the dangerous Russian front gives us an Idea of the Importance of the Mediter ranean fighting. THE news from Tunisia Is x vague but SIGNIFICANT. . Allied planes are shooting down Gorman transports In cluding a largo NEW type cap able of carrying 80 soldiers fully equipped. Most of these trans ports have boon shot down while coming back from Africa EMPTY. ' That Is to say, the Germans are rushing reinforcements to Tunisia by AIR, using all the transport resources at their com mand. They SEEM to bo neglecting Russia In order to save their foothold In Africa, . QN the basis of today's dls . patches, we are safo In as suming that the fighting around Bizerte and Tunis Is HEAVY and that our side Is not making (Continued on Page Two)-- Fog ALLIES BATTLE LAST-STAND' Planes Spray Death On Trapped , Enemy By The Associated Press In the far Pacific, American and Australian troops battled at close quarters with the "last stand" remnants of a Jupaneso Invasion force on tho beaches of New Guinea today while allied planes sprayed death into the enemy trapped along a lz-mlle coastal strip. Dispatches from Gen. Douglas MaeArthurs headquarters In dicated that the strugglo for the enemy's last footholds In the Buna-Gone sector was ncoring an end, with allied troops sur rounding the enemy on three sides and steadily closing in. No ChallenBe Australian troops found 100 Japanese dead In a single village, and other Japanese bodies were strewn along the sands. Every available allied plane was, sent skimming itv low-level attacks over tho Japanese posi tions with machine-guns and cannons blazing. No Japanese planes appeared to challenge the aerial assault, dispatches said. On the China war front, U. S. army headquarters reported that American bombers, accompanied by the biggest fighter escorts yet seen in the China theater, blasted two of Japan's main air bases In South China without drawing opposition from a single enemy plane. Tho targets were an airport on the island of Sanchu, 72 miles south of Canton, and tho Tienho airfield at Canton. Service Men's Purchases of Liquor Restricted SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25 (IP) Army and navy regional commands today ruled that service men may buy Intoxicat ing liquor at bars only between the hours of S p. m. and mid night, and at stores for consump tion off the premises only be tween 5 p. m. and 8 p. in. The restrictions will become effective December 10 In Wash ington, Oregon, California, Mon tana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Oregon. , Beer Is not included in the restrictions, the announcement said. It may be bought at any time, but the public was asked not to sell Intoxicants to any members of the armed services who is "obviously Intoxicated" or to minors in the services. . It requested likewise that prosti tutes bo prohibited from enter ing establishments where liquor Is sold on the premises. GUINEA JAPS Four Nazi Prisoners of War After Escape From California Train OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 25 (P) Four German prisoners of war Jumped from a slow moving train early today and enjoyed brief freedom before thoir recap ture. , : - - Tho escape, at Allumont pass near Llvarmore, Calif., was dis covered by a train brakeman, who saw ono of the prisoners ly ing alongside the track feigning denth. All of tho recaptured men Id they were from General Rommel's Afrlka corps. No English Sergeant Pilot Hans Kirber, 21, of the German luftwaffo, who admittedly engineered the es cape, was recaptured after he hailed a ride from a workman going to a military project near Livermore, Calif. The motorist tried to engage iting S Marines Slay 70 Japs, Take 5 Machine Guns WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S OP) The navy announced today that a marine patrol on Guadalcanal In the Solomon islands had killed 70 Japanese and captured five machine guns In an enemy encampment southwest of the American-held airfield. - The action was carried out Mo n d a y, Guadalcanal time, against an encampment near the village of Mambulo on the upper reaches of the Matanikau river. The marine patrol suffered only two men wounded. A communique reporting this flurry of activity- said also that dive bombers and fighters from the Guadalcanal airfield had at tacked enemy t Installations at Munda on the western end of New Georgia island, 180 miles northwest of the . airfield, and scored a direct hit on a ware house. . The navy- had reported, yes terday that Japanese troops were active In the mountainous Mam bulo . region but had not des cribed the na'ture of the activity. U. DEAL WITH Eden ; Dec I i nes to D i s cuss Arrangement , Made by Yanks LONDON, Nov. 28 CP) A fighting French military spokes man skipped his customary broadcast to France today and, in explanation declared, "as long as Darlan Is retained as the head In North Africa I feel I cannot conscientiously continue." Eleven of the Churchill gov ernment's persistent critics in troduced a motion In the house of commons tonight, disapprov ing the United States' dealings with Darlan whicn Anthony Eden, government spokesman in the house, said the government had endorsed as temporary military expedient. The eleven, who never yet (Continued on Page Two) Survivors of Sunk Freighter Land in Africa LOURENCO MARQUES, Port uguese East Africa,. Nov. 25 (IP) Fifty survivors of the 6900-ton United States freighter Alcoa Pathfinder landed here . today after their ship .was sunk ioff the Mozambique coast, probably by a submarine. Some of the survivors were Injured seriously. They were given first aid treatment by a Portuguese rescue party sent out to meet them. Three other ships have been sent to the bottom off the Moz ambique coast within the past week. Kirber in conversation, and im mediately discovered he couldn't speak English, So when he drove into the military project, he told Guard Claude Freeman, "I think this is a guy you wan" Fouod-Aileep Kirber wore a military pris oner's uniform. ' . His re'eapture at 7 p. m. ended the short-lived break which started at midnight. , ,- Two were caught at the train side by armed guards after, the brakeman signaled the train "to an emergency stop. The fourth was arrested by civilian defense police who found him asleep in an automobile near Pleasantbri. Drafted . Edward Lorenc, 21, who climbed into the stalled automo bile to rest, demanded that he be taken to the Polish'-consul in oreads HITLER HURLS BITTER BATTLE Contest at "Critical Phase," Says Eden By The Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 25 The scale of axis . air attacks in North Africa was reported authorita tively today to show that Adolf Hitler was backing up, the enemy land forces with great air power for a bitter-end stand on the Mediterranean shore probably even to the extent of draining planes from his im perilled Russian front. This warning of the degree to which the axis was girding to' save its. last footholds in North Africa came soon after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons that tho contest for North Africa had reached an "extremely crit ical phase. Allies Pound Tunisia However, the strongest pene trations were- believed still- to be those, holding defensive arcs, some 30 miles outside Tunis And Bizerte and in flight be fore Britain's eighth army in Libya, although the Vichy . radio yesterday reported strong for mations landing at Gabes and Sfax In southern Tunisia. American, British and French forces were reported ' roaming the - length and breadth of Tunisia, clashing - occasionally (Continued on Page Two) 80-Man Nazi Transport Plane Shot Into Sea LONDON, Nov. 25 (IP) A Reuters dispatch said today that a mammoth German transport seaplane, capable of carrying up to 80 . fully equipped soldiers, was shot into the sea yesterday off the eastern coast of Tunisia by RAF long-range fighters from Malta. The dispatch called the craft a Blohm and Voss 222 appar ently a huge new type by the makers of the flying boats which the nazis used experimentally for flights across the Atlantic be fore the war. Three RAF fighters sighted it north of Linosa island, midway between Tunisia and-Sicily, fly continued on Page Two) Search Continues For Flood Victim PORTLAND, Nov. 25 (IP) Search continued today for the body of George Willis Scott, 20, logger, thought to have drowned Monday when the flooding Sandy river carried away his house near Brightwood. Retaken San Francisco, claiming that he was a Polish citizen. t He said he was drafted into the Gorman army while in the pountry visiting an aunt., He said that after being captured in Libya, he had been treated ex ceptionally well in British pris on camps, Train Stopped Sergeant Kirber said he in structed the men to leave the train and head for Mexico. , He did not explain why he planned the escape.-. ; ' Under his instructions, he said, the men slipped through an open window of the slow moving train. Shortly thereafter the brake man saw one man lying beside the track. He signaled the train to stop. The man was wearing (Continued on Page Two) POWER No , Wis -,f0 For the first time In years, the Klamath county Jail was without eren one guest Tuesday; and a vacancy sign was hung out. In the picture, left to light, are County Commissioner John Reber, Sheriff Lloyd Low, Jail Cook Bob Eberman and County Judge U. E. Reeder. The cook, was not quite so disconsolate Wednesday, for the Jail had one prisoner again. He is Timothy O'Flaherty, charged with selling liquor to an Indian. Maybe Tim saw the sign on the front-door. - , j E NegotfationsOri Way To - Lift Ruling, . Says Chief .5 WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (IP) WPB Lumber Coordinator Ben Alexander told . a senate com mittee investigating a threatened lumber shortage today that Ca nadian authorities . had "abso lutely refused''- to lift . a war embargo against exportation of logs to the United States. ' "It looks to me like the WPB ought to get a little tough about this. Senator Wallgren (D-Wash.) told Alexander. Something Smelly "We've been tough," .Alexan der declared.-- "It apparently will take a lot bigger brass hat than ' I ve got to get the job done. . However,: he said negotiations "are continuing." Earlier in the committee hear ing - Wallgren remarked there seemed to be "something smelly" about WPB delays In getting the embargo, lifted. - , Restrain Comment Wallgren made his statement during questioning of William B. Greeley, Seattle, manager of (Continued on Page Two) ; Minesweeper, Tanker Destroy Armed Jap Raider LONDON, Nov. 25 (IP) The admiralty disclosed today that a heavily armed Japanese raider was engaged and destroyed in the Indian ocean November 11 by a minesweeper of the Royal Indian ,navy and a Netherlands motor tanker. ; , . i The-.minesweeper, H.' M. S. Bengal, was escorting the 6863 ton tapker Ondina about 1000 miles southwest of Java when they encountered the 10,000-ton Kikoku Maru and the 6863-ton Kunikawa Maru, both believed armed with six 5.5-inch guns and. equipped with torpedo tubes and catapult aircraft. The. Bengal and the Ondina each had only a single four-inch gun. ' . . -. v Indian Property Bill Approved WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 UP) President Roosevelt signed yes terday a bill assigning the prop erty of Indians who die without heirs to the tribes to which they' belong. In the event the tribe is extinct the property will go to the successor tribe. If the tribe to which the Indian belonged has not been succeed ed, the property reverts to the government for use' in aiding needy Indians. Housing Problem Here i mmmimn Worst Is ret To Come, Warns Joseph C. Grew PORTLAND Nov. S5 Nothing - short or military an nihilation can cause the Japan ese people to revolt against their leaders,. Joseph! C. "Grew told 5000 persons at the Civic audi torium last night. . - The former ambassador , to Japan . cautioned against opti mism over the few allied gains in the South Pacific. i ' . ' "The Japanese, are devoting every ounce of their energy to consolidating their amazing gains in order that they may bring about not only our defeat in the far east, 'but that they may subjugate us at home," he said. . ; . Governor Sprague," who Intro duced Grew, said "Get Out' your auas ana see what the situation is. Guadalcanal is only , a tiny speck in the Jap empire." and we hold only three per cent of uuadalcanal. It is a long road back to Tokyo, but we are going 10 mane n. Briq.-Gen. Duncan Missing in Action Since November 17 WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 (IP) Brigadier General Asa N, Dun can, chief of air staff in the European theatre, has been forced down at sea and Is miss ing in action. : The war department rerrorted today that Gen. Duncan. 50. was forced down while flying from England to North Africa on No vember 17. His plane went into the sea off the northern coast of France.. No .information, the department said, has been re ceived as to whether any of the persorinel in the plane survived. Duncan, a command pilot and combat observer, was made chief of air staff in the European ineaire last July. He is the sec ond general of the army air forces listed as missing in action. Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker has been missing since he flew out to bomb the Japanese fleet approaching Midway island last June. Two other generals, Maj. Gen, Herbert A. Dargue and Brig. Gen. Harold Hi George, have been killed In airplane ac cidents since the war started.- shoppingTI dans left- TO GET BC)CS TOR. DOC' HD MARIE i il tn -r " Weather Holds Desert Battle to Slow . Speed CAIRO, Nov. 25 (IP) Advance British- units maintained ' pres sure on the -retreating army of Field Marsha Erwin Rommel between Agedabia and El Aghel ia - yesterday, but poor weather conditions again held aerial acs tivity over the desert battle "are to a small scale, the British an nounced today. "- -' - -,, " British medium and- heavy bombers ' ranged out over the Mediterranean, however; and- at tacked axis airfields in Crete and Sicily. - - - .... Twin-engined " fighters shot down at least - two - German planes flying northward off the eastern coast of Tunisia, the com munique said. One British air craft was reported missing. . Fighter-bombers, " raiding the axis airfields in Sicily, across the straits from Bizerte, scored hits on the island's gun positions, the communique reported, and fires were started .on the air fields of Crete by medium" and heavy bombers. -. ; PILOT ACQUITTED , - SANTA ANA, Calif.,- Nov. 25 (IP) Lt. William N. Wilson, ac cused of manslaughter : in the death of 12 persons after a col lision between his army bomber and a commercial airliner, was acquitted today by a court martial. - . Gas Sign-Up Pui Off Until Dec. 3; Many Unregistered With, large numbers of motor ists apparently still unregistered the war price and ration board announced Wednesday that is suance of A mileage rationing books will; stop immediately: at the board offices, to be resumed on December 3. ;. ' Although the state OPA plan was to stop all registration after the three-day period at school houses, the board has attempted to .keep up registration at head quarters with volunteer workers. On Wednesday,-.; however, the confusion became so great that further registration -was called off until '. December , 3, when tardy motorists may apply at the board offices near Fifth and Main streets. : ; ;v - i . Reports from the schools Wed nesday showed that 9657. motor-; ists registered November. 18-19-20. ' These figures- cover all schools in the city and county except Fort Klamath and Peli can bay camp, where not more than 200 registered. The esti AXIS' ESCAPE LANE WHITTLED TO 3JJILES - - - . Nazis Acknowledge a : New Break-Through OaRzhev Line; MOSCOW, Thursday; Nov. 28 (PH-Russian troops still driving; ahead on the German flanks above, and -below Stalingrad- have captured 15,000 more nazis and have killed 6000 more to boost tha'enemy: toll to 98,000 sinco November 19, a special commun ique said today. : , - In the same period the Rus sians said . they- had captured 1300 German guns of all caliber, 5518 trucks, 62 ammunition dumps, and a vast quantity of other eqnipment and food. ' ' - One enemy tank division, the 22nd, which had been encircled hi the northwest sector near tha Don rivers now has' been anni hilated, the communique said. ' '' By The Associated Press - ' '- Russia's armies squeezed the) German" "escape corridor" from Stalingrad -down to a bare 30 miles today, engulfed 12 more towns and. villages, and rocketed enemy, losses to nearly. 100,000 killed or, captured in a violent seven-day-old offensive which the nazis admitted had not yet reached its peak.- -Northwert-ilof- Stalingrad, "trie red armies were reported ' to have driven 80 miles Into the depth. of nazl defenses inside the big -bend of the Don river, and to- the southwest the. Russians ,- (Continued on Page Two) OPA.Was Too Much For; Fuel Company; They're Closing : . PORTLAND, . Nov. 25 (IP) Notified. ;by ..the OPA that . it would have to pay a fine of $219 for overcharges, the Andrew and Conover Fuel company here closed up today. ; . Said H. D. Andrews, a partner: "When we " filed " our . highest prices as of last March we listed a wood price of $6.75 a cord. Shortly, afterward, increases in cost .made, it necessary to raise this to $7.v We asked OPA if this ' rake would be all -right. They said we won't-say yes and we won't say So" we left It in effect. - ' . -.- "Now they come along and tell us we have to pay a fine of $219 for overcharges . . -. We're just going to close up until wr can get things straightened out.' News Index City ' Briefs ;...':..:.. .:.:.....Page Courthouse Records ..Page Comics and. Story ,.....Page Editorial i........'..............Page Markets, Financial ....;.Page Midland Empire News,...Page Our Men in. Service........Page 10 Pattern. ., Page 3 Sports ....Page - 6 mated total of passenger cars in the county is 13,548, Indicating that hundreds of motorists either have hot registered or have put up their cars. ' Registration figures for city and suburban schools were: v. Pelican 326 Mills' ....:....,.,....::...i....l45 . Fremont . . '.-,,' 1867 V KUHS .:,...............; 929 - ' ' Altamont ....................1311 ; v Fairhaven' 427 -.- ? ;The ; rationing board pointed out Jha't school teachers through out -the -city and county - gave their services free of charge in taking the mileage rationing reg istration. -Also,- a large corps of volunteer ; workers - has been helping out at the board office without pay,- and the .. panel boards in-the different commun ities are serving without pay, , ' The board warned motorists Wednesday that tanks should be filled with gasoline on November 30, the day before the rationing '.: (Continued on Page Two)-