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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.-
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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
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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
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