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On 8-mlnute blast on sirens and whlitloi
Is the signal (or blackout In Klamath
Falls. Another long blast, during black
out If ilgnal ior all-clear. In preeau
tloniry periods, watch your strati light.
December 3 High 38, Low 17
Precipitation aa of November VI, 1941
Strtam year to data ...........3.88 .
Last year j ;:.J.J4 Normal J...2.S0
Dac. 8 Sunrlia 8:14 - Suniat ..'11:10
ASSOCIATED PRESS
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
NEA FEATURES
PRICE FIVE CENTS'.'4 'KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942
Number 9660
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By FRANK JENKINS
BIG new:
" On embattled Guadalcanal,
the Japs TRIED again and
FAILED again.
rrHEIR lntc.it failure Is a cosily
one, Involving nine ships untl
from 8,000 to 10,000 men for
(urn nf tlinir lost shins were trans-
porta tightly pocked with troops.
That l.i no more skirmish.
It Is WAR.
a a a .
VEEP this In mind:
On Guadalcanal and on tho
Buna-Gona beaches the Jnps ara
getting tholr taslo of Bataan.
Fewer men are Involved. But
the. principles ara the same. The
Japs who ARE Involved face
auparlor forces and unless they
can ba relieved they will be
LOST.
' The taste In Jap mouths at
Guadalcanal and on the Now
Gulnta beaches ' Is the 1 bitter
taste of frustration and death,
IT Isn't a pleasajit tasle. They
don't LIKE It. "'
to desperately to rellove their
endangered forces. The bitter
taste of frustration nnd death
isn't a good foundation on which
to build an EMPIRE OF CON
QUEST, - "-'
VMS mustn't glont. It's for too
. soon for that. '
; This very situation presents a
danger that Is REAL. The Japs
can't afford frustration and
death. Such things are BAD
FOR PRESTIGE. If they are to
hold the empire they have seized,
not to mention their other am
bitious projects, they must
MAINTAIN their prestige.
They have ample forces at
home. As compared with ours,
their communication lines are
short and well defended. They
may decldo that It Is compelllng
ly nccessnry to crush our out-
MO MATTF.P WHAT THE
COST. That would mean nn
ALL OUT battle In the South
Seas with us (because of dis
tance) on tho short end.
J But at least we can take grim
satisfaction from tho fnct that
our ngnung men nave maao mo
Japs ' taslo the bitterness of
Bntnan,
, ...
TN Russia and In Africa the big
tides that so thrilled us when
th?y turned OUR WAY have
spent their initial forco and what
we are watching now Is the
necessary but less spectacular
Job ot consolidation and mop
ping up.
If our side completes this Job
satisfactorily, there will be other
sweeping tides of success. But
before, they can come we must
do the cleaning up and the con
solidating. Theso Jobs have to do largely
with communications and supply
getting more men and mater
ials to the hot spots FIRST and
preventing the enemy from get
ting . his men and , materials
there.
His . center of last-ditch re
sistance must be smashed,'
.
TAKING the long view, Africa
looks like a center of axis
last-ditch resistance. El Aghella
and the northern tip of Tunis are
the ditches.
An allied spokesman soys to
day the Germans are estimated
to have about 14,000 combat
troops In the Bizerte and Tunis
battle area and "evidently In
tend to stay In Tunisia until the
last moment."
He adds that fighting In the
past two days has been heavy
and losses on both sides severe.
The edge In the impending test
of strength, he says, will go to
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MILK PRICE,
QUALITY BOOST
EXPECTED HERE
Premium Milk at
Cents a Quart to
Be Sold
14
An Increase In the quality of
locul milk, accompanied by a
1-cent-a-quort boost In price, Is
expected to bo announced with
in a few days by local distrib
utors. ' They have agreed to sell noth
ing here but premium milk
which, under OPA ceilings, may
be sold at 14 cents a quart The
present milk price is 13 cents.
Mora Buttorfat
The action, taken as an emer.
gency and temporary measure
to encourage producers to stay
in the business In the Klamath
milkshed, was taken tills week
after a conference of producers,
distributors and others with Law
rence Smith, representative of
the OPA here frorn Portland.
Tho 14-cent milk will contain
approximately ,18 per cent more
buttorfat, than that now gener
ally delivered "here. The current
deliveries are based on 4 per
cent milk, with a 13-cent celling,
while the 8 per cent milk to be
(Continued on Pogo Two)
Three Allied
Vessels Sunk in
Indian Ocean
LISBON, Dec. 4 OP) Dis
patches from Lotircnco Marques,
Portuguese East Africa, said to
day axis submarines had sunk
three United Nations vessels In
shark-infested waters of tho In
dian ocean this week, including
tho 10,708-ton British liner
Llandaf Cnstlo.
Tho Llandaf Ca.itlc was re
ported to have been bearing a
thousand South African troops
toward Durban on' leave.
Tho dispatches declared she
went down off Zululand and
only 40 survivors were known
to havo been landed.
The 6790-ton British liner
Nova Scotia, riven by two tor
pedoes from a German subma
rine, was reported to have gone
to tho bottom off tho Moznmbl
(Contlmicd on Pago Two)
FRANCE RAIDED
LONDON, Dec 4 (A1) Spit
fire squadrons carried out ex
tensive sweeps over Franco and
Belgium today, the air ministry
announced tonight. Four RAF
planes were lost, one enemy
fighter was destroyed and others
were damaged. .
Seaplane, Flying Low Over Guadalcanal
Waters, Saves Ten Survivors of Baitle
(Edltor't Note: Th dram ha been told
of the Jnpnneia air and naval defeat In the
8olomoia from November le-lfl durlns
which 28 of their nhllia were enntc. Dill
here li new drama In the tranla icene after
battle'a end. telling how a aenplana renfited
American anrvlvore. Including Dob Brueco,
of Knlnler, Oregon.)
By WILLIAM HIPPLE
- SOMEWHERE IN THE SOLO
MON ISLANDS, Nov. IS (De
layed) OP) Tho Japs have fled.
They mndo another desperate
attempt lost night and early this
morning to land ' troops ' and
equ'pmont on American held
Guadalcanal island. Again our
novol forces threw them back. 1
Today-1 hopped into the sec
ond seat of a seaplane piloted by
Lieut. (J. G.) Hubert (Patches)
Perry, of Phoenix, Ariz., who
files as expertly as he used -to
break broncos on Arizona
ranches.'' We had orders to pick
up survivors. Over the battle
area, the water was a mass of
oil littered with boxes, , cans,
shell: cases, life -raits, Ufa jack-.
m
Lakeview Youth
Flies With Guns
To Guinea Front
Br MURLIN SPENCER
SOMEWHERE IN NEW
GUINEA, Dec. 4 (AP) Ameri
can lOS-mllllmctor Howitzers
whoso effectiveness against nazl
steel In North Africa won Prime
Minister Churchill's praise
havo been flown 1500 miles
from Australia and havo gone
Into action against the Japanese
clinging to their Buna-Gona
positions In the New Guinea
Jungles, It was disclosed today.
Military experts said It was
the first time In American army
history that artillery of that
type was transported by air.
The Howitzer weighs two
tons. Each gun with Its crew
ot eight men, ammunition, spare
ports and a small tractor, was
flown to New Guinea In Flying
(Continued on Page Two)
Merciless Battering
Loosed on Jap
i Positions'"
'.A L LI ID HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA. Deo. 4 OP) At
the cost of only light casualties,
allied troops were reported to
day to have slain 480 Japanese
In the Gona area of New Guinea
as they tightened the' : noose
around enemy forces trapped in
that coastal stronghold and at
nearby' Buna, -.; ;j
A communique announcing
tho allied ocesses acknowl
edged that tho Japanese were re
sisting stubbornly but said thoy
were being subjected to a. merci
less battering by planes and ar
tillery designed to soften their
defenses.
" Posts Capturad
Allied airmen also ranged
across the sea northwest of Aus
tralia to strike a heavy blow at
the Japanese base at. Koepang,
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Parity Change
Adoption Brings '
FDR Warning
WASHINGTON,-Dec. 4 (IP)
Adoption by the house ot a bill
to Include all farm-wages in fig
uring parity prices brought the
comment from President Roose
velt today that the first' thing
to do was to find out the effect
this would have on the cost .of
living.
, The president had taken a
vigorous stand against this re
vised parity formula at the time
antl-lnflation was before - con
gress. Opponents of the bill contend
It would raise the cost of living
several billion dollars.
ets, pieces of lumber and other
debris.
We traveled low. 6ver .the
water, peering closely at the de
bris. We saw several lifeless
bodies with th arms and legs
outstretched grotesquely; but we
had to pick up the living first.
The -Irst live man we saw was
a Jap clinging to a raft. We
went low and waved we would
pick him up. Thu Jap sailor hid
behind the raIt,:probably think
ing we were going to shoot him.
We circled again and once more
he hid. '.;: -V; . '
Pilot Perry then gave up.'tryr
Ing to save 'the Jap and con
tinued looking for our own men'.
An unwilling Jap Is dangerous
in a situation like that. . The Jap
tried unsuccessfully to smash : a
wing with a club. So now Perry
Is wary . - ' ;
We soon saw our first Amerl
can sailor in the water. . He yras
waving: weakly ytl.. waved
ned
sic
Burned Plant Causes
' Mix-Up; Relief
Sought :
Disclosure that the Klamath
Falls community is being de
prived of a large part ot its
legitimate meat quota because
ot peculiar circumstances re
sulting from a fire came Fri
day as a local effort was organ
ized to get federal agenciea to
afford relief in the local situa
tion. Latest critical development
here was the closing of a pack
ing plant which had been start
ed here recently by H. K. Tav
ermer on the Midland road, on
the grounds that Tavenner did
no slaughtering In 1941 and
therefore has no quota on which
to work this year.
Plant Burned
. This left the Pauley Packing
company as the only operating
plant here, and Pauley, is con,
fined by .government order to
70. per icent. Mi its 1941.. aaU.
quarter production... . ... , ... i-
' The p 1 a n t of the Klamath
Packing' company, which opeiv
ated in 1941 and would have a
quota for production this year,
burned up a few weeks ago. and
apparently its quota - was . de
stroyed with it- '
County Agent C-A.- Henderson,-
who is. secretary of the
Klamath Livestock association,
Wired ' Senator- .Charles s L. Mc
Nary. Friday .-to the effect that
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War Bulletin
LONDON, Dec. 4 OP) The
Morocco radio said today the
"larger part" of more than 80
n.my tanks which the axis
us.d in its counter-attack in '
the Tebourba sector wer dt-
stroyed or damaged and.' that
axis parachutists who landed
in the allied rear had been
rendered powerless In short
order.
"Violent fighting" Is going
on in the Mateur sector, the
broadcast said, while allied
aviation is attacking axis air
dromes and - troop concentra
tions with great fury. Six
enemy planes were shot down
in this latest phase of the
atrial battle, the broadcast
added.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 ()
French and allied forces oper
ating in central Tunisia have
captured a number of prison
ers, the war department re
ported today, and troops near
Tebourba are consolidating
their positions.
back, then circled, landed and
laxicd to him. I crawled from
the rear seat, got on the pontoon
under the fuselage, and held my
leg out as far as possible. . He
caught hold and swung onto the
pontoon. He was covered with
oil. Black oil in his eyes made
it ' impossible for him to see
much. He lay gasping for breath
on. the pontoon a few minutes,
then managed to crawl onto the
wing.
- Lieutenant Perry taxied the
plane forward and.spotted anoth
er man. We repeated' the pro
cedure.' He, too,-grabbed my leg
and managed to crawl onto the
pontoon.
' ' . Buddy Found
He was in bad shape from ex
haustion, heat exposure and con
sumption ot too much oil and
salt .ater, but kept trying to tell
me something through cracked
lips. I put my ear close to his
. CUnuedn.PagevTwo).,
San Franciscans
fCl f) J-i Ah
E & hkV ' .XX
Protesting that its food allotment Is too low for its population,
which has Increased by the wartime boom, San Francisco Is now
taking its own census through its thousands of air raid wardens.
Here,, Air Raid -Warden John Burket, left, registers the Thomas
H. Foster. family,. In' front, left to right, are Janet and Dolores
Fosters in center are Paul and Mrs. Foster, and in rear are, left
to right, Florence, Elaine and Toni Foster Jr. Census figures will
be presented' to the government with - a request ior increased
food allotments. .'
'SECRET WARSHIPS
x. :
Axis Shipping -Toil on
Tunis Supply Line
. Rises.to 6 ...
LONDON, ;.eo. - 4 : 0P) War
ships so new they still are ort the
"secret list" 'we're reported today
to have joined Britain's Mediter
ranean fleet' as the toll of axis
shipping sunk by allied sea and
air battles rose to six Tunisia
bound supply vessels, three de
stroyers and a torpedo boat, all
apparently sunk within a 24
hour span.
These boles in the enemy's sea
communications across the Sicil
ian narrows, announced in Brit
ish communiques of ' successive
days, countered -frantic axis ef
fort to get new men and sup
(Coritinued on Page Two)
Five Arrested'
On Shipyard Job
Selling Charge
' LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (IP) A
U.1 S.' maritime ..commission in
spector and four others are un
der arrest here on federal indict
ments charging they, sold Jobs to
several hundred shipyard work
ers for fees aggregating between
$25,000 and $50,000. ' .
Seized by federal bureau of in
vestigation agents at Long
Beach, Calif., last night were the
Inspector,' Charles W. Held; W.
F. Moffett,-described as a former
tire -shop operator;. O. B. Bart
lett, James F. Thornton,, identi
fied as j a former -. Bethlehem
Steel company employe, and Ray
Palmer. All live in Long Beach.
' The defendants, the .. govern
ment - charges, -' brought several
hundred workers here from the
middle west, accepted payment
or contracts for payment for
training which was not given,
then certified them to the ship
yards, as skilled, workers. The
government says that in most
cases the workers were not qual
ified. .'.- '. '
SHOPPING
f?"LEP'SSEt
Y A BOTTLE
BagQr0jik3sS&s
1
Demand Re-Count
Jeffers Warns
Of Disaster in . .
Rubber Output
' WASHINGTON, : Dec 4 0P
Rubber- Administrator William
Jeffers- reported today that be
cause other war construction is
competing for critical materials,
the nation's supply of crude rub
ber and synthetics may fall below-the
"disaster line" of mil
itary demands.
He said any delay in bringing
synthetic rubber factories: into
production would be "disastrous"
and that there were indications
there would be some delay.
Senator Johnson (D-Colo.),
member of the joint committee
to which Jeffers presented his
first report on rubber, asked
for an explanation, saying "as
I read that, you say any delay
will be disastrous, then you say
there probably will be a delay."
Jeffers replied: .
"Either we get the material to
bring the synthetic plants into
production, or there will be a
delay which in my opinion will
be disastrous." .
Jeffers complained that other
production programs were inter
fering with the task of obtaining
vital , machinery for ' synthetic
rubber plants.
This, he added, was contrary
to his understanding . of. Presi
dent Roosevelt's endorsement of
the statement of a committee
headed by Bernard M. Baruch,
that rubber was the country's
"most critical problem." ,
Jeffers , mentioned the con
struction of high-octane gasoline
plants as one program compet
ing with the rubber plants for
materials.
Higher Spud Price
Ceiling Decided,
OPA Tells McNary
WASHINGTON, Dec- 4 OF)
Oregon, Washington and Califor
nia potatoes will be given a higher:-price
ceiling, Senator ! Mc
Nary (R-OreJ said he was in
formed by the OPA yesterday.
. . OPA officials have not decided
what the new price will be but
an order will be issued Decem
ber 10, McNary said. .
Growers had . protested, that
present ceilings were too low to
lfiave a fair profit after produc
tion and handling expense was
deducted.
Oregon Still Ranks
No. 1 in Lumber :
. WASHINGTON, Dec' 4 OF)
Oregon and Washington pro
duced 34.8 per cent of all. the
lumber produced in the United
States in 194133,613,043,000
board feet.
, The bureau said Oregon con
tinued to rank as the number
one lumber producing state with
Washington second. ; . ,.
10,000 Jap '
Troops Lost?
In Solomons
By ROGER D. GREENE
' Associated Press War Editor -'
Heavy "Wows to the axis resounded on three fronts In
the world's far-flung battle zones today.
1. SOLOMON ISLANDS American warships scored
a big new victory over the Japanese , off Guadalcanal,
destroying nine more vessels in. a night battle in which
upwards of 8000 to 10,000 nemy troops lost their lives.
2. TUNISIA American and British troops crushed a
series of desperate German- attempts "to" recapture' key
points on the approaches to Bizerte and. Tunis, but heavy
losses have been-suffered on both' sides and a decisive
battle remains to be fought. ......
A German version asserted that American forces in
Tunisia were on the defensive,-pressed closely together,
in a continuing battle around Tebourba, key rail junction
35 miles south of Bizerte and 20 miles west of Tunis.
,'A group of 60 enemy parachutists which landed
south of Tunis had been surrounded and is facing annihi
lation," nazi dispatches said.
- By contrast, allied headquarters last night declared
the Germans had been hurled back in a second counter
attack, near Tebourba,. which remained in allied hands.
Reds' Rout Invader ' " . , ' : ' '
3.- RUSSIA Soviet dispatches reported that the red
armies, had driven the last Germans from the north sec
tion of the Don river elbow, above Stalingrad, and punched
another hole in the nazi lines west of Rzhey on the. bliz-zard-swept-Moscow,
front, where Adolf Hitler was re
U. S.-Gradually Gain
ing on Guadalcanal,
; ; ' Says Knox .
WASHINGTON, Dec- 4 OP)
Secretary of Navy . Knox said to
day that he believed-' the Jap
anese had not succeeded in get
ting reinforcements or supplies
into Guadalcanal island in the
Solomons in the past . three
weeks.
The . Jap -, forces ashore, he
noted, must be getting short -of
supplies.- ;
Summing up navy reports of
almost ' constant patrol activity
by American forces on. the island
since the navy's great sea victory
of three weeks ago,, Knox told a '
press conference that "we're
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Jeffers Pledges
Salesmen Gasoline V :
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 0PM
Rubber Director William M.
Jeffers' office said today it had
received Price Admanistrator
Leon- Henderson's, assurance
that travelling salesmen would
be made eligible for gasoline
for "occupational: driving."
A Jeffers spokesman said he
took this to mean the salesmen
would get more gasoline than
now allowed them under their
eligibility for"B" ration books.
There was no indication how
much the increase would be or
on what terms it would be al
lotted., .
Pro-Nazi Vichy Regime
Strips Petain of Power
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 4 Marshal
Petain, a . prisoner of the nazis
in . all but name, virtually has
been stripped of power and a
new all-out collaborationist reg
ime is emerging in Vichy under
the guidance of Pierre Laval, the
Associated Press' was informed
today by usually reliable
sources. ' -' .:?;'','. . . . .',v '-'i't
The Identity of these infor
mants may not be divulged but
they are known to have had ac
cess to authoritative Vichy cir
cles,' including persons in high
diplomatic places and one man
until recently a member of Pe
tatn's cabinet. .. . - ., ' . '
This former cabinet member
told cV deceit and coercion ty
Laval und his cohorts to bend
the old marshal to their will and
of-Petalu's ovY.i resigned admis
ported frantically rushing ill-
trained reserves Into action.
Inside Stalingrad, the . red
army command announced, Rus
sian troops routed the Germans
from a number -of buildings - In
the rujned northsuje factory dis-.
triSC while" on the southern out
skirts of the city the Soviets
captured a strong point cover
ing: the-nazi flank. .
." ' Landing Smashed .
' In" the Solomons, the navy
announced . that v two - Japanese
troop' transports', a cargo ship
and six escorting warships were
sent- to the bottom1 "when the
enemy blundered into- an Amer
ican naval 'trap under cover of
darkness Monday night. ..... -, .-
' -The navy- said the 'Japanese
attempt 'to land -reinforcements
for their .dwindling forces o
Guadalcanal already - short oh
"beans, and bullets" was com
pletely frustrated. , : -'
"No landing was effected,'
the navy- said, and only -a few
Japanese sailors, -rescued from
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Former Premier, "
French Tennis
Star Arrested
r tONDONi Dee. : 4 : (IP) Reu
ters said tha Rome radio broad
cast a Vichy . report today thlt
Edo'uard ' Herriot, 70-yesrld
premier of the French; republic,
and-Jean Borotra,' French Davis
cup tennis star, had been;arrest
ed by Vichy authorities. ' ; ' -
(A Stefani dispatch; Mbad0.ast
by the Rome: radio- said Leon
Jouhaux, former chief ':of-."'the
French ' Gv eral j C6:.C MSn
of Labor, and F ancpls de -Tes-son,'
former undersecretary - of
foreign affairs, also were placed
under arrest.) - ' " - - -'
. Herriot, radical-socialist lead
er, and., mayor of Lyon, was
placed under house arrest Octo
ber 2, after he had written a let
ter of protost to Marshal. Petain
against anti - democratic . mea
sures.-' -
sion that affairs in Vichy had
become a matter of each man fpr
himself. . -
At a cabinet meeting or. Nov
ember 26 just eight days ago
he said Petain ruefully addressed
his colleagues: e ,
.;, "Gentlem.n, I regret I can no
longer, take responsibility for
your safety. The time hag come
for every man to depend on him
self." ".
This minister, who must re
main anonymous, said . Petain
was taken completely by sur
prise when the-nazis had been
Informed fully beforehand that
Hitler intended to tear up- the
armistice provision setting aside
France's free zone. . :' , - ;
, Laval, he said, lefib Vichy two
dayi before, ostensibly, on- his
usual business trip to Paris, but
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