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Herald MWtJMaMMMtMtJinae BIScRSI ,IU,lli",l.1l.nl,l,li"."ll.l.iihi !JfJgjJ On 5-tnlnute blast on sirens and whittles It the signal lor blackout tn Klamath December 8 High 40, Low 31 Precipitation aa of December t, 1842 Stream year to date ...,............4.87 Last year 3.62 Normal 2.84 Dec. 10 Sunrlae 8:18 Sunset Si08 Falli. Another long blast, during black out, la a algnal lor all-clear. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your ttreat lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND PKICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1942 111! II II I NEA FEATURES I All VNIII'! 'AXiriUJUINtl r 1 fmm C 1 1 f 1 I II I I 1 I II IIIIIIIIEIIII L, UJ V) J U LsLra U lyJifiiiJljv - llSil By FRANK JENKINS T OOK1NG ut the mup, ono'a off J himd fooling la Unit tho rel atively small number of Ger mans and ltullnns In northern Tunlslo ouitht to bo run rugged Into tho Mediterranean without loss of time. Your mnpi union It In more llinn usually dotullcd, doesn't toll the wholo story. Northern Tunisia la rouifh. and hilly nnd lends Itself rendlly to dofoiuio. ltd natural defenses have been grcally Improved by tho French, and theno prepared position! ore now occupied by the ox is forces. TF you will recoil how lonu tho outnumbered Russian defend era of woll-fortlfled Sevastopol held out against tho Germans, who laat spring were at the peak of their 1042 strength, with short and efficient communication lines behind them, you will get a better Idea of tha task faced by the allied army In Tunisia, e . e VTORTHERN TUNISIA Is the site of tho ancient emplro of Carthago, and It was theao nat ural defenses thnt enabled tho Carthuglnlans to stand off thoir enomlos for centuries. It was not until tho STAMINA of her people decayed and she was rent and torn by violent political quarrels that Carthago finally foil., It wns because she ROTTED INTERNALLY that Carthago was destroyed by her Roman enemy, nECAUSE It hos been over shadowed by - tho startling campaign in Africa, the fighting on tho Bunn-Gona beaches of New Guinea hos not received the attention wo would otherwise hnvo given It. It Is a thrilling story, and wo hnvo every reason to foci prldo In It. MncArlhur Is a smart general nnd tho Australians and Americans he lends hnvo just about everything It takes cour- ngo nnd stamina to stand up to bitter hand-to-hand fighting against tho Japs and ingenuity to meet nnd overcome tho ob stacles thnt are encountered. That Is a combination that Is hard to beat. . . ryt tho Ingenuity side, Amor ' lean -lOo-mllllmeter howit zers, weighing two tons, hnvo boon FLOWN 1.100 miles from Australia and hnvo gono Into action against the Jnps. Thtfio guns,, each with lis crew ot eight men, ammunition, spare parts and a small tractor, wero flown to Now Guinea (pre sumably to Port Moresby) in Flying Fortresses, then were taken apart, loaded Into smaller planes nnd flown to the fighting fronts at Buna and Gonn. It is ability to do the unex pected nnd tho seemingly Im possible thnt wins wors. We can bo proud that our fighting men hnvo this nbility. . "TURNING momentnrily from A tho subject of fighting to tho subject of statesmanship, Willklo tells us tho United Nations world will bo lost, regardless of the military result, unless our side "comes quickly ;to a common un derstanding of what we're fight ing for and whnt we hope for after tho war." It IS getting about time for a clear statement of ' our war alms. No ono who romembors tho Inst war can full to recall tho strengthening ot allied purpose that followed President Wilson's frequent clear statements of whnt wo Wero fighting for. . , . . WILLKIE, incidentally,, calls attontlon to something that few of us hod noted that Stalin HAS and HAS ANNOUNCED a post-wnr program. It Includes: Abolition of racial exclusive ncss, equality of nations and In tegrity of their territories, libera tion of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as It wishes, economic aid to nations that havo iuffered, restoration of demo (Continued on Fags. Two)- I Jan Wars MAIL PLANES BOLSTER AXIS IT Reds Make Slow Prog ress Against Re sistance By HENRY CASSIDY MOSCOW, Dec. 0 (P) Gcr many' armies, trying desperate ly to hold tho sicgo of Stalingrad they laid down 106 days ago, are pressing mull planes und training ships into service In an attempt to bolster thoir threat ened forces with reinforcements, tha soviet army nowspaper Red Star asserted todny. The red air force has downed as many as 00 Junkers 62s in three days, Red Star sold. These aro the icgular Gorman troop and supply carrying ships which the Invader has been using to bring reserves from as far ns Germany itself, Red Star claim ed. Trucks Used Even the Hamburg 142, a mnll plane, has appeared on tho front for tho first time, tho Russians asserted, Indicating the enemy's shortage' of transport aircraft. Trains and trucks were nlso being used lit an effort to pour help through tha narrow nut cracker corridor left to the nuzis at Stalingrad. Reds Restore Line Southwest of Stnllngrad, tho Germans hit red army flanks with tonka and motorized Infnn try, and at somo points, Red Star conceded, penetrated to tho rear of Russian units. Russlnn tnnks and motorized infantry, nlded by light armor piercing guns mounted on tanks, "generally succeeded in restor ing positions," Red Star sold. Within Stalingrad itself, Red Stnr roportcd, Russian artillery shelled the Gcrmnns with long ranga guns. Nails Countor Tho mounting activity of Ger-' man armor and planes was noted by Red Stnr on tho central front, too. In tho Vollklo Lukl sector, despite recent snowstorms, Rus sian filers shot down seven nazl (Contlnuod on Pago Two) 8 Million Idle Tires Forwarded To Government WASHINGTON, Dec. 0 (P) Nearly 8,000,000 tires had been forwnrded to the government under tho Idle tiro purchase plan on the closa of business Novem ber 28, tho office of price ad ministration announced todny. Sampling examinations of tires reaching warehouses Indi cated that about half of those turned In wero so bndly worn or.dnmngod that they cannot be put Into shapo for resale. These tires will bo scrapped and con verted into reclaimed rubber. Tho remainder were cither usable or serviceable through re pairs and recapping. U. S. Merchantman Sinks Raider, Then Goes Down WASHINGTON, Dec. 0 (IP) A medium-sized Amorican mer chant vessel exchanged shot for shot .with two enemy surface raldors . In tho South Atlantic, sinking one of the rnidcrs and badly damaging the other before she. herself plunged beneath the waves, tho navy reported today. Only 10 of tho merchantmen s crew of 41 survived tho 20-min-uto slugging match and the sub sequent 31 days in an open life boat , In addition, five men ot the navy gun crew aboard tha vessel survived. Tha out-gunned merchantman was hit irom stem to stern by IS As . -4 M00Pmk'i L; v Pretty ornaments on any Christmas bee would ba Jean Bowling, 800 Owens street, (left), and Dorothy Hicks, 1832 Portland street, caught looking over the crop of greens today. Trees have advanced over the 1841 price and a dearth oi greens may prevail. ' " ' Hard-io-Get Christmas Christmas trees, that all-time essential of December 25, have stepped out of line and joined tho ranks of everything else that's going up : in ' front of America's eyes. Nice fat trees, little old spind ly, shanked white firs,' red flrt with well balanced branches they're all selling - for around 50 cents a foot and even if you are used to a pretty small tree, the prlco Isn't anything to sniff ot. ' Tho boys that sell the trees, tho ones that got in on the ground floor early, had one big headache getting the firs out of tho woods. That's what they State Liquor Stores Ordered to Close at 8 P. M. PORTLAND, Ore.,- Dec. 0 (P)The Oregon liquor , control commission Issued revised clos Ine orders today for all state stores, beer and wine dispensar ies and "night spots" wjiere It quor is served. State-operated liquor stores will be opened at 10 a. m., and closed at 8 p. m from two to three hours earlier than most stores now close. Service men, officers and en listed men may purchase liquor only between 5 p. m. and 8 p. m. Places where beer and wine aro sold , for consumption on the premises must close at midnight. Liquor. control board licensees selling wine for con sumption off tho premises must close at 8 p. m. The new schedule will become effective tomorrow at 10 a. m. It was approved by the western defense commond and tlie 13th navnl district. four salvos, tho largo guns of the smaller raider apparently being fired together from a central fire control system, tthe navy said In telling of tho battle on 'B . day lato in September The navy said "One main boiler was hit, and the ship's speed was reduced to ono knot; other shells struck the radio mast and destroyed the aerial; tho steering engine room was hit by shrapnel and Incen diary shells; tho main deck house was set aflro; the ship was slowly flooding from numerous hits below the . water line, but (Continued on Page Two)' , ......... . Sun k Christmas Trees Going Up! to Buy, Too clJlm and one look at the "ex isting weather" of which you are supposed to say nothing, as sures Christmas tree - shoppers that It -would be far from pleas ant to plow through a bunch ot slush, over muddy roads and in to the forest areas in search of tho greenery which ' makes homes so pleasant at holiday time. Only three . Christmas tree stands were operating here Wed nesday. And what's more the operators of this mid-December business swear they aren't going to go out for any morel One merchant, busy nailing stands for his Christmas trees, put it this way: "No, by golly, I'm not going out to get any more trees when these are gone. Had to bring these white firs out of the Quartz Mountain country with a team and sled. That ain't no fun. When this batch is gone, they'll (Continued on Page Two) "Double Work" A Done in Issuing Truck Rations "Double work" is being done by the Klamath war price- and ration board in Issuing gasoline books or bulk coupons to many truck owners who have tardily received their ODT certificates, It was learned Wednesday. Because the certificates were slow in arriving, many truckers came In for emergency rations. Now that the certificates are ar riving, these same truckers must return to the ration board for books or bulk coupons, making double work at the board office, It was learned from a rationing official.. This was making up a large part of the work at-the ration office Wednesday. Mrs. Effio Gnrcelon, board clerk, said many truck owners do not realize they must come to the board office for books or coupons, but instead (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Soldiers Parade for Aussies MELBOURNE, Australia," Dec. 9 (fl3) Cheering crowds lined the streets of Melbourne today as United States soldiers and 40 nurses paraded through the city. The parade, the Melbourne Herald said, "provided our first chance to show appreciation of the men whose courtesy and good conduct .we. have admired so-much." j . Solo DDu ' , u , ... . 7 t U. S.CEMS0HSH1P TClLEiED D i r e e to r . Attributes Abuses to Inexpe rience WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (JP) Chairman Van Nuys (D-Ind.) of the senate judiciary committee challenged today the legal au thority of Byron Price,, director of the office, of censorship, to censor mail between the United States , and its territories and possessions. Van Nuys expressed, his stand at a press conference after Price had testified for three hours be hind closed committee doors. The censorship director himself, talking to reporters before Van Nuys' conference, said he had no doubt, that it was congress' in tention in passing, the first war powers act last year to "protect the security of communications in and out of the country." No Right Van Nuys said he thought the censorship of mail, except that (Continued on Pago Two) Football "Feud" Ends in Main Street Match - A quarrel which started early this fall at a football game end ed Saturday night in a street fight when one of the partic ipants put his. foot through a large plate glass window- at Shaw Stationery company, 729 Main street. ' Two 18-year-olds were In volved In the slugging, police said, and a third joined in to help i his pal. Parents of the three said they would pay. for damage done. Not only was the large side glass shattered, but a front pane cracked, police re ported. IfiT shopping! rlO DAYS LEFT- ""TO GET U ELECTRIC -Sfe Buy Christmas &3ls ATTEMPT TO SUPPLY ISLE Fl Dec. 5 Action Told; Other Ships Damaged - WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (flV Destmction of one Japanese war-, ship and severe damaging of three others by American dive bombers and torpedo .planes op erating from Guadalcanal island in the Solomons was reported by the navy today. One ship was seen sinking and the other three in flames the morning after the attack on an enemy force streaming toward Guadalcanal on December 3, the navy said. In addition the com munique reported that ten Jap anese float type planes were shot down during the engagement which frustrated another at tempt by the Japanese to rein force their troops on Guadal canal. - ' . Report Amplified ..' -.The action originally hail been reported by the navy department on December 5, but at that time results of the attack, In waters between Santa Isabel and New Georgia islands about 150 -miles . (Continued on Page Two) 14 Boys Saved Flag in Riot, Director Says MANZANAR, Calif., Dec. 9 (IP) The story of how 14 heroic young Japanese-American Boy Scouts stood off a milling mob which last Sunday tried to seize the American fiag in the midst of a fatal riot celebrating the Pearl Harbor anniversary was told to day by Ralph P. Merritt, direc tor of the relocation center here. One man was killed and eight injured when soldiers fired into the rioters after repeated warn ings to stop advancing were ig nored. Merritt said the administra tion building flagpole was near the area where the mob formed, with the stars and stripes wav ing in the fresh freeze. "One of the pro-axis sympath izers," he continued, "started for the flagpole to haul down the flag. The Boy Scouts surround ed the base of the flagpole. They had armed themselves with stones the size of baseballs. They defied the agitators or the whole mob to touch the flag. And the , flag was not hauled down." Merritt did not say whether reinforcements came to the aid of the small band or whether their countrymen in the mob withdrew. Meanwhile, conditions at the center continued quiet today, as war relocation authority offi cials from Washington flew west to join an investigation and question leaders of the agitators. ST T O Movement of Some Foods May Be Cot, Says Expert LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 (JP) Movement of . some foods may shortly be restricted beyond a radius of - 500 miles from the point of origin, a War Produc tion Board authority said today. Amplifying remarks made last night to a conference of business men, Dr. Roland S. Vaile, di rector of the WPB office of civil ian supply's consumer goods di vision, emphasized that there was no intention of limiting food movements to 500 miles. . : "But if there are restrictions," he said, "it is probable that those foods given preference will be those of higher caloric content..- There should be no limit &m ' N. tBUUHU Tuni,f3 , k ) GabM Mediterranean SaK-J A flight of British - bombers which took an hour to paaa over the English coast .made : the 1200-mile round-trip flight to Turin again Tuesday night and battered the arsenal city for the fifth time in a month. In Libya, allied fighters shot down seven Messertchmitts in an air battle near El Agheila. where Rommel has taken a new stand against the British eighth army. mi jnrEMPT FOILH GUINEA One Jap Destroyer Set Afire; Five Flee Northward ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 9 (P) Al lied bombers broke up a new at terant by the Japanese navy to reinforce troops in the ' Buna Goha area of New Guinea yestei day, setting one of the six relief destroyers afire with two direct hits .and forcing the remaining five to flee northward, an allied communique said today. . On the New Guinea shore, al lied forces which drove a new hole in the Japanese lines a few days ago and reached the beach fought off strong counter-attacks from Buna village and Buna mis sion. At least 40 Japanese were reported killed in the fighting. Hospitals Attacked Allied troops advanced slight ly in the fighting around the Buna airdrome and the commun ique reported that allied planes were continuing their attacks on Japanese positions. The communique from Gener (Continued on Page Two) 100 Hostages Seized in Lyons, Held for Execution LONDON, Dec. 9 (Fight ing French headquarters assert ed today that the Germans had taken 100 hostages from the pop ulation of Lyon in reprisal for an attack on a German soldier there on December 1 and that the host ages were reported now to be awaiting execution. The fighting French said this was the first instance of taking hostages in what was unoccupied France before Hitler's November 11 occupation of the whole coun try, although scores have been executed in the old occupied zone. Some, of the Lyon host ages are women. "On December 1 an attack was made on the life of a Ger man soldier in Lyon. One hun dred men and women were chosen immediately at random from the population of Lyon and are now awaiting execution in the prison centrale." . of any sort within a 500 mile area." : ' He illustrated by ; suggesting that, while the country probably will consume next year an In creased amount of citrus pro ducts, it would be wise for grow ers to make a higher percentage into juice because in such con centrated-form, its . transporta tion will be less of a problem. Illustrating further, he said that it required; 19,000,000 freight miles to supply the New York market -with lettuce last year.. Yet lettuce, he continued, has a relatively low caloric and vitamin value. (Continued on Page Two). Heavy Artillery Lets Loose on Nazi Positions By ROGER D. GREENE rr Associated Press War Editor Britain's huge four-motored bombers delivered another tem pest of fire and high explosives on the Italian royal arsenal city of Turin before dawn today, while across the Mediterranean the rising might of allied ail squadrons challenged tho axis for control of the skies over North Africa. A broadcast from American occupied Morocco said allied heavy artillery previously pic tured as mounted on strategic heights was pounding axis forces in the Tebourba sector in Tunisia and allied planes again raided Tunis and Bizerte. ' Casualties Severe Every day, the broadcast said, t'fresh (allied) formations of air craft are put into operation." , Italy's high command ac knowledged that the RAF "car ried out a violent raid last night over Turin, causing very heavy damage especially in the central area." Its communique Indicat ed that casualties had been se y ere,. ,. v ;. ri- .i; . KuffiofTtative London quarters said the RAF's far-ranging Stlrl lings, Halifaxes, Lancaster's and Wellingtons, flying 1500 miles round trip across the Alps, blast ed Turin in "a concentrated at tack" and declared: Civilian Exodus "The results are believed to be good." - It was the fifth time in less than a month that Turin has felt the impact of "prolonged, scien tific and shattering attack" promised by Prime Minister Churchill in a campaign to knock Italy out of the war. Civilian populations at Turin, Genoa, Naples and other Italian cities have already started a hasty, exodus to the countryside under orders by Premier Musso lini.: Yank Tanks Praised Advices reaching London said the hour for a new allied drive on the axis-held strongholds of Bizerte and Tunis might be near, following a strong and success ful counterattack executed Mon day by British and American troops in the Tebourba sector, 20 miles west of Tunis. American tanks were official continued on Page Two) Farm Marketing Committees to Be Set Up in West SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 VP) M. A. Clevenger, Pacific area administrator of the agricultural marketing administration, an nounced today that state farm marketing committees would bo set up in five western states to direct orderly marketing of foods. Clevenger noted that wartime food distribution problems "will multiply as the war progresses." He added: "The department of agricul ture is in a position to know in advance which foods will ba scarce and which will be rela tively abundant. State market ing committees can help bring about , an orderly marketing change with the rise and fall of supplies and keep retailers and -consumers reliably Informed." He will have charge of sotting up the committees in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. He believed the committees could be chosen in time to begin meetings this month. : News Index City Briefs ... Page S Comics and Story ........Page 8 Editorial Page 4 Market, Financial Page 11 Midland Empire News ..Page 7 Our Men in Service Page 9 Pattern .... ....., .-...Page 6 Sports .-. T...Page 10