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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942
Number 9674
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K. F. mum
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By FRANK JENKINS
nUSSIA tukca tlio spotlight to-
dny with announcement of a
new two pronged offensive
louthward from Voronezh and
westward from tlio upper sec
tion of the Don bend, northwest
Oof Stalingrad.
Sotilhwnrd from Voronezh, the
Russian nra apparently follow
ing tho Moscow-Rostov railroad.
Tholr other prong Is driving
westward TOWARD this rnll
lino, and today's dispatches in-
dlcnto the possibility that they
may effect a Junction at Miller
ovo, about 130 miles north of
Rostov.
Tho red army reports advances
ranging from 47 to 78 miles and
says that yesterday alone Its
gains were between 16 and IB
miles. That's pretty good speed,
and indicates that the German
tcslstanco encountered isn't too
, strong.
VOUR map will tell you tho
story. It will suggest that if
the Russians can keep on going
in their present direction they
will ba abla to got In BEHIND
O Rostov. '
If and when that happens, Hit
ler will havo to chaw another
rug, for his summer-long, costly,
bloody Volga-Caucasus drive will
have been nipped off back
toward Its base. - -
TP you aren't willing to toko
tho time to follow It on tho
map, you might as well skip tho
atory of tho Russian winter of
fensive. Only the map can
maka it clear.)
'T'HE Russians report 300 vll
lages retaken and more than
43,000 Germans killed and cap
tured , In this latest drive
which, by the way, is already
In Its sixth dny, although we have
heard nothing of It before.
Tho Russians arc master hands
at keeping quiet about what they
' are doing.
Q AMONG their achievements in
this drive, they havo taken
many of tho airdromes from
which tho Gormans havo beon
flying reinforcements and sup
plies to their pnrtly-surroundcd
forces in the Don-Volga area,
compelling tho Gormans to
longthcn seriously tho final link
of thoir nlr-supply routo to tho
Stalingrad front.
1 In any offensive launched in
modern warfare, you may bo
sure that airfields aro Important
objectives.
,
nrHE drift of tho news today ln
x dlcatcs that tho axis plan Is
to gather ALL Its Afrlcon forces
' for a last-ditch fight at Blzcrto
and Tunis. If that is true, Rom
mel will not attempt much of a
stand at Tripoli. There are hints
that Hitler is oven weakening
his forces in Russia to bolster
O his Tunisian-position. . '
- Rumors today toll of an axis
armada being gathered in French
ports for an all-out attempt to
get reinforcements to - Tunisia.
Some 1U0 French ships, recently
seized, are said to bo included In
this armada.
Hitler, Ciano (Mussolini's son-in-law)
and LAVAL aro reported
to bo conferring on plans. Laval,
you see, is casting asldo all con
cealment and Is openly joining
tho Germans and Italians.
(That Isn't news, of course, as
he has been headed In that di
rection from tho beginning.)
T IGHT Amerlcan-bullt tanks,
:J manned by Australians, en-
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BERLIN SILENT ,
LONDON, Dec. 21 (P) The
I Berlin radio was suddenly sllont
' shortly after 8 p. m. tonight in
dicating, tho posslblo presence of
allied bombers over the continent.
Klamath Stores
Report Bang-up
Safes Weekend
Klamath merchants reported
a bang-up wcekond In holiday
sales and In a check with nine
of the loading stores reports
were optimistic for a hurdle
over 104 I s business figure.
Several stores said that Sat
urday's business was 30 per cent
over that of . last year, and one
merchant said his sales for the
weekend were 80 per cent above
the 1041 figuro for the same
two days prior to Christmas.
"Very satisfactory," "better
than last year," "wo did a whole
of a toy business" and even "best
day In the history of the store,"
wrro a few of tho comments
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PILOTS SEHRCH
E
Transport Missing
' With 13 Persons
Aboard
VANCOUVER, Dec. 21 M)
Keen-eyed pilot,' hampered by
tho weather criss-crossed a ru
god coastal area 80 miles wide
by 00 miles deep today search
ing for a Canadian Pacific Air
lines transport missing with 13
persons aboard.
Eight planes took part In the
hunt, their only clue tho fact
that the missing aircraft had
made Its routine request for
landing Instructions as It soared
over the peaks of the Cascades
at an altitude of 14,000 feet lost
night near the end of a three
hour flight from Interior Prince
George, E. C.
Sllcnco greeted the CPA con
trol tower at Vancouver airport
when it called back to glvo In
structions to Capt. Ernest Kubl
cck, veteran northland flier, and
his co-pilot Capt Bill Holland.
If tho officers followed rou-
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Steps Planned to , .
Improve Rationing
Of Gasoline, Oil
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (P)
James F. Byrnes announced to
day after a conference with key
administration officials that
steps would be token to increase
tho supply of petroleum and
"Improve rationing methods."
Tho director of economic sta
bilization added, however, that
tno governmental agencies in
volved "hold out no hope for
any lessening of tho restrictions
upon the use of gasoline and
fuel oil."
Chairman Donald M. Nelson,
of tho war production board
warned, meanwhile,- that in the
future "the mobility of consume
crs will be greatly restricted,
both of necessity and by consum
er choice."
"Travel by automobile is duo
for restriction much more dras
tic than that obtaining today,"
Nelson said in a letter to Chair
man Murray (D-Mont.) of the
senate small business committee.
Citation Reveals Giraud's
to
ALLIED : HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 21 (VP)
An audacious submarine expedi
tion, commanded by an Ameri
can navy captain, whisked Gen-
oral Henri Honoro Glraud out
of Franca to join In the allied oc
cupation of North Africa, but
the elderly, pugnacious French
man once foil Into the sea to bo
saved by submarine crewmen
who grabbed him by the coat
collar.
The story of Giraud's sub-
marlnc-alrplano escape was dis
closed yesterday when Lieut.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower com
'Drowns
ESCUE
SAVES LIVES
OF 3 OTHERS
L. E. Arney, 25, Dies
As Boat Overturns
Near Keno
A duck hunters' boat over
turned in the Klamath river at
Kcno late Sunday, drowning Ly
man Eugene Arney, 29, and set
ting the stage for a quick rescue
that saved the lives of three
others. A fifth man swam to
shore, i
Four men and a boy wero in
the 14-foot motor-powered craft
when it turned sharply and
struck a boom log 100 yards be
low the bridge as they came Into
Kcno from a hunting trip at
9:83 p. m.
Boy Warned
Into the icy water went Arney,
Eugene Reamcs, William A. Ben
ton, William Stacy and William
Stacy, Jr., who is 11 years old.
. Arney sank almost immedi
ately after calling out to the, bpy
to grab the boom log. -.-
Young Stacy grasped the over
turned boat, as did Benton.
The elder Stacy sought first
to aid his son, unable to swim
and weighted down by heavy
hunting clothes, he went down
once or twice and was struggling
desperately when rescued.
Reamcs swam to shore un
aided. 3 Pulled In
The rescue was effected by
Ross Simmers and Dick Morgan
of Kcno, who heard the shouts
of the accident victims and put
out almost Immediately in Sim
mers' boat.
They picked up Stacy, and
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Strike of Union
Members Hampers
Gun Plant Output
JACKSON, Mich., Dec. 21
(AP) A strike of several hund
red union members employed at
tho Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company today hampered pro
duction in the company's gun
plant here, which operated with
only a fraction of its normal
force.
Company officials and lead
ers of the United Rubber Work
ers (CIO) local union conferred
in an attempt to settle the dis
pute which centered in arrange
ments for Sunday work at the
plant.
A notice posted by the com
pany Friday, announcing that
only 75 per cent of the Sunday
shift was to report, set off the
dispute. Local union members
at a meeting decided the entire
force should be given Sunday
work, or none would work, and
directed unionists to remain
away from the plant.
A company spokesman said
Friday's notice was intended to
avoid payment of double time
for a large number of new em
ployes being trained for work
in the plant.
African Front
mended Navy Captain Jerauld
Wright, Washington, D. C, for
leading the operation.
Glraud joined Eisenhower
only a few hours before the al
lied troops' went ashore in North
Africa, November 8, after his
third and most thrilling escape
exploit. Giraud escaped from
the Germans once in the first
World war and again last April
when ' he fled the German
Koenlgsteln prison into Vichy
controlled France.
Wright led the exploit in a
British submarine, which lay off
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f
Aleutian Fliers
m in
Dressed In heavy clothing,
craw await thalr turn to take
islands, closa to the Jap base
Axis Moves Forces From
Russia, Tripoli to Make
All-out Stand in Tunisia
By Tha Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 21 CflPJThe
'aids was reported today "moving
its forces from Tripoli and di
verting men and material even
from the hard-pressed Russian
front in order to make an all-out
fight for Tunisia in the wake of
a two-day military and political
conference at Adolf Hitler's
headquarters. - .
Neutral and allied sources re
ported that a huge convoy was
December 24 Is
Effective Date
Of Spud Ceiling
The office of war Information
said Monday that December 24
is tho effective date for the new
potato celling, which is 10 cents
abovo the previous ceiling.
On Saturday, when the new
celling was announced, consid
erable confusion developed as to
the effective date. The Herald
and News, which received con
flicting reports on the question,
tried repeatedly- for a definite
government statement, but could
get only a report that the OWI
information f r o m Washington
gave the impression the effective
date was Monday.
On Monday, a definite state
ment came through making De
cember 24 the day.
Mother Sees Her : .
Son, In Spite of '
Censor's Ruling
BOISE, Ida., Dec. 21 (IP) A
mother s patience was rewarded
Three weeks ago John Bar-
ringer, with the army on the
west coast, advised his mother
by letter that he was coming
through his, hometown en route
to an astern base.
The censor wouldn't permit
John to give details, so his moth
er, Mrs. Charles Barringer, be
gan meeting trains.
As one pulled in Saturday
night, Mrs. Barringer saw her
son on a coach, boarded and
rode to Glenns Ferry,- the 70
mllo trip affording ample time
for a visit.
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SHOPPING Tl
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the members of -a B-24 bomber
off from a base In the. Aleutian
at Kiska. ' .':.."." "."
being assembled In southern
French potts to ruh relriforce-mcnts'-'jfronv-
Europe, and that
Marshal Erwln Rommel's Afri
can corps and Mussolini's tat
tered legions might give up Tri-
politanla altogether in order to
concentrate every available man
and gun In the struggle for Tu
nisia. A Reuters dispatch from
North Africa said allied patrols
had captured Italians from Tri
poli who wero tryi .g to link Up
with Gen. Walther Nehring's Tu
nisian forces and added that
there were indications that part
of the Italian garrison of Tripoli
also was moving by sea to Tu
nisia. The Dally Mail, in a dispatch
from Madrid, said it was report
ed from Vichy that the Germans
were planning a large-scale at
tempt to reinforce the Tunisian
forces with a convoy of 150
French ships massed in French
ports for the risky crossing. .
' The presence of Pierre Laval,
Vichy chief of government, at
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Four Soldiers, Two
From Portland, Die
In Eastern Crash
WILMINGTON, N. C, Dec.
21 (IP) Philip Chipman, 37, for
mer prominent attorney of Port
land, Ore., and honor graduate
of Harvard university and three
other soldiers were killed in an
automobile collision near here
yesterday. .
Chipman was an officer school
student at nearby Camp Davis,
as were Edmund L. Labbe, 28
also of Portland, Ore., and Wil
liam A. Pommering, 22, -Fort
Thomas, Ky, All would have
been graduated this month.
The fourth victim was tech
nician, fourth grade, Norman
rakett, 26, of Hillsdale, N. J. ;
Barkley Calls for
United Congress
WASHINGTON, Dec. ' 21 (IP)
Senate Democratic Leader Bark-
ley of Kentucky called on the
new congress today to bury, fac
tional differences in' a harmoni
ous support of the war effort
which would leave the country
united when, tha time comes to
write the peace.
Republican minorities ' will
climb to the highest point in
years with the convening of. the
new session on Jan. 6, but Bark-
ley expressed confidence that
would make no difference to
ward prosecuting the war.
. News Index
City Briefs Page 5
Comics and Story Page 6
Editorial . Pace 4
Markets, Financial ,...:.....Page 7
Midland Empire . :..Page 4
Our Men in Service...:. Page 8
Pattern Page 3
Sporta . Page-2
I
laois
r,
Jap Commander Kill
ed in Battle for
Buna Area
By The Associated Press
American-made tanks. Aus
tralian-manned, have rumbled
into the attack against the last
Japanese strongholds in the
Buna area of northeast.' New
Guinea, while on the Burma
front 6ritisjj troops and.-Amerr-
tan Domoers strucK ai japan s
westernmost bases. ' .' ;.
,5 From-ch"13. Brig. Gen. Claire
L. Chennault's Sky Dragons
dumped tons of heavy 'explosives
yesterday onto a big Japanese
airfield and military warehouses
at Lasbio on the old Burma sup
ply road.
Firai Started
Not a bomber was lost and
not a Japanese fighter was en
countered, reported 3. Reilly
O'Sullivan, Associated Press cor
respondent whoaccohipanled, the
raiders. ' ' ," y , .
" He said fires were started
whicn could be seen - 60 miles
away. .-.
From the mountainous Indian
border, Gen. Archibald P. Wa
vell's forces had pushed through
the western Burma jungle for al
most half of the 100 miles to the
important, port of Akyab, 340
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Defective Wire
Brings Charge
Against Company
WASHINGTON. Dec' 21 (JP
Attorney General Biddle . an
nounced today the Indictment of
Anaconda Wire and Cable Co.,
in what he called "one of the
most reprehensible cases of de
frauding the government and
endangering the lives of Ameri
can soldiers and sailors."
' The justice department said
the Marion (Ind.) company was
charged with turning out defec
tive wire in meeting 6,000,000
in government orders. Some of
its wire went to Russia, an of
ficial said, resulting in a soviet
complaint, while the U. S. army
had ordered that communica
tions-wire from the Anaconda
company be used only for ma
neuvers not for combat. 1
Besides conspiracy to defraud,
Biddle said the indictment of
the company and five officers,
returned at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
charged conspiracy - to present
"false claims in the production
and sale of wire and cable used
by the armed forces for combat
communication purposes."
The justice department
charged the defendants, "secret
ly installed," behind sliding
panels under test ''tables, mech
anisms that enabled the passing
of inferior or defective mate
rials. H. D. Kersey, president of the
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ANK BOMBERS
STREAM
INTO
BURMA BATTLE
RAF Pounds Great German Inland Port;
Flying Fortresses Dare Nazis in France
LONDON, Dec. 21 (P) The
RAF pounded Germany's great
inland port of Duisberg at the
junction of the Rhine and Ruhr
rivers last night in a swift fdl-low-up
to a 'daylight raid by
American Flying Fortresses
which dared swarms of German
fighters to penetrate deep into
occupied France yesterday.
"A strong force of bur bomb
ers attacked industrial objectives
at Duisburg in clear weather and
bright moonlight," the air min
istry said; . "The attack was
heavy --and -concentrated and
fesait ..Buna
Held for Shooting
- Polignac Bourquln. 72, was
jailed in Savannah, Ga., on a
charge of opening fir with a
shotgun in Chatham county su
perior court. Wounding Judge
Clark Edwards and three other
men. Detective Chief John C.
McCarthy said Bourquln fired
because ha thought ha saw- a
lawyer "who did ma euxf,; years
egor;. ' - :';' rst'A V'-' ; --'
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Chinese Hold Invader
Along Banks of '
'"' River
CHUNGKING, Dec. 21 (IP)
Continued clashes along the bor
der of the Burmese Shan states
and Yunnan province, where the
Japanese are driving northward
toward the Burma road, were re
ported by the Chinese high com
mand today.
The communique said Chinese
forces were holding the Japanese
in check along the banks of the
Namlwi river, where the Japa
nese crossed into Yunnan from
the south for the first time at
Mengma, about 1! 0 miles south
of the Burma road.
In another clash more than
100 Japanese were killed and
wounded in a stampede when
the invaders were thrown back
in an attempt to cross another
river, the communique said.
It Takes a Civilian
Now to Play Santa
At Hensley Field
' DALLAS, Tex., Dec' 21 , (P)
Physical training Instructors at
nearby Hensley field are wear
ing that smug, satisfied look.
The soldiers want to have a
Christmas party and there's not
a paunch to be found among
'em, befitting a Santa Claus. A
bay-windowed civilian will be
imported for the chore.
many large fires were left burn
ing." -
The German, high command
said both explosives and incen
diaries were loosed upon Duis
burg. -,
"Considerable damage was
done, especially in the resident
ial districts and to public build
ings," said the high, command
communique broadcast by the
Berlin radio. - "The population
sustained losses."
The size of the force which at
tacked Duisburg was not im
mediately disclosed, . but an an-'
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SOVIETS NEAR
UKRAINE EDGE,
DONETS BASIN
Russ Take Airdromes
r .'- Used for Nazi
Supply
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (AP) The)
red army'-s middle Don offen
sive, its third of the winter,
rolled on to the edge of tha
Ukraine and toward the' vast
coal, iron and hydroelectric,
regions of the Donets basin to
day. '-'-.' .-..'"
Showing no signs of slacken-.,
ing, the Russians moved at a
pace which rivaled ' the east
ward sweep of Hitler's forces
last July over the same ground. .
. Airdromes Taken
Caught before the red army
onrush and in the cruel grip of
the wind-driven snows of the
Don Cossack steppes was a
mounting toll and dead and cap
tured Germans more than 43,
000. " :., .
.. Adding., new-villages-.t the)
300 already recaptured, the Rus
sians occupied many of the air
dromes on the steppes from
which the Germans have been
flying huge transports to supply
22 trapped divisions in the Don
Volga corridor at Stalingrad. : ;v
Naiis Counter ;
The Germans were ; being
forced progressively to move
these bases back toward tha
Rostov area, 250 miles from
Stalingrad. As the aerial supply
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Snell Inauguration
May Wait Senate .
Presidency Battle
SALEM, Dec. 21 (JP) Gover
nor-elect Earl Snell was begin
ning to wonder today whether
the battle over the presidency
of the state senate would pre
vent him from being inaugur
ated on January 11 at the open
ing of the state legislature; -
With Senators Dorothy Me
Cullough Lee and W. H. Stel
wer each claiming 15 votes in
their . contests for the . senate
presidency, there is a chance
that the battle won't be decided
on January 11. . - -
Since the- governor, can't be
inaugurated until the legislature
is organized, Snell might have .
to wait a day or so, or at least
until the senate president , is
elected.
Both houses meet in caucus on
the evening of January 10, and
all officers usually are chosen
at that time.
Bulletin
LONDON. Dec. 21 (fP) The
Morocco radio said tonight
that Marshal Rommel's re
treating axis army "already
has reached the vicinity of
Mistruata." only 100 miles
east of Tripoli.
Cairo dispatches last report
ed pursuing British troops op
erating beyond Sultaln 280 '
miles from Tripoli.
nouncemcnt that 11 planes were
lost in the assault was taken by
observers as an indication that a
considerable number partici
pated. Six of the big American bomb
ers were lost, but 40 German,
fighters were shot down in the
sweep by U. S. forces deep into
France yesterday, a raid that
produced sharp battles.
Last night, taking another
trick out of its bag, the RAF
used hew Whirlwinds as intrud
ers. One of the twin-engined,
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