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Newspaper Page TextOn 8-mlnute blait on sirens and whlitUi U tha signal for blackout In Klamath Falli. Anothar long blast, during a black December 31 High 42, Lew IS Precipitation as of Dacambar 25, 1841 Straam yaar to data ..............6.2J ' Last yaar ............8.88 Normal ...4.19 out, ! a signal lor all-clear. In prscau- ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND tlonary periods, watch your street Ughta. NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1943 HHifio AHVUfli'l '.UIKHHAINfl DIE nn n n n rann - n r?r rp (n tp (oi rpn f?r? ?n rn(nn tiff (1 II II I f tiff ".Mill 'UNM i : p - : ; ; - - ; wmmmmmmmmmmnm t i ii t i i n i rwrimak h i III I Liiiriiiiiii ja.'iiT. i.TTiiiiiiiiiiiiin::! By FRANK JENKINS JSJEW YEAR'S Day la tradition A oily a tlmo to TALK often about things Hint nro HOPED ruthcr thnn bcllovcd, T TNDOUBTEDLY in Hint voln, Hitler tells his pooplo In a New Year's messago thut "how ever hard this winter mny bo, It etin't bo harder thnn Inst winter," Ho proclaims there will ba no rcpotltion of tho Gorman col lupso In 1018 and pledges a light to the and. . "Gormany," ho says, "will navor bo conquered and never l 111 nun ii ntn " r . THE best comment Is to quote frnm ItL Xnmt hlff innnrh. In which ha told the Gorman pcoplo: "Stalingrad will be TAKEN have no fonri as to that." THE Russians, realistic now, as 'A always, confine their talking to WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, rather thnn what they are GO ING to do. It is plenty, They report that In six weoks of fighting In the Stalingrad area they hnvo killed and captured SI 2.850 Germans and taken back 1880 Russian towns and vit iligos, f COVIET PRESIDENT KALININ (dealing, you will note, with occompllshments - -rather-"than uiuro none.i) oners nut opm- nn. "During tho past year," he says, "the Gorman army sus tained losses which EXHAUST ED Its OFFENSIVE power."- . In a special Now Year's com munlciue. the soviet-high com mand takes time out irom tolling of accomplished facta to indulgo In a bit of sarcasm. Tha German, plans to take Stalingrad and cut the Volga Casnlun lino. It says, were hur riedly formed, without taking Into consideration Germany actual resources or Russia's re serves. That to Germany, which has boasted the smartest military leadership in tho world. sneaks of tha peaco to follow he mnr. and savs it must be a LASTING peace. There are no dissenters, BUTTRESSING tho New Year's talk Is tho onnounccmont thot the Russians yesterday pushed 40 MILES westward from Elista, reaching tho eastern end of BO-mllc-long lake whoso frozen surface offers good going for a further advance. It Is the biggest Jump they have mode In any alngle day It carries them In tho general direction of the Rostov-Baku main trunk lino railroad that sup piles all the German forces op erating In the Caucasus. THESE forces would be trap '' ped If this rail line were cut BEHIND them. The Russians ivh uetiii muni, a iub ui iau THRILLING bit of news cornea from the South Pa cific -V. S. heavy bombers deliver a mass attack on wake Island whore American marines mado history for a couplo of weeks a year ago before being finally overwhelmed by tho Jnps. More than J 75,000 pounds of bombs . I ,)..., ttn WUIO, MIUJJCMI ,1USU W1IU atarbed, 23 Jap planes were de- strwyed and possibly half of the jmp acienaers oi ino isiona Tti led. . Two bullet holes In wings are reported to be the extent of dnmago to our planes and not a mart of the crews was killed or hurt. The Japs are said to have boon caught completely unpre pared. I It happened the day before Christmas. N the other side of the led ger, four Jap fighter planes appear unexpectedly at Klska. intercept a u. b. ooirroer-llgmer (Continued on Page Two). Reds Deal Sta I 11 S. BOMBERS RAID JAPS Half of Force May Have Been Killed In Attack By The Associated Prass Huge American bombers were disclosed today to have raided Japanese-garrisoned Wake island in a terrific mass attack the day before Christmas, and delayed reports from tho Pacific sold possibly more than half of tha Japanese forces there were killed. Not one of the raiding bomb ers was lost, reported Olcn W, Clements, Associated Press cor respondent, who rode In one of the planes. He said 78,000 pounds of bombs started Immense fires in tho attack, which began 1 one minute after midnight : and caught tho Japanese asleep on the island where for 16 days a year ago United States marines mado one of the most gallant lost stands in military history, The base from which the bombors struck was kept--a se- A-nl " ' ' Jap Planes Hit Allied headquarters in Aus tralia announced a continued aerial offensive in which Japa nese airfields were attacked at Los and Woke, New Guinea; Gasmata, on New Britain, and Buka, on Bougainville island In tho Solomons. At least 23 Japanese planes were listed as destroyed or dam aged, and of this number Unit ed States Lockheed Lightnings, new star performers In the skies over tho southwest Pacific, were (Continued on Pogo Two) Re-Sentencing Of Wallace Set PORTLAND, Jnn. 1 (TP) Cir cuit Judge Alfred P. Dodson will re-sentence Wednesday William E. Wallace, Portland, to die In the lethal gas chamber at Salem for the first degree murder of Benjamin J. Finkcll, former lot tery resort capper, here August 8, 1041. The state supreme court re cently donlcd Wallace's petition for a rehearing. The death sen tence is mandatory on such a conviction in Oregon. IKE ISLAND F. R. Says Post-War Peace Planning Vital Necessity WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (P) President Roosevelt declared to day that it was a "supreme ne cessity" to plan for the post-war peace and to carry forward after the war the unity .now being dis played by the United Nations, to prevent another world cata clysm. The president Issued a state ment at a press conference open ing the now year, asserting the United Nations "are passing from the defensive to the offen sive," and adding: "The unity achloved on the battle line is being earnestly sought In the not less complex problems on a different front.; "In this as In no previous war men are conscious of tha su preme necessity of planning what Is to come after and of carrying forward into peace and common effort which will have brought them victory in tho war. 'They have come to see that tho maintenance and safeguard ing of peace Is the most vital single necessity in the lives of each and all of us." The statement was Issued on the first anniversary of the sign ing here, last .January 1 and 2 Soviet Steamroller Rolls On n!?.J SARATOV t A2jL russ,ia VOROSHILOVORikDj- 1 lv t ' STALINO A V T , V.LIKHAYA . Cv' 1 U f SeaofVL fj3 f CS. TV) VOROSHILOVSK J ' BLACK I" X7 . , 1 . "1 S E A Ii,,' '," 'A ' lVJrv-lL . GROZNY ' ';.-t-:iM..!;iiii.i;i:iiii-;i:ii!;ii!i;-!B;;AprTi '-.-A-Wr, K ALA. Hit so too ISO STATUTf MlltS Black areas show approximately, on the basis of araUable reports, territory reconquered by the soviet armies on the south ern front. Russians' pushed closer to Rostov (A) In their drive to cut off German armies far to the south in the Caucasus salient (B). Shaded Una shows maximum German penetration before the soviet counter-drive bognn. .. .. . , Craver. Jacobs Still Talked; Technical Question Raised Klamath county court will meet at 10 a. m. Saturday to end tho political flurry that has developed over the appointment of a successor to State Repre sentative Harry Boivln, resign ed. The names of u. H. Craver end Lee Jacobs continued to dominato ' the Informal discus sions of the opening, which will be filled by. the court at the Saturday morning meeting. Craver appears. to have the blessing of Boivln, the outgoing legislator. The nominating com mittee of the democratic central committee endorsed Craver, railroad man. Technical Issue Jacobs has the advantage of having been a runner-up in the spring primary legislative race, (Continued on Pago two) of the "Declaration- by United Nations." The president amplified his formal statement by saying that "all the planning for the future is dependent obviously on peace." He added Informally that this was an important anniversary not only because of its relation ship to running and winning the war, but because of its refer ence to peace and the post war period. He emphasized that the orig inal 26 United Nations, augment ed later by three other signers, wanted to remain united at tho end of the war as well as during the war. "Our task," he said In his for mal statement, "on this Now Year's day Is three-fold: First, to press on with the mossed forces of free humanity until the present bandit assault upon civilization is completely crush ed; second, so to organize rela tions among nations that forces of barbarism can never again break loose; third, to cooperate to the end that mankind may en joy in peace and in freedom the unprecedented blessings which divine providence through the progress of civilization has put within our reach." ggeriglwj ' : . 7 Missing in Plane Sinking Off Coos Bay SEATTLE, Jan.. 1 (Pi Thir teenth naval district headquar ters announced today seven men were missing from a navy PBY flying boat which sank a mile off Coos Bay, Ore., last night after alighting on the ocean be cause of engine trouble. One officer was known to have reach ed shore. The navy reported the plane, on a routine flight, set down after circling and dropping flares. The plane started filling with water and sank in three quarters -of an hour, and the crew abandoned ship. Early today an ensign was found unconscious In a life raft and was taken to an army camp at Yachats, Ore. The navy said a largzr raft and one life jacket were found ashore, but whetner ttie seven missing men reached shore was undetermined. A search was un derway. Coastguardsmcn tried to reach tho sinking plane last night. navy headquarters reported, but were prevented by a lS-foot surf and rocky beach. .. Of the missing men, two were officers and the other five en listed men, the navy reported. Names were not immediately available. Portland Health Director Leaves For Navy Duties PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 1 (Pi Eldon I. Jenne, Portland public school director of health, physi cal education and recreation, will' leave tomorrow to become a lieutenant (s. g.) in the navy's pre-f light physio and condition ing program. , Jenne is a one-time Washlns. ton State college football and polo vault star. i Prisoner Refused Service Request PORTLAND. Jan' 1 ' P1 L Louis H. Santone, 30, was sen tenced to three years In prison by Federal Judge James A. Fee yesterday for driving a stolen automobile from Omaha, Neb., 10 saiem. Fee rejected Santone's offer to serve in the armed forces in stead of prison. "I consider It an honor to serve In the armed forces," the court said, point ing out that he did not believe crime qualified a man for-such an honor. ALLIES GIVEN , 1 843 KEYNOTE BY COMEBACK Huge Nazi Losses on East , Front Told; . Force Trapped By JAMES M. LONG ' . Associated Press Wax Editor Soviet Russia sounded an al lied keynote for 1943 today with the official claim of one of the war's most staggering blows to nazl arms in triumphant com muniques announcing more than 312,650 Germans killed or cap tured in six weeks of a carefully timed comeback .campaign. - -r , The Russians declared that the remnants of 22 German divisions were trapped, and. apparently doomed before' Stalingrad, "and said 1589 towns, and. villages bad been won, back' under, the red banner,':;.;. -."!:;'.-,;'.-f;!:.;v! . Menace Grows" . Heightening the menace to the whole German force in the east ern'. Caucasus, the Russians re. ported driving' 4t miles or fhoVe) in-'' a-, siagle day. across' the Kalrrtvck Steone bevond Elista VH',iT'f1,res 'rSO-mile-long laKe . wmcn 7 exienas -wuran uu miles .oi saisK..: 5 " - From Salsk one key rati line runs- northwest, to .Rostov, and from just south of the lake spur lines connect with the Rostov- Baku trunk railway down which the nazis advanced-last fall. . President Michael Kalinin of the soviet union declared in a New Year's message that during the past year, '.'the German army sustained losses which exhausted its offensive power." The RAF bombed in the new year with ' attacks on western Germany and northern France. Britain, meantime, had a raid less night. 1 There were no ? new reports from the northern waters, where British warships ' damaged; and drove off an enemy cruiser and possibly sank a destroyer in a fleet action which the admiralty said last night was continuing. Quiet New Year's -Eve Celebrated In Klamath Falls Klamath Falls celebrated one of the quietest New Year's eves in history according to state and city police,' and: not one single traffic accident marred the en trance of 1943 on : streets or highways. State officers said drivers were using caution although ' there were "lots of cars on the roads." At the city ' police department only five, drunks were arrested following Thursday morning's court, lower than average num ber of police pick ups. Five minutes after the New Year whistles blew, the city fire department was called to the R. C. Martin residence, 208 Eldo rado street, where a cigarette had started . things to burning. There was a little damage, fire men said. . ' i . Norway Vessel Sunk by Sub WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (A3) A medium-sized Norwegian mer chant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine late in November In the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America, Survivors have been landed at an east coast port of the -United States, -v The crewmen rali 39 Were rescued after four days in life boatssaid two submarines, one German - the other apparently Italian, surfaced; after the attack on their ship. The sinking " brought to-i 879 the Associated Press total of an nounced ' United Nations ship losses in1 the westernAtlantic since Pearl Harbor. : Novelist Takes 'J Li''. I -A ' Uraula Parrott (right), the novelist, charged with aiding a soldier to desert, told reporters -at Miami. Fla.. at her arraign ment that "it was just an Impulse" that caused her to drive Private Michael Neely Bryan out of an army stockade in her auto. She said Bryan was blameless. U. S. Loses Two Planes in Bout & Over Kiska WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 0 The : navy reported today that four Japanese "Zero" float planes had shot down two Amer ican : Lightning fighters while losing only one of their own number in a battle over Kiska In the Aleutian islands. 1 Communique ; Number 235 said: ' "North Pacific: 1. On December 30, at 9:30 p. m., a force of 'Mitchell' me dium bombers (North American B-25) escorted by "Lightning' fighters (Lockheed P-38), was in tercepted by four Japanese 'Zero Float Planes' while pro ceeding to attack two enemy car go ships (or transports) in Kiska harbor. Two 'Lightnings' and one 'Zero' were shot down dur ing the fight. The Mitchells' attacked the enemy ships with uncertain results. One of our bombers was shot down. "2. On December 31, at 1:47 a. m., U.:. S. medium bombers again attacked the enemy ships in Kiska ' harbor. Three hits were observed on one of the (Continued on Page Two) WAGE BOOST WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 (F A seven-cent increase in the basic hourly wage of factory employes of the Boeing Aircraft company with more than 16 weeks' exper ience, and a 21-cent increase in the hourly starting rate were rec ommended to the national war labor board today by Paul R. Porter, special representative of tho board. Adolf Says P Had War Forced Upon Them NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (fP) Strictly on the defensive and de void of new victories over which to boast, Adolf Hitler reverted to a favorite theme today in his New Year message to the Ger man people by blaming the al lies and the "Jews" for starting the war and promising there never would be a repetition of 1918.-. In a special proclamation broadcast by the Berlin radio, Hitler pictured Germany as a peace-loving nation and himself as the leader who sought only to save his countrymen from their enemies and insure their future welfare. The proclamation was bare of reference to developments on the Russian front, where the German armies are reeling un der the blow of a six-weeks-old Blame for Soldier I Re-Routing Required By Storms in Cas V cades to North Storms and slides In the moun tain area north of Klamath Falls snarled train communications through this section and all northbound traffic was being routed out of Dunsmuir, Ashland and Medford, Southern Pacific information revealed. Last . of the southbound pas senger trains to go through Klamath . Falls left at 10:30 p. m. Thursday when No. 15, The West Coast which left Port land at 10:25 p. m. Wednesday, got through the slides at Wic opee, south of Oakridge. The West- Coast, traveling; on The Oregonian block just 10 minutes after that southbound train left Portland at 10 p. m. Wednesday, was caught between slides which thundered down on the tracks a few moments after The Ore gonian's passenger coaches slid over the rails. Tracks were cleared hours later and the West Coast was the last southbound to go through Klamath Falls. The Beaver, No. 12, left Klam ath Falls early Thursday morn ing followed by No. 20 which ar rived here, northbound, at 1:50 p. m. Thursday, out at 2:15 p. m. Passengers on No. 20 were still at Fields late Friday morning, between Crescent Lake and Eu- (Contlnued on Page Two) eg cef ul Nazis soviet offensive, ' and likewise ignored the axis rout in Libya and the allied landings in North Africa. It abounded, however, with praise for the German people in enduring the hardships of war and praised the courage of the German troops, who, Hitler de clared, would overcome all ob stacles to achieve the final vic tory. ' ',-.,.-' ' ' . "Germany will never be con quered and never will capitu late' the fuehrer asserted. "Our strength, the courage of our troops and the faith of the Ger man people as well as the achievements of our brave allies in Europe and Asia give us the right to believe in victory." Hitler coupled this statement with a warning that the winter (Continued on Page Two) WILLAMETTE T LOSS 0FS5JP00 Large Evacuation on In Eugene Area; Rescuers Busy ' PORTLAND. Jan. 1 lax ' Western Oregon's rivers, swol len far beyond flood stages, had claimed at least three day, probably four, and rescue workers in the Willamette val. ley were fearful there would be more. Near Albanv. In th mMi- Tfv lVTro MqniIi. cMf.u i t. . - small daughter, were drowned - wnen ner Husband attempted to drive through a .flooded roadi?'-; The car skidded into. a,dltch . and was inundated. Svxnith and an unidentified! solder from -Camp Adair were tWrown clear. After unsuccessful ttforts to ex tricate the others kJflSy saved themselves bv cllmlbine a tr " A farmer, William (Peacock, res- ' cued them. . 1 , . driven by Nick 5kiebeBxl yy 47, Portland, struck M slide and skidded into : swollen creek. ". His wife, Helen, df&wned -nrf -her body wps swept down stream. Skrebensky reached -shore. Rescue - workers at Eugene heard that an unidentified el derly woman suffering from pa- :. .ralysls,,. died iOfr shock- .after be ing' evacuated from her flooded home. - - . PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1 (Jt) Evacuation orders went out to day to more flood-plagued Wil lamette valley communities as-a new crest mounted in the wak . of an inundation that already has done damage estimated at $5,000,000. C. C. Mongold, resident U. S. army engineer at Eugene, hub of the current Willamette rivnr flood, told residents of Santa ; iiara, Kiverwood, Glenwood and Good Pasture island to quit their homes in those fertile farming lowlands. Between 1000 and 2000 rest (Continued on Page Two) Violent Deaths At New Year's Show Decrease By The Associated Press Fewer violent dcatha thm last year appeared to have at- renaea tne nation's New Year celebration, an Associated Press survey indicated today (Friday). Thirty-seven . fatalities, 26 of them caused by traffic accidents, were recorded . shortly before noon (CWT). This was n sham decline from the 132 deaths 83 of them in traffic marked -up during January 1 last year. Credit for the reduction went at least in part to national ra tioning of gasoline and the - re duction in the volume of sneed . of motor travel. -."' Fatalitlpa from micollnnarmfl causes in New Year celebrations innlllripri thp ripnth nt a Mow York woman who plunged down . an elevator shaft during an of fice party and the asphyxiation of two riprannff In Ohio thpv. . prepared to attend a party. . Marooned Pelican -' Hoopmen Scrimmage With Oregon Frosh The Oregon Frosh and the Klamath Falls Pelican basket eers met in a practice scrim mage tilt at Eugene last night which wa.4 arranged when thA -; Pelican hoonmen returning from a 30-26 defeat at the hands of the Albany high school squad Wed- ' nesday night found it impossible to continue because of flood waters, , In an Associated Press note from Eugene, they declared the Frosh practice was only booked because the Pelicans were stranded there. No score was available, nor information as to when it would be possible for the Pelicans to return home.