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IfflMHIilllWI!! iicri! On B-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles li tha signal lor a blaokout In Klamath Fall). Anothar long blast, during a black out, li a signal for all-clear. In precau tlonary periods, watch your itraat lights. January High 37, Low M ' Praelpltatlon aa of December 81. 1941 Straam yaar to data .... ....7.11 t ! Last yaar 6.32 . Normal. ..........4.5a ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES ajUVVAAlVYyi'lii T PKICB FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 Number 9688 a wmm la . fo) sip limes Blasted vJ By FRANK JENKINS TUIUCU has boon written nntl 11 iin Id, In an admiring voln, of tlio Golden Ako of Personal Journalism whun tho Crcnt Keillors the Groolcys, tho Dun on, tho Wultersons told people pjvhut to think and how and whun. J Tho Implication has been that tho newspapers THEN wcro lireat but slnco huvo dipped. TN Ills Just-published book "Burrlors Down," Kent Coop er, the general manager of tho Associated Press, tells us how this great nows-guthcrlng organi zation cumo to bo formed. In those days each important newspaper collected the news of lis city, III state, the nation and tho world FOR ITSELF. It was costly process, Involving much needless duplication, and In tho course of tlmo'somcono had tho bright notion that tho news papers could EXCHANGE the news of t h o I r communities among each other, thus saving a great deal of wasted money that could bo devoted to making bolter newspapers. O lt seemed q spjondld Idea, ,, ' ' OUT a devastating thought occurred. ' Tho news carried by each of theso great newspapers dominat ed by the personalities of tho GREAT EDITORS especially the news dealing with politics lid government was so warped, so twisted, so POISONED nt Its source as a result of tho then more or less universal desiro to influence people's thinking and so WIN ELECTIONS that each of the great editors knew Instant ly that ho wouldn't print ANY OTHER editor's news on a bctl Each of them, you see, knew too much about tho others' meth ods. or ME really sound and econom ical and progressive Idea of news exchange seemed to bo be- hind tho eight bull, and for the moment nobody could think of a way to get It out. If nobody would accept any body else's news (becuuse of knowledge of the poison con tained' in It) how was news to bo exchanged? It just didn't look possible. Still, tho plan had much to recommend It. ..A SOLUTION was ultimately found. It was an cpochally Important solution. In substance, It was this: Tho Associated Press was or ganized as a co-operative as sociation to be owned by all the newspapers receiving its service. dt was agreed that tho news to a gathered and written and dis seminated to its members by the Associated Press must be so ac curate, so froe from bias and slant, so lacking In hidden polit ical poison that it could be printed by ALL without fear or suspicion, ' ("THESE biased, prejudiced iA editors of the old school know thoy couldn't and WOULDN'T print In' their own newspapers tho pews that was tainted with tho other fellow's bias and prej udice, but ' they could and did print news that was so FREE from bias and .prejudice that it could and did stand on its own foot WHEREVER printed. , ' TT was thus that the Associated A Press was born, and its birth was one of tho outstanding events in modern history. Because U When men began to under stand that they could believe and RELY UPON tho news they read in tholr newspapers they began to draw their own lndo (Contlnued on Pago Four) . Patrols Probe Strength in Guinea Swamps By WILLIAM F. BONI SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI NEA, Jan. 7 (!) Allied and Japanese patrols were probing In swamp mud today for weak spots In tho opposlto lines as tho allies regrouped their land forces for an attack on tho enemy stronghold at Sanananda. American troops pushed buck one Japancso putrol In tho vicin ity of Tarukcna, a village mid way between tho recently won Buna Station and Sanananda point. They killed ono Japan ese and wounded another. The sumo area was tho target for a sustained artillery barrage with an Australian pilot spot ting the objectives for tho gun ners, Along the Soputa-Sanananda track Itself which actually Is on automobile road both sides (Continued on Page Two) Justice Ponders Bind ing Walldn Over in Bowman Case Decision as to whether Ken notli Wallan would be bound over on a second degree murder charge by Justice Joe Mahoncy had not been reached late this afternoon pending tho return of the Judge from tho scene of the alleged offenso on Shasta way. Tho preliminary hearing wos concluded at 2:30 p. m., and Justice Muhoncy asked Stato Po lice Officer Mark Sullivan to accompany him to the place whero Wullun Is accused of fa tally Injuring James Bowman In a Chrlstmos eve altercation. At the conclusion of the hear ing Dcfcnso Attorney Joseph C. O'Neill attempted to have the chargo reduced from second de gree murder to manslaughter In order that his client might give ball. The district attorney, Orth Slscmoro, objected and tho court took tho matter under advise ment. Mrs. Edna M. Bowman, widow of the slain man, took tho stand shortly after 10 o'clock to answer questions asked her for ono hour and 20 (Continued on Pago Two) Giraud Agrees To Meet De Gaulle LONDON, Jan. 7 (IP) Gen. Henri Honoro Giraud, French commissioner In North Africa, hus agreed "In principle" to meet Gen. Charles do Gaulle on French, soil,, but proposed for various reasons that the con ference be delayed until the end of January, It was announced authoritatively today. Body of Co. Buzz Wagner Found in Plane Wreckage EGLIN FIELD, Fla., Jan. 7 (IP) A farmer looking for his cows In an isolated Florida pasture ended tho five-week search for Lieut. Col. Boyd D. (Buzz) Wng ner,. destroyer of an untold num ber! of Japanese warplancs and ono of America's first aces of World -var II. Tho crushed body of the flier, missing since November 20, was found yestorday In the wreckage of his P-40 pursuit piano 25 miles east of 'here, " The craft was demolished and partly burled, indicating that it plunged into tho ground out of control, probably from a steep spin, said a statement authorized by Brig-Gen. Grandison Gard ner, Eglln commandant. Tho 20-year-old a 1 r m a n youngest lioutonant colonel' in tho army took off from Eglln PLANES RANGE HAL TO RAF Renews Assaults On Jap Positions In Burma By The Associated Prats New American blows against Japun's far-flung supply lines, ranging from the Solomons to the Aleutian Islands, were re ported by tho navy today even as President Roosevelt told con grcss that U. S. warplancs would strike at Japan's home islands "and bomb them constantly from tho air." The navy said American Fly- ng Fortresses, escorted by llght- nlng and Tomahawk fighters, at tacked a Japanese transport .off the Shortland islands, In the Solomons, and scored a. "pot siblo hit" Aleutian Action . Other U. S. aircraft bombed the Japanese airfield at. Kahili, near Buin, on Bougainville island, and the air field at Mun- da, Now Georgia Island. In the Aleutians, tho navy an' nounccd that American bombers auk .one Japanese-cargo ship HO miles northeast of the enemy bass at Klska and scored a dl reel bomb hit and two near-hits on another enemy vessel 185 miles southwest of Klska.. . Burma Base Damaged Tho presence of the Japanese ship 110 miles northeast of Kiska (Continued on Page Two) Nazis Claim Sub Went 90 Miles Up Mississippi LONDON, Jan. 7 (IP) The German radio, in a broadcast beamed to tho United States but heard here, reported today that a German submarine had trav' cled 00 miles up the Mississippi river "to within a few miles of New Orleons" in the. hope of de stroying a bridge. The roldcr was detected, how ever) and forced to return to the Gulf of Mexico, the broadcast declared. (There was no confirmation of tho German report from any. other source. The dato of the alleged exploit was not given.) NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7 (IP) Tho navy said here today it had "no comment" on a German broadcast that a nazl submarine had traveled 00 miles up the Mississippi river "to within . a few miles of New Orleans" in the hope of destroying a bridge. Commander James G. Stahl man, public relations officer of tho eighth naval district, said ho "knew nothing about it." field at 8 p. m., November. 29 for a routlno flight to. Maxwell field, Ala,, and Nashville, Tenn. Brig. Gen, Gardner said lie ap parently ran ' into , bad weather north of here., ....'.. Col. Wagner," holder of the dis tinguished service cross for "ex traordinary berolsm," dealt, more In action than words. He would never discussants personal achievements, but comrades said he destroyed between 15 and 60 Japanese planes in tho early weeks of tho war. ,: Tho accounts of his feats are almost legend. There .was the time when "Buzz" and' a squad ron dovo on a Japanese landing, party at Vigan.- His companions were all shot down, but "Buzz" mado five separate attacks, re turning each time for more am munition and fuely . . TIS SOLOMONS It's Not All - "wp t-r'y L , t v - - -vp vamp -agr-" War in Russia is not always bundlad against tha knifa-sbarp ior intir advancing comrades in Husslans are threatening to split E Vital Point Changes . Hands Twice in l Two Days By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN .NORTH AFRICAIanr; :0Pj: The Germans have recaptured Jobel Azcag and all the ground previously taken by the British in the hills 15 miles west of Matcur, an allied communique announced today. "We have withdrawn to our former positions," an allied com munique said, "our fighters maintained patrols in this area during the day . and fighter bombers attacked enemy guns which were, shelling our troops. Spitfires shot down three enemy aircraft during these operations." Bombers Raid Thus,, within two days the vital positions on the front be fore Bizerte have changed hands twice. The British captured them in a dawn attack day be fore yesterday and, the spokes man said, were dislodged when the nazis counter-attacked yes terday. United States bombers made (Continued on Page Two) . Air Survey Shows , Concentration of Japs at Rabaul MELBOURNE, Jan. 7 (IP) Air reconnaissance over Japan's big base at Rabaul, New Britain island, has revealed that the concentration, of Japanese l ship ping there has been augmented since Tuesday, when it was first disclosed by an Australian gov ernment spokesman, it was as serted in government circles-today. . Pilots returning from missions over Rabaul were said to have reported that the amount of warship-protected shipping now gathered at Rabaul exceeds" even the forces, gathered by the Jap anese for their first counter-attack on the eastern Solomons, held by United States forces, . t Vichy Names Dorian Killer BERLIN (From German Broadcasts) Jan. 7 (IP) Advices from .v.Vlohy . said today the assassin of Admiral Jean Darlan was Hornier. 'de la Chanelle. "a Student and the son of a journal ist, Tho assassin was executed after the Christmas eve shooting of the French high commissioner for northwest Africa. . '' News Index City? Briefs '. Page' 5 Comics and Story Page 10 Editorial ..Page 4 ' Farm . News ......Page 6 Markets, : Financial Page 11 Midland Empire News . Page 9 Our Men In Service Page 3' Pattern Pago, 4 Sports Page- 8 Fighting for Reds in slashing at th enemy. In tha winter air, shovaU are their tna nortnern Caucasus. Driving tha back-tracking Germans. RussNear Rostov, Pivot Of Nazi Campaign; Berlin Starts Breaking Bad News By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Soviet quarters reported today that - Russian troops had ad vanced within , 75 miles of the great German base - at, Rostov, pivot for al nazl' operations . in the Caucasus, and ripped through German 'lines on a 20-mile front along -b "-sides' of the lower Don river. ..... 1 Front-line ' reports said Rus sian troops sweeping westward along the Don had pushed for ward. 50 miles since capturing the Don bridgehead of Tsiml yansk two days ago. Soviet dispatches said the tri umphant red armies, of the south had captured at least 21 more cities and towns and listed 339, 150 axis soldiers killed or taken prisoner since, the start of the Three Suffer In Accidents Here Wednesday Three pedestrians suffered shock and bruises and were treated at Klamath Valley hos pital: following traffic accidents which occurred on icy streets late Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Robinson, 61, who lives at tha . Kern hotel, and serves as cook at. a local res taurant, remained in the hospi tal Thursday. Mrs. Robinson was struck by a car . operated by Charles A. Fischer,. 20, 2137 Eberlein street, at the intersec tion of ' Sixth and Main streets at 3:15 p. m. Police reported Fischer's car had proceeded on the green light and due to pave ment conditions was unable to stop before hitting the woman. She was moved to the hospital by ; Ward's ambulance and at first her 'condition was thought serious. Etalo Forronl, 17-year-old stu dent, 3531 Boardman avenue, reported to police that his car struck two women Bt Fifth street and Klamath avenue at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon when sun on his windshield ob scured vision. The women were Mrs. Lewis Martin,. 2637 Home dale road, and Alberta Martin, 402 Walnut avenue. Mrs. Martin suffered bruises and Miss Martin a. broken left ankle., Both were treated at tfle hospital and later .dismissed.,., War Bulletin LONDON, Jan. 7. (IP) The Fighting. French announced tonight that' General La Clare's forces In southernmost Libya have stormed and cap tured ' Oum-El-Araneb, main axis outpost in tha Fesian area. . They' said French forces . had. advanced northward mora than 1000 miles from their . bases . near Lake Chad and t o o k Umm-El-Araueb after fierce fighting lasting: three days. ' Caucasus cas of these red army troops, weapons as they clear the way northward, toward Rostov, tha . Russian winter offensive Novem ber 10. Adolf Hitler's high command, still giving the German people no hint of the disastrous turn of events, asserted flatly that pazi infantry and tanks "repulsed all soviet attacks in continued fight ing ' in the. Don . and ..Kalmyck sectors." .- . " ' The headlong nazl retreat ap peared rapidly assuming , the aspects of a debacle. London quarters said the speed, of the soviet come-back drive through the Caucasus - in dicated that the Germans were no longer offering organized re sistance, and were intent only on setting up a defense line near er Rostov 1n an attempt to pre vent the Russians from trapping all their forces to the east. A soviet war bulletin' said the red armies, hotly pursuing the retreating nazis, had advanced 25 miles northwest of newly-recaptured Prokhladnenski to the railwaj station at Apolonskaya, almost halfway to Mineralnye Vody, the hub of a network of central Caucasus railways. Paralleling this drive, .anoth er Russian column raced north west from Nalchik, advancing 15 miles to a cluster of towns. As the Russian offensive surged on without pause, over running in Hours great stretches of territory which the Germans took weeks to capture .last fall, it began to appear that Hitler had ordered a general withdraw al or that the nazl Caucasus front was collapsing on a wide scale. Meanwhile, the German pro- : (Continued on Page Two) Kaiser Sees New Lighter, Cheaper Auto After War . NEW- YORK, Jan. 7 (IP) The post-war United States will need a lighter, cheaper automobile, says Shipbuilder Henry J. Kai ser and if the regular manufac turers don't ' prepare to make them,. he adds he will. ' "No matter how much talking we do," he said in an interview, "the only way we can have pros perity after the war is by mak ing employment and that's the job of private industry."; Fire Damages Juniper Lodge West of Macdoel ' DORRIS Fire this morning destroyed the restaurant at Juni per lodge, four miles west of Macdoel on the Weed-Klamath Falls highway, following the, ex plosion of a gas tank. ' 'Mrs. John O'Kane, "wife . of the proprietor, suffered a sev ered artery in her right wrist which was cut by glass from, a broken window. - The fire apparently was caused when low, temperatures affected the gas and the explo sion was set off by a pilot light. The blaze immediately ' spread to the restaurant , i PiroductfoRD Strides ld Urn AAesscage WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AP) President Roosevelt told a victory-pledged congress today 'the cause of. United . Nations was moving forward at last in Europe, Asia,, and Africa, backed by a ''miracle of production" in the United States, and said 1943 carried the promise "of a ".'Very sub stantial advance along the roads that-lead to Berlin and Rome and Tokyo." ' ; - ' Delivering his annual message to the. legislators . In person in the house chamber, he called on them to put aside bickering over economic measures, and to strive to contribute to national unity. "By far the largest and most important developments in the whole . strategic picture of 1942," Mr. Roosevelt asserted, "were the events on the-long front in-Russia: First, the implacable defense of Stalingrad; and-second, the offensives by the Russian armies at various points which started in the latter part of November and which still roll on with great force and effectiveness." SOLONS; PRAISE Democrats, Republi . .cans Join in . ' Approval . WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 (P) Democrats in . congress today generally, praised President Roosevelt's annual report on the state of the Union and republi cans, while generally more' re strained tha n the democrats, also lauded it as having a uni fying influence. Senate Democratic; Leader Barkley of Kentucky, : said : it was "a - very - magnificent ad-, dress," a - keynote repeated - in effect by scores' of - the demo cratic congressional members. "Abla Review" Republican 'Senator McNary, the minority leader, said the president gave "an excellent re view of current conditions af fecting our war and productive effort" and Senator - Taft (R-Ohio), a frequent administra tion critic, said ; "it seemed to me; a conciliatory speech. that ought to add to unity and create- no dissension. , . Chairman Walsh (D-Mass.) of the senate naval affairs com mittee . called the address "a timely and; able review . of the war to date," and added, "I as sume that the president wilt.be ' (Continued on Page .Two) .. Black Market : n Gasoline Nipped With Miami Arrest MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 7 (IP) Seizure of ration coupons good for thousands of gallons of gaso line and the arrest of one man was reported by Lieut. C. O. Huttoe of ' the , police defense squad, today to. have smashed a national black market. . : . The prisoner, arrested on . a federal .warrant, was booked as Eugene Hale Brading, 27, of Mi ami. Huttoe reported that cou pons good for 2500 gallons, were found at his home and a pack age addressed to him-containing tickets worth 1,000,000 gallons was seized in the mails. . The .; Dorris fire department and a fire truck from the forest service., station! at Mt. Hebron responded to alarms, and pre vented the flames from destroy ing the lodge proper. The. res-. taurant burned to the ground. Mrs. Kane was, hurt when she used a fishing box to break a window. Glass fell on her wrist and seriously, cut it. In the ex citement she did not realize she had been injured for some time.' She was brought to Lum bermen's hospital here for treat ment. ......... --i i .. The capitol was the scene of unusual precautions taken to safeguard the chief executive. ; Steel-helmeted soldiers, bay onets affixed to Garand rifles, stood at attention all around tha capitol and In its plaza. . Defensive War Past :-' Special' capitol police, their numbers . augmented by - metro. poutan police, were on guard at all entrances and were stationed throughout the capitol. No .one was permitted to enter the build ing without a special pass or identification. Admission- to tha house galleries -was - by special . card only?-""--- ' " Mr. Roosevelt told the . law makers that the 'period of "our defensive : attrition In the , Pa if ic," "was "passing, adding: "Now our aim. is to force the Japanese, - to' fight. - - -Last " year, we stopped them. This year, we intend to advance." ; . i .".No Prophedea-jri s ' In the African' theater,. he pre. dieted the last- vestige -of axis powers would be driven from the south : shores,;" of tns " Mediter ranean. ." " - , , "I do not prophesy .isn this ' war will end." the chief execu tive said. 1 "But I do believe that tliis. year of 1943 will giva to tha United Nations a vary substantial advance along tha roads that lead to Berlin, and Rome and Tokyo. - The president opened his ad dress with his summary of war operations,. and,. in it, -said that "we are going to ' strike and strike hard in- Europe." .. . Air Blows Coming ; "I, can not tell you," he said, "whether we are going- to hit them in Norway, or through . the low .countries,, or in France, or-. through- Sardinia,, or. Sicilyv-or . through the Balkans, or. through Poland or at several points simultaneously. . '. "But I can tell you that no : matter where ana when we ; - (Continued on. Page -Five) "Moderate" Amount -. Of Canned Goods Okeh, Rules OPA : NEW YORK, Jam 7 VP) Housewives who register for War Ration Book No. 2 next month won't have coupons deducted for moderate amounts of canned or1 frozen foods they may have on hand. . ' Harold B. Rowe, director of the food rationing division of the office of price administration, revealed the plan to allow a small carryover at a discussion' of the new point rationing sys tem last night. - "I don't want to be - over zealous," tha OPA official ex plained. '- ; , Britons Cheer Roosevelt Speech LONDON, Jan. 7 (IP) Britons cheered tonight President Roose velt's assertion to congress that "we are going to strike and' strike hard in Europe" and gov ernment circles, unofficially, called .the' speech one' of the president's best. Those circles expressed amaze ment at the United States' arm production figures and said they were delighted also by the pres ident's confident predictions of ' victory. . L . i
