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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1943)
IfiII5'ilI!lR!llii!l!: On B-mlnute bleat on ilrens and whistles li the signal for a blackout In Klamath Fall. Anothar long blast, during a black out, la a ilgnal ior all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your itraoi light. January 11 High 35, Low 21 ' Praclpltatlon aa of January 3 1943 ' Straam yaar to data .....1.03 Laat yaar 6.32 Normal ............4.9 J ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1043 - ' Number 9692 MM MA fo) 0) fo) M IVl JVU UVL1 ma mm By FRANK JENKINS "THERE'S o myalcry In tho news today. FlyliiR Fortresses, according to the African dlaputchcs, "atrlke ' a heavy blow at nommot's forces" by buttering tho axis fort Bt GHADAMES. V'OUR map will dlacloao to you that Ghodames la aomo'4.10 miles louth of Tripoli, down In the dcaorl -where tho frontlora of Trlpolltona, Tunisia and Al geria como together. What nro Rommel's forces, or parU of thom, doing iiwny clown there? Tho desert fox linn boon un heard from for aovcrnl days. It looka as If something might have been happening that hasn't yet met the eye. COR gome tlmo a French column hna been coming up from Lake Chad, In French Equatorial Africa, to get In on tho fighting along tho Mediterranean. One guesses that Rommel may have tent out a (lying column to meet theae French, and that the Flying Fortrrjuiea mentioned In today'a dlapatchca may bo taking a hand In tho ruckua. (This, please remember, Is the purest kind of guesswork.) . QNLY olr fighting Is roportcd ! from tho Solomons and tho South Pacific generally aa th words nro writlcn. Tho di patches add that the Japs huve so or lost 680 planes In the bolomons campaign. From Tokyo comes news, via the' radio, that the Jap govern ment has again Invoked tho prestige of tho emperor In an ef fort to speed up production. Their losses of ships and planes, coupled with our mount ing production, must bo worry' ing them. THE Japs ore reported In Wosh Ington today, by military au thorities who decllno to bo quot ed by nnme. to be strengthening their hold on Kiska under covor of the fog nnd tho long Arctic nights, These authorities, how ever, add that the Jnp toehold on Klska is probably not much more secure than It was last fall when the fog shut down. Tho natural guess Is that they're hanging determinedly to Klska In anticipation of US moves In Siberia. pUMORS contlnuo to bo pre valent that American supply ships are moving Into Vladi vostok under the noses of tho Japs, who do nothing about It Wor has a lot of queer angles. THE Russians are still going great guns, moving wostward In a wide front along tile Baku Rostov rail lino. At tho same tlmo thoy re coming down tho Stalingrad -Tlkhoretsk railroad and are reported today at Kub crlo, about 75 miles from Salsk, where a branch rail line takes off for Rostov. On this front, tnoy advanced 20 miles yester day. Thoy'ro still pushing the Ger mans up from the bottom of the sbek whilo at tho same time reaching out to close the mouth of It. ' gURMA bobs momentarily Into the news again today, Wavell reporting that ho Is meeting STIFFENED Jap resistance In his slow march toward Akyab. British and American planes are raldlhg Jap rail lines farther back in Burma. ', JJERE In Oregon, tho state son- 1 ate is still deadlocked, 15' to 15, in tho fight for senato presi dent. Until a president Is chosen tho senate can't organize, and until tho senate is organized the now governor can't be Inaug urated. ' - It's getting about tlmo for some senator, on one sldo or the other, to abandon politics and " turn statesman by changing his . voto, thus breaking the dead lock. - In -piping times of peace, this ; . .. (Continued on Page Two) COSSACKS LEAD I KUBAN HEM Nazis Rolled Back in Western Caucasus, Say Reds By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Jan. 12 (AP Led by Coaaacks Blushing their way triumphantly buck Into their homeland, tho red army rolled tho Germans back into the Kub an river region of tho western Caucasus between tho moun tains and tho Don, tho Russians announced todny. Red Star declared that the Kuban region was penetrated after tho Caucasian provinces of North Osctlo and Kubardino Hukuria hud been .Vccd horn the Germuns In tho continuing Rus sian winter drivo. Dramatic Homacomlng A communique announced thut the red army's cavalry had driv en 15 miles into the enemy's positions In fierce night fighting which followed tho capture of six more key towns on the Cau casian front. Tho fourth guards Cossack corps tho Kuban fighting men who fell back from their towns and villages last summer before the weight of tho nozl offensive thus were riding In tho van guard of tho Russian forces swooping back across tho step pes. - - .. . Ftir'thoi-Vluck-capod,.. high- hatted horsemen of the steppes, and for their townspeople, It was ono of tho most dramatic home comings of tho war. And as tho Russians rolled back over Gcorgicvsk, Mlner olnyo Vodl, Yotlgorsk, Budcn novck, Kurnmlk and Kislovodsk to broaden their Caucasus front, other forces drove 20 mora miles down tho rail lino past Zlm ovkini to Kuberlc, southeast of Rostov, narrowing the scml-clrclo (Continued on Pago Two) Five Sullivan Brothers Missing In Pacific Action WATERLOO, la., Jan. 12 VP) The five Sullivan brothers, who enlisted In tho navy together shortly otter Pearl Harbor, In tent on avenging a pal killed In tho sneak attack, arc missing In action, tho navy Informed their parents today, Tho brothers served on the cruiser Juneau, which a navy communique last night disclosed was lost In battlo around the Solomon islands during Novem ber. The brothers were George T., 2D; Francis H 20; Joseph E., 23; Madison A., 22, and Albert L., 20. Their father, Thomas F. Sulli van, Is a railroad conductor, Their mother has been Invited by ' Navy Secretory Knox to christen a navy tug. Budget Committee Called in On Courthouse Salary Hoist , Tho salary Increase pot boiled at the courthouse today, with the county court calling members of the budget committee . Into a meeting on tho subject on Wed nesday morning. At that tlmo, according to County Judge U. E. Boeder, con sideration will bo given for pos sible requests for legislation to glvo tho oleetlve office holders salary raises. Elective officer salaries aro fixed by slate law. JudRo Recder said that a plan for a "moderate and reasonable" Increase Is being shaped. Ho said it might be proposed on a perccntago basis, say 15 or 20 per cent, or might bo on a flat basis of $50 or less for all elec tive office 'holders., Budget Committeemen R. C. Woodruff, . Alfred Collier and E. M. Hammond will bo asked what they think of it. These lay members of the bud get committee havo already en dorsed a salary boost for Justice Giant New L. f Sir, , II s - till '3 1 ' . ; .' " y-' A ' t .( , --trjr -LIS '' ' -l ' Z, "-ops , tar eta" i tmr iv am urn -ill-til i 'in --ir i n i r-t irnwiftf r 'iViffirvrgBI Its four motors, each generating 2000 horaa power, roaring a symphony of power. Lockheed's triple-tailed, shark-bodied "Constellation." described as the "biggest, swiftest and most powerful land-baaed American cargo transport plane ever built," warmed its motors at Burbank, Calif., prior to lta iirat l?hi. Lockheed aald the plana could fly a light tank and its complement of troops acrois an osoan. . ' -. , - ," , . ' ; j Ten Other Warships . Named as Lost A In Pacific By JOHN H. WIGGINS WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (P) With military security no long er requiring secrecy, the navy added to Jts list of sunken ves- kols. tqday. thpIr-iurv'T tho nir- emu currier- -xiyrnovv bqci jlu other warships all' previously announced as lost but not Iden tified at tho time. The 20,000-ton Hornet, com missioned only a year before its death on October 26, went to the bottom of tho South Pa cific off tho Santa Cruz Islands after a battlo that Inflicted heavy damage on two Japanese carriers and, bomb and torpedo hits on an enemy battleship and five cruisers. Jap Loss . Two other United Slates war ships, sunk In the furious No vember battles that . broke tho heaviest Nipponese attempts to recapture Guadalcanal, were Identified as the 0050-ton cruis er Northampton, 6000-ton cruis er Juneau, 6000-ton cruiser At lanta and tho destroyers Nons scn, dishing, Benham, Preston, Walkc, Barton and Laffey. The navy communiques on the engagements in which these ves sels and another previously Iden tified destroyer were lost, showed, however, that a total of 18 Japanese warships were damaged and 37 sunk,, compris ing two battleships, eight cruis ers, two large destroyers or cruisers, 10 destroyers and 15 transports. Describing the Hornet's last hours In a hitherto unpublished Interview at Nutley, N. J., a month ago, Marino Private Gcorgo E. Kindmark, a sur vivor, told of two Japanese (Continued on Pago-Two) of the Pcaco Joo Mohoncy from $200 to $300 a month. This is a 50 per cer.t increase, and in courthouse circles there was gen eral opinion that no such in crcaso would be obtained for the various elective officials. - Tho present county officer monthly salaries, which might be affected by legislation, arc: coun ty judge, $200; commissioners, $175; clork, $200; treasurer, $175; sheriff, $250, assessor, $200. - . . Elective officers who would be affected by a go'neral upward ad justment aro County Judge U. E. Recder, County Commissioners John Rebor nnd Fred Pope, Shoriff Lloyd Low, Clerk Mao K. Short, Assessor Newton Nel son, Treasurer Chct Langslct. The county surveyor", Frank Howard, Is paid on a per diem basin. ' , The offices of District Attor ney L. Orth Sisemorv. and Cir cuit Judgo David R. Vandcnberg are state offices.. Cargo Plane Warms Up Danger of Ice Skating on Upper Lake Emphasized Dangers of skating on Upper Klamath lake received the wor ried attention of tho city council Monday night, and Juvenile Of ficer Dave Bridge was asked to confer with the county juvenile officer on plans for preventing further skating activities on the lake. Bridge sold that an "old fel low with a dog" was on the lake Sunday,- and that younger pcoplo followed him Into dang erous places. Ono boy broke through the Ice near the bank. "We had two drownings on the lako two years ago," said Bridge. "It's about time . for another." The council considered an or dinance prohibiting skating, on that part of the lake inside the city, but took no action. - Most of the lake is outside the city limits. . . Bridge said that a pond on-a flat near Wocus is a safe place to skate. (For othor safe skating places, see the Midfiold column on to day's sport page.) Camp White Men To Be Featured On Rotary Show A bang-up program featuring Camp White soldiers and a short, "Pine Goes to War," will high light the Rotary club slow slated for Saturday afternoon and eve ning at the Vox theatre on Main street. . v The continuous show will be open to the public and during the evening there will be special musical numbers including a soldiers chorus, sent here from Camp White, Medford. Another feature will bo the auction sale of merchandise, the articles go ing to tho highest bond buver. Mitchell Tillotson is chairman of .notary's war savings drivo for January. Tho county's goal is $3tY,0U0. , The Vox theatre window is open from 2 to 5 p. m. daily and stamps and bonds are being sold by wives of Rotarlans. . . Lee Stidd, Former v Banker, Sentenced For Savings Fraud PORTLAND, Jan. 12 (P) Lee C. Stldd, fornjer banker, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for fraud. : Federal Judge James A. Fee sentenced him to 15 months on each of eight counts but fixed the sentences to run concurrent ly. . The court denied ..SUdd's re quest that the case be investi gated by the probation officer and Stidd moved for a. new trial. : . , A jury Saturday night con victed Stldd, former ,vlce presi dent and general . manager of tho First Federal Savings and Loan association, on olght counts of making false entries totaling $23,207 in reports to the fed eral 'home loan bank board. for Flight E Progress Reported in -. Traffic Safety, . Aviation Klamath Falls' bonded Indebt edness was reduced $249,500 in 1942, it was reported. by Mayor John Houston in an annual stttemenf to- the city ' council last ntght,... . --- o , ...:. " The mayor said that a reduc tion of about 25 per cent was made in the fire Insurance-on municipal buildings,, following an appraisal, of alK city prop erties. He praised the insurance committee -for its work;. 'Aviation Progress May or 'Houston 'in his 'report touched also on; the- progress made in traffic safety here, on the establishment " of loading zones, on the formation -and ac tivity of the civilian , reserves, and the hospitality, extended soldiers. He said that about $900,000 was spent on the airport by the CAA and the army and said that aviation is progressing here. Successful Year The city, he reported, was able to Improve streets through a $7000 allowance from, the state highway commission. The mayor said that . all in all, he considered ' 1942 a suc cessful year in city affairs and he expressed , appreciation to otn.er city - officials, city em ployes, and the citizenry -in gen eral for help. ' Laval Swaps French ; Labor for Increased Political Power ; V LONDON, Jan. 12 :Pf In exchange for increased political power, Pierre Laval has con traded to deliver 400,000 more French '. workmen , and; . . some French warships' to Germany,'', a Fighting French spokesman said tonight. " '. ' An agreement on this was reached at the December con ference, of Laval with -' Adolf Hitler and . Count - Galeazzo Ulano, - Italian foreign -minister, according to information brought here from France. . Hitler was said to have' told Laval that his would be the last French government with which Germany would negotiate, and that he gave Laval direct ; con trol over all police, and gener ally increased administrative au thority. ". OPA Extends Tire Inspection Deadline PORTLAND, Jan. 12 Wi ¬ llie Oregon OPA announced to day that the deadline for tire Inspections under the . gasoline rationing program has been ex tended from January 31 to Feb ruary 28 for holders of. B and C cards and to' March-31 for A card holders. ' V ' Tho OPA also reminded mo torists that No. 3 coupons, in' A ration books , are good through January 21 and that No.. 4 cou pons will not become valid until January 22. - - " 34 FRUITLESS BALLOTS CAST Steiwer Offers With drawal If Mrs.' Lee 'Will Do Likewise By PAUL. W. HAHVEY JH. SALEM, Jan. 12 (P) Hope of breaking the senate presidency deadlock, which has delayed the inauguration of Governor-Elect Earl Snell. since 2 p. m. today, was held early this afternoon when Sen. W. H. Steiwer of Fos sil agreed to withdraw his candi dacy provided his opponent. Dorothy McCullough Lee"- of Portland would do likewise. The 'Senate, after 34 fruitless ballots in which the count was 15-15, adjourned' until 1:30 p. m. to permit Mrs. Lee to consult her supporters' to decide -whether she should withdraw. At 2:35 p? m., when both camps went into, separate cau cuses,.. Mrs. Lee had not yet de cided whether she would, with draw. '-'-'I'i;'.' ' V ' A; committee, consisting of five senate J,in each group, met in an effort to work-out a solution, but' it. merely .recommended , the two caucuses. : ' .: ' - t ; ' : ; The five- members of the Stei wer. group said that their main objection-to Mrs. Lee,-whom all five paid high tributes to her ability arid' integrity,; was that Oregon should not lake a chance on a woman becoming governor in timer of - war. - The . five ' said they would not draw, lots for that reason.-They added they believe that a majority of the voters of Oregon don't want a woman gov ernor during a war. Steiwer Questioned Before adjourning for lunch, the senate had refused twice to permit her to consult her sup porters: immediately,- the vote being 15-15, and divided strictly the way the senators had voted in the presidency race. Sen. Coe McKenna, Portland, a Lee supporter, asked Steiwer why his group had refused to al low Mrs. Lee to consult with her forces. - - Supporter! Released . ' Steiwer: replied that she had been consulting with them for the past hour, and that he had made the. offer without a caucus of his own supporters. , -Frederick S. Lamport, Salem, a. Steiwer -supporter, then said she. should not have to consult with her cohorts, as both'Steiwer and '.Mrs. Lee had already re leased their supporters from their pledges. , Public Left Out Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland asked McKenna: why the Lee (Continued on Faga Two) FOR PRESIDENCY Japs Believed Reinforcing Kiska Under Cover of Night By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER " WASHINGTON, Jon. 12 (Pl under cover of the long Arctic nights, the Japanese invaders of Kiska island in the Aleutians ap pear to have been receiving sup plies and reinforcements. . Military authorities who de clined to be quoted by name, ex pressed the opinion today, how ever, that on. the basis of avail able information - the enemey's hold on their bleak outpost off Alaska probably is little if any more secure than it was last fall when army air attacks eased off because of the fog and darkness that set 'in' with winter. One of the most recent indica tions that the Japanese have not been idle'came. when two Light ning 'fighters escorting medium bombers , on. a raid over Kiska harbor were .shot down by four Japanese : float type' Zero planes on December 30. Only one of the Zeros was destroyed. That was the first evidence in many Weeks that the 1 Japs had ' float - .v .... ! ... , - - Named C. S. Elliot, Klamath merch ant, has been named a member of school board No. 1, to fill out the unexpired term of How ard Barnhiiel. ELLIOT NAW1ED TD L 1 Barnhisel Resignation Accepted at Mont day Meet C. S. Elliot, Klamath Falls merchant, was named by mem bers of School Board No. 1,- in session Monday night, to serve out the unexpired term of How ard Barnhisel, now serving - in the armed forces. BarnhiseFa resignation was accepted by .the board and naming of Elliot -followed immediately. The term expires in June, 1943. . . The-new member was .con tacted Immediately by telephone and appeared before the board, was sworn In and took his place at the table. Mrs. Coopey Accepts Resignations of Mary F. Van Vactor and Kathleen Silver , of the Joseph Conger staff, were accepted. Mrs. - Van Vactor Is now residing in Salt Lake City where she has joined Capt. Van Vactor, and Miss Silver has ac cepted a position with Columbia Aircraft, Portland. Mrs. Sherman Carter .and Mrs. Paul Deller were named to these positions. Superintendent Arnold L. Gralapp advised the board that Mrs. Raymond Coopey has ac cepted the assignment as-secretary in his . offices. LaVonne Watkins, member of the office staff, will serve as assistant to J. Percy Wells, clerk of the board. - Mrs. Coopey has been with the county school set-up. Course Set Up The high school board, meet ing simultaneously with Board No. 1, was mainly concerned with routine business matters. Mrs. L. H. Stone was named to a sophomore English assignment (Continued on fage two) planes at Kiska and occasioned considerable surprise that they had been able to move in such reinforcements. The Japanese moved into Attu. Agattu and Kiska islands, ' the westernmost Aleutians, last June simultaneously with their, attack on Midway island. Their defeat at Mldw y left the northern arm of what they apparently had in tended as a pincers drive on the North American continent more or less, useless and soon Ameri can air and naval attacks frus trated any subsequent plan they may have worked out to gener ate an independent offensive In the Aleutians.. Throughout the summer and well into the fall, these . attacks were carried out with the regu larity of clockwork and the Japs lost heavily in ships and planes. The air assaults were Intensified when the army, with naval sup port, established in late Septem ber an advanced air base in the (Continued on Page Two)' Sti My - -A jt If v - 5 Pi ' " - U; J ' , -. '. .., ' '-.;y- FLYING FORTS BUTTER INTO French Drive Germans From Mountain Pass - - ' In Tunisia By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN. NORTH AFRICA, Jan. la irt-ir lying Fortresses,, in their first full raid into Tripolitama, struck a heavy blow at Marshal Rommel's forces by battering the fort at Ghadames, whila French troops in Tunisia drove the-Germans out of a mountain pass 23 miles south of Point Du Fans and captured at least. 180 prisoners. . (jnaaames is aeep trt tht desert, 450 miles south of Tunis, at the juncture of the frontiers of Tunisia, Algeria and Tripoli tanla. : " : - French Attack (A British broadcast " heard last night-by CBS quoted Gen, Henri Giraud, high commission er ' for French North and West Africa, as saying- the .German now had 70,000 troops in Tun isia.). .-. ? ' '-'"'' - -Ai spokesman -for the French high - command said French troops' had attacked north of Jebel Boudabous, northwest of the moslem city of Kairouan, which is 35 miles inland from the. Eastern Tunisian port of Sousse. . ' . Germans i.and Italians ln the) valley, there Were: surrounded the spokesman, said, and -fighting is continuing. -. Flank Move British infantry and tanks also were reported yesterday to have made gains astride, the Goubellant road six miles north of Bou Arada and. some 14 mile south of Madjez El Bab. The Germans had occupied the position a hill and a single farmhouse-in what-might have been a move to flank allied advanced posts. -.-' (From the east allied bombers' were keeping up their psrt of the allied aerial strategy of bat-' tering the enemy from both, sides of the North 'African front, ' Port Pounded - (A Cairo communique said Naples was raided by United States Liberators by daylight yesterday. It was the 38th raid on the Italian supply port, and. the first this year. (Allied bombers from the east also pounded the port of Sousse and transport vehicles on the road between Gabes and Sfax in blows closely timed with other aerial attacks from bases in the west. . (Increased air activity was re ported over the Libyan bottle front, but the communique said ground operations there . still were confined to patrol ao tivity.) Oregon Leads Nation in Bond . Sales in November PORTLAND, Jan. 12 (JP) The Oregon war bond staff said today that the state led the nation in turning its income into bonds last November. , . Figures . showed' the- Oregon average was 12.4 per cent of the month's income, compared to Delaware's 12.3 per cent and North Dakota's 11.3 per cent; ' The Oregon average represent ed $7.88 compared to the nation al average of $5.44 put - into bonds. State headquarters also said Oregon exoeeded .Its- quota, in December, purchasing $9,146,275 in bonds, 12 per cent above the quota. -..' ' : v News index . City Briefs .;....:::..'...h:;....Pag) 8 Comics and Story .... Page 8 Editorial .:....;...:........:...Page ' 4 Markets, Financial ......Page 7 Men in Service ........... Page 8 Pattern ....Page 4 Sports Page 0 TRIP0LIT1I
