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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1943)
"Pine Goes to War" Bond Rally and Auction at jjiWnrrrrTi""r-ii""""" On 6-mlnute blast on iltom . li the signal lor I blackout Falls. Another long blait, during black, out, U a signal ior all-clear. In precnu . tlonary periods, watch your atraat lights. in By FRANK JENKINS HTHE Japs mnko another effort to got supplies ond reinforce ments to their men on Guadal canal. A destroyer squadron stenms In at high speed, but Is mot and turned buck by our motor torpedo boat. Two of the destroyers are hit by torpedoes mm a third Is ro , ported probably hit, bringing to 87 tho number of Jnp warships damaged in tho Solomons cam paign. Flfty-soven have been sunk nd six more probably sunk. "THESE are serious losses. Tho Japs have nothing to crow , about (so tor) in the boiomons "THE last time Jap destroyers . . tried to bring help to Guadalcanal, they , threw out drums of supplies, hoping they'd float ashoro. The navy com' nuntcatlon doesn't mention such a performance this time. .'THERE'S nothing spectacularly new from Russia as this Is written. Just moro of tho same, The medicine being taken by the Germans Is still bitter. :- The Russians lako sarcastic 'crack today ' at German claims ' that newly-captured prisoners Indicate : tho Russian army Is composed largely of 15-ycar-old boys and BO-ycar-olds. The Hitlerites, the Russians say, must be in a bad way In deed to be FLEEING (as they are) beforo a Russian army of boys and old men. .. .. DOTH the German claim and the Russian come-back, of course, are aimed at the German people. Propaganda Is one of war Important weapons. A CCORDING to reports today - from Stockholm, Germany Is having her mnnpowcr trou bles. A military commission Is tour ing tho rclch, the Stockholm dis patch says, combing out men hitherto held unfit for active military service, hoping to use them as garrison troops In oc cupied countries or as desk workers to rclcaso younger men for active service Hitler hopes, It Is added, to add another two million men to his : armed services In this manner. : .":, rERMANY is undoubtedly short on manpower, and the shortage certainly hurts. But don't get all steamed up about It. Germans reading our ' newspapers could easily jump to the; conclusion that wo too arc seriously crippled by luck of manpower. - ; Wo know wo could uso more men, but wo know also that wo aren't bolng CRIPPLED by the lack of them. The manpower shoe Is beginning to pinch in Germany, but we aren't Justified In assuming that the pinch Is reaching fatal proportions yet. BRITISH bombers paste the u German Ruhr district eight times in 11 nights. Essen, home of the great Krupp war factories, Is the target again. One hun dred tons of bombs are dropped in about 12 minutes. OUPPOSE tho Germans and-or the Japs heavily bombed . Pittsburgh, Detroit and Phila delphia eight times In 11 nights, Our war production would be seriously REDUCED. There can be no denial of that. Pittsburgh, Detroit and Phila delphia are about the American . equivalent of the German Ruhr valley. : ; THESE bombing raids on ln dustrlal centors have little IMMEDIATE effect on tho fight ing power of tho German armies, for the weapons the German fighting forces are using right ' (Continued on Page Two) 1 and whistles In Klamath E TO WDRKJODAY 17,000 Others Defy WLB Back-to-Work Ultimatum WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 14 (II Two thousand striking Pennsylvania hard coal miners compiled today with a war la bor board demand that they re turn to work, but approximate ly 17,000 others defied the WLB ultimutum and remained Idle for the luth day. Dcsptto growing tension throughout the strike area, there was no disorder and no picketing us 600 men took up their tasks again at tho Hudson Coal company's Baltimore No. 9 colliery und 1000 workers ro sumcd operations at tho Rlcn Aldon Coal company's Wunumlo colliery. Threat to Nation The, split in the strikers' ranks developed at a general meeting lust night In wnich a voto wus taken on the WLB's request that tho men go back to their jobs and submit to ne gotiations their demands for a wage Increase and their protest against an incrcaso in union dues. The board culled tho walkout a "threat to tho safety of the nation" and warned that it (Continued on Pago Two) Nelson Favors Priority on Part Of Rubber Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (fl) Chalrmun Donald M. Nelson of tho war production board has recommended that Rubber Di rector William M. Jcffcrs be granted full and unquestioned priority on 55 per cent of his total plant construction pro gram for synthetic rubber, an informed but unquotable gov ernment official sold today. Jcffcrs last week said he needed priority right-of-way for OS to 70 per cent of the pro gram, which competes for ma terials and equipment with the aviation gasoline program and other military "must" programs. Failure to get such a go-ahead, Jcffcrs said, would result in a "cutustropho" in military and civilian transport. Informed of tho reported 55 per cent decision, Jcffcrs said ho could not confirm tho figure, but if that much were actually granted he felt he "could bull the program through some way." ham -Mac STING RETURN Lumber Workers to Lead Victory Program Saturday Lumber workers of Klamath county are taking over the Vic tory center program at the Vox theatre Saturday night, in the "Pine Goes to War" drive spon sored by Rotary club in an ef fort to ralso the $317,000 war savings quota given this county during tho month of January. Tho theme of the program Is built around tho place of pine In tho war effort. A program will be presented during the afternoon and start ing at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night there will be a continuous show. Roderlo Olzondam of the Forest Products Industries, Ta coma, Wash,, will be Interlocutor of ,the theme script and other actors will be lumbermen and local members of tho . armed forces and a numbor of soldiers from Camp White. Plenty of music has been plan ned for the evening perform Herald ; auft ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE n'M"'' '""""to vr. t'lf 'WNMWIM . Hill..,) AllVUIII'l AAlHirUAlK!) mm mm mm Hornet Survivors Get Together ' 1 As an aftermath of 'the sinking of the US aircraft carrier Hgrnet in the South Pacific1 Is this reunion In the San Diego, Calif., naval hospital, Lt. (Ig) Robert J. Noons, second left, of Auburndale, Mass., gets the autograph of a fellow survivor of the Hornet, Lt. James G. Kelsey, Waterbury, Conn., as ship mates join In on the party. Official US navy photo. Salvation Army DrlvejOverjNithl $7500 in Chest 1 Klamath's Salvation Army drive Is over, with $7500 raised, it was announced today by Lee Jacobs, drive chairman. Jacobs said the fund Is enough to nearly pay off In debtedness on the army's now q nor tors at Fourth street and Klamath avenue. A contribution of $562 by tho Pelican Bay Lumber company employes put the drive over the $7500 mark, a quota set by Jacobs last month. He said this was the. largest employe contrl butlon of the campaign.. "Tho drivo Is definitely end ed," Jacobs reported. ' City License Fees Almost Due, Warn KF Police . "We aro going to blossom out with warrants Monday" lt was learned from members of the police department who warned once more that city license fees must bo paid on or before Jan uary 15, or else,, . , Licenses are due January" 1, and a 15-day period of grace was granted by the police de partment. Last year; lt was ob served, the services of an1 of ficer were required for 10 days to collect the fees adding an other burden to the taxpayer. Tho police department docs not Intend to repeat this practice. ance and a 30-volce chorus from Camp White will be one of the highlights. Auctions of mer chandise will be directed by Char les Wlese of Tulelake. Articles will go to the highest bond pur chasers. More than $300 worth of merchandise has been donated for tho auction, articles Includ ing blankets, hams, furniture, groceries and other Hems. Under the direction of. AF of L and CIO, the Vox theatre front was decorated Wednesday with pine logs and branches.1 Women of Rotary wore In the ticket booth to sell bonds and stamps each afternoon during the month starting this, weeki ' ; . ' . Harold H. McKenzle, repre sentative of the Brotherhood , of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer ica, urged men of the various unions to turn out and "buy (Continued on Page Two) ,.j IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND am ATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1943 FUHZIS. FROM MO HEIKHTS Lafayette , Escddrille Fliers Back Up . V Attack ' By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED . HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 14 OP) French troops aided by the new P-40 equipped Lafayette Esca drillo blasted the Germans from two strategic heights in the mountains about 15 miles north west of Kairouan yesterday, it was announced today. ' The attack marked the first offensive operation by Lafayette Escadrille fliers in the Tunisian theater. The first squadron, of the organization, composed . of French aces who .shot down an average of seven or eight planes each.: in .the . brief battle ' of France, arrived at a U. S. fight er base Monday. Air Activity! ! A French spokesman described the gains as important, He said the captured heights were Jebel Haoub and Jebel Bou Davouss, which jut from the desert north eastward from Pichon. ' (Allied air squadrons operat ing with Gen. Sir Bernard Mont gomery's British eighth - army , (Continued on Page Two) ' -- Scrapping of "Oregon" Rapped By Representative PORTLAND, Jan. 14 (A5) Oregonians have the condemna tion of Idaho's Rep. Compton I. White for permitting the scrap ping of the battleship Oregon. I ve seen enough scrap iron in Idaho, Montana and Washing ton the past few days to build 10 Oregons, he said in an- in terview. . "We are spending mil lions of 1 dollars on . posters to inculcate patriotism, and then we wreck one of tho dearest historic relics we have." - He said he- would take the matter before the house when he returns to Washington. j Gilchrist Woman ; . Takes Own Life SEATTLE, Jan. 14 (P) U The body of a Gilchrist, Ore.,' wo man, Mrs.. Evelyn Esther Dam- schen, 34, was. found in a shed In Seattle's south end yesterday. Coroner John P. Brill Jr., said she ' apparently - had committed suicide by drinking poison. Her last known address was at the YWCA here, ; ,. ; .. ''. - . : . y ;. ; " ; TRUMAN RESTRICTIONS OPA Acts to Tighten Gas Grants, in ; East ' By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan.' 14 Sen. ator Truman (D-Mo.) " protested today that farmers In America's arsenal of food,' already short on labor, face a shortage of equip ment because of restrictions laid down by the war production board. 7 " - Truman and other, members of the senate defense investigate ing committee inquired pointed ly of the wisdom of a WPB or. der which cut 1043 production of farm machinery to 23 per cent of the 1940 tonnage, and set the production of replacement parts at: 187 per cent of the 1940 out- .TifAettoS-tbli1 .Oseat-WrMeie chief 'of the agricultural, 1 food and textile machinery unit Of WPB, replied that 1940 was one ,6f th$. peak years, for purchases of -farm ma chinery, end as a result farmers' equipment is generally in good shapa.: . .. . , '. ' ; This. -same; committee, ,whlch Truman heads, was assured by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, that he is doing "everything possible'.' - to end the anthracite strike in Pennsylvania. ' A UMW spokes man said Lewis, also has so re ported to the war labor board. . . " Eastern Gas Cut . :The board called a V public hearing on the case here tomor row, asking the unions and oper ators to explaln'"why the anthra cite miners, citizens of. the Unit ed States whose sons and broth ers are at the fighting front, are on strike against the national no strike policy and against the wel fare of the nation in time of war."-.- - .' " . j OPA acted to tighten up on grants of increased .gasoline al lowances for B- and C ration . . (Contimjed on Page, Two) , Steiwer Names Cornett Head of Roads Committee ' Senator Marshall E." Cornett was named , chairman, of the Im portant roads and highways committee, it . wn learned Thursday as Senate President W. H. Steiwer announced com mittee assignments. - Klamath's senator was also named vice chairman of forestry and forest products, and named to the game, Industries, irriga tion and drainage committees. Bill Would Holt Delays in Choice Of State Officers - SALEM, Jan. 14 (&) Reps. Dean F. .Bryson and Robert' F. Duniway, both Portland and new members of the house, in troduced a bill today to prevent repetition- of delays in selection of . legislative . officers, .such as the, senate presidency - dispute which held up Governor. Snell's inauguration for two days. The bill provides t h a t if either house or, senate fails to organize by 4 p. ni.' of the first day. of the session, the speaker or president of the : senate of the preceding, session- would re tain his office. If the past officers are not available, .the senior member of the body unable to organize PRODUCT ON would . get . tlw ;. Job-. , Vox Theatre Satu rday Night NEA FEATURES Number Reinforcements "I,? ,4 ' Si ' i ' Deplt Jap airplanes overhead (circle), US troops disembark from a transport and head for Guadalcanal to reinforce baieV pretsed soldiers on that Solomon island. Much contested Hender son field is the clearing at upper left. This photo was made by a flying photographer of the US air forces. : j: ISKOif Broadened Offensive Unchecked by Rains. -, ..- By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (P) The red - army's . come-back drive through the Caucasus - was re ported today, fanning out wider on both' sides of the Rostov Baku trunk line as separate spearheads of the - assault stabbed on through towns more than 20 miles, west and 50 miles north of recaptured Mineralyne Vody.. . Despite German attempts at a stand, the Russians were broadening their offensive front in fighting unchecked by steady rains and . wet snow - which bogged the fertile valley fields with mud and water. ' No Confirmation A dozen, towns were won back under, the red banner in the ; (Continued on Page , Two) No More Buying of Meat on the Hoof PORTLAND, Jan. 14 ffl The state OPA announced today that logging operators and other em ployers no longer will be per mitted to buy meat on the hoof for slaughtering and serving to employes. . ' -'. . Tax Problems Action on By The Associated Press -' WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (ff) Need for congressional action on immediate problems such as new taxes appeared likely today to sidetrack for several months consideration of President Roose velt's proposal for an expansion of the social security system to combat postwar economic haz ards. : Chairman George (D-Ga.) ; of the senate finance committee told reporters the calendars of com mittees which usually handle social security matters ways and means in the house and fi nance' in the : senate probably will be crowded tor some time with prime legislation. In this category, he placed pay-as-you-earn tax legislation, new revenue producing meas: ures, an increase in the $125, 000,000,000 public debt limita tion and: expiring ; executive au-, 9694 for Guadalcanal 3- mi&, At, , t :; ,fi 'M?,,;,. tklj-":' 7'- Or--- ". i Bridges Demands Probe of Charges Against Flynn ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 VP) Senator Bridges .(R-N.H.).; de; manded in the senate . ..today that the foreign relations com mittee- Investigate a- series of charges Bridges said showed that Edward J. Flynn, retiring democratic national chairman, was "unfit" to represent .the United . States as minister to Australia.- .- .'.-. Chairman Connally (D-Texas) of the., committee- interrupted Bridges to promise a' "full hear ing" on the : Flynn , nomination: Reading ; from a prepared manuscript, Bridges made these charges: ' - "1. 1 charge that Edward jL Flynn, through the law firm of (Continued on Page Two) Large Number of . , American Forces Arrive in Britain - LONDON, Jan. 14 (IP) Large numbers of American forces, to gether with a big contingent of New Zealand, Australian a n d Canadian air personnel haye ar rived at a British port, it was disclosed today. W. J. Jordan, New. Zealand high commissioner,, welcomed the troops and gave a special word to . the Americans, ack nowledging kindness shown by the people of the United States to New Zealanders. Authorities said the convoy's trip was uneventful. . Sidetrack Security Issue fthorlty to make reciprocal trade agreements. " : ; . The rising tempo of the new congress also produced these de velopments: -1. Determination by the house naval committee to study the en tire American naval program slnce.the war began to ascertain progress made in combatting the submarine menace, growth of the navy's air arm, the need for new ships and the status. of the battleship-versus-carrier , contro versy. - ';':;; "; 2. Mounting hopes for early lifting of the American Federa tion of Musicians' - ban on rec orded music after' James C. Pet- rillo, union president, assured a senate Investigating committee a .compromise would be 'drafted next month. 3. Consideration by the sen ate foreign relations committee ; . (Continued og Page -Two); January IS -High 41, Low 24 . Precipitation ai pi January 24, 1949 . Stream yar to data ........ 8.03 Last .ytar .....8.95 Normal ... 8.05 I a mm mmm. am ' ssalttf mm mm Ma asal ' t "LANDINGS ON; GUADALCANAL 2, Maybe Three, Nip Destroyers Damaged In Attempt - By. Tbe Associated Tresr - ... American motor torpedo boats darting. Into battle against Jap, anese warships were- officially reported today to have damaged two ' and possibly three enemy destroyers in the waters, oft Guadalcanal island, in .the Solo mons. . . A.- nnirv ' itmarfmnf fkiitlottw said -the- enemy warships, pre. sumably attempting to carry r.e inforcement trt mhnttlAH Jnn, anese -troops on the island, were rorcea to witnaraw to the north west , as -a result of the furious torpedo-boat assault i .' Advance Continues .. Twrt thrnerin liH mn mvA on one of the- destroyers, - one hit on a second destroyer, and two possible hits on a third, the navy saw. . . ,.-..-' .".r. . J w UU1V. U. 'Si army troops on the island "continued their advance" under aerial; support, ' - ;' ; . v-jjk' v ., Allied warplanesi isiastlng ii Japan's ferflnhef InvAlnn-'ormlAtf from Burma to the South Seas. were,oHiciauy credited with set ting big fire at the Important enemy base of Lae. New Rnlnon. and- raining destruction on half a dozen o.tber..targets. - , s - New-Guinea -fxtaA:.-: On theji'New . Rulnps r,A front,': heeyy; raini slowed : fr ions - to annuiuate the trapped Japanese garrison at Sanananda Point,, but:, small r allied patrols worked CdnsttitiUy .totferret. out hidden: enemy; positions . in-tha swamps and ..jungles. . Gen. DoUffla MA4vthi,r'a headquarters said -United Na tions airmen bombed Lae, Sala maua, Madang and Firishchhafeo - (Continued on Page Two) Four at Large After Holdup of . 1 Army Messenger NORTH' KINGSTOWN ' P T " Jan..: 14 -.OF) Four meH' .wh . held up an unarmed army dia -patch '. rider, at - gunpoint "and rifled f through official '-army papers,. i.oniy to . return. , them with; the remark that "it isn't here,"- still were at large today despite a state, -police ; dragnet; There: was no inrtlratlnn nt what the men were seeking in uicii .jiiysiunuus iprayi nor.-.any clue to- their-'identityj -' ,;; ,:-'.- - j The men fnropri th mnlAior?' Private- Raymond L. Mosher, of. apringneid, Mass., to drive his -small army truck for more than a mile,' a gun at his head,: to a RpnlttHprl lnnp urhorA-'tha,, b,a: fully, examined, the documents. Then they sped away in a small Sedan.': . '.. Vi I.;.' ' ' Get Your Ration Book No. 1 Before Jan. 15, Warns OPA .If you haven't .ration book; No. ' . affectionately called the sugar, book,, on or before Janu ary 15, you'll be out of luck for ration book No. 2, according to a warning Issued Thursday by the OPA. January 15, officially, Is Fri day- tomorrow. There will be no. acceptance for book 2, required for point rationing,--until book 1 is - in your possession, . the OPA ex plains. News index ; City Briefs Page 7 Comics and Story ;..;..i.Page 1J Courthouse Records ......Page 7 Editorial Page 4 Farm News ..........;........;..Page 10 Markets, Financial Page-10 Midland Empire News ... Page 11 Our Men in Service Page 4 Pattern ..Page 0 Sports ".,...... Page S
