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I On 8-mlnute blait on (Irani end whistles U the signal for blackout In Klamath Falli. Another long blast, during black out, li a signal lor all-elear. In precau tionary parlodi. watch your atraai llahti. January 14 High .47, Low 33 Precipitation as ol January 8, 1849 Stream year to data 8.03 Lait year .....8.98 Normal 8.11 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE, FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1943 , Number 9695 ,' J 0 i i ...'.... .. ' : r- : . : : - ; i lllllll nT 7 nn - " " . (Fb n " 7 " He' $52'500 Bird Now RITTI F HftPFR : Eh li iHynn gearing- set f.w:fwl- w HIHSt:: APPOINTMENT j SisH It SIUUM By THANK JENKINS "THERE'S something now In tlio nowa today. Australian GROUND troops raid Mubo, a Jnp outpost only 10 miles south of Sulamau, In Now Guinea. Thut's a good 150 olrllno miles, as niensured on the map, from Buna, and Is prob ably moro.by ony ovulluble land route. e e ALTHOUGH this is tlio first , wo've heard of it, the. fight In8 at Mubo has boon going on slnco Monday. The Australians attacked first " from tho surrounding ridges, and there are hints In tho dispatches that tho Japs have been taken by surprise. The fighting con tinued through Tuesday and Wednesday, with tho Australians generally gaining.' : Then (presumably on Thurs day) the Jnps sent in reinforce ments, and tho Australians re ; tired oiter, the. dispatchos say, "gaining much valuable Informa tion.".': - . "" - " nrniERE'S a thrilling sidelight '' x pn the fighting. In tlio Junglo whore the at tack came, tho .Japs had 6TRUNG TIN CANS on wires, the Idea balng that when any body hit the wires the cons would . RATTLE.. Today: dls ' patches . say. the' ' Australians "took core not to . rume mo ' cans."; : '." Two things are Indicated: i. Tho Aussles are smart, and promptly discovered tho Jap warning scheme or knew of. It In advance. 3.' The Japs were EXPECT ING an attack. . e , ... . , . . - HPHERE has been little doubt T that' MocArtnur next move iter cleaning up tho Japs on the Buna beaches would be against Salamau and Lae. - The Japs havo obviously been looking for It. Their big convoy that was so badly battered from the air last week put In at Lae and landed, one gucssos, such reinforcements as It had left after tho smacking . it got from our airman. That is to say, they were pre paring for something they fig ured was coming. . TWATCH this Salomnu and Lao " area. It Is likely that more will be happening thcro as tho days pass. Cleaning the Japs out of eastern New Guinea is important' to Australia's safety. QNLY incldonts mark tho Rus slnn' nows today no , big, smashing developments. . ' Romombor, In football (which is essentially similar to war) the maneuvering that gets the- ball carrier within striking distance of Jho goal Is all-important, but it's the actual crossing of the goal line that furnishes the ex citement. For several days tho Russians have been occupied with this maneuvering. Tho goal line we're watching just now Is Rostov." The Rus sians are within1 60 miles of It. ...v. 'TWERE Is nothing in. todoy's A dispatches or anything in recent days, for that matter to Indicate any lack of striking power on Russia's part, .and that's EVERYTHING. '. ' 1 '' rTHE Incldonts are interesting, and perhaps significant. . The German radio pulls tills alibi out of the hat: . 1 "The situation .(In Russia) might have been WORSE If the Germans had kept on winning, for a soviet retreat Into the vast expanses of the soviet' -union would have confronted tho Ger man armies with an almost in soluble SUPPLY problomlU Paste that one "in the. book. It's good. ' .. 1 fTHE Berlin radio reads -.the x riot act to Germans before Stalingrad who, it intimates, "see -no sonso in holding on." It says' the soldier's job Is to 'carry out ordors in a spirit of . (Continued on Page Five) Snel I Proposals Intro duced Today by Democrats SALEM, Jan; 18 VP) While Governor Earl Snell waited to day , for the attorney general's office to completo the drafting of bills to carry out his 14 recommendations to the legisla ture, the handful of democratic legislators had beaten him to tho punch by Introducing four of his proposals. Rep. J. D. Perry, St. Helens democrat, Introduced a bill to day to consolidate the stato banking and corporation depart ments into the state department of banking and corporations, whllo yesterday ha introduced a bill to abolish the three-man tax commission and substitute- a singlo commissioner. Recommended Sen. Thomas R. Muhoney, fortlund democrat, submitted a ill to abolish the milk control board' and trunsfor its functions to'the "stato deportment of agri culture, and Son. Lew Wallace, Port In nd democrat, hod intro duced resolution to establish a stato policy of providing jobs for soldiers when .they come home from the war. . , All tour measures were recommended by Snell, whllo the republican legislators have not yot introduced any ' bills -, (Continued on Pugo Two) Semon Named to Ways and Means Sub-Committees ; Representative Henry Semon of Klamath county was named to thrco joint ways and means sub-committees to investigate the budgets of stato agencies as appointments' were made In Snlom by Sen. Angus Gibson, Junction City, and Rep. Carl Engdahl, Pendleton, chairmen, respectively, of the senato and house ways and means commit tees. ". Following are Semon's ap pointments: institutions, higher education and claims. Robert Shaw ; j Awarded Purple . Heart in London ' . LONDON, Jan. 18 (P) Six officers and 19 enlisted men on the United States army air force were awarded purple hearts to day for wounds received in ac tion. Among them was First Lieutenant Robert D. Shaw, Klamath Falls, Ore. Auction, Musical Program All Set for Saturday Show Lumber workers of the Klam ath basin are planning a show which will undoubtedly -go. a long way toward the $317,000 goal set. for the county in the January war bond drive, when an auction and musical program is presented at tho Vox theatre Saturday night starting at 7:30 o'clock. - T. B. Wattors, head of the Rotary committee assisting lum ber workers in putting on the show, reported additional , arti cles donated by merchants for tho auction; These include the following, ono lint, K. Sugarman; blanket, J.. C. Penney company; ham and . canned goods, Emll's Super market; hassock, Klam ath , Furniture; canned goods, Sunset, grocery; purses, traveling. County Treasurer Chet Lang slct received orders Frldoy to report to ' tho army air corps classification center In Fresno, Calif., on Wednesday, January 20. , ; Mrs. Loiigslct was Immediately appointed treasurer pro-tcm by tho county court to replace her husband. According to an act of tho state legislature passed in 1041, an elective official called to the service need not resign or take a forced leave of absence. In the event that he returns be fore the next general election ha automatically resumes his posi tion. Langslot enlisted in the air corps lost July, and completed his basic training with tha CPT here, Ho has asked for transfer to gunnery school, but Is not sure of this appointment as yet. Reynolds, Wa 1 1 g re n ,Talk Chqnge In ., ) -WRA-Setup :' j WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -.) Chairman Reynolds (D N. C:)- of tho senate military' affairs committee announced ' today a plan to restore army control over Japanese relocation camps to halt what he called "pamper ing and-anti-American demon strations in these,, colonics. Senator Wallgren (D-Wash.) confirmed that ha would' intro duce a resolution for transfer, of supervision over the camps back to the army from' the war relo cation authority. The army has control, over internment camps which house aliens considered dangerous. .''.,-. . WRA Took Over . When thousands of -Japanese were first settled in 10 colonies in various states,. Senator' Wall Eton told reporters, the super vision "operated fine under the army." Later the camps were taken from army control and turned . (Continued on Page' Two) Polish Pianist To Be Presented In Concert Tonight . , ' Second of .' a. scries of - three concerts presented by tho Klam ath Community Concert associ ation will be given tonight at 8 o'clock on the Pelican theatre stage when Witold Malcuzynskl Polish pianist, plays for the pleasure of a music loving, au dience. ' "' Doors of the Pelican will open at 7 p. m. There will be no re served seats and tickets will not be sold at the door.. Membership cards must be presented. bags and "jcep" hat, LaPolnte's; loose leaf binder and box of shells, -The Gun Store;-shoes, Dick Reeder; two pictures, two girdles, Moe's; two mops, brooms, cake pans, cake cover and sieve, Sears Roebuck company; . neck tie, Rudy's Manstore; radio, do nated by Andrew M. Collier; six angel food cakes, Fluhrer's, bak ery; set of silverware, Bertram's; billfold and toilet case, Point's; lady's nightgown, .Long's; Jar of Kem-Tone, Roberts'. Hardware; 100-pound sack of flour, Martin brothers. Additional gifts . are expected before the auction. Ar ticles will go to the highest bond bidders. ... Some 1500 pamphlets issued by tho forestry department, "The . (Continued on Page Two).. .:. . i I GROUP QKEH 'Restraining Tax" Is Talked on Capi tol Hill By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (fP A major congressional spectacle an open hearing on a presi dential diplomatic appointment was assured today by a un animous vote of the senate for eign relations committee to hear charges of unfitness leveled against Edward J. Flynn, nomi nated to be minister to Aus tralia. ". By just as unanimous a vote, tne - senate banking committee In ' executive session approved President Roosevelt's appoint ment of former Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D-Mich.) to succeed Leon Henderson as price ad ministrator. 1 Direct Testimony Chairman Wagner (D-N.Y.) of the banking committee predicted the senate would-conf irm Brown, who, was defeated for r.eelectlon to it, next .week.V; At that time, however; Flynn's ' nomination will be just starting on the way designed for confirmation. '' Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) said- the foreign relations com mittee hearing probably would begin Wednesday or Thursday, and that only , direct testimony, (Continued on Page Two) Police Seek Axe-Slayer in Tulsa Killings " TULSA, Okla.,. Jan. 15 () The savagely hacked bodies of a' mother and daughter were found on their blood-soaked bed victims of a sex slayer who raped them, then prepared a breakfast of eggs and toast and sat on the bed beside the bodies of his victims to eat it. The slain women are Mrs. Luzzla Stewart, 50 years old, and her daughter, Mrs. Georgia Green, 31. Their bodies, - clod in brightly colored pajamas which had been ripped to shreds, were found last night by Mrs. Green's employers who went to the. apartment to inquire about her absence from work. ; It was the second murder in the' neighborhood to follow the same pattern. ' Mrs. Helen Brown, 20-year-old expectant mother who lived five blocks from Mrs. Stewart's apartment, was beaten to death in bed last July by an intruder who stayed to cook his break- . (Continued on Page Two) Body of Flood Victim Recovered Near Salem Bridge . SALEM, Jan. 15 (IF) Th body of Archie Cook, 23, Wood burn, who was drowned. Janu ary. 2 while working on the Salem-West Salem bridge dur ing, the Willamette river flood. was recovered near the bridge yesterday by a highway de partment crew. The body of Mike Mauror, 27, Stayton, who was drowned at the same time, was recovered a few-days ago. Cook les V fi widow and two sons. . I p i News index City Briefs .......,....Page . Church News ......;......'.Page 7 Comics and Story Page 8 Courthouse Records ......Page 4 Editorial ....Page 4 Markets, Financial Pago 9 Midland Empire News Pegs 4 Our Men in Service Page 10 Pattern, ......Paga 3 Sporta ;,...........Paga 8 ULi The meeting of the Klamath Falls Rotary club at noon today turned Into a war bond -rally, with E. Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Portland Oregonian and chairman of the Oregon war bond program, the principal speaker and Robert' S. Farcell, Oregon secretary of state, aiding in the effort. Left to right in the picture are Delos Mills, president, of. Rotary, Robert S. Farrell, E. Palmer Hoyt and Mitchell Tillotson, program chairman for the day. Ir the - foreground is Cap tain Jack, the Klamath county war bond rooster, auctioned off ai the end of the 'meeting for $52,500, an up of 132,500 from his last sale a week ago. ' - AFL PLEDGE BRQKEN, L John Green Testifies In NLRB Kaiser . o Hearing. , " By FRED HAMPSON PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15 (P) The American Federation of LaboV violated pledges when.it negotiated shipbuilding agree ments on the west, coast, a .CIO leader charged before an NLRB hearing here today. -' : . '- - John Green of Camdenzom, N. J., international vice president of the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Work ers of America, was testifying. ! Protests The- CIO has accused three Henry J. Kaiser', shipyards in this region with " unfair labor practices and the NLRB, with Trial Examiner Robert N. Den ham presiding, is hearing the charges. ' : Green's testimony, frequently interrupted by heated protests by Kaiser and AFL attorneys, all of which were overruled hy Denham, went back to early (Continued on Pago, Two) War Bulletin LISBON. Portugal, Jan. 15 (IP) Eleven American Aira--cobra P-39 fighting planes landed at Lisbon airport today ., during an extraordinary move- ' ment of air forces over neu tral - Portugal in which? 50' other U. S., planes were sight ed flying southward.- , . The American pilots sur rendered to Portuguese mili - tary authorities at the airfield. They . will be interned and their planes will be stored in Portugal for the duration. .:V .. .. ".' ... 65,000 Young 4 A Women Neeaed in v Nurses' Training ,; WASHINGTON,' Jan. 15 OP To meet minimum civilian: and military needs, - 65,000 young women must enter schools of nursing between June 30, 1943, and July 1, 1944, Paul V. Mc- Nutt, director of defense health and welfare services, announced today. ' ,- This quota exceeds the 1942 1943 quota by 10,000. Back Pay to Be Made in Bonds TOLEDO, Jan. 15 W War bond sales here will take their biggest jump this : weekend when $15,000 In bonds will be distributed to C. D. Johnson loggers in compliance with, the war labor board's order for in creased wages retroactive t o September 1. Back-pay will be in. bonds and stamps. - 2i "K WWL Lorenz Becomes New Owner of "Captain Jack" At today's meeting of'. . the Rotary club, which was turned Into a war bond rally, Captain Jack; the: Klamath county ' war bond rooster, -wassold af auc tion' for- $52,000, art up of $32,' 500 from the $20,000' figure at which he . was- knocked , down last week.- '; G. ,C. Lorenz, president of the Klamath Falls ' branch,- of the First National bank,, as the last bidder in the seven and one half minutes,' allotted .for the auction, became Captain Jack's new owner for a week. Ed. Os tendorf, president of Kiwanis club, was last week's success ful bidder; ' for ; the war bond bird, . and relinquished him to day to his new custodian. The bids for Captain Jack were in the form of war bond purchases by Rotary members, and ranged from $100 to $5000. 58 Million Buy' Bonds War bonds have now: been bought by 58 million people in the United States and 30 mil lion workers are now devoting 10 per cent or more, of 'their earnings to war bond purchases on a regular basis, E. Palmer Hoyt, puolisher of the Portland Oregonian and chairman- of the Oregon war bond program, told the ; members of . Rotary, whom he urged to buy bonds and in, fluence others to do so as their most effective possible contribu tion to the home front war effort.- - . .',; Some form of enforced sav ings . will ; be inevitable, Hoyt said, unless the people, of the United States buy , bonds ' and stamps voluntarily in sufficient volume to support the war . fin ancing. ; Oregon, he added, has been, an experimpnt station: in voluntary bond and stamp buy ing, and its outstanding record has helped materially to stave off the forced savings plan. - ' Unless surplus earnings go largely into war bonds, he said; inflation, with its accompanying destruction of opportunities for (Continued on Page Two) ' Increase in Union Dues V, Was Last Straw, Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP) Carl Kratz, president - of a Wilkes-Barre mine workers lo cal in the heart of the Pennsyl vania anthracite strike, told the war labor board today that an increase in union dues was the last straw that broke the coal miner's patience and led to the walkout. , -'. Kratz, testifying after Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers- had. deplored the unauthorized strike as "a terrible mistake" at a time of wartime fuel short ages,? said also that the miners! desire for a wage increase figur ed equally in the underlying causes. ' ; . ' : "There had been dlssention for months,", 'Kratz . said,, among . . "Srl i Smashing .British.- Air Offensive Hits 1 Lofrtenti-' ' By ROGER D. GREENE :,' : Associated ' Press War Editor ' : Adolph. Hitler's armies on the lower Don, selling their lives: at a rate, of more than one-a-min-ute, were pictured in soviet dis patches today as reeling back on the approaches to Rostov, , while the . Russianst captured at least six more towns and killed' 1800 nazis. t .:. - :'. Soviet headquarters , said the red armies crushed repeated counterattacks by ... "big enemy tank and infantry forces" .and continued to roll forward.. ,- Soldiers' Duty . Simultaneously, the Berlin radio for the first time betrayed alarm - over the - morale . of - 22 nazl divisions .trapped in the narrow Don-Volga corridor, be fore Stalingrad. In . special broadcast, the-radio preached a death-and-duty sermon to Hit ler's soldiers "who see. no sense in holding on," and told them biunuy: ..;. v VPersonal - wishes are of " no account. It is up to the soldier to carry out orders in a . spirit (Continued on Page Two) Thousands Arrested In New Gestapo -Roundup in Warsaw ' LONDON, Jan. 15 OT Reut ers reported In a dispatch date- lined At the German; Frontier that thousands of persons were arrested today in' Warsaw," the Polish capital, ' in ; a new , mass roundup organized by the; Ger: man gestapo. " , . Every district of the city-was covered by the roundup,: which followed upon the preparation of black lists of Poles during recent weeks, the dispatch said. . - v .- the miners. "Food alone has gone up 38 per cent. But. until the dues increase came : along they didn't do a thing. But .that was carrying it too far." i "We didn't call them out -on strike," he said. "They, walked out in protest on this -dues in crease;" Speaking for the International union organization, Kennedy emphasized that it was firmly opposed to the strike. ' , "We believe it is not the way to redress grievances and cer tainly not the way to get a wage increase although we may . be entitled to it under all the cir cumstances Involved." The dues increase, from $1.00 a month to $1.50, was put into . (Continued on. Page wo)' Nippons Put Up Stifl Fight for New Guinea Post , By VERN HAUGLAND SOMEWHERE IN- NEW GUINEA,- Jan. 1 5 (P) Australian troops i raided Mub Japanese) defense outpost foe their Impor. tant . base at Salamau killing more- than. 100 of the enemy as allied f orces-vmore " than 200 miles to the southeast Intensi fied pressure on the Sanananda pocket and forced, the Japanese to'-' attempt 'an " escape toward Gona. - ' '.. ,':. ' ," - 1; The Japanese occupied Mubo, 10 miles from Salamaua, on Sep tember 1. On the afternoon- of January 11, Australian forces raided . village '.ta the valley from five different ridge-top po sitions simultaneously.' ;v. .i. y".-. 11& Japs Killed i' The; Japs, fought strongly on three ridges but gave way be fore the mortar and-heavy rna chinegun fire.' The Australians biggest success was on a hill to the. west of Mubo, where they took . the enemy completely by surprise. '. -'.v . Here, 118 Japs were killed, Australian casualties were very light. ' " - ."F't'T 'wntmiwitBiw:Tiat two days,-January 12 and. 13. The Jap then- sent reinforce ments up. A raiding party shell ed these reinforcements but they got through, and the Aussies re tired 'early -today, - having in flicted a number -of casualties and having obtained valuable in formation, -'''-r ..! : . .,c Allied'; Progrem . : .' The rainV; resembling a bit and-run operation, was termed highly, successful. . 'A novel fea ture: of- the Mubo-defense were strings of tin cans hanging from wires. The invading party took care,' however, not to rattle the, cans. ." '..: , ' i At . Sanananda, Australian; troops pressing up the road from, the south made, progress, as did: the ' Americans and Aussies or their left flank. Fifty. Japanese, seen moving toward Gona encountered allied; Supplied forces and took to the jungle after a brief engagement in which, they were pursued by regular combatant units. Japs Building Bamboo Rafts, Asserts Berlin NEW YORK, Jan. 15 Tho Berlin, radio broadcast today a Tokyo report that the: Japanese have 'begun the construction of rafts made - of bamboo, with a surface . area of 10,000 square meters,- to transport army materials.-' : . - . :--The. broadcast said the con struction was ordered after suc cessful tests had been completed under the. supervision of Jap anese military authorities. . No more construction detail were 'given but. the floats were declared to be. unsinkable and would be ready lor service in February..-':. It - was not stated where'. they would be used but obviously .rafts : of such size would be unwieldy in all but the smoothest of waters. : Mrs,. FDR Intends To Keep on Making Trips, She Says .. RED BANK, N. J., Jan. 15 UP) Mrs.-: Eleanor Roosevelt says; she does not Intend. i curtail her -travels "as long as I can make enough, money, writing 'My - Day'' (her newspaper . col umn) to pay my own expenses.'' Her statement was in reply yesterday to a questioner who asked her if she did not feet that she should stop "gadding about" since the OPa ban on pleasure driving, ' She told reporters in an in tervlew that she- traveled sci much "because I am asked to d , these. things by people of various organizations." . r
