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' ' : ' ' ' "Pine Goes to War" Tonight On 8-mlnule blast on sirens and whistles It the signal for a blackout In Klamath Falls. Anothar long blast, during black out, li a ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau tionary narlodi. watch vour itraat liahti. f'Lri.ari,uiyi'''ir'iii"ir - -- -- -- .- - By FRANK JENKINS EROM todny'i dispatches wo can glean a llttlo more dotull about tho attempt of Jap do stroyon to relievo tho Jup ground troop on Giiudalcannl. It seems to have been a failure, although one Is Inclined to guess that the fight Isn't over yet. . pHE fight slurtcd on Friday, Solomons time, which, bo cause of the International dato lino, was Thursday here. H was touched off when ono of our Catatinas (big flying boats) sighted five Jap destroy ers about 00 miles northwest of Guadalcanal and went Into ac tion without waiting for help, damaging one of tho Jap ships with bombs. Later on In the day nine Jap destroyers (maybe tho original five joined by four more) were sighted and by this time our dive bombers and fight ers, undoubtedly notified by Die Catolliia. were on tho job and damaged two more of the Japs, i Still later the same day, fivo Jap destroyers were attacked by army Flying Fortresses escort ed by army fighters, but no hits on the Japs were observed. In the eourso of tho day's fighting, 30 Jap planes (about 'half loMhtAn Zero. fighters) were shot down.. We seem to have lost about sovon planes, although the dispatches are not too clear on that point. i 1 ''. . : yHE entire day's fighting ap- a clrclo soma ISO miles In di ameter to tho northwest of Guadalcanal. The Japs seem to have had more fighter planes than usual In action.' Where they came from Isn't stated. One guesses they came from their now airfield at Munda, which is in fighter range of tho day's bat tles. It seems to bo plain that they FAILED to land reinforcement on Guadalcanal.'. .-.: ' TWE leurrt front' today's dls patches that 152 more Japs ' hava been killed at Buna. It's down to just that. - There were once 15,000 of them. How many are left Isn't known. ; Probnbly they'll ALL have to bo killed before tho Buna fight ing con be brought to a definite end. There's nothing . now today from Salamau, where the Aus tralians have started something whose scopo and purpose isn't yot clear. . 'THE Russians are drawing a A half clrclo around Rostov to the north and east, and today's dispatches indicate that the bat tle for the big and important German base is about to begin. The Russians are said to be preparing to cross the Donets river, which (as your map will dhow you) Jolns the Don east ot Rostov, and tho two rivers form the city's last natural defense barrier. ' Two Russian columns' are moving on the city, ono from the north and the other from the east, and it looks as If the show down may be ncarlng. ; ,. TN Its distinctly flamboyant stylo, tho red army says the Germans aro "In complete rout," retiring 20 miles in one day and abandoning 10,000 cattle at one . point. " '. ' ! Ten thousand cattle will pro vide a lot of beef for the ad vancing Russians. f . . "'',("'': AERIAL dogfights feature the war In Tunisia:'. A total of 23 axis planes is shot down , in a day, with our losses not stated. FIFTY axis transport planes are encountered off - the Tunisian coast and seven of them shot down.' - ; ...'. .- ' i This gives an Idea of the ex-'- tent to which the Germans are using aerial transport. -. German and Italian reports hint that Montgomery is begln (Contlnued on Page Four) mi fmm mm at m ... - . - - . - . - - - I i 3 Im 2 Die as Siorm Sweeps Oregon, Washington PORTLAND, Jan. 18 (l1) Oregon and Washington rcsl dents repaired dumuge today from violent windstorms that claimed two lives and caused widespread property loss. One man, Jumcs C. Farrow, SB, was killed in central Ore gon by a hugu pine trco that crashed through his bedroom. A tree similarly killed a seven-month-old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ike, in tho Pugct sound area of Washington. Damage was heavy in forests of the two states. The storm was tho worst In year in tho mid-Columbia river area, where roofs were- ripped off, barns overturned, trees up rooted, boathouscs wrecked and power and communication lines severed. A ferry on the Columbia river, wlitro spray was whipped SO feet In the air, was swept a mllo off its course before a coast guard cutter rescued It. 23 AXIS PLANES Aerial Dogfighting Flames in Des ."' ert Battle ' By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 16 UP) American and RAF fighters and even bombers battled axis air craft In the biggest scale dog fighting of the Tunisian cam paign by day and night yester day, blasting 23 German and Italian planes from tho skies, It was announced today. Aerial activity was intense over the entire Tunisian front. , Rommil Hit , Half the toll was taken In two actions. The Germans attempted to bomb advanced allied air fields, and lost seven planes. Then P-38 Lightnings and B-23 Billy Mitchell bombers engaged 60 axis transport planes off the Tuninlnn coas and shot down seven more. (On the Trlpolltanlan front the British told of strongly increased patrol operations in which cas ualties were inflicted on Marshal Rommel's forces in several sec. tors, and the Italian high com mand reported the outbreak of violent ground fighting. Actiylty Limited (The Italian report said tank supported allied forces wore on (Continued on Pago Four) -: Dairy Youth, Dale Brown, Dies in Army Plane Crash SALINAS, Kans., Jan. 18 (P) A : 4-motored army bomber crashed in a take off at the Smoky Hill air base last night, killing five of the crew of 10 army, filers aboard. X Lieut. H, E.' Smith, public re lations officer at the field, said tho ship, starting a routine train ing flight, . crashed and burned on the runway. Tho men killed were announc ed this afternoon as: 1st, Lieutenant Robert I. Van Horn, father H. V. Van Horn, Sr. Tulsa, Okla. -1st Lieut. Edward Q. Riley, Hollls, N. Y. , v Staff Sergeant Dale V, Brown, (Continued on Pago Four) . BOARD CLOSED ' The Klamath Wor Price and Ration board will remain closed all day Wednesday,. January 20, to catch up on soma necessary filing, It was . announced today. ASSOCIATED PRE"" . PRICE FIVE IF ON FARM LABOR TO BERELAXED Labor Problems Dwarf Squabble Over Flynn By Tha Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Confronted by five different phases of the wartime manpower worry, official Washington con centrated today on labor prob lems with only sketchy side glances at squubblcs over Ed ward J. Flynn's diplomatic ap pointment and the board ot eco nomic warfare's shipment of truck tires to South America. I Revival of congressional ef fort to return the 48-hour work week loomed to tighten tension In labor circles which also was aggravated as an 18-day strlko spread in the Pennsylvania hard coal fields desplto a war labor board order to end the walkout. . .,. Lewis at Halm, ; Farm state senators- welcomed an agreement by agriculture and manpower officials to relax draft deferment regulations for es sential farm labor. Federal agencies were reported to be setting a national pace in the war munpower commission plan to employ physically handicap ped workers, and a war produc tion board director of procure ment policy warned military and federal procurement officers not to overestimate labor market considerations in placing war contracts. As the local union representa tives returned to Pennsylvania, they left bush-browed John L. Lewis solidly braced at the helm of their United Mine Workers International his stand on the (Continued on Pago Four) Effort Abandoned To Mediate Rail Wage, Shop Demand CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (IP) The national mediation board an nounced today that It had aban doned lis efforts to mediate wage and closed shop demands of more than 800,000 non-operating employes of Class One railroads. ' A statement Issued by the board expressed confidence, however, that the dispute could be settled without resorting to a strlko vote. No threat to tho wartime rail road transportation system ex ists at this time, the statement mndo clear.. Staff Sgt. Dale V. Brown ames S DRAFT i ... at the Vox Theatre ana .fiHE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND "hi t ii .V.'s'KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1943 not Bedaux Jailed Charles E. Bedaux. above, or iginator of the industrial labor "speed-up" system and friend of tha Duke and Duchess of Wind sor, has been arrested in French North Africa, it was learned in Washington. Bedaux. whose ex act whereabouts . was not an nounced, was charged with trad ing with the enemy. ALLIES CRACK NIP 152 Japs Slain in At tempt to Stop Advance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 16 (IP) Allied ground forces attacking the last pocket of Japanese re sistance on the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea have broken through and destroyed a section of enemy forward positions at Sanananda and have slain 152 Japanese who attempted to stop the advance, an allied commun ique said today. Quantities of arms and equip ment were captured by. the al lied troops, the bulletin said, but there was no further amplifica tion' of the successful action. ' .. Raid Completed Sanananda Is northwest of the former Japanese stronghold at Buna on the northeast coast of (Continued on Page Four) Crew of Battered Fortress Bags Nazi Planes Nevertheless ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 16 (P) The crew of the battered American Flying Fortress which flew home two hours late and with only two engines operat ing after the big raid on Tripoli Tuesday shot down six Messer schmltt 109's in combat on the way back to its base, a spokes man announced today. Tha bomber was piloted by Lieut. John L.-Cronkhite of St. Petersburg, Fla. Church Four Blocks From Coal Mine Is. Out of Coal Today NANTICOKE, Pa., Jan. 16 (VP) Bethel Congregational church, situated four and a half blocks from a coal mine, announced to day It had been forced to cancel its regular services tomorrow because It has no coal.: Tho church has been unable to replenish Its bins because of the 18-day-old wildcat strike in the coal fields, Pastor Allen L. Irwin said, so tomorrow the congregation including 150 miners will worship in a near by Baptist church where it's warm. . ... I'. 11 If lorn L L TRY American Troops Con tinue Advance on Land By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (JP) The navy announced today that American forces in the Solomon islands had shot down 30 Japa nese planes, damaged three de stroyers and bombed and left burning a cargo ship in a series of actions apparently resulting from determined enemy at tempts to reinforce and supply Jap troops on Guadalcanal island. ' Seven United States planes were lost. : On Guadalcanal Itself, a com munique said American troops continued to advance against "stiff enemy resistance." Gains of 3000 to 4000 yards were re- ported'; .. " Hit Scored ' " The heaviest day's fighting re ported in the- communique oc curred On Friday (Solomons time) beginning with an attack by a single Catalina reconnais sance plane against a group of five Japanese destroyers 16 miles northeast of the Russell islands, which are 60 nautical miles northwest of the American airfield on Guadalcanal. The Catalina scored one di rect hit and two near-hits on one of the destroyers and when last seen the vessel was aflame. 8 Zeros Down Later Friday morning a force of Dauntless dive bomoers, es corted by navy-marine corps Wildcat fighters and army Aira cobra fighiers attacked nine Jap destroyers which were 140 miles northwest of Lunga point on Guadalcanal. Two of the de stroyers were reported seriously damaged; s Twelve Jap Zero fighters at (Contlnued on Page Four) Coo Miners Due Back at Work Flout Ultimatum WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 16 (Pj At least 5100 additional anthracite miners due to report for work stayed away from their jobs today in the face of a new war labor board ulti matum ordering 10,000 to 17, 000 others to end their 18-day-old wildcat strike immediately. After the order was an nounced, strike leaders in Wash ington voted to propose resump tion of production Monday. . The new idleness came as rank-and-file members expressed dissatisfaction with : the , WLB ruling. . They would not permit the use of their names pending local union meetings called for late today and tomorrow to de cide whether tho order will be heeded. Three of the five additional locals out : today had . adopted resolutions Tuesday saying they would strike unless a 50-cents a month increase . in dues' were eliminated by January 15. The resolutions did not mention the striker's demands for a $2 a day wage bonus. T It was not immediately clear, however, whether the locals re mained out today because of the dues and wage controversies or because of avowed dissatisfac tion with a new agreement un der which miners receive time and a half pay for work on the sixth successive day. Today would have been' their sixth day of .work. .. . '..,..' YANKS AIAST HDALCIA LANDING With a 9Ur$ NEA FEATURES Number 9696 - Just Before Going Half an hour after these American soldiers sat in a, captured Jap bunker on the Buna front facing Simeml creek, December 23, and opened Christmas packages they "went over the top" against the enemy. The U.( wis picture nan way aiouna wo "Pine Goes to With Big Victory Program Loggers, sawmill workers, soldiers, sailors and airmen will take part in the continuous pro gram at the Vox theatre Victory center tonight as 'Tine Goes to War" in a big way. The program is underway at 7:30 o'clock with an auction slated during the in termission. A script prepared by Roderic Olzendam of the Forest Pro ducts Industries, Tacoma, Wash., will find Olzendam as the narra tor assisted by Bill Aldridge, official representing IWA and CIO, as the logger; Jim Good of the AFL as the sawmill man, Jim Watson and Dan Schreiber as sailors, E. Frank Davenport, civilian flight instructor, as the airman, and Staff Sgt. Abry But ler of Camp White, the soldier. Sub-title of "Pine Goes to Wa is this statement "Five Fighting Trees for Every Fighting Man.". This is developed throughout the interesting script which takes approximately one half hour to present. The opening paragraph should interest all residents bf the Klamath basin directly or indirectly tied up with the lumber industry. "Klamath Falls is at war as much at war as any city in Amer ica. No cannons stand guard on its surrounding hill tops; no planes scour its skies yet the war is here. The war is being fought in the pine forests for miles around by men who swing axes and pull saws; it is being fought here by men and women in sawmills and box factories. Statistics on the lumber indus Legislators Put in Saturday Session; Wallace, Cornett Eye Reapportionment By PAUL W. HARVEY JR SALEM, Jan. 16 UP) The Oregon legislature ended its first week's work today with a Saturday session, the first time in history that one was held on the first weekend. ' ; . . There were 89 bills intro duced the first week, compared with 51 the first week of the 1941 session, when the total was the largest on record. The big increase was made despite the desires of most members to hold the total down to make a short session possible. The number of house bills to date is 74, compared with 27 the first week of the 1941 ses sion, but there are only 15 sen ate bills, compared with 24 two years -ago.' The senate passed ;' Bond Rally, I "Over the Top" army transport command brought .woiia in 10 aays. . v,. , . War" Tonight try are provided in an inter esting fashion including the amount of lumber which has gone into barracks, mess halls, chapels, and hospitals, making it a '-'mammoth carpentry Job.' The public is invited to at tend the program and is prom ised musical entertainment iiom the 42 Camp White men who arrived here at noon. Tonight they will be guests of the Com mandos at supper. Saturday afternoon's auction of merchandise which went to highest bond bidders,' was con ducted by William S. - Sweet, grader, Ewauna Box company, with Charles Wiese of Tulelake, - (Continued on Page Four) Woman Reported at Controls of Jap Suicide Plane ASBURY PARK, N.'J., Jan. 16 (P) A woman was at the controls of one of the Japanese planes which made a suicide dive on the aircraft Carrier Hornet, Petty Officer James H. Prince, 20, : related yesterday at his home.' : . Prince said he was the point er on a five-inch gun: . which shot down one Jap raider.. When it went out of commission he shot down five more - planes with a 20-mm. gun. - He said he was sure that he saw the nazi swastika on some of the high - altitude bombers that criss-crossed over the car- only one bill during the week, while the house passed six. Rep. J. D. Perry, St. Helens democrat, introduced a bill to day to create a state department of labor and industry. The 1941 legislature . defeated a similar bill by Perry. . The jneasure would combine the state industrial accident, unemployment c o m p e nsatlon and state welfare commissions, the labor commissioner's office, and the state board of concilia tion. There would be three commissioners at $5600 salaries each, while the department would be divided Into four di visions industrial relations, un employment compensation, in dustrial insurance, and safety. The house passed four bills PAGE TURK' ' January IS High - 47, Low 30 Pracipltation as ot January 9, 1943 Slnam year to data ........8.03 Last yaar ..0.98 Normal 8.18 ; ' iHDMiro pinirrn ; Limy 1 - "i uiiiuiir i n r r r . n UIILLI ' .J! iMTmnrnnnr i ii niiuuumuiiL ; TOWNS IN GAIN Soviets Announce New Offensive in Voro nezh Sector ' LONDON. Jan. 18 m A i special soviet communique an- . nounced tonight that Russian troop have launched a new : offensive in the Voronlih sec tor of the long front and have : advanced from 30 to SB miles -in three days of heavy fight-' Ing. . By HENRY C. CASS1DY MOSCOW. Jan. 16 UP) Sweeping through 30 mora towns, red army forces battled to the east bank of the Donets river 20 miles southeast ot-. Kamensk and to the Sale Manych . hills overlooking tha Manych river southeast of Ros tov today as they steadily closed in in a semi-circle around the big nazi base at the gateway to tne Caucasus. ,- - (These positions . would nut the Russians some 80 to 90 miles from Rostov to the north east .and southeast. , They al ready had driven within 60" miles of the big port from the east in their. smash down hot,!,, banks ot "the lower Don.) Wide Front Battlefront dispatches indlcat- . ed that the battle for. -Rostov itself was about to begin, with the ' Russians preparing for a smash across the Donets last (Continued on Page Four) '. Washington to Buy, Resell Dairy Cows ' To Halt Slaughter WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (IP) In an effort to hold milk pro duction to the highest possible level, the ' agriculture depart, ment ' announced ', yesterday it would buy and resell dairy cc to prevent their being sold foe slaughter. i The department said that dairy cows were' being sold for slaughter because of labor short ages and other difficulties in some areas, particularly in the -New York, Chicago and Kansas City milksheds and surrounding territories. - If- the labor shortage cannot be met so that cows may b kept, on farms where they are now, the department plans to buy them and resell to farmers having feed, labor and other facilities ' for caring for addi tional cows. Salt5 will be on easy terms; to. farmers needing credit. News Index . City Briefs -.Page 3 Comics and Story ......Page 10 rVinrthniisR Records Pace 3 Editorial .. .:.......Page 4 Markets, Financial ........Page 9 Midland Empire News . Page 3 Our Men in Service ....Page 12 Pattern .....Page 8 Society ...Pages; 5, 6, 7, 8 Sports' . Page today to make minor coda changes,- but the senate; passed one.' . ..;" ' - - fian T .our Wnllnr. Portland democrat, and Marshall Cornett, Klamath Falls repumican, com piled figures today showing how they ' would reapportion tha n...no :. torrisintnra unrim- their - BWJ O. IWB proposed constitutional amend ment. ' If the legislature passes it and if the people approve it at the November 1944 general election, then the 1945 legisla ture would consider a law to carry out the amendment's pur pose. - "' 1 "' The amendment would pro vide that the state be appor tioned two-thirds according to population and . one-third by .(Continued on Pi-ge Four) .,
