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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.
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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
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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.'.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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at the Vox Theatre
ana
.fiHE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
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.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
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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. . ...
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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
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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
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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
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NEA FEATURES
Number 9696
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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