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I On S-mlnut blast on sirens and whistles ii th signal for blackout In Klamath Falli. Another long blast, during black out, Is signal ior all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your street light. January 17 High 17. Low IS rrecipitauon ai ox January Ji. 1943 Straam yaar to data ... .8.1 . A MA ' U 1 ' .as ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES year .......... ..o.bo normal ... .5.31 PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1943 Number 9697 o) 0) o) JV Vi7 m . : Jans Eases ftinded By FRANK JENKINS A FTEH tho rolntlvo lull In re " cent weeks (except In Rus sia), there's plenty of news to day. OUR SIDE Is making practical ly nil of It. AflOST spectacular are the Brit ivi Uih air raids on Berlin, ono on Snturdny night and another following Immediately on Sun clay night. 'Berlin, free from nlr attack for 14 months, got Its first tnsto of tho four-ton block busters. The Germans retorted with a raid on London, which Is report ed not to have been too terrible. They ran Into terrific anti-aircraft fire and new secret de fenses, the London dispatches say, ' and "comparatively few" were able to, penotrnto beyond tho city's outer defenses. nrHE Berlin raid on Saturday night was In real force, about 300 bombers apparently being used, of which only ONE Is reported lost. The Sunday night raid was by a smaller number of planes arid was Intended to lit' tcnslfy the firos sat Saturday night by tens of thousands of In' cendlary bombs, but Its loss Is re ported to have been 22 British bombers. The natural conclusion Is that the Berlin defenders, both anti aircraft Runners and night fight ers, profited by their. Saturday night experience and woro more effective Sunday night. - . British pilots who had been over Berlin before said the nnti aircraft fire was tho weakest they had known, suggesting that Berlin s dofonscs had been weak' encd to meet allied attacks on the Ruhr and Rhlneland Industrial centers. MONTGOMERY has renewed his attack on Rommel, and the news indicates tliat ho decld ed to GO AROUND tho narrow Misurota defile instead of batter ing his way through It. He Is reported today at Bent Ulld, about 100 miles Inland from the Mediterranean coast and approximately 100 miles southon.it of Tripoli. Your map, If It Is a fairly good one, will make clear what must hnvo hap. pened. Rommel doesn't seem to havo put up much of n fight, suggest ing again that his purposo Is to continue his retreat to Tunisia and effect a junction with the axis forces there. TN his retreat, ho will have Montgomery on his heels and the British American French forces. In Tunisia will bo fighting to break through to tho Mediter ranean and prevent a junction , At the same tlmo, a French col 1 umn Is coming up from tho south and by now must be getting within striking distance. : . THE Russians acknowledge to' dny that they havo launched another offensive southwestward from Voroijozh, aimed at Khar- kov. rncy aro lonowmg down a railroad that leads to Kharkov by way of Kupyansk. They are reported at Alckseevska, about izo miles from Kharkov. (Con' suit your map.) -.. TTHEY have crossed tho Donets river at Kumonsk and are driving southward toward Ros- tov, only 85 miles away. Mllle rovo, north of Kamcnsk, whore tho Germans havo been holding - ii n advanced position, is reported today to have fallen to tho Rus Blnno. Another Russian column lson tho cast bank of tho Don, 60 miles east of Rostov, a third is pusning down the Stalingrad' Tlkhoretsk railroad farther to tho south and a fourth is driving up through the Caucasus along (Continued on Page Two) Final Plans for Use of Summers School Completed Final plans for converting Summors school Into a wartime project were completed Satur day when tho War Trnlnlng Scrvlco signed a 24 month lease with tho Klumuth County school district. Terms of tho lease aro based on tho actual number of trainees In tho school each month, with a minimum of $200 to be paid every month. Work has already started in the building and on tho grounds to prepare for barracks, dining halls, and ground school facil ities. Coal Strike Spreads; Workers Disregard . WLB Ultimatum WASHINGTON. Jan. 18 (P) The Whit House 1st today took undtr . advisement th wildcat strlk In Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines, a step which, n th past usually has been a prelude to government selsur of proprties Involved. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 18 (AP) Workers at tho Glon Ai don Coal company's South Wllkcs-Borro colliery, one of tho largest Involved In Pcnnsyl vnnla's wildcat anthracite walk out and tho first to strike, voted by a closo margin today to re turn to work in compliance with a war labor board demand Tho colliery, employing about izuu men, was tho first to re. port of three largest mines vot ing on tho back-to-work move ment today and tonight. A fourth, No. 7 of tho Susque hanna collieries company, em. ploying 1600, also was sched' ulcd to voto today but BUI Chesncy, president of tho local. sold tho voto was postponed and tho colliery would remain closed tomorrow. Before tho de cision was announced, Michael (Continued on Pago Two) Single Plane Captures 140 Italian Troops CAIRO, Jan. 17 (AP) A sin. glo plane of tho "Groupo Bre- tagno, flyors with General Jac. qucs LcClcrc's Central African army now moving to tho aid of the allies in North Africa, cap tured 140 Italian troops. Its pilot who saw tho garri son of Italian-hold Fort Mur- zuch, 2500 air miles southeast of Tripoli, evacuating their stronghold, machine gunned them until his ammunition was exhausted. i Then ho dropped a note threatening to open fire with his - cannon unless they surren dered. They did. Ho had no cannon. Labor Council Takes Lease On Fred Murphey Building The Central Labor council Monday announced plans to oc cupy tho Fred C. Murphey build ing, 422 Main street, on which it has taken a three-year lease. All offices, under tho bonner of tho AF of L, Including lumber and sawmill workers, will be lodged In the new quarters in cluding both floors of tho build ing formerly used by Murphey Seed storo. In turn, Scandla hall quarters occupied for 10 years by the Labor council, will be taken over by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and E. P. Brosterhous has tho contract for renovating the basement and first floor. The hall is owned by-the Klamath U. 5. BOMBERS STRIKE BLOW IN I AREA Japs Aim Three Heavy Attacks From Air At Guadalcanal By th Associated Press Allied air forces kept up their two-day battering of the Japan ese in Burma and their steady pounding of the Invaders' ship ping and air bases in the Solo mons-New Guinea area over tho weekend while the Americans on Guadalcanal braced for an expected new onslaught against their Improved positions. A U. S. navy communique told today of heavy American bomber attacks on the Short land island area of the Solomons and announced that American ground troops oh Guadalcanal had killed 150 mora of the enemy In their efforts to com plete conquests of the Island Multi Plan Attack Three air attacks against the Americans on Guadalcanal, an nounced over the weekend, by tho navy, Indicated .that ' the Jh panes' werof preparing' .' for another , determined, attempt, however costly, to regain their former . positions on . Guadal canal. Such efforts already have token a heavy toll of enemy shipping, planes and men. The raids, the first multi-plane attack on Guadalcanal since last November, followed - repeated attempts by the Japanese to get new troops and supplies ashore. Tho navy reported two days ago (Continued on Pago Two) Five Axis Supply Ships Blasted From Shipping Lanes LONDON, Jan. 18 (IP) -Brit-ish surface craft and submarines have blasted five supply ships out ot the axis shipping lanes in the Mediterranean in recent op erations and undersea croft deck guns again shelled Italian shore targets, the admiralty announced today. In addition to the sinking or fatal grounding of the five ves sels under fire of British guns and torpedoes, an escort vessel was reported damaged.- Communiques said that light naval forces sank two of the ships and damaged the escort vessel and submarines account ed for the others. Evans Products Strike Ends Today LEBANON, Jan. 18 The strike at the Evans Products company plant here ended to day with the return to work of 500 AFL workers. A contro versy over seniority caused the walkout. It will be heard by the west coast section ot the WLB. Western' company. The Eagles hope to be in their new home by February 15. Present loca tion of tho lodge Is at Fifth and Main streets. Tho baseitfent will house the lodge dining room, kitchen, club room and secretary's office while tho main floor will be used for lodge meetings and dances. Mrs. Maude Owlngs operates the rooming house on tho top floor. ' G. C. Tatman, secretary of the Culinary Alliance, said Mon day that tho Labor temple should be moved to new quar ters by Thursday. Six carpen ters were working on the build (Continued on Page Two) ' From the Sands of Africa v X , ran?ais , 4 de l'Afrique du Nord: ; I-MDELE k rafnltie traditionnelle et t 1 sGculaire du gouvernejpent. et du , pcuplc des Ltats Urns - pout la ti iNora. une granue dibarque'sur votrc isotrc mission immediafe-est deTro-L ;tfigcc; -f Ai'rique . :(f an?aise duvN6rd& j 1 Picked up on th North African desert by Bgt. Clayton Con table and sent to his wife, Dorothy, in Klamath Falls, this is qna Id of th leailet distributed to French colonlits on th day of th "allied invasion November 7. It informs th. French of our friendship for them, and our determination to fling th -invaders from .their lapd- A l,Uerifom Sgt. Constable.wrlttenironv th battlafxonU appears in th Our Men in Service, column today.. Winter Really Came to Klamath Over Weekend Sunday morning's 15- degrees above zero tied that of Novem ber 20 and set home owners to thawing pipes and stoking the furnace. The day's maximum of 27 was the "lowest high" for the season. Monday's official figures were not available under censorship rules, Plumbers did a rushing busi ness as far as man power would permit Monday morning as freeze-up calls flooded local of fices. Due to the shortage of help, plumbers gave out a- few remedies and took the calls in order. There were some broken pipes and faucets. . Garages reported a few frozen (Continued on Page Two Body Found Sunday May Be Ope of Missing Fliers EUGENE, Jan. 18 (IP) Lane County Coroner . Charles Poole today was attempting to iden tify a body found Sunday-after noon on the rocky ocean shore Just south of the Lincoln-Lane line. The coroner said the body might be that of one of the crew members' of tho navy PBY fly ing boat which sank in the ocean nearby on December 31. A strip of blue dungarees around the waist and part of a black sock around ' one ankle were all that remained' for iden tification. The-body was found a short distance from the spot where Ensign. Roderick M, Brush, only survivor of tho fly ing boat crew, reached shore. Strong Force of Allied Planes Roars Over Channel FOLKESTONE, Eng., Jan. 18 (P A strong force of allied planes roared out over Dover strait beneath, low clouds short ly before dusk tonight in the direction of Boulogne and heavy .explosions' sounded for some time along the French coast. Some of the blasts were so powerful they shook buildings on the English side of the chan nel. Anti-aircraft gunfire, prob ably from the German coastal defenses, also -were heard. - 5, M V armee americaine - so), ,' J 0. S. MORTAH UNIT El Tell; the Folks We're Good," Says Sana n anda Group By WILLIAM F. BONI WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA, Jan.. 15 (Delayed) VP) "You might, tell the folks back home that this is the best damn mor tar unit in the whole American army," said Lieut. Anton Das inger as he pointed to mortar pits he commands in the Hug- gins road block on the Sanan anda front in New Guinea. Dasinger is a cheerful young ster from Sidney, Montana. Of course his statement will be open to argument from mor tar units in Airica, the Solomon Islands and elsewhere prob ably even-some who haven't yet left training camp. . . But Dasinger has a couple of arguments himself which carry aU the weight of the 81 and 60 (Continued on Page Two) " KUHS Girls' League Stamp Sale Brings In $269 Saturday Freshman and sophomore members of tho Klamath Union high school Girls League brought in $269 in war savings stamp sales as a result of their activ ities on Main street Saturday afternoon. The girls have vol unteered their services each Sat urday in January in order to assist in gaining the $317,000 war savings goal set for Klam ath county this month. Arrange ments were made by Mrs. r . L, Weaver, women's i division of' savings, assisted by Mrs.- An drew Collier. Women of Rotary, who have maintained a selling booth at the Vox theatre this past week, will not keep the booth open in the future, it was announced. . v News Index City Briefs ...................Page 3 Comics and Story '. ...Page 6 Editorial .-...Page 4 Markets, Financial Page 7 Midland Empire News....Pago 8 Our Men in Service .:......Page 3 Pattern ...Page 3 Sports : .Page 5 Leinmig LONG BLOCKADE ENDS AS REDS E Soviets Slash Ahead In Drive on -Ukraine LONDON, Jan. 18 (AP) A Reuters dispatch tonight quoted a special soviet announcement in Moscow as saying the siege of Leningrad had been lifted. The announcement was made simultaneously with a report that the red army had recap tured the fortified city ... of Schluesselburg, east-of . Lenin grad near Lake Ladoga, held by the ' Germans fw..rnnch; of the period since the. siege was established August 21, 1941. - ' . " .13,000 Killed" .' . Southward, the northern Don ets and the Manych rivers were declared, to have been- crossed, while on the Voronezh front the number of prisoners in that regional offensive has risen to 31,000, the Russians were quoted. The announcement said that four German divisions had been routed,. 13,000 Germans-'-killed'. and 1260 prisoners taken. The announcement continued: : "In this connection 'It is nec essary to bear in mind that dur ing the many months of block ade of Leningrad the Germans converted their positions on the approaches to the town into - a mighty fortified area with a net work system of., solidly con structed concrete and other erections, with a large number of anti-tank and- anti-infantry obstacles. , By HENRY CASSIDY MOSCOW, Jan. 12 (AP) The red army's new offensive on the Voronezh front, most northerly (Continued on Page Two) Fighting Yank Pilots Without Planes Carry on - WASHINGTON, Jan.. 18 VP) As heroic although hopeless a story as has . come out of the war is that of the 27 th bom bardment group in the Philip pines fighting pilots without planes. Only 27 of them, including Captain Robert G. Ruegg of Boring, Ore., got away. Eight of these since have been report ed killed or missing in action. The remainder of the 400-odd pilots were left in the Philip pines and presumably are pris oners. V Those who did get away, al ways with the. thought of get ting planes to keep up the fight, finally reached Brisbane by way of Darwin. There the men got A-24's and opened an opera tional training school they dub bed it "Little Randolph" to in struct young pilots. Capt. (then second lieutenant) Ruegg was the first man to take a plane off the ground. , CDNTINLI GAIN Commission Probes Sirange Ship Sinking in Portland PORTLAND, Jan. 18 (Ph The U. S. maritime commission opened an investigation today in to the mysterious sinking of the 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady at its Willamette river outfitting dock Saturday night. John F. Bruns, the commis sion's principal hull Inspector at Henry J. Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard where the ship was built, said no statement would be released until the investiga tion was completed. Regional officials of the commission were here. The Schenectady, first tanker constructed at the yard, broke in two as she lay quietly in the dock after passing her trial runs rad Air Onslaught Pressed Over African Front By Nolsnd Norgaard ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, Jan, 18, VP) United States fighters a n d bombers pressed their aerial on slaught against German . land and air communications today while repeated showers kept ground operations at a virtual standstill. . The 12th U. S.. air. force re ported the-destruction., of 194 German and Italian planes from the beginning . of the,-North African, campaign last Novem ber 8 through Friday, January 15, -against the loss of 97 Ameri can aircraft Lockheed Lightning ' P-38's shot down, a pair of Junkers 52 transports returning to .Sicily from Tunisia, it was announced. At the same time B-25 light bombers; the 'North American Billy- Mitchells, - hammered the railroad junction, at Graiba, 30 miles southwest of Sfax, with an escort of P-38's. Bombs were seen to hit the target. . Allies By-Pass Misur- ,ata, Head for . .'-Show-Down; CAIRO, Jan. .18 0rV-The British eighth army, . sweeping across Libya after cracking Field Marshal Rommel's - defenses at Buerat - Elhsurv ' was. reported within 100 miles ot Tripoli today in a thrust apparently designed to by-pass Misurata and other points along the African coast. A communique from Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's head quarters announcing that the vanguard of the British eighth army had reached the vicinity of Beni Ulid indicated that his forces were taking a straight line across the Tripbiitanian "hump" in an effort to get to (Continued on Page .Two) Postmaster Walker Elected Chairman Of Demo Committee CHICAGO, Jan. 18 (AP) Postmaster ' General Frank C. Walker today was elected chair man of the democratic, national committee to succeed Edward J. Flynn who resigned from his party post and was nominated by President Roosevelt to be minister to Australia. Walker, who had been -ex pected by, political observers to succeed Flynn, was elected with out a dissenting vote. His nom ination, the only one placed be fore the committee, was by Gil bert L. Olson, former governor of California, who declared that under Walker's leadership "we can look forward to the 1944 battle with the reformation of our lines and with no recession from our social objectives." with flying colors. She had been accepted by the commission; Suddenly, steel - plates amid ships ripped with a noise . heard throughout the shipyard, and fore and aft sections of the tank er dropped to the bottom. ' ' Decks remained above' the water, level, but a three-foot gap appeared in plates where .-the ship was buckled. - The yard was closed at once to reporters. Investigating mari time commission and federal bu reau of investigation officials an nounced nothing other than there was no indication of sabotage. The only ' plausible . theory came from unofficial sources (Continued, on Page .Two) Dardl STIFF DEFENSE RAF LOSES U .ondon Fights Off Nazi Assault; 10 -. Planes Down ' By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 18 A strong force of RAF bombers laid hug fires across Berlin in the re newed "war of the capitals" last night, but stiffened defenses of the German city took a toll of 22 planes compared with only one of the previous night. , London s anti-aircraft gunner meanwhile threw nazi raiders into confusion by the fierceness of their barrage during two as saults last night and early to. day when the attackers lost 10) of perhaps 60 planes. Aimed for Builsey , German efforts at retaliation for the mighty attack which ap. parently caught Berlin defense napping Saturday nignt wer relatively mild. London's ground guns threw up a curtain of steel and fire more thunderous ana powerful than anything London . efs ever' heard before. Instead of trying to drive th bombers away, from vital objec tives and into the path of night fighters,-the gunners aimed for bullseyes directly on the attack, ing ' bombers. The -night's bag broufiht to more than 4000 th number of enemy aircraft de stroyed over Britain since th start of the war. ' .''.-" Heavy Force - The . barrage showered Lon don rooftops - with shell frag-, ments and several persons wer . killed or wounded by shell which exploded only after (Continued on Page twp Pine Goes to War" Nets Over $77,000 for Drive Sawmill and lumber worker took part in the bond rally and auction Saturday night at th Vox ' as part of Rotary club January drive to raise Klamath county's $317,000 war savings quota. Merchandise donated by merchants brought in $11,516.75, according to those in charge. , Camp White men assistea in the program and were later en tertained at Commando head quarters. Following ' are th names of, purchasers, article and name of donors, and th price paid in bonds or stamps: Klamath Basin .District -ourv ell of AFL, radio, A.. M. Cot lier, $1500. . T.prnv T!rfTTijinn. electric lamD. Montgomery Ward and com pany, $180. - Richard Hilton, purse, Lav Pointe's, $25. ' ' John Stallings, three boxes ot shotgun shells, Matt Flnnlgari; . Lnmher and Sawmill Work ers Local 2511 AFL, pair of shoes, Dick Reeder's, $225. Dr. J. M. Hilton, Droom ana (Continued on Page Two) J: Injunction Appeal Overshadows NLRB Kaiser Hearing : ' PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 18 Pf An ininni-Hnn anneal today over shadowed a national labor rela MEETS RAIDERS tions board investigation oi la bor practices in three Henry J. Kaiser shipyards here, .Kaiser attorneys asked the in junction against the NLRB heart ing on grounds that a majority of the board is prejudiced. Fed eral District Judge James A. Fes ordered arguments for 2 p. m. , Meanwhile the LRB, after one-day recess, resumed its hear ing, in which the CIO charge the shipyard with discriminating In favor of the AFL. ''"' . h r
