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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1943)
mm On i-mlnute blast on sirens and whlstlss li the signal lot a blackout In Klamath . January 18 High 98, Low 1 Precipitation as oi January 12. 1843 - , Stream ysar to data .8.0 J Last yaar 8.88 Normal .... 8.37 Falls. Anothar long blast, during a black out. U a signal for all-elsar. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your strsst lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS,' OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY. 19, 1943 Number 9698 fo) l!"Mn Ail:..IMM WW LTQUVU ' . m mm m A OPA Office Set:IF6rK.':F: By FRANK JENKINS 'THE amazing Russians pile one , achievement on top of an other, At the moment when they seem to be closing In duf lnltoly on Rostov to write the end to Hitler's Volga-Caspian-Caucasus hopes, thoy strike n thousand miles to the north and freo Leningrad from the grip - the Germans novo held on It for a your and a half. ' T AISINO tha siege of Leningrad and bringing their second city back Into land contact with the rest of Russia Is quite something In Itself, but Its outstanding In terest to us lies In Its demonstra tion of Russia's reserve STRIK ING POWER. . . .... If the Russians can' keep It up 11 winter, Hitler li In a bad way and delivering powerful blow a thousand miles apart at the same time Is the strongest kind of proof that they have lot of power at their command. , ...... . . fTTHIS seems to be about what is.-: ; The Leningrad garrison struck eastward , at the Germans at Schlussolburg, on the Neva river, and at the same time the reliev ing Russian army struck west ward from Volkovstrol on the Volkov river. They met at Schlussolburg and successfully put the old nut-cracker on tho Germans. Tho accompanying rude sketch Is Intended to picture this situa tion. Tho arrows show the ad vancing Russians with the Ger mans In botween. ' 'T almost the Identical time t when' tho Russians ' were breaking' tha German grip on Leningrad, Montgomery was driving Rommel out of tho strong point where the desert fox had been licking his wounds and try ing to get In reinforcements. What happened is roughly il lustrated here: Rommel had been holed up in the narrow, defile between the salt . marsh and the Mediter ranean, with ono flank protected by the marsh and the other by the sea. The main coast road fol- .f-'tft lows this narrow strip of solid ground. Instead of tackling this strong . position head on (one of the most difficult and costly of all mil itary ( operations), Montgomery evidently decided to OUT , FLANK it ' and ' swung around to the east through the desert to. Benl Ulld, where he was re ported yesterday. With his rear thus threatened, Rommel had to pull out of the narrow and well protected defile,, - The heavier arrow shows the route of Montgomery's flanking column. He split his forces and a lighter column followed Rom mel through the dofilo. The route of this column Is shown by the. lighter arrow. , s ' "TODAY'S dispatches suggest that the two British columns may Join for an attack on Trip oli, jwhlle, the inland column by (Continued on Fags Two). FDR DIRECTS STRIKERS TO RESUME JOBS Coal Strike, FCC In vestigation Keep Capitol Busy By Ths Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 President Roosevelt today gave tho striking anthracite miners in Pennsylvania 48 hours to get back to work, and said that If thoy continued to refuse "the necessary steps will be taken This development In the 20- day strike shared importance on the Washington stage when the house decision, on an almost unanimous vote, to have a spe cial committee headed by Rep. Cox (D-Ga.) Investigate the fed eral communications commis sion. Navy Contracts Cox, asking for tha Inquiry, said the FCC housed "the nasti est nest of rats to be found In this ontlre country" and called FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly "tho worst"' of the bureau crata. -..',..-.. -' Regular congressional com mittees busied themselves with discussions of the cost of navy contracts and with what a wit ness for the National Associa tion of Retail Grocers called "bu reaucratic bungling" In good dis tribution.: In line with the food question was a statement by M. Clifford Continued on Pago Two) ..... Sweden Warned Of Possible Blitz Attack STOCKHOLM, Jan. 19 MV Prime Minister Per Albin Hans son's warning of a possible at tack on Sweden and his demand for the "utmost defense" In such an eventuality was made against a "background most serious," the Influential newspaper Dagcns Nyhetcr said today. ' The prime minister warned the Swedish parliament yoster dny of tho possibility of an at tack and said "beyond any doubt we will defend ourselves." Ho cautioned against the possibility of false orders being issued, as happened in Norway, and said that if an attack came everyone would have to join In defending the country, the only remaining neutral nation in northern Europe. Tho Dagcns Nyhetcr said the country "must be ready to meet blitz attacks, especially by en emy air forces" and added that "Swedes have enough courage to face reality, even the reality of war." Joseph Lawson Held Prisoner of Japs; Albert Smith Reported Missing in Action i 4 1- i .' 1 .9 r - ' (: i NX U j V'; ,,ioL , Sat' Joseph Lawson Home Storage of Gas Scored as Fire Kills Three PORTLAND, Jon. 19 (P) , Authorities warned today against the storage of gasoline In homes as the third death from an tixplosion and lire, in a trail er house was reported. Mrs. Nellie Prlchard, 22, died In a hospital today from burns suffered as the trailer was en veloped in gasoline-fed flames In a park near here. Jesse Prlchard, 24, her brother-in-law, and his 2-year-old daughter, Ardcth, perished in the blaze last night, s . .- While sheriff's officers con tinued their investigation, pe troleum company managers, said they feared similar tragedies would result from unlawfully stored gasoline. They said' they were receiving increasing vie; ports that the volatile fluid-wsj being hoarded In homes.'.' - j- A heater apparently. Ignited fumes from a gasoline'-, drum; stored inside the trailer!- The drum exploded and the .trailer Instantly became maw 'of flames. The explosion occurred a 'few hours after-Prlchard. had taken his wife, an ; expectant mother, to a .hospital, , v Briti;Gdln:hBurnfiQ; ',' U;vS.;;Subs;Sink'" - Destroyer ;; V Br The Associated Prss ' Gen. Douglas . .MacArthur's headauarters announced' today that allied- troops In NewCJuliK ea had captured, Sanananda Point and Sananada village, wip ing out all but three, small: pock ets of resistance: by survivors of a 19,000-man Japanese army in the Papuan Jungles. ," y Coupled with this blow to! Ja pan's far-flung . Invasion- armies, British headquarters- reported fresh-gains in three, sectors by Field Marshal Sit Archibajd-F; Wavell's legions driving back in to conquered Burma from India, Simultaneously, . a bulletin from the riavy department in (Continued on Page Two) . Salem Asked to -Reduce Heat ; : SALEM, Jan..' 19 "VP) -"The Portland Gas & Coke company asked its Salem customers today to reduce their maximum heat to 60 degrees to save gas. Pres sure In the company's mains is low because of heavy demand by Portland war industries. , Two Klamath men : who1' saw action at the fall of Cowegldor1 in The Philippines were in to' day's news, one reported missing in action, the other now named a prisoner of war following a previous listing as missing. Mr. and Mrs. Geor'g M.,Lair' son, 1405 Main street, received word Monday advising - them that their son, Sgt. Joseph Law son, 26, reported missing In ac tlon when Corregldor fell May AWED FUG FLIES'-: 7, is now a prisoner of the Jap anese in The Philippines. Albert E. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith of Bonanza, is reported missing lit action. . Young Lawson was' a member of the coast artillery and had been in the islands 'for , several years. His parents, who operate a grocery store at-1405 Main, were more than happy to re ceive the encouraging word from the war department. .They have . (ContInued-onPge;Two)i.. ,. " If'- ,.- -'" HEADQUARTERS FOR DISTRICT TO OPENS 50 Persons to Be Em : ployed;' Payroll. $100,000 - " Definite location of district headquarters for the Office of Price Administration In Klamath Falls was announced Tuesday. The OPA office, which will employ about fifty persons and will have an approximate annual payroll' of more than f 100,000, will be'opened'-ljere shortly after the first .of .next month, it was stated by Leo". T. Gentner, ex ecutive officer; of the regional OPA; headquarters. ... IV. "IV Counties ' Th Klamath -6ff ice will be one .of, 11 district headquarters In tha eighth region, which em braces tha five western states. 1 Tha district, to be known as the Klamath Fall district, in cludes the following .counties: Coos, Douglas, Curry, Josephine, Klmth, -Lake, ' Harney 'hd Malheur' 'irtOregdhV and" B)a-kryau-nd Modod in Cilifornia. The Klamath FaU headquart er will occupy the same posi tion, in relation to. the San. Fran cisco regional offices, si 'do the district off Ices at Portland, Los Angeles, etc., Gentner-explained. '' ' Manager Not Named . . t Qurters. for1! the big ' OPA headquarters here have not' yet been obtained. It Is possible the OPA will occupy one floor of a local building. Heading the district will be a district manager, who has' not yet been selected. Neither have other members of the staff, which will include an admin istrative . officer, rationing of ficer, . accountant, district price officer, chief attorney, an in (Continued on Page Two) RAF Lays Mines In Enemy Waters; No Raid Over Europe - LONDON, Jan. 19 (flV-Light British, patrol bombers hit three enemy supply ships last night in an attack on a convoy off the Dutch coast, the air ministry' an nounced today. The RAF bomber command did not raid Europe In force last night but did lay mines in enemy waters while aircraft of the fighter command on offensive patrols attacked freight trains and locomotives in northern France. The night's , operations-were carried out without a single Brit ish plane being lost, , the - com munique said. ' .- -JUbirt'E.' Smith. if Don Drurr, left, chairman of right, president of ths chamber of commerce, smile as thsy look at a map showing ths big OPA district for which Klamath Falls Is io be ths hsadquarters. Seated is Lee Gentner, regional OPA executive pfflcr, who announced the location of ths headquarters-hsr and was doing prelim inary work in that connection In Klamath Falls Tuesday. . -.f;v"? : ' :' Rampaging Red? Storm ' p. Inio Kamensk; LifUngrof Siege LOND6n, Jan. 19 The capture of 52,000 prisoners' on the Voronezh front and the seiz ure of the rail City of Kamensk, 85 miles north of Rostov, was an nounced tonight in a special Rus sian communique broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded here by 'the soviet monitor. ' The Russians also announced that in their continuing smash on the Voronezh front the red army had captured the big rail- Winter Spreads Icy Blanket Over Oregon You betcha it was cold! Mon day morning's thermometer reg istered 2 degrees above zero, coldest night , since January 2, 1942, when the- mercury fell to 1 below zero. Remember? ' The US -weatherman chalked upon another seasonal low with a maximum temperature -of -26 degrees Monday afternoon. PORTLAND, Jan. 19 UP) The winter's worst cold wave spread an icy' blanket over Ore gon from border to border yes terday, the weather bureau re ported today. The mercury plummeted be low zero throughout the eastern high country with Meacham, Blue mountain hamlet famed for its cold temperatures, farth est down the scale with 47 de grees below. . West of the Cascades, - sub- freezing ' temperatures - ranged the length of the state's coast line inward. Salem's reading dropped to 10 above,, the low est in the area, while Portland had 11 and Eugene 12.7. Astoria also registered 11, only one. de gree above the alltime low, the Necanicum river, near Seaside was partially frozen over.-: A flurry of fires kept firemen busy in many towns of the state as residents overheated stoves and used open flames to, thaw ; (Continued on Page Two) Cornett Names Scott as Clerk , SALEM, Jan. 19 (P) Sen. Marshall Cornett of Klamath Falls, chairman of the senate roads and' highway committee, announced today the appoint ment of Joseph N. Scott, Athena, as chief clerk for the committee. Scott formerly was state rep resentative : from ..Umatilla . and Morrow: counties.- Klamath Men Smile at Good Tdk 5 1 , 1" ' ths wax pries and rationing board hers, and Mitchell Tillotsoo, Thrills Nation way junction-of Valuiki,' only 82 miles east of the big Ukrainian City of Kharkov. In the fighUrig' today "alone, 19,000 prisoners were declared captured, swelling the total cap tives on - the Voronezh . front to 52,000.-' - - ;'.- - '.. ' The Russians were driving down on Kharkov from the northeast and southeast: in a great envelopment move against Kharkov. The Russians ' declared the whole section of the Moscow Voronezh - Rostov railway be tween Rossosh' and Kamenka had been encircled and that German garrisons were being mopped up. - -By. HENRY. C. CASSIDY-.. MOSCOW, Jan. 19 (JP) All Russia, thrilled- to the news of great, accomplishments " of the red army today as the' fire of en thusiasm was stoked by word of soviet smashes into. sagging Ger man forces air the way from Ice bound Lake Ladoga outside new ly reopened Leningrad . to the high Caucasus in the south. "Izvestia," government newspa per, reported Leningrad was now in- direct . land communication with the rest of the nation after nearly a year and a half in which its -1,000,000 -war-time ' inhabi tants had been supplied by air transports and by roads and a railroad over the winter ice of Lake Ladoga. While' the red army continued to batter . at the . once-encircling , . , (Continued on Page Two) . . Mme. Perkins Discloses Social Security Changes NEW YORK, Jan. , 19 (fP) Secretary of Labor Perkins dis closed today proposed revisions of the social security plan which would make it provide larger old-age pension, payments and maternity, funeral and other benefits. She said, they might be presented to President Roose velt soon. .- ; ... -. -. . - Miss Perkins fold 200 persons at a town hall meeting that the proposals would increase, pro gressively, ' the total social se curity premiums from employers and employes to an amount equal to -10 per cent of pay-checks.' News index City Briefs ..........Page 3 Comics and Story .......Page 6 Courthouse Records Page 4 Editorial ...:........ .Page . 4 Markets, Financial . ........Page 7 Our Men in Service ....Page 4 Pattern ........ ..'......Page 8 Sports -,. ..MiPags 5 , b - News Renewal : of; Pressure Laicf o Rommel's:; ; -Retreat f By RUSSEtt LANDSTROM ALLIE D HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 19 (JP) Axis tank and infantry forces attacking northwest - of , Bou Arada on the central Tunisian front were repulsed twice yes terday, but the enemy gained some ground southwest-of Font Du Fans, it was announced to day. Military, observers expressed the belief that the renewal of axis pressure in Tunisia was re lated definitely to Marshal Rom mel's continuing retreat, ' indi cating that he was planning no more than rearguard actions in Trlpohtama. As operations on the - land front accelerated, allied air planes carried the fight to, the enemy, and Flying . Fortresses (Continued on. Page Two; Two Nazi Fliers Escape in London 7 LONDON, Jan. 19 (P Two German fliers, believed to have t een "shot, down during Sunday night's raid On London, escaped from an armed escort at Water loo-station here last night. . . Sanitation Ruling Passes First Reading at Council A complete code for sanitary operation oi establishments where food is handled appeared in the form of an ordinance which passed through first read ing at a meeting of the city coun cil Monday night, ; 'v, -''.,! This ordinance, covers such places as restaurants, slaughterhouses,- hotels, bakeries, grocer ies, canneries, and all -. placed where food for human consump tion is bandied.'- It- prescribes conditions under which such food may be handled, Including :dish-washing,- toilet facilities, and all sanitary facilities within the es tablishment. . : . - ' - v' : The ordinance, ' which em braces in one measure various re quirements already established, plus some new ones, will be pre sented to the, city-health com mittee for its approval. Further consideration of the measure will nrnhnhlv bp Bivan npyt oppV Mayor Houston said Tuesday that DrFeter RozendaV county BRITISH Mi 011301 FROM TRIPOLI Matter of Hours Re mains for Axis to ' "Check Advance - LONDON, Jan. 18 WThs Cairo radio stated tonight that the British eighth army was ;' now only 30 miles from Trip- oil in its pursuit of ths fleeing nail Africa corps. ' . By Ths Associated Press "' CAIRO, Jan. 19 The Britislt eighth, army spurted into the home stretch of its drive across Libya today with an advance which carried one of two attack ing columns to within 50 miles or less of Tripoli closer than? Marshal Rommel came to Alext andria last summer. With Gen. Sir . Bernard Li Montgomery pressing home tha attack, the axis had only a mat ter of hours in, which to check the onslaught for an attempted stand, or to quit the city in at withdrawal toward the Tunisian" border 100 miles to the west. ' Stronghold Reached . Montgomery's most advanced column . was operating inland; and a communique said it had driven , axis forces from Benl Ulid and was in contact with the enemy toward Tarhuna; which is only 40 miles southeast of .Trip oil. Tarhuna is some 60 miles beyond Benl Ulid where the axis suffered heavily in a tank battle with the British.' ' - " The second British column sped - along the coastal road, passing through Misurata and Gardibaldi and reaching tho Zliten area 90 miles east of Tripoli, ' the last stronghold of Premier Mussolini's one-time African empire. .?'.- ' Tripoli Attacked "Tripoli itself was under heavy air attack. ' ' ' '.' A communique announced that .' B-24 Liberators of the ninth U. S. (Continued on Page Two) Thomas. Asks Draft X Curtailment Until . ; Army Plans Revealed i ' WASHINGTON, Jan.. 16 (P) Declaring he : had heard that plans are under way to increase) the armed forces to a total of 12,000,000 men, Senator Thomas (D-Okla.) called for a -draft' cur tailment today until congress is told Just how large an army is needed to win the war. Thomas, chairman of an ap propriations subcommittee hand ling war department bills, told reporters he favored delaying any further large increases in the size of the army "until we can take: an accounting of tha needs." "I think we ought to hava every pilot and every mechanic we can get," he declared, "but I doubt that we need to hava many more, men in the infantry, for ' Instance, than ; w hava rnow. health officer, collaborated with city authorities in preparing tha proposed sanitation ordinance. It also conforms to many of tha provisions of the state regula tionscovering premises whera food- is handled., Dr. Eozendal stated thatcompliance with the provisions of the -ordinance would not beMuficult for prop erly - operated restaurants and many restaurant ' people are in favor of it. ' : '. . This ordinance, it was pointed out, is-not to be confused with the one . which proposed food handlers' medical examinations and was 'tabled a year or two ago. ,- -.'- -. The council received a com: munlcation from the traffic safa ty council, recommending ellml nation of the left turn prohlbW tlon at 'Sixth and Main streets, Lett turns In all four directions will be permitted there. Tha council, however, recommended ' (Continued on Page Two) '
