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Falls. Another long blast, during black- W (ft " W ; . Stream year to data ... I, OS UoU pJK w",h'r;.,PS ; j ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND I NEA FEATURES j L"' "--v7-01 Wom'1 8 PRICE FIVE CENTS - KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2Q, 1943 V , Number 9699 , ; - ';: . , :' , ,. , lililllllil M DJEM9 IWIJS fp$ If ff jpPi Rommel Flees West Ii db 103! "jM y - if ' & liniB bs: niTwciiis Br FRANK JENKINS nrHE newi from oil tho war front today In good. Thrill Inifly good. SHARPLY in con Irost with a year ago. HpHE RuMlom are advancing on A all front. North of Rostov, thoy'vo crouod tho Donots In TWO placet and have comparatively clear tailing for the 85 mlloi that lie ahead of them. East of Ros tov, thcy'vo crossed the Manych, the last natural defento barrier in that direction. They'ra only 70 miles from Kharkov..-. Around Leningrad, they're blasting the Germans out of re maining strong points. TN Germany, Hitler's own news- paper (quoted in a dispatch from Switzerland) grumbles that the Gorman people "should see how difficult the fighting on the Eastern front is." It adds com plainlngly that tho Russians "have more soldiers, more tanks, more guns than a year ago." Some IS months ago Hitler wus boasting . that Russia was BROKEN and . would NEVER RISE again. ,',. MONTGOMERY'S 8th army, , 1 chasing Rommol'i bnco famed African force, has topped the .crest of the Neiusa ridge and has a downhill pull to bombed and burning Tripoli, 60 miles away In the saucer-like Jafnra plain. There are strong hlnta In the dispatches today that units of Rommel's army are pushing on to the WEST, Instead of turning north to take refuge, in Tripoli. These hlnta, If confirmed later, mean that he Intends to abandon Tripoli and f lee onward to the Tunisian border, hoping to effect a Junction there .with axis forces that are . holding a corridor southward from Tunis. . ONLY In tho area around Tunis . and Blzerte is there any re port of Axis gains. German troops hit the French hard, driv ing them back seven miles, at Pont du Fuhs and Bou Arada which, your map will tell you, indicates they're fighting des perately to push back tho point of the wedgo our side is trying to drive through to tho Mediter ranean, thus cutting off Rom mel's retreat. It seems likely we may not be oblo to prevent tho remnants of Rommel's army from joining the axis' Tunisian forces, so we're trying to pound them to pieces from the air and DESTROY them before they can gut there. Our airmen are reported at tacking like hungry hawks div ing on a line of field mice, TN five days, from January 13 x to 17 inclusive, we've killed 1032 Japs on Guadalcanal. Our men are pushing them back from the vicinity of Henderson air field. . According to the navy official tabulation, 449 Jap naval and merchant vessels, including six aircraft carrie 5, 38 cruisers and 60 destroy cm,' have been sunk since ' Pearl Harbor. A month ago Knox told us Japan's marl- time, '(shipping) strength hod been reduced to a few thousand tons short of .DESPERATELY IMPAIRING her extended lines of communication and supply. Since then, we've sunk 245,- 00U tons MORE. ; i , ' ""THE Germans make a tlt-for-tat daylight raid on London, us ing 25 to 30 fighter-bombers pro tected on their way over the channel by an umbrella of flgnt era.. Crowds, are . machine gunned in the streets. The at tack is relatively light and ma : terlal damage not great, the dlS' patches say. ' TTHE news from, the home front isn t so good. ' Flynn (referred to scornfully as Paving-Block Flynn), our new ambassadot -to-be to Australia, admits to a congressional prob ing' committee that he once ap pointed "Dutch" Schultzo, noted '. (Continued' on Page Two) " riying i-orts Mep II M'1 .l 1 ' ,l " I A,rHo, ' W " .'JIIIIIsllN MinLrwffi nnWN m-H n TV, Br The Associated Press Hard-hitting US army troops and marines were officially credited today with wiping out 1032 Japanese soldiers in a five day battle on Guadalcanal is land, in the Solomons, while American Flying Fortresses pounded enemy shipping 300 miles to tho northwest. A navy communique - said the heavy casualties were Inflicted on the enemy from January 13 to January 17 as American troops slowly battled their way forward against stiff Japanese resistance. Ship Fired For the most part. th fight ing centered around mopping up actions to clear the enemy away from Henderson, air-field. The navy said' Flying-Fort-rcsiosescortcd by fighters, left a Japanese cargo ship in flames in a foray to the Shortland is lands and shot down two enemy float-typo planes. One US fight er was listed as missing. Aside from hard going on three fronts in New Guinea, Guadalcanal Jn the. ' Solomons, and in Burma Japan was reported- now facing a serious shortage of ships to supply , her armies spread out across , mora than 0000 miles Of the Pacific ocean.' i ' " . : ' -Strength Impaired : - Official tabulations showed that American and allied sub marines, warships and planes hacking away at. Japan's vital supply, lines have destroyed at least 445 Jopaneso naval and merchant ships,- among which wore ,slx aircraft carriers, ;j 38 cruisers and- 80 destroyers. ; Little more than a month ago, (Continued on Page Two) Thirteen Axis Vessels Sunk in British Forays - LONDON, Jan. 20 (P) Thir tcon . enemy vessels were de stroyed by British navol forces in the central Mediterranean, in the first three d ays of this week, tlto admiralty announced tonight. The sinkings were accom plished without loss to the Royal navy, the announcement said. The chief prize was a supply vessel of about 3000 tons sunk south of Sardinia, the explosion from which indicated it prob ably wbs carrying ammunition. Ten of tho enemy ships and a launch were sunk off the Tunis ian coast and a small naval ves sel carrying gasoline was sunk off Lampcdusa island,- the com munique said. Wickard Adds More Foods To Possible Ration List WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (P) Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard has signed an order delegat ing authority to the office- of price administration to ration evaporated and condensed milk, Jams, jellies, preserves, fruit butters, pickles, relishes, pro cessed fish and shell fish, and food products . which contain meats. Wickard, acting In the capac ity of food administrator, had previously announced that the OPA had been directed to ra tion canned and bottled fruits and fruit - juices, canned and bottled vegetables and vegetable juices, canned soups, dried and dehydrated fruits, and frozen fruits and vegetables. These pro ducts are scheduled to be ra tioned under a point system late noxt month. - An ordor delegating authority to. the OPA to ration the pro cessed fruits and vegetables also Included the other commodities. The order . was published In tho Federal Register,", official publication containing ' ' Orders .and regulations- Issued "by - the .i ii-, , Ralph Waggoner, center, last munlty service by a young-man. left la Esua Ailleck, president of II Outstanding Young Man" Award Goes to Waggoner Ralph Waggoner, market trill man at, the Klamath Falls, .(frsny ery, , was presented with ' the Klamath County ; Junior, cham ber of .commerce distinguished service award at ,. Tuesday night's Founder's day banquet.. .Waggoner Is the first man identified with tho labor move ment to receive the award, which goes annually to the outstanding man, 35 or under, In community service In tho past year. He has served 'as president of the Cen tral Labor -council and as presi dent and secretary of the Team sters' union. The award winner was a mem ber of the executive committee of the Klamath county defense council, and a member of the vo cational education board here. He is a past president of the Oregon Creamery Manufacturers association." ; Mayor John H. Houston macte the presentation of the award-at the well-attended banquet at which Robert W. Sawyer, Bend publisher, made the principal ad dress. : Junior chamber awards . for organization service .went to Robert,, O'Sulllvan and. Troy. Cook,- the presentation being made by Estle Affleck, president of the junior chamber. . . Judge Sawyer,, noted Oregon historian, gave an address deal ing with the background of the central and south central Ore gon, telling the story of four ex peditions which were made In successive decades through .this various administrative agencies of the government. This was the first notice that the list of products to be rationed had been enlarged. The department omitted the usual procedure of making an . official announce ment. Officials said condensed and evaporated milk would not be included in the initial rationing of canned if oods. They said can ned milk, fish and other items had been added to the rationing order to "facilitate . administra tive preparations foe rationing of "the Hems if necessary at a future date." . ;'The OPA, officials explained, has not yet been. actually .di rected to ration foods other than processed fruits, vegetables, juices, -soups and baby foods. They said, however, that sup plies of evaporated milk " and fish were expected to. be below oonsumer requirements this year. Short supplies of sugar, which already is being rationed, and of fruit juices can be ex pected, they said, to- affect the production of jams,. . preserves and fruit butters. . ., night xaeaWad the junior chamber of commerce award for com- The presentation was made by me junior enamner. country In' the11 early part of the last, century. . , f ,-' .V , i ; ? . . Ha described. the'adventures of Peter Skene Ogden, Nathan iel Wyeth, General John C. Fre mont, and 'General Henry , Lar com Abbott, for whom Camp At bott, the new . engineering re placement center near Bend, is named. ': He told of travels of these ear ly visitors through this country and. some of the locally familiar : (Continued on-Page-Two) - - Klamath Schools Cancel Classes On Wednesday "Klamath-county schools, In cluding Klamath .-Union high school and the seven city institu tions, cancelled schedules early Wednesday morning and stu dents who did reach the build ings were advised to return to their homes by the principals in charge. Notice of the reopening of the buildings will be made through: the press and radio, Su perintendent Arnold L. Gralapp stated. '' School children weren't the only ones on holiday. Wednesday. Klamath's major mills were quiet including Ewauna Box, Big Lakes Box, Pelican Bay and Ul- Giorgio. Weyerhaeuser was limp ing along with a skeleton crew and prophesied "no work to night." " . Although there was no Inter ruption, late Wednesday morning on the Southern Pacific- lines. trains were late but making it (Continued on Page Twoi 12-Yeor-Old Girl Found Slain in N. Y. Apartment NEW YORK. Jan.. 20 (& The body of a 12-year-old school girl, her head smashed, was found today In a blood-soaked bed in a west side apartment, and police said she had been raped and slain. r Police said that near the bed thev found a hammer which they believed was ; used to kill the child. . i Sha was Martha Punt, who police said was known In' her neighborhood as Martha James, James being the marriage name of . her mother, : - -. " The girl's home Is a block and a -half from the apartment In which she was found by a kitchen helper at the Hotel Plaza, Irarls Fandino, who shared the apart ment with a - worker from an other- hotel. Police said they learned that Fandlnos apart ment mate had not reported for work this morning. . .. Mayor John Houston, jigfct. .At AFL ASKS STOP TO Production ' Will Sufv fer Contends : ; . Council MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 20 (JP) , With a warning that production will suffer the American Feder ation of Labor's executive coun cil has appealed to President Roosevelt to halt a ' hearing on labor practices at three Henry J. Kaiser shipyards. Both the national labor rela tions board, which is conduct ing . the inquiry - at Portland, Ore., and the Congress of In dustrial organizations, which in stigated an investigation, came under fire in the councils tele gram to Mr. Roosevelt. - NLRB Rapped - , . .' AFL. president William Green made public the," communication in which the NLRB was accused of applying a "stubborn, stupid policy, . which would . decrease production, lower morale, de velop : inefficiency, .and - create confusion and chaos." .- " "We regard the intervention of the labor relations board in to the situation as a direct at tempt to assist and help a rival union to carry out its raiding program at a plant where ship production . has reached new heights," council members told Mr. Roosevelt. Contracts Signed There is no dispute, they add ed, between the Kaiser com pany and about 65,000 employes over wages or working condi tions .. . . instead, they said,; a "perfect cooperative relation ship" exists. Months ago ' the ; company signed closed shop contracts with 19 AFL unions, and the CIO . has raised the claim that the unions are not the chosen (Continued on Page Two) Oregon Officers Haye Some Tax Trouble in Kansas SALEM, Jan. 20 (P) Several Oregon officers stationed at Fort Riley, Kas., are being compelled to nay the Kansas state income tax, while they also have to pay the Oregon income tax, ttep. . H. . Dammasch of Portland said he learned today. ' :,, i State . tax : commission mem bers said there is no way to pre vent Kansas from collecting the tax, but that Oregon would have to collect the tax on the officers as they still maintain their legal residence in Oregon. . However, out-of-state officers who are stationed in Oregon do not have to pay the Oregon tax Inasmuch as they .do not have legal residences here. . I uiiiuinii iiunui Soviets Pound Toward Kharkov; Axis Gains .. In Tunisia By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Editor Russia's armies were reported storming forward today within 79 miles of Kharkov, the "Pitts burgh of the Ukraine," while on the North African, front the British 8th army was swiftly closing in on Horns and Tarhuna, respectively 58 and 40 miles frprr th. big axis strqnghdld 'at ' A CatW broadcast said British vanguardi- were - only-' 30 ". miles fyonj Ttfifoli, last cltadeVip Pre mier Mussolini's African empire, in pursuit of nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's fleeing columns. Rommet Fleeing ' At the same time, the Berlin radio said British - parachutists were being dropped behind Rom- trap's, ne to . harass, vcommunjr cations. ' . .Xi , On - thff'.Norttt '-African front, allied fortune fluctuated with th&: British -racing ahead -in Libya .while . the axis : scored, gains in Tunisia,. .- , - . -.- 'A bulletin from Gen.. Sir Ber- nard-L. Montgomery's 8th army headquarters pictured the shat tered Rommel corps as in head long ' retreat, -losing prisoners, guns and vehicles, "under violent (Continued 6n Page Two) ; ; '- ; - .- Farm Machinery Restrictions Eased, Says OPA PORTLAND, Jan. 20 (P) Re strictions on the - manufacture and distribution of farm machin ery -and equipment were, eased today, J.'.Fred'Bergesch, Oregon district OPA manager, said. The three months restrictions on the distributor's inventory of repair parts is lifted. Certifi cates for .emergency order are no longer necessary, to obtain parts. The quota on silo construction is increased from-12 to 16 per cent and the weight of critical materials,' rather than number of units, now governs the quota. Water pump cylinders are de fined as repair parts. Grain bins and corn cribs made of material other, than steel are no 'longer within the order." Harness hard ware no longer Is restricted to farm use. Flynn Denies Knowledge Of Gangster WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (P) Edward J. Flynn, minister desig nate to Australia, told the sen ate foreign relations committee today that when he swore in the late- Arthur Flegenheimer as a special deputy sheriff of Bronx county ' he did not know that was the real name of Dutch Schultz, the gangster; Earlier an assistant secretary of state testified that Flynn's ex perience as federal commissioner for the New York World's fair helped-equip him tq discharge the duties of minister. , . i Flynn, testifying at-liis own request, offered , denials . to all specific charges raised against him .by Senator, Bridges (R-N.H.), in opposing senate confirmation of the diplomatic appointment. ;The appointee ' testified im mediately after Assistant Secre tary of. State G. How'land Shaw presented, the state department's endorsement- of the appointment and said the Australian govern ment' had approved the appoint . By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr; SALEM, Jan. 20 (ff) The house passed the state guard bill today and sent it to Governor Snell, less than 24 hours before expiration of the 1941 . state guard act. The vote was unanimous, there being no debate. The house orig inally had passed' the measure, but it had to be sent back from the senate for concurrence in the upper house's amendments, The major senate amendment provides that the state guard shall ' remain in active service until the governor proclaims it is 'no longer needed. Presum ably, it would be disbanded when the national guard, now fighting in the regular army. comes back to Oregon. The orig inal .house bill provided it' be disbanded six months after the war. '-. --: - -' . - 7 Governor jSnell said he would slgn'tha" bm; today. If the bill hadn't - been.;. passed tomorrow, enlistments of ; the 9000 state guardsmen, would have expired, and the men would haw had to be signed up again.' .With the bill's 1 passage, - enlistments -are automatically continued. . UMW " Threatens - Ex pulsion .if FDR Order I s Not Obeyed '- WILKES-BARRE. Pa., Jan.-20 (ff) The United Mine Workers served notice on striking anthracite- miners today that they face "dishonorable expulsion forthwith" if they refuse to obey President -Roosevelt's order - to return to work by noon- tomorrow.-- - ..- i. ..-:" . The UMW executive commit tee of -District 1, -to which the unauthorized work stoppage now is confined, issued the warning as thousands of miners, increasingly resentful of what they- regard - as the- govern ment's unwillingness to . nego tiate their grievances immediately,-'voted' to stay out. -.''-.-"Let Them Come" ' . M. J.-Kosik, District 1 presK dent, declared that "the major ity of mine workers should not suffer because of -the - action of a small . minority." i Expulsion : f r o m the UMW would prevent a man from working in the mines under the closed shop agreement between the union and the operators. But among the 12,000 miners still on strike, angry mutter- ings of "Let the troops cornel" (Continued on Page Two) Appointment ment before -it was sent to the senate. . .,- Shaw said Flynn was the pres ident s personal choice. Flynn, ruddy-faced and per spiring as he testified in a con fident manner, told the senators: "These are political charges, They have been levelled against me in political campaigns. They are not true. , He made five specific points In his defense to charges made on the senate floor by Bridges. They were: - , 1. , He denied that as a lawyer he. had ever, represented Serge Rubinstein, identified In formal charges filed by Bridges as as sociated with Guiji Kassi, "a reg istered agent of the Japanese government." Flynn said, how ever, that his law partner, Mon roe Goldwater, had been inter ested in a Rubinstein case. .2. There was no one, he de clared, who could "say truth fully" that he ever knew "at any (Continued on Page Two) THOUSANDS IGNORE STRIKE ULTIMATUM - . i ii . School Children Suf-' ; fer in "Spite : , Attack" ;; '; Br The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 20 London was bombed and machinegun ned today in the largest Ger man daylight raid since the bat tie of Britain, and preliminary reports - indicated that ct least 13 of the attacking planes were shot down by British, fighters alone. The raiders dealt the heaviest " blow of the war to London's school children. ' From the wreckage of an elementary school in the heart of a residential district t h bodies of 30 boys and girls front six to. 14 years old were re covered -, by nightfall. .: "'"'.. 12 Escape ,v Two hundred men dug Into -the deb0 for J0 to 63,: mors children no one knew exactly how j many were there and aj: least three teachers. But . al most no hope 'was held that any of them would be found alive. only ii children and ona teacher -emerged from th bombed building. . alive, and some of them were injured criti cally., -;.. ..--'- Two sections of the city werei bombed and some homes were destroyed. . ; S3 Deaths The Germans attacked under cover of 50 to 100 fighters who patrolled the 'channel. It-was, estimated that 25 to 30 fighter). bombers struck inland across: xveiib aaa oussex.. . ney : were-. , engaged by RAF fighters and' only a few reached London. J flkllJ... . 1 .-. . .... : were killed In one London disv - i ... u.iu - 0, a VY uuicu (Continued on Pairs T-vn -. Oregon Legislators ' In Line' for U. 5. " Committee Posts . W AQXXliN Kjrl JVi , Jan. ZU Representative Harris Ellsworth. (R-Ore.) is in line for appointment-to the house committee on, puDlic lands, a position impor tant to his district because of It extensive state grant lands. . .. , Representative Lowell Stock man is trying to win a spot on the committee on Irrigation and reclamation. His second choice is the committee on immigration and naturalization. To conform with a rule which limits a member to two com, mittees, Representative James W. Mott has given up public lands, retaining naval affairs and roads. ; - .-, . - New System in Coast WLB Will ( Speed Decisions SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 2T (IP) The tenth regional advis ory council of the war labor board has become the Pacific . coast" regional war labor board,, with final authority in Indus-,' trial wage disputes. J Thomas Fair Neblett, former acting - regional director, has been named chairman of the board under the decentralization plan. His board has jurisdiction' over California, Oregon, Wash ington, Arizona and Nevada. -.-'The new system is expected to cut the time in handling dis putes to one-third of that form erly needed. - News Index City Briefs ..s .......Page 8- Comics and Story Page H Courthouse Records ........Page 3 Editorial ............Page 4 iviarjceis -f iuuiiumi ........ rugs - Our Men in Service ...(....Page 8 Pattern .... Pago 4 Sports ,....,..Page S
