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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
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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,
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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(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.
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Comics and Story Page H
Courthouse Records ........Page 3
Editorial ............Page 4
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Our Men in Service ...(....Page 8
Pattern .... Pago 4
Sports ,....,..Page S