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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1943)
On S-mlnute blait on ilrn and whistles U the signal for a blackout In Klamath . Falli. Another long blast, during a black out, if a ilonal ior ' all-cltar. In precau January 20 High S3. Low 24 Precipitation aa of January 14, 1943 Stream. tar to data ........ 8.03 Laat ytar ... .....8.98 Normal 8.50 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES tionary periods, watch your atratt lights. PEICB FIVE CENT8 KLAMATH. FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943 nvn OdD i?fo)RnUi LnQ uJ Ui7 LtlI 57 A o) v w ' Japs By FRANK JENKINS AFTER our recont feast, wa have nar famine of big new today. It usually work that way. Big. military cnmpalKns don't move forwurd at a UNIFORM pace. They LEAP ahead aa care- O fully prepared attack aro sue ceaafully carried out, and then pauao while now blowa aro or ganized. But tha newt we have la good. . . "THE Russians pour across the ' Manych, east of Rostov, at TWO points. They're heading obvloualy for the Baku-Rostov railroad, hoping to cut off the Germans romalnlng In the lower Caucasus. - A, new- Russian plncer move ment Is reported today against Kharkov. They are said also to be organizing (and, perhaps al ready carrying out) a new sweep through the southeastern Uk raine designed to get in behind Rostov. . . i The Russian tactics all winter have been aimed at getting In bo- IJ. .,1. ; w im ft 'T'HE Germans remaining before ; Stalingrad are In much tha same' position as the Japs at Buna, and apparently the same fate awaits them.-.! . Somewajr-.onsicuenea these GermanswUl;. surrender when they f Inaljy-.aee ; their.-. situation is hopeless. '-- It looks as If the Japs aro go ing to fight to the last-man. tN Northern Africa, General LeClerc's Fighting French col umn coming up from the south has JOINED Montgomery's 8th army before Tripoli. That probably provides too much strength for Rommel to make a stand against. Signs are multiplying that he Intends to keep right, on going in ma hope o making a Junction with n axis forces In Tripoli, our sme w is hoping to DESTROY him ber fore he gets there. Our air forces are pounding htm hard. ', The Germans In the corridor leading .'down from Tunis are lighting stubbornly to keep the gate open until Rommel gets then.;'-:. TTrfiERE Is much reference here ?to Rommel. What is really ' tneant'l Rommel's army. There has been complete lack of news : of -the desert fox himself.- Hit- lerr may even have called him ! home for a dressing down be l caiu he let himself get beaten. ''Tift the 'South Seas, the U. S. , T irmv la tnklnff over at Guadal- i canal,' Jellovlng the Marines who have been doing such bitter fighting there. In the normal O course of military events, the Marines job is to TAKE it and the army's job is to HOLD it. Out' planes ara ranging far aiNf wid over the Jap-held ap proachee to northern Australia, bombing Jap ships and bases. ASSISTANT Secretary of War Patterson takes a hand in the war comment game today. He thinks the Russian suc cesses my force the Germans to fall clear beck to the Dnieper river for a winter stand.- Your map will show you that such a retirement would bo something. He thinks tha gifting of the siege of Leningrad was the war's out standing achievement. . He says tho political differ ences among th French in North Africa haven't prevented them from taking an important part in the allied fighting there. PATTERSON idds that new rt construction of ships now ex wceedr, IwWnist by submarines; but Myl the subs are still put ting a heavy drain on us. I 1 That brings out the EXTREME JContinued ' on'. Page Five); .Uteri, pt SLUSH, WATER FOLLOW SNOW WITH DAMAGE Schools Closed; Re Opening Expected Monday A heavy blanket ot snow which covered the . Klamath basin in a driving storm Wed nesday morning, was churned and whipped into a mass of slush and running .water by a succeeding rain and warm wind. Considerable damage resulted from the storm and basements in the business and residential- sec tions were flooded, streets were covered more than curb - high - Klamath Falls students were notified Thursday:-that the seven city institutions, .Klam ath Union high, school and Sacred Heart academy, would .romaln. closed' Friday . but would probably open as usual Monday morning unless some thing "unforeseen" occurs. . with heavy aush'. hdfl4 city street department was .hard, ,puj J- ' , f " ' - . u at j,-737 Main- atreet ) suffered heavy damage as water flooded the room. Clyde :Baker,''locaI manager, said the eomruinv' hurl rigged an auxiliary line through mo raciuc ueiepnone and Tele-, graph company and In the mean time sought services of a San Francisco engineer to check the local equipment. ' -. , ' 'Water. Troubla"' ; ' The telegraph off Ice is In the (Continued on Page Two) Rescue Workers Save Child Caught :". In London Raid LONDON.. Jan. 21'- (ff) . A rescue Worker , I h I lflarnnn climbed to the top floor of the shaky remains of the London school smashed'; in- yesterday's noontime German homblna mlrf There he found three children aoout ' s years old. Two were dead. The third,', girl with an injured arm. wan nittlnir floor more than 21 hours, after me tomoing. -"It's all right; I can'walk," she aald 'and. HrrAmVilInc d nwn to the ground, ran straight into a waiting crowd and found her mower. .. PFC "Glenn" Smith, 20, Held Prisoner of Japs ' Tliat their- Son Is a prisoner of the Japanese government - was word received Wednesday by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred David Smith, 1426 Kane street, who were advised by the war depart ment . that PFC Alfred ' G. "Glenn" Smith, 20, is among the American soldiers now In the hands of the enemy. This is the first . word the Smiths have received' since . a letter arrived from their son on Corregldor November 29, 1941. '.Young, Smith attended Alta mont Junior high' school and joined Battery "C", Oregon Na tional Guard, which went from Klamath Falls .to Fort Stevens early . In 1940. He left San Francisco in June, 1941, for The Philippines and July; 29, ' 1941, the family-received word that he was on Corregldor where- he remained until- the -island fell to the Japanese early in 1942. . Mr, and Mrs. Smith had made an effort to learn of their son's status but were advised by the war department no information was available. ' Three weeks ago Smith, employe of Ewauna .Box, company, received a ' copy of "Look" magazine in which were - (Continued -on-Paga-TwoK Peggy Testifies Peggy Satttrlte, ' 18-yaar-old Hollywood night club dancer. one of two girls accusing Actor Errol Flynn of statutory tape. Is shown as sha stappsd from tha witness stand after her first testimony In the trial. PATTERSONJERMS Trimming of Civilian Goods About Over, " Says Nelson By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 The capital was cheered today by news of resumed work in the anthracite mines, an official war review which called the ueneral situation encouraging and an in dication that the trimming ot America's civilian economy was about finished.. Undersecretary of War Rob ert P. Patterson supplied the war account, telling a press confer ence that Russia's successes were particularly heartening, that in North Africa the axis base of Tripoli appeared doomed and that American and Australian troops have outdone the Japa nese In jungle fighting "at which the Japanese thought themselves superior." Except for submarine sinkings (Continued on Page Twoj - PFC Alfred Smith -. m Eseap vi ALLIES W10P UP m REMNANTS OF Army Troops Replace Marines in Sol omons By Tha Associated Prats t Trapped survivors of a 15,000 man Japanese army, were report ed making desperate attempts to break out of dwindling pock ets In the Papuan coastal jungles of New Guinea today, but Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquart ers announced that American and. Australian fighters "further reduced the enemy's remaining positions." . '.. . Heavy fighting, was reported as ' the- Japanese," half starved and in , imminent danger of an nihilation, sought to escape Into the Jungle. . Destroyer Hit : ?The whole thing is crumb ling," an allied spokesman said. In - the - Solomon - islands, the navy reported thatJJ. S. Flying f9rtrse acortd'aFbomb hit on a Japanese destroyer oil aoa- lain villa island and ' shot -down eight Bnemyplanes "during, aiv JUacJcwTi- pvo,4panes 'argo hips and two. destroyers in the Shortland island, group.. . .The navy's communique said' American -planes -twice - bombed Japanese positions on Munda is land, J00 miles north of Guadal canal, where the enemy has been constructing a new air field. - Marines Replaced v " Simultaneously,!, . Undersecre tary of - War Robert ' Patterson dlictosed in Washington that U. S. army ground troops have re placed : the marines in the - Sol (Continued on Page Two) Snow Covers ; Most Sections Of Oregon V : PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21 (AO The Oregon Shipbuilding corpor ation, Kaiser Vancouver and Swan Island, shipyards, announ ced' at noon that ' swing and graveyard shifts would continue tonight with some exceptions. . Steel yards, plate shops, as sembly shops,, on the ways and the salvage departments will sus pend, reducing, yard forces to about half. -. ; The weather bureau here an nounced .storm warnings would continue at all Oregon and Wash ington coast stations. Snow covered .almost all sec tions of . Oregon today , but in spots, freakish weather changes cleared, if off in. a hurry. ' , There was considerable 'snow on the ground here, transporta tion, was hampered andtsoma de fense workers living in outly ing sections were unable to get to the job. ".The weather bureau said it had not been authorized to issue any warnings or forecasts. - Heavy snow last night blank eted Eugene with its greatest depth in six years and there was (Continued on Page Two) ? Fire Destroys y. Barracks Buildings; No One Injured COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., () Fire destroyed 23 barracks buildings today in an intern ment camp adjoining - Camp Carson, army : training camp. Army officers In charge said no one was injured. Firemen.' from Colorado Springs prevented the blaze from reaching warehouses, but were unable' to check the blaze before the . barracks were ' de stroyed. -. . Cause of the fire, and damage estimates ' were . not . made .. by camp officials.'"' U. S. Marines Make It Plenty Hot for Guadalcanal Japs : - , -a, t t c. 4 5 . Hot off tha firing line is. this picture catching the US marinas on Guadalcanal turning the heat on the much-battered Nip lines with a couple of ISSmm howitsers.. : ' BPS Gradual Price Rise, Increased Local Control Seen , .!' . Bv JACK BELt, vyASHlNCrTON.I Jn.x tt m Given a free .hand to. make, or break' f WmSelfj Prenttsw IE Brown set sail oil stormy OPA seas -today with a bid for cort sumer support of a-program en visioning gradually- rising prices, increased locAl controls over rationing and fewer- cold homes next winter. ; . ? :. The nation's i new pric ad ininistrator. a Great Lakes boat- man of no mean ' nautical abilU tv. tacked smartly to catch, the wind of publio and congression al anoroval in a press comer- ence declaration yesterday that he was taking over OPA with the primary objective of protect ing the American consumer. Takes Over. Isolating himself for, a 10-day look-see at the inner , operations of OPA, -Brown went to. work on several pressing problems. These included , the imminent necessity of going to congress for a $20,000,000' deficiency ap-; nroDrlation.. the need, for addi tional . transportation' subsidy. money and the, possibility. of a shakeup in his agency's-top -per sonnel.; ... 5 Brown, " 83-yearK)ld. .former senator f r o m Michigan,', took. over formally from) Leon; Hen derson' with .the reputed undeiv, standing that he would be given (Continued on Page. Two).; Robert Havens Killed in Action . : In North Africa Shortly , after his . decoration by Jimmy boolittle in North Africa, Lt. Robert Havens,- 22- yearold Portland ' airman;: ;was killed in .action,' according yjto' word received here Sunday 'by the youth's uncle, Dr. D."D.' Ha vens of Klamath Falls. ' ; v: Lt. Havens, son of W..L.'.Ha- vens, . Portland lumber operator, was well known to Universityof Oregon students from this city, He finished law. in 1941, passed the bar, and went into the army air service receiving training at Mather field.. At the time of his death he served as squadron nav igator. Word of his decoration appeared in a Friday issue of the Oregonian; notification of his death was received Sunday. Dr. Havens said his nephew had vis ited '.several times In Klamath Falls and had friends among the young people. . ; Reds Claim 750,000 Nazi Casualties ; LONDON. Jan. 81 (rV-Reu- t e r s quoted a Moscow radio broadcast today, as saying that German casualties on the soviet Russian front . in the past six weeks totaled 750,000 men,, in cluding -280,000' dead. . s J te,r tar- Search On for Mutilator of ;:; i Pofce Dog 1 ... ' r. . : .- - A fiendish act in which- the eyes of a police dog were goug ed out' with a stick was under Investigation by.' state and coun ty - authorities Thursday. - The bunded dog wandered to a barbecue stand at Shasta way. and south sow-street Thursday ' W ate ' poUce -wera callea to assist -in .tha investigation,, and. Claude Nelson; humane society ami took: custody 'Of the AosU Because of JW condition., it was found necessary tofput .the. ant mar to death. , . District - Attorney, t. ' O. Sise more said, an attempt iA under way to' discover the perpetrator of the act, and if he is found every effort- will'be' made to bring him to-Just punishment, 7 Families Moved as . Wind Rips, Roof From Housing Block VALLEJO, Calif., Jan.: 21 (IP) The roof had .been 'blown' from about 50 prefabricated houses and' 150 families had been evacu-. ated from other housing quarters near here .today., . : . . ., Most of the storm 3ajnage was in. the Carquiner housing .area, for defense workers. The' area, with quarters for. 1692 families, is -in Soutno county, near the Vallejo.1 side of -the Carquiner Bridge;. ; ' :. : i '-Similar'' trouble "was exper ienced at ; Chabot Acres,- three "miles north;- of Vallejo.v toward Napa, .. . V ''. ;( : v'V ii'O.i. i1- Police, 1 auxiliary - police i.ahd air raid. wardens.were. called-to duty-in'b'oth areas. - -. ' , -" Berlin vDedth' -;. Toii Hits.iio ; , ' LONDON, . Jan. - 21 -W) v : A DNB dispatph broadcast by the German . radio said ' today . the death list; of the RAF raid. upon Berlin Saturday night 'had risen to iiu. : i :;$ .- v. y Plan f or Federal Timber (Sh Washington; D.'. C, siory on ' page - 9 for. agriculture : de partment policy on timber, use). On . the grounds that .current log supply -problems - threaten curtailment, of lumber produc tion for the war effort and eco-i nomic dislocation in the Klamath basin, E. P. Ivory, local lumber manufacturer, has proposed that the war production board devel op a system of allocation or pri ority, in" handling government timber, providing atumpage for mills which do not have other timber available. ' Ivory - suggested in a . public statement Thursday that the mat ter is one of such concern to the community that the chamber of commerce and local press would be justified in sponsoring his. proposal before the war produc tion board. , ln-thls , connection,-. Mitchell i 1 4 , , Nazi-Effort to Estab lish Stable Line ,' '';. ; 'Smashed;' - T- Russiani-armouricdi'Whlgrit .'the capture .of , the cityiof Voj;oshil- ovsk in inexrans-caucasus.. MOSCO'Jan; ;' 21 '(-Russian - shock troops were1 reported pouring westward- across the Manych river today . 15 miles from the rail junction of Salsk In the . driver to isolate, the axis army, of the Caucasus and 'clamp ahvarc .of teel. about Rostov.,. Feverish .German effort to fix a' stable line, along- the' M banltof the-Manych, a placid, lake-fed stream which flows Into, the; Don 30 miles east of Kostov, are falling, field. dispatches said: ' .y:-Reds'M0T Westr " " Red : Star : announced that soviet detachments -were- captur ing point after point while the Germans ' were blowing - up bridges arid "trying to . lay more mmes in; a,rapid-,re treat. -.They tuontmued; on rage-i-wor . Nurse Stabbed By;Strahge Man ai !c Salem Bus - SALEM,! Jan.'. 21 J(P). .Mrs. Dale- Moon, !. 21,. nurse.': at; the Salem' General - hospital,. ".was stabbed' by .a strange 'man- last night as she waited for a bus at the hospital' entrance. ; She .was a' patient ih the.'hospltal .to- day.r'but her condition was good ' Police 'had two suspects in jaiU- ';-' She said a-.rhah stepped 'out of the' darkness, :knife in hand,--and told; her he -would stab her 'un less she'1 submitted, -to ,.him,".'She slapped mm, and ne tnenstaooea her; In -the abdomen ," She others ran.,Intoiwe.hospital;- Tillotson, president of- thechajm ber iOf commerce; said' that the chamber expects to. present) the WLB-with a'compiiation'of facts concerning1 the log.' supply here to. assist the..board in "determin-. ing whatever'-: policyi it deems necessary to the war effort. He stated the chamber does not wish! to take part in a situation where in different firms may be com peting for the same tract of tim-; ber, but rather its function is to present an over-all picture. - In . his prepared statement, Ivory listed five mills, including his own, the Ivory : Pine com pany, -which he said .face a. log supply shortage now op in the near future. . He mentioned two other operations which face loss of log supplies soon. ; . - . In connection, with the "Ivory Fine company, he said it has ap proximately, three months; cut- , .(Continued on Page.Two) mm ft- srs yg' . .. I vr- ... 1 ABANDONMENT OF TRIPOLI British Capture Twd i Towns in, Surg' Toward City ,r it. ' By ROGER GREENE , Associated Press War Editor - Final collapse of . ' Premier Mussolini's African empire ap peared to be only a matter ot nours -today amid signs that Field Marshal ' Erwin Rommel wais : hastily abandoning , . thai burning city- of Tripoli, andl British eighth army columns" stormed forward within 35 mile of the axis stronghold. -.- TripoU. Is the lest citadel of Italy's dark continent domainf which once embraced Eritrea," Somaliland,-Abyssinia, Cirenaici and iTipoutania. ., -'- '..." Shambles ! A bulletin from Gen. Sie. Bernard - L. Montgomery's 8th. army headquarters said British;: troops yesterday captured that towns" of Tarhuna and Horns, respectively u and as . muea from Tripoli, and continued their pursuit of Rommel's flee-' ing armies. . . ; . . V Frontline dispatches, s a f Rommel's, troops and equipment, were already streaming west ward from Tripoli toward tha -Tunisian frontier, 100 mile E'.j.'j.'.j-.. tMla MIUS ftZZAN scihV o - no . , niAti. away, with allied planes making a shambles of the enemy's line of retreat. J - Cities Fall ' A ' 50-mile stretch of coastal road between Tripoli and Zuara was described as littered with the. bombed and bullet-smashed. wreckage of trucks and ; other equipment. 5 British headquarters indicated that Tarhuna' and -Horns fell early yesterday and said that "during the day our troops were) in .close contact with the enemy retreating to the west. - Rommel a battered forces- Vers . iiow pinned down" to . a narrow, strip along the Medt terranean coast as the British 8th" army .moved swiftly, upon Tripoli from the. east and Brig Gen. Jacques LeClerc's fighting1 French troops drove up from (Continued on .Page xwoj Credit. Buying .. Of Gas, Petrol Products Stopped WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (IP) The - petroleum administration today prohibited all credit buy Ing of gasoline . and other pe troleum products for private mo tor cars, effective February 1. :The order provides that retail gasoline marketers or supplier may hot "grant, accept or par ticipate ,in the granting or ac cepting, directly or Indirectly ot credit - in - connection with . tha Sale of any petroleum products," but makes, exceptions for sal to federal,, state or local govern ments, for commercial use of motor boats, and motor vehicle! displaying "T" ration stickers. L '- ' ' ' i News Index ' Comics ' and Story ..Page Id Editorial .. . Page Farm News .. ....Page 9 Markets,' Financial Page 11 Midland Empire News. Page Our Men in Service ......Page 5 Pattern Page 10 Sport : . ...........Page THOUGHTNEAR ..-V..l.UU0.-iM7? 1 tXtmttffx THtUST V I U3YA V7 r fUNCH I V pi
