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
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PEICB FIVE CENT8 KLAMATH. FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943
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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
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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 : -
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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
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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-
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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
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