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Newspaper Page TextimiiiBiiffliiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiii On 6-mlnute blait on sirens and whlstlts It the signal for blackout In Klamath Fells- Another long blast, during black out, Is signal for all-dear. In precau tionary parlodi, watob your itraat lights. January 21 -High 45, Low 31 ' ' Precipitation as of January IS, 1943 Straam yaar to data 1.03 Last yaar .....'....'...6.98 Normal ........... .8.58 ASSOCIATED PRESS I N TH E SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES .n.n.rinnrirw-n-i-i"rr-i-i-i-i-i- -r .............. PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943 o)o) Mb fUl (SSfainW Vl'JMH'l 'MKHIMIH I : ii'iio.j a h vim r i '.vurufriMxii i I J I D cJD ' '-" . Number 9701 ' m mm mm By FRANK JENKINS ' ""THE situation at Tripoli Is clearing today. Rommel, ai we have been guotsInK ho would do, la appar ently 'abandoning the city, fight ing only delaying actions, and pushing on for a Junction with axis forces In Tunisia. Thcso forces are fighting to keep tho gate open for him when he ar rives on the run. His advonco units are reported todny at Bon Curduno, 25 miles OVER THE BORDER Into Tu nlslu. Allied planes oro hurry ing them. -vN the basis of recent rough "guesses, axis forces In Tu nisia number In the neighbor hood of 70,000. Tho remnants of Rommel's battered army aro estimated, in the same rough manner, at from 40,000 to 70 000. . It is thus apparent (on this guesswork basis) that If a Junc tion -can-be -affected the axis' (mostly Gcrman).Tunllen forces , wiU. bo' approximately doubled. A IX sources today seem to agree that the fall of Tripoli Is only a matter of hours. "British light naval forces hove 'penotrated ita harbor, sinking an Italian lUbitiarllia and, engag ' ing the land batteries whoso response Is reported, to be, rql: " All reports agree thnt,rKom- mel'a men are strung oui won to the west of the city, making as much speod as they can toward tho Tunisian border, TRIPOLI will be useful, 11 and . Willi. Minuui It has a good harbor,' which has been badly battered in the fighting but con be quickly put Into condition for use. It will then' become, an advoncod baso for sea-borne supplies from Suer. By this tlmo, you must bo fully awaro of tho importanco of tho supply problem. Whatever hastens supplies and reinforce ments helps Immensely. Tripoli also hos soma good air fields, which, In the possession of our side, will come in ex tremely handy in the final bnttlo to clear the axis out of Africa. Lock of airfields lias bcon ono of our chief weaknesses so far. yHE Russians tako .Vorosh- ilovsk, In the Caucasus, an Important point on .tho rail line paralleling tho main Rostov Baku railroad on the north. This railroad, following down the valley of the Kuban river, Intersects tho main Rostov-Baku lino near Kropotkin, thus offer ing Die Russians another oppor tunity to get In behind and trap more Gormans. Your map will make this pos sibility perfectly plain. , 'THERE is still no sign of any 1 LACK of striking power on the part of the Russians. On tho other hand, there ARE signs (faint as yet, but signifi cant In their implications) that German fighting power In Rus sia is weakening. In tho past few days the Russians have forced crossings of the Donets river, north of Rostov, and the Manych, to the east. Crossing big rivers In the face of determined resistance has al ways been one of the most dlt (Continued on Pago Two) Four Fatalities Mar Industrial Week in Oregon . SALEM, Jan. 22 m The state Industrial accident com mission reported today that Ore gon Industries reported four fa talities and 808 accidents dur ing the week ended yesterday. Fatalities wore: - James D. Hntflold, shipyard assistant superintendent, Port land,, Injured' December . 17; Karl F. Vlerko, Colton choker setter, Injured January 18 at Molalla; George S. Bigby, Klam ath Falls boiler worker, Injured December 12, and Vincent Meg argle, Grants Pass watchman, injured September-28. ., PARITY BATTLE S Flynn Hearing Brings Testimony on Pav ing Blocks By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 The hou.io agriculture committco ap proved ununlmously today a bill to make farm labor costs a fuc tor on computing fair prices for farmers ond the bnttlo ahead promised a tost to tho limit of the administration's reduced forces in tho restive new con grew. Administration exports have figured the now approach would add heavily to tho cost of living and tend toward Inflation, but Rep. Pace (D-Ga.), author of tho bill, said It would not create "any. considerable Increase In the cost of living this year, cer tainly less than 81,000,000,000," and "less than 4 per cent" In 1944. . .. . '... Flynn Case - '. ' -z't. The committee action over shadowed other Washington de velopments of the day the con tinued hearing on Edward J. Flynn's fitness to be minister to Australia-and a delay In com mittee consideration of the nom ination of Judgo Wiley Rutlcdge to the supremo court,. ; , . . -s- Thi Flynn case brought testi mony from Samuel Foley, Bronx district .attorney, emphatically HjjButlruf republican . charges that the minister designate, for mer democratic national commlt teeman,.:was "white-washed" in the now-famous Now York pav ing block, case. Testimony at Odds Foley-.told the senate foreign relations : committee that the grand Jury which studied . the case was unanimous in agreeing there 'was no wrong-doing on Flynn's part in tho paving of his courtyard-parking place with New York city materials and la bor, .flynn had testified ho did not know how the paving was arranged and that when ho did, ho paid for tho time and mate rials. Paul J. Kern, - former civil service commissioner of New York City, testified that a court yard on tho country cstato of Ed ward J. Flynn was paved with city blocks, by city employes with city equipment, "In the (Continued on Page Two) Yank Playboys Play Too Rough, Says Jap Captive INDIANAPOLIS W3) Thomas J. Murdock,- a 21-year-old ma rine back homo to recover from wounds suffered in action on Guadalcanal island, believes he discovered a Japanese Confucius on the island. And Murdock says he thinks tho captive Japanese captain had something when he told the ma rines: "Tojo, .ho say' American ma rines all playboys but we say they play too rough." LOOM BLLAPPROVED Nazis Admit Fight for Life Before Stalingrad By The Associated Press Tho German high command for the first time today acknowl edged that its army before Stal ingrad had been trapped by the great Russian offensive and was fighting for Its llfo against far superior forces, which yesterday broke through tho German lines from the west to a depth of sev eral kilometers. In a communique broadcast by the Berlin radio and recorded by the ' Associated Press, the high command tacitly admitted the full extent of the Russian onslaught on the' eastern front. It probably was tho gloomiest communique Issued from Berlin In this war. In . the Caucasus,- the broad cast said, German forces had de tached ' themselves , from the enemy "according to plan," and In... the- southern, sector, had' re ft ' . - 2 4mmt5sM Ramlnlscsnt of the storm stTsral summers ago Is this scene at the Main. street underpass, again on ihe receiving end of high water. Workmen manned shovels 'to keep the slush and water run ning into the drains following Wednesday's snow storm and .Thursday's rain.' Sae ' page 2 for another weather picture.' . Crews Work to Restore : j -Service to Fort Klamaih Crews worked In deep, drifted snow Friday to restore power' service to the Fort Klamath area, whero wind-damaged poles and lines remain as a major result of the - freok wind and snow storm which swept the ' Klamath country this week dotnjl damage estimated, ai several ' thousand dollars. v;- Eighteen powir poles ' wto-Ml-ttaW! the t.-, t a x on from the.- groundj by gusts of wind, lato Wednesday or early Thursday. - Tho damoged' Copco line runs east and -west near the Fred Pope place. Slxtoon men worked, all day Thursday '' and ' Friday, ' and ' It was hoped ' that ' service would be restored' to the' Fort Klamath area Friday;.', night. Because trucks could riot be moved to the scene of the damage, teams were being used to drag in poles, and the. usual power equipment for raising tho poles could not bo brought into use. Somewhat lower temperatures Last Big Holdout Colliery Gives In In Wildcat Strike WILKES BARRE, Pa., Jan. 22 (P) The lost big ' holdout colliery capitulated today in the three-week wildcat ' anthracite strike which cost miners more than $2,000,000 in wages, kept 1,000,000 tons off the market and won strikers only the as surance that their wage de mands would bo .considered later. " " With production fast ap proaching normal, ' the 1600 United Mine Workers at the No. 7 colliery of tho Susquehan na Collieries company agreed to go back to their jobs tomorrow. This left' only 800 workers, at one colliery idle out of approxi mately 23,000 who once partici pated In the walkout,-and they arranged a bock-to-work vote later today. pulsed concerted Russian attacks on the entire front. The Russians also were ac knowledged to be attacking and around Vellkie LukjB,vthiik'BEf,.jy. Scale munique declared these assaults were repulsed with heavy losses In tanks and men to the Rus sians. . Tho Russians ' have reported previously that the ' 22 divisions before Stalingrad,, originally some 220,000 men, had been whittled down to- about 60,000. "The German group in the Stalingrad, area which Is closely encircled by the enemy and which Is offering tenacious re sistance to strong, enemy pres sure had to wage heavy fighting yesterday against the Soviets, who are storming with far .su (Contlnued on Page Two).:, Looks Like a Creek Bed it "3 brought an end to the rapid thawing of the local snpw blan ket Friday, and there was relief from the water that flooded basements and seeped . through somo business house" roofs here Thursday. A quantity of flour and. sugar W damaged In the; Safeway warehouse on Riverside -striei roor. . Wfitr backed tin . In the roof.- Water backed up., In the basement of the Esquire theatre, and there was a small amount of water, in the Esquire office, but no damage was done to any of the local theatres, proper. Postal Telegraph agency at 737- Main street, which .was (Continued on Page Two) Aiiempt to Halt Pari-Mutuel Dog Racing Killed By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, Jan, -22- UP The house killed 51. to 8 today7 an attempt by Rep. Joseph E. Har vey, Portland, to abolish parl mutuel horse and. dog .racing, which was legalized in. 1033. , The house action was -taken after its judiciary, committee asked defeat of the bill. -Rep. Robert A. Bennett, Portland, was, the only member of the 7 man committee to favor it. . Bennett charged that the state , is . sponsoring an illegal lottery. ''Why- should the state give the seal of approval to one form of gambling, and prosecute an other?" Bennett asked. "It is Im possible to obtain gambling con victions because- of this situa tion. The state got on the wrong foot when it legalized racing in order to get $108, 000 a year for state and county fairs, the Pendleton Round-Up and the Northwestern' Turkey Show at Roseburg," Rep. Eugene E. Marsh, Mc Mlnnvllle, judiciary . committee chairman, said the courts have held that racing is not a lot tery. "The argument in - favor of this bill," Marsh said, "is the same as that used in favor of prohibition. You can't suppress gambling any more than you can suppress liquor. So if you (Continued on Page Two) Offensive Baas 7 Hazi-Fignters LONDON, Jan. 22 (ff) The air ministry announced tonight that offensive operations were carried out on' "large scale" dur ing the day on' northern France and Belgium, with attacks on oil Installations and airfields. Seven enemy fighters were de stroyed in dogfights ' by the "many squadrons" of RAF, South African, Dominion and Allied fighters escorting ' tho bombers. Four bombers and six fighters failed to return... 5. vf r " 4 J-i A Three Deaths Attrib uted to Current ---Weather .:?'.' PORTLAND, tv Ore,, - Jan.' 22 (JF) Old man. Oregon's domain was In. the soggy grip of winter today -.with considerable snow and an underlayer-of ice on the ground. . ; On the whole condi tions - seemed better, than- during the height of the storm yester day but The" Dalles reported the Columbia river frozen over there. , -, . Two more deaths brought the total attributed, to the current storm to three. Martin Waar vick, 53, died at Salem from a heart attack due to over-exertion while skiing.' . At a Port land hospital, Charles Metcalf, 12, Hood River, died from in juries received in a collision. be tween his bobsled and a truck near his home.' "Yesterday, the death of George Cameron, lum ber worker, was reported in an- automobile accident bn an icy road near Eugene. -The weatherman here said no forecast was "likely today. , . Trains Operating - Defense Industries operated at half speed . throughout the state and logging was virtually: stall ed. Trains operated - In , all .- direc tions,,, and . were ; no - more off schedule than has become. cus tomary -under war - conditions. No lines reported serious slides. Bus lines operated on sched ule or close, to. it north, south and west of here but the Col umbia River highway was blocked until early today, the Evergreen on the- Washington bank was confined to one-way traffic and the Wapanitia cut-off was known positively to be open only, to: the summit. Rogue Falls . s Portland . department stores and many office buildings were closed and the burden on the Municipal Transportation Sys tem was greatly eased. Twelve (Continued on Page Two) Dan Earheart Named on Honor Roll of Fliers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 22 (JP) Three men from the northwest are included in an honor - roll of bomber officers and crewmen released by Lieut.- Gen. George C. Kenney, in command of allied air forces inlthe southwest Pa cific area. ' Bomber crews ' and officers who have participated-in- down ing five or more enemy aircraft are designated "Bomber Aces" in the- Kenny roster.- Included among, those honored are First Lieut. Leonard S. Ml, Humlston, Puyallup, . Wash.,. Sergeant Rob bert W. Freeman, . Wendell, Idaho, and Staff Sgt. Dan Ear heart, . Klamath . Falls,- Oregon, '' Reds'C NET TIGHTENS NAZIJPES Encircfement - M e n -aces' Nazis at" Voronezh , LONDON, Jan. 22 OP) The capture of Salsk, important rail way junction in . the North Cau casus 100 miles southeast' of Rostov, was announced tonight in a special Russian, communi que recorded here by the soviet Monitor. , ' Salsk is on the , Stalingrad Tikhoretsk railway and ' is the terminus of another branch line from Rostov. Besides its rail fa cilities, it is an important Ger man, air base from which' trans port planes' had flown supplies to the encircled Germans before Stalingrad. MOSCOW, Jan. 22 W) Red army troops have blasted their way : through western fortifica tions, and dugouts of 'the : rem nants , of '22 axis 'divisions trapped before Stalingrad'-and1 tightened'"' the" .'.lethal encircle-, ment, tiem aispatcnej announced today. . '.. : ' ; Smaller and ' smaller grew the ring about the Germans, cut. off in the first phases of the soviet winter offensive which is new ly reported to have carried Rus sian forces into- Voroshilovsk, In' the northern Caucasus, and laid open 'the - oil-rich - region south of Rostov to attack. More Encirclement The last authoritative estimate of the number of axis soldiers penned up before Stalingrad was 50,000, these from 22 or more divisions -which at the outset to taled 220,000 men. . - Another encirclement opera (Continued on Pago Two) Lone Jap Plane Bombs Yank Base In New Hebrides WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (IP) A lone Japanese plane bombed the American base on the island of Espiritu ' Santo Thursday, the navy - reported today,- in the first enemy air action directed against that New Hebrides op erations center. Navy communique, number 258: "South Pacific: (All dates are east longitude). "1. During the night of Janu ary" 20-21 United 'States, aircraft carried out several harassing at tacks on enemy installations on Tallale island off the northeast coast of Shortland. island. Re sults were not observed. "2. On January 21: "(A) A Japanese plane drop ped several bombs on Espiritu Santo island in the New Heb rides group. There were no cas ualties to personnel and our installations were not damaged "(B) During the night- of January 21-22 single enemy planes dropped bombs in the vicinity of the airfield at Gua dalcanal. Minor damage to in stallations has been reported and three men were killed and one wounded. Anti-aircraft shot down one enemy plane. "3. United States ground forces on Guadalcanal continued mopping up pockets of enemy resistance and made small ad vances in some sectors." News Index r City Briefs ....:......'........,..Page 5 Church News Page 7 Comics and Story Page- 8 Editorial I....,......;..; Page 4 Markets, Financial ....Page 9 Midland. Empire News ..Page 3 Our Men in Service ....Page 10 Pattern ......................Page 4 Sports - ........-...Page - 8 AROUND PENNED . - , : Reward Totaling $200 Offered for Dog Mutilator ' A reward totaling $200 . had been offered Friday in an at tempt to encourage ' discovery and conviction of the fiend who gouged out the eyes of a male police dog here. ' The local humane society had offered $100 and George Kincaid of KFJI had . matched that amount. , -Humane society officials said they hoped the fund might be increased -to $1000. State police and the district attorney's office were working on' the case and it was under stood they were following a lead in the South Sixth street and Shasta way. district,, where the mutilated . dog . was discovered Wednesday evening. The dog was ptlt : to death to end its misery;.:' . ' ' , Four ' Raiders Lost in ' ' Assault.ilesults Obscure ' LONDON, Jan. 22 (JP The RAF returning .to the attack on Germany for the first time since its raids on Berlin last weekend, blasted targets in the industrial Ruhr during the night, the air ministry . announced today. Four raiders were lost in the assault, which' left large fires burning 'in the target area.- Ac curate' ubiei v a lion of the results was prevented by heavy clouds, the air ministry added.- Big Bombers The -Berlin radio,', giving its version of the raid, said merely the British planes had been over western Germany, but reported some damage and casualties.' , Some of Britain's biggest bombers', capable of carrying four-ton blockbusters, apparent ly took part, for the Berlin broadcast said that at least six four-engine planes had been shot down. Last night's raid, the 12th. on Germany this :month, followed a series of daylight attacks on northern France and the low lands by RAF bombers escorted by swarms of fighters, including two squadrons of the United States army air forces. . The air . ministry disclosed meanwhile that Britain's new Hawker Typhoons a fast and heavily armored fighter were now in general service, report ing yesterday they had shot down five of 1 German planes listed as shot down in attacks on Britain the day before. . Crew Refused to Unload Guadalcanal Ship. Report AKRON, O... Jan. 22 (IP The Beacon Journal says in a copy righted story that the navy is investigating reports that ailing marines were forced . to unload their own supplies when the crew of a . merchant ship lying off beleaguered Guadalcanal island refused to work on Sun day because of , union. . regula tions. The Beacon Journal's story, published in yesterday's editions, quoted six Guadalcanal veterans as declaring that the marines had to take ovec the Sunday work after the crewmen-worked two hours on Saturday and then laid off until Monday morning. The newspaper did not dis close the identity of the veterans, but said the information came from three marines, two sailors and a navy pilot on individual visits to Akron. The navy pilot, the paper said termed . the - incident the "worst BITTER BUTTLE UNDERWAY FOR TUNISIAN LANE . . , '...... British F i r s t Armp Speeds to Aid ... Of French CAIRO, Jan. 22 (JP) The. main remnants of the -axis ' Africa corps were : reported i tonight to have retreated' into: Tunisia, leaving great dsn.oll tlon fires burning in Tripoli. By ROGER GREENE ' Associated Press War Editor "h British shock tropin ti--. ported to have swept ' through the main defense works of Trip, oil in the climactic battle of Lib ya today. v Columns of Gen. Sir htt, L. - MontEomerv' TtrltUK niu army were reported by a-Brltish broadcast to be storming at 'tha gates of Trinoli. with thl vi guns in position to pour destruc tion into the already bomb blackened city ' ".'' ' V Flee Into Tunisia' ,.' '' ' Parts of the axis citadeWweri repoTTBoTfiIame and much of the civilan population was being evacuated. ;.'... - The British command asserted that some - of the -fleeing axia forces had withdrawn . As for- mm 25 miles" taside.. Tunisia - from Libya.- -':' . " '.'ix-- '.. Heaw fiehtintf nu . n1 i progress in centoaT Tunisia, aiig. : Bcsung mat a snowaown battle was develoninff fnr- Mia lmf.s.li foothold in North Africa. '- Planes Strike ' . ' -, . US headquarters in Cairo said . American and allied warplanea.' were violently assaulting the re-, treating axis columns in. , th' Tripoli area.. , , Other allied nlan otrnMr mlih , bombs and guns against armor' supported trerman forces which1 were attempting to block .off corridor along the Tunisian-east', i .(Continued on Page Two) ; Mass Services . ,'. To Be Held for Bombing Victims ; -i - LQNDON, Jan. 22 &T) Masr funeral services will be held: next Wednesday for 47 children: and six teachers who died when. German bombers ' wrecked a London ; school in a 'daylight raid' the day before yesterday. ; Six of the children died in a hospital after being removed from the debris. '" i; Squads of 100 men each con tributed to work 'throughout last night and on into the day removing tons of ' rubble, but officials said they believed it unlikely there, were additional bodies in the debris. ; ; 1 . scandal of the war" and said the crew refused to unload sup plies because of ; National Marl time union rules against work ing on Sunday.. . . . , . ..: In New York, Leo Huberman, NMU director of. public ;rehv' tions and education, who said he spoke for Joseph- Currant union president, commented:-! ' "In the first place, the NMU has no union regulation to for' bid working on Sunday, In the second , place, we are seamen; it is not our job to unload. But in such cases as at Guadalcanal I expect we would be asked to, and I'm sure our men would un-' load' ships.": . , ;' J , '--f The Beacon Journal said, the veterans' stories "have been put up to naval officials in Wash', ington for confirmation or de nial." ' It added that "confirmation has come from a high official (Continued on Page Two) .