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rails. Another long blest during black
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tions' osflodi. watch vour aires! llnhta.
rtbrury 1 High 40, Low 15
Precipitation oi January 87, 1943
Stream year to data .......11.41
Lait yaar .7.68 Normal 1.33
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By FRANK JENKINS
TIERE in a tew random
1 thoughts.
If Interested, you might try
imulllng them over. They sug
gest Interesting poasibllltloa si
to the new world wo will enter,
Ilka going throuiili a door Into
a strungo room, when the war
corned to an end.
TT will bo a new world be
V cnuao wo will owe mora thnn
everything wo have la worth.
Wo will own our tools, with n
MORTGAGE aiinlnsl thorn that
fc will amount to nioro thun they
1 are worth. That moana we'll
have to work hard AND El"-
F1C1ENTLY to pay olf the
mortgage)
pONSIDEK aynthetle rubber.
If It weren't for synthetic
rubber, the Jiipi would have
TREMENDOUS advantage over
u, because they now possess
nearly 00 per cent of all tho na
tural rubber there la, Thla ad
vantage might bo ao great (but
for synthotle rubber) aa to en
able them to win tha war,
t
tHE have aynthetle rubber be
oauae wo have men with
BRAINS.
Our chemlala know how to
break up the atoma In the mole
cule of petroleum, alcohol, otc,
and RECOMBINE them Into rub
ber mbleculea,
That la tho atartlng point.
1 - After that, we hava men with
tha MANAGERIAL bralna to or-
sanire the chemlats discoveries
Into Industrial proceaaea, whlch
are cornea out in great lactones,
and out of these proceaaea will
ultimately coma aynthetle rub
ber In quantltlet largo enough
to meet our vaat needs for war
and peace.
Thua checkmating the Jap.
fN tha part of many theorists
In recent yeara, there haa
been tendency to minimize
management and glorify labor.
No peraon with oven rcaaon
ablo Intelligence will quoatlon
tha Importance of labor In our
economy. Labor la fundamental.
The economists dcflno wealth aa
labor applied to raw materials.
But every Intelligent observer
knows that without management
labor la Incomplete. If you doubt
that, lmoglne a crow of men
building a home without a fore
man to organize and direct their
efforts.
No matter how good the men
aro, it will take mora time to
get the house built If there Is no
boss on tho Job.
CUPPOSE you are lost In tho
13 woods and night la coming on
and you are getting cold, Thcro
will bo fuel all around you, In
vast quantities, but without a
'ipnrk to lgnlto tho kindling you
gather you will bo unoblo to
start a fire, no matter how
abundant tho fuel.
"' Brains (including managerial
brains) arc tho spark thut Ignites
our Industrial fuel.
Without them, there will bo
l!ltlo fire.
TN this time of national emer
x gency, It Is worth while to
give a thought even to the lowly
capitalist.
Wo have great mines, great
smelters, great steel mills. Be
nin so of thoso enterprises, wo are
nbln to oroduco motals In vast
quantities. Wo Imvo great fac
tories with which to mfcnu
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Yank Fighters
Escort RAF on
Bombing Foray
LONDON, Fob. 3 IP) With
an American fighter plane es
cort, RAF Ventura medium
bombers attacked railway tar
gets at Abbeville and tho Ger
man airfield at St, Omcr today,
It was announced officially to
night.. i Two bombers and eight fight
ers wero reported missing In tho
daylight operations but one
tighter pilot Is known to be safe.
The Spitfires Including those
of tho American escort destroyed
three enemy fighters, ,.
U.5.F
drces
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Yanks Hold Sened,
Dig in to East of
Rail Point
By Tha AaaoclaUd Praaa
LONDON, Feb. 3 Fruitful
American combat team and aer
ial thrusts wero announced to
day from the central Tunisian
theatre, but a spokesman said
that United States armored
forces were repulsed In a fierce
drive against Fold pass und had
temporarily broken off tho en
gagement. "Tho German artillery prob
ably outranged our own," the
spokesman aold.
Yanka Dig In
Blasting Its way Into Sened
In a push upon Maknassy, rood
and rail Junction 33 miles from
the Gulf of Gabes, an American
combat force operating south of
the Fold pass sector captured a
number of prisoners and tanks,
It was announced.
The Americana not only held
Sened, reversing an original
plan to withdraw, but have dug
in a mile east of that railway
point, the spokesman said,
Flros Stt
United States fliers smashed
at the supply port of Sfax,
athwart Marshal Rommel's es
cape corridor along the Gulf of
Gabes; destroyed seven German
planes- In a sweep across the
Mediterranean between Tunisia
and Sicily and attacked alr
flelds and munitions dumps.
Fires visible for 30 miles were
set at Sfax, the flames leaping
up from burning buildings and
planes.
"Our attacks on Fald February
1 and 3 were unsuccessful," an
allied headquarters communique
said.
Guard Contacted
Accompanying the Tunisian
engagements for control of the
corridor along the Gulf of Gabes
was tho announcement In Cairo
that the British eighth army
proper was within heavy artil
lery rango of the Tunisian fron
tier, 'long ago crossed by Its
armored patrols,
A Cairo communique said Gen.
Sir Bernard Montgomery's men
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No Announcement
Made Yet on OPA
Manager Here
No announcement has come
through yet as to tho appoint
ment of a district manager for
the OPA offices soon to bo
opened here. Civil service and
OPA personnel officials are In
Klamath Falls, but there have
been no announced develop
ments with regard to personnel.
Remodeling of tlio salesroom
IA tho Balsigcr Motor company
building is underway toprovldo
quarters for the district office.
A low partition has been con
structed across the building,
separating the OPA quartors
from tho Balslger offices.
REPU
i ASSAULT
Hitler's High Command
Admits Loss of 6th Army
By The Associated Press
The destruction of the German
sixth army In the epic battle, for
Stalingrad was admitted defin
itely today by Hitler's high com
mand In a special communique
which said tho fight was over
and the sixth army "has suc
cumbed." . Even whllo Berlin acknowl
edged this blow, howover, a
broadcast from Ankara quoted
well-informed sources as saying
that nnzl troops wore moving
eastward for tho now spring of
fensive pledged SAturday by Air
Marshal Hermann Gocrlng,
"It Is even asserted that a
great part of the transfer has
already been carried out," said
the broadcast from the Turkish
capital as recorded In Now York
by CBS. ''It Is presumed that
tho Germans will go over to tha
offensive either at the end of
1 1
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Charging down a sand duns, two "cavalryman" of the US coast guard's new mounted baacn
patrol taka spills as they practice on an Atlantic coast baach. Idea of mounted guardsmen, latest
wartime wrinkle In thwarting aabotaur landings, is that it lessens the number of man required
to patrol a given stretch of beach.
Loudspeaker Announcement
Brings in Japanese Prisoners
By WILLIAM HIPPLE
GUADALCANAL, Jan. (De
layed) (P) An encouraging
sign was seen here today when
a number of Japanese soldiers
surrendered voluntarily in re
sponse to a broadcast over a
loudspeaker from the American
lines. : ,' , v.
They were the first Japanese
on Guadalcanal to. give, them
selves up without ' compulsion
and discredit the legend that all
Japanese are ready to fight un-
Black Market
In Nylon Hose
Found In East
DETROIT, Feb. 3 () A
black market In nylon hose from
which a Detroit couple grossed
nearly $30,000 within a month
was uncovered today by federal
agents and office of price ad
ministration men. ..
William G. Fltzpatrlck, OPA
enforcement attorney here, an
nounced that Arthur Katz, 38,
former Jewelry salesman, and
his wife Dena, 33, admitted sell
ing the hose at $4 pair from
their hotel room.
Women buyers, accepted on a
"reference system" through
which previous buyers vouched
for them, purchased, an average
of 1800 pair a week for the last
four weeks, Fltzpatrlck said the
Kotzcs admitted.
Katz and his wife were
charged with violating OPA reg
ulations in selling above the
ceiling price of $1.83 a pair., The
maximum penalty is a year in
prison and $5000 fine on each
sale, the U, S. district attorney's
offico said.
Tho couple obtained the hoso
from black markets In New
York and Chicago which aro
now under Investigation, said
Joseph C. Murphy, assistant U,
S. attorney. '
March' or at the beginning of
April." .
Tha communique, broadcast
from Berlin and recorded by tho
Associated Press, declared that
"tho sncrlflcc of the army was
not In vain."
After reading , of the special
communique all German radio
stations went off tho air lor
thrco minutes. The usual mar
tial fanfares preceded the an
nouncement but afterward the
song "Ich Hatt' Elnon Kamara
den" (I had a comrade), custom
arily played at military funerals,
was heard three times, followed
by "Doulschland, Ueber Alles"
and the Horst Wessel song.
Propaganda Mlntstor Goeb
bels ordered all places of enter
tainment closed for four, days
beginning tomorrow In memory
of tho sixth army, which found
retribution in' Stalingrad for its
subjugation of the ; low coun
tries In 1040.
Charge of the Beach Brigade
.t a. , . : 7. fcL,' & W M k ...'- o, t . 1 ttrSE . . . .-'.- 1
til death for emperor and coun
try. These hungry, sick soldiers
were definitely discouraged and
tired of fighting. They gladly
accepted American offers to
give them hot cooked rice, cig
arettes and good treatment and
came in with their hands in the
'? ;wu'-
"I was sure I' Wouldlvdie," one
of the' prisoners said through an
Interpreter. "There was no
hope. . They have promised us
reinforcements and airplanes
day after day, but these prom
ises were never kept. My feel
ings as a true Japanese soldier
were gone.
"I didn't want to be a Japa
nese any more I wanted to be
an American. When I heard the
voice from the Americans prom
ising good food and good treat
ment, I came in."
This prisoner was Private
Aklyoshi Hasamoto, 23, of Fu
kuoka in southern Japan. He
said many other Japanese sol
diers felt as he did about the
war and expressed the belief
that many others would surren
der In response to broadcasts in
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Fifteen Saved
After 4 Days Adrift
In South Pacific
ADVANCE SOUTH SEA
BASE, Feb. 3 (P) The rescue of
Brig, Gen. N. F. Twining, Col.
Glen C. Jamison and 13 others
after six nights and five days
adrift on two small life rafts in
the Coral sea was disclosed to
day by the 13th air force.
All were taken to a hospital
for treatment for exposure and
severe sunburned faces, hands
and ankles.
' Gen. Twining and the party
were on a combat mission when
forced down at 10:29 p, in.,
January 26.' They were unable
to land because of severe weath
er and flew four and a half
hours until they were out of
gasoline. The plane tank In 32
seconds.
All 15 crowded Into two six
man rubber life rafts, which
were lashed together. They were
able to take from the plane
only one and a half canteens of
water, one chocolate bar and a
small can of sardines. They
caught a little rain water and
shot two albatross, which helped
their water and food situation
some. ' s
Weir Bulletin
; LONDON. Feb. 3 (P) The
red army haa driven to a
point only 22 miles north of
Kursk, German bastion : in
southern Russia1, has cut off
another nasi eacape corridor
, In tha Caucasua below Roitor,
and haa captured the Impor
tant railway Junction of Kup
kanak, only 63 miles south
east of Kharkov, Ukraine cap
ital, a special Ruaaian com
munique recorded by the
aovlot radio monitor said to-
'Bight. !; "
Speedy Action Seen to
Prevent Induction
Of Fathers'
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
" WASHINGTON, Feb, 3 m A
war manpower commission an
nouncement that family heads
employed in non-essential Jobs
will be drafted into the armed
forces unless they shift to essen
tial work gave impetus today, to
a congressional move to enact
new safeguards for men with
children. -
The WMC Issued lists yester
day of what rc called ''non-essen
tial occupations" and served no
tice on, men working in them
that they would face immediate
induction shortly after April 1
unless they had shifted to essen
tial work, regardless of how
many dependents they have. The
"non-deferable" occupations ap
ply to owners, employers and
employes in the jobs and lines
of work listed.
Extend System
Members of the house military
committee predicted speedy ac
tion on legislation introduced by
Representative Kilday (D-Tex.)
to prevent the induction of mar
ried men with children so long
as there are physically fit single
men or childless married men
in the same state. ,.
Briefly, It would extend the
system of filling draft quotas
from . a local board basis to a
statewide basis.
It would also set up deferment
priority based on a man s family
status, the effect being that all
single men in a state would be
drafted first, followed by mar
ried men without children, mar
ried men with one child, and so
on.
"This would prevent such in
equities as the drafting of a fath
er by one local board while -an
adjoining board has more than
enough eligible single men or
married men without children,"
Kilday said.
Retailers Here
Plan for Equable
Butter Distribution
Following announcement that
butter deliveries to retailers are
to be cut 80 per cent immedi
ately, retailers were making
plans Wednesday to distribute
the available butter as equitably
as possible among consumers
here.
Some stores, It was learned,
planned to limit purchases to
one-half pound. Already, -one-pound
limits are widely in ef
fect, in an effort to discourage
purchasing for shipment out of
this area to the. butter-hungry
big cities.
The rationing to retailers, and
the limit on purchases, are not
government regulations, but are
steps being taken here to meet
an increasingly serious situation,
it was emphasized.
nKHor M mis
SEA-AIR FIGHT
S
Battle Continues as
Foes Spar for
" Position 7
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 Pi
Air and naval battling is. under
way throughout most of the
Guadalcanal area of the Solomon
islands, the navy reported .today,
A spokesman said that the ac
tions, scattered throughout the
area, could not be called a pitch-
ed battle but could be described
as sparring for positions. ' '
.- The actions were reported in
navy, department communique
number 270:
BattI Continues -
"South Pacific: (All dates are
East Longitude):
"1. On February 1 U.-S.
ground forces on Guadalcanal
continued their advance to the
west tod crossed the Bonegi
river,; one-half mile east of Tas-
samaronga. Stiff enemy, resist
ance was encountered and 60
Japanese were killed. .
'2. 'Air' and surface engage
ments between XJ. S.- and enemy
forces in the Guadalcanal area
of the Solomon islands are con-
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Coffee Ration
Cut to 7 Pound
Every 6 Weeks
WASHINGTON, Feb.- 3 (IP)
The office of price administra
tion today reduced the next cof
fee ration from one pound every
five weeks to one pound every
six weeks. - --Stamp
No. 23, the next" cof
fee . stamp ' in - war ration ' book
No. 1, becomes valid on ' Feb
ruary 8, and will be good for
the purchase of. one pound of
coffee through midnight, March
21.
Stamp 28, valid since January
4, expires at midnight February
7. v
OPA said reduced coffee in
ventories in the hands of whole
salers and retailers made neces
sary the: reduction in the . next
ration. . ...
The agency said an Increase
in military requirements for
shipping, and the need for main
taining imports in strategic war
materials were in part responsi
ble for the reduced -inventories
for the next ration period.
"However," OPA said, ."steps
are now being taken to over
come a maldistribution on do
mestic stocks due to a cut in im
ports, with view of relieving
shortages in certain areas."
SCATTERS
I
AREA
Sharp Increase in Prices Contributes to
$10,917,104 Revenue on Reclamation Land
' A sharp Increase in prices for
1942 crops contributed much to
the $10,017,104 revenue reaped
by Klamath basin farmers On the
bureau of reclamation lands, ac
cording to officials of the USRS
Wednesday when they released
last year's figures. The 1942 fig
ure shows an increase of 32,
043,560 over the 1941 total of
$8,873,544. Total for the last
three year's crop production
reached $25,333,628, reclamation
heads said.
: Total Acreage was virtually
the same and harvest figures did
not vary much over 1941. There
was a slight decrease in produc
tion, if anything, it was said.
Average crop - and livestock
returns per acre in the main and
Tulelake divisions of the project
Was $108.48, as compared to the
1942 record breaking figure,
$94.20, or an increase of $14.20
this past season. These figures
are obtained from the approxi
2-Motored Army
Bomber Lost in
Northwest Area
' BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 3 . (JP)
Capt. P. H. Farley, Gowen field
public relations officer, said to
day a two-motored army bomber
had been the object of a search
in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon
since-Friday,
" Farley said he understood the
plane was based at Tonopah,
Nev., but the public relations of
ficer there said - it had merely
stopped there for supplies before
continuing its flight.. He did not
disclose- its base. , ' -
The officer said a radio mes
sage had beep received from the
crew. Monday night, in which
the airmen- reported . they had
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IT
; OUMTUH
Newsman Describes
Sened Battle as He
Saw It ':
By JAMES A. BURCHARD
" SOMEWHERE" ON "THE TU
NISIAN FRONT, Feb. 3 (De
layed) ()-At 5:30 a. m., today
a tremendous column of medium
and light tanks, heavily armored
half tracks, motorized infantry
and. all the rest that goes with
an. armored -outfit roared east
ward. At 4:30 p. m., this formidable
force had advanced 20 miles and
captured - Sened, its . first objec
tive. In plain language, all hell had
broken loose with the' Ameri
cans dishing out the fire and
brimstone.
I saw the opening of the battle
for the Sened sector from a ring
side seat in the first reconnais
sance car- of the column- with
Sergt. William Wilbur of Man
ning, S. C, and five men of his
command. We really got where
the shell and shot were thickest.
' Nine Stukas plastered us. Six
Messerschmitt 109's strafed
everything in 'sight. . Artillery,
mortars and machine-guns of sur
prising strength were opened up
in an effort to halt the American
sledgehammer.
They delayed tt admittedly,
but before the day's fun in this
mountain-rimmed valley was
over, the Germans and' Italians
had lost their town, five tanks
and plenty of men and supplies.
SURVIVORS LAND
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (JP)
The. navy announced today that
survivors had landed in Miami,
Fla., from a medium-sized Brit
ish merchant vessel, which was
torpedoed and sunk by an enemy
submarine in mid-November in
the Atlantic off the northern
coast of South America.
mately 66,000 acres now being
cropped. - -.; . ' '
Biggest revenue came - from
Langell valley and all other
areas: lumped - as "miscellan
eous," with a reported figure of
$3,287,955.- The main division
of the bureau brought in $3,011,
489, with the Tulelake section
reporting $3,007,548, when all
crops were in.- Tulelake lease
lands crop brought $1,431,050.
, Last ' year's harvest picture
varied' slightly over other yeara
with 1451 acres in the Tulelake
lease land area turned over to
WRA for the production of veg
etables including onions; pota
toes, rutabagas, turnips, lettuce,
table beets and miscellaneous
vegetables.
i This area was farmed; by Jap
anese at the relocation center
and according to bureau reports,
total yield in dollars and cents
reached $190,612, Figured down
to - the - acres, onions brought
LASTDFNAZIS
SURRENDER AT.
STALINGRAD
-
Axis Collapse May
Signal Turning Point
- In War.
By JAMES M. LONO .
Asaociated Preaa War Editor
The battle of Stalingrad took
its place today as a possible
turning point in the war as the
Russians announced the collapse)
of the last resistance there, with
503,650 killed and captured in
the greatest single military dis
aster in the history of German,
arms. . '
That toll since the start ol
the red army's counter offensive
in mid-November heavily oufc
weighed the 330,000 total Get
man casualties of Verdun, blood
pool of the first World war.
Ruinous Raid : t-
Added to .the uncounted,
thousands of dead who paved
the way for the German thrust;
to the Volga late last fall, the
price the Germans paid in vain'
I probably jmrmounted the' lose1
of both sides fit VerrinnARn
000 casualties. .:'- .:;.- j
As the shock of the loss came)
home, to Germany, the Rhine
land thundered with a ruinoua1
20-minute night attack in which -the
RAF loosed 100 two-ton
"block busters" and incendiaries',
by the thousands on Cologne,
laid waste last May In one of -the
British 1000-plane attacks.
100-Plane Raid
Huge fires were left blazing;
in the heart of Cologne, where,
the - British said the Germans i
had worked feverishly to re- f
store war production, particular-1
ly for U-boat parts and equip-a
ment. .
An authoritative statement
said "last night's attack should
have valuable results" in inter- .'
ruption of the repairs.
Probably 100 of the RAF!s
heaviest bombers made the con-.
centrated raid, - and five were '
listed as lost. ; 1 ' a
. Scattered German planes
struct back by daylight, racing '
in over southeast England at
rooftop level and causing num-:
erous casualties.
One shopping center was hit ;
and many persons were trapped V
in the ruins. . ' 'I
The Russian high command -announced
the end of the 162-
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City Briefs .......Page . 5
Comics and Story ...... Page 10 ,
Courthouse Records ......Page S
Editorial ........Page 4
Markets, Financial Page 11
Our Men in Service ...:..Page 4 ?
Pattern ..Page, 7
Sports ...... Page 8
$34.36; potatoes,' $148.26; ruta.
bagas, $192.80; turnips, $232.78;
lettuce, $369.19; table beets,
$195.46; miscellaneous vegot- i
ables, $98.73; average, $131.37
per acre. - i
Forty acres of sugar beets '
cropped this year near Newell,
brought an average of $100 per
acre, or a total of $4000 to the 1
growers. .
, Carload shipments Involving
crops from tho project, and not
including other , points in the
basin, totaled 10,866 cars. This'
includes grain, livestock, pots
toes, small seeds, wool and sug
ar beets. ;
On the main division, 30,144
acres were cultivated with a to ,
tal return of $566,320, or an
average of $18.79 per acre. Big
gest dollar yield was from 22
acres of radish seed, averaging
$130.18 per acre. Smell seeds
also played an important part
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