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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1943.
Number 8715
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By FRANK JENKINS
AS those wordi ro written
(news con happen ao fnt
ono has to qualify It thut way)
there's nothing now rom tho
now ton-dnyi'Otd naval operation
Id tho South Sens. ,
,' So tar as the Pacific Coast Is
concerned, that Is tho No. 1
news of tho world. But wo'U
have to possess our souls In
patience.. '
The navy's reasons for keeping
quiet are good reasons.
WITH Buna-Gona a closed In
, cldont, MacArthur's men
aro showing up In force near tho
Jap bases of Lao and Salamuua,
well to the northwest of Now
Guinea.
Little has been said about this
significant advanco on our part,
but you'll remember that several
weeks ago wo attacked a Jap
outpost near Lae. It was there
that the Japs had hung tin cans
on wires, so that the cans would
rattle when tho wires wcro
touched, thus warning thorn of
an attack. '.'''
Our forces In that area ara
now so strong .that when th
Japs on Saturday sent 70 planes
Bgulnst us our sir men shot down
41 of the Japs without a SINGLE
loss. "
TT'.was quality "or planes and
f men that turned tho trick, as
our pilots were outnumooi-ea.
But both our "planes -and - bur
men were BETTER than th at
tacking Japs. ft ' " ' i
X AC ARTHUR has apporenlly
1 used nir transport heavily
to got his forces there, thus pro
viding -an object lesson -on his
recently announced now air-land
strategy.
pUSSIA, as usual, holds the
K center of the fighting spot
light. - '
The Russians are now JUST
ACROSS the Don from Rostov
on tho south, so close that their
artillery Is shelling the city
But they sllll have tho Don
to cross, and It Is a big river.
They've occupied the south bank
of the Don clear to its mouth at
the Sea of Aiov,
NTORTII and west .of Rostov,
1 tho Russians are still mop
ping up the network of railroads
by means of which tho Germans
still supply tho city. They've
cut one leg of tho main line to
the south of that point, as well
as numerous minor lines.
The Russians won't have Ros
tov wholly trapped and Isolated
by land until they get this en
tire railroad network Into their
hands.
Your map will make this situa
tion plain.
NJOTHING of Importance has
l happened yet In Tunisia.
Rommel Is still sitting tight at
the French Marcth line. Tho
Germans are still holding open
tho gate by which ho hopes to
enter Tunis.
The impending big battla of
Northern1 Africa, of which the
dispatches linvo been speaking
for days; hasn't got under way
yet.' .
' ,
YOU'LL be wine If In , your
mind you uso Northern
Africa as a measuring stick.
If we're .ablo to tnlto It when
wo get all sot, it will bo a sign
that Germany Is pretty weak
maybe as weak as wo hope she Is,
If tho Germans aro xblo to HOLD
OUT at Tunis and Bizerlc, it will
be sign that they have quite
a little atronglh loft and that
we're having trouble gotting
enough men and material across
tho submarine-infested Atlantta
to mako our weight felt.
You may bo sure Gormany
will hold these narrows of the
Mediterranean IF SHE CAN.
TJERBERT HOOVER, calling
for more man-power applied
to tho war effort, says today:
."In our PLANNING, wo must
at least PREPARE for a long
war. Including tho defeat of
Japan, wo must at least ENVIS
AGE (meaning look forward to)
three more years of war and a
. (Continued on Page Two)
Army Plane
Really Upset
Colorado Town
LA JUNTA, Colo., Feb. 8 VP)
An army plane, apparently
astray from a practice bomb
ing range, bombed and machine
gunned some rangoland near
tho little southeastern Colorado
town of Ninavlow with the fol
lowing results:
The horse of John Hlndman,
who was trapping In the area,
bolted- for home. John armed
himself with his Winchester ri
fle. Cattle on tho Herman Bailey
ranch stampeded to the north
ern boundary of the ranch a
run of threo miles,
.Residents of the area gath
ered at . the Ninavlow country
storo, watched the bombing and
then put out grass fires . after
tho plane departed.
As County Judge and Mrs.
(Continued on Pago Two)
DRAFTING OF U. S.
IMPOSED
Coll for Volunteers
Would Be Tried-First
By Th AtioclaWd Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8
Congress today received a pro
posal to make millions of Amer
ican .women, as well as all the
nation's men, subject to "nation
al SOrVlGO.IV :-;";:; v;v' . V'"':' '
"Two1 republican Rep. Wads
worth of New York, and Senator
Austin of VermontIntroduced
the bill. They said it aimed a
"comprehensive, orderly and ef
fective mobilization of the man
power and the womanpower In
support of the war effort."
No Dollar Battlmnt
. It calls for registration of all
women from 18 to SO except
thosot with children under 18 or
those expecting babies. All these
registrants, together with all
men already listed by the selec
tive service, would be subject
to presidential orders sending
them' to assembly lines, to the
harvest fields or wherever they
were needed. A call for volun
teers would be tried first, how
ever. Looking ahead, to the war's
end, Secretary Sttmson ex
pressed the conviction that the
United States could not and
should not seek a dollars and
(Continued on Pogo Two)
Sixty Jap Planes
Loose Attack on ,
Chinese Capital
CHUNGKING, Feb. 8 P)
Sixty Japanese planes attacked
tho Kwangsl province capital of
Kwcllin In threo waves today,
loosing both explosives and In
cendiary bombs and machine
gunning the outskirts, the Chi
nese central news agency an
nounced. : .
' Despite the scope of the raids,
H said ' that no casualties had
been reported.' This probably is
explained by Kwcllln's dugout
system, consisting of natural
caves in the Sugar Loaf hills.
Drury Outlines
Retail Sales
Confldont that citizens hero
will coopcruto with tho war
time -hoe rationing program,
Chairman Don R. Drury of the
Klamath: Falls War Price ' and
Ration board, declared Monday
that, there are plenty of shoes
now to take care of all civilians
but these supplies must' be con
served, .
All retail 'sales . on rationed
shoes were slopped from .Sun-doy,-
Febrvary 7,' to Tuesday
morning, February 9. This freeze
period .allows the dealers to sort
out the rationed shoes from un
rntloned types, Chairman Drury
explained.
Beginning Tuesday morning
any man, woman or child can got
shoes by presenting stamp 1? In
War Ration Book One,. the somo
book now ; used for augor and
coffee. Ration Stamp No. 17 will,
SNELLFAVORS
TAX CHANGES
N MESSAGE
Income Tax , Reduc
tion, Surtax Repeal ,
Get Backing
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM, Feb; 8 (AP) Gover
nor Earl Snell asked the Ore
gon legislature today to reduce
tho state income tax, repeal the
two per cent surtax on unearn
ed Income, and to permit quar
terly income tax payment.
In his first special message,
which was read to both bouses
by reading clerks, the governor
recommended that the legisla
ture approve the houso taxation
and revenue committee's pro
gram which will be introduced
this week. -Bills
Passed
Ho asked that there be no
other Income tax legislation, but
that gift, and inheritance taxes
be. reduced, and that Oregon
adopt a community property
system, where property-Is own
ed Jointly by husband and wife.
Both of those proposals, he said,
would place Oregon on a more
equal footing with" her neigh
boring states, while the com
munity property system also
would save Oregon taxpayers
about $1,000,000 a year fn fed
eral Income taxes. y ;:
The bouse taxation nd reve
nue . committee's progtuiu con
tains a 20 or 23 per cent income
tax reduction and repeal of the
surtax on .unearned , income.
Both houses already have pass
ed bills for quarterly' payment
of Income taxes, which now are
paid annually or semi-annually.
Concerns Next Yar
The committee's quarterly
payment plan would- be effec
tive on payments made this
year, but all other features, in
cluding the tax reduction pro
posals, would be effective with
payments paid in 1944, which
would be on incomes earned in
1943. .....
"Tho primary obligation of
this legislative assembly," Sncll
said, "is to extond as far as
possible relief to the property
taxpayer the home owner, the
(Continued on Page Two) i
Lt. Edwin Powell
Dies in Army Plane "
Crash Saturday
PENDLETON, Feb. 8 (ZD
Second Lt. Edwin J. Powell, 28,
of Owensboro, Ky., was pilot of
tho army pursuit plane which
crashed and burned threo mites
northwest of Pendleton Satur
day night,. Pendleton field au
thorities announced today.
His name was not released un
til his father, James C. Powell
of 1920 Freeman avenue, Owens
boro, nearest to kin, had been
notified. Lt. Powell, who had
been at Pendleton field only a
short time,, was unmarried.
The plane fell in a ranch field
with a terrific impact when.lt
failed to pull out of a dive dur
ing a stunting maneuver. Wreck
age was scattered; over hall a
mile. " ;
Shoe Rationing Program;
To Be "Unfrozen" Tuesday
bo good through Juno for one
pair of rationed shoos, Drury ex
plained, so thcro ,1s no need. for
rushing to use tho . stamp until
footwear" is needed. ' : ' 4
.. "Americans have been buying
shoes faster than manufacturers
can mtu.o them, and heavy sole
leather and skilled manpower
are both subject to first call by
the United States armed forces,"
said Drury, in explaining why
civilian shoe production In 1943
could not possibly keep pace
with an uncontrolled demand,
"By rationing now, before exces
sive buying .'educed shoe stock
to a danger point both the public
and the trade will benefit," he
said. ,
Tho plan Is simple and tho
ration is liberal, Drury added.
He listed the four main points
lor consumers to - remember as,
They Dozed as Flynn
La?.-.: JJjk sa.i. . .-?;..., fell
Loath to silii dlivry of th verdict. ths spectators all
women xcpt on Ion mal peeping ovr his magaxin re
mained In th Los Aogls courtroom catching short naps wbil
th-jury deliberated "th cat of Actor Errol Flynn. who was
acquitted of chargts of statutory rap against two 'tn-g girls.
Hoover Urges Smaller Army
To P rovid e Million More
Workers for Home Front
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (P
Herbert Hoover declared today
"the size of the army must be
modified at least for' tho Im
mediate period of 1043,!' and the
armed forces should supply some
of J, 000,000 ''additional, workers
he said the- nation, needed in
farming and metal and .oil in
dustries. - V -
Hoover " envisaged '.at least
Lay-Away, Wi'lf
Call Shoe Sales
Get OPAOkeh
- WASHINGTON, Feb.. 8
Shoe retailers who made ' lay
away or will-call sales before
noon . yesterday- may complete
the transactions without collect
ing ration stamps. . .
The OPA regulation provides,
however, that delivery must be
made before Friday. .Shoes or
dered by mail before 3 p. m.
yesterday, also, can be delivered
without stamps. ' -
Shoes . delivered .without ra
tion, stamps must have been or
dered before - announcement of
rationing and been wrapped,
marked or held for delivery: to
a customer, . '.
Federal Judge
Denies Writ for
Harry Bridges
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 8 (P)
Federal Judge Martin Welsh to
day, dented an .application by
Harry Bridges,, west coast long
shoremen's leader, for a writ o
habeas corpus to forestall de
portation to Australia.
Bridges had applied for the
writ on the grounds that U. S.
Attorney' General Francis Bid
die acted Illegally last year when
he ordered tho labor leader de
ported,. . 1 , '
follows: Stamp 17 In War Ration.
Book One is good for one, pair
of shoes between , February- 9
and Juno . 15 In any . store that
sells shoos. If you buy .by mall
enclose- the stamp with' your
order. ' '.. , ' '
. Stamp Ko. 17 is transferable
among members of a family liv
ing in the same household and
related by blood, marriage or
adoption. For example fathers
or mothers can use their stamps
to buy shoes for their children.
Persons who do not possess
War Ration Book One may apply
for this book at a' local War
Price and Rationing board. A
person who needs to- buy shoes
and has no Stamp No. 17 In his
immediate family which ha can
use, may apply to his local war
price and rationing board for a
(Continued on Page Two)'
Jurors Speculated
three more years of war but ob
served: . s .
t "Time runs In our favor. W
do 'not therefore need try to do
cvervthhw all ; at once.' The
Hpockout Wow to Germany ,caa
be delivered more certainly in
1944 than in 1943. . . i , : ; )
- "t is' a serious consideration
that we might break the back
of our people oh the home front
and start internal degeneration,
such as is now the fate of Ger
many. We should not 'imperil
it by-doing too much too fast
Especially when the time runs
in our favor." '
- (The house military committee
Is considering a bill to restrict
the size of the army. In addition
several senators, including
Thomas (D-Okla.) and Bankhead
(D-Ala,), have been discussing
the advisability of limiting ap
propriations in order to hold
down the .number of men in the
army and navy). ' -
Remarking that the armed
forces intend to have more than
11,000,000 members by the end
of 1943,. the former president
told a press conference; ;
. '!If we attempt too much on
the military side, .we may com
mit the fatal error of overstrain
on the home front and thus dam
age our effectiveness in ultimate
victory, '
"Including the defeat of Japan,
.we must envisage .at least three
mora years of war and a prudent
nation would possibly envisage
five years.".
Occasionally puffing a cigar,
the food administrator of the last
war declared that he believed
sufficient additional labor to take
care of our expanded production
program could be obtained by
employment o trained women,
importation of workers from
Mexico and the furloughing of
enough men from the military
services to make up the needed
million. ' ,
. ' As ' for farm ' production,'
Hoover said American . agricul
ture "certainly cannot make the
grade unless it has a larger man
power supplyif we are going
to produce more In 1943 than In
1942, we certainly can't do ' It
with less labor than last year."
Hoover said farm employment
dropped from, nearly 9,000,000
workers ' last year to between
5,000,000 and 6,000,000 at pres
ent,.": ; . L :
The J. D. Dulles
Are Shoeless Until
Sates Get Started (
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 8 (fPj?
The J.. D. Dulles are shoeless tin
til, the sale of shoes resumes to
morrow under rationing. '
' The . Dulles and their four
children fled barefoot early to
day trom their burning home.
The only things they saved
were three partly charred ration
books. :.
Dulles, clad In a sympathetic
neighbor's oversized shoes and
clothing. Is looking for new ra
tion books today' so the whole
family- tan go to. a shoe store
Ms
ROSTOV UfJOLFi
FIRE AS REDS
KEEPOAINING
Sunday Daylight At
tack on Naples
Heavy
LONDON, Fb. 8 P Th
Russians announced th cap
tun tonight of Kursk, ky
Grmas bas, ia a special cora
Jnuniqu broadcast by th Mo
cow radio and recorded her
by th soviet monitor, -
By JAMES M. LONG
Associated Prs War Editor
The fourth battle -of Rostov
was underway today with Ger
man positions in the city under
sbellfire and assult, while else
where along a 500-mile front
the red army reported cracking
the nazl 1842 line southeast of
Kharkov and on both sides of
Kursk i. - :
- While " the Germans reeled
back before the onslaught which
reached-an 'unprecedented- pace
for- winter 'war, ,, their Kalian
allies felt the -weight.- of " war
again in their hcraeland. -
f, pjaM LOSt ''' ; ' . '
'.United States B-24 Liberators
set . the waterfront of Naples
ablaze in large-scale Sunday
daylight attack and scored hits
on three ships at the big loading
port' for war material for Tu
nisia. ' . w; .... .
The bombers fought their way
through, heavy opposition with
the. loss of only a single plane.
Brig. Gen. Patrick W. Timber
lake, American bomber com
mander in the Middle East, said
the raid ' was "one of the most
successful" yet carried out in
', (Continued on Page Two)
Synthetic Rubber .
Program Underway,
Asserts Jeffers
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 8 m
Rubber Administrator William
Peffers said today that while the
government's synthetic ' rubber
plant building program has been
behind schedule due to delay in
getting certain materials, "it is
moving along very nicely now.1
"We're trying to build a tre
mendous Industry in a year that
in normal times would fake a
decade," he said at a press con
ference. Jeffers came here to ad
dress the engineers' society of
western Pennsylvania and to
visit a large synthetic rubber
plant.
Jeffers said enough reclaimed
rubber is being turned out to
bridge motorists "over the gap'
but that they should continue to
use their cars only when neces
sary and drive at reduced speeds
for the rest of the war.
Frozen Body of Veteran
' Pilot Found in Alaska
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb.
8-(P) "Thrili'em, SpiU'em, No
Kill'em" Gillam, hero of a hun
dred adventures along the Arc
tie airways, is dead at last, giv
ing his life In an effort to save
his passengers after crashing at
the end of a routine flight from
Seattle.
The frozen body of the 40-year-old
veteran, Harold Gillam,
was recovered ' Saturday by
coast guardsmen from the beach
of Boca de Quadra.
Gillam apparently died, those
who saw the body said, from a
combination of starvation, ex
posure and shock. They theor
zied . that, weakened, he must
have fallen into the water, lost
his scant supply of matches and
when he regained land was un
able to help himself.
1 In Alaska slnce ha was IB,
ISM
Genera! Held
i ' .
kni j J v 7
Major Gnal Holland M.
Smith (sboT), 61, commanding
general, flt rtarln foic, San
Diego araa, was zlaid on
$500 bail after detention by
San SUgo pollc on a hit-run,
drunk-driYiog chug.
FlilEST POSSIBLE
PRICE HEiN ASKED
Brownt Issues Instruc
tions on. Control
Standards, ' -
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8- UP)
Price Administrator Prentiss, M.
Brown has Instructed his staff
to put "the stiff est possible con
trol" on prices. It was learned
today.;
Brown Issued written Instruc
tions recently to OPA's regional
staffs and Washington price of
ficials, telling them to continue
"rigorous application", of price
control standards. ?
This action was taken, It was
reported reliably, "after the
White House had suggested' that j
the new price administrator clar-
if y 1 his recent statement on
orices. In which he predicted a
"slow, well ordered rise." of
about one-half per cent a month,
or six per cent . a year, la the
general level of prices. - Any Im
plication contained in this siate-j
ment that Brown would follow
a strategy of slow retreat under
inflationary pressures appeared
to be dispelled by the new policy
statement circulated to his field
staffs. - ' -
Start Mov
One phase of this antl-infla-l
tton policy, OPA sources said.
wilt be to inspect the profits of
entire Industries and where pos
sible cut profits back on an
industry-wide basis. . ,
An OPA official who cannot
(Continued on Page Two)
Gillam participated .in Alaskan
flying during its earliest stages.
His courage and readiness to
risk himself to save his pas
sengers, plus an almost miracu
lous ability to "come through"
to safety earned him- his nick
name and endeared him to as
sociates and passengers. .
Gillam . sprang to fame In
1928-30 when he- participated
in the- winter-long search for
Carl Ben Eielson, another Arc
tic hero, who crashed off the
coast of Siberia . while flying
furs from the icebound schoon
er Nanuk.
It was Gillam, flying with the
aurora borealis for light, who
found the wreck far north of
the Arctic circle. . Gillam later
helped bring out the bodies.
; Once before,! in 1838, Gillam
Continued en Page Two
tal
YANK FIGHTERS
BAG 41 OUT OR
70 W PLIES
U. S, Troops Score 40
Mile Gain on Guad-
alcana!--
Sy Th Associated Prt
General MacArthur's Austrafe
tan and American forces pressed
home their air-won advantage ia
the WAU area of New Guinea
today as they moved swiftly into)
positions menacing Salainaua.
the next of the invaders bases
up th northeast of the big Uh
and north of Australia. '
An allied communique said 3S
more Japanese were killed ' la
skirmishes developing in . tha
WAU area, some 35 miles south'
west of Salamaua.
41 Japs Downtd ' 1 j
. ' Th allied positions ther werar
safeguarded by : strong aerial,
cover which won on of tha
clearest cut victories of the war
in the air from the Japanese Sat,,
urday. v; : : , v ..
"Japanese hurled into the attack;
at that time, 14 were destroyed
or damaged badly by American
fighter .planes which, cam - ofll
without a loss. - .- ; ;
,' Guadalcanal dais " : '
FoHowtag -up their advantage,
allied airmen bombed and
strafed enemy positions in Dutch
New Guinea, th Celebes - and
Cape Gloucester. The Japanese,
after their severe setback Satur.
day, were reported- Inactive ia
the air. , ' . . . ..
.On Guadalcanal, a flanking;'
move apparently carried out by i
a 40 to 50-mile over-land thrust"
has put United States troops Into
a strong striking position on thaj
northwest coast of the island,- .
just five miles from the.enemy'
headquarters on Cape Esperancei;
Details Scare .
The ' new move, closing lav
around the Japanese position on
the cape, was announced yesier
day in a . navy communique
which threw no further light oa
(Continued on Page Two ,
War Bulletin
WASH1HGTON, Feb, t JAP) ,
Both Jspanu and American
- air and surface forest era con -tinuing
- operations ia ; th , .
southwest Pacific ia th ga
aral vicinity of th Solomon...
. lalandi, a navy spokesman (ab
dicated today,
"Th situation remains uo
changed in th southwtst Pa'
cilk," said th spoktmaa,
This was authoiitatWsly in--tarpratad
to mean th actlvi,'
ttss which began about Janu-
ary S3 ar still In prognt.
with ntth iid having
forced a decistv ngagront
nor broktn off and with'
drawn... . .
Senate Committee
introduces Potato ,
Labeling Bill
SALEM, Feb. 8 W Th
senate agriculturs committee ini
troduced a bill today providing,
that any potatoes below No, t
grade do not have to comply
with labeling laws when , they
are sold for dehydration. ,
Rep,- Henry Semon,. Klamath
Falls , potato grower, said thav
effect of Use bill would ba to
let growers sell dehydrating pen
tatoet in any kind of sack
they want. ' . '
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