huh
sfi'ijfiiii
On S'ltilnuU blul on sirens and whistles
Is the signal (or a blackout In Klamath
Falli. Another long blail during a black
out, la a ilgnal lor all-clear. In precau
tionary parlodi, watch your strati llghti, .
urn
nn
n
By FRANK JENKINS
arETAILS trtcklo In slowly
from the South Beos. We
have as yet no clear, over-all
picture of what happened and
what It means.
e
GENERAL PATCH, army com
mander on Guadalcanal, re
porting to Admiral llalsey, who
is In charge of combined opera
tlons In that area, snys today:
"Guadalcanal has been taken
completely, and there Is no
longer any VESTIGE of any Jap
anese ORGANIZED forces on the
Island."
e e
CAPTAIN BROWNING, Ad-
mlrnl Hiilncy's chief of staff,
says the Japs had previously
evacuated an unknown number
of HIGH RANKING OFFICERS
from the Island by means of de
stroyers and submurlnes but that
there is no Indication of moss
removal of troops, .......
.; He adds that there are strong
Indications that senior officers
were deliberately removed and
the Junior officers and men left
to take the rap. Patch s state
ment indicates that the rap has
been taken at the mouths of
American rifles and cannon.
A NYWAY, wo have ALL of
" Guadalcanal. Wo'll probubly
make It into a base that will be
extremely useful In our further
plans.
Obviously our military higher
ups arc not telling tha Jnps what
these plans are.
THIS seems a fair guess:
x The Japs ADMIT they've
reached the point where they
can no longor afford to spread
themselves farther and thinner.
TN Africa, Montgomery's 8th
Aarmy is MOVING AGAIN.
That's all we know toduy.
But every time it has moved,
after the ncccssnry interval for
preparation, it has gona soma
whore worth whllo.
' Watch It.
.
rpHE Russians aro moving in on
Kharkov from three sides
southeast, east and northeast.
The map suggests that If the
Germans are driven out of
Kharkov they'll linvo nowhere
to stop short of the, lino of the
Dnieper river.
Thai' woll BACK of where
they started from Inst summer.
lEEP your eye on Vatutln's
column pushing down from
Kramatorskaya to tho Sea of
Azov. Tho Germans nro report
ed today to bo putting up a
furious fight, throwing In masses
of tanks and troops in an effort
to stop him.
They'd bettor. If ho reaches
tho Sea of Azov their land routo
for escape from tho Caucasus
will bo closed,
QN tho homo front, tho labor
' shortage In tho big war in
dustrial areas is to be solved by
working 48 hours with tho last
eight hours at tlmo and a half.
It means about a 30 per cont
weekly wage increase for thosa
nww working a 40-hour week.
It will bo generally salts
(Continued on Pago Two) :
House Pains' Makes
A Big Difference
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 10
(P)-A woman moved Into ono
of the hundreds of prefabricated
houses now going up In tho Mc
Laughlin Heights housing pro
ject, On her return from a shop
ping trip, she couldn't find the
house,
She finally had to take a
hotel room. Housing officials re
stored her to the place the next
day after learning tho cnuso of
tho trouble. Contractors had
painted the house while she. was
(hopping.
48
CHAMBER VOTES
Cities' Highway Rev
enue Measure Dis
cussed at Meet
Klamath chamber of com
merce directors, on a spilt vote
following spirited discussion,
went on record Wednesday In
opposition to house bill 210, the
cities' highway revenue meas
ure The voto was 7 to 4.
Subsequently, the directors
adopted another motion asking
the chamber highway committee
to give consideration to the
question of maintaining city
streets and to cooperate with
tho city officials in their efforts
to find a solution to this prob
lem. The action on HB 218, which
Is now in the legislature, con
tinues a tradition in tho cham
ber of opposition to any switch
ing of state highway funds for
purposes other than state high
ways and closely related func;
lions for which money has been
appropriated for many years.
' Houston Speaks.
Mayor John Houston, a mem
ber of tho legislative committee
(Continued on Pago Two)
Klamath Sets
Record in
Winter Snow
Weather news may rcoch the
public a week late, but tho local
weatherman found plenty of ma
terial to start this old boys remin
iscing. For Instance, he suggests, the
snow. In fact, the weatherman
observes, it has snowed so much
that as far back as local snowfall
records go, to 1016, the total fall
of 01 Inches In tho past three
months has never been equalled.
Only onco has tho January fall
of 32 Inches been bested and that
was In 1033, when 37 inches foil
for tho month.
With this ncavy snow mea
surement, there is nuturally a
heavy precipitation figure. Wea
ther records wore searched back
to 1885 boforo a greater amount
of measured precipitation was
found for tho first four months
(Continued on Pago Two)
UTinjD
wee
OPPOSITION TO
REVENUE BILL
Stage Set for Bitter
Battle on Farm Prices
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (IP)
Tho administration drew a sharp
lino today against further ad-
vonces in farm prices and there
by set the stage for a bitter
struggle with powerful agricul
tural loaders In and out of con
gress. Tho speech of Economic
Stabilization Director James F.
Byrnes last night was Inter
preted on all sides as an ad
ministration declaration that it
was ready to do battle If neces
sary to preserve lis present farm
and food price and production
policies. A-
Those policies, In short, arc
designed to stabilize agricultural
prices at a level called parity,
by means of such devices as ceil
ings to keep prices from going
too high and floors to keep them
from going too low. ,
There Is ' ono general excep
tion to these policies. It involves
crops needed- in volume far in
excess of past lovels. The ad
ministration says it realizes that
farmers nocd returns grcator
than parity to meet extra ex
penses involved in stepping up
production of such crops, It
would make , up that extra ex
pense in the form of what it
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10,
r a
in 'MNMIMW
i must mki
IVI
u u
k Ordered!
Cited
Fire Controlman Robert . C.
Nunes of Klamath Falls was
singled out yesterday by Vice
Admiral Calhoun, Pacific fleet,
as typical of the spirit of the
navy's fighting men. Nunes, 22,
enlisted in 1938 and ' has been
stationed at Pearl Harbor; sines
his Initial training. He U tha
son of Mrs. Wlldertlne Nunes.
410 South Fifth street.
PACIFIC "STEPPING
Acquisition of Naval
Bases Across Sea '
Proposed
By ALEX SINGLETON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (P)
An Immediate congressional in
vestigation Into methods for per
manent American acquisition of
"stepping stone" aerial and na
val bases across the Pacific was
proposed today by Chairman
Vinson (D-Ga.) of the house
naval committee.
He announced that he would
appoint a naval subcommittee to
undertake a detailed study of de
veloping and acquiring the bases,
an undertaking which ho conced
ed probably would Involve the
territorial possessions of Franco,
Holland and Japan. :
Favorable Reception
Tho need for tho network of
bases "to keep Japan disarmed
on tho sea" end "to prevent fu
turo aggression in that part of
tho world" was laid before the
house foreign affairs committee
yesterday by Secretary of Navy
(Continued on Pago Two)
calls benefit and incentive pay
ments. Tho form payments, for which
between $500,000,000 and $800,-
000,000 from the treasury may
bo needed, would take the place
of Increases In colling prices
and hence in food prices which
othorwiso would be necessary.
These policies are opposed by
four major farm organizations
and congressmen from agricul
tural states. Tho farm groups
aro tho American Farm Bureau
Federation, the National Grange,
tin Nntlnnnl Connerntive Colin
ell, and the National Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation.
These organizations recently
announced that they had formed
a "united front" to fight for
higher farm prices. They con
tend the present shortage of farm
labor reflects financial inability
of farm' operators to compete
with city wages. They are press
ing for legislation which would
allow farm prices to advance at
least 10 per cent before ceilings
could be set.
Hinting that a' presidential
veto might bo tho fato of such
legislation, Byrnes declared that
a chango in tho farm parity for
mula "would not be in tha In
terest of farmers."
' t
v.: !
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
in
TO CRITICAL
LABORAREAS
'Spartan Standard of
Living", Asked
Of U. S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 W)
The prospect of an invasion of
Europe this year, followed by
unparallclled prosperity in the
postwar period, was held out to
Americans today but until vic
tory is won they were told they
must work longer hours and
adopt a "spartan standard of liv
ing." To hasten the day of victory.
President Roosevelt last night
ordered a 48 hour minimum
work week on the home , war
front, with time and a half over
time pay jfor all those covered
by the fair labor standards act.
This means a 30 per cent weekly
wage increase for thousands now
working, a 40, hour week.. ,
Byrnes Warns U. 8.
"Until further notice'! the or
der ,wa -limited b War .Mao;
power Commissioner Paul V.
McNutt to 32 labor shortage
areas, extending from Maine to
Washington state and from Flor
ida to California. :
Immediately, the action' was
announced, Economic Stabiliza
tion Director James F. . Byrnes
went on the. radio. to give the
people a broad outline of the
struggle ahead on. the civilian
front, and particularly to. warn
against "a creeping inflation."
Details Not Complete
Explaining the scope of. the
48-hour week order issued by
McNutt, his deputy commission
er, Fowler V. Harper, said it
would apply to all employment
in the specified areas, including
, (Continued on Page Two)
Fuel Sign-Up
Begins Monday
Morning at 9
Fuel oil consumers using ap
plications 1100, 1101, 1103, and
1103 A must register at Mills,
Fremont, and Roosevelt schools
next Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, according to Arnold Gra
lapp, superintendent of city
schools. - ,
Blanks must be obtained from
fuel dealers, and filled out be
fore they are taken to the
schools. The entire teaching staff
of the elementary schools will as
sist the public in checking these
applications. '
Hours of ' registration will .be
from 9 a. m. until 8 p. m., with
limited service until after 3
p. m., when the whole staff will
be free to assist. Consumers
who are inside the doors after
closing time will be allowed to
complete their applications. The
usual rooms that have been used
In tho past for rationing pur
poses will be open, .
AH county schools will give
the same service except that
their nours wm oe irom 4 p. m.
until 9 p. m.
?
Gandhi's Fasting
Again; Ksovernment
Refuses, Release
BOMBAY, Feb. 10 (IP) Mo
handas K., Gandhi began a ?1
day fast today in the palace 'of
the' Aga Kahn In Poona, after
the government of India refused
to grant his unconditional re
lease from confinement there.
The 73-year-old Gandhi an
nounced that he would take only
fruit juice and water during his
fasting period. , ' v
All India watched apprehen
sively for any trouble . 'which
might follow. Although he is be
hind barbed wire at the Aga
Kahn's palace, Gandhi li still the
most important Indian. . .
ORDER LIMITED
Oh, Dear! What Next?
p ' ' ' t ' ' 'v"S -"'' ,' " ' I
fr-""" r , ' - -J
I llHHIIIIIIIlllllllll ,, "
miemmiiiss-
Mrs. Marshall Anderson eyes the latest rationed article, shoes,
sought by Klamath folks Wednesday as buyers were limited to
one pair between now and June
splrijfd, and ttoclf sought wa ot
KiskaJaps Bombed; New
Offensive Seen as Yanks
Take Over in Guadalcanal
By Tha Associated Press '
The navy reported bombing
attacks on Japanese at Kiska in
the Aleutian islands today while
a navy spokesman at a South
Sea base, announced that Jap
anese troops on Guadalcanal is
land, in the Solomons, had been
"completely eliminated" and In
timated that a new allied offen
sive was near. ....
' The navy communique did
not report results of the aerial
activity in the Aleutians but told
of . American ' bombing and
ground fighting in the Solomons,
possibly preceding 1 the with
drawal of Japanese from Guadal
canal. -
"We are now going to take
offensive action in which the
complete seizure of Guadalcanal
has an important part," said the
naval, spokesman, Capt. Myles
Browning, chief of the staff of
Admiral William F- Halsey, Jr.
Two , likely . directions for an
allied drive would be northwest
through the Solomons toward the
big Japanese base at Rabaul,
New Britaln,or to the enemy's
northern keystone at Truk is
land. The Berlin radio broadcast a
Tokyo dispatch today claiming
that thirteen allied shipstwo
cruisers, one destroyer and ten
torpedo boats were sunk by
Japanese forces between Febru-
Railway Yards
At Caen Get
RAF Blasting
LONDON, Feb. 10 (P) Rail
wav vards at Caen, in northwest
ern France, were attacked this
morning by Ventura bombers of
the RAF, it was announced to
night. The Berlin radio reported that
British bombers bombed parts of
western Germany from a great
helaht last night, but said dam
age was negligible. The broad
cast was recorded nere oy .neut
ers. ... 1
British sources said the RAF
operations tn small force over
Germany, probably armed recon
naissance, likely led to the Ger
man reports.
LONE RAIDER
LONDON, Feb. 10 () A
German air raider scored a di
rect hit on a furniture store ad
joining a large department store
in the shopping district of a
south England town today, caus
ing an undisclosed number of
casualties. '
NEA FEATURES
1943 ,
Number 9717
mm
mi
21. Merchant said buying was
the l)rt quality. , . .
ary 1 and February 7 southeast
of Santa Isabel island in the
Solomons group.
The x report said 86 allied
planes were shot down in the
same period and locality. , Jap
anese losses were given as three
destroyers damaged.
The broadcast was recorded
in London by The Associated
Press.
. These . Japanese . claims were
not. confirmed by . any other
source. Navy Secretary . Frank
Knox -said in a press conference
last Saturday that both the Jap
anese and American' navies had
lost some warships in sparring
in the southwest Pacific, but
added that the losses were "mod
erate" and included "nothing
of a major character.",
A navy communique the day
before - reported "sporadic en
counters between United States
and Japanese air and surface
forces in the Solomon island
area" were continuing.
' Capt. Browning said the Jap
anese had been driven from
Guadalcanal with losses of be
tween 30,000 and 50,000 men
after a six-months campaign
which started last August 7
when- U. S. marines landed on
the island and seized Henderson
air field. ' .
Official reports also listed
more than 1100 Japanese planes
shot down, 72 ships - sunk a
D-ll probably sunk.
"It was not a definite sur
render," Capt. Browning said.
"Our flanking forces closed the
pincers on the enemy and a blot'
: (Continued on Page Two)
Mixed Response Meets New
48-Hour-a-Week Policy
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (P)
A mixed response to the new 48
hour week policy poured in from
the nation today, givlnt, the capi
tal another subject for study
along with the pay-as-you-go in
come tax drive and talk about
the post-war world.
Generally in the highly Indus
trialized manufacturing areas
where so many of the tools of
war are produced, there was en
dorsement of the longer work
week by, both' labor and man
agement. The chief complaint aired
so far, aside from a lack of some
details about the plan which the
war manpower commission said
It hoped to clear up shortly,' was
Klamath Shoe
Market Registers
Slight Flurry
A slight flurry. In the shoe
market was observed by Klam
ath Falls footwear merchants as
shoe rationing went into effect
along Main street as it did in
countless other American towns.
The rationing system, prob
ably the simplest of all, was com
pletely understood by the pur
chasers who tore out stamp No.
17 in exchange for one pair of
shoes.
Noticeable, according to sev
eral merchants, was the request
for good shoes regardless of
price. Gay little numbers took
a back seat while walking shoes
of best possible leather sold like
hotcakes.
"Customers didn't even ask
the price until the shoes were
wrapped up," one merchant
stated. - "They did specify good
shoes; though, when they came
into the store."
Wednesday ' morning hours,
usually quiet for the shoe mer
chant, kept clerks busy with an
Increase expected in the after
noon.' -.'"'..
E:
Certificate Necessary
To. Change Jobs in
Factories
SEATTLT, Feb. 10 OP) "Sta
bilization" of jobs of thousands
of war workers in Washington
and Oregon went into effect just
after midnight this morning.
The restrictive order by the
area war manpower, commission
to utilize fully the manpower in
Pacific northwest war industries,
provides that workers in desig
nated industries may switch jobs
only, if -they have a "certificate
of availability" from their em
ployers, approved by their labor
unions and filed with the US em
ployment service. .
Unions Critical
. The announcement through
the. department of war informa
tion here said the move had been
accepted - voluntarily - by both
management and labor and
would supercede the mandatory
job control ordered for critical
labor areas last week by the
war manpower commission.
Today, however, union leaders
in the shipbuilding and metal
trades industries here . assailed
the order and said they had not
approved it before its issue.
They criticized the war . man
power commission office severe
ly.. ;
Replacement Schedule
"We did approve a labor sta
bilization plan for the shipyards
and ship repair yards," Fred J.
Kruse, secretary of the Metal
Trades council, said. "But this
other plan includes manufactur
ing plants and uptown shops. It
is not. a plan of our ..laklng. Our
members were never consulted
on it and never h.d a chance to
look it over." .
The commission, meeting here
today, also announced that a sys
tem of replacement schedules
was being set up for war plants
to aid selective service in choos
ing men to be drafted from the
Industries for war servlce. These
will consist of complete lists of
(Continued on Page Two) ,
that time-and-a-half pay for
many persons now working 40
hours would hurt employers
whose contracts were figured
without overtime and whose
prices are government-controlled.
Continuing its tax study, the
house ways and means commit
tee heard representatives of the
American Institute of Account
ants and the National Retail Dry
goods association propose skip
ping a tax year to put payments
of federal income tax on a cur
rent basis. " ,' v
The drygoods men suggested
skipping. the 1942 tax year; the
accountants that cither 1942 or
1943 be by-passed, with the tax
continued on Page Two)
rtbruary I High St, Low I
Praelpitatlon ai of February 8, 1943
Stream year to data 12.11
Last year 8.13 Normal 6.31
VIGHY CLAIMS
BATTLE-ON TO"
Kharkov Defense Held
Crumbling Under.
. Red Blast
By ROGER GREENE
Associated Press War Editor .
Britain's victorious 8th army
was .officially reported to. have
started a new advance into Tu
nisia today, breaking a protract
ed lull,' and at the same time tha
German-controlled Vichy radio
asserted that ' axis ; Tunisian
forces had launched an attack
against the British.
, The Vichy broadcast said the
axis assault was made to fore
stall a British offensive. . ,.
Nails Eliminated
First word of the British ad
vance came from Gen. Sir Har
old R. L. G. Alexander, British
commander-in-chief in the Mid
dle East, who told newsmen: '.
"The enemy's forces havev
been completely eliminated
from ' Egypt, ' Cirenaica, ' Libya
and xriponiania ana ine eigmar
army is advancing."
For several days, axis quartern
have reported that Gen. Sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery's' armiea
were massing troops, tanks, big
guns and other equipment along'
the Libyan-Tunisian frontier for -a
new pffensive. ..
May be Reinforced
Advance 8th army troops were)
reported to have thrust 60 miles
across the border several days
ago. . ' . . '
Vichy's report of an axis
counterattack indicated that
Col.-Gen. Jurgen von Arnim's
Tunisian forces may have rein
forced nazi Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel's battered legions and
turned on the British, 8th army
somewhere in the vicinity of tha
Mareth line, 60 miles inside Tu
nisia. , ' ' In Russia. ..
On the soviet front, German'
defenses on the outer approaches
to Kharkov were reported
crumbling ; today as Russian
shock troops stormed toward tha
great Ukraine . steel city from
three sides a f t a r smashing
through major barriers at Bel
gorod and Shebeklno, respective
ly 50 and 40 miles to the north'
east. . "-, ' '. . v :
Other red army columns wera
driving against the soviet "Pitts
burgh" from Balakleya, 40 mile,
southeast, and from Urazova, 75
miles east. V. , ,
- '":." , .'.Bases Perilled '"l'
With Kharkov retaken; tha
Russians would be in a position
to sweep back to tha Dnieper
river in the heart of the Ukraine.
The red armies were sharply
imperiling three more big bases
in the German 1941-42 winter
line Kharkov, Rostov and Orel
after their lightning conquest
of Kursk. ' .
Five Lose Lives
As Navy Bomber
Crashes Into Bay
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 (P)
Four naval airmen and a civilian
employe lost their lives when, a
twin-engined navy bomber crash
ed into San Francisco bay and
exploded yesterday a few hun
dred feet offshore from the Ala
meda naval air station. f
The ship had been on test
flight, and was coming In for
landing after one motor had fail
ed, the navy said.
Suddenly the plane dived, and
was shattered by a, blast as It
struck tha water.- Only scattered
debris was found, by the craw
of a crash barge that Immedi
ately put out to the seen. :
No names of , crew, member
will be announced, the navy said,
until definite identification is
complete, and tha next of kin
Informed,
. News Index
City Briefs ......... Paga 8
Comics and Story ............ Paga 6
Courthouse Records ........ Page S
Editorial - Paga 4
Markets, Financial Page 7
Our Men in Service Paga S
Pattern Page
Sports M..n..-.n-. Faga I
STALL BRITISH