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Newspaper Page TextjftnrirrinnrnfMWwnrii -ri-ri-y-prr - - - - , On S-mlnut blul on slrns and whistles U th signal lor blackout In Klamath Talli. Anolhar long blast, during a black out, li ilgnal lor all-claar. In precau tionary periods, watch your stri llghta. Tabruary 12 High 41, Low II ""' ' Precipitation ai of Ftbruary 9, 1143 Straam yaar to data 11. SI Lait yaar 1.29 Normal ....8.7 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES TWO SECTIONS PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1943 Number 9720 in N MA jl l.H.M AUVUIJI I AXIHUaAlMH II I lilt' miM TO II III! LTILZ1lZ3L1 . aps Mmi By FRANK JENKINS ZATUT1N, now raised to the v rank of full lioncrnl, li mak ing all tlio now today, IIo roaches Kranuoarmolnk, only SEVENTY MILES from tlio north shore of tlio Sen of Azov, ir he cun CLOSE that relatively narrow nap, the lonu anticipat ed, hard fought-for .Job of SUR HOUNDING tlio Germans at Roitov will be completed. Tliero will remain then only the tnk of WIPING THEM OUT as at SUillniirnd. nrllERE'S no often an IF. In this cane, there are two of them, IF he can reach tlio Sea of Azov and thus plus tlio Ros tov land gap, And IF he can HOLD the ring of steel na ho drawn It around, preventing tlio trapped Germans from breaking through. But the Russians faced these Mine If In their enveloping movement before Stalingrad and mastered them, " They mom to have plenty of strength loft. m YOUR map will make the alt uotlon quite plain. Krasnoarmclsk Is . probably too smull to bo shown on It. It Is just north pf Stallno, about 100 miles northwest of Rostov. Tho main north and south rnllrood from Rostov to Moscow hns long since been cut by tho Russians. Vatutin's reported capture of Krasnoarmclsk Indicates that ho has probably cut tho last cast and west main rail lino by which the Germans can either supply Rostov or EVACUATE their troops. TF these surmises turn out to be A correct, all that will bo left to them will bo tho land routo along the Sea of Azov, which Is WITHOUT rallroods. Vatutln, of course, hopes to follow down the railroad from Stalino to Mariupol, on the WEST bank of tho Kalmlus river, where It empties Into the Azov sea, thus blocking that Inst remaining escape route. Failing that, ho will hnrry the flank of the rotrcatlng Germans and harrying tho enemy's flank is a ccnturics-old Russian specialty. K .THERE'S still another IF. Tho Germans caught In the Cau casus below Rostov sro reported to be trying to escape across tho Korch strait to tho Crimean peninsula. But,' oven If they reach tho Crimea, which is moro of an Inland than a peninsula, they'll fnco entrapment there. Your map will show you how and why, TF you'ro really Interested In this tremendously significant situation,' and wont to under stand it, you'll havo to study your map. Mcro words can't moko it plain. The map discloses Us full possibilities. ELSEWHERE than In Russia, tho world Is quiet (at least so far as tho censorship permits us to know). Perhaps SUSPI CIOUSLY quiet. One still has tho feeling Hint big events are beginning to cast their shadows. THERE'S nothing now from Africa, whero bad wenthor Is said to have tho fighting stop ped. The Japs aro retiring at Wan, In Now Guinea, Increas ingly ' pressed by our boys and the Australians. There are air raids over Ger many and German-held Europe, Those air raids' are now a per manent pattern, pDR mnkes another speech. In listening to him, you must rcmombnr that ho is speaking more to tho cnomy than to us, It ';, (Continued on Pago Throe) RAF HAMMERS AT HITLER'S Powerful Formations Streak Over Chan nel Today LONDON, Feb. 13 (I) Tho RAF struck again at Hitler's arsenal area in western Gcr inuny ovornlght and sent power ful formations streuklng across tho channel hefore brcakfost to duy in one of tho earliest day light sturts In recent weeks. The scope of the night assault was not disclosed Immediately In London, but tho German radio, acknowledging damage In ono center, said tho raid was of the small, "nuisance" variety. Second Attack Tho morning raiders, which might have included American pluncs, headed across Dover Strait toward Calais. Tho weath er was bright with occasional cloud patches. Last night's assault was the second successive night attack on tho rolch) tho big naval baso and submarine building yards at Wllhclmsnavcn having been heavily bombed tho preceding night. Swift British Mosquito bomb era also struck at northwest Germany yesterday afternoon while Amcrlcun-bullt Mustang fighters attacked railways and other wor Installations In north ern Franco, Belgium and The Netherlands. Ono fighter failed to return from theso daylight forays. Patrolman Asks Civil Service For Hearing Clifford E. (Red) Milhorn, pa trolman of the city police de partment, hus asked tlio civil service commission for a hear ing following receipt of a regis tered letter from Police Chief Eurl Houvcl- suspending him from duty for ono week. Hcuvcl's letter stated simply that Milhorn was suspended for "Inefficiency." Suspension be came effective on February 10. George P. Davis, chairman of tho civil scrvlco commission, said Saturday that Milhorn had asked for a hearing, but that ("ontinuod on Pago Four) . ARSENAL AREA Uiter Defeat Met Japs In Guadalcanal Campaign By NORMAN BELL A SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, Feb. 13 (P) Tho American con quest of Guadalcanal was offic ially described today as a "com plcto rout and utter defeat of a Japanese army which executed a non-orderly withdrawal." 'Tho description came from Commander Ralph E, Wilson, a naval officer on tho staff of MaJ. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, commander of American troops on Guadalcanal. Ho spoko to amplify a report on tlio Island campaign by General Patch, Wilson said It would tako days "to clean up the mess." General Patch's report said 6066 Japs were killed and 127 captured in tho closing 25-day drlvo and added that equipment captured included 273 machine guns, 80 field pieces, 18 anti aircraft guns, nine anti-tank guns, 181 mortars, 385 rifles, 22 radios, 13 trucks six small trucks and much miscellaneous equipment. Wilson said that a lata esti mate indicated ns many as 8000 Japs had bean killed on Guadal canal and no moro than 2000 were evacuated by landing boats to enemy destroyers. Patch's summary covered a Sip It's Peaceful Again Today on Guadalcanal By WILLIAM HIPPLE WITH U. S. TROOPS AT CAPE ESPERANCE, Guadalca nal, Feb. 10 (Delayed) -W) -It wus unbelicvcably peaceful on this conquered Island base to day. A tour of Guadalcanal was like a trip around Oahu In the Hawaiian Islands busy mili tary movements everywhere, but no tenseness of constant war: fare and no steady firing. There was a different spirit In tho air as troops who had fought their way to victory marched back along the road from Esper ance to rest areas. They wera happy men. Already, where only two days ago were major Jap defenses, cities of tents havo sprung up. (Continued on Page Four) TAKEOFF CRASH KILLSJX M'KEAN Search for Two, Mis sing Transports Continues ' 4 BAKERSF1ELD, CBllf., Feb. 13 OP) A. fighter plane crashed in Its takeoff at Muroc air base today, killing Its pilot, Lt. Bruce A, McKcan, 25, Portland, Ore. Army authorities said Lt. Mc Kcan was the son of Charles J. McKcan, 3S45 Northeast 27th Ave., Portland. ALEXANDRIA. La., Feb. 13 (IP) Three army men were killed when a plane from Eslcr field hero crashed Wednesday, eight miles northeast of Colum bia, La., Captain Charles A. E. Goodwin, Eslcr base Intelligence officer, announced today. The plane was on a routine flight' between Alexandria and Monroe, La., Goodwin said. ' , Those listed as dead Included: First Lieut. Claude W. Vroman, 24, pilot, of Mt. Vernon, Wash.; sister, Mrs. Vclma Hill of Mt. Vernon, EDMONTON, Feb. 13 (CP) Officials engaged' In the serial search for two United States transport planes missing in the north country with a total of 13 persons aboard, said today .no traco of either ship had been found. They denied reports that (Continued on Page Four) period from the initial assault on Mt. Austen January 2 to the "clean-up operations which fin ally crushed all Jap resistance at 4:25 p. m., February 0, Solo mons time." Wilson said some Jap pockets fought to tho death and others softened up, adding: "Ono lieutenant came in sing ing Tlpcrrary, spoke good Eng lish and declared he was fed up on tho whole mess." Other prisoners, ho said, were bitter over the evacuation of great numbers of their officers. Among tho quantities of loot captured from the. Japs was a brigadier general's personal be longings, his Chevrolet automo bilo and linen and other loot from Mnlaya, "They certainly were fixed up to stay a long time on Gua dalcanal, but in their hasty de parture they left plenty behind." Wilson said, pointing out that tho benches were strewn with abandoned and wrecked equip ment. A captured artillery trailer had now American-made tires in front and British-made on the rear wheels. Dental surgical equipment - seized at an aban doned Jap hospital . was "even bettor than ours, ho said. losses NIP AIR BASE AT MM GETS Allies Increase Pres sure On New Guinea Forces By Th Associated Prats Japan today admitted the loss of seven Japanese warships sunk and six damaged the last half year of battle in the Solomons New Guinea theatre, even as United Nations capitals thrilled to President Roosevelt's pledge of Impending "great and decisive actions" against Japan. The Japanese said these were losses "which have not yet been previously announced." 63rd Munda Bombing The navy announced at Wash ington that United States planes combed the Japanese air base at Munda in the Central Solomons three times Friday. A gun posi tion was destroyed and fires started. The attacks raised to 63 the total on Munda since the first one last November 23 Aj. Tpkyo. , broadcast quoted JAincso 'in,tperial hettdquurter& as ! acknowledging that three Japanese destroyers, three sub marines and a patrol ship were sunk, while a cruiser, four sub marines and a patrol ship were damaged in the South Seas from August 7, 1942, to February 7. Claim U. S. Losses i The communique said four al lied submarines, three torpedo boats and a . patrol ship were sunk in the same period, and three destroyers, four submar ines and a patrol ship were list ed as "heavily damaged." 'Meantime, Domei asserted, in Tokyo broadcasts also heard in this country, that 98 allied war ships had been sunk and 42 dam aged against a loss of . 19 Japa nese warships sunk and 16 dam aged in the last six months in waters about the Solomons and New, Guinea. Tho figures were far out of line with allied tab ulations. Jap Retreat On the far Pacific lighting fronts, allied troops increased their pressure against the Japa nese In Northern New Guinea and RAF warplancs flying from India carried out destructive at tacks on Japanese-conquered Burma. j Gen.. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that the main Japanese forces which suf fered a sharp defeat at Wau, 35 . (Continued on Pcgo Four) Increase in Farm Machinery Output -Gets WPB Approval ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (IP) Tho war production board has authorized an increase in pro duction of farm machinery in the first quarter of this year, i Senator McNary (R-Ore.) said an additional 50,000 tons of steel has been allocated and the quota for repair parts has been raised from 130 per cent of 1940 to 160 per cent. McNary said he learned from Paul H. Appleby, under secre tary' of agriculture, that this will not meet the demand, but that it should maintain essen tial food production. CCC Camps-Eyed As Housing for Imported Labor WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (IP) All old CCC camps in Oregon are being surveyed with a view to housing agricultural labor that may bo imported to help short-handed farmers, Senator McNary (R-Ore.) has been told by Major Walker,' assistant FSA administrator. . i Between 35,000 and 50,000 Mexican laborers may be Im ported, Walker told McNary. 63RD POUNDING , .'. !", '. k , ,' ' .,. ' - 7 mm' ' " - j i xlfum' id L $r- Ws 1 I I Ull I mi ninririi Til it mwmmmmmimmmJ.- lllMMimHnian k i'ljlga Sheriff Lloyd L. Low Is shown Mat Anthony Bockiui, USN. who in iurn will put it in th hands of a fighting man likely to mt up .with Japs in hand-to-hand combat. Deputy Sheriff Jack Franty, left, looks on. Th knif is equipped with heary handl ing hr for f w days as guest Veteran Seaman Vouches For the Superiority of US Men, Ships, Weapons Sure, there are ship sinkings in a war, but with Americans, the loss of personnel Is held to an amazingly iamall minimum. That's the assuring word giv en the families of men who serve on the sea or wb$ we transport ed over the -water, by- Anthony Bockius, machmurt mate of the U. S. navy,, whois. here-. visiting Sheriff Lloyd Liiw. and Deputy Sheriff Jack Franey, ; r ; And Bockius -'knows some thing about It, for he has been there. He has had 22 years' ex perience in government service; he served, in the navy in tne last war and he is serving in this one, and he has been in three torpedoings in the Pacific since Pearl Harbor. , , , "Our American ships and our men are well-equipped and well- Circuit Court Clerk Bill Gets Second Reading Senate bill No. 150, which would create the office of cir cuit court clerk for Klamath county, has been read the sec ond time in the senate and re ferred to -the committee on ju diciary by President Wj H. Stelwer. : Conies of the bill have been received here. It was introduced by Senator Cornett and Repre sentatives Semon and craver,- -The bill provides that the pre siding judge of the circuit court shall appoint the circuit court clerk, whoso salary: shall be fixed by the county court, paya ble monthly. Tho clerk shall hold office and perform the du ties under the direction of the judge, and the judge may re move the clerk and reappoint to fill tho office at any time. Com pensation shall be fixed by the county court. .Under terms of tho bill, the clerk shall qualify by giving a (Continued on P;.ge Four) No Word Received Of Lt. Jack Ray On Missing Plane No word had been received at a late hour Saturday concerning the fate of a four-motored bomb er missing since Thursday at 6 a. m, from the Walla Walla army air base. The big ship was pilot ed by Lt. John T. "Jack" Ray, Klamath Falls flyer. Mrs. Ruth Turner, mother of the flyer, reached Walla Walla late Friday. i News Index City Briefs Page 3 Comics and Story Pago 10 Editorial Page 4 Markets, Financial Page 11 Midland Empire News ..Page 8 Our Men in Service Pago 12 Pattern ;: Page 10 Society Pages 5, 6, 7, 8 Sports ...Page 9 Effective Weapon Against Japs presenting a trench knife, relic which can serve effectively as of th officers. ' ',. trained for those emergencies" said Bockius. "L was on a ship that went down. Wo lost just seven out of a crew of 137. 1 was close by when a transport was sunk after hitting a mine, and there -was a loss of one- out of more than 8000 aboard.' - " "I won't say we aren't scared when something happens. Sure we are, scared as hell, including the old heads like myself. But our.; men have the nerve, they know how to keep their heads, and they are well-trained for just that sort of thing. When an emergency develops, it is met with precision and with the best equipment in the world to save lives. And those figures I quot ed show they are saved." Bockius was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,' and he got a machine gun bullet in his ab domen there. But Pearl Harbor, he says, is not so bad as a lot of people pic ture it. "Of course we were sur prised," he said. "We were sur prised because we thought war would be declared before-an at (Continued on Page Four) 19-Year-Old Draft Registrant Has All the Answers ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (fP) A 19-year-old draft registrant, selective service headqqarters disclosed today, gave these an swers in filling out the occupa tional questionnaire sent him by his board: Under item 24, "Job for which you are best suited," he wrote "Shooting Japs." And under item 31, "Duties of job for which you are next best fitted," he finished it off with this: "Shooting Italians." White House Conference Follows FDR Promise of Blows at Japan, Europe WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (fP) President Roosevelt followed up his promise of "actual invas ions' o f Europe and blows against the Japanese homeland with a conference at the White House today with top military leaders. Admiral William D. Leahy, his chief of - staff, General George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, fleet commander in chief called even as telegrams by the score poured in congratulating the. president for his ' assurance last night that "great and decis ive actions" are in store against the enemy. . He also gave assurance that the United Nations were .In the war until they march in tri umph through the streets of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo and were determined that the nazi, fascist or Japanese warlord form of government shall "never again" dominate a nation guar anteed post-war self-determination. He spoke in a radio address of the last war, to Machinist's "brass knuckles.". Bockius is visit E Pegging of Salaries At Pre-War Level Proposed ' WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (JPh- A move to nullify President Roosevelt s executive order lim iting salaries to $25,000 after taxes, and to replace it with a congressional act. pegging large salaries at their level, when this country went to. war, , was. ap proved today by . the house: ways and means committee.. - : The action come on a vote of 15 to 10. .The. republican mem bership voted solidly for . the change, and was joined by five democratic members. Retroactive ; It was in the form of a rider tacked on to a measure which would boost the nation's statu tory debt limit from $125,000,- 000,000 to $210,000,000,000. Under the terms of the rider, proposed by Representatives Disney (D-Okla.), the new salary ceiling would be retroactive to October 2, 1942, the-date when the second price control act be came effective.' " : .Approval of the move came as the initial step of a campaign for the first congressional nullifica tion of a presidential executive order. . : The Disney plan,-in pegging large salaries at. their December 7, 1941, level, also carried a pro vision which would alldw lower salaries to rise to a maximum of $25,000, after taxes, provided they were less than that before Pearl Harbor. . i "This would mean that we will get a ceiling on salaries as well as a ceiling on wages," declared Disney,' i . last night of world-wide offen sives stemming from that con ference and of the developing battle of Tunisia with Its . ex pected "heavy", losses pn the allied side . in the. attempt to push the enemy into , the sea and open the way for what he called "Invasions" he used the plural twiceof the European continent. ! He described the whole world today as "one neighborhood" and said unless the peace that follows this war recognizes this and does justice to the human race, the germs of another world war "will remain as a constant threat to mankind." : On the home front, the presi dent said that on his African journey he had. told American soldiers and sailors who had ex pressed concern over reports of labor troubles .and ' rationing complaints at home that most of these reports were "just gross exaggerations" and that the peo ple as a whole were only-too willing to give up ' shoes and sugar, and coffee ana automo REDS NARROW ESCAPE LANE TOTDJILES Big Guns of 8th Army Pound Rommel's Forces LONDON, Feb. 13 IP) The xd army has captured Novo cherkassk and Likhaya, north ast and north of Rostov, m special communique recorded by Reuters announced tonight. Likhaya Is 75 ml!s north of Bostov on th railway to Mil lerovo and Kamansk, and No voehrkassk is 19 miles to th northeast of Rostov. Br ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Editor ' The pace of disaster quickened for Adolf . Hitler's invasion armies today, threatening to sur pass even the debacle of Stalin grad, as soviet columns raced 30 miles south toward the Sea of Azov and left only a 70-mile-wide "escape corridor" for' up wards of 500,000 axis soldiers. - The CBS correspondent In Moscow said the Germans were reported setting fire to the entire; city of Rostov, gateway to th Caucasus. Rostov Enveloped Simultaneously, the British ra-' dio declared: . f "Rostov is being rapidly en veloped and the Germans who were driven out of Shakhty, 43 miles to the northeast, , did not retreat toward Rostov but are at tempting to get away to the west ward.. . ' One report said Russian siege guns were shelling Rostov from three sides and that the German garrison was putting" up "most stubborn" resistance. : , Nearly 200,000 additional Ger man troops and their satellites were reported fighting for their lives in the western Caucasus, (Continued on Page Four) WLB Investigates "Black Market" in Eastern Labor DETROIT, Feb. 13 OP) A rep resentative of the regional war labor board here disclosed today that the board was investigating to determine if a black market in skilled labor was operating in Detroit to supply other cities.: Reports , that "labor brokers" are getting men to work in the tool and die industry in Ohio and extracting big commissions in the process are being investigat ed, said Benjamin Aaron, special -WLB representative of the tool and die industry. ' . ; Aaron said he had received -"informal complaints" from both labor and industry that such tactics were being , prac ticed. - He said, however, that "most of the complaints have been very general." bile riding and privileges and profits for the sake ol th common cause. - - : Mr. Roosevelt said' fighting s men abroad also had heard re ports, which he said were "ex aggerated," that farm groups were attempting to profiteer on food and that "there are serious partisan quarrels over the petty things of life here in Washing ton." Describing the struggle for Tunisia as one of the "major battles of the war," he said that while tho axis had main tained its supply lines at great cost Hitler had been willing to pay that cost for he "knowa the consequences of allied vic tory in Tunisia." "Those consequences," he said, "are actual invasions of the con tinent of Europe. We do not dis guise our intention to make these Invasions. Tho pressure on Germany-and Italy will be con stant and unrelenting. Th amazing Russian armies In : the east have been delivering over (Continued on Page Four)