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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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