Herald and News from Klamath Falls, Oregon • Page 1

nr Ont 5-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles la- tha signal for a blackout In Klamath Falla. Another long blait, during a blackout la ilgnal lor all-claar. In precautionary parlodi, watoh your atraat llghta. November S3 High -S3. Low 85 Precipitation aa of November 17, 1941 Btraam year to data ...2.83 Last yaar ............2.24 Normal 1.84 Nor.

25 -Sunrise ........8.02 5:14 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1942; Number 9651 i Mill! 'MNMtlilM 9 aw MV AllVlllin i.l.iiiUilAWrj mm 11 When Captain Eddie Came Back Eynnai ssies Near mm BERLIN ADMITS BREAK-THROUGH Pelicans Would Play Official Title Game (Sco Sports Pago Also) "We are not giving anybody tho ruuaround. Klamath will pluy any game for the slate title Hint Is st up under the dictates of tho board of control of the stale high school activities association." That was Pelican Coach Frank Ramsey's statement Tuesday as Klamath football supporters expressed Indignation over "Insulting" remarks made in news stories appearing In Portland papers from Coach Orvllle Bailey of Marshficld. Bailey, whoso team was tied by Grants Pass (which lost to Klamath) has challenged Klamath Fulls for a game, and (Continued on Pago Two) Captain Eddie Rlckenbacker (center), famous American flier rescued after floating on a rubber rait in the Pacific for three weeks, is helped ashore from a flying boat somewhere In the South Pacific by Col. Robert L. Griffin USMC (left) and a crewman.

Six other members of tha crew of Rlckenbacker's plana, forcad down while on an Inspection tour, were rescued. Another died before rescue came- This official U. nary photo was radioed. from Honolulu to San Francisco, You're Going to Have a Nice Thanksgiving Meal, But It Will Cost 0 BATTLES RAGE FOR CONTROL OF AFRICAN SKIES Main. Battle'Waits As Both Sides Mass Troops By ROGER D.

GREENE Associated Press War Editor Allied parachute troops routed an axis mechanized column- in southern Tunisia while planes attacked an enemy troop train near Gabes on the east coast, the war department announced today; shortly after the Vichy radio said strong German and Italian reinforcements had been landing in that area. French patrols also were active in the south of that North African protectorate, but it was apparent that the main battle had not been joined. Both sides were massing their land strength near the northern coastal strip while opposing air forces fought for supremacy of the skies. Admit Advance destroyed four enemy craft; our bombers raided rBizerte and Tunis by night. No Jtf.

S. planes w.er(S lost A' Cirman- broadcast conceded Anglo-American- troop columns '-Were advancing in Tunisia as' axis forces dug into the Bizerte-Tunis region along the gulf of Gabes and violent air battles raged for control of the sKIei over the North African colony. activity of axis forces in Tunisia is limited to securing the district occupied until now and to bringing up further troops and war materials so as to fortify this bridgehead on the North African coast, which is the strongest by nature," the Berlin radio said. 8th Army Gains The." picture was further brightened by the announced adherence of French: forces at Dakar to the side. of the allies.

On- the Libyan desert front, British headquarters reported that- Gem- Sir-Bernard L. Montgomery's victorious 8th army had driven 100 miles beyond Bengasi occupy Agedabia in swift pursuit of nazi Field Mar shal Erwin Rommel's fleeing columns. Oasis Occupied i Agedabia. lies only- 70 miles from the El Agheila defile, a 30-mile-deep passage, between, marshy quicksands and the sea, where Rommel is expected to attempt a last-ditch stand. Military dispatches said Brit-ish advanced forces "maintained contact" with axis rearguards on the.

road to El Agheila and occupied the Glalb Oasis, south of Agedabia, which, the enemy had (Continued on Page Two) If UIUUV Knox Doubts Landing Of More Enemy Troops WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 The navy reported toduy that American forces on Guadalcanal Island In the Solomons had made further advances to the westward of their positions following night attacks on Japanese positions by American aircraft. A communique said that Japanese troops were active in tha mountains southwest of the American-held airfield, but the nature of the activity was not announced. Attacksd Sunday Whether tho Japanese were attempting to flank American forces advancing along the coastal lowlands could not be definitely determined, thercforo. Tho aircraft attacks on the enemy were made on the night of November 22-23, Sunday (Continued on Page Two) OPA to Check on Gasoline Stocks WASHINGTON, Nov.

24 W) To "frustrate any attempts to creoto a "black market pool," tho office of prlco administration announced today its field staffs would mako an extensive chock on gasoline stocks and storago capacities of dealers and distributors when nation-wide rationing goes into effect December 1. ON DONJJNES Reds. Push Offensive 125 Miles West of Stalingrad MOSCO Wednesday. Nor, 25 W) The red army has another 15,000 nails, and captured 12,000 more, including the remnants of three divisions and their generals, in their great winter offensive, still advancing ai much as 25 miles a day above and- below Stalingrad, the Soviets announced officially today.1 BERLIN (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS). Nov.

24 (AP) The German high command said today -that Russian forces, attacking southwest of Stalingrad and in -the great loop the river Don without regard to losses, have penetrated the German defensive lines on the Don and added that "counter measures are -i i (TKis is one of the. frankest admissions of an adversary's success in the record of the nazi high command in this war.) The communique -said that, on the Caucasus fronts un favorable weather had hamp ered large-scale, operations. YBy EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (AP) The jaws of a double Russian offensive which battle! ront reports said-had bit deeply into the steppes of Don and cost the. Germans dead and captured were closing' steadily today upon the nazis' whole Stalingrad salient, threatening 300,000 to 400,000 troops with encirclement.

7 Despite desperate German resistance in an effort- to keep open a. corridor; of reinforcement or escape to- the -long-besieged -Volga-bastion(-the Russians reported new gains to maintain their average of- six to 12 miles a day northwest of Stalingrad and nine- to' 12 miles a day southwest, of the city. Deep Penetration A' dispatch to the London Express under Stockholm dateline "said Hermann, von CContlnued- on. Page Two) Emergency Plan Set to Give -v Farmers Mileage CORVALLIS, Nov 24 VP) Drastic cuts by the office of defense transportation in farmers' requests for truck and pickup mileage are reported in an. avalanche of complaints being received here by the State USD A war board, R.

B. Taylor, chairman, said today. Taylor has just completed emergency arrangements whereby farmers whose certificates provide insufficient mileage for the remainder of the year may present the certificate to the local rationing board and request temporary rations for essential hauling until December 31. Indications are that pickup trucks were almost uniformly cut to thq A-ration passenger car level regardless of circumstances. pf SHOPPING crS; SCARF AMD PfF II Iff! Waft IB! HE: S'SSii! 1 I Ij ilijllljlllilillililMlllllil By FRANK JENKINS.

TODAY'S moat Interesting news: Thri high command ADMITS lt defensive lines west o( Stalingrad have been penetrated. It says tha Russian tire attacking "without regard to losses." and ndtla that "defensive measures are being taken." TO get the full Impact of this news, recall Inst summer when the Hussions were telling of ever-continuing. Cormon attacks without regard to losses nd of thalr own retirement to new defense lines. It scared US then. The same situation, IN REVERSE, Is scaring the Germnns now; TTERE, In brief, Is what has happened: Tha Russians have driven two wedges westward from Stalin- grad.

Between) these wedges there are supposed to be some 300.000 to 400,000 Germans. If tha Russians can swing around and bring -4he POINTS ofrthe wedges TOGETHER, these Germans will bo TRAPPED. TODAY'S dispatches tell of great German air fleet gath ering In the central Mediterranean and a big battle for con trol of the air over Blzerte and Tunis appears to be getting under way. German reinforcements are reaching northern Tunisia cross tlio Sicilian strait. An allied spokesmen says: "The fight (for Tunisia) Is go ing to be TOUGH and longer than might bo expected.

rjARLAN comes strongly Into the picture again. He says all French West Africa. INCLUDING DAKAR, has placed Itself under his or ders. Ho adds cryptically: "Therefore French West Africa remains faithful to the PERSON of the MARSHAL (Petaln.) i Draw your own conclusions as to what that means keeping "your fingers slightly crossed. i yVT.

least, our side Is- In fairly complete possession of French West Africa, with Dakar Isolated and surrounded. In war, possession Is all-Important, for It Is easier to HOLD than to TAKE. AS a curious side Issue, we ore told today that the fall of Dakar will result In Increasing the supply of meat on the Pacific Coast, as It will make possible meat shipments to the Mediterranean from South America, thus relieving tho stralri on us. 'TURNING to the Pacific, Msc-Arthur's men reach the sea both north and south of Buna, I penning the Japs Into an area not more, than two or three miles deep. Today's dispatches sny tho little yellow men, deprived of sea or olr support, are gotting a taste of what happened to us on Batnan.

TON'T overlook the Import-ance of this New Guinea fighting. If Bunn Is taken, Salnmaun and Lao will prohably fall to us next. The Papuan peninsula (consult your mop) has been one of Japan's most promising spots Invasion of Australia. In our hands, It will always be a threat on the flank of a Jnp attack on the Solomons. Significantly, our airmen continue to pound Timor meaning they are ANTICIPATING a new Jap attack from that A CHINESE army spokesman In Chungking says today there are INCREASING SIGNS of a Jap drive Into China's Yun- (Continued on Pag Two) I UdV 250,000 Polish Jews Massacred, Says Government LONDON, Nov.

24 '0P) The Polish government-in-exlle asserted today that Helnrich Him-mler, nazl gestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of jine-half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been killed through September under program. "According to Information leaking from the German labor office (arbeitsamt), only 40,000 Jews are to remain In the Warsaw ghetto only thoroughly skilled workers to be employed in the German war industry," a government statement said. "The most convincing proof of the dwindling numbers in the (Continued on Page Two) DIE FDRTREASON Aid to Nazi Saboteur Proved Against: Citizens 1 Nov." men who became American citizens in name only were sentenced to death today for treason. Their wives, convicted with them, were each "fined and Sentenced to- 25 years imprisonment. Federal Judge William J.

Campbell called them "Pawns of in fixing their punishment he said, "this is' a war of people against people as as cannon against To endanger the home front, therefore, is as treasonable as the act of spiking our guns in the face of the enemy." Names Listed The white-faced defendants, who heard their sentences with-(Continued on Page Two) Winsor Predicts War Will Force Longer Work Hour PORTLAND, 24. JP Gen. H. G. Winsor, regional-war manpower director, predicted yesterday the workers of this nation will be forced to put in longer hours in order to win the war.

the country heeds 20,000,000 more workers, he told a chamber of commerce forum. Winsor said 8,000,000 women could be recruited along with more than 3,000,000 from. the aged, the young and the unemployed, but that still would not be enough. "The only answer then willrbe to increase the hours of labor," he said, adding that the change could take place without hew laws. -v pressure on the French to yield their policing rights.

He added that Japanese warships had arrived in Kwang-chow bay. (Kwangchow, on China's southern coast, is held by the French under lease, but there, as in French Indo-China, the Japanese have put the squeeze on French colonial administrators, for demanding base and transit privileges). "All these things," the spokesman said, "lead us to the belief that the enemy has major move in mind. Japanese air strength in Indo-China and Burma has been increased, he said, reporting more than 300 planes in the area of Saigon, Indq-China, The spokesman said that the Japanese troop strength in western Burma was believed sufficient only for defensive action and that therefore an attack toward India was JAPS CHOOSE TO FIGHT IT Allied Planes Support Yard-by-Yard Advance By C. YATES McDANIEL GbN.

MacARTHUR HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Nov. 24 (l'j American and Australian soldiers fought their way yard-by-yard toward Buna today against Japanese forces that apparently have chosen to be exterminated rather than to surrender their southernmost New Guinea beachhead. Extending the picture relentless today's mid-day communique reported an Australlan'jungle column had moved Into Gona, enemy anchor 12 miles above Buna, and was mopping up the die hard garrison there. i -t Mop-Up Job Simultaneously, American forces overran Cape Endslidere which lies three miles southeast of Buna, overcoming stiff resistance romj; many machine-gun nests and tree-top While some of the allied left (Continued on Page Two) Nazi Extortion Scheme Charged. To Get Currency LONDON, 24 (P) The Notherlands -government-ln-exile charged Germany today with organizing a vast scheme of extortion by selling exit permits from occupied territory for great sums and said It would: combat the traffic with every means in cooperation with the BrltMi and United States governments.

Relatives and rrienus in allied and neutral' territory receive a communication that persons in occupied territory will be allowed to emigrate on condition that a considerable sum, in the currency of a neutral country, be made available to the enemy," it said. "In some cases the request emanates from the' prospective emigrant In other cases the attempt, is made through associates of the enemy in neutral territory. The request 'is sometimes accompanied by an open or veiled threat, that those con-, (Continued on Page Two) Sergeant James N. Young, former Kcno high school student and son of. Mrs.

Sophie Young of Stewart's addition, Is missing in action. Mrs. Young received wprd from the adjutant general's office this week, stating that Sergeant Young had been missing since October 25 somewhere In Asiatic territory. Sergeant Young is years of age, and served: as a machine gunner and radio operator. 1 After attending Keno high, he went to Coquille, and graduated there In 11138.

enlisted at Mcdford In December, 1941, ajodJ took his preliminary warning at Pendleton 1 airfield. He was transferred to Scott field, 111., where he graduated from radio school, and he then transferred to Wright field gunnery school at Spokane. He then went to Lexington airbase at Columbia, S. where He became a radio Instructor until he was ordered overseas. He has written from India, Africa and China His duties were with the.

Iudla-Burma-China ferry command. While on his extensive travels, be met Howard Abbey of, jKlamath Falls. OUTU iff -V. ss who say the demand Is satisfy- Klamath county housewives will set 'the first wt tune Thanksgiving table since back in '17; They'll still order the bird, they'll still have stuffed celery and cranberry "sauce. mashed potatoes and giblet gravy; pumpkin- and mince pies and plum puddings' but where they had dinner for $10 last year, they'll spend $19.67 this 1842 holiday.

Take a dinner'" built along these lines, oyster or crab cocktail, stuffed celery, roast turkey, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, candied yams, buttered brussel sprouts or artichokes, cranberry sauce, pudding or pie, coffee and cheese. Olympia oysters sold last year for around 80 cents a half pint This year they're 90 cents. Tur keys have been mentioned and they're up some ,4.8.3 per. ce'nt. Canned oysters' for stuffing run around 49 cents per can as com pared' to last year's 29 cents.

Cranberries, west are something around 23 cents this year as compared to 171 Mast There is a- nice Cape Cod: cran berry- pounds' fori (Continued on Page Two)' I Son Francisco Faces, Slim Thanksgiving SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24 W5) Supplies of turkeys, meats, butter and many other foods grew slimmer yet today in this crowded war production area and in most sections of the west, for that- matter with-, another hysterical buying wave in advance of Thanksgiving, traditional day of plenty; Sales of coffee already frozen, butter and eggs -were rationed by grocers themselves on a voluntary basis, and ther was scant letup in sight for the critical shortage of meats of all kinds. Poultrymen said only about one-half to one-fourth of the demand for turkeys could be supplied. Turkey flocks are large enough, growers explained, but pickers are scarce and 'other problems enter in also. i A of eggs was the latesV to With stocks going down, John Lawler, manager of the poultry producers of central California, recommend-(Continued on Page Two) i i News Index City Briefs 5 Comics and Story 10 Editorial 4 Market, Financial 11 Our Men' In Service Page Pattern 'j 8 Sports LPage BY LOIS STEWART Lady, you're going to have" nice Thanksgiving dinner but you're going to pay for it, and pay plenty.

Venus rides with Mars, and prices go soaring It seems after a look at local markets In spite of careful observ ance of ceiling regulations by food dealers. Ah average Increase of S6.7 per cent in holiday foodstuffs to dpek, the Thanksgiving table means that where you paid 33 to 28 cents for turkey last year, you'll pay 43 to 45 cents per pound this. But you'll still have turkey according to butchers NEW HOLDERS PUT Draft-Chief Forbids Enlistment of Workers WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 The government acted today to assure retention of a sufficient army of war workers on the home front by forbidding enlistment of essental aircraft and shipbuilding workers and expanding the list of necessary jobs to one out of every nine types In industry and agriculture. Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey announced that, the army and navy will re-fuse'to accept volunteers holding essential jobs in the aircraft and Shipbuilding industries as well as men who have resigned such jobs within 60 days before they apply for enlistment.

Master List To protect those Industries from a drain of necessary men, Hershey said he telegraphed every state that local draft boards should "refuse a release to sriy registrant who is, or (Continued on Page Two) Heavy Rains Jam Santiam Highways SALEM, Nov. 24 () The North and South Santiam highways are closed because of heavy rains, Slate Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said today. He also said there is 16 Inches of water on.

the. Pacific highway south of Jefferson, but that traffic is going The water is he added. The South Santiam highway is closed by a slide at Upper Soda. The North Santiam highway is closed because of a damaged bridge east of Niagara. Heavy rajns washed out an approach to the bridge.

Sergeant Young Reported Missing in Asiatic Area Major Jap Drive Into Southern China Signaled CHUNGKING, Nov. 24 (P) Increasing signs of a major Japanese drive' in Yunnan province, the area sandwiched between enemy-held Burma and French Indo-China in south-westernmost: in were reported today by the army spokesman. He said Japanese preparations included a concentration of amphibian tanks along the Sal-ween river In a slice of Yunnan already enemy-held and a stream of reinforcements arriving in Jndo-China. The spokesman vindicated that the Japanese had two divisions In Thailand, one in Indo-Chlna arid s) in-Burma. (With auxiliaries' this could mean a total of to 200,000 men).

AU railroad traffic in Indo-China is devoted to Japanese troop Jie sajd, $nd Japanese author Jties thrjl are "'V Sgt. James N. Young.