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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. February 2. IS 43
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'Folkes Waits
For Attorney
11 Zoot-Suited Negro
Hears Charge of
'Lower 13 Slaying
j By FRED HAMPSON
. ALBANY, Ore, Feb.
I Without flinching,. Robert E. Lee
-i Folkes, 20-year-old dining car
. .rook, beard himself charged with
J tit degree murder Monday in
the k?wer 13" slaying of hand
some MrS.Martha Virginia James,
21year-oId veyy officer's bride.
' ..His demeanoK in strange con
l.trast to his flashy zsot suit, Folkes
stared straight ahead, X ad bowed,
-, eyes half closed as Justicvpf the
, Peace Victor Olliver . read - the
, charge. . . , . :
Then the justice said: "Do you
wish to waive preliminary hear-
tag?"
"On advice of my attorney, I
dont care to discuss the matter
f now," responded the negro -with
" out looking up. It was learned
that his attorney is Maurice A.
: Gleason, Los Angeles, retained,
Folkes said, "by my people."
' ' "I imagine he's on his way here,1
"' said the accused, who was born
. in Newark, Ark, and attended
'Jefferson high school in Los An-
1 geles. "He wont be here for the
preliminary hearing.
Folkes stood without moving
; .while Olliver head the charge and
,for some 10 minutes afterward
awhile the press- photographers
...snapped their cameras. He wore
r a blue zoot-type coat which hung
5 almost to his knees and green
. trousers that draped loosely in ac
: cord to that style until they
.. reached his ankles where they
' pulled in sharply. A green striped
. shirt, a large pattern red tie and a
green pocket handkerchief com'
pleted the ensemble.
Far from jaunty at any time.
Folkes' attitude seemed to pick up
a slight air of defiance as he told
the justice he had an attorney to
conduct his case.
Only about 30 persons were in
Oliver's chambers for the hearing
which the justice continued until
Folkes' attorney arrives. Among
them .were six state policemen,
'.two sheriff's officers and District
'Attorney Hawlow L Weinrick.
. Earlier Monday, Weinrick said,
'. almost nine days to the hour aft
er Mrs. James scream aroused
- sleepers in darkened car D of the
Southern Pacific's west coast
limited, Folkes gave a straight
forward recital of the slaying.
Army Sought
Requisition
Of Tires, Said
WASHINGTON, Feb. l-(P)-The
army wants the government to
requisition some 7,000,000 of the
27,000,000 automobiles in the coun
try and all spare tires on passen
ger cars and to ban. all long-distance
hauling of freight and pas
sengers by trucks and busses, a
house committee learned Monday.
Robert P. Patterson, undersec
retary of war, disclosed that these
suggestions had been made to Wil
liam M. Jeffers December 8 and
complained that the rubber ad
ministrator had not acted.
Jeffers himself, who precipitated
. the committee's inquiry with his
Baltimore speech last week cri
ticizing army and navy represen-
. tatives in war plants as hindranc
es, told the committee that "it
seems to me that the job of the
.. army and navy is to- fight and
. not to run business and direct
the civilian economy.
Jeffers reported that there were
j considerable differences between
-him and the armed services over
I the allotment of rubber for essen-
tial civilian uses. Patterson
- agreed, but. James V. Forres tal,
1 third witness, insisted that "there
; Isn't . the slightest quarrel" be
s tweeri Jeffers and the navy de
partment. The committee also developed
, from Jeffers that 14 months after
t Pearl Harbor not a single pound of
, synthetic rubber has been made
; in a government-controlled plant
In this country, Jeffers attributing
? the delays to indecision and an
i over-a Dunaance ox "experts and
"expediters." . '
Time Saver
The Statesman's new system
of Identifying stories carried
over front the boat to Inside
pages has attracted considerable
favorable comment., Here's how
the system works: i
At th bottom of the story on
ago one Is aa insertBtioa bear
ing a number ' referring the
reader to the partiealar inside
page and a letter denoting the
particvlarty story. Aa oxample:
(Turn to Page 2--Story A) "4
n . On the inside page, the con
tinuation of this story would be
labeled:. . vsi-v;-.
A (Continued from Page 1) A
: The system was designed 1 to
'save tmie la retting: the paper
.to press, time that helps yea get
your paper, earlier;' many read
ers are saying, toe, that , It's a
tetter plan than the old oae of
referring ' to Inside columns
r lone rather than ; to the indi
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Under command f Second Officer
rt i mrWii.n nil.
beside execntive bnlldlnrs at Fort Caster, ftear BatUo Creek, MIclu, early la morning. AssocUted
Press TelemaL
City Council Refuses Neiv
Restaurant Liquor License
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Carleson's endorsement by Alder
man Ross Goodman.
Carleson's application for re
newal of a "package A" type li
cense was approved along with
other renewals.
Charles Heltpel, young Salem
attorney, was appointed to the
city library board, taking the
R. J. Hendricks, veteran mem
ber of that body.
The council approved a com
mittee recommendation that either
a "deadend street" sign or a bar
ricade should be placed at the
foot of South Liberty Street on
Superior street, where motorists
reputedly often drive into a gar
den. Councilmen joined the park
committee in asking Mayor I. M.
Dough ton to name three members
from the council to serve on the
city's summer recreation commit
tee. Recently the committee has
represented school board rather
than both board and counci, mem
bers of hte school directorate had
declared, urging that both groups
have equal representation. Dough-
Churchill Talks
With Turkish
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added, "but I am confident of
the result"
The atmosphere was in sharp
contrast to the last meeting here
of correspondents with Church
ill which took place last summer
when Marshal Rommel's Africa
corps was threatening the Nile
valley. Then the prime minister
said Britain's imperial troops
would defend the territory "inch
by inch.
Today Rommel is beaten and
on the run, and other allied plans
are afoot.
British-made Hurricane planes
flown by pilots of the Turkish air
force escorted Churchill's plane
part of the way on his return here
from Adana, Turkey, where the
conference occurred.
President Inonu told Churchill
goodbye at the Adana railway
station.' and Turkish Foreign Min
ister Sukru Saracoglu accompan
ied the British prime minister to
the airport there after the talks
ended.
LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 2 -f;p)
Prime Minister Churchill has gone
to Turkey to confer with the Brit
tish president and war leaders and
has reached agreement "on all
principal points," the foreign of
fice announced early Tuesday.
The prime minister went to neu
tral Turkey directly from the
grand conference with President
Roosevelt at Casablanca in French
Morocco.
It was said authoritatively that
Mr. Roosevelt and Premier Stalin
of Russia had been informed in
advance of Churchill's intention
to visit Turkey, and had been ad
vised of the results of his confer
ence there.
Churchill spoke "with the full
knowledge of the views of Presi
dent , Kooseveit,"' . a communique
announced. j
Six of Britain's highest- ranking
military, nival and airforce com
manders j accompanied4 Churchill
and held sessions with Turkish of
ficers. f -
The two delegations "together
examined the present situation in
Europe and particularly in those
regions wherein Turkey Is direc
tly interested," said the communi-
"While"? i authoritative," comment
was : lacking, observers : believed
that, this reference applied to the
Balkan states, which long have
been considered a likely : region
for the establishment of a second
front. . i .
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The conference began Saturday
and ended Sunday, just a week af
Early Morning Drill at Fort
f i"r "
L. A. tWjitesel (right), executive
ton said he would make the ap-
Dointments but wanted time to
consider his, choices.
An ordinance assessing property
holders for work done by city
employes last summer in cutting
brush and weeds from their lots
and another re-vacating a never
used alley running between Win
ter and Summer streets in Uni
versity addition were passed by
the council. The re-vacation ac
tion was required because of re
dundant and misleading wording
in the first, City Atty. Lawrence
N. Brown explained to the coun
cil. To Alderman Tom Arm
strong's request that the police
committee be asked to check on
city bus service, since "Carry
ing 60 persons on a 24-passenger
bus hardly looks like the im
proved service we were promis
ed a year ago, Mayor Doughton
responded that he had inquired.
"They used all the equipment
they had during the now," he
said.
The $20,000 bond of City Treas.
Paul Hauser was accepted for
filing.
ter the Casablanca
broke up.
conference
ANKARA Turkey, Feb. 1-P)-With
President Roosevelt's Casa
blanca blessings, Prime Minister
Churchill of Britain flew to Tur
key Saturday for a two-day round
of talks with President Ismet In
onu of Turkey and they decided
upon the manner in which Brit
ain and the United States are best
able to aid Turkey consolidate her
general security, an announcement
said Monday night.
Informed opinion was reserved
about any prospect of an immed
iate visible result stemming from
the talks, but it was evident nev
ertheless that Turkey had taken
a long step toward positive im
plementation of the cause in the
1939 British-Turkey military alli
ance which calls for active mili
tary support when the war enters
the Mediterranean zone.
Russians Near
Caucasus Gate
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nomber of men killed," the bul
letia added.
(Labinskaya, 30 miles east of
recaptured Maikop in the Cau
casus, leu in tne red army's
cleanup of the sector between
that oil city and Armavir.
The crushing of the German
Sixth and Fourth tank armies at
Stalingrad after five months of
valiant defense and attack went
into the annals of history as the
greatest German defeat of the
war. It was evidence of the pow
er of the red army.
Pravda described central Sta
lingrad as a graveyard of skeleton
buildings and chimneys with the
sidewalks full of German bodies.
Pravda's account of the surren
der said:
"It was very crowded in the
dugout of the soviet commander
of the division, all ranks of Ger
man officers from lieutenants to
generals stood around with dumb
expressions of despair. Another
delegation of Germans appeared.
They were representatives of the
297th division. Messengers said
the general and his staff had ac
cepted the surrender.
' "The Russian colonel received
the - messengers. The commander
of the German division. Gen.
Maurice Von Drebber, iasked
where the place ol surrender
would be. He was told the name
of a"skeleton schoolhouse. i. ; H
The German general entered
at 2 a. as. as tiring; ceased b bis
sector.- Waere are year regt
meats? the KassUa eoloael
asked. The general smiled wry
ly and said. No use to ask. Yea
know that any soldier who re
mained alive surrendered be
fore I gave my order. ,
. "Von Drebber l asked ' the' r red l
Custer
1 -a. m
'irfi itil -"irfiri i
officer, a group of WAACs drills
army colonel his age. 'Thirty-
five,' he answered. 'So young and
yet you have captured a grey
haired general,' " he sighed, 1
"think I must be the first general
to formally surrender in Stalin
Tax Proposal
Has Alternate
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basis of the January 1 inventory.
Some support was expressed for
Rep. John Steelhammer's bill pro
posing to tax pinball machines
and other "nickel grabbers," but
action was withheld. Committee
members said they feared adding
the revenue so gained to the
state's public welfare fund would
increase the burden on counties
of matching such funds; and they
expressed interest in Rep. Walter
J. Gearin s bill proposing that
the state, if it had additional
funds, take over a portion of the
counties' 20 per cent share.
The house taxation and revenue
committee will today take up for
definite action all of the bills
bearing upon the initiated law dis
tributing income tax surplus funds
to school districts.
Bodies of 19
Found, Plane
UKIAH, CaliL, Feb. l-)-The
bodies of 10 naval officers and
nine crewmen of a giant transport
plane were taken to the Mare
Island navy yard at Vallejo Mon
day to complete in death the trip
which started from Hawaii on
Wednesday, January 20.
The plane crashed against
2000-foot cliff near here in
raging storm of the next morning.
apparently while trying for an
emergency landing on Clear Lake
a few miles away. Heavy weather
had precluded the scheduled land
ing in San Francisco bay.
The bodies, including that of
Rear Ada Robert H. English,
commander of the Pacific fleet
submarine force, were found in
the wreckage of the burned plane
Sunday.
No Soldier Help
Assured, Crops
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-UPi
The war department will not re
lease soldiers to harvest crops un
less exhaustion of existing food
surpluses and elimination of all
sources of farm labor present
food emergency, Maj. Gen. J. A.
Ulio, adjutant general of the army.
informed Representative - Ander
son (R-Calif) in a letter Ander
son made public Monday.
"During recent months," Ulio
stated, "many occupation groups
have requested the war depart
ment to return soldiers to civil life
to relieve current labor shortages
However, the release of soldiers
to one occupation would require
the release of additional soldiers
to other occupations . . . with the
inevitable loss to the armv of
thousands of soldiers being rigor
ously, trained for combat.'
Josh Lee Okehed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-4PV-
The nomination of Josh Lee, de-
xeatea democratic senator from
Oklahoma, as a member of the
civil aeronautics board was con
firmed Monday by the senate. 46
to 3 U. after his successor. Senator
Moore (R-Okla), had " opposed
him as a lame duck favorite of
the White House. j
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Roosevelt Guesses Army
017,500,000 Needed
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ing American troops and those of
our allies overseas, Mr. Roosevelt
was said to have described the
axis submarine warfare as a seri
ous problem.. The improvement
in; detection devices was men
tioned and it was reported that
the United States and Great Bri
tain are building more ships than
are being sunk.
In his discussion of the Pacific
war zone, the president was re
ported to have said that the war
of attrition was having a telling,
though slow, effect on Japan.
; Bombings of Tokyo were spec
tacular, he was reported to have
said, but the thing was' to blast
the enemy's ships and down his
planes. There have been estimates
that Japan ' started, the war with
6,000,000 tons of shipping and 6000
planes, but has been losing the
battle to replace those which have
been lost in fighting thus far.
j There was no promise of any
quick conclusion for the war,
legislators said, but rather a
warning that the fighting may
go ob for a long time and that
lives are going to have to be
sacrificed to bring about victory.
(Returning to his desk for the
frist time in more than three
weeks, Mr. Roosevelt first cleared
away paper work that had piled
up while he flew to Africa to
consult the Prime Minister Chur
chill on forcing "unconditional
surrender" on the axis. Then he
filled the rest of the day with
conferences.
Called to the White House from
Capitol Hill were Vice Pres. Wal
lace; Sen. Majority Leader Bark
ley and Minority Leader McNary;
Speaker Rayburn; House Majority
Leader McCormack and Minority
Leader Martin; Chairman Connal
ly (D-Tex) of the senate foreign
relations committee; .Chairman
Bloom (D-NY), and Rep. Eaton
(R-NJ), ranking minority mem
ber of the house foreign affairs
cbmmiUe; Sen. Hill (Ala), sen
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rj sub-zero Arctic blizzards, numbers of our armed forces are grateful for
protection given them by Fir-Tex, Oregon's own insulating board. A
constant stream of this product made by chewing up Northwest wood
has been going to northern outposts. 1
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days' a week, the half-mile-long Fir-Tex
plant at St Helens is pouring out vital insulation. Hundreds of carloads
have gone to airplane factories, shipyards, aluminum plants and other war
industries in all parts of the country.
Ever since its $2,000,000 factory was opened, Fir-Tex has relied a poo
PGE to supply a steady, dependable flow of power. Fir-Tex's increased
wartime power requirements are being met fully thanks to PGFs recant
4yi million dollar expansion program. This program has greatly enlarged
PGFs capacity for serving scores of vital war industries.
pge is measuring up to its wartime assignment of pdmp
, Jng a quarter-million horsepower to war industries and
. other customers. The Pacific Northwest, and America,
I are Ww reaping the benefits of PGFs half-century of
. pioneering! For more than 50 years, PGE has demoa
' " ' strated its faith in thefuture of this region t s by develop
. : Ing five waterpower plants, a 105,000-horsepower steam
ate democratic whip, and Sen.
Austin (Vt), assistant republican
leader in the senate. . ;
January Bond
Sales Highest
WASHINGTON, Feb. ! 1-UPl
Sales of war bonds reached an
all time high last month, totaling
i,zu,4,goo, me treasury n
ported Monday, i
I : The biggest previous month, the
treasury said, was in January,
1942, when sales of series E, F and
G bonds totaled $1,060,548,000.
The increase last month over Jan
uary, 1942, was 1 179,893,000, or 17
per cent, f - -. x -
The total amount of E. F and
G bonds purchased since they
were oriered to the public in May,
1941, through January, 1943, was
$1234,611,000,of which about 98
per cent still remain in the hands
of the purchasers, the treasury
said. -;
Axis Men Said
Holding Strings
WASHINGTON. Feb! 1-fJPi
Fighitng French headquarters here
made public Monday night letters
rrom' North J Africa alleging that
the French civil ;, administration
there is being packed with "men
known for their devotion' to the
axis," that "all the military com
munications are controlled by the
friends of the axis' and that
friends of the allied cause still are
held : in concentration camps or
otherwise persecuted. f.
The letters were dated January
3 and 4, but Jean Baube, the head
quarters spokesman, said later re
ports indicated the situation had
become still worse in recent
weeks.
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Yanlss Assault
Nazi Positions
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In Tunisia
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knocked out along with four light
er: tanks. : r-"?;.-'
In this fighting, the Germans
came, forward at first la light
array with : a squadron of 1C
tanks and 25 truckloads of In
fantrybat . British fire blew
these beck. They then seat in a
largo tank and Infantry force,
which suffered heavy losses.
Allied planes knocked out seven
enemy transports and one or more
tanks, iy "r:? --;--'r-";.i';:-.';s,
At the eastern end of the north
African battle line,, two columns
of the British Eighth army were
driving toward the Mareth line in
southeastern Tunis! a, behind
which considerable force of Field
Marshal Rommel's fugtitive army
of Libya were in position. Field
dispatches reported "many, con
tacts" had been made with the-
Rommel force, j
In widespread air battles over
Tunisia, the allied communique
from north African headquarters
reported the destruction of at least
19 enemy planes, against the loss
of five allied planes. (,
British Cairo headquarters re
ported that at least three enemy
fighters had been badly damaged.
At that end, three allied planes
were lost, hut in operations that
damaged and possibly . sank an
enmy destroyer and spread fire
and explosions over the axis naval
base of Messina, Sicily, w v
Tne axis-held Tunisian ports of
Bizerte and Gabes also were
bombed. ; -
The Italian high command
acknowledged allied., air raids
not only en Messina bat en the
Italian towns of Catania, Tra
panl, Mellto Di Porto Salvo and
Augusta, and admitted the loss
of a corvette and a destroyer
off the Tunisian coast. '
Against allied reports of a total
a Ik :
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2,500-souare-mlle territory. Today, la wartime, power at
home produces finjwtr at the front! The loyal PGE staff
of 1,230 men and.women 56 of whom have more tn
10 years experience with as is doing yeoman's service
In delivering. this power. PGE is in "fighting trim for
: solving the mr problems during and mfltr the war.
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OMeHOMEFRONT
By ISABEL CHILDS
- Every home should have one:
You buy it from your air raid
warden,' and, I understand, most
of the stirrup pumps already or
dered by the county civilian de
fense organization have been
promised to householders here.
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Now, a stirrup pump isnt ro
manticthat is, it is very real.
But, I should think.lt might be
used with Imagination to bring a
lot of fun into the world, even if
it never has to. be put to work on
an incendiary bomb or a flue fire.
For instance, it must provide
much the same exercise as a row
ing machine and for only $2!
You could work it to music or
simply count "one, two, three.
four. " . i .--
Won't it come in handy during
hot summer days? Put a little ice
into the water and quick-freeze
the kiddies. . '
It should be most useful for bits
of irrigating now that the garden
hose Is so shot you can't get near
the thing while the water's
turned on. 1
Timid w o men may plant It
near the door while hubby is at
work on the swing shift and thus
be sure of protection from ma
rauders despite the fact that they
can no longer get ammunition for
grampa's .22. ;
Very much like the equipment
you may have used to spray the
family cherry trees, the stirrup
pump is recommended by the of
fice of civilian defense, comes to
you through Marion county's OCD
at wholesale. Just ask your air
raid' warden. If all the first ship
ment is taken when he gets your
order,, don't worry, another is to
be forthcoming.
ot eight planes lost over north
Africa, Sicily and Italy, however,
the Italians claimed 29 allied
planes shot -down.
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