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TOf MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. F.b. IS. 1943 .TV4 EIGHT 43 56 PWS Shot While Trying To Escape 35 Killed Murder, Suicide Low. Washington,. Feb. 15 (U.B Eight murders and 43 suicides have occurred among axis prisoners of war at camps in this country, Mai. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, provost marshal general said today. All or nearly all oc curred among Germans. Five of the murders and two of the suicides were ascribed direotly to nazi political activ ities within the camps, Lerch added. All have been carefully In vestigated and those responsible for the murders have been court- martialed. Lerch disclosed that 80 prison ers of war have been shot trying to escape. Guards killed 33 and wounded 21 of these. Lerch pointed out that the murder and suicide rate among the more than 350,000 war pris oners in this country was lower than the rate among civilians either in this country or In Ger many. . Viewed as Prank Discussing the nazi swastika incident at Camp Papago Park, Ariz., Lerch said it was regarded as asprank and not viewed too seriously by the war department. He said a prisoner of war made and displayed the nazi em blem In violation of regulations and was being disciplined. Lt. Col. Verne Austin has been assigned to succeed Col. William A. Holden as commander bf the Camp Papago Park camp, Lerch said. Austin last year took com mand of the Tule Lake, Cal in ternment camp following difl culties there. The incident of the nazi' flag followed by a few weeks the escape of 25 prisoners from the Arizona camp. All were recap tured. er's body was found during the regular morning prisoner check up. A formal statement said that a "full Investigation" of the hanging was being conducted by the ninth service command. The Lamont camp, in Kern county, is under the supervision of Camp Cooke. heiIWfor february 20 on river diversion Santa Maria, Cal., Feb. 15 KU.R) A German prisoner of war was found hanged in his quarters at the Lamont prisoner of war camp near here last Friday morning, Camp Cooke public re lations officers belatedly dis closed today. Officers said that the prison Soft A . ; 'TiT J Millions Say When1 ...with William Fean Bl.nded Whiskey, o.f, " 65 grain nevtral tpMtt OOODJRHAM ft WOUTf IT0. Peoria, 'Mliteft Apprehensive of the detri mental effect huge power, re clamation and flood control projects in the Klamath river basin might have on fish life, the state game commission at its monthly meeting recently appointed a committee to attend a hearing set by the army en gineers at Klamath Falls Febru ary 20. Kenneth Dcnman, local at torney and member of the state game commission who will at tend the Klamath Falls meeting. sair that the proposed project would drain about 20,000 acres of duck marsh and the Spencer Creek fish hatchery would be ruined. Denman added that the water would be used to irrigate the huge Central Valley in Cal ifornia and would be no bene fit to Oregon. T.ntatlv. Plans Plans tentatively being stud ied by the army engineers call for the storage of flood waters in new reservoirs In the upper Klamath and Trinity river ba sins and diversion of the devel oped surplus waters to the Cen tral Valley project for future hydroelectric and Irrigation use. The engineers' study covers a proposed channel south from Tule Lake to deliver some 600 second feet of water into the Pit river basin and thence into Shasta reservoir. An alternate channel would leave Klamath river near the state line and de liver water into the McCIoud river. To add to water storage in the Klamath basin the engi neers proposed dam at Chilo quin narrows in Sprague river which would back water up to Beatty on the Klamath Indian reservation. Basin Assured Water While the engineers have in sisted Klamath Basin will be guaranteed priority for all wa ter needed for irrigation, some officials have indicated their skepticism of the value of such guarantees for all time. Thoy said that once the channel is built at a cost of about $100 million and the central valleys begin getting water through It, it might prove diffioult to with hold water even though lt is needed in Klamath basin. ' Sportsmen of both Oregon and California fear the deple tion of fishing resources or al most their entire destruction if these ambitious industrial plans go through. The engineers have promised to consider all the wildlife problems of the region, now being jointly studied by United States fish and wildlife service .and other government agencies. It will be the purpose of the Oregon game commission, dele gates at the hearing to present all objections of fishermen and lt is expected that the Califor nia delegates will cooperate. Riv.r Survey Asked The commission at its recent meeting also ordered a letter sent to the United States re clamation bureau, and army en gineers, demanding that these agencies survey all tributaries of Rogue river for possible pow er, flood control and irrigation dam sites before it acts on pro posals for construction of ap proximately 20 dams now in contemplation on the main Rogue river. UNITED URGES DIRECT AIR ROUTE TO ALASKA Washington, Feb. 15 (U.R) United Airlines urged the civil aeronautics board today to grant its application for a direct route from Seattle, Wash., to key cities in Alaska. The CAB la hearing applica tions for routes from the United States to Alaska, the Pacific is lands, China, India, and Australia. 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