TOf MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. F.b. IS. 1943
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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.
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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
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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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