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Newspaper Page TextIHWlH'IllllMWHnij 0 One 5-mlnute blait on sirens and whittles U the ilgnal for blackout tn Klamath January 82 High 40, Low it Precipitation as of January 16, 194S Stream yaar to dale . .............0J Last yaar ..,.7.01 Normal 8.63 Falls. Another long blast, during a black out, la a algnal for all-clear. In precau tionary perlodi, watch your street lights. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES fo) JIXQ mm PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH. FALLS,' OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1943 , ' ' Number 9702 ' Ifffl 1 fl N Hii fl fo)fnl W :M (fm WfW Iriyj IW In m m 1LU IMJ MmS mJlKJ U mlM uJ 0 0 raoli Falls to -British ii hi i i I iri i : I I I , , I I I I J I j il, III INI' k! 1 i" 'I : i I :T ' . I lllWimfc.' I Ml! Ill: IB i: lill'l ws By FRANK JENKINS "TRIPOLI fall, nommol flees on. Ho It apparently headed for tho strongly fortified Mareth lino Inside Tunisia, built by tho French, and extending from the ) Mediterranean count to Znrzls to the Matmnlai mountnlns 60 odd miles Inland. . There, It Is expected, ho will make his next slant. 'i DVT at tho Mareth line ho will u still be moro thnn 200 miles from Tunis and Blzerto.' with his flank threatened ALL, THE WAY by our forces In Africa. The task that lies ahead of him till Isn't an easy one. .. . . CROM Tripoli to the Moreth r line Is roughly ISO mile. Rommel's army (eatlmotcd today at 63,000) seems to bo .strung out over tho bulk of this dli- . tance. Ho HAS to stay strung out. He doesn't DARE concen train. Mowed, men and trucks would be perfect targets for our alrrnem who are hovering over him -like , hungry .hawks over i rolcie. . . " (Ho must teke this murderous pounding until - he reaches Uie shelter of tha Mareth guns. It ti OPEN country, whero conceal ment from the air Is Impossible. AND don't' forget that while . Rommel seems likely to mnko a Junction with the Ger man forces keeping open tho cor rldor , to Tunis, Montgomery" pursuing 8th army will AT THE SAME. TIME make a Junction with our forces In Tunisia. One Junction will offset the other. ,'. AT this point, we might as well "give Rommel the credit that Is due to an ablo enemy. Ho haa Retreated nearly 1300 miles before a superior foe and still haa held his army together. His tory tolls us that Is a great achievement. In all this 1300 miles, he has , had little help from Hitler. That Is a point of tho utmust im portance. Hitler couldn't have pormlttod such a debacle, with all its at tendant losses of precious prcs- tigo, If he'd had anything to spare to stop it with. ' THAT tolls tho story as to Hit 1 ler. He has his hands full In Russia. HTHB Russians are still going. 1 They take Salsk, a Junction on the southern rail route from Stalingrad to Rostov, and a base from which tho trapped Ger mans, at Stalingrad were being supplied by air. , To the north of Rostov they're Within 10 miles of Voroshilov grad, which Is on' a minor rail llnei connecting the Voronezh Rostov and the Kharkov-Rostov main lines, If they can push on down this connecting line to its , Junction with tho Kharkov-Rostov main line, they can cut Ros tov off ENTIRELY from rail communication and support. , Your map will make this sit uation clear. ,.....; . 'T'HIS dramatic dispatch conies today from . "somewhere In New Guinea:" ' A "Organized Japanose resist ance In Papua (tho Buna-Gona beach area) ENDED at 2:05 local time yesterday (Friday) when the last two pockets of the enemy force that once numbered 15,000 men were WIPED OUT by vic torious American and Australian forces." - . ' , The dispatch adds: ' "As far as Is known, the only remaining Japs In Papua are Iso lated soldiers wandering hope lessly In the swamps. Theso are being hunted down," ' Bataan'a bitter medicine has (Continued on Page Four) Nazi Legions Flee Across Libyan Border By ROGER GREEN ; . Associated Press War Editor -Fire-blackened Tripoli, the prido of Premier Musso lini's vanquished African empire, fell to the assault of British shock troops at 5 a. m. today and vanguards of the triumphant British 8th army lunged on In pursuit of Marshal Erwin Rommel's columns retreating into Tunisia. Sixty miles west of Tripoli, British warships today bombarded the small port of Zuara to cut off laggard axis legions which had not yet escaped into Tunisia. The London admiral said light British naval forces STMITOF DOVER Britons Hear Explos ions From Coast Of France LONDON, Jan. 23 W) Re ports from, Folfccstono on the southeast, coast said that RAF Lplones flew over the Strait, ot uover in a steady stream ju after dusk tonight and that soon thereafter 'the sound of ex plosions was heard oh the coast of France. Tonight's foray followed two successive night bombardments of targets in western Germany, which embraces the great Indus trial Ruhr valloy. Nails Strike Back The RAF had been over Ger many on 12 provlous nights this month, including the heavy at tacks on Berlin last Saturday and Sunday, German planes struck back by bombing several places in northeastern and southern Eng land last night, but the raids were not on a heavy scale. Yesterday swarms of British, American and allied planes mado extensive sweeps over northern France and Belgium, (Continued on Page Four) Fall of Tripoli Is Overwhelming Gain, Says Hull WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (IP) Secretary of State Hull said to day that the fall of Tripoli to the British constituted one of tho most overwhelming, out standing and Important victories of the war. This government and the people of the United States re joice In the achievements of the British eighth army In captur ing tho North African city from the axis forces, Hull asserted. OPA District Offices to Be in Balsiger Building District offices of the OPA will be located in the Balsiger Motor company 'building at Main and Esplanade streets, It was announced late Friday by J. E. Stutevoss, district manager of , the OEM;. . Salesroom of tho big garage building and four offices on the Esplanade street side will bo used by. the OPA, which will have about SO employes in the district headquarters to be open ed about February 1. Stutevoss and Elmer Balsiger, head of the motor company, completed their transaction Fri day,, after several days in which Stutevoss canvassed the city for quarters for the district head quarters. '',' ..About 6000 square feet of space will bo used for the OPA offices. The motor company will shift its offices within the build ing, -using the. Main -street door fsholled the port and set big fires. ' . ' . "Our forward troops entered Tripoli early this morning," British headquarters announced. This united nations victory capped Prime Minister Church Ill's 1040 pledge that the fascist empire In Africa would be torn "to tatters and shreds." Paratroopers Dropptd V '? At least part of Rommel's' bat tered forces, estimated at ap proximately 63,000 troops, had already fled across the Libyan frontier and were reported: In contact with Col-Gen., Jurgen von Armln's axis army behind tho Mareth line, 65 mile Inside Tunisia.. ..- v- ' ""'TjnUed na'tiorli '-headquarters In ..North Africa - said ; German parachute troops were dropped behind the allied lines In Tuni sia In a . fruitless attempt. ;to break up' resistance to the axis tank thrust down the Keblf river and the Ousseltla valley. . Most of the nazl sky troops were quickly rounded up,; It was announced.' , Delaying Action German and : allied ground forces continued to fight in the Ousseltla valley, below Pont du Fahs, whilo American and Brit (Continued on Page Four) Fort Klamath Power Service Resumed Today Power resumption for . the Fort Klamath area was reported at mid-afternoon Saturday after a Copco crew struggled with deep snow and mud conditions to repair the transmission line damaged Wednesday night by a heovy wind storm. Eighteen poles, broken off by the gusts, of high wind, have been, replaced. Copco offices have reported the crew had much , trouble with deep snow and cqye-lns when new holes were dug for poles. Other Copco crews were re placing poles . on distribution lines In Poe valley, near Tule lake, and at Dorrls. Several out- . (Continued on Page Four) for its business entrance. Oper ations of the shop, parts and other departments of the . Bal siger company will be unaffect ed, It was stated by Balsiger. OPA main entrance will be the Main and Esplanade street door. '.-., Meanwhile,, there' was specu lation here as to who would be chosen district manager of the OPA. In , this connection,' the name of Ed Ostendbrf, retired auto . dealer, was prominently mentioned. Ostendorf was in San Francisco. '. ' Selection of the district office personnel is not expected to be made until the district manager is named. He is expected to play a major role In choosing the district staff. The location of the district office here will not affect' the war price and- rationing board set-up near Fifth and Main streets... . . . . . . . vi GOVERNMENT WHEAT STOCK UP FOR SALE Vote on Flynn Nomin , atibn Scheduled for Wednesday, By The AuociaUd Praia WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 UP) Farm problems came to the fore again today In the capital, the government putting its vast stocks of wheat on the market to keep prices from climbing. ' One, day after the house ag. riculture committee b e g a n a fight to have farm parity com putation revised upward to In- cludo farm labor costs, the 235,- 000,000. bushels .Of Wheat held by the. government were offered to all comers at prices equiva lent to tne parity jevei, as now figured, at the point of storage. The' national average December 15 was $1.37 a bushel. , ; Flynn Vote Coming ; ' Meanwhile, the senate foreign relations committee closed. Its hearings today on Edward -J. FJynn'a -rnomlnatlori to' be! min ister - to -Austral)! after" Flynn fold . itr he '.would never have permitted the' nomination had there been anything dishonor able in. his life. , 1 Chairman -Connelly fD-Tex.) announced, that the committee would meet next Wednesday to vote on the question of recom mending confirmation of the nomination. Just before Flynn took the witness chair briefly as the last witness, Mayor La Guardia of New York testified that because of longstanding political bitter ness between himself and Flynn he did not feel qualified to offer an unprejudiced . opinion con cerning Flynn's qualifications.- Guadalcanal Rtport - Robert L. Moran, retired Bronx, N.- Y., commissioner of public works who arranged the paving of Flynn's courtyard parking lot, told the committee there was "nothing wrong" with the arrangement, in which New York City employes and materi als were used. . He said private trucks were used, and that city, employes did the work on their own time,. : An investigation of another (Continued on Pt-ge Four) City, County Schools Expected To Open Monday . Both city and county schools, closed down by snow conditions, are expected to resume Monday, school officials said. ' Arnold Gralapp, city school superintendent, said that all plans have been made, for re opening classes on an "as usual basis." The same announcement was made from the office of County . Superintendent Fred Peterson. ' Arms Discovered in . French Depot Cache LONDON,' Jan. 23 (fP) -The Berlin radio, broadcasting a DNB (German news agency) dis patch from Paris, said today poli tical police of the Vichy French government had discovered eight tons of arms in two secret de pots at Lyons yesterday, and had also made Some arrests at Mar seille. - 1 - : News Index City Briefs Page 10 Courthouse Records -....Page 10 Comics and Story .........Page 8 Editorial .....i..Page . 4 Markets, Financial Page 9 Midland Empire News ..Page 2 Our Men in Service ......Page 10 Pattern .....;...-..i....i....Page 10 Society Pages B 6, 7, 9 Sports u .;..Fage ;3. Band Plays;' rf IK m-em'-'.. . . .. . jTZl VtTV While musicians In the foreground at Camp-Lee. Va.' Toll out the tempo for a battalion review, an army plane (top) plunges earthward from 5000 feet overhead. .; The . pilot. Flight Officer Clayton W.' Huntsman of Fillmore,-Utah, gave his, life In maneu vering the ship so that it crashed clear , of men and buildings -at the camp. Huntsman Jumped; when his crippled plane was . only 50 feet from the ground. He was killed In the fall., Red Pfye Info ':Gaucasiis7 Goes aiBreak-Neck Pace London, .Jan. 23 vp)x. Russian special communique recorded tonight by the soviet Monitor announced 17 enemy , divisions, nine of them Hun garian, bad . been routed in nine ' days on the Voroneih front and alio reported the capture of the important rail way Junction of Armavir, in. the North Caucasus. - The communique said 12, 000 axis soldiers were taken prisoner on ; the -' Voroneih: front yesterday. ., By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (Soviet troops,, smashing through the German defense lines along the Manych waterway, have cap tured the railroad center and air base at Salsk, 100 miles, south- Investigations Into Dog Case Continue Here ; Investigations continued Sat urday in the case of the blinded dog, with Attorney Henry E. Perkins, presenting the Hu mane society, collaborating with the district attorney's oiiice. : Statements were taken at the D. A.'s office from . two resi dents of the South Sixth street area where the dog, a male police, was found; Wednesday night, with his eyes apparently gouged out wun a suck. Perkins was making further investigations in that area Satur day afternoon. ', ; Officers ; have p ! c k e ct up stories of cruelty to birds -and dogs and are studying these as possible clues to the eye-gouging case. No criminal complaint has as yet been filed, ; -. ; Weir Bulletin , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 23 (P) A British submarine ''op erating in Mediterranean sea- " ports"- destroyed two enemy merchant ships and a ichoon-. er and drove an armed trawl- - er ashore in sinking condition ' in attack! on a convoy south bound to' Tuniile. a naval , communique, said today. ' . LONDON, Jan. 23 (fP) U. S. army- Flying Fortreues attacked the German sub. marine baies at Ldrlent1 and . ; Brest In a daylight sweep over France today. It was an nounced tonight. . . ', Flier Dies i T: east of Rostov, and '.dispersed fresh German force which for a time threatened to slow the Rus sian advance in southwestern sec tors, dispatches from the front said today, v ; ' , (The German high command said that its "disengagement movement in the northern Cau casus is proceeding according to plan." The" high' command com munique, broadcast from Berlin, declared that, a nazl -counterattack had driven the Russians eastward .within the Don area. The invasion group trapped be fore Stalingrad was said to have halted the "deep enemy breach" in its western line.) -- .. The German defenses before Salsk failed to. halt the red army any more than the rear guard actions of axis units in the cen tral Caucasus, it; was reported, and . the Russian advance now was said to be proceeding in both (Continued on Page Four) It's a New World Turkey Brings More Than Horse NEWBERG, Ore.,' Jan. 23 (!P) Times surely are ' changing, Farmer Sam Morell observed today after he was paid more for a turkey, than a horse.' He said his 16-year-old horse, still in good health,' brought just $4.00 while his smallest dressed turkey sold for a few cents more than $4.00. ' '' Allies Smash Last of Papuan Japs; Nip Hold on Guadalcanal Slipping - By The Associated Press 'Japan's grasp on strategic Guadalcanal island appeared to be slipping today, with the enemy's- original forces reported cut down from 15,000 to fewer than 4000, as Gen.' Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters announc ed that allied troops had smash ed tho last organized Japanese resistance on the Papuan penin sula in New Guinea... - : An allied communique said American and Australian jungle fighters overwhelmed, the Japan ese on Sahananda Point, wiping ont more than 725 of the enemy. Japs Collapse . ' The count of Japanese dead Was - steadily rising as patrols combed the jungle, mopping up scattered remnants of the Sana nanda garrison. - .' ' ' Field dispatches said Japanese resistance collapsed at 2:50 p. m. ... , '.....- r. Development's Waited Here in Law enforcement officers gathered this afteriioon al the Southern Pacific-depot here awaiting the arrival of the southbound- West Coast Limited, on which Martha! Brinson James, 21, wife of a navy ensign, was murdered in a tourist car berth near Tangent, Ore., early today, ! .' Presence of the . of f icials indicated expected develop ments here in the search for the slayer of the beautiful girl,' who was following her husband's train to Califprniaf from Seattle. Ensign James, whose train arrived : hers early in the-afternoon, was informed here his wife's throat had been slashed and her dead body found in front of lower berth 13. The bodr was removed from the train OF MURDER HERE Ensig n; James -Told - Trag ic Mews by SP ;i 'Investjgiator v Enrign ' Richard ' James of the US navy stbod'lh'blank amaze ment at -the Southern Pacific de pot in Klamathl falls', this' after noon -.when informed . that his Wife, Martha, had been mur dered on the train on which, she was' following hiav to California. The tragic news was given En sign James by Cf: W. Champlin, Southern i Padfic'" investigator, when Janaea'rlraia --reached Klamath Falls about 1:49 p; m. ;;,,-;: Return Arranged -: . James, . called, from the . train, was: . visibly; : affected when Champlin . told ' him of the train murder near Tangent, Ore. The handsome navy' ensign immedi ately, arranged to return-to Eu gene to .claim his wife's -body, and left, on a passing northbound train with Lieutenant (j 8) Moot of the navy. ' - '- ' As he was preparing to leave, Ensign James Suddenly remark ed that he didn't have much money on his person, and Imme diately - those around him dug cash from their pockets for the grief-stricken ensign. : Ensign G. A. Keaton, Eudora, Ark a friend of James, said Mrs. Keaton was on the southbound West Coast, on which Mrs. James was killed.. This train was fol lowing the Oregonian on which the navy men arrived. ' Keaton said the two navy men separated from their wives at Seattle, the young women obtain ing accommodations on the West Coast.. '-. ., . ... :" .... r He said Ensign and Mrs. James were married less than four months ago. He described Mrs. James as a "beautiful blonde girl." ' '. "' ; Eighth Army Rings the Bell ' V" CAIRO, . Jan. 23 . UP) When the British eighth army launch ed its final offensive to clear Egypt and Libya, allied war correspondents were told that Tripoli would be in allied hands on January 22, ' , .. i . The army was only five hours late' after advancing 1300 miles. yesterday when the allies storm ed into the last two enemy.pock ets on the peninsula coast north west of S.anananda. , : One Survivor -: ' Twenty-four hours earlier, hard-fighting American soldiers had cleaned out the main Japan ese pocket two miles inland from the coast, where 475 enemy dead were counted. -. . At 7 a. m. yesterday, dis patches said, "33 Japanese- at tempted to escape from another small pocket, and the Americans killed 32 and imprisoned - the lone survivor." Reports from , the front said 1200 Japanese -casualties . had been tallied in the Sanananda area so far, with 808 previously killed In the Gona area to make a total' of 2100 enemy slain. . Quick Clean-Up .V As-the bloody Papuan cam Slaying at Eugene, : Southern Pacific -Investigate C. W. Champlin, State Police) Sergeant- Earl Tichenor, District Attorney L. Orth .Sisemore; George H. Adler,- coroner, and other officials,- were waiting' at the depot for the West Coast, ex pected at about 3 p. m. Author, ities are known to be searching r ior a aars man, possiDiy Jae tfyti as a suspect in the case tjnn . rests may be made here. . . "'f EUGENE, Jan. 23ff)istate) police were attempting .to locate a man .in a pin-striped suit, bW lieved to be the slayer . of at tractive. Martha: Virginia. Brin son James, 21-year-old. -.wife,- ol a naval ensign, stationed In Sa attle, Wash., who was ; found this morning dead in the . aisle) of a tourist sleeper of Southern Pacific's southbound West, .Coan train between Tangent and. Eu gene. ; ji-'i,:.?' ;,'?v;?;;':;I-,'.'. -V ' The young woman's body wa'si - tfiraild-by-tralrimen -in front o the lower 13 berth: which' sh had; occupied. Her throat ' had! been cut by a blunt, knife, which severed -the. jugular .vein,; ao carding to Lane County Coroner Poole, who .took. the. body off the train, here. :. ; , ... : . Identified i.v t'-l - She was en route from Seattle to' Los Angeles, according to her ticket.- .... - i,m; v i ; Police-said she; was the wife of. Naval Ensign Richard tj Jame stationed at the : yard, boatswain's' office, U. S. naval station,' Seattle, . Wash; She waf, , identified through- a -birth - cet, tificate In her luggage. c ... . Robbery Not Motive - ; The -young woman-was clad in nightdress, and had been; stabbed while lying in her berth the -coroner- investigation) shiwed. - - - - . ; --Dr. -John Beeman, state po lice crime detection expert, was expected - here this morning to - (Continued on Page Four) 1 "Bootleg Bands" Defy Petrillo , Ban, Says Times - NEW YORK, Jan. 23 Tha New York Times says that lata popular tunes are being recorded by - "bootleg bands'' operating; under leaders using fictional names In defiance of the ban by James C. Petrillo, president of the' American Federation of Mu sicians. - ' Tin Pan alley, the paper says, refers -to this method of-opera tion as the "underground re lease," and the story adds that such records are receiving dis tribution. paign ended, setting the stage fo new allied offensives In north ern New Guinea, Lieut.-Col, Lewis B; Puller, US marines, es tlmated that the Japanese on Guadalcanal had lost 11,000 men in land fighting since American "Leathernecks" stormed- ashore) on the island last August 7; , . v Col. Puller, who was wounded seven times in fighting on the is land,' Said he believed the survlvr Ing Japanese could be wiped out in 10 days with a full-scale bfr fenslve. . Jf Bombers Strike . A similar 16,000-man enemy army was reported annihilated in the New Guinea campaign, which began six -months agc when the enemy landed at Gona and marched across the 120-mile-wlde .Papuan peninsula to' with (Continued on Psge Four) '