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Newspaper Page Texto On B-mlnuU blast on sirens and whistles li the signal or bUckout In Klamath Falls. Anothtr long blitt, during black out, U a signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your street llghtt. January 24 High 35, Low 13 Precipitation aa oi January IB, 1S43 Stream yaar to data 1.01 Last yaar 7.01 Normal ........... .5.74 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1943 . Number 9703 703 MHO 'UNi-inflM , n7in All V 1111 II .' I "MM ' Jl UVL LTQ yi UMU m I : 1 : By FRANK JENKINS "THERE'S thrilling toncnci in tho nlllcd air today. The Russians MAY bo on the verite of reaching out to pluck Rostov. Big plans MAY bo In the mak ing to prevent Rommel from ef fecting a Junction with tho Ccr mans in Tunis. . MucArthur spooks of n now and promising lond-olr atrotegy Unit MAY supplant tho alow nnd bloody Islswl-to-lsland campaign against the Japs. COn days there havo been hints r of a gathering of allied higher-ups In London to plan CO-ORDINATED blows nguinst the enemy, hitting him on ALL fronts with carefully-timed pre cision. ' nrllE German high command admits today "retirement" from tho "bridgehead" of Vor onetlv The Russians have never admitted loss of Voronezh, but for months the Germans have kept alive in the minds of their peoplo at home, tho Idea that they hold it. CROM Stockholm come dls r patches quoting editorials In the German newspapers remind ing the public grimly that a "lost war means a lost future," and adding that It was a "weak ness on the home front" that forced the Gorman armies to cnpltulnto in 1018." Tho Implication of these dis patches, of course, is that tho German home front is getting shaky, pOMMEL'S army is reported toduy to bo ovor tho border Into Tunisia and making such speed westward as to suggost that he doesn't oven plan a stop nt the Mnrcth lino of French fortifications. A glance at your map will tell you why this suggestion Is not unreasonable. If Rommel hod only Mont gomery's pursuing army to reckon with, ho would be likely to choose tho Marcth lino for a last-ditch stand, but Montgomery Isn't his solo problom. Back of tho Mareth line are tho British, the Americana and the French in TUNISIA, and It is highly probublo that they iiro planning . a powerful smash THROUGH to tho Mediterranean' coast, thus cutting him off and trapping him in an area whero ho. can got no support, even from tho sea, , .- ' AXIS radio reports tell today nol HUGE U. S. force MASSING at rail-supplied Tebcs sa, on the Algeria-Tunisia border 145 miles west of tho port of Sfax, on the Gulf of Gubcs. The maps Indicate that be tween Tebcssa and tho Gulf of Gnbes there are few natural do ' fense barriers (such as ridges, mountain ranges, rivers, etc.) In : other words, tho type of coun try we'd CHOOSE to strike at the flank of the corridor : tho Germans are trying to hold open for Rommel. Ross Munro, Canadian Press correspondent, tolls in a dispatch today of American operations In this general area, and adds that the "whole front is tense with anticipation of big events to come." . : . ' THERE'S an odd note in tho news today, . A Gorman' piano is said to have dropped a taunting note, wanting to know why "the Americans won't come but and light." Tho Americans, the dis patches say, "accopted the chal lenge" and mndo a raid in forco to within 33 miles of tho Med iterranean coast, taking 80 Gor man prisoners, ;' VOU may be quito sure that If tho Germans dropped such a (Continued on Pago Two) McNutt Eyes "Land Army" to Do Farm Work WASHINGTON, Jan, 23 W) Congromt, which must decide soon whether to permit new Icnd-lcnso commitments after June 30, received toduy a statistics-packed report showing tho program has sent $8,253,000,000 in goods and services to the Uni ted Nations. Lcnd-louso Administrator. Ed ward R. Stcttinius, Jr., declar ing the program was not "on act of charity" but was "undertaken for tho defenso of this country," disclosed tliat ono of every three tanks and combat planes built in tho United States last year wont to our allies. Not all of these wcro sent by lend-lease, however many were purchased outright. Tha manpower situation also (Continued on Pago Two) DIVIDENDS PAID TO Over 240 Gather Here For Ninth Annual .,- Session " First dividends to be declared by tho Klamath Production Credit association wore distrib uted to stockholders at the ninth annual session held here Monday, Dividends totaled $9, 014. More than 240 members and guests of KPCA gathered at Vet erans Memorial hall as the an nual meeting got under way. Leo S. McMullcn, secretary, pre sented a financial report which showed tho association had loaned $2,280,000 to its mem bership during 1042. Operating profits for tho ycor totaled $27, 000 and accumulated reserves to protect members' stock in vestments now total $170,000, McMullcn pointed out, 264 Members Following payment of divi dends, the association was per mitted to add approximately (Continued on Pago Two) Boosting of U. S. Debt Limit to $210 Billion Eyed WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) Chairman George (D-Ga.) of tho scnato finance committee Intro duced today a resolution to In crease the national dobt ' limit to $210,000,000,000. Gcorgo told tho scnato that was tho treasury's estimate of what tho debt will be on July 1, 1044. . An extension of the debt lim it, ho said, was necessary to permit borrowings for prosecu tion of the war. U. S. Hits Solomons Stride; Mac Arthur Sees New Power By Tho Associated Press Striking out in a general of fensive in the Solomon Islands, American forces have wrested sovon Important positions from tho Japancso on Guadalcanal end virtually wiped out tho invaders' baso on Kolombangara island 100 miles to the northwest by combined sea and air attack, the navy announced today. A communique said the Kol ombangara base, in tho Munda area of the New Georgia group, was hit hard Saturday and Sun day by airplane and warships. Tho communiquo listed tho places captured on Guadalcanal In fighting in which 201 Japan ese wore killed and. 40 captured as six important elevations west of the American airfield, and tho coastaU village of Kokumbona, wcro quantities of the invaders' stores wcro seized. This Indicated that tho Ameri can lines had been advanced ALLIES MENACE ESCAPE ROUTE F Yank Troops Capture 80 Prisoners in Tunisian Raid By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 25 Tho Brit ish eighth army, aided by war- planes which included U. S. bombers and fighters striking from both cast and west, push ed Marshal Rommel farther on his way from Tripoli today even os indications developed that allied troops may already threat en his escape route along the tiulf of Gabej. - United States troops were of ficially disclosed to have been in action at Maknassy; in cen tral Tunisia only 33 miles from the Gulf of Gobcs, and tha cir cumstances suggested . that the whole axis strategy for a union or tne armies of Rommel and Col, Gen, Jurgcn von Arnlm might be imperilled. Nasi Dare Taken A Cairo dispatch said that al most all Rommcl s '-. surviving Italians- and tho" greater part 'of the Germans wore already be hind the Mareth fortifications, Tunisia's "little Maginot line," and only rear guard elements remained in the northwestern tip of Tripolitania. Answering a taunting note dropped on American lines "Why don't the Americans come out and fight?" U. S. soldiers raided Maknassy and captured 80 prisoners, a spokesman re ported at allied headquarters in North Africa. . Nasi Thrust Halted This evidence that the Ameri cans have mobilized in some forco more than 100 miles south (Continued on Page Two) British Subs Sink Five Mors Enemy Ships in Medit LONDON, Jon. 25 (AP) British submarines have sunk fivo more enemy supply ships In tho central Mediterranean, tho admiralty announced today. Two medium-sized enemy sup ply ships were sunk despite a destroyer escort, the announce ment said, one of them near Djorba in southeastern Tunisia and the other 80 miles west of Tripoli. Another medium-sized, heavily-loaded supply ship escorted by two naval vessels was at tacked off the cast coast -of Sar dinia. Ono of the escorting craft was sunk and the other was damaged and beached in sinking condition, the admiralty said. Thereafter the submarine tor pedoed tho supply vessel. from two to three miles beyond Point Cruz. The enemy still holds about 18 miles of coastline on the north ern side of Guadalcanal, and the American offensive was believed continuing in an effort to bottle up and wlpo out the Japanese. Victory in the Pacific by "swfft, massive strokes ' of air borne and air-supported forces outspecding the slower plan of island-to-island reconquest was hold : possible today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur who said the allied recapture ot the Papuan peninsula had tested and proved the new tactics. A note of caution, however, was injected by Australian Army Minister Francis Fordo who dC' ciarea that the Japanese un doubtedly would strike a counter blow at tho first opportunity to save faco for their reverses. In a statement reviewing the GABES (Continued on Page Two) Pictures in Ltnn County Sheriff Herbert Shelton, left and Deputy Sheriff Clay Kirk, boarded the north bound train Monday en route to Albany taking s material witnesses in the case Prt, Harold R. Wilson, U. S. marine corps, and John Funchts, negro waiter on the- death train. - ; " ; V '."Wi I TV'-' . ''V. "" . ' n '!"'' i h i.i .in intmj ,ijm j wx1 'f1'-" IWWMTff ."' .... l. . " . I This picture was taken at sign Richard James was informed of the tragic slaying of his wife on a train following his.' At right: Investigator C. W. Champlin, of the S. P.. and. in center. State Officer Clyde Lowry. . T City of Voronezh Com pletely Occupied, Say Soviets LONDON, Jan. 25 (AP) The red army has occupied' completely the city of Voro-.: nesh, a special Moscow, com munique as recorded here by the Soviet Monitor announced tonight. Earlier today the German high command acknowledged that "the bridgehead of Voro neih" had been abandoned by the Germans in a move to shorten their lines. Another 11,000 prisoners were declared captured near Voroneih by midnight Sun day, increasing the total cap tives on this front to 75,000, ' By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Jan. 25 (AP) The red army of tho North Caucasus has smashed through German resistance to the rolling plains of Rostov province, capturing (Continued on .Pago Two) - War Bulletin . LONDON, Jan. 25 (P) Ger man artllliery and tanks are rushing to the old port section of Marseille, where French men are reported to have bar ricaded themselves against the nasis, reuters said tonight in a Zurich dispatch, . Tho Frenchman are firing on German troops who are be sieging . their homes, the dis patch said. . Case of the Murder the Southern Pacific station here War Workers Warned to Go Easy on Gas PORTLAND, Jan. 25 OT Ed gar Sinton, regional gasoline ra tioning executive, said today that war - workers .' must stay within their allowances. . "Unfortunately," he said, "some war workers believe that their occupation entitles them to whatever they want not neces sarily what they need., : "There have been, numerous instances where war workers re fused to explain why .they ex hausted their rations and de manded more gasoline on . the threat of quitting their jobs." He said national OP A head quarters has recommended that district rationing off ices show no weakness despite pressure. Where circumstances warrant, however, additional - gasoline supplies will ' be ; granted war workers, he explained.- Eight-Year-Old Drowns in Attempt To Rescue Dog EUGENE, Jan. 25 (AP) Lane, county's storm death toll was sefc at two today after 8-year-old Jack E. McCulloch, Danebo, drowned Sunday, attempting to rescue his dog from a frozen pond. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Don McCulloch, was with his brother and another boy near a pond alongside of Highway 09, about a half mile north of Eu gene. The boys' dog ran onto the ice and broke through., Jack attempted to rescue the dog, but also crashed into the ley water. The body was recov ered by Eugone city firemen.. Earlier a lumber worker died in .an auto crash on a snow clogged mountain road. in Lower 13 at 1:30 p. m. Saturday when En Martha Brinson James, ' victim of train murder Plans for Supreme War Council Held Near Completion . . LONDON, Jan. 25 (AP) Agreement upon some formula for a supreme council to direct and unify the United Nations' drive for victory in 1943 was reported in foreign diplomatic circles today to have been at tained, i Allied spokesmen were silent, but it is known that conferences have been under way and that some extremely important an nouncement is to be issued soon. - Speculation that Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U. S. army, might be appointed commander-in-chief of allied forces in the European theater was published in British news papers. , Probe Centers In EC F; Three ; Witnesses Held Thp murderer of Martha young navy wife, was still unknown to authorities Mon day afternoon after two days of intensive investigation that centered in Klamath Falls but spread the length ot the Pacific coast. ' , Three men. two neflrro train employes and a United States marine, were detained case, but officers said there that pointed to any of them as the man wno siew in 21-year-old girl in berth lower 13 on the West Coastt Limited near Tangent, Ore., Saturday morning.' Two of the detained men. Private Harold Wilson, 22, of the marines, who occupied and gave a vivid description TEN DIE IN ARMY Plane Crashes Sunday . .Near Ordway, .r Colorado . RAPID CITY, 8. D., Jan. 25 VP) Ten men i and officers aboard a four-motored army bomber from the" Rapid City air base were all killed when the plane crashed Sunday night near Ordway, Colo.,, the public rela tions office at the base here an nounced today, 4 Names, of the : casualties.- wjll 'be withheld untu positive identi fication, has been completed, the public relations officer said. The plane was temporarily attached to the Pueblo air base. - No other details were avail able here. SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 25 (Jf) . An . energetic search was pressed today for a huge navy transport a seaplane carrying nineteen persons,, which may have crashed in the hilly, wood ed country .north of here. . - On the ship were an admiral and other navy officers, en route from Honolulu to San Francisco. The plane has been missing since Thursday. . .' . . . There was one report that the seaplane had been destroyed in a crash at Blue Lake, about 15 miles north of Clear Lake, which could be' used as an emergency port for such aircraft. - But the navy in San Fran cisco said this report was "com pletely unfounded." It said there was no definite word as to the fate of the huge plane. From residents of the rugged country there came stories which might contain clues to the fate of the ship. They pointed to belief that it may have crashed in the mountains of northeastern Sonoma county,' between the petrified forest and Clear Lake. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 25 (IP) The state highway patrol report ed today that 11 persons were killed and one injured In the flaming crash of a four-motored (Continued on Page Two) Community Sing Scheduled Here Wednesday Night The second community sing and program which all residents of the area are invited to at tend, is scheduled for Wednes day at 7:30 p. m. in Klamath Union high school auditorium. Andrew Collier, Klamath war i savings chairman, will give a brief talk. The sing is included in the Rotary program for the month as that organization is designated to raise the $317,000 quota for Klamath county. Commandos Strike On Norway's Coast LONDON, Jan. 25 (AP) Reuters said a DNB broadcast reported today that British com mandos carried out a raid at Larvik on the Norwegian coast between Saturday night and Sunday morning. ;, Maps show a Larvik on the Skegerak, the channel between Norway and Denmark, just southwest of Oslo harbor. , Brinson James, beautiful as material witnesses in the)., had been no developments- upper 13 on the death cat.; of the murderer, and John Tj-uncnes, au, avping car waner. were taken from here by train Monday to Linn county, wher the slaying occurred. The third man held in tha -case is Robert Folkes, 21, negri second cook on the dining ear ' which was Immediately behind the death car on the West Coast Limited Saturday morning. Folkes was arrested when tha? train reached Los Angeles Mon day, on a warrant from LinA county. I Vo Charges Filed " ' Arrest of Folkes carried a pos sible local angle in that a local woman told officers that on Jar uary 11, she was accosted by-a negro cook on a southbound train. Sergeant E. W. Tlcheno of state police, who disclosed this report Monday, said that it is not known whether Folkaa in any way resembles the negro cook in the incident of January -ttr&ut tharthia' angle" will ba checked. ... ' ., No charges had - been filed against any of the men held, and it : was emphasized by officer they were technically detained as material witnesses. . On the face of evidenca that has been gathered, their conneo tion with the case is this: . - Wilson Occupant of upper IS, who said he was awakened by scream from the berth beneath, looked out and saw a man leav ing the berth. . He said this.maa 1 ran toward the rear of the train, He was wearing a pin-strip brown suit, was dark haired and might have been either "light negro" or white. Wilson said he pulled on his trousers and shoes and jumped from his berth to the aisle, where Mrs. Jamea was lying, dying. He placed a pillow under her head, getting his hand bloody as he did so,, and then ran to the rear of tha train looking for the murderer. Folkes Folkes was in the din ing car immediately behind tha death car, working in the kitchen. according to his statement. Ha said he did not see anybody past through the car. Wilson cama through, saw Folkes, and asked him if he had seen anyone. When Wilson told Folkes a murder had been committed, Folkes asked Wilson if the latter had been drinking. Folkes, accord ing to statements of other wit nesses, stopped a short time be fore the murder for a smoke in the smoking room at the front end of the dearth car, leaving to walk through" the car toward his diner. - Funchat Funches was a wait, er on a deadhead diner at tha front end of . the train. He said he played cards for a while after the train left Portland and then went to bed. He was not seen going' through the death, car. . Funches was suspected of being a negro who spoke to a white woman in a coach on tha train, and officers said that when this woman, during questioning here afterwards, asked him why he spoke to her, he replied ha thought she had smiled at him. No Clues Developed ' . '' After two days of investlgv tion, officers said they had not developed any definite clues in the mystery which spread over; the . front pages and the . ether See statements of four persona on this case on page 3. waves of the nation. They con centrated their questioning at the Klamath county jail particu larly on Wilson, the young ma rine, searching for any flaws in his dramatic story of the early morning slaying. Wilson's parents live at Buck loy, Wash. Ho has been tranfr ferred to San Diego, and expect (Continued on Page Three)