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iiiiiiiffliffli men raiiffiiBiifflii On S-mlnute blast on sirens and whlstes li the signal for blackout In Klamath Falli. Anothar long blast, during a black-, out, li a signal for all-olaar. In precau- . tlonary parlodi, watch your atraat llghti.. January 35 High 38, Low 28 Precipitation aa ol January 18, 1943 Straam yaar to data 8.03 Last yaar ............7.01 Normal .-.....B.75 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943 , , Number 9704 M M JVL 'MHO 'MNMOflH filiiio;) AUVUfll'J .MIKIIMAIKfl - o Mfoeir IProIb By FRANK JENKINS THE world today seems to ba waiting for something, rothcr broathlcssly m ijrbe lor the "important" announcement that li dun at 7 o'clock tonight. At leait, there la little of the smashing newa wo have become accuatomed to, CTAL1N, speaking aa the su- premo commander of tho red army, praises hla fighting men and the loyal workers back of them, and gives utterance to thla rallying cry: "Forward for the routing of the German Invaders and tholr EXPULSION over the bound aries of our motherland." DEFORE discounting the lm v portance of words (whon they aro Stalin's words) In Russia, re member what happened In Stal ingrad when he gave tho stirring order to hold the city on the Volga at all costs. . U was HELD. , IpiON'T- discount th Is 'man, O Stalin. Ho HAS SOME THING. What he has Includes the fighting loyalty of the Rus sian people.. "THERE Is a dearth of nows from Tunisia. Whether thorn Is a dearth of EVENTS time will tell. Tho dispatches explain that pouring rains have turned the soft Tunisian soil Into im passable mud. pROM Algeria comos word that 1 Do Gaullo and Glraud have achieved a moeting of minds, which Is good. Tho less tho Fronch FIGHT. EACH OTHER tho moro offoctlvoly they con fight the Germans. THERE'S a ruckus In Mar A selllcs. . It seems that the Germans slartad In to evacuate the city's ancient port area (Marseilles is one of Europo's oldest towns.) The Fronch who wore to bo dis possessed of their homes (prob ably to make room for new Gorman fortifications) began to ShOOt. There are reports today that 40,000 of them have been ar rested. SQON'T look for whatever is happening at Marseilles to .upset tho Gorman applecart In , anyulcclslve way. Still, It DOES illustrate1 one of Hitler's diffi culties. Every town and village of every country ho has con quorcd is seething with hatred of him. To keep down revolt, however desperate and hopeless it may be, ho must KEEP SOLDIERS EVERYWHERE. In the aggre gate, that takes a lot of soldiers. TF you want a slant at another . A of : Hitler's troubles, get out i your map and take a look at the coastline he must defend. It extends from Finland, In the Arctic ocean, clear down to Syria, In the warm Mediter ranean. It will take a lot of troops to defend that coastline. And he'll never know whero a blow may fall, so he'll have tp keep soldiers everywhere. . Short inside lines and all, Hit ler has his worries. . . QUR planes, drop 15 tons of bombs on Rabaul, sinking one Jap ship and knocking a bad holo in another. The Japs sond what' the navy describes as a large number of bombers, es corted by fighters, against D Guadalcanal, and our fighters knock down four of them with no American planes lost. COR somo time the Japs havo : been playing what looks like our game sending . ships and (Continued, on Page Two) : II. S. PLIES Tl Yonks Strengthen Po sition on Guadal canal By Th Associated Praia A navy bulletin reported to day that American troops had consolidated positions in newly cuptured Kokumbona, Jupaneso headquarters on Guadalcanal Is land in tho Solomons, after kill ing 203 enemy. soldiers and cap turing six other Important posi tions. , The navy also announced that U. S. fighter planes Intercepted and. turned back a large force of Japanese dive bombers, twin engined bombers and fighters which were heading for Guadol canal. Key Points Soliod The enemy raiders were driven off bofore they could drop a singlo bomb on American posi tions,, tho navy said. Four Jap anese "Zeros" were shot down; no U. S. pluncs worn lost. ... Tho nuvy. disclosed yesterday tlint besides tho capture of Jap anese headquarters at Kokum bona, along with quantities of Storos and equipment, U. S. troops had seized six key eleva tions west of American-defended Henderson air field. - This meant that the American front linos had been advanced two or threo miles beyond pre viously captured Point Cruz. Rabaul Bombtd " Striking by night and day, al lied warpluncs wcro officially credited today with raining havoc on Japanese shipping, air dromes and motor transports in Burma and tho South Scus, with moro than IS tons of bombs un loaded on the enemy base at Rabaul In a singlo phase of tho offensive. Ruboul Is the big enemy ' Continued on Page Two) NLRB Intervention May Break No-Strike Agreement, Report ; SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 (IP) National labor relations board intervention in Portland, Ore., shipyard labor agreements may causo moro than a half-million AFL unionists to drop their war timo pledge against strikes and work stoppages, says President John P. Frcy of tho AFL metal trades department. Frcy mado tho statement In an Interview dealing with tiio AFL ClO disputo over bargaining rep resentation at tho Henry J. Kai ser shipbuilding plants In the Portland area, and the NLRB's hearing thereon. Ho said shipbuilding labor councils and AFL unions over tho country wcro protesting to government officials against al leged NLRB intorforence in ex isting labor contracts. JHN BACK JAP D BOIE S Keiih Argraves Reported Missing in North Africa H -T iiT Vi T .in Kalth Argraves Sadio Five-Can Limit Set as Ration Plans Shape Up WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 UP) Tho offlco of price administra tion today established a limit of five cans per person as the amount of canned vegetables and fruits which householders may possess, without penalty, when rationing of canned goods begins In about four weeks.' This represented a drastic re duction under tentative plans to allow betweon eight and 10 cans per person. When rationing begins, per sons having moro than the al lowable limit will have coupons torn out of their canned goods ration book. This will be done at a rate of one 8-polnt coupon for each can above five per person. . , In counting the cans, OPA said It will not Include cans containing less .than eight ounces (this excludes primarily small cans of baby food). The five-can limitation means five cans only it does not mean that a person may have without penalty, five cans of one fort of vegetable, five cans of an other and five cans of grape fruit Juice, for example. FUEL OIL RATION 25 Percent Cut Order ed by OPA to Save Supplies WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (IP) Domestic users of heating oil in tho states of Washington and Oregon will have their supplies reduced approximately 25 per cent under a rationing order yes terday from the petroleum ad ministration.; . Tho office. of price administra tion will administer the ration ing, which probably will get un derway by February. 1 an, OPA spokesman said. Tho OPA has been preparing for tho possibility of fuel oil rationing in the two states for tho last three months. Shipping Troubles Exigencies of war require this action, the petroleum . adminis tration said, adding that inven tories ere declining and that steps must be taken to conserve supplies. "Not only Is It impossible to meet the current demand with tho transportation facilities now available on the Pacific coast," said Deputy Petroleum Admin istrator Ralph K. Davics, "but (Continued on Pago Two) Death Penalty . Meted Nazi Spy LONDON, Jan. 26 (P) Fran clscus Johannes Winter, a 40-ycar-old German spy who came to Britain In the guise of a refugee, was executed today in Wandsworth prison, the home office announced. Keith Argraves, formerly of Klamath Falls whore he attend ed school, is . reported by the war department as missing In northern Africa, whero he is with a paratrooper outfit, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Argraves, now of Portland. Argraves visited hero shortly before leaving the country, and while in England received wide mention when Mrs. Roosevelt stopped to chat with him while visiting some of the troops. , The young paratrooper has been missing since December 28, according to the report sent his parents. Argraves is a nephew, of Mr. and Mrs.. Virgil Veltch of Sargnjit street. ml MRS PLAYS EXPEDITERS OF Investigation of Sol omons Ship Unload ing Set By The Associated riss WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 UP) Announcement of a house inves tigation into charges by Rubber Administrator William Jeffers thot "army and navy loafers" are Impeding war production en livened the capital today as It awaited an Important announce ment at 7 p. m. (PWT) tonight There was no hint allowed as to the nature of tonight's news, but Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) of the house naval committee was explicit about the Jeffers case as he told of plans for an in vestigation. Expediters Flayed "This Is a serious accusation and we should have an inquiry to glvo Mr. Jeffers an opportun ity to prove the correctness-of his statement. We should alsi hear' from' army and fcavy" offi cials," Vinson said. .' , Jeffers made the accusation in a discussion at Baltimore last night. He amplified that he was criticising, not the army and navy, but the expediters from the army and navy." Report Denied Another investigation, Into a published report that marines had to unload a ship at Guadal canal island In the Solomons be cause union seamen refused to work on Sunday, began to take form with appointment of a five man house naval subcommittee of inquiry. Union officials have denied the report, which was contained In a story in the Akron, Ohio, Beacon Journal quoting marines back from Guadalcanal. As a senate agriculture sub committee summoned War .Pro duction Board Chairman Donald M.: Nelson to ask what he in tends to do about the priorities controversy involving the syn thetic rubber program, official sources said a final decision on the Jcffers-armed services duel will have to come from the presi dent. Jeffers Applauded These sources, which cannot be quoted, said army and navy heads informed James F. Byrnes, director of economic stabilize, tlon, that Jeffers' claims on ma terials for his synthetic rubber program would interfere ' with (Continued on Page Two) ' Army Transport Crashes With Nine Men, General Aboard MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 26 (IP) Maj. Oscar Parmer, public rela tions, officer at Brookley field here, announced that 10 soldiers, including a general officer, were killed in the crash of a large army transport plane near Bluff Springs, Fla., today. Parmer said the bodies of the men were burned beyond recog nition and are now being brought to Brookley field. Names of (the men aboard the piano, described as a C-67, were not immediately disclosed. Cause of tho accident was not known here. The plane was en route from MacDill field at Tampa, Fla., to Brookley field,' Mobile, and Oklahoma City. Important Dispatch Expected Tonight v - By The Associated Press An Important announcement is expected to be made public at 7 p. m. Pacific war time, tonight. No indication of its nature can be. given' at present.' PROGRAM Farm Li I ty'Jf Directors were elected and officers named by the Klamath Production Credit association at its annual meeting here Monday. In the picture,, left to right: Directors E. A. Geary and A. R. Campbell, Vlea President E. M. Hammond, President William Kiitridge, Secretary-Treasurer Lee McMullen. Director Lee HolUday and E, W. Jarboe, of the Production Credit corporation of Spokane.,..: .!"';, . . .- . '.v ' Investigation of Murder In Lower 13 Shifts to LinniK.F. Speculates Center of the Investigation of the murder in lower 13 moved from Klamath.: Falls, to : Linn county Tuesday, but there 'con tinued widespread ' speculation and interest here in the sensa tional killing of Martha Brinson James, 21-year-old navy bride.. Evidence collected along the 1800-mile route of the West Coast Limited, train. on which Mrs. James was killed Saturday morning.: was collected at ; Al- tibany as) Linn -county authorities took over. . The girl was killed near Tangent,- in' Linn county, but the investigation- moved with the train to Klamath Falls Saturday.' ' Linn county reports Indicated no important developments. At Los Angeles, where Cook Robert Folkes is held, police de tectives questioned him- for hours, and Captain Verne Ras mussen' of the' police ' homicide squad said he had discovered eight apparent discrepancies in the negro's stories.- -. Folkes, Captain Rasmussen said, has been steadfast in denial of knowledge - of the slaying. Rasmussen reported Folkes con tended he had been attending a drinking party in the dining car with other railroad employes at tho time of Mrs. James' slaying.; Folkes was the second cook on the diner which immediately followed death- car D on the West Coast.' ' Local officers said. Tuesday that Folkes had not told them about a drinking party. when questioned here. Neither did he report that he had seen a man get, out of Mrs. James' berth the morning of the murder, a report credited to him in a Los Angeles dispatch yesterday.' '?.',".". The arrest of Folkes at Los Angeles , is believed to "have re sulted in part from a local de velopment which directed suspi cion toward a cook, not yet-officially identified. After the James' case broke, a Klamath Falls woman reported to the district attorney's office that she was accosted on .'the morning of January 11 by a ne gro cook. She was traveling on car D, ' the southbound West Coast, to Klamath ' Falls from Portland. The man allegedly offered her food and drink and made advances to her after ac costing her in the aisle at about the same place and time that the James incident occurred. Local, authorities said they have no information that the cook in this instance in any way resembles Folkes, but . said the story of what happened here has been given to investigators and Child Takes Own Life After Death Of Pet Canary SODUS, N. Y., Jan; 26 (IF) Grieving over the death of her yellow . canary, 13-year-old Jen nie Lewis took her own life with a shotgun. . - - A stray cat killed the bird as it fluttered after Jennie when she stepped outside her farm home near - this Wayne county community. ..' : The girl left a note for her mother expressing sorrow for the loss and then shot herself, Coroner Arthur Besemer. report-, d last night, . Credit Group Names Directors .mi ' no doubt such a check will be made. ; - Private Harold R. Wilson of the marines, who occupied- berth 13 above that in which Mrs. James was slain, , and John Funches, negro dining car wait er, are held at Albany as mate rial witnesses in the case. State Police : Sergeant E. W. Tichenor. left early Tuesday for Albany, taking with him a long report 'oh the investigation here. Tichenor 'spent Imany hours Mon day preparing the report.' He took pictures, statements and other data for the use of District Attorney Harlow ' Weinrick ' of Linn county. ' - Weinrick, officers agreed, has a big job on his hands. - - He has yet to find the motive for' the ' murder of the young navy .bride, who was a member of a prominent Virginia family, who had lived only a short time on the coast and was not known to have any "enemies." The girl was neither raped nor robbed, but officers said the murder might have occurred while, she was rebuffing a rape attempt. ... The weapon used In the brutal slaying has . not been found. Whether is was a ' knife or - a blunt instrument Is not known, but the wound was described by witnesses as a "gouge" rather than a -clean cut. ' At . Los Angeles, police said Folkes had a police record. He was arrested on one occasion on suspicion of assault on a white woman, but the witness refused to prosecute. . On' December 28, 1942, he was arrested for drunk enness and police said records of that occasion show he ' at tempted , to ' enter a home In which three women lived. Salem Man One of 11 Killed in Crash Of B-24 Bomber ALAMOGORDO, N. M Jan.' 26 (IP) Second Lieutenant Stan ley D; Netz" of Salem, Ore.," was among the, 11 men from this air base who were killed Sunday when a B-24 bomber 'crashed in the Albino wastes of White Sands national monument several-miles west oi the base. - A board of officers has been ap pointed to investigate the crash. Long Arm of Circumstance Reaches Sanananda Front WITH AMERICAN TROOPS NEAR SANANANDA, New Guinea, Jan. 22 (Delayed) (IP) As the fortune of war would have1 it, Private' Jonathan P. Hunter, who formerly lived in Tillamook, Ore., rode as guard on two Japanese prisoners to night in a truck which the Japs seized in the Philippines where his . brother George had driven it. - '-' - , , : . 'Hunter, who had been living in - Melbourne three years pre ceding the. entry of the United States into the war, joined the American army in Australia -on May 14 1942. , .... : At present he is attached "to one of the Australian units in the area and doing what he de scribed. a3-"odtLJobs," - o 1 GETS SIT SIFT Legislature Begins Study of Income - Tax Law . . .. ; .,.'.,.. . By PAUL W. HARVEY. JR. SALEM, Jan. 26 (PH- The house took only 19' minutes to. day to kill overwhelmingly ilve- bills . to restrict : liquor, all of them introduced by- Rep. Joseph E. Harvey, Portlands - 'i V ''The bills ; would , have' per mitted each precinct in the state to' determine whether liquor should "be prohibited within its boundaries, tax liquor advertis ing at 90 per cent, force owners of liquor establishments to post their names, on the premises,, prohibit women from : tending bar, and prevent stores, such as grocery stores and wine -shops,' from selling beer "and wine if women and - children frequent their premises. - Senate Has Wine Bill -The vote on the - precinct bill was 47 to 9, but no roll, calls were taken on the other; meas ures. The action Indicated that the house is in no mood to further restrict the sale of alcoholic bev erages. The house already has voted to permit the sale of wine over the bar, this bill now being in the senate. " Study of the state Income tax ' (Continued on Page Two) Forest Products May Be Used in . Making. Rubber SEATTLE, Jan.. 26 (IP) Paci fic . Northwest forest products may be used for making rubber, C. L. - Forsling, - assistant - chief of the U. S. forest service, be lieves. - He said the experiment is one of many under way at the service laboratory in Madi son, Wis. . "One of the recent experi ments deals with making sugar from . waste wood from mills and waste liquor from pulp mills," he explained. "The sugar would be converted to alcohols which would be used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber. We are -closer to that than a lot of people think." ' The first thing , Hunter no ticed after being . assigned - to the truck, which had ' been re?, captured from- the Japs, - was the obscure sign bearing the name of the unit with which his brother, George, had been serving in the Philippines. Next, in the cab, he found the same kind of sketches and, decora tions which his brother liked to put above a place. Then he found the clincher the name of George Hunter was scratched on the knob at the end of the gearshift lever. The Hunter brothers were or phans. ' Jonathan said both knocked about for several' years. He is 26 and George was four years younger. When last heard from - George was - a sergeant. T PLANS SHAPED, SAYS State of. Siege Pro-- claimed in French Metropolis . By ROGER GREEN ' , Associated Press War Editor A flame of open revolt in France, crisis in North Africa and ever blackening defeat in Russia formed the composite picture confronting Adolf Hitler and his satellites in World War U today. - ' At the same time, the behind' the-scenes atmosphere was rlfs with signs of momentous events in the making on the part of united nations leaders, perhaps leading the way for the long. awaited invasion' of Hitler's "European fortress" in the com ing weeks or months. - , Details Not Told Censored dispatches from Lon don said far-reaching war plans; of the allied nations were tak ing shape; and reported, that a one phase of the talks an agree ment over the North African po litical squabble had been reach, ed by Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen.: Henri, Honore Glraud following mediation by the united States and Britain. . Details of the agreement were not immediately disclosed.- ' . . . 25A Shot-fe-;" Jiff France, the pro-nazl Vichy government proclaimed a state of siege in ancient - Marseille. France's second largest city. after Swiss reports told of angry Frenchm e n: fortifying their homes "and firing on 'German soldiers attempting to - evacuate . the city's port, district. '. . - . . London heard sate today that 170 men and 80 women had been shot in Marseille. - A- Reuters" (English news agency)-dispatch from Switzer. land said the Germans had brought up artillery to shell the revolting Frenchmen into sun-' mission and declared house-to-, house fighting was in progress.: DNB, official German news : agency, said 40,000 persons had been arrested in the city. Nazi occupation authorities', ordered the evacuation, and raz-. ing of the Marseille port district ' apparently as part of a defense: measure against possible allied. mvasion from North Africa. . 8th Gains , , ' On the northern shores of the dark continent, the axis faced sharpening pressure from both sides, as . the victorious British 8th army swept on past Tripoli, en route to Tunisia, and Amer ican troops, boldly accepting a hazi challenge, smashed through axis lines in a raid to a point only 35 miles from the Tunis ian coastal roadj They captured ' 80 prisoners. - A bulletin from British head quarters said Gen. Sir Bernard. L. Montgomery's 8th army scor ed new gains yesterday in pur suit of nazi Field Marshal Er-, (Continued on Page Two) , Two Soldiers, Brakeman Die in ' Train Smashup SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.i ! Jan. 26 (IP) The toll of a train smashup in Cajon Pass last night rose to three lives today with the death of Ronald E. Green, San Bernardino, a brakeman. Two soldiers killed in the col-' lision of a passenger and a freight train were previously identified by the army as Daniel J. Aileddo, New ork City, and Frank N. DiMatteo,' Trenton, N. J. , The army did not announce -their rank or next of kin. Fourteen persons were In- Jured, among them Mrs. Glayn da Hopper,' Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Leila Shippers, Corsicana, Tex. Rail officials said ; they were not badly hurt. . . News Index City Briefs . ..:..':...;.....:..Page S Comics and Story Page 8 Courthouse Records . Page 10 Editorials : ......Page 4 Markets, Financial ........Page . 9 Midland Empire News .Page 7 Our Men in Service ..-..Page 3 Pattern .' ......Page 3 Sports . -m..L,.Page Q IfOTN I LONDON
