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Newspaper Page TextlliMlffiifllHIilH On S-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles li the signal for blackout In Klamath ralli. Another long blast, during- a black out, la aignal for all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your atraai lights. January 29 High 39, Low IS Precipitation aa of January 20. 1949 Straant year to data ..........':.9.09 Laal yaar ............7.01 Normal 8.99 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943 ffiSn AilW1ISMr.fl Mm cn TMnr nn nnnn n rv n n n i i n n i u c n nr u v n n r n Master to .Plan ': Mapped ; ; . ;' By TRANK JENKINS 'T'HE Important announcement 1 whose advance ballyhoo created such a stir hni boon made. It dealt with a mooting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill In Africa. T'HE announcement Informs us ' that: Roosevelt and Churchill reached a complole agreement on the objectives.. Their objectives Include: Peace only throuKh UNCON DITIONAL surrender of Ger many, Italy and Japan. Retaining the Initiative In EVERY theater of war. TT will be fine dish of stew " when the rabbit Is caught. We all look forward with pleas ure to the eating of It. STALIN was cordially Invited 4a .V...... .V. DM.tUr.1 nn1 lit Prime Minister, but was "unnblo to leave Russia at this time on .account of tin Brest offensive against the Germans which he himself,' as commander-in-chief, Is directing." Chiang Kai-Shek was appar ently not invited, but was "kept Informed" of what wont on. He also stayed at homo and fought, 'A MONO other accomplish , merits. De Gaulle and Glroud were brought together. The atatemonta regarding their meet ing are guarded and cautious, but ono suspects that Roosevelt and Churchill talked plainly to them. It is announced that at least they havo established "liaison" (which is a fancy mil itary word meaning contact.) They need to be talked to bluntly. Franco can't bo saved If Frenchmen are to fight each other .Instead of the Germans. . "T'HE meeting was an Important ono, Much good was un doubtedly accomplished. In a world war, allies must maintain full co-operation and agreement, The results of failure to do so can be DISASTROUS. It Is fortunate that the air plane makes possible such face-to-face mcotlngs in theso modern days. Difficulties and misunder standings con be ironed out In porsonal conferences of tho top men. Without such conferences, these difficulties and misunder standings .might cause untold trouble. Every business man knows that. . TT Is unfortunate that the pub A liclty was handled with so much ballyhoo and with such an eye to tho spectacular as to crcato hopes that were dashed by tho wholly unspectacular de velopments. This writer has talked today with three Intelligent people who really thought yesterday that the collapse of Germany (or some thing of equally great Import ance) was to be announced at 7 o'clock last night and waited eagerly for the fateful hour of disclosure. It three Intelligent people In thls'communlly would jump to such a conclusion, there must havo been hundreds of thousands throughout tho country who did likewise . TPHE result, of course, was an A anti-climax that left people feeling deflated and disappoint ed. The effect was much like that of the ancient vaudevlllo trick of bringing in a giant firecracker that nftor much horseplay and exaggerated build-up finally wont off with a puny fizzle. For a serious meeting of great lenders whoso countries are en gaged In a war to tho finish, the (Continued en Page ?.W Quick Action Seen on FDR, Churchill Talk By The Associated Press CASABLANCA, French Morocco, Jan. 27 A master war plan for 1943 aimed at forcing the unconditional Burrcndor of Germany, Japnn and Italy has been mapped in a historic 10-day conference among President Roose volt, Prime Minister Churchill and a score of top-flight military and supply leaders, and today the allied heads had separated to put their global strategy "into active and concerted execution." President Roosevelt, breaking more traditions, flew 5000 miles for the meeting that began January 14 and ended last Sunday with a press conference on the sunny lnwn of a villa In Casablanca's U, S. CLINCHES African Land Fighting Held to Minimum By Weather LONDON. Jan. 27 W) Though decisive land fighting has been kept to a minimum by rainy weather In Tunisia, a Unit ed States infantry force has clinched Its hold on tho Ous soltla valley, In east-central Tu nisia, and far to the south the British eighth army clung to tho heels of tho rctreutlng Rommel Africa corps, advices from North Africa said today. There was one report that Marshal Rommel's men had man aged to gain contact with tho Tunisian axis forces otl Gen. Jurgcn von Arnlm. Tho report was broadcast by tho German controlled Paris radio last night. This was tho union that allied leaders had expected ln'tho area (Continued on Page Two) Berlin Terms Conference a "4th-Rate Show" LONDON. Jon, 27 (IP) In the first axis reaction to the Roose-volt-Churchill conference heard here, the Gormen radio said to day "it took ten days to estab lish harmony between tho Anglo Amorlcan government chiefs." , The announcer .at the same time denounced the meeting as a "fourth-rate Hollywood bigwig pow-wow on tho romantic shores of Africa." DNB said It was "Roosevelt's desire to see the European na tions bleed to death defending themselves against the bolshf vlst hordes." Parents of Cpl. Dieter To Receive DFC for Son Parents of Cpl. William J. Dieter, United States army air man reported missing following the raid on tho Japanese main land, will receive the Distin guished Flying Cross to be awarded posthumously to their son at a ceremony scheduled for 8 o'clock Monday night, Feb ruary 1, in the Tulelake high school gymnasium, sj , Mr, and Mrs. Jesso T. Dieter of Tulelake, parents of the young flyer, had been advised some tlmo ago that their son was missing In the raid. Award will bo made by Brigadier-General S. M. Cou ncil, U. S. army, who will ar rive Monday accompanied by an aide and adjutant. Howard Dayton, commander of Tulelake American Legion post, No. 164, will Introduce General Council, and members of the post will as sist in the ceremonies. ; Corp, Dieter, 84, served as a bombardier during the raid. He had scon service in tho US army artillery division boforo enter ing tho air corps, Before on (Continued on Page Four) ' outskirts near the Atlantic break' era through which American troops stormed ashore last No vember. Churchill also flew to the ren dezvous which found Gen. Charles de Gaulle, fighting French leader, and Gen. Henri Glraud, French North African high commissioner, getting, to gether for negotiation to put a French army, navy and air force into the field for powerful blows against the axis. , Stalin Advised ' Working day and night, the president and prime' minister wcro attended by virtually the entire war., staffs of both, na tions, including all, the service heads, and they reached "com plete agreement" on their objec tive, it was announced. ; , . Premier Joseph Stalin of Rus sia and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China were kept ad vised of tho progress and results of tho conference which outwit ted nazi spies based in adjacent Spanish Morocco. FDR Makes Awards v Tho presence of such a galaxy of American and British leaders, both strategists and field com manders, indicated that not only European Invasion courses had been charted, but that field com manders had been decided upon for impending operations. Those who will command and where they will strike probably will re main military secrets for tome time. President Roosevelt took time (Continued on Page Two) Jops Take Their Crack at Meeting ' NEW YORK, Jan. 27' VP) The Tokyo radio, in a Japanese language broadcast beamed at North America early today, gave its version of the conference at Casablanca, stating that Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Churchill held a meeting "from the standpoint of trying somehow to win the favor of public opinion within the nation In both America and, Britain." - William J. Dlate ALL-AMERICAN ATTACK HITS GERMAN SOIL 3 Bombers; Missing 'After, Raid; RAF Active LONDON, Jan. 27 VP) Fly ing Fortresses and , Liberator bombers of the U. S. air forces made the first all-American at tack of the war on Germany today- with raids on naval tar gets tit Wllhelmshaven and other places in the northwest of the relch. The attack on Wllhelmshaven was heavy, but observation of results was difficult. Three bombers were missing after the raids. Lars Scat The communique from U. S. army headquarters said: "It was announced tonight by the headquarters of European operations of the United States army that in daylight today the United States army eighth air force carried out its first at tack on . enemy objectives , in Germany. . .. . ,v t'"Flylng Fortress B-17s made a large scale attack on the enemy naval base at Wllhelmshaven. Liberator B-24s bombed other targets in northwest .Germany. The naval base at Wllhelm shaven was heavily bombed but results were difficult to observe. , "The bombers, which were not escorted,; encountered enemy fighters, a number of which were destroyed. -Three of our bomb ers are missing." The raid followed overnight forays in which the RAF set' fires in the dock area of Lorlent, nazl U-boat base on the coast of France, and bombed the Gironde Estuary port of Bordeaux after (Continued on Page Two) f Draft Dodgers Find No Comfort On Isle of Tahiti PAPEETE, Tahiti (Corre spondence of The Associated Press) Three parties of draft dodgers who sailed in small cut ters from California discovered, much to their surprise, that they were not welcome in the Free French islands of the South Pacific.- ' - They jarrlved here by way of the Marquises and Tuamotu is lands. . Two of the parties lin gered in the Tuamotus for a time- but . were ordered on to Papeete. When they reached this port they got the shock of their lives. They were treated as - enemy aliens, kept under guard and then were' told they must get going or their boats would be confiscated. Finally they ship ped' out as crew members on the first cargo ship calling at the port) leaving their cutters here. Their destination was un known in Papeete. Billy Harper, 12, Injured as Sled Crashes Into Car . Billy Harper, 12, son of Lew H. . Harper, . 430 Washington street, suffered a deep scalp wound and other hurts when his sled crashed into the rear fender of State Police Officer Larry Bergmann's car early Tuesday night at the Fiftti and High streets intersection. ; Bergmann rushed the boy to Klamath Valley hospital where he underwent surgery. His con dition was reported good late Wednesday. , !The boy was toasting on, the Fifth street sidewalk when his sled failed to make the corner and he rode into the street, . . ' . ' I Americans Take Offensive in Tunisia ! ' 1 yJS?feSOu"sSE";" , , MALTA. - I FLIBYA r fwiM ) . ; P " '; rCSApAMES - - - j swuts Miusj After allUs bombed Slcilr and Sura (3), an American armored column (upper shaded arrow), smashed aa enemy unit (I. black arrow), near Ousseltia, allied headquarter in North. Africa said. Other American troops based at.Tebetia tested (lower shaded arrow) enemy strength near Maknasiy. and apparently war in tent on splitting (broken arrow) axis troop hammed into the coastal corridor below Sf ax. British eighth army units forged ahead (white arrows), toward tho Tunisia-Libya border as the axls .Afrika Korps sought to gat behind the MarethJ line (2). Some British units were believed across (broken white arrow), the Tunisian border. , Reds Give Stalingrad S Nazis "Few, Davs'lMore Before : By EDDY GILMORS MOSCOW, Jan.-27 VP) la one of the Var's strange quirks, the defenders of Stalingrad are Ger man, not Russian,, fighting at tacks against the battered ruins in the heart of the city and in another pocket '. slightly to the north , -, . .-: This . remnant of nazl forces once numbering 22 divisions 220,000 men at full strength has been whittled down to 12, 000 men, the Russians said. A special communique ' declared these doomed. ' v: ' . "It is only, a matter of two or three days," it said,- "before they also will be completely, anni hilated." , .. '. ; Battlefront dispatches: report ed the red army proceeding re lentlessly with the destruction of the trapped troops. ; , (A Russian mid-day communi que as recorded in London by the soviet monitor said that the 534th German infantry regiment in the, Stalingrad trap had sur rendered in mass after night long fighting,' and that some units of the 669th infantry regi ment were wiped out. (The communique reported 1467 other Germans taken pris oners in a trap on the Voronezh front, ' and said the Russians gained further ground on the southwestern front and in the Senate Committee Approves Nomination Of Edward Flynn ' WASHINGTON, Jan.! 27 (P) The senate foreign relations com mittee approved today President Roosevelt's nomination of Ed ward J. Flynn, former national democratic chairman, to be min ister to Australia and the presi dent's personal representative in the southwest Pacific. The vote was 13 to 10. Three democrats Senators George (D-Ga.), Van Nuys (D Ind.) and Gillette (D-Iowa) joined with the seven republican members of the committee in voting against confirmation.. Hitler Strengthens , Balkan Defenses ' STOCKHOLM, Jan. 27 (fP) Adolf Hitler is reported in un usually' well-informed quarters here to have sent two trusted aides Gen. Fritz Erich von Mannsteln and Col. Gen. Baron Maxilian von Welchs into the Balkans, apparently to organize defenses against the possible opening of a front, in southeast ern Europe. .... BU-NGEM, STATUTE MlltS Annihilation Caucasus, capturing a number of additional towns and villages, j (The German communique; in a Berlin, broadcast .recorded by the Associated Press, said the Russian offensive was extending to new sectors, and reported that the remnant of the German sixth army, holding on in the de bris of Stalingrad, was resisting bitterly against constant soviet land and air attacks. (The German -account said "in the Kuban district German movements were continued en- (Contimied on Page Two) Jops Attack U.S. Recon Mission Over Wake Island ' WASHINGTON, Jan.' 27 (P) American planes flying over Wake Island on a reconnaissance mission were attacked by Jap atiese planes, the navy reported today, - but returned safely to their base. Two Japanese Zero fighters were reported shot down, in the first flight over Wake since a bombing attack on December 23, which started : large fires in enemy positions. -. The action was reported in navy communique 263: "Pacific: . "1. On January 25th, U. S. aircraft were attacked by eight Japanese: Zeros during a recon naissance mission over Wake is land. Two Zeros are believed to . (Continued on Page Two) , . Allied I War planes Scourge Pacific Area; Curtin Asks "Revenge for Corregidor By The Associated Press Allied warplancs were 1 cred ited today with inflicting havoc on Japan's invasion, armies in Burma and the South Seas, even as Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia appealed for greater strength in the South Pacific "to avenge the men of Corregidor." Voicing his oft-repeated warn ing that stronger allied forces were .needed to hold Japan in check, Curtin declared: "Time is fighting on the side of Japan. Time is fighting against the United Nations. "The southwest : Pacific area Is too crucial to be left to a force of caretakers." : ,1 Simultaneously, . ' dispatches from the New Guinea battle- front quoted Lieut. Gen. Robert Negro Refract's C onffession in LA Questioning LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (AP) Capt. Vern Rasmus sen of the police homicide detail said today that Robert Folkes, 20-year-old negro dining car cook, had confessed! to killing Mrs. Martha Virginia James in her train berthi last Saturday. He said the youth later retracted the con fession, however. -.. . ' " ' ' "Folkes has confessed that he killed the woman, denied it, repeated the confession, and now he says he confessed; because he is protecting someone else," Rasmussen told! the Associated Press. "He will not say whom he is pro tecting." '.'.; '-""' --yh? Rasmussen said he could not pass judgment on thi negro's guilt or innocence in cal evidence. He said Folkes gon and' the authorities there- would be In position to ascertain whether his confession story, is to be believed. ALBANY, Ore.. Jan. 27 VP), District Attorney Harlow Wein rick of Linn county notified the Associated Press at 12:30 p. m. today that he had filed a first degree murder charge against Robert E. Folkes, So, dining car cook on the Southern Pacific's West Coast Limited, in the death early last Saturday morning of Mrs. Richard F. James. Folkes is being held in Los Angeles. The district attorney said the charge was fileo with Justice of i the Peace Victor Oliver of Linn county and a warrant for Folkes had been issued. ' Held In L. A. ! Mrs; James, 21-year-old" Vir ginia girl, 4-months bride " of Ensign Richard F. James of the navy, :.was .'slashed to-death in lower. 13 of car D of' Ihc Southern Pacific , southbound train as it was in or near the Linn county- village of Tangent. Folkes was picked up . in Los Angeles after the train reached that city. , 1 : , - Weinrick gave no additional details', regarding the filing of the charge, other than to say it followed telephonic conferences with , Los - Angeles police . and after a nearly all-night sifting of evidence with Oregon state po lice and Southern Pacific invest igators.. .Marine Give Aid ' Mrs. James, daughter of a prominent Norfolk, Va., family, was slain as she lay in berth 13 about 4 a. m. Saturday. Her struggle, and scream : aroused several fellow-travelers, one of whom leaped from upper 13 to help. ' - . ,'. - . He was Marine Corps Private Harold Wilson, who said he saw a dark man dash down the aisle. He leaped to the floor and ' lifted Mrs. 'James' head onto a pillow which he snatched from an adjacent berth. Wilson " then - chased back (Continued on Page Two) ; Portland Police ' . To Seize Speeders' Gas Ration Books PORTLAND, ' Jan.. 27 (JPh Portland police were ordered to day to take gasoline rationing books away from ' motorists caught driving faster than-35 miles an hour. Police Chief Harry M. Niles said the books also: would be taken from, motorists convicted of ; drunken and reckless driving charges.. , , : .The books may be regained only through hearings at ration ing boards. Eichelberger, commander of American forces in - the victor ious Papuan campaign, as de claring that the allied triumph in that sector was "a. slap in the face for the Jap" and the first pushing around of this war for the Japanese. , "The Jap. was pushed around at Milne Bay, Gona and Sanan anda," he said.-. , "Where else has this happened to the modern Japanese army? He's been fighting five years and this is. the first time he's been set down and you can be sure he doesn t like it. "What's more, American troops had their baptism of fire and learned things which rodo ill times for the enemy in the future." the absence of all the physU would be returned to Ore Dr. Adler Recalls Nejw gro's Worry in ' Exam Here r - Robert Folkes, negro second cook charged with the murdes of Martha James Wednesday, e pressed concern here last Sat. urday during examination of hi finger nails lest turkey blood under his nails be mistaken; for human - blood, it was recalled Wednesday by Dr. George H. Adler, Klamath county coroner.. VFolkrwasi,,wiB ' of several negroes taken Into the Southern Pacific depot Saturday' aftero noon for finger nail exarhina tion. Material - from beneath) their nails was removed by Dr. Adler and sent to Dr. Joseph Beeman, state police : medical; expert - . : Dr. Adler recalled Wednesday that ' when . Folkes turn came, the negro asked the doctor -if he could tell the difference be tween turkey blood and. human blood. : :.: -." , , .... . Suspicion Grew. When Dr.-Adler replied a-! firmaUvely, Folkes said he had , cut up a raw turkey that morn: tag. - . . The murder charge against' Robert Folkes, occasioned no ' surprise Wednesday among local.' officers,' several of whom had indicated strong suspicion of ' Folkes prior to the actual iillng of the charge. ' Suspicion began to' grow here against1 Folkes when reports came from Los Angeles that he had made statements concerning incidents on the train the night (Continued on Page Two) i . Klamath Sing Scheduled for ' ! Tonight at 7:30 Klamath's second community sing is scheduled for tonight, Wednesday, at 7:30 o'clock ia the main auditorium of Klam ath Union high school with Ann drew Loney Jr., directing. The public is invited, there is no charge, and an . interesting pro gram is planned. Songs will be passed through the audience and the program will include community singing, voice, instrumental and band numbers. Andrew Collier, Klam ath county war savings chair man, will make a brief talk. Observers expected that wltrj the end of the Papuan campaign Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Amer ican and Australian forces would next turn their, attention to the Japanese strongholds in north eastern New Guinea. . American Flying Fortresses again blasted at shipping in Ra haul havbor, New Britain, a ma jor base for supplying enemy forces in New Guinea, hitting a ship in the harbor and started! fires in the airdrome area. ' 1 On i the Burma front, RA? planes flying from India again attacked Japanese installations and transport in Burma, bomb ing the . important enemy air drome at Toungoo and raking boats on the Chindwin river and along the Bay of Bengal coast; . , ;