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On 8-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles li the signal for blackout In Klamath rails. Anothtr long blast, during black out, la a ilgnil for all-eltar. In precau tionary norlodi. watch vour atraal HahU. . , . By FRANK JENKINS W1TH the Roosovolt-Churchlll , " conferonco concluded, got out your map again. Check tip on It tho LENGTH OF COAST LINE Hitler munt defend, Nolo the SHAPE of it. low rniKKft Soviets Mean O It extends In en Irregular aeml-clrclo (with Spain and Portugal constituting a sharp bulge) from Finland clear around to Syria, In the Mediterranean. TTHEN, having fixed tho ahapo of It In your mind, try to fig ure out how you would ATTACK It. ... ; . : ' , TV7E have an offensive bane In Britain an Important and valuablo one. From this bate, we can strlko QUICKLY and ef fectively at any point from the Arctic tip of FInlund to Gibral tar. ' Hitler's Mediterranean coast U another atory. ' , 'To Strike at It from Britain In volves a long and slow and v DANGEROUS expedition by water, open all the way to at- Otack by German warplanos and submarines. THEN take a look at Africa. From an OFFENSIVE BASE In Africa, we con strike quickly and effectively at ALL of Hit ler's Mediterranean coastline. With bases In BOTH Britain and Africa, we can choose our jumplng-off point, striking at . short notice from either or BOTH. YOU will see Immediately that Africa simplifies enormous ly the task of attacking Hitler. At tho same timo (as clear pro fit) It shortens greatly our sup ply line to the Middle East and India (and Burma). YjMTH this picture clearly In O - your mind, you will be ablo to guess pretty accurately what Roosovelt and Churchill and their high generals and admirals talked' about at their recent con ference. - nEFORE all this can take placo, the Germans will have to be cleared out of Tunisia, their last ' African toehold. Clearing them out, you may be qulto sure, Is our side's lm- '' mediate objective. N . 'THE Berlin radio keeps telling us nervously that British and American forces, starting ; from Tcbossa, are getting ready to try to drive a wodgo through to tho Mediterranean at the Gulf of Cubes, thus cutting Rommol's army off from Tunis. That seems probable. Our sldo, of courso, is keeping Q still' about it. But watch this w situation. It has possibilities. .' THE Russians spring a new one today. Starting at Tuapse, on the Black sou, which they'vo hold onto, they're driving a spearhead BACK Into tho Caucasus, aimed at the Maikop oilfield, which the Germans hold. Other Rus sian forces are approaching the Maikop area from tho cast. The Tuapso drive is another threat to the Germans below Rostov. , - TORRENTIAL rains havo again hit Tunisia, turning roads and opon fields into seas of mud. Tho rains are playing the Germans' game, giving them more time. TTOJO today tells the Jap "parliament" that Japan has captured vast resources, has O established outlying bases and the only task now remaining is "making those rosourcos dem onstrate their real wealth and power." What he means Is that the raw oil, rubber, tin, Iron, etc., of tho (Continued on Page Four) OF JAP VICTOR! SET.SipJO 2 Jap Planes Attack Aleutian Ships No Damage By The Atsoelatad Prats Coolly Ignoring tho fact that the Mikado's invasion armies were now on the defenxlvo on tlireo fronts Guodnlcanal, New Guinea and Burma Premier Gen. Hidckl Tojo of Japan boast ed today that the Japanese armed forces had laid the foun dations for "certain victory" over tho allies. Tho premier, addressing par liament In Tokyo, . asserted that Japan's position both for offense and defense had been completed by tho establishment of outly ing bases and by the conquest of vast nutural resources. Aleutian 'Attack "Of course." he added, "It will require great efforts on our part to maKe theso resources demon strato their .real wealth and power." .i.Othcr . Far Pacific ' develop' m Ants Aleutian Islands A navy but lotin reported that two Japanese float-type planes failed to inflict datnago in an attack on US ships "operating to the westward of our positions" In the Aleutians, Yanks Gain . The Amortcan ships were pre sumably on patrol, scouting for any reinforcements or, supplies en route to the Japanese on Kis. ka Island, In the westernmost Aleutians. Solomons The navy also re ported that US army troops on (continued on Page Two) Hope of Finding Sgt. Muskopf Is Abandoned AH hone of flnHlns Tnpti. Sot Richard F. Muskopf Jr., and members of his crow which dis appeared on a routino bomber flic' t from Hamilton field, San Francisco, December 6, has been aoanaonoa oy the young air man's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Muskopf of Pelican City, with word recolved Wed nesday that the army considers tho plane lost. In a letter which the Muskopfs received from Major Arthur J. Walker of the US air corps, de tails of the seorch woro given. "Our scorch wn rnnrlnftxrl from Hamilton field, San Fran cisco, witn tne active coopera tion of both navy surface and air p trols. Believe me, wo never found a singlo clue to their disappearance and if we had I would be perfectly free to tell you all about it. In fact we con tinued the search long after we were reasonably suro that the men could not havo survived for that period of timo if they bad managed to sot Into thn urn rafts. "My personal opinion, based on these facts, is that tho entire (Continued on Page Two) Compulsory Labor Decreed on Wide Scale in Germany LONDON. Jan. 28 (fP) Com- pulsory labor service for all Ger man men from 18 to 65 and women from 17 to 45 was de creed today by the German gov-1 ernmcnt, according to an an nouncement broadcast by tho Berlin radio and recorded by the Associated Press. The decree required all per sons affected to register at local labor offices. The London authorities said this represented labor mobiliza FO TON tion on an unprecedented scale.. ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS XlfO 'MKMUIVA : Al VJUII'I A.UHtfilAINA Drury Commends KF Motorists For Good Work Klamath motorists generally are following the rule better than those in tho largo cities, Don Drury, chairman of the war price and rationing board, said Thursday. He appealed to local people to "continue the good work." Drury said the board has not had to "lower the boom" on any motorists here for violation of B and C card regulations, al though some personal warnings havo been given. Violations, he said, have generally been due to misunderstanding rather than wilful disobedience of the rules. Tho ration board chairman said that he travels' the high ways extensively, and he has seen little violation of the speed limit In this area. ; , . "Usually when you see , speeding car, It has a foreign license," said Drury. - Drury reminded motorists that the board receives reports from local . traffic courts concerning violations. . RAF RMS BOMBS F Six of Huge Bombers Missing After Searing Blow . . By ALFRED E. WALL LONDON,; Jan. 28 (P) The RAF. hit the German city ; of Duesseldorf with several hun dred tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs last night dur ing the fourth allied aerial blow at the German war machine in two nights and a day, it was announced today. "Prelirhinary reports of last night's raid on the Rhineland by Lancasters and Hallfaxes show several hundred tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs were dropped on Dues seldorf in 20 minutes," an au thoritative statement said. Damage Heavy "Heavy cloud made It diffi cult to assess the result, but the glare of fierce fires was seen and the attack Is believed to have been very effective." London commentators ex pressed belief that great dam continued on Page Two) B 73 D II II Montgomery Dictates surrender terms to Italians . I IIIJ llflll 1 1 fill n W nvfh n r rr- - - , mlLI I firi T Heavy Chain of Circumsianiial Evidence Brings Murder Charge 4 gainst Cook in Slaying; Boning Knife Revealed as Killer's Weapon LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2B'.W" Robert Folkes, 20-year-old negro dining car cook, held here in the fatal' stabbing of Mrs. Martha James aboard a train in Oregon last Saturday,- was confronted with three knives to day and, while failing to defin itely identify any of them, later admitted, Dept. Capt. Verne Ras musson said, that one of them "might be" the murder weapon. Rasmusscn said the knives were taken from the dining car on the train on which the pretty wife of Naval Ensign Richard F. James was fatally stabbed in her berth while en route to Cali fornia. Tho detective has announced that Folkes has confessed the killing after making a numbes of conflicting statements regard ing his activities on the night of the slaying, and that "there is now no doubt whatever in our minds' that Folkes is the slayer." Rasmusscn said it had been planned to take Folkes to a railroad sleeping car today to determine whether he could re enact the crime but that the trip was cancelled after Folkes' attorney advised him to make no further statements. By FRED HAMPSON ALBANY, Jan. 28 (P) A heavy chain o circumstantial ' vJL'k'd fig-ly ii IV"P ,35 af &(L jTQ ' January 27 High 40, Lew 26 tNt W Precipitation as of January 21, 143 . ' Strtsm year to date ...10.82 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES L"1 y"r -7-01 otmtl KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 Number 9706 : OIL, lUUjUWMrOI Mlm XiU UUUWA ids ami mr ' WrS WIPING OUT OF TRAPPED NAZIS Prisoners Quoted as Denouncing Hitler, Officers By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Jan. 28 (P) The Russians continued the merciless extermination of the doomed Germans before Stalingrad to day, quoting prisoners as de nouncing Hitler and officers who "ran away and left us," and widened - the Caucasus front westward by capturing two cities close to the Maikop oil fields. (The Germans announced a new retreat west of Voronezh to a shortened line. The communi que said their Stalingrad forces shattered new attacks.) From Sicily Pravda reported 60 German aviators were captured near Stalingrad when the red army was driving the foe from behind into the city. They were caught throwing gasoline on their planes. wnen me sovieia capiurcu me last German airdrome., The loss of 48 more tanks In the last 12 hours greatly weakened the Ger mans near . the . centers of the Volga city; One captured pilot said the German fliers came only recent ly from Sicily. . Mot Much Luck The eruption of new fighting In the western Caucasus was disclosed with the capture of Apsheronskaya and Neftegorsk. Apsheronskaya Is little more than 19 miles from Maikop and Neftegorsk is 25 miles southwest of the oil center which was burned and blasted by the Rus sians before they moved out in the face of the German advance . (Continued on Page Two) War Bulletin LONDON, Jan. 28 (P) French forces of Gen. Henri Honore Giraud and De Gaul lists from the Lake Chad area were reported In a French communique broadcast from Algiers today to have joined In the conquest and occupa tion of G a d a m a s, Italian stronghold In the desert 300 miles southwest of Tripoli. : evidence coupled with a confes sion in Los Angeles brought a first degree murder charge against a dining car cook in the slaying of a navy bride aboard a fast train last Saturday, in vestigators disclosed today, ' District Attorney Harlow Welnrlck filed the charge in justice court yesterday against Robert Folkes, 20, Los Angeles, second cook aboard the South ern Pacific's West Coast Limit ed. He is held in Los Angeles. It constituted, the first impor tant break in the fantastic "murder on the mainline" death of winsome Martha Virginia James, 21, Norfolk, Va., bride of four months of Ensign Rich ard F. James, also of Virginia. They were' traveling south, had been separated by a jam, and he was on a preceding train. The comely daughter of the old colony was slashed across the throat while she lay in low er 13 of sleeper D as the limited- streaked through northern Oregon toward California about 4 a. m. : In Los Angeles, Police Cap tain V e r n Rasmussen ; said Folkes, confessed the killing saying he used a cook's boning knife but later retracted, Dep uty Sheriff Clay Kirk of Linn county,' where the killing took 1 k 1 . - . m mm m ' mm I I MM IHIf iiJ'nSX0y "Sk--' 1 Yanks Open Attack la ,yv f irfJ Tunis Area, Says - r ... Vichy - ' 1 v i ' y v " ' " ' Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery (right), dictated terms of surrender to officials of Tripoli tanla as his army entered the city of Tripoli, the last important axis base in Libya to be captured by the British. This is an official British photo radioed from Cairo io New York. - - JEFFERS INTENDS ii Davis Deplores Public . Airing of Con- ' WASHINGTON, Jan. . 48 (P) Rubber Director William Jeffers doesn't think he violated any presidential orders when he said army and navy production ex pediters are "loafers" who inter fere with war production. His office confirmed today that Jeffers intends to "Speak my , mind" when . asked about the rubber program,, despite a letter from Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information, reminding, him that President Roosevelt has instructed govern ment officials not to air their disputes in public and to submit all public statements to OWI for clearance. Confusion Created " "I need hardly emphasize that the remarks attributed to you are in conflict with these ' in structions of the president," Davis' letter said. . "The public airing of such con flicts and particularly in the lan guage attributed to you not only contributes to confusion at home but furnishes ammunition to the propaganda machines of our enemies." . Jeffers was not immediately available personally for com (Continued on Page Two) ROBERT FOLKES Associated Press photo place, is en route south to re turn Folkes. : ' , Strongest, evidence against Folkes was produced by Harold Wilson, a marine, corps private in upper 13, who. saw a man emerge from lower 13 and chased after him J through the train. In the galley of the diner, i.1 v : ' I til A Pay-a$-You-Earn Tax Plan, Labor Bills Busy Capital ' ' By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan.. 28 Enactment , of a pay-as-you-earn 'income tax plan and passage of legislation to punish union, labor leaders for interference with in terstate, -commerce shipments wer ..goal set' today by two House committees. . . . .. . Chairman Dough ton (D-N. C), of the house ways and means committee announced that hear ings would begin Tuesday on pay-as-you-go tax plans, separat ing this subject from the general tax problem of how to raise $16, 000,000,000 in new revenue Storm Warnings' Up On Coast as State Toll Reaches 11 - PORTLAND, Jan. 28 (Pi Storm warnings went up on the coast today as the cold wave that claimed 11- lives in Oregon receded. - " The warnings were hoisted by order of the weather bureau from the mouth of the Columbia river to Tatoosh island. . Road, conditions improved throughout the state - with the warmer weather and school re sumed In Portland- and-many other northern Oregon towns, al though a few were ordered to re main closed until Monday. The latest fatality reported was that of Pearl Parkins, 60, who apparently collapsed, while working in snow on his ranch near Timber. one car back, he found a cook. District Attorney Weinrick said Folkes has been identified as the cook. Wilson told investigators that the cook was "sweating and breathing hard. I didn't think much of it at the time but later I got to wondering. The galley was not warm." Folkes was questioned several times during' the long trip south. Weinrick said "It became ap parent when the train reached San Francisco he was not tell ing the truth so I ordered him held in Los Angeles. We have established positively that he was in car D three times short ly before the killing." R.' M. Kelso, a navy man in the car, testified he ' got up early to get a shave before the rush in the wash room and bumped into. Folkes just a min ute or two before, , Weinrick said. When told of Folkes' confes sion Wilson ejaculated: "Boy, am I glad to hear that." He repeated his account of the death of the 95-pound, blonde Virginia girl. ' "I was awakened by the lady's scream and pulled the curtain part way open and got a brief glimpse ' of a man of about- 5-10 .wb, close-cropped above present tax laws. The hope is to get as many taxpayers as possible on a current basis. The labor legislation was ap proved by the' house- Judiciary committee without hearings. Its author. Rep. Hobbs (D-Ala.), said it .was aimed against the prac tices of some labor unions 'in blocking truck shipments In which union labor .is not em ployed. . It would subject union leaders to the - heavy fines and prison terms provided ' hv the 1934 anti-racketeering act. A similar measure, fought by union groups, died in the last congress. At the war department, Sec retary Stlmson commented at a press conference on. "the contin ued good news from the battle fronts" and said also that in the last 11 months of 1942 army fliers shot down or probably de stroyed 1349 - enemy aircraft, against a loss of 309. Stimson disclosed that Ameri can casualties to date in Tunisia totaled 22S men listed as missing who- have been reported taken prisoner, 211 reported killed, 532 . wounded and another 289 listed as missing. The army , also announced plans for a combat unit of loyal Japanese-Americans as a senate military subcommittee asked the advice of Joseph C. Grew, for mer ambassador to Japan, on proposals to separate potentially loyal Americans from other Jap anese in a dozen detention col onies. .- Stimson said the decision to (Continued on Page Two) hair emerge from the berth and go down the aisle. It was very dim. At first I thought he had on a pin-stripe suit but I couldn't be " very sure of that. It was too dark. . "Then I saw the lady roll out of the berth and lean against the berth across the aisle. I pulled on my trousers and hit the deck. Then I saw the wound and I yelled This is murder, this is murder.' "The porter ran up. Then I noticed she was still alive. "She was looking at me, try ing to say something. Her lips moved. I held my ear down but I couldn't hear anything. Then her head slumped forward and she just' passed away. I'll never forget it as long as I live.; "We covered the body and 1 went back looking for the man. I went through four cars.' On my return to car D I saw the light in' the galley of the diner and noticed the cook. "I asked him how long he had been there. He said he was late. I remember he was sweat ing, sweat' was running down his cheeks, and ha was breath ing hard. I asked him if he' had seen anyone, told him . of the killing and gave him my de scription. He accused me of drinking. I told him no and said . (Continued on Page Two) . By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Editor A climactic allied offensive in North Africa, preluding ac tual invasion of ' Europe, waa sharply foreshadowed today with the disclosure that the top military leaders of the United States and Great Britain have) held a secret 48-hour war coun cil at . Lieut.-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters. At the same time, a Berlin military spokesman ' declared that Gen. Eisenhower's Ameri can expeditionary forces in Tun isia were "planning a major of fensive" and a Vichy broadcast said American troops originally concentrated 150 miles south west of Tunis had opened the attack. Swift Action Axis reports suggested an American attempt to drive a wedge between the converging armies of Marshal Erwin Rom mel and Col.-Gen. Jurgen von Arnim in central Tunisia. - The secret war conclave, at tended by the highest allied military chieftains, followed, swiftly . on ' the . heels of Pro). ' Hint Roosevelt's "master plan' conference with Prime Minister Churchill at Casablanca,. French' Morocco.; ; ?- ; i , V.. ; . Simultaneously, . Gen. - Eisen hower announced receipt of s (tominued on r age. Two) Errol Flynh l Flatly Denies All Charges LOS ANGELES. Jan. 28 (V- ' The prosecution today took Errol Flynn painstakingly over ground already covered at his trial for alleged morals offenses without , swerving him from the story he told in his direct testimony. - i As his direct testimony ended ' about: 11 a. m. the Australian" born actor flatly denied the state's charges that ho had mis conducted himself with blonde ' Betty Hansen, formerly of Lin coln, Neb. at a dinner party at . the home of a friend. It was a categorical denial, ' such as he. entered yesterday , on ' the other charge, that he .had been intimate with Peggy La -Rue Satterlee, brunette night club entertainer. Under direct testimony today Flynn denied: . . -: . . ', That he had seduced Miss Han sen. ''-.. That he had gone Into a bed- room with her at the Bel Air residence of Fred McEvoy. . That he had so much, as kissed her. That he had given her .his telephone number, or had taken Betty's address. In short, it was a denial- at Miss Hansen's whole story. As cross-examination opened, Deputy District Attorney John Hopkins questioned the. actor' closely on his first meeting with Miss Satterlee. He repeated what he already (Continued on Page Two) Eccles Named State ' War Bond Official PORTLAND, Jan. 28 (P) Da. vid W. Eccles, former state bud get director, was named Oregon war bond administrator by Pal mer Hoyt, state chairman, today. Ray Conway, administrator since January, 1942, has resigned to resume direction of the Oregon State Motor association. . News Index City Briefs Page S Comics and Story Page 8 Courthouse Records Page 10 Editorial ;..Page 4 . Farm News Page 7 Markets, Financial ........Page 9 Midland Empire News ..Pago 3 Pattern Page A Sports ...!Uvut.....J'age I
