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
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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
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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
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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
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B 73 D II II Montgomery Dictates surrender terms to Italians . I IIIJ llflll 1 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. .
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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
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