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aw On 6-mlnuU bUit on sirens and "whittles li the signal for a blackout In Klamath Falls. Anothtr long blast, during a black out la ilgnal lor all-olear. In precau tionary parlodi. watch your atraat Ughti. January M High 43, low 37 Precipitation aa oi January 1J. 1943 ' Stream year to data ...10.tl Last yaar 7.01 Normal .... 8,01 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1943 Number 9707 MM o n n fnHo) ((Tin fiTiMfffi lyjLr iLiyJuvlJiyJul uum! f : ' 1 By FRANK JENKINS 'AS this li written today, NO big nowa li available. At this ttago of the war, that la on almoat cortnln sign that plenty of big news la In the MAKING. THE Russians announco todoy the taking of Kaatornoye, which, the dispatches explain, is strategically Important. It la Important because It is a Junction of mat and west and north and south rail lines be tween Voronozh and Kursk. If you follow your map carefully, you have noted by this tlmo thut most of the fighting In Russia centers around rail linos. . The basic reason for this Is that troops HAVE TO DE SUP PLIED. , TF you want to understand the moves on the chess board of this far-flung global war, you must keep this basic fact in mind. THE armies In Tunisia are re ported today to be still mlrcd In the mud. 'That polnta to tha weather as another of the funda mentals of war. Tha sharp-eyed historians tell us It was RAIN that decided the fata of the world at Waterloo. Napoleon was an Inspired artil lerist, who Improvised his tactics as he went along, lie used his artillery, Victor Hugo tells us, like a pistol in the hand, point ing It now here, now there, as the fortunes of battle ebbed and flowed. Ho liked to sit his horse on a high hill and sond his gunners galloping . to wherever - in the line they could do the enemy the most harm at the moment. ON the fateful eve of Water loo, it was mining. It KEPT ON raining. Napoleon waited for It to quit. Whllo he waited, Wellington strengthened his linos and brought up his reinforce ments. The rain softened the ground and deepened the mud, When the battle broke. Napoleon was unable to send his artillery gal loping hither and yon, as was his custom. Ho LOST. A NOTHER of tho fundamentals of war Is thnt when you have more men than your enemy you can afford to extend your lines In an effort to spread him thin In tho hopo thnt ho will crack under tho strain. In 1041, Hltlor deliberately at tacked Russia on a 1000-mile front. But when it appears that your enemy may havo more men than you have, you SHORTEN YOUR LINES so that YOU won't be stretched thin and cracked. A short line can bo defended with fewor men than a long one. There are strong hints that Hitler Is shortening his lines in Russia so that FEWER MEN can do the lob. ':'"'('.' WATCH those hints. Becauso . they go bock to funda mentals, they are significant. If they aro borne out by events, thoy will mean that Hitler is be ginning to feel the pinch of de clining man-power. ' .. JIRAUD soys today there aro no prospects of . a united French movement throughout tho world. Ho adds that tho only agreement between him end De Gaulle will be one of "liaison on military, cconomlo and fi nancial matters." The specter of POLITICS, you (Continued on Pago, Two) Improvement Seen . . In Greek Conditions DALLAS, Jan. 29 (P) Relief measures have saved 2,600,000 of the urban population of Greece from starvation, George C. Vournas of Washington, D. C, national president , of the Order of Ahepa, told a group of Greek-Americans last night. The people' of conquered Greece are better off than they were a year ago, but their con dition is still bad,, he said, Ms awls fa Mmm U. S. STRIKES HEAVY BLDWAT TUNISIAN PORT Ground Action Rumors Fly Between Axis, Allies By ALFRED E. WALL LONDON, Jan.' 20 (P) The harbor and railway yards of Sfax, a supply port vital for re grouping of axis forces In Tuni sia,' were, officially declared to day to have been hard hit by the 12th US air force's greatest raid of the war while British Eighth army artillerymen duel led with Marshal Rommel's rear guard In the Zuora area 38 miles east of the Tunisian frontier. The axis betrayed Jitters by radio suggestions that the Brit ish first army already had start ed a big move In the Tunisian theater, these following uncon firmed reports that the Ameri can ground forces there had launched or were preparing an offensive. - - Four Wavss v -Tho broadcasts had -no confir mation and today's communique from allied headquarters in North Africa said "there Is no change in the ground situation." ' US heavy and medium bomb ers, escorted by P33 Lightning fighters, struck Sfax in four waves yesterday, blasted the rail lines and harbor facilities heav ily, left many fires burning and (Continued on Page Two) M me. Perkins Estimates Cost Of Living Rise WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (P) Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins estimates that living costs climbed one-half of one per cent from mid-November to mid December, bringing the general cost of living up 9 per cent above the pre-Pearl Harbor average. During the month, she an nounced today, food costs climbed 1.2 per cent, but smaller increases, were noted for house furnishings, furniture, sheets and men's clothing, Women's cloth ing declined slightly.. ' The rise In food costs was at tributed mostly to seasonally higher prices for fruits and vegetables, and to somewhat higher egg and butter prices. She commented that while meats were scarce in many com munities, supplies of fresh fish and poultry "were said to be adequate." Folkes Leaves LA Tonight j To Face Slaying Charge LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (IP) Robert Folkes, 20-year-old rail road diner cook, will be taken back . to Oregon tonight (7:15) to face a charge of slashing to death Mrs. Martha James, wife of a navy ensign, in her sleep ing car berth last Saturday night. - Sheriff's Deputy Clark Kirk said he would leave tonight for Albany, Ore., with Folkes, tak ing tho transcript of an oral statement in which, Capt. Verne Rasmussen of the Los Angeles police said, the negro admitted the killing. Rasmussen paid he would not ask Folkes to sign the document but that Kirk might do so before he left. Other homicide bureau offi cers said it was not customary to ask suspects to sign confes sions made orally and taken down by a stenographer In the presence of police. , Rasmussen commented that, insofar as he could see, the only Errol Takes Stand rr; a t I ' v?r K l Here's that long-awalUd momsnt. "Actor. Errol Flynn, right, takes the witness stand to testify In his own defense at tha Los Angeles trial, whin ba is charged with statutory rape. Defense Attorney Jerry Gaisler Is at left. ' , i, . : Complaints Heard on WLB Stabilization Formula ; By Tha Associated Prasad WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 tVP) With both houses of congress in recess today, there was little nows from, tho legislators but tho capital read with Interest of President Roosevelt's stops at Liberia and Brazil on the way home from his war talks at Casa blanca ' with Prime Minister Churchill of Britain. ; A more general labor develop ment began to take form with complaints by the United Mine Workors and United Auto Work ers against the war labor board's formula for stabilizing wages. ' John L. Lewis, the mine union president, assailed tho formula, as depriving labor, "of any wage Increase in excess of IS per cent (Continued on Page Two) Storm Warnings Post From South To Oregon Border SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 (P) Tho ' weather bureau today or dered storm warnings posted at 6:30 a. m. for gale winds in the area from Point Montara in San Mateo county, Calif., to Cape Blanco in extreme southern Oregon. The designation takes In all of the northern California coast from a point just south of San Francisco. , . . i effect of Folkes' signature on tho confession would ' be ' Los Angeles police might not have to go to Oregon to testify. "Folkes," said Rasmussen, "has made the confession that ho stabbed Mrs. James in her lower berth, No. 13, aboard the train, and a transcript of that confession was presented to Mr. Kirk upon his arrival here. So far, he hasn't been asked to sign tho confession, but whether he signs it or not makes no differ ence to us.", . The train was ' traveling through Oregon when Mrs. James was fatally stabbed. Her husband, Ensign Richard F. James, was aboard another southbound train at the time, having become separated in a railroad station upon" entraining for California. ' : Folkes, on , the advice of his attorney, objected o going to a sleeping car, where Rasmussen ' (Continued on Page Two) in Own Defense F'" - V 1. The Moon Was There Ail Right, Says Astronomer LOS ANGELES, JaaT "29 VP)' An astronomer, bearing a celes tial globe, mounted the witness stand today and testified there was a moon the night pretty Peggy La Rue Satterlee says Actor Errol Flynn Invited her below decks to have a look at It through the porthole of his lux urious yacht Sirocco. The savant, Prof. C. H. Clcm inshaw, acting director of Grif fith observatory, was called by the prosecution as its first re buttal witness at the film star's trial on , charges of seducing Miss Satterlee and another teen age girl, Betty Hansen. ". There was not only a moon shining that night on romantic Santa Catalina island, but it was quite a moon, the savant's testimony indicated. He describ ed it as' being within three days of a full moon. " The state did not indicate the purpose of the testlmbny. Attorney Jerry Giesler, In a surprise move, reopened his de fense, calling Mrs. Elizabeth Cathcart-Jones, of New York City,- who described herself as the wife of Capt. Owen Cathcart-Jones, the former RCAF of ficer, friend of Miss Satterlee, who testified earlier in the trial. Mrs. Cathcart-Jones said she and the captain had been mar ried May 23, 1926. and had (Continued on Page Two) , Wartime Credit Ban Lifted for Flood Sufferers SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 () Oregon's Willamette valley flood sufferers received aid- today from the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco, which lifted wartime credit restrictions on rehabilitation. President William A. Day of the reserve bank announced said, credit could be advanced by dealers or lenders on any terms they may choose or agree upon with borrowers, if the credit is sought to replace or repair pro perty damaged by the flood. Persons notsuffering from the flood damage, Day said, re main under the restrictions im posed by the government as an inflation; preventing measure.. Pay Raise Awarded Lumber Company DALLAS, Jan. 29 (IP) A pay raise of 71 cents an hour retro active to October 8, 1942, was awarded employes of the .Wil lamette Valley Lumber com pany at Black, Rock and Dallas and the Snow Peak Logging company at Lebanon yesterday by the west , coast lumber com mission, ' ' 12-MILE GAIN KED UP ON MIDDLE FRONT Nazi's High Command Paints Gloomy Word Picture LONDON, Jan. '29 (JP) Tho Russians . announced tonight tha captura of tha important railway junction of Kropotkin, 130 miles southeast of Rostov, in a special communique re corded by the soviet monitor.' By ROGER GREENE - Associated Press War Editor Russia's . triumphant 1 armies, crashing into the middle, of the German front between Moscow and Rostov, reported today they had buckled the nazl defense-in-depth system for a gain of 12 H miles, killed 8000 axis troops, captured 6000 prisoners, and ad vanced within 75 miles of the key German base at Kursk. The thrust represented a total advance of 49 miles from Vor onezh, which .the 'Russians an nouhced'. they 1 ha - recaptured twq'days ago. i) U. Napoleon s Losses -Tdpped Simultaneously, a Moscow broadcast declared that the Ger mans had suffered more casual ties since the Russian offensive began November 19 than- the whole of ' Napoleon': - Ill-fated grand army which invaded czar- ist Russia in 1812. , Napoleon led 600,000 French, German and Italian troops into Russia , in late Julie and 'only 100,000 escaped after the bloody trek back across the (now less than six months later. NbiU Kttp Talking . Hitler's high command again painted a gloomy picture of the vast struggle, ' noting that Ger man troops at Stalingrad were suffering "the greatest priva tions" and reporting a battle "full of vicissitude" in the Vor onezh sector. .. Nevertheless, the nazl corn continued on Page Two) J. C. Whitaker Injured in Fall From Marquee ' J. C. Whitaker, pioneer Klam ath Falls grocer,: is in Klamath Valley hospital suffering from in juries received at 10:15 a. m. .Friday when he fell from, the marquee of his building, 1205 Klamath avenue. Mr. Whitaker's condition was described as criti cal late Friday afternoon by the attending physician. The grocer was removing snow from the marquee at the time of the accident. He fell more than 12 feet to the sidewalk and in addition to a possible skull frac ture and spine injuries, has a broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade and undetermined Internal hurts. He was moved to the hospital by Ward's ambu lance. FDR, Brazilian President Met . On US Destroyer ' RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 29 P) President Getulio Vargas re turned here by plane today after conferences with President Roosevelt at Natal. . It was disclosed that the presi dents , held their conference aboard, a United States destroy er. The four-motored US army transport which carried Presi dent Vargas, US Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and .others to the historic conference, on Bra zil's heavily fortified strategic bulge returned them to the muni cipal airport at 4:26 p. m., with a heavy Brazilian fighter plane escort.' Reds Reopen Strategic Rail Lines " 7 - " J ASTRAKHAN RUSSIA llialiilllife gstrfi 4T1TUTJUUIS Russian armies, claiming io small groups of nasi troops (indicated by swastika) near Stalin grad, had reopened three , rail lines useful In sanding supplies and reinforcements to the lront, London sources nearo. mesa lines feed from Stalingrad north (1) toward Pororinaj (2), west toward Tatsinskara, and (3), southwest toward Salck. -Arrows show wher Russian pressure against the nails is greatest. Broken line Is tha front as it existed Details Not Available On Subject of Al- - ' lied Talks By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (IP) Piling precedent on precedent, President Roosevelt is taking ad vantage of his historic trip to North Africa by stopping off en route home and conferring with the heads of . allied nations in both hemispheres. 'The latest of these meetings came yesterday, when Mr. Roosevelt- iaw President Getulio Var gas' of Brazil at Natal, main South American terminus of the airplane service to Africa. As they talked, Brazilians celebrat ed the first anniversary of that nation's break with the axis. Visited Liberia " While details were not imme diately available, it was pre sumed the two chief executives had an opportunity to discuss Brazil's strategic importance in hemispheric defense. ' Meanwhile the White ' House disclosed last ' night that Mr. Roosevelt had paused on his journey homeward from the mo mentous war' councils in North Africa to greet the president of tropical Liberia, on the western bulge of Africa. : There he reviewed American negro troops and inspected a plantation turning out war-vital rubber.- News of his Liberiah visit was (Continued on Page Two) Swastika Won't Fly in Stockholm STOCKHOLM, Jan. 29 (JP) The German consulate here re ceived instructions from Berlin not to fly the nazi swastika to morrow on the tenth anniversary of Hitler's rise to power. Heuvel Probes Of Alleged Allegations made by Cecil Scott Sapps, assault case defen dant, to the effect that he was beaten- by a policeman shortly after his arrest, were being in vestigated . by Chief of Police Earl Heuvel Friday. ' ;, Sapps made the allegations in part at a preliminary hearing on the assault case Friday morn ing .in justice court, result of which will be determined by Justice Joe Mahoney Saturday. ; The 18-year-old defendant made similar charges against an unidentified policeman in a mental hearing held Thursday, in which Sapps was found men tally sound. Sapps asserted that after his arrest, on a complaint lodged by a local young woman he was struck by an officer, who took hfm by the collar. The officer, na saw, . nit . sm naxa . in we ""TV if isscnuww U II II Ul III U hava smasbad all except two when tna Hussion drive Began. Captain Jack Auctioned for Another $22,500 Captain Jack, the bantam rooster, was auctioned for an other $22,500 at Friday's Rotary club luncheon and , that put Klamath county over the top on its January -war -savings quota of $317,000. The rooster brought a total of $75,000 in war savings purchases at Rotary club luncheons. Each time a new bid was offered, the bidder agreed to buy war sav ings bonds representing the dif ference between the previous bid and his bid. In this manner, the sales went up until they represent nearly $1000 each in war savings pur chases for Rotary club members. Henry Moe was the last bidder Friday, and said he would be glad to give the rooster for a similar war savings effort in some other Rotary club. , Bidding went up Friday from ?52,500 to $75,000. Mitchell , TiUotson, -chairman of the Rotary club drive, said he hoped the local public would continue to purchase bonds through the remaining two days of the month even though the quota has been reached. Funeral Services .'. To Be Held Sunday For Mrs. James NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 29 (fP) Jfuneral services for Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinson James, 21, vic tim in the "main line murder" aboard a train In Oregon last Saturday, will be held here Sun day.'' Mrs. James, wife of Ensign Richard F. James of the navy, was slain while sleeping in lower 13 of sleeper D. Robert Folkes, 21,' dining car cook on the - train, has been charged with first degree mur der in the case. 1 James arrived in Norfolk this week with his wife's body, 1 Charges Beating Here mouth, causing his head to hit a wall in a room at the city hall. : Police Chief Earl. Heuvel said Friday morning he would call a line-up of his officers and have Sapps look them over, to pick out his alleged assailant. i When Sapps was asked at the Thursday hearing what officer struck him, he pointed to Ser geant Paul Robertson, who was in Circuit Judge Vandenberg's courtroom, and said: "He ought to know, he was there." : Robertson, the , complaining witness in that case, made no comment at that time. Judge Vandenberg, after dis missing the hearing, advised the district attorney's office to in vestigate, the alleged conduct of officers, and to have a further physical ' examination of the (Continued on Page Two) : r -Jfi NIP QUIP! DAMAGED li 2-DAY BATTLE Four American Planes " Reported Missing . ' In Action . , , By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 UP) In two furious days of fighting in the Solomon islands, the navy reported today, American forces damaged two Japanese cargo ships, two destroyers and a tank er, destroyed ten enemy planes and killed 36 Japanese troops in operations which resulted in the capture of an enemy command nnst- ... Three Japanese wera taken prisoners. ' - One of the cargo ships which was damaged nrobably sank. Four American planes were re ported missing. Wavy communique No. 269: . "South Pacific (all dates arar east longitude) "1. On January 27th: . ' "(A) Ground operations on Guadalcanal island resulted in the capture of a large, well established enemy command post. . Thirty-six Japanese wera killed and three prisoners ' and a large amount of equipment were captured. In other sectors, . two pockets of enemy resistance were wlried ouL , - . .. . "4 Planes Missing "(B) During -tha morning, . enemy dive bombers and high -level bombers, escorted by fight . era, approached . Guadalcanal. U. S. fighters engaged the en emy planes and Incomplete re ports indicate that nine Zeros were destroyed and six others probably destroyed. The enemy planes dropped no bombs. Four r U. S. planes are missing. - "(C) A force of marauder (Martin B-25) medium bombers i with Airacobra (Bell P-39) escort. uuiizueu installations on- iwoiom- 1 bangara island in the New ' Georgia group. A large fir ' . (Continued on Page Two) ' ; Giraud Sees No Prospect of Political Unity By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ' IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 29 (JP) General Henri Honore Gi- ' raud declared today that there were no prospects of any single united French movement at the present time and that the only agreement between himself and General. Charles De Gaulle would be one "of liaison on mil itary, economic and financial matters." - Giraud, high commissioner for . French North and West Africa, told a press conference that he had not taken up "the question of politics" with the leader of 1 the Fighting French when the' two were brought together dur ing the Roosevelt-Churchill con ference at Casablanca. . "There is no question of a single united French movement throughout the world : at the present time," he said. . "We are establishing a perma nent liaison on critical economic and military questions.'.' . Giraud told the conference he was willing to give the Jews in North Africa back their proper-' ty and allow-Jewish children in . the schools, but added that "these moves must be made gradually."., . Before the conference the general issued a long statement, much of it repeating material previously covered , but saying in addition that the discussion with De Gaulle at Casablanca (Continued on Page Two) News Index City Briefs ....... ..Page 5 Church News ... Page 7 Comics and Story ..Page 8 Editorial , J Page 4 Markets, Financial . Page 0 Midland Empire News ....Page 3 Our Men in Service ....Pago 3 Pattern , Page 8 Sports ......-..v. . -Page
