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
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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 '
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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)
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Our Men in Service ....Pago 3
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