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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1943)
ilHilfflililiiillllililliliiillll One B-mlnute blast on sirens and whistles It the signal foe a blaakout In Klamath Falls. Another long blast, during black out. li signal lor all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your street llghti. ' January 31 High 31, Low 4 Praelpltatlon as of January 19, 1943 Stream year to data ....11.S1 Last yaar 7.18 Normal t.iO ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND iMEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1943 . - Number 9709 mm? mmMmm ks By FRANK JENKINS THE Germons admit today the prnclicnUy complete loss of their trapped army ut Ktmingroa and rofor to It with solomn pride n "tho army of the tlciid," k They speak of Ha achievements lln delaying the Russian counter offensive. , THEY speak with imiio truth. Tho last-ditch stand of this r!i.mnn nrmv. which DID flllht Instead of surrendering when It found lwelf surrounuea, un doubtedly dolnyed tho Russian advance and slowed up tho Ink ing of Rostov. But the loss of a whole army, with 15 generals, headed by a field marshal, amounts to a se vlnt.fl riftfant In iinv wnr. Hitler's Intuition slipped a cog at Stalingrad. THE Russians up today to 330, 000 their estimate of the army Hitler has lost. Their previous estimate hud been 220,000. Thoy say 240,000 Germans aro ' "burled In tho froien sod be tween the Volga and the Don" J and 40,000 more have been cop- hired. ' Such losses can be made to spoil no other word than calom- ... T-ipmt hnmts of victory, ' the Germans havo turned sud denly to what amounts almost w boasts of defeat. The change Is so sharp thnt It arouses our suspicions, and we aro Inclined to look upon It as a reversal of the propaganda line. Maybe. , But don't forgot thot setbacks sucii as that suffered at Stalin grad can't bo conccolcd from the pcoplo at home. The under ground exists In Germany, as olsowhero. Gorman wounded como home and talk. Tilings lllko that Just CAN'T bo covorcd up. Tho Gorman command Is prob ably making tho best of a bad situation. - . : WHAT Is happening In Tunisia Is still obscured by the con- Montgomery's 8th army ap pears to bo moving lorwara again. Thoro Is mention of Ger man rear guard sulcido squads left behind at Zunra to slow him up. (See mop.) Tho .Americans who pushed forward to Maknassy. only 33 miles from tho Mediterranean coast ol tho Gulf of Gabos, ap pear to bo still there, and there Is mention of two American columns pushing forward to sup port them. Tho Germans are fighting )hard to keep opon tho gate for Rommel if and when ho goto there. You may bo suro wo'ro fighting to close It. , rpHE new German Mark VI .A tanks, weighing 82 tons, and mounting 88-mllllmetcr guns protected by 7-lnch armor, make tholr appearance in Tunisia, and tho British claim to have wreck ed two of them. How not stated. KflUSSOLINI makes a bom-, 1 bostle speech, asserting that Italy views tho loss of Libya with "virile Roman culm" and will stay In tho fight to tho fin ish. She'll HAVE to. Hitler, who has her by tho throat, will sea to that. . . NAVY SECRETARY KNOX, back from a trip to the South Seas, including the Sol omons, thinks the Japs have ) finally abandoned tho Idea of reinforcing tholr troops on Guadalcanal. Ho says: ' "There aro darn good pros pects of another air attack on (Continued on Page Two) Van iliBElISIfl mill i tyjJiiaitlii3aii;illlialiilii!:llliiliililliiili.i- i GN SUB STRIKE HEAVY BL0MJI1PS Japs Conjure Up Tale Of New Sea-Air Battle '; WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (P) American submarines operating in tho Pacific have struck new and spectacular blows at Jap anese shipping, the navy an nounced over tho weekend. In a communique Saturday night the navy sold United States undersea craft sunk six Japanese ships. Including a destroyer, and damaged a sevonth. One large tanker and four medium-sized cargo ships were listed as Jap anese losses. Another medium sized enemy cargo vessol was damaged. The communique reported also thot American Flying Fortresses bombed Kahili in the Shortland island group. Tho navy said re sults of the raid "were not ob served," The latest navy report on un dersea warfaro raised to 177 the number of Japanese vessels suc cessfully 'attacked.' " Of tfiese, navy communiques have listed 123 as sunk, 22 probably sunk and 32 damaged. By Tha Associated Pr.is Tho Japanese radio was con juring up a one-sided story to day of a new air-sea battle off tho southern Solomon Islands in which the Tokyo navy minister, Admiral Shlgctaro Shlmada, said Japanese planes sank two battle ships and three cruisers and dam aged another battleship and cruiser. Thero wosno confirmation from any other source that such an engagement had taken place, and tho Japanese version, which acknowledged the loss of ten planes, mado no mention of any (Continued on Page Two) House Gets Klamath Salary Boost Bill SALEM, Feb. 1 (IP) Salaries of Klamath county officers would bo increased by $300 a year by a bill Introduced In the houso todoy by the Klamath county senate and house delega tions. Officers affected would be' the county sheriff, judge, assessor, clerk, treasurer, commissioners, and tho Llnkville justice of the pcoco, : If the salary bill passes as in troduced, Klamath officials will receive tho following monthly pay: sheriff, $270; judge, 225; clerk, $225; commissioners, $175; assessor, $225; Linkvllla justice of tho peace, $225.; Thirty Die as Sanitarium SEATTLE, Fob. 1 UP) Tho casuulty list of yesterday's sub Urban 1 sanitarium fire today stood at 30 dead and one miss ing, and authorities listed 17 survivors 10 of them burned or otherwise injured in what was tho . worst lire disaster In this area. Most of tho patients wore old- age pensioners, some 111, and a Xow montal cases.- ' Tho first tongues of fire lick ed at a lower floor of tho Lake Forest Pork sanitarium shortly after noon yesterday. Almost in a matter of seconds the ontiro structure, privately operated by Miss Murjorlo Westberg, was a mass of flame, J. C. Bookoy, district fire commissioner, said that when he Prisoner lit 0 Pvt. Roy Karrtr of Klamath Falls Is bald prisoner -.In the Philippines, according: to word xacelvad from the war .depart ment Sunday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Karrer. .' . PVT. Youth, Reported Miss ing .at Bataari, Located A wire from the war depart ment Sunday brought the heart oning . news to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Karrer of 345 Nevada street, that their son, Roy, previ ously reported as missing, Is a prisoner of war in The Philip pines. Lost word from their son, who dropped out of sight when Ba toon fell, was received here In a Christmas cablegram from Ma nila in 1941. ., :. Roy, 18. years old,' was station ed at Ft. Stotsenborg in The Philippines. He was a member of Battery A, National Guard, in. Klamath Falls, mobilized with the Grants Pass outfit, and later transferred to the 104th tank battalion, U. S. army. Ho soiled for The Philippines on September 8, 1941. ' Roy is a Pelican grade school graduate and was a junior, at Klamath Union high school when ho left for the service. Ho Is ranked as a private, l No Clues Reported On Lost Airplane , "TACOMA, Feb. 1 UP) No sub stantial clues as to the where abouts of a plane or its crew reported lost in the Burns,' Ore,, area have yet been uncovered, McChord field officials an nounced last night. Reports were that the plane had been seen abandoned near Burns. , Flames Raze in Washington was called the fire was "just a smoke" but before he could reach tho sanitarium a mllo and a half away, the-hulldingwas engulfed. : The repairman, M. R,. Balrd, told Prosecuting Attorney Lloyd P. Shorett that as he finished his task of connecting an1 out side tank to an oil heater, he lit a match. The head flew off, ho said, ; landing in a pile of waste near the heater. "In 15 seconds," Balrd added, "the . whole room was in flames." ' , : , ' ; ' . ; Lee Fleetwood, a sanitarium kitchen helper, told how "the furnace man came running up stairs and asked for a pall of water," When the water was (Continued on Page Two) , 'Aim- Lddhs L OFFENSIVE IS Air Power Supports Growing Land Action By ALFRED E. WALL LONDON, Feb. 1 UP) United States troops were stabbing at German positions in three cen tral Tunisian, sectors today in aerially screened operations that may. lead to the long-awaited general offensive and the filial battle for North Africa. British forces in the Robaa area to the north met and re' pulsed a German attack led by 52-ton tanks, the monstrous hew Mark . Vl's, which are shielded by seven-inch-thick armor and mount 88-millimeter guns. The British wrecked two of the Mark Vl's and lour lighter tanks. . , . . Plana Support The British eighth, army moved westward again less than 35 miles from the frontier of Tunisia, following patrols which. .alreadyr-hav-ipctird',4nto'-'ihe; French; protectorate, further shortening the corridor- left to Marshal Rommel and Col, Gen. Jurgen von Arnim. . United States and British planes supported ground, troops in the fighting zones, - smashed anew at Bizerte and Gabes and ranged across . the Mediterra nean. to pound the naval, base of Messina, Sicily, and points with In Italy herself. . U. S. Action A spokesman at allied head' quarters in North Africa told of the three American attacks, one a continuing effort to regain Fald pass, 60 miles west of Sfax, and the' others directed from north and west against Mak nassy, German-held rail town to the south,. 33 miles from the gulf of Gabes. " United States troops support ed by bombers and fighters at tacked again and again in an effort ' to regain Faid pass, which' the Germans seized dur ing a six-mile advance Satur day,, but met heavy, artillery and Stuka opposition, and at (Continued on Page Two) Japanese Battalion ' In U. S. Army Gets Commander's Praise WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (JF) There's a whole battalion of Japanese soldiers in the United States . army and "I've never had more whole-hearted, seri ous-minded cooperation from any troops," their commanding officer, Lt.-Col. Farrant L. Tur ner said today. The outfit is the 100th infaiv try battalion made up entirely of men of Japanese ancestry who are United States citizens and were born in the Hawaiian islands. .Many of their officers also are of Japanese ancestry. Organized originally as a unit of the Hawaiian national guard the men of the battalion, al though not stationed at Pearl Harbor when war started,- lost many relatives and friends there. ! Five Arm Fliers , Die in Training Plane Crack-up MIDLAND, Tcx Feb. 1 (P) Five army fliers were killed In the crash' of a navigation train ing plane . 18 miles east of Mid land last night. The plane, whose station was Mather Field, Calif., was en route from Williams Field, Ariz., to Midland on a training mis sion. Cause of the crash had not been' determined. The bodies were brought here. HI BELIEVED NEAR Malin Man With - .vn Ik This picture shows First Lieutenant Ehle Reber (left) son of County Commissioner and Mrs. John Reber of Malln, and other members of the crew of the Flying Fortress "Jerry Jinx" at an English field preparing for a daylight raid. The picture was widely used In British newspapers. and appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Writing his parents, Lieut, Reber said that his outfit is to bulky tie needs helo aettina Into it. The MgH-tiyTng kit Include! fleece 'lined jacket and boots, heavy cover alls, caps, parachutes and Mae West lite preserver. With Lieut. Reber In the picture are Lieutenants J. J. Byron of Durant, Okla., R. J. Swindle of Walnut Ridge, Ark and A. D. Mitchell of Bog eri. Neb. - ! , Folkes Makes Detailed Statement Corroborating -James Slaying Confession ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 1 (Pj Robert E. Lee Folkes, Arkansas- born 20-year-old cook on a South ern Pacific Limited train, made a detailed statement corroborat ing an earlier confession that he killed Mrs. Martha . Virginia James as she lay in berth lower 13 nine, days ago, District At torney Harlow L. Weinrick said today. . . ' -. ' -':.'. Weinrick said the Los Angeles negro, a veteran of three years' service in the railroad's dining car service, would be arraigned before Justice' of the Peace Vic tor Olliver at 2 p. m. today. This arraignment will deter mine, Weinrick said, '.whether Folkes will desire a preliminary hearing which in turn will determine-whether. Folkes will be held for the Linn county grand jury. -Folkes, who arrived here yes- Ensign James Tells Story in First Interview . NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 1 (AP) A navy order set the -wedding date last September 19 of Miss Martha Virginia Brinson, of Norfolk, Va. and Ensign Rich ard , Floyd James, USNR, of Nassawadox,. Va., and' another navy order resulted in the sep aration of the pair January 22 and the slaying of the girl early next morning in a lower Pull man berth. - . ' ' ; Ensign James, here for. the funeral of his murdered wife, told the story last night In his first newspaper interview since the tragic slaying of hiS bride. "I was stationed at the naval establishment near Seattle, Wash.," James said, "when I re ceived an order from the navy department to report for, duty at a California port. We made our arrangements for the trip, but when we reached the rail road station in Seattle I learned that we -would not be able to travel on the same train for the first part of the journey, from Seattle to Portland, Ore. "I told Martha goodbye in the Seattle station and told her I was looking forward to seeing (Continued en Page Two)-' i Fortress in England terday from Los Angeles, where he was arrested after the train arrived there at the end of its run through Oregon and Cali fornia, refused at first to make any statement, Weinrick said. Folkes said he took this Itand on the advice of Walter Gordon, Los Angeles, prominent negro attorney. After' long hours of question ing last night and early today, Folkes reiterated his earlier con fession to Los Angeles police and went into mere detailed explana tion of how he killed Mrs. James, (Continued on Page Two) Milk Comes in . Quarts From Today On, Says Wickal WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 &) Milk comes in quarts, starting to day, and the dealers are re quired to collect' a deposit on the bottles. No more pints or half pints for home or retail store delivery, under an order by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard. The idea is to save bottles, manpower and delivery equipment so that dis tributors can pay dairy farmers more, where necessary, without increasing the consumer price. Stalingraders Forsake Caves for Home City MOSCOW, , Feb. 1 (P) Hun dreds of former inhabitants of Stalingrad were pouring back in to the city today to set up life anew as the red army rolled on in its winter offensives which havo left this shattered town hundreds of miles from the main battle lines. Two columns are - moving steadily in this Volga city, one composed of hundreds of Ger mans who have capitulated or been . captured , and the other made up of former - citizens of Stalingrad coming in by sledge, on horse-back and afoot, soviet accounts said. - Many appalling sights .were described. The sidewalks were littered . with German corpses. There - were broken houses, V ' 1 Reds Capture Commander, : 15 Generals By HENRY MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (AP) force of 330,000 men which. would be ousted from Stalingrad has been almost com pletely liquidated and its commander. Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, with 15 generals, has been captured,, the Russians announced today. Of the 330,000 nazi soldiers who pushed so confidently) and swiftly across the Don river last summer to seizor Stalingrad for Hitler, at least 240,000 are- buried in thJ frozen sod between the Volga and the Don and 46,000. more are under guard of their red army captors, a spe cial soviet communique said. The figure of 330,000 itself was a revision upwarel of the sire of the siege force, tha Roosevelt, Back on Home Soil - Sets Capital Pace - By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 UP) With . no time ' out , after his arduous three-continent flight to the African front. President Roosevelt set a fast pace for the capital today, 'Withdrawing the controversial nomination pf Ed ward J: Flynn: and caning in high government - and congress ional leaders for conferences. -, Mr. Roosevelt Informed Flynn that he was 'complying reluct antly with the former national democratic chairman's request for withdrawal of his selection as minister to Australia. Mount ing opposition, in the senate, in which several democrats joined the 37 ' republicans, had threat ened a rejection of Flynn's name had it been brought to a vote. This was the administration's first major rebuff in the. new congress which has the greatest representation of republicans since the new deal came to power. Senator Bridges of New Hamp shire, who spearheaded the suc cessful - republican fight on Flynn, said the withdrawal was "a victory for integrity in gov ernment and decency in Amer ican diplomacy." . Democratic Leader Barkley of the senate de clared Flynn's request for the withdrawal stamped him as "a man of patriotism who thinks more of the welfare of his coun try than of personal appoint ment.": 1 : In an explanation of his re quest that his name no longer be considered for the $10,000-a-year post, Flynn said he was "un willing to permit my candidacy to be made the excuse for a partisan political debate,"-and blamed unsubstantiated political gossip for the opposition to his selection- to succeed Nelson T. Johnson, retiring career diplomat..- ! ; "'. ';: ';. - ; " Another, nomination submitted January 11 along with Flynn's the supreme court appointment of Judge Wiley Blunt Rutledge received the approval of the senate judiciary committee to (Continued on Page Two) ; blasted factory . chimneys , and the shells of buildings.- 1 -Even so, these people, who had been living in . caves, : in : the woods and elsewhere since the siege began were reported glad to be home. Pravda, communist party newspaper,.- thus described a scene of capitulation in the-dugout 'of a soviet divisional Com mander,' crowded with bewild ered and despairing German of ficers of all ranks. "Another delegation of Ger mans appears. They are repre sentatives of the 297th division. The messengers said the general and his staff had accepted the terms of surrender. "The Russian colonel received (Continued on Page. Two) C. CASSIDY The powerful German siege Adolf Hitler boasted nevea . previous estimate being 220,0004 Field Marshal Paulus, whose) promotion from : the rank of colonel general was announced, only yesterday by Berlin, thug was the commanding officer at the worst defeat Germany hag suffered in Russia. He likewise was the first German field maV shal In this war to . break th proud tradition of the Germasi army that generals and theuj superiors are never captured. '' 900 Slain . t ' Some 44,000 Germans atlfl clung to the blackened: build, ings of North Stalingrad and . LONDON, Feb. 1 UP) A special Russian communique" recorded hex by the soviet;' monitor announced .tonight, the capture of the large rail-' way station and town of ( Evtttovo ;onj the line finV -Kupyaijilc to VorosbilovgaroK In the offensives threatening Rostov and Kharkov, v '- j Svatovo is 34 miles south' oast of Kupyansk, itself a key' railway junction on th ap proaches to - Kharkov. The town lies 97 miles southeast of ! the great steel city of the.' Ukraine, the hinge of tha , whole German, front In South : Russia. - ' ' .;. . .: :-.. j " Other troops farther north stand within 73 miles of Khar--4 kov, and some 50 miles deep -j in the Ukraine. : ( the shell-pitted outskirts, thi Russians said, but they were) cut off from supplies and the real front had swept far to tho west behind them before thai powerful blows of the red army. (The mid-day communique of the soviet Information : bureau recorded by the '- soviet radio Monitor in London said mora than 900 of these 44,000 Ger mans were killed last night a the red army circle was; drawn more tightly - around them. In addition, more prisoners wera captured, the communique said; and large quantities of war ma terial taken. 'i Villages Taken ' ' (Further progress was report ed from other sectors of tha (Continued on Page Two) t Inquisitive Goat t Sends Olene Child ' -To KF Hospital ; An inquisitive and persistent goat sent five-year-old Nancy Fearrien of Olene, tor Klamath , Valley hospital 'where she was treated Saturday evening for fractured right arm. v . Nancy's mother, Mrs. Willi Fearrien, was posing the littler girl with twin, calves. The pet goat insisted on getting in tha picture and (When repulsed bufr ted 1he child, breaking her arm, ' Outside of an arm In a cast Nancy is doing nicely. . . Storm Warnings ; Go Up Again i PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. J UPi The -weather bureau announced today that storm warnings wera hoisted at 3 a. m. from, Port Angeles, Wash,, to Newport op the Oregon coast. 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