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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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. " u
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