Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, February 15, 1943, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textj jumnnrirvvwi-r "j leralo III llEllTlillili&illliilllll.iillliilluliNkWiilNllJlllllNlllllI On 5-mlnuto bUil on sirens and whistles U the signal for blaokout In Klamath Falls. Another long blest, during black, out, li a signal for all-clear. In precau tionary periods, watch your street lights. February 14 High 43, Low II Precipitation ai oi February I, 1143 Stream year to data ,.12.11 Lait yaar 9.59 Normal ............7.01 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1943 fo) 0) nlllll "JNMDIltf lino;) A II V (HI I AAiKtK-lAlNti jvi $ K azis 0 By FRANK JENKINS nOSTOV falls dcspllo Hlllor's IV order to hla generals to HOLD IT AT ALL COSTS. Kharkov, threatened from thrco sides, iitill holds, but nhclls from Russian heavy artillery are fulling in the city. RfOSCOW soys today the red army Is driving forward with such STEAM ROLLER forco that great events may bo expected shortly. The shadows of these events hava been falling across tho path of the news for days. 1SJORMAN BELL, AP corres x pondent with the U. S. fleet In the South Pacific, clears to day the mystery of the sea and air battle down there that kept us on edge so long. Both fleets, he say, were OUT IN FORCE. After their nlr scouts had looked us over thoroughly, the Japs decided we were too tough to tackle and DECLINED BATTLE. .. , v-,. . ,,.:...'. D ELL says they never sent their u battle fleet south of the Now Britain and Shortlond Islands. The poundings they've had from American sco and nlr forces have taught them caution. '. THIS Is tho point: We've got 1 lot of strength In the South Pacific, and the Jnps KNOW IT. Their rcfusnl to accept battlo makes that clear. rjUESSING a little front Boll's disclosures (finally released by tho censor), the Japs' FIRST Idea was to reinforce Guadal canal, but when they sow what they were up against they de cided to WITHDRAW from Guadalcanal Instead. ""JETTING back to Rostov. The Gcrmons are at Tagan rog (sco your map), having fol lowed tho railroad that far. A British brondcast today says Taganrog Is under flra from Rus sian guns. Where these Russian guns arc placed Isn't stated. For Information on that interesting paint, we'll have to wait. At Taganrog, tho railroad TURNS NORTH. It has boon CUT by the Russians. So tho Germans can't escape that way. From Taganrog to Mariupol, along tho Sea of Azov, there Is only a highway, which tho' Ger mans have undoubtedly been improving both to get supplies In and to get themselves OUT, W7HAT the Germans aro trying to do is to form a new lino WHERE THEY CAN HOLD. Whot the Russians will try to do is to run them so ragged they won't bo able to form a new line, Keep this In mind as you read tho nows of coming days. TN the South Pacific, our heavy A bombers attack Rnbaul In four waves, using demolition, frag (Continued on Pago Two) IM iiiiSi lllllll Civilian Piloi Rescues 5 Stranded Army Airmen BOISE, Ida., Feb. 15 (VP) Woodsmen wcro seArchlng today for threo of eight army airmen who disappeared In a lwln-mo- tored bomber January 20, but the other five wcro safe, after 18 daya in tho snow-covered Idahb mountain wilderness. Thoy wore rescued yesterday by Pcnn Stohr, civilian pilot, who twice landed his skt-cqulp-ped piano on frozon Loon lake near which the bomber crack ed up. N Stohr spotted tho wreckago of the plane and thrco of tho men whiio flying supplies to an iso lated mining town, Saturday. .That night and yesterday, morn- Break ALLIED PLANES LEAVE RABAUL S Dispatch Clears Mys tery of Jap-U. S. Sea Battle By The Associated Press Tlnbiiiil , Japan's "Malta" In the Southwest Pacific, wus reported a smoking ruin today from the greatest mass bomber raid ever carried out by tho allies from tho Australian theatre. Fifty tons of explosives and 3500 incendiary bombs were uu- loaded on that Japanese base in Now Britain by 30 of Gen. Doug las MacArtliurs four-motored bombers In four waves early Sunday, dispatches from allied headquarters In Australia said today. Blase Sean Crews, who reported that they had been waiting moro than a week for tho chance to "burn Rabaul down again" said they did Just that. ' Smoke from fires and explo slons rose more than, a mile and a half and the flames wcro sight ed moro than 100 miles away, me raiders said. A huge area was set blazing from a village) to the southeast of Rnbaul to tho bay (Continued on Pago Two) James M. Baker Dies at Home Monday Afternoon James M. Baker, long time Klamath county business man, died at his home, 840 Pacific Terrace, at 2:20 p. m. Monday following a brief Illness, Mr. Baker was operator of the James Baker building mntcrlals establishment on tho Bend high' way near Pelican City, and was president and manager of the West-Baker corporation, mochlti' cry firm located on South Sixth street. For many years Mr. Baker was tho partner of Clifford A. Dunn of tho Dunn and Baker Construe tlon company, pioneer Klamath construction contractors. Mrs Jean Baker, his wife, survives. A full obituary -will appear Tuesday. Crew "Shaken Up" As Bomber Makes Forced Landing BOISE, Ida., Feb. 15 OF) A four-motored army bomber made a forced landing in a ra vine soven .miles southeast of Gowcn field at 3:45 a. m today, lapt. e. Li, Davis, public rem Hons officer, announced. The ship was carrying 11 men, several of whom were badly "shaken up" tho captain said. None was injured seriously, how ever. Names of. tho crew were not disclosed. Tho ship, badly damaged but repairable, will be . dismantled, hauled to tho field and reas sembled. lug army planes dropped food and supplies. Then Stohrs went after them. Rescued Were: First Lt. Robert B. Orr, wife at Tacoma, Wash. Second Lt. James V. Kelly, wife at route 4, Warren, Ark. Staff Sgt. Paul G. Locwcn, wife at Tacoma. Staff Sgt, Forrest B. Hoover, wlfo at Tacoma, Corp, Earl J, Beaudry, moth er, Mrs. Catherine MBenudry, 2701 N." E. Wasco street, Port land, Ore. Hoover had a broken kneecap and an arm injury, but tho rest (Continued on Page Two) in RUIN Yank- Three Injured In Collision Near Chemult Three men were Injured, two critically, In a head-on collision on Tho Dalles-California high way near Chemult early Mon day morning. All are in Klam ath Valley hospital. In a serious condition are Jimmy Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Weaver of Portland, and Lylo Wotkins, 16, son of Mrs. Albright of Bend. Third member of the party and the least critically hurt, Is Wallace Davis. Details of the accident were lacking. Tho men were admitted at 3 a. m. Monday, hospital at tendants said, 15 JAP PLANES Assaults Cost U. S. Two Bombers, Six Fighters WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 W) Tho navy reported today that 15 Japanese plants were destroyed and one cargo ship hit in a scries of air actions In the Aleu- tlon and Solomon Islands which cost the American forces two bombers and six fighters lost.' Navy communique, No. 261: . "North Pacific: "1. On February 13th: "(A) During the night a force of Liberator heavy bombers (Con. solidated B-24) and Mitchell me dium bombers (North American B-25), with Lightning (Lockheed P-38) escort,, attacked Japanese positions at Kiska. Hits were scored In the target area and thrco of tho five Zeros which In tercepted were shot down. "(B) An enemy reconnaissance plane was shot down in the vi cinity of United States positions In the western Aleutians. "South Pacific (all dates are cast longitude) "2. On February 14th: "(A) During the morning, Dauntless dive bombers (Doug las) and Avenger torpedo planes (Grumman TBF) with Airacobra (Boll P-30) and Wildcat (F4F) escort, attacked Munda, on Now Georgia island. A largo fire was started. All U. S. planes re turned. "(B) Later In tho day, a force of Airacobras and Wildcats strafed enemy positions at Munda. Patrol on Guadalcanal "(C) At noon, a number of Liberator heavy bombers (Con- solidated PB4Y), with Corsair (Vought-Sikorsky F4U) and Lightning escort, attacked and scored thrco bomb hits on a largo Japanese cargo ship near cum in tne snortlana island area. About 25 or 30 enemy planes Intercepted the attack and 11 of the enemy planes were shot down. Two U. S. bombers and six fighters failed to return. "(D) Ground activities on Guadalcanal island wcro con fined to patrolling and policing." Army Officials Confer With Air Minister of Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO. Feb. 18 (IP) Thrco general officers of the United States and British armies en roulo from North Africa have conferred nt.Reclfc with Brazil's air minister, Joachim . Salgado, Jr., tho official nows agency an nounced today. Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of tho U, S. army air forces; Lieut. Gen. Brohon B. Somer vell, commanding gonoral of the U. S. army service of supply, and British Field Marshal Sir John Dill wero the military vis itors. They stopped ' In Recife en route to the United States and inspected military installations along tho vital northwest section ot the Brazilian coast, lt was an nounced. - V Lines TO FALLS PRESS RAF Delivers Double Blow at Germany, Italy LONDON, Feb. 15 (!P)K German radio broadcast re corded by Reuters said tonight that the Russians had breach ed the German defense lines In the Kharkov area after sev eral hours of battle. By CARL C. CRANMER ' Associated Press War Editor German armored forces have smashed through American lines in Tunisia for a gain of 20 miles in heavy fighting, dispatches from allied headquarters In North Africa reported today. The red army continued to reap suc cesses on the Russian front where Rostov, had fallen and Kharkov was endangered.' The seizure of tho initiative by the axis forces in North Africa was in the Faith-Pass area, 65 miles inland from the Tunisian coast where Marshal Erwin Rom mel apparently had joined part of his forces with the troops of Gen. Jorgcn von Arnim to be gin a battle for central Tunisia. - Action Continues An . allied headquarters com munique said the axis was at tacking with tanks, Infantry, artillery, and dive bombers, and dispatches from - headquarters said . the American- positions at Gafsa, 60 miles southwest, were endangered - by the surprise thrust. The German radio said Sldi Bouzld, 10 miles southwest of Fald, had been captured, and the (Continued on Page Two) Weyerhaeuser Gets Bid for Fremont Timber PORTLAND, Feb. 15 (VP) Weyerhaeuser Timber company ot Klamath Falls was high bid der with $8.85 per thousand for 16,000,000 feet of Fremont na tional forest timber, W. H. Lund, in charge of timber sales, an nounced here today. Ivory Pine company, Bly, sub- mtted a bid of $6.10. The timber, consisting mainly of Pondcrosa pine, with some sugar pine, lodgcpole pine, white tir and California Incense cedar, was sold' to increase war pro duction, Lund said. The stand, in the Horse Glades unit ot the forest, will be cut on a tree selection basis, he said, approximately 40 per cent being left as growing stock for pro duction of future crops. NLRB Case Against Kaiser Shipyards Goes Into Recess PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 15 (TP) After 31 days of testimony, tho national labor relations board casp against three Henry Kaiser shipyards is in recess until March 15. -Trial Examiner Robert N. Den- ham ordered the adjournment In a special session yesterday that wound up NLRB testimony. Kaiser and ML, attorneys will offer a defense later to charges of discriminating against the CIO. Dcnham again denied Kaiser motions for dismissal of the hear ing on grounds that NLRB mem bers are prejudiced and that the Kaiser workers are under gov ernment contract and hence not under jurisdiction ot the NLRB. Dcnham also denied a new mo tion that there was insufficient evidence to support - NLRB charge. i mi li mm mm n In response to an appeal from the Southern Pacific, business men, blah school boys, and workers in other industries made up volunteer crews for track work in and near Klamath Falls Sunday. This picture (hows some of the volunteers at work at Wocus, north of town. (Story on Page 10.) ..!.::, Military .' Committee Speeds Action on . Deferments By PAT O'BRIEN WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 () The ' house military . committee sytjdedaciioattQdoy.on-Jegisla- tion granting draft deferment to men with dependents after se lective service and manpower officials had served notice that most of the 12,000 inducted daily In 1943 would be fathers. Chairman May (D-Ky.) sched uled an executive session of the group to study, a measure by Rep. Kilday (D-Tex.) which would put selective ' service quotas on a statewide basis and require draft boards to call men without dependents, or with collateral dependents, before calling those with wives and children. Preserve Home May, who said the war man power commission was "trying to ignore the expressed intent of congress in planning to draft men without regard for dependency, predicted enact ment of the bill. "We want to ; preserve the American home, he declared. Chairman Paul McNutt of the WMC and Major General Lewis B. Hershey, selective service chief, declared Saturday night that in - drafting lz.ouo men daily the armed forces must take the great majority between 18 and 38. Those excepted, they said, will be irreplaceable men in essential civilian work. McNutt, emphasizing that the tremendous mobilization would result in numerous hardships on the home front, disclosed that in a single week the nation planned putting into uniform seven full divisions, and in a month, 28 divisions. $65,075,000 Asked For Farm Labor Battalions WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (fl3) The agriculture department asked congress today to appro priate $65,075,000 for farm la bor battalions. The money would be used to transport farm laborers and han dle other expenses incidental to tho shifts, the budget bureau said in forwarding the request. "It is estimated that by July 1. 1943. 110,000 seasonal work ers and 17,000 year-round work ers will be transported; an addi tional 275,000 seasonal workers and 25,000 year-round workers will be transported during tho six months ending December 31, 1943., - "In order to provide faculties for handling the mobilization and placement ot farm workers, farm labor centers must be pro vided." MILL FIRE HEPPNER, Feb. 15 W) The Heppner Lumber company mill, destroyed by fire a week ago, will be rebuilt as soon as possi ble, Manager Orvllle Smith said here. Volunteer Crew Does Track Work Here Two Liberators Missing After Dunkerque Raid LONDON, Feb. , 15 OP) Big U. S. Liberator bombers joined RAF Dominion bombers in a two-fold, attack on docks and shipping at Dunkerque today. .. Two of the Liberators, are missing. ' " A United States, communique said: , . . . "It was announced tonight by the air ministry and headquart ers of the European theatre .of 'operations of the U. S. army that two attacks were made today on docks and shipping , at Dun kerque. . . . . - The first attack was made by RAF Bostons and the second two hours later by Liberator B-24's of the. U. S. army eighth air force. ; . "Visibility was excellent and good bombing results. were, ob served. -. i ..... i "Toward the end of the attack by the Liberators smoke from bomb hits made observation of results difficult, but much wreckage was seen. . "RAF, Dominion and Allied fighter squadrons were escorted and covered the bombers on both attacks and destroyed ten enemy fighters without loss. "Two Liberators are missing." Three Missing, Six Rescued in Navy Plane Crash SAN FRANCISCO. Fth. 1R (TP) The navy announced today mat inree men were missing, and six were rescued - after a Catalina flying boat crashed into San Francisco bay. . The accident occurred Info yesterday.- The names, of the three missing men were not dis closed. The six survivors i reeetvprt only minor injuries, the 12th naval district stated, and all are recovering. . The plane, on a routine train ing flieht from thf naval air sta tion at Alameda, crashed into the bay near the San .Mateo hriH&0. SnlvaffA nnprotSn. nmi-o started immediately. All Feared Lost as Ray Plane Wreckage Sighted The bodies of the nine crew members of a four-motored bomber, which crashed against a mountain peak 17 miles south of Walla Walla, Wash., were sought Monday in the snow-oov-cred Blue Mountain section and snow plows were attempting to rtach a point near ,the spot ac cording to word received here. Pilot of the bomber, missina since it kit the air base at 6 o'clock Thursday morning, Feb ruary 11, was Lt. John T. Jack" Ray of Klamath Falls. son of Mrs. Ruth Turner and grandson of Mrs. Clara Shaw, both well known residents of this city. Members of the Lewlston unit of the civil air patrol, who highted what was believed to be a four-motored bomber, said today the plane was broken up in a crash against a mountain peak. Pilot Bert Zlmmerly, manager of ,;Zimmerly Air 7TJ Subcommittee Frowns On FDR: Request for $100 Million. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (JPh By a vote- of six to one, a house appropriations subcommit tee turned down today a request by President Roosevelt for $100, 000,000' for incentive payments to farmers to increase production of food. . . ' ' ' 'The. dissenting vote was: east by. Representative Tarver (D Cal.), chairman of the subcom mittee handling agriculture ap propriations. . Tarver Concur - - The committee reaffirmed the policy of . congress against the payment of subsidy payments as written into the first supplement al defense appropriation act last year. - - Tarver said he concurred In (Continued on Page Two) Rickenbacker Opposes 48-Hour Work Week Order ' PHILADELPHIA; Feb. 15 UP) Captain Eddie Rickenbacker is opposed to overtime pay for the 48-hour work week recently or dered, by President Roosevelt. Everybody should be ready to work 48 hours a. week for the high hourly wages they get now, if for no other reason than to save their own skins," declared the American flying ace of the first world war in an interview yesterday at Independence hall. - "In times like this," ha contin ued, "I do not approve of over time pay except for the men in the foxholes, the swamps, the deserts those making the su preme sacrifice." -. Rickenbacker asserted "I see no end of the war until the fall of 1944 and it may last longer." He also declared he was opposed to limiting salaries to $25,000 a year "because to limit salary, you limit incentive." Transport, said "the plane hit about 150 feet below the peak and the wreckage was badly strewn about. The four motors were scattered and the biggest piece of wreckage seemed to be a piece of the tail." Some .of the flyers, searching for the missing plane, dropped down to within 60 feet of the wreckage but saw no signs of life, it was learned here. Mrs.' Turner called members of her family here late Sunday night and said that efforts were being made to reach the wreck age but that snow was hamper ing efforts. The bodies will be brought out to Walla Walla. Services for Lt. Ray will be held . this week In Portland. Mrs. - Shaw, accompanied by Mrs.- William Serruys, Mrs. Clyde Baker and Mrs. George Burger, plan to leave here Tues day night for the north. Mrs, (Continued on Page Two) W. E.TITUS C BALLY P Mrs. Erma Titus, 50, Killed Early Mon-. day Morning r Mrs. Erma Titus, 50, Is dead, . and her husband, Justice of the) Peace W. E. Titus of Bly, liei critically wounded In a local ho- pltal as a result of shooting -at Bly at about 5:20 a. m. Mon day. ,.'''. . :',:.' Sheriff Lloyd Low said that Mrs. Titus was killed Instantly with a shotgun blast and that Titus has three wounds, appar ently by the same gun. . J Titus Phones The shooting occurred in the office wltich adjoins the Titus) living quarters at Bly,. where) Titus is justice - of the peace, . operator of the state liquor -agency, and agent of the' tele phone company. He was given a 30-50 chance to recover at th Klamath Valley hospital, where-; he was taken from Bly early Monday. Sheriff Low said his telephone; rang Monday at 5:20 a. m., with . Titus on the other end of the. : line. ' Calls Tiled . .. Titus, the sheriff said, tol4 olm'WB'enhe coroner and come to Bly, indicating he would find Titus and. his wife dead,. The) sheriff attempted to remonstrate with the Bly justice, and urged him to call the' Bly constable Willis Pankeyv -- When Titus went off the lino ' the sheriff immediately tried tor get a. call through to Pankey,' but he could get no one on th Bly switchboard, which is in the) Titus building. The sheriff then tried to call Indian Officer Bud Wilson at Beatty, but could get no response on the line., ' ..- - Titus Found The sheriff called other offic ials here, and in a few minutes received a call from Constable -Pankey, who told him that Mrs. ; Titus was dead and Titus danger- i ously wounded. ' f. Titus had crossed, the street, to Pankey's quarters and called:': to the constable, who found him down in the yard. Shot Twice Sheriff Low, Deputy Sheriff -Jack Franey, and Dr. George H. . Adler, coroner, left here for Bly. On the Lakevlew highway . they met the car of Indian Of ficer Wilson, who was bringing Titus to the hospital here at Pankey's request. i j. Sheriff Low said Titus told of fleers his wife had shot twice at him and wounded him, and ha got the gun away from her and fired. . The officers sped on to Bly, where Constable Pankey was waiting. They found the body of Mrs. Titus seated in a chair at a desk in the office, clad in robe and carpet slippers. Her knees wer crossed under the desk and papers on the desk indicated she had been working on them. She had been shot in the armpit and , the heart cavity, and evidentlyt, had died instantly. ' ' Impressions Found r The office and adJ61ntnf switchboard room were splat tered with blood, bits of flesh and shreds of clothing. , Sheriff Low said he found , four impressions on the floor which apparently had been made when the shot-gun, a 12 gauge weapon, had discharged with the butt against the floor.. The officers said that Titus apparently had not been to bed, but Mrs. Titus evidently rum gone to bed and gotten up. They discovered that Mrs. , J. Meek, 72, aunt of Mrs. Titus,: Who lives In the building, had (Continued on Page Two) .. News Index City Briefs Page S Comics and Story ..........page 8 Courthouse Records ...Fage 4 FHitorinl : Paoa 4 Markets, Financial Page 0 Midland Empire News ..Page 10' Our Men in Service Page 4 Pattern PaffA fl HURT IN Sports ......-4.....Page