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PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943
Number 0737
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By FRANK JENKINS
nrllERE'S a lull again in the
news.
You can't ran all the time at
top speed. You have to atop
every now and then to catch
your brcnlli,
War work the name way,
"THERE Isn't really much of a
1 lull in Russia. It merely
SEEMS io. There't plenty of
liurd fighting there every day,
The now rises to fever heat
only when STRATEGIC point
are taken. It dies down in the
intervals.
This Is an interval.
COMETMNG big Is shaping up.
The Russians opneor to be
pushing one jaw of a pinccr
down from Rihev, which they
forced the 'German to abandon
a few days auo. They're push
ing another plncer Jaw up from
the general neighborhood of
Kharkov.
If these aws should CLOSE
somewhere In the vicinity of
Smolensk, the Gorman-held
wedga whose point Is STILL
within 100 miles of Moscow
would be bitten off. '
VOU may b quite sure the
A Russians want to do Just
that, You may be equally sure
the Germans will tight like wild.
eats to prevent it.- .
TN Tunisia, Von Arnlm Is still
x hacking at the flanks of Med-
Jer el Bab, which lies at the
head of the., valley that Is the
main eats to B zcrte and Tunis,
That's the real meaning of this
fighting up around. Sedjenane
you'll read of in your newspaper
tonight, -
THERE'S a flicker of exclte-
x ment in the news from South'
ern Tunisia today.
Free French outfits join
Giraud's French at Ncftn, on the
WEST side of tho Chott DJerid,
the salt marsh that is a part of
tho Mareth defenses where Rom'
mel has been holding back
Montgomery.
The French are reported to be
pushing northward from Nona
to Gafsa. From Gafsa a railroad
follows a gap in tho hills down
to the Mediterranean coast.
THE point Is that Montgomery
may bo undertaking to
FLANK tho Mareth defenses
(through difficult country) and
get into Rommel's rear by tho
Gafsa route.
Increased air and ground
patrol activities aro reported in
tho - Mareth area. These are
ofton tho prelude to hard fight
ing.
QNE of our large objectives In
Tunisia is to smash Rommel
in the south and nioko possible
a Junction between Montgom
ery's and Alexander's armies,
thus compressing the Germans
Into ft tighter ring around Tunis
and BIzorto,
TN the Pacific, you may be
A quite sure the Japs are
STUNNED for the moment. Even
terni-savages s u c h as the Jap
anese can t help being shocked
u., Jtn-,n-a ill, tu.t , n.n r i -
marck Sea.
VOU must havo noted the rls
' A ing tension in Spain, Keep
your eye on that part of the
world especially on Gibraltar.
Every time Hitler looks at tho
man. Gibraltar must Jumn out
and hit him In the eye.
If ho could close the Gibraltar
strait, he could nullify a lot of
mir prospective gains In tho
Mediterranean.
THE British RAF hits Germany
for the NINTH consecutive
night, They're bringing nearer
the time when alllod planes will
be over Germany CONSTANT
LY. Don't overlook this angle:
It will take a lot of planes to
SUPPLY such an effort. A rough
tabulation of admitted losses in
the past week brings the total to
around 40.
Wo mustn't let ANYTHING
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Drastic Food
Third Degree
Methods Enter
Lower U Case
ALBANY. Ore., March 8 (IP)
Third degree methods of Los An
geles polico were precipitated In'
to Oregon's "lower 13 murder
case" here todny as Robert E
Leo Folkes entered a plea of In
noccnt beforo Circuit Judgo L,
O. Lcwclllng of Linn county.
Trial was sot for 10 a. m. April 7.
Folkes, 20-year-old Los Ange
les negro dining car cook, Is un
der Indictment on a charge of
knifing to death Mrs. Martha
Virginia James aboard a limit
ed train as she loy In berth low
er 13 tho morning of January
23. Prosecution reverted to
Linn county, through which the
train was passing at tho time.
Leroy Lomax, Portland
attorney, asked permission to
read a 75-page confession which
District Attorney Harlow Wcm
rick said the negro hod mode
After porusing the document,
Lomax asked whether similar
confessions hod been made In
Los Angeles, where Folkes was
arrested when the tram reached
that city.
Wclnrick said Folkes had
made conflicting statements in
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REt
EII1ZI LIE
Scores of Towns Re
captured South
Of Rzhev
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, March 5 (IP)
Striking out from Rzhev, the
Russians havo recaptured scores
of towns southwest of the fort
ress city and havo completely
cleared tho 270-mllc-long rail
way between Moscow and Veli
kio Luki with the occupation of
Olcnlno, 35 miles duo west of
Rzhev, it was announced todny.
Coupled with new gains by
Marshal Scmcon Tlmoshcnko's
forces on tho northwest front and
with odvances by red army col
umns northwest of Kharkov, the
soviet successes Increased the
lmmcdlato threat to German po
sitions at Orel, Bryansk.
Gzhutsk, Vyazmn and Stnroya
Russa. Tho potential monaco to
German key bases at Smolensk
and Konotnp was intensified.
Nail Claims
At Vcliklo Lukl, the red army
was only 80 miles from tho Lat
vian border end a short distance
from north and south railway
lines over which the Germans
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' The
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Mayor John Houston, second
i - 1nriri i i t nwiTM-M V-1 iilitrntfc'''KJL''''l'itrfcir'tv-wiihMi(iittaM
Sisemore, Red Cross war fund drive chairman. The mayor mad
signed a proclamation to start' the drive next Monday. Others in
Ramsby, at left, In surgical dressing uniform, and Mrs, Gladys
secretary,
35-55 PER CENT
SLASH IN TAX
Conference Committee
Eyes Changes in
Oregon Set-Up
By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr.
SALEM, March 5 (IP) A con
ference committee, seeking to
reach agreement between the
senate and house Income tax re
duction measures, appeared to
day to be favorable to an idea
SALEM, March 5 P The
houie voted today to end the
Oregon legislative session at
1 1:53 p. m. tomorrow.
There was some doubt, how
ever, that the senate would
agree because it still hat con
siderable business before it.
that taxes should be cut between
35 and 55 per cent on taxes pay-
ablo next year. ,
After tho house had passed a
bill for a 10 per cent cut on pay
ments made this year and 11.02
per cent beginning next year,
the senate voted 24 to 8 yester
day for a plan by Sen. Dean H.
Walker, Independence, chairman
of the senate tax committee,
whereby taxes would be reduced
at least 35 per cent next year,
and possibly 55 per cent,
The house then refused to ac
cept the senate plan, and a con-
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Helen Jepson
Sings Here
At 8 o'Clock
Tonight at 8 o'clock lovely
Helen Jepson, Metropolitan
soprano, will sing for members !
of the Klnmnlh Community Con
cert association on the Pelican
singe. This completes the season
program and the 1943-44 drive
gets under way.
All visiting service men, sold
iers, snllors or marines, are in-1
vitcd to attend the concert as :
guests of tho association. No ad-:
mitlonccs will bo sold at the
door and scats are not reserved. :
It Is hoped that memberships j
will bo renewed tonight before
or after the concert in order that
workers will havo their burdens
lightened in contacting the list, i
Mrs. Martin Swanson is mem
bership chairman this year with
Mrs. F. Ceclt Adams and Mrs.
George Myers as co-captains.
Mayor Sets a Good Example
from left. Is shown presenting
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Director
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Appointment of Lynn Roy-
croft as director of the Civilian
Service Corps, branch of the
Klamath county defense coun
cil, was announced Friday, He
replaces Ed Ostendorf, now di
rector of the OPA office here.
Roycroft, who resigned as cap
tain of the police reserves to
fake over the new job, has been
active in local civilian defense
work. The corps covers war sav
ings, , salvage drives, victory
gardens , and related defense
problems. '
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BOOTLEG RfiaT SALE
Closer Control Over
Slaughter, Sale
. ' Ordered '
By KARL R. BAUMAN
WASHINGTON,, March 5 )
The government launched a
two-front attack today on black
market operations in meat.
Following closely on OPA an
nouncement of uniform retail
prices for meat, Agriculture Sec
retary Wickard Issued three
orders providing closer control
over the slaughter of livestock
and sale of meat.
Black Market Kit
OPA . announced uniform re
tail ceilings for pork, beginning
April 1, and said similar maxi
mums would be established
about the same time for beef,
veal, lamb and mutton. ;
Both Wickard and Price Ad
ministrator Prentiss M. Brown
said their actions were designed
to prevent black market opera'
Hons.
Wickard also asserted his
orders would result in adequate
supplies of meats for direct war
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his personal check to L, Orth
out the check at the time he
the picture are Mrs. Elisabeth
Toycen, right, Red Cross office
SDH
MOVE TO DEFER
HUME
M GROUND
Food Crop Will Fall
Below 1942, Say
; Leaders
WASHINGTON, March S CP)
The sena military, committee
reported today that, the prospect
of a 1943 food crop as large as
last year is "almost hopeless of
realization."
It recommended legislation to
restrain the movement of labor
away from the farms to avoid
a result that "may be tragic."
The report, to the senate,
asked passage of a bill to defer
the Induction of farm workers
into the army for the remaind
er of 1943.
MBl-Admhstf tration
Administration of existing leg
islation providing for the defer
ment of essential farm workers,
the committee said, has been "so
circumscribed by red tape" feat
it has not accomplished the de
sired result,', it -
"The draft boards throughout
the-country did net administer
It with understanding, sym
pathy ana uniformity and many
farmer who were entitled to
deferment were given little or
no - consideration," its' report
added. - . .-. '
Minority ' Report
The committee's main conclus
ion was in line with a statement
by Agriculture Secretary Wick
ard that Americans must tighten
their belts because there is not
going to be enough food to sat
isfy the demands of the United
States and its allies this year.
. While recognizing a need for
some action, the committee min
ority, in a report written by
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) op
posed deferment of farmers as
a group and recommended a re
vision of existing legislation de
fining the agricultural commod
ities essential to maintain the
war effort as well as "the stand
ard of production per person
upon which deferment should
be based."
When Senator Nye (R-N.D.),
who has forecast a food short
age because of insufficient farm
labor, said he was satisfied there
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Sneil Gets Bifi
Increasing Wages -Of
State Police
SALEM, March !if The
senate passed and sent to the
governor a bill Increasing sal
aries of state police officers be
tween $35 and $50 a month.
The bill would increase privates'
pay from $160 to $200 a month.
The house sent to the senate
the state police appropriation
bill totaling $1,592,492, includ
ing $142,642 to provide the sal
ary increases.
Two Jap Planes
Bomb Guadalcanal
WASHINGTON, March 8 W)
American planes raiding :
through the Pacific have hit
again at four Japanese bases in
the Solomon island area and
at the Japanese . position on
Kiska in the Aleutians.
The navy reported this today
in a communique which told
also of two Japanese planes
bombing United States positions
on Guadalcanal island but with
out damage.
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Comics and Story ....Page 10
Editorials Page 4
Markets ...Page ,8
Midland Empire News ..Page 8
Our Men in Service Page 7
Pattern Page 10
Sports ....
Can't Escape Home Duties Even in N. Africa
n
War er bo war, homely tasks
as evidenced by this young American nurse at a V. 8. evacuation
hospital behind the North Africa batUefront. Eugenia Alblinder,
of San Francisco, is the nurse who laughingly Cleans mud off
ber boots as newly-washed clothes hang in the background.
Iff Too Bad Nobody Was
In Jail Herein December
Sheriff Lloyd Low was mighty-
proud last December when the
local jailhouse was virtually de
void of prisoners but .now, . it
has2 him worried. " ' ,
For the sheriff has learned
that jail food allotments for the
current period are based on the
December requirements. Instead
of a daily average attendance of
two or three, as in December,
the jail now has 3? prisoners, In-
Net Spread for
Youth in Mass
Murder Mystery
AUBURN, Calif., March' 5 (IP)
All California peace officers
were asked today by District At
torney Lowell Sparks of Piacer
county "to arrest and hold" 1S-
year-old Raymond L a t s h a w
whom ; the prosecutor said he
wisnes to "question mmuteiy
in connection with the slaying
of five members of the youth's
family near here.
At the same time action was
taken which would lead the fed
eral bureau of investigation into
a nationwide hunt for the youth,
-who has not been seen -since
February 11, the date establish
ed as that when the mass killing
took place. -
Raymond's draft board, Sparks
announced, has declared hira de
linquent for failing to report
and delinquency cases are re
ported to the FBI.
The district attorney also
asked state authorities to press
their search for one of the Lat-
shaw family automobiles -which
witnesses said disappeared from
the murder premises after Feb
ruary 11. The death gun, be
lieved to be a .380 caliber pis
tol, never has been found despite
thorough search of the Lat-
shaw ranch.
Bobbery has been advanced as
the motive for the crime, the
authorities determining that the
Latshaws cashed checks totaling
more than $900 shortly before
February 11 and this sum-has
not been accounted for.
Japs Maintain -Silence
on Battle
NEW YORK, March 6 IP)
The Japanese radio maintained
silence today over the crushing
defeat inflicted by ' American
planes on the 22-ship Japanese
convoy off New Guinea.
V, S. radio monitors said they
had heard no Japanese broad
cast mention the battle.
ft-' 4
must be performed Is Tunisia
eluding 11 Japanese .project
evacuees.
Sheriff Low has on hand- a
quantity of dried beans, some
rice and several sacks. of., po
tatoes, but not much of anything
else. . The beans put him behind
a couple of thousand points,
shutting off his buying power,-
"It has to be worked out, .or
somebody is going to be hungry
for something besides beans,"
said the sheriff.
Lee Jacobs, iood rationing of
ficial of the OPA district office,
said that it can be worked out
He said there are provisions in
the regulations that provide for
a supplemental .ellotment, If
needed, for the jail, -which is
known to the OPA . not as a
hoosegow or jug, but an "In
stitution of involuntary confine
ment." " . -
Nazis Rushing. '
Construction of
French Defense
LONDON, March 8 m Fight
ing French authorities said to
day the Germans were rushing
construction of defenses la, a
zone between the region of Sois
sons and Compiegne, at the con
fluence of the Oise and Aisne
rivers 80 miles inland from the ;
English channel.
Five thousand French prison
ers of war were reported used
on the -work at Margival north
east of Soissons and another
2000 west Df Soissons.
"It is obvious," a fighting
French spokesman said, "that
this locality would become a
vital key point to any army
which envisaged a withdrawal
from the northern coast line."
Airmen SinkTwo More Jap
Destroyers Off New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, March 5 IP)
Airmen of the southwest Paci
fic command, Including Ameri
can, British, Dutch and Austral
ian fliers, put the . finishing
touches to the destruction of a
Japanese convoy of 22 ships by
sinking two battered destroyers
yesterday and raising to 82 the
number of enemy planes shot out
of action, an allied communique
said today. .
Thus in three days, 12 trans
ports and 10 cruisers or destroy
ers were sunk, 15,000 Japanese
troops and several thousand sea
men were killed, 82 enemy
planes -were destroyed or badly
damaged and the attempt to
strengthen the enemy garrisons
on New Guinea was converted,
rnrifPH RUPEE
m mm m w e w w
EASTWARD ON
RAF, Carries Mighty
Assault Into the
Ninth Night
By CARL C. CRAMMER -,
Associated Press War Editor -Forty-ton
Churchill tanks ot
the British first army were re
ported today to have thrown th
Germans out of Sedjenane, about
40 miles west of Bizerte In north
era .Tunisia, as the allied al
forces mounted a sweeping of
fensive la evident- creoaratioa
for bigger things to come. :
- For the ninth successive night
the RAF carried on its mighty
aerial- hammering of western
Germany. , . .
' i Yanks Consolidate
Field reports at allied head.
quarters in North Africa said
the British tanks threw the Gee
mans out of Sedjenane, a little
village 12 miles south of the sea
on the Mateur-Tabarka road, and,
after stiff street fighting held
t-oi. uen. Jura-en von Arnim'i
forces in check. '
In: central Tunisia American
troops, reported yesterday with.
in three miles of Faid pass, start
ing point of Marshal Erwin Rom
mel s recent offensive, were con
souoaung meir position, an al
uca communique announced. r
1.-.-AaiA..Patrol(iActf $ifa.jr
Further south,-French force
occupied Nefta. near the north
western end of the Chott Djerid,
a - salt lake, and pushed on.
toward Gafsa, 60 miles to the
east, the communique said, Th
fighting French said their troops
had joined Gen. Henri. Giraud'a
Frenchmen in the action threat
ening the rear of the Nareth line.
Allied patrols -were officially
described as "very active" be
fore the Mareth line, and dis
patches from advanced bases ia
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Greer Garson,
James Cagney
Get the Oscars
HOLLYWOOD, March m
James Cagney and Greer Gar
son, established thespians but
newcomers to the "Oscar" ros
ter, received the Motion Picture! '
Academy's awards early today
for the best actor and actress
performances of 1942.
Fifteen: hundred gueete at the
academyi 15th annual dinner
waited anxiously until well
after midnight for announce
ment of the winners of film
land's most coveted honors, be
stowed by ballots of apprexl
mately , 11,000 motion . picture
people. ,
Cagney s award was for hit
role in "Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
Warner Brothers film, and
Miss Garson's for her perform
ance in M-G-M s "Mrs. Mini
ver," the picture -which was ad
judged the best production o
1942 and which virtually swept
the list of "bests." Other major
awards: ;
Best supporting performance
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as an allied communique said, In
to a "major disaster."
A spokesman said today thai
further analysis of battle photo
termlne the nature of the war
ships in the convoy. Three of
the 18 warships were at first be
lieved to be cruisers, but later
reports . Indicated they might
have been large destroyers.
Allied planes, after pounding;
the convoy all day Wednesday,
returned yesterday to Huon gulf,
on which the Japanese base of
Lae Is located, and found that
two Japanese destroyers were,
still afloat although damaged.
These were sunk.
"Intense and widespread
searches by our reconnaissance
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