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By FRANK JENKINS
THE Russians onlivon an other
A wlo qulot news dny by
printing their first comploto war
map. It 1 a full-page affair, car
ried In the Russian newspaper!,
and (howl tho wholo long front,
from Leningrad to tho Caucasus.
It discloses that Russian gnins
during the past win tor hava
been lomewhat greater tliiin had
been auppoied.
-THE red army, for oxnmple, Is
shown to bo Hearing Vellih,
on the upper Dvlnn, some 70
miles NORTHWEST of Smo
lensk, which moans that Russian
forces are slightly In tho REAR
of thut Important Gorman buso.
Thoy hovo rouched Yortscvo,
36 miles east of Smolensk, where
a fair-sized tributary of tho Dnie
per comes in from the north. In
flat Russia, rivers are important
defense lines, and they have this
river to cross.
West of Rostov, they are with
in 13 miles of Taganrog, on the
Sea of Azov, where the Germans
held last winter, which means
that Taganrog Is within range of
their artillery. In tho Caucasus,
they are slowly squeezing the
Germans back toward the Ta
inan peninsula and tho Kerch
etrolt.
,.: .
T may bo taken for granted
r that tho Russluns havo It in
mind to push tho Germans en
tirely out of tho Caucasus as toon
as possible The bridgehead the
nazls now hold there would be
Immediately dangerous in tho
event of a new German offen
sive aimed at the coveted Cau
casus oil. -
Hitlor claims to be organizing
such an offensive now.
"THE Russians formally an-
nounce today tho end of
their winter offensive, which
lasted four months and 20 days,
At Stalingrad, they say, they
Inflicted on the Germans tho
worst defeat in tho history of
warfare. Thoir winter offcnslva,
thoy add, cost Germany 1,193,
625 men, Including 880,000
killed, They say they destroyed
0100 Gorman tanks, 5000 Gor
man planes and 20,300 Gorman
guns.
Thoy recovered 183,000 square
miles of Russian toll (about
.twice the area of Oregon).
-
WITHOUT In any woy seeming
" to discredit the hard-fight,
lng Russians, we shall be realis
tically wlso If wo take theso sta
tistics with at least a small pinch
of salt.
In these statistical battles that
are fought with adding machines
and typewriters, tho fellow who
tells his story first simply hasn't
got a chance. If thoy run truo to
form, tho Germans will coma
out in a fow days with a story
uttorly dwarfing tho Russian
figures,
Claims of losses Inflicted on
the other follow are tainted with
propaganda, and whatcvor has
tho taint of propaganda can't be
bollovod.
' Y0U'VE learned, by this time,
of course, that , when tho
other follow bombs you ho hits
only residences and churches
and kills only civilians espo
(Continued on Pago Four)
Coal Operators to
Ask Certification
Of Dispute by WLB
WASHINGTON, April 3 (!P)
Edward R. Burke, presldont of
tho Southern Coal Producers as
sociation, said today contract
negotiations with John L, Lewis'
United Mlno Workors have
"reached a comploto impasse"
and that efforts will be made
by tho operators to certify tho
dispute to the war labor board
, next week.
"That's tho only woy it can
bo settled," he declared, adding
that tho operators will make
this recommendation Monday In
Now York to Director John R.
Sloolman of tho United States
conciliation service, special rep
resentative of tho administra
tion In Hi, negotiations.
CONGRESS SEES
FIGHT BREWING
ON FARMJfETD
Administration Men
Work Upholding
President
By ERNEST B. VARARRO
WASHINGTON, April 3 ffl
Administration forces in con
gress worked feverishly today to
stem a new farm bloc revolt that
threatened to override President
Roosevelt's veto of a bill prohib
iting tho deduction of govern
ment benefit poyments in calcu
lating agricultural parity prices.
Scnutor Bankhcad, (D-Alo.),
author of the measure rejected
by tho president on tho ground
it was inflationary in its effects
and dangerous to botli the "con
structive farm policy" and the
"whole war effort," worked Just
as feverishly to muster votes for
Tuesday's showdown when the
question comes up again.
Odds Against
Democratic Leader Barkley of
Kontucky conceded that the odds
were against getting the neces
sary one-third voto to sustain the
veto In the senate, but declared
he would make the fight. He
thought the house, where the so
called "city vote" counts more
heavily, offered more favorablo
prospects for the administration.
Outstda the Capitol Hill line
up, organized! labor appeared
likely to exert some pressure for
sustaining the president's veto,
with farm organizations gener
ally expected to Join the fight
against it.
' CIO Supports
The Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations and American Feder
ation of Labor came out flatly
In support of Mr. Roosevelt's ac
(Contlnu:d on Page Four)
Navy Bombers
Still Pound on
Aleutian Japs
WASHINGTON, April 8 (JP)
American bombers continuing
their heavy pounding of tho Jap
anese base on Klska island In the
Aleutians raided the enemy's
main camp area thoro four times
Thursday, the navy reported to
day, scoring several hits.
Communique No. 333 said:
"North Pacific: ...
"1. On April 1, a force of army
Liberator (Consolidated B-24)
and Mitchell (North American
B-25) bombers, escorted - by
Lightning (Lockheed P-38) fight
ers, mado four attacks against
Japanese installations at Klska.
Hits wore scored on the enemy
main camp area. . , .
"South Pacific. (All dates East
Longitude). . ,
"2. On April 2, Lightning and
Corsair (Vought F4U) fighters
attacked and set on fire a small
Japanese cargo vessel at anchor
at Volla Lnvella island, Now
Georgia group."
The attacks on Klska raised to
38 tho total number of raids
mado against the Japanese out
post since tho spring aerial of
fensive there started March 1.
Soldier Admits Smothering
Ten-Week Baby at Medford
MEDFORD, Ore., April 3 (JP)
A first degree murder charge
was filed today in the Jackson
Josephine county circuit court
against Sgt. Bernard Lotka, 23,
Cleveland, O. District Attorney
Gcorgo W. Ncilson said Lotka
confessed the auto camp cabin
smothering of his 10-week-old
son.
The child's mother, Tllllo
Mlchanalskl, 22, was arrested in
the Union station at Portland
last night as she was about to
board a train for Cleveland. Tho
district attorney said the couple
was not married,
Ncilson said Lotka re-enacted
tho slaying, which took place
April 1, describing how he rolled
tho baby tightly in a heavy blan
ket, effectively shutting out air.
He placed the child on the cabin
Held
Because "they were children
of sin," Miss Bernice Williams,
23, of Denver, drowntd her
three newborn babits In bath
tubs, she admitted to Detective
Captain James Chtldtri. She was
taken into custody without
charge after the babies' bodies
were found in her hope chest
The first baby was born In
April, 1941, second in Febru
ary. 1942, and the third last
February.
HIGH WATER HALTS
Biggest Klamath Lake
Runoff Since-""
1922 Seen
High water conditions In this
area, which forced closure of the
Chlloquln Lumber company op
erations on Wednesday; were re
ported declining Saturday by re
clamation officials. No serious
troublo is expected from
flooding.
Clear lake on Saturday was at
a record stage of 4437.0 feet
above sea level, and reclamation
officials said the runoff into Up
per Klamath lake will be the
biggest this year since 1022.
From 3000 to 4000 second feet
have been flowing over Copco
dam in Link river. Water is
washing over Gerber dam.
CHILOQUIN The Chlloquln
mill was forced to shut down
(Continued on Pago Four)
IWA Pinches Win
From Election
At Ewauna Box
The CIO International Wood
workers of America won by a
squeak in a bargaining election
conducted by, the national labor
relations board at the . Ewauna
Box company plant Friday after
noon, i , ; v
Final voto was:
CIO 204. '
No union 202.
Tho AFL was not on the ballot
in the election conducted by Ken
neth McClaskcy, labor. board of
ficial. Ono blank ballot was cast.
This is the first bargaining
election held at Ewauna, one of
the major lumbering operations
here.
bed. Tho mother already hod left
tho cabin. Lotka said ho followed
her to tho bus depot at Medford
and put her on a bus for Fort
land. Ho then purchased a canvas
traveling bag, returned to tho
cabin, placed tho baby's body in
it and hoisted tho bag on top of
a cupboard. He said he intended
to roturn and bury the body
later, delaying burial because he
did not know, at the time, of an
appropriate burying place. He
returned to Camp White where
he is stationed.
The atito camp caretaker, puz
zled by the vacant cabin, Inves
tigated and found the body, no
tifying authorities who later ar
rested Lotka at Camp White and
issued a police broadcast for ap
prehension of thg, mother.
f Wot Guilty, " Says
Jury in Trial of
Kenneth Wallan
Kenneth Wallan was declared not guilty of ihe murder ol
James Bowman by the circuit court jury after deliberating but
one hour Saturday afternoon.
The jury went out at 2:15 p. m. and returned at 3:15 p. m.
R. C. Woodruff, foreman of the jury, handed the verdict to
Judge Vandenberg.
The Kenneth Wallan case was turned over to the jury at 2:15
p. m, Saturday, the only possible verdicts being innocence or a
manslaughter conviction for the 44-year-old garage foreman ac
cused in the death of James Bowman last December 24.
A question of second degree murder, the charge on which
Wallan was indicted, was withdrawn from consideration of the
jury by a ruling of Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg yesterday.
Judgo Vandenberg instructed the Jury Saturday afternoon, fol-
lowing a morning session in-
which final summations were
given by District Attorney L.
Orth Sisemore and his assistant,
Clarence Humble, and by De
fense Attorneys J. C. O'Neill
and George Roberts.
Wallan on Stand
That he acted entirely in self
defense was claimed Friday aft
ernoon In court by Kenneth
Wallan when he was called to
the witness stand by the defense
to testify in his own behalf.
Wallan said that as he was
assisting Mrs. James Bowman
into the house, after taking the
couple home from the Christmas
party at the Wlllard, someone,
presumably Bowman, hit him
on the back of the head knock
ing him into the mud on his
face.
Then,. Wallan said. Bowman
jumped on bis back, and began
choking the defendant and try
ing to hold his face down in the
mud and water. Also; Bowman
struck Wallan several times with
some object.
"AnimaMUce Noise"
. All this had happened with
out any provocation on his part,
Wallan said.
Continuing hut story the de
fendant explained that somehow
or other, he - cannot remember
Just how, he finally got hold of
Bowman and got him off his
back.
The two were sitting on the
Bowman steps when Bowman
began choking Wallan again. He
said that Bowman made a noise
that sounded more like an ani
mal than a human. After that
everything was rather vague.
Wallan did not remember using
a board, nor did he remember
any cursing. When he heard a
girl scream, he began to walk
away,
When he had gone a block or
so, he met Mrs. Bowman and
told her that he was "sorry the
way the party broke up." He
said Mrs. Bowman answered, "I
don't blame anyone but Jim."
Wallan testified then that he
continued walking towards
Sixth street to get a doctor for
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Nine Found Dead
In Washington
Bomber Wreck
EPHRATA, Wash., April 3 P)
Discovery of the wreckage of a
four-motored bomber which car
ried nine airmen to their deaths
was announced last night at the
Ephrata army air base by War
rant Officer Harry Verner, base
public relations officer.
The wrecked plane was dis
covered about 35 miles west of
the air base near Ellcnsburg.
Identification of the ' ship was
confirmed by Major Ellis E. Eno,
commander of the Ephrata base,
who flew over the scene a short
time after a report of the discov
ery reached his office.
The identification ended a five
MSerlal sewJaXftfcay ntral
Washington. The bomber failed
to return to its Ephrata base
from a routine training mission
last Monday morning,'
-t .IT,
Seven Jap Zeros
Shot, Down in Raid
CHUNGKING, April 2 (P)
(Delayed) Seven Japanese
Zeros definitely were shot down
Thursday while attempting to
raid an advanced American air
base in Kiangsi province.
Nine Zeros wore intercepted
by 12 P-40's and, after the bat
tle, unofficial reports said that
only , two damaged Jopancso
fighters got back; across the en
emy lines.
AXIS RETREAT
CONTINUES IN
AFRICAN III
Eisenhower Confers
With English
Generals
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, April;
nower, returning irom confer
ences with Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery and Gen. Sir
Harold Alexander, , said today
fresh forces under Alexander,
with effective air support, were
"continuing to make satisfactory
progress" in the task of smash
ing the axis out of Africa.
The allied commander in chief
Inspected the Mareth front.
He said that every American
had a right to feel proud of
the progress made and that
Americans in this theater shar
ed the pride of the British in
the achievements of the eighth
army in driving Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel from the forti
fied Mareth. positions.
Further Progress
The day's allied communique,
reporting patrol activity all
along the Tunisian front, said
the British first army of Lieut.
Gen. K. A. N. Anderson was
making further progress in the
north and inflicting casualties
on the enemy. British and
American aerial sorties against
Rommel's retreating forces on
the coastal road above Gabes
were reported.
(A French communique re
corded in London from an. Al
giers broadcast said "our forces
have left Sedjenane far behind"
in the northern sector, and that
operations were going ahead
successfully In the central sec
tor. An armored attack was re
pulsed north of the Chott djerld,
the communique said.)
One American patrol attack
ing in the El Guetar area was
reported to have captured 41
prisoners and destroyed a Ger
man Mark IV tank and an anti
aircraft gun.
High Morale
General Eisenhower said the
air forces had produced a fight
ing machine of "the highest
morale, great efficiency and
complete determination to fin
ish the job."
Ho said that,' on visiting one
American air group, he had
found the fliers "In the high
est spirits and delighted to work
with the RAF to get their
knowledge and experience."
Dorothy Lamour to
Wed Army Captain
HOLLYWOOD, April 3 (fl)
Dorothy Lamour, who quit a
Chicago elevator operator's job,
became a movie actress and re
vealed to the public what a little
bit of tropical island sarong can
do for an American girl's figure,
plans to wed shortly for a sec
ond time.
The 28-year-old former belle
of New Orleans has announced
she plans to marry Capt. William
Ross Howard III of the army air
forces as soon as he can obtain
lcavo from his military post at
SBn Bernardino, possibly within
a week.
Allies Gain
Mediterranean Sea v.
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The Algiers radio reported that Amerjean forces driving from
Gaf sa in South Tunisia bad joined with the British eighth army
chasing Rommel north from Gabes. Violent fighting was report
ed near Fondouk in the central
first army left Sedjenane "far behind." Airmen pounded the axis
retreat corridor, along the coast north of Gabes and bombed an
airfield near Sfax. Rommel flew in fresh troops to reinforce his
battered Afrika korps. -;
Russian War Maps Show
Resulii of Winter Fight
By EDDT CILMORE
MOSCOW. April- 3 () The
red 'army, in a sweeping winter
offensive now ended which is of
ficially declared to have result
ed in- the killing of 850,000 Ger
mans, has pushed its lines almost
to Velizh. 70 miles northwest of
Smolensk on the central front,
and within ; about- 15 miles of
White Russia, -war maps pub
lished in the official press indi
cated. -
(Russian communiques have
not announced the capture of
Harry Ackley,
Pioneer Lumber
Operator, Dies j
Harry Melton Ackley, 69, pi
oneer lumber operator " of the
Klamath basin, died early Fri
day evening in a local hospital
following a brief illness.
Mr. Ackley, with his brother,
John, opened what is still known
as Ackley Brothers mill on low
er Klamath lake early in 1904.
Harry Ackley. came west from
Davenport, la. He had 'Worked
in the white pine industry of the
Mississippi about the time that
the Klamath pine country was
opening. Mr. Ackley came first
to California, then to Washing
ton, and in February, 1903, ar
rived by livery rig from Ager to
Klamath Falls..
At the time Mr. Ackley came
to this community, there were
two mills in operation, the
water mill operated by Rufus
and Charles Moore, and the flour
mill of Martin brothers. Mr.
Ackley spent his first night in
the old Lakeside inn, then oper
ated by Ike Burris. - Within - a
few days he had chosen the site
for his own mill. A year later,
in 1904, John Ackley joined his
brother and they formed a part
nership which continued until
August, ' 1937, when John died
' (Continued on Page Four)
New Steel Pennies
Reach Local Banks
Five hundred new and stream
lined Lincoln pennies minted in
San Francisco, reached the Klam
ath Falls bank branch of the
United States National bank Sat
urday and will be In circulation
early next week.
The pennies, on which the
same die Is used as in the old
"coppers,'.' are slightly thinner
than of the original, look at first
like a dime and are of silver
color. They are made of- steel
alloy and the result of a wartime
measure adopted by the treasury
department in order to call in all
available copper for emergency
use Jn war industry. '
in Tunisia
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4ft. 'li-V
region. To the- north, the British
any speclf!eav localities which
would advance soviet lines so
far.) . '
' Russians' Advance
Hammering-hard to drive the
Germans from their Kuban
bridgehead -in the Caucasus, the
Russians have- advanced to the
eastern gates of Novorossisk, the
Black sea naval base, are prac
tically at the front doors of Star
aya Russa in the Lake Hmen
area and are but 12 miles east of
Taganrog on the Sea of Azov
west of Rostov, the maps dis
closed. ,
The maps were the first full
war maps ever printed in Mos
cow of the long Russian front. '.
War Maps Published
Publication of the maps came
after a special communique last
night announced the end of the
winter offensive in which it was
said the Germans lost 1,193,525
men, including 850,000 killed
and over 340,000 captured, and
in which the Russians regained
185,328 square miles of their
(Continued on P:.ge Four)
Senate Committee .
Flays LaGuardia
Army Commission
WASHINGTON, April 3 ()
Published reports that Mayor
LaGuardia of New York may get
a high army commission brought
from Chairman Truman (D-Mo.)
of the senate war investigating
committee today the comment
that "I don't think he has any
more business being a b r 1 g a
dier general" than Movie-Maker
Darryl Zanuck has being a
colonel.
Shades of Black Dalton!
Rustlers Ride in Oregon!
By FRED HAMPSON '
PORTLAND, April 3, (iPh
Price ceilings and ration books
spawned the black market and
the black market, it appeared
today, was giving rebirth to that
varmint of the old west, the cat
tle rustler. .
From many parts of Oregon,
a big cattle state, came com
plaints that Black Dalton was
riding again and making off with
quite a few head of stock. Inves
tigators blame the black market.
In southern Oregon's Douglas
county, small farmers have lost
50 head in 90 days. The county
has called in the Douglas county
mounted police reserves, a civ
ilian defense unit. They patrol
back-country roads at night in
radio-equipped automobiles.
. Klamath Complains
John Denny of the federal
agricultural service's war board
says , Klamath, Harney, ' Baker
and other big eastern Oregon
a ALLIEO PLANES :
nn SCATTER HUGE
1 NEUASSEILI
Nippons Claim Zeros
Hit American .
Aircraft ;
By The Associated Press
'Allied warplanes have scat
tered another concentration ol
nearly 20 Japanese ships in the
islands above' Australia, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquar
ters announced today, amid signs
that other enemy warships may
be thrusting anew toward American-held
Guadalcanal in the Sol
omons. :.,;.:'. ' '. v.;- i-v'-
- Two actions suggested the new
enemy threat to Guadalcanal: :
' 1. A ' Japanese communique,
broadcast by the Berlin radio,
asserted- that Japanese fleet
planes had shot down 47 allied
aircraft off the Russell Islands,
50 miles northwest of Guadal
canal, Nine Japanese planes
were listed as lost. . '
.' 2..' Tokyo's claim followed. is'
suance of a U. S. navy announce
ment yesterday that American
bombers attacked a force of flva
Japanese destroyers on the night
of March 31-April 1 near Kolom
bangari island, 190 miles north
west of Guadalcanal.
Guadalcanal Air Battler .
Concurrently,, the navy said,
American fighters shot down 16
out of 30 to 40 . Japanese Zeros
in a violent air battle northwest
of Guadalcanal.- , .--.;,.
The Tokyo claim that Japan
ese fleet planes shot down 47 al--lied
planes indicated a sizeable
force, of. Japanese warships In
the waters immediately north of
Guadalcanal. -There was no in
formation, ? however, whether
this force included the five Jap
anese - destroyers - attacked by
. (Continued on Page Four)
Anti-Sabotage
Bill Seen as
Freedom Curb
WASHINGTON, April 3 VP)
Opponents of a ' death penalty -anti-sabotage
: bill which some
congressmen claimed could be
used to curb freedom of the press
and speech looked to the senate
today to kill the measure which '
the house passed-late yesterday
on a voice vote. -.
There was a probability, house
opponents said privately, that the
senate judiciary . committee
would rewrite the measure com
pletely because of refusal of the .
house to accept amendments re-'
striding its language.
House passage followed three
days of Intermittent debate that
started last week and brought
charges by opponents that the
justice department, which re
quested the legislation, could use
it to intimidate and persecute in
nocent citizens and muzzle news
papers and radio commentators
unfriendly to the administration.
rangeland counties- have com- .
plained of rustling. He hopes a
new rule requiring certified
slaughterers to stamp each car
cass with their: official numoers
will tighten up the market and
discourage, rustling. From now
on any butcher with unstamped
meat will be presumed to be a
black marketer. ' i ,
Says J. D. Mickle, state agrl
culture director: "There's some'
increase in rustling all right. So
far It's small scale. WeYe lnvcs-.
tlgating . several cases. The rus
tlers seem to be experienced,
know their country. They're
hard to catch. It's been frequent
around Burns in central Oregon
and along the Nevada border.",
System Explained
The 1943 rustler takes a steer '
or two at a time, not a whole
bunch like his . ancestor. He
knocks an animal in the head,
butchers in a remote spot, hustles
, . (Continued on Page Four) .