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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
Aprfl 10. 1048
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(Continued From Pace One)
headquarters laid the British
first army again had advanced,
and had marked up a 10-mile
gain In the last four days in the
Mcdjez-El-Bab area.
Americana Gain
Americans of Lieut. Gen.
George S. Pattern, Jr., and
French combined to capture high
ground north and south of Fon
douk, occupying Pichon, north
of Fondouk, and cleaning out
that area 80 miles northwest of
Sfax, where a new threat to
Rommel's rear appeared to be
shaping up. -
While the Rommel withdrawal
was still too methodical to be
called a rout, the speed with
which the axis forces were re
treating made it nearly so.
The eighth- army's vehicles
were rushing ahead so fast that,
for the first time, Rommel's Sap
pers had little or no time to
plant mines to delay thepursuit.
The. units engaged in the
chase consisted of four divisions,
the 50th Northumberland, 51st
Highland, and New Zealand and
Indian divisions, in addition to
the usual complement of armor.
Rommel's main effort ap
peared to be to get northward
. without being cut off and, as the
day dawned yesterday, much en
emy transport was in vulnerable
position.
One enormous column of mo
tor transports, moving bumper
to bumper, was caught by Hurri
cane bombers as it was moving
over a rise 40 miles south of
Tunis in the Enfidaville area.
The heavy traffic in this sec
tor seemed to indicate that Rom
mel had no great hope of making
stand in central Tunisia. .
Attorney's Illness
Delays "Lower 13"
Murder. Trial
(Continued From Page One)
tar and disappear in the early
morning darkness.
second later, Mrs. James,
traveling alone, stepped out of
the berth and collapsed on the
floor, her throat cut, Wilson de-
dared.
The marine said he searched
the rear of the train, finding no
one until his return to the din
ing car adjoining sleeping car D.
There, he said, he saw Folkes
at work preparing breakfast.
'There were ' beads of per
spiration on his forehead. Per
spiration was running down his
face," Wilson told District At
torney Harlow Weinrick and the
jury. .-
"I did not notice, any fire in
the stove. It was cool in the
kitchen," he declared, adding
that . Folkes admitted he was
slightly late to work.
; Checks Door
Weinrick said in his opening
statement to the jury he would
prove that Folkes unsnapped
the curtains to lower 13 on one
trip through the sleeping car
and entered the berth, slitting
Mrs. James' throat when she
awakened and resisted him.
Pullman Conductor W. H.
Banks testified that he had
checked all doors after the slay
ing and determined that the
killer could not have escaped.
Mrs. James was the wife, of
Naval Ensign Richard Floyd
James, whom she married In
Norfolk, Va., only last Septem
ber 10. Both were en route to
California, traveling in separate
trains because crowded rail con
ditions did not permit their ob
taining bookings together.
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Savings May
Be Recommended
WASHINGTON, April 10 (.T)
President Roosevelt's warning
that the nation must be prepared
to spend less and save more to
"hold the line" against inflation
stirred speculation today as to
whether the administration is
planning to recommend to con
gress a compulsory lending or
compulsory savings tax.
Proposals for such levies have
been advanced by treasury offi
cials as part of an expanded tax
program to siphon off $16,000,-
000,000 in estimated excess pub
lic purchasing power which the
treasury terms this year's "in
flation potential."
Proponents say either tax
would partially meet the presi
dent's demand for firm inflation
controls by freezing the current
spending power, and would cre
ate a purchasing reserve for the
postwar period.
AT
SALVAGE 1EET
Importance of collecting tin
cans for the scrap drive was
stressed at a meeting of commit
tee members Friday night in the
chamber of commerce by Rod
erick Finney of Portland, execu
tive secretary of the Oregon
State Salvage committee.
Although there will be no for
mal collection until a later date,
housewives are urged to contin
ue the gathering of tin cans and
will be given ample warning as
to time and place of collection.
C. M. "Scotty" Lolcama has
been named to replace Bob Mc-
Cambnde of the county agricul
tural agent's office, as Klamath
county salvage chairman.
That Klamath county ranks
high in Oregon as a collective
center was stressed by Claude I.
Sersanous, state salvage chair
man.
"The scrap metal drive will
continue for the duration of the
war," Finney stated Saturday,
"Reserves and stock piles built
up during the winter are dwind
ling and we hope to rebuild
these piles so. that there will be
plenty of scrap on hand.
'Tin cans are a source of not
only critically needed tin but of
copper and right now copper is
the No. 1 material to get hold
of. The tin cans you are collect
ing are sent to a detinrung plant
in South San Francisco, and
through this process are sent to
western copper mines where
they are dumped in huge vats
containing impregnated water.
Later sludge emerges and this is
sent to war smelters and pro
duced Into copper. Every ton of
tin cans being collected for the
war effort results in 1700 pounds
of copper and 20 pounds of tin.
VITAL STATISTICS
GREATHOUSE Born at Hill
side hospital, Klamath Falls,
Ore., April 10, 1943, to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Greathouse, Mowich,
Ore., a girl. Weight: 7 pounds
12s ounces.
ANNING Born at Hillside
hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore.,
April 9, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs.
Delmer A n n i n g, 432 Owens
street, a girl. Weight: 8 pounds
3 ounces.
That your insurance is riant
is important. Consult Hans Nor
land. 118 North 7th.
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Humble said, with his hands
above his head.
Hit In Stomach
When he started to lower
them, the deputy prosecutor
stated, he was warned to raise
them. He did so, but then drop
ped them to his side.
Hamilton, thinking Echerwas
reaching for a gun. fired one
shot. Humble asserted, the bul
let striking Eehcr in the stom
ach.
Echer dropped and police
rushed him immediately to the
hospital.
Echer said they found a small
pistol in Echer's car. He had left
the pistol in the car when he
got out at the police command.
The first shooting occurred
shortly after midnight, Humble
said. He recounted that Echer
lives at the Worden street ad
dress with Betty Raines, also
known as Betty Leroue, de
scribed by Humble as Echer's
common-law wife. Also living
in the house are Agnes Leroue,
and her two children, and three
children of Mrs. Raines.
Went to Dane
On Friday evening, Humble
said he had learned, Woodruff
L. Hubbard and Otis Cook ac
companied Betty Raines and
Esther Walden to a dance at
Pelican City. They returned
about midnight with a quart of
beer. Humble said, and drank
beer with Echer who had re
mained at home.
Humble was told that an ar
gument developed when Betty
Raines said she would take Otis
Cook and Esther Walden down
town. Echer, according to this
story, objected, saying first he
would take them down, and
then said no one would take
them down town.
He was quarreling with Betty
Raines, Humble said, rather
than with Hubbard, when he
allegedly produced a pistol.
There was a shot, and Hubbard
was wounded in the leg just
above the ankle.
Then the two men, according
to Humble, ran' out of the house.
Esther Walden crawled out of
a back window, Humble stated,
and there met Hubbard.
They went to a house on Tenth
street and called police.
Boys Ran to Station
Police arrived and first took
Hubbard to the hospital.
In the meantime, two small
sons of Agnes Leroue, who had
been in bed at the time of the
shooting, got up and ran down
to the city police station.
Police In two cars then took
up the search for Echer, and lo
cated him near the house on
Worden street. The chase and
shooting followed.
Echer is a brakeman employed
by the Great Northern railroad,
officers said.
Echer formerly lived at Chilo
quin. Otis Cook is a ranch hand,
and Hubbard is an employe of
the Lamm Lumber company.
Parts and materials moved
each month by the fleet of floor
trucks in one of our aviation
plants weigh as much as three
of the nation's largest battle
ships. .
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Klamath Basin
Promised Good
Wafer Season
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22, the run-off has decreased,
This year's storaga surpasses
any of recent years.
Tho entire section of southern
Oregon will have a surplus of
irrigation water this year,
spokesmen at Friday's meeting
predicted. Crop soil and range
moisture in Klamath and Lake
counties as well as Jackson and
Josephine counties is the best
in years.
Attending from here were E.
Laton Stephens, associate en
gineer of the US bureau of rec
lamation,' and Charles A. Hen
derson, Klamath county agricul
tural agent.
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BUST JAP BASES
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been driving toward the Burma
Indian frontier.
By contrast, imperial Tokyo
headquarters asserted that Jap
anese troops had encircled British-Indian
forces at the frontier
and that the group was being
"annihilated."
In the skies, the British com
mand said, RAF bombers pound
ed Japanese shipping and high
way traffic in a series of raids
over southern Burma and at
tacked Japanese-occupied vil
lages on the Mayu peninsula
along the Bay of Bengal.
Meanwhile, American P-40's
shot up Japanese-held Fort Ba
yard in Kwangchowan territory,
on the South China coast, stream
ing 10,000 rounds of heavy cali
ber machine-gun bullets into the
Japanese commander's head
quarters, warehouses, airdrome,
radio station and ground troops.
RAF Bombs Batter
Krupp Arms Plan'
Into Idleness
(Continued From Page One)
command planes are missing, it
was announced.
It was the 58th raid of the war
on Duisburg, large inland port
which last was blitzed on. the
night of March 26. About 12
miles west of Essen, it has many
important war factories and Is
one of the biggest railway junc
tions in the Ruhr.
The RAF's new round-the-clock
bombing of the continent
was resumed Thursday night
with a heavy raid on the Ruhr
area, but the objectives that
night were not announced.
OBITUARY
OLIVA SPECIA PISAN
Oliva Specia Pisan, for the
last 13 years a resident of
Klamath county, Oregon, passed
away in this city on Saturday,
April 10, 1943, at 6:20 a. m.
following an illness of three
weeks. She was a native of
Quero Bellumo, Italy and at
the time of her death was aged
41 years 8 months and 7 days.
Surviving are her husband,
James Pisan of this city, four
sons, Private Mario Pisan, U.S.
motor corps, Camp Haan. Calif..
John, Louis and James Jr., all
of this city, one daughter,
Eleine Pisan of Oregon City,
Oregon. The remains rest in
the Earl Whitlock funeral home.
Pine street at Sixth. Notice of
funeral to be announced later.
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Annobclle Newton on Friday
was appointed librarian of the
county law library by the Klam
ath county court.
Mrs. Newion, who serves also
as deputy county treasurer, will
keep a careful account of all
books lent, members of tho couri
said. They added that many of
the law library books have never
been returned by attorneys who
borrow them, but that under tho
new system returns will be re
quired and the librarian will
know who has the books.
The library will closo prompt
ly at 5 p. m., it was stated.
County court members asked
that all attorneys having library-owned
books return them
immediately, and hinted of
searches for books in local law
offices if they are not brought
back.
FUNERAL
ARTHUR EDWIN SMITH
Funeral services for the late
Arthur Edwin Smith, who pass
ed away In this city on Thurs
day, April 8, 1943, following a
brief illness will bo held In the
chapel of the Earl Whitlock fun
eral home. Pine street at Sixth,
on Monday, April 12, 1943, at
1:30 p. m. with the Rev. Arthur
Charles Bates of the First
Christian church of this city of
ficiating. Commitment services
and interment Linkvllle ceme
tery. Friends are Invited.
CONFERENCE POSTPONED
WASHINGTON. April 10 (P)
The state department said to
day that the United Nations'
food conference has been post
poned until May 18, when It
will open at Hot Springs, Va.
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"Just received five editions of
The Herald and Nows. It's sure
swell of you to send it. Thanks
a million. I suro got a bung
out of rending tlia old homo
town paper again. 1
This comes from Sgt. Clifford
E. Pcpple, now serving with his
bomb squadron in North Africa,
in a letter sent his mother, Mrs.
R. F. Pcpple, well known Bon
anza resident.'
Another son of Mr. and Mrs.
Popple, Lloyd, has not been
heard from since, the full of
Wttke island. Ho was there on
a civilian construction Job and
the Pepples feci that he Is a
prisoner of war.
Lt. James C. Ellis, 7Rtli Signal
Corp, Camp Butnor, N. C, ar
rived Saturday (or a brief visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Carey C. Ellis, B608 Shasta way.
Lt. Ellis was stationed at Alaska
and the Hnwaliun islands before
entering officer's candidate
school at Monmouth, N. J, He
received his commission July 7,
1042. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis now
have three of four sons In tho
U. S. services: Clark Ellis, 20,
Is with tho Seubccs at Cnmp
Perry, Va., Dun Richard Ellis,
10, is at Fort Bcnning, da.,
with tho SOlst parachute Inf.
Medical Detachment. He receiv
ed his corporal stripes March
IS. Corporal Ellis Is a former
student of KUHS.
In February an article appear
ed in The Herald and News,
hcudody'Don Gray of Fort Klam
ath Feeds Gun in Guudalcunal
Battle." One paragraph of this
article reads, "While Sgt. James
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