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It the algnal tor a blackout In Klamath
Falli. Anolhsr long blast, during black
out, li itgnal for all-clsar. In precau
tionary parlodi, watch your ilraat llghti. ;
in a
snencatis
By FRANK JENKINS
TN Tunlaln, our aldo U still Inch
A Ing forward, a hilltop at a
llmo, through tho mnuntuln do
fiMinoa thot surround Tunis and
Uizcrto.
MONTGOMERY lina takon for
tified Tnkrouua mountain,
Including the old Berber citadel
on the ainmnit, which wax great
atuff In the pre-artlllcry doys and
impnrtnnt in tho Ions pre-olr-plans
period when cannon rang
ra were comparatively ahort.
Tho old citadel Hsolf ia mean
ingless now. Tho hot atuff in
th la campaign aro the enemy ma
chine gun nciits that aro dug into
the mountain aide.
TT will lend romantic Intercut
to the ncwa If you will remem
ber that In this general area
men have been fighting slnco tho
earliest down of history. Every
inch of the loll ha beon watered
with blood.
.,- This tin of Tunisia has wit
nessed tho development of near
ly every weapon of war from the
browse sword and the bow and
arrow to the heavy tank and the
airplane.
II was In this mountain-ringed
plain where Tunis and Bizcrto
sit that the fato of Carthago was
decided once and for all. Then
as now there were alow and
heavy weapons, depending for
their effectiveness on WEIGHT,
and light, fast wenpons designed
to hit and run.
For his weight, Hannibal, the
Carthaginian, deponded on his
ELEPHANTS and for his hit-and-run
blows ho relied on his
horsemen. Rommel's Mark VI
tanks ara tho lineal descendant
of Hannibal's elephants. Motor
ized equipment lias succeeded
cavalry.
Only the airplane is NEW IN
PRINCIPLE.
TN the great battle of Zama that
O scaled Carthage's doom, Scl-
plo, the Roman, handled Hannl-
bill's elephants by disposing his
Infantry in open order and per
milting tho charging beasts to
pass between the flics, thus cush
ionlng the shock of their attack.
He took care of Hannibal's cav
alry by meeting It with MORE
cavalry as planes ara now mos,
tercd by mora planes.
LEADERSHIP, you sec, has al
ways beon a prlmo deciding fac
tor In battlo.
VIEWED from this dlstonco
through tho chilly medium
of censored dispatches, tho prcs-
ent phase of the battlo of Tunisia
seems monotonous and lacking
in thrills.
It you want thrills, put your-
nlf In thn nlnrn nf Mnnlanm.
Q cry's Infantrymen creeping up,
rlflo In one hand and grenade In
the other, on Rommel's thickly
sown machine gun positions, try
ing to keep yourself shielded
from enemy fire while you get
oloso enough to toss your gre
nade,
If your Imagination is vivid,
you'll got THRILLS ENOUGH.
TODAY'S pulse-qulckonor is
tho shooting down by allied
fighter planes of EVERY ONE of
20 hugo slx-onglncd M e a e r
schmitt 323s carrying troops and
supplies to Rommel from across
the Sicilian strait.
Each of these pianos Is cnpublo
of transporting 120 soldiers or
ton tons of cargo, Each equals
; FOUR of tho Junkers 62 thrco
i enginors previously shot down
ft by our filers.
1 They wore mustered by first
disposing of their accompanying
fighters and then popping tho
lumbering cargo carriers.
AIR transport ALONE, you
sec, Is not sufficient. To
make It work, you must have
command of tho air along with
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Sisemore Tells of
''Lower 13 Murder
Trial, Conviction
L. Orth Sisemore, Klamath district attorney who served as
special prosecutor In the Robert E. Lee Folkca "lower 13" mur
der trlii I at Albany, said on his return hero Friday he believes
tho record in tho case to be "clean" and that It will successfully
withstand attack through appeal to tho supreme court.
Ha paid tribute to Circuit Judge L. G. Lcwelllng of Albany,
who presided In the scnaatlonal trial. Ho said Judge Lewelllng
ruled fairly and with utmost caution throughout. He said he knew
of no possibility of reversible
error In the case.
Sisemore said that trial of
tho case, which received nation
wide attention, produced terrific
atrnln on all of thoso directly
involved.
Folkes, Sisemore said, showed
emotion throughout the case.
On one day, he snld, the de
fendant appeared to be In' the
highest sprits, and the next
day extromrly despondent. Siso
more said the prosecution was
surprised when Folkes failed to
go to tho witness stand, and said
this may have resulted from a
defense fear that Folkes would
make damaging admissions.
Sisemore said that he, per
sonally, was convinced of
Folkes' guilt from the time the
negro dining car cook was
brought definitely Into the eaae
as suspect when- the mveafl
gallon contcrcd here shortly
after the train murder of Mar-
tha Brlnson James, navy bride.
The ' Klamath attorney ex
pressed great admiration for W.
G. Brinson, father of the slain
girl, who attended the trial.
"Thore is a real gentleman,"
he said, and he paid similar
tribute to Ensign Richard
James, widower of the murder
victim..-.'
Bloodhounds
Trail Escaped
Folsom Inmates f
FOLSOM PRISON, Calif.,
April 23 Bloodhounds pick
ed up tho still wot troll of two
missing convicts early today as
prison authorities found evidence
Uiat tho felons, one of them de
scribed as a "killer," effected a
unique escape from Folsom state
prison.
Tho convicts, Fronk Pedrtnl,
35-yoar-old convicted Napa coun
ty slayer, and Walter J. Smith,
34, Riverside county robber,
made their break somotlme last
night while 1000 other Inmates
attended a movio between 7 and
11 p. m.
Stnlo and county officers join
ed prison guards In a search for
the escapees In the hilly, rock
strewn county surrounding the
Institution.
German Reinforcements
Fail to Dent Red Line
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, April 23 (P)-Tho
Germans hourly have reinforced
their land armies In tho Kuban
and have shifted hundreds of
their bomber and fighter planes
Into the Crimea for use in the
North Caucasian battles, but de
spite incessant attacks by these
new forces the Germans have
fulled to dent the Russian linos,
it was declared today.
Red Star, tho army newspaper,
sold tho nszls ware employing
numerous Rumanian troops and
that during the last fow days
had forced thorn to spearhead
tho assaults which aro costing
them hundreds of dead.
Enemy Slaughtered
The noon communiquo told
of 600 of the enemy slaughtering
in two Kuban sectors alone in
the last 12 hours, bringing the
toll for tho past 20 hours well
above 800. .
(Tho German communique
said the nazl air force carried
out a heavy attack last night
against tho soviet Black sea port
ot Poti, described as a naval
base. Tho communique said
'no fighting ol importance took I
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PKICE FIVE CENTS
A fl V
Take
"13" Unlucky
For Folkes in
Trial for Life y
Interesting throughout tha
Folkes' murder trial at Al
bany was tho recurrence of
Uio "13" angle, according to
District Attorney L. Orth Sise
more, special prosecutor n
the caae. 1
The murder occurred In
lower berth 13. !
There wore 13 on the Jury,
counting the alternate.
; It took 13 days for the trial.
. Tha Jury brought 1n the ver
dict at 3:13. -- j.
FOLKES IMPASSIVE
AFTER CONVICTION
Ex-Negro Cook Jokes
About "Gas
Ration"
ALBANY, Ore., April 23 (IP)
Outwardly unperturbed and Jok
ing about "my gas ration," Rob
ert E. Lee Folkes faces the pros
pect of dying In Oregon's gas
chamber as the adjudged knife
slayer of a navy enslgn'f pretty
bride In lower berth 13 of a California-bound
train.
The Impassive 20-year-old ne
gro cook late yesterday heard
a Jury find him guilty in the
first degree of murdering Mrs.
martha Virginia James, 21,
aboard a Southern Pacific limit
ed before dawn January 23. He
yawned as he rose to leave the
court and later in his cell laugh
ed with visitors, saying, "Won
der If they'll have any trouble
getting my gas ration?"
Prosecution evidence offered
at Folkes' trial was that he killed
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placo in tho whole eastern front
yesterday.")
North of Chuguev, on the Von
eta river, a group of Germans at
tempted to cross to the eastern
bank but soviet gunfire mowed
them down at the water's edge.
Dozens of dead were left on the
bank, it was asserted.
No Croaaing Effort
This was no effort to cross the
Donets In force but appeared to
bo an attempt by a strong scout
ing party to establish a foothold
on the Russian-held bank and
hold it until reinforcements ar
rive, Likely it was a tost of tho Rus
sian positions in tho area, and
was significant in the day's de
velopments. But tho battle of the Kiban re
mained the principal' conflict.
Tho Germans are employing
their reinforced armies from the
region ot Novorosslsk to the sea
of Azov, although the Soviets
have not indicated they believe
tho enemy forces yet are numeri
cally superior.
Tho Germans' losses approxi
mate 4000 dead slnco they began
their attacks In ilie Kuban, it
was estimated. ' I
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON.
Sl
n r
Isles
OCCUPIED BY
U.S1F0HGES
Captured Points Just
.300 Miles South
Of Japs ; (
" . j
By The Aaaociattd Prsas
American forces have occu
pied islands of tho strategic El
lice group about 300 miles south
of the Japanese-occupied Gil
bert islands in the South Pa
cific, the navy disclosed today
in a . communique reporting an
enemy bombing attack on U. S.
installations there..
. A navy spokesman said the
occupation was unopposed, al
though communique in Oc
tober, 1942, told of a surface en
gagement in the adjacent waters
and it was assumed then that
the Japanese had moved in.
Eaat of Solomons
The island group of nine
palm-covered atolls lies ,1100
miles east of the Solomon Is
land and' athwart allied supply
route -to Australia.;.' .,
7. Axis .broadcast indicated -today
that Japan, had broadened
tha scope: of her threat! of "se
vere punishment" of captured
American filers to Include all
pilots and crews "who have
been found guilty of having
committed cruel . and . inhuman
acts anywhere in Japanese ter
ritory or xones of Japanese war
operations.
The Tokyo radio also-quoted
a Japanese cabinet spokesman,
Tomokazu Hori, as saying:
"Japan can never agree with
the absurd and groundless con
tention, that the mere fact that
enemy soldiers are wearing mil
4tary unlfornis'nalte. them, im
mune" f r o m responsibility of
wilfully committing any and
all kinds of inhuman acts."
Death Promised
A Tokyo dispatch,, broadcast
by the Berlin radio, said the
Japanese government had noti
fied the United States, govern
ment of its Intention to punish
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ekes Gets New
Authority Over
Solid Fuels
WASHINGTON, April 23 (ff)
President Roosevelt by executive
order, today conferred broad
new authority over solid fuels on
Interior Secretary Ickes, includ
ing the - power to determine
whether coal rationing to civil
ian users should be Instituted.
The presidential order abol
ished the purely advisory office
ot solid fuels coordinator for
war and created in its stead a
solid fuels administration for
war with Ickes as administrator.
The order seta up tha new ad
ministration within the Interior
department and authorizes it to
establish ''basic policies and to
formulate plans and programs to
assure the "conservation ; and
most effective development and
utilization of solid fuels" in the
United States, its territories and
possessions.
Practice Bombs
Fall on Village j
In Washington -
. SPOKANE, April 23 (?) Five
practice bombs fell in the village
of Warden from a lone bombing
plane early Wednesday morning.
Warden's correspondent for the
Spokesman-Review reported last
night.
The town blacked out during
the incident, the article sold. All
bombs hit within the village but
no buildings were struck. Army
authorities here would neither
affirm or deny tho occurrence.
Warden Is 40 miles southeast
of the Ephrata air base.
ELLIGE ISLANDS
and .TfafaHfi
FRrDAY, APRIL 23, 1943
V-
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inmift iamsi j'fr'-r" v AiMt ,s, Ummmm MtsMaMiiiia-iiJMj.
The four wounded soldiers risiting here as guests of tha Commandos are shown abora as they
looked over printing equipment in tha plant of The Herald and News. Tha men .ara here from
LeUerman hospital. San Francisco.' All wera wounded on combat duty. Left to right: Private
First Class Ray O. Buddeii. Klamath Falls; Sergeant Bernard L. Scott. Boston) Sergeant Joseph
S. Klrby, Boaton; Privata Orvllla P. CarUon, Fort Dodga, la. . - -
II
Victory Concert" to See
Bond Sweetheart Crowned
Klamath's war finance drive
neared the $1,000,000 mark Fri
day, but E bond .sales were still
lagging and a determined effort
was 'planner.1 to boost , this type
VjL- JJUIWIHScra- I LUC BUUtlUUCI
goal by April 30; ; - rr
Helping out will be tonight's
"victory concert" to be staged by
musical organizations of the
high school under direction of
Andrew Loney. At least a 50
cent war stamp purchase will be i
War Finance Total
$982,687
Goal $1,269,000 by May 1
asked for es admission to the
concert, which will feature
many musical selections in keep
ing with the patriotic theme. '
An event of the concert pro
gram will be the crowning of the
"Sweetheart of Klamath High,
The "sweetheart" will be one of
the four girls who have been
candidates in -the high 1 school
war ' savings contest sponsored
by union labor, and the winner
will go next week to Portland
at labor's expense to see a ship
launching. - The program starts
at 8 p. m., and the public is
urged to attend.
Two substantial ' purchases
that' helped boom the war fi
nance drive Friday were $40,000
by Montomery Ward and com
pany and $50,000 by the Shaw
Lumber company.
The Ward company as a whole
is buying $20,000,000 in bonds,
according to County War Fi
nance Co-Chairman A. M. Col
lier, and has allocated $40,000
for a Klamath purchase. Shaw
Lumber company Is a Klamath
concern,- with operations at
Tlonesta, Calif., and made one
of the largest private purchases
announced here so far. '
i Meanwhile, from the farm dis
tricts came word of substantial
bond-buying with a county cam
paign well organized and bond
Americans Raid
Kiska Japs on
Round-Clock Basis
AT AN ADVANCED ALEU
TIAN ISLANDS BASE, April 17
(Delayed) (P) American aerial
attacks on Kiska, which are now
approaching an around-the-clock
basis as increasing daylight
makes longer runs and more runs
per day possible has, for a sec
ond time In a year, virtually re
moved Japanese planes from the
air over Kiska,
Accuses Government
Of "Featherbedding"
WASHINGTON, April 23 0P)
George P. McNear Jr., president
of the government operated
Toledo, Peoria and Western rail
road, said today the government
has "inaugurated featherbed-
ding", in Its management of the
company 'with a resultant boost
in wasteful personnel."
NEA FEATURES
Number
Commando Guests Visit Printing
promoters at work in various
districts. : Percy Dixon and Hen
ry Semon,-working In the Hen
ley 'area,, reported bond sales of
$10,000 and $17,000 fespecUve
1y, in thefr soiicitatiqns. ' ?
' On local streets,, people ap
peared wearing badges designat
ing them as members of the
"100 club." All persons wear
ing these badges have bought
at least $100 in' bonds in April.
Badges will be given out by any
issuing agency, with the pur
chase of a $100 bond. .
The club plan, is in . keeping
with the treasury department
appeal for a $100 average in war
savings in April by all Ameri
cans. Klamath war finance total
Friday was exactly $982,687.
Ceiling Prices (
Put on Meals in
Southern States
ATLANTA, April 23 (") The
regional office of price adminis
tration today . placed ceiling
prices, effective April 26, on all
meals and food items, including
wines and other alcoholic bever
ages, sold in eating and drinking
places in the southeastern states.
North and South Carolina,
Georgia, . Florida, ' Mississippi,
Tennessee, Virginia and Ala
bama were affected by the order.
Under the order, issued by
James C. Derieux, regional OPA
director, maximum prices will
be limited to the highest price
charged for each meal,, food or
drink item during the week of
April 4 to 10.
Subject to the order Were all
restaurants, hotels, cafes,- deli
catessen stores, soda, fountains,
boarding houses and "any other
eating or drinking place.".
NLRB Refused Order
To Force Union
Financial Reports
PORTLAND, Ore., April 23 (P)
Trial Examiner Robert N. Den
ham today refused a national
labor relations board motion to
force Pacific coast AFL machin
ist unions to produce financial
reports.
The motion was part of a hear
ing of CIO charges of unfair la
bor practices against tnrce Henry
Kaiser shipyards hereabouts.
Ways, Means Fails
Tax Plan Approval
WASHINGTON, April 23' (P)
The house ways and means com
mittee failed today to approve
a pay-as-you-go tax bill in a ses
sion at which democrats previ
ously had indicated they hod suf
ficient votes to produce a bill to
apply the casiatYlf)41 rates and
exemptions to 1942 Income,
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Plant
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.EiathArmy - Slashes
Un- lowards ;
Bou Ficha - ,:
By WES GALLAGHER .'
ALLIED '- HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH -AFRICA, April 23
WVrThe-British eighth, army
has , . captured Hakrouna - and
pushed six miles from Englda
ville toward Bou Ficha in twin
drives northward and the British
first army, has stabbed ahead
three miles against stubborn axis
resistance in the Bou Arada sector-on
,the western Tunisian,
front, it was announced today;
These gains affround were cou
pled with aerial -action during
which Kittyhawks and Spitfires
shot down every one of twenty
six-engined Messerschmitt 323s,
some carrying troops and others
laden with freight, and ten' of
their escorting fighters encount
ered over the Gull of Tunis.'-.
Transports Told . i ' .'.
The giant Messerschmitt trans
ports, which dwarf such carriers
as the Junkers 52s upon which
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
has relied largely for -reinforcements
and supplies, are designed
to carry 120 soldiers or almost
10 tons of cargo. - - '
The transports were carrying
gasoline and personnel to Tu
nisia and "the entire formation"
was destroyed, an official state
ment said. . . ' : -.
Siiabla Plana'..'
. "Although not many aircraft
were shot down, the size and im
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Officers Drive on Parents
In Juvenile Delinquencies
Juvenile authorities continued
their concentrated drive against
parents who permit their, chil
dren to be out after curfew
hours, and Friday afternoon
brought Mrs. Mary Osborn,
mother of an 11-year-old boy,
before Police Judge Harold
Franey, i '; '
Mrs. Osborn entered a plea of
guilty and was fined $10, $5 of
which was suspended by the
judge. The child was picked up
by city police Thursday night
at 11:10 p. m. on Main street.
Police said the boy told them
he had been at the movie and
was "supposed to meet his
mother later." The mother told
the court that she was not
aware of the ordinance which
states that minors are not per
mitted on the streets after 10
p. m. .
Ignorant of Law
' She gave as one reason for
her ignorance of the law, that
she was unable .to read and con
sequently had not. known of. the
existing curfew regulation. The
boy, Juvenila Officer Dave
April 12 High 83, Low St
Precipitation aa ol AprU IS, 1943 .
Stream year lo data .....14.!8
Last yaar , 10.71 Normal ....9.7S
u
RELATIONS OF
Six Legation .Clerks
Fly Today to
. " Stockholm ; .
By EDWIN SHANKS " - r
STOCKHOLM, April 23 VP)
Six clerks from the United States
legation at Helsinki arrived in.
Stockholm on a special plane to.
day.and, left only a skeleton dip
lomatic staff in Finland as tho
whole question of Whether that
nation is going to string along!
with Germany militarily seemed
headed for a showdown. .
With the clerks wera ttieur
families. -
Only Charge d' Affaires Robert
Mills McClintock and one cleria.
remained in the expensive colon
ial style red brick legation' in
Helsinki, built by the United
States as a sign , of good rela
tions between the two countries
which are now so strained.
-' The withdrawal of tha bulk
of. tha staff climaxed weeks of
sketchy reports of tension in Fin
land,' during which the country
was subjected to heavy German
pressure.:"- - . .
. Censorship Clamped
Censorship was. clamped on all
political- dispatches out of Fin
lancL
-GlCTk6emth8JIeIslnki :1a.
Ration -ware assigned to duty in
Stockholm. One officer had been)
transfezred-from Helsinki earlier
this week. . .
The step developed along with
a possibility being discussed in
Finland that American mh
dster, H. F.-. Arthur Schoenfeld.
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Unrest Blamed (
For Walkout of )
oa1 Workers r
TTSBUKQH, April 23 (P)
A walkout of more than 2000
soft coal miners, producing 12,
000 tons of fuel daily for war. .
busy steel mills, was blamed to- '
day on "tremendous unrest of
thp wnrlcprs" hv a TTnltpH Mtn
Wnll,ma nffU.'nl l.n ......
V. lit. J VVl.V JUJI1CU frWV '
others in predicting a general '
coal strike unless the union-operator
deadlock over Wages is
broken by May 1.
Joseph Yablonsky. internation
al' board member of district 3
(Pittsburgh), said the immediate
cause of a work stoppage at
three pits of the Republic Steel
corporation Wednesday and
Thursday was the appearance of
Pennsylvania, motor police dur
ing a controversy involving 20
men, but he added: ,
"In . the background is tha
tremendous unrest of the men . . .
against the stalling tactics of tha
operators.''
Bridge stated, was not attend
ing v school, -the mother saying:
the family had moved to Klam-:
ath Falls from California and
felt the time too short to enroll
the child.
Father of the youth, Dale Os
born,' voluntarily ' appeared In '
court. He is employed nights,
according to. Bridge, and in this '
light, only a complaint was filed
against the mother as she was
held . responsible . during thesa
hours for her child's actions.
; The lad was ordered to attend '
school,- starting Monday morn
ing. The child's mother assured
the court, "I will give you my
word, you won't have any mora
trouble." '.
; Officer Bridge said this was
one of many cases which ha
had unearthed, where parents
place their children in movies
while they go elsewhere This
automatically releases the child
after the curfew hour, and par-,
ents will be held responsible,
Appearance of Mrs. Osborn
In court. Friday was the second ,
In two. days of parents charged
with violation of tha ordlaanea.
SHOWDOWN ON
NATIONS
SEEN