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PAGE TWO CHILD STEALING CHARGE FILED E (Continued From Page One) knew very little about it. "I knew very little about her when we were married," he uld. The ceremony was performed In San Francisco, laat October, he relat ed, three or four weeks after they met. Me told District Attorney Welnrlck that he thought his wife visited Albany General hos- Dital. saw the Gurney baby In her crib In the nursery, and de cided to steal her on an impulse, and to "make good" on her story. Accidental Arrest " A careless flip of a cigarette led to the immediate solution of the mystery of the missing baby, the two police officers who ar rested the Wrights related to day. . State Policeman Don Christenson and H. L. Sharp of the Albany force, had been sent to the Wright home to arrest Mrs. Wright as a suspect. Unable to arouse anyone by knocking, the two men stood talking. Sharp flipped a cigar ette on the lawn. - It fell on a piece of paper. As Sharp went ever to step on it, he said, he aw Mrs. Wright, suitcase in hand, slipping through the back yard. Led to Car Re gave chase. She led him to an automobile parked nearly a block away. In it were Ser geant Wright and the baby. They were intending to go to ran land, T5 miles away, for a visit, the soldier explained. He said he parked that far from the house "because it was asier to nark there than to go round the block to the front of the house." Mrs. Wright had on to the home to get her suit case, she said. - Fooled Husband The district attorney said Mrs. Wright fooled not only her hus band, but a young couple living with her and neighbors through nine, months of feigned pregnan cy, then appeared at home last Tuesday with a two-day-old baby. ' She confessed to a child-steal- only after her story of giving birth to the child in the Albany 1 hospital had been refuted by nurses and doctors who said she had not been a patient and by a doctors examination which ' Welnrlck said proved she had not born a child within five yean. There was evidence of an earlier birth, but Weinrick did not disclose what had happened to that child. Neighbors said Mrs. Wright had no child at home until last Tuesday. Story Told Weinrick said this is the story of the kidnaping: Alter monins oi declaring sne was going to have a baby, Mrs. " Wright inspected the Albany hospital, six blocks away, Aug ust 1. then stole the child from . the nursery in early morning, August 3. To friends she explained Tues day the doctor had permitted her early return home because of the hospital bed shortage and because the birth had been easy for her. Diapers Appear It was not until last night that neighbor reported to police that diapers had suddenly ap peared on Mrs. Wright's clothes line. Police investigated but no one answered the door. Mrs, Wright then talked her husband, Sgt. Jesse Wright, home on one of his infrequent leaves from nearby Camp Adair, to make a trip to friends in Portland. Po lice nabbed them before they had gone a block. At the hospital the baby was identified from footprints. In the Wright home police found a hospital bracelet, used to iden tify babies. It bore the word, "Gurney." Judith' Restored Judith, eight ounces heavier than when she disappeared, was restored to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Gurney, who had pleaded by press and radio for the kidnaper to give up the tot. Mrs. Gurney cried with joy and Gurney, a labor union offi cial, shouted, "Oh, boy, are we happy?" Judith went to sleep, but the Gurneys and friends stayed up most of the night. Police said the couple living with Mrs. Wright was not un der suspicion. Their names were not disclosed. Sgt. Wright was held as a material witness. NEW TODAY '!.: Um ni j II " 13 S3IV IrneVT 1 A ON ARMY WIF ToutlTFacific Jap Strongholds Bombed (Continued From Page One) directed at the great enemy base of Rabaul, New Britain. Successive flights of Liberat ors roared over Salamaua, drop ping 103 tons of bombs in 40 minutes. Heavy anti-aircraft fire met the first waves but when the last left the target area the airdrome, the town and harbor of this northwestern New Guinea base were obscured by clouds of smoke from fires and explosions. Damage was heavy a headquar ters communique said. Liberators teamed with me dium bombers, under a fighter cover of Wildcats, in two attacks on Vila airdrome, dropping 63 tons of bombs and setting large fires. It was the heaviest bomb ing attack yet made on the Kol- ombangara island airfield, one of the enemy s few remaining strong points in the central Solo mons. Across Kula Gulf, torpedo and dive bombers smashed 23 tons of bombs upon much-battered Bairoko Harbor, 10 miles north of Munda. Results were not re ported. (Continued From Page One) were the railroad town of Tros toyanets; Slatino, 12 miles north of city, and Nikitovka, 30 miles to the northwest. Trap Seen The speed of the Russian ad vance on Kharkov presented a definite clanger of entrapment to the thousands of nazi troops oc cupying the base, the communi que indicated. The . soviet air force ranged behind the lines hammering at German rail com munications upon which the gar rison would be forced to rely for withdrawal. . (The Moscow radio, in a broad cast heard in- London said two red army generals had been killed in the fighting at Bel gorod and Orel. They were identified as General Apensenko. SI, formerly with the Russian far eastern forces, who was killed at Belgorod, and Major General Gurtyev, one of the heroes of Stalingrad, who died in the fighting at Orel.) August 31 to See Opening of Schools (Continued From Page One) College of Education and taught for two years at Imbler, Ore. Other personnel added to the school system this year are Fran ces Patterson, from Havre, Mon- tana; Gene E. Ricketts, from Je rome, Idaho; Beryl Cunningham, from Gilchrist; and A i 1 e e n Brown, from The Dalles. Defi nite posts for the teachers have not as yet been determined. Mrs. Fern Peak was awarded a half-time contract. She was also on the staff last year. In the high school, Phyllis Foster, University of Oregon graduate, will teach Spanish. Miss Foster is taking graduate work at the University of Mexico this summer. Mrs. Hazel M. Landry will be cafeteria manager for the joint district and will be in charge of instructing the cooks, preparing menus, purchasing and account ing for all cafeterias operated by the public schools in the city. The U. S. National bank and the First National bank were named as depositories for dis trict funds at the meeting, and G. Q. D'Albini was chosen to audit last year's books for both districts. Cat your policy to comply with the Automobile Financial Responsibility Law from Hans Norland, lit M. 7th, Phone 7176. Continuous From 1:00 P. M. STARTS TODAY Thomas MITCHELL Also BUSTER CRABBE and ROCHELLE HUDSON in "Queen of "i Broadway" CHURCHILL IN CANADA; WILL TALKWITH FDR (Continued From Page One) ies of conferences with Prim Minister W. L. MacKentle King; Statement The following official state ment was Issued: "The prime minister of Great Britain has arrived in Canada accompanied by Lord Leathers, the minister of war transport for the United Kingdom, and the British chiefs of staff. "Mr. Churchill was received on arrival by Mr. MacKenzie King and during his stay tn Canada will be the guest of the Canadian government. Mr. Churchill will have discus sions with Mr. ftacKenzie King and later will attend a confer ence with President Roosevelt and the combined chiefs of staff of the United States and the United Kingdom." EDITORIALS ON NEWS Continued From Page One) walled Norman church built in the 12th century. Here was the black hell of Troina. Scores up on scores of people were living all over one another. The stench of sweating human bodies, gar lic and human excrement was appalling." www UE adds: "Along one wall a row of old men stared listlessly Into space. They seemed to have neither strength nor the will to move. Next to them a wounded man groaned while another held him in his arms and wept. He looked at me and said in broken English: The great Mus solini did this.' " DIGHT. IV The great Alexander did It to the Mediterranean world of his day. The great Genghis Khan did It to interior Europe and Asia. The great Wilhelm the Kaiser did it in 1914-1918. The great Hitler is doing It NOW. And the great Tojo. "THE great Napoleos) took the poor common people of France in the hour of their de liverance from the heartless aristocrats who had ground them into mere serfs, only a step above animals, and bled them white on the battlefields of Europe for. a quarter of a century. He MIGHT have taken them In the fateful hour of their deliver ance from their oppressors and made of them a peaceful (ex cept for vital HOME DEFENSE), happy, progressive, productive nation. But NO! The urge of WORLD EMPIRE was in his veins the SELFISH ambition to MAKE OF HIM SELF the ruler of the earth. So he led the people of France down into the valley of the shadow of death. TT has always been that way. Until the common, ordinary, peace-loving. Industrious people of the earth become WISE ENOUGH to recognize these em perors and khans and kaisers and duces and fuehrers for what they are and kill them as they would kill a poisonous snake WHILE THEY ARE STILL WEAK ENOUGH to be killed, the world will always be that way. The steel in a pair of old roller skates would make two U. S. army helmets. Hurry! Leaves. Soon! v ,'iijih mum shb gfro16 X. MMwWBMrM , NeTh HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Local Married Men On Draft List (Continued From Page One) fathers with children born prior to September, 1942. would be called from this locality. However, they will not be In ducted before October 1, 1943. WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 (P) Chairman May (D-Ky.) of the house military committee an nounced today that he would introduce on September 14, the day congress returns from Its summer recess, legislation to prohibit the induction of fathers. BE HELD TONIGHT An old-fashioned community sing will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in front of the court house, Paul Landry, general co chairman' of the August bond drive, said today. Merchandise and airplane rides will be auctioned off for bonds at the sing. Major Eric Schilling, here to interview prospective air1 corps cadets. will be introduced. Three visit ing WAC recruiters will also be presented. Rev. L. K. Johnson will lead the singing -of such old-fashioned songs as "Tipperary," "Katie," and "Smiles. Vlolette Moore will play the piano. Mrs. F. L. Weaver is in charge of the sing. General Peace Strike Agitation On in Italy (Continued From Page One) quietly and carefully moved suf ficient troops into the Po and Trieste regions to seize that sector if necessary. Guns Back Words About the time that Badogllo apparently was convinced that his choice was what the Italian press called "dishonorable sur render," or continuation of the war at Germany's side. Von Rib bentrop had the guns to back his words. While Hans-Gcorg Viktor von Mackensen, German ambassador to Italy, had wheedled with Badoglio and played for time by encouraging him to hold out for better terms. Von Ribben trop went to Rome with strong er language, Italian reports said. He was . represented . as able to warn Badoglio that the Ital ian marshal now could not sur render all of Italy since the Germans had the power to seize the north. BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 10 (If) Benito Mussolini in his last interview with a corre spondent of the Corriere del Ticino of Lugano June 6 six weeks before his downfall ad mitted Italy could have re mained out of the war. Describing his visit to II Duce in the spacious-hall of the Pal azzo Venezia, the correspondent said he found him lean but bearing his 60 years well "de spite stomach ulcers from which he has been suffering." He said Mussolini appeared sad. Postal Telegraph, Western Union Merge NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (P) Stockholders of Western Union and Postal Telegraph today ap proved terms for the merger of the two companies which will create the first nationally uni fied telegraph system. Last Day "My Gal Sal' "Stranger From Pecos -TOMORROW. 2 Big Hits PHIL0 VAMCI in the guess- JOIl M'CRIA AT O'SRIIN. CLAIM OODO imnan Ae" j Thrills MARY ' Galore! ASTOR; warns Atl.TTl I P'" i- rff "BaibtVta, i THREE CHADGED WITH ENT RING CLOSED FOREST Three persons have been ar rested for entering closed forest areas without permit. Two of the men, Arthur McCloskey and Dennis A. Laneir, appear ing In justice court, wore each fined $23 or 10 days with $13 and 10 days suspended. The third man was to appear Thurs day. "Entering the forest areas which have been closed by proc lamation of the governor is a serious matter," Judge J. A. Mahoney said Tuesday. "The violation of this law can carry a fine of as high as $230 or Im prisonment in the county jail for as much as 60 days." The judge explained that the relatively low fine In the two above cases were given because the men were employed in that area and had unknowingly taken the wrong road to reach their jobs. Fines will be high er for persons carelessly enter ing these closed areas while pleasure driving or for camp ing purposes without a permit. The danger, of forest fires is especially acute this year due to the shortage In manpower to fight the blaze and the possi bility of fires purposely set as a means of sabotage. ENTIRE YUGOSLAV LONDON, Aug. 10 (& Prime Minister Mimilos Trifunovic has i handed the. blanket .resignation of the entire Yugoslav cabinet to King Peter II, it was announced tonight. Demands of Croat members of the cabinet that an agreement be reached about the future con stitutional structure of Yugo slavia precipitated the govern ment crisis. It was said. The cabinet had several stormy sessions the past few days, marked by serious differ ences of opinion, and the resigna tion of Trifunovic came as no surprise in London. Trifunovic, former minister of education, formed the new cab inet last June 27 at the request of King Peter. Switzerland's army of 500.000 men represents one in eight of her total population. fkA -mi I nl I 1 WTSv X U" treerer nn eny love .leryl 'If 3 Vl2T 8 " I I 1 W vN5l V treat dvealsjfa stary yet Jl Jsftll tJ I i'l '-V t'eatei man any adventure Ihrllll M'3 i, Ki JY tW I ffi 1 LjLl lA ' here Is Ihe stery al great .'if, J ff f V' 7 ('I 1 TlvvvYl. ' ""rlen In the making . . , HIM L'J J j 1 7 XVKNL-V "h"r't.xl"t.l- JT j. II I , t lSv jVil l"t. "Win,. h.m, tha jj TU I M li I ' rL '"- -p 5 1 I I ' I l I i V --O m.nts...allpeuredln. .jj SB rft-4: 1! msmsTk " ' PW ) Fmn.e. GiffarrJ H 0) J5 kf Ends RAY MILLAND PAULETTE GODDARD I III. '', TOni9M " CRYSTAL BALL" Premiere of "Thl. Is the Army" to Come to Klamath (Continued From Page One) the stage, and was produced by Warner Brothers studio as a non-profit contribution. The stago show earned $1,931,043 for army relief fund. The motion picture la expected to realize $20,000,000 for the same pur pose. High Interest , "Interest is running so high in this premiere that we will have a sell-out," Cornett said. "This Is a once-ln-a-llfotlme chance to see tlio most spectacu lar picture put out by Hollywood in 1943, mnrio from the most out standing Broadway stago show of 1942, and at the same time contribute generously to the Im portant army emergency relief fund." GAS. TIRE BLACK- DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 10 it?) Ten men havo been arrrstod In connection with what office of price administration officials here describe as the lurgest gas oline and tire black market yet discovered in the United States based on stolen gasoline ration coupons and spurious tire ra tion certificates. W. A. Grlffls Jr.. district OPA enforcement officer, said last night the operations had been halted after a 10-day Investiga tion but that further arrests were to be made. Robert F. Bryant, chief dis trict OPA Investigator, said John F. Hall, former clerk of war price and ration board No. 1 here, was arrested yesterday in Los Angeles, Calif., at the request of Dallas officials who had filed against him federal charges of selling tire certifi cates In violation of the second war powers act and ration order 1-A. Ludwigshaven Hit By RAF Heavies (Continued From Page One) in Mannheim and Ludwigshaven twin towns situated on oppo site banks of the Rhine near its junction with the Neckar, 43 miles southwest of Frankfort. Together the two towns form an Important armament center. Great factories there turn out tanks, motor vehicles, dlesel en gines and high explosives. The towns, which have a combined population of about 330,000 in normal times, represent the sec ond largest inland port In Europe. NAVY SHELLS BATTER PATH (Continued From Page One) cations hub of the enemy's po sition, Close Gap Flanking patrols of the Brit ish and Americans were said to havo closed the gap between the two armies In that sector where the Americana had pushed past Ccsaro to within 10 miles of Randnito. The American raiding party which landed In the Germans' rear at Torrenova, just west of Cape Orlando, has succeeded In contacting the main body of Lieut, Gon. Georgo S, I'ntlon Jr.'a seventh army, It was stat ed. Highly Successful This amphibious force, be sides capturing 1300 prisoners, destroyed Important military In stallations and Its operation wus officially described as "highly successlul." Meanwhile the allied air fleets were declared to have en joyed "absolute air supremacy yesterday, not only over Sicily and the Messina strait but well into the toe of Italy," Both the strategic and tactical air forces concentrated on bombing and strafing the enemy along his avenues of escape. Bomber Crashes, Burns Near Heppner PENDLETON. Aug. 10 P An army bomber crashed and burned at 3:33 a. m. one and a half miles from the tiny hamlet of Cecil, mid-way between Hep pner and Arlington, Mrs. M. Hurst. Cecil telephone operator, reported to the Pendleton East Oregonlan this morning. Flames raged through the I wreckage so fiercely that vol- i unteer rescuers, aroused by tin- ! explosion of the plane as it hit the ground, were unable to get within 100 yards. Seven bodlei were unofficially reported found in the charred fuselage. PITTSBURGH. Aug. 10 TI Motions to quash five Indict ments charging 30 coal miners with violations of the Smith Connelly anti-strike law on grounds the recently enacted measure la unconstitutional were filed In U. S. district court today. 'August 10. 194 J Roosevelt Arranges Conference on Post-War Planning WASHINGTON, Aug, 10 OF) President Roosevelt arranged a- conference today with his stata.J department advisers on post-war planning, headed by Secretary of State Hull. The others attending were Undersecretary of State Wallas, Chairman Norman Davis of tha Red Cross, Dr. Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins university, and Dr, Leo Pasvolsky, special as sistant secretary of state In charge of post-war planning. (Continued From Page One) session when several persons ap peared to see If something coulr be done about the child-drown-' ing situation. Jack Henry, rep resenting I he Eagles lodge, said "Something should be dona about these drownings and dona mlli-k mnii WA'rA anln In .4 m something about It. One of our cnnnren migni do next. He said that the Eagles lodge VUIkm HrBwIllff lln m rftnlitlnn tn send tn congressmen requesting ( uiui the entire canal be fenced. II IM Id that varimitt Attini. In. I organisations were doing the same wing, ana no asxea (hat the city cooperate by also send ing a resolution, C'ltv Attorney 3. W Turn.. han was instructed by the city fathers to draw up the resolu tion asking that the fencing h ' dona at tha exruinaai nf th reclamation service. Results Uncertain Mavnr Houston aalri that Ini campaign for safeguarding the canm was mosi aamirabie, but that he was not certain nf mv favorable results from tha reo lamation service. A letter, requesting the city council to recommend to tha county court the closing of the county road on the west side of Ihe airport, was read. Tha re quest was granted. The city agreed to buy ma terials tor fencing or tha air port where the new road will be located. If field officials would stand the Installing ex pense. Council members also sgreed to pay for a second coat of paint for the hangar. New Shipment Van Heusea Pajamas Slses A to D RUDY'S MEN'S SHOP in wie hm I
