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CHILD
STEALING
CHARGE FILED
E
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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Pecos
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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.
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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.
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