rWOHZKALD ANDNTW5
MARINE HELD
ON ASSAULT
Military investigation is un
derway following an incident on
s 6th street early Sunday in
which a marine auegeaiy oiu
aished a .45 automatic when he
mistook a second marines wife
for his own. State police came
along in time to sec the gun. and
JS ' the alleged offender over
to military police.
WO William Raymond wood.
29 USMC, native of Baltimore,
McL is in military custody after
officers arrested turn on a charge
of assault while armed with a
dangerous weapon on riv- JaJ
Koland Kurschner.
Officers told this story. They
were en route to police head
quarters when . their attention
was called to a quarrel tween
two marines near 2405 S. bth.
Officers approached the pair and
saw the automatic . in Wooa s
hand. Police said the marine
had pulled the revolver sliae
back but the slug had stopped at
the entrance of the chamber, ap
parently jammed when the sec
ond marine struck the gun.
Wood charged Kurschner with
being with his. Wood's, wife as
the two stepped from the cab.
Wood ordered the woman, clad
in a fur coat, "to go home, ; as
he turned on her companion.
Kurschner told Wood the wom
an was his own wife but Wood
apparently was confused and at
first did not believe the protest
ing leatherneck.
PFC Kurschner and his wife
proceeded on to their home.
District Attorney Clarence
Humble said that he would take
the matter up with the military
this afternoon.
Racket Warning
By EARL WHITLOCK
Do you know that this coun
try of ours has something over
a hundred billions of dollars in
savings? That r- , - .. J-i
amount is in- f p '
creasing at the
rate . of about
forty billions a
year. An enor
mous sum. A
sum that is a
bright and shin
ing temptation
to the crooked
workers and
sharp shooters
of the entire world.
The best brains of crook-dom
zre hard at it right now evolv
ing schemes to separate service
'.men and their families from
their savings. And many of
those schemes are coming to
light. Schools at high tuition
fees which promise you that,
having taken their course, the
top of the world is yours suc
cess money fame. And fre
quently much better instruction
could be obtained at any local
high school adult education
class and for free.
There will be land schemes
with rosy prospects of doubling
the money you invest and so
.quickly! There will be glm
cracks and inventions without
number offering to sell you or
lease you territorial rights. And
how the promoters of those
schemes can work a lead pen
cil to build up pictures of
heavy profits!
All kinds of smooth talkers
for all kinds of money-making-without-too-much
-work form
ulae are even now lying in
wait for the returned service
man and the war worker and
their savings.
And the individual who has
savings has got to watch his
step as never before or he's go
ing to have a flock of nice, new
regrets in place of those sav
ings. Next Monday Mr. Whitlock
of the Earl Whitlock Funeral
Home will comment on May
Day.
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CITY BRIEFS
h...u R nr-n Mr anri Mrs.
Olan Snced of Medford are par
ents of a daughter, Suanne
Marie, born at seven minutes to
11 o'clock on April 20. The doc
tor immediately dubbed the in-
x . -i Tj4i l.nrfe Hue to
the hour of herbirth, according
to Mrs. Charles tiaiicu, mouier
win be remembered as Dorothy
Marie Price, former Klamath
county school teacher. The
child's father. T5 Sneed, is
with the 3Sth infantry, dog pla
toon attached to the British 8th
army on the Italian irom. ne
was recently transferred from
the American 5th army. He
stated in his last letter that
"Rover had been a good doggie
again,'' meaning that he had ac
complished his mission on his
last scout expedition. Sneed
stated he had been sleeping in a
fox hole with his two dogs and
KMn oalinfi vpcptahle Stew
with the dogs in preference to
his arrival with the British. Mrs.
Medford where she reported her
aaugnier ana cnua aouig uuxir.
Mrs. Eliza Hicks, pioneer resi-
paternal great-grandmother.
Receive Message Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Cleghorn, 219
High, received a telegram today
advising them of the death of
Mrs. C. M. Janz of Portland,
mother of Major Ray Janz, son-in-law
of the Cleghorns. Major
Janz flew to his mother's bed
side from his post in the Ha
waiian islands.
To Seattle Mrs. A. A. Mont
gomery of 431 Laguna left on
Monday evening for Seattle,
Wash., where she was called up
on receiving word that her aunt
was seriously ill. The length of
her stay in the northern city is
indefinite.
' To Portland Maude McCaw
ley of Portland, sister of Mrs.
David R. Vandenberg, left at
noon today for her home after
a weekend visit here.
Recruiting Howard Spragg
left today for Gilchrist, Chemult
and way points, on a recruiting
tour for the navy. He expects
to return Tuesday night.
From Lakeviiw Judge
Charles Combs of the Lake coun
ty circuit court, spent Monday
in Klamath Falls.
T
WASHTNGTON, April 23 (Pi
To correct a shortage in current
army and navy lumber needs,
Oregon and Washington saw
mills west of the Cascade moun
tains have been ordered by the
war production board to cut at
least 40 per cent of their month
ly output of Douglas fir, white
fir and west coast hemlock in
one-inch boards, and at least 25
per cent in 2-inch size.
Only two exceptions are per
mitted: One-inch boards may be sub
stituted for the 2-inch dimen
sion, and vice versa, if a mill
finds itself unable to comply
with the directive because of
the type of logs it receives, its
equipment or its manpower.
This is permissible only if the
mill can turn out 65 per cent of
its production in the needed
sizes. . .
If compliance would result in
a financial loss, a mill may be
authorized to produce less than
65 per cent of its output in the
desired sizes for 30 days.
In either situation, the mill
must apply for approval to the
western lumber administration
at Portland, Ore.
11,738 Japs Die on
Isle; Nipponese
Re-take Kakazu
, (Continued irom Page One)
drome in central China: and the
British progressed in the cen
tral Burma campaign against
stiffening resistance.
' Invades Islands
Marines yesterday invaded
two mile-sauare islands off Oki-
nawa. They captured Taka off
the east coast and half of Scsoko
near Ie on the west.
ine 533rd engineers used
home made gunboats to slip
through the rivers and swamps
of Mindanao to capture the Phil
ippines town and fort of Pikit.
The Japanese had fled.
Man Charged With
Operating "Still"
PrmTT.AUm Ani-il 9 lor,
Lloyd Sinclair was in the county
jou nere today on a cnargc of
operating a 70-gallon "moon
shine" atill in a parking lot at
Oregon shipyard.
Isaac Cole, a shipyard worker
who police said was a customer,
was held for arraignment before
the United States marshal. L.
Dene Hickman, chief investiga
tor of the federal alcohol tax
unit, said the still contained
three gallons of whiskey selling
lor $5 a quart.
HARTFORD
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INSURANCE
T.B. WAITERS
General Insurance Agency
FIRE . . . AUTOMOBILE
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PAHON'S HEN
RUN MOJO
MENACE LAIR
(Continued from Page One)
th.xmghs of transcendant inv
rvirtane.
Resistance stiffened late in the
day. however, as uura army
troops started encountering
know of fanatical SS troops, pos
sibly garrison forces of the re
doubt.
Patton's new offensive carried
within 128 miles of Berchtesga
den and within 25 of the Danu-
bian city of Regensburg. His
troons reached within 125 miles
of the Austrian stronghold of
Line in a swift advance which
severed many of the routes be
tween the redoubt and the nl
sen-Prague munitions area
Hitler's last known arsenal of
size.
The third army operated on
the left of Lt. Gen. Alexander
M. Patchs seventh army, which
closed up to the Danube to with
in 50 miles of Munich and 110
of the Brenner pass. The French
on the right curled around Lake
Constance, western edge of the
redoubt, and closed up to the
Swiss border behind a 1000-
square-mile death trap sprung in
the Black forest.
E-
AFTER SH11TD01
(Continued from Page One)
operations is reported at the
plant, women are employed as
dryer feeders, patching machine
and tapine machine operators.
and as dry chain offbearers, as
well as m the office.
The plant started operation
Monday, April 13, running one
full shift and a part afternoon
shift. A full afternoon shift is
expected to be in operation soon.
(Continued from Page One)
captured Bologna, and was bat
tling within zzo to 240 miles ot
the French and American forces
of Gen. Eisenhower hitting
toward the Italian frontier in
Germany.
The swift lunge across the Fo
plain littered with wreckage of
1700 nazi vehicles destroyed or
damaged by allied planes yes
terday alone carried 35 miles
north and northwest of fallen
Bologna, allied headquarters
said, but it did not specify points
reached.
Bridegroom Freed on
Charge of Robbery ,
PORTLAND. ADril 23 MP) A
bridegroom who tried to commit
a robbery on his wedding day so
his future wife would not know
he was broke was free today be
cause of the leniency of Circuit
Judge Walter L. Tooze.
Edward S. Jelmberg, 36-year-old
defense worker, received a
three-year suspended sentence
and was placed on probation.
He admitted entering a store and
striking the grocer when he bent
down to get potatoes. Torvald
Gullikson, 47, the merchant, was
not seriously hurt.
Mineral Club Meeting
Set for Thursday
The Klamath Mineral club will
hold a meeting Thursday eve
ning, April 26, at o o clock in
the conference rooms at the
chamber of commerce, 323 Main.
This organization is a non
technical club interested in the
study of the mineral resources
and evidences of geological de
velopment of the Klamath basin.
The meetings of the club are
open to the public, and all serv
ice personnel are especially wel
come. Anniversary Dinner
Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the chamber of
commerce silver anniversary
dinner were received from the
printer at the chamber office to
day, and are already on sale.
Members and their families
and friends are requested to
make reservations as soon as pos
sible as arrangements have been
made for only 600, and.no tick
ets are expected to oe available
after Friday night. April 27.
The main feature of the din
ner. April 30. is the talk bv Gov.
Earl Snell on the future of Ore
gon.
More than 700,000 different
items shipped to the army are
wrapped or Doxea in paper.
need, advertise for a used one
in tne classified.
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Tou must get FAST. EFFECTIVE RELIEF with Tebiln
irom miserable discomfort, or
information on Tebsin
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EDITORIALS ON
NEWS
(Continued From Pace One)
we and the British and the Rus
sians are each doing Uie bulk of
our fighting in the zone sup
posed to have been assigned
the British in the north, the
Russians in the east and tho
Americans in the south.
a a .
PVTTON is on the loose again
and news of his movements
has been blacked out usually a
sign of something important. He
seems to be heading in south of
Pilsen and Prague with the idea
of cutting off these important
armament-manufacturing centers
from the nazi hideout in the
Alps.
The great Skoda armament
works, almost as important as the
Krupps of Essen, are at Pilsen.
a a
PATCH'S 7th army has
crossed the Danube in two
places and is heading for Munich.
The French have closed in to
the Swiss border at the western
end of the Alps redoubt. The
Russians arc moving up the
Danube from Vienna. The Ger
mans are in retreat toward the
Po in northern Italy. There is
evidence that we are closing in
on all sides on Hitler's Alpine
hangout.
. a a
TO7HERE is H i 1 1 er ? Nobody
" knows.
The Hamburg radio (still
German-held) says ho is in Ber
lin and has decided to stay there.
The statement sounds phony,
and Is regarded by our side as an
attempt to stop dangerous
rumors sweeping the rcich to the
effect that the fuehrer has flown
the coop. (Such rumors, if un
checked, would naturally un
settle the Germans who are stay
ing behind to die.)
Reliable sources in London
doubt that Hitler or Gocbbcls is
in Berlin.
a a a
flOEBBELS (via radio) says to
day that Berlin and Prague
won't surrender. He adds: "If
both fall, the WHOLE of Europe
will perish with Germany. If
bolshevism captures them Eu
rope will cease to exist."
a a
WHAT he means is plain
" enough. For a century,
Germany has been Europe's
BEST CUSTOMER, and he
thinks that with its best customer
gone Europe will go broke.
He's wrong, of course he
hasn't read enough history, or
at least hasn't read it straight.
The Tigris and Euphrates val
leys once occupied the place in
the then small Mediterranean
world that has been more re
cently occupied by Germany in
Europe they were highly pro
ductive and were good customers
of their neighbors. . Tamerlane
DESTROYED THEM UTTERLY
so completely that they are
still a desert but the rest ot tne
world WENT ON.
The world will go on If Ger
many is destroyed as completely
and as permanently as the in
sane nazis seem to have planned.
The rest of the world will find
customers somewhere else to
take the place Germany has oc
cupied.
The lesson of history is clear
on that point.
a a a
THE Japs are still fighting
hard on Okinawa, counter
attacking and taking a village
back from us yesterday. The
latest count there is 11,738 Jap
dead and 27 Jap prisoners since
we landed.
There are supposed to be 60,-
000 of them that we'll have to
kill. That will take quite a
while.
a a
WTE'RE cleaning up on big
Luzon and big Mindanao
and on the lesser Philippine is
lands. There are even a few
Japs left to be cleaned up on
tiny Iwo hidden out in caves
(we're sealing up the caves and
leaving them.)
We're softening up Borneo for
a pronaoie invasion, uur oomD
ers are operating now from
bases not more than 15 minutes
away.
Woman Presented Air
Medal for Husband
Mrs. Pearl Bodenhamcr Na-
son, wife of 2nd Lt. Stephen G.
Nason, now a prisoner of war
in Europe, was presented the
Air Medal awarded her husband
in a ceremony at the home of
her father, George Bodenhamer,
4104 Bisbee, April 18.
The presentation was made
by Capt. Otha M. Smith, com
manding officer, Medford army
air field. The decoration was
awarded "for exceptionally
meritorious achievement, while
participating in five separate
bomber combat missions over
e n em y occupied Continental
Europe."
Soothe and imootKH
ie the simple, time tested A
Resitio! way . ..Rcsinol Soap'
daily for gentle, exquisite !
cleansing.. .Rciinol Ointment ',
to relieve pimply irritation
and thus quicken heaiing.
your money back. Get free
Powder or Tablets at
and Main Phone 5463
Troops Increasingly Angry
Over Nazi Cruelty to PWs
Br THOBURN W1ANT
pril 23 i-V) Third army troops
April 21 '(.Pi Third army troops
are becoming increasingly bit
ter over German treatment ot
American prisoners of war.
Lt. Gen. George S. Pattons
divisions already have liberated
several camps containing thou
sands of Americans from every
state. The situation was about
the same in every prison: The
Americans had been forced to
walk 100 or more miles to camps
and were assigned to filthy
quarters which wore unhealed
in cold weather, nicy w
barclv enough to keep alive.
Too Weak to Work
In some cases, men were
forced to do heavy work, al
though weak from starvation.
Some fainted on jobs.
In at least one prison camp,
Americans told of beatings re
ceived from German guards
wielding rifle butts.
Army censors have been wary
of passing stories about condi
tions In these camps. Every
thing indicating severe cruelty
has been stopped until recently.
Censorship Relaxed
The policy now has been re
laNcd. Correspondents may re
port what they see, but still can
not write of what liberated
Americans tell them,, if se
vere cruelly is involved.
Such reports still must be re
ferred to higher authorities,
who may or may not release
them, depending upon verifica
tion. Liberated troops seen in sev
eral camps unanimously told
this correspondent that tho
whole truth should be told. One
prisoner of war said:
"The Germans could not trcnt
doughboys still in camps much
worse and there is always a
chance that widespread public
ity might cause the Germans to.
institute reforms."
Transportation Lacking
Perhaps the German captors
have been unable to transport
American prisoners of war to
camps by rail or truck, as do
Patton's divisions. It is true
that allied bombers have re
duced such facilities to a mini
mum. However, there Is no excuse
for assigning Americans to
cramped and filthy tiuarters, or
for feeding them minute quan
tities of watery soup, bread and
margarine. Nor is thero an ex
cuse for beating them.
Near every camp this corres
pondent has seen, there have
been large, clean and heated
buildings which could be used
for prisoners. Throughout over
run Germany, great stores of
foodstuff have been found.
All German! Fed
The German army grew fat
on rations set aside for the
troops. This correspondent
cnocKea Kitcnens, cupboards and
cellars of scores of civilians.
Without exception even In tho
homes of the lower classes
there was food aplenty.
This correspondent has yet to
see a German soldier or civilian
who appeared underfed. Yet in
the prisoner of war camps, most
Americans are suffering various
degrees of malnutrition. Some
Americans after six months im
prisonment drag one foot after
Leatherneck Players Slate
'Charlie's Aunt? at Post
Tickets for the play, "Charlie's
Aunt," presented by the Leather
neck Players of the Marine Bar
racks, are now available without
charge at the chamber of com
merce office. Performances will
be hold Saturday, April 28, at
the post theatre at 2:30 p. m.
and 7:30 p. m., and on Sunday,
April 29, at 2:30 in the after
noon. "Charlie's Aunt," written by
Brandon Thomas in 1892 and
first played in that year In Lon
don, has been presented more
times on the stage than any other
production except "Hamlet." In
Mat. Daily Open 1:30-6:45
1 Telephone 45B7
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the other end slumble frequent
ly as If In i slupor.
Clothes hanging on U'flr emac
iated frames gave them scare
crow effects.
The ribs of one boy could br
counled through Ins shirt, and
I could put my hands complete
ly around the waist of another.
The average loss of weight In
one cMinn was from 40 to 60
pounds; 30 to 7S in another.
Flashes of
Life
WRONG NUMBER
DALLAS, Tex., April 23 W
Harry Goldberg, city ambu unco
driver, got a thief, but not the
one he wanted.
Goldberg missed two Jackets
from his room at the hospital,
stepped out the back door to
look around, saw a man start
to run. Goldberg drew his pis
tol and the man slopped, give
up a sack containing seven
sheets and several towels stolen
from the hospital.
But Goldbergs Jackets still
are missing.
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THROW-BACK
MOJAVE. Calif- April 23 Wi
For the second time in less than
a month, the Trona-Mojave mail
stage was held up yesterday.
The highwaymen bound and
gagged tho driver of Uie truck,
escaping In an automobile with
an undetermined amount of
mM. ... . .,
Deputy Sheriff Tom Hidrcth
said the robbers struck at the
same stage, time and place as
before.
a a a
SAVAGE
HAMILTON. Mo., April 23
(,iji)A' Humilton lod heard his
mother lament her lock of car
pet tacks and Inability to gel
any at tno store, a iow nun
nt Ininr hn Drcsented her with
a handful.
"Got cm off the telephone
poles, where the candidates' pic-
, i .m w.r. laWaH tin . Mil.
lions of 'em," he explained,
i
Izaak Walton League
To Meet Wednesday
The AdtII meeting of the
Klamath Modoc chanter. Izaak
Walton Icbeuo will be he Id at
the Wlllard hotel Wednesday,
April 23, at B p. m.
A ralllo will be a feature oi
the evening and N. B. Drew has
donated a battle jacket as the
grand prize, aince the last meet
ing oi the league, three new
members have been added to
the membership list including
Kichard B. Maxwell, Paul rar
rens and Albert Hattan.
Enlisted George Martin
Long, 17, of 613 N. East, has
enlisted as a radio technician In
the navy. He has been rated as
seaman 1c and will continue to
attend Oregon State college tin
til sometime in June, when he
will be called to active duty.
1AQ.1 It uB Vtrn,ffht l
and has been played every year
since then. The production has
been translated into 20 different
languages, and has been twice
iiiuuu imu nioiion pictures.
Ben Hoover will play the title
ml ai fl.M kBrDrttra WU D i"l
Smith as Jack Chcsncy and
ynucK aiavcn as diaries wyno-
directed the play. Marines and
their wives play all the roles In
this presentation.
Civilian guests are Invited to
attend and tickets will admit
mem 10 tne barracks.
Box Office Opens 8:45
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The War
At a Glance
By The Aisocliled Press
Western Ironti Fresh Ameri
can offensive t li e a 1 1 n U off
Czechoslovakia from southern
Germany gains 28 miles; Ameri
cans cross Danube, Krenclt take
Stuttgart, roach Lako Con
sliince, Inn) Onnniu In Black
forest; U. S.-KumInii linkup
south of Berlin iieurs.
Eastern Ironti Soviet shock
troops smash toward contor of
barricaded Berlin, hold one
sixth of cnpllul: ollu-r columns
speur toward Elbo and Juncture
with Americans; Berlin reports
Stettin undnr assault.
Italian ironti Fifth army
dashes 3 miles beyond Bologna,
nciira Po rlvrr; British eighth
army closes on Ferrara. north
east of Uolognii; planus tuko toll
of fleeing Germiins.
Darlflf. Irnnlt P'liTra hatllfl til
southern Okinawa continues, In
filtrating jupancso recapture
town in western Okinawa;
Americans Invade two Islets off
shore; eighth army in Philippines
drives east toward Oavao on
Mindanao,
IN POISON DEATH
notrnw riTV Anrll 9.1 (.1l
The poison death last July nf
M, Wllma Lennra Ftrinklinff.
27, was Investigated today by
District Attorney aianiey u.
Mitchell, who said new evidence
had been found.
Tk. I.,.wl,nnfl WIlmAI- HpltlW.
hnff, 20, Is held In tho county
Jail on $3000 bail on a charge
of forging the name of Arthur
Anderson, a oroines-in-iow, in
selling an automobile. Brink
hoff was returned last week
from Sacramento. Calif., where
he had heen working for about
six months. '
Mrs. Brlnkhoff died here July
1Q rii- .tnflnnh rtfflman. rllree.
In. nf lltit alatrt riotlm erimfl de
tection laboratory, conducted an
autopsy ana reporiea nnning
between three and four grains
of strychnine.
The district attorney wouia
lvo no cluo to the new evt
once, other then to say "wit
nesses who were not ivnllablo
II, a lln.M ii Mm nrlnWhnff'a
death have now been contacted."
Woman Says Man
Hit Her With Gun
Mrs. Betty Ryder. 2223 Want-
land, was rushed to the Klamath
Valley hospital Suturtlay night
at about 10 o'clock by tho Klam
iillr Ambulance service and was
treated for a lacerated scalp.
She told city poltco that her
luisbnnd hit her over the heud
with tho butt of a gun, but no
complaint has been signed and
no arrest was made.
According to police reports,
city police received a call about
10 o clock Saturday night and
Investigated the case, but found
the dwelling dark olid apparent
ly no one there. Another call
was later received by police
from the hospital. She was given
emergency treatment at the hos-
pital and then permitted to
leave, according to authorities
there. ,
Ballots Still Coming
In for C of C Heads
More ballots are being re-
.uiyt.u in uie nnai election lor
chamber of commerce directors
than wcro received In the pri
mary, occordlng to Charles R.
Stark, manager.
Those who have not yet sent
In their ballots are requested to
chamber offlco, if necessary, so
(hnl Ikitu ,..111 t i- l.. '
, uo Dy noon
Tuesday, April 24.
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