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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1939)
u COVERAGE The Hsrsld tnd Ntwi bUnkt rich grl. cultural sne) Induitrlal mplr of Southern Oregon nd Northern California. . ASSOCIATED PRE.' -.A y pbcs?'1 im twp tWATA.r Acr.Anp wnwnpRi and 1 if i m irvwir af a "r a' aa t s - sjsr axcr las alp UNITED PRESS r..! i:,r .'4. rnce r ive ieni:n.' KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1939 Number 8816 in jl i mm WIT WEATHER Monday'! Maxtmnm Bt High 4"t Low 85 .. PRECIPITATION 24 hour to a a. in. ... ,00 Hoaaon to data , , 1.10 iMt year to data ..... 8.39 Normal precipitation 2.10 CLIAt o) 0) JV Britain Retaliates v.t In The Day's By 1 HANK JKSKINH INCHBAHKD shipping UliM (mostly merchant, with on Japauoso uhlp reported In Ihe (otbl ) nro Iho featuro of this v.ok's war news so far. The British charge that the Germane are, stroking the North Hea with M A0NETIC mines. A maguetle mine 1 a peculiarly devilish Instrument, as a ehlp (joem't need actually to HIT It In order (o be destroyed. When a ship merely GETS NEAR, the magnetic mine done In deadly work. DMTA1N has ships and can use " them. The neutrale trade chiefly with Britain, eupplyliif British needs. Time Germany lioa little to lone and much to lain by Indiscriminate deatructlon of shlp plnf. The only rule that (DUALLY COUNTS In war I that yon- do whatever you think you bar to do to win. TT would be tauih It tome of th roving German aubmerlnet ahauld hit iome of theie floating German mine. It would be like eetttng a trap for your enemy and then falling Into the trap yourself. TWKS know from the latt war that aubmarlnea can work a lot of havoc. The big question yet un solved la whether AIRPLANES can maater BATTLE FLEETS. nt'BRIA warns Klnland of her do termination to establish "a alrong peace all over the Finnish gulf," and aa evidence of her de termination begins naval maneu ver! from her now nnltlo bases. nunBla'i Idea of a urong peace, of course, Is a poace DOMINATED DY RUSSIA. You can nearly al waya have poace wllh a bully by doing exactly aa tho bully says. TNDIA la acting up. Gandhi l a una it trader, knowing when to lighten the acrewa. He la demanding a pledge of Indian Independence as the price of Indlnn co-oporatlon with Britain In tho war. The time to close a deal YOUR WAY la when the other fellow NEED8 WHAT YOU HAVE. rllETHKIl India la ready for Iho status or a self-governing British dominion (Ilka Canada) la hard to say. A lot of wondor Ing la being done as to whnt will happen to the Philippines when they get turned loose as a self governing people. (Even the Filipinos are begin ning to wonder,) Tulelake Theft" Suspects Held GRANTS PA8S, Nov. 21 (P) Four men wore accused yestordsy of rustling a fawn from a deer ranch at Wolf creek and one pleaded guilty. Sentencing of Or vsl Bchulls, 1, accused of theft of the fawn, was postponed in Jus tice court. Arthur Gilbert, facing the same charge, and Wnltor Schulta and Martin La Rue. accused of killing the animal nftcr It was laasooed, wore taken to Rlsklyon county to face charges of theft of 3600 worth of clover seed at Tulolnkn, Calif., District Attorney Orval J, Mlllnrd said. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By Tho Associated Press Nov. 21, 11114 British alrmon raid Frledrlchshnfen. Gandhi Asks Independence For India BOMBAY. Nov, 21 (AIM Mohandas K. Uandbl, demanding a plods of India's Independence as the price of cooperation in tho European wnr, dwlurcd today, "Iho Issue la purely mural, for owing to her mauirlal and mili tary control, Britain Is able to regulate garrisons and drain In dia's wealth at will." Tho wispy, "0-year-old Indian nationalist leader, refreshed by his Invariable Monday period of silence, met at Allnhalud with a committee of the congress party (nationalists) seeking to influ ence the country's attltudo to ward tho wnr. Complicating tho slluntlon Is the erer-prosont strlfu between Hindus and Moslems, which re sulted In 12 deaths yesterday In rioting at 8ukkur, In the province of Rind, northwestern India. Eleven persons were killed there Sunday In the disturbances originating from the nrrest of Moslems accused, of sotting Hindu shops aflro, Tho Moslem league, second tContlnuod on l'ag Six) SUSPECT HELD FOR T Nazi Police Head Claims Six-Day Time Bomb Caused Explosion BERLIN. Nov. 21 (PI Heln rlch lllmmler, chief of the gos tapo nail secret pollco an nounced today the arrest of a man In connection with Iho at tempted bomb assassination of Adolf Hitler Nov. 8 In Munich. Ilimmler enld tho man, (ieorg Elaer, 36, of Munich, confessed Nov. 14 after "steadfast denlnls." Eight persons woro killed by a bomb explosion in the Munich buergorbrau cellar 11 minutes after Hitler loft following a spooch that celebrated Iho anni versary of the unsuccessful 1923 nntl putsch. Tim grslapo director charg ed that Otto Htrasacr, one-tinio Hitler opponent, organized the plot and the British Intel ligence a r v I c supplied the money, A number of Riser's accused accompanists wero arrested. Among other suspects. Elser waa selted as he attempted to flee "Illegally" Into Swltscrland Nov. 11, Hlmtntor's announcement said. The bordors had been order ed closed temporarily after the attempt on Hltler'a lift. Hlmmler's summary was as follows: During a week long tinker ing "In a manner unique In criminal history," Klser built a six-day time, bomb into a pillar of the buergcrbrau cel lar. After laying plans In Septem (Continued oh Page Six) UNRESTR CTED BLOCKADE OF Y SET GERMAN Seizure of Exports Order ed as Mine Sinks Japanese Liner By EDWIN HTOl'T LONDON, Nov. 21 1v-Unrestricted sen blockade of Germany was proclaimed today by Britain In "retaliation" for mine warfare which counted the 11. 030-ton Japanese passenger liner Terukunl Maru aa Ita noweat victim. A mine-sweeping trawler of the British navy and two other trawl era also wero added to the mount ing list of maritime losses todny. Prime Milliliter Chamberlain alinountrd an order In council wculd bo Issued directing sei zure of nil exports of t-riiian origin or ownership on the high ores, ri'itardli'na of whether tliey are being traiuported under neutral tings. Tho measure la designed to throttle German trado by which the could build o currency rvoervca abroad for purrliaso,.. ,of , war .jtuptfllpa Tho Japanese Ilnor was believed to have struck a mine such as Britain baa blamed for the sinking of nlno out of ten ships lost oft tho English coast last weokend. Tho liner's 180 passengers and craw woro saved. Tho mlno-sweeping trawler Mas tiff was sunk by a mlno yesterday and two other trawlers, the Thom as Hanklns and the Sea 8weeper, sunk by submarines. The sinking Japanese liner, (Continued on I'uge Six) Couple Ilurned to Dentil In Auto Camp Cabin Fire BLAINE, Waeh., Nov. 21 (P) Orvllle Algycr, young city attor ney of Blaine, and his bride of six weeks, the former Dorothy Hanson, of Blaine, lost their lives early thla morning when fire de stroyed their cabin at tho Green Gables auto camp hero. Origin of the flro which was discovered about 4 a. m. by Mr. Hoy McElmon, of Ketchikan, Alaska, who occupied a nearby cabin with her husband, waa un determined but flrcmon said It might bare started from a cigarette. Both Algyer, 32, and his 24- year-old wife apparently made a dosperato effort to caenpo tho flames. Algyer waa lying on tho bathroom floor and hla wlte'a body waa found face down In tho kitch en. Both were burned almost be yond recognition. In Algyer'i hands were charred remains ot a curtain which ho apparently hnd ripped from tho bathroom window In a futile effort to find a way to escape from tho blaring cabin. Tho front ot Iho cabin was envel oped In flames and barred escape. Sally Rand Admits Business 7n Mess" at Court Hearing SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 p) Helen Gould Bork, bettor known aa Sally Rand, fan dancor, dotl nltoly has withdrawn all claim to the titlo of smart buslnesa woman. Sho la Just a very broke lllllo working girl, who would rather not bother her pretty blonde head with dull flguroa, especially ones written In rod, Wearing a trim, dark suit, with a fluff ot white chiffon at the Ihront, and white feathered tur ban, aho told a group of long faced credltora in bankruptcy court yesterday her finances were, well, frankly, "a mess." Trno, sho took In (74.830 from various enterprises at the Golden Gate exposition, sometimes vulgar ly nailed akin shows, and many thousands more from night club performances at the some time In San Francisco. But she didn't own them she only got pnrt of tho tnke In the end when everybody else got through taking cuts and tho cur rent bills woro met, Iho dobts Just socmed to pile up faster than the money camo In. So, with a wave of a well-mani cured hand, ahe explained npolo gotlcnlly that she Just didn't havo any money at nil with which to pay 864.631 In debts. Arthur P. shapro, attorney for John O. England, appointed re ceiver, aaked some questloi.a. JowolsT Pawned, said Sally. Insurance? Nono. Car? Mort gaged, to raise 8500 to pay her noici Dill tor a penthouse apart' mcnt so she could leave town on tour with her trunks, hor fans and her bubbles. Ileal proportyT "hat Is real proportyf" she asked, puckering hor brow. No, ahe didn't own any Ir.nd, ex cept part Interest In a llttin orango grovo her mother gavo hor aovornl years ngo when she paid eft the mortgage Tho bearing waa continued to December 20, or maybe January, because Sally might be In Florida hy that time. Session over, the dancer hurried out to catch a plan for Portland!, Ore. Intense Search for Small Boy Continues h-)i.dM:;iJr"-r . w H:4-t fe-.7.. I usV r , . "i. - 'ik S r I iw at. -if lv:Tw-at ,ij 1 sr Km HUGE HH UN T WITHOUT GLUE TO TOT'S FATE Over Thousand Men Join; Parties Searching for "Sonny" Maxwell The biggest manhunt In modern times In Klamath county bait failed Tuesday to produce a single tangible clue leading to the where abouts of Irwin Jack (Sonny) Maxwell, 4, missing for 60 hour and through two bltiefly cold nlghta. Hundreds of weary-eyed men and boys were still tramping Tuesday afternoon through sagebrush- and tumble weeds in tho windswept barren hills east of th city, believed to h,old the secret o( the whereabout ot the red-haired, Hundreds of men Continued to search the nearby bills Tuesday for Irwin Jack Beebe (Maxwell), 4-year-old Klamath boy missing since Sunday at 1:30 p. m. The upper picture ehows a typical line of Boy Scouts and a' few older men. near the foot of Hogback mountain southeast of town. Below, left, Is another picture ot the child, taken about a year and a halt ago. At center la a snapshot, ot little "Sonny" teen at lower left, with hla mother, Mrs. Wayne Maxwell. Below, right, are the boy's atepfather, Wayne Maxwell, on a motorcycle, and Paul Jones, a member of the Flying Pelicans, helping in the search. ' . , 1 - ' - . . ; E Shelling Begun in Perl Sector; Floods Force Armies to Retreat . BERLIN, Nov. SI (JP) French artillery abruptly ended a 35-hour silence on the western front today with heavy shelling in the Perl sector, at the Junction ot tho Ger man, French and Luxembourg borders, tho official German Nowa agency reported. Tho agency, D.N'B, said the rest of tho 100-rulle western front sec tor between the Moselle and the Rhine rivers was quiet. On the upper llhlno front, French searchlight batteries wero nrtivo during tho night at . aovcrnl points. DMI Interpret " ed this aa duo to "tho enemy's nervousness." . The agency said there was heavier rifle and anti-tank tire hero, and floods hnd forced the French to clear out of some bunkers. Reconnaissance flights ot the German air force over France and England during the past tew days have yielded "Important results," U.N'B Bald. Tho agency reported "Ineffectiveness" ot French anti aircraft fire and said that British chasers southeast of London did not hamper German reconnais sance. DNB said the enemy did little rocounoltering yostordny, as Gor (Conllnued on Page Six) One Killed, Two t. Hurt ajt Coulee GRAND COULEE, Wash.. Nov. 21 (P) Ono man was killed and two othora seriously Injured today- when an empty concrote bucket hooked the end ot a Grand Coulee dam construction catwalk and hurled them to a concrete block 25 feet below. Virgil L. (Boulder) Smith, 33, concrete foreman and widely known wo orn construction work er, died in the Mason City hos pltnl threo hours after the acci dent, Hla -"-till was fractured. Tho Injured wore R. A. lladka, 30-year-old bureau of reclamation Inspector who has a fractured pelvis, fractured elbow, broken era and sundry other Injuries, and Ed Nanpooya, 37, Nespelom Indlnn concrete worker who suf fered a fractured pelvis and three broken ribs. Anxious Mother Waits For News As Lost Child Sought While hundreds ot men and boys walked through the sage brush covered bills east of Klam ath Falls, an anxious-eyed young mother sat at home waiting for word of her four-year-old cbild lost sines 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. . , Tbs mother, Mrs. Nina Max well, wife ot Wayne Maxwell. 323 Laguna street, weary from lack ot sleep and anxious hours ot waiting, told a Herald and News reporter that sho hod not seen her little red-haired, freckle faced boy, "Sonny," since he went out to play In the side yard early Sunday afternoon. Out at Play This Is the story which Mrs. Maxwell, herself an expectant mother, told up to the time when sho first missed her little son: "Sonny, his real name is Irwin Jack, came home about noon Sunday. He bad been over on Martin street with his seven-year-old sister, Verla Mae, play ing with Sid Herbert's children, Betty, Louise and Jimmy. "Verla Mao and tho children went over to play at the Mills school playground and the little park near there, and Sonny came on homo. Verla Mao came home about two o'clock and I asked her to look for "Sonny." Sho told mo he waa out playing by the Bide of the house. Police Came "We didn't mlea him until po lice came here about 10 minutes to six o'clock and asked us it our little boy was lost. I guess Verla Mne called them from the grocery store when we sent her to the neighbors to toll Sonny to come In and eat. "Wo thought Sonny was play ing out in front with a little boy, Teddy Hamilton, about five years old. When wo sent Verla Mae to look for him it was be tween half post three or four o'clock. He has never gone, away from home, wo weren't especially worried because we thought he might be playing In a neighbor's yard near here. Search Started "Of course wo started right out looking, got In the car and drove around, went 'way up on hills around here but couldn't find any trace of him. Wo drove downtown, too, and to all the neighbors and our relatives think ing he might havo walked over to see some ot the folks. "Sonny was born at Cottage hospital in Klamath Falls on July the ninth, 1936. He has always been a bright, strong llttin follow. You have his des cription. Bright red hair, round cheeks and freckles. Whcu I saw him last on Sunday afternoon he bad his little boots on, they come up to the calf, some knee length socks and short, under wear. He wasn't dressed for real cold weather as Sunday was pretty warm. He had on little blue denim overalls that strap over the shoulder and a brown turtle neck sweater with long sleeves. "Everyone has been wonderful to help us find blm. We didn't sleep last night. We appreciate everything people are doing." Mrs. Maxwell, "Sonny's" mother. Is a dark eyed, dark haired woman, slight and not very tall.. Neighbors have been In to help, Just as neighbors will In time ot trouble. War of Words Falls to Open S. F. Dock Work SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (AP) Harry Bridges gave the chamber of commerce a tongue lashing as opposing sides In the latest San Francisco waterfront tieup Jockeyed for position and tried to woo public sentiment to day. Bridges also told Mayor Ange- 10 J. itosst the ship owners are taking you for a ride." The labor union leader's dec larations left the score on state ments about even employer and business groups and the mayor have been lampooning Bridges but the waterfront remained ap proximately 95 per cent tied up by the CIO ship clerks' strike. Six hundred and titty clerks walked out November 15 follow ing a prolonged deadlock In ne gotiations for a new contract. TJXHAPPT AID ' ABBEVILLE. S. C, Not. 21 (TP) T. Dale Ferguson Jr., came upon an overturned automobile beside a highway. After notifying po lice, he dug Into the wreckage and extricated the Injured driver. It was his father. Deputy Sheriff T. Dale Ferguson, who died a few hours later in a hospital. w LAND RETURNED BERLIN, Not. 21 (P) Foreign Minister Joachim von Rlbbentrop and Mataa Cernak, the Slovak minister, signed a treaty today whereby Germany agreed to re turn to Slovakia territory annexed by Poland In 19201924 and 1938. TO SLASH DEFICIT Lower Relief to Offset Defense Costs in Tenta tive 1941 Figure . . WASHINGTON, ; Nov.. 21 (JP) A 1941 budget designed to cut the federal deficit tor the year to around 82.500.000,000 by offset ting higher defense costs with lower relief and other expend!' tures and increased tax revenues was authoritatively reported to day to be under consideration at the White House. ' Although official figures could not be obtained some of them have not been decided yet Stephen Early, White House sec retary, said surmises about a sharply reduced deficit were "pretty close." Harold D. Smith, budget direc tor, also said "cuts are being made on some Items." - . Getting the deficit down to 82,000,000,000 was said to be the desire ot some administration ad Tisers but this figure was said re liably to ba too optimistic. - From these hints, authorities deduced the following rough estl (Continued on Page Six) Kuhn Lays Claim To Bund Money To Pay Expenses NEW YORK, Not. 21 (VP) Fritz Kuhn, on trial tor the theft of money from his German-Amer ican bund, testified today that un. der the "leadership principle" of that organization he believed he had the power to use Its funds to meet hla own expenses, as well as those ot the bund. He acknowledged having sent telegrams of "love and kisses" to Mrs. Florence Camp, as charged by the prosecution, explaining that he had "a liking for ber at the time." ' In prosecution testimony he was accused of having spent more than 8700 of the bund's money in mov ing Mrs. Camp's furniture about the country. . . His wire, Mrs. Elsa Kuhn, ap peared with him in the courthouse yesterday and announced her loy alty to him. The bundtuehrer's testimony he was not limited In the expenditure ot bund fundu to strictly bund purposes was in line with that of a number ot his associates. ' 950 Reward The Klamath News and Eve ning Herald herewith offer a reward of 850 to the person or persons finding Irwin Jack Beebe (Maxwell). ' Officers of th law are not excluded from this reward. Determination of the person or persona to receive the re ward shall be made with the advlcd ot Sheriff Lloyd L. Low and Police Chief Frank Hamm. " . r ' ' . . r. . . In -ease-more than one per son discovers the child, the reward shall be shared equally among 'such persons. freckle-faced little boy. F00U prints, believed those of tbs child, were located nesr the city dutun east of town Tuesday afternoon. More than 10OO men took part in the hunt through the cold hoars of early Tuesday morning as every agency In tho city was called upon to aid in the search. Many returned to their homes after an all-night bunt, ready to respond 10 a call if needed Tuesday night. At least TOO men and boys wero tramping the hills Tuesday. At two points on the road leading to the city dump, at least 100 cart were parked, occupants taking part in the hunt which has caused great concern throughout th city. Officers, Boy Scouts, Legion naires, school boys, and Interested men and women participated in the hunt. The bills were dotted with persons searching every ra vine, crevice, every clump of sage brush, and the long lines ot fencsj which run over the hills. Night Cold ' Hundreds of cars In the city dump were searched '"1 the bop that the child had crawled Into one of the machines to escape LONE GtRL One young girl, anxious to aid In the search for little "Sonny" Maxwell, 4-year-old boy lost since Sunday after noon, walked through the sage brush and tumble weeds in early dawn along with hun dreds of men. The girl's came was not learned but Police Judge Carl K. Cook said the young woman "was sure a fine little trooper, she walked over those hills for miles and miles, took orders like a man, and even laughed when I stirred th pot ot coffee with a stick, I'd picked up off the ground." from the biting wind. Th tem ' perature fell to 25 degrees Tues day morning, one of tbe coldest nights ot the year. 1 The child wag ' not clad tor cold weather, bis gar- . ments Including a pair of light -boots, short underclothing, blu denim overalls and a brown pull- . over sweater. j Boy Scouts, of which there Is att enrollment of some 300 in th city schools, were dismissed front classes . Tuesday morning at 10, o'clock and mobilised at tbe Junc tion of tbe Old Fort road and Main street. Ther they were di rected by Dwight Gilchrist, Boy Scout executive, assisted by oldeg (Continued oa Pag Six) I.V THIS ISSUE City Brief . Comics and Story Courthouse Records Editorials Family Doctor High School News. Market, Financial Midland Empire News. 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