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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1939)
AATLTlAAAnXLriArVV'VVVVVi'r a COVERAGE Tha Htrild tnd Ntwi blink rich grt. cultural tnd Induttrltl mplra of Southern Oregon and Northern California. la.Hj-uiU.AAnWYVin,i--i-"""""""""""""" flL V ASSOCIATED PRESS $ eta 11 11 fo) IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND i . Price Five Cent" XAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939" UNITED PRESS WEATHER '"! High 48 low as PRECIPITATION 94 hour to S a. in. .... ..Trace Season to date 4.80 Iat year to data ..,.. 8.H0 Normal precipitation .,.,,,.. 8.87 Number 8842 CMiur 0) 0 Mfo) IS Ml in Americas Plan Protests : In The Day's .:News tly FRANK JENKINS pONSIDEIl this dlapatch: "Rusalan warplanes raided th capital or Flnlcnd today (Thursday) the sovlot union, starling (ho fourth week, of hr Finnish Invasion, observed Joseph Stalln'i (Oth birthday with cali bration! throughout (ho nation. FIFTEEN BOMBS FELL ON A FIVE-BLOCK IIOHPITAL AllEA la Helsinki. Sevan hospital slruo turaa war hit." . AT this point, a question la In " ordor: How would YOU Ilk to hay VOUIt BIRTHDAY colo bra ted In that manner? T AUDATORY article blanket tha soviet (heel-doi) preaa today In obsarvanc of tha anniversary ot tb birth of Stalin, balling him aa th man who haa lei tha nation to socialism and will now lead It (o aommunlain. Authentic report; ' Mora than ' 15,000 ARMY OFFICERS ALONE hta been purged (murdered) be ram nialln roared or tint didn't Ilka them. (Not to mention tho other thoueanda "purged".) - Tha Statin road lo socialism and thane on to communism la a bloody one. A NOTHER question: In hla e , tret soul, whsl doei Stalin think ot communlamT Except Stalin, ot rourae, (who WON'T) no ona can anawer that question. Tho probably correct aniwer la that ha regard It aa a convenient road to PERSONAL POWER. e e e "VUR own politician who preach tha doctrine ot ome-tblng-for-notblng and tako-ll-away-from-lh-otbr-fllow wlth-oul-worklng-for-!t hare the aain . Idea.) TF wise, you will SUSPECT those wbo promt you aoroethlng for nothing (or something taken by force from the other follow) nnd will RESPECT those who advise you that th way to get ome wber' In th wor'd and leave a good nam behind la to work hard and Intelligently, dcul honestly and bo considerate of tho right ot other.. i " TF Attlla th Hun, known a th Scourge of Ood (of whom It wa aid that tbo grass nover grow again where hi home trod) had had a government-controlled preaa, It would have extolled blra aa ful omely a tha aorlet pre now extols Stalin. FULSOME PRAISE FOR THE BOSS I th primary purpose of a government-controlled preai. 'i e e . rpHH only newspaper worthy ot confldsnca Is one that I con trolled; by AN HONE8T AND PUBLIC-SPIRITED EDITOR. .' LINE EXTENDED LONDON. Doc tl (fP) Tho Preaa naanclatlon snld today it had learned that Germany's gleg, fried line la being extondnd onst ward from lta anuthorn end nlong the Rhine as fur as Lake Con stance, This extension Is along the Swiss frontlor. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Preaa Doc. 21, 1914 Germans con tinue mnrch toward Wnrsaw. Curfew for Cinderella I'l ' 1 ,' , '" iM . 7'' " IHl'JIl'W.HI "TWrWKmiMyClQ, "pencil loman, 'and Jlaxlno Montgomery, night club hat check girl ara shown toRotbor soveral doa ago whan Mnxlno thought Dnvld-was "Dnrid Kellogg," a millionaire playboy who wanted to mnrry her. HI attempt to pski a chock In a night club unmasked him, and now tho roinnnco la onded. . RESIGNATION OF ; IRB SUGGESTED Amendments to Wagner Act Also Sought by Congressman WASHINGTON, Dec, SI (ZD Rep. Rnmapeck (D-Ga.) called to day for tho resignation of J. War ren Mndden and Edwin S. Smith from tho national labor relations board, and also proposed two ma jor amendments to tha Wagnor Labor act. , . Itanuiierk, ranking democrat, on Ilia Iiiiiimj labor roiumlttee, told rtMirter If Mmldrn and Nmlth Old not resign, congrcaa lioiild aliollii tho present three-iiinii iHinrd mul rrento a now one. Wllllnin M. LcUerson la tho third inrmber, "Madden and Smith, especially Smith, In my opinion have not car ried out tho will of congress even though they havo tried to do an honest Job," Rnmspock said. "They seem to hnre the opin ion down at tho board that the art wna created so they could help unions organise, rather than ao Hint the right of mnn lo Join a union could bo legally protected. He advocated these changes In the Wagner act: Protection for small unions "which th board haa permitted a larger union to take over In some Instances." Formal nssurnncos omployers will hnvo tho same right to ask for a collective bargaining election a their workors. Last aummor the board changed Its regtilntions to permit employ era to 'ask for election, but ltnm speck said thnt permission should bo placed In tho law itself "so tho board won't be ablo to change Its mind again." ... Trainmen Killed In ZVebrnsku Onsli RICHLAND, Nob., Doc. 21 (P The ongineor nnd flromnn of Un ion Pacific's eimthottml mnll trnln No. o wnro killed Inst night ns tha locomotive nnd nlno curs plungod from tho track after striking a stalled automobile. Tho body of Flremnn Albert "Loe" Itoborls, Council Bluffs, In., was found todny hurled under the overturned locomotive 'Which sheared off the edge of a grnln elevator. Engineer David Jones, Omnhn, wns found lata Inst night hi a mnss ot tangled wrockngo. Record Flood Of Shoppers In Prospect The Chrlstmae shopping tldo rolled In Thursday on Klamath' business district, and the aug mented staffs of stores, big and little, were steeling themselves tor a flood Friday and Saturday, i That may sound like disaster, but It Isn't. The Inundation will be welcome, and It It reaches expected proportions the 1080 Christmas shopping srnnon will aet a now record for buslnesa In Klamath Falls. Adding to the happy prospects were Ideal weather conditions on Thursday, which were expected by the government weather expert to continue through Friday and Saturday, Stores from one end of the business district to the other were well filled with shoppers Thurs day, but the final rush was prom ised for the forthcoming two days. Although merchupts laid In un- usually large Christmas mer chandise stocks for this season, some lines were beginning to run. short, indicating the extent of the heavy buying. ' In general, storoa will be open Thursday and Friday night until 8 o'clock, and on Saturday night many will atay open until o'clock with othera later than that. Some ot the stores will bo open on Sundny. Airplane Parking Lot Makes Profit i BEDFORD, Ind., Doc. 21 (P) The propor admixture of cntor prlso and Imagination pnya div idends, ; Arnold Paollnt haa learned. Paollni, who has a gasoline station and a hot dog stand south ot hero on tho Dixie high way, decided to expand. He oponod a "parking lot" for nlr planos in a field Just across tire rond. 1 Now many southern Indiana piano owners stop at Paoltnl's and tako on fuel and food. Nd EMKROKNCY WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (F) uoionoi ji.i u, itnrnngion, wi'A administrator, told his press con ference today tho general rollof picture wns Improving and ho would not ask ror an emergency appropriation for tho remainder of the fiscal year. 1 L ' NVAS ONS 0 F SAFETY ZONE TO BE CITED Germany Asks Release of Interned Crew of Graf Spee in Argentina - RIO DB JANEIRO, Dec. 21 (.11 Th 21 American republics whe signed the declaration of Panama, Including; the United States, will protest Jointly to Europe's bel ligerent nations today or tomor row against extension of warfare Into the pan-American neutrality "safety tone." It was authorita tively reported hero lata today. . . Informants usually reliable said the protest probably would be announced In Washington or Pan ama, the aeat of the permanent organisation created at tbe pan American neutrality conference in October. The protest, It was Bald, would be based on tha running battle elgbt daya ago off Uruguay's coast between th German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and tbrea British cruisers. This battle waa well within the "safety toue" limit drawn by the American" republics" around "tho American contingents, wltbin which the European belligerents were asked not to carry their war fare. : BERLIN. Dec. 21 -Germany protested today to the Argentine government against internment ot officers and orew of vtie scuttled pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. A communique by DNB, offi cial German news agency, aald Germany railed Argentina's at tention to the fact shipwrecked crews of belligerent state cus tomarily are released after reaching neutral porta. It cited aa a precedent that The Netherlands government released survivors of the Abouklr, Cressy and Hogue, British ships which were torpedoed In on day In 1914 with loss ot more than 1200 lives. Germany contends the Admiral Graf Speo's tnon similarly should be classed as "shipwrecked." There still waa no official com ment on tha German liner Colum bus, scuttled by ber crew south east of New York. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 21 (P) Foreign office at taches said today that Argentina "naturally, would receive and carefully atudy any protest of the German government" over Intern ment ot officers and men of the scuttled pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Tbey Indicated, however, an ex haustive research of International law practlcea bad been made be fore th Internment decree wa signed. Status of Crew Of Scuttled Liner Study by Of fleers NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (P) Behind closed doors In a build ing on EUls Island six Inspectors to lay began questioning the sur vivors ot the scuttled German llnor Columbus to determine their status under tho immigration laws. The examination of tb seamen was expected to require at least two days. ' Byron H. Uhl, New York district director of immigra tion, said the task was rendered more difficult because tho usual crew list waa not available, it presumably having gone down with the Columbus. Agents of th federal bureau ot investigation were sitting in on the Inquiry to determine, whether any ot the survivors wero members ot the German naval or military Intelligence service. Uhl explained that "while we want to make things as pleasant as possible tor tho survivors thoy will not be permitted to receive mall or other communications or to have visitors until their statu Is determined." A representative ot the German consulate and officials of the Hamburg-American North Ger man Lloyd line wore at Ellis Island conferring with the master ot tha Columbus and other officers, Maxwell Ileward Distributed l unuivinpcrp "fl? IlLHi I LUJiJLJ L- 1 INFLICTED ON s' -?,feM REDS ON LAND CiM-$&? -'hi'!'','': 1 ' iSalft ? ' J 7'f S . - ' " "- ,v",.-. j'.y- i . , .rt '-...',; .' I 1 : 1 - t f ' . ' , lj '"" J- ' ,, , ' C .;'- ' I nsa ,M7,-T,fi-tf-'--Tl----'-' --tl T1.t.J--.-i'.tiy- llTI iim-t nTrrfSsiiirwMriTiMiii -n " " It will be a merrier Christmas for at least two Klamath Tails families becatise of the distribu tion of reward money in the Sonny Maxwell disappearance case., Hera Police Judge Carl Cook la banding' Teddy Hamilton, 5, his part of the reward $75 for telling officer, he saw Sonny fal! into tbe bole from which bis body was later recovered- . At tbe right ta Mrs.-E. W. Tomlin who gave further and bighly important Information that prompted an investigation- of the deep bore. Sb received oq.- . . -, .-': t.v. I , McNary Inclined to Ap prove Grant for Gov ernmental Uses WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 OB Reports Finland is socking a $50, 000,000 loan from the United Statea government brought a atatement trom Senator McNary of Oregon, tbe republican leader, today that he would favor a sub stantial loan "for governmental purposes." "In view of Finland's attitude in keeping her money covenants with this government, I think we could afford to lend that country a substantial sum of money tor gov ernmental purposes," McNary told reporters. While he did not define the phrase "for governmental pur poses," McNary Indicated ,that he doubted the wisdom ot making a loan which could be used to buy war materials for usa against in vading Russian armies. Representatives of the Finnish government were said to have sounded out congressional leaders on the proposal after they were unsuccessful in obtaining Wall street financing for such a sum. Although these representatives were described as restrained in their discussions, one member ot congress who was approached aaid he gained the distinct Impression tho Finns felt they could not long hold out against Russia's over powering forces unless they were given more than moral support, i . Netherlands Air Force In Hal lie . AMSTERDAM, Dec, 21 UP) Netherlands planes fought an air battle with aircraft of undeter mined foreign nationality today In full view ot hundreds of residents of Utrecht. The engagement started about noon. ' ' The Invaders were reported to have come from the east where The Netherlands borders Germany. A smoke curtain was dropped by the foreign fighters, who es caped under this protection. Heavy firing was heard from anti-aircraft guns and plumes of smoke from shells were seen. Russian Tanks Freeze up in Arctic Cold By ALTIX J. STEDiKOPP COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21 VP) Arctic cold ranging to, 25 degrees below zero Is congealing both the oil of soviet Russia's war machine in the far north and. in part, the 24-hour battle-schedule ordered apparently as t "birthday present" for Joseph Stalin. Finnish circles welcomed the news from above the Arctic cir cle that violent storms had set in. Ona report from Nor wegian quarters was that mora than 200 Russian, tanks in northern sectors were stalled by temperatures almost solidifying theyoll in their crankcascs. Tbe invaders were said to have been hardest bit south ot Kir kenes, Norway, on ' tbe extreme northern Finnish frontier, par alysed by cold In tha flimsy port able shelters they brought with them on their drive to sever Arc tic communications. A Klrkenes dispatch aaid a wound sustained in what feeble combat there was in the far north virtually meant death be cause the wounded froze before they could bo removed to proper ahelter. Advices from Svanvlk were that a number of Spanish and Italian aviators bad taken their places with the Finns for attempts to blast the Murmansk railway which parallels tbe eastern Finnish bor der and upon which the red forces in the tar north were largely de pendent for supplies. The Svanvlk ditpatche said the Russians had been stopped 30 miles south of SalmlJarvl. This would be in the region of the Finns' "Lapland Mnnnerhelm" line on which they counted to de fend northern Finland. From the more active fronts, in the Karelian Isthmus and in central Finland, Finnish officers reported that In dead and prison ers the Finns were inflicting 50 times as much damage on the Rus sians as the Finns were suffering. Temperature Hits New Season Low- German Aerial Attacks In North Sea Area Hit 35 Ships in Three Days Mercury slipped to a new low ot 23 degrees a notch under the previous low record for this sea son on the government' ther mometer here Thursdny morning, The forecast was for another chilly night, with bright skies way outlets to French Indo-Chlna and sunshine Frljay. land British Burma, LONDON, Dec 21 (P) Great Britain assembled ships and fight ing planes today to protect her unarmed North Sea fishing' fleet aa a result ot German aerial at tacks in which 35 vessels bav been bombed, torpedoed or machine-gunned In three days, Defensive arming also was considered for the fishermen, on whom insular Britain de pends for an Important sup plement to her meat supply. The crews ot trawlers engaged in minesweeplng and anti-submarine activities will be given i "hard-lying" bonus, retroactive to the outbreak of tbe war. It was disclosed by Geoffrey Shakespeare, parliamentary secretary of the admiralty. Such bonuses ara paid for exceptionally difficult, dan gerous and uncomfortabla work. The admiralty called the enlist ment of telegraph and wireless operators "until tha end ot the period of tha present emergency.' The Evening News said It understood mysterious flares which lighted the sky for miles (Continued on Pag Two) Iaps Near Defeat At Nannlng, Claim . CHUNGKING. Dec. 21 (JPj A Chinese army spoaesman de clared today that Japanese forces holding Nannlng, strategle south China military center, had been isolated and that tho Japanese army was on the eve ot a major defeat in tbe Nannlng area. Tha spokesman said Japanese units attempting to advance north and northeast ot Nannlng had been driven back to within ten miles ot the city and that com mnnications between Nannlng and the coast to the south had been cut. The Japanese army captured Nannlng, former capital ot Kwangsl province, Nov. 24 In drive trom the south China coast Intended to cut China's high- "Celebration" of. Stalin's Birthday Marked by ... Gigantic Attack Z By THOMAS P. HAWKINS HELSINKI, Dec. 21 WP) Rus sian flier today bombed a hos pital area of Helsinki, attacked town and villages for 25 miles around and machine-gunned two trains in a day in which Finnish land forces were officially report- ed to have wiped out two battal ions of Russians. ' V In the land fighting, an army , commnnique aaid, the Finn either threw back the invaders with heavy losses or continued their own. advances and cap tared or destroyed 20 tanks and a wide variety of arms, am munition and equipment. In th day's aerial operations. two Russian planes were reported shot down over Helsinki, wher tbe Invaders bombed a hospital dormitory, heavily damaged ' a school for th blind and struck aeren out of 10 other hospital buildings. . . . Only two persons were In jured and none was killed In the Helsinki hospital - area, though, more than 80 bomb -rained upon it, but there were deaths In the attack ontaldo he capital. . . -'-Two-persons,;11 officials'' said, were v killed aboard the. Turko- Helsinki express, one of two trains : machine-gunned, v while : several died in on city where ten bombs were dropped. . Summarizing the war on land in a communique tonight on yes terday's - operations, tha ' army said: On tha Karelian isthmus Th Russians suffered beavy losses and were stopped In their track in a daylong battle.. On the eastern Iront An "ene my battalion waa destroyed com pletely" between Lieksa and Re- pala. Lieksa la about 125 miles north ot Lake Ladoga and 20 miles trom the border with Rus sia. On tha upper eastern front Russians were defeated in two different places; a baiiallon being annihilated" in one and "a great loss" being sustained In the other. In the one, the communique said. the enemy lost (00 killed on tb battlefield." . In the Arctic Finnish troop reached Hoyhenjarvi, across the Jordanl river, a place near tha Norwegian frontier about 80 milea south ot Finland's .Arctic coast. (A Lionaon aispatcn irom mok cow said the Russian war com munlque for the second day In succession made no claims ot gains in Finland and Nosweglana reported seeing Russiana moving northward in the far north front (Continued on Page Two) - Letter Returned ; 21 Years After Brother Killed - - 7 . .' ' SEATTLE, Dec. 21 (VP) -Mlsa . Emma William drew tb mail from a box In an apartment house yesterday. Suddenly sh stared at one envelope. Then aha wept a little. It was a letter she mailed 21 years ago to a brother, Oscar Blrkland, who was serving la France with tha 137th Infantry. He died of wounds, some months after returning to th United States from France. Clues to Its Journeying mostly were undecipherable or had been erased. There was a purple notation " wounded 10-18 Tour." Several Illegible red Ink mark and Miss Williams' present ad dress. " ? "He must have been In a hos pital when the letter got to France," she said, "and they didn't find him with it. "I don't even remember what' in the letter. I'd like to know In a way. But I'm never going to open it," h added. , IS THIS ISSUH ! City Briefs -.-....Pag T Comics snd Story ......Page 8 Courthouse Records .Page 4 Editorial .....Pae 4 Family Doctor -....Page 4 High School News Pass 14 Market, Financial .........Pag t Midland Empire News....Page S Pattern ................Pag 4 Potato Tablo Pag Sports ...................... I'age, 10, 1 1 Weather .-.Pag 14
