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. Price Five Cent" XAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939"
UNITED PRESS
WEATHER
'"! High 48 low as
PRECIPITATION
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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