The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, February 13, 1940, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER Monday's maximum 84 High Rftt Low 80 . PRECIPITATION ' M hour to S a. m. .10 Season to data ..............0.a Normal precipitation 14 Last year to data . 5.09 COVERAGE Ths Harald and Nswi blank a rich ogrf. . 1 J lJ...Atl I -..l cultural ana inuutiriei empire or souintrn Oragen and Northsrrt Callfornl A ov ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS STORM Prlco Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940 Number 8887 But ' i i.ri.i rui.a 1 i'i . " ' mm msm m raw In TTic Day's ; News By KIIANK JKNKINH ntril HLICAN oratora Join on Untoln Dr In blsetlug lha New Dl which la lo ba ex ptctad, moil of Iheae orators are looking tor office Ihemaelvea. Quite unconarlomly, one dlacnunts criticism thni conies from orflce suckers. This thought, however, It In a lot of mlnde: The proof of the pudding la the eating thereof, and In aplte of all lit roar promises the New Deal haen't brought lo much of any body (outalde Ha multiplying a aim of office-holders) any mora to KAT. qpllia thought alto ttlckt perals- tantlys In the patt year, when the New Deal hat been leat vlcloue than before In Ha attarka on busi ness man, bualneaa hat been stick ing Ita noaa eaulloualy out of the atorm cellar and taking a wary look around. At a reault, wa have the first really definite Indlcatlona In yeara of better bualneet and mora Jobs. e TN his Portland address, Dewey said something worth reflect ing onj -i.,; J "We are embroiled In a doten conflicts among ourselves, dor eminent and bualneaa ara In con flict. Labor and capital ara la conflict; and labor is In conflict with Itself. Collectivism has been pitted against Individualism; centralisation of power against local aelf government; defeatism against courage. These divisions have resulted In wasted oppor tunities, futile bickerings, loss of energy and human suffering." nrHAT picture, which la broadly and generally accurate, sug gests another picture that of Europe. In Europe, now and for cen turies, the hand of every nstlon has bsen against every other na tion. On every side, there is hatred and suspicion. Race Is set against race. You know ths result. EVERY BODY KNOWS THE RESULT. The result Is WAR with all Its trsgedy and terror and suffer ing and disruption. A LITTLE honest co-oporation could and the trsgedy that has boen enacted In Europe for centuries and la being enacted now. But thoro Is no co-operation In Europe. There is only conflict, Too much conflict, too long continued, can (as Dowey sug gests) do an immense amount of p riamnga to the United Statos of America. Social Security Employes Charged For "Slog" Party BALTIMORE, Feb. 18 (AP) Four fedoral social security hoard employes wore under Indefinite suspension today and scores of othora wore bolng questioned as an aftermath of a Sunday night "strip-tease" stag show whloh ended In a police raid and ar rest of 1ST men. Joseph L. Fny, chief of the hoard's office here, announoed the suspensions last night aftor an all-day Inquiry. lie said 72 of the men arrosted had been definitely Identified aa board em ployes, and added: "Any others found to be as sociated with the promotion of the nffnlr will bo suspendod Im mediately." Five women performers also were arrested in tlio raid on the show, hold at a resort near Baltimore 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Press Feb. 13, 1MB Fronoh con nnntrata troopa for offensive In Champagne, House l k - s. -1823: $ n I I II I I IIIIHIIM SUllWmilHlll'li lillifiilllUJIIM 1 Mill S if Bob Ratmuiten, left, and George Clarl, mapped by the candid camera of The Harald and Newt early Tuatday morning at one of the many Valentin countert in tfi city. In this picture they war looking over the sentimental, affectionate vortat on lacy memerttoet 'of Sf. Valentine's day. . Later the cameraman found they walked out In search of mora comic missives.' ' ' . ' POLITIGAL BATTLES Conflicts of Government. Business, Labor Costly to Nation, Claim PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. IS UP Thomas E. Dewey was on his special train rolling toward Salt Lake City this morning while enthusiastic Pacific northwest re publicans quoted trim his Lin coln day speech delivered last nlKht and it rood he was a strong and colorful potential OOP presi dential atanilard bearer. The trim New York district attorney lambasted (lie new deal before an overflow crowd of more than AiltH) In Port land's municipal auditorium, anil ilecrlnl thnt "when na tionnl unity Is most needed, we suffer from polltlcally-ln-spired hostilities." Klaowhere he assailed the pres ent administration for. tostoring a situation that discouraged re placement of capital and asserted the nation bad Buffered a "con stant erosion of capital." . Capi tal replacements, he said, had fallon more than a billion dol lars short annually of being suf ficient during new deal years. He blistered the administra tion's strategy of "divide and rule" aa "undermining our na tional unity" and declared do mestlo conflicts wore retarding tho nation while It worries about Europe's wars,' " , . , W are embroiled In a dosen con flicts among ourselves. Govern ment and business are In con (Conllnuod on Page Seven) Two Killed: In Ileddlng Crash" nKtlDTNO. rnllf . Vah 1 ll LawroncB Miller fll . vahk. nhi Portland, Ore., photographor, was In a oritlcul condition todny from lntttrlna rnonlvnil vnnlnrilnv In Lruck-automoblle collision which Klliod two of his companions. Elmo N. Onmrnth. 81. nnri .Tnn Cobb, 23, both of Eugene, Ore., U'ern klllnrl Whnn lha innnlilna driven by Onmrath, nnd a heavy miiK iruca opernien hy Henry Airnallnl. nnlllHnri htaH.nn 19 miles south of here, Agostlnl es caped Injury. The three photographers had worked horn for several (Inys and were en routs to Red Bluff when the accident occurred. I Group Clips ".-Which One do You Like?" GOP Leaders New Deal Ily The Associated Preaa Republican leaders rallied their party for the presidential - cam paign Monday night with Lincoln day appeals lo encourage private enterprise and keep the Ameri can government' tree from dicta torship. While former President Hoov er was declaring that the United States must abandon a "nation al drift toward statlsm," active and potential presidential candi dates were criticising the new deal and forecasting a republican, vic tory in November. Senator Vandonberg (R-Mlcb.), speaking at Grand Rapids, Mich., doscrlbed Abraham Lincoln as "our first coalition president." He said that Lincoln's reelection In 1864 by "all llke-thlnkers, re gardless of party affiliations," set the pattern for 1040. Tlioniaa K. Dewey of New York said at Portland, Ore., that tho new deal had failed to recognise a "constant croa. Ion of rapital." American doJ velnpmcnt. Is lagging, he as aorted, "hernuso of tlio nation wide undercurrent of distrust and fear of the shifting of policies of the administration." Senator Taft (R-Obto) told a Greensboro. N. C. audience that continuation of the new deal would mean a "modern, stream lined totalitarian dictatorship." The nation, he declared, faces a Valentines Itoom ; In Local Stores ' .; Counters were crowded hy young and old, boys and girls,' men and women, as customers sifted through hundreds of valentines In order to find the one sweet, senti mental verse they sought. This was the picture of valen tine counters as one of the most delightful customs of the old world as well as the new was to be observed on Wednosday, Feb ruary 14. In several staros there was a noticeable dearth of comlo valen tines as those with a sense of humor sought to buy more humor ous missives, i Valentines ranged from "five for five," to more elaborate and Isce edged- affairs, soma contain ing sachet bags, for il to $1.50 per. It will be a big day in the schools as many tender-hearted teachers permit the use of big valontlne boxes In which are placed the highly decorated mes sages ef undying a,ffectlonj , . Rally Against : in Lincoln Talks fundamental decision Just as It did in I860.. Senator Bridges (R-N.H.), an other presidential candidate, said at Oklahoma City that Lincoln would want for present-day Amer icana "freedom rrom economic de pendence or domination from the government aa well aa from pri vate groups." . . . 4 . Addroeslng a three-state rally In New York. Republican Chair man John Hamilton said: "The people of America know that whoa Mr. Roosevelt steps from the White House next Jan iiarj', he win- leave to hla republican successor a country In aa critical condi tion as Buchanan left to Lin coln." Several speeches at the TOO Lincoln celebrations were broad cast with Mr. Hoover leading oft ai umana. - Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, house minority leader: "For seven years this country has been (Continued on Page Seven) America May Swap Shipping Iloutes With England WASHINGTON. Feh. U (API Ambassador Joceph P.' Kennedy said today ha would take back to London a proposal for "swap ping" certain British and Amer ican shipping routes, which would result in putting I d 1 e American ships to work aarstn. Ho. expected to talk over, his plsn -with President Roosevelt later today, ha aald. After a 40-mlnute conference with Secretary Hull, Kennedy declared that he hoped to get the British to turn over to tho United States routes now oper ated aoieiy d y British shtps. which already ara being removed from soma of these to carry war materials on other routes. The routes Kennedy has In mind for American' ships were said to be far removed from, the European fighting area. - The ambassador reported that possibilities for Increased export of Amorlcan lumber to - Great Brltnln were connected with his plan, i He mentioned particularly southern pine and some western woods. . , ,.; .. ,. , . ., ., . Britain, .ha said, needs the lnmher hnt is having difficulty finding ships In which to trans pott It. If British ships operat ing In other parts of the world could he replaced hy American ahlps, tho required tonnage would become available. Navy CUT IN BUDGET LARGEST TO BE BY President Signs Reduced Appropriation for Cur-' rent Patrol Activity ' WASHINGTON. Feb. IS JP A 1111,698,699 slash was made In President Roosevelt's budget for the navy today by a house committee which recommended appropriationa of 1966.77 J. 878 and urged the nation build bat tleships and cruisers "superior to those abroad. The cut, from the president's figure of 91.078,472,677, was the largest yet made by the appropriations committee t n any single budget recommenda tion, but the committee aald the1 fleet's needs . could be "ade quately met" with the smaller sum. "i (The president's budget figure of $1,078,471.(77 Included funds which he classified aa emergency national defense expenditures. These were responsible for the difference between that figure and a $954,000,000 reauest or the navy to finance its normal. structlons. 1 : f ., ", - , -1 Included In the measure -was $1,000,000 to start work on a $8,000,000 project designed to develop the tiny Pacific island off. Guam as a naval "lookout" post Guam Improvements were turned down by - congress last year after a heated controversy involving questions of foreign policy toward Japan. In aending the navy bill o the house floor the committee also cut $16,816,250 from the amount of "contract authorisa tions" recommended in the bud get With such authorisations the navy may contract for work to be paid for later. Thus the total decrease In the amount the navy could spend or obligate In the fiscal year beginning July 1 amounted to $128,015,949. While allowing money to start work on 19 new combat ships and five auxiliaries, the commit tee cut $7,750,000 from the sums recommended for two new battle ships and two cruisers. While $2,950,000 will ke suf ficient for the navy to proceed (Continued on Page Seven) Cutting Muscle Relieves Patients Of Indigestion VENICE, Fla.. Feb. 13 (If) By cutting a little muscle which controls the flow of bile Into the intestines, a Canadian physician reported today he had found a way to relieve Indigestion and gastric ailments that rest, diet and medication will not cure. Before the International col lege of Surgeona here Dr. Otto Demuth of Vancouver, B. C., ex plained his Instrument and tech nique for severing the sphincter of oddl. which rings the Inside of a duct leading from the pancreas, liver and gall bladder to the small Intestines. In certsin cases of chronic In digestion and diseases of the gall bladder and liver, ths sphincter tightens and cuts off the supply of Juices needed to complete di gestion of food. Dr. Demuth said he had used the technique successfully since 1983. The Instrument is a small knife concealed In a tube. It Is Inserted Into the duct to the point where the blade, when ex pelled, will sever the muscle. Deli cate handling Is necessary In the operation because the muscle Is hard to reach and a small, artery which, lies near the sphincter must not be cut, Dr. Demuth said. Vigil Falls To Prevent Suicide NEW YORK, Feb. 18 0P Louis Haberman kept an all night vigil to prevent his wife from . carrying out ' a suicide threat. . At 8 a. m. today his wife, Hil da, 48, saw her husband's head nod. At 8:30, Haberman awoke with a start and found his wife's body dangling from a steamplpe over the bathtub, with one of his neckties k n o 1 1 e d around her throat. She was dead. IDE b:.:rM,s'tOOTT NAZIS SCUTTLE ..... " Jv. . . When Archibald Roosevelt Jr., (right),, second cousin of the president's wife offered a resolution of sympathy for Finland at the American Youth congress in Washington, ha was confronted by this police officer, who is asking him to pleas sit down. Ha did, and hit resolution was declared out of order. On of his com panions was ejected from the meeting. ' Covers mow Xrea, yes' City Slushy Snow covered southern Oregon from Ashland over the ' Green Springs highway to Lakevlew as winter's blanket of white fell during the night and early morn ing hours of Tuesday.; From 5 p. m. Monday to 8 a. m. Tuesday the US weatherman re ported a precipitation of .10 Inches, all In" the form of snow. Streets In. the city were slushy and dirty ana care skidded about on slick pavement For the first time this year the East Diamond Lake secondary road was closed by snow. The Klamath Lake secondary highway between Crystal schoot and Rocky Point was also closed by snow. Eight Feet Heaviest snowfall was reported at Crater Lake national park where a new blanket of IS Inches added up to make a total of 96 Inches of snow in the park. On the summit of Sun moun tain the giant state highway de partment sno-go was busy clearing off 15 inches of new snow. .Total snow at that point was given as 52 Inches by highway engineers. Six Inches of new snow on the summit of Hayden mountain caused the highway to be slick and wet. Crews were sent out to this section as a o o n as snow stopped falling to sand curves. On the south Santiam pass there were 12 Inches of new snow (Continued on Page Seven) Paisley Man Gets Five-year Sentence For Burning Body PHOENIX, Arts., Feb. IS UP) Superior Judge M. T. Phelps sentenced Hershel Marsh, 29, of Paisley, Ore., to five to 10 years in state prisou yesterday for burn ing the body of a dead acquaint ance whose pockets he admitted robbing of about $500. Marsh robbed Henry J. Lois elle, 45, whose body he found In a ' tourist court cabin last New Year's eve. Later be poured kero sene on the bed and floor and ig nited the cabin. Bandleader Shaw Marries Co-star ' HOLLYWOOD, Feb. IS (IP) Bandman Artie Shaw and shape ly Lena Turner who disagreed about scenes and lines all the way through their one and only oo-starring movie were married early today In Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Turner, 20, never has been married before. It was the third marriage for Shaw, who la 30. Associates at M.G.M. ' studio, where Lana and Artie appeared In "Dancing Co-ed" six months ago,, expressed amatement over the marriage and then recalled the newlyweda "didn't get along at all," that they were Just about "the most unharmontous pair that aver wpfked togother." FINNS REGRPTURE- Positions Abandoned to Russians Object of ; ' Counter Attacks HELSINKI. Feb. 13 (flP) The Finnish high . command tonight declared that Finnish resistance remained unbroken In Manner helm line battles comparable to the bitterest of the last World war. but added: . "We really rely on the civilized nations of the world to . relieve us in this situation." HELSINKI. Feb. 13 J After 13 days of bitter fighting. Finnish military authorities announced to night that all positions of strate gical Importance on the Karelian Isthmus had been won-back by Finnish counter-attacks. The Finns acknowledged for the first time that they had "with drawn" late Sunday from some of these positions in the sector about Summa. A military interpreter explained that this often occurs in "battles of such fury aa are now going on." The Mannerhelm line Is still Intact, this Finn said. (The Russian army announced at Moscow that Its forces on the isthmus had captured 32 "de fensive fortifications" Monday and a total of 61 such positions within the past week.) "We have recaptured these positions now," said the Finnish spokesman, "and are leaving in Russian hands only a few . out lying machine-gun posts of no Importance In the battle along the Mannerhelm line, which Itself still holds." . V Contract Awarded For Huge Bridge At Shasta Dam WASHINGTON, Feb.. 13 UP Secretary Ickes awarded today a $3,588,364 contract for construc tion of what he described as the highest doubledeck bridge In the world. The structure, to be known as the Pit river bridge, will rise 500 feet above the present level of the Pit river near Redding, Calif. The contract went to the American Bridge company, Pitts burgh. The bridge will be a link In a 30-mile railroad relo cation being constructed around the Shasta reservoir. Central val ley project. . . t A combination railroad . and highway bridge, It will carry two main line tracks of the Southern Pacific railroad and four lanes of U. S. highway 89 across an arm of the. reservoir. The bridge company la a sub sidiary of the United States Steel corporation and will ship the 35,000,000 pounds of ateel to be used from Gary, Ind. FREIGHTER AS CRUISERS NEAR Report of Plane Purchase Indicates Italy Source , of Allied Supplies ; LONDON, Feb. 1 Vpy Great uritain is expanding her air and naval coastal patrols suddenly and swiftly to smash Germany's mlne-and-bomb blockade ot Brit ish shipping. The Siimlrftttv InnnnnMrf M was recruiting 10,000 additional iisnermea lor naval patrol duty In the war against German mines. Tho air force, with a big Brlt i.h .i... ..... .i " already In effect, waa disclosed io o paying neavy planes rrom at least one oiner air-skilled neutral" besides th llnltari States. (This cautiously-described tuu tion waa believed to be Italy.) The admiralty announced that German action bad sunk six ships three British and three neutral during the past ; week. Lossea were the Beaver born, Munater and Charges, to talling 19,585 tons. The neu trala lost were the Estonian Ann, the Netherlands Burger dijk and the Swedish Omnia, aggregating 10,128 tons. : A British sea victory waa re ported' ' f r o'm Rio Da Janalrn. wheT"am(lvMn' r tho 377l., Cnrm.n ItulirhlMk-nulrAft.. .. ... lire to ineir vessel under threat of capture by three British cruis ers which had trapped her. Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, commander of British forces In the. South Atlantic, aaid the Wa kama had been sunk and her crew taken aboard one of ths cruisers. ' , Indication of another Brtt , lsh naval success was given In : an official announcement giv- submarine officers and men ta ken prisoners. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 13 ( Rear Admiral Sir Henry Har wood told The Associated Presa today that the crew ot the Ger man freighter Wakama, after setting their ship afire yesterday off the Brazilian coast, had been taken aboard a British cruiser. r . Sir Henry, . commander of British forces In the South At lantic, said in an exclusive In terview that ten officers and 38 men ot the Wakama's crew had been . picked up in lifeboats by one ot the British patrol ves sels. Sis Henry's flagship, the Cruis er Hawkins, entered port here last night. The cruisers Shrop shire and Dorsetshire yesterday were In the watera off Brazil where the Wakama was inter cepted and fired by her own men. Navy Coal Won't Burn. Freighter Captain Claims HONOLULU; Feb. 13 (AP) Captain Geraslmos Panas of ths Greek freighter Christian Mar kettos had coal to burn today but it wouldn't burn. - Buffeted by storms en routs to Japan with a cargo of scrap iron, the Christian Marke'.'os wa forced to put into Honolulu for fuel. There was none for sale. The navy had soma it bad stor ed for years, but said it wasn't Interested in selling. Captain ' Panas insisted hs wuiuii v S nujnucia nuuuu, coal. The navy relented and of fered some at a high price of $25 a ton. The captain bought 800 tons.- ' The Christian Markettos Is still In port. Captain Panas said ths coal "isn't ' Coal." It won't burn strongly enough to raise steam. The ship's cook even bad to mix wood with ths coal to cook din ner. ' ' ... ' News Index Concert ................. Republican Dinner . Building Permits . ..Page .Page .Page T City Briefs .. Comics and Story Editorials Family Doctor High School News .... Market, Financial Midland Empire News .. Pattern Sports ... Veterans' Column .. Weather .... ..Page ..Page ..Page ..Page ..Page .Page .Page ..Page .Page .Page 10 ..Pais t