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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1940)
9 alp WEATHER Htgb 40; Low 27 PRECIPITATION OS COVERAGE The Herald and Newi blanket a rich grl cultural and lnduttrltl empire of Southern , Oregon and Northern California. fo)fi nifA:N In The Day's News , By rRANK JENKINS WJNNEMUCCA. Nov. Head " ad East, via U. P. Weather freakish, as everywhere In the West. No snow, except on the hlath hills. Creeks and puddles unfrozen. On a warehouse pint form beside the truck, curled up In the warm sun, a boy Is sleep ing without even a coat over t, him. nrHERE'S something screwy A about this trip, anyway. Last night, no babies cried and no snorera snored. A casual check-up this morn ing Indicates no babies on the train. Can't toll about snorers. They're an unpredictable breed. May lay off one night and double up the next. And when they start doubling up 1 1 1 1 1 l"xxl flNE of life's abstruse prob W lams: Why can a snorer snore until he rattles the windows two cars In each direction and starts I ho coyotes howling a mile away and himself sleep through It all like Persian kitten on a silk cushion " in sunny, window? J THIS writer encountered ono such a few weeks back. Starting with a resonant blast lika the middle notes of a tuba In a Fourth of July parade, he went on to choking snorts like a hippopotamus that has swal lowed a bone and has It stuck In his throat, ending with varia tions suggesting a buti saw bit ing Into a hard knot Tha other passengers moaned in agony, and beat upon the sec tion partitions with tho heels of their shoes. Finally the porter came and shook him awake, and there was a respite as In a boiler factory when the noon whistle blows. It was only for a moment. Re stored and refreshed by the pause, he went on to now heights of achievement; and tha louder he snored the harder he slept. 'J'HE stewardess brings around a blank whereon you are re quested to en tor the story of your life, Including tha firm you work for, your position In the ( firm, your business address, your home address, your tolophone number and other miscellaneous scraps of information. The request is sugar-coated with .tho suggestion that you're a big shot who will be getting Important telegrams at every stop, and that flattering Idea brings 'em through. The young, the youngish and Jhe would-be young males get their money's worth by Inducing the pretty (darned pretty, If you wont to know) stewardess to fill out the yblanks, perjuring themselves shamelessly by announcing thoyvo lost their pens. OULDN'T It bo awful to bo a . big shot who couldn't relax even when crossing tho country, but had to gtny keyed up all the time so as to dispose of Im r portant telegrams at every stop? REAL big shots, though, are that way. Among the lower Income brackets tho idea persists that tycoons aro Just fortune's darl ings, with all tha good things dropping Into their lops without (Continued on Page Six) 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Press Feb. 21, 1018 Australians and New Zealandcrs ordered to the Dardanelles. ... 1 7 J? vi,s . Threw In Marriage Mlxup 'mi m - y p I L 1 M Floyd C. Trimble. 23, and Mrs. Norma Trimble. 20, shown togsther In top picture, were questioned by a Seattle divorce proctor after Maxlne Trimble, 18, accused Trimble of marrying her without divorcing two previous wives, of whom Norma said she was the first, and that she'd Is straightened out." Mrs. Jennie Trimble, 19 (lower) who said she was Trimble's second wife, said she'd have no objection to tne remarriage when the annulment action is settled. Berlin Reports Sinking Of Three Vessels In Raid On Coast LONDON. Feb. 21 (IP) The air ministry announced today British warplancs carried out a successful reconnaissance flight over Helgoland Bight, off Ger many's northwest coast, last night. Tho Berlin communique prev iously had reported a flight of "several enemy planes from the west and northwest" over the Bight, which contains tho naval base of Helgoland and heavily fortified Islands near the coast. BERLIN, Feb. 21 (IP) A,n early morning foray of "sever (Continued on Pago Six) rash Turns Up In Soeks of Suspect Eddlo Whlsner was broke un til tho officers, who arrested him at Algoma Tuesday, took off his shoes and socks. Inside of his socks were $2.80 in small change. A further shako-down of tho freight-train ridor revealed 39 pennies In a tobneco sack. Whlsner was picked up by Sheriff Lloyd Low on informa tion from Wlshran, Wash., whore he is suspected of tho robbery of a restaurant. Ho was taken from a box car of a Great Northern train, ive Cents remarry Floyd "when all this Long Dynasty Defeated in Louisiana NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 21 (P) The Huey P. Long political dynasty, born of 12 years of dictatorial violence, died peace fully by ballot yesterday after one of the longest and bitterest election campaigns in Louisi ana's history. Voters in tho democratic gu bernatorial runoff primary swept to defeat Governor Earl K. Long, brother of the "King- fish" and titular leader of the machine, and nominated Attor ney Sam Jones of Lake Charles to the office. Jones, a newcomer to politics, pledged himself to restore demo cracy to Louisiana, regain much of the millions of dollars ho said administration office hold 4s stole from tho state, and Jail thovj found guilty of graft and corruption. The machine rout appeared complete with Jones' slate of secondary state officers, engaged In tho runoff, going In without a break, together with a new antl- machine legislature, and possibly an anti-machine state central committee. NO GAME TONIGHT The Molatores-First National Bank championship game at the armory was postponed late Wed nesday afternoon when three players sent word they could not return by game time. The game will be played Thursday night. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., Aid Sent To SOVIET ARMY ENDS OF LINE British Artillery, War planes Released To Defend Isthmus LONDON, Feb. 21 MP) Auth oritatlve source said tonight the British government had released large 'quantities of military sup plies to Finland, including 144 planes, both bombers and fight ing planes. - 1 These Informants said Britain was sending Finland 150 anti tank Titles. 10,000 anti-tank mines, 90,000 hand grenades. 25 howitzers. 100 machine guns, 24 anti-aircraft guns, 30 field guns, four six-ton tanks, 12 six-inch guns, 10 three-inch mortars, with ammunition for the artillery. Trance Helps These supplies were said to be in addition to - considerable amounts being sent by France. Some of the planes already are in Finland the informants said, including orne gladiators, orio of the boat type of British fight lng planes. ; ; . ;j ; The others are being sent rap idly tn view of the steady pound ing of the Russian army on the Karelian isthmus. In addition to this material assistance to Finland, thousands of men and women have regis tered at the Finnish legation here as volunteers for the Fin nish army or auxiliary services. By THOMAS F. HAWKINS HELSINKI. Feb. 21 UP) Simultaneous Russian attacks on both ends of the Manncrheim line, throwing two red army div isions against one sector alone, were repulsed in fighting that (Continued on Page Six) Tacoma Girl Near Ileal h After Club Attack In Yard TACOMA. Feb. 21 (IP) Vir ginia E. Riffle, pretty 26-year-old confectionary clerk, lay near death in a Tacoma hospital to day while her former sweet heart, against whom she had filed a J7500 personal injury suit, was held for questioning concerning an early morning at tack made on the girl in the yard of her home. Miss Riffle was bludgeoned with a sharp instrument. The blows fractured her skull and damaged her left eye. In addi tion to severe cuts and bruises on her body, she suffered a broken left hand. Tacoma gen eral hospital attendants said the girl s condition Is grave. Deputy Prosecutor De Witt Rowland said he was holding James Hampton, 33-year-old Fife milkman, for questioning. BATTERS BOTH Malin Chamber Reviews 1939 Achievements at Annual Meet MALIN More than 300 per sons turned out for the annual banquet of the Malin chamber of commerce, described by its leaders as the largest civic or ganization in the entire Klam ath basin. Tho banquet was held in the high school gymnasium, and featured a review of construc tive accomplishments of the year as well as talks by num erous visitors and members of the chamber. Entertainment The Helping Hand society of Malln served tho delicious tur key dinner, and entertainment was presented by the Malin high school band and Klamath Falls' famed Gay Nineties or chestra. President Robert Thompson WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940 fo) 0) 0 Tbe Winner This Is Helen Cox, Junior at Klamath Falls high school, who won the American Legion aux iliary essay contest on Ameri canism. - Miss Cox will receive scholarship of one week at Girl s State, a summer school held in Portland for active in struction in governmental work. Tbe local auxiliary conducts such a contest yearly, according to Mrs. 8am Miller, committee chairman; Nation Attempts To Keep Balance in War With Reply to Britain BUCHAREST, Feb. 21 (JPh Pressure by Britain and France was reported authoritatively to day to have led to a Rumanian government decree banning the shipment of aviation oil to Germany. The reported decree is in di rect contradiction with an ar rangement made with Ger many s trade envoy. Dr. Karl Clodlus. a few weeks ago by which Rumania agreed to in crease her shipments of avia tion oil provided that increased export taxes were paid. (The decree presumably ap plies only to refined lubricat ing oils for aircraft.) The decree was said to be the latest of Rumania's desperate attempts to keep the balance between Germany's demands for fuel and lubricants for her war machine and the allies' counter demands. It was believed to be the result of Britain's re cent note asking an explana tion of Rumania's petroleum policy toward Germany. Both Britain and France con sistently have pointed out in Bucharest that they might be compelled to reconsider their guarantees of Rumania s inde pendence if King Carol's gov ernment favored the nazis in oil policy. of the Malin chamber opened the speech-making with a rapid fire review of the year's activ ities. Achievements Improvement in ''mall service, installation of dial telephones, lowering of railroad rates on farm products, and promotion of better roads In that vicinity were major features of the years achievements. Particular emphasis was given to the lower conjunction rates to western Oregon points, for which Malln people had been working for many years. Thomp son paid tribute to John Reber, chairman of the transportation committee, and John Ebinger, attorney for the chamber, for . (Continued on Page Six) ; SUA . rv 'l Rill m ON NAZI OIL REPORTED fo) UvUlo) Finns Republicans Charge Re ports "Padded" With Sales To Russia WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (JF) House democrats and repub licans accused each other today of Juggling figures to prove their cases for and against ex tension of the administration's reciprocal trade agreements pro gram. Rep. Buck (D-Calif.) started this line of argument when he charged republicans and demo crats with employing ' statistical legerdemain" in an effort i to show the trade pacts had been injurious to American agricul ture, i White-haired Rep. Reed (TI NY.) retorted a fevs minutes later that much of the exports increase when the democrats "boasted" was due to the trade prpgram actually -consisted of war materials being .shipped to Russia and japan.'"' . . ' "While you are padding your export figures with this war traffic.' the New Yorker shouted, "don't forget - that the United States is going to be the meat-hated nation in the world h a t e d by those who have suffered from our war exports of death and de struction; despised as a shy lock by those from whom you are extracting blood money to obtain war materials. "Why then, in the name of heaven, don t you be honest about it and discard the pious peace argument to your trade agreements program, which you invented only as an after thought, an excuse for your dis credited and ruinous economic theory." Discussing exports of war ma terial. Reed declared: "The press informs us that (Continued on Page Six) Explosive Plant Magazine Blows Up; One Killed ELKTON, Md., Feb. 21 W)- One man was killed and at least 13 persons injured today when a powder magazine of Triumph Explosives, Inc., blew up, set ting afire small buildings near by. The dead man was identified as Edward Kneese, 35. of Glas gow, Del. H 1 s clothes were virtually torn off by the force of the blast. All the injured were reported to have been working in the small building where the explosion occurred Little hope was held for the recovery of Charles Gatchell 22, who was burned about the body. Others treated at Union hos pital for severe burns included John F u 1 1 y of Northeast: .Tnhn Tffnn. 20. nf Nnrthpnst Craig Reed, 28, 'of Northeast: Walter Moore, 22. of Elkton: Raymond Kopp, 30, of Elkton, and Edgar Staratt. . Freeland Staley Dies in liny City Freeland Staley, 41, ; well known Klamath Falls man, died Wednesday morning at St. Mary's hospital in San Francisco. Staley had been ill for some time, and had recently under gone an operation. . ' He was connected with the Pelican Bay Lumber company and was active in lodge No. 1247, BPO Elks. Ho was a former officer of the lodge. He was a native of Philadelphia. Survivors Include his wife Lil lian, of Klamath Falls, and other relatives in the bay district. The body will be shipped here for funeral services, to be in charge of Ward's and the Elks lodge on M WAR EXPORTS DRAW FIRE IN TRADE' DEBATE Friday at 2:30 p m. U hours to I Season to data Normal praelpitatloa 7.84 KfrV Last yaar to data ... t.ll PiST?--! UNITED PRESS Number 8894 sum Mystery Death - Mrs. Betty Hardaker is shown at top with her 5 -year -old daughter, Geraldine. whom she reportedly confessed slaying in a park washroom. The father, Charles Hardaker. who told police his wile belonged to a "human sacrifice" cult, is shown below. MOTHER ASKS DEATH FOR SUIYI1 CHILD i - - - - Woman Tells of Hearing "Voices," Maintains Girl "Too Good" LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 (P) Mrs. Betty Hardaker, who, po lice say, confessed slaying her 5-year-old daughter, sobbingly asked for death in her jail cell today. "Why don't they electro cute me?" she cried. "Why do they have trials? I want to die." Asked about reports that she belonged to a cult which be lieved in "human sacrifices," she said: "I believe in God. but I don't belong to any one church. I did belong to the Presbyterian church. I tried to get my hus band to go with me but he just laughed and told me I was crazy to go to church." The 25-year-old mother was transferred later today from her cell to a bed in the jail hos pital ward. An inquest into her daughter's death was set for Friday morning. "She was too good to live." Police Chief Harry Bispham of Palm Springs said Mrs. Hard- (Contimied on Page Six) aker told him after he arrest- Passenger Mails Self on Journey LONDON. Feb. 21 (Pi Major L. Palmer, after waiting unsuccessfully for six days for a passenger vessel to take him from Guernsey Vo Alderney, to day "mailed" himself for the 20-mlle English channel jour ney. He. bore a label wit'i the word "parcel." and was accompanied by a postman charged with the task of "delivering" him to the addressed destination. i j te I. ... i... , 1)1. i a. m. ...- .00 1 10.09 j i WARMER VILLAGE NEAR S AFTER RAID Vigorous Protest Slated Over Incident; None Injured In Raid STOCKHOLM, Feb. 21 (IP). Seven Russian bombing planes today showered between 30 and 40 bombs on the Swedish fron tier village of Pajala, setting many buildings afire but caus ing no casuafties, dispatches from the border region re. ported. ' The Swedish minister to Mos cow was directed to deliver a vigorous protest to the soviet government. - , Although the bombing was generally regarded in Stock holm as accidental it added new complications to Sweden's dif diculties over the matter of aid to Finland. '- It was expected to bring a harp protest to Moscow and further stimulate the Swedish "activist" campaign for direct military halp to the embattled Finns. . Four ' buildings in Pajala, a village of 3000 inhabitants five miles from the Finnish frontier, were destroyed and others set afire by the raid- ' n wMjt feet before unloading their -' bomb cargo, i-. .-' -i " u The Stockholm ': newspaper Aftonbladet said half the town was burning..-..-.. The terrified Inhabitants had brief warning of the approach ing planes from the village of Kengis, which is closer to the . frontier. "- Thus most residents were able to find refuge. Many fled to the fields; others crouch ed in their homes. Accounts attributed to -eyewitnesses said 29 explosive) bombs fell near Pajala church, which,- however, was not hurt, while an undetermined number qi incendiary DomDs leu in tno center of the village. Among the buildings hit was an old hospital from which patients had been moved re cently to a new building. One bomb struck the gymnasium of a school building and penetrat ed to the basement without ex ploding. . , Pajala's telephone operator. Miss Astrid Perttu, related that at 12:15 p. m. she received a call from a border station stat ing that foreign planes were ob served. Half an hour later a call came from Kengis village, near the border, stating that seven Russian planes were pro ceeding into Swedish territory at high speed. "I immediately Informed tho nearest military commander and then went to work to Inform people and answer calls," said Miss Perttu. Deer Hunting Trip Ends in Death .at Gold Beach GOLD BEACH. Ore., Feb. 21 OP) Death ended an outof-sea-son hunting trip near here yes terday for J.. M. Pettyjohn, 25, Bonneville surveyor, who was shot accidentally by his brother, Robert, 20, State Police Corpor al Guy Forsythe said. The brothers - and Vernon Turner of Gold Beach, had se parated. The elder Pettyjohn shot a deer and was packing It to camp. His brother saw, the animal In the dense underbrush and fired. The bullet struck tha surveyor in the head. - News Index Health Meeting - Page 7 Goose Lake Project ......Page 12 City Briefs ...Page 7 Comics and Story ... -Page 2 Courthouse Records Page 4 Editorials .. Page 4 Family Doctor Page ' 4 High School News Page 7 Market, Financial Page 10 Midland Empire News .-Page 9 Pattern .Page 4 PTA Notes .. Page 7 Sports . Page 8 Weather - . -....Pege 9 BORDER BURN
