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WEATHER COVERAGE , Tha Herald and Newt blanket a rich agri cultural and Industrial amplra el Southern ' Oregon and Northam California. t. High 81. Low II PRECIPlTATIOlt 24 hour to I a. m. "... Season to data Normal precipitation .... V ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Number 8912 Lut you to dato ... VKJfTTUO Price Five Centa KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY,' MARCH 13, 1940 tin lo) rsnrvji o) ui T? "- ''rtlfnl rrr- ; . ? In Hie j Day's News By mANK JENKINS n-'HE rlo of tho United Stale . '' of America from 13 atrug ' glim colonic along the Atlantic eaboard to the greatest nation on.carth U tha modern world't moat fascinating atory. In thla atory there are outstanding slg niflcant chapteri. One of these chapteri ha to do with the Alamo. . JT wae at the Alamo that the "Texa Republle was really born. The Toxin revolution wax already under way, but it won torn by Jealousies and cluahlng personalities that handicapped ita chance of success. The hero ically tragic battle of the Alamo, of which not one defender lived to tell tha tale, fired the Texan with the flaming determination to win their freedom or die fighting ahoulder to ahoulder, all for one and one for all, in th attempt. The reault i history, and doea not need retelling here. npRAVIS. Bowie, Crockatt, Bon A hm linroM all. alona! with the other of the devoted little band of Alamo defender, what a hrMd of men thev werel What iwonder that America ha rlaon-. n . her nretent heilhta In Ua gray little Alamo, iur rounded by the ikyacrapcra of the modern and hunting city of Ban Antonio, already near tho half million mark and look ing forward confidently to the nnt distant dav when it Will roach a million, their atory la told with direct simplicity mat ahakea the. visitor to the very core of hi being, leaving him a better American. r DONHAM, fiery young Caro D Una aristocrat, drawn to Tex i as ,becauo there revolt againat ' oppressors-wa under way. That I and nothing more. No ambition 1 for perional gain moved him. It wa Bonham wno cameo the plea for immediate aid for the beleaguered little garrison. With .entire credit to himself, ho could have remained to lead V tha relieving force back. But not Bonhaml I U 1 4U. rxv roue dich ,unn, ..w gauntlet of Santa Ana'a besieg ing army and, hla horo dropped dead under , him aa ha entered the Alamo' gate, remained to ,die with hla follow heroea. - DOWIE, alck unto death, in D body and In spirit (hi beau tiful Spanish wife and his child ren had died of a plague, leav ing him heart-broken and alone), bedfast In the Alamo, demand ing - to be carried across , the line drawn in the dust by Colonel Travla when he called for volunteera to face the certain deaths Involved in the defense, aelling hla life so dearly from hla bed that a pllodup heap of Santa Ana' Mexican lay 'all around him at tho end. ',....'.'.' ''.:' '.,'' ""ROCKATT, nt to congress from hi native Tennessee, a' figure in Washington, where hla ghrewd pioneer common sense .made him looked up to, battening to Texas like Bonham, because in Texa men were fight ing for their freedom against oppressive rulers. Crockett defended an earth work' outsldo tho walls through bitter; bloody, hours, thon, out numbered In tho final charge, abandoned it, retired within the enclosure, manned one of the few cannon, turned It Inward t i. .1 -1 in hn-Anm f 'Santa Ana'a army and continued to mow them dow nuntll ho wa , (Continued on Pago Six) 25 YEARS AGO TODAY y ' By The Aiioclatsd Pratt March 13, 1818 German line bends but 1 not broken as hoavy fighting continues near Ncuvo Chapelle. THIRD T AFTER VOTE Roosevelt's Effortless Vic tory in New Hamp shire Pondered WASHINGTON, March 13 UP) President Roosevelt' effortless victory in the New Hampshire primary sterta toward the dom ocratic national convention a trickle of third term delegate which may swell into a virtual ly Irresistible flood. For advocate of a 12-year new deal are not staking their ambition solely on the argu ment that the international sit uation demands continuation of Mr.- Roosevelt's aeasoned leader ship. The war abroad i per haps the pre-eminent factor, but It is, after all, in foreign rather than American political hands. Consequently, third-term ad' herenta,' apparently proceeding on the belief that the president will have to be "hauled" into the contest, aro seeking through stale primaries to bolster two other persuasives: 1. A draft movement attribut able to the rank and file of the party. ' 5 ' .. - 2. The potent argument that Mr. Roosevelt i the one demo crat sure to win and thereby carry-mvtiew dfak doctrines: -' fJEaty victories in party, pri maries, especially where oppos ing slates are entered, would halp support both contention. Couple aerie of primary tri umph with a serious European crisis before democratic', dele gates meet in Chicago July. 16. and tome new dealer contend that even a two-term president could not effectively say no. Jn pursuing thia -primary strategy, even the most ardent Roosevelt supporter! are accept ing, for the moment at least, the oft-repeated report that the president wants to quit the White House next January. Mr. Roosevelt never , has said so publicly, but. too many Inti mate have repeated it for 'the report to. bo ignored. . Effort to represent primary victories a a "draft Roosevelt' movement already have encoun tered the charge that its real supporter are office - holders and organization politicians.. Hindu Gunmait Kills Official LONDON. March IS W) Sir Michael O'Dwyer, formor lieu tenant governor of the Punjab, wa ihot to death and Lord Zet land, secretary of state for India was wounded at a . meeting of tne India association tonight by an Indian gunman. . Sir Louis Dane and Lord Lamtngton also were wounded.. The meeting wa held in London.- Sir Michael, an official of Britain's ' Indian civil service from 1885 to 1020,' was known as an advocate of strong mea sure in handling tha Indian problem. . ; i; , ' 1 FLOOD SEEN Suicide Ends Skying Case In Salem Insane Hospital SALEM, March 13 (Pi -Dr. J. C. Evans, superintendent of the Oregon state hospital, said that Wiley Hill, 20, committed suicide today in the criminal in sane ward, where he was trans ferred after three patients wore strangled early Monday with a pillow slip. ' 1 - " " Dr. Evan said Hill; a -badly demented patient suffering from brain infection caused by sleep ing sickness, emasculated him self with a. fingernail about 6 a. m.' Me cut a large artery and soon bled to death, ' Hill formerly lived in Talent, and has. been a. patient four years. He wa one ot tho nine patients in the dormitory in which three wero slain Monday, and was transferred Monday night to the criminal insane Treaty Alter Map of Finland I 'Jr & Sf " ' aiNv ' ' Harsh term of the nesday morning at Moscow, altered the map ot Finland, whose troops will withdraw from the new border at 10 a. m. Friday under the agreement The ' map shows concessions- made by the rinns. identified by encircled aumerala, aa follow) (t.) Russia I given all of tho Karelian Isthmus, Including the city of VUpurl and territory west and north o! Lake Ladoga. (X.) Jiussia leasee tha Hanko seninsula for aO'Yearr. -mrttli MtablUhnMnt-of aval bata tbaaa. .ti.y TerrWoty aast of waist" la ceded Ruula. Numerous islanda in tne euu oi rimana alto go to Russia; (4.) Soviet troop are withdrawn from the Petsame area, but Finnish war veiiels there are restricted and Russia I granted free transit of goods and eitlsens through Pet area region to and from Norway. (5.) Finland graata Ruttia the right to eatablUh a new railway and XemiJarvU Finland. , KILLS 13JUJRTS 37 Twister Hits Shreveport Hardest, Sweeps Into Texas Border Area j SHREVEPORT, La, March IS W)Thirteen person were killed, at least 37 injured and hundreds made homeless by tornadlc winds , which struck hardest in Shreveport late yes terday and then moved across the border into Texas. ' Fire Chief Sloan J. Flores es timated that damage in Shreve port alone was more than $1. 000,000. Libby-0 wens Ford glass plant officials counted their loss at $200,000. The state fair grounds damage was estimated at $100,000. Barksdale field, one of the nation's major army air posts, suffered only slightly. The storm, accompanied by hall and rain, caused most dam age in a Shreveport residential section before striking across the border in the area between Elysian fields and Bethany, - ' (Continued on Page Six) . ward, where he occupied a suv gle cell,. . v.-... ; , Witnesses at a coroner's in quest yesterday said Hill was transferred to the criminal ward after doctors discovered that" the pillow slip, used in the slaylngs, came from 'his bed. Hill also had scratches on his. arm, Dis trict Attorney Lyle J., Page say ing 'these apparently were ' in flicted during a. struggle. The inquest waa expected to end today. . ? The five (witnesses and Hill did not have sufficient mental capacity to answer question re garding tha slaylngs. . "Hill never had showed any tendency.- toward suicide . or homicide," Dr. Evans said. "This sulcldo comes as a tragic (Continued on Page Six) ,1- V";,Vi Ruito-PinnUh peace pact, aioned Wed. Markiarvi. la tha Finnish "wasj between Kanoaiaasna, nussia, : V v Non-Suit Ends Case oh Train Mishap The stormy career of the ease of C. O. Christenson' versus the Oregon, California and- Eastern Railway" and othera' tame to" an abruDt end 'Wednesday when Circuit J u d g e E. B. Ashurst granted an involuntary non-suit, throwing tho case out or court. Attorneya for thev railroad moved, for the . non-suit Wed nesday morning in the trial : of tha case,- in which Christenson sought $10,000 for the death of his son, Leo Chester, in a train- auto smash-up. : In granting the non-suit. Judge. Ashurst read a supreme court decision- in- a similar case, in which it was held that rail roads must-construct crossings and sometimes occupy them in necessary operations, and train ' standing, on. a . crossing that is not- unusually -hazardous is sufficient warning to a traV' eler on the highway. No, other signs or . warnings are required, the court ruled. although in this case,. Judge Ashurst pointed out, there were other signs and undisputed test imony that a trainman had (Continued on Page Six) Political Pot 1 liegins to Warm Up In Klamath Temperature ' of " the local political pot shot upwards Wed' nesday, with Circuit Judge E. B. Ashurst , issuing his announce ment for re-election and indica tions that other political declar ations will be forthcoming with' in a few days. 1 - : Judge Ashurst is the fifth-to enter the circuit Judge race,' but his candidacy has been gener ally expected. He is seeking second -six-year . term .on .the bench here, The other candt date are David R. Vnndenberg, Henry Perkins, A. C,,Yaden and Wilson Wiley. ; .: With the filing time deadline only two, week off, it appear likely that others will be coming forth with announcements toon. By tho end of ' March, line should be drawn for this spring political battles. I I Britain Flayed on nam DlllS FULL, DFMPHE Aid Withheld on Techni cality, Claim ; Premier . Denies Help Asked LONDON, March 13 CP) A demand for a formal debate on Britain's "whole conduct of the war" - came from Leslie ' Hore- Belisha, recently dismissed war minister, as bo made a bitter attack on the government In the house of commons today- in a stormy debate on Finland's cap itulation to soviet Russia; - Hore-Belisha," whose' ouster last Jan. S never was fully ex plained but who J is known to havo advocated -dispatch of .a British expeditionary s force to Finland, before he left office, as serted .that British refusal to supply more help was based on a " pure technicality. : r Prime Minister Chamberlain declined to- say immediately whether the proposed full dress dhau - ipould . h . Allowed.. . hut trustworthy ' unofficial" sources said aueQ. debate would be held MArch IB at Which Cham, berlain Would nresent a ceneral war review, and reply to ques tions of an aroused house. - Hore-Belisha entered'! today's discussion v a f t e r Chamberlain had praised Finnish- resistance' and both labor and liberal lead ers Joined, in expressing admira tion for the Finns' and deploring what they called " another; tri umph for aggression. ; : ' Chamberlain faced a sober parliament anxious to question him on last night's - Moscow peace. - ' 'j "- Chamberlain - defended ; Brit ain's help 'to Finland. He ; ex pressed the nation s "admiration for the courage" of the Finns and repeated that "vm had made preparations to throw, the full weight of all available resources into, the scales on hearing that thla was in accordance with the desires ' of the Finnish' govern ment." . Hore - Belisha criticized the government for delaying send ing 'men to Finland until re quested by Finland to do so. Britain - and France had dis closed they were ready to send troops immediately if Finland should ask for them. Hore-Belisha wanted to know if it was not a - fact "that re peated appeals had been made by that country' for assistance in material and men." Chamberlain denied that "re peated requests for men ' had been made by the Finnish gov' ernment" and declared : that every request for materials was answered and Finland was told that Britain was prepared to send men if they appealed for them. David . Lloyd George, the whlte-maned World war prime minister, declared that "in my heart I am glad of the news from Finland, but continued: , "But it is the old trouble- too late. Too late for Czecho slovakia. Too late for Poland. Certainly too late for Finland. .."It is always too-late or too little. or both. That is the road to disaster.".- M'jNary Introduces Indian Land Bill; ' WASHINGTON, March' 13 (M A bill authorizing the secretary of interior to accept lands prl' vately i.owned' by - lindivldual members of the Klamath Indian tribes, if voluntarily offered the government, was introduced by Senator, McNary (R-Ore.) yes terday.-. ' Lands o . received : would' be come subject to the same .. re strictions, Immunities and ex emptions as tracts on - Indian reservations."" Allies Prepare to Increase Western Action, Balkan Race LONDON, March 13 W) Great Britain and France, weigh ing the effect of a Russian Finnish peace, prepared them selves for an Intensification of their own war and for a possible combined nazi-soviet diplomatic offensive against allied interests In the Balkans. ; - Moscow's announcement, of a treaty with Finland, ostensibly freeing Russia's . resources ' to support the war machine ot her economic ally, may mean a nazi offensive in the west. : i . : , London and Paris received re ports from Bucharest that Ger many and Russia were planning to offer Rumania territorial guarantees in exchange for trade Sweden Proposes Defensive. A Union to Protect Finland STOCKHOLM, March 13 ) From the welter of, Swedish press comment ' on the Finnish Russian war climax there emerg ed today a proposal that peace be Insured by defense union with Finland- fv w Vm . nna 'thai press said, Fjntis will need Swed-l isn netp. -. ; -s ; .i".-"7. A . The - conservative Svenska Dagbladet. called the Moscow treaty a "hard peace" and asked what the Finnish people would say when they learn its terms.' ' Many will say .that Sweden Is to blame," the - newspaper went on, "but at least the peace now must, be guaranteed'-. by Sweden in a defense union with Finland and possibly7 with Nor way." . I-- :'-"-'y7i. The Stockholms Tidningen commented that without Swed ish material and help the Finns could not have held out as long Reds, Nazis Hail Victory In Finn War MOSCOW,' March 13 (AP Soviet Russia gained broad ter ritorial, economic and military footholds in Finland today with a treaty ending her costly 105- day war in a fashion .which the Kremlin regards as the greatest defeat of the British in a cen tury. ; i. - -v.-. The undeclared war's conclus ion was looked upon at -the soviet seat of government - as a "splendid contribution to world peace."'. (Britain and France, at war with Germany, Russia s friend. offered yesterday to send ah army to aid ' Finland, but the Finns acceded to Russia's terms last night and said they had lost faith in foreign promises.) The treaty's,' terms, indicate that Russia has achieved her long-sought security ' for Lenin grad from assault by any power by land or sea over Finnish soil or waters. " '. '-.' Vlipurl, the .Finnish x city (Continued on PageSix) - Oregon Counties , . Get Woods Money : SALEM, March 13 (P) Ore gon counties received $193,255 today from the federal govern ment as their share, of receipts from forest reserve- rentals for the year ended June 30, 1939. The funds, are given-to the state, which gives 25 per cent of them to counties. Amounts received by counties inolude: ' ' . " Baker $5323, Clackamas $2,' 792, Crook ' $1622, Deschutes $12,487,' Douglas $1898, Grant $49,716, Harney $18,109, Jack son $5604, Jefferson $1665, Klamath $12,190, Luke $7967, Lane, $10,420, Lincoln $4297, Marion $1659, Umatilla $1835 Union $3004, Wallowa $6351, and Wheeler $1067. 1 concessions. British and French officials declined to comment, pending 'action of the Finnish diet (parliament) on the reported peace treaty but the settlement, coming on the heels of the allies' purported willingness to inter vene in. Finland, had its effect in both capitals. . . , Some observers tried to por tray Scandinavia as "the villain of the piece" through refusal to allow reinforcements to cross their territories into Finland. This refusal weakened the al lied promise of aid, it waa contended.- ,- ... ,. i i Now there was the prospect that Russia, with her campaign against Finland over,' would be ' (Continued on Page Six) ' i as they did and added, "Sweden must stand side by side with Finland, with all resources,- in cluding military."'" , i ,-; J The Da gens Nyheter said the war had demonstrated the limi tations of Russian -military pow er - and the .north ot Finnish arms,, adding Jhat Swedes .must give Finland ail'; possible - help "In the new situation." , l . -.The general 8wedish reaction was one of- relief without Jubl latio relief .that ratification of the Moscow treaty by Finland would, leave Scandinavian .neu trality intact,; at least temporary Uy- A-yr : :;::.-t,4, ) Matching -. Swedish - optimism with , resentment, openly . ex pressed,' that the British-French allies, through an 11th hour of; fer of an expeditionary force to-help Finland, had sought to compromise Sweden's neutral-ity-. - f ! 1 GERMUY SIGNCOAL PACT Rail Connections Evade British. Blockade of v . Ocean Shipments j i ROME, March 13 (P) Italy and Germany today signed. -an agreement " whereby, the reich agrees to supply Italy's coal needs by rail in view of the al lied sea, blockade against ship ments by sea. . .. t . . j - Details of the agreement were withheld, but it was announced that negotiations for it were started by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribben- trop and - Premier : Mussolini over the weekend. . - : It was reported' in political circles that German coal would be routed through three or more Alpine passes. . Germany Is ex pected in some commercial quarters to supply cars for the coal from the Ruhr and West phalia, while Italy would use most of its 6000 cars for trans port of coal from Poland. ' ROME, March 13 (fP) The fascist' chamber, voted Italy's $379,000,000 f army 'and navy budgets today after Undersecre tary -of War " General Ubaldo Soddu had stated that Italy was ready to' defend her liberty - of action' with , 1,000,000 trained men under arms and with a for tified bulwark across her Alpine frontiers. , ; ; , Tornado Comes as Family Sees Wind' i SHREVEPORT, La., ! March 13 (P) Mrs. A. M. Ludlow and her 12-year-old son,; Gene, sat at the movies when tornadlc winds ripped the roof from their house here yesterday. " - They were seeing "Gone With the Wind." Peace SOITMES President Blames ; Allies for. Withholding Aid,; , ', Promises Revival .'-. HELSINKI. March 13 .() Weary Finland, lacking ' weap-i on and skeptical of foreign of fers of help, ended her bitter three-andone-half-months strug gle against soviet' Russia today by yielding more soil and eco nomic ' and military independ ence than demanded before the war. '' At 11 a. m.' (4 a. m., EST), the dogged, courageous Finnish army .stopped fighting, and a gloomy peace settled over tha battlefields, from the corpse piled Karelian -.Isthmus to icy Lapland.'- :.; k-f . i , Retreat SUted . , Beginning Friday, the Fin nish troops will retreat at. the ' ' - HOT CLEAR , ' WASHINGTON, March -13 (AP-y- sPresidCTit-'.Eoeaevelt asserted today that the end ing of -the Finnish -Russian war "does not yet clarify the Inherent right ; of small na tions to the maintenance of their integrity against attack by superior force." - i In a formal' statement. Mr. Roosevelt' 'declared that the Finnish people "by their un excelled valor and strong re sistance" ;'to overwhelming armed forces, . had won a moral right "to live in ever lasting 'peace and independ ence., in. the land they have so. bravely defended." , rate' of seven1 kilometers (about 4.5 miles) a day to -narrowed frontiers fixed by the - treaty signed at 'Moscow last night. The -treaty still was subject -to formal 'ratification' by -the Fin nish parliament within 10 days- It was officially announced this, afternoon that War Min ister Juho Niuukanen and Min ister of Education Uuno Han- nula had resigned from the gov-, ernment - because they oppcted accepting the. Russian terms.' - ' Alliet Blamed Foreign Minister' Vaino Tan ner disclosed the terms to the Finnish people - in a broadcast today, declaring Finland was forced to capitulate. ' The head of , the Finnish army, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, was scheduled to speak to the nation tonight and President Kyosti Kallio tomor row. ' . " :,"-...,., ,-.-', Finland was- forced to . vleld because . she lacked arms 'and had. no faith in the oromises of others" to aid In the unequal struggle against a foe 50 times her size, Tanner, declared. .' Left Alone Great Britain and France yes terday offered to send 50,000 troops to Finland, , but Tanner said, . "the only possible route was through, .N o r w a y and aweaen, who refused to let the troops- through. : , This refusal proved an unconquerable 'ob stacle. '':''! ' '..' ..'.. ' .-.,'iJ-.; "Thus Finland was left alone to face an enemy of superior numbers." He highly praised the conduct of Finland's stubborn defenders, , .(Continued on Page Six) News Index .. ... . ..-.:. .1 - -. ' ' ' J :. 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