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Br TRANK JENKINS
nrlJUANA, reformed against
A Its will, hai turned respect
able -Ilka many another Jeto
bel. From merchandising aln to
visiting Americana It haa turned
to aelllng duly-froo mcrchandlM
to the tame.
As lor Americana, they aeem
to get about the aama kick out
of beating the customs laws
they used to get out of circum
venting the prohibition amend
ment and tha anti-gambling
statutes.
AT Villa Acunaacrou tha Rio
Grande from Del Rio, In
Texas, ona crouea the border
with no red tape whatever and
returna with equal Informality.
Immigration and euatoma offi
cials are stationed there, but
they wave you on with a friend
ly nod.
iTha reason la plain. They
now that If you bought the
whole town of Villa Acuoa,
lock stock and barrel, and
moved It bodily Into the United
States, the customs duties thus
evaded wouldn't be sufficient to
buy week's supply of lipstick
for one government stenogra
pher, .Villa Acuna Is no glittering
' metropolis. , - , .
) ''."...-"...,
AT El Paso, tha Immigration
agents take a hasty squint
t you to see If you look Ameri
can, and unless you are loaded
like a freshly grub staked
miner's burro the customs men
pass you with bare look. v
There's only one real formal
ity to returning from Juarez.
Fancy Imported liquors, such as
rum, brandy and cordials, sell
amazingly low over the line,
and the state of Texas soon
learned It was being done dirt
So, if you are carrying load of
liquor (outside, not Inside),
Texas officials stop you and
slap on a tax that more or less
offsets your saving.
El Paso and Juarez are Just
friendly neighbors, swapping
back and forth with each other,
and besides the merchandise
sold in Juarez Is mostly Moxl-
can handiwork on which the
total duty wouldn't be enough
to be visible to a New Deal
spender with a magnifying
glass.
e e e .
f AT Tijuana It's a dlfforent
story. Deprived of Its traffic
In sin, Tijuana has turned to
duty-free merchandising In a
big way. '.
In stores as handsomely
equipped as any In Los Angeles,
European luxury goods, such as
French perfumes, silks, English
woollens, Jewelry, etc., are sold
by suave attendants who know
111 the angles. You can spend a
Wad In Tijuana, If you have It
to spend, and the duty savings
will be considerable. Quits
little -Mexican handiwork, . of
course, Is sold there, but in the
aggregate It Is Just small change.
Within easy shopping rnngo of
Tijuana aro some throe million
Americans, all keen on tho idea
of buying fancy imported stuff
cheap;
,
TT'S easy to get over the bor-
der Into Tijuana, for the
Mexicans, like everybody else,
amooth tho way for a good cus
tomer. Getting back is apt to be
something else.
There's ' no friendly nod or
kindly wave of the hand from
the American customs officials
at Tijuana. They ply you with
trick questions and scan you
with a cold eye when you an
swer. If thoro's a false note any-
whero, they search your bag
gage. Strictly NONE of tho free
and easy stuff at Villa Acuna
(Continued on Page Two)
25 YEARS
AGO, TODAY
- By Tha Associated Press
' March 21, IBIS Germans re-
fake Memcl,
France Gets
mm sets
UP'WIN WAR'
T
New Premier Runs Into
Trouble With Former '
Daladier Party
PARIS, March 81 (P) Paul
Reynaud, France's financial
troubleshooter, formed a broad
coalition cabinet today to - re
place the resigned ministry of
Edouard Daladier but immedi
ately ran Into Internal political
difficulties. :
Even though he named Dala
dier national defense minister
to step up the war against Ger
many and appeased the socialists
by Including three In his minis
try, these three developments
struck the new premier-foreign
minister before, his first cabinet
meeting tomorrow:
Bickering
1. Daladier't own radical
socialist party both In the scnata.
and chamber of deputies "re
served" approval to "await gov
ernment acts." ' " " . ' ,
2. Louis Marin's rightist , re
publican federation branded the
new ministry as falling to repre
sent national adhesion and re
fused to be represented In it. '
3. Former Premier Piarre-EU-enne
Flandln's rightists republi
can alliance ruled "no support
from us." ":. -"".'''.
The finance portfolio which
Reynaud held In Daladler's re
signed ministry went to Luclen
Lamoureaux. - "
War Committee '
Reynaud assumed the premier
ship and foreign ministry port
folio himself, set up a special
"war committee" whose five
members include resigned Pre
mier Edouard Daladier and an
nounced a separate "economic
council," similar - to Britain's
ministerial economic ; warfare
group,
Tha five members of a speci
ally named "inner war cabinet"
are:
Reynaud, premier and minis
ter of foreign affairs.
Edouard , Daladier, resigned
premier, minister of national de
fense.
'Camilla Chautemps, vice pre
mier. .
Cesar Camplnchl. navy.
Senate Laurent Eynac, air,
Raoul Dautry, armament..
The socialists, largest party
In the chamber but without rep
resentation in a French cabinet
since Daladier took power in
April, 1038, have two ministers
in the new government, Monnet
and Riviere.
The cabinet was - kept . from
being a real national union gov
ernment by the refusal of Ma
rin's republican federation at
tho extreme right to be repre
sented.
GOVEU
Mother of Expected Quints
Put Under Newspaper Care
MIAMI, Fla., March 21 (A
Enriched by an agreement that
provides funds and medical care,
Mrs. Katherlne Callahan, -who
hopes - to become a mother of
quintuplets, rested today in a
hospital suite for more luxur
ious than her one-room, 12.00-a-weck
apartment.
But she was not a willing pa
tient. Her physician, Dr. Arthur
W. Wood, who earlier confirm
ed that X-ray photographs ap
parently showed five distinct
heads of unborn babies, had to
persuade the mother that a pe
riod of rest was necessary.:
"I'm not sick," she asserted,
and demanded to be permitted
to Join her husband, Emory.
30-year-old furniture ' factory
Detonator
... Otto H. Mohr's "detonator ray" machine Is shown above.
Thtf tdertr tovntor, says a larger machine would, blew, up
munitions at a 4taace of two miles an4 ha hopes to-'pretant It
to the government. The pyramid at the top la pointed at tha
sua and the tube at the powder that was exploded la recent
tests. ' " ' ' r ' ;. , . - ,.v
Ickes Pulls for Third Term
:; 'As Hull- Farley Team Talked
V.;:..yv....v-y-,f . . ....
" WASHINGTON, March 21 W),
Secretary' Ickes,. who advocates
a : third term, for . President
Roosevelt, said today that no
democratic presidential candi
date now in the field could con
trol . enough delegates to win
the nomination. .
He Included Vice President
Garner, federal security admin
istrator McNutt and Postmaster
General Farley.
.-Ickes made the one-sentence
statement to his press confer
ence in reply to a question, and
declined to elaborate.
In reply to -another question,
he declined to give an opinion
as to whether the democratic
national convention would draft
President Roosevelt.
"You might want a girl to
marry you," he parried, "but
that is no assurance she would
have you."
Do Right Thing V '
Ickes was questioned also re
garding Farley's unreserved an
nouncement of his candidacy
yesterday. ' - ,
"Every American citizen has
that right," he said, "and Far
ley Is a fine man.
He replied that "Jim can be
depended on to do the right
thing" when asked whether
Farley, in view of his announce
ment, should resign as chair
man, of the democratic national
committee. '
The liberals, he said, would
woodworker who - earns $15
weekly. ; . " '
Today the , Miami Herald,
whose owner, John S. Knight,
placed the Callahans under con
tract for exclusive publication
rights of photographs and news,
planned to lease a new home
for them where nursing and
medical attention would be con
stantly available.
The Herald's agreement pro
vided : the prospective mother
with an . undisclosed sum of
money, the services of Dr. Wood
and specialists if the physician
desires to call them, and all hos
pital expenses, including nurses.
as well as income from news
and - pictures.
New Cabinet
liny Shown
continue to work t for .the.'re-
nomlnatlon of Mr. Roosevelt re
gardless of all candidates. -
This, he said, was proved to
him during his recent trip to
California, That state, he add
ed, "is ; overwhelmingly for - a
third term."
Talk of a Hul-Farley- demo
cratic ticket was. revived .- on
Capitol Hill today as discussion
of tho postmaster general s un
reserved announcement of his
candidacy ran the gamut of in
terpretations. .
Most senators expressed the
opinion that the cabinet officer,
in saying flatly his name would
be presented to the democratic
notional convention did so be
lieving that President Roosevelt
would not be a candidate for a
third term.
A few, talking privately. In.
terpreted the announcement as
placing Farley in the same
category as "Vice President Gar
ner a candidate whether the
president runs or not.
One influential new deal sen
ator from the cast, as close to
the chief executive as anyone
in congress, - said - he did not
know what was in the presi
dent's mind but he thought
Farley had acted in the belief
that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to
retire. . ' ,
Garner forces, ' however, ex
pressed private elation over Far
ley s action. They voiced tne
opinion that Farley was in the
race to stay, third term can
didacy or not, . . ' .
Oregon Plywood
Plant Itnrnsi After
Dust Explosion
W1LLAMINA. Ore., March
21 (if) An explosion in a dust
bin fired and seriously damaged
a section of the Pacific Plywood
corporation plant and injured
one employe today.
All workers were released to
combat tho blaze. Officials In.
dicated it would be necessary to
suspend operations for several
days, shattering hopes ol offset
ting loss of the Aberdeen plant
by increased operations.
: The damaged building covered
about a city block. Investiga
tors reported their frame and
concrete construction prevented
the fire from spreading to other
sections of the plant. ..
OD STAMP
BOOST FAILS
TO GET VOTE
LaFollette Unable to In
crease as Senate Eyes
. Huge Farm Measure
WASHINGTON. March 21 UP)
Senator LaFollette (Prog.-Wis.)
failed today in an effort to get
the senate to approprite $113,-
000,900 instead of (85,000,000
for expansion of the govern
ment's food stamp system.
With chamber approaching a
vote on the billion-dollar farm
bill, LaFollette proposed that
the item for disposal of surplus
commodities be increased. The
law already provides allocation
of a share of federal custom re
ceipts, amounting '. to about
$100,000,000 for next year, for
disposing of surpluses. .
Out ot Order
LaFoIlette's proposal was held
out -of order under provisions
of i technical senate rule.
The Wisconsin senator asked
the chamber to overrule the
chair - and act on his proposal.
.This- It refused to do, by a vote
The food stamp plan was oper
ating in about 100 cities, LaFol
lette said, and the larger fund
would make possible the addi
tion of 80 "cities' of the same
average size.
La Follette declared the sur
plus removal activity was "one
new deal program that has
worked -and., won. unanimous
support, , ' ' '
He argued that the food stamp
plan was "the most effective de
vice yet worked out to deal with
the problem of underconsump
tion of food products- by a sub
stantial' proportion of the popu
lation."
Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.)
told- the- chamber, that unem
ployment and farm . tenancy
were - factors which might de
velop "a peasant class in this
country. " : .
Tale Fire Spreads
Ashes Over City;
Ducks Driven Out
Ashes from a fire in the tules
along the western shore of Lake
Ewauna -sifted over Klamath
Fails Thursday, causing con
sternation among housewives
Who have taken advantage of
summer-like . weather , to . hang
washing out to dry.
The fire, set by crews of Great
Northern railway to reduce the
fire hazard for later in the sea
son, started sending up billows
of. ashes early Thursday morn
ing and rained them ' over the
city throughout most of the day
The fire covered an area of
about three-quarters of a mile
between the: Great Northern
drawbridge and Western States
Grocery.-
' Unable ' to ' locate the source
of the ashes, some residents.
were, convinced that an abnor
mally early, forest fire season
was at hand.
" Officers of the humane " so
ciety reported that hundreds of
honkers and ducks were driven
from' the tules by the fire. It
was feared that the flames de
stroyed numerous nest eggs of
the birds, and the humane so
ciety recalled that an effort had
been- made , to have . the tules
burned off earlier in the year,
without success.
Farmer Has Close
Call in Lightning
LEBANON, N. J., March 21
(fl)william Brunner, 80, a
farmer, - was reading under a
lamp in his home .last night
when a bolt of lightning flashed
along the wiring and singed off
his hair to within a quarter inch
of his scalp,
- Otherwise, he was uninjured.
Shoots Official in Protest
f f i i
ifttdh.
- "I shoot like I think, at the
LieMBMjKk
Ddham Singh, British Indian .engineer, who killed Sir Michale
ODwyer, retired Indian administrator at a London .meeting.
Singh said be merely wished to
15 CCC Boys
Injured as
Truck Upsets
GRANTS PASS. March 21 P)
Fifteen -lCCC a enrolles- -were
rushed to Josephine - General
hospital this morning.
An . attendant .said- they suf
fered "broken arms, legs, in
jured chests and backs. There
are three doctors treating them
and we will be busy all day."
A salesman said a CCC truck
overturned near Hayes hill on
the Redwood highway -south
west of here. - v - ;
: Lieut.- Mickly- at .Camp Gas-
quet, . 68 miles from here in
northern California; said that
the injured youths, were from
his camp. , He said they had
Just completed their enrollment
and were being brought here
to entrain for their homes in
Alabama,- Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee and North Carolina. .
State Officer - Jay . Williams
said he was told the driver of
the leading truck in a caravan
of three dozed at the wheel.
There were , skid marks at a
curve, Williams said. The canvas-topped
truck turned upside
down but. its wooden stakes
held it off the 23 passengers.
Critically injured was Ivan
Lee Purseil, Yorkville, Tenn.,
fractured spine and other in
juries. ,
Bids Opened on
Highway Buildings
At Lake Odell : ;
PORTLAND, March21 (JP)
The state .highway .commission
whipped through a routine ses
sion of bid opening today after
seating Herman Oliver, John
Day. - " " ' '.
Oliver, formerly a board of
higher education member, was
appointed by Governor Sprague
to succeed E." B. Aldrlch of
Pendleton, iwho resigned.
' The commission also prom
ised early improvement of the
coast highway north of New
port; took under advisement a
Roseburg request that the com
mission maintain the North
Umpqua highway to . Diamond
lake, and considered a request
for improvement of the Tiller
Trail highway in Douglas coun
ty, which taps a sugar pine
region soon to- be opened by
the forest service to sustained
yield cutting.
Low bids on 12 road projects.
totaling approximately . $440,000,
included: -
Klamath County Construc
tion' two frame dwellings and
one frame maintenance building
on Willamette highway near
Odell lake, Barkham brothers,
Salem, $32,441. ' t
SWAMP FEVER
WASHINGTON, March 21 (IP)
President Roosevelt was. con
fined to his room again today
with what he facetiously called
"swamp fever. ..
walL ... I did my dutv." said
protest British government of
El
Volunteers . Assigned to
Border Patrol Appeal -
. for Funds Relayed '
HELSINKI,' March 21 VP)
American volunteers in Finland
will remain indefinitely, it was
disclosed today by the Finland
association, which appealed for
continued contributions of sup
plies tor the American unit.
American volunteers, con
tinuing to' arrive, are being as
signed with their unit to border
patrol duty and reconstruction
work. The American unit in
cludes Canadians and Austral
ians. '
May Resign
Swedish- volunteer troops
still are on duty on the northern
front.
The newspaper . Uusi ' Suomi
said Finland s coalition war gov
ernment,-; formed -by Premier
Risto Ryti Dec. 1, the day after
Russia started her invasion, is
expected to resign immediately
after the Easter holidays. ...
Planes to Seek
Missing Trio :
' Taking advantage of a smooth
lake surface, Sheriff Lloyd L.
Low - and BUI Randall early
Thursday afternoon flew over
Buck' island and ' Upper' Klam
ath lake continuing the search
for Dat-rell C u 1 1 i v e r, George
Schollenburg, and - Jack Pflug-
haupt,- missing since March 4
The three young men set out
on a fishing trip in a canoe on
that date and! have inot been
heard from since, although parts
of their camping equipment and
the canoe have been located.
Mercury Hises
To 74 Here
The Klamath basin basked
in uncommon March warmth as
an unofficial thermometer gave
the temperature at "slightly un
der 74 degrees at 2:30 p. m
Thursday.
' Wednesday, first day of
spring, saw the mercury rise to
a new high for the year when
the thermometer registered 71
degrees, warmest since October
16, 1930, when. 72 was chalked
up. :;.' -.
Thanksgiving Row
Hears Head Again
BOSTON, March 21 (P) Mas
sachusetts, ' where ' the first
Thanksgiving was observed in
1621, will cling to custom in
1940 and celebrate the holiday
upon the traditional last. Thurs
day of November.
Governor Leverett SaltonstaU.
who stuck with the traditional
date last year, along with New
England's other five republican
governors.
I
STRIKE
TEN VESSELS
IN TWO DAYS
British Claim All Convoy
Trips Safe; Germans ;
Say Nine Sunk :
LONDON, March 21 (P) An
admiralty communique : tonight
raised to ten the total of British
or neutral ships attacked by nazl
bombers within the last two
days, but asserted that three con
voyed ships bombed last night
now are safe.
However,' the admiralty dis
closed that two other ships in
the bombed convoy bad reported
reaching port that they were
damaged. These were the Brit
ish Northern Coast, 1211 tons
and the Norwegian Erling Lin
doe, 1281 tons. .
Reports Denied :
The communique insisted tha
German claim to have sunk nine
merchant ships and war vessels
totaling 42,000 tons was "in ex
cess of the actual facts."
The communique also told ot
damage to the British steamer
Barn Hill and the sinking of the
Bothal and Viking, with 33 dead
of a total of about 40 crewmen.
Danish snipping bore - tha
brunt of the widened German
offensive, losing three vessels.
was xearea au men naa gone
downwithr the ships. .r
The 2463-ton British steamer
Albionic burned after being hit
by. an incendiary bomb and an
other British ship, her name un
disclosed was bombed last- night
on tne southeast coast ana live
of her crew killed. - . " i
Parliament recessed for the
Easter holidays- today amid
growing reports that Prime Min-
ister Chamberlain would recon
struct his cabinet during the in
terval, before" sittings are re
sumed April 2. v .. .
The house of commons ses
sions ended . with outspoken
criticism of two cabinet bigwigs.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
John Simon and Lord Privy Seal
Sir Samuel Hoare, voiced by
Geoffrey Mander of the liberal
opposition. ' . '. -
It is widely felt throughout
the country that the chancellor
of . the exchequer and the lord
privy seal are heavy liabilities
both at home and abroad," he
said. .. - ;'-;--
Meantime Germany's gun-
bristling submarine bases in the
Baltic loomed the next probable
targets of British bombers, it
was reported, as the belligerents
disputed the results: of their
heavy exchange of blows across
the North sea. . r
Competition for ,
Two Offices in '
Primary Seen :
Competition in the primary
race for two county offices de
veloped Thursday, with the fil
ings of another republican can
didate for sheriff and a second
democratic candidate for the of
fice of county clerk.
. Ross Brown, former deputy
sheriff under Lloyd Low, tossed
his hat into the sheriff race and
will .oppose Sheriff Low, incum
bent, on the republican primary
ballot." v..
E. L. Cramblltt announced
his intention ot entering the pri
mary race for the office of coun
ty, clerk. He will oppose Mae
K. ' Short, incumbent, on the
democratic ballot for that office.
Both Sheriff Low and Mrs.
Short were unopposed until the
Brown and Cramblltt declar
ations. "
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Cramblltt Announces .....Page. 13
Brown in Race ..;..:....Page 2
Good Friday Service .-...Page 9
City Briefs Page 8
Comics and Story Page 14
Courthouse Records ..Page 3
Editorials '. Page 4
Family Doctor .....Page 4
Market, Financial Page 7
Midland Empire News .Page Id
Pattern ...Page 9
Sports . Page 8
Weather Page ' 3
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