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tfTfe I LEATHER, foJf COVERAGE Tht Herald and News blanket rich agri cultural and Industrial empire of Southern Oregon and Northern California r n-.-. -Ainn(Wlfrnrinvrri mm 'ASSOCIATED PRESS I '; - IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS ufJT $S?ZZ$i t?jj , i ,. ' , - . WARMH ma mr mm I m PL anes Br rHANK JENKINS twORTII READING dispatch ' from Miami (Florida): ' "Sunburned, mosquito -bitten and disillusioned, nearly half o( a pioneering band of Callfor plans ! hava abandoned their search for an 'Ideal existence' on remote Island In the British West Indies." Tht Island In question Is East Caicos, 700 mile southeast of Miami. The "ideal existence pioneers'' went there about a month ago. a - WORTH remembering In this ennnectlon: ' f The founders of America set tip a system that, compared with tk.i hjthlnrf In Etirona. baa proved to ba well-nigh Ideal. But It took them MORE THAN A MONTH TO DO IT. i -, , MORAL: , This America of our, which most of tis love, has been 400 - years in tha making. Those who "' think they can Improve on It IN S, A MONTK-r plali 'aaiit. ' !' ANOTHER moral! n If you're setting out to make !n ideal existence for yourself, you'd better slick to your OWN HOME COMMUNITY. : It you'll be decent, honest. In dustrious and fair, dealing with your neighbors as you want them to deal with you. you'll coma about aa close to an Ideal existence aa it's possible to get. ., r. C)NCLUDING crack: This hoped-to-be-perfect trop ical Island of East Caicos was ' found by the Utopia hunters to be overrun with wild jackasses. I No different after all, you see, ' from Southern California. D ilES (of the un-American ac ' tivitlei committee) says he 7T 1 In The ' News s rjias Information that Russia and Germany are plotting to bring on a revolution In Mexico and set up a puppet communist gov ernment on the doorstop of the ."United States. Russia, he adds, U keeping alive for use In this planned-for Mexican upheaval tha same organization that func tioned In the Spanish civil war. It sounds weird and nutty. But talk of over-night seizure of Denmark and Norway would hava founded weird -and nutty a few months ago. , , : What a worldl .. ' City Census to lie Ended Mondny t ' ' Katherlne Nelson, district cen sus supervisor, said Saturday jthet all first calls in the city census work are to be completed Jby the evening of April IB, Mon day. . ; She asked that Individual ' terms, left by census takers when Jhey are unable to find citizens In, be; turned in by that time. J There was an excellent re sponse, she stated, to the cham ber of commerce effort to put the census agents in touch with per sons who had not been counted. , SENTENCE PASSED . Harry Krlss, charged with lar ceny in connection with the rob bery of M. H. Wamplor's cabin on Upper Klamath lake, was sentenced to two years in prison Friday by Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst. He pleaded guilty. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY , By Tha Associated Press , ' ' 1 April 13, 1915 Allies im prove their positions on western front In minor engagements. ' J.-u-unxLar.nrn Picture Backs Up British Claim They Bo mbed Bergen nrurii nrniiiii Lead Fidht TW W n SEVEN GERWIAH French Halt Attack Along Western Front PARIS, April 13 VP) The French high command an nounced tonight that German Infantry attacking under a vio lent artillery barrage east' of the Moselle, near the frontier with Luxembourg, win cut down by the French. The attack coincided with ahsrn encounters at scattered points along the land front be tween Luxembourg ana me Vosgcs. Bsrbed Wire The high command said that French barbed wire held the wave of enemy attacker. Casualties war not deter mined Immediately. ' The high command's com munlque said: "Tha dsv wu marked by I ham ntnewel of activity of contact units. To tha east of the Moselle, an enemy attack prepared and supported by hw artlllerv fire comnletely failed. The enemy was unable to force the entanglements and had to fall back. Mora to the ut. encounters between recon- nainanca units turned to our advantage. Between the 8aar and the Vosges, a raid by us succeeded." An - aarllar eommunlaua re ported the repulse of a German raid , on a Rhine uiana yecujr- day and other minor activity. I One of 17 Found Hanging in New York Basement; Act Termed Suicide NEW YORK, April 13 W) The body of Claua Gunther Ernecke, 36, German-American bundsman accused with 16 other men of plotting to over throw the United States govern. ment, was found hanging today in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment house. Police, who listed the case as a suicldo, said a note was found with the body but its contents were withheld. v Search Underway ' A wide search had been un derway for Ernecke since his disappearance yesterday, two weeks after the trial of the al leged seditious conspirators started. His $7900 bail was or dered forfeited when he did not appear In court. Detectives said , Ernecke ap parently had gone to the apart ment house basement, around the corner from his home, on Thursday afternoon and hanged himself. Medical examiners said he had been dead at least 36 hours. Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell said yesterday ' the trial of the other defendants would be resumed Monday re gardless of whether .Ernecke was found. Informed today of Ernccke's death, the judge de clined comment. George Jessel Mnrrles Show Girl DETROIT. Anril 13 (Pi George Jessel. 42-year-old com. edian of stage and screen, and Lois Andrew. 16. New Vnrb show girl, were married here toaay with James H. R. Crom well, United States minister to canaaa, acting as best man. Cromwell explained he was en route from Ottawa to St. Thomas, Ont;, when his airplane was grounded at Detroit by bad weather, and he met Jessel whom he described as an "old friend." . . Jessel has been married and divorced twice. His first wife was Florence Courtney; his sec ond, Norma Talmadge. NAZIS ATTACK 34. INSIDE FJORD SEA BLOCKADE fc-rv, SJL ii. Three BritWi SMps Suf- ALONG COAST VZ s British Attempt to Dis lodge German Outposts From Norway Cities BERLIN, April IS UP) The German high command an nounced tonight that two Brit ish submarines had been sunk in tha North sea by German battle planes which surprised them Just aa they rose to tha surface. - Tha same high command an nouncement said the German air force lost five planes In ? terday's bitter air battle over the Norwegian port of Bergen, revising upward Its previous figure of two. ; The Germans claim the Brit ish lost 10 planes In this en counter. York Sunk) . DNB, the . official Germany agency, meanwhile said It was assumed that Britain's 8290-ton eight-Inch gun cruiser York which reports abroad said had been .sunk-rwas the vessel , the Germans reported hit twice and incapacitated two- dayg ago. - - Tha high command communi que of yesterday had said only that a heavy cruiser had been "struck by two bombs and In capacitated" the day before and that British aircraft carrier was . "severely damaged by be ing squarely hit by heavy cali ber alrbombs." Meanwhile German- sources reported that the German, posi tions in Norway were being strengthened by the hour, with reinforcements reaching Oslo "In large numbers" and with German heavy artillery reach ing Trondheim lo- strengthen the coast defenses. . . . German occupation- troops east of Narvik, far northern Norwegian ore port, have taken possession of the rail line- to the Swedish border, DNB aald. LONDON, April 13 UP) Brit ish warplanes bombed the Ger man-held southwestern Nor (Continued on Page Six) : 'Ideal Existence' Ended by Sunburn, Mosquito Bites ' MIAMI, Fla., April 13 (ZD- Sunburned, mosquito-bitten and disillusioned, nearly half of a pioneering band of Californlans have abandoned their search for an "ideal existence" on a remote Island in the British West Indies. Little more than a month after forsaking civilization to colonize East Caicos, 700 miles southeast of here, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Lawrence returned yester day with word that nine of the original IB had left the island. Lawrence, a former San Fran cisco salesman, leaned across the rail of the motor vessel Monarch of Nassau and kissed the dock as he reached the mainland. Later he danced a jig. "I'll never go backTsald Mrs. Lawrence. "I've had enough." The couple, reluctant to ex plain details of their experience, said R. C. Irvine, .leader of the group, and his family also had deserted the Island which they found overrun with wild jack asses. The Lawrences declined to discuss reports that there had been dissension among the col onists. Magazine I'age i 1 ; Starting today, . tha Satur day Herald will carry a full magaslne and photograph page, made of local pictures and feature stories, as well as seleeted material of this kind from outstanding press services. 1 h . This aerial view made from a British airplane shows, according to a British approved caption, four seaplanes moored in the harbor of Bergea during a royal air force raid on this German-held Norwegian dry. Tha white blob at upper left la described as a falling bomb. This picture was radioed from London to Mew York. - ; ; ,. j RUMANIA REFUSES TO SUPPLY JUAZIS Embargo on Shipments Expected to Provoke Severe Protest . BUCHAREST, April 13 VP) Fears that German-Rumanian trade relations are rapidly near ing a crisis were expressed here today as Rumania suspended the loading of freight cars for the relch preliminary to Imposing an embargo on export of commodi ties needed for domestic use. The suspension of car loadings followed swiftly Germany's ac tion in banning export of a long list of articles to Rumania among them metallurgical coke, which is vital to the Rumanian ore Industry. Loading Suspended Loading of Danube river oil barges was suspended for sever al days, but Rumanian authori ties said that high water at Giu giu was responsible. German trade quarters called this ex planation a "pretext." Official sources said the eco nomic council of the Rumanian cabinet was drafting a list of raw materials which would be embargoed on the ground they are needed for internal con sumption. ': It was expected generally that this action would be followed by stiff demands from Germany perhaps insisting that Rumania cut her trade with the allies and (Continued on Page Six) Semon, Fatland Speak Out . On Fair Appropriation Vote Representative Henry Semon of Klamath Falls, and House Speaker E. R. Fatland of Con don, made public statements Saturday replying to the criti cism that followed' their action as state emergency board mem bers in voting against a $40,000 appropriation for Oregon's ex hibit at the San Francisco fair, The - two members of the house voted, specifically, against $18,500 appropriation from the emergency fund, which was to be matched with other money from the state highway funds, plus a $7000 carryover, from last year's exhibit, to- make a total of $40,000. . Their votes defeated the appropriation. Swede&SfrengthehsD xAs Norway Battles Germans STOCKHOLM, April 13 m Sweden made, urgent prenara- -tfons today to fight, If necessary, in defense of her 'neutrality while German troops and war planes strengthened the nazi hold on Norway.; - Along the southern Swedish coast, airfields were packed with parked taxicabs and other automobiles to prevent airplanes from landing. Throughout the country, bomb shelters hastily are being constructed and vehicles are being converted for burning charcoal in order to save preci ous gasoline. ' In No r w a y, meanwhile, a German -force - broke- through Norwegian defenses between Moss, 39 miles south of Oslo, and Holen, 10 ' miles closer to the capital. : Since the Ger mans -were advancing toward Oslo they were presumed to be newly-landed, troops pushing up the shore of . Oslo fjord to join the invaders' . expeditionary army. ? ; ! Advices reaching here said the German advance caught the Norwegians by surprise and they had no time to meet it. Defense troops, holding posi tions along the narrow fjord. had established a semi-circular line from Moss to Holen, east o Mys, northward, east of the river Glommen and lake Oleren to Romerlke, thence southward to Tyri fjord and Vikesund, which Is about 30 miles west of Oslo. : . . . . i Fortifications . were, being Semon made the following statement here Saturday: . . "I do not consider the pw posed appropriation for the fair as proper emergency item, and for that reason I voted against it. "This emergency fund serves to give some leeway to. hard pressed state departments oper ating under drastically reduced budgets, and to provide funds for such emergencies as exten sive forest fires, agricultural pest Infestations, or anything of a real and serious emergency nature. ' It is not a grab bag for any person or group who happen to have some scheme they want the state to finance (Continued on Page Six) thrown up In the .valleys to the northwest to bolster the; ring. The German ' advance 4mm Moss was said to have been ac complished in commandeered buses and automobiles and to have been impeded,' at least briefly, when a bridge was dynamited as "the first-bus crossed a stream. 1 . Klamath Students -Rated in Music . 'V.' GRANTS PASS,: April 13 VP) More than 200 musicians com peted today in the southwestern Oregon band and solo contests here, in instrumental and band divisions. Schools participating were Klamath Falls, Malta, Medford, Jacksonville, Ashland, Marshfield, North . Bend . and Grants Pass. In the instrumental contests Saturday morning, ratings of su perior included: Piano, Lloyd Pearson, Klamath Falls; violin, Louise Burton, Klamath Falls. The ratings of excellent in cluded: - French horn, Joseph Schmoll, Klamath Falls; comet, Victor Vasak, Malta; trombone, George Burton, Klamath Falls. (Friday's ratings on page 3.) Mayor Sentenced In Idaho Killing TWIN FALLS, Idaho, April 13 (P) Duncan McD. Johnston, 40-year-old former mayor of Twin Falls, was today sentenced to Ufa imprisonment for the murder of George L. Olson, Salt Lake City jewelry, salesman. - Olson was found shot to death in his automobile, parked by a hotel, in May,' 1938. The state contended part of Olson's sam ples were found buried in John ston's jewelry shop. . Johnston was convicted and sentenced to life but last Jan. IS was granted a new trial by the Idaho supreme court. Allies Granted New Bomb Planes WASHINGTON, April 13 VP) Great Britain and France were given official permission by the war department today to place orders for a new model Douglas attack bomber believed to be the world's fastest of the type. It was the fourth type of army plane released for sale abroad under the administration's relax ed export policy. DIES REPORTS BED -; Russia, Germany Claimed Planning Puppet State in North America ! WASHINGTON. April 13 UP) Rep. Dies (D-Texas) said today he had information that Russia and Germany were plotting; to bring on a revolution in Mexico and set up a puppet government on the door-step of the United States. The house investigator told newsmen that communist Russia was keeping alive, for use in a Mexican upheaval, "the same organizations" which functioned In the Spanish civil war.- . Brigade Probed This information, the Texan declared, constituted one of the reasons why his committee on un-American activities was ques tioning veterans of the Abraham Lincoln brigade, an organization of Americans who fought for the Barcelona government in Spain. Dies said that 5000 to 6000 Americans were recruited' by communists for the brigade and that a military .force, of similar strength "might turn the decis ion" in Mexico. He was inform ed, he added, that communist organizations In the United States were prepared to begin a new recruiting drive for a Mexi can coup. - . - ; 10.000 Arrivals 1 The committee head said that his informants included "elec tive officials" in Mexico and "one or two United States sena tors," all of whose names he withheld. "Among the things they told him, he declared, was that 10,000 communists already , . (Continued on Page Six) . ' Shrine Dance '-;" v. Staged Tonight ' ; Several hundred Klamath res idents will dance tonight In or der that boys and girls of the Pacific northwest may walk. The annual. Shrine ball wiU be given in the armory with Archie Legg's band from Yre ka providing music and special entertainment.- ------ - J. Fred Flock, dance ' chair- man, reported an excellent sale of tickets with more than $500 turned over to the committee before the ' dance Saturday night. The-public is Invited to attend the affair, all money going to the Shrine hospital for crippled children in -Portland. LONDON April 13 (ffj Led by the great battleship Warspite, the British fleet today nenetrat. ed the fjord of Narvik, Norwe gian ore port, and sank seven. German destroyers, tha admiral ty announced tonight German - soldiers - were be lieved to have fled from Nnril over the hills. .-. damaged slightly, with loss of life believed to be small. It waa thm . HMnrf - naval attack ,on, Narvik th- first was Wednesday, when two ; British destroyers and at least one German. , destroyer - were sunk. --. , : .r , . - : . - The admiralty stated: "Since tha attsrlr man destroyers in Narvik on Wednesday by the second de stroyer flotilla, this flotilla, with reimorcemenu, naa Deen block ading the enemy in Narvik fjord. Sail Into Fjord '' fThi morning at about noon H. M. 8. Warspite, accompanied by -elrentf-force of destroyer ' using 1 minesweeptag and , other BDDlianees. advanced itn tha fjord to attack the German da- nroyers, some of them already damaffed. whn went. hltHn in the harbor,- and also to engage any shore batteries which might have been- erected. ' "Acrnrrifnff in ' mwwt ' wf.lf.1. have, been received from tha commander in chief. Vice Ad miral . Whlhsnrth hntaMntf 4h flag in the Warspite, command- ea we anacs, wnacn was ex tremely successful. found to be remarkably severe. -.. -. .Others Flee "A field howitzer which had been, mounted ashore was put out of action by tha fir, of H. M. S. Cossack. : "Four' German destroyers were shattered and sunk in Nar vik bay. . 'Three others fled up Hum- bahs fjord, a small inlet eight or nine miles, long behind Narvik town, v -it:.; '.:..'! .-.-.-m---,'. "These also were pursued and destroyed. --: "At the moment of Issuing this communique, the admiralty is not precisely informed as to conditions in Narvik town. "Parties, of men, possibly Ger man soldiers, have been seen es caping from it over, the hills, and further details are awaited.. "No estimate can be made at present of German losses in per sonnel, but the seven destroyers sunk must have counted -over 1000 men. - . -"The admiralty has signaled congratulations : to Commander- in-Chief Admiral sir cnanea Forbes, to Vice Admiral Whit worth, and to the officers and men engaged in ' this vigorous, daring and skillfully conducted attack, which may well tend to clarify the situation on this part of the Norwegian coast ,-; "Operations are still proceed ing." :.! i. .. ' YEARS' '" WASHINGTON, April 13 VP) Justice Frank Murphy, newest member, of the -supreme court, is 47 years old today. . News Index . Building Page ' ....Paga 19 City Briefs .. -.Page ; S Comics and Story Page a Courthouse Records .fage Editorials : -..Page '4 Garden Tips Page 'T H eh School News .Fag a Market Financial ..Page . 7 -.Paga 4 ...Page ' 1 ...Page 4 Pattern ' Potato Table .... Right or Wrong Sports .Page 13 Society .Pages 8, 9, 10, 11 Weather . Page 8 Weekend Page Page 14
