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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1940)
WEATHER High 74, Lew 48 j -PRECIPITATION 24 hour to I a. m,......00 Season to data Normal praciplutloo .10.45 Last year to data .........T.03 COVERAGE ' The Herald and News blanket rich agrl cultural end Industrial empire of Southern Oregon and Noitham California W IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND , UNITED PP , yNTB KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., MONDAY, MAY 13, 1940 Number 81 UNITED PRESS "" mm' nAn.n.i.n.inn.nnniin o)M A M ....fill! i - j ; ....... .. . , : ' n Mmm smhm. mum mm Crash In The News By FRANK JENKINS TllTLKfVS major drlvo through 11 Holland and Belgium hed , at leait llttla new Kght on Hrltaln'i mild effort In Norway. " Tha British secret servlco mint hava known something of the lmiendlng smash through the low eountrlei, and tht BrltUh high command wai probably afraid of being caught off bal ance If It threw In too heavy a fore agatniit Hitlers Norwegian adventure. ' ' 4 1 TTHE drlva through Holland A and Belgium aluo Indicate that tha blockade it pinching Hitler more than hai been ad mitted. U tha blockade wa a much of a Joka ai ha ha eon tended, ha could hava afforded to alt tight and wait for Jhe ai lr to attack. About all Hitler needed to win tha war wai to hold, what he ha already taken, i '' -VR. William axling, a . V. veteran missionary , tooths 1 n-i,it 1U tha Oreuon Baotutt convention that Chrittanlly 1 tha only possioie nop tor per manent peace between China and Japan. Tha Golden Rule: "Do y un to other a ye would that other ahall do unto you" Is about the only possible hope lor peace ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. A long a nation continue to act on the rule of "do the other t.iinw hifor ha has time to do you," peace can't ba much more than a beauuiiu aream. -R. KARL MEYER, of the Hooper Foundation of the itntuaraitv nf California, warn beach-goer that the mussels found o abundantly on the rock along the Pacific Coast contain the nost potent poison known to cionco. They feed on polionou marina fbod brought in hv tha lummer ocean cur f rent, and he ay It 1 definitely unsafe to eat tnem aiier mm June, even on the Oregon coast, where they are let dongcrou than In California. Tha warning 1 watcd on this nriinr. who decline to risk death for something he doesn't cara for anyway. KJUSHROOMS, of course VA different. There' I course, are o m e aense in taking a chance on any thing as delicious as meet mum' room.) t' ' t l-kODENTS. Dr. Moyer add K nrrv vlvatlc dIbHUO. 10 It advise itrongly against playing with chipmunk. - I h. ( arirlrcMlnff adult, it might a well be added here that anyone who naa nouung otu to do In theso hectio days than to play with chlpmunKS can -probably be spared. wwrvUTflJ hi-lnif lin th thnUllht V that anyone who will eat mussels In a country wncre teak can bo had wouldn't be missed much. FRACTURED PELVIS TULELAKE Marion Craw, mnr. 24. of tha Hovallna apart ments here Is In tlio Yrcko hos pital with a fracture of the pelvis received In an accldont near Oleno over the weekend. Crawmcr and a companion, whraii nnme was not loarned. wcro In a light runabout that turned over 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Anoclattd Press' 4 May 13, 1018 United States I demands reparation for loss of American lives in Lusitanla sinking; declares American cltl- J zens arc free to travel. Kills Hose Ileauly nt . . i j J i.tA .lllitliW.M'liH''MlllM i I nil IOTVI7 pflimiH V HlWiwe awa m " of Mr. Mary McCaskty of Madford, -was brought to the Klamath ... - 1 ti i..w ,hn Mondir by Mrs. J. W. c Bits nsmini . y ' Jacobs, mother of Lae Jacob, a Snadlcor. Both Mrs. jaeoo ana 1 l Dm oiovsoniB wiiu ww.-- Wtli tuiwa me iiow.r .now elty library. Xeft to right. Mr. Lee Jacobs 01 tius city . F Mrs. Lucas Found Injured on Sidewalk Beside East Main Store Mr. Franklin M. (Evallne) Lucas, 69, prominent Klamath Falls matron, is In a critical condition at Hillside hospital suffering from injuries thought to have been received In a fall early Monday morning at her home on East Main street. Mrs. Lucas' is suffering from a fractured pelvis, broken leg and hip, and fracture of both Jaws. She is alio thought to have internal injuries. Late Monday afternoon Mrs. Lucas was reported In a semi-conscious condition. Inspecting Roof Her two children, Mrs. James Howard of Dtinsmulr, Calif., and Marvin K. Lucas of Klam ath Falls, are at her bedside. Details of the accident were not available, although it Is thought the elderly woman foil (Continued on Page Eight) Litkeview Suffers Mow From War; Factory Closes Although several thousand miles from the war In Europe, Lake county has suffered a busi ness casualty which is a direct result of thot conflict. ' A young and going concern, the Lakevicw Cedar company, manufacturers of pencil stock and one of the very few mills of its kind on the Pacific coast, had to shut down because of the sud den cancellation of all its orders. Tho orders originated in England and English money financed the concern. Employing about 35 persons, the company had planned to In crease its personnel to 150 by en larging and adding new depart ments. How soon the mill ' will operate again is not certain, but because of the success already attained, plans are being worked upon at this time which may put the plant back into early production. , Company officials said It has a fins source of raw materials, the hill near Lakevlew grow ing cedar and Juniper trees par ticularly desirable as pencil stock. Local Flower Show MnaaAma from thai flfaUdftlM of thto city, and MUs in an s.JI.a.M foMiM 1UIv1 Inert . m v ... . . . ntl sdmliad bv tha throna - , , - , . . - ... .... -: yacoD. nw mm Siren Shrteks -Signal Start Of Fire Week Set off by the shriek of the Southern Pacifio siren, a long parade of fire prevention units and several band and marching groups traveled down Main street at noon Monday to mark tho opening of Stop Forest Fire week. The annual affair, sponsored by the American Legion, was given an unusually noisy send' off because of the need this year more than ever before for the utmost precaution against forest fires. Forest officials believe this summer's forest fire hazard will be one of the worst on rec ord due to the extreme mildness of the past winter. Sirens, bands, auto horns and the Southern Pacific whistle at tracted, large crowds on the streets to watch the parade go by, Entrants, in, the order of their marching, were as follows: City police, state ' police, Klamath Falls fire department, Klamath Union high school, national park service, Indian service, ChilO' quln high school, state fire pre vention department, forest ser vice. Forest officials said that due to the unprecedented lack of snow in the hills during the past winter it is possible to pene trate the forested areas farther at the present time than at corresponding time in any pre vious year on record here. Con sequently, the summer months are expected to create an ex tremely high fire hazard. Stop Forest Fire week was (Continued on Page Eight) House Passes BUI For War Pensions WASHINGTON, May 13 UP) Legislation to pension the de pendant widows, children and parents of every deceased world war veteran, regardless of the cause of his death, was passed today by the house and sent to tho senate.. Rep. Rankin (D-Miss.), spon sor of the measure, and others contended it would take care of the dependants of many veter ans whose deaths resulted Indi rectly front their war service, whilo opponents maintained it would reduce the funds available for the widows and orphans of men killed In action and for dis abled veterans who, they held, were more deserving of assis tance, t) Youth CAR RUNS OFF HAY, HITS Earl L. Wisecarver Dies Instantly, Companion Injured Seriously Earl Lee Wisecarver," 20, to dead, and Floyd Springer, 18, Is In a critical condition at Klamath Valley hospital as the result of an automobile acci dent which oc curred at 3:30 o'clock Sunday 3 morning: when W 1 a e e arver's car (truck the concrete railing Klamath Auto ! of the McCol- loll In 1MO 1 u m ' mill; bridge on the Ashland-Klamath Falls highway, and crashed on the Klamath river bank 25 feet below. ' There were no witnesses to the accident, but police said Wisecarver was driving the car west toward Ashland at the time of the crash. The car ao- pareoUy left tho.jhlghway--n rode along the shoulder for a stretch of 100 feet before strik ing the railing. Sent into the air by the Impact, -the car over turned and . rolled down the embankment. Wisecarver was Instantly killed, it is believed. Serious Injuries Young Springer has a broken neck, serious back injuries, and other hurts, hospital authorities stated. Wisecarver was born In Dor ris, Calif., January 14, 1020. He Is survived by his mother, Mrs. Emma Wisecarver of the Hen ley district; ''and five brothers, Cecil, Lyle, Jack, Lester and Ray, all 01 the Klamath area and three sisters, Maxlne of Portland, and Dorothy and Catherine o f Klamath. The young man was employed by Dalton and Evans company, po tato dealers,, at Hager. Remains ire it the Earl Whitlock Funeral home. Fun eral arrangements will be an nounced later. Hurt Saturday Night' Jess Frank Goheen, 36, Klam ath Falls, was recovering at Hillside hospital following an accident Saturday night at 11 o'clock at First avenue In St Francis park, and South Sixth street. Goheen's car crossed Sixth street and hit a tree, it is under stood. The accident victim suf fered two deep gashes on his lip . and chin, a severe cut on the knee, and had a number of teeth knocked out. He was reported recovering at Hillside hospital. Milton Hundley, 28, Bon anza buckaroo, suffered a com pound fracture of the left arm when he was thrown from a horse which he was breaking Sunday afternoon. Hundley is In Klamath Valley hospital Another accident was report ed Sunday morning when D. L. Sauvageau, 26, 1335 Sargent street, suffered injuries in a fall from a horse. Sauvageau was hospitalized Sunday, re leased from Klamath Valley on Monday morning. He is an employe of the Balslger Motor company. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E New York 11 10 1 Boston 9 11 2 Vandenberg, Gumbert (5), and Danning; Sullivan, Lamanna (2), Javery (4), Callahan (5), Barnlcle (8), Early (9), tnd Lopez, Mast (4). -- v R H JG Philadelphia 3 7 i Brooklyn 6 11 2 Pearson and Warren, Atwood (8); Casey, Tamulls (6), and CONCRETE iL Phelps. British Bomb German-Occupied Airport In Rotterdam is t r Here is the Waalhavan airdrome, Rotterdam, taken from on the flsld, occupied by German nomas, trie a iiaaic-ieiepnotoj. iT JSOO.QOOjPOOAddifcional War Budget Funds May Be Asked for 1941 WASHINGTON, May 13 VP) President Roosevelt plans to send to congress this week a recommendation for more money for national defense. Stephen Early, presidential secretary, said the president at this time had no specific amount in mind, but would decide on some sum as a result of con ferences with his advisers on defense. One such conference, with war and treasury depart ment officials, was scheduled to day. Already pending before con gress are requests for upwards of $2,000,000,000 for defense re quirements in the year starting July 1. ' There has been con jecture that Mr. Roosevelt, in view of needs emphasized by the war abroad, might request another $500,000,000. It appeared likely that stronger mobile defense forces to safeguard the western hem isphere at any threatened point would figure in any revised es timates of armaments. WASHINGTON, May 13 m The war department estimated today approximately 310,000 of ficers and men of the regular army, - national guard and re serve corps would be under arms during the August man euvers. The figure, officials said, is an all-time high for peacetime (Continued on Page Eight) Queen WHIielmlna Lands In Britain LONDON, May 13 (fl) Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands came to London tonight as a refugee from her war-stricken country and was met at Liver pool station by King George, who welcomed her to England. She came only a few hours after the arrival of Crown Prin cess Jiiliana, heir to the Dutch throne, Prince Consort Bern hard and their two small daugh ters. Juliana and Bernhard also were at the station. A royal car took the party to Buckingham palace. "DUSTOUT" ALEXANDRIA, May 13 W) The allied battle fleet in the harbor and all Alexandria was engulfed today in a "dust-out." A dense, swirling sandstorm sweeping in from the desert, tossed sand in streets, homes and offices. Visibility was lim ited to a few hundred feet. British and French warships which had been patrolling the Mediterranean were forced to anchor In the harbor. ' parachute troops. Note crater . . . "Nerve Gas" May be New Nazi Weapon BERN, Switzerland, May 13 VP) A "nerve gas" which pene trates ordinary gas masks and renders its victims helpless and unable to coordinate their mus cles may be the "surprise wea pon" which enabled the Ger mans to capture Fort Eben Emael and thus drive an open ing wedge Into the Belgian de fense lines. . - That belief was expressed to day by neutral military attaches to Switzerland, through whose hands passes a great deal of the war s military information. They said a gas of this type had been developed in Germany and studied in other countries in recent months, ; and that soldiers inhaling it would be overcome by : lassitude and would stagger and fall. No HI Effects (Howard Blakeslce, Associat ed Press science editor, renaVts that the American Chemical so ciety at a meeting two years ago suggested that liquid acetyl choline, if it - came in contact with a wound or break in the skin, would make a soldier un conscious, for as long as an hour.) The military experts explain ed that the gas, said to leave no ill after-effects, to be al most impossible to detect but to smell fainUy like geraniums, (Continued on Page Eight) - Anti-Forest 7 T. rTAn FOREST FIRES 1 Tr t s 1 V,T?.1" tf'U The big sign on a moving truck tell the theme of Monday noon' parade, while the Klamath high school band blare martial muilc. Several of the uniformed bandsman are shown In the photograph. 3 A a British bomber durino a raid holes and flames from dropping ITALY REINFORCES LINES OF DEFENSE TT oAmy'BoEteredas Wave "of Anti-British Senti ment Increased i ROME, May 13 VP) In the midst of a rising anti allied campaign, Italy busily .rein forced her Littorio line of for tified positions along the west ern ' Alpine frontier facing France today and, according to Italian sources, ' called out ad ditional reservists to reinforce her army of 1,250,000 men. There were two major ex pressions of anti -allied senti ment, one a series of student demonstrations that brought out 500 soldiers and police to pro tect the British and French' em bassies, the other continued propaganda against' British French control over shipping in the Mediterranean. Dispursed , Troops and police prevented the student demonstrations from reaching the two embassies. Students who had marched through the streets with an Ital ian flag dispersed after spec tators said they had heard them shouting for war. In addition, Catholic sources announced that ' English and Scottish seminaries for student priests were being closed and (Continued on Page Eight) Fire Parade - . : DDnTFiT mm tire fc M ROJECT J " " a I FALLS BACK, LI Great Battle Started in West, Allies Announce; Planes Shot Down By The Associated Press . Savage intensification of the German onslaught in the low countries ' tonight (Monday) caused - French, : Belgian ar.d Dutch troops to fall back ac cording to plan, a French mill tary spokesman reported short ly after the French military had expressed belief tnat the nazi blitzkrieg appeared to be checked. ' ' The great "battle of the west," i the spokesman added, has started in its preliminary stages. - - ... ' . - 1100 Plane Hit Reports . from both side la the fast-developing conflict list ed a total loss of 1100 plane since the German invasion start ed May 10. The German said they had destroyed 700 allied planes; tha allies reported 400 German aircraft put out ox ac tion. . ..... ; ..i , A communique from Hitler'a headquarters, reported .328 al lied planes were destroyed lis single day's action, yesterday, including 58 ;in "air fights, 73 by anti-aircraft fire and the rest on the ground. - - . t-,- n "Our own losses, says 'tha Hitler communique, - -"were) slight again - yesterday. ; They consisted of 31 planes." '. The French compilation of German losses Included 34 shot down-: by French anti-aircraft guns, 88 by allied plane in France and Belgium, 60- de stroyed on the ground in The Netherlands, and the rest shot down in Holland and Germany. Dutch Stubborn Dutch troops fought stubborn ly behind their flooded defense lines below the Zuider Zee, while Belgian, - British ' and French forces battled side by side against sharp new attacks by German motorized invader in Belgium. ' ' Adolf Hitler's headquarter on the western front reported the capture of the great Liege fortress citadel in Belgium on the fourth day of the war It was here that Kaiser WU- (Continued on Page Eight) Churchill Gets Victory Mandate ; From Parliament ' . LONDON, May 13 (JP) Brit ain's new chief, Winston Church ill, gained a unanimous "win the war" mandate in parliament today after he .warned that "without victory there is no sur vival," either for the British em pire or what it represents. He presented his streamlined war cabinet, with its two labor lte members, as a cabinet of unity, and dedicated his coali tion government to a single aim: Vvlctory at aU costs." .' Parliament, summoned sud denly from vacation, gave him unanimous votes in both tha house of lords and the house of commons before adjourning to May 21. Two independent labor mem bers, James Maxton and Camp-, bell Stephen, forced the com mons to ballot on a resolution offered by Churchill that hi ministry represented "the united and flexible resolve of the na tlon to prosecute the war with Germany to victorious conclu sion." They shouted "no" when tha question of unanimous approval was raised but the vote they forced ended up 381 to 0 be ' cause they had to act as teller for i the "no" votes and could not vote themselves. ...' V News Index :; City Brief ......Page 8 Comics and Story Page 2 Editorials Page 4 Market, Financial ....Page 7 Midland Empire News ...Page 3 Pattern .... ........Page 4 Sports ..,Page 8, 1 Weather .... Jsg NS
