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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1940)
'1 WEATHER High 7t Law 10 PRECIPITATION , COVERAGE. ' The Herald and News blink! a rich egrU ultural and Industrial amplra ei Bauthtia Oragon and Northern Calif oinla - i aM )r-i z T- 1 iiiiii iiiniiiiiiu . ) In The 'Day's Br FRANK JENKINS IMAGINE yourself In tha ttandi at tha yaar'a big foot ball game. A tricky surprise play has been sprung. The field brokon players running In very direction, aimlessly so far as your eye can at tne moment delect. Nobody (In the stands at least) Is sure who has tha ball. If, In such a situation, you are able to say Instantly and without hesitation who will win tha foot ball game, you ought to ba able to say now who will win tha war, , npHE allies expected a stabilized , war of attack against heavily 'fortified positions. They got. In stead, a war of amazingly swift movement v In war, as In football, tha other fellow (if he la smart) so often down t do what you expect him to do and are all loaded for. ' Vf ANY excitable 'people are x 1 saying that wa should go at once to tha assistance of tha ob viously hard pressed allies and : do It before It is too lata. . .This disturbing question is . prompted by recent testimony given before congressional .com' mittees: ".-' ;- :- - "WITH WHATT" ."; ', ; l i " ', fENERAL MARSHALL, army chief of staff, testifying a few days ago before tha senate sub-committee on military ap propriations, said that at present tha regular army could put only 78,000 modornly equipped men Into the field. : Major H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, told the same committee that of the army's present fleet of 2700 planes perhaps HALF A DOZEN could be modernized. DUT,". you say, If you are : XJ ....... M. i ..... about the navy?" ' If you were using the navy to stop the German advance in Franca and Belgium, just how Would you go about It? i t Tf you are wise, you will come ' to tha conclusion that Instead ot Galahading Into somebody else's war we'd better stay at home and prepare to defend our selves If attacked. i e e x CENATOR CLARK ot Missouri i estimated the other day that In seven years we have appropri ated soven billion dollars for defense and added that we're now appropriating two billions more. ? ' If testimony being given In Washington Is accurate, we haven't got mucb for the seven billions already spent and will do welt to sea that wa GET MORE for tha two billions being appropriated. order Closed Iletween Albania, Jugoslavia i , SKOPLJE, Yugoslavia, May 21 UP) Tho frontier ' between Yugoslavia and Italian-held Al bania was closed late today by Italian order. News of the border closing was received hero shortly after the announcement in Rome that Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Cano was leav ing for Tirana, capital ot Al ' banla, now part of tho Italian empire; ; Reports filtering across tho frontier to Yugoslav military quarters hore said the Italian army had speeded up transport ot largo quantities of war ma terials across the Adriatic to tho Albanian port of Durazzo. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Press f J May 81, 3015 German air- snips bombard Przemysl, ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS " , mmi mmi III FLOOD AREA BEING RAISED Detour Plan May Be Out as Crews Speed Fill for Finish in 10 Days Tha state highway depart ment Tuesday launched a high- steed construction program on tha established right-of-way of Tha Dalles-California highway near Algoma, where flood waters covered the pavement to a depth of three feet after a dike break last Saturday. Indications were that tha department would rush through the repair ot the main highway, rather than con struct a detour around tha flood area, as had been planned. The problem of obtaining right-of-way, It was learned, had showed the start on tha detour. Without further delay, tha high way department started work on its own right-of-way, raising tha old grade above tha water level. .Fast Work It was pointed out that this Job requires a fill of 8000 feet, but that H could ba completed almost aa quickly as tha con struction of detour. Two hundred fifty feet of fill had already ' fclen .Installed on the south and by Tuesday afternoon, and work was being rushed from bcth ends. . ; One shovel and 10 trucks were in use on tha southend, and ona shovel and five trucks on the north end. Crews were working two shifts on each end, and It was expected three shifts would ba Instituted aa soon as practi cable. W. E. Chandler, division engi neer, said the fill should ba fin lshed and traffic restored In not mora than 10 days. Permanent Value The fill on the regular high way grade, It was pointed out, will be of permanent value, while a detour would be in use only while such a fill Is being completed. Highway officials pointed out that tha detour would have saved time in restoring traffic had it been possible to start work on It Monday morning. Because of the delay, however,' the per manent construction will be fin ished virtually as soon as the detour would have been con structed, and there will be no loss of money on temporary construction. The flood, It was learned Tuesday, has caused consider able trouble for the Kesterson Lumber corporation. Kesterson's logging road terminates at the edge of the flooded area, and ordinarily logs are . loaded at this point on rail road cars. They are then moved over the Algoma logging railroad to the main line of the Southern Pacific and on into the company's plant at Klamath Falls. The flood waters washed oul tha Algoma railroad.- Kester son's arranged Tuesday to recon struct this railroad grade above the water level, and will rush truckloads of material from the top of the hill Into the flood area for this purpose The company moved quickly to prevent inter ruption of its log supply. -. 7-Year-Old Hoy Shot by Mother MANITOWOC, Wis., May 21 W) Jackie Verlaan, 7, who the police said was shot three times last night by his mother, died In Holy Family hospital today. ' Police- Lieut. Aaron Peterson said the mother, Mrs. J. H. Ver laan, about 37, was detained. Tha shooting occurred in the Verlaan home. Officers Charles Denor and Molvln Relnhardt said Mrs, Ver laan told them: "I've killed my boy. If he doesn't die,, you'll kill him for me it you take him away with you, won't you? Because I've got a lot of other people to kill." - , .. Mailing Red Members of the Junior Red Cross ara helping the Red Cross office here these davs mailing out letters to members in the drive to gather funds for war relief in Europe. Shown above, left to right are Vivien Kllrnes, Arlene Searles and Evelyn Nelson. NAW SEEKS HUGE E 10,000.' Planes Proposed in Legislation on WASHINGTON. , May 2V VP) Naval air strength of not less than- 10,000 planes and 10,000 pilots to man them was proposed in; legislation introduced today by house and senate naval com mittee chairmen after a confer ence with President Roosevelt and ranking admirals. ; ' Senator Walsh (D-Mass.) and Rep. Vinson (D-Ga.), the chair men, announced in a Joint state ment after - the White House meeting that the chief execu tive proposed to use $100,000, 000 to expand naval aviation facilities and personnel. , This amount, the two legislators said, would be taken from the $250, asked for thelcmfwyvbgkcmfw 000,000 emergency appropria tion asked tor the navy last week by the president, as part ot his $1,182,000,000 emergency program. . , . Naval Bases In addition to the Increase In tha number of airplanes and pilots the legislation would authorize the navy to establish and develop naval aviation bases costing $124,132,000. . The additional airbases rec ommended in the bill, Walsh and Vinson said, are essentially those recommended to congress last year by the Hepburn naval survey board. Bases listed for construction and the amounts Involved in cluded: ... San Juan, Puerto Rico, $2, 330,000; Coco Solo, Canal Zone, $12,690,000; Seattle, Washing ton $4,670,005; Kodlak,. Alaska $2,012,000-. Pearl : Harbor, Ha waii,' $5,807,000; Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, $578,000; Midway Is land, $1,870,000; Wake Island, . . (Continued on Page Six) Ellis Holds Lead With 1 Unit Oat PORTLAND, May 21 Rex Ellis of Pendleton led his fellow townsman, Roy Ritner, 11,247 to 10,391, for the demo cratic congressional nomination today with 413 ot the second Oregon congressional - district's 414 precincts tabulated. .. PORTLAND, May 21 (Re publican . delegates to the 1936 convention and 1940 delegates elect will meet Thursday to act on a proposal that Ralph Cake, Portland, succeed the late Ralph Williams, national committee man, immediately. ONTARIO, May 21 UP) Mal heur county apparently record ed Its first dead-heat race at the voting polls last Friday, With all precincts tabulated John Molenaar of Ontario and Harry Wells of Vale each had 646. votes for democratic nom ination as county Commissioner. I IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, MAY 21, Cross Letters &ejC'4i House Bedis Move 6 Lift Relief Fund WASHINGTON, May 21 W The house defeated today an effort- to Increase r next .year's proponed relief -fumt from. $875 J nrt nnA n ail nnn nnn ..t t.f 000.000 to $2,232,000,006.; - Rep. Casey (D-Mass.) who of fered the amendment, said that the larger sum would enable tha WPA to help 3,000,000 per sons, compared with 1,900,000 at present - and an average slightly in excess of 1,700,000 contemplated In the: pending measure. His amendment was beaten 144 to 54, on a teller vote. President Roosevelt .urged congress today to remove a re lief bill cost limit on WPA projects and contended that advocates ot the limitation could "be charged with a desire to return to boondoggling." The president. In a letter- to Rep. Cannon (D-Mo.), expressed opposition to provisory in the federal project to $50,000 and the federal contribution to a non-federal project to the same amount. "The commissioner , of works projects." the letter said, "in forms me that the proportion of relief labor on large construc tion projects Is in many cases greater than on small projects and, furthermore, that the over all proportion of relief labor on all construction projects now In operation is between 96 and 97 per cent." , . BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE . R. H. E. Chicago 3 . 12 0 Brooklyn - 4 6-1 Passeau and Todd, .Wyatt: Mungo (4), PressneU (9) and Franks. ' . . - - , - President Vetoes Illvcr-llarbonr Bill WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP) President Roosevelt vetoed to day a bill authorizing appro priations of $109,985,450 for river and harbor Improvements and surveys. In a message to the house, he said he believed projects al ready authorized supplied "a sufficient backlog" and that "re gardless of every other consid eration, It seems to me that the non-mllltary activities of the war department should give way. at this time to the need lor military preparedness." FIVE MISSING PARIS, May 21 W) Three drivers 'and an inspector were reported missing tonight by the American volunteer ambulance corps, bringing the total to five since the German drive began.. .' , ', PARTING t NEW YORK, May 21 () After seven years ot married life Jack Dempsey and his wife, the former Hannah Williams, have agreed to a parting of ways. m A Brita in F e ars lavas io n GERMAN DRIVE BRINGS NAZIS WITHIN RANGE British Cruiser Sunk as Islands See Darkest Hour of Conflict LONDON, May 21 (AP) Loss of the 9550-ton cruiser Ef fingham and the minelayer Princess Victoria was announc ed today by the admiralty on the darkest day of the war for Britain, menaced . by threat of nazi Invasion. However, while German me chanized units drove relentless ly toward English channel ports from which invasion could be launched by aea and- air - on England as it was on Norway, British ' newspapers appeared With headlines saying: "Enemy attacks beaten off' and "New attacks on Aisne and Rethel repulsed.", . , V - . jwf1 - a V i ' TntraairBW A T3iHtti la fuM. - HiawvH"vt wtiMut a os- fectly .feasible," declared ' The Daily - Express., published by Lord Beaverbrook, minister ' of aircraft production. ... "But it cannot be successful if we are prepared.'.-' -; War . Secretary Anthony Eden told tha house of commons that response to the call for local defense volunteers ' had - been "satisfactory."-- ' " - r Prime Minister Churchill sat between his predecessor. NeviUe Chamberlain, now lord presi dent of the council, and Eden at the first session of commons attended by his new ministers. "Isolated Tanks" A British military spokesman declared that "certainly" no large German columns had reached Amiens, although he acknowledged that -"a tew iso lated tanks" may have pene trated there. (The Germans declared they had taken not only' Amiens but also Arras and Abbeville in thrust to within about 15 miles of the English channel.) - Battle Confused . ' The spokesman said the west ern front battle, however, was "more confused than ever, with everybody behind, everybody else's lines." . . "Bands of German tanks wan dering about living on the coun try," he said, are thrusting a wide salient Into France, but are "becoming more vulnerable to counter attack" and "the French hold many places from which" to deliver such blows, The new German pressure came as Britain suffered these naval reverses: 1. The 9550-ton cruiser .Ef fingham was lost "as a result ot damage sustained through striking an uncharted rock off the Norwegian, coast." It was the first cruiser Britain has re ported officially lost since the start of the war. 2. Four British merchant ships totalling 8995 ' tons and one allied vessel of 316 tons admittedly were sunk "by enemy action" during the week ended May 10. , ! 3. The sinking of the British minelayer Princess Victoria by a German mine with two. of ficers and 31 men missing and feareu lost was announced. (In Berlin-, the high command reported damaging hits on a British 'battleship and heavy cruiser off the Norwegian coast as well as destructive air raids on' merchant shipping and French war , vessels on the French-Belgian coast.) : .': J i DUKE HURT . t. LONDON, May 21 W The Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George VI, was, disclosed tonight to be suffering from cuts caused by bomb explosions' on the Franco-Belgian front, UNITED PRESS 1940 Number 8981 Nazis Nearlng Coast ' is nm o7-. ' RHEIM t, ; , White arrow In upper left tha English channel, reached by day.-.. Partner - up tha Somme oasis In a drive springing from 72 -Hours '-of -Blasting in France Opens Road Ahead of Troops . By DREW MIDDLETON .' ". With the British Expedition ary Force In France, May 21 VP) (Delayed: Passed by ; Military Censor) The German air force, sowing death by' day and night, has bombed objectives far be hind the fighting lines in 72 hours of extensive operations. i (NOTE: This dispatch was written before Middleton return ed to London with other corres--pondents, on orders of the BEF). : At the same time, the raiding planes undoubtedly are aided by spies working ; with nazl para chute, troops; who destroy com munication lines, signal filers at night, gather military informa tion and encourage panic behind the lines by .wild rumors of de feat. Refugees Pack Towns Until the confused situation on the western front settles into some form of stabilization such operations axe expected to con tinue, with the allies taking what measures they can, where they can, to meet them. The town in which I am writ ing is packed with refugees some Dutch, some Belgian, some French.- .. " ' . , . .Here, as elsewhere, counter espionage : is handicapped by these surges of population. With the entire nation on the move, all a parachutist needs to become a "refugee" is a bicycle, tattered clothes, and ft forged identifica tion card. Rumors run through every town.' There is wild talk of revolution in Paris, breaks in the defense lines and the land - (Continued on Page Six) .; Klamath National ; Guard Officers ' Win Promotions , ' SALEM, May 21 '(P) Ap pointment of three officers and promotion of two others, all five living in Klamath Falls and be ing assigned to the 249th coast artillery units stationed there, were announced by the national guard today. First Lt. George D. Powell was promoted to captain and as signed to command Battery C, organized last month. Second Lt. John F. Olln was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to Battery A. ' ' All three new officers are for mer non-commissioned officers ot Battery. A, and have been ap pointed second lieutenants. They are: William A. Delzell, assigned to Battery A; and Jack R, Wood and Thurlow V. Wauchope, both assigned to Battery C. ' RHEIM S ( - 1 . GERMAN BOMBERS ; SOAR OVER LIS 24 noun to a a. m. .. Season to data Normal precipitation Lest yea to data ------ ' - ri - i - t VERDUN FRANCE - . Indicates Abbeville. 12 miles from German advance guards. Tues river is Amiens., captured by the tha forked attack at St. Quentin. .vi.. y,t m r; -7 Above b . General Maxima Weygand who-replaces Maurice Gamelin as chief of the allied troops. His is the job of attack ing to stop the devastating Ger man drive behind the Maglnot jj... ...... ..., - Italy Toiieh' On Brink of H European War ROME, May 21- - (flV-Italy, Germany's non-belligerent ally, appeared today to be preparing to enter the war as she ordered blackouts and air raid drills, in her chief Industrial areas for a three-day test beginning tonight. Speeches of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Cianno in Milan and Cremona, in which he said that Italy awaits only "the order of the day" from Premier Musso lini "when he will have decided upon it," increased the feeling among Italians that they might be called shortly to fight on one of their frontiers. Diplomatic , circles attached significance to an article by Gio vanni Ansaldo, editor of Count Ciano's newspaper- II Telegrafo, "the hour is near when our in fluence on the course of. events must be more active." When Italy does move, ' he added, one ot its objectives will be "territorial increases." ; ' He : declared that, : although Britain and France undoubted ly would react differently now to Italian clalros than they did 18 months ago, it would be "too late"; t - i s . Telephone . connections . be tween Rome and London, mean while, remained suspended.- ' The possibility of Italy's en trance Into the conflict in the immediate future was: indicated further by the -air raid, drills, which were the first ordered since the opening days of the war last September. The drills were ordered for Rome province, Terni, 43 miles northeast, where great, arms and munitions factories are operating at top speed, Milan; Turin and Genoa. . . . - - -.. Numiann " aasBeaaasaaBBaBBaasaaaeaaaa.aaaa ,m - ,rmnn innnrin.tl MM mm ARMY WITHIN 68 MILES CAPITAL CITY Mechanized Forces Drive . Along Somme to Town i '' 12 Miles Inland - - By The Associated Press ' ' Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg leg. ions stormed today within sight of the Eiffel tower in Paris, 68 miles , away, and . scored a 25. mile break-through in the west to capture 'Amiens and Arras ut the race to the English channel. Small detachments of German motorcycle troops also penetrat ed to the outskirts of Abbeville. just ii miles- irom the channel, a spokesman admitted in Paris. ' -. faults on, Mens ' The nazi high.' command - re ported the capture of Abbeville. . Premier Reynaud . of Franc assailed the French - high . com mand for "Incredible . faulta", vhMftHfffrtKcefi German armor ecj columns to "inflict "dlsaste i f total disorganization" oa the French army defending the Meuse -river- front: the gateway : l. h. ; - .'. T .-. - - Specifically, Reynaud blamed! the high command for failure to blow up Meuse river bridges to stall' the ' mechanized German onslaught , "Miracles" Dramatically, he cried to a grave-faced French parliament: .francs cannot die) - If a miracle is needed, to save France, I believe in miracles." Painting a dark picture, Rev- naud admitted the Germans had seized Amiens, site of the his toric cathedral of Notre Dame. and Arras in the drive- to tha channel. - . ... .' . 'We must take immediate de cisions,". Reynaud told- tha French senate, freely confessing that the classical French concept of war had; been jarred by swift-striking nazi mechanized raids and parachute troops. . The - German high command also- declared its forces -had smashed their way to Abbeville, 12 miles from the English Chan nel. If - true, it would . imperil the position of more than 550,. (Continued on Page six) Cily Not to Start Traffic Signals - - -In Near Future ' ; - 4.-, - . .. ' Voters put the stamp of ap proval ' on the purchase of a new street sweeper and the in stallation of traffic lights, but these two features will not be added to city operations im mediately..' ..;':' Mayor- Clifton Richmond said Tuesday the traffic signal and street sweeper levy would be made and - collected with tha 1941 taxes. The street sweeper will cost $7900, and Klamath's share in the installation ot street lights "will be the same amount. The state will share the balance, or an additional $7500 on, traf fic signals. Mayor Richmond stated he would discuss the- matter of in stalling signals with the city council and act on recommenda tions of that body in regard to contacting the state highway department and making in quiries as to Immediate con struction of the lights. .. . : . News Index. " Camp Fire News... Page 8 City Briefs ..Pages 8, 6 Comics and Story -.Page 3 Courthouse Records Page 4 Editorials .Page 4 Market, Financial .Page 10 Marriage Question ...Pago 4 Midland Empire News, Page 7 Pattern Page 4 Sports Pages 8, 9 Veterans Column ..-Vig9 A Weather ...... ....-... Page S
