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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 -
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)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.
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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
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' RHEIM t,
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, 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.
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GERMAN BOMBERS
; SOAR OVER LIS
24 noun to a a. m. ..
Season to data
Normal precipitation
Lest yea to data
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t VERDUN
FRANCE - .
Indicates Abbeville. 12 miles from
German advance guards. Tues
river is Amiens., captured by the
tha forked attack at St. Quentin.
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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
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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. . . . - - -..
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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