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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1940)
emtoiq $ era WEATHER ' High Itr Low J PRECIPITATION ' 34 hours to a. m. .00 SaaiOB to data .....I7.02 Normal precipitation, .11.S0 Last rr to data .... 7.77 I; $1234.96 to Go T' Klamath county hat turned In $2765.04 of 111 ? $4000 quota for Rad Croii war raliaf. in f?Lirpni : ii i i i i i i i r !." -m i v ;: News By FRANK JENKINS ANOTHER bomUhrll bursts: Turkey ilia 4 new com mercial agreement with Ger many providing for exchange o( certain product to the extent o( 21.000.0UO Turkish poundi. It ia announced ai the remit o( "month of negotiation between the Turkish government and Franz von Papon, German am t bassador to Turkey. ' ' " Presumably Russia had a finger In the pie. W7HAT doe It mean? This wrltor doesn't know nd doubta If anyone outside the inner diplomatic circle know But It prove again (n history ha o amply proved before) that when war ahako Europe to It foundation It EVERY MAN TOR HIMSELF. . THE Jap-controlled "Chinese central government" at Nan' king demandi withdrawal of all troop, warahlpa and other armed force of European bel liferent In China. Tno demand Cite that tho Brltisii, the French and tha Italian all have armed forces in China, which may "re sult In aimed conflict developing to erlou proporuoni." - ' ' It li alto good excune to f kick everybody1 elst out of China, which 1 -tha real reason for tha demand, MORAL: f ' If you want U HE SOME BODY among tho nation, make 'Ourelf o big and (trong that all tha other nation will fear you with a great fear. Never mind about being ad' mired or respected that doesn't count In International relation. f . THE atock' market, when the allied cause first began to Jook definitely bad, went to pieces. Now, with tho now tnuch worse, It stages recoveries. ; The reason If ar.y. J, Recovery from the first and worst hysteria and hope that the American preparedness program Will result In bolter business and more profit. . THIS writer hope greatly that American business won't eek ,- to make BIO profit. Abnormal . profits, a wo learned to our cost in the last war, merely start ' vicious upward cycle that ends Jn Inflation. J The lower the price (allowing reasonable profit) the more can be had for the money available. JWORE OF EVERYTHING Is What we are going to need. v ,U. S. Launcher -Second Warship, 'North Carolina' . .. NEW YORK, June 13 W) treat grey-painted man-of-war, .christened tha USS North Caro- llnar by a daughter of that southern stato and heralded as an Important unit In national . defense, slipped down the ways of Brooklyn navy yard today. . Miss Isabel Yourfe Hoey, daughter of North Carolina's 'governor, smashed a bottle of .champagne against the bow of the $70,000,000, 35.000-ton bat tleship. Seconds later the ves lei, a sister ship of' the USS .Washington which wjis launched .at Philadelphia, Jurio 1, struck the water. , The ship, said Gqv. Cloyde R. Hoey, "commands our respect .and It will help u to command .tho respect of tho world. It speaks a longungo that even a .dictator can understand. It represents another effort of our great nation to provide an ade quate defense." , 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By Tha Associated Pre ,, June 13, 1018 Austrtans 'blow up forts as Italians occupy ) Mori and Rovcrto, strategic .points. ,' ASSOCIATED PRESS nnnrnnnnnarivvrLrLAAnjmrin.r PRICE Air Raids Continue BRITAIN SENDS BOMBERS DVEH THHEEFRDNTS Unrelenting Attacks on Norway, France, Af rica Carried Out By The Associated Pre LONDON, June 13 For the third day of unrelenting air at tacks, British filer dived through anti-aircraft fire today and came back to their bases with account of (mashed en emy hangar, ship set afire and troop and supply center blasted In Norway, France and Africa. Not a tingla raiding plane was reported lost but at home one ship plunged In flames, ap parently after hitting a balloon cable, and another drew the fire of Its own land batteries for a few minutes until It could bo Identified. , In Norway: t Bombers who groped, through mist and fog ' bombed Carman shipping in Bergen harbor by the duTri-ed glare of the fires they started along tha water front. A fort, an anti-aircraft battery and ships In the har bor were reported hit. A Ger man airdrome at Verne also was bombed, wrecking runways and hangars. German ground crew who rushed from their quarter were machine gunned by the diving planes. In the North sea: Plane "blind bombing' through fog attacked two Ger man destroyers, but could not see whether they were hit. In France: British navy fliers claimed their bomb blew up a German motor speedboat and damnged other ships and ammunition barges In the German-held port of Boulogne. Operating from bases In Egypt, the west coast province of Kenya and perhaps other field. British bombers contin ued raids on Italian ships, air dromes, and land supply and troop centers In Libya on the Mediterranean, Italian-conquered Abyssinia, and Eritrea along tho Red sea. Blenheim bomb ers were credited with direct hits on airdromes, forts and munitions dumps In Eritrea, and at Diredawa, Abyssinia. Mac- asca, near Assab, across the lower end of the Red sea from tho British protectorate of Aden, and objectives at the towns of Asmara and Gura were attack ed. Porta and Libya also were bombed a second time. Mean while fliers from Eqypt and (Continued on Page Six) BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE (10 Innings) R. H. E. Detroit .: 2 13 2 Cleveland 3 10 1 Rowe, Trout (8). and Tebbetts: Smith and Hemsley, Egypt Puts AH War liases in British Hands ALEXANDRIA. Eavot. June 13 iff) Egypt placed all her communication systems, air and naval bases and ports at tSa dis posal of Great Britain today and pledged her ally the "greatest possible assistance" in the war against Italy. Premier Aly Maher. Pasha de clared the nation would fulfill all her obligations under the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of friend ship, ' but intended to , refrain from any offensive action against itaiy although diplomatic rela tions had been severed. ' Since the 'alliance Is purely defensive, he continued, - the country does not intend to send an expeditionary force with the British if Libya or other Italian colonies were Invaded, but means to protect herself from attack. FIVE CENTS Lome Meet? h V' .ft", y I ' ''''' .. .... jrr-ii"(.(-i.-?iMJi ( i-r-aJWsSTSI . Samuel " F. Pryor, . above, ehatnnan,' of the OOP conten tion, commute on arrange mena,' "Started preparation for the 1840 convention at pnua delphla Thursday with the warning! "If w don't produc a leader to lead us out of this trouble (the new deal), this form of government i gone. It might be our last convention." Special Bill to Remove 'CIO Leader Sent to Senate for Action WASHINGTON, June 13 (IP) The house passed and sent to the senate today a bill to deport Horry Bridges, the CIO maritime leader on the west coast. ' -The measure would require the attorney general to take Bridges into custody and deport him. It also carried a declara tion that congress deems his presence in this country "hu't ful." ' Pa.ua go came after Rep. Mar- cantonlo (AL-N.Y.) read a letter from Bridges in which the labor leader denied charges of labor dictatorship and or irregular ities in his citizenship applica tlon papers and said "I apprecl ate and support" American con stltution, civil liberties and American democracy. When it began debate on the Bridges bill earlier in the day the house was told that the Aus tralian born labor leader was a "troublemaker" who had no business In this country, , Rep. Colmer (D-Miss.), who thus labeled Bridges, called the bill unusual legislation designed to meet an unusual situation. Rep. Marcantonio (AL-N.Y.) (Continued on Page Six) Senate Unanimous In Passing War lte)lef .Measure WASHINGTON, June . 13 (ff) The senate unanimously voted today a $50,000,000 war relief fund requested by " President Roosevelt. Senator Adams (D-Colo.) suc ceeded in attaching the proposal to the relief bill tlready passed by the hpusa after a brief ex planation. ..'... This automatically increased the total of the bill to $1,123,- 000,000. Under terms of the Adams provision the wnr relief funds must be spent in the United States to buy agricultural, medi cal and other supplies for refu gees of war torn Europe. HOUSE VOTES TO DEPORT BRIDGES IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, JUNE ITALY BOMBS F Norway, Belgium, Holland Call Envoys Home;$ Rome Mines Sea By The AssociaUd Pre ROME, June 13 UP) Nor wegian, Belgian ' and Nether lands diplomats prepared today to leave Rome (possibly the tig' nal of a breach of relations with Italy) as the soviet Russian am bassador returned to his post, an Indication of Improvement in relations between Italy and Russia. Italian government circles re frained from saying whether the departure of the Dutch and Norwegian ministers and their staffs and the Belgian ambassa dor and his aides would be the equivalent of a severance of diplomatic relations with Italy, now a war partner of Germany. Tha ' Italian .air 'force - last night. bomberX"the-Fxencu Med iterranean naval bases of Tou lon and Blzerta, tha high com mand announced, in Its. second communique of the war. . 'Huge fires were started and damage was caused to buff ings, at Bizerta, on -the Med iterranean south coast in French Tunisia, the communique said, and nine grounded planes were "put out of action." Ships Sunk Toulon Is in France proper east of Marseille. All Italian planes were ' said to have re turned safely. An Italian submarine in the Mediterranean "torpedoed a cruiser and a 10,000-ton tanker, tho communique said. ' The ves- (Continucd on Page Six) LATE NEWS FLASHES TOURS, France. June 13 (IP) Premier Raynaud in a radio speech late tonight said he had sent a last appeal loi help to day to President Roosevelt. He added that it was a "new and final" appeal. "The soul of Franc la not beaten." he said. "This life of France, however, is at stake." LONDON, June 13 (ff) A Reuters (British News agency) distpatch from Aden said that an enemy bomber presumably Italian was shot down when that British possession at the southern end of the Red sea was raided early today. Five Arabs were reported killed and six wounded in a series of three raids last night and this morning. BERLIN, June 14 (Friday) (?) The high command, in a special communique, said early today that the- German navy has destroyed 43 ships of the combined British. French and Norwegian war fleets during the Scandinavian campaign. , JERUSALEM, Juno 13 OF) Fitawari Bcrou, newl appointed commander-in-chief of Haile Se lassie's imperial forces in Eth iopia, is leaving Jerusalem by air today - to take the field against Italy in Ethiopia.. Berou, former minister of war under the Negus, declared in an inter view that "Now is our golden chance," , ' .. SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands,-June 13 (ff) The crew of the Italian steamer Malta was reported today . to have driven their ship aground at Las Galletas beach in the Can ary islands ' yestm-day . aftor : a French warship in hot pursuit had fired several shells at her. TI NAVY M A No The French government Thursday informed Berlin that no attempt will be made to defend .the city of Paris and that troop will not fight inside the town. This means that the Germans will be spared tha "necessity" of bombing the city as they bombed hire above was taken as French bombers staged a demonstration ever tha city. T Efforts Pushed to; Send More British Troops to Aid Weygarid . " LONDON, , June 13 CD- Trapped by masses of German troops, about 6000 British and French soldiers were captured at St. Valery - En - Caux on France's English channel coast, it was disclosed today.' as Brit ain rushed thousands of troops, guns and tanks across the chan nel, to support the French de fenders of Paris. "Fresh reinforcements are in line and fighting under French orders," military informants said. The capture of allied troops at St Valery occurred as they were running short of ammunition and reduced ' to pinched food rations. . xHigh cliffs and heavy fog pre vented the escape Dy sc-a of more than "a comparatively small number" of the surrounded al lies, but two British brigades escaped with French units and fell back to aid in the defense of Le Havre, Franco's vital port CI communication with England. Children Leave (The German high command reported yesterday that 20,000 prisoners had been captured at St. Valery, including six gener (Continued on Pago Six) Grants Pass Man Beats Lewis for Grange Office SALEM, June 13 (IP) The Oregon grange's t7th annual convention confirmed yesterday the reelection of Kay W. Gill as master for another two-year term. W. A. Johnson of Grants Pass defeated L. Alva Lewis of Klam ath Falls in the, run-off election for executive committeeman. Other election results: Allen P. Wheeier, Eugene, over Marion Kerchem, Oregon City, . for assistant steward; Blanche Pickering, Warrenton, over Winnie Cade, Albany, for chaplain; Mabel Hughes, Grants Pass, over Eleanor Rich, Yam hill, Pomona; Bertha Hanscom, Pendleton, over Mrs. T. B. Bu senbark, Roseburg, Flora; Lucy Woodward, Adams, over Elsie Tate, Sublimity, route 1, lady assistant steward. A resolution was adopted fa voring an increase in the 'gross weight and length limits of Ore gon trucks to conform with limits of neighboring slates. The convention also approved free ferries and bridges across the Columbia river where traffic justifies. 13, 1940 fi) Bombs for Gay Paris Fire in North , Spreads Oyer linn A; Firefighters . summoned, from nearby: logging operations brought a small forest fire near Chemult under control Wednes day night but a second fire at the north end of the' Klamath country wasreported still burn ing Thursday over an area of 2100 acres. The Klamath Forest Protec tive association announced that a crew of 65 men, recruited from Doug Puckett's logging operations and 7 the KFPA, brought the Chemult fire under control at 9:30 p. m. Wednesday. The blaze, located at Beaver Marsh four miles south of Che mult, covered about 300 acres. burning largely in jackpine. The fire was at first reported as two separate blazes, but KFPA offi cials said one was a spot fire starting from the original blaze, wmcn originated irom an un known source between the high way and the railroad. The fire started early Wednesday after noon. The large fire, still reported burning late Thursday, was lo cated near Wickiup reservoir, in the extreme northwest corner of Lake county, between LaPine and Fort Rock. . According to an Associated Press dispatch from Bend, cool er weather and absence of wind aided a crew of 500 men Thurs day in combatting the fire. which spread from brush burn ing operations and was whipped into timber by Wednesday's winds. A forester who Inspected the Upper Deschutes river country from an airplane, said the blaze appeared quiet on the most se vere front, although some timber was burning in the rear of fire lanes. Bend was shrouded in smoke. The fires were encouraged from two days of above normal heat, and temperatures ' were only slightly lower In the Klam ath basin Thursday. NLRB Man Here in Lamm Labor Case' Kenneth McClasKeyr a repre sentative of the national labor relations board, arrived in Klam ath Falls Thursday to study the Lamm Lumber company dispute. McCIaskey, it Is understood, con ferred with representatives ' of the company and the striking employes of the logging camp. He was reported at Yamsey, log ging camp location 70 miles north of here, Thursday after noon V . . Still scheduled was a meeting between the company officials and the International Wood workers of America, represent ing the employes, at the offices of John Eblnger,.company attor ney, on Thursday evening. UNITED PRESS Number 9001 ' 1 1 .-" and destroyed Warsaw. The" pic- TURKEY, GERMM .: JGPEEp .'V"fv Countries" - Agree - to , Ex- : change Products; Pact " "Blow to Allies "'' ANKARA, June 13 CD The Turkish government today signed, a new commercial agree ment with .Germany. ; The accord came as a bomb shell, especially since Turkish leaders had:- insisted Turkey would fulfill her mutual aid pacts with Britain and France and the controlled press, had' severely attacked Italy. , . Diplomats flocked to the for eign ministry in an attempt to learn the significance - of the move.- The accord, it was announced. provides - for the exchange of certain products to the extent of 21,000,000 Turkish pounds. It was the -result of months of negotiations between the gov ernment and Franz von Papen, German ambassador. to Turkey. (The deal involves about $14, 280,000. The Turkish pound was quoted at 68c in New York today). . "1 Trade between Germany and Turkey has been. at a standstill for months because of credit and other difficulties. Informed circles said the agreement was of no political (Continued on Page Six) Tokyo Protests As British Reported Landing in Indies TOKYO, June 13 (JPh-The Japanese foreign office said to day it regarded wilh ' extreme gravity" a published report al leging that 2000 British troops had landed in the Dutch East Indies after. the Islands requested protection.' While both the Dutch legation and the British embassy here denied the' report, the foreign office awaited direct word from its own consular representatives. (In London a war .office spokesman said he neither could confirm nor deny tne report. British sources said they con-' sidered such action unlikely.) The report was published by the large Tokyo newspaper Nichi Nichl in a dispatch from, Surabaya, Java, which said a British officer had disclosed ac cidentally that he was a member of a force sent from Singapore to east Java. J The - status of the Dutch East Indies, rich in rubber, coffee and tin and strategically located between the Indian and Pacific oceans, has been matter of special Concern, to . Japan ever since Germany occupied The Netherlands. , . SUNNY - , , , rn-mrmiui-W. E E CITY DP PARIS French in Need of Rest ,'. as Word Comes .to , -" .""Fight to End".- By The Associated Press , . Driving In from their strong west, flank , to encircle Paris from, that quarter, great masses of German troops stormed through three bridgeheads on the Seine river Thursday night. They were headed, apparently toward the Loire valley of cen tral France and toward the area where the French government has taken refuge. - . ' .'Need Best The French defenders," fight ing without rest against forces constantly, relieved by ' fresh troops, were. In dire need, in every fighting sector. Also to the north and east of Paris, as weU as on- other, ac tive sectors, the .. battle for Franco raged more violently : than- before and -the dogged French were falling back. v..-..To Bitter End - 11 .. But in the face of great re verses', and their .their beloved, beautiful capital on the Seina menacedJh$. defenders got .tha , word-Irom their government that French resistance would be carried out to' the bitter end. ' The "decision was made " by the French council of ministers. which,' having fled Paris, met at the '.temporary' French, errpital. Tours, ' together 'with ' British Prime Minister Winston Church-? ill and. Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. .' .' , ' . , .' " ' , ; British Aetlva' ;': ; '. Britain strained every.' sinew to send all possible help to her hard pressed ally. ' -" The British ministry of infor mation said the army was send ing "all available troops and materials", to - be thrown into the fight against the nazi army of nearly 2,000,000 men,' storm ing ever closer to Paris and pressing ever onward through the Weygand line. ." ' ' ' Supported by American-made bombers, Gen. Maxine Wey gand's French pollus hurled the ' Germans back five miles north of Paris today, a French mili tary" spokesman said, and tha allied line was reported nolo ing elsewhere under the on slaught of 120 nazi divisions. DNBP the official' German news agency; meanwhile carried a brief dispatch under a Paris dateline saying It was officially, announced that Paris would not . j (Continued on Page Six) . ' Cooler Weather in' Prospect for City;" Pendleton not 5. The US weatherman, scanning blue skies Thursday, forecast cooler temperatures with no im mediate prospect of rain In thta section for Friday and Saturday. ... Dense clouds, pouring in from the Pacific early Thursday, end ed the heat wave in Oregon for many sections of the state, : Klamath Falls' maximum of 83 degrees Wednesday, was re duced somewhat Thursday when unofficial y thermometers regist ered between 80 and 80. The government - reading - was not learned;- - : r - " Hottest ; p 1 a c e ' In . Oregon Thursday was Pendleton with a temperature of 89; Baker, 87: Bend, 64; Burns, 85; Brookings, 61: Eugene, 78; Hood River, 83; Lakeview, 86;. Medford, 81; Newport, 64; Portland, 83; Rose burg, 83; Siskiyou Summit, 83, News Index . City Brief . ..,......Pages 8, T Comics and Story Page 8 Courthouse Records -....Page 4 Editorials , ....Page 4 Job-Hunting ... ,.....:Paga 16 Market, Financial ;......Paga 14 Midland Empire News Page. 11 Passing Through Page 0 Pattern Page 10 Railroad News Paga 7 Snorts .....Pages 13, 13 Weather -.. .-Page 9 L WESTERN MAY ENCIRCL
