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By FRANK JENKINS
A CC'OllDINti to tho ,of f iclnl'
tabulation Cnmucho, admin
istration candidate, not 04 per
rent of tho votes cnnl at lint
Sunday' election In Mexico.
Cynlrul Americana will con
clude thot It woi cither a shrewd
Job of voting 'cm or an equally
shrewd Job of countlnif 'em.
J 'yllESE aine cynical Americans
1 will realize thot if Tammnny
wan allowed to count Hie volea
In New York City, the Invariable
result would be on overwhelm
ing victory for the Tammnny
candidate.
rrllE basic purposes of politics,
since the world began, have
been these:
1. To STAY IN If you're In.
2 TO GET IN If you're out.
Wherever the people will
stand for It, the "ins" have a
tremendous advantage as In
Mexico.
TF the time ever comes when
the people are willing to
aland for It, the "ins" will find
ways to STAY IN even here In
our own United States-
A MlttOn slant In the news:
Mrs. John H. Parker, moth
er of the British consul In Port
land, who left England only two
weeks ago, declares on her ar
rival In Oregon that Britons are
certain they will defeat Ger
many, On that point, she adds, there
Is more optimism In England
than In America.
TfE'RE an up-and-down lot.
Three months ago we were
all quite sure Hitler didn't have
chance. Now wo are equally
sure nobody else has a chance.
TT will take more, of course,
V than confidence to defeat
Hltlor, but a fighter who lacks
confidence Is half licked when he
begins. It must be said for the
British that they've never lacked
confidence In themselves.)
L
-ONFIDENCE in themselves
and stubborn willingness to
fight for what they want have
helped the British to build a
mighty world empire, but they
would bo a lot better off now if
their recent leadership had been
better.
Wise, far-seeing and PRACTI
CAL leadership is one thing for
which there is no satisfactory
substitute.
Diary Explains
Murder Sulfide
At Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES. July 13 (IP)
The bodies of a 22-yoar-old for
mer Wisconsin girl, clad In a
white bathing suit, and a 44
yeor-old railway mail clerk were
found shot to drnth Inst night In
an apartment. Detectives listed
4 the deaths as murder and sul
fide. The victims, sold Police Lieu
tenants Gene Bechtel and S. R.
Lopez, were Gertrude Hcrttlng,
red-haired visitor here from
Wnuwatosa, Wis., for graduate
study in social service work at
a university, and Arthur Slater,
former high school agriculture
teacher.
A dinry Dctcellvo C. H. Schu
macher reported finding in Sla
ter's pocket told n story of his
love for thn girl. Its cryptic
notations included:
Juno 14" . . . Visited Ger
trude. Sho loves me. Novem
ber 1 marriage."
Juno 15 "Drove Gertrude
downtown. Hell."
Juno 20 "In love."
Juno 22 "Visited Gertrude
. . . Bolter dead."
The bodies wcro found by
. Mrs. Margaret Sharp, manager
V-of tho apartment house. Miss
Hcrttlng apparently had just
returned from a beach outing.
Sho was shot through tho heart
as sho sat on a divan. Slater was
lying nn the floor, a bullet
v through hit temple.
ASSOCIATED r' S
i . .. k
Promlntnt Masons, hare for
picture taken at the Wtllard
No. 28i F. C. Howell, past grand master of Oregon, wise master of AInsworth chapter. Rose
Croix. Bcottlih Rites Masonsi Louis G. Clark, Portland, sovereign grand Inspector general In
Oregon) R. E. Phinney. deputy to the sovereign grand Inspector general and grand treasurer of
grand lodgei Dr. E. H. Van Patten. Dayton, past grand master of Washington) A. E. Schsupp,
Klamath Falls, venerable master of Kadosh, Klamath consistory) Dr. H. L. Toney, past grand
master, Oregon, and venerable master Oregon lodge of Perfection. Scottish Rites bodies, Portland.
2000 Expected From All
Parts Of West For
Lava Beds Meet
TULELAKE. July 13 Amid
the grandeur of Prisoner's rock
that guards the site of the Mo
doc Indiun war, 2000 Masons
of the Pacific coast Jurisdiction
Including Oregon, California,
Idaho, Washington, Nevada and
Arizona, were gothercd here for
tho second annual Modoc cere
monial tonight, conferring the
third degree of Masonry upon
Kenneth Meadows, candidate
from Silver Trowel lodge, No
20, Phoenix, Ariz. Canby Cross
lodge, Tulelake, is the host
lodge.
The first ceremonial, unique
In the history of Masonry, was
held here in 1030, when the
some degree was conferred by
Provident lodge, Sacramento.
Program Slated
Since early Friday, hundreds
of delegates hove been arriv-
ing by train, bus, automobile
and by plane, to bo entertained
by lodges of Tulelake, Klamath
Falls and Alturos.
Beginning at 7:30 p. m., visit
ing Masons with more than
200 of the Klamath consistory
will gather In tho 60-acre
amphitheatre atop the high
promontory overlooking tho ag
ricultural area of tho basin for
the ritual and following events,
Dr. Roscoe L. Clark, past
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Labor Leadern
Support Defense
WASHINGTON, July 13 (P)
Suggesting thot the rearmament
drive might furnish tho means
of unifying labor's divided
ranks, the Whito House an
nounccd today thot 16 AFL, CIO
and railroad labor leaders had
pledged cooperation with tho de
fense program.
Stephen Early, President
Roosevelt's press secretary, sold
the pledge was given .to the
president yesterday In a lejtbtf'
which the 1H droned in their
capacity as labor policy advisory
commlttco to tho national de
fense commission.
Woman President
Nominee IleNigna
INDIANAPOLIS, July 13 (A")
Tho only woman candidate In
the 1040 presidential campaign
Is out of tho running.
Chairman John Zahnd of the
national greenback party said
here today Mrs. Anna Mllbum
of Seattle, Wash., nominated for
president, had declined the
nomination.
Prominent Ma Mono Here for
if -v: ,. i--. ,4f jri
:k'f
the ceremonies at Prisoners rock,
hotel. Left to right! C. L. Hechtner.
Grace Wells
Gets Post on
State OOP 1
PORTLAND, Ore., July 13
(Special) Mrs. Grace M. Wells
of Klamath Falls was elected
vice-chairman of the state re
publican central committee to
day, following the election of
Kern Crandall, Portland, as
chairman.
Mrs. Wells defeated Mrs. Har
rlctte Ryan of Bend and Mrs.
C. II. Waddcll of Roscburg.
The Klamath Falls woman
went to the Portland meeting in
place of Mrs. Elda Beal, who
had been elected state commit
tecwoman but was unable to
mako the trip. Frank Schmitz
of Beotty, Klamath's state com
mitteeman, was jubilant over
the election of Mrs. Wells, view
ing it as new recognition of
Klamath county's "place in the
sun."
I'oliee Ileseue
Wllnesses From
Mag Salute Siege
MOORESVILLE, Ind, July
13 yP) State police today es
corted 47 adherents of Je
hovah's Witnesses from the second-floor
Odd Fellows hall here
where they had spent the night
and morning refusing steadfast
ly to salute an American flag.
A group of men Identifying
themselves as war veterans set
up a flog at the exit last night
and demanded that those meet
ing inside pay allegiance to it
before they left. A member of
the sect who complied said
many of Its disciples believed
tho Bible taught them not to
revere "any man-made thing."
No violence occurred as the
congregation walked through a
big crowd. Officers took the
men, who numbered 12, to
Martinsville, Morgan county
seat, for safe keeping. Thirty
five women and children went
home.
American Plan to
llejeet Nazi Note
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, July
13 (P) Reliable sources said
today that the five central
Amorlcnn countries would re
ject tho recent "note of observa
tion" by Drt Otto Rcinebcck,
Gorman minister, requesting
thot the forthcoming Havana
conference of American foreign
ministers take no action direct
ed against Germany.
The sources added that the
rejection would be sent in
message form.
CHAIRMAN
PORTLAND, July 13 (VP)
Kern Crandall, Portland attor
ney, was reelected chairman of
tho republican state central com
mittee by acclamation of dele
gates at a republican meeting
here today, r
IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
KLAMATH FALLS,
Ceremony
::. tr
near Tulelake, are shown In a
master of Dayton. Wash, lodge
FARLEY ASKED TO
.JEEP LEfflSf
Demo Leaders Uncertain
On Vice Presidential
Candidate Choice
CHICAGO, July 13 (P) Tre
mendous pressure was brought
to bear upon James A. Farley
todoy to continue for a time
as chairman of the democratic
committee, regardless of next
week's convention's choice of a
presidential nominee.
As the crowds assembled for
the big party meeting virtually
certain to renominate the presi
dent. Farley's old New York
associates urged him to carry
one step farther his declaration
of yesterdoy that he would not
"take a walk" if President
Roosevelt runs again. And, they
reported that he was wavering.
Facing nearly 200 reporters
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BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
First game: R. H. E.
St. Louis 4 11 0
New York 10 10 2
Niggeling, H. Mills (2), Coff
man (5), Cox (7)" and Susce,
Grace (3); Chandler and Dickey.
First game: R. H. E.
Chicago 5 10 1
Boston 0 7 2
Lyons and Trcsh; Bagby and
Desoutels.
(1st gome) R. H. E.
Detroit 4 9 3
Washington 3 7 2
Bridges, Smith (7), Benton
(9) and Tebbetts: Leonard, Kra
kauskos (9) and Ferrcll.
F. H. E.
Cleveland 6 11 0
Philadelphia 4 7 5
Harder, Allen (8), and Pytlak;
Ross, Caster (0) and Hayes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H
Boston A
Chicago 0
Salvo and Berros;
Pago (8) and Todd.
(First gome) R
Brooklyn 8
Cincinnati 7
8 3
6 S
Mooty,
H.
13
8
Corleton, Klmboll (4), Fette
(7), and Phelps, Franks (6); Der
ringer and Lombard!.
Two Killed In
Flaming Plane
LODI, Calif., July 13
Howard White. 27, Stockton
student pilot, and Mrs. Meta
West Daniels, 24, perished in
flaming wreckage when White's
plane crashed as he sought to
land it at Llnd airport. ,
James Llnd, airport owner,
said White had only a student's
license and recently had been
taking lessons in the plane.
ORE., SATURDAY, JULY
MID
F. R.
STIR FURORE
50,000 Troopers Sought
For Training; Local
Recruiting Starts
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 13
President Roosevelt's proposal
to put 50,000 militiamen in the
field for active service brought
the controversial subject of na'
tional guard mobilization back
to the fore today.
The decision to recommend
calling out almost one-fourth of
the total national guard strength
was reached late yesterday by
Mr. Roosevelt and Henry L
Stimson, his new secretary of
war. Congress must approve
before the plan cart be put into
action.
No Comment
With congress In recess for
the democratic national convention.-there
was no ' immediate
tororment tm Capitol Hill. How
ever, when Mr. Roosevelt in a
special message on May 31 asked
authority to mobilize the guard
for any defense emergency, the
request ran into a barrage of
criticism.
The White House announce
ment yesterday said that tenta
tive plans were to call out four
of the guard's 18 divisions,
seven anti-aircraft regiments,
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Game Board
Rejects Doe
Season Here
Controversy over the question
of an open season on does, which
has been sharply divided this
year by the boundary between
Klamath and Lake counties, was
settled Saturday by word re
ceived from Portland that the
state game commission has or
dered no doe season in Klamath
and Lake counties for 1940.
The commission ordered the
Mule deer refuge in western
Lake county thrown open to
buck hunting. This action was
recommended by Klamath
sportsmen's groups if the game
commission saw fit to throw the
refuge open.
Open season on antelope was
was set from September 29 to
October 6 inclusive, and 2000
permits were ordered Issued in
Lake, Malheur and Harney coun-1
ties.
E. L. Myers, president of the
Klamath Sportsmen's associa
tion, attended the commission's
meeting.
Action on the doe question
was received favorably by
Klamath county sports
men's organizations, but a stand
favoring an open season on does
taken by sportsmen of Lake
county indicates that the com
mission's order will not coincide
with the general feeling in that
county.
The Klamath Sportsmen's or
ganization, headed by Myers,
and the local chapter of the
Izaak Walton league, headed by
John Ebinger, recently went on
record as emphatically opposed
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Reply Falls to
Appease Japan
SHANGHAI, July 13 m
Col. Dewltt Peck, United States
marine commander In the
Shanghai district, was reported
today by the Japanese news
service Domei to have "failed
to give a satisfactory reply" to
a complaint of Major General
Saburo Miura against treatment
of 14 Japanese plainclothes men
REQUEST m
CONGRESS
arrested July 7.
13, 1940
Asks
Free Shows for Good Driver
v. - -, A-vr:-i
imiWJtz'z-
Marvin Taylor, winner of the
driving contest being sponsored
committee, is shown receiving a
Mrs. Rose Poole, bead of the theatres, Saturday morning. H. M.
Allender, winner in the private car division, was not present
wnen toe picture was taken.
Winners of
Driving Test
Get Awards
H. M. Allender, Altamont
Marvin Taylor, driver for
Raymond dairy.
To these two men go the
honor of being selected as the
first two "perfect drivers" in the
citizens' traffic committee's
campaign to promote and re
ward better driving practices
here.
Mrs. Rose Poole, manager of
Klamath Theatres, Inc., who is
cooperating in the drive by of
fering full month's passes to the
local showhouses to the winners
of each month's contest, con
gratulated Allender and Taylor
Saturday as she handed them
the free tickets.
Allender and Taylor won in
the private and commercial
drivers' divisions, respectively.
A secret committee watched aU
local drivers carefully and after
a re-check, gave the names of
Allender and Taylor to the traf
fic committee, of which John
Eblnger is chairman.
The July contest is now un
der way.
Former Klamath
Deputy Drowns in
Washington Lake
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 13
iP) Lloyd Llnville, 49. Seattle
farm implement salesman,
drowned in Black lake near
here last night. The body was
recovered.
Deputy Coroner Levy John-
son said Llnville was a former
deputy sheriff at Klamath Falls,
Ore.
Mr. Linville was appointed a
member of the prohibition en
forcement department in Klam
ath county in 1929, it was
learned in a check with the
sheriff's office. He served un
til 1933. Mr. Linville came to
Klamath Falls from Portland
and has no relatives in this
city.
Roy Held for
Double Slaying
FAYETTESVILLE, Ark., July
13 (P) A 15-year-old boy, Ger
ald Stewart, was held today un
der first degree murder charges
in the shotgun slayings of his
aged grandparents.
Tho youth, blind in one eye,
pedaled a borrowed bicycle 17
miles to the scene of the rural
killings, said Sheriff Herbert
Lewis, who reported the boy
confessed.
Prosecuting Attorney John
K. Butt filed the murder charges
yesterday after a coroner's jury
decided the youth shot Sam
Stewart, 74, and Mrs. Stewart,
71, in the back with the grand
father's gun Thursday.
The boy gave no motive.
WEATHER
High 3. tow 49 '
. PRECIPITATION
24 hours to a. m. .00
Season to data ..17.02
Normal precipitation ...11.84
Lut year to data ... 0.25
UNITED PRESS
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commercial division of the good
by the citizens' traffic safety
pass to Klamath theatres from
Islands Steeled For' De
fense Against Hitler
As Eaids Continue
By The Associated Press
LONDON, July 13 UP) Brit-
ains new. highly-geared mobil
ization program, which has been
putting 7000 . men a day into
khaki, was extended today to
include 32-year-olds as the na
tion dipped deeper into its re
serves of manpower to meet
the threat of invasion.
Approximately 300,000 men
were called to register before
nightfall in response to the lat
est call to the colors, bringing
the total summoned to date
more than 3,300,000.
Activity Growing
Lending urgency to the mo
bilization was the growing ac
tivity of Germany s bombing
squadrons, which roared across
the channel again during the
night to rain explosives on
southwest England, Wales and
Scotland.
Renewed German sorties
came today. The air ministry
announced that an "enemy"
bomber was shot down in the
English channel by British
fighter planes, and a raider was
chased away over a northeast
England town.
110 Planes Bagged -
The ministry had announced
earlier that 11 of the nazi raid
ers were shot from the skies in
the preceding 24 hours. The
new German loss brought the
week's "bag" to 73 and the to
tal shot down, since the first
daily widespread raids on Eng
land June 18, to 110. Two Brit
ish planes were reported miss
ing in the last phase of the war
in the air.
At least 10 persons were
killed in Scotland during ex
tensive raids yesterday.
Japanese Killed
In Maupin Crash
THE DALLES, Ore., July 13
(P) Ichimatsu Hiraro, 64, Jap
anese florist of Oakland, Calif-,
was killed 17 miles south of
Maupin today as his automobile
overturned on The Dalles-California
highway.
His son, Kay Joseph, 28, and
two daughters, Kimiko, 14, and
Ichiko, 16, suffered i minor in
juries. ' .
FIRST LEO '
HONOLULU, July 13 UP)
The American Clipper, establish
ing the first commercial air serv
ice between the United States
and New Zealand, alighted ' in
the harbor here at 8:22 a. m.,
10:52 a. m. PST) today. The
big plane left Lost Angeles at
9:18 p. m., FST, yesterday.
PIP
BRITAIN CALLS UP
MORE RESERVISTS
Maximum IS
SUNNY
NAZIS, ITAW
AGAINST NAVY
Berlin Claims Blockade
Line Punctured By
German Fleet
By The Associated Press :'
Both Germany and Italy, pit
ting air power against sea power,
reported success tonight in their
efforts to whittle down Britain's
overwhelming naval strength. -
"Successful operations over,
seas" by the German fleet
against Britain's most potent de
fense arm were claimed by the
nazi high command in the fast
developing "battle of the block"
ades."
Piercing the steel-clad British
blockade line, it said, German
warships have come home with
captive merchantmen filled with
valuable cargoes destined orig
inally for the British isles.
Presumably, these operations
were jlirected from Norway, and
nazi commentators declared that
German ships now can rove tha
ovca n.uiwu iJ. 4-111 niiiu, aula
either in the Atlantic or in other
waters.
Two blows were reported by
Italy elimination of Malta,
Britain's eastern Mediterranean
stronghold, as an offensive
threat and dispersal of a British
Mediterranean fleet under re
peated air attacks.
By The Associated Press
ROME, July 13 Renewed
Italian bombing raids on Brit
ain's air and naval bases at
Malta, intended to smash that
vital Mediterranean strong point
nonunuea on r-age ihree)
Mills Residents
Capture, Thrash
Peeping Suspect
Indignant neighbors of tha
Mills section who told police
tney had been subjected to a
peeping torn all summer, finally
caught one of the prowlers and
gave him a sound thrashing
with a bull whip for his noc
turnal efforts.
Ronald Usher, 19, transient.
who told police he was dis
charged from a CCC camp
March 30, is in the city jail
sentenced to 15 days on a dis
orderly conduct charge. Inci
dentally he is nursing a few
smart licks from the whip.
Usher told officers he had
peeped in windows throughout
Mills addition since his dis
charge from camp, and could
not remember any specific inci
dents except that on the night
of July 4 he peeked in all win
dows he could find along Gar
den and Applegate avenues. He
was arrested by police at White
avenue and Mitchell street at
1:20 a. m. Saturday after neigh
bors had "laid for him"
throughout the night,
The transient is said to hava
had $300 when discharged from
camp and at the present time
had til In hi- nnnb.l TTahat.
advised officers he had met a
man in a poolhall here who
said he had spent 1 "months"
peeping in windows and "hadn't
been caught yet."
Police are investigating this
tust;, una bibu iiueuu tu 4ucs-
tion Usher further on suspicion
of additional activities. .
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