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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1940)
r r nnjiririnrii-iii- " m xmmmw PICTURES! Associated Pimi Teltmats, NEA Ttlepho tot and live local newsplcture and an graving staff provlda News and Haiald raadara with a eomprahamlva photograph to service. WEATHER High 1. Lew 54 PRECIPITATION 24 hours to 8 a. m, 00 Season to it ... 17.02 Normal precipitation .. 12.11 Lait year to date 8.37 Monday's official high, 80 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS VTH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1940 Number 9053 PRICE FIVE CENTS sm 4 HOT . mm w m ; In The Day's News r. By FRANK JENKINS THERE are Indications In the news that the German el tack on Britain In starting, but none as yet as to HOW IT WILL END. This much can be Mid: For tho first time Germany Is lackllnK a nation whoso stub born will to win Is equal to her own. In England there will be no crumbling from within. INTERESTING note in lonoy nowi' nussla is backing mi" ..nVTr "h '"! To. termor-i:T; Fa! expansion at II... ,' pens. What does it mean; 011 tho needs of the prcsem This writer doesn't know. But crB,, nl, nn v,t,izng the pres It certainly looks as if real and ! , fn(,nc conscription on the effective Russian backing for i rountry in order that It can Germany would be directed to- mninlalii a large standing army ward CALMING THE HAL- jn peacetime without so much KANS DOWN not stirring confused discussion, and In or them up. ! der to heighten the prestige of ; the army with the public, to WILLKIE scores his first make tho public military-mlnd-knocko.it. ed. and to line It up behind On Monday he asset ted that If the army on 'solidarity' with elected one of his first acts will It." be to prosecute a.i peisons who. Disputes Claim bought or sold advertising In the Disputing a contention by r..mneratlc national committee's Senator Burke (D-Ncb.) that vol- tain Mmnaidn book. On Tues day Attorney-General Jackson announces Hint the Justice de partment will not permit sales of TTV bv .ut. olpitty dmonni 418 000 men were .11 .ttlciTny'Siffi'th.. .etuolly needed to Flynn of the Democratic nation- a 1 committee w.,o Is also l.os, Flynn of Brooklyn) s there , was never any intention to p t , in DOURB "II "- j... be given away as " mni, ffir nnrlv workers That's getting action quickly QUESTION: wnm WOUIO !. X been done about it if Wlllklc hadn't started tho rucKtis? i ! t nrllE point Is that sale of ad- , A vertlslng" In purty cam- vertising in pin "' i .. n.i of the rm.K.i . 1)00 K incmsrivrii is h Mu.n . -i it. !, itm'rrnlnif HOOKS iinjiim, i . n - - get around tho laws governing ; i.n...iin..u . campaign coihi hjiiiiwh-- : COMETII1NG to think about: . 1 . ., . 1 l.,,i rr ' . J n I'oriiann 111' Hi"""' ,...,... nrnnnses to have tne sciiooi h.illdinas DBlnted by WPA labor, When objections arc ruiscd, the ,l - board savs it Doaru sj ifc n,..-.,, i. t.n,.n iim hiilldinus Iiasu l money FIIUUKII l ii. painted In the regular way. i ci.ii.urn f lrnifnii Kirii' wii iia ro being built with WPA labor. cnOM painting school build- lugs and constructing side walks with WPA Inbni, becauso It Is cheaper, It Is only a step to painting all buildings and CON STRUCTING AM, BUILDINGS with WPA labor because It Is cheaper. How do you feel about that? Junior Chamber Favors Compulsory Military Service Compulsory military training r Was favored by thn Klamnth r county Junior chamber of com morco In a resolution adopted at Its meeting Monday night. The young men's group went on record urging a clear defini tion of thn necessary geograph ical area of defense, Biid Immedi ate organization of all resources, including industry and man power. Sending nrnied forces outside tho western hemisphere or be yond the U. S. geographical area of defense was opposed, but the group said tho most Import ant problem of the day is the Immcdlnto establishment of ade quate, national defense. Copies of tho resolution will bo sent to Oregon's congressional representatives 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Press Aug. 13, 1015 Germans use 16-inch guns In attack on Rus sian fortress and hurl enormous forces against Kovno. WHEELER HITS DRAFT DRIVE Army RcekinR to "Saddle Draft on Country," Senator Claims WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 !f) Senator Wheeler (DMont.) as serted toduy Hint the army gen eral irtnff win 'utilizing the pres ent crisis to noddle conscription on the country" even though compulsory military training was unnecessary for the notion's .,nnt.ct.y for ,he notion s , , ,,., Whee.er dec.nr-' "It Is dear H. "l . he .enersl staff- de- ,rr for conscription Is not based j lii-itftrv n1 Ittmnnli Wntlld Tint provldo onoviKh manpower to de fend tho nation. W heeler Mid trV ffrtfivst-rsl tiinft UntVtt an Bfl. ' -,, , , n hfd conscription. i L I am afrairi, lie sain, "tnat . . - on,y ,ho fl(ur(. w, i to us, but I say to you now, that It Is not because they; believe our shores or our skies ..... ,n Hnncree nf Invasion" I Delayed i Rr,j (-,,, Willium E. Shedd ; IJ 1-.. t. itnm imiti.v linn iiiu mmiuiik m i ,m( rrtlllj.,,, b. congress to j consider conscription legislation consider conscription legislation i,.,.i,. - ... US UIEE0E0 " "V"'.. "r:r ",":n iihmh oi wiir nrpiirimnu pians A Ain nnn l.. . ... ; mi nt ii in ,ii-ji ,nii-i i, iimiii, to have 1)00. 000 men in uniform i .. i.t ..it ,-uii.v him um. I The department now plans to have, 1)00.000 men in uniform by i T.. , t'l 1.1 .. .. i A " 1 iiiiiiiuit i. ,111,1,1 i,ii,,i. nnu.Jipoi lor lOVl-IS HIIU siiiiauvib. even uiai is an npiinusuc pro- gram. The nucivtnnt chief nf slnff - - ... in enarge oi personnel appearea , ,-, - before the house mllitnrv com ,. ., .. .. mittee as the senate began its mhii "i wish 1 1 un- Rurke - Wnd.HWorth eoninulsorv service bill under which men be tween 21 and .'10, Inclusive, would be required to register for service. The senate military commit tee, meanwhile, decided to in- (Contlnued on I'agc Three) Solo Winner Kcnncll-EUIs. Harry R. Boyd, popular young member of Lansell Valley yrang. will represent this region in tho state grange sing ing contest at the state fair (lanlamhir 11. Bovd WOH the regional contest at Redmond August 10 with his Interpreta tion of the famous "Veitl La Olubbi" from the opera "I Pagllacei." V'' r V VVw Xnanl Wnrplane Fleeii Strike I 7C n 7 4 r,!f lo f SOUTHAMPTON JS- PLY PORTLAND IOO ...... . Apparently aeierminea io bit amain .w.K ....... of bomber. .cL. the English channel. La,... bombing objective, Portsmouth and n.arby Portland coast In the vicinity of Dorer (2). Grass Fires Plague City Firemen as Flames Hit Fort Road A dangerous blazo In slash about 25 miles southwest of Klamath Falls near Tory grade was Tuesday's contribution to the series of fires that nave kept foresters In this district on the run for the past fivo oays. Klamath Forest Protective sedation lookouts reported the firc l,,t, "token off like a race L .AM a nnin, n r n r Ilia nl H - Kesterson mill It was about three miles from Klamath can- yon. ui u ii. - : fighters was rushed into the . area. Klamath Falls got its taste of flame and smoke Monday eve- ...I.... 1 1 mm hfnlrtt mil iimih wiiv.ii hiiiv io simultaneously and in a roaring wind, two of them endangering wina, iwo o. incm cnuiinKi-i inn ., .i, iii,i. i ti, " " city. 1 louses on the Old Fort road were cnoniiKCicii vy h umti that shot down from the summit 0f Knob hill, favorite parking . . . i I .. : .. V. I were endangered by a blaze Kircmcn savefl a house ap ...Ant.A1 1. .. n firn I ' . 'i I Krnlro JIV.,IIVVI o ,,. .,, u,.... .inui ntirl uui iil-tii , null, life ,,,. tnc Evans road along the canal These fires were a few hundred yards apart. They broke out simultaneously but apparently from different sources. At about the same time an other grass firc flared at the end of Eldorado street, covering a considerable acreage near the railroad tracks Before burning out. Newest firc last night was reported on Grizzly mountain, southeast of here. It was burn ing in slash. Weyerhaeuser Tim ber comnnnv firemen helped bring this blaze under control. The Walker-Hovey fire near Dry prairie, between Bonanza and Bly. was brought under con trol last night. Soviet Takes Side Of Rulgnrla In Territory claims MOSCOW, Aug. 13 P) The official soviet press asserted to day Bulgaria's territorial de mands upon Rumania have the support of soviet Russia. "The soviet union always has taken a position of supporting Bulgarian demands upon Ruman ia," declared a statement appear ing in both the government news paper Izvestla and In Pravda, communist party organ. Tho statement said the Bul garian claims are "Just and well founded." (Bulgaria seeks return of the province of southern Dobruja, which she lost to Rumania in 1913. Negotiations for settlement of thn Rumanian-Bulgarian con troversy are now under way at the prompting of ucrmany which Is rennrtnd to have ad vised the Bucharest government to seek a speedy settlement). The article said most of south em Dobruja's people are Bui gara. BLAZE BREAKS OUT IB TDPSY GRIDE IVERPOOt HULL GRIMSBY SjS BIRMINGHAM - JDON JJ W mr MARGATE ""rJbvrn PORTSMOUTH iT 1L A :herbooro "V dieppc (!) where ' J W" "' Barrage balloons were attacked. Toll Rises to 35 in Wake Of Hurricane ATLANTA. Auff. 13 (PI The hurricane-battered coasts of Georgia and South Carolina counted at least 35 dead today and millions of dollars of prop erty damage at near-normalcy returned to tbi ilrlcken - area. .The Red CroM'rcrtotleoTfrom Washington that 25 negroes were killed on St. Hclona Island near Beaufort, S. C, Sunday in the 80-mlle-an-hour hurricane that swept out of the Bahamas, and eight other negroes perish ed on nearby Ladies island. Two persons died at Savannah, Ga., as the storm swept that city. One CCC boy was. missing on Huntington Island, near - - - --- - Charleston, a. flnvernor Burn Governor Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina said Beaufort county appeared to have been hardest hit. At least 200 homes were destroyed in the county and many others damaged. May ----- - - bank said Red Cross aid. clilor -iinB Bnrt food was needed foi ine and food was needed for storm refugees in that area. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. St. Louis 5 12 0 Chicago 1 7 0 Rhnnn and Owen: French, Root (7), Raffcnsbcrgcr (9), and Todd. R. H. E. New York 1 8 1 Boston 4 1 Lohrman, Joiner (6), Brown (7), and Danning; Tobin, Masi, Beres (7). R. H. E. Cincinnati 8 2 Pittsburgh - 3 10 1 Thompson, Shoffner (3), Bcggs (ft) and Lomoardi, Baker (9); Bowman, Lanning (9), Hcintzcl man (10) and Davis, Lopez (10). (10 innings). AMERICAN LEAGUE (First game) R. H. E. Boston 1 o l New York 9 12 0 Bagby, Hcving (1), Terry (3) and Peacock; Russo and Dickey. R. H. E. Detroit 5 9 1 Cleveland 6 8 1 Corsica, Benton (7) and Sulli van, Tcbbetts (9); Harder, Hum- nhrtno (7V DodsOn (7). ZubCT (9), Elsenstat (9) and Hemsley, Putlak (8). Japs Negotiate Indo-China Claim SHANGHAI, Aug. 13 (fP) Negotiations concerning Japa nese demands for economic and military concessions in French Indo-China were reported auth oritatively today to be under way at Vichy. The demands, which were de scribed as a virtual ultimatum, were said to have been presented loot week tn flinrlps Arscne Hen ry, French ambassador to Tokyo. at Itrltaln NORTH SEA NORWICH ,v r..n., t n.w wave. . were the jr.l-.J- b of II. S. L TO Japanese Clamor for Ju risdiction Over Sector Held by British ' , SHANGHAI,:'-Aug. - H&H AdmiralrThomae Charles - Hart, commander of the United States Asiatic fleet, was reported to night to be making a hurried, unscheduled trip . to Shanghai from Taingtao- in. connection with conditions arising from Britain's decision to withdraw her troops from Shanghai. It was understood he was to investigate reports that the Jap anese are planning to take over the British defense sector In tne most important sections of the international settlement as soon as the British leave. Admiral Hart will become the senior foreign officer present and as such is expected to pre side over a meeting of heads of foreign Shanghai defense forces Thursday in which allotment of the British zone will be con sidered. The admiral will outrank Rear-Admiral Moriji Takeda, commander of the local Jap nn0tn naval irarrison. who other wise would have been senior of ficer as soon as the major gen eral commanding British troops here had left. Japanese military spokesmen and newspapers have demanded that the British sector, in which are situated some .of Shanghai's lnrffo.ct businesses and best resi dential districts, be handed over to the Japanese. Oilman Resigns As Result of German Dealings NEW YORK, Aug. 13 JP) Capt. Torkild Rieber, stocky $100.000-a-year chairman of the Texas corporation, has ended a 35-year career with the interna tional oil firm, the result of re cent disclosure of his association with a German commercial emis sary to the United States. The 58-year-old Norwegian born oil executive, who went to sea at 14 and became a tanker skipper at 21, explained after seven-hour meeting oi tne board of directors yesterday he had submitted his resignation "because of certain publicity det rimental to the Texas corpor ation" in connection with re ports of activities of Dr. Gerhard Westrick, commercial counselor of the German embassy. . As a result of the revelations concerning Westrick, Rieber ac knowledged helping the nazl rep resentative to get a driver's li cense and offering him the use of a company car. The oil man explained he con sidered this "good business" since Westrick, a German su preme court lawyer, had repre sented the company on occasions In Germany. 3 meldehtU Jfc NETHER- pS.fi- BRUSSELS Invasion Imminent NAZIS REPEAT TACTICS USED EARLY III WAR Maximum Destruction to Clear Way for Troop Landings, Plan By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, Aug. 13 OP) All signs pointed today to an early zero hour for a nazi offensive against England with its climax an attempt to land German troops on the British Isles. To anybody who observed German tactics in Poland, Nor way and western Europe, it is perfectly clear that Germany is again trying to bring maximum destruction to railways, airports, naval harbors, industrial plants and gasoline tanks before order ing her troops to move. Coast . Guns Sought ; Jb the case of England, it ts of luruitr pnme'importance to haVA rnflfital hfltteria irileneed. Only after this bas been large ly acmevea is ine nazaraous task of landing troops likely to be tackled. Declaring that since yester day the British airforce fliers are - seeking to avoid fights, in formed German sources said the nazi tactics now are to force them into combat or risk hav- inff their nirnorts. hanears and shops destroyed and planes de molished on the ground. Hangars Smashed The infest advices of DNB official German news agency, added the East Church airport to the day s Ucrman objectives Six hanears. accordinE to DNB. were smashed completely, crews' barracks set afire, anti-a.rcrait hntteries silenced, ffasoline tanks iirnitpd bv heaw bomb hits. 10 Spitfires destroyed on the ground and 12 barrage balloons shot down. Exact figures on plane losses at the moment were not avail able, but the Germans insisted in general that their losses were light and those of the British heavy. British chasers and anti-aircraft batteries trying to repel the before-dawn nazi raiders were unable to prevent the at tack or even inflict damage, DNB declared. It said fierce air battles, de veloping over the channel and along the coast, cost the British "a great number of chasers" as German fliers succeeded in breaking through aerial de fenses to bomb previously desig nated targets. Willkie Assails Flynn Over Democrat Campaign Folders COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 13 (A3) Asserting that even Chairman Edward J. Flynn of the democratic national commit tee should understand that there is a limit to political ruthless ness," Wendell L. Willkie said today: "I am gratified to learn that Attorney General Robert Jack son and Senator Hatch (D-N.M.) have today joined in my cam paign to prevent the democratic national committee from brazen ly violating both the corrupt practices act and the Hatch act by the sale of democratic cam paign books. "The corporate aaveriisemenis In these campaign books were in many instances obtained from the corporations because such corporations either hoped to es cape punishment from the fed eral government or receive re ward from it. "It is a step forward that this method of raising campaign Crashes Kill High Ranking Australians SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 13 t&i Two unexDlained nlane crashes today killed sixteen per sons, including Lieut. Gen. Sir Cyril B. B. White, chief of the Australian army staff, and three commonwealth cabinet minis ters. One plane carrying the high Australian officials and six other persons crashed and burst into flames in a forced landing near the Canberra airport. The other, a Roval Australian air force machine which left Brisbane Monday, was given up as lost, its victims presumably drowning at sea. Ministers in the first plane were en route irom jvieiDoume to Canberra to attend a cabinet meet. They were: Brigadier Geoffrey A. Street, defense. J. V. Fairbairn, air. Sir Henry Gullett, vice presi (Continued on t'age Three) BALKAN TERRITORY Yugoslavia," Greece Hit by Rome's Wrath in Albanian Dispute ROME, Aug. 13 (tfV-Author-itntivo Italian circles indicated tonight that Italy would claim slices of both Greek and Yugo slav territory sooner or later as due Italian-ruled Albania in a "general settlement." Virginio Gayda, authoritative fascist editor and often Musso lini's mouthpiece, said the Ital ian government expected Greece to "answer for its new crimes." Gayda declared Italy could not tolerate Greece's "acts against the independence of Albania" and accused Greece of designs nn Alhnnia. With the Italian-Greek ten sion mounting, friction between Italy and Yugoslavia was re ported by the fascist press. The Yueoslav difficulty, ac cording to the newspaper La Tribuna, was over ine Kiuing of a fascist in the Italian town rf 7.ara nn the Yueoslav coast. The Zara populace was said to be aroused. TTaerist Leonardo Ciurcovich, the dispatch said, was killed when he objected to a stranger singing a Slav song on a Zara It failed to say how Ciurco vich, a minor fascist leader in a Zara suburb, had been killed except that he had been "bar barously slain." funds has been eliminated. Even Boss Flynn (Edward J. Flynn, new democratic chairman) cer tainly ought to now understand that there is a limit to political ruthlessness." The republican nominee 1s iin his statement in response to reporters' questions about the ruling of Attorney uenerai jacn son that the justice department ivnulrl not rjermit the sale of democratic campaign books by state or local party organiza tion!! and Hatch's declaration that purchasers of the books would be liable to prosecution. In New York, Flynn said "The advertising contracts to which he refers were all entered into long before the Hatch bill be came a law. No advertisements are now. or will be solicited. . . There never was any Intention of placing the book on sale. It will go to 100,000 or more demo cratic speakers and workers." ITALY MAY CLAIM RAIDERS CH IN WAVES ON Defending Fighters Kept in Air to Meet 400 to 600 Attackers By The Associated Pretf ' LONDON. Aua. 13 A swarm of German raiders returned to the attack on 200 miles of Eng lish channel coast late tnis aiter non, fighting a large-scale com bat with defending planes be hind low-hanging clouds. At least 31 nazi raiders were reported unofficially early to night to have been shot down rfnrinff the dav's raids, five of them late today on the southwest coast. 400 to 600 Planes The thunder of scores of mo tors and the crashes of several planes told the story to ground observers, although the clouds hlrt most of the fiehtine. . . It was the climax oi tne imra successive--day of power assault, and again today as on Sunday and Monday the nazis were using from 400 to 600. planes. From Berlin and neutral Swit zerland, too, came - predictions that the zero hour for actual in vasion was approaching. At one southwest port early this evenine. a flaming fighter spiralled into the sea; at a vil lage six miles away, a uerman bomber crashed, with two dead and one captured. Air raid warnings were in effect over a wide area, embrac ins inland eunnery stations- one of them within half a mile of where a big Dormer bomber crashed this morning with homo racks still half full. Coast Battered These mobile batleries and troop concentrations are scat tered from the coast to several miles inland. On nearby roads, new type barricades, designed to hlnrk invaders and yet to permit swift movement of defending troops, are being erected. The Germans, by British ad mission, drove their strongest waves today across an 80-mile pathway from the Thames estu ary to the Sussex coast of south ern England, but they struck at distant objectives, too. The British air ministry, in a mid- afternoon communique. counted ten German bombers and one fighter shot down for sure and asserted: No military damage was done." (On both Berlin and the neu tral listening posts of Switzer land, the belief was expressed that Adolf Hitler's air force had all but completed its familiar preparation for direct assault and that an attempt at actual In vasion was imminent possmiy within the next 72 hours.) Report Guarded The official British account of today's raids was guarded. It did, however, concede tnai the main attack was lengthened to take In the bomblrg of both seaside towns and country .dis tricts in Hampshire, as wen as the stretch from Sussex to .am Thames. (Thus Portsmouth, great naval base sheltered by both the Sussex and iiampsnun coasts, obviously was again principal target.) "A few casualties, some ihiui were officially admitted. The authorized accounts, now (Continued on Page Three) News Index Council Report ....... Page 4 City Briefs - Page rnmlra and Story Page 3 Editorials .-..'.Page 4 Market, Financial rage o Midland Empire News ... 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