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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
UNITED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VTH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1940
Number 9053
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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
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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:
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. 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.
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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
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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
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,-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
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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."
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VVw Xnanl Wnrplane Fleeii Strike
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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,
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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
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BIRMINGHAM
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PORTSMOUTH iT
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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
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were the jr.l-.J- b of
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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.
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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 ... Page 7
Pattern P8
Railroad News Pag" 8
Sports Page 8
Stopping Over Page S
Weather if Page 8
SOUTH SHORES