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WEATHER High 82) Lew 47 PRECIPITATION 24 houn to S a. m 00 Season to data 17.02 Normal precipitation 12.16 Last yaar to data 8.37 Tuesday's official high. 88 irrairirirutAAAAJ PICTURES! Aitoclated Pri Telemati. NEA Telepho toi and a 1 1 v local newtplcture and en graving loll provlda Nawi and Herald readara with a comprehensive photograph lo eervlce. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS HOT PRICK FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1940 Number 9060 mm I- -A 'V' In The Day's News By THANK JENKINS ''plIKHK i niiilrriiil fur M-rinus thought hi lliln itisnili-li from London today: "Unofflrlnl but well Informed sources Indicated today that lln ItrilMi government n SKKKING A MIl.ri'AKV AI.I.IANt K Willi the Unilcd Suites." NTO enliinulliig nlliMnccs Is imp of our traditions. No llnrd term for any I'rcMdi-nt Is an othir. Arc we Krtt,lK ready lo throw tlicm ALL (IVKIIIIOAHD- TMIE London dispatch (Avio nuti'd PrcO ctintitiucs: "The plain troth of the mut ter," Mild a ne utral diplomat, is that m-ithi-r (iniil llntiiin nor thi' United Stalls has n powerful friend lt-f t iniywherc in the world It behooves Ihrm In gel together and make the lii-st of the Horry situation " llindsiisht (always clcnr and plain) tells ns that if wr had followed Theodore lloosi-vrlfs ndvlrp to "walk softly nnd carry h his Mirk" wo would now have more friends and the Mtuiition would be less sorry. f1 ERM AN tnctu-s In Hip nir nt lack on llrllnlii appear to bp i changing. IiisIpikI of mussed formations of planes Ihey urc now sendini! over large minibers of LONE boinbers. which dive from the rlouds. drop thrlr bombs nnd run. If you shoot ducks, you will understand why. Massed flocks arc easier to hit than singles flying like n bullet. vN the African front, the Rrit lull abiindon Soinaliland lo the Italians -as Ihey intimated nt the start they wuuld probably do The Mrillsh hope is to retain control of the Mediterranean, thus shuttinii off supplies from the Malum forces in Africa and ultimately starving them out. OTH sides (British nnd Ger man) have declared block ades on each other. Hunger, so Liar, hasn't played n large part n the war. but there is plenty of expectation that It will be fore tho winter Is over. -nEEK ITALIAN tension Is getting tighter. A (I rock "spokesman" says: "We'll not bo caught by surprise If Greece Is invaded." Virglnio Gaydn. Itnty'n chief breast-beater, de claims: "Italy and Albania are ready to defend Albania against the Rrrco-Brilish plan of of fense." What does It mean? Well, such talk usually means MORE WAR. O'Mnhoney Wins Wyoming Hlersioii CHEYENNE. Wyii.. Aug. 21 (IP) By n into 1 walkaway, United States Senator Joseph C. O'Mnhoney won democratic Tenomlnntion I n yesterday's Wyoming primary election nnd I'Ynnk O. Ilorton, republican house member, was renominat ed by b H to 1 majority. By contrast, John Mclntyre, Douglas attorney, nnd Dr. J. C. Mcllcnry, Gillette physician en dorsed by Townsend pension supporters, wrestled In n hot eontest for the democratic nom ination for Wyoming's single house of representatives sent. Overcoming Dr. Mcllcnry's early advantage, Mclntyre held n slight lend In the unofficial count for 412 of 81)5 precincts which gave: Mcllcnry 4502; Mc lntyre 4017. 25 YEARS . AGO TODAY By The Associated Pros Aug. 21, 1915 Great battle rages along Hie Gallipoli front. Bulgaria mobilii.es on Turkish Irontler. Venli'.clos becomes pre mier of Greece, Italians Threaten Greece SUCCEEDS WALLACE r - Claude R. Wlckard of Indi ana, present undersecretary, nominated by Presldont Roose velt to succeed Henry A. Wal lace as secretary of agriculture. Organization Faulty, In adequate, Delayed, Candidate Says RUSHVILLE. Ind.. All. 21 (711 Criticizing the administra tion defense program ns "hope lessly inadequate, delayed, nnd improperly organized," Wendell I,. Wlllkie suggested today that he nnd President Roosevelt de bate the issue during one of the chief executive's visits to pre paredness projects. Mr. Roosevelt should tell us how much (military equipment) is on hand, nnd how much on order," the republican presi dential nominee said in n state ment. Invitation Renewed Willkle's proposal followed n renewal of his invitation that bis I democratic opponent meet him In "public discussion" on nil cam paign questions. The renewal was made nt n press conference yesterday nfter Mr. Roosevelt had turned down the original chnllcnge by saying conditions made it obvious he could not campaign. Then Willklc issued the state ment about defense ns n supple ment to bis remarks to report ers. A debate during a prepared ness .Inspection trip, tho nom inee declared, "won't wnstc" nny of tho president's time. "lie probably would be mnk ing n speech anyway," Willklo added, "and it would just give me the privilege of making n speech nt the same time, nnd then ench could reply to the other." Willklc plans to leave tonight or tomorrow for n weekend trip to New York. Tho nominee had a quiet morn ing nnd afternoon yesterday, but nppenrcd unexpectedly nt a Joint (Continued on I'ago Eight) KrifiKli Firm Soils Oil to tlapnnoso HOUSTON, Aug. 21 (V) The Chronicle today said "tile Hous ton oil industry buzzed with re ports that two British-controlled companies were selling to Japan petroleum products recently em bargoed by the United States." The Chronicle said one exe cutive asserted "when the United States stopped Amcricnn oil com panies from shipping avintion gnsollnc and otlur products to Japan, these two International oil companies, one controlled di rectly by the British government, slopped in nnd begnn supplying Ihc Japnneso market. -rrysT - - ft ATHENS GALLS F Fascist Press Attacking Alleged Mistreatment Of Albanians By The Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 21 il'l Italian troops were re ported massing along Greece's western frontier today ns the Greek government, belabored by the. fascist press for alleged mistreatment of Albanian mi norities, strengthened Us de fenses by placing more reserves under arms. i The call to the colon was Hie third Issued In a week of grow ing tension in relations with Italy. Not Confirmed Premier General John Me taxes conferred at length last night with King George II, but no explanation for the sudden increase in the nation's armed forces was given and official circles declined to comment on the reports ppjtalinn troop con centrations. "Reports abroad can neither be confirmed nor denied," a spokesman said. Usually well informed sources here, however, snid they hnd informnlion that Italy was moss ing considerable numbers of troops, including at least one armored division, in Albania opposite the Greek border. Italian Claims The fascist press lias been hinting strongly that Italy would mnko territorial demands on Greece for the Ciamuria fron tier region on the ground it is rightfully part of Albania, which Italy annexed in 1939 after her Good Fridny invasion. (In Rome, the official Italian news agency, Stefani, renewed attacks upon Greece last night, charging Greek authorities with hiring assassins to terrorize Al banians in Ciamuria and declar ing the Albanians were await ing Italian "action to ban the criminals"). Italian diplomatic representa tives also have been pressing Greece to repudiate Britain's guarantee of her independence and hnve said flatly Greece must be prepared to enter Italy's sphere of Influence. ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 21 OP) Tho Greek army cancelled all leaves for officers nnd men to day nnd a responsible spokes man snid "we will not bb caught by surprise if Greece should be Invnded." .In the third move to strength en the army within a week, the government called to arms sev eral thousand men of a number of military classes. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE R. 11. E. Cleveland 4 7 0 Boston 2 14 1 Harder and Hemsley; Oster mucllcr, Fleming (9) and Foxx. R. H. E. Chicago 0 5 1 Philadelphia 3 3 0 Rigncy and Trcsh; Bcckman and F. Hayes. NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Boston 2 8 1 Pittsburgh 3 10 0 Sullivan, Coffmnn (S). and Musi; Hclntzclmnn nnd Dnvis. REFUGEE BILL WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 (P) The house completed congres sional action todny on legislation to permit the use of American vessels to transport refugee chil dren from tho European war zone. Nazis Switch To Solo Plan In Air Raids LONDON, Aug. 21 IIP) Ger many's airforce blanketed Eng land with scattered solo raids to day, striking Its heaviest blows in the southeast, where one coast resort was bombed twice in the early afternoon. Three nazi bombers were shot down by British fighters, and a fourth was believed to have plunged into the English chan nel. Almost constant patrols of spitfires and hurricanes were kept in the air as reports in dicated a change in German tactics from mass raids to scat tered "sneak-in" attacks by in dividual bombers. Late today a lone raider at tacked a town in the southwest and dropped a bomb which de stroyed a bouse, causing three casualties, including one fatal ity. The heaviest of these attacks, which the British said were modelled on "hit and run", tac tics, was concentrated "on the southeast coast, ..but. numbers of single raiders also wert reported over the midlands the-. Welsh coastal areas and 1lOthrfejt Eng land. . -ypf 4 if vi. 'M1 The greatest damefe was;, re ported from the IndiostrJal Jiild lands, where scvitjuV, bomb At a thickly-populated residential and shopping area," killing one woman and injuring ' several others. OF House Rejects Scheme to Delay Draft Until War Declared By U. S. J WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 IIP) The house military committee rejected today a proposal to amend the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill to defer actual drafting of men for military service until the United States was at war. Chairman May (D-Ky.) said the committee rejected the amendment by a vote of 15 to 3. The proposal to make a draft operative only after a declara tion of war first gained wide spread attention yesterday when it was put forward in the sen ate by Senator Walsh (D-Mass.) who said he would offer it form ally os an amendment later. In the senate today Walsh joined in debute over the draft bill pending there with the charge that airplane manufact urers were delaying acceptance of government contracts for war planes because they were re ceiving 18 per cent profit on for eign orders. , Supporting an amendment by Senator Lee (D-Okla.) to "draft" wealth as well as manpower, Walsh asserted that industrial leaders were now "knocking at the door" of the senate in an ef fort to obtain repeal of airplane and ship profit limitations. "How enn anybody vote to conscript manpower when the manufacturers of airplnnes and ships insist that they would have the same profits as in peace time?" he shouted. Soviet Offers 1'rizoN for s'oll MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (IP) A soviet gold-rush open to nil cit izens was encouraged today by the people's commissariat of non ferrous metallurgy. It offered prizes of 3000 to 200,000 rubles nominally ($600 to $40,000) for the discovery of gold or platinum fields nnd a share in tho exploitation of mines. PLANESURVEYS FIRE DANGERS L Swan Lake Fire Threat ening to Break Away, Airmen Report An airplane survey of the smoking Klamath Indian reser vation timber lands Wednesday disclosed an incipient break away by the huge Swan lake fire, which has already black ened 8000 acres. Lines appeared to be holding on other sections of the reser vation's far-flung fire front, ac cording to G. S. Kephart, reser vation forest supervisor. He made the plane trip in a Spo kane ship, accompanied by Thomas Carter, Yakima reser vation forest supervisor, and a special officer from the Yakima agency. Supervisor Kephart said the Swan lake fire is in such rugged terrain as to make suppression impossible so long as the weather continues In its present stage. It is Jjot po.ssible to establish-a line that will hold, and spoUir ing is constantly nullifying the hard-won gains of the big force of men on this blaze. Kephart reported the Black hills fire north of Beatty and the Wilson point fire east of Kirk were being held in check when the plane passed over. The airplane party, however, sighted a new fire in Long Bell timber northeast of the reserva tion. Men in automobiles were moving along forest roads to wards this blaze, which had just started and was said to be in a dangerous location. The plane was sent here by the Spokane regional office of the Indian service. Fire condi tions on the Klamath reserva tion arc said to be the worst on record at this time. Seven hundred men are now fighting fire there. Klamath Forest Protective as sociation officials here reported fires in association areas well in check, but said that weather conditions are so uncertnin "any thing can happen." Predictions of thunder storms had the for esters in a jittery condition as they kept in close touch with lookouts and crews in the field. One hundred and fifty men and motorized trenching equip ment stemmed a 2000-acre fire six miles east of the twin north ern Klamath county towns of Gilchrist and Crescent. Calm weather supported the crews' confidence that the lines would be held. Shevlin-Hixon Lumber com pany, Gilchrist and forest serv ice timber were in the path of the flames but the commercial loss was not treat. Forest au thorities said tho course of the blaze wns "mnn made." Visibility had improved con siderably today in the central Oregon district. American Ship Vast Danger Zone WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (IP) The state department said today the refugee ship American "Le gion was about 400 miles west of the British coast line and thus well out of the area which Germany had described as high ly dangerous. STOCKHOLM, Aug. 21 (AP via Radio) The newspaper Dagcns Nyhcter reported from Oslo today that Crown Prince Olnv intends to board the Unit ed States army transport Ameri can Legion, now en route to the United States from Petsamo, Finland, with American refu gees as soon as the ship reaches the vicinity of England. The paper declared also that King Haakon and members of the former Norwegian govern ment may board tho vessel. II AND BRITISH STRIKE BACK How the British are striking back at Germany on far-flung fronts is shown in this picture leceiyed in New York by clipper plane, on which the caption. apprOTed by the censor, sayst "Just receired from Sweden, this picture shows a column oi smoke aboTe the quay at Bergen, Norway, after bombs from a British dive bomber found their mark berg as she lay in harbor. Trotsky Near Death After Pickax Blow MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21 (IP) Leon Trotsky, at the point of death from a pickax assault, was quoted tonight as murmur ing to his secretary that "this time it is the end" and that he was sure his assailant "was a member of the OGPU (soviet secret police) or a fascist most likely the OGPU." The one-time Russian war minister had a wound in the skull which exposed his brain and a fracture at the base of the skull. Two other blows from the ax injured his right shoulder and his right hip. Surgeons operated on Trotsky last night, a few hours after he was set upon in the office of his home in nearby Coyoa can. Gen. Jose Manuel Nunez, fed eral district police chief, said "there are hopes of saving his life." But the Russian, who es caped unharmed as a machine gun band inVaded his residence May 24, was given few chances to live. Oxygen was adminis tered. Police said the "friend" who attacked Trotsky gave his name as Jacques Mortan Vandcn dreischd, 36, native of Teheran, Iran. He studied in France and became a subject of Belgium. He said he was a newspaper writer, but so far as could be learned he had no journalistic connections in Mexico. He had known Trotsky a year, frequently visited the walled-in, well-fortified Coyoa can estate, and often dined pri vately with Trotsky while the two discussed political ideas. Police said Vandendreischd confessed, saying political opin ions Trotsky recently expressed so angered him that he decided to kill the Russian. He ex pressed regret and said he hoped he would be put to death police said. Luzon Typhoon Takes Eight Lives MANILA, Aug. 21 (IP) A typhoon that swept northern Luzon Island caused at least eight deaths, destroyed hun dreds of houses and flooded large crop acreages, said belated reports received hero tonight. Tho storm passed into tho China sea yesterdny. -J I ; f - ..... on he German .cruiser- Konigs- EXPERTS PONDER DESTHDYER SALE Legal Questions Rising From Proposed Ai3 to Britain Probed WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (IP) The government's ranking le gal, military and foreign policy officials conferred today on le gal questions involved in ac quisition by the United States of offshore naval and air bases. Negotiations with the British for such bases have been re ported in London to be ad vanced to the stage of agree ment in principle. Attorney General Jackson said after today's meeting at the justice department: "We have discussed the legal questions in volved in the proposal and pro cedure for American acquisition of offshore naval and air bases along the Atlantic." Jackson did not amplify and none of the other conferees would comment in response to questions whether a British government request for 'United (Continued on Page Eight) Gunsmith Charged Willi Manslaughter In Silvertou Case SILVERTON, Aug. 21 (IP) L. B. Robinson, Rickreall gun smith, appeared today before Justice Alf O. Nelson and was given until 2:30 p. m. tomorrow to answer a charge of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death near Salem last night of Joseph Williams, 52, Salem battery service man. Robinson, who asked the case be continued 24 hours, is being held in lieu of $5000 bail. Deputy Sheriff L. L. Pittenger said Williams died late yester day after an altercation with Robinson. Pittenger quoted four wit nesses as saying that Robinson struck Williams on the head with a gun. The altercation took place alongside a highway south of here, where tho men were discussing details of a gun trade. The witnesses added that Rob inson started to drive away and Williams jumped on the car's running board, the officer said Tho automobile smashed Into a I pergola. E Basis for Settling Far East Situation After War Under Study By DREW MIDDLETOW LONDON, Aug. 21 (VP) Un. official but well - informed sources Indicated today that tha . British government is seeking a military alliance with the United States. Canadian - American discus sions on mutual defense are1 eon sidered in these quarters to b the opening wedge in a British effort to obtain a full military accord between the United State and Britain. No Friends Left As envisaged now, such afl alliance would embrace the de fense of Canada and other Brit ish possessions in the western hemisphere and, perhaps even more important, "wouid form the basis for common diplomacy in the far east at the conclusion of the European conflict," as on Informant put it. - VThe-plain -truth -of the mat--ter," said a neutral diplomat, "is that neither Great Britain nor the United States has a powerful friend left anywhere else in the world. It behoovea them to get together and make the best of the sorry situation." Official sources were reluct ant to comment on the talks be tween President Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister W, L. MacKenzie King, which result ed in a decision to estabtlsh a joint defense board, but satis faction was evident. Logical Progression There were reports here that the conversations progressed to the hypothetical naval defense of Canada and the United States in the event the British fleet were lost, and aerial defense not only on the seaboard but from United States bases on the Pacific such as Sitka and north ern Alaska. "It is a logical progression from these talks to a military alliance with Great Britain, said one reliable person. 'I think we may regard the present Canadian-American talks as similar to those which, in the early nineteen hundreds, preceded creation of the entente cordlale between France and his ma jesty's government." Official British reluctance to comment may be explained by the presence of public opinion in England that a non-belliger ent United States is more valu able to Britain than an America at war. In the latter event, these persons reason, the United States would have to use most of her planes and munitions for strengthening her own Panama and Atlantic defenses, instead of letting Britain use them. This group probably is far more powerful than the smaller and more vocal body, including a sprinkling of American ex patriates, who are calling for immediate American interven tion against Germany. Indeed, there are evidence that the activities of the second group are embarrassing the British government in its ef forts to obtain war supplies from tho United States. These ac tivities, it is feared, are arous ing isolationist sentiment in America by what one member of parliament describes a "short-sighted and arrogant tactics." News Index City Briefs Pages, 3,11 Comics and Story Pago 2 Courthouse Records ....Page : 4 Editorials Pag Market, Financial Page 12 Midland Empire News, Page a Pattern Page 4 Railroad News Pag 1 Sports Pages 10,11 Weather ...Page 3 1 NO FRIENDS IN WORLD
