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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1940)
PAGE SIXTEEN THE 'NEWS .'AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, . ORE, December 21, General Way ell, Genius of North African Campaign, Called 'The Desert Fox (HOITOH'S. JOTKl OuliHnu lilht of tht Hrllftll nrrp Init in, iuiimii in norm Afrl.. nnrl Mr Archibald P. Wavrll. who I, puttint Into lh trltki of dwrt viiftri hi Itirnid from VlMouot Allenby nd thi fubuloui UwrraM of Arbl durlne thi World wr, Hr woto piciur 01 IhU iturdr Bostimiui, "Till uewn itw.i 1 Br EDWARD ROBINSON ' LONDON. Dec. 21 (P) Gen eral Sir Archibald P. Wavell, directing genius of the British campaign in north Africa, is man who insists that desert war- "riors must be daring and "fast as lightning." I. A sturdy Scot, the third gen eral in his family In three gen erations, he is considered here to be a "natural" for his present task by reason of personality and experience. , The 87 year old officer has had an increasingly important hand in every British war since the South African conflict of two score years ago. He was created -a Knight Companion of the Bath last year and elevated to the rank of full general only last October. Wears Monocle Sir Archibald has a penchant for shedding his bemedalled coat and working in shirt sleeves. His manner- is. described as affable and charming, and he is brilliant speaker and admir able writer. The poetry of Browning is one of his hobbies. . He has produced what is re garded as the best short history of the Palestine campaign in the World war, during which he was attached to the staff of the late Viscount Allenby. To disguise the loss of an eye In the fighting in France in 1913, he wears a monocle, but does not let that interfere with his vigor ous recreations. He is an expert marksman, a good golfer and, surprisingly for a desert fighter, a skiing enthusiast. A graduate of Sandhurst, Sir Archibald began his military career in 1901 as a member of the famed Black Watch. He was decorated for service in South Africa and on the India frontier. Then came the World war. Uses Surprise For two years he was in the thick of action in France, though he found time to marry in 1915. He has a son and three daugh ters. After loss of his eye, he was sent to the Caucusus in 1916 as military attache with the Rus sian army, then transferred to the Egyptian expeditionary force. Under Allenby, to whom he was devoted, he learned much of the unorthodox desert warfare which he lately has turned to such good account Employing the element of surprise success fully, he and his men swept through the desert rocks of Pal estine and Syria, and perhaps he learned a sly trick or two from the fabulous Lawrence of Arabia, who became his friend during this period. Ever since. Sir Archibald's mastery of the "catch-the-cat-napping" technique has won the admiration of his men. With Allenby he followed the Turks In 1918 with such stunts as dragging trees and branches across the dusty desert, raising uch clouds that the Turks thought large forces were on the move. When they rushed In to meet the apparent threat, they missed the main British thrust "Greatest Bloodhound" Regularly promoted, Sir Archibald came home In 1921 as a colonel. In 1932-33 he served as aide-de-camp to the king, winning promotion to major general in the latter year. He served several years as an Infantry command at Aldershot, GIVE Week and Weeks ot MERRY CHRISTMAS 3( Dig Savings! S12 IN SCRIP $10 1 $6 IN SCRIP $5.00 1 $3 IN SCRIP $2,501 ;'. KLAMATH : THEATRES, Ino. Phone 5317 (linulr, il In OffltO rlllCAH UNI TRtl VOX MINBOW I Theatre j 5 HI -SsV- - and then, in 1937, went back as commander of British forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan. In that year he was guest of honor at an elaborate dinner given by Jewish veterans in commemora tion of the twentieth anniversary of Allenby's entry into Jeru salem. It was recalled then that the Turks had called him the "great est bloodhound" in the Palestine cleanup, and the German chief of - staff, the present Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, described him as "the only good general Britain has." When the present war loomed ominously near, Britain in July, 1939, named Sir Archibald, then a lieutenant general, as chief of a new Middle East command. When war came, he busily and quietly spent more than a year in building up his Middle East army of Britons, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Poles, and, after the fall of France, free French soldiers. Now "The Desert Fox" and his motley but integrated troops are on the move. COUNTY REPORTED Four accidents were reported to the sheriff's office Friday as wet weather and icy pave ments continued to plague Klam ath county motorists. B. E. Kerns, Klamath Falls, reported that he was involved in a slight accident with another car on Highway 66 one mile west of the city Wednesday. The name of the other driver was not learned. Ed Hallman, of this city, re ported a mishap with an uni dentified motorist on Tuesday seven miles east of Klamath Falls on the Merrill highway. No one was injured. A wreck on the road ahead was blamed for a crash involv ing cars of L. W. Wilcox, Sis ters, Ore., and James Fawcett, Peshastin, two miles south of Sun Mountain summit Wednes day. The Wilcox machine smashed Into the rear of Faw- cett's ear which was stopped on the highway near the previ ous crash. - On Thursday a car driven by Ethel Smith, Freda street, was struck by a machine approach ing from the opposite direction allegedly on the wrong side of the road. According to the Smith report the second car was passing a third vehicle and hit Miss Smith as she swerved to avoid a crash. For the annual "picnic of the states," a table one mile long was built along a tree-lined street in Ontario, Calif. Lat Day "Dr. Kildaire Goes Home" TOMORROWI Through Tuesday delate and JleuujJt, YOU CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS! II t I CARTOON LATS8T NiWI NOVSLTV TRAVEL -ft1 'ft ONI OP YOUR "Don't Cross Your Bridges . . ." y:j4 il ' . - . .V' ?.... ,,ftM j ,i-r'W; f'-fiTi irt Vi"-- ."Don't cross your bridges until you build 'em" might be the Army's paraphrase of. the old motto. Above, after cutting a road through dense woods, such as appear on the far bank, engineers of the First Armored Division, Fort Knox. Ky., are building pontoon span over which 11-ton tanks crossed later. Klamath Man Recounts Tale Of Meeting Lone Survivor Of Custer's Last Stand Oscar Mooney, watchman at the Boy Scout millyard, takes exception to a "filler" published in the News and Herald Decem ber 9 concerning survivors of the Custer Massacre. The item stated that no hu man being escaped the trap in which the Indians caught Gen eral Custer and his men on the Little Bighorn, but Mooney says that he recalls meeting the lone survivor of that battle, a half- blood Crow Indian called Curly the Scout. According to Mooney, Curly the Scout managed to get off the battlefield by wrapping a blanket around his head and pos ing as a squaw. He caught a horse and rode up the Yellow stone river to where a ferry was operated by a man named CHURCHILL PLEDGES MORE PRIVILEGES AT END OF WAR LONDON, Dec. 21 (AP Prime Minister Winston Church ill was disclosed Friday to have pledged that when the war is over advantages and privileges which hitherto have been en joyed only by the few shall be far more widely shared." The promise was made at Har row, exclusive school where Churchill spoke Wednesday. The prime minister quoted Adolf Hitler as saying Decem ber 10 that "Eton college and the Hitler schools are two dif ferent worlds," and declared the fuehrer had "overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the advantage of attending such schools as Eton and Har row but who by their skill and prowess have won the admira tion of the whole world." HOME CONTROLLED,? HOME OPERATED ry j ! rN EDWARD G. mmSh I; I MMwm Kt J5 ' 5 history.., yet no ff JW (y&fy-Kl BIG SCREEN 1 KW H&f " 'A X 1 one knows hlml i S SOt JTAfJ. KPWttl X ' ' ' 3 5 i Where docs he karn .. ijCigJf9j fr W U V! .u..HOAr 2? i 1 j T W- ' I I . r? doors opbn iiiw . . fk f H,-4 w Jf J r ' i J I I 4 Om. nam. llm Tai 4..M j f - j ". W-" " VJ Swutllul Siir CSr v7 Childrm (No TnJ Q j . "i- f omr tf: I "". 4r DOOnl OPSN II ISA P, H, fj I -?r OROH, in BALOONV S o ' ; 2p I " i LOOBS Ill ;J L i ' I OHILDRIN 1M !; M Counterman near where Colum bus now is. Counterman rode from there to Helena, changing horses only once, at Bozeman, and broke the news of Custer's fate to the edi tor of the Helena Record, who happened to be standing on the curb as Counterman rode into town, according to Mooney 's version. ASK AND RECEIVE AMARILLO, Tex., (P) An Amarillo boy handed his teacher a note from his mother. "Please send the fire department to our house" it read. Shortly, a roaring fire truck stopped at the woman's front door. Startled, she held out a sack to the firemen and told them, "This is what I wanted. Here are some toys you can fix for poor youngsters." Try the Classified Ads LA IT OAT "THI MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK" LLOTO NOLAN TOMORROW "If I Had A Million" GEORGE RAFT . CHARLES LAUGHTON W. C. FIELDS MAY ROBSON RICHARD BENNETT Ayrea - ttarrymore THEATRES And Dozens I , I of Others! , tk' Zi t- - ' . 1 rt i CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 21 (AP Egon L. F. HnfstaenKl, son of Ernest F. S. (Putii) Hani staengl who once was a friend of Chancellor Hitler, declared Friday that America should "wnko up to the urgency of the times" and expel nil null offi cials from this country. Young Hai'.fstnenRl, who spent several years in German youth camps, told the Foreign Rela tions club of Harvard that he believed the "fifth column" was a "real menace In the United States." "It is time they (Americans) woke up to the urgency of the times," declared the young Har vard student, whose fntlier, a former high nnzi officinl. Is even now In n Canadian con centration camp. "I do not think that the ex plosions In American powder plants are mere coincidences," he added. "Certainly," he asserted, "these bund movements all over the country and the over-enlarged consular staffs are not accidents. It has been suggest ed that America should expel all nazl officials in this country- TODAY OXLY -- GKXK AIITIIY nnd .1131 !"" '"jiS- TOMORROW!"" ; f; lip f aJPLr ft MAJOR PARTIES T WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (T) Although It Is nearly two years until the next congressional elec tion, neither major party Is lot ting any grass grow under Its feet. With republicans talking of a full-time permanent staff here, it was announced last night that the democratic national head quarters would move the first of the year Into luxurious 25 room suite in the Mayflower hotel. National Chnirman Edward J. Flynn of New York, it was learn ed, will move Into an apartment in the hotel and spend most of his time here after January 1 Flynn has been paying only oc - caslonnl visits here since he sue- ceeded James A. Farley last fall uomclcient with this news came word that the democrats would not hold their customary Jackson day banquets, on Janu ary 8. Because this date comes I see no reason why they should not be expelled and every reason why they should bo kicked out." I THE GLORIOUS EPIC PON 01 1942 election S St. I"; m ll.llxl IrMtfi r.... n t mm Mf2m ..V.?Ji-T lmlH.Dita4iewi iSraSa I Starts Wednesday PELICAN ft II OP VflllR HOME OONTROLLBD, close to Inauguration day on January 20, it was thought best to have a "victory dinner" in February or March, as was dona utter tho 10MU election, The republicans nro holding up reorganization of their head quarters until a now nutloiuil chairman is selected. Woiulell L. Willkie, the party's 1IMU presi dential nominee, is represented by nssodutca ns desiring for that position a nuin who could repre sent tho "back home" element. Republican offices occupy sev eral floors in a building across Lafiiyotto Square Iron) tho Wliito House, wlilla tho demo crats liuvo been liutiscd In uliiht cramped rooms in tho Nutlunul 1 Press building. Both nutioual committees aro preparing their final postelec tion expenditure reports for sub mission to the house Tho lust reports showed that tho republi can national committee received 92.1)1)3.01)1 and spent $2,313,-100 between January 1 and October 30, while tho democrats receiv ed $1,017,213 and spent Sl.tHU, 727. Flynn has said that the demo cratic national committee final report would show expenditures j below tho $3,000,000 limit fixed by tne much act. TWO BIRDS, ETC. SNOW HILL, Md W) B. Clay Chapman says this hap- , poned to him: i Driving along a hlghwny, he saw two pheasants flying over a field. Ho got out of his car, un limbered his .22 rifle, and fired i one shot. Until birds fell dead, the slug passing through tho OF AN EXCITING ERA! MtK III It A.TH "M I MtMuBh ft HOME OPERATED THEATRES head of one and into tht head of the other. 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