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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1941)
ft WEATHER PICTURES! Associated Prats Telamatt, NEA Telepho loi ind live local nawtpleture and en graving stall ptovldt News and Harald readers with a comprehensive photograph to service. 'mm mm - , ' : V V ( t , . . . ... , In The 'T.' ' '': .' By FRANK JENKINS EIGHTEEN men are drowned when a f lahlnx schooner (American) collide with a barge A Boston harbor. Five of the achooner'i crow of 23 are saved after clinging lo (he rigging for three hours. When rescued, their hands and feet were froien. Even peace has Ha casualties. ".' 1TWELVE sailors die soma in agony and madness and some In quiet ileep after IB days of exposure In an open llfebont In the cold North Atlantic. . Their h!p. the Brltlih freight er Carlton, waa torpedoed by an Italian submarine. The crew took to the sea In two open boata . one of which haa Just been found by a British merchant ship. The Other la still mining. ' . That's what happens when the hatreds of war are added lo the harards of the sea. TN the outskirts of London housewives drop their kitchen work lo smother flra bombs dropped by re Id I us German planes. . They make an efficient Job of, It. Your great-grandmother, (f alive, could perhapa recall' that when saves Indiana attacked V white settlers, women and rmiaren wok pari in tna ugm- Ing and shared the fate of the men. The Teutonic tribes (described by Tacitus as savages) ware accompanied into battle by their women. On frequent occasions the warriors, routed by the su perlor arms and discipline of the Romans and fleeing, were halted by their women end sent back into the battle to win or to die When all was lost, these dauntless women were accus tomed to destroy themselves and their children rather then be taken as spoils of war and sold Into slavery. TN these days captives, Includ--Ing women and children, are no longer sold Into slavery. In . most of its other aspects, war haa inverted to Ihe savagery of earl ier centuries. fills .dispatch comes over the wires todny (Tuesday.) ' "Foreign observers express the belief that Hitler and Mussolini (at their' much-touted meeting) may have agreed on a plan to obtain France's co-operation' In ttie war against Britain, by direct action, If necessary." I That hint will be worth watch ing. It seems. Incredible that Hitler will permit beaten France to stand In his way. If he does, It will be a sign that Franca, .la stronger than most of us can believe. . AS these words are written (Tuesday morning) the Brit ish are reported lo be starting f' major attack on Tobruk, In Italian Libya. J'-iTha Idea Is to beat the. Ger mans to whatever they may be up to In the Mediterranean, ... . WfHAt. the Germans appear to , be up to la seizing bases for air attack on the British Medi terranean fleet. ' .' 'The British retort defiantly that to date tho cruiser South, ampton Is the only major war ship sunk by airplane attack In the 18 months of war. Hitler can't crack the Brit ish Jn the Mediterranean he is going to have to pay a heavy price sooner or later. So look for him to hit with all ha has. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY ; Br The Associated Prasi '.Tan. 21, 1916 Russians seize Farlnczle In eastern European fighting, take Sultanabad in Persia. ASSOCIATED PRESS Veteran Nurse Honored i -v :-': -M mm Mmm 1 rn Lydla Frleke Howard, en the occasion of the 20th anniversary of her arrival In Klamath county to serve aa school health nurse, was honored by 40 persons Tuesday. Mrs.. Howard, (loft), ac cepts a gift from frlenda from Mrs, Marlon Hanks, long active In county health work. t ' . DISCORD FLARES IN RUMANIAN CAPITAL ft .tfi.'iM-V ' Street Fights, Bombings Mark Rivalry in Ranks of Iron Guardists SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 21 (&) Widespread disorders in Ruma nia with street fighting and bombings Injuring civilians, Ger man soldiers and communists In the street of Bucharest and oth er cities, were reported In diplo matic dispatches today to Sofia, Belgrade and Budapest. Some sources In the other Bal kan capitals attributed the Ru manian outbreaks to bitter rival ry between extremiata and more conservative element in Ru mania's Iron guard. Resentment ' Others suggested that Increas ing resentment In many quarters over German military concen trations in Rumania and against the regime of Premier Ion An tonescu might have flared Into a free-for-all with nazl troops try ing to restore order. -. There were reports too, - the disorders might he part of an Intended coup by leftists, follow ers of former King Carol, or oth ers trying to wrest power from the pro-German Iron guard. - j " Un of Clot hem Provokes Slaying' MIAMI BEACH. Fla.. Jan. 21 (T) State Investigator Ray mond Mills said today a chauf feur held for killing a compan ion acknowledged the slaying and declared he shot because Ihe victim "had been using my toothbrush, comb and razor for a year and I was tired of it. - Mills said the dead man waa Jack Meanes, 40-year-old Ak ron, O., chauffeur, and identi fied the killer as Stanley Sykes, 35, of New York. , . . . "Black Rain" Question Gets Attention of City Leaders Klamath'a "black rain" the soot and burned cinders that set. tie on parts of the city In wintry days . received the attention Tuesday of both the city council and city planning commission Af ter protests against the nuisance were voiced at a council meet ing Monday night. At that meeting, Mrs. Claude Davia addressed the council as spokeswoman for a large delega tion of. householders, mainly from the "first hill" nbove the main part of town. Complying with her request that the city officials consider what may be done about the matter, Mayor Houston asked the planning com- :ents Nurse Feted For 20Year 5eryice,nere- Sincere tribute was ipalfr Tues day to Lydla Fricke Howard, for the past 20 years associated with health work in Klamath county when 40 friends and co-workers gathered at Hickman's for lunch' eon to honor Mrs. Howard on the anniversary, of her arrival in Klamath Falls. Brief talks were given con' cerning Mrs. Howard's work in the field of . health by Dr. George A. Massey, Dr. Peter H. Rozendal, Fred Peterson, J. Per cy Wells, and a silver tray, and flowers, from the group were presented by Mrs. Marion-Hanks. Mrs. , Phil Brixner presided at the luncheon. Dr. Massey reviewed the early days of public health work which he termed . "simple and primitive." He compared the territory which Lydla Fricke covered aa the first health nurse where she traveled ''almost to Bend, half-way to Lakeview, past Keno some 20-odd . 'miles, and Just about to Dorris." . "Mrs. Howard's chief Inspira tlon was one of character," said Dr. Massey, "and she has been an Inspiration to - all those with whom she has worked these past 20 years. . . . ,. ... ' .. ' . Dr. Rozendal ' honored . Mrs Howard with whom he Is asso' elated in the health unit. Few persona In ihe county knew the Klamath country as Mrs. How ard knows it, and just now she la working on a history of Klam ath county a health department, Dr. Rozendal stated. Early work In the Klamath county school was discussed by Fred . Peterson, county, school superintendent. '.who said the school system had profited great ly by her presence. . . : "Through the years Mrs. How ard has been in the school sys tem' said J. Percy Wells, city school head,' "she has kept her course faithfully and she has - (Continued op Page Two) I mission at Its Tuesday meeting 10 consider it, ' Many Sources ' , . In the general discussion at the planning commission meeting, it was brought out that while the Klamath Heating company is popularly blamed for most of the trouble, any heating plant using hog fuel or sawdust Is suspected and that probably many burning plants are contributing to the volume of cinders and soot. , While it was brought out that extensive and possibly prohibi tory expenditures might be ne cessitated to eliminate the nui sance completely, ltwas agreed (Continued on Page Two) IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH PALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, Greeks ThrowBackC ITALIANS LOSE GROUND AFTER Athens Keports Advances After Assault on Tepeleni Front ATHENS, Jan. 27 OP) The Greeks reported . today their forces had repulsed what they described as the largest and most carefully planned Italian counter-attack yet attempted in the Tepeleni sector of the Albanian front. - As a result of this desperate attempt to halt the Greek ad vance, the Italians were declared to have lost their original posi tions along with the great num bers of their attacking force. Height Belied On the front north of Klisura the Greeks reported they also scored Important gains in at tacks launched In blinding snow- .ItOTrtlS. . ; , H ... . ''Our troops advanced ' their llnas-to-positions,' frorqwher it will be easier to reach their ob jectives.? said one dispatch, f This report ' said, the Greeks seized height from the fascists, captured more than 100' Italian prisoners. Including three offi cers, three mounted guns, four machine-guns, mortars and sev eral cases of cartridges. - The British RAF. supporting tho Greek land forces, reported that Valona, a port vital for the supply of Italian forces in south ern Albania, was subjected Sun day night' and Monday "to the heaviest bombing attack so far carried out in that region." . A- severe night raid was fol (Contlnued on Page Two) , 18 Seamen Drown As Vessel Sinks. After Collision BOSTON, Jan. 21 (Eigh teen men drowned today, al most within sight of their homes, as the Boston schooner Mary E. O'Hara, homeward bound from a week on the fish ing banks, was split open in a collision as it approached Bos ton harbor, and sank. - . Five half - frozen survivors dragged to safety from the pro truding mainmast of the-sunken schooner by the crew of the trawler North Star told their rescuers that the O'Hara appar ently had struck a barge and that the remainder of the crew of 23 ,had fallen, from the. rig ging one by one, as their hands froze. . ; Brought ashore with their own hands and feet, frozen, half dead from drenching and ex posure, the men said their schooner had. sunk so fast that there was no time even to launch' dory. v llov to Speak At llanniiet for Junior Chamber E. Palmer Hoyt. of Portland, publisher of The Oregonian, will be" principal speaker this eve ning at a Founders day banquet given' by the ' Klamath county junior chamber of commerce. The banquet, to be held at the Elk hotel at 6:30 p. m., Is open to the public. Tickets may. be secured at the hotel,. " Hoyt's address, entitled" Where Now America?" will deal with the responsibility of this coun try In the world crisis. Joe Bally, president of the Klamath . junior chamber, an nounced that a distinguished service award will be presented to- the outstanding young man of the county for 1B40, Malcolm Epley will be toast- master. 4 . The 'banquet will mark the local observance of the 21st an niversary of the founding of the United States junior chamber of commerce. , HEAVIEST PUSH British u 'vf''v - While the British army ef British ualtk hsrrasa Italians on lingretaaeo .Fais..aaUabat,o TfSH DIVJ U. S. fiOLE. CUIM Kennedy Says Question of American Entry Seen ' From Two Sides WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (P) Joseph P, Kennedy, retiring am bassBdor to Great Britain, ' de clared today that Britain's lead ership was divided Over the question of the advisability of the United States becoming an active participant In the war. Testifying before the house affairs committee, Kennedy said, in response to questions, that some members of the British gov ernment felt that if the. United States entered the war it would "find a way to carry it through." . , Would Cut Aid ' Others, he said, believed that United, States entrance into the war. would be a great detriment to Britain s war effort because it would slow down the flow of material aid from America. "There was no unanimity on the question," he said..' The carefully dressed diplo mat, who reported he went through more than 280 air raids during his service in England, told the committee that many people In ' t h e British govern ment felt they were not yet get ting all the aid they might nor (Contlnued on Page Two) Dr. IVerseth riurt In Accident Near Pelican City Dr. Marvin Nerseth, Chllo- qutn. Is recovering from injur ies received at 10 o clock Tues day morning when his car over turned at the Van Duker serv ice station on The Dalles-Cali fornia highway near Pelican City. Dr. Nerseth suffered hip and Shoulder Injuries. - According to witnesses, a car entered the highway without observing the stop sign, and Dr. Nerseth swerved his car to one side In order to avoid a col lision. The machine overturned and righted itself in the oppo site direction..- Andy Shanks, living near the scene of the. ac cident, took Dr. Nerseth to Hillside hospital- where his in juries were said to be painful but not serious. Driver of the other car, wit nesses said, continued toward Klamath Falls, apparently un aware of the accident. The Nerseth car was damaged. 1941 Recapture East Africaa Fort the Nile drives datp into Libya another fronts-the 8udan.Ethlopln bordr.LBritish troops. ha- U) - fTontirr -watch forMhe etietny, Hunt for Big Bomber Mays Be Made Here MEDFORD. Jan. 21- (fP)--U. David M. Jones, commanding officer of the four army planes stationed at the Medford - air port announced Tuesday, as soon as weather conditions permitted a search of the district east of Klamath Falls would be made. Numerous reports have come from this area of hearing a plane last Thursday . after the disap pearance of the army ' bomber from McChord field, Tacoma. Four planes to be used in the searching and checking of re ports from southern Oregon and northern California were sched uled to arrive here this after noon. One.bomber has arrived. The Medford municipal airport has been designated as the .di rectional center for; the planes. McCHORD FIELD, Wash., Jan. 21 (P) An aerial searching fleet of 33 planes failed yesterday to find any trace of an army bomb er that disappeared five ' days ago with seven men aboard, and Col. William H. Crom, field commander, conceded that "only a miracle can cause those boys to be found alive now." ; - As the search continued along half the length of the Pacific coast, McChord officers express ed tears that the wreckage of the missing twin-motored bomb er might not be found until after the snow leaves some -isolated mountain slope in the spring. Legislature Gets Governor's Plan for Forest Conservation By PAUL W. HAiiVEY, Jr. . SALEM, Jan. 21 (F) Gover nor Charles A. Sprague's pro gram for forestry conservation was submitted to the legislature today -in 17- bills, -including a measure to enable the state to obtain title to forest lands from any owner so that the state may develop these lands Itself. Other measures would give the state forester more powers In control of fire suppression and prevention, force logging oper ators to use precautionary meas ures, change the Incendiarism penalty from two to five years, and change the closed season from April 1 to December 31, instead of from May 19 to De cember 31. Powers Extended The program is one of the six points of Governor Sprague's message to the legislature, and High 38l Low 21 PRECIPITATIOlf 24 houn to S a. m. Baaion to data UNITED PRESS Normal praelpltatlon Lait yaer to data In th -north.. lacantly rreinf oread only 200 yard. away. ;, . . , - -3 ' A.' U. Sr Aid" to Britain Not '1 Overlooked in Parley of Chiefs, Claim - By RICHARD G. MASSOCK ROME, Jan. 21 Virginio Gayda indicated . today . that United' States activity . "the sharpening of warlike trends across the ocean" figured prom inently in the meeting between Adolf .Hitler and Benito Musso lini. - . . . The . authoritative editor of n Giornale d'ltalia outlined . these five "well-defined phases" of the .war situation which he said called for the. meeting: ' 1 : 1. Intensification of German air attacks on Britain; . .-. 2. Intensification of the axis counter-blockade in the Atlan tic; - - f 3. Critical . developments in the Mediterranean; - . . 4. "The sharpening of warlike trends across the ocean, which do not pass without reactions from the whole political and military system of the war;" 5. "Vast international accords of the axis." . Gayda emphasized the . axis nations' "identity of views . . .. not only for political ends, but also for conduct of the war." . Foreign observers expressed (Continued on Page Two) the bills, placed on legislators' desks today, will be introduced late today or tomorrow, ' The 1939 legislature gave the state authority to acquire forest lands from the counties, but this power would be extended to per mit acquisition of private lands. The state thus would acquire vast areas for reseeding. ' ; Restrictions . Other bills would Impose se vere restrictions on logging and mill operators to prevent them from using equipment likely to cause fires. The operators would be required to equip their crews for fire-fighting. . The Oregon economic council, which drafted the legislation, said the program has these three objectives: The preservation of the forest resource against the time of harvest, the orderly har- (Continued on Page Two) m . m m ounter-Dl ; .. : ; SNOW Ufl ow FIRST BLASTED Ai5 RAF Attacks Sicilian Air Base as Troops Pursue; i - Eritrean Assault f " : 'rT i V- CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 21 m British forces , surrounding be leaguered ' Tobruk. launched a major assault on the 30,000 Ital ian defenders of ' the Libyan stronghold today after the RAP bad prepared the way with aeries of night raids. - - - . ' - "Early this morning an attack was launched on Tobruk and tha operations are- proceeding satis-' fantnri,lyi-4ae-jBritish middle ait command announced. . Air Raids i - " Tobruk, 80 miles inside Libya, haa been under siege by land, sea and air since the ' British captured ; Bardia, 10 miles from the Egyptian frontier,-on Jan. 5. - . The- land assault was preceded W' widespread air raids, in which., : theiBAJTitihOunced Tobruk waa attackd heavily, . seven -. planes were : destroyed in an attack on Catania, Sicilian base of ' a x i s jlier - -raiding '. British ( Mediter ranean shipping, and Valona was made, the target of the heaviest . SsfcsU&yet loosed on that major Italian, port of entry into aoufh mtkSbtni. ' ' ' -',' ', : - Hits Claimed ' In the attack on Tobruk, car ried 'out the night of Jan.-19-20, tha -RAF sajd direct hits' were registered on: marine repair shops and military barracks. One artillery battery of four guns was silenced, the communique said, and "many bombs" fell on a camp of about 200 tents. "Anti aircraft fire was Intense, but our aircraft pressed home the at attack," the RAF communique said. "': Elsewhere In the battle of Af rica, the middle east command reported British troops were viBorously pursuing into bri- trea the Italian forces which withdrew Sunday from-the Kas- (Continued on Page Two) Selectees Slated To. Leave Klamath By Rail Tonight , . . Klamath county's second quota of, draft selectees will be given a sendoff by relatives and friends . tonight at 9:30 at the Klamath depot. The men are being rout ed to Portland for physical ex amination and induction into the army for a year's active train ing.- .. '.Major Ted Case,; local draft supervisor, . has; instructed the men - to report to me. county courthouse at 6:30 p. m. Then they will be sent to the depot to catch the northbound Westcoast. One alternate for each . board will go only if there is' va cancy, ..'. j The draftees are: '. Board 1 (Klamath Falls) Ray mond M. Hermann,- Bruce M, Hall, Mlchpel O'Keefe, Edwin L. Mays, John D. Lienhart. Alter nate: Jack w. Ward. . Board. 2 (outside Klamath Falls) rMarcelino F. Sandoval, Chlloquln; Charles H. McKeen, Keno; Alfred A. Keaton, Chllo quln; James W. Whlteline, Keno; Raymond E. Van Wormer, Fort Klamath; Donald D. Parker, Fort Klamath; Albert H. Walker, Al- tamont; Edward W. McGinnls, Bly; Orvln Buseth, Sprague River. Alternate: Warren Cough- Un, St. Frances park. , ' News Index Citv Briefs . PaB S Comics and Story .........Page 8 Courthouse Records ......Page 4 Editorials - Page ', 4 High School News ...Page 3 Information ......Paae 8 Market, Financial Page 8 Midland Empire News... Pag 3 Pattern fage 10 Sports' ... - ... Page T BESIEGED Tl
