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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1941)
WEATHER High 48i Lew SS PICTURES! .1 Associated Preae Telemata, NBA Tele photoa and a lira local nawsplctur and engraving staff provide Tha Nawi and Harald raadara with a eompraharulva PRECIPITATION 24 houre to t a. m, Season to data ......... Normal praelpitatton photographlo aervlc. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA - CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Last year to data PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. ORE., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1941 Number 9215 M lliu".i UflU U1U -'. 4 . Am WE m I -.1 s In The'-- f '!'"'' '-' ..'.'v'' ( vDays By FRANK JENKINS Y EAV1NG Suntn Maria. '-' Tha tun, believe It or not, ii (hilling, But the weather man If (till sloomy. lie aays there'! another atorm lurking out at aea and due to hit the const omo time tonlKht, or maybe tomor row. Can't he aee ANYTHING else when he looka In that crystal ball of his? ""THERE waa a time when In our mlnda we placed the weather mini dally contribution back on the funny page. "Hon! Hen! Hen!" we'd chortle aa we read It. Sez your Then we'd laugh merrily. That waa In those dear, dead daya before actenco came Into our Uvea. Now wa listen to him and reach morosely for the um brella. QUT east of Santa Maria la a great new flying field, where young men are being trained for the army air corps. The air above It la full of planea on thla aunny morning. Looking at them up there, fomethlng click, and auddenly you know the answer to a prob lem that haa been troubling you vaguely for daya. - , , .r.. ... TN tha cities, the bar art crowd- ed-n-more no -thin usual. And In the chatter 'over the glasses I thera is a brittle tone. There ia laughter. There Is gayety. There is lightness. But under It all you feel that people are listening listening for some thing they couldn't describe If asked to. JLJEN you have known for years, men of ability, men who understand their business to its last detail, have a curiously detached attitude toward the whole subject of business. Ask them how last year was and they will tell you it was fine. Speak of tho prospects for this year and they will reply without hesitation that they can't be other than good. But you have the feeling that their minds aren't wholly and . unreservedly fixed on tho sub ject. Their lives hava been spent in toe service of the profit sya- tem. .Suddenly (quite uncon sclqusly, one feels) their minds ' -. "'"iflwncre. I . . . I at Dfvft z e at those tiny 'y ,. .gh up In tho (tem porarily, at least) blue Califor nia sky, a small, quiet voice within your consciousness says wnn startling distinctness: "You ought to bo up there with them." THE voice continues: "Contributing your bit to the American way of living 1ias been your life, You hove bought. You havo sold. You have hired, You have fired. In your smoll way, you have BUILT. You and millions of others like you. "The aggregate of your efforts Is AMERICA. And because this aggregate Is good, bettor than anything the world has known before, your efforts have been tremendously worth while. "Your buying, your selling, your hiring, your firing, your building, your WORKING, have mado this America what it is and so they have been tho most Important things in the world. You havo had reason to be proud of them. "But new daya are coming. DIFFERENT days. Those boys up there In the sky aro prepar ing to meet the problems of these now days that are on the way." VOU itruggle. You say: "Wo, can't all be up there. (continued on Pa go Two) 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Presa Feb. 21, 1018 Germans open great attack on Verdun. This unique combination of Round lake district to school over the muddy road that connects that . district with the Green springs highway. The tractor, equipped with mud lugs, pulls a "prairie schooner" type of trailer, which was built at the county school ahops and is comfortably upholstered. About 12 children ride the trailer each day, taking Joins the Oreensprlngs highway, pulled the trailer, but tha road Allis-Chalmers Company Accepts Federal Plan ; Now Up to Union Br The Associated Presa Hopes brightened today for needy settlement 'of 'the 'month' long etrlKe at the Milwaukee plant .0 -iAUiaOalmerg Manu facturing company, which holds 148,000,000 in national defense orders. ' -(:. Company negotiators an. riounccd last night their accept ance of a strike-settlement form' ula offered by the office of pro duction management in Wash ington, D. C. The agreement re mained to be acted upon by the ClO-united Automobile Workers, representing 6800 striking work' men. Tentative Agreement Arbitration o f disciplinary matters was the principal stip ulatlon in the agreement pre pared by tho production man agement office. Another bright spot in the defense labor picture was a re ported tentative agreement to end a strike of 400 employes of the Vanadium Company of America plant at Niagara Falls. N. Y. The strikers, members of the ClO-Unlted Mine Workers union, were to vote on ratifying the agreement today. Wage In' creases and a - closed shop were at Issue. The company manu factures ferro vanadium, used in making many articles of de fense. Big Michigan automobile fac tories felt repercussions of the strike1 of-2500 employes' df the Motor, Wheel corporation at Laming, Mich., called February 13 by AFL'Unlted Automobile Workers who sought a ' closed shop. Tho automotive division of Packard Motor company in De troit was shut down, making 7S00 Idle. Company . officials snld defense work would not be affected. . Two Lansing, Mich., plants Oldsmobile and Fisher Body resumed work after temporary suspensions last night. Fisher of ficials said a "slow-down" forced their short lived shutdown and Oldsmobile was able to resume after Fisher Body again began supplying It with bodies. A few hours later, however, Fisher Body closed down again, an official blaming another "slow-down." Oldsmobile in turn had to curtail. operations! SprngiMV Urges Warning to Inps SALEM, Ore.. Feb. 21 (IP) Japan should be warned that this country will not tolerate a southward thrust by Japan," Governor Charles'A. Sprague of Oregon said in a telegram to President Roosevelt yesterday. His messago stated, "The Paci fic coast atates are vitally con cerned . , . We desire friendly relations with Japan, but strong ly opposo Japan's policies which threaten 'the security . of tho Orient and endanger the nation al interest of the United States." Youngsters Hide "Schooner" modern and plontr' transportation methods takes children of a modern bus at the Kerns ranch where the Round Lake zoad and riding from there on into Keno to school. Last year a team Is now said to be almost impassable lor horses. British Seeking U. S. Help in Handling Irish LONDON. Feb. 21 VP) The British government - la seeking the aid of the United States and Canada to galqr the use of Irish ports on the ground that a Ger man dominate , Ireland would constitute a definite 'threat, to their' Interest In - the ' Atlantic, an usually reliable source-wld today. . ' ' ' ' Thli soured asserted .Ot'aV',i! spile Prime JlnUiUjr. Jtarnon- te ValeraV insistence on absolute neutrality for Ireland, there were almost "continuous discussions regarding Irish ports .which Brit ain says she needs to counter German aerial and submarine at tacks on her shipping. '- . It wa said there was a move ment to get the United States and Canada to take a lead in these discussions. "The feeling here," this source said, "is that Ireland is a po tential enemy base in the At lantic which is Just as much a problem from a long range view point to the United States and Canada as it is Immediately to Britain." Liquor Store, Banks And Public Offices To Close Sa(urday; The places that close regular ly on holidays in Klamath Falls will be closed Saturday, Wash ington's birthday, ' : These include the banks, '.city hall and courthouse offices, postofflce and oh,, yes, the liquor store. . To accommodate purchasers of liquid refreshments for the weekend, the liquor store will be kept open until lip. m; Fri day.' ; But the police . department. state police , and sheriff's office will be working , as usual over Saturday and Sunday. ' ALFONSO FADES ROME, Feb. 21 (Doctors described the condition, of for mer King Alfonso XIII of Spain as grave today. They said he spent a restless night during which he suffered another heart attack. ,-....... , I Farm Outlook Troubled Condition of ' Critical world conditions af fecting agriculture strongly in fluened reports of the Klamath county agricultural outlook con ference committees - announced Thursday. The reports warned against sacrificing American ag ricultural for reciprocal trade, outlined future trends for Klam ath county economy, and went extensively ' Into problems of land use, farm crops, homa and rural life' and livestock. "Facts Evident" "The national agricultural problem with respect to Pan- American trade relations' In view of the Impact of the war and the need for preparedness, must face several facts that are very evi dent," said the land use commit- too in one phase of its report. to School LEAK IN REPORT Exposure of Marshall's Testimony on Planes Held Unethical WASHINGTON, Feb.' 21 UP) President Roosevelt said today he considered the disclosure of whaL.Vaa;lnWndfd jtabeecrei! icjuiuuiiy ueiore a senate com mittee yesterday by General George C-Marshall,- army chief of staff,, a hurtful to national defense. ine president told a press conference that it raised a ques tion of ethics, morals and patri otism on the part of committee members and editors, publishers and broadcasters who printed reports of Marshall's testimony. People's ' Question The chief executive said it was a question for the Ameri can people to consider. At the conclusion of lengthy question ing on the subject he said it was purely a voluntary matter, that he was not thinking about censorship, but that he was merely putting it up to the people as a - nice question to think about. (Information about General Marshall's testimony . yesterday was given to . the Associated Press by members of the sen ate military committee before whom he testified). ' . Marshall ' was reported by some members of the commit tee es having said that the Pa cific fleet was being bolstered with an unspecified number, of army and navy planes and as having described the Pacific situation as serious. Asked to clarify the accounts on Marshall's testimony, the president said he read them in the. newspapers at breakfast this morning. The president said' that' there were various stories on . what Marshall was suDDOsed to have saldi "but" that they" all' differed from a memorandum he had on his desk from the chief of staff as to, what actually was told the committee.. . . . The belief spread In some congressional circles today that (Continued On Page Two) Report Here Reflects "American agriculture does not heed South American imports. Klamath county stockmen don't want Argentine beef. With world markets gone and crop shifts in evitable, the American farmer is in no position to be sold down the river for capital and indus try." Over 80 members attended the final meeting-at the Elk hotel and approved the reports. In the absence of E. A. Geary, county chairman, Fred Rueck, chairman of the county agricultural con servation association, presided. Reciprocal Trade Pursuing the subject of reci procal trade, the land use com mittee went on to say: "Reciprocal trade-with South America, which jeopardizes in- Bill Lifts Crash Pena HOUSE SEEKS TO CUT AUTO WRECK TOLL Licenses Would Be Sus pended Until Ability , To Pay Proven By PAUL W. HABVEY JR. SALEM, Feb. 21 W The house passed and sent to the sen ate today, by a 51 to 8 vote, bill to provide that owners and drivers of automobiles involved in automobile accidents should have their drivers' licenses and license plates suspended until they prove their financial re sponsibility. The bill would affect all per sons Involved in accidents, re gardless of whether they are to blame. It was introduced by the house insurance committee. New Hampshire Cited The effect of the bill, oppon ents charged, would be to force every car. owner to cany liabil ity insurance. SiBeb.' LX. JRrJsbiaAB-Baker). chairman of the committee, said the bill would reduce the num ber of accidents and reduce in surance rates. He said that in New . Hamp shire, which has a similar law, the number of traffic fatalities has been reduced by SO per cent in three years, insurance rates have dropped 30 per cent, and that 80 per cent of the car own' ers. now are protected by li ability insurance. Frisbie said that in Oregon, owners have one chance in six each year of being involved in accidents, 74,000 of Oregon's 477,000 licensed drivers having been involved last year. "Today, if the reckless driver is caught, we fine him and let him go on his reckless way,' Frisbie said. "If this bill is passed, it would drive some of them off the highways and give the public protection against the rest. Handicap Seen ReD. George H. Duncan (It- Marion) said the bill would drive many cars off the road and work a hardship against indigent car owners who could not aitord in surance. He suggested an ont- riKht. compulsory insurance law. Ren. Phil Brady (K-Muiino- mah). said 150,000 Portland la boring men who drive to work each day would be handicapped by having to pay $1.10 a month for insurance. Those voting against the .bill: Democrats Adams, Gleason and Neubcrger, all of Multno mah: republicans Duncan of Marion, French of Sherman Kimberling of Grant, McAllister of Jackson, and Miller of Mor row. . Highway Funds Tho senate roads and high way committee approved today a proposed constitutional amend ment to prohibit diversion of (Continued on Page Two) World Trade f terests of our agricultural popu lation, can be justified only as a war measure can be justified only as a measure to protect democratic government in the western hemisphere. Reasonable assurance that such protection Is afforded should be obtained be fore agriculture is asked to sacri fice for reciprocal trade." Farm Readjustment - The final report on land use was prepared by the following committee: Henry Semon, chair man, B. E. Hayden, J. W. Kerns, Fred Rueck, R. H. Anderson, Charles Mack, Lee McMullen, William Kittredge, Walt Jendrie jewskl, secretary. This report emphasized the pressing need of readjustment of farming actlvl (Contlnued on Pge Six) Army May I Tommy Roberts. 24, a mountain guide, Tolunteerad la Denver for a year of selective, aerviee training and to have his shoulder long blond, hair shorn oil.- Captain A. W., Hutchinson, a hunting friend, (hows what the. scissors ould do...uVTomi will, jrait until JI is set' before' having hisTialr cut .ir'ili:" Indians Vote 71 Funds to Seek ' Defense ScKool The general council of Klam ath Indians voted Thursday to furnish' $150,000 to the U." S. government from their funds in Washington, D. C. toward estab lishment of a defense training school at Klamath Agency, ac cording to B. G. Courtright, superintendent. ' " Courtright said the proposal would require congressional ap proval to withdraw the money. which is kept on deposit in the tribal fund. He said the offer was being made by the council as a gesture to show the Indians' willingness to cooperate with the national defense program. The defense school would be under the direct supervision of army officials and would train young Indian men in aviation and forest fire control, but par ticularly training connected with national defense. The only string that would be attached to the offer would be that the training school be established at Klamath Agency, Courtright said. He add ed that the Indians want army officials to come here, construct necessary buildings and possibly an airport, as well as to provide training planes. At the all-day meeting Thurs day the council also voted to spend $100,000 for construction of a packing and cold storage plant at the Yainax farm on the reservation near Beatty. Ernest L. Wilkinson of Wash ington, D. C. was elected to handle prosecution of any claims Klamath Indians might proffer against the government It was brought out in the meeting that the disputed boundary case might be given to Wilkinson. Chinese-British War Plan Humored SHANGHAI, Feb. 22 (Satur day) VP) Japanese newspapers here reported today that the Chinese government at Chung king had obtained British "ap proval in principle" for a joint Chinese-British defense plan ex tending from southwestern China to India. The Japanese reports . were vague as to details, but assert ed - the defense plan included improvement of communications linking British Burma and Yun nan, China's southwestern prov ince; British help in building a railway in Yunnan; construc tion of military communications facilities throughout the region involved. Get Ills Ilalr Rome . Claims Ethiopians Recruited to Help' . Against British " ROME, Feb.. 21 UP) Every able-bodied Italian- in Italy's east African Empire, as well as all possible native manpower, is being mustered for defense against the British,' it was re ported today. In Ethiopia native ' help was being massed with support of native chieftains opposed to the return of Haile Selassie. ' The dispatches pictured ' the Italian colonists as laying down their farm implements and tak ing up war weapons much as American colonists quit their farms to fight the Indians. .' The British army driving into Italian Eritrea from the Anglo Egyptian Sudan is .a force of 100,000 men, including colonials and natives, "amply supplied with motor trucks,, artillery and tanks," an official Italian state ment declared today. ' CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 21 (P) British general headquarters an nounced today its forces invad ing Italian Somaliland had forced a new crossing of the (Continued on Page Two) Britain, Germany Both Send Aid to Storm Hefugees SANTANDER, Spain, Feb. 21 UP) Warring Britain and Ger many both sped help today -to this storm and fire devastated city of neutral Spain the for mer with two ship loads of grain and the latter with hos pital kitchens, technicians and engineers en route in a motor transport column. The Germans, bringing field kitchens capable of preparing 30,000 meals, were expected to arrive late this afternoon. They were donated by the German high command for refugees in this Bay of Biscay port which was devastated by fire after a violent storm last weekend. . '. The nazl soldier and equip ment are to help the homeless, aid in clearing away debris and re-establishing disrupted public services. 1 GERMAN ARMY POURING INTO EAREA Pontoon Bridges Built to Carry Troop s Info 'f. ' .Bulgaria, Report 7 : BELGRADE, Yugoslavia,-Feb. 21 UP) Nazi pontoon, bridges' in considerable number already span the Danube between Ru mania and Bulgaria, a leading Balkan diplomat said today, and the passage of troops and equip ment south "is a matter of days, li not hours." " ;' ' The river was ' virtually ice free and the nazl motorized ex peditionary force on - the Ru manian side showed every evi dence of getting ready for .a move Into Bulgaria. ' Columns Moving Columns of these troops are moving south' through Rumania toward the river border,' mill tary- dispatches said. . ' - 1 ' ' Foreign - legations - in. .Soil heard T ports tonight that soviet Bussi,wa i making aJast-nainuto effort to forestall a German entry, into' Bulgaria, but thera was no confirmation in official quarters of the countries chiefly concerned.' - - : ' Safety Measures ' ' The United States legation in Sofia had a number of placards printed in English, Bulgarian and German, saying "This build ing is property of the United States" and displaying the Amer ican' flag and seal. .' : The general staff of Germany's Balkan army' was said to have moved from Bucharest -to Crai ova, only 40 miles north of. tha Danube.' ' " ' .'., - Demonstrations "The Yugoslav cabinet went into emergency session in the early .afternoon as the Belgrade government's attitude toward the fast-moving international events still lacked complete clarity. ' Dispatches from the Bulgarian port of ' Ruse, on the Danube facing Rumania where German troops are massed, said the Bul garian police fought "communist demonstrations" against the ex pected entry of nazi troops into Bulgaria. '- v ' Unusual activity was reported from all Rumanian airports con trolled by the German air force, with fighting and bombing planes lined up on the runways- Military, observers at- Ruse (Ruschuk), Bulgaria, on the Dan ube facing Giurgiu, Rumania, said that German engineers con tinued their drill of floating pon toon bridges, . but they insisted that none had touched the Bul garian shore. ',' , This drill has been going on daily for many weeks, apparent ly in the nazi effort to have everyming in readiness wneu and if the. time comes for cross ing. . ' ; The Balkan situation was typi cally complex. . . I . High-lighted was the belief ex pressed by observers that Adolf Hitler had approved cession of another slice of dwindling Ru mania to soviet Russia in return c ' nlnn'. . that is, a passive attitude with his plans for southeastern Eur ope.. Russia reward, .these observ ers said, probably will be the province of. Moldavia on which the soviet long has cast covetous eyes, as even red diplomats acknowledge, - ': ' ';News Index , Church New ., ; ..Page IS City Briefs - .Page 8 Comics and Story Page 12 Courthouse Records . Page 4 Editorials ...... .......Page 4 High School News ...Page 18 Information ... Page 8 Market, Financial ........ Page 14 Midland Empire News ..Page 11 Pattern .u................:. ...... Page 8 Sport Page 10, 11 DANUB
