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WEATHER I JL't High 82) Lew 2t T) PRECIPITATION 24 houra to a. m 00 flsJJQ'sIL Saaion to data .... 9.91 U4j4&r Normal pracipitatlon 8.84 I Laat year to data . 12.70 MILD . . PICTURES I Associated Press Tilimiti, NEA Tele photoi and llvt local newsplcture and engraving staff provide The Nawa and Harald raadara with eomprahonalva pholographlo aarvlca. 'ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941 Number 9238 'lilt' ...1V41 LbLru IU1 J I 1 1 I I I I I W na J In The - Day's pNews;.: By (HANK JENKINS AS those words uro wrlttvn (11 a. m.) YukhhIuvIo la re ported lo huvo Uncoiled to Join the axis In loini, inure or leu limited inaiitirf jni autisfylngly described, uv th 'patches. There are hint of Internal trouble over tha decision. Four cabinet members are Mild to have resigned with Xt-gcnt l'rlncc Paul (Yugoslavia hua u boy king) refusing to ucccpt tho rcslgnu tlona, Four anl-Gcrmon gen erals are aaid to have been quiet ly pensioned earlier In the week I presumably to get them out of tha way. It sound like typical German strong-arm work at the top. "'REEK quarters aro described u as "stunned" by the news, having been assured only a few days ago that the Yugoslav crown council would not take any action at this time despite Insistent axla pressure. Nobody should be stunned by ANYTHING that happens in the Balkans. The air down that way Is thick with fear and treachery these days. This writer's advice to readers la to keep their fingers crossed until the shooting actually starts. DEPORE blaming the Balkan MJ peoples too severely, con sider their historical back- 'ground. , For more than BOO years, while Rome was decaying, all they saw of government was tho Intrigue, the treachery, the assassination, the venal cupidity that ncconv panled the struggles for personal power In tho rotting empire. The ancestors of these Yuuo alava taw Tie Imperial throno of Rome sold literally to the hlghc.it bidder. How can you expect them lo be other thnn disillusioned cynics where wars of empire (such os this one) ore concerned? cnOM Washington comes this dispatch: 'The treasury began today en rolling an nrmy of 300,000 per sons to assist in the campulgn to sell billions of dollars worth of the new defense savings cer tificates to tho American pco- pie." Tho denominations of these certificates will be from ten cents to $10,000, and people arc to be urged to buy regularly In moderate amounts (like install ment payments) rather than in one largo sum, forgetting about It from there on. v 'THE purpose back of the sale of defense certificates Is two fold. 1. To raise ACTUAL MONEY, In addition to JOU's, for financ ing the defense effort. 2. To hold down price Infla tion by draining off from peo ple's pockets tho money tlioy would othcrwiso spend for whut the economists call "consumer goods"- automobiles, rqdlos, silk shirts, night clubs, etc. THIS writer's advice: BUY SAVINGS CERTIFI CATES. After buying thorn, KEEP THEM. Don't sell them the next day and blow the money tor something you don't have to have. Blowing your money for what you can do without is the sure road to in flation and inflation will make the car cost double what it should. Besides, tho securities of your government aro tho SAFEST in vestment you enn have, and you may be very sure that the lime will arrive when a nest egg will come In handy. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY By The Associated Press March 21, 1018 Heavy Ger man attacks on Verdun repulsed. 9 A Kl if A - m''. 4v j -I Some of the contestants for the honor of representing Klamath county In competition with other counties for "Theme Girl" for 1941 In tha Shasta-Cascade Wonderland are pictured aboTe. Top row: Nora Mascotte. Rosa Dodjon, Marie White, Renata Sari. Middle rowi Virginia Sawchuck. Elaine SUJen. Gwendolyn Hammond. Shirley Sargent. Bottom rowt Mae Coddington. LaVtnna Bowers, Betty Patske. Neva McAnulty. Other contestants not p icturad include: Marilee Given, Ada Giacomelli, Nora Earnest. June King. Phyllis Basdtn. Julia Logan. Interests of National De fense Cited As Men Called to Work DAYTON, O., March 21 (P) In the avowed Interests of na tional dofense, an AFL leader today terminated a 17-day strike that had paralyzed work on an essential $3,000,000 expansion program nt Wright Field, the army air corps' huge testing laboratory. John Brcldcnbnch, president of the Dayton control labor union (AFL) informed Col. Lester Mil ler, field commandant, that 400 men who left their Jobs March 4 would return to work Satur day alongside live CIO elec tricians employed by tho Penncr Construction company. Act Praised - Colonel Miller described set-, tlcmont of the dispute "As a find American net whero any thought of personal and factional differ ences has been set aside for the good of the entire nation." Breldenbnch called the strike after the war department or dered the CIO men back to work following a previous AFL walk out late In January. Tho first strike ended after two days when the work of tho CIO men was suspended temporarily. The expansion program, In volving a wind tunnel for tcst- (Continued on Page. Two) Tliciiio IslrU for ill SluiNii-'iiM,ntIe Wo iiderlnnd Union Files Suit in Vital Part-Making Plant at L A. LOS ANGELES, March 21 (fl) Developments came quickly to day in court and conference room as Intensive efforts were made to reopen the strikebound Havlll Die Casting plant vital to Pa cific coast aircraft production. Seventeen unionists filed a $577,000 damage suit against the company, demanding punitive damages and compensation, al leging they were ' discharged from their jobs. Contempt -of - court citations wcro issued against nine union members and the local branches of the CIO Dlecasters' and Auto Workers' unions for allegedly violating a court order restrain ing picketing activities. Paul Shoup, former president of the Southern Pacific railroad, accepted appointment by Sidney Hillman, joint director of the of fice for production management, as an industrial advisor in the strike. Shoup went into a conference before noon with Thomas F. Burns, senior labor consultant for tho O.P.M. In. Washington, who reached hero today. Also conferring were Harry C. Mai com of-"the- U. ..S. conciliating service and President H. L. Har vill of the struck plant. The unionists' suit asserts that officers and members were dis charged because of union activ ities. . LOS ANGELES, March 21 (AO Executives of six large plants producing airplanes for the United States and British gov ernments reported today the . .1 t jisr'v-" 5,-. ,. ; urar . v it. s . s a -m. strike at Harvilt Die Casting cor poration threatens a coastwide shutdown of aviation factories unless ended quickly. The statements from North rup, North American, Douglas, Vultee, Lockheed and Boeing were issued es the office of pro duction management in Wash ington sped Tommy Burns here to negotiate. Burns is due today. Parts Needed Tho struck factory has been supplying 30,000 parts daily. It was closed one week ago by the walkout of 350 of its 425 em ployes. The workers demanded that their minimum pay be in creased from 50 cents an hour to 75 cents. President L. T. Cohu of North rup Aircraft, Inc.; said in a stato (Continued on Page Two) AFL Wins in Tionesta Poll Tho American Federation of Labor scored a victory in the NLRB runoff election at the Shaw Lumber company mill at Tionesta, Calif., Thursday, an nounced Joe Boyd, AFL repre sentative for Klamath Falls. Tho result gives exclusive bor- gaining rights to AFL, Boyd said. The vote was AFL 79, CIO 64. There were a total of 1S5 ballots cast, 12 of which were chal lenged. The election was conducted at the mill from 2 to 6:30 p. m. 31 If - f - All pictures by Comart 1 BAILEY CASE Defendant on Stand for Questioning on Fatal Accident Here Defense testimony was started in circuit court Friday afternoon In the trial of Q.. A. Bailey, charged with involuntary man slaughter in the death of Irving Brcshears in an automobile ac cident last fall. Bailey took the stand as the first witness in his behalf, test ifying as to the circumstances at the time of the accident on the Greensprings highway near Wey erhaeuser junction. Breshears was a passenger in Bailey's car. Trial Near End The defendant's story was that he was driving prudently and carefully at the time and that circumstances so developed as to make the accident unavoidable so far as he was concerned. It appeared the case might reach the Jury Friday afternoon. Bailey is defended by E. E. Driscoll and Lamar Townsend, with District Attorney Sisemore prosecuting. Key state witness at tho morn ing session of the trial was Holly V. Holcomb, state policeman who investigated the fatal accident The state presented three wit nesses on Thursday afternoon. First witness was Marlon F. Miller, who testified he was rid ing In the Bailey car at the time ; (Continued on Page Two) Plymouth Blasted ' ; ; FOLLOWS KING'S VISIT; Two Children Born While Nazis Shower Fire, Explosives PLYMOUTH, England, March 21 (IP) Attacking only a. few hours after King George VT and Queen Elizabeth had visited the city, the Luftwaffe rained high explosive and 'ire bombs on Plymouth during the night. Three churches, a motion pic ture house, commercial build ings and many private homes were damaged by the raiders. , .. Babies Born A number, of children were killed when a bomb hit a hospi tal and two children were born during the attack. One of them was delivered by doctors work ing in a bomb crater where the mother had been thrown. A hundred planes flying in waves of six were said to have been over the city, and daylight disclosed great holes torn in many streets. ., 1 Firetlehters labored In a hall of bombs, 'Some of Hhenrof trie fragmentation typer ' " Casualties Not Heavy Loads of incendiary bombs were dropped and even as fire- watchers jumped to the task of extinguishing them fresh show ers of fire burst over the city. ' Officials said that although there was much fire damage, casualties were not expected to be heavy. The king and queen in the tour of Plymouth yesterday spent their time visiting ship yards and went aboard a former United States destroyer. The warship was one of the 50 over age vessels gained by the royal navy in the exchange in which the United States acquired sites for bases under leases. Later the attack was officially described as one of the heaviest yet made on the city. Bombs ravaged a number of streets which had escaped damage in previous attacks. Two surface shelters sustained direct hits. A movie theatre was set afire while the show was going on, and the crowd filed out into flame-lit streets amid the thun der of bombs. The theatre burned to the ground The thousands of incendiaries dropped at the start of the raid were followed almost at once by showers of high explosives. Coward Says Japs Unwise To Fight U. S. By HARRY CROCKETT NEW YORK, March 21 (P) Playwright-Actor Noel Coward now an unofficial ambassador of goodwill for the British min istry of information said today "it would be very unwise for Japan to take issue Avith the United States fleet in the Pa cific ocean." Completing a mission which took him to Australia, New Zea land and the Far East, Coward arrived In New York for a brief visit before reporting to Aus tralian Minister Richard Casey in Washington on Sunday. Coward was reluctant to de tail his observations in the Far East, but said in an interview that his conclusion as to the Japanese was based on his per sonal observation of the United States fleet at Honolulu and .of the military effort of Australia. For the first time, Coward disclosed that his mission in Aus tralia was that of an unofficial ambassador at ' the request of the Australian government 'to bring. Great Britain's war effort and what has transpired, a little clocer to the Australian people." He said he had made many observations which he could re (Contlnued on Page Two) TOLL HELD LOW Abductor Kills Self After Wild Ride With Pair KANSAS CITY, March 21 UP) A crippled, self-styled madman who kidnaped a young couple and terrorized them as he drove their car at 80 miles an hour killed himself late yesterday while three police detectives stood outside his hotel room door. Police Chief L. B. Reed said the man was Oliver Norris Bridges, Jr., 21, of Sherman, Texas, who had served vagrancy sentences in Los Angeles and Wichita, Kas. Miss Jeanne Harvey, 19, and James L. Person, 28, told Chief Reed that the man: Pointed a pistol at them as they emerged from a downtown night club Wednesday night and drove away with them in Per son s car. Kept them captive nearly six hours on a wild ride of more than 250 miles. Remarked while passing an insane asylum in Kansas, "right there is where I belong. Commented as they crossed Into Kansas, "I'll get 30 more years now for kidnaping and the Mann act. He once attempted to compel the couple to disrobe but relent ed after Miss Harvey wept. Brought them back to Kansas City, let them out and drove away. . Officers located; Bridges In a northslde Jjpteli-. ' "- Members Refuse to Pro hibit Use pf Money For Convoys WASHINGTON, March 21 (IP) The house gave overwhelming approval today to a $4,073,810, 074 appropriation for the army and navy after refusing to pro hibit use of any of it for convoy ing materials to any foreign country. WASHINGTON, March 21 VP) An additional outlay of $4,073,- 810,074 for the army and navy, including funds for new plant capacity sufficient to supply a 4,000,000-man army "on a com bat status" was recommended to the house today by its appropria tions committee. About half of the huge sum would be a direct cash appro priation with the balance in con tract authorizations for which congress wSuld have to provide the funds later, possibly this year. The committee explained that roughly half of the army s S3, 778,393,254 share was earmarked for new projects. The balance originally had been included in the war department's budget estimates for the fiscal year starting July 1 and were trans ferred to this bill to expedite the program. Congress Gets Waterway Plan WASHINGTON, March 21 lP) President Roosevelt sent to con gress today the text of an agree ment by which the United States and Canada propose to develop the St. Lawrence Waterway- Power project, estimated even tually to cost more than $500,- 000,000. Deep sea navigation between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic and provision for 2,200,000 new hydro-electric horsepower for the two countries are contem plated. . The agreement, closely re sembling a treaty which the United States senate failed to ratify by the necessary two thirds vote in 1934, Is subject to approval of congress and the Canadian parliament Only a majority vote would be re quired this time in the American congress. THREE CABINET CHIEFS RESIGN AGAINST ORDER Crisis Grows Over Gov ernment's Acceptance Of Nazi Demands : BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 21 UP) The Yugoslav government's plans to align it self in a modified wayc'trJth tho Rome-Berlln-Tokyo axis were -forced into abeyance tonight by" a cabinet crisis and internal un- -rest over resignation of three recalcitrant, anti-nazi ministers. After holding out all day against accepting the resigna tions, Chief Regent Prince Paul tonight accepted them -and di rected his premier and vice pre ; mier to try to find replacements) as quickly as possible. Signing Delayed ' Until a cabinet reorganization) can be completed, plans of gov ernment officials to go to Vienna tomorrow for formal signing with reservations of the three power pact on Sunday were held The three ministers Serb-.. leaders in this nation of mixed peoples who resigned in pro test against a crown council decision- to yield to Germany, re fused to remain in the cabinet even though Chief Regent Prince Paul ordered them to do so. f :- Crisis Grows . The dissenters flatly .declared . they would have nothing more to do with the government. Their stand, which, the coun try learned via the grapevine method, added to the growing crisis over the governments ac- ceptance of the reich's demands that Yugoslavia align herself with Slovakia, Hungary, Ru mania and Bulgaria, junior mem bers of the anti-British accord. A fourth cabinet member who voted against acquiescence to Germany was said to be planning to resign, ..and the minister to Russia, G'averilovic, was said to have .sent, his resignation to Prince Paul. y Serbs to Meet One of the dissenters, Dr. Branko Cubrilovic, minister of agriculture and leader of the Serb peasant party, called a meeting of his party chiefs to discuss the crisis. Prince Paul summoned Pre mier Dragisa Cvetkovic and Foreign Minister Alksander Cin-car-Markovic to the white palace (Continued on Page Two) F. R. Awaiting Better Weather ABOARD U.S.S. BENSON, Port Everglades, Fla., March 21 UP) The yacht Potomac, on which President Roosevelt is waiting to begin a fishing cruise, moved out into the harbor this morning to anchor and await weather reports before proceed ing to sea. The yacht left the dock to make way for the freight ferry Estrada Palma, in whose slip the Potomac was tied. The ferry operates between here and Ha vana. The Potomac moved around the end of the pier and anchored in the harbor about 100 yards from where the German freight er Arauca has been docked since December, 1939. Crew members, under guard, stayed below. News Index Church News . ......Page 13 City Briefs -...Page 3 Comics and Story Page 12 Courthouse Records -....Page 4 Editorials Page 4 High School News Page 16 Information ......Page 8 Market, Financial . Page 11 Pattern -.. Page 9 Sports - Page 10 1
