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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Plymouth Blasted
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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
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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
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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.
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