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WEATHER ', High 87i Low 41 PRECIPITATION PICTURES ! Aaaoeletad Preas Tilimili! NEA Tele photos and live local newaploture and engraving alatl provlda Tha Nawi and Hatald taadara with eomprehenalva 24 noun to a.- m.. Saaion to data ... Normal praelpltatloa Last year to data photographic.-- . ., ..... IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS .jinn aw."-" u-.it'' mcu rnc i. :1V"11 unsettuo , PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY,' MAY 13, 1941 Number 9283 Nl an iyju mm u ll 1 nn r In The Day's ;'fNews'; : Bv FRANK JENKINS nrO newspoper men, tho official German explanation of Heal' fantastic flight to Scotland tug "feats this flat conclusion: There'i a icrcw loom In Gcr many. EXPERIENCED rcportora are C famlllor with what happens when something indicating nubile scandal bobs UD. ' On such occaalona, the Inald in aet together and figure out a story. The purpose of tho story O' i to COVER UP the cumnsing cts. Tha story Is made as plausible s the Ingenuity of the fabrica tors will permit, but usually there Is a DISCREPANCY thot arouses suspicion and keeps the reporters digging. JTHE official German story ' that Hess' flight was tha "act of man mentally deranged bo- cause of physical Illness." It full of discrepancies. Ha did a remarkably fine Job of flying for a crazy man. Ho found Scotland In the inky darkness of European blacked' out nlsht. Ha hunted for a land' . Ing place, found none, and BAIL ED OUT. ,v,He took about four hours for th flight not bad, under tha etrcuinstnees, WTHY did ho choose Scotland' Ow Presumably because air Ightlng over Scotland I rela tively scarce, thus giving him a better chance to get through. At )east that presumption seems to make sense. It doesn't sound like the act of crazy man. . TTHY did ha choose the Brit- ;w ish Islos? One guesses, necessarily. But two answers suggest themselves: 1. He wanted to TALK TO THE BRITISH. 2. He 'had to get away and ha knew that in Britain he would ' .be safer from the Gorman secret ' police than elsewhrro. "AND why did he leave Ger many? The natural conclusion la that . her had to beat a firing squad. Firing squads and blood purges Qta inevitable accomplishments f -dictator government. '.-'If the No. 3 nazl had to beat firing squad out of the conn try, all Isn't smooth and placid in Nazi Germany, That thought worries the Ger- mans, and their propaganda bureau In Berlin gives out re peatedly todoy the statement that Hess spectacular aavemure is NOT a surface Indication of something WRONG deeper down an the party. J Their insistence that this Isn't true suggests that it IS true . . , ,. ... 14 CUPPOSE you were Hitler. T- Supposo your right hand man who had been with you from the beginning, who know ALL ' your inside stuff, had gone suddenly over to the enemy, either In a huff or in deadly fear of hit life. 1 You'd be WORRIED. You can bet your bottom Mlollar HITLER Is worried. . ' 'A LL theso aro guesses. " They HAVE to be guesses. Because of propaganda and censorship, we can.'t believe either the British or the Ger mans. : Tho Germans will do oil they can. to cover up and tho British Jwrlll do all thoy can to make it look good for their side. All we coji do Is guess. ; . , . VTOTE that the stock market In A? both London and New York WENT UP today. That shows how the general public Is guessing..;,-, . , , STOCKS CLIMB Q: LONDON, May 13 (ff) The lock market moved .higher In restricted trading today; some said the advance was based psy chologically on the arrival of No. 3 nazl, Rudolf Hess. In Scot land In apparent flight from Gcr- many. I Iraq Leans M REPEATS BLASTING OF Nile Army Beats Off Axis Attacks on Egypt Border CAIRO, Egypt, May 1J p) Iraq haa Indicated she Is taking advantage of a Turkish offer to mediate her Guerrilla war with the British, reliable sources said toduy. Informed sources said Iraq re plied to an Egyptian offer of mediation, expressed thanks to hor "slater nation," but declar ing that the Turkiah offer had Deen received earlier and was now being used. Sporadic fighting, centered on British-held Harbanlyah air drome, 60 miles west of Bach- dad, has been underway since May 2, when tha British said Iraq batteries opened fire on the airport. BERLIN. May 13 UP) Roval Air Forco bombers again at tacked the port city of Bremen tnd other points Inl western Germany,, last night. Informed Germans said today, while the Luftwaffe' operations were di rected chiefly agalrttt south and east coast English harbors.' The Germane said the RAF, Indiscriminately dropping ex plosive and Incendiary bombs" at ' Bremen, had destroyed school and damaged another school, a hospital and a museum containing an "Irreplaceable col lection.' CAIRO. Egypt. May 13 tP British mechanized troops have beaten back five small advanc ing columns of axis troops In the Salum area of the Egyptian frontier, British headquarters for the Middle East announced today. ' The war bulletin said the axis forces were carrying out recon naissance "in force" and advanc ing eastward when they were met by the British mechanized (Continued on Page Two) Negro Killed In Second Try At Lynching QUINCY. FIB..' May 13 (JP) A. C. Williams, 22-year-old negro charged with assaulting a 12' year-old white girl, was found shot to death today, . several hours after a band of men seized him in a second lynching at tempt when the first had failed. "We found him on his back. whero ho apparently had been dropped by bullets fired Into hjs body,'' Sheriff M. P. Luten said. No arrests have been made in the case, and Sheriff Luten said 'Wo have virtually no clues to work on." - - The first lynching attempt came in trie evening when four wnite men armed with rJistols (Continued on Page Two) Earthquake Felt n Ukia Region BERKELEY. Calif,. May 13 () a sovero earthquake . oc curred in tha Pacific ocean to day but seismologists were duz zlcd in attempting to determine its epicenter. Prof. Perry Byerly, Univer sity of California, said he believ ed it occurred off the coast' of Washington or Oregon. " Dr. Howard A. Coombs, Uni versity of Washington, estimat ed Its distance from ' Seattle as between 800 and 1,200 miles, probably In a westerly - or southwesterly direction in the Pacific. Residents of Eureka and Ukiah northern California felt the shock shortly after 8 a. m.' No damage was reported but the tremor was of considerable, pro- portions at UKian, 1 President Asked to Enter S F. Shipyard Labor Row SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 UP) President Roosevelt was asked today to intervene in the San Francisco bay area shipyard strike for the "security of the nation." In a telegram urging the president to take immediate ac tion to reopen the eleven closed yards. President Walter A. Haas of the San Franclaco chamber of commerce said: "Machinists strikes in San Francisco bay shipyards tying up $500,000,000 naval contracts and $165,000,000 maritime com mission contracts are a body blow at national defense pro gress and a flagrant violation of spirit and purpose of the re cently negotiated coastwlde shipbuilding pact which outlaw ed strikes and lockouts in Paci fic coast shipyards. 'The very security of the na tion demands that regardless of the issues all men return to work immediately pending negotiation and settlement of differences." A shipyard spokesman said "it's up to the government" to solve the strike which has made 13,000 men idle. . S. FORCES GET USI POTATOES Eight V Carloads Sent In Wood. Boxes to Pacific Bases Soldiers and sailors in Uncle Sam's defense forces, and espe cially - those who prefer good American food to that offered in tho Orient, will sit down to Klamath's Netted Gem potatoes as the result of shipments from this point during the past few aays. Eight carloads have gone to San Francisco since May 4, the shipments earmarked for con sumption of the forces stationed In Honolulu, - the Philippines and China. They will be sent by freight steamers to the sup ply bases, it was learned. Each potato finds its way into a wooden box, the boxes supplied by Big Lakes Box company here. One hundred pounds of potatoes go into the box and some 360 to 378 boxes to the carload, making more than 288,000 pounds of spuds which have left potato cellars in this district, according to Ross Au brey, shipping point inspector. Potatoes are being purchased by 4 General Products company of Sacramento, supply contrac tors with the navy. i Potatoes used at this season must bo placed in cold storage for 'one month and this has been handled by 'the Klamath Ice and, Storago company where loading has been going on at nights this past week.. First carload shipped out was (Continued on Page Two) Portland Cadet's Body Found on Bar lii Bay at S. F. 'ALAMEDA, Calif.. May 13 (P) The body of Patrick Pres ton Cohan, 21, a flylna student from Portland, Ore., wag found on, a sandbar In the boy today and Deputy Coroner Frank Hal fey said the youth apparently had drowned. Haley said there were no marks of violence on the body. sighted by George King, care taker of the Enclnal Yacht club, where Cohan's small boat was tied up. Two companions of the young student were questioned, Haley said, and related having drinks and driving in an automobile before Cohan suddenly disap peared last night. . .. A f eliow student. Walton Beard of Shreveport, La., said tie ana Cohan and Miss Julia SHInkomen, 18. had drinks to gether. to Turk Plan By The Associated Press ' Production of armaments was threatened by two new strikes today as shipyard dis putes continued to tie up more than $900,000,00 worth of naval construction at Boston and San Francisco. A threatened walkout at the Hudson Motor company in De troit,' however, was at least temporarily postponed. A strike by some of the 5, 600 employes of the Colt's pat ent firearms company at Hart ford, Conn., one of the nation's largest armaments factories, threatened production there, and 200 carpenters working on the government's new $30,000,000 Ravenna, Ohio, shell loading plant walked out. The Hunkin-Conkey Construc tion company said about 2,000 carpenters were employed on the Ravanna Job and expressed hope for an Immediate settle ment of the wage dispute. The men asked a 25-cent-an hour in crease from a present scale of $1.12i hourly. Two Candidates File for Posts On School Board -: " Godfrey C. Blohm, 'manager of - the Klamath Falls branch, United States National Bank of Portland, and Howard BarnhiS' el, Klamath Falls real estate op erator, filed petitions with City school Clerk Ida B. Motayer Udell to- have their names placed on the ballot for the com ing election of school board di rectors, District No. 1. Blohm s petition was In the hands of the clerk Tuesday af ternoon, Barnhisel's filed late Monday afternoon. - The peti tions were signed by more than 10 residents of the district. Date of election is set for Monday, June 16, in Fremont (Continued on Page Two) Local Stores Agree to Close On Sundays Klamath Falls housewifes who have waited to buy the vitamins for their Sunday dinner On Sun day, will have to do their shop ping during the week as the re sult of a decision reached by a number of local stores to close that day. " Closing Sunday, starting May 18, are the following, Oregon Food stores, Carter's Fine Foods, Quality Foods, Jurgensen's, Community grocery, , Safeway stores, Falon's Meats and Gro ceries. Myrtle's Grocery on Shasta Way, Emll's Food Stores, Sunset grocery,-Palace Market, Park's Grocery, East Side Gro cery, Piggly Wiggly, L. T. Rob inson, formerly Idella's and Shasta Food store. ' f County Court Approves List of Road Improvement Jobs for 41 Tentative plans for 1941 road wprk, embracing virtually every sector of t h e Klamath basin, were approved by the county court following a long list of proposed jobs presented by County Engineer Frank Z. How ard. ! . ' : , Grading, draining and gravel ing on the following listed proj ects were Included in the tenta tive. program: Lower Lake road, complete grading; two old roads on the west side of Poe valley, Teare 'lane in Langell valley, west side of Langell valley from Wlllerson ranch by way . of Clay Walker's, Poe Valley mar ket road from Lost River bridge at Bonanza south three quarters of a mile, Poe Valley-Malin market road from new grade south to summit towards Malln, Altamont extension from Bris tol avenue to Anderson avenue, Wiard street from Sixth to Shas- T F0J1ILINE Points Which Require More Equipment Opposed WASHINGTON, May 13 W) Civil aeronautics board examin ers recommended today that United Airlines be authorized to establish services to Salem and Eugene, Ore., and Bellingham, Wash. They recommended de nial of the company's applica tion for permission to establish service to Klamath Falls, Ore. The report of the examiners, Francis W. Brown and John W. Belt, is subject to review by the board- . .. Salem and Eugene would be come intermediate points on the company's route between Seattle and Sail Diego, Calif. The com pany also sought to Include Klam ath Falls as an intermediate point on this route." POPTLAND, Ore., Ms ) W) W. R. Thiseeni United Airlines hPorflaHcr.illstrlct "traffic man ager, expressed commence today the civil aeronautics board would sanction service to Salem and Eugene, -Ore.,-and ; Bellingham, Wash. -. : Tv'- - CAB exa miners recommended such service today;-but disap proved service to Klamath, Falls, Ore. I - : V "The CAB as a rule aOcepts the recommendation of its exam' iners." Thlgpen said "We feel these will be accepted. The CAB has been denying applications which require more equipment and add route, miles, and I pre sume that IS' the reason the Klamath Falls request was de nied. It has been granting ap plications which do not involve more equipment or route miles. such as those at Eugene, Salem and Bellingham." WASHINGTON, May 13 (P) Senator. Lee (D-Okla.) . said to day the war department had in formed him of selection of nine army cantonment sites to be used in event the army was expanded. The senator was told the army was planning far in advance of its actual requirements to insure (Continued on Page Two) Looking' Backward By 'The Associated Press May 13, 1940 Prime Minister Churchill wins vote . of confi dence, in British house of com mons; promises ultimate vic tory. - May 13, . 1916 More than 130,000 march In citizens Pre paredness parade In New York City.-. ta, Patterson and Hilyard streets, Homedale extension, Sprague river road from Lake view highway to Sprague River, preparo for oiling; LaPine dis trict, road northeast of Malln, graveling of Eldorado extension north of Klamath Falls. - Included in the 1940 oiling program were the following projects: Summers Lane, Alta mont, Shasta way, and Portland drive. These four will receive a seal coating job this year, and repairs and seal coating are sug gested for that section of oiled market road Immediately ' south of Fort Klamath. New oil projects as suggested, With the use of gravel from the Merrill pit, are as follows: Ma-lin-State line to Malin to Great Northern depot, 1.5 miles; Mer rill, government corner south to Southern Pacific depot, 1.8 KLAMATH 0 MINDED (Continued on Page Two) WellI'll Be And that's the way Byron ron flyer, voiced his surprise when he saw headlines bannering Rudolph Hess' movie-thriller arrival in Scotland. Kenneriy, who saw months of service with British flyers, left Tuesday, for the south after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Kenneriy, 1135 Pine street. Klamath -Eagle' Declares He'd Rather Klamath's lone representative In the battle of Europe thinks America may soon be in the war. .Byron Kenneriy. son. of Mr, and Mrs. Al Kenneriy, 1135 Pint street, who has been on this side of the Atlantic since he burst his eardrums In an air battle over the British Isles, is not sure he wants to return to the Eagle squadron because he thinks , he may get a chance to fight in an American uniform Kenneriy arrived in Klamath Falls for a short visit with his parents Sunday and was to leave for California Tuesday af ternoon to keep a speaking en gagement. Most of his- time. since he landed in Canada, ' has been spent in California where Program for Civic Concert Tonight Given . The Kiwanis Civic chorus will moke its debut of the season to night at 8 o'clock in the audi' torium of Klamath Union' high school with 88 voices blending in songs which are familiar fa vorites of music lovers. Direct or is Charles R. Stanfield, and accompanist is Mrs. Samuel A, Mushen. Orchestral selections are un der the direction of Guy Bates, A cordial invitation is issued by members of the chorus to all interested persons in the coun ty and efforts of this group of men and women who have met to sing because they love music is sure to be met with sincere (Continued on Page Two) BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE ' R. H. E. St. Louis 3 7 0 Philadelphia . ..7 12 1 Kennedy, Trotter (7), Caster (7), and Grube, Swift (6); Knott and Hayes. R. H. E. Chicago 3 7 1 Boston ; 2 4 1 Rigney and Tresh; Wagner, Fleming (9), and Pytlak. R. H. E. Cleveland ..............2 8 2 New York 1 6 0 Feller and - Hemsley; Russo and Dickey. . (10 innings). NATIONAL LEAGUE R H Philadelphia ..3 10 Pittsburgh j. 6 10 E. 4 4 Grlssom, Podgajny (6), and Warren, Livingston (6); Sewell and Baker, Davis (5). R. H. E Brooklyn ;;...4 8 0 Cincinnati 3 6 0 Casey and Owen; Walters and Lombard!. Dawgonned! Hfciiiiliiii mt&4m m Kenaerly, Klamath's Eagle squad Fight for U.S. ; ;-- he has Inspected planes, given technical advice on motion, pic tures and made numerous talks on conditions : and - fighting . in England. ,i He spoke before the high school student body and the. Lions club during his stay here. . ; "I'm about talked out," Ken neriy said' Tuesday.' ; "I'm not much of an orator anyway, but people, think you re running away from them if you refuse to speak. - Speaking of -the -work of the Eagle squadron, a group ,- of American.fliers who volunteered to help England,. Kenneriy said much of their time was spent in patrols over convoys at sea but that the fliers are constantly on call for air raid defense and sometimes get. an assignment to machine-gun air fields and gun crews on the French' coast as well. The Eagle squadron uses the regular British Spitfire and Hur ricane fighter planes, Kenneriy says, but American ' planes, mostly Lockheed-Hudson and Douglas bombers, - are being used in British defense more and more. Some Curtiss P-40 fighters have also arrived, he says. - During 'his stay, in England, Kenneriy saw action in 37 raids, he reported. He refused to state how many air battles he person ally took part in and would not admit that he had- ever shot down an enemy plane. Questions on life in England brought a wealth of information from the handsome, well-built young flier, but he spoke little of the war itself or of the en emy. . He has a winning smile that, would be an asset to a movie star and he used it often as -he spoke of food rationing and the shortage of cigarets. , "Cigarets are plentiful in the officers' mess,", he said, "but if you run out-of smokes while you're in town, a fellow is just out of luck." 'All the food has been ra tioned in England for quite a while," he continued. "You get beef and Brussels sprouts, twice a day. With your breakfast you get only one egg. It doesn't' mat ter if you re a, group command er, you only get one egg." All the women in England are working, ' Kenneriy said. Around the army centers every woman wears a uniform and no others are allowed on the prem ises without an escort. Those in the women's auxiliary air force called WAAFs drive trucks and ambulances, do the office work and. generally help out in every possible department, he said.- -v , ' .Quite a few American nurses and doctors are at work In. Eng land, Kenneriy said, adding "I met fifteen American nurses to gether In - Liverpool before I left." BRITISH DENY BERLIN CLAIM German Party Session Shrouded; London Sees Break By The Associated Press : Adolf Hitler called, all relch's leaders .and district leaders of the nazi party together today as the British declared a rift in the nazl party- was evidenced by the dramatic- 800-mile escape flight of Rudolf Hess from Ger many, to Scotland, where he sur rendered as a prisoner of war. Pronounced sane by British, doctors, Hess was quoted as say ing when he parachuted to safe ty from his Messerschmitt fight ing plane: - ' : No Bombs .. "I have no bombs in my plane, so -you . needn't worry." - The 47-year-old nazl leader. Hitler's No.. 2 heir to the Ger man dictatorship, talked for 10 minutes to Scottish - home guardsmen before he was taken to -a--military hospital, on hia arrival Saturday night. Speculation High -. German propaganda described Hess' sensational flight as tha act of a man "mentally de ranged because of physical ill ness," while elsewhere specula tlon arose, that he might divulge strike a .serious blow at tha German. fuehrer's war. plans. The official nazi' party news service, In terse comment on Hitler's meeting with his lead ers, said only that the .group gave the fuehrer an impressive demonstration of determined will for victory." ' Prime Minister Winston Churchill indicated, meanwhile. that Hess: was talking how much was not known and that a British statement on his capture would be forthcoming soon. - British sources gave a hint. too, that Hess was fired on as he raced his Messerschmitt from Germany across the Eng lish channel to a Scottish moor land. Ten machine-sun bullet holes were found in the tail of the plane. Breach Claimed ' . As British foreign office ex perts questioned Hess in a Scot- (Continued on Page Two) Pepper Urges U. S. Help for British Aid WASHINGTON. Mav 13 VPi With a senate showdown ap proaching on the convoy ques tion, . Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) urged today that the United States undertake- to help assure the safe delivery of all supplies to Britain, regardless of the country from which they were shipped. But, capital circles wondered just what Secretary Knox meant when he said: "It is very dos-, sible xxx that convoys are not the answer after all. Per haps we have to develop a new defense to assure the arrival of our goods on the other side." The statement was made by Knox in an extemporaneous speech after he had declared we cannot half fight this bat tle, x x x we are committed to all the support (to Britain) nec essary to produce a victory." . Pepper, who has been de manding "affirmative action" by this - country against the axis, told reporters that "public opin ion has reached the point where, if convoys are necessary to de liver the goods, the people will' support them.. 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