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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY,' MAY 13, 1941
Number 9283
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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