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PAGE FOUR THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON 7urtt 6, 1AT1 RAID ruBUSHIXO COUFAUT, FubtlMMl MALCOLM putr . ntt Uanaalaa. Editor fubltabad mtf attaruoa ateant Snada m Tha Baffle Puhltihlni Oompanj at Baplanad. ud Plea Straau, Elaaat fall., Ortfoc lotarat M Hcod dut m attar at Km pMtoffra ol klamatli FaUa, Or, on Auiuil rA I mm uaaar bob or awaraaa, aiarco a, ia. alambw l Tha Aaaoeiatcd Ptaa Tba AuoallM Ftaat I aselaalnl aaUUd aa Uii lilt of rapublloatroa of all aawa dlipatehM erodttod to rt or not oahanrtaa cradttad la thU papar, and alio tba roou ntwi publlahfd toarala. All rlfhta of rapabUeattoa ot aptda) dUpathaa ar alto raaarvad. MXUBU AUDIT BOftBAV OF CIRCULATION Rtprastntad N.Uoaally by WaakHollldat Do- Ian. Baa Praaraaeo, Kaw fork, Detroit. BaatUa. Chicago, Perilled. Loa Anrale. t- Lonta, Vaoooavar. B. 0. Coptaa ol Tha Mava aad Baraid. tofathar with eomplrta tnformiltoa aboot tha Klaraath Falla markai. nay ba obtained for taa atktai at any of tbata olflaea. Trrraa Ifmtfci , Sit MonUu Oaa Vaaf kill HATES fATAHUt ID ADVAJiCI Bj Hall la Klamath. Lata, Uodoa aid siaHfca CoooUaa ttJ B.0C Ooa Taar . Oaa alonUi . PallTarad by Carrier la City Torva Hoatha . SU Morttha - . . us Comment in Brief THE death of Arthur Curtiss James, America's largest holder of railway stock, brings vivid memories of a bitterly cold day at Bieber when the be-whiskered rail magnate drove the golden spike that linked the Western Pacific and Great Northern lines. A large number of Klamath people were in the shiv ering crowd which witnessed the ceremonies, with Mr. James wielding a heavy hammer on the golden spike as cameras ground and clicked. After the rails were joined, Mr. James stepped back and locomotives of the two lines approached each other. Standing on their cowcatchers were Presidents Budd of the Great Northern and Adams of the Western Pacific. Ab the engines touched, the two officials shook hands, the crowd cheered, and Klamath Falls was on its second transcontinental railroad. Prominent in memory of that day in the fall of 1931 was the temperature. A bitter wind blew across the val ley as the spectators gathered on temporary bleachers to listen to the speech-making. Thin writer was iammed with the rest of the press representatives in a position where he couldn't even beat his arms. U. S. Webb, California's attorney general, was well wound up. No doubt he gave a good speech, but the writer didn't hear it. His teeth chattered too loudly. It took a couple of days against a hot water radiator at home to thaw out. At the time the Great Northern and Western Pacific were linked at Bieber, there was strong talk that even tually passenger service would be established which would carry Great Northern's Empire Builder through Klamath Falls. The road was completed at the start of serious de pression times. For various reasons, the passenger service was never started. The Great Northern here has remain ed a freight line. Occasional flurries of talk about pas senger service have been met with negative statements. But the development In which Mr." James played a prominent part as heavy stockholder fn ,the connected lines was a milestone in the history of Klamath Falls. It has made thia a two-railroad town. With' the Southern Pacific, the Great Northern and Western Pacific, people here have had a decade of beneficial commercial and per sonal relationships. - Klamath's position in the railroad transportation picture is unique among Oregon cities of its class. ' - Selection of Arnold Gralapp as school head here of the coming consolidated administration followed a lot of intensive work by the members of the school boards. The field was thoroughly canvassed and 60 applicants were considered. One applicant, living in a distant city, impressed the board with his determination and perseverance, even though he didn't get the selection. Every day for several days each member of the board received a special delivery letter from this gentleman. Board members agree they got quite a bit of education themselves out of the superintendent selection project. It gave them opportunity to talk to many active educators and to get an insight into many other school systems. Their knowledge of school administration and modern educational methods has been broadened by the exper ience. ' . , The Junior chamber of commerce still has a consider able sum to raise for the Klamath float in the Portland rose festival. If a great many firms and individuals will contribute modestly to this worthy enterprise, the burden will be light upon everybody and the fund will be quickly completed. That is the way it ought to be done. M. E. "We Used to Fear Over-Production" HUL L CAUTIONS Rest Would Save Business Men's Lives, Claims Noted Physician IT HELPING Br HAROLD C. McXINLE CLEVELAND, June S (AP The world would be better off If man had the habit of lying in bed one morning each week. That's the comforting concept 01 a noiea physician who today ..u ai - .... "i American Medical as sociation that ambition is short ening the business tycoon's life span. Ambition and "the strenuous life" are just as hazardous to the executive's health as his obesity and excessive use of to bacco and alcohol, declared Dr. Edgar V. Allen, chief of the medicine division at Mayo clinic. He proposed a five-day week, eight-hour day program for business men. "The business man falls to take the long view of life," Dr. Allen asserted. "He plans his life, aside from his annuities and insurance, as If he were to live forever. So he works hard to accumulate funds with which to play tomorrow. "All too frequently he lies mumbling and muttering In a hospital bed, panting his life away as a result ot high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, or he stumbles and falls from apoplexy, or after a shudderingly severe episode of cardlao jain he Is hurried offtinued, Into the sleep from which there is no awakening. "Could man see how small, how insignificant, how unim portant his individual life is, he might shape it so that he would achieve more of happiness and content and less of material suc cess and perhaps 111 health." Portland Produce Strike Settled; Others Continue PORTLAND, June 6 (F) Ne gotiations for a new contract continued today after 100 AFL warehousemen, office workers, salesmen and drivers halted their strike yesterday at three large produce houses. . Warehousemen, demanding a 40-hour week and pay increases from $30 to $35 weekly, struck Tuesday noon. Returning work ers are employed by the Hudson-Duncan, Safeway and United companies, which offered 20 per cent psy increases for the 40- hour week. , Another 100 workers re mained idle at the Pacific Fruit and Produce company, where union spokesmen said the firm was holding out for continuation of the old 4S 13 hour week. Meantime, Portland's bakery and casket factory strikes con- WASHTNGTON, June 6 (UP) Secretary of State Cordell Hull revealed today Franco-German collaboration making France an instrument of "aggression and oppression" will have grave re percussions In this country. . He clearly warned France the price of such active collabora tion would be forfeiture of this nation's friendship and friendly cooperation. "It has been the determined policy of this government," he said in a formal statement, "to continue friendly and helpful cooperation with France in the present difficult situation in which its action is restricted and limited by the terms of its arm istice with Germany and Italy This policy has been based upon assurance by the French govern ment that there was no intention on its part to exceed the strict limitations imposed by those terms." Leahy Reports Hull said, on the basis of pre liminary reports received from U. S- Ambassador William D. Leahy, the United States is frankly . . . very much con cemed about the situation which seems to be growing up Leahy conferred with French Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain yesterday and apparently set forth this government s position. Soon after the statement was issued French Ambassador Gas ton Henry-Have asked Hull for a conference tomorrow. The en voy had no comment except to say that he wants "enlighten ment" on some of Hull's points. Hull told how the United States has maintained relations with Vichy, has sent good to un occupied France, given "con crete evidence of our sympa thetic friendship and thought for the well being of the French people and the French empire," and cooperated with . other American republics to safeguard the welfare and integrity of French western hemisphere pos sessions. Severance Threat He hinted strongly all this might be changed If Vichy binds itself to the axis. Some observers saw In the statement a threat of ultimate severance of diplomatic rela tions, depending on whether France actively Joins Germany's wbt. The statement coincided with London reports John G. Wlnsnt, U. S. ambassador to London, who returned here last week to make a personal report to Mr. Roosevelt and Hull, planned to recommend the United States break off diplomatic relations with Vichy. Whether a break is imminent only future events can foretell as implied by Hull. Some sources suggested this country would hesitate to withdraw from a valuable "listening post" such as Vichy. There would be no alternative If relations were broken off. The circumstances of Hull's statement left little doubt the tie of traditional friendship with trance extending back to the revolutionary war is wearing thin. LONDON, Friday, June 8 (UP) Secretary ol State Cor dell Hull's sharp warning to trance was believed in Inform ed British quarters today to foreshadow a possible break in diplomatic relations with the Vichy government carrying the United States closer to war against the axis. Secretary Hull's statement was cheered by British political leaders and the press which said a United States - French diplo matic break would have '.'a great psychological effect" on the axis. British leaders believed John G. Winant, United States am bassador to London, who now is in Washington, could be cred ited, with a part In the United States' stiffened stand toward the Vichy government's "col laboration" negotiations with Germany. Diplomats who talked with Winant just before his flying trip to the United States said he indicated he would recommend to President Roosevelt and Sec retary Hull that the United States break off diplomatic re lations with Vichy. Courthouse Records THURSDAY Marriage Applications TOTTON ROHR. John David Totton, 31, Klamath Falls, stock clerk, native of Oregon. Joan Rohr, 23, Klamath Falls, steno grapher, native of Oregon. ' MARTIN-FORD. Francis Gor don Martin, 39, Klamath Falls, insurance adjuster, native of Washington. Ethel Leona Ford, 30, Klamath Falls, laundry op erator, native of Nebraska. Complaints Filed Pauline Johnson versus Ray Johnson. Suit for divorce. Couple married at Montgomery CreeK, Calif., October 4, 1938 Plaintiff charges defendant with cruel and Inhuman treatment, F. H. Mills, attorney for plaintiff. . Justice Court Augustine Robert Smith, drunk on a public highway. Fined $10. Robert Charles Burleigh, op erating car with void Washing ton license. Fined $3.80. John Malatchi, operating auto with improper lights. Fined $5.50. Irwin Lee O'Neil, Indian, un lawful possession of liquor. Fined $25. . H. L. Taylor, permitting spread of fire. Fined $50, given six months probation. Fenford Craln, Indian, unlaw ful possession of liquor. Fined $25. HITLER "PEACE' E' Automobiles Get Boost in Price DETROIT, June 6 (UP) Chrysler corporation today raised prices on Dodge,' Chrys ler, Plymouth and DeSoto automobiles. Price increases on the Chrys ler line ranged from $15 to $53; on the Plymouth from $10 to $37, and on the DeSoto from $15 to $47. Dodge did not immedi ately announce its price changes. . . The farmer's In the dell and Wieland's In the well (eoollngl). VICHY, June 6 (UP) Rumors of an Impending "peace gesture" by Adolf Hitler in an effort to forestall open United States in tervention in the war flew thick and fast in Vichy today. The rumors were based on foreign reports carried by the official French news agency. These reports said the axis is prepared to restore at least quasi-Independent status to in vaded Holland, Belgium, Den mark and Norway provided Hit ler and Mussolini are given a free hand in "organizing" Eur ope. The rumors, which came from Italy and neutral Switzerland developed as the French-British crisis came nearer the point of explosion and France's relations with the United States contin ued in an acute state. The gist of the reports was Hitler and Mussolini at their Brenner pass conference this week discussed means of bring ing about an early peace. The Swiss Gazette de Lsu zanne quoted "well-Informed circles In Vichy" as predicting an imminent axis peace offen sive, but no one in authority could be found here tonight who would profess the slightest knowledge of such an impend ing development. Massachusetts Unit Would Be First to Fight WASHINGTON. June 6 (AP) Congress learned today that the army's "fighting first" division, now stationed at Camp Devens, Mass., would be one of the first ground force units to move if this country had to send an ex peditionary force abroad. General George C. Marshall chief of staff, told house ap propriations subcommittee the first division was a "task force of first priority." As such, it gets 100 per cent Issues of any new equipment that becomes avail able. Certain national guard di visions also get first priority, Marshall said, "because they are among those that have been se lected for possible use under cer tain eventualities." The First Division, one ot the army's nine "streamlined" or triangular divisions, Is at vir tually full war strength of ap proximately 14,000 officers and men, and is composed almost en tirely of regulars. Most other army divisions are made up partly of selective ser vice recruits, available for only one year's service, whereas the regular army troopers are en listed for three years. The war department said It was not ready to disclose what national guard divisions were on the priority list for first call to action. GRADUATES PORTLAND. June 6 MP) A total of 462 seniors will be grad uated tonight at Portland's Jef ferson high school and Jane Ad- dams and Girls' Polytechnic schools. More than 1700 seniors received diplomas last night at other city high schools. .. TfflNW By PaUIHaLLON mum WASHINGTON, June B A certain Oklahoma congress man has been introducing hills providing for a West Point of government service. A certain defeated republican candidate for president has been looking around for a plnnnclo upon which to light. Put two and two together unci you may find that Wendell Wlllklo will be chair man of the board of a modern civil service college. The con gressman may be proxy. The school, which has caught their fancy, is a well-known prepara tory school in Maryland, and that is no "campaign oratory." Mr. Willkle's present academic love came after he had previ ously drawn a couplo of blanks. A New York law office Is no pinnacle from which to speak Feelers were put out to Leland Stanford university, which need ed a president, and to Colum bia with the hope that Nicholas Murray Butler might be about ready to resign. Neither one bit. a a IS HE BALMY? Reports that the Germans have submarines based on Da kar are believed by no one hero. Or put it this way, either the nazis have no submarines based on Dakar or elso our consul there Is a little balmy from the heat becauso he can't find any It Is true that the submarines are preying on British shipping off the west coast of Africa, but where they are based no one is quite sure. The Germans are thought to be using cither French territory southeast of Dakar or Spanish Rio do Oro, northeast of Dakar. In spite of the president's mention of Dakar and the groups of islands off the African and Spanish coasts, congressmen claim to have it from the presi dent that we will make no move outside the western hemisphere this summer. Don't forget that the Ger mans are going to have a tough time getting to Dakar, too, as Dakar itself resembles an island. There are no land routes between It from anywhere else in Africa. a a a TANK CATCHER War department experts have been poring over a batch of pic tures showing a brand new tank catcher which the Ger mans have developed. This fancy little gadget, which will accompany German panzer divi sions, has somo fascinating new features. One is a removable armor shield In front. The trick to this Is that If the Germans find they are fighting tanks speedier than their tank chasers, SIDE GLANCES i .i 'tiki mm km iv. -n iv; w m i mi rr it wavue. arc, t. k mo. u. a ' o- "You outfit to amlle instead of crying, Motherwwith Junior graduating, maybe we can alurl saving UttM something I" they cun take off the hoavy armor shield, and put a lighter one on, thus Increasing the speed. German military maga zines claim this will guarantee thm their tank destroyer will be 10 per cent faster than any thing it meets. Also Is has a 75 mm. anti-tank gun and a very special untl-aircraft gun which resembles our famous bomb-sight In reverse. The A-A gun has a gyroscopic mounting. Die gunner merely sights through a little telescope which moves as easily as a rifle, and pulls the trigger. The gun not only gets the range but flgaras out how fur ahead of the air plane it should point to hit 1L a a a CONTRACT FLOOD In the next couple of weeks the war department Is going to deluge Industry with a flood of contracts. At this writing the department has nearly $4,000,. 000,000 for which it has not let contracts. On the other hand, the 36 regional offices of the office of production manage ment have lined up hundreds of sub-contractors who are just waiting. (It is difficult to sub contract old contracts). Cries of "hurry up" from the OPM will soon be answered by contracts in as largo chunks as you have ever seen. a a The harassed steel Industry Is complaining bitterly in Woih ington because the railroads are trying to order large numbers of freight cars now. Steel-mak ers say they should have done It two years ago. Railroads say they didn't hsve tha cash. Scarcity of shipping to bring lumber from tne west to tha east coast will make the rail road situation worse. Result probably will be rigid govern ment priorities on freight csr loadings. Pierce Louded By Mississippion , WASHINGTON. June 6 ( Rep. Rankin (D-Mlss.) thinks that Oregon's 80-year-old con gressman, former Governor Wal ter M. Pierce of LaGrande. "has don more for the people of Oregon than any other man." "In the long years that art stretched out before him I trust there will be just enough clouds to make s glorious sunset and that the shadowy figure of Wal ter M. Pierce will stretch across the stale of Oregon to transmit his memory to generations yet to come," said Rankin. Wheat Loon Value $1.05 at Portland WASHINGTON. June S W President Roosevelt has ap proved loan value of $1.03 on wheat at Portland, Rep. Pierce (D-Ore.) said he learned yttor day. This represents the 83 per cent of parity provided In recent Iriiltlatlon, compared with 73 cents last year. w .view an v,fi 11 SHJ Jrvr-j-ow-r, W-Vjrl -a ' mk jj L v; " .V r. , , V' i - j . . 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