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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1941)
PICTURES! WEATHER High 78i Low 58 PRECIPITATION 24 houra to 8 a. m. ..... .00 Saaion to data 12.45 Normal praelpltatlon 1 1.34 Lait year to data ... ....! 7.0 2 Associated Press Talsmats, NEA Tale- Opnoioi ana a uva loci I newspieture and engraving staff provide The News and Harald raadart with a oomprahantlva photographic aarvlca. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS I PRICE FIV" KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1941 Number 9309 MA am (7 f M W EfliTT . ; d a . In The - Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS pUMOHS of an Impending Grr man-Russian ruckus (III tho 'air today (Friday). , FIiiiiIkIi "well Informed quar ters" (Finland li regarded a Russian sunroof StU' Germany has enlarged 1 f'cfrlli' fur-rcuchlng demands" on tliq Kremlin, There arc widespread report In Europe Hint Germany hui muued 130 divisions (nbout two million men) on the soviet bor der. "Foreign qunrtcri In Ankara Turkish cupltul, wild lust week aliat a Ucrmun Invasion of Ttussla Is set for mid-June. And so on. CONCERNING thcuo rumors, the London Times says: "Ger many and Russia uro playing dunscrous game of bluff and counter-bluff. One Is dclcrmlii' rd to extort and tho other to refuse as much as It dures with' out provoklntf open hostilities. Tass, the official soviet news agency, In a broadcast heard In New York, pooh-poohs the wholo situation and says both Germany nd Russia aro living up rigidly to their agreements. THIS wrltor'i advico: Cross your fingers. Cross your feet. Do no wishful think' ing. Tho only dependable evidence of blg-tlmo trouble between Gcr. any and Russia will be SHOOT- NO. ITTLE new from Syria today, Tho British and tho freo French claim to havo Damascus furrounded and Intlmato they are negotiating for the voluntary aurronder of the city. From Cairo comes a story to the effect that officers and men of tho French warships Interned at Alexandria are deserting in Increased numbers 'to the free Kronen and the British. THESE possibly wishful reports . of desertion of French forces explain better than anything ol.io ran tho peculiar war in Syria The British profess to bo fight' ing to save Syria for tho real French. The Germans lire try ing to make it appear that tho rench are fighting to savo yria from tho clutches of the wicked and grasping British. Sooner or later theso pretenses Will bo dropped nnd tho light ing will get really tough. THE Robin Moor incident con tlnucs to hold a prominent place in tho dispatches. It de velops today that tho ship's first , mate, after the vessel had been , (topped, rowed a mile and a half to the waiting submarine and In . formed Its Gorman commander pt the Robin Moor's nationality and destination. That means that the sinking was deliberate. THIS Js what la at stake In the i Robin Moor case: Tho United States wants Gor- many to shoot first. What Ger many wants, only Hitler knows DrT looks es if the Germans have shown poor Judgment in providing an Incident." Sumner Welles, assistant sec retary of state, announces after careful investigation that the Robin Moor carried no military material of any character. Her cargo, ho says, ranged from stcol rails to women's hosiery, and her destination port (Capetown, South Africa) Is not In any- war zone, ,. Tho United States will de mand not only reparations for tho Robin Moor but assurances from the German government .that such attacks will not be repeated. NEGOTIATIONS CAIRO, Egypt, Juno 13 (P) reo French forces havo com- letcd tho encirclement of Da mascus, Syria s ancient capital, and apparently aro awaiting tho outcomo of negotiations for peaceful occupation of tho city, authoritative sources reported tonight.. i Welles Raps FACTS STUDIED IN SUNG OP Berlin Spurns U. S., British Views of Torpedo Case WASHINGTON, Juno 13 P) Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, asserted today that the facts in the sinking of the Robin Moor were beyond dispute and Indirectly accused Germany of vlulating an International treaty on submarine wurfare as It af fects provision for the safety of passengers and crews. The evidence of 11 survivors of the sunken American mer chant vessel was very clear and there could bo no dispute as to tho facts, he told his press con. ference. As to what action the Unit ed Suites will take, Welles said he would withhold a considered statement until the full dcposl tlons of tho 11 survivors were received from American officials In Brazil and were Investigated here. Controversial Question. An account of their testimony, however, Issued by the slate de partment yesterday. Charged that tho Robin Moot was sunk In the south Atlantic on May 21 by a German submarine which gave the passengers and crew 30 minutes to abandon the vessel before it was torpedoed and shelled. Welles was asked for com ment on the statement of a Ger man spokesman in Berlin that wo won't bo buffaloed by American and English discus sions concerning the Robin Moor" and that "whenever any ship with contraband sails for England we'll shoot at It." Welles replied that the a lies tlon of what constitutes contra band Is one of tho most contro versial in all tho world and that tho American government had never acquiesced in contraband definitions of either sldo In the present war. What the United States does stand on very firmly, Welles as (Continued on Pago Two) Columbia Firm Buys Suburban Water Sysiem Tho Stewart-Lenox addition domestic water system has been purchased by the Columbia Utlll ties company, John W. Kirby, general manager of the company announced Friday. Tho water property was purchased from the Pacific States Development com' pany, owners and managers of tho Stewart-Lenox sub-division development. Tho . water system . will be merged with tho Klamath Heat ing company and operated as a unit of that company's public utility system, Kirby stated. The Klamath Heating company stock is owned by tho Columbia Utlll' tics company, which also owns and operates telephone systems in Klamath and Jackson coun tics, Oregon, and Siskiyou and Modoc counties, California. uho Stewart-Lenox water sys tem will be improved through tho replacement of existing small mains with lamer d do. Connecting lateral mains which will provide a full circulating system of frosh water and In creased prcssuro is also in the program of Improvement. It Is expected that water service will be extended to adjoining' dis tricts which at present havo no commercial water supply, If suf ficient demand for service Is de veloped, It was stated. Purchase price was not an nounced. According to tho 1940 annual report filed with the pub lic utilities commissioner of Ore gon, the water system property account of tho Pacific States De velopment company was shown as approximately $10,000. J AMERICAN Important 9 1 1xMK. v A Sheriff Lloyd L. Low looks over the sawed-off shotgun found In the rear of the Buffalo Lunch Wednesday. Tha officar. links tha gun with the Dr. Salem David killing on March 18. 64 Floats in Parade ; As Portland Rose Show Advances PORTLAND, Ore., June 13 (P) Sixty-four flowered floats, the majority of them emphasizing patriotic red, white and blue, paraded in Portland's annual roso festival today. Commercial sweepstakes hon ors went to a graceful swan of roses, peonies and iris, flanked by four blond girls, entered by Meier & Frank company, Port land. An altar and June bride, with her attendants on a float princl pally of whllo calla lilies, won tho non-commercial sweepstakes ribbon for Oregon City. Tho Dalles won first among cities in Oregon outside Port land, with Ncwberg second and Klamath Falls third. Washougal, Wash., took first for cities outside of Oregon with an entry resembling a huge army tank, but with an Aladdin s lamp Instead of a gun turret, from which tho community queen and princesses emerged in a smoke of blue delphiniums. Second went to San Fran cisco's adobe house, Presidio, (Continued on Pago Two) Britain Makes Heaviest Raid On Germany's Ruhr Industries By Tha Associated Press LONDON, June 13 Mony an Industrial building was blown into the sky and numerous fires were started last night In Ger many's great manufacturing reg ion, tho Ruhr valley, by a largo force of British bombers In the heaviest raid of tho war on that region, it was claimed officially today. Tha blasting, fiery success cost the RAF six planes acknowledged missing from the bomber com mand. Within a 50-mllo radius in the Ruhr area about three-fourths of Germany's wholo coal output Is mined and about the same pro portion of her iron and steel in dustry is there. Tho district is linked by a network of roads, railroads and canals between closely-set in- dustrlal towns, Many of tlcse Nazi Attack Evidence 'v'. iy Nazi Warship ' Torpedoed By British Ptane LONDON, June 13 P) The air ministry announced tonight that a German pocket battle. ship had been hit by a torpedo fired by a British plane off the Norwegian coast early today. The communique said that "dense clouds of smoke rose from the vessel" and that later tho battleship, which the ad miralty did not Identify, was seen to be stationary off the southern point of Norway. Still later the battleship and escorting destroyers were "ob served to be retiring toward- the Skaggcrak at a greatly reduced speed, the communique said. Germany has only two pocket battleships strong, swift ships of 10,000 tons carrying 11-inch guns since the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spec off Monte video, Uruguay, December 17, The remaining two are the Admiral Scheer and the Luetzow, lormcrly the Dcutschland. Hixon Goes on Trial at Portland PORTLAND. June 13 (PI Wilbur Hixon, 20, Klamath In dian, went on trial yesterday be fore Federal Judge James A. Fee on a charge of second degree murder, outgrowth of the shoot ing of Abncr McNair on the Klamath reservation March 26, were believed to have felt the weight of the RAF's blows since the communique dealt with the valley -ns a whole without men tioning any center specifically. A bomb-burst in ono railroad yard, the Air Ministry News Service reported, -"was followed by a succession of explosions in line, one after the other, over a period of 10 minutes as though a store of ammunition had been hit." At home the RAF fighter com mand was reported to have turn ed back a formation of Mcsser schmitts, rctnllation-bcnt, in a fivc-mlnute battle 20,000 feet above the southeast English coast this afternoon. Several sharp bursts of can non fire were heard and, after one long burst, a plane dived with a loud scream that died out over the sea. iniinHitMi. li,nr,Aij J CORONER JURY L IN GUNGASE Daughter, ,13, Held At Alturas After Harpham Death In a Klamath Falls morgue lies the body of Ray Floyd Harp ham, 36-year-old Southern Paci fic telegrapher of Canby, Calif., a gunshot wound through his neck, and held for the shooting in the Modoc county jail is the man's young daughter, Ramona, 13, climax to a bitter quarrel be tween the two on the night of June 10, in the family home at Canby. Harpham was rushed from Canby to an Alturas hospital Tuesday night, and brought from there to Hillside hospital Wednesday where he died at 2:53 a. m. Thursday. Investiga tion was started by L. Orth Sise more, district attorney, and Ra mona was placed in custody by Sheriff John C. Sharp at Altur as at 3 p. m. Thursday. . Coroner's Jury Vardlct A coroner'e jury late Friday morning issued tha folic wing -r port: "Thot Ray Floyd Harpham came to his death by gunshot wound, and Ramona Harpham is guilty of a crime thereby." Before tho coroner's Jury went the girl's stepmother, Edna Harpham, and her brother, Ray Jr. This is their story: Children Quarrel On the night of June 10 the family had gone to bed some time between 10.30 and 11 oiclock. the father and mother in one room, the boy and his sis ter in the other. The children were Quarreling in their bed and the father called, "I don't want to hear any more arguing." The quarreling continued and the father advised the girl, whom they referred to as Pat, he would "hold her responsible' for any further disturbance. A moment later, when the children continued their bickering, the father got up. went into the room, pulled the girl from her bed, brought her into his bed room and spanked her. The girl "sassed" her father (Continued on Page Two) Body of Missing Man Recovered From Lake Here The body of Arthur (Shorty) Morgan, 42, Bly resident miss ing since Sunday afternoon was recovered at 10:30 a. m. Friday from the waters of Link river, BOO feet below the Main street bridge, f Morgan disappeared Sunday while visiting here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. "Mike" Wallace of Riverside street. "Andy" Andersch, Riverside street serv ice station operator, told offi cers he saw Morgan walking down toward the river and when he investigated a few minutes later found no trace of the man. but did find his hat on the bank. City police and sheriff's offi cers have been dragging the river since that time. The body was first sighted by Ernie Mor gan, Bly, brother of the missing man, and Wallace. The body is at Ward s Klam ath Funeral home. Morgan is the son of Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Morgan, well known Bly ranch ers. Looking Backward By The Associated Press June 13, 1040 Paris declared open city; Germans, advancing on three sides, sight Eiffel tower. June 13, 1016 Russians cross Dniester in advance toward Lemberg, ; BLAMES ;v ommun'7"z nUSSIA uENIES Harry Lundeberg, chief of discusses the Harry Bridges deportation hearing and the tatal accident which cost tho Ilia oi day, over a cup of coffe at tha , ......... - .'" DEATuJIPIIED Sailors' Union Chief Arrives to Study Barclay Crash Harry Lundeberg, communist hating head of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, sat across a lunch eon table at the Willard hotel Friday afternoon and gave his version of the Harry Bridges de portation hearing, of which he was an important government witness this last Tuesday, and asked a few questions in con nection with the fatal accident of Thursday morning in which "Blackie" Cannaionga and two others were killed, and two of Lundeberg's friends critically in jured. With Lundeberg came two San Francisco seamen, Paul Steffins, one of the agents of the Sailors union, and Benny Davinis, active union member. "Suspicious" The two were stationed at the Turner garage where a mechanic is carefully taking apart the motor of Lee Barlow's car the one which Cannaionga was driv ing to see if the machine had been tampered before it left San Francisco late Wednesday after noon. In salty language, Lundeberg, for six years the chief of the Sailors union, told what he thought of the accident. "I'm a little suspicious of this thing myself, and I'm not accus ing anybody you understand. but it's my job to protect people against this sort of thing and I furnish protection through my organization, Lundeberg said. "I know what type of people I'm fighting and I know just how far they'll go to get what they want." Lundeberg, 30, standing a (Continued on Page Two) . Germans Order Ban On Hitler's Paper BERLIN, June 13 (P) Part of an edition of the Voclkischer Bcobachter, Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, containing an article by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Gocbbels was ordered confiscated today. An authorized spokesman said he was unable to discuss the rea son for the extraordinary pro tha Sailors' Union of the Pacific, "Blackle" Cannaionga here Thurs willard Friday afternoon-. - 1 1 Maurice Joseph "Blackie" Cannaionga. instantly killed in a head-on crash Thursday morn ing at Barclay springs while an route to Portland f : o m San Francisco where ha testified at tha Harry Bridges deportation hearing. Death Toll in Auto Collision Rises to Three Klamath county's traffic fatal ities rose to 11 Friday morn ing with the death of two oth ers John Barlow, 66, Portland, and Forrest Kegley, 53, Olym- pia, washing ton, both of whom suffered internal injuries in the head-on collision which It Klamath's 1941 cost the life of ... Maurice Canna- Auto Toll ,onga at Barc,ny springs early Thursday morning. Barlow died Thursday night at 0:30 p. m., Kegley at 1:10 a. m. Friday. Lee Barlow, son of John Bar low, had not been advised of his father's passing. His own con dition is but "fair" according to hospital attendants. Mrs. Bnr low is at her husband's bedside. Kegley was a passenger in a car driven by his sister, Mrs. F. A. Longaker, widow of Dr. (Continued on Page Two) ACTION THREAT TO RELATIONS Moscow Says Nothing Demanded From ; Soviet NEW YORK, June 13 W) The British radio quoted the Swedish newspaper, Social Dem okraten today in reporting that the German army had canceled all leaves and that men born in 1923 who have not yet done mil itary service had been called up. BBC added that the Swedish correspondent, presumably iii Berlin, had reported that "tha explanation given in military quarters is that the measures have been taken in order to end the war at the earliest possible moment." CBS transcribed the broadcast. MOSCOW, June 13 tfP) So viet Russia said tonight that Ger man troops, freeS from opera, tions in the Balkans, are moving to eastern and northeastern Ger. many (where they face Russia) but added that "it must be as sumed" that the movements have no bearing on Russian-German relations. Tass, official news agency, is sued the statement which was broadcast to the world by radio. The Russian statement said that Germany, "according to in formation, a, tlh.e disposal of the. USSR," is adhering to the German-Russian non-aggression "as unswervingly as the soviet un ion." In the light of available infor mation, the statement went on, "rumors of Germany's intention to disrupt the pact and under take an attack on the USSR are devoid of any ground, whereas dispatching of German troops, relieved from operations in the Balkan, to eastern and northeast ern districts of Germany, which is now taking place, is connect ed, it should be assumed, with other motives having no bearing on soviet-German relations." The statement denied that Germany had presented any ter ritorial or economic demands to Russia and said "it should be as sumed" that movements of Ger man troops, freed from Balkan operations, to eastern and north eastern districts of Germany had no bearing on relations with Russia. As for Russian troop move ments, the statement declared that maneuvers now underway or forthcoming "have no other purpose than the training of re servists and checking of the work of the railroad organiza tion." To call these Russian maneu vers "inimical to Germany is, to say the least, absurd," the state ment concluded. By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, June 13 (Ph-Brit ish dreams of a soviet Russian- German disagreement bordering on active warfare were nour ished today by repeated but un confirmable reports that Berlin demands on Russia were of such magnitude that acceptance would loosen Moscow's military hold on the Baltic and Black seas. Informed quarters said discus sions between Sir Stafford Cripps, British ambassador to Moscow, and government lead ers here were "primarily con cerned with Russian-German re lations." It must be emphasized that re ports of disagreement between Berlin and Moscow and nazi con centrations on the soviet border conceivably fit into the pattern of the British diplomatic nerve war which, by scaring Russia, it is hoped here might force the USSR into more friendly rela tions with Britain and eventual collaboration In the war. 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