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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1941
Number 9309
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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..
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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
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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
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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.
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CORONER JURY
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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
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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
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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
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.
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-. -
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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.
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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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Courthouse Records ..... Page 4
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Midland Empire News ..Pago 11
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