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THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
June 18. 1041
HITCH BETWEEN
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NAZIS. RULnSIA
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By FRED VANDEHSCHMIDT
The Special Newi Service
A review of half-obscured
news over the past month and a
half makes it pretty clear that
something new has gone amiss
between soviet Russia and Ger
many, and it supports the re
ports of German demands on
the Kremlin, backed by military
pressure. But, while- these de
mands may be military as well
as political and economic, it
would be rash right now to pre
dict anything more than reluc
tant soviet acquisence in some
of them and evasion, if possible,
of others.
The British, who have made
some very bad mistakes about
Russia in the past, are going
into the present situation very
thoroughly. Sir Stafford Cripps,
their ambassador to Moscow, has
come home to report and there
is a highly authoritative hint, de
signed probably for Russian
papers to copy, that he may not
go back.
A post-mortem examination of
the brief war in Iraq makes out
a good case for the assumption
that Stalin let Hitler down
rather badly on that oil country.
Also, there is good reason to be
lieve that soviet economic help
to the reich has been very slim
end is not picking up.
A few days after Stalin be
came premier of Russia and thus
accepted responsibility to the
Russians for the way his policies
are carried out, the soviet union
re-established diplomatic trade
and consular relations with Iraq,
At that time the Iraquis, led by
the Rashid Ali Al Gailani and
backed by German promises and
a few German planes, were fight
ing a war with Britain.
Almost at once there was
lot of talk about the Russians
sending into Iraq what were, as
in the Spanish war, cynically
called volunteers. The Iraq radio
reports, funneled through Ger
many gave off a great air of
confidence in speedy soviet aid,
and it looked as if Hitler, too, ex
pected it..
However, so far as anyone
has been able to find out, the
U.S.S.R. did absolutely nothing
to help the Iraquis to prolong
the turmoil in Iraq, and the
British cleaned it up.
All this time Hitler, in seek
ing to cement conquered Europe
into the solid political bloc which
he deems essential for ultimate
victory, was pulling France into
active collaboration and had, in
deed, obtained the use of Syrian
airdromes for operations against
the British in Iraq. At length he
told the French that he and
Stalin had reached an agreement
whereby the Russian Ukraine, in
the new order of things, was to
serve as a breadbasket for all the
hungry, beaten folks of the Eur
opean continent.
This looked pretty good to the
French and they put the story
out. What they either overlook
ed or ignored was a highly sig
nificant soviet agricultural re
port of May 22 which showed
that spring sowings in soviet
Russia were some 50,000,000
acres behind 1940 and therefore
that the Ukraine breadbasket,
this year anyway, was going to
be pretty ligrf
It is a pretty good bet that
Germany did not overlook it.
Therefore there is at least logic
behind the report that Hitler is
now demanding a lease on the
Ukraine, so he can raise the
wheat he zfeeds himself. The
alternative may be the threat of
invasion.
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When these new-type lifesaving suits for seamen were demonstrated in New York, pretty girls were
an hand to brighten the pictures, which show sail ors and models floating with the rubber suits on and
moaels Barbara Orr and Mary Elizabeth Tommer tightening them up. Besides floating men over
board, suits prefect sailors from wet and cold when they're on shipwatch.
Bomb Shelters Described
For Defense of Civilians
(Editor's note: Once again the
office of civilian defense points
out war may never reach the
United States, but emphasizes
nevertheless the vital import
ance of civilians being ready
You will want to read thorough
ly and preserve all the informa
tion in this series on the plans
for organizing and training citi
zens. Tomorrow s concluding
story will outline further roles
civilians will play in the pro
gram.)
By DON WHITEHEAD
and
FRANK I. WELLER
NEW YORK, June 13 (The
Special News Service) Many
strange and fearsome and im
portant lessons are in store for
Americans from Europe's unnat
ural sky-war on helpless human
beings.
The U. S. office of civilian de
fense, directed by Mayor F. H.
La Guardia of New York, will
teach them. They will begin
soon. They are dedicated to pro
tection of the non-combatants.
War may never come, but the
OCD insists that potential vic
tims here know beforehand, and
be fortified thereby, for the
things it may be too late to
learn.
They include:
'The taller the building the
safer its occupants; bomb dam
age is comparatively negligible
to steel and concrete structures
"Buildings supported by walls
alone readily collapse.
"Massed residences made of
wood cannot be protected.
"Bomb-proofed private gar
ages and public buildings are
the safest air raid shelters.
"Huge municipal above-
ground shelters are not feasible.
"Subway protection is ques
tionable. "Modern building basements
are relatively safe.
"Private home and small
apartment sub-cellars are risky.
"Death and injury is ines
capable for many.
"Great fires cannot be pre
vented, but may be controlled.
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"Hunger, privation, disease
and mental and nervous dis
orders are constant problems.
"And the enemy will use poi
son gas whenever it no longer
fears retaliation."
All this the British know. They
have told officials here. The next
step is to make the people un
derstand, and win their help in
a national effort to save their
lives in the event of war.
OCD believes Europe's air-
blitz would have been far less
effective if weaker neighbors
had been informed and trained
to resist, as this nation now has
a chance to be.
Officials will concentrate first
on protection of buildings hous
ing 100 or more persons whether
they be apartments, hotels, the
atres, office buildings, factories,
warehouses, stores, shops and all
manner of properties. Lesser
units and the individual house
hold, too, will receive safety in
structions and escape facilities.
The big task is to handle man
kind for mass murder in the
great concentrated centers and
on crowded streets. Fifth col
umnists spotted these first for
the luftwaffe in 17 vanquished
European countries, with devas
tating effect where defense
mechanism faltered and hysteria
took its toll.
In LaGuardia's plan, .wardens
for each strategic city will des
ignate "safety" areas, namely
those in which buildings offer
air-raid shelter.
The superintendent or man
ager will have charge of his
building's defense plan, the ten
ant defense groups, first aid and
rescue supplies and be respon
sible for sounding the alarm.
He will be the "control direct
or.
Key men will conduct defense
classes, regulate the blackouts
and enforce rules for personal
behavior of their people while
bombs are falling.
The service squads will con
struct and maintain shelters, co
operate with police and fire
men, assist mobile first-aid and
rescue squads, safeguard water
and gas lines, roofs, sanitation,
boiler rooms and steam pipes;
ventilation, elevators, refrigera
tion, auxiliary power plants and
the thin beams of permissible
indoor lighting.
An oddity of air attack is that
only one bomb in a million
strikes atop a skyscraper. Am
ericans have shuddered in appre
hension of thousands of persons
toppling to death from great
heights if these buildings were
hit. Bombs more likely strike a
glancing blow and knock out
sections of sidewall without scri
ous damage, or hit the street
and shatter the first six floors
with steel splinters.
The central structure stands
and the basements are safe from
collapse of super-structure. Oc
cupants are more or less secure.
Resurface Job
On Lake view Road
Nears Completion
Completion of the Cottonwood
creek improvement on the Lake-
view highway, comprising ap
proximately 4i miles of resur
faced road, is expected within
a month, according to Jack Al
meter of the Oregon State Em
ployment service, who returned
Thursday from Lake county.
i inishing of the job will leave
only a four mile stretch from
Quartz mountain to the mouth
of Drew's creek yet unsurfaced
Almeter said.
Lake county lumber mill ac
tivity is at it highest point in
years, Almeter indicated after
a series of conferences with
operators.
Employment Office
Closed at Lake view
The Oregon State Employment
service office in Lakeview has
been closed for the summer, ac
cording to Jack Almeter, head
of the Klamath area for the
service.
Horace Arment, Lake county
employment officer, has been
transferred to the Klamath Falls
office.
TO
ICE
CAMP HUNTER LIGGETT,
Calif., Juno 13 W) The fourth
United States army started mov
ing toward its battlefield today
with' all the color, sweat and
excitement including a spy
scare of real war,
The spy scare, hinging on a
report that a man had been seen
prowling around this vast mili
tary reservation asking ques
tions and observing troop move
ments, turned out to be a
"dud," said intelligence officers
after an all-day checkup.
But there was the fascinating
griinness of war depicted in the
long lines of horse-drawn artil
lery that stretched along sun-
scorched roads as tho 31st, 74th,
75th and 76tli field artillery
moved from Fort Ord toward
their encampment areas on the
Camp Hunter Liggett reservation.
These battalions were the
first moving units of the 7th
division, a streamlined organ
ization of 22,000 men. which
will compose tho "red" army
opposition for the 40,000 Fort
Lewis troops of tho "blue" army
in the vast war game set for
June 23 to 28.
Tho 7th division, commanded
by Major General Joseph B.
Stillwell, wilt be assembled on
the reservation June 20,
Various preliminary maneu
vers have been undertaken since
the 65,000 ' fourth army and
ninth corps troops from Fort
Lewis and California posts as
sembled in this area three weeks
ago for training, which will cul
minate in the big battle June
23-28.
Among tlieso were the post
command exercise problem,
which was concluded today. In
this four-day theoretical war.
officers of the defending "blue"
army attempted to show on
paper how California could be
protected from "red" army in
vaders from the Pacific.
Windstorm Hits
McKenzie Area
EUGENE, Ore.. June 13 (UP)
Workers Thursday repaired tele
phone lines and cleaned up the
wreckage in the wake of ' a
windstorm which swept the
Upper Willamette, and McKen
zie areas.
Fire set by lightning destroy
ed the home of Mrs. Cora Llnd
lcy at Natrom. At Oakridge, SO
miles from Eugene, trees were
blown down and telephone lines
wrecked. A light rain followed
the wind.
Elsewhere
In Oregon
DALLAS, Juno 13 M') Three
thousand parasitod earwigs will
be released hero In nil effort to
control tho pest.
ALBANY, Juno 13 (!) Llim
county berry growers estlmatoit
today that they would need 1000
pickers to harvest tho raspber
ry, lognnberry and black cap
raspberry crops. Work Is ex
pected to start next week,
ASTORIA. June 13 61l An.
torla headquarters for visiting
soldiers of Fort Stevens, Camp
Clatsop and Tongue Point will
be established If a group named
yesterday by tho Clatsop county
defense council Is successful.
The unused old city hull is being
considered.
1
VALE. June 13 (PI The ills
trict office of the urnzimi nor.
vice said today that the fire haz
ard is greater now than nt any
tlmo in several years. Heavy
winter rains caused an obimd
ance of grass which Is becoming
ary.
ager of tho wugei and hours di
vision, said yesterday tluit ap
proximately 40 per cent of Cons
Bay firms examined hud violat
ed tho law, Kxainlncra reported
that 23 firms fulled to pay mini
mum wages and 1)0 fulled to puy
properly for overtime work,
More tluin $40,000 In unpaid
wages win found duo worker..
During Murch, 11141, the nuQ)
lion's airlines tninxportod up
pioxlmutiily 22n,0U0 revenue
pusseiigi'i'S and flow more limn
10,000,000 revenue miles.
ENTERPRISE, Juno 13 fP)
County road and bridge crews
are repairing dumnge caused by
recent heavy rnins in tho linnn-
ha area. Dry gulches carried tor
rents that washed out several
bridges and culverts. One new
channel was cut 18 feet wide
and 8 feet deep.
GRANTS PASS. Juno 13 (JP
The Grants Pau MlnUti-rlnl ....
sociatlon asked Wcdnesdoy thut
the government re-establish prohibition.
ASTORIA. June ia (.7i r.
struction of a $300,000 navy sec
tion baso on tho enst hulf of
pier 2 was started hern thin
week. It will bo headquarters
for a fleet of small navnl nntrnl
craft and will quarter several
nunarea men.
MARSHFIELD. June 13 (Jfi
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Some female tarantulas have
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