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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1941)
I p'acJe two THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON 'Atimint 21, 1041 GAINS MADE IN LEASE j (Continued from Page One) jthese freedoms which are part (of thewhole freedom for which 'hve strive.'.' The ,-, president reported the , fcnilltary and naval conversa tions -t' the north Atlantlo con- Iference. "made clear gains" in fnptlinptnrf , h gttt t I VAnPU rtf (lend-lease aid to countries east land west. - He and the prime minister, ,Mr. Roosevelt added, are arrang ing for conferences with Russia ito assist it "in its defense against (the attack made by the principal Jjaggressor of the modern world ji Germany." J The declaration of principles, lithe president continued, present ed a goal "worthwhile for our ,typ of civilization to seek." i Writtnn with ninril AnH flscratch pad in the president's jstudy last night, the message (contained a copy of the official statement released by the White I House last Thursday covering (the eight general aims agreed I upon by the prime minister and iMr. Roosevelt. j "Goal Worthwhile" i In fact, this copy, furnished to congress in the nature of report, constituted most of to day's message. . Only six new paragraphs were included. Since the joint declaration, congressional critics of the ad ministration's foreign policy have charged that the president and Churchill reached an offen sive and defensive alliance, bas ing their rase in part on the fact that the declaration gave as a prelude to the desired peace destruction of "the nazi tvran- ;ny." rar. nooseven ignored xnis in his message as he did also charges from the same sources that he violated the constitution by having such a meeting in dangerous waters aboard a bel ligerent warship. One of the meetings was on the British bat tleship Prince of Wales, others aboard the American cruiser Au gusta. Young Star Has 22 '. Clothing .Changes '. . In Coming; Picture HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2 1 UP) "Gee, momniyi - Do you think I'll ever be able to design clothes like these!?! reclaimed Shirley Temple. - . : - She wai looking at her ward robe for "Kathleen," her first picture after an 18-month vaca tion. There "were 22 changes, designed -especially for her. What 12 year old, screen star or not, wouldn't exclaim. What caught her eye quickest and held it longest? An adult dress she'll wear in a dream sequence when she fancies her self a musical comedy tar. Postmasters Form Group at Redmond REDMOND, Aug. 21 UP) The central Oregon chapter of the national association of postmas ters was formed at a meeting of Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson county postmasters here Tues day night, Mrs. Winifred E. Wisecarver, McMinnville, state president, came here for the meeting. Mrs. Loris V. Farleigh, Sisters, was elected president; Mrs. May Johnson, Madras, vice president, and Edgar Peterson, Powell Butte, secretary. HOP CROP DOWN SALEM, Aug. 21 UP) The nation's -1941 hop production will total 42,193,000 pounds, or 2 per cent less than the 1940 production, C. W. Paulus, Salem, secretary of the hop con trol board, said today. His estimate was 700,000 pounds higher than the govern ment's estimate. IMPORTANT MEETING ' VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 21 UP), The French cabi net .met today: in a session .de scribed as important. Such meet ings usually , take place at the end of the; week. . ' The amount of capital from other countries Invested In Can ada exceeds $7,000,000,000. Stop! Looking for .Good Time? Coma to Keno Dance EVERY SAT. NIGHT Muiie By OREGON HILLBILLIES Air Conditioned for Your Comfort. AfO PROGRAM "I - r- Kennell-Ellls Basketball and track are the main sports interest of Warren Pritchard, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Pritchard, who live on route 3 near Keno. War ren is a sophomore at Keno high school and when he is old enough plans to enter the army aviation air corps. Warren was born at Fullerton, Calif., January 10. 1827. Right now he has no "pets as his dog. Chigger" died In February and Warren hasn't found a puppy that can just exactly fill "Chig ger's" place. This summer has found Warren working pretty hard on the family acreage and he is pretty good, too, at turning out a lot of fine garden stuff. Senator Urges Congress Probe Gas Shortage WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 ' (JP) A new England senator today urged a speedy congressional in vestigation, to determine wheth er the east actually faces a gaso line shortage, as the defense pe troleum office sharply reasserts is the case. "I want to learn if there is an actual shortage or if we are being pushed around for psy chological reasons," Senator Ma loney (D-Conn.) told reporters, saying he would ask the senate commerce committee to act im mediately on his resolution for an Inquiry.-, - Ralph K. Davis, acting pe troleum coordinator, announced yesterday that the long-predict ed shortage had developed, that usable reserve stocks had dwin dled to an available storage suf ficient for only 10 days, and that the situation was perilous. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 UP) Ralph K. Davis, acting petrol eum coordinator, declared today that "wholly and completely false" figures intended to show that Britain has an ample oil tanker fleet were being circu lated in this country, apparently in a deliberate effort to confuse the public. His statement was issued, Da- vies said, in reply to unofficial reports that it was unnecessary to transfer American tankers to Britain. RAF BOMBS MILL LONDON, Aug. 21 OP) RAF bombers swooped as low as SO feet today to bomb the rolling mill and other sections of the Ijmuiden Iron and Steel Works in the Netherlands, the air min istry announced, while many hundreds of fighter planes swept over Holland and northern France. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY OIL TO BURN For Union heating oils phone 8404. Klam ath Oil Co., 618 Klamath. 9-18 MIDDLE-AGED married man wants work. Several years experience truck driving, fill ing station operator, garage nightman. Steady man, good habits. Also boy 19 wishes work on farm, some exper ience. Phone 9084. 8-23 OWNER LEAVING TOWN Will sell 7-room house, two years old. Hot water heat, completely landscaped. The T e r r a c e i addition, $9000. Terms. Call 6331. 8-23 GIRL FOR HOUSEWORK Hours 8 to 6. References re quired. News-Herald Box 699 8-23 FOR SALE Two ponies for children. C. W. Garrett, Pine Grove, Lakevlew highway. 8-23 WANTED TO BORROW $9000 on real estate security, News- Herald Box 44. 8-23 FOR RENT 3-room house, fur nished or unfurnished. No dogs. $29 per month. Inquire at 2237 California and Front. 8-23 FOR RENT Sleeping room. Steam heat. Suitable for two gentlemen or man and wife. 1190 Pine St, 8-21 SEVEN MILLION CLAIMED TOTAL IR CASUALTY (Continued from Page One) only wrecked cities, ruined fac tories . , . guerrilla warfare and local hatred ..." Total red army losses of 8, 000,000 men In the 61-day-old struggle were claimed by the Germans, including 1,200,000 prisoners. DNB, the official Ger man news agency, said con quered soviet territory exceeded 335,000 square miles an area greater than the entire German rcich and its newly-incorporated territories east and west. Blows Unweaktned DNB also distributed a state ment re-emphasizing that the war with Russia was being waged "to gain pre-conditions for the final struggle with Great Britain" and insisting that aerial blows against the British isles had not been weakened. Neutral observers interpreted the statement two ways: First, an attempt to bolster German mor ale, now suffering devastating punishment from the RAF; sec ond, to quash vague rumors of a British-German peace movement. Challenging an official Rus sian order foe a fight to defend Leningrad to the death, the Ber lin radio declared that if the city were defended it would suf fer the fate of Warsaw, which was largely destroyed by nazi Stukas and siege guns when the Poles refused to surrender. ' The red army northwest com mand admitted that Leningrad was under "direct threat of at tack," but the Russians expressed confidence that the city's, de fenses with an estimated gar rison of 1,000,000 men would hold. Kherson Seised In the critical battle of the Ukraine, the Germans reported units of the waffen S. S. (elite guard) had seized the strategic town of Kherson, on the west bank of the lower Dnieper river, thereby virtually sealing red army troops in the Odessa sec tor. DNB, the official German news agency, said nazi siege guns and Stuka dive-bombers were raining havoc on Odessa, inflicting tremendous losses on soviet troops awaiting embarks ti&n oh jammed quays. Great fires were reported raging in many parts of the city. Amid this desperate plight of the red armies in the Ukraine, unconfirmed reports circulated in European listening posts that the Russians had opened or blown up the great $100,000,000 Dnieper river dam, near Dniep eropetrovsk, in an attempt to stem the nazi onslaught. U. S. Envoys to Sail From Japan TOKYO, Aug. 21 UP) Thej NYK line apparently under for-1 eign office pressure suddenly j announced tonight it had reserva tions for 26 United States embas sy and consular officials aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru, sched uled to sail Aug. 28 for Shanghai. At Shanghai, most of the Americans expected to obtain trans-Pacific passage' home aboard a United States transport. Because of the unfavorable "hostage" publicity arising from the inability of United States na tionals to obtain passage from Japan, the foreign office was be lieved to have exerted pressure Iran Reply Not Satisfactory LONDON, Aug. 21 UP) An authoritative source said today an oral reply made by Iran offi cials to a recent joint British- Russian complaint about the number of German technicians in that country had not been re ceived favorably here. The Iran government s written reply to a British note delivered last Saturday outlining a plan to replace Germans employed In key communications industries is expected shortly, it was said. VITAL STATISTICS STERTMAN Born at Klam ath Valley hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore., August 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Ole Stertman, 410 Roosevelt, a boy. Weight; 6 pounds 3 ounces. In London, a man named Col larbone fell down a shaft and broke his arm. fi Profitable Entertainmentl Oodles of Funl AUCTION NITE" Coming Soon to the TOWER Editorials On Newt (Continued from Pag One) garment Association broadcasts this message to Amorlcan wo men today: "Cut skirt lengths SEVERAL INCHES. We'll cut your undergarments to fit re sulting in a saving of millions of yards of cloth. Reading this appeal, Helen Forrest Hall, fashion expert, snorts: "Humph! Skirt hems are already slapping at our knaesl What next?" 'THIS writer hopes American A men aren't called on to wear SHORTS to business. The tight of the average male knee isn't calculated to strengthen public morale. E (Continued from Page One) elles to permit German ships to enter the Black sea with tup plies for nazi troops now fight ing in the Ukraine. The same sources said Italian garrisons on Greek Islands ad jacent to the Dardanelles had been increased. VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 21 Up) Reports in Ger man-occupied France today said improvements were being rush ed on coastal batteries and air fields at Dakar, the French col ony on the most westerly point of Africa nearest America. 2 Die, 2 Hurt in Portland Crashes PORTLAND, Aug. 21 UP) Two persons died and two were hurt, one possibly fatally. In automobile accidents In this re gion early today. Garth Arthur Carr, 21, was sleeping with his head outside a coupe window. He was almost beheaded as the car crashed Into a traffic sign after the driver, Frederick H. Erdman, lost con trol of it. Shirley Spencer was killed outright when the automobile in which the wai riding with Sgt, Loren Dale Collins, 29th army engineers, Portland, crash ed into trees. Collin s skull was fractured, and he was not ex pected to live. I. .... Horse Disease in North Reappears MILTON-FREEWATER, Aug 21 UP) A recurrence of equine sleeping sickness, which caused a mild epidemic last year, was reported Wednesday from the Tum-A-Lum district where two horses died. The disease's spread resulted in extensive vaccination of horses this spring. MIDNIGHT WHOOPEE SHOW Every SATURDAY NIGHT at th TOWER THEATRE Starting This Saturday Night at 12 Midnight O ALWAYS 2 HITS TO THRILL YOU . . . SCARE YOU . AND AMUSE YOU! ALL SEATS 25c Plus Tax FREE PARKING o OUR FIRST WHOOPEE SHOW SATURDAY, AUG. 23 SEE . . . Oracle Allen as a Screwball Detective "THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE" 2nd Whoopee Hltl ' "THE SAINT IN NEW YORK" SHIPBUILDING CONCLAVE SET BY PRESIDENT (Continued from Pago One) spoke of the possibility of sym pathy strikes by union members In other city departments. The AFL organization do mauds the right to act as solo bar gaining agent for employes of the department ot struct rail ways. A CIO union, the state, county and municipal workers of America, has contested the de mand, Mayor Jeffries hits taken the position that the At'L is in effect demanding a closed shop, and threatened to "call upon the might of government" to end the tie-up. Tucker Attacks Attempts to Cut Gas Tax SALEM, Aug. 21 (P) Efforts to divert or reduce state gaso line taxes were criticized today in a mettage sent by A. B. Tucker, Montgomery, Ala., pres ident of the North American Gasoline Tax Conference, to the convention here of the Pacific group of the conforence. "The gasoline tax has brought about the cheapest transporta tion the world has ever known. It is not a burden on the motor ist, it is a benefit because It provides the money for good roads," Tucker wrote. , He appealed to tno patriotism of the gasoline tax and oil com pany officials attending today's meeting, but he admonished them that they should not per mit the federal government "to weaken the sovereignty of the states." "Miss Oregon" Gets Film Contract PORTLAND, Aug. 21 VP) Revprlv Orrnu. "Miss Orrffon" to magazine and newspaper read ers, was en route to Hollywood today, carrying with her a con tract as an actress. Miss Gross explained that Pro ducer Howard Hughes expected her to receive a year of dra matic training before appearing on the screen. , . . Meantime the title of "Miss Oregon" was vacated and Chair man C. T. Haas of the selecting committee said a new state queen would be selected at once. ttttrl,rfttit ' Phone 8484 Free LAST TIMES TONITE Oreer flobtrt QartOft I n Taylor IREIUBERI PLAYS FRIDAY and SATURDAY FRIDAY SHOWS 7 and 9 F. M. CONTINUOUS SHOWS SATURDAY FROM 12 NOON 2 F big jMsy .mm . mm n mw.. m i ij Drarnal . , . Thrlllsl . . . Mytteryl',Jjij&0 "You The People" Crime Civilian 'Hams' Aid Washington War Maneuvers (Continued from Pngt Ono) of the 4th army were drawn up on a battle front in west coast war maneuvers today awaiting an Inspection by Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson and Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff. The last ot California's tacti cal coinbut troops arrived In tlio stuto today to Join tho 50,000 soldiers of Fort Lewis who havo been fighting a superior invader force for the past week. Only a few quartermaster units from California aro due on tho front to bring tho defend ing army's strength to 2,100,000, biggest maneuver concentration of soldiers In west coast history. By JERRY T. BAULCH WITH SECOND A it MY IN ARKANSAS. Aug. 21 (,T) Soldiers turned actors today in tho second army's mimic war fare, pretending by tho dozens to be wounded, to give the medi cal troops practice in handling casualties of warfare. Only the occasional crack of a .30 calibre blank offered a semblance to actual firing as men feigned being hit by the simulated shooting. Illustrious in U. S. Shipyard For Bomb Repairs NEW YORK, Aug. 21 OP) The British Press service announces that the famous battle-scarred aircraft carrier Illustrious, is in on American shipyard undergo ing repairs and that Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of King George VI, who arrived by Clipper Tuesday, would com mand the ship and superviso re pairs. Tho announcement, authorized by the British ministry of Infor mation in London, did not dis close the exact whereabouts of the 23.000-ton vessel. British admiralty reports pub lished June 18 said the mighty vessel, a year old and with a peed of more than 30 knots, was almost destroyed in axis plane at tacks Jan. 10 near Sicily and again at Malta, where she took refuge. TANKER SUNK ROME. Aug. 21 (IP) A fully laden, 10,000-ton British tanker was sunk yesterday In the east' ern Mediterranean by Italian torpedo planes, the high com mand reported today. Read the Classified page Parking Phone 8484 Shows at 7 and 9 P. M. Human! '. Loveqble! Exciting! Featurette and News (Continued from Fas Olio) night near the city en route north, On to The Dalles At 4:30 Thursday morning the 179-vcliiclo column was again on the highway, rolling toward The Dalles, 287 miles away, where they're schodiiled to halt tonight. Under war games rules, tho unit has been under theoretical at tack since crossing tho California line. In command of the lllth win Col. Geoi'uo J. Hlclutril.s who, through the unit's pious relations officer, aniuiunceil tho Wednes day Jaunt from Woodland, Calif., was accomplished without Inci dent. Col. Richards publicly thank ed Klamath Fulls for "the splendid reception" accorded both men and officers and for tho condition and location of the bivouac site on thn southedge ryo meadow. Eleven Trains As trurk-bnrtio soldiers ended their rubber-tired march through the city, rail-carried troops from California continued their Inter mittent parade northward. Eleven trains Wednesday chased eight others which rolled through on Tuesday. Ten more are due today, completing a 12,-000-man Southern Pacific move-, mrnt. Whllo the 17.000 troops mov ed through Klamath Falls, an other approximate (1000 were spiralling north via tho Pacific highway. The last of a series of four parties, given for visiting sold lers by the hospitality commit- j tee, was held Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock sharp on Main between Eighth and Ninth streets. Following tho vaude ville there was dancing for both officers and men. it was announced by Chet Smith, mas ter of ceremonies. A good turnout was reported follownlg Wednesday night's program. At officers' quarters In the Wlllard hotel, men were high In thoir praise of Klamath's hos-i pltality HAROLD BELL WRIGHT'S END5 "THE SHEPHERD TODAY . OF THE HILLS' Cartoon Screen Snapshots Newt Friday and 2 THRILLERS! A Tkt TiMtt M J) N I 0 H T Tk.'Pl. COUNTRY HOUSE MirtWi YOU'LL BE -J. e and her are Paramount News Shows PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT - mA. sr mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmim, bbbbbbbbbbb ; "'. I ,it,.j . t.,)Lir. UAA, II I0M 'VIm Y lil t III Friday 2:00 7i00 8:22 Saturday Continuous Fir Ceiling May Be Under Present Level (Continued from Page One) 1x8, $27 (Ixfl Is now $.11); 1x10, $23; 1x12, $28. Dimensions, 2x4, 2xfl and 2x8, $2(1.80; 2x10, $27.80, and 2x12, $20. Slone said other classifica tions on which a celling price would be fixed wore finish, flooring, celling, partitions, drop siding and timbers. He said ha would tiiiino a committee of lumbermen to present differen tials. ir c r, .iin.n.u . the administrator, said the price schedule would affect only saleV from mills where 28 per cent of the lumber used was planed or otherwise processed, If the prices are established by Henderson, they are expect ed to bo effective September 15, "Brass hat," In military cir cles. Is slang for a general or other staff officer. The Holly-Ette bras sier provides a youth ful uplift with tha ut most comfort. Whirl pool stitched cups as sure o firm contour ond o center V of las tex eliminates any cut ting or binding. Ad justable shoulder straps. TOWN SHOP Main at Fifth Saturday SWELL'SHOW! fit wmm Friday 3ilS 8:19 - 10:37 Saturday 1:07 3:29 8.81 8:13 10:38 mora thrills KILLERS ON THE LOOSE! Imrtor In thm night.. .and ihrlllu up your spfncf Historic Meeting Between and WINSTON CHURCHILL 1
