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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1941)
9 WEATHER High 83) Low 90 PHECIPITATIOM 24 houra to a. m. .00 Saaaon to data .1 Normal precipitation ' M Laat year to data .01 PICTURES! photos end live local newsplctura and Aisoclattd Press Telemati, NBA Tele engraving ataf f provldai The Nawa and Harald raadaia with a comprehensive photographic aarrloa. ra THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS i.fUTanrLriniinii.ii" - w CLOUDY, PRICK FIVE ( , .TH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1941 Number 9407 1 1 1 MM U U LJU J In The Day's . News " "' ' " "" ' ' " ' By FRANK JENKINS WESTERNERS in naturally w curloua aa to how the Eaat fsels about tha war. Eaatsmeri r equally eurloui about the West To both thla writer offers thla , advice: Check tip on your own com munity. K you can arrive at a satisfactory undemanding of the feeling of your own community, you won't be far off on the rest of the country. THAT li merely another way invini thiro la little sec tional difference of opinion In tha United States on the aubject of tho war and the much more personal and Important subject of American participation In tho war. That alatement. of course, muat be qualified to a certain extent. There are communltlea In the United 8tatea (a rather large number of them In the Eaat) where the population, la predominantly foreign In tta origins. Tho people of auch com munltlea are unavoidably effect ed In their attitude toward the war by the poaltion of the na tions from which they or their Immediate anceatora came. But o far aa thla writer can aee, after driving from the Paci fic to th Atlantic, pending a couple of weeks In Washington " and driving half wa back again, average AMERICAN thinking throughout the country la about tha aame. ONE get Immediately the Im pression that In the Eaat. eapeclally tha large cities there ' of, opinion on both aldca la more VIOLENT thon In tho West. Even that Impression ia aub ject to qualification. Tha East la headquarter for .. the organizations that on one . hand are trying to push thla country into tho war and on the . other are trying to keep ua out both at any cost : Tha paid personnel of these organizations ia mora active in the East particularly In Wash ington. And whenever one aide , makes a ploy tho other sldo ' move heaven and earth to off set It. That, In Itself, gives an appear ance of violence. ADD to this the perfectly nhulnua fart thnt In all the big cities back here there are publicity hunters who seek to . build themselves up by getting 1 on tha war or the anti-war band waeoni. For example, they make sneerhaa snan.box and other wise. Crowds gather to' hear them. The speeches, being chief ly designed to gain publicity, are apt to have an Incendiary flavor. Hearers Bet heated up. Fiats often flv. All this adds to the appearance nf vlnlanra. This writer, however, holds to the belief that average, sound nnlnlnn. hntli masses And classes doesn't differ greatly from coast )to coast. W7HAT ii thla ODlnlon? w , Well, fit runs something ilka this: "We don't want any part In this war. Wo hop wo can stay out of it. But If we get (Continued on Page Two) Looking Backward By The Associated Prasa ' ' One Year Ago British report ma Ihfln nnnn finrman trnnnx killed In RAF sinking of two ships. Italians claim naval vic tory' over British, reporting one cruiser sunk, two warithlns dam aged whllo Italians loso three small vessels. Turn Year Affn Tlrltlnh trans port 158,000 men to France. Ger mnnv hvi nnsslhllitv nf U. S mndlntlnn la lnt hnnn nf anvlna- Europe from "the most gruesome Diooa patn in nisiory. Twontv.flun Vpnrfl Ann Rum anlflns fall back on own frontlor under Austro-Clerman pressure Allien fall In effort to crack Ger man lines between Ancra and Somme rivers on western front. Knox All SHIPS CLAIMED BEST U;SJPSE Two Other .. Members Of Cabinet Also Ask Changes WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 P fioi-rMirv Knox, advocating awlft repeal of the neutrality act'a prohibition against arming American merchantmen, told coniiress today tho resultant risk would be "far leu than the risk of allowing England to lose the war." Th navv secretary was the third cabinet member to urge repeal of this provision before tho house foreign affairs com mittee during the day. He followa Secretary of State Hull and Sec retary of War Stlmson, who also advocated permitting merchant ships to enter combat zones In the Interest of .expediting deliv ery of lendlean goods. MM War. Vata dei-tared that Americana now realise that "we muat give very aid to those who re light ing Hitler, even if It .involves the rlskr of war ttaelf." If you vote to repeal this act," tha navy secretary told the mmmltiM. "vou are not-voting to attack Germany. You are not votlna to send an army, 'Or air force, or the navy to attack; Gef 'You are votlna for absolutely nnthlnv hut to see that there") iwwHv delivery of the sunnltet to the nation you have said ought n have tha lunolies with which to carry on the war, ana you am artlnff ta send our shim out upon the ocean which we have always regarded shall be tree to our ships, aa a measure oi our security." War Secretary. Stlmson, who followed Secretary of State Hull to tho witness chair before the house foreign affairs committee, recommended Immediate repeal of the ban on arming mcrcnani ships. "I believe that the repeal oi this humiliating provision oi (Continued on Page Two) Merrill People Injured Slightly Near Rose burg ROSEBURG. Ore.. Oct. 13 (AP Mr. Bnd Mrs. W. F. Har ris of Rosebura and Walter R. Fotherlngham of - Merrill,' Ore gon, were in the hospital, here today ' suffering from Injuries resulting from an automobile collision Sunday night on the Pacific highway a mile nortn nf Mvrtla Creek. Mrs. Harris. suffering from fractured right hip, concussion ana severe cuts on the head, face and neck, mi i-nnnrtnri to be In critical condition. Mr. Harris, a local abstractor and president of the Roseburg city council, suffered fractured knee caD. scalD wounds and ' minor cuts and hrtilama Mr Fntherlnaham was being treated fnr a badlv bruised leg and head and face cuts. His nephew, Joe Fotherlngham, was discharged from the hospital following1 treatment for minor face and head cuts. Germans Report Channel Fiaht ' BERLIN, Oct. 13 (fl3) German nnnrt Hlanntehi tnnlsht said air fighting of unusual Intensity took nlnfa nvnr tha KnaiiHh channel this afternoon and that 19 Brit ish nlanaii wera ahot down. A large number of British halllonlanna nrntected bv fiflht ers, flew Into Belgium, the dls nntehea Mild, and German air men gave battle with the result that air combats each involving from' two to a doren planes oc curred over a wide area, Tho dispatches did not men tlon any German losses. Asks Repeal Fire Destroys Crane Creek Lumber Plant WILLOW RANCH. Calif., Oct. 13 (AP Fire dlacovered only seven minutes after a watcn- man had checked the plant de stroyed the Crane Creek Lum her fn mill In thla northeast ern Modoc county community at a loss its owner, Mrs. meia nmilln aald mil I SO 000. - Wllnnm raid the' mill, which produces 25,000,000 board feet of lumber annually, "seemed to catch fire all over at once.' It burned to the ground, but an adjoining power plant, box factory and lumber yard were saved. The nlant had been closed two days prior to' the Satur day night flro for machine overhaul and part . replace ments. SEVEN KILLED IN Army Plane Runs Into Storm In Pass In California Vlnril V1ETJV- Calif Oct IS Vn An army- fl-JKT bomoer, paasmg abruptly - zrom acserv sunshine, into log and rain, crashed on a mountain pass yes terday. Seven men were killed. ; Darkness descended so soon after the acclaent that the bod ies, strewn , among wreckage over a distance ot 300 yards', could not be assembled and Identified. Tha. l'l.lnn Lum.mntnrMl DoUff- las-built ship, only heavy plane attached to the 9tn pursuit wing at. March Field, was returning from a flight to Albuquerque, n M Identified as dead in the crash were: Lieut. John E. Overstreet. 84. Fort Worth. Tex. Llar.t. James 8. parks, z. IaiiUvIIIk. Kv. Lieut. Joseph W. Templeton, 30, Wichita, Kas. Staff Sgt. Bernard G. Bail 97 AmllA. T.a. Staff Sgt. R. J. Farlow, 20, Ashland, Ore. Staff Sgt. Ralph J. Thomas, 5!S Pnrtlanrl. Ore. Corp. Jerome E. Smith, 21, AahlanH Km. The plane, a few minutes ai-I.- innulntf th hriaht- sunshine over Palm Springs, crashed with explosive force in a nay neid on San rinronnln Pass, in the San namiini(nn ' mniinlnlns.- three miles from Beaumont and only a few miles east of Its goal, visimi Ity, In the driizle and heavy fog, was extremely low. I WA Convention Repudiates Orton On Lumber Strike wvirnir.TT. Oct. 13 W S.,Hi4lna tha rannrt of Presl- ,KIHUI-.'D - -1 iiAnt o tut nrtnn. tna convenuon nf tha international Woodwork ers of America (CIO) yesterday voted no confidence in urxon for his part In tho twin districts strike which last may tied up a section of the Pacific northwest lumber industry. .The vote was taken after Or ton appeared at tha convention and reported the strike as a "great victory for the CIO" ana anM ha was 0lad to have had a part irr it. Delegates immediate ly demanded a vote of repudia tion for" his actions and those oi tlmai Knnvunen. vice president of the woodworkers and active leader, of the strike.- Discussion disclosed that the alrlkn was 10.176 aaalnst a walk out and 13,276 for It, but be cause of a provision in tne union constitution -. calling for a vote by units, the minority was able to effect the strike. Conventions are now considering a constitu tional amendment which will place future balloting . on the basts of paid-up membership rather than by local units. - CRASH OF BOMBER HEAVY BLAST KILLS SIX AT SITKA BASE Civilians I n jure'd In ' City 3 Miles' Away; Buildings Crack SITKA. Alaska, Oct. 13 (AP) The terrific explosion of 43,000 pounds of dynamite at 1:30 p. m. yesterday killed five soldi ers and. a marine and Injured at least IS others, at .tne vital Sitka naval air station on Ja- nnmkl Inland. Civilians in Sit ka, three miles away on Bar- anof . island, were showered with falling glass and an un estimated number injured as buildings at both air base and in the city cracked from the concussion. Navv nfflelala said damage caused by" the blast was limited to ' the loss of the dynamite, broken glass and doors blown in by tha concussion. IS Injured Tha 18 Individual! known tq have' ! beirf injured" were fiv navy,meji..iixvU-aBnilc env ployes of tha contractor (Slems Drake Puget Sound - company) an army private and the ; wife of k contractor's employe. ' Theslx dead,, were members of -a flre-fightlng craw which rushed, td battle, a grass fire just as the flames reached an underground magazine where the-dynamite was stored. Naval officials listed the army victims as Capt. Francis C. Allen, Provost marshal and former official ot the Standard Oil company of California at San Francisco, whose home Is at Kentfield, Calif. j Private Ralph E. Klrkbridge, Los Ca tos, Calif.: Private Frank E. Hayton, San Francisco; Private (Continued on Page Two East Indies Army Commander Dies In Plane Crash RATA VIA. Netherlands East Indies, Oct 13 (P) Gen. C. J. Berenschof, 54. commander-in- chief - ot the Netherlands East Indies army, was killed today in tne crash oi any army ijocKneea nlann whleh tuat had taken off from an airdrome' at Kenajoran General Berenschot had Just ratnmed from i conference with Air Chief Marshal Sir . Robert Brooke-Popham, commander-in-chief of British forces in the Far East. (Brooke-Popham left Sing apore yesterday lor comerence in Australia and - presumably stopped in Java to confer with the Dutch commander.) The plane crashed almost im- mnrltatolti nffar iha talranff frnm Kn alrnnrt nn tha - outskirts of Batavla and crashed into a group Of native nuts, unese were sei afire and some native children were killed. . Captain Knap, pilot of the plane, and two nonnxwnmission- ed off icers also were Killed. AFL' Strike Closes Shipyard; Texas Yard Hindered By Tha Associated ' Press Th. Tnnlla fehlnbuildine yards, working on $100,000,000 of defense orders- at .rascagouia, Miss., today .was closed by an AFL strike, involving 2800 workmen, while construction on the Houston (Tex.) Shipbuilding corporation's hew ' plant ' was ainwad hv an AFL nicket Una The Houston concern has $140,- 000,000 in defense orders. Walter S. Lowry Jr., business manager of the AFL Boilermak er union, said workmen refused to enter the Ingalls yards this morning because of an "attempt by the company to start an In dependent union." W. R. Guest, company, vice president, com School-Bus H I II I III . mm U N """" ' J ' '" '-t - - , ' . .,,.- . ' J . .... . .. Elx school cnuaren ana tne ..i- . c.d. Daoot. 20 miles Jrom scnool .win ma ciain gcciuira. Five-Day Week, Vocations . . ara M m mm : With Pay Gets AFL vote SEATTLE, Oct. 13 OP) The American Federation of Labor approved unanimously at its con vention here today the principle nf tha five-dav week and vaca tions with pay in future union contract. v- .- -. , It adopted an executive couh. elt rccorfimetidatlon also tnat the observance ' ot such benefits should be left to the decision ot individual unions during the pre sent national emergency.. - The vote Jilghiigniea me morning action on resolutions as the convention opened its second and final week by hearing Lyna U. Stambaugh, national com mander of the American Legion, suggest the resignation ot Secre tnnr nf T.nhnr Prances Perkins. demand the deportation of CIO Labor Jeader Marry cringes ana call upon organized labor for full effort in the national defense drive. . . The absence of David uuoin sky, president of the Internation al Lady Garment Workers' union, from the convention drew official comment for the first tlmtt tidav Luigi Antonlni, vice president of the union whicn uuDinsKy iea hoot intn the AFL from the CIO, tnnir rnffnl7.nnce of local Dress re ports about Dubinsky's absence by issuing a statement in oeaau of the union's delegation, Anton Norman Thomas Not To Run for. Presidency Again SEATTLE, Oct. 13 (AP) Ad mitting he felt too old to again run for .. president, Norman Thomas, national chairman of the socialist party, said last night he was "looking around for a bright young fellow of about fifty for the Job.',' : Thomas, many times a candl fat for prer " nt on the social ist ticket, seemed to feel there Is sjme question of there being another presidential election, anyway. "Who told you there was go ing ' be another presidential election in the United States," he asked. "The way we're go ing, we're headed for a dicta torship." Mississippi mented that, "the boys are out, claiming: to be holding meetings tn force membership in the union." Ho added that "the diffi culty lies with n the union it self" and that no demand had heen made on the company. Tnsalla haa contracts for 31 ships for the Martitime commis sion and for four netlayers for tho hntrv ' AFL Carpenters Local 213 set up the picket line at Houston, fnl1nwns a union protest to Brown and Root company, ono of the contractors, against work ing conditions. Members of AFL piiodrlunra Ri-lrfon a n d Wharf Builders Local 2079 stayed off (Continued on raga iwoj Train Crash Kills .. .li. -I 1 w.. armr oi uu u., east of MemphU. Tenn. Tha bu inl described as "amusing" but "unfmindaH" nren rerjorta that Diihinclrv rild nnt come tO the convention because he did not feel AFL leaders were taking a strong enough stand against racketeering and because, ha, had not received a vice presidency in -I the AFI ''',; 1 A dozen resolutions in support of pay increases for public em ployes were among tne scores ui them facing t h e s convention oinno- with President William Green's admonition that there (Continued on Page rwo; Sfoze Cripples Rubber Factory On East Coast FALL RIVERS, Mass., Oct. 13 (jf) A great factory for defense was crippled severely touay f tor a furious and ' explosive fire which ravaged huge stores of government . niDDer anu equipment for the armed forces at an estimated io ui 000. -' - ' Firemen, from 30-odd Massa chusetts and Rhode Island cities fought more than eight -hours to curb the blaze, which fed on highly combustible latex and crude rubber in racing through most of the waterfront plant of the Firestone Rubber & Latex Corp. here. - -f . Roger Firestone, neaa oi im firm, said he believed manu facture of gas masKS, Darrage balloons and . cartridge - belts could be resumed early next week in mills which escaped the flames.- . About 1000 to 2600 employes were- reported left idle by the conflagration, New England's third worst in property aamage. , Pending an appraisal, the nmninv withheld an estimate of the loss, but a plant execu tive termed an unoiiiciai tigure of $13,000,000 "conservative." The flames. EeneratinK heat so intense that firemen were un able to stay within effective reach, destroyed five large structures and ' damaged three (Continued on Page Two) First Klamath Men ' Released From Service In Army rird nf the Klamath Falls men to be paid off by the United States army and allowed to re turn to their homes were Serg eant Charles Holmes and his brother, Wendell Holmes, rated as specialist. The two arrived in Klamath falls saiuraay nignt after having served a year with Eatteries ; A and 'C it Fort Stevens. Both were long time members of the National-Guard here and Sergeant Holmes was caretaker at tha Klamath Falls armory. Wendell Holmes was operator of his own restaurant. iMeuner nave definite nlans exceDt to enjoy civilian life for awhile. The men have been transferred to the Na tional Guard reserve. S . WlfiSTiiS . HINDER PUSH 1 ONMOSGQW Seven Wiltarf nlinn tha hut was hit hv - - . was carzying 18 children home F. fi. REPORTS ON Everything Possible ; ... Being ..Done. for v Reds, Claim . WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 UP) President Roosevelt announced today that munitions -for Russia wen - "iMtrfnif .-.United States portSaCdnstantly''-and that every thing possible was Deing aone to send material to the soviet union to help "the brave defense which continues to be made." Tjiroe amounts ' of sunDlies have been sent in the past few days, the president said in a for mal statement, tie aaaea mar, su the munitions,, including tanks, planes and trucks, promised at meetings of Russian, British and American military missions "in Moscow for October delivery would be sent to Russia before the month ends, s - - The" brief statement ' was is sued by the White House without explanation, but there was im mediate conjecture tnat it was designed .to bolster morale in Russia.- where the German mili tary machine is pushing toward Moscow. ' ; . . ..; .- Tt was nnted in some Quarters that the statement made no men tion of the arrival of weapons oi war materials, but' merely said some had Deen sent. Confession May ' Solve Murder Of Golf Star FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct 13 (AP) Kentucky's most . puzzl ing slaying, that of golf star Marion Miley and her mother, anneared solved today with the confession of Tom C. Penney that he participated in the holdup-shooting in the Miley'a Lexington,- Ky., apartment Septera- her 7.H . The 32 vear old ex-convlct from Lexlnaton said in a signed statement that he and KODert H. Anderson, Louisville . night club operator, shot the women In a scuffle when they resisted the robbery attempt. Pennev's statement was Riven Assistant District Attorney Hendricks Brown yesterday in the presence of Sheriff Ernest Thompson and truer ot route A. B. Price of Lexington. It led to immediate " arrest of Anderson in Louisville on a murder charge. He denied com plicity. ' A Lexington newspaper car rier, Hugh Cramer, gave police a description and license num- her nf a sedan he saw the night of the slaying. Sheriff Thomp son said Cramer's tip piayeo an Important part In the ease. Detectives arrcst-d Penney Thursday night on ' hunch, fnund the sedan he was drlv- ina- was one reported stolen from Anderson in Louisville and reported the arrest to Ken tucky officials. - Capital Still Out of Reach As Russians . Claim Success ! It Tha Asaoeiatad Press After 12 davs of the miffhtiest military; offensive in history; the German invasion pace appeared to be slackening today with Mos cow, tne principal goal, still out nf rearh and the first nutvl blanketing the Russian plains. . i ne tnreat to tne nussian cap ital was. still . admittedly - grave hut the . defenders . boasted m . powef . of. counter-attack and a high-spirited, resistance . which were said to have checked the Germans In' the most vital sec tor, around Vyazma to the'-west. -.100 Miles Away Mnamw military nuarters said they were "breathing mora eas ily" now-that the Germans seem ed to be lagging behind their 12-day schedule but Berlin gave no hint of a lag.- There the re port was that the Germans wera within 100 miles of Moscow on the south .and west and within. 140 miles on the northeast. . The -Russians' reported that their - reserve-bolstered forces had launched counter-attacks at several points ' on' the blood bathed jntral front.-- - -'--Authoritative sources in Lbn- dnrr - asserted that the 'fjerman offensive had lost momentum as compared with the speed of the first two or three days and add ed' that it was ' quite possible that the German drive might be Stopped 70 or 80 miles short of the Russian' capital. . , . .- . 'r . Limits Seen . .. ': The':, limit of human . endur ance and the wear and tear on the thousands of tanks and arm ored cars may intervene-to sta bilizef the Russian-German front with Moscow untouched as the first snows of winter blanket tha ..Continued on Page -Two)-' Harrv Da uahertv. 'President Maker' ; Dies at Age 81 'mrlTrivmiTS r ' ntt., is fAP Harry J4...Daugherty,- the one time township . clerk . r " . Wash ington court house who becamsj a 'president maker," died yes terdayM'. the age of 81.;: ' Bedfast fnr . several months. the. former attorney general of the United States succumDed in. his sleep to congestive heart failure. - Just a year ago this month he suffered two heart attacks - and a seige-of pneu monia, but- rallied from them. He was an intimate associate of Warren G. Harding, and predicted the Marion, O., pub l!t-r'a nnmtnatinn- for rjresl-- dent in 1920. After participate . ' :.. ,.ul-u ing in a comerence in wiutu republicans decided upon Hard ing, Daugherty took charge of the campaign and saw his can didate elected. ' Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday, with the Rev. James Thomas, pastor of the Board Street Metnodis. church officiating. Burial will be in the family mausoleum at Washington Court House ceme tery. Nine Injured In Train Collision rHTT.T.TrnTHE. O.. Oct. 13 (A Nine persons, including Post master-General rranK were injured today when the streamlined "National wmiteo of the Baltimore & Ohio slid Into a freight locomotive at sldine 24 miles east of here in Jackson county. ' ' Walker, accompanied rjy h wife, who was uninjured, was nr a alisht head abrasion j by the train's stewardess-nurse. News Index City Briefs ...... Page 5 Comics and Story Pago 8 Editorials ...Page 4 Information ....... ... Page ft Pattern Page 10 Sports ......... -....Pages 8, T
