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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1941)
In t (eEfiwa If tx aittAIKIs eaa ' HUNTERS! WEATHER IB ; SUNRISE AND SUNSET TABLE Wednesday, October 21 , Sunrise lilt Sunset ;...4i56 Duck hunting begins it sunrise, ends at 4 p.' m. Pheasant hunting begins one-half hour before sunrise, andt at luniat. High S8 Low St PRECIPITATION 24 houia to a. m. Beaton to data ..... 01)10 'WMMtirW Normal praelpltatlon .,., ASSOCIAT.. ..- THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Lt year to data ......... FAIR PRICE FIVE CENTS' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1941 Number 9414 o) no I . I EE 7 ' In The Day's ..News By FRANK JENKINS ODAY'S moit Interesting newt li that whllo Jaoan'i no now shooting. , The poker gome If at I ll on. A GUESS porhapi a wild ona: " Konoye's moderate govern ment wai an effort to find out how far the United States wai willing to go In the way of ap pealing Jupmv possibly at the txpenao of China and Russia. Tojo's rougher, tougher gov ernment la an effort to find out Whether the United Stutea will light. ' v 'TODAY'S dlspatehes tall ui 1 that "authoritative quarters" in London rate the Jap navy ai "very powerful, efficient and well-manned," but declared that many of the ships "look over burdened with armamont" and say the Japanese fleet la 'ex tremtly susceptible to economic blockade." - V OTsONT take much stock In Aftn.hABrrf tatminl that we can "lick the Japa with one hand tied behind ua" and that a war with Japan will be only matter of week. Such state menta have been made often "H amee-history began, but have seldom panned out. We'll win. of courae, (if we get In) but it won I be any fix weeks Job. ; , A LONDON authoritative "source" (the atatement about the Jap navy came from an auth oritative "quarter") itaya today that "the ebb and flow of the battle of the Atlantlo contlnuea ceaselessly," but "we do have reasons for confidence. Headda: "The itipport given to ua by the American navy la invalu able." .-. RACE youraelf for other ahocka such aa the torpedoing f the Amorlcan destroyer Kear ny with the loss of 11 lives. ' We can't go on giving invalu able aupport to the British In the battle of the Atlantic without ex pectlng reprisals. w - . THIS isn't Intended as critic- Ism of what the navy is do ing. It Is merely an appeal for In telllgent thinking Instead of wish ful thinking. This gnme wo ro ip isn't being ployed" with chil dren's blocks.) p " ' COR the moment, at least, the German advance 'on Moscow seema to be slowing down in the ' face of stiffened Russian resist ance. At the same time, German pressure on Rostov, at the point where the Don river flows into the Sea of Azov, is Increasing. Consult your map here. It will tell you that the Don Is the last great river barrier between Hitler's armies and the Caspian Sea. Around the Caspian He Ouisla's oil supplies. South of the Caspian, In Iran ' ' .and Iraq, are the oil fields that Wuel Britain's war machine In Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. ' Loss of these oil fields would ba a serious blow to Britain and a corresponding boot to Ger many. . . U" . ;'!! ' D EC ALL the n .. ' speed, efficiency and Jg' w 1 1 h . : (Continued on .Two) Looking BIT rord Br The Atsoeb ' f1 ; One Year Ago -U Mth air , raiders heavily W vnburg, Churchlir. declares hlwlll nave command of a (, ap peals to French r i (Ger mans. t I -t Two. Years Ago4?"4hty-one Qa as German coast. guird ves Trel strikes mine oft F"npufk.;.- .Twenty-five Year , w.Ago French capture Wooiirth of Chaulnos. Count Stuftrgkh, Aust rian premier, Is assassinated, r HOSTAGES T FORMING Death of Nazi Chief Brings : Reprisals On Frenchmen VICHY. Unoccupied France. Oct. 21 VP) The German forces of occupation in Paris tonight ordered BO persons shot In re prisal for tho slaying at Nantes of the German commandant, Gen Holwv Goneral Otto Von Stuelpmigel, commander-in-chief of the Ger man army of occupation, also announced that 80 more hostages would be shot "If the assassins are not cuptured by midnight Oct. 23." . . The announcement did not say whether the first BO had already been shot or whether they would be executed at dawn tomorrow (A 1 lavas dispatch to Rome In dicated they already were dead.) A 13,000,000 franc reward was offered for information leading to the discovery of the killers. (The franc's last quoted value was about 2 cents.) , - VICHY. Unoccupied France. Oct. 21 UP) The arrest of four French gendarmerie officers at Nantes in. connection with the killing there yesterday, of . the German Genera) Holts was an nounced tonight liljing with, the executions of .four more persons lit various parts of the country. The (our arrested. Including one colonel and three captains, have been : held since - shortly after the assassination on l the ground that they were respon sible for maintaining peace among the French population They were declared not to be held as hostages and thus not liable to be shot. Earlier the perfect of the de partment of which Nantes la the capital was questioned then re leased. . There was no indication that the four persons executed ware connected with the Holtz incid ent. Their deaths brought to 84 the total number of firing squad deaths. .. - ,. , Ambulances Called As Trains Collide In Pennsylvania . RAHWAY. N. J., Oct. 21 UP) An undetermined number of persons were injured today when two Pennsylvania railroad passenger trains collided a short distance - west of the Rahway station.-. ' -s Linden police, a few miles away, said they had received a call for all possible ambulances, The Rahway hospital reported private automobiles were start ing to arrive with Injured. The railroad offices In New York said first reports indicated tho trains Involved Were the "Embassy," a N a w, York-to-Washington express, and a New York-Philadelphia local. ' The railroad said the trains sldeswlped each other, with the locomotive of the Washington train overturning. Several cars of the New York-Philadelphia train were damaged, the--rail road aaidi . . i ; Retain Protests British Bombing VICHY. Oct. 21 m Marshal Petaln today broke his govern ment's silence ' on the RAF's bombardment of German-held ports on France's channel coast by expressing a protest against tho bombings of Le Havre. The protest was made In an open cttor addressed to tho port's municipal government. Another anti-British noto was souildcd by the ' official news agency in en item -criticizing the ! British . tor alleged .. lllr treatment of some French of ficers picked up off the coast of Somallland. The same agency published an unexplained "news item" en titled, "Does the United States fully grasp tho seriousness of tho moment?" This belittled United States defense produc tion efforts. ORDERED SHO Knit One ' " ' I' rf r 1 -4" a; With hr eresloht as Icaea as ill!" li w w ( E. West. 17 years old. is Just finishing the cuff of her 47th pate of sox which she has knit for the Klamath county chapter of the American Red Cross. Mrs. West resides at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. O, C. Tstman. 307 Lowell street. She scores the, school of "plek knitting, and thrpini her thread with a precise move maot of hi tlqht' hand, . .'V.. . Agricultural Prices Not Too High Yet, . Secretary Say WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 m Secretary of Agriculture Wlck- ard gave his support today to price-control legislation which would authorize ceilings on farm products at not less than . 110 per cent of parity, but declared that agricultural commidlties were not too high yet. Recalling ' trials of . farmers growing out of inflationary and deflationary periods of the first World war, the secretary said: I do not believe that the American economy can stand a repetition of anything like that." Wlckard s statement was made betoro a houso banking commit tee considering an administration-supported price control bill. Wfi-lrnrrl hnuntuni- that price control alone would not prevent inflation.' As for ag riculture, ho said, the surest pre ventive was Increased production.- He said the agriculture de partment had Inaugurated a pro gram designed to give this coun try Its ' greatest production of food and crops next year. ' i. "Like other farmers," the sec retary said,-"I have watched with mingled pleasure and fear these recent price-Increases for farm products. I think the pleas ure Is understandable enough af ter 20 years of unfairly low prices. 'Even greater than the pleasure, though, Is the fear of what happens when prices got too high. They aro certainly not there now. But speaking as one farmer, I hope they never do get there." '' , Chiloquin Youth Shot in Leg on Huntina Trip . - - Jack Wi.ikle, 16, Chiloquin, son of "Buck-' Winkle of that city, Is in Klamath Valley hos pital recovering from gunshot wounds in tlni-fr-ft leg received lato Monday afternoon while hunting with a young compan ion near his home. It Is understood the gun, a 410- gauge shotgun, discharged as Winkle's companion handed it to him. The discharge frac tured the boy's leg. Ho sub mitted to major surgery Tues day morning and his condition later In the day was reported as satisfactory. Purl Two '.ni;mt - eeMitf ' IK ' v J III! ir- J.I w 'i that of a IS-year-old, Mrs. Peitr TV. Hobo King to u Draft Hoboetiei For Defense , SEATTLE. Oct. 21 UP)Jelt Davis,' king of the hoboes,.' who has spent most of his life round ing up his fellow knights of the road, was embarked today on a unique venture lor his colorful career a roundup of the lassies on the road in the interest of national defense. Ho said trustees of the order of hoboettes have asked him to do what he could to let the fem inine wanderers off the roads in the west and into such activities as nursing and others that would be of value in the national emer gency. , "Hoboes have made the su preme sacrifice of going to work for the duration," Davis com mented, "and the hoboette cards will be taken away from any girls or women who -don't give up their wandering within three weeks. . Davis estimated 10,000 mem bers of the hoboette order were on the road, hopping from here to there after brief stops for Work as waitresses, chewing gum girls or in homes. What would forfeiture of their cards mean? "Say, those cards - are valu able," the -hobo-king ("and ex plain that I m duly elected ); ex plained. "Unions, police . and hoboette members who now are working always help the hobo ettes." - - ; - - . Surprisers'Get ! Surprise Greeting TULSA, Okla., Oct; 21 (Pi- Mr. and Mrs. Roos McElroy of Buena, Wash., paid a surprise visit to Mrs. McElroy's mother and got a surprise reception. Unable to obtain an answer to their knocking last night, the couple attempted to raise a win dow. Mrs. McElroy's mother, Mrs. S. S. Miller, who was in the yard trying to trap-chicken thieves, opened tiro from about 100 feet with a shotgun.- The McElroy's backs. were peppered with shot. Their con dition Was not sorlous. ,. STRIKE VOTE SAN DIEGO. Calif., Oct. 21 CIO United Automobile Workers reported today they would take a strike vote at the Ryan Aeronautical company If the management refused to grant a 10-cent wage increase and a boost In the beginners scale to coincide with the con solidated (apprentice range. it azis 50 MILES OF 4: mm. Russians Say Fighting . Heavy Around City, - Drive Slowed ' By The Associated Press. Adolf Hitler's high command announced a new blow to the backbone of Russia's war found ries today with the capture ot Stalino, big armaments center 100 miles north of Rostov-on-Don, and on the central front, nzi troops were reported with in 50 miles ot Moscow. -. , Late tooay, however, the Mos cow radio declared that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's central front armies were smashing hard at the Germans in most sectors around the - soviet capi tal. - .The radio said the lighting waa so intense that ."many sub urban villages have changed hands as' many as three, times day." .. y -Therv!dn a note of contldence., we ramor announcer asserted:. - "Encountering - heavy1 . resist ance, the Germans have consid erably , slowed - down -their drive." j. -.. ' ' Informed London quarters! picturing the Moscow, area as aflame with vast and bloody battles of tanks, infantry and artillery, said it was "a good guess" that the .Germans had scored a 15-mile advance - from the Maloyaroslavets sector, - 65 mil es-- southwest of. Moscow, after six days of violent, tank assaults.' Soviet armored forces, how ever, were said to be fiercely (Continued on Page Two) . '.' . -. - ) ' Dozen Resort Cabins Looted; Robber, 18, ; Gets Sentence Here Looting of more than a dozen cabins ' in the lake resort area northwest of here was disclosed Tuesday in the case of Robert J. Feller, 18, who was sentenced by Circuit Judge David : R. Vandenberg to five years in prison, and was paroled. Feller was charged specifical ly with the robbery of the Rocky Point cabin of John Perl; Med- ford undertaker. District Attor ney L. O. Sisemore said, how ever, that Feller and a companion assertedly broke into cabins at Rocky Point, Lake o' the Woods, Crescent lake and Diamond lake, taking a large quantity of loot Much of the loot was recover ed, some ot it from second hand stores and some from Feller's car, which was located here. Feller and his companion came here .from Vancouver, Wash., robbed the cabins and wrecked their car - between - here and Bonanza when It hit a cow. Fel ler returned to Vancouver, where he was arrested. i The, second man In the case has not been apprehended.'- Weed Mill Strike Continues With No' Change Reported - i The- second day of an AFL strike involving 1200 employes of the sprawling Long-Bell Lum ber company mill operation- at Weed, Calif., passed Tuesday with no further progress re ported' toward a settlement, i The strike shut down tho big pine mill Monday ' morning, throwing most - of the town's working population out of em ployment. The - AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union is seeking higher wages and a week's vacation with pay. Twelve men' were reported to have gone through a picket line around the big mill Monday but there was no violence, Long Bell is presumed to be work ing on several defense orders. . N ARMY WITHIN Take Soviet Hull Asks Repeal of Ban On Ships in Combat Zone WASHINGTON, Oct 21 UP) Secretary of State Hull said to day he believed that a neutrali ty act . provision which bans American merchant vessels from specified ' combat zones should be "repealed or modi fled." ' : . He tossed this recommenda tion into a "request that congress repeal now the section of the act which prohibits arming ot the ships. Hull's statement, given to the senate foreign relations com mittee behind closed doors, was supplied . also by the state de partment. ' Hull specifically urged the re peal of section six of the act, which prohibits the arming of merchant vessels, and of section two (which prohibits their entry into specified combat zones) de clared: Jackson Given 25-Year Term 6 U.S. Court j . .' . ' . - MEDFORD, Oct , 21 UP) Boyd J. Jackson Jr, Klamath Indian of Sprague River, w sentenced, to 2 V yean in a, ted- .er?l ,prbron'on a- .second-degree murder charge Tuesday, after his appointed attorney George - A. Codding had pleaded , with. Fed eral Judge James A. Fee for len iency. The law provides-a sen tence of ten years tMlt-xT. . Jackson pleaded guilty' to' the rifle slaying of bis brother Nath aniel last June 30, in front of the latter's house at Sprague River.. -, : .-. . ; : - Non-Defense Use Of Copper Banned After November 1 -WASHINGTON,: Oct. 21 UP) Effective Nov. 1 the use of cop-' per will, be forbidden , in all non-defense building construc tion. - ' ' .: Donald M. Nelson.' director of priorities, issued the necessary order yesterday, and one de fense official - termed it the "toughest", defense restriction yet imposed to conserve the supply of a strategic metal for arms production. The order exempted only. cop per 'used for electric wiring, for equipment exposed to corrosive action- of special kind, hydro electric plants, and contracts of government defense "agencies which specify copper. . , - In addition to the Nov. 1 ban. the order prohibited the use .of. copper next year in the .manu facture of more than 100 com mon articles ranging from dress accessories and kitchen utensils to , barrel hoops and caskets, -v- Pheasant Hunting Wednesday Mbrning in Klamath Pheasant ' season opens in Klamath county Wednesday morning - one-half, hour before sunrise and indications Tuesday were that the birds would be plentiful in this area. Hunting regulations this year have been altered to permit the shooting of male birds only. Last fall one hen was permitted in each daily bag. Not more than eight birds may be shot in the space of seven consecutive .days and no more .than eight may be in possession at one time. According, to Game -Commis sioner Francis Olds the bulk of the pheasants in the Klamath area, will be Mongolians. Thirty- six hundred have, been liberated recently, he said, and by now are full grown. The season's late start should have allowed birds to reach a point where males are easily distinguishable from fe males, Olds stated. ' - .Hunting ends, at sunset , each day. . PORTLAND, Oct. 21 UP) Up land game bird shooting opens in Oregon tomorrow with 10 Wil lamette valley counties having a -"Inasmuch as section two is not . under consideration -1 will offer -no comment except to say that in my Judgment section two should be repealed or modi fied." -.; ..... ."When American ships are being wantonly and unlawfully attacked with complete disre gard of life and property," the secretary said, "it is absurd to forego any. legitimate measures that may be helpful toward self defense. It is especially absurd to continue to tie,' our hands by a ' provision of law which prohibits arming our mer chant vessels for their own -defense." It would be "little short of criminal negligence," for the United States to cling to the hope of somehow escaping the fate of other countries, he tes tified. . - : Steel Production in v Birmingham Hit : By Strikes' - - Ay -The Associated Press - t- - Fourteen non-opera ting rail road brotherhoods .with 900,000 members today Joined five op erating;-brotherhoods with 360,- 000 members in re lectins an of fer by. President , Roosevelt's emergency board to arbitrate the wage. dispute between railroads and their . organi ed employes. The five .operating brother hoods rejected the offer yester day after carrier managements had agreed to it Both union groups rejected arbitration last summer when dispute - was be fore the national railroad media tion board. In other fields; steel produc tion was hampered in the Bir mingham area by strikes which started in Alabama coal mines and-spread -to steel plants and conferences started at Buffalo, N. Y., to avert a threatened walk out at two airplane plants of Bell Aircraft corporation. The defense mediation board ordered a hearing in Washing ton -October 28 on the contro versy which -affected the Sloss Sheffield -Steel - and -Iron com pany at Birmingham. ' About 4000 men were thrown out of work when the CIO Unit ed Mine workers called a strike which closed six large Alabama coal mines, and 800 more be came idle when the UMW chem ical -division- struck last night. closing four blast furnaces of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel 'and Iron company, at Birmingham. Season Opens pheasant season after a two-year closure. .- ' ." -." A' split season has been sched uled in the valley and in four other counties, Frank B. Wire, state .game, supervisor, .an nounced. ' ' . The pheasant season: ' " i Harney, ,Wheeler, Lake and Jefferson, on Oct 22, 25, 26," 20, Nov. 1 and 2, limit of three cocks a day and not more than nine in the season. Malheur Oct. 22 to Nov. 23 inclusive, limit of four cocks a day and not more than eight in any seven, consecutive days or in possession at any one time but each- bag of eight .may include one hen. ' Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Coos! Klamath, Hood River, Was co, Sherman, Gilliam,' Morrow, Umatilla Wallowa, Union, Bak er, Grant, Crook and Deschutes, Oct. 22 to Nov. 4 inclusive, lim it the same as Malheur county except that no female may be shot' ' Other upland bird seasons: j California or valley quail Oct. 22 to Nov. 4 inclusive in -. (Continued on Page Two.) Plants SEARCH 0 FOR T i LIFEBOATS NEAR EQUATOR President Announces .. Sinking, Reports ' None Killed X WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 UP) President Roosevelt announced today the torpedoing Sunday night of the American merchant vessel Lehigh just north of the equator and near the southern end of the bulge of Africa. While lacking information on the number of persons aboard. Mr. Roosevelt told a press con PANAMANIAN SHIP NEW YORK, Oct. 21 UP) An American-owned ship fly ing the Panamanian flag, the 3222-ton Bold Venture, has been torpedoed en route from Baltimore to England, reli able marine circles reported today... ference. oneboa-load -of -sut-- vivors had been picked up. .It is understood, he said, that two other-boats ' are missing and a search is on for them. - v . '.. None Killed He said persons in the boat which was found believed no one was killed but that some persons - were wounded in the explosion of the torpedo. 1 The Lehigh,- of about 8000 tons, had discharged a cargo in Bilbao', Spain, the chief execu tive said, and was running empty on a trading voyage to the Gold Coast. The- chief executive left no- doubt that he was convinced it was a torpedo from a German submarine which had sent the Lehigh down and he told a press conference in stern tones that Secretary' of State Hull was dead right when he called such activ ity piracy. The Lehigh was the ninth American-owned merchant ves sel .sent to the bottom in the more than two years of the Euro pean war. , Its sinking followed shortly on the torpedoing of the United States destroyer Kearny last Fri day morning off Iceland, in which 11 of the crew were listed as-"missing."-- Asked. what he proposed to do about the Lehigh sinking, Mr. Roosevelt said he did not know because he had received word of it only a few minutes before the press conference convened.' , Further Grounds . : Yet he made it clear that he (Continued on Page Two) .- British Resume Aerial Attacks On Nazi Areas LONDON, Oct . 21 UP) Brit ish planes, reopening their of fensive against Germany after three days of bad weather, re turned from a daylight sweep over northern France today with reports of 12 German fighters rrought down. i '. Nine British fighter planes were missing but the pilots of three were safe, an authorita tive source said. ; Bremen, Wilhelmshaven and Emden were bombed heavily last night by strong British raiding squadrons, which also reported loss f nine planes. ; ';. ; , . t News Index ' City Briefs .: Page 5 Comics and Story ...........Page 8 Courthouse Records ........ Paxe 4 Editorials Page 4 High School News . Page 3 Information Page 3 Market, Financial .... Page 7 Midland Empire News ... Page 3 Pattern ......Page 4 Sports Page 8 Telling. the Editor -...Page 7 r r V,
