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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1941
Number 9414
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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."
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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.)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Plants
SEARCH 0 FOR
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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
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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. ;
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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
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