The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, November 21, 1941, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO III CURTAILS XiSIILTO F The United Stales will lend little Christmas cheer to the , eountrlei of other continent on ' the globe, due to the world-wide crisis which has effected virtual ly every nation in the sphere, Klameth postal officials stated Tuesday, With only England and Ireland left In the European area where boats are making regular trips, the government does not take the responsibility of delivery, accord ing to Postmaster Burt E. Haw kins of the Klamath Falls office. The United States postoffices are not accepting packages for delivery to these areas: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Bel gium, British Somaliland, Bul garia, certain provinces in China, Corsica, Crete, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Danzig, Denmark, Es tonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Guinea, French Morocco, French Somaliland, French Su dan, French Togoland. . Also Gabon, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Italian colonies. Ivory coast, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Madagascar, Malta, Manchuria, Mauretania, Monaco, Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Po land, Reunion, Rumania,, Sene gal, Spltzbergen, Sweden, Tuni sia, Turkey, Soviet Russia, Vati can City State, and Yugoslavia. , Parcel post packages are being accepted for Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland, but Uncle Sam re linquishes further responsibility when the packages are laid down in Lisbon and out from under the watch of his eagle eye. . Weight limitations for various points, including Canada, are be ing imposed and in most of the countries for which Christmas packages are being -accepted there are import duties which cannot be prepaid. Some duties are considered heavy. Postal authorities urged all persons contemplating mailing Yule packages abroad, to make inquiries at their postofflce first because of the confused state of international affairs. Postmaster Hawkins stated that "scarcely a day goes by that some new regu lation on foreign mailing does not come in." Packages X going to foreign countries still ODen to the United States mail, should be mailed within the next week or two in accordance . with ;: the distance they, inust be transported, postal officials stated. ,, Klamath . Lumber Union Supports Spraguo Protest The Klamath basin district council of the Lumber and Saw mill Workers union (AFL) has gone on record supporting Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague's pro test against priorities which are "throttling the building indus try," union officials said Friday. According to Floyd Shadle, council secretary, the union is protesting against a recent sup ply priorities allocation board ruling which has barred most new housing construction unless it is of defense nature. ' The union alleges the ruling is "throt tling the building industry, cur tailing the demand lor lumber and thereby throwing many thousands of mer. and women out of work in the lumber indus try." Invitation Comes As County Court Hits 49th State (Continued from Page One) Sisemore, and High Commis . sloners Jack Benner and John , Reber held a council of war in the courthouse hall at noon .. Friday and listened to advice i on strategy from sundry pas- sersby. . The governor admitted the court members have been lis- . tening hopefully for rebel yells at the border, but that none had materialized. Unless the forty-ninth staters wake up shortly to the possibilities ; in Klamath's 42,000 people V and 5973 square miles, they may be lost forever to them, he warned. Klamath might up and form a state of its own. Then High Commissioner Benner came forth with anoth- . er idea. Pointing out that the federal government already owns a good share of the real ' estate hereabouts, he proposed that Klamath have nothing to do with any of the states, real or potential, and petition for admission as a part of the Dis- . trict of Columbia. Teamsters' Meeting There will be an important meeting of the Teamsters union, local 911, Wednesday night in the Labor temple. - Nomination of officers will be held. i On Leave Private George Sdinabel returned to his home in Klamath Falls from Fort Ord for the Thanksgiving .holidays. He will return to camp Sunday eve- REIGN AREAS mwaT1 f 1 ' ' Insurance Man " v Kennell-Ellis. Marvin Albts. above, has Joined tha local agency of the Oregon Mutual Life Insurance company. Editorials on News (Continued from Page One) "weeks (or maybe days) will pro vide a pretty reliable hint as to whether Hitler has the necessary reserves of men and machines to handle the rapidly expanding war situation without strain or is running a little short That is something Japan needs to know before going off the deep end. m m m fTJONT become too entnusiastic over British successes so far. Wait and WATCH. Some ex tremely important results are go ing to come out of this African fighting that is just starting. As yet, we can only guess at them. LEAGUE OF CITIES The fifth of a group of meet ings held throughout the state of Oregon during the months of November and December is scheduled for Klamath Falls on Tuesday, November 25, at 6:30 p. m. in the Pelican cafe, when officials of the League oi uregon Cities will meet here for round- table discussion of state prob lems. ' r Presiding will be the president of the league, Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, who will be accom panied by Mayor W. W. Chad wick of Salem, and J. W. McAr thur, city treasurer of Eugene. This is a regional meeting to embrace the incorporated cities of Klamath county, Klamath Falls, Chiloquin, Merrill, Malin and Chiloquin, but heads of near by cities including Bend, Prine ville, Lakeview, Redmond, and Paisley, have also been urged to attend. Thirty-five are expected at the session which promises to be interesting from the city-prob lem standpoint. Young German Ace Who Escaped From U. S., Killed NEW YORK, Nov. 21 WV The German radio announced to day that Capt. Baron Franz von Werra, young German ace, who escaped from a British prison camp in Canada and later liimnMi a denortation aDDear- ance bond in the United States, had been killed in action at the head of his pursuit squadron. Von Werra, who was 27 and then a sub-lieutenant, escaped from a Canadian Drison train in the Laurentian region last Jan. 23. hitchhiked .to tne l. Lawrence river and rowed across to the vicinity of Ogdens hurc. N. Y...where he was cap tured by U. S. authorities for illegal entry. While deportation proceedings wen under wav Von Werra lumped the $5000 bail given by the German consulate ana went to South America, returning to Oermanv bv nlane last soring He was promoted to captain and given command ot a pursuit squadron. flpnortu from Berlin last Oct 28 said the. airman had been fatally Injured somewhere in r.ormnnv Thi new announce ment told neither when nor where Von Werra was killed On the 6,096,799 farms of the United States there are 4,144,136 automobiles, accord- Ins tn the 1940 census. Per ccntage of farms having cars was 58.1, compared with 58 per cent ten years earlier. The average model was isjj. The psychologist who opined that the average mentality of the people of this country was nearly up to the 12-ycar level was a poor Judge of distance. Dr. George B. Cutten, president. Colgate university. The value of church edifices reported by 34,250 negro churches to the census amount ed to $146,531,531, which repre sents 4.8 per cent of the value of all reported church edifices "W v U xr In the -nation. m BATTLE RAGES IN 10 PARTS, REPORT (Continued from Page One) aim of one of two main British columns which started to the west from the Egyptian frontier four days ago, but said they were unable to confirm that the Tobruk garrison actually had been reached.. (A German military spokes man, who described the British push as a "real power drlv" declined to comment on the re ports that the British might have reached Tobruk, but ap parently gave them little cred ence.) A second British column was declared officially to have start ed to by-pass Tobnik over the high escapment to the south of Port Meanwhile, an RAF commun ique said "intensive operations were carried out in support ot the land forces" and claimed 24 axis warplanes were shot down yesterday with a loss ot . nine British aircraft. Raiders ranged the airways all the way across Libya, bomb ing Bardia, Derna, Bengasi and Tripoli as well as Italian Naples, Messina and Brindisi. (Continued from Page One) only prices of commodities but also rents and wages. Bernard M. Baruch, World war head of the war industries board, who saw the inflationary impact of wartime spending at first hand, renewed his advocacy of "over-all" price control legis lation before the house rules committee today and said unless action was taken soon the nation will be in "a situation acutely dangerous." FIRE DESTROYS BEM STORE A fire which started about 11 a. m. Thursday had completely destroyed the Sycan store at Beatty by mid-afternoon. The store was owned by Jack Harri son. Early spectators said they thought the fire startea on the roof of the building. The store and all its contents were a total loss, although it was believed the loss was covered by insur ance. The same store burned about eight years ago. Harrison also owns a store at Bly and has Just started construction of one at Weyerhaeuser camp south of Bly. U. S. Needs 40 Armored Units, Says Congressman . By Rice Yahner WITH ARMY IN THE FIELD, Nov. 21 (JP) The army needs at least 40 armored and motorized divisions "if we are going to par ticipate in affairs overseas," a congressman-colonel serving In the Carolina maneuvers said to day. Col. Charles I, Faddis, U. S representative from Pennsylvan- ia and a member of the house military affairs committee, made the statement in an interview as orders went out for three such divisions to rip again into the ad' vancing first army. It was the sixth and sched uled to be the last-day of a field exercise pitting the IV army corps against the first army. There will be another training battle next week. "Eighteen months ago I pro posed that we create 10 armored divisions like the first and sec ond in these maneuvers," said Col. Faddis, temporarily on the staff of MaJ. Gen. Charles L Scott, commander of the first ar mored corps. "Now we have four, with a fifth to be formed and a sixth contemplated. We ought to have 40 mechanized or motorized di visions if wi are going to partic iDate in affairs overseas. "By June we'll be producing 1,000 tanks, more than enough to equip two divisions, a month,' Official reports from British sources estimate the German army has 30 panzer divisions, with a greater number of tanks in each than in the U. 5. dl visions, but armored force ex perts here believe the American tank designs and armor better than the best abroad. For statistical Durnoses. Es kimos are classified by the census bureau and the U. S. -Indian-bureau s-1'Indlan,'J - THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Moscow Defense Pattern '1 V, M mm 4 X TS&W . iM Htm lb, itill to- m yf jfm f9tf 111 m ' JNr' IVfendert of Moscow, falling back under attack by millions of Ct?w Z sWped'th. Nazis for the winter and vjd soviet capital with pattern of defense shown on map. Th fk.Rul.n. sr. pushed to Moscow. compact line of defense becomes, with -counter-attacks and guerilla compact un ijMulu (lso blnderlng the Nazis. INJURY HAMPERS PETERS PRINCETON A damaged shoulder has prevented Capt. Bob Peters, poieniiauy a iop fiteht hack, from attaining his sophomore and Junior form for Princeton. I The averase aee of white mothers at the time ot their first birth is 23 years, wnue that of Neero mothers is 20, ac cording to census statistics. ;,TOO'lfATE.JO, CLASSIFY ! REAL ESTATE LOANS Long term loans at low in terest on qualified residence or business property. R. C. DALE 120 S. 9th St Dial 6972 11-22 OIL TO BURN For Union heating oils, phone 8404. Klam ath Oil Co.. 615 Klamath. U-30mtf FOR SALE Gas radiant heater in good condition, SI 2. 50. Phone 7208. 11-21 YOUNG WOMAN for house work. Must be capable of tak ing full charge. 412 High. 11-22 BOARD AND ROOM 629 Jef ferson. H-27 FOR SALE Two bedroom house on half acre Irrigated ground. Fenced. $2600. Terms. 4614 Denver. 11-22 FOR RENT OR SALE Irrigated 40 acres new ground, suitable for spuds. Box 94, Macdoel, Calif. 11-25 FOR SALE Circulating heater, pair No. 9 corked hand-mado Currins boots, 18-inch. 1103 CBllfornia. 11-24 FOR SALE About 70 tons ham mered alfalfa hay, $11 per ton in stack. Phone 5569. 11-24 MIDDLE-AGED HOUSEKEEP ER Phone 4014 mornings. 11-22 PARTLY FURNISHED apart ment. Close in. Call 6640. 11-21 TWO-ROOM furnished apart ment. Wood, water, lights. $20. Also cabin for men, $10. 138 Mortimer. 11-24 FOR RENT Well furnished sleeping room In modern home. 1114 Crescent. 11-22 FOR SALE 1935 Ford Tudor, Colombia overdrive, radio, heater, 6-ply tires, antl-freeze, motor perfect. Phone 6542. 11-25 1929 MODEL A COUPE with all-steel pick-up box, cover and rack for box, good condi tion. 107 South Laguna. Phone 5558. H-21 MIDDLE-AGED colored house keeper. Phone 4014 mornings. 11-22 TWO AND THREE-ROOM fur nished cottages. Reduced rate for winter. Altamont Auto Camp. 11-27 FOR RENT 12x14 individual buildings for storage. Alta - mont Auto Camp. 11-27 TO BREAK STIES (Continued from Page One) training in strike-bearing tactics to draftees and other service men in training camps. "Such training is contrary to the intent and letter ot the selec tive service act and a breach of faith with labor. This conven tion whole-heartedly denounces such a practice and calls upon the president, as commander-in-chief of the army, to direct that it be Immediately stopped." The resolution was one ot a host of measures adopted in a rush to complete the rest of the convention's business in advance of its election, a special order of business for 2 p. m. (EST.) t Army Probes Fate Of Two Airmen Missing on Flight ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Nov. 21 (P) The snow-covered slopes nf the nearbv Sandia and Man- zano mountains continued today to hide the fate of two AlDuquer- mi, iiirhaiu, airmen. miKllnft abound a light attack bomber since Monday. The plane disappeared while on a short operational tugnt witn Lt. Sheldon T. Miller. Bellevue. Tex., and Staff Sgt. Howard L. Edwards aboard. Six army bombers continued 4hi f.flrrh. over the two moun tain ranges cast of the city and planes from the Tucson, Ariz., base are aiding in tne num. It required approximately 141,000 Ions of wrapping paper to do up the products of butch ers and grocers last year, ac cording to the census. PLAYS TODAY and SATURDAY Show Today ot 7 and 9 P. M. Continuous Shows Saturday From 12 Noon - 2 - GRAND HITS! - 2 Laffs and Lively Tunesl A Tune-Filled Sockerool y,MJ M STARRETT? 70 '(1 Latest News I J&O"' Parade" Ci s, IllllllllimillllllllllltllllllllllHlllllltlllllttt'H1""1"""'""""' niiirrirttg 'Duchess' Dies In 'California Gas Chamber (Continued from Page One) attempts to save the life of Mrs. Junnita "the duchess" Splnalll, The denial came only five min utes before the 10 o'clock time set for her execution In San Qiienl Ill's gas chairibor for mur dering one of her own gitng. The court denied motions without comment after Warden Clinton Duffy at San Quentln had turned down two telephone pleas to delay the execution un til the court had acted, Four Judges acted in the ruling. In one petition William S. )Ur- ron attacked the execution law as unconstitutional in that It spe cified no specific gus and that death by gas was cruel and un usual punishment. In the other, filed in superior court at 9:30 a. m., Sally Stanford petitioned the execution was Illegal on technical grounds. SUIT JIT ISSUE The condemnation suit brought by the city of Klamath Falls against C. H. and J. F. Kelly, holders of land wanted for air port expansion, Is now at Issue and can be set for trial, It was learned Friday. This case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Hamilton of Bend. The city sued for condemna tion after failure to reach an agreement with the Kellys on the price of the 36.7 acres of land Involved. A price of $79 was of fered the defendants, and In Its complaint the city contends this Is a fair proposition. A Jury will determine the con sideration to be paid by tha city for the land.. Two Klamath Motorists Get Low Numbers (Continued from Paae One) 4131 N. Overlook Terrace, Port land. 15 Antoinette Whitman, Klamath Falls. 16 Olum Larson, Silverton. 17 Pearl P. Shlvely, 5570 SW Menefeo Drive, Portland. 18 P, A. Retrum, Canyon City. : 19 Jennie L. Lovell, The Dalles. 20 N. E. Haughey, 2238 NE 13th Ave.. Portland. 21 La Verne Proctor, Salem. 92 Karl H. Martxloff. Medi cal Dental Bldg., Portland. 23 Charles R. Fool, Ontario. 24 Fred Gcpner, Albany. 25 Vera R. Neff, 832 NE 23rd Ave, Portland. Minister Speaks To Rotarians on Economic Topic The Rev. Victor Phillips of the First Methodist church spoke before members ot Rotary club on Friday at neon In the Wlllard hotel, the topic of his talk, "Eco nomics of Sacrifice." Rev. Phillips likened the pre sent physical and spiritual wel fare ot the world to a ship, and urged his listeners to "save the ship and let the cargo go," In other words, salvage the things of spiritual value and relinquish the material problems. The speaker was introduced by Fred Fleet, chairman of the day. The Inmates of mental Institu tions in the United States num ber approximately 564,000, ac cording to tho census. Of these 54 per cent are males and 46 per cent females. Occupants ot prisons (not Including county and city Jails) are 161,000. I Ht NIVtK L DECISION AWAITS ACTION OF (Continued from Page One) menta on your Initiative," Mr. Roosevelt said no, he expucted to hear from Lewis and his pol icy committed tomorrow and that was what lie had miuiut. "Have you decided what to do on labor legislation?" a report er Inquired. There Is no news on that, the chief executive responded. The new Pennsylvania disor ders came after 50 or 79 cnrlouili ot United Mine Workers pickets had driven from nearby Wash Ington county to the vicinity of the H. C, Frlck company's Eden born mine. Volley after volley ot shots could be heard. America First Asks Discipline For Congress (Continued from Page One) as head of the senate committee by Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. The resolution stated in part:' "If one of our benrilless high school $21 a month draftees goes AWOL (absent without leave) ho also goes to Jail. If in war he do sorts, he Is stood up against a wall and shot, . "But our $10,000 a year rep resentatives in Washington may desert their post of duty without voting to decide the most calami tons crisis In the history ot our nation, when a single vote may turn the tide to death and ruin for millions and not even be called to account They oven draw salaries for desertion! "In the neutrality (repeal) count a scanty majority of 18 carried us toward war. Yet 26 ot tho house membership . . , did not vote. . . . (The letter also said nine senators did not.) "Our unfaithful public ser vants should be forced under army penalties to stay on the Job and vote! WEST POINT Tossing out the Harvard defeat. Red Blaik says Army has played above Its actual potentiality all season, Yoakum county, Texas, Is the fastest growing county In the country, changing from 1263 persons In J930 to 9354 In 1940, an increase of 329.9 per cent, according to the census. UNION Now Playing Show Today ot 2:00 - 7:00 - 9:14 Continuous Saturday and Sunday Modal mn who look the otter wig whra their pretty joint;' vrree go org! Betatiee who Ire to mike them- jeelane mi ! Ism their heerte in Hern) Ho-Bohemiel bo, the men who am "Torn Men" hitol e TAN Fpv - Coiot linm rt& swmly Jlfo c",0" Mat IIM 1 GW fiWlf jVl'VlIu ft JrWAA rCwA NW, atmaaiur Cgf 1 I W 1 ' JfV) Feature P4My If your wMthejart iff I lu ' " Itn't jealous ... I vA IT ISN'T LOVIf kM()lLl November 21, 1041 Panel to Resume w Discussion of Weed Case Monday Conferences between the mm. agumant uf tho Long Dull Lurn- bur compuiiy of Woeil, Calif,, and spokesmen for 12U0 striking mlllworkvrs brfoio u three man department of luuor panel will bu resumed Monday, ArL union officials suld hero Krlduy, Participant In the month old California lumbar strike met Monday and Tuesday ot this week In an effort to reach an agreement to ond tho shutdowns which has thrown virtually alV tho working population of Weed Into IdlcncM. No iinnouncominit win iiiuda rcunrdliig tho outcome of thu purloys. The men, all members of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers union (AFL), are seeking a u.i'a vacation with Duy. hlsh- or wages, and union shop, An drew J. Gallagher, loaerai laoor conciliator working on the case, i... ..ih that tha union shOD is sue Is the principal obstacle In the pain oi a sounmm. Smith Leaves for Salem to Serve 5-Year Sentence Eugene Hugh Smith left for Salem Erlday to begin serving a 5-yeur term imposed on hlnw as driver of the car whlc9 Mario Etta Russell, 17-year-old high school girl, full to her death on Tho Dalles-California highway north. Smith pleaded guilty to a chargo of failing to stop at the scene of an accident. Ho was taken to Salem by Deputy Shorlff Dalo Mattoon. Tho Modford service station op erator spent considerable time in business conference befora he loft here. He was manager of two chain station In Med ford, ond had Just become sup ervisor of two stations In Klamath Falls when he got In to trouble with tho law. Deputy Sheriff Mattoon a. su took Walter J. Phlpps and James Morton, Medford hold up men, to Salem to begin serving terms of two and four years, respectively, A normal year's marketing of grape fruit from Florida, Texas, and California combined la 1,175,854 tons, according to thCf 1940 census. Production hns moro than doubled since 1930. Harsh soaps and scrubbing soon makes hands careworn. Phone 5119 and see how inexpen sive our Economy Service Is. Su perior Troy Laundry. t i augerou weal wgh-paie is Directed tra the The Hit Short of '411 "Will Democracy Survlvet"