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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941
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By FRANK JENKINS
AN unpleasant thought:
Tho ctilcf business of
world today li WAR.
the
) For tlia present, at leant, the
world has slid bnckward
the Dark Ages.
into
WHYT
To that question,
there
can be but ono aniiwer:
UNSOUND LEADERSHIP.
AT thl point, another question
nuuiicftti Itsell:
WHOSE leadership has been
unsound, and when 7
Amtwvrina that ona Isn't
ilmnle. It Is llko trying to fiifure
out which came first the hen
or the egg.
One la tempted to say flatly
that It Is Hitler s brutal, cynical
leadership that has plunged the
world into war. wnercupo
someone will arise and ask:
"How about the treaty of
Versailles, which so embittered
hm Hflrmim Hint thfiv were wllt
Ing to accept leadership of the
k Hitler typo.
I ...
COMEONE else will then put
in:
"If tiiiHfrahln In Britain, in
Franco and In Russia had boon
wiser . and more courageous,
Hitler could have been STOP
' FED beforo It Waa too late.''--And
ao on. ' A-1
.
THIS fact, however, remains
1 .Whatover ilia tho world
must suffer are due primarily
to the faults and the shortcom
ings of leadership.
That is ono of history's plain
st lessons.
...
TJERE li something to keep In
mlnd In reading the war
news from day to day
With all tho peoples of the
earth at war, or momentarily In
danger of being plunged into
war. or suffering from the con
' sequences of war, tho world Is
now a vast chessboard and every
)move that Is mado has some re
lationship to situations else
where.
For example:
Hitler spends lives recklessly
In Russia in order to impress the
Japs, the French and the Turks,
so that they may be Induced to
throw In their fortunes with him.
Tho British launch an of
fensive in Africa not only to
weaken Hitler but to impress
other countries with the fear
that It will bo unwise to throw
In their fortunes with the nazis.
' We stop up to the very edge
of the war abyss for tho same
reason.
...
UISTORY tells us that In war
nations do three things:
They fight on their own ac
count.
They seek to gain allies.
They seek to dotncli allies
from their enemy.
...
EXAMPLE:
" We don't want to fight
Japan, but in order to PREVENT
I Japan from HELPING HITLER
we are willing to run tho risk of
going to war.
...
ANOTHER thought also not
too pleasant. '
Here and there people raise
their voices to say that a world
war can be fought without losing
any of the gains made In time of
peace. '
They aro wrong.
The gains that aro made In
time of peace are LOST In time
of war. The LONGER war con
tinues, the MORE of tho gains
of peace must be lost.
That Is another of history's
bitter lessons.
Looking Backward
By The Associated Press
One year ago Greeks capture
rtPremet from Italians.
w Two years ego Finland forti
fies Aaland Islands.
Twenty-five years ago Ger
mans capture Gradlchtoa, 12
miles from Bucharest.
1 '
GREEN ASSAILS
E
Defeat of Measure
In Senate Held
Provable
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 VP)
Tho Smith antl-strlko bill ap
proved by tho house yesterday
was termed by President Wil
liam Green of tho American Fed
eration of Labor today, "a vicious
instrument of oppression con
cocted in haste by abowed en
emies of labor."
Greon issued a statement as
speculation grew that the far-
reaching bill would bo greatly
modified IA the senate. This
speculation was incroased by an
announcement by Vice President
Wallaco that the measure would
be handled In the senate by the
labor committee rather than the
judiciary committee.
Doubts Chance
The AFL president contended
that tho legislation - violated
labor's constitutional guarantees,
and said, "Wo do not believe
any law is superior to tho guar
antees of freedom contained in
the constitution."
Green expressed doubt that the
Smith bill ever would become
law but declared that If it did It
would provoke and not prevent
strikes. '' ..,, i
He asserted that the AFL. vol
untarllybiad adopted-arno-ttrike
policy-In the defense program
and added that this policy, had
been "religiously carried out by
moro than 69 per cent of our
members." -, '
WASHINGTON. Doc'. 4 VP)
A hard-boiled striko curb bill,
stamped with ' an unexpected
house endorsement of almost 2
to 1, moved to the senate today
where extensive modification ap
peared probable.
Senators predicted freely that
their chamber would relax the
bill's drastic terms, and then let
a senate-house conference com
mittee work out soma agreement
on the final scope of the lcglsU'
tion needed to avert work stop
pages in vital defense plants.
After working Itself Into i
complicated parliamentary snarl
the house finally rolled up 2S2
to 136 vote yesterday for the
fnr reaching bill by Rep. Smith
(D-Va.) without even considering
some pending "middle-of-the-
road measures.
NEW YORK. Dec. 4 (P "To
try to put the lid on labor organ.
Ization In this country at this
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Four Children Die
In Two Washington
Fires Wednesday
BELLINGHAM, Dec. 4 UP)-
Trapped In a flaming one-door
cabin at the Hl-Way auto court,
on Northwest avenue, this morn.
Ing at 8 o'clock, two children
met death, two others were pain
fully burned and the mother,
Mrs. Cecil Thorpe, 24, and two
other youngsters were less se
riously scorched.
Tho dead are Virgil Thorpe,
months, and Darllne Thorpe,
18 months.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.,
Dec. 4 (fP) Three-year-old Irma
leo and her baby sister, Dorothy
Lcona, eight months, daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard A.
Mathews, were fatally burned
early today in a fire which de
stroyed their parents' home near
Brlnnon.
The children, carried from
tholr burning home by a neigh
bor woman, Mrs, Clarence Urle,
died hero at a hospital.
The fire started about 1 a. m.
shortly after Mrs. Mathews went
to Mrs. Urle's homo to help pre
pare a lato supper for their hus
bands, who had been fishing and
were working on a boat nearby.
Hearing an explosion, the two
women rushed to the Mathews'
homo. Mrs. Urlo made two trips
into the house, finding tho in
fant on a bed and tho older
child underneath It, where she
had crawled, ,
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Paul Fairclq of H.nlry Is presented with a check for. ISO by
Kiamatn news ana The t-T.ning
The annual award was. won
DAMAGEDU-BOATS
Five Torpedoes Fired
At Salinas During
Brush, Claim
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (P)
Tho navy reported today that
tho torpedo-damaged naval tank
er Salinas, which made port
without loss of life, counter at
tacked and apparently damaged
one of tho submarines which
launched a total of five torpedoes
at the vessel in the North At
lantic Oct. 30.
The first attack on the tanker
occurred at approximately 7:12
a. m., ship time, when two tor
pedoes were fired at the Salinas
without warning, according to
report by Commander Harlcy F.
Cope, the commanding officer.
The report was made public by
the navy department today.
Either one or both of these
torpedoes hit the tanker, Cope
said. Then while the deck crew
was maintained at battle stations
steps were taken to, examine the
damage a submarine was sight
ed starboard of the tanker and
it fired three torpedoes from a
surface position, the report con
tinued. Whether one of those
three hit tho vessel the navy
would not say.
"The Salinas fired on the sub
marine,." the report said. "There
was some evidence that the
counter attack did damage to the
submarine, though the extent is
not known."
"Assembly" Meets
To Discuss 49th
State Matters
YREKA, Calif., Dec. 4 ()
A "provisional assembly" com
posed of citizens' committees
will meet hero today to discuss
plans for formation of a 49th
state and possibly to choose a
governor. .
Tho proposed state, tentative
ly named Jefferson, would be
formed from Siskiyou, Lassen,
Del Norte and Trinity counties
in California, and Curry county
In Oregon. Residents of the
counties contend they hava. been
unablo to get help from their
states for development of tim
ber and mineral resources.
Delegates from many sections
of the territory involved arrived
in Yreka, the provisional capi
tal, last night.
A torchlight parado through
Yreka streets was planned for
tonight.
Potato King Receives Award
jyva- -.lfi"n
nlng Herald, for winning the title ol
.by Falrelo for the keBond'coniacuUv
Herald, for w
Two" Winners
In Club Work
Paul Fairclo of Henley, for
the second consecutive year win
ner of. The News-Herald Klam
ath county , potato king award,
was presented with a $30 check
Thursday .by Publisher Frank
Jenkins as the feature of the an
nual Klwanls club's farm lunch
eon in the Willard hotel.
, The young Henley farmer this
year raised .481 sacks of pota
toes on . one acre for the cham
pionship. Eighty-three per cent,
or 299 sacks, of his spuds were
number ones. . Last year Fair
clo's yield was 625 sacks, 83.4
per cent of which were number
ones, on one acre.
Joe Chotard, Mai In, was pre
sented with a $10 check by Kl
wanls President Fred Southwell
for placing second in the south
ern Oregon district competition
of the annual Future Farmers of
America Better Farming contest.
The contest was sponsored on
a statewide basis by. the Oregon
Kiwanis clubs.
Talks were made by the fol
lowing speakers introduced by
Charles Henderson, county farm
agent:- ;
. Gene Gross, hedd of the coun
ty form experiment station: Lee
Holliday, Weyerhaeuser district
dairyman; Bert Hall, for the
past nine years chairman of the
city board of health; Andy
Street, superintendent of Malin
schools and Cliff Jenkins, coun
ty 4-H agent.
Oscar Peyton presided over
the luncheon as chairman of the
day. .
Snow Covers Mountain Roads in
Basin Area;
Roads and highways of south
eastern Oregon were covered
with snow as winter put his foot
down and declared it was his
season from now on.
Temperatures dropped and
falling snow was general In the
mountain areas with five inches
of new snow at Sand creek, five
Inches of new snow on Sun
mountain, bringing the total at
that point to nine inches. It was
30 degrees early Thursday morn
ing at Sand creek.
At Crater Lake national park,
the maximum temperature
Thursday at 8 a. m, was 27, the
minimum, 20. It was cloudy at
the rim and visibility poor. New
snow fell to the depth of 4.8
Inches with 12.9 Inches, total.
Koads in the park were In
'fair wlnten condition," accord
ing to an early morning radio
report. Snow was drifting bad
ly with strong wind blowing.
Frank Jenkins, publisher of the
JClamatb' county potato king,
yaar;'i vi-''
Fl
Tokyo News Agency's
Blast at American
Terms Heard
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 VP)
A Japanese embassy official said
today Tokyo's negotiators on the
tense Far Eastern situation will
present to Secretary of State
Hull tomorrow their govern
ment's reply to President Roose
velt's request for an explanation
of large Japanese troop move
ments into Indo-China.
It was added that the envoys
might also bring a statement of
policy bearing on the American
note handed them by Hull last
week. .
- The appointment (8 a. m.,
PST) was made at the request
of Ambassador Kichisabura No
mura and Special Envoy Saburo
Kurusu. It became known as
Domei, the authoritative Japa
nese news agency, circulated a
statement in Japan tonight de
claring that in the Japanese view
the declaration of the fundamen
tal United States position handed
Japan's envoys by Secretary
Hull last week can not serve as
a basis for "negotiations hence
forth." Shortly before Hull's appoint
ment with the Japanese was
made known, the secretary con
ferred with Mr; Roosevelt- '
Phone Line Dead
Klamath residents found a
light snow covering tho basin
area early Thursday morning.
Minimum temperature was 29
degrees,1 according to the US
weatherman. Precipitation was
recorded, at .06 inches, bringing
the stream year . total to 2.95
Inches as compared with the nor
mal figure of 2.91, and last year's
figure, 2.21.
Telephone service from Klam
ath Falls to the Keno district
was temporarily halted Thurs
day morning when a storm
blown tree fell across a line west
of tho city, telephone company
officials reported Thursday.
The accident affected only out
going communication from
Klamath Falls' and incoming
calls wera being put through,
the company revealed.
Two-way servlco was restored
at 1:20 Thursday afternoon.
azis
BORDER ZONE
Reason for Move Not
Clear; American
Aid Studied
NEW YORK, Dec.. 4 VP)
Travelers who left Sofia recently
reported today, according to
European advices to The Asso
ciated Press, that Germany is
taking military measures along
the Bulgarian-Turkish frontier,
including erection of highways
signs ln German pointing the
way to Svilengrad, on Bulgaria's
Turkish frontier.
Wfl?t German troops were
seen in Bulgaria apparently were
headed In the direction of the
Turkish frontier, the travelers
reported. Svilengrad is the last
station on the railway from Bul
garia before it enters Turkey.
Highway signs formerly show
ing directions to points in west
ern Bulgaria or Yugoslav centers
have been removed, it was said.
i The general impression LthA
observers-was that hile possibly
the Germans were, taticloattng
American lease-lend aid. to Tur
key the comparatively, minor
German maneuvering' was in
tended: to back up Germany In
the diplomatic contest for Tur
key's favor... ;' I . .. ... . -;
. The Bulgarian army his '"con
centrated its major, forces in the
Turkish sector since the days be
fore Bulgaria joined the axis.
European observers from time
to -time have contended . that if
Bulgaria entered the axis war it
would be only one against Tur
key, her traditional foe. .
CAIRO. Egypt De 4
Fighting on the ' Libyan desert
lapsed into sporadic raiding, the
British middle east command an
nounced today, while both sides
apparently reorganized their
forces for new operations.
A British communique said
the lull continued in the past 24
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American Experts
Reach Manila on
Way to Burma Road '
MANILA, Dec! 4 VP) The
first group of hardy American
transportation men who will
keep supplies rolling over the
Burma road while American
planes and ' pilots ' guard them
from air attacks overhead have
reached Manila en route to
China.
With them came United States
supplies en route to China, with
a single shipment alone carry
ing a quarter-million dollars
worth of material. There also
were war materials for Ameri
can forces in the Far East.
The 46 men in the transporta
tion group are under contract
to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
Sheks government 'and will re
ceive up to $500 a month in
United States , currency. .. i
They were sent for in accor
dance with recommendations to
the generalissimo' by Daniel C.
Arnsteln, American transporta
tion expert who undertook to
speed t r a f f 1 c on the lifeline
highway.' . ;
Former Merrill
Couple Held on
Starving Charge .
WOODLAND, Calif;, Dec. 4
(P) Three-month-old Larry
Harrick died of starvation, the
death certificate reported, and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Harrick,' formerly of Merrill,
Ore., were taken Into custody
yesterday, .
They denied their son had
been starved. The death certifl'
cote report was based on autopsy
findings of Dr. James Porter,
county physician,; i ws ,
N
TROOPS MARCH
1(110
BULGARIA
Eye Turkey
50,000 Planes
Predicted for
1942 in U. S.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (ff) The
American aircraft industry has
"every reason to believe" that
an annual production of 90,000
airplanes the number suggested
by President Roosevelt before a
joint session of congress last
year will be reached in 1942. '
This forecast was made today
by John H. Jouett, president of
the ' Aeronautical ' chamber . of
commerce. - . ;
If that rate is attained next
year, the Industry will be from
two and one-half to three years
ahead of the schedule estimated
In the summer of 1940 by T. P.
Wright forecast In July, last
year, ."that an airplane produc
tion rate of approximately . . .
4000 planes a month, or 50,000
planes a year, can be realized in
five years, or by July,. 1945." '
In a report to the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Charles H. Dolan, World war fly
ing ace and president . of the
Lafayette Escadrille, said that
the nation's aircraft Industry had
already surpassed Germany's and
predicted that within one year it
would surpass the combined pro
duction of the rest of the world.
SIXKILLEDWHEN
1IDGE
New Connecticut Span
Buckles qs Big '
''. Girder Placed
HARTFORD, Conn., Dec." 4
VP) At least six men were
killed, 19 injured and an un
determined number of . others
were missing today as a section
of the new. $1,900,000 Connecti
cut ' river bridge connecting
Hartford and East Hartford col
lapsed, tossing them . 90 feet
Into the water. -
, The first bodies-were -recov
ered at 2:20 p. m. (EST) about
an hour and a half' after the
collapse. -
State Police Commissioner
Edward J. Hickey said a' num
ber of the injured were serious
ly hurt. ' .
. The dead: Nicholas L. Logan,
believed to be from New York
City; Leon P. Volinger, 35, West
Hatfield, Mass.; . William- R.
Lyesey, 34, - Flushing N. Y.;
Joseph Napoleon Morin, 26,
Lewiston, . Me.; - W. J.- Ward,
American Bridge company su
perintendent, and Frank ; E.
Place, 57, Hartford.
The bodies were recovered
by other workmen using grap
pling irons.
'Wives and families of work
ers, attracted to the scene short
ly after the crash, lined the
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Traffic Signals
To Be Lighted
Next Wednesday.
Klamath Falls' . new traffic
signal system will be energized
next Wednesday, City Engineer
E. A. Thomas announced Thurs
day. Notification has been received.
Thomas said, that the pedestrian
wait" and "walk windows
have been shipped. They wJU
be installed and ready for oper
ation by Wednesday morning, he
revealed. ' '
Signals are installed on Main
street from Sixth to Eleventh, on
Sixth at Klamath avenue and at
the corner of Ninth and Pine
streets. , '
. BULLETIN
The Klamath county grand
Jury late this afternoon re
ported it could find no justi
fication for returning an in
dictment .' charging - Eugene
Smith or any other person for
crlm in connection with
the Marie Russell death case
other- than that for which
Smith was. sentenced.
45,
00
TROOPS
MARCH
AGAINST
REBELTORGES
Cairo Report Claims
. Unconquered Army'
. Fights Bravely
MOSCOW. Den. 4 UPl-Lvntfiv
slav guerrilla fighters, holding
the town of R u d n 1 k, hava
caused more than 600 casual
ties among German and Italian
troops besieging them, the Mos
cow radio said today.
NEW YORK. D. 4 MlTi
British radio said today that
Yugoslav guerrillas raptured
and executed a Serb "Quisling"
general yesterday. The broad.
casi was heard by CBS. .. - ,
CAIRO. Etrvnt - rw A. in
Three axis divisions (45.000
men) and the unconquered.
guerrilla forces of Gen. Draja
Mihailovlc were reported by ex
iled Serbs here to be locked in
battle in the Yugoslav -valley
of the western Morava. .-'
Supported by- tanks' and air
craft, a Serb communique said,
the axis divisions ' launched
Tuesday "what appears to be a
general- offensive nffntnt . ntn.
positions." , ' .
Serbs' Resisting V
- VOur forces under , Gen.
Draja Mihailovlc
successfully in the face of furi
ous onsiaugnts, although in the
sector of Uzice (a battle-torn
town - of 12.000 ' DODUlation
enemy tank attacks , have
obliged one of our units to
Withdraw." the .' mmmimlniia
said. .
It was declared that Sh
partisans had carried out sev
eral successful operations' in
the axis rear. -"
"Our troorM are In ' hlah
spirits," the communique said.
' 1 , '.:'
The Havas newn nffnrv aid
today that 1500 persona, were
Kmea Dy an explosion of a mu
nitions dump at Oujitza, Serbia,
in a fight between suerrilla anri
government troops. i ; '
ine London Daily Mall Nov.
25 quoted Gen. Dusan Slmovic,
nremier of tho refuse vsn-
slav government,, as saying he
naa "sure information" that the
German army of occupation
planned to destrnv RolamHo nn
its populace in reprisal for Mi-
nauovic a mountain operations.
. German forces in Yugoslavia
were estimated In Tatnnhul rfl
patches Nov. 29 to total five di
visions, or about 75,000 men.
The guerrilla . army of Mi
hailovlc. a formnr- 1-nlnnM In
regular service of the kingdom.
nas Deen. estimated at 80,000
men. i "
MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (&) Mill,
tary destruction of 4400 Ger
mans in various sectors of the
Moscow front and continued deJ
pletion of German mobile equip
ment in the nazi retreat from
Rostov were announced tonight
in an official broadcast state
ment. ... . -.
In one sector of the south-.
western front, 15 German tanks,
eight armored cars and 40 trucks
were destroyed in two days of
fighting by certain units, the
announcement said, and 700 Ger- .
man soldiers and officers "anni-.
hilated." .'..'....:,.
BERLIN, Dec. 4 VP) German
military dispatches said tonight
that despite losses described as
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