January 14, 1042
THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PAGE THREE
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By FRED VANDERBCHMIDT
Wide World News Service
I hava a dinner (Into In Am
atordnm about seven yonrs from
now with a Hying Dutchman.
There Is n fnlr cluuico thut wo
will keep It. I linvo reason to
believe Hint my friend escaped
from tho Netherlands lifter thoso
fuw traglo claya of biitllo In May
of 1040 and macla lili way to tho
Dutch East Indira, and that ho
now Ifl flying ono of the Amerl-can-bullt
planes with which tho
Dutch have mode micli n shining
record In four weeks of Pacific
'war.
Th iitory of my dinner diite
with this Netherlands air force
captain mny hoip to show why
ho and others like him are
among the most steadfast allies
wo huve ot.
I reached his station not fur
from the eastern Netherlands
city of Gronlmtcn with difficul
ty a few months beforo tho In
vasion. Tho road slfns to the
airport had been pulled down, in
tho naivo belief that this would
buffi o tho Cermuns when they
Invaded, but tho old man who
had Inherited tho toll concession
on a sharp bend of tho highway
was still collcctlnii tribute.
It was a small airport former
ly used by civilian planes and It
had been taken over .ompletcly
by tho military. It was In flat,
unfortified country which was
completely undefendable. It was
blasted out of existence by the
German air forco within a few
minutes in the early murnlna of
May 10, 1040, and overrun with
in a matter of hours by German
tanks.
The Dutch air force unit
based at the airport was a lost
squadron In anybody's future
book. Even before the Invasion,
the captain and his colleagues
had about tho liiost futile Job 1
over have run across. It was not
quite a thankless Job, however,
because a shining littlo medal,
Just conferred by Queen Wilhel
mina, dangled against the pnle
green of the captain s tunic.
Wo sat In tho lounge of the
airport building and talked about
the German planes which had
coma across the Dutch border
that morning, and every morn
ing, on their way to tho British
coast to reconnolter ond some
times to bomb. It was tho cap
tain's Job to Intercept them In
defense of Holland's neutrality.
"What do you do when they
come over?" I asked.
"We chase them, all of them,"
ha said. "Hut they usually are
over the North sea by tho time
we get In tho air. Sometimes we
get them on their way back.
Then It Is very difficult."
Ha explained what he meant.
A fow days before ho had forced
a German bomber down onto one
of tho Frisian islands, off tho
Gronlngcn coast. Tho nail
crow, furious at what they con
sidered tho effrontery of on In
significant neutral, were nasty
and arrogant and put up a fight
before they could bo Interned.
Ho told mo goodbye outside
tho airport and stood for a mo
ment bcslds my car, one ear
cocked toward tho sky.
"Come and have dinner with
mo In Amsterdam when this Is
over," I suggested.
"Thank you," ho said. "I will
about nine years from now."
Ho was completely serious
about It. Ho knew what was go
ing to happen to Holland and lie
thought ho knew how long It
would last.
Now tho captain or others
Just llko him are fighting for
their country and for ours over
the hot Jungles of tho East Indies.
It Is no sccrot that their Job Is
now of supremo Importance to
the allied defense In tho Pacific
and It Is no secret that they need
more and bettor American
planes, It has become abun
dantly clear In tho past few duys
that they nra going to get them.
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Transportation
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Re-Routing of
Trucks Brings
Heavy Traffic
A re-routing of Mitchell
Frolghtwuys trucks from Sun
Francisco north has resulted In
an uiiusuully heavy traffic
through tho Klamath dopot of
Consolidated Frolghtwuys, It was
said Tuesday.
According to Orrln II. Fralcy,
manager of tho local Consoli
dated dopot, the Mitchell line
has been granted permission to
ship northward by way of Klam
ath Falls Instead of Modford.
The Mitchell line is affiliated
with Consolidated In northern
California freight transportation.
Fruley sold the re-routing will
mcun better service between
Klamath alls and San Fran
cisco for Klamath shippers. Tho
chungo has rosultcd in nine big
transports entering here Sunduy
ond 10 Tuesday.
UNUSUAL
MIAMI, Flo., Jon. 14 (!)
Dog race fans at the Blscayne
Kennel club thought It unusual
when the field finished 8, 7, 0, 9,
4, 3, 2, and 1 In tho seventh
event, but they had to wait for
a University of Miami mathe
matics professor to figure a little
before they learned how unusual
It was.
The professor decided the
chances were exactly 84.1.833 to
one against tho dogs finishing
In order.
Real United States money can
not be used In motion pictures.
since the government prohibits
photographing of Its currency.
Handy Air-Conditioning
Unit Cools 30-Ton Tank
Br HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
DALLAS, Tex., Jon. 14 (Wide
World) When peace comes, the
average man with a small home
may be able to thank the war for
a new kind of alr-conditloning
suited to his house and his
pocketbook.
The new wcothcr-moker Is
small, compact and slmplo. You
can carry It around In one hand
If you can lift SO pounds pack
ed Into a suitcaseenough of this
weather , to cool a 30-ton army
tank.
That Is mora than enough for
cooling one room, nearly enough
for a small house.
In Texas, tanks are being used
In experimenting with tho little
weather-maker. Under some con
ditions of warfare, the heat and
fumes of a tank in action are the
limiting factor In the length of
time the crew can continue to
fight.
The heot In the crew deport
ment runs up to 1.10 degrees.
The men emerge exhausted after
a few hours, with faces coal
block from fumes, dust and gases
that drift In from guns and en
gines. The heat alone Is about the
limit for human endurance.
enough to cause some blood
changes.
Where the little BO-pound air
conditioner has been tried, they
finish the work with faces still
reasonably clean, and with less
signs of fatigue.
i no military conditions are
ono of tho severest testing
grounds that air-conditioning has
yet faced. Thcro Is no spoco for
the weather units Insido the
fighting compartment. The sweep
or tho gun-muzzles forbids plac
ing mo unit near tho turret.
Tha only placo left la out near
an end of tha tank, where the
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STALK DISASTER
By Tha Associated Prsss
Dlscaso, disunity and military
disaster stalked tho onco con
quering legions of Adolf Hitler
today and, barring surprises,
seemed to bo hastening tho day
of Hltlerlsm's ultimate defeat.
Hundreds of additional doc
tors and nurses wero reported
by tho Berlin correspondent of
a Swiss newspaper to havo been
rushed recently to the eastern
front to combat a wavo of
vcrmln-sprcad typhus, both
among tha wavering troops in
Russlu and behind the lines in
conquered countries.
German troops were report
ed engaged In a "buttlo against
lice."
Reliable sources In London
declared dissension in the nazl
high command primarily a
split over the reverses in Rus
sia now had spread to tho
navy with a sharp disagreement
between Grand Admiral Erich
Kocder and his submarine chief,
Vice Admiral Karl Docnltz, over
the way tho batllo of the At
lantic Is going.
The London Star also quoted
a Moscow broadcast thut Field
Marshal General WUhelm Kcl-
tel, chief of tho nazl high com
mand, suddenly had been token
111. The Kcltel report was not
verified.
Berlin added a footnote to
the chapter of European unrest
with an announcement all form
er officers of tho Norwegian olr
force ond navy had been or
dered arrested because some 100
of their number hud escaped
to England to fight for libera
tion of Norway.
Newspapers reaching Vichy
from Bordeaux told of the exe
cution of a Frenchman by a
nazl firing squad for possessing
apparatus Is subjected to violent
pounding. The plunges of t h e
ends of the tank are greater than
of the middle.
Tho inventor is Thomos W.
Carraway, Dallas, air-conditioning
engineer. His new system
was given the highest achieve
ment award of the Inventors of
America this ycor. One of his!
works is elr-conditlonlng a large j
department store In 100 degree!
weather with tho front door left
open all the tlmo. i
His new method is a wartime I
secret. His system differs in j
principle from tho usual air
conditioning, which uses cither j
mechanical refrigeration or ice to ;
cover tho range of temperature
from comfort down to actual
freezing.
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BY MAIL . . .
KLAMATH FALLS BRANCH
FIRST NATIONAL BANK '
OF PORTLAND
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
firearms, while at Doual, Nord
department, 28 so-called com
munist suspects, six In absentia,
were reportod condemned to
death or life Imprisonment.
The British radio quoted a re
port from Switzerland that 62
German soldiers had been exe
cuted at Bcsancon, occupied
France, because they mutinied
against orders to return to the
Russian front after a furlough.
In Holland nazl leaders were
trying to quiet Dutch anxiety ,
following a statement by the :
nazl civil administrator, Dr. i
Arthur Scysz-Inquart, that Ger
many planned to annex the
Netherlands after the war,
OPM Asked to Use
Oregon Materials,
Labor at Med ford
SALEM, Jon. 14 UP) W. H.
Crawford, director of the Ore
gon Economic council, sent let
ters today to office of produc
tion management officials at
Washington, D. C, asking that
the cpntract for the new Mcd
ford army cantonment be
awarded to an Oregon contrac
tor. He also asked that contracts
for lumber and other materials
for the project be awarded to
Oregon men.
He said similar action would
be taKcn if the Corvallis-Mon"-mouth
cantonment Is approved.
He said 30.000 soldiers would be
stntioncd at Medford, and that
8000 workers would build it.
Noted Songwriter
Takes Own Life
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 UP)
Tho body of Fred Fisher, 85,
music publisher and composer
of more than a thousand songs,
including many familiar hits of
yester-year, was found hanging
today in the bedroom of his
penthouse apartment In West
End avenue.
Fisher, credited with having
written such widely known
songs as "Dardonella," "Ireland
Must be Heaven," "Peg o' My
Heart," "Fifty Million French
men Con't be Wrong," "Auf
Wlcdcrsehn" and "Ma, He's
Making Eyes at Me," had been
in ill health for several years.
Mount McKlnley National
park in Alaska was visited by
1201 persons In 1940.
The first gasoline vehicle was
I placed on the road on July 4,
I 1894.
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