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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON June 8, 1042 Correspondent's Dramatic Moment Came When Nazi Communications Ceased .(Editor's Note: In the . following story, Louis P. Lochner, chief of the former Associated Press and Wide World bureau in Berlin and now returned to New York, relates some of the dra- iuiuu ucvciuimiciita ApciciiCcil ill COVctlng ui v Br LOUIS P. LOCHNER NEW YORK," June 8 (Wide World) For the foreign corres pondent stationed in Germany during the present war up to America's entry. Into it, one of the most dramatic moments came on ,ihat night. In August, 1939, exactly one week before hostili ties" with Poland opened, when suddenly all connection with the outside world was broken off. For weeks and weeks he hadT been - expecting "detag." Our Berlin office had sent Angus M. Thuermer to Gleiwitx, near .the Slleslan-Polish border, because we knew the staff head' quarters for the army which was to march into Polish Upper Silesia to be located there. We tried also to send Edwin A. Shanke into East Prussia to cover expected developments there, but he was refused per mission to enter the area. Thuer mer, incidentally, was allowed to remain only long enough to see the war. start; then, too, he was politely bowed out of Si lesia. " Then came that fateful night in August. Our long distance wires were In full operation as members of the staff telephoned stories on the tense situation to London. Our teleprinter v.n grinding out copy to our relay point in Amsterdam. . Suddenly, in the midst of a sentence, sharply at 7 p. m., both the telephone and tele graph stopped short. We were cut off from the out side world by orders of the mili tary; we looked at each other in dismay- For 8 journalist there is no more terrifying moment than that of not'being able to get his copy out. Someone Slipped - - It proved later that someone had slipped. Originally the war was to have started a week ear lier, it seems. The military cen sorship department hfid been given orders to interrupt ' com munications as of that earlier date. Then, when Hitler decided to postpone action for a week, nobody thought of issuing new instructions to the censors. No newsman gives up without first trying every possible ave nue of transmission. Within the next ten minutes we had tele phone calls in for practically every capital in Europe, hoping that somehow,: somewhere we'd The Telephone : By EARL WHITLOCK " The1 telephone company has advertised widely ever since the . war. started, . asking people not to use long distance unnec essarlly, be causa of the pressure of war emergency on Its facUities. Yet, when I have to put in calls, half way across the con tinent, I have noticed no less ening of my telephone's speed or efficiency. My number is connected as quickly' and as clearly as a year ago. . That this can be accomplish ed reflects not only efficient management and planning in the high places of the telephone company, it shows real ability and cooperation on the part of the rank and file, from the girl at the switchboard to the line man repairing breaks on some lonely mountain height or in the vast reaches of some blaz ing desert. ' We have grown so used to the telephone on our desks that we seldom stop to think of the marvels of invention, construc tion, manufacture, organization, research, which have ' made it possible. Nor do we take time always, to realize .that our rates for long distance- service have been nLpArlilv. .Inwprorl whlla the quality , of that service has been just as steadily Improved. Actually, those rates have been dropped, just a little faster than government could slap new tax. es on them. And that, you must Next Saturday . Mr. Whltlock of . the Earl. Whltlock , Funeral Home will comment on Flag Day: - ' '. mm aa f wm WOMEN CSS) HEED THIS ADVICEII If you're cross,- resUess, miffrr hot flashos, nervous feelings, dizziness caused by this period In a woman's life try Xydla E. Plnkham's vem table Compound. Made especially or tromen. Thousands upon thou sands helped. Follow label dlreo tlou. WOETH TBYINQI get through nevertheless. . In vain. The telephone operators invariably, came back with the stereotyped Information, "there is a temporary disturbance in the line." .. . Then came a , lucky break: Across the street from us, in the offices of the French Havas News Agency with which Asso ciated Press for years exchanged news, the direct . wire into the Paris headquarters of the agency had not been cut. An over sight, but one which proved of incalculable benefit to us. Our Havas colleagues permit ted . us to file our copy into Paris. To the amazement of the Germans, America next morning had a full story of developments in the war that didn't come off as scheduled. They couldn't im agine how we had done it. We used the incident to emphasize how stupid it is to try to isolate Germany from the world. By the time the war really started a week later, a control system of self-censorship, under which we were able to get our news until the day of our arrest and intern ment Dec 11, 1941. . Dramatic Night The night of May 9, 1940, will also linger in my mind as a dramatic one. It was the night before Hitler's armies inundated Holland and Belgium and began to pound relentlessly at the Maginot line. On that evening the christening of little Horen zollern Prince -Wilhelm Hein rich, second son of Prince Louis Ferdinand, of Ford fame, took place. (The prince once worked in the Ford factory).- . The first -dramatic moment came when the late Danish Min ister in Berlin, Herluf Zahle, who had been sent by the king and queen of Denmark to repre sent them at the christening, tried to tell Prince Louis Ferdi nand something about ' the Ger man invasion of Denmark. He could not go on. The aged diplo mat broke down in tears. " Later in the evening Crown Prince Frederick; Wilhelm, grandfather to the young bap- tizee, sat down in a corner to chat with Mrs.' Albert Schrader, wife of the then American naval attache in Berlin, and my wife. Both expressed "their fear that on the very next day the great offensive in the west would be gin, and that neutral Holland and Belgium would be the vic tims. Schrader and. I both had absolutely reliable information, and our wives, knew what they were talking about. The crown prince since - the beginning of the war had lived in seclusion, a virtual hermit, at Cecilienhof Castle on the out skirts of Potsdam. He simply would not believe the ladies. am sure he was sincere about it. The two women challenged him to a bet, but he replied gallantly that he could not expect ladies to pay a bet that he felt sure they'd lose.' Correspondents Knew - That' was one of the strange things about the - war . against Holland and Belgium: practical ly every foreign correspondent in Germany knew it was coming, yet very few Germans had any inkling of it. The crown prince represented the average German. - We left the christening party at midnight.- Shortly before 1 a. m. my office called: "We're unable -to contact Amsterdam either by telephone or by tele graph," the editor in charge of the night desk Informed me. We knew then that , the two American ladies had been right and the crown prince wrong. It was' dramatic to have the con firmation of . the ladies' fears come only. an hour after they had said goodbye to the man who once seemed destined to rule Germany. . , r Dramatic, : too, were the Inci dents attendant upon Hitler's march into Soviet Russia on June 22. As I try to recall the talks I had with men and wom en in all walks of life during that June, it seems to me as though virtually everybody I ANTI-GRAY HAIR VITAMIN jh. mllllonj b sr. hsyKcpped with iru f I' 5" .7" h,d ln Pltble tablet form under the name GRAYVITA. . .l2.JL5Sto "W '""Hnf Bailor.. U hon.ehold nsnzlra on penom ranslnc T.tlTI1,?' '" of hilr eolor. Taken Intemsllr It lupn ei a natural eolor Pqrnent thro the hstr rooU, I. th". .t. j "?YV1T.A ,rl'. 0"" now and JSl ifW?" "J.T '"'roJaotorr prise 100 days supply (Formerlr 12.01) and lull Just phone 45U ' . f encountered knew the war was coming that is, everybody ex cept the Russian correspondents accredited to Berlin, and even they may have been pretending. Late in May one of my in formants whose information had always proved true came to tell me that at S a. m. on the fourth Sunday in June Hitler would march into Russia.: I checked with our American military at taches, who said all reports in dicated that tremendous army concentrations were in progress on the German-Russian front, and that it looked like a blow-up soonv Evidence kept piling in on our office that the informant was right, although no other source was so precise as to date and even the hour. Diplomat Absent Then, in early June, as we rame to the daily press confer ence in the propaganda ministry, the man in charge of foreign relations was suddenly absent. Gradually, it leaked out that he had been persuaded during a party at the Bulgarian legation to drink more than was good for an official entrusted with war secrets, and that he had given the same date as that revealed to me for the opening of hostili ties. ' ' This man was promptly called for by the gestapo, sentenced to two years (had he not been so well-connected a nazi he would undoubtedly have been execut ed), and only quite recently re leased as a common soldier (he had been an officer) to the front lines of Russia. ' From time to time I contacted my Russian colleagues. They In sisted and I know that they Inquired of their own embassy about it that I was all wrong, that relations with Germany were quite normal, and that So viet Russia was supplying all the raw materials that Germany asked for. They stuck to this version, for one reason or an other, to the end, although grad ually even the man on the street began to talk of the imminent war with Russia. , On June 21 I decided to let my car stand before my house that night, because undoubtedly the foreign office would summon the correspondents to . a press conference in the wee hours of the morning as they had done in the case of Poland, Denmark and Norway, Holland' and- Belgium; and Yugoslavia and Greece.' At 3:20 a. m. the foreign office rang up to say that at 5 a: m. there would be an important press conference conducted by the Foreign Minister, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, himself. . . , , The attack had begun. 3 MEN WILL GET DEW DEGREE ' The chevalier degree, highest degree given to active members of DeMolnv. will ho mnr,Fj upon three young Klamath Falls men inursaay night at the Ma sonic hall' following a dinner to be served bv DeMolav tnnfhor. Elvln Cheyne, Dick Blohm ana t-nanes Bonney are ' the three to be honored. Cheyne and Blohm will be- present but Ser geant Bonney, now stationed at orays xiaroor, Wash., with the United States arm v. will ha m. able to attend. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bonney, 427 Alameda street. . . . Floyd Stanley 'and members of the advisory council will con fer i the degrees, it was an nounced. The dinner, scheduled for 6:30 p. m., will be served to all members of -DeMolay and their families. Mrs. Charles King and Mrs. Sanforrl Relhv nr In charge, assisted by members of me uemoiay Mothers' club. : VITAL STATISTICS BROWN -a. Born at Klamath Valley hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore., June 7, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Brown, route 1, Bo nanza, Ore., a girl. Weight: 6 pounds 121 ounces. , HOWE Born at Klamath Val ley hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore., a boy. Weight: 7 pounds 12 ounces. HOLMES Born at Klamath Valley hospital, Klamath. Falls, ore., June 8, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Holmes, Yamsay, Ore., a boy. weight: 9 pounds 1 ounce. MAMATH Born at Klamath Valley hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore., June 6, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Cyril R. Mamath, Lookout, Calif., a girl. Weight: 8 pounds. HODGE Born at Klamath Falls, Ore., June 6, 1942, to Mr. and Mrs. Merle Hodge, 419 North Spring street, a girl. Weight: 7 pounds 11 ounces. Time' to' Store Your Furs Our .- . COLD STORAGE VAULTS ars selentMlesltv eontrolled as to temperature and humidity! YOUR FURS ARE FULLY INSURED AGAINST ALL HAZARDS! . CUMMINGS . FUR SHOP 118 So. 7th oo inkers NEEDED FOR m HflRUFfiT I ii I liiiii hit I SALEM, June 8 (AP) Three thousand additional workers will be needed in Umatilla county during the peak of the pea harvest expected to develop between mid-June and July 1, the United States employment service estimated Saturday.- The employment service an nouncement said a state-wide labor recruitment program was being prepared to obtain the necessary field hands and can nery workers, a majority of whom would be men. Certain unlisted jobs, it added, mey be adjusted for women as labor shortages develop. Demand for labor in western Oregon strawberry fields was described as uncertain with the crop slow in ripening. Peak call for cherry pickers was expected to get well under way next week in Wasco and Umatilla counties, with the western Oregon crop setting on a week or two later, said the bulletin. The announcement said many acres of sugar beets may be abandoned in the Nyssa area unless townspeople fully re tluce migrants who have failed to appear this year. Word Expected on New Warning Siren Information is expected this week concerning sirens to be used in Klamath Falls for blackout warnings, according to Fire Chief Keith K. Ambrose. The chief has written to a num ber of manufacturers asking that they submit sirens to be tested in this area. A horizontal type siren was installed here several months ago but proved inadequate. Am brose stated Monday he had ad vised manufacturers they would ship the sirens at their own ex pense and also pay for return transportation In event the equipment was not satisfactory. The smoke YOU want mm "WwsnsiBiwrirTOVrm!!iii! ft 1 ' V" ' t jrIe. N fA? StHL .'l CAMELS. THEy'RE I A ' " W AND THEy ALWAYS T" (SAGA HQ, cortafos LESS VCOffV than that of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested lest than any of them according to Independent scientific tests of the smoke Itsellt Midway Commander PI f 1 x I IwneM-ai? ; 0 dUKtti St .""tkA P Commander Cyril T. Simard (above) commands the naval air station at Midway, focal point of the great sea and air bat tle In which the U. S. navy partly avenged Pearl harbor by Inflicting heavy damage on a Japanese force. Simard was re cently decorated by Admiral Chester W. Nimlti for hit work in beating off the Initial attack on Midway at the start of the war. Radio Day by Day (Pacific War Timo). NEW YORK, June 8 (Wide World) Louis P. Lochner, As sociated Press bureau chief in Berlin since 1928, will go on the air Tuesday to tell some of the things about life lnsldo nazi Germany. He speaks at 3:30 p. m. on NBC. Listening Tonight: Talks BLU 4:15, Rep. WriRht Potman and Sen. R. L. Owen on "Mak ing Payment of National Debt Easier"; BLU 6, radio forum, "Should Congress Abolish the Poll Tax?" debate; NBC 7:30, Vice. Pres. Wallace on "Destiny of the Hemisphere in World Af fairs"; MBS 8:15, Rep. J. S. Gib son on "National Labor Rela tions Act." What to Expect Tuesday: NBC 9:30 a. m., Dr. F. H. La hey on "Place of Medicine To day"; BLU 2:13, broadcast from Iceland. of slow-burning ft- J. BjwMi TobtMoCaaptay, Wbubm-StlMB, NotUi M ,s ' ' ' ' h EXTRA MILD 1 1m 'T:.Vr;' v ) 941 STATE'S BEST YEAH TAXES SHOW SALEM, June 8 (A1) With income tax collodions up 75.7 por cent, the stnto tax commis sion snld today that 1041 was the most prosperous year in Oregon history. Total corporate and Individ ual incomo tax collections this year until April 30 worn $8, 2(12,20(1, the commission pre dicting that collections for the entire year will amount lo more than $13,000,000. Lust year's collections were about $11.0(10,. 000. Individual incomo tox poy mcnts during the first four months of 1042 totaled $5,473, 503, a 61.1 per cent gain over the same period of 1041. Cor poration income tax collections during the same period were $2,788,673, a gain of 113.8 por cent. There are Indications that tuxes on this year's incomes, duo next year, will bo even grentcr. The number of individual taxable filings was 157,031, a 44.8 per cent gain, whllo the average Individual tax payment was $45.42, compared with $41.54 during the same period lust year, The number of current cor poration tax returns decreased from 3776 to 3871. but t h e avcrago corporation tax In creased 120.6 per cent, from $479.45 to $1100.02. CROPS DAMAGED LA GRANDE, June 8 lP County Agent R. W. Schaad said today that a cold, wet spring severely damaged Grando Ronde valley cherries and the Austrian winter pea seed crop, valued at $750,000. When in M.dlord Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Joe and Anne EarUy Proprietors YffitW CiroUat . ,.B J , , L. -- . mmrmmmmtmSaemaitit 2000 Civilian Be Employed i The army air forces plan to employ 2000 civilian pilots within the next 60 days for non combat pilot -duty, It was an nounced Mondity. A board of officers under the command of Colonel George E. Henry from the Vfnt Coast Air force training center will bo at the Medford municipal airport June 0 to Interview and exam ine Interested civilian pilots. The examination wilt consist of an explanatory interview, a physical examination, and a flight check.. Every civilian , pilot who Is ublo to moot the requirements Is invited to contact the board up on Its arrival at tho Medford air port. The applicants who can qual ify will be given temporary civil service ratings as "Tralnco In structors" for a period of three to six months at a salary of $300 per month while undergoing a special Instructors' training course at one of the WCAFTC flying schools. Upon successful completion of the instructors' training course, the trnlnco will be commissioned In the army air forces as first and second lieutenants depend get th advantage ol extra mellow,.. the whiskey ol about your vih StHtnett tltahht Hearken H'lcy M free. TMt Ei', vnwttt u e t'a" nrmnitt vuiimri (vornarmion, A"n 1'orlt Cfly JUMP" h the command that starts you on that headlong earthward plunge through space, but the real order of the hour Is steady nerves! For these soldiers of the sky for every one of us! So take a tip from the men in the front line. Their favorite is Camel the slow-burning, mild cigarette. Moke Camel your cigarette, too. JS f With men in tho Army, the Navy, tho Marine Corps, and tho Coast Guard, tho . favorite cigarette is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship's Service Stores, Ship's Stores, and Cantecni.) I HUP MAKI THOII MRACHUTIt," ssys Helen V. Lynch, Pioneer Para, chute Co. employee, "sad I csn tell you 'nerves' don't go In my Job. Smoke? Yes, I enjoy smoking. I smoke Ctmeli.They have the mild ness that counts and Camels don't tire my taste." Yes, for all of us, tills Is a "war of nerves." More im portant than ever, oow, Is your cholceofclgarettes. Smoke Camels, Pllois to by Air Force0 ing upon age andor flying e porlence. Applicants numt hnvo reached tlinlr 21st birthday and not at tained their 42nd birthday, h, American cil liens of unques tioned loyally, hava excellent character, and bo ablo to past the physical examination re quired fur service pilots, Applicants must possess a cur renlly cffnctlvo CAA commer cial pilots' curt If lento or have equivalent ulrpliiMt pilot experi ence as evidenced by certified log books and ratings formerly held, Applicants should bring with them a certified copy of birth cartiricntii, tliroe letters ol character recommendation, and all records pertaining to (lying expei Uwicp, including the afore mentioned airmen certificates unci certified log bonks. NAVY RECRUITS f PORTLAND, June 8 PV The navy rccrulUiiK offlco an nounced today the following en listments: Hny W. Hawkins, Thomas F. Tucker, John G. Hopkins, Paul J. Hernadnu, William R. Sims, Elmer L. Leonard, Albert J. Shukle, Klamulli Fulls. tbV'flavor years" is! f m:ttatmm Me &&" a 4 itr f ,' it ' A o r''" ''74 vwnnin-s run dhuus - ; . i
