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Slamath News WEATHER NEWS I 'CooUr Htoh 48i low Mi Midnight 40 24 hours to I a, m. M Season to date .', ' ,, , ,,, ,; ... , t.M Normal precipitation , , , . 1.0 taat yaf to T lt , , la.lt PICTURES! Associated Prose Telemets, NBA Telepho to and live local newspleture and en. graving tlalf piOTlda Nawa and Herald reedera with a comprehensive photograph ic service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 87 Price F Ive Cent TWO SECTIONS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday). THE ; In Hie Day's : ; NeVS : Br FRANK JENKINS V. nULOARIA Joint the xl. It w a cane o( captivity or aulclda and Bulgaria chow cap tivity. Before the Ink la dry on her signature, tho German army ataru rolling in to take posses alon. BULGARIA'S aubmluion clean the road to the Greek and Turkish borders. The next big " quratlon la: What will Turkey doT It aeema likely that Turkey will fight If attacked heraelf. But will aha fight it Greece la tucked? Hitler may know the aniwer to that question already. Balkan diplomacy la devioua and Ireach- erous, and a deal between Ger many and Turkey to sacrifice Greece may already have been made. WfllKRE can be no doubt that 1 Hitler would like to smash Greece, whose stubborn fight ing started the downfall of Italy. The question Is whether he will risk a war with Turkey In order to do It. WHAT Hitler wants and needs la to smash England. What he DOESN'T WANT Is to try to smash England with somebody waiting to tackle him from the rear If his attack doesn't go so well and ha begins to show signs of weakness. WHAT he la trying to bring " about In the Balkana Is a diplomatic deal that will enable him to go ahead with the smash Ing ol England without the fear of an attack from behind If eomethlng goes wrong. ' If ha leaves England unsmash- . wiwM .. American strength ', giewing swiftly) and goaa on to take ALL the Balkans, along with a large bite out of Russia, he will still have got no farther than Napoleon did and the hatreds Napoleon Inspired fin ally overthrew him. It'a only guess, of course, but It's a pretty safe guesa that Hitler wants no war with Tur key. WHAT Japan Is doing (In Indo " China and with her threats of an attack on Singapore and the Dutch East Indies) la part of the axis game, and there are algna that Japan has no stomach for the role that Hitler la prod ding her Into. Japan, with the world situa tion what It Is. with the Russian wolf waiting to ham-string her from the rear the moment ahe weakens herself. Is somewhat In the position of Theodora Roose velt s gloomy-faced Dakota farm' er who waa "going to town to git drunk and gosh how I dread it!" JOHN G. WINANT, new Amerl can ambassador to England, , la greeted personally by King George when he arrives by plane In London. The Duke of Kent, the klng'a brother, la five mln- utes late for the greeting cere mony. .. That, of course, is excusable ' In war-torn London, but Kent la obviously embarrassed. After apologies, they all go back to . the plane to pose again for the cameramen. Wlnant, asked for a statement. aaya to the reporters: "I haven't much to say." He shifts nervous ly from one foot to the other, bites his lip and then In a loud, clear voice adds: "I'm glad to be here. There's no place I'd rather e - be than In England." He sounds like a regular fcl- low. That's about what any of us would have done. 42-Mlle Wind Sweeps Ilnsln The Klamath basin felt the lash of the southern storm and 42-mlle wind swept over the countryside but little or no damage was recorded. The US weatherman reported .04 Inch of rain up to 8 a. m. Saturday. Total precipitation for the stream year Is 9.96, or 1.91 Inches above the normal figure The War 25 Years Ago By The Associated Press March 1,, 1016 Germany launches unrestricted submarine warfare; fighting, slackens at Verdun. HOUSE PASSES BILL TO SPLIT State Would Levy Tax to Average 6.9 Mills as Substitute for Local By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM. March 1 W) The house passed and sent to the senate today by a 39 to 33 vote the bill to equalize school taxes on a statewide basis. The vote was taken after the house voted 32 to 2fl to eccepW the favorable report of Its educa tion committee. Ballot Measure The measure, one of the card inal points of Governor Ovaries A. Sprague's program, would ap pear on the 1942 general election ballot. Under the bill, the state would levy a tax averaging 5.9 mills to substitute for the local 2-mill school levy. The state, which would provide (20 a year for each school child by the pro posed tax, would distribute the money to counties, thus equaliz ing the amount available for school districts. It would raise no more money over the state as a whole. Aids Poor Districts Rep. Lyle Thomas (R-Polk), chairman of the house educa tion committee, told the house that the present system la unfair because some district are better olf than others only because rhey have high assessed valuations. The bill, he said, would equalize thla, assisting poorer district. Fifteen ol the 36 counties would pay more taxes than would get back. Thirteen of these 15 counties are in eastern Oregon. Thomas aald placing the bill on the ballot would "call atten tion to the Inequalities of educa tion under out present tax sys tem," and be demanded that the star , share, more of the cost, of education. Jlo said the bill would provide statewide educational financing in the eame manner in which highwaya are financed Rep. E. Harvey Miller (R Morrow) said this la "an unfair and unjust bill. It is downright mean." He opposed it because of Its adverse effect on eastern Oregon counties, whose legtila tors voted almost to a man against It. Counties which would pay (Continued on Page Two) German Consul Keeks Dismissal -of Court Suit SAN FRANCISCO. March 1 (UP) Capt. Fritz Wiedemann German consul general, today served notice ho will seek dis missal of an $8000 civil suit filed against him In superior court by Mrs. Alice Crockett, divorced wife of a U. S. army officer. The notice said Wiedemann will appear in court Thursday, either personally or through his attorney, to argue the superior court haa no Jurisdiction over consular representatives of for eign countries. J. W. Ehrlich, attorney for Mrs. Crockett, announced he will file a new complaint in federal court, which has such Jurisdic tion, If the superior court suit is dismissed. Mrs. Crockett said Wiedemann owed her for serv ices performed on a personal mission to Germany. Craier Skiing Attractive to v Young Daylight Robber Here An 11-year-old boy, linked with a "coincidence" of his dis appearance from a train here and a daylight robbery of 580 from the Associated Service sta tion at Eighth and Pine street Saturday morning, gave the city police force quite a puzzling case for a while. The only clue was that the boy wa said to have made a specialty of service sta tion thievery. The robbery occurred at 11 a. m. while the station attendant was greasing a car, Just one hour after the Seattle boy, on his way homeward in custody of a man named Simmons, escaped from a northbound train during Its 10 o'clock stopover. The attendant returned to the till and found that about $80 waa missing. Caught at Merced Simmons told officer that the boy, who had been' caught at Merced, Calif., and wa on hi way back to Seattle, had been suspected of theft of a similar nature.' Trainer Plane Losi on Way To Canada SALT LAKE CITY, March 1 UP Wartime secrecy tonight shrouded In mystery the fate of a North American training plane reported several hour overdue on, a flight from southern Cali fornia u wanaoa. The plane was one of a flight of seven reported en route to Canada to be used in training pilot of the royal Canadian air force. It had not been reported at the Salt Lake municipal air port. It next scheduled stop af ter leaving Kingman, Ariz., this morning, six .hours after its scheduled arrival time. Net Bomber First reports said the planes were bombers en route to the battleskies of Britain, but air port attendant said the craft were training ships constructed by th North American Aviation corporation. Airport attendant (aid pilot of five of the companion planes that had landed here were not worried and believed the missing ship might have taken another route. One of the flight was reported earlier In the day to have turned back to Las Vega, Nev., because of inclement weather. The training planes are not equipped with radio and airport attendant said there would be no means through which the plane could have communicated with the other plane or airport It it had run Into trouble. Fort Douglas army air base of ficial said they had no official knowledge that a plan wa missing but said they would be gin an aerial search if one were requested by the North Ameri can corporation. LOS ANGELES. March 1 (UP) North American aircraft tonight ordered all available company pilots to report to Kingman, Ariz., tomorrow to begin a search for training plane piloted by lot C: aiartinek missing Aver the desei I between -Klrigman and Salt Lake City, U. ' Heavy Storms, In California Close Roads Northbound railway and bus transportation through Klamath Falls was delayed Saturday a gale-swept rains brought Call' fornia rivers near flood stage and blocked highway and rail road tracks. High water near Willows, Calif., forced Southern Pacific trains to proceed at greatly re duced speed and causing three to seven hour delays in Klamath arrivals.. The regular 6:40 a. m. northbound arrived at 9:40, S. P. officials said, and the 10:40 a. m. train wa not expected until after 5 p. m. An Associated Press dispatch said that Southern Pacific tracks near Williams had been washed out and rail facilities south of Dunamulr were closed. Greyhound bus officials said their circuit had ' been blocked by seven feet of water rushing through the underpass on High way 99, IS miles south of Red ding but drivers are now 'using another road to Redding and pas senger are being carried by (Continued on Page Two) Meanwhile, young' Ray Manka, the boy In question, was having a time for himself. Police located him at the bus depot later in the day as he was attempting to ob tain passage out of the city. He had most of the money with him. Ski Fever : . Apparently, pleased -with the Inviting snow-capped Crater lake mountains and tempting ski dis play In Matt Flnnlgan's sporting goods store window, the boy had tried to rent a pair of skis, con templating a weekend at the rim with plenty of spare cash. How ever, the sporting goods man re fused to deal with him and the boy was soon apprehended. The 11-year-old lad has es caped from police before, the of ficers learned. Once, while held in Vancouver, Wash., he made a getaway through a drain pipe, By Saturday night he was again on his way to Seattle by train with Simmons. Sine the greater part ot the money was reovered, he waa not held here. Auto s ' . I SffP r fa Picture shews paaaersby and of an automobile in which she 12:30 a. m. Th girl wa pinned seriously Injured ei a quartet el CAR ACCIDENT Pedestrian Dies Shortly ' After Struck tpy. Auto : on J South Sixth 'Btjreet An unidentified woman was struck by an automobile about 10:30 Saturday night on South Sixth street near the fairgrounds and died almost Instantly. - State police Investigating the scene had received a call before the accident, that a Woman had twice walked di- 2recUy in front of a p p r o a e hing cars, j Several cars swerved out of Klamath's 1941 way and Auto Toll avoided hitting her but one driven by William Harold Cheyne struck her when she ap parently ran in front of it ' The body was first taken from the accident scene to the Klam ath Valley hospital when ambul ance men thought they detected a slight heart beat, but upon ar rival at the hospital, the woman was declared dead by Coroner Adler. , . Adler and state police proceed (Continued on Page Two) . Magnetic Waves Disrupt Iladio, Cable Circuits NEW YORK, March 1 AP) Magnetic and atmospheric dis turbance today completely sus pended for a time all wireless and cable communications with Europe and erratically disrupted domestic communications. Wireless contact between New York and Europe , was unsatis factory throughout the morning but eables, after a SO-minute mid-morning fadeout, continued to. operate with frequent lapses and slow transmission. Ground current adding from IS to 20 volts, to the usual 160-volt wire power of the Western Union caused some disturbance. Atmospheric disturbances ren dered wireless and wire service erratic in the Pacific northwest, too. s .'--.. The Alaska communications system (army signal corps wire less) reported its high frequency service north and east "went out" at midnight, and . operators had to resort to the slower medium and low frequencies to day. , - . . SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (AP) An extensive magnetic storm smothered wireless com munication over the Pacifle to day. The phenomenon, not unusual as the equinoctial period ap proach, caused such fading of aignals that scarcely any traffic could be moved . between San Francisco and- Honolulu, Man ila and Tokyo. -Truck Crasb Traps 0 officers working to remove LUa waa temporarily trapped Lb a la by the dash-board and geerszuit lever. She was the moat young people la the ca. Indo-China Conference Hits Snag TOKYO, March. 1 VP) hitch In last-minute negotiations of a Japanese-laitiated peace aueeDtent .between .French In do-China .and Thailand was au thoritatively declared to have developed tonight. The Japanese minister. Yo suke Matsuoka, waited at his private residence from 4 p. m. until 10 n. .rh.:l6. a. 'm. PSD for French Ambassador Charles lArsene Henry to keep a sched uled appointment, it was said, U . . . ik, M..U n tt AlA nitl .Ua mil uia -uctmai u.u - .w place. It was believed In authorita tive quarters that the absence of Instruction from the French I government at Vichy caused the ambassadors delay. Previously authoritative quar ters had suggested that a peace agreement - was nearing com pletion and that a final ettie- (Continued on page Two) Seven Expelled For llefusal to Salute Flag EUGENE, Ore., March 1 (UP) Seven students of the grade school at Lowell, a farming com munity 15 miles southeast of here, were expelled today for re fusing to salute the . American flag, but the expulsions were criticized by Lane county school authorities. H, W. Veach, hairman of the Lowell school board, - who . an nounced the action, said the chil dren's parents are members of Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious sect which cites a Biblical com mandant as authority for refus ing to pay homage to any earthly symbol. ...' .The county teachers' associa tion went on record disapproving the. action, and L. C. Moffitt, county school superintendent. said he regretted that the penalty was so stringent. Tbe right of school boards to expel students . under such cir cumstances was upheld In a re cent decision by the United States supreme court. ,. . Sampans Seized At Honolulu - HONOLULU;. March 1 (P) Ten alien-owned fishing sam pans were seized by customs officials today In . Honolulu's harbor,' center ot the United States' mighty mid-Pacific navy and army defenses. Customs of ficers waited to seize 70 more foreign controlled boat when they return .from the . fishing grounds where American war craft are the most frequently seen ships. The federal, grand Jury yes terday indicted 10 neraons. most of them . Japanese, . and three fishing companies, accusing them of conspiracy, to violate laws governing . the registration of the sampans. ... Girl Q;. O O Mae Kohler from the front seat truck - auto smashup Saturday at TURKEY STAYS WITH BRITISH Eden, Dill Traveling to , Egypt,- After! 'Ankara, War .'Aim.-.-' Coilerence ANKARA, Turkey, March 1 VP) A British mission headed for Egypt today with assurances of Turkey' adherence to a two-year-old pact of alliance. It was understood that after a flying trip to Cairo British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and General Sir John G. Dill, chief of the imperial general staff, would return to the Bal kans for conferences at Athens on British military aid to Greece. (Dispatches from London said Britain had received with equanimity a Belgrade an nouncement that Bulgaria had decided to join the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance today). No Effect The British leaders conduct ed their talks here in the wake of a new Turkish-Bulgarian non-aggression treaty, which the axis hailed as a diplomatic tri umph, and the Turkish press termed a check to Germany's southeastward drive. APPOINTED PORTLAND, March 1 (P) Capt. Edmund H. Jones, Port land, has been appointed chief of the military personnel section of the selective service admin istration at Washington. D. C, friends learned here today. Grizzled Alaskan Bachelor 'Disgusted' With Progress SEATTLE, March 1 VP) George Herbert disillusioned, could hardly wait today to get started 'lack to the solitude of Artie Island and the company of his dogs and lone white neigh bor. Frankly, the grizzled 66-year-old veteran bachelor, on his sec ond trip outside Alaska in 40 years, is plum disgusted with women, movies, the radio and but mostly women. "Women," he snorted, "are mostly walking totem poles painted from head to foot painted toenails and painted fingernails. "I'm no preacher, but I come down here and what do I find? Women smoking all the time, women going in bars early in the morning and stay there till late at night." ' "But not all women," Inter Jected an attractively tinted girl reporter, r ; . "Sixty-five per cent of them," the old misogynist retorted. "In the old days there were drink ing women and we knew what they were. Now all kind go Nazis Roar Into BulgarianLand; Choose War Base HITLER MAKES THREAT GOOD IN SUB RAIDS U-Boat Number Increased Fourfold in Atlantic, Reliable Source! Says LONDON, Sunday, March 2 (UP) Adolf Hitler ha made good his threat of greatly inten sified submarine warfare against British shipping by more than quadrupling the number of U- boat in the Atlantic, a reliable source said today. The increase in the number of German submarines at large in the Atlantic, this source said, was noted almost simultaneously with Adolf Hitler' speech on Monday in the course of which he asserted that a new U-boat campaign was underway. 740.000 Ton (Hitler claimed the recent (inking, a of Monday, of 215.000 tons of enemy shipping and the German high command yester day said the navy and air force between them had sunk 740,000 tons of British shipping in Feb ruary). The increase was sudden and in the past seven days brought the number of U-boat preying on British. convoys in Atlantic trade routes to more than four time the size of the submarine : . (Continued on Page Two) Gain Seen in" Hitler's Grab Of Bulgaria By Dowrrr Mackenzie ' - Associated Press Writer Bulgarian adherence to the Berlin-Rome axis will serve to grease the wheels for Heir Hit ler and thus make it easier and less risky for him to carry out hi strategically sound plan of trying to gain complete military domination of the Balkan pen insula. Success would mean that he bad sealed this danger zone and greatly lessened ' the possibility ot a new battle-front being opened up against him there. It would give him bases for opera tion against the British in the eastern Mediterranean. And it would rescue Mussolini from the Greeks. On the whole the nazl chief can credit himself with a diplo matic victory. Actually, how ever, the position hasn't altered greatly, since he long has had Bulgaria as much under his control as a lightning-bug in a bottle. . It is true that Bulgaria would have liked to keep out of this mess, and there is a fair amount of anti-German feeling in the country. It also is true that (Continued on Page Two) 'round swearln' and - cussln1 Women used to be a mystery, now they re an open book. Herbert said he came down to stay four months "and have some fun," but after less than three months he could hardly wait for today s boat north. "Why should I be lonesome up there?" he responded to a query about life on Barter Is land, west of Point Barrow. "I've got my dogs; . there's another white man on th island and we're friends. "What would I want with a radio? There's too much screech ing. I get the newspapers once a year, anyhow. I could go to Point Barrow (320 miles) to see the movies, but I've been to two of them and I don't like them. Too much make-believe. ' "That' God's country ; up there. A man can he a man and ha don't have to be led by the nose. I'm single and I'm going to stay that way." . . - - Herbert' only other trip "out side" since the gold rush was in 1017-18 to enlist for army ser vice. Bulgar Break With Britain Said Inevitable; Cham kuria to House Staff BULLETIN : SOFIA, Sunday. March 1 (UP) German troop la battle-kit poured into Bulgaria early today a a source dose to nasi quartan reported that Germany had served a virtual ultimatum on Greece to make peace with Italy now or "sutler tbe consequences" within two week. - SOFIA, March 1 (UP) Ger man motorized and air-borne troop roared into Bulgaria to night and a high nazl source said German general staff headquar ters, from which future military moves will be directed, would be established at Cham Kuria, 43 miles from the capital. ' A rupture of diplomatic rela tions between Great Britain and Bulgaria appeared inevitable. British Minister George W. Ren del, who had warned that Ger man occupation would make Bulgaria a battleground, was scheduled to see King Boris after church Sunday morning. A high German source said staff headquarter would be es tablished at the resort town of Cham Kuria to avoid concentra tion of troops in Sofia, which he (aid. would be declared an "open city" to save it from British bombing. - - By ROBERT ST. JOHN SOFIA, Bulgaria. March 1 (6 p. m. local time. 8 a. m. PST) VP) Germany poured her army into Bulgaria by panzer division and transport plane today,- occupying this, capital en masse almost before the Ink waa dry on. the Bulgarian . signature to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alli ance. Britain' minister, George Rendel, made a final appoint ment with King Boris this eve ning to tell him that Britain has no choice but to break off relation with Bulgaria. War Predicted . A British declaration of war on. Bulgaria and RAF bombs on German- communication lines within the country already has been predicted by the min isterin the event of Just such an occurrence as today. The first German armored cars rolled into the heart of the capital two hours after Bul garia's premier, Bogdan Philoff, had signed at Vienna the docu ment which aligns Bulgaria for the second time in a quarter century with a warring Ger many. '....- As darkness fell, the German mechanized columns still were thundering down the streets in increasing numbers and huge Junkers transport planes were coming down nethodically on (Continued on Page Two) Second Autopsy Disproves Report Of Double Heart ASHLAND, Mar. 1 (AP) A second autopsy showed yester day that John Swinson Frick, 73-year-old Phoenix, Ore, farm er, did not have an extra heart. Dr. A. E. M e r k e I, Jackson county physician said. He explained that the one time Swedish army cavalry man had dissecting aneurysm, an exceptionally rare condition, and that rupture ot the aneu rysm was the cause ot death Monday. - - Dr. Merkel, who announced after the first autopsy that the man had two hearts, said a dissecting aneurysm was a per manent abnormal dilation of a blood vessel. It is filled with fluid or clotted blood and usually forms a pulsating tumor. The physician said the tumor had the size and appearance of a normal heart and wai at first mistaken for a secondary heart located Just above the spleen and below the lung in tha lower left part of the chest. ' Death was at first attributed to a rupture of the left ventricle of the extra heart. , : News Index City Briefs . Page 3 Comic and Story . Page 12 Editorials Page 4 High School New . Page 3 Information Page 2 Market, Financial .... Page 11 Pattern Page S Society Pages 9, 0, 7 and 8 Sport Pag 10 Weekend Magazine Pag 14
