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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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. ,
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Editorials Page 4
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