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Vol. 18, No. 93 Price Five Cents
TWO SECTIONS
KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday),
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JENKINS
TF you want a lood plctura of
what all the diplomatic shoot
Inf today Is about, let out your
map.
You will nota at one that If
Turkey. Greece and Yugoslavia
tand pat and get away with It
Germany till b barred from
i-a jp im eastern Mediter
ranean. ,
If they give in. ai Rumania
and Bulgaria have dona. Ger
many, by meant of submarine
and air baara and a direct land
route to Suet, will COMMAND
the eastern Mediterranean.
KTOW take another look at your
map.
Cairo and Alexandria. In
Egypt, are the nerve centers of
Britain'! African empire. By
meana of the Red Sea, they have
a back door Inlet and outlet .to
India and Autralia.
Aa Jong at Britain commands
the eastern Mediterranean, she
can threaten Germany from the
aouth. even if ihe ahould lose
Gibraltar. If her command is
lost, aha will he wounded In a
vital spot.
That la the story back of these
diplomatic maneuvers that are
XUIIng the papers today.
TN this situation. Turkey la the
Thing pin.
If Turkey electa to fight, and
does a good Job of It (aa she
usually does once she starts to
fight), you need only to look at
your map to see that Germany's
situation will not be to Hitler's
liking. If he decides to bring
to bear enough strength to pul
verize Turkish resistance, he will
have opened up a new fighting
front on a major scale, which is
the last thing he wants to do.
. From all of this you can form
an Idea of the price the German
diplomats, headed by the wily
Fritz von Papen. are offering to
Turkey If she will play ball.
TF you are In your middle
forties, you will be able to
recall clearly the expression
"the unspeakable Turk." In
those days. It la probable that
nine Americans out of every ten
detested and loathed Turkey.
If she stands fast by her Brit
ish alliance against all the bland
lshment and all the temptations
that Hitler can bring to bear,
thus strengthening Immeasurably
the arm of Britain whose cause
we are committed to, Turkey in
American eyes will be a knight
In shining armor like unto Lan
celot the pure.
Thus does history change.
,
KAN WHILE, a new rumor
enters the picture.
The German press, which does
what It is told to do and says
what It is told to say, has dug
up a tale to the effect that Presi
dent Roosevelt is bringing diplo
matic pressure to bear on Yugo
slavia in an effort to line her up
against the axis. Britain and
Greece, of course, are working
on Yugoslavia in every way they
know.
State department officials In
Washington say they never heard
of any such efforts. Yugoslav of
ficials term the "whole business
ridiculous."
The German press, however,
mutters threat.
YOU will be wise if you keep
your fingers crossed, remem
bering that rumors are as much
weapon of war as guns.
With a big German diplomatic
offensive on In the Balkans, you
may be quite sure that Germany
Is operating her rumor factories
at full blast.
APPLY TO MARRY
RENO, Nev., March 8 U.P
Marriage licenses:
John Loy, over 21, and
Mildred Height, over 21, both
Klamath Falls; Robert X. Barry,
27, and Isabella Bales, 28, both
Merrill; Clarence F. Kowalskl,
48, Oakland, Calif., and Jane G.
Frederick, 28, Yachats, Ore.,
Edgar L. Coghlll, 21, and Helen
M. Smith, 20, both Medford.
Br FRANK
Jury Returns Verdict In
20 Minutes, Rules on
Auto - Truck Smashup
Robert Wilcox Rhodes, wood
truck operator, was found guilty
of manslaughter by a Jury of 12
men who returned the verdict
after a 20-minute period of con
sideration Saturday morning.
Rhodes was charged with invol
untary manslaughter In the death
of Howard Johnson on the night
of November 11, 1940, in a head
on collision between Rhodes'
truck and Johnson's sedan. Mrs.
Johnson was also killed in the
crash a short distance south of
Worden on highway 87.
Rhodes will be sentenced by
Circuit Judge David R. Vanden
berg at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing Just after the sentencing of
Luther Joe Kirk, found guilty of
second degree murder In a case
which closed Thursday after
noon. 1-15 Years
According to laws of the state
of Oregon the crime of Involun
tary manslaughter carries a sent
ence of from one to 15 years.
District Attorney Orth Slse
more Intimated he would dismiss
the second case of involuntary
manslaughter with which Rhodes
Is faced in connection with the
death of Mrs. Howard Johnson
in the same accident which caus
ed her husband's death. The
trial was set for Monday. Circuit
Judge Vandenberg said the jury
would not be called until Wed
nesday. Case Short
Both the state and defense,
represented by District Attorney
Slsemore and Defense Attorney
Joseph C. O'Neill, completed the
questioning of witnesses Thurs
day afternoon at 8 o'clock and
court recessed until V30 o'clock
Friday morning when the state
presented the rebuttal. No sur
rebuttal was presented by the
defense and the entire procedure
took very little time. The Jury
received Instruction from the
bench and retired at 11:20 a. m.
with Foreman Lawrence Bert
ram and other Jurymen return
ing to the box at 11:40 a. m.
Sieel Plant
Workers Vote
7 -Day Week
By The Associated Press
Employes of the Midvale Steel
company's plant at Philadelphia
have voted to work a seven-day,
88-hour week "In the Interest
of the national defense emer
gency," union leaders reported
today.
Edward Kunz, secretary of
federal labor union No. 18,887
(AFL) said the approximately
4000 plant employes had voted
"two to one" for the seven-day
work week.
He described the vote as the
first of it kind conducted by
any union in any manufactur
ing plant in the nation.
As a result of the vote taken
yesterday, he said, employes
will work 86 hour a week, in
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President Says Agriculture
Ready for Defense Demand
WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R)
President Roosevelt, addressing
the nation's farmers on the
eighth anniversary of the found
ing of the new deal farm pro
gram, declared tonight that agri
culture is ready for any demand
of total defense as a result of
their own voluntary, concerted
efforts since 1933.
The anniversary wa cele
brated at 10,000 "farm day"
dinners throughout the country
attended by approximately 230,
000 farmers.
Mr. Roosevelt's address was
broadcast by all major radio net
works. Also on the program were
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace and Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard.
No Accident ;
"It is no accident that the
farmer of our country stand
ready to serve in the severe trial
ahead of us," Mr. Roosevelt said.
Their preparedness i the fruit
of their own voluntary, con
One In a
'- ' ,- .-.
' Susannah Glassall was lust
ing doctors at her birth la Los Angela until she yawned, then
they discovered she' had two wall-devaloped and completely ex
posed front lower teeth. Her mother holds Susannah whom doe-
tor Is said ia one in several thousand to be born with teeth.
TAX I SALES
-T-. r
Opponents Say Burden
' Would . Rest . Heaviest
on
Poorest .Persons
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM, March 8 VP) The
two per cent retail sales tax
bill, which would have been re
ferred to the people, was reject-
fed by the house today by a 31
to 28 vote, democrats charging
the measure placed too heavy a
burden on poor people and that
It would not provide immediate
help to the aged.
The bill would have provided
for tax tokens, but would have
exempted food. ' It was opposed
by organized labor, the Oregon
Commonwealth Federation, and
the state grange.
. Tax Relief '
Rep. ' Frank J. Lonergah ' (R
Multnomah), author of the bill,
said It would raise 84,800,000 a
year for old age pensions, and
$3,200,000 for property tax re
lief. ' ;
'The sales tax," Lonergan
said, "makes everyone a con
tributor to support of govern
ment." He said the bill -would raise
a sufficient amount of money so
that the old people may live in
a sensible, decent way. Old age
pensions are not charity, not
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certed efforts, stretching back
over the years. ' .
"These efforts are embodied in
national farm programs, conceiv
ed by the farmers and administ
ered by farmers."
Secretary Wickard said that
American farmers have proved
their ability to work together in
national programs for agricult
ure. "Now another storm is upon us
and if farmers didn't have their
programs, they would be as help
less as they were in 1932," he
said.
Declaring that farmers have
a tremendous stake in the
triumph of democracy, Vice
President Wallace said that Presi
dent Roosevelt is working to keep
war away from these shores. .
"But refusing to help other
democracies," Wallace continued,
"doe not guarantee peace. Mil
lions of American are directly
dependent upon our foreign
trade. If the nasi win, there I
little future for that trade."
Thousand
another average baby to attend
Man Held For
Attempts to
4
aim
REDDING, Calif., March 8 OP)
Whenever Itinerant Elmer Fry,
36, of Omaha, Neb., wanted a lift
In his travels, he Just barricaded
t train track jnd . climbed on
while the way was being clear
ed, according to his confession
reported by Deputy District At
torney John A. Spann. .
Spann said the plan - didn't
work a expected Thursday
night at Smith Creek. Twice Fry
put tie on the track, and twice
Southern Pacific freight trains
plowed through without-- stop
ping narrowly escaping ' derail'
ment.
Fry was arrested yesterday by
Fred Taylor, a special agent for
the railroad, in the woods not
far from the scene of the barri
cade. He was brought here and
questioned not only about the
blocking .of the track, but also
about the wrecked streamliner,
City of San Francisco. In Nevada
In 1939. He said he was herding
sheep in Montana when that hap
pened.
The district attorney's . deputy,
said Fry told him he thought he
belonged in prison and Aught to
draw at least a 18-year term, so
that he wouldn't be tempted to
stop any more trains.
"He said he was always afraid
he might wreck one some day,'
Spann added.
The attorney said a charge of
obstructing a railroad track or
attempting to wreck a train
would be filed.
Noted Author
Dies at Colon
COLON, Panama. March 8
(U.R) Sherwood Anderson, noted
author and playwright, died late
today of peritonitis. He was 84,
Anderson's wife was at his
bedside in Colon hospital.
He had been suffering from an
abdominal ailment complicated
by peritonitis and several days
ago had to be removed from the
Grace liner Santa Lucia, on
which he was taking a South
American cruise.
He died at 6:40 p. m. Only a
short fehile before, his physicians
noted a slight improvement and
reported that his pulse and tem
perature were "good."
Anderson was 40 years old be
fore his first book was published,
and many years of wandering
about the country - in ' menial
Jobs gave him an understanding
of ordinary people which was
the basis of his rank as one of
the American masters of the
short story.
He adapted his simple, almost
staccato style to the cause of
underprivileged workers - and
small town life, as he observed it
while editing two country weekly
newspapers in Marlon, Va.
Historic Lease-Lend Bill
Passes Senate; Vote 60-31
iZIS BELIEVE
RUMOR OF U. S.
BALKAN OFFER
Annoyed Reaction; Greets
Report That President
Suggests Yugoslav Aid
BERLIN. March 8 VP) Al
though substantiated on the sur
face by nothing except a Hungar
ian newspaper dispatch, Germans
reacted with annoyance today to
a report that President Hoose-
velt had suggested some manner
of aid to Yugoslavia to keep that
nation out of the axis.
(State department official at
Washington said they "never
heard of it.") ' ;
Stiff Battle ""''
German newspaper hammer
ed on the theme. Pressed for
additional substantiation of the
Budapest report, an authorized
spokesman commented: - -
"We have the impression It la
authentic."
The alleged diplomatic feeler
directed at Yugoslavia waa de
scribed here aa evidence of how
bard the democracies were fight
ing to prevent the spread of u
flu te of the three-power, pact
1 t Germans, however, re
fue i to say a word about what
prt ss the pact might be mak
ing and,, in connection with the
many rumor and report of the
movement of Yugoslav states
men,. the spokesman commented:
- "We don't c4r to add tD the
mfiiiir of .crareDorta.c-.
In a lead -article , today the
Essea National Zeltung diked if
"America would appreciate, it if
Germany tent special envoy all
over Central America- as Roose
velt doe ' over Europe." v The
Zeitung said these rrarvartri W
"proof -"of a -continued -attempt
on the part ot Washington to 1 in
fluence Germany's -netghbors."
The comment grew' bur of the
Yugoslav story, printed in the
Budapest newspaper Magyarsag
and distributed from there by
the German radio and DNB,
German official new agency.
The newspaper -Magyarsag,
from which the German prt
quoted, carried a story under a
Washington dateline with a
headline saying "Yugoslavia re
fuses help from Roosevelt." The
story was credited to "Special
Service" and was the' first "Spec
ial dispatch" from Washington
the newspaper ever has carried.
ROME, March 8 (P) Vlr
ginlo Gayda, a fascist editorial
spokesman, indicated today that
Yugoslavia would be asked to
"clarify her position and Inteo
Hons" toward the axis power as
a result of an axis-reported at
tempt by President Roosevelt to
keep the Balkan country out of
the Kome-Berlin-Tokyo camp.-
Bomb Crashes
Into London ,
NlghtCInb
LONDON, March 6 (U.R) Sev
eral persons were killed- and
many were seriously injured to
night when a heavy bomb crash
ed into a crowded night club.
The bomb struck squarely In
the center of the building, pene
trated, and exploded amidst the
guests.
Surviving casualties were rush
ed to nearby hotel while the
most intense anti-aircraft bar
rage of recent months filled the
sky with shrapnel.
Swarms of German raiders
criss-crossed the capital area,
dropping "chandelier" flares, in
cendiaries, and heavy high ex
plosive bombs.
The mass night raid followed
a day of scattered air battles in
which the British claimed to
have shot down - three - German
bombers. .
Rooftop spotter succeeded in
dousing most of the incendiaries
and no large fires were -report
ed.
High, explosive bombs, how
ever, demolished several houses
In one - London district -and a
number of persons were rescued
from the debris,- one a baby
whose wails were heard :by a
pwieeman.-The child wa re
moved unhurt.
The raid waa the most intense
night attack sine Jan. 4,
MatsuokaTo
Visit Berlin
For Axis Talk
BERLIN, March 8 OPh-Jap
an rorelgn Minister Yoeuke
Matsuoka is to pay an unpreced
ented visit to Berlin and then to
Rome. It wa announced today.
and political quarter considered
it probable that he would discuss
with German and Italian leaders
all the wide affairs of the axis
alliance.
Authorized source hi announc
ing Matsuoka'a coming did not
specif y the date.
These quarters were non-com
mittal on a report by Domei,
Japanese News Agency, that the
conversations were designed for
a mutual exchange of informa
tion on the "eve of an Invasion"
of England.
(In the far east there has been
speculation that a visit by
Matauoka might be intended to
coordinate Japanese policy in the
Pacific with Germany's plans in
Europe.) .
Heavy Snow
Hits Eastern
States Area
Br The Associated Press
The heaviest snowstorm in
year today blanketed the At
lantic seaboard from Virginia
to Maine, in some places piling
up as much as 16 inches of wet
fluff to equal the greet
10
r-Mewre, New Jtney,- east
ern Pennsylvania an southern
New York bore . the brunt of
the fall where maximum depths
of 14 to-14 tocnea were record
ed. From -this local point the
oVw- tapered off with lighter
deposits in the . Virginia Capes
country, sod the main coastal
area. ' t--".',-
Travel Impeded t-r ''.
. ' Travel by-land, sea and air
was impeded and. no respite was
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Glii Missing
From La Pine
'Viva Rae Stearns, IB. was re
ported missing from La Pine, Ore.
Saturday night by Floyd Mobley,
a resident of the mountain town.
Mobley said Miss Stearns made a
trip to San Francisco three
week ago and was apparently on
her way back to La Pine when
she disappeared. . He said her
suitcases were forwarded by bus
a week ago from Klamath Falls,
but that no word has been heard
of the girl since.
Mobley Tdescribed 'the Stearns
girl as being five feet four inches
in height; -weight; 140 pounds;
wears glasses. He said he was
afraid she had. met with foul
piy-
Senator Wheeler Declares
America Has 'Turned Corner'
WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R)
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D.,
Mont, leader of the unsuccessful
fight against the British aid bill,
said tonight that America has
"turned a corner from which
she may never come back a
corner that may close now and
forever our way of life."
Senate passage of the bill.
Wheeler said, has placed Ameri
ca for the tint time in its history
"in the position ot being a full
participant in power politics."
Resting on a couch in the ante
room ot the senate chamber he
said: -
. "There will be a revulsion
against these things. It may be
delayed for a year or two if the
United States gets into the war
but it will Uke place and it wiU
be a mass revulsion."- '
-.. , To fCruaade" - .; '
Wheeler himself is about to
set out on "crusade" against
American involvement in the
European' War and stump the
country 'from coast to coast?
Hi office in the senate Interstate
commerce , committee room was
crowded .with -stenographers
busily writing letter in prepara
tion' for the. tour. . . - .
American participation in the
war, he said, will lead to a dicta
torship. It cannot last long, he
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Passes
-1
Ixa M. Coleman, above, staff
sergeant with Batterr C, S4tth
coast artillery and former pr
ideat of the Klamath Central
Labor Council, died suddenly
at Fort Stevens Friday.
GREEKS ASKED
TO END FIGHT
Germans Offer Territory
1 Held by Greece When
Hostilities Started
UP) With 150,000 nazi soldiers
on the Greek border poised for
action, Germany appeared to
day to be .making an intense
effort-to-end -the Greek-Italian
war by diplomacy before re
sorttef to force.
.- Some - quarters Intimated that
German diplomats had gone so
far as to offer Greece a guar
antee that she would retain all
the - territory she held at the
outbreak ot hostilities last Oc
tober 28. i
'
BELGRADE, March 8 VP)
Authoritative diplomatic sources
said tonight they had been in
formed that Greece had asked
Turkey whether she was pre
pared to fulfill Greek-Turkish
mutual assistance treaties should
German troops attack Greece
from Bulgaria.
ATHENS, Greece, March 8
(if) Greek claims of new suc
cesses on the central Albanian
war front in which 1050 Ital
ians' were' captured coincided
with unconfirmed reports of so
other - shakeup in - the Italian
high command the fourth since
the campaign began last Octo
ber 28.
added, "because Americans are
not made to accept dictatorship."
' The measure gives the presi
dent power to "wage undeclared
war" and to place the nation's
foreign trade upon a "barter
basis," he said, adding:
"Of course, we are already in
the war even if we are not actual
ly tiring arms . and killing
people."
"Mass Distrust"
He referred to the action ot
the senate in voting down the
declaration ot the democratic
platform against involvement in
foreign wars as an amendment to
the British aid bill and said it
might lead to "mass distrust ot
the two old parties."
"How can people trust parties
who count their platforms ot so
little worth?" he asked. "I be
lieve that action today may be
one of the most powerful in
fluences in leading to a dis
appearance of the two old par
ties." . New dealers, he continued,
have had the idea "in the back
of their heads tor a long time"
that this nation's trade with
South. America should be on a
barter basis. "They believe that
thus they might be sble to gain
the friendship of those nations,"
he added..
F. D. R. GRANTED
EXTRAORDINARY
POWER IN DILL
U. S. "Arsenal, Larder of
Democracy," to Grant
Weapons Against Axis
Br WILLIAM K. LAWRENCE
' United Press Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 8 (UJ9
The senate today passed the ad
ministration's historic - bill to
make the United States the
"arsenal and larder of democ
racy" by providing nations resis
ting axis aggression warplanea,
warships, other- implements ot
war and food. : : '
The senate granted President
Roosevelt the' extraordinary
powers to make these transac
tions by the impressive vote of
80 to 31. -
- Voting for the bill were 41
democrats; 10 republicans, and
one independent
- Against the bill were 13 demoi
erats; 17 republicans and one
progressive. ' Among those supi
porting the bill was senate ret
publican leader Charles L. Mo
Nary of Oregon, the GOP vice
presidential nominee in 1840.
- - - 18-Day Debate
'The ' administration - victory;
which was a signal defeat for the
Isolationist viewpoint in Ameri
can foreign' policy, came after
18 days of vigorous and some
times angry senate debate. Sup-,
porters contended the bill waa a '
m." - - ' i--
Shortly before the final vote
and while opposition leader. Sen.
Burton K. Wneeler, C Mont,
was charging that "new dealers
who get their information from
the feed trough say we will be at
war by April 1," an elderly .
woman who said she was Elsie
Canef a, of New York, unfurled
a banner from the senate gal
lery.. Large black letters stand
ing out on a white background
prociamed: "H. R. 1776 means
war vote no. The ' American
peace mandate." The woman was
ejected by gallery attendants, .
Given a cnoice of arrest or leav
ing the city, she elected to leave.
Concurrence Expected
The measure now goes to the
House, of Representatives which
passed it a month ago today, ex
pected speedy concurrence in
11 senate amendments. Speaker
Sam Rayburn plans to obtain
house approval of these altera
tions Monday. ", .
This would be ' exactly two
months from the day that Presi
dent Roosevelt sent the moment
ous legislation to capitol hill as
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Miner Cleared '
Of Assault on
Ex-Sweetheart ,
BVTTE, Mont, March 8 U.R)
Edward Jellch, 28-year-old
Butte miner, was acquitted to
day by a district court Jury ot
first degree assault charges that
resulted from the "broken rom
ance" shooting of Barbara Wel
ter, 23, his former sweetheart
Jelich was to be given a sanity
hearing next week. Defense wit
nesses testified he was insane
when he shot and seriously
wounded Miss Welter here last
Dec. 8 and then severely wound
ed himself.
Miss Welter, recovered from
her wound, and three members
ot her family testified at the
trial they believed Jelich was
sane at the time of the shooting.
Mrs. Welter, the wounded
girl's mother, said Jelich had ac
cused her of "breaking up" his
romance with her daughter. Miss
Walter said she once loved Jelich
but that her love "faded." . .
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City Briefs
Comics and Story
Editorials
High School News
Information
Market, Financial Page 4
Midland Empire News, Page 14
Pattern Page 3
Society Pages 8, 6. 7,
Sports Psge 11
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