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The Klamath News WEATHER NEWS Talr High 111 Lew JSi Midnight 41 24 boura to a p. m. .00 BaaaoB to data . 1.14 Normal precipitation . t.44 Last yaar to data 12.S PICTURES! Associated Praia Tiltmili, MEA Telephe le and lira local newaptcture and en graving atali provide News and Harald raadara wllh a comprehensive photograph le service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 95 Price FlveCenta KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), In The Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS "TODAY'S moat Intereatjng (to ua) dlapatch: "A hlith London naval source declared today (Tuesday) that Britain wanla all the ships aha can get from America and that enough trained Urltlah pcraon- nel la ready to man the whole U. S. fleet If turned over to Britain for the developing battle of the Atlantic." ""TODAY'S dispatch ea carry word aa to th la "developing battle of the Atlantic" which, the high London naval aource say, hai now begun. For the week ending March 2. the Brltlah admit the loaa of 21 Brltlah. allied and neutral ves aela totaling 148.038 tuna, the Urgent week'a loaa alnce October. The British apokeaman in Lon don adda: 'The aprlng bllti Hit ler promised haa begun." AMERICA'S announced Job la to nrnvlde aunnllea for Brit ain, along with other embattled democracies. Wa muat conalder thia: American auppllea, including food, munitiona, etc., will DO THE BRITISH NO GOOD tin leaa they can be DELIVERED TO BRITAIN. So far aa aavlng Britain la concerned. It won't help if we pile guns, ahipa. planea. tanka and ammunition mountain high ON THIS SIDE. If they are to be of value to Britain they muat be got across the Atlantic. "-pi IE "battle of the Atlantic" referred to by the Brltlah apokeaman la a battle againat ahipa of all klnda carrying aup pllea to England. It will be waged with submarines, air plane, aurface raldera and what ever other weapons the ax la may find useful. Ita purpoee will be to prevent auppllea from reaching the Brlt lah. If It beglna to lucceed, our purpoae will have to be to break It up. That la where the navy will come in. RATHER ripples from the lease v lend bill: Yoauke Matauoka, Japanese foreign minister, leaves for Ber lin and Rome VIA MOSCOW for Important talks with Hitler and Mussolini (and possibly Stalin en route.) Berlin says the purpose of his visit is to plan counter actions to the lease-lend aid to be given Britain. Cayda mutters darkly Into his beard: "We're preparing many disagreeable surprises In the Pa- ciflc for England and the United States." A SAHI, Japanese newspaper, says: 'The lease-lend bill la a step nearer to war. The first step will be a trade of American destroyers for heavy capital British ships which the United States can send into Far Eastern waters against Japan to aid Generalissimo Chinng Kai-Shek more aggressively." The Rome newspaper La Trl- nnna ranvaramMit . pnnirnllMII says: Matsuoka's trip la the Im mediate answer to Washington's threatening move. Yesterday America spoke. Soon Japan will say her word." Jap Rear Admiral Gumpci Sckine defines Japan'! "co-prosperity sphere" in Asia as in cluding India, Australia and the Philippines. .ALL this is TALK intended to bluff us out of effective help to Britain. It won't bo talk, however, that will drag us into war. It will be DEEDS. If the axis triplets want open war with us. they will go ahead with deeds. If not, they will merely talk. It Is their move. Turku Fir On (ermnn Planes ISTANBUL, Mnrch 11 P) A foreign diplomatic source said tonight that three German war planes which flew over Turkish fortifications on the Bulgarian frontier yesterday were fired on by Turkish anti-aircraft bat teries. This highly placed source said the German planes were not hit nd dlsappcorcd over Bulgaria. One-third of the nazi troops n that German-occupied king dom or about 125,000 men now have been placed near Its frontier with Turkey, ho said. U. S. PLANES TO COME IN TIME, STATES BRITON Officials Stake Empire's Future on American Material Aid on Way Br The AuoclaUd Press LONDON. March 11 W) The battle of the Atlantic is on, Brit ons proclaimed today and of ficials optimistically staked the future of the kingdom and em pire on United States aid at hand or available. Without clarifying his Intent, a high British naval official said that Britain had enough train ed personnel to man the whole America fleet If It were turned over to her for the conflict be tween British shipping and axis raiders, aerial, surface and un dersea. Confidence Britain, he declared, wants all the ships from America she can get. He paid high tribute to the SO former United States destroy era now convoying freighters on the empire's lifelines Air MinUter Sir Archibald Sinclair told the house of com mons that American warplanes will get here In time for the developing battle of the sea ways. Sinclair said Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goehbeli was telling "his dupes" that American help for Britain would arrive too late. Fliers Trained "But 1 tell the house that aplendld aircraft the choicest fruits of American design and (Continued on Page Two) Senate Kills Pensions for Firemen Plan SALEM.: March ' 1 1 (VThf seruHr killed 18 tK.13 today a house-approved bill to provide funds for firemen s pensions by taking 60 per cent of the 21 per cent tax now levied on fire Insurance premiums. The bill would have given SO per cent of the tax to paid fire departments and 10 per cent to volunteer departments. Sen. Charry Kenin (R-Mult- nomah) said firemen have saved thousands of dollars in fire in surance rates, but Sen. Walter E. Pearson (D-Multnomah) said the bill would cost the state general fund $200,000 a year and de stroy home rule. Governor Charles A. Sprague vetoed a similar bill last session, opposing giving pensions to a special class. Office Building Hoping to end the session by Thursday night, the house passed measures today to construct a $1,000,000 state office building In Salem and to prevent Insane persons from being lodged in Jail while awaiting court hear ings. Leaders said that passage of the office building bill would satisfy the federal government. (Continued on Page Two) i Economic Constitution To Bar Uncertainties Proposed Br GEORGE E. REEDY JR. United Presa Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 11 (U.B Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, (D Wyo.), chairman of the tempor ary national economic commit tee, proposed today that a con ference of national leaders De called to draft an economic con stitution to abolish uncertainties which seem to threaten even our political system." His suggestion was contained In a statement to the committee which Is about to issue a final report on a three-year investiga tion of the nation s economic system. Ho said the conference should be colled by congress and should include business, labor, farm and consumer leaders. Statement Read O'Mahoney was ill arid his statement was read into the record by Dewey Anderson, ex ecutive secretary of the commit tee. The session was recessed af ter Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold noted that It would be discourteous to discuss the statement In OMahonoy's absence. O'Mahoney warned that the nation must choose between free enterprise and government plan- nine. If. he added, tree enter prise is to continue, it must be Hrhlsth Wateh Ilurnlntf Oil Tank Brltlah marines (foreground) off Norway. This picture was MITCHELL DIES Death Closes Career of Klamath Tribal Secre tary Injured in Fall Benjamin Fay "Ben" Mitchell, 43, Klamath Indian tribal secre tary who originated t h pro posed defense school for the res ervation, died at 9:30 o'clock Monday night at Klamath Val ley hospital from injuries re ceived in a fall Into a sump shaft at the Lost river diversion dam lata Sunday afternoon. Mr Mitchell did not regain full con sciouaness at any time following the accident. His death Cut short his activi ties in a number of reservation enterprises including -hi plan for a training school for young Indians along national defense lines. The tribal council had voted to offer $150,000 of Yam say Judgment money for the op eration of such a school. Born Near Keno ' Mr. Mitchell was born March 31, 1893, near Keno in Klamath county. His father was a white man and his mother was Mrs Mary Mitchell. With his moth' er the young boy moved to the reservation where he lived the remainder of his life. He was educated at Klamath Agency and since manhood has always held office in the tribe. For a number of years Mr. Mitchell was a member of the tribal bust' ness committee and for a part of that time served as secretary He was also chairman of loans for three years and at the time of his death held that office as well as Klamath tribal secre tary. Mr. Mitchell was listed In Dun and Bradstreet during 1922 to 1926. He owned a number of business buildings In Chiloquin but during the depression of 1928-29 lost considerable prop erty. At the time of his death he owned and operated a large (Continued on Page Two) re-established free from both private and public organizations. He proposed this four-point program to maintain "our faith in free enterprise": 1. National charters for na tional business, because "huge collective institutions which carry on our modern business" must assume "more definite re sponsibility toward all the peo ple of the nation than they now have." 2. Effective and thorough en forcement of anti-trust laws, be cause "the great crisis which the world now faces in the conflict of democracy and dictatorship" de monstrates that the time has come to outlaw all monopolistic practices "in a way that will be effective." 3. Encouragement of new business and small enterprise, by "first, a program of incentive taxation and second, the estab lishment of a system of privately insured loans.". 4. The conference of national leaders, "to concentrate public thought and action on objectives on which there is general agree ment Instead of, as now, on ob jectives concerning which there is only misunderstanding, suspi cion and disagreement." watch burning oU tanks during cabled from London. 77crcfe Future For U. S. Said Lies in Pacific SAN FRANCISCO. March 11 (UP) The future great develop ment of American trade lies in the Pacific, regardless of the out come of the war, Henry F. Grady, president of the American Presi dent Lines and former assistant U. S. secretary of state, saic in a prepared speech tonight Grady's address was read to 400 shipping men at the Fair mont hotel by M. J. Buckley, vice president of the company, in Grady's absence. It was "steamship night" of the Pacific Traffic association. Peat War Vacuum "There is every reason to be lieve," Grady wrote, "that there will be a vacuum In our Dost war trade as ' far as Europe is con cerned. Economic prostration of our former number one cus tomer (Britain) is pretty certain to be an effect of the war." Hence, Grady wrote, America should think primarily in terms of the British empire, Latin America and the Far East as the most promising market possibili ties. "This presumes," he wrote, "satisfactory settlement of the Far Eastern problem . . a settle ment which will not diminish our trading potentialities in that great and promising area. If this situation works out happily, and I have every reason to believe it will, the long-heralded 'era of the Pacific' should be upon us." He said that when a "Just peace" settles over the Orient the Chinese will make rapid pro gress toward economic stabiliza tion, national unity and higher standards of living, "all of which will make for the development of increased foreign trade with those countries which will meet the Chinese on the basis of help fulness and cooperation." Grady said that unless the United States is willing to be come a second or third rate na tion, it must Join with every ounce of resources and energy the forces now fighting to pre serve a world economy based on free and democratic principles. California Bill Asks Senate Okay On Appointments SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 11 (UP) The senate tonight passed and sent to the assembly a constitutional amendment re quiring virtually all gubernator ial appointments to be approved by the senate. The amendment, passed 29-5, would waive senate consent only for vacancy appointments when the legislature is not in session, and for personal secretary ap pointments. Vacancy appoint ments, however, would be sub ject to senate approval when the legislature reconvened. Assembly approval of the measure, sponsored by Senator Jesse Mayo, would put it on the general election ballot in Novem ber, 1942. firemen Answer False Alarm A fire alarm called Klamath Falls fire-fighting equipment to South Riverside street about 10 o'clock Tuesday night. It turned out to be a false alarm. City police said they believed the -alarm was turned In by young neighborhood pranksters. Off Norway a raid en the Lofoten Islands KIRK, RHODES GET SENTENCES Young Indian Must Serve Life Term; Motion to Delay. Action Fails After ruling out a defense motion for arrest of Judgment, Circuit Judge David R. Vanden- berg Tuesday sentenced Luther Joe Kirk to life imprisonment for the second degree murder of Leonard John. He followed that action with a sentence of two years In the penitentiary for Robert Wilcox Rhodes, con victed this week of Involuntary manslaughter . in an auto acci dent death. , . 1 - . ' : ' The; life sentence for Kirk is mairUaluiy under the law. The 29-year-old I n d J a n defendant showed litUe emotion as he stood before the bench and re ceived the sentence,, the first of ljucb severity meted ot ty tne new judge of the thirteenth Ju dicial district. "Luther Joe Kirk Is hereby (Continued on Page Two) Heaviest Toll Of Ships Sunk Since October LONDON, March 11 (Ph-Reporting the heaviest toll of mer chant shipping in the sea war since last October, the admir alty announced today the loss of 29 British, allied and neutral vessels totaling 148,038 tons in the week ended March 2. It said its figures contrasted with German and Italian claims of having sunk 432,500 tons dur ing the period. An authoritative source, never theless, said: "The spring blitz which Hit ler promised has begun." He added that British counter measures, nevertheless, were im proving and had produced "par ticularly successful results." The losses reported by the ad miralty were broken down as follows: British, 20 merchantmen, 102,871 tons; allied, eight 41.970 tons; neutral, one vessel, 3197 tons. During the previous week, the total tonnage of merchantmen lost was given as 65,557. Heavier weekly losses were suffered in October, when 205, 000 tons of merchantmen went down in a single week, and in September, when one week's toll was 178,000 tons. Kx-Stanford Coach Marries RENO, Nev., March 11 (UP) Claude E. (Tiny) Thornhill, for mer Stanford university football coach, and Miss Jean Leidloff, Los Gatos, Calif., were married here late today by Judge William McKnight. Thornhill, who put three Stan ford teams In the Rose bowl In 1933, 1934 and 1935, gave his age as 47, and the bride's as 25. She Is a daughter of Mrs. Josephine Liedloff of Los Angeles. Thornhill was dismissed from the Stanford coaching staff at the end of the 1939 season. His first wife died shortly afterward. Miss Liedloff had not been married before, according to the marriage license. President Signs Lease - Lend Bill FAIL TO KILL BRITISH ENVOY Two Bombs in Rendel Party's Luggage Kill Six Turks at Istanbul ISTANBUL, Wednesday, Mar. 12 (UPV-Britain's recalled min ister to Bulgaria, George W. Ren del, escaped possible assassina tion by a few moments last night when two time-bombs hidden in the luggage of his party wrecked the hotel where he was staying here and wounded seven Britons, four of them diplomatic officials. Turkish police, tentatively tracing the outrage to enemies whom Rtndel left behind in German-occupied Bulgaria, said it was "almost certain" that the bombs in large suitcases had been placed in the luggage be fore the evacuating British diplo mats left Sofia. Death Toll Rises The death toll in the bombing rose to six early today, including two Turkish policemen who had been guarding the hotel, two ho tel porters, a passerby and an un identified woman whose head was blown off. All were Turks. The blast occurred at 10 o'clock last night, less than an hour after Rendel, the 50 mem bers of bis party and IS other British evacuees from Bulgaria had arrived at th Pent Palace hotel from Sofia. I. A British diplomat, asked If German agents wer blamed for the bembinavbictt wrecked nu set fire to the hotel,-said this seemed "too iantastie to be pos sible." . , It was revealed, however, that members of the Rendel party had looked inside the luggage con taining three bombs one was found before it exploded while the train was traveling from Sofia to Istanbul yesterday but noticed only old clothing and parcels. Ten Suspects ' " The entire staff of the Pera Palace was arrested early today, after 10 suspects of unrevealed nationality had been taken into custody and questioned by po lice. - By midnight all guests had been removed from the Pera Pal ace, in the midst of Istanbul's European and diplomatic quarter overlooking the Golden Horn, and cordons of police kept a crowd of thousands away. The hotel was in shambles, the ceiling of its huge lobby col lapsed, its stone front blown out and its facade blackened by fire. The thU-d bomb, found in a suitcase before it exploded, was described as a 250-pound ex plosive. Officials said the plotters evi dently had intended the bombs to go off aboard the train. Montana Mail Carrier Goes Berserk, Shoots Three Men MISSOULA, Mont.. March 11 (UP) Three men were killed to day by George Smith, a mail car rier, in a gun battle that raged for about four hours in the sub urban RatUesnake creek section of Missoula. Two of the men, Deputy Sher iff Lloyd Stringer, about 40, and Herman Green, about 25, a posse member, were killed when George Smith, about 44, who took the day off from his duties as a mailman, was driven from his barricaded home and emerged from a rear door, shooting as he ran. Police said Smith shot and killed Dick Shipwright, about 28, when Shipwright, a Montana Power company employe and the first man slain, went to Smith's home to read the meter. City Officer James Doyle, a member of the posse that sur rounded Smith's home, quoted Smith as saying, when officers found him lying wounded by the creek, that if "I had any more shells I would have gotten more of you." ' Doyle said Smith apparently became deranged brooding over a lawsuit involving a horse which was setUed in district court last Saturday. The 'udg- Report Says British Land In Greek Port BELGRADE .Wednesday, Mar. 12 (UP) Unconfirmed reports reached diplomatic circles here today that a Big British expedi tionary force from North Africa is being landed at Piraeus, the port of 'Athens, for action on the Greek front. It also was reported that Brit ish transports were about to land troops at Salonika, key Greek port at the top of the Aegean sea barely 60 miles from where Ger m a n mechanized forces are massed along the Bulgarian Greek Macedonian border. 40 Trans porta Diplomats in Belgrade heard, without direct confirmation, that 40 British military transports ar rived Tuesday at Pireaus. heav ily bombed Greek port on a billy peninsula live miles southwest of Athens, and began unloading troops. The British expeditionary force, it was said, was drawn from General Sir Archibald Wavell's army of the Nile in Egypt and Libya after the shat tering of Marshal Rodolfo Grazi ani's Italian Northern African forces. For several days it had been reported in Belgrade that the British had assembled at least 10 divisions approximately 175, 000 troops in Africa for trans portation to Greece but it was not revealed bow many of these. if any, had been actually disem barked. t- ; If a British expeditionary force bas landed in Greece, for action, either oa the Albanian front or to be brought face to face with the German Balkan army along the Bulgarian-Greek border, it presumed to be a result of the recent Athens consultations oi British Foreign Secretary Anth ony Eden and Genera. Sir John G. Dill, chief of the British im perial general staff. Senator Bill Faces Threat In Committee SALEM, March 11 (V-Over protest of Sen. Marshall Cornett (R-Klamath), the senate sent to its rules committee today a bill by Rep. Henry Semon (D-Klam-ath), to give Klamath county a senator of its own by splitting the 17th senatorial district of Klamath, Crook, Deschutes, Jef ferson and Lake counties. The bill, identical to a senate measure defeated earlier in the senate, passed the house Mon day. Sen. Cornett objected that sending the measure to the rules committee was "an effort to kiU the bill." Under senate rules a bill once defeated can not be reconsidered, though re-introduced. m e n t was against Smith and. Doyle said, friends had Joked with the mail carrier, calling him a "horse thief." Smith, father of a boy and girl of school age, laid off today In stead of taking his regular mail route. Doyle said Shipwright appear ed at the Smith home about 9 a. m. As he was reading the meter, Doyle said. Smith shot and killed Shipwright, firing without warning through a win dow with a .30- 30 caliber rifle. Barricaded House Mrs. Smith ran to neighbors and called city and county offi cers. Smith barricaded the house and apparently took refuge in the basement, officers said. They said bullets were "poured" into the building, but believed Smith was not wounded until he emerged. He received a wound in the right shoulder near his lung and a flesh wound in his left arm. The posse obtained gas gren ades, hurling two into the upper part of the house and two into the basement. Smith caught Stringer by sur (Continued on Page Two) ; SEVEN BILLION TO BE ASKED First Allotment of Army, Navy Materials Gets Approval of Executive WASHINGTON. March 11 Oft President Roosevelt signed the British lid bill today and im mediately afterward approved the transfer of the first allot ment of army and navy mate rial. The chief executive, declining! to disclose the type of equip ment involved, said the amount was small and that the greater portion would go to England, but some would be sent to Greece. To Ask Funds It was the first step in sup plying aid in a program for which congress is expected to be asked tomorrow to supply a $7, 000,000,000 appropriation. Asked whether aid might be extended to China soon under the administration's policy of as sisting "democracies" battling aggressors, the president said ha did not know, but that mam help, to China was contemplated. Fast Action Mr. Roosevelt signed th British aid measure at 3:51 p. m EST, and four minutes later took the second step approval of the transfer of army and navy equipment In putting into quick operation plan for con verting the,4ation Into what he has called an "arsenal" for em-battled-'democracles " . Mr. Roosevelt earlier had in (Continued on Page Two) Thai, French Sign Peace Agreement TOKYO, March 11 CP) Thai land and French Indo-China signed a Japanese-sponsored peace agreement today, ending their border dispute and giving Thailand parts of Cambodia and Laos embracing some of Indo china's richest rice producing areas. Diplomatic circles expressed belief Japan already had re ceived assurances that she could purchase the total rice crop and timber output in the ceded areas. Japan is short in both products. First Success It was understood Thailand would acquire some 25,000 square miles of territory, which is somewhat short of the con cessions she claimed. The agreement, signed in a ceremony at the official resi dence of Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, marked Japan's first successful task of mediation undertaken In her proclaimed role of leader of a sphere of influence in great er east Asia. The pact provided for a (Continued on Page Two) Nazis Assault Portsmouth PORTSMOUTH, Eng., March 10 VPl The mightiest assault of the war on this important south coast naval station was made overnight by the German air force. For six hours, nazi fliers unloaded high explosive and In cendiary bombs, setting fires that raged uncontrolled for hours. Three of the raiders were shot down. A bright moon and the glare of fires started by the first wave of attackers aided the luftwatfe. More than 30 fires sent flames skyward. One of' the city's oldest shop ping centers was badly dam aged. Buildings destroyed in eluded churches. - News Index City Briefs ......Page 8 Comics and Story . Page 8 Courthouse Records Page 2 Editorials ...Page 4 High School News Page 7 Information .. Page 5 Market, Financial Page 10 Midland Empire News, Page 6 Pattern Page 3 Sports Page 9 V - i