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Vol. 18, No. 96 Price Five Cent
KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday),
Pelicans Defeat
Roseburg, 31-18
A t State Tourney
Here on Christian Mission '
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AT II a. m. today lont 11 to
dato even guesses these days)
tha newa la full of rumora and
not much else.
THERE ia a rumor from Bel
X grade (Yugoslavia) that
Russia haa promised tho Turks
ha won't attack them If they
fight to defend Greece.
' There la another rumor that
tha Carmana have placed long
range guna at Varna, on tha
lllack Sea coast of Bulgaria aa a
threat to commerce In that area.
(Just what the threat may be
doesn't appear from an examin
ation of the map.)
CRANCO la reported to have re
r Jected flatly aa "inconsistent
with Spanish honor" a German
demand that Spain give terri
torial facilities for the flight of
nail planes to assist the Italians
in Libya.
' At the a a m e time Serrano
Suner. Franco's foreign minister,
gives out a statement to the ef
fect that Spain and the axis trip
lets are Just like peas In a -pod.
So draw your own conclusions.
I THERE Is a rumor that German
I planes have already begun
J to bombard Greek towns from
I base In Bulgaria, and Indica
tions that the zero hour In the
i i Balkans may be near are seen
1 ? in reports that the steady south-
ward movement of German
troops through Bulgaria, under
way for ten days, haa suddenly
dwindled to a trickle, '
. It la further reported tliat Ger-
man staff officers have disap
peared from Sofia. Bulgaria's
. capital, and are headed for field
headquarters near the Greek and
Turkish borders.
Thousands of German planes
are said to ba massed along these
same frontiers.
"ONTINUING the recital of
rumors, Yugoslavia Is re
ported -to have agreed "in prin
ciple" to sign the axis pact.
A glance at the map will make
Yugoslavia's position plain to
you. She Is surrounded on prac
tically all sides by the axis.
Her choice would appear to
))le between submission and sui
cide. TT looks like the crisis In the
Balkans la heading up to a
peak, but of course one never
can be wholly certain. Surprise
ia an immensely Important ele
ment in warfare, and this mass
of rumors may be a smoke
screen designed to mask the
spot where the blow la really
to fall.
It seems Inconceivable that It
won't fall somewhere, and soon.
MEANWHILE, listen for a mo
ment to our old friend "in
formed nazi spokesman," who
says today in Berlin (with, the
AP correspondent reports, more
solemnity than usual):
. "Mr. Roosevelt la an unpre
dictable man. Let him send
ONE CONVOY and "
. There he left the sentence
hanging. Then he added: "We
are determined to torpedo
EVERYTHING that approaches
. England."
. .
""THAT la a threat. It may or it
may not be carried out. It Is
r intended to bluff the United
States, It possible, out of con
voying merchant ships loaded
with munitions to Britain.
JO rumors today (up to 11 a.
m, at least) from Japan,
other than that Foreign Min
ister Yosuke Matsuoka, leaving
for his visit with Hitler and
Mussolini (and maybe Stalin), is
given great send-off by cheer
ing crowds of Japanese.
The War
25 Years Ago
By The Associated Press
Local Basketball Quint
Set Up as Team to
Beat; Bocchi Scores 11
Oregon state tournament
scoresi
Salem 41. Columbia Preps,
Portland. 32.
McMlnnvllle 40. Beavertoa
22.
Klamath Falls 21. Roseburg
II.
North Bend 57. Parkrose 21.
Astoria 41, Vale 31.
Eugene, 24. Corvallls It.
The Dalles 32. Baker 27.
SALEM. Ore.. March 12 (UP)
Salrm, McMlnnvllle, Klamath
Falls, North Bend and Astoria
all but McMlnnvllle considered
powerful contenders for the state
That the state basketball
tournament In Salem has cre
ated local Interest was shown
by the great number of tele
phone inquiries to The Herald
and News throughout Wednes
day afternoon and night. Re
sults of today's games should
be available by early evening.
high school basketball champion
ship, won first round games In
the state tournament today.
Salem, the host team and
champions for two years run
ning, got by Columbia Prep of
Portland 41 to 22; Klamath Falls
downed nervous but potential
ly dangerous Roseburg squad 31
to 18, and North Bend, with For
ward Sam Crowell shattering
the all-time tournament "scoring
record with 31 points, easily
trampled Parkrose 57 to 26.
Previously the tournament
title had been held by Ted Sar
pola, of Astoria, with 27 points
In one tournament game.
Astoria had to come from be
Mf.L to dftwn little Vale high
aci,HW 3,aftar trailing 17
tConUnued on Page Ten)
Lang el I Valley
Soil District
Formed in Voie
By vote of 02 to 0, land
holders in the proposed Langell
Valley Soil Conservation district
voted In favor of the formation
of the district in a referendum
election conducted at the Langell
Valley irrigation district offices
Wednesday.
There were a possible 141
votes In the district. The acreage
voted was 26,213 out of a pos
sible 32, 772. or 80 per cent.
Inasmuch as a 70 per cent vote
Is required to pass the soil con
servation district formation, it
was believed the district was as
sured by Wednesday's balloting.
The boundaries of the district
now proposed are somewhat dif
ferent from those of a district
on which a referendum was held
In September, 1940. when the
proposal lost by a narrow mar
gin. The referendum was held un
der the soil conservation district
laws of Oregon. M. T. Prince was
superintendent of polling, and
election board members were O.
S. Campbell, Lloyd Gift and M.
D. Fettle.
U. S. 'Intervention' Hoped by
France To Relax Blockade
VICHY, March 12 (UP) The
Pctaln government announced
tonight United States "interven
tion" may bring about a com
promise with Great Britain,
averting the use of French war
ships to convoy foodships
through the British blockade.
An official spokesman said the
Vichy government is highly sat
isfied with American reaction to
Vice-Premier Admiral Francois
Darlan's warning Monday that
unlesa Britain lifts the food
blockade within "a few weeks"
he is prepared to use the guns of
the French fleet for convoys.
To "Avert Starvation"
The possibility is seen the
United States will Intervene di
rectly with London and obtain
at least a temporary relaxation
of the blockade whereby 600,000
tons of American wheat can be
shipped to unoccupied France to
"avert starvation,"
The French government was
said ready to give concrete guar
Rev. Victor Phillips of the First Methodist church, chairman of the local committee arrang
ing for the three-day Christian Mission in Klamath Falls, greets Catherine Lyon, president of the
Oregon Methodist Youth Council, and the Rev. Norman K. Tully. pastor of the Central Presbyter
iaa church of Eugene, upon their arrival here Wednesday to take an active part in the mission.
THANKS TO U. S.
Commons Cheers as Note
of Gratitude Read by
Churchill on Aid Bill
LONDON, March 12 (IP)
Prime Minister Churchill for
mally thanked the United States
today for passage of the British
aid bill, which he termed a
"new magna carta ... an in
spiring act of faith."
With United States military
mission in the gallery he later
received the Americana In a pri
vate rnnmChnrrhll' p-fanhL
read the following statement to
the house of commons: '
'The lease and lend bill, as
the house Is aware, -became law
yesterday when it received im
mediately the signature of the
president (cheers).
"I am sure the house would
wish me to express, on their be
half and on the behalf of the
nation, our deep and respectful
appreciation of this monument
of generous and far seeing
statesmanship (loud cheers).
New Magna Carta
'The most powerful democ
racy has, in effect, declared in
solemn statute that they will
devote their overwhelming in
dustrial and financial strength
to ensuring the defeat of nazi
Ism In order that nations, great
and small, may live in security,
tolerance and freedom (cheers).
"By so doing the government
and the people of the United
(Continued on Page Two)
Taxpayers
The Internal revenue
bureau's branch office in the
federal (postoffice) building
will be open Friday night
until 9 p. m. and Saturday
until midnight to assist
federal Income taxpayers In
making out their tax returns.
Offices are in rooms 201
and 203.
Saturday at midnight is the
deadline for federal return
filing.
antees none of the American
wheat or other foodstuffs will
reach the Germans or Italians.
Admiral Darlan, it was said.
Intends to take no action toward
bringing the immobilized French
fleet into use to protect food con
voys until Washington's answer
to his request for the 600,000
tons of wheat Is received.
The request, Darlan has an
nounced, was transmitted to U.
S. Ambassador Admiral William
D. Leahy Sunday night.
' The spokesman said the Petaln
government of Vichy is under no
obligations of any kind to furnish
foodstuffs by requisition to Ger
many, hence any supplies reach
ing unoccupied France will re
main here and "cannot possibly
affect Germany's ability to con
tinue the war."
At the same time, the spokes
man said, Germany has no obli
gation either moral or under in
ternational law to feed the peo
ple of unoccupied France.
Youth Banquet
Opens Mission
Meeting Here
"We need Christ as the comer
stone of our lives." This wax the
thought expressed Wednesday
night by Dr. Ray S. Dunn, pastor
of the Rose City Park Methodist
church of Portland, principal
speaker at the opening of the
Christian Mission in Klamath
Falls. "And our Uvea are built
upon the foundation of the apos
tles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner
stone." Dr. Dunn used Ephesians
2: 20 as hU text
. The Mission opened with a
youth banquet, with Charles Vh.
lig presiding. More than 106
young people garncrea in we ain
ing room of the Methodist Church
to hear talks by Catherine Lyon,
of Albany college, and Dr. Nor
man K. Tully, pastor of the Cen
tral Presbyterian church of Eu
gene. "Christianity . Has the An
swer" ' ia the. theme of the
Christian Mission which Is being
held In Klamath Falls this week
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Minor Forest
Fires Started
In Northwest
SEATTLE. March 12 (UP)
Unusually warm weather
throughout the Pacific north
west today was accompanied by
an outbreak of forest brush fires.
most of them minor.
The U. S. forest service Issued
a forest - fire warning, and
weather officials predicted con
tinued sunshine and above-normal
temperatures. Humidity also
was lower than usual, the forest
service warning said. For the
second successive day, Seattle
temperatures reached the 70-
degree mark.
Reports of forest fires cen
tered in western Washington and
Oregon. Seventy-five fires were
reported north of Seattle within
48 hours. The largest blaze cov
ered BOO acres in the Linwood
area. Several homes were threat
ened but firefighters ringed the
blazes with water.
Fern Fire
A 700-acre fern fire near Sad
dle Mountain state park In north
western Oregon approached a
reproduction area but the seed
continued on Page Two) .
Willow Street
Blaze Summons
Fire Department
A fire which started in a boys'
"clubroom" next to a woodshed
at 618 Willow street called out
city fire-fighting equipment at
3:53 p; m. Wednesday. .
The blaze started from an over
heated stove In the clubroom.
firemen said, and spread quickly
to the woodshed and into the
kitchen of the two-story house
occupied by Lewis Larson. Fire
men had the blaze under control
in a few minutes. -
For the second successive night
firemen were called to South
Riverside street at 9:23 Wednes
day In answer to a false alarm.
The alarm was sounded from the
same box. It was believed to
have been turned In by prank
sters. .-
FIRST DRAFTED
MEN TO LEAVE
Conscription Follows In
duction- of Volunteers
From Klamath Area
First actual draftees from
Klamath county will be includ
ed in the next selective service
quota, which will leave here
Thursday, March 20, Major Ted
Case, of the Klamath beadquar-
ters'said Wednesday.
- Of the 30 men from boards 1
and, in the fourth call nine
are volunteers. Case revealed.
Volunteer av thus far filled
Klamath's t quota- to give the
county one of the highest marks
in the state. .
Following are the March 20
selectees from board 1:
James C reason. Box 1151;
Robert C. Chase, . 1842 Espla
nade; Alfred M.- Carlson, 406
South Riverside; ' Raymond E.
Fuller. 2252 Vine; George W.
Dodson. 230 North Spring; Mel-
vin C. Nelson, 2219 South Sixth;
Harold B. Uglum. 231 North
Sixth; Don L. West, 906 Upham;
Raymond C. Guernsey, 1030 Up
ham; Jaspar E. Hall, 1233 Front;
James R. Wakefield. 230 North
Sixth; Charles H. Stone. 1926
Main; Everett C. Jones, 73 Pine,
Board 2:
Robert Q u 1 n t o n Prehelm,
Rheuben A. Talbot, Sprague
River; Guy Harry Johnny,
Klamath Falls; John Joseph
Sen ram, Klamath Falls; Lester
T. Gentry, Klamath Falls; Eddie
F. Barker. Klamath Falls; Mor-
riss C. McNichols, Merrill; Wal
ter H. Stastny, Malin; Stanford
Revenue, Klamath Falls; Orus
J. Jones, Merrill; Herman W
Hodges, Merrill; Dale G. Hoi
linger, Sprague River; Virgil T.
Hill, Lapine: Francis J. Lee,
Klamath Falls; Elmer O. Moore,
Klamath Falls; John P. O'Sulll-
van, Sprague River; Dick Oscar
Snuffer, Klamath Falls.
Broadcasters To
Talk Music Hon
NEW YORK, March 12 (UP)
Neville Miller, president of the
National Association of Broad
casters, announced tonight that
the organization s board of di
rectors will meet here Monday
to "consider the whole question
of a new contract which again
would make available for gen
eral radio use the music con
trolled by the American Society
of composers, Authors and Pub
lishers. . -
ASCAP - controlled music has
not been heard on network and
most independent stations since
January 1, when a previous con
tract with the composers' society
expired. The broadcasters had
rejected an ASCAP proposal for
a renewed contract. Broadcast
Music, Inc., was established as a
rival to ASCAP and all but
about- 200 radio stations de
pended on BMI and uncopy
righted music.
OBSTRUCTIONS BANNED
PORTLAND, March 13 OP)
The state aeronautics board yes
terday adopted regulations for
bidding the erection of anything
that might prove an obstruction
at an airfield. The acuon fol
lowed adoption by the legisla
ture of a measure making ob
structions around airports Il
legal, i
Referendum Plan Sought
As Aid to Passage of
18,000,000 Measure
SALEM. March 12 W Be
ginning work on the four unem
ployment compensation bills, the
senate passed today a measure
to provide that payroll taxes on
employers shall range from 1 to
2.7 per cent when the unemploy
ment compensation fund totals
614,000,000. The fund now to
tals $11,000,000.
The next measure to be
passed, 19 to 10, was the season
ality biU, containing a senate
amendment to provide that an
industry can t be ruled to be sea
sonal unless it is shut down
three months a year for four
straight years.
The effect of the bill la to In
crease benefits of seasonal work
ers, particularly loggers, who do
not now craw benefits during off
seasons. The bill would cause
83 per cent of the logging opera
tions to lose their seasonality,
and thus pay Increased benefits.
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM. March 12 (P) Re
consideration of the two per cent
retail sales tax, defeated 31 to 28
last Saturday, was delayed today
In the house, which referred the
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Knox Opens
Biggest Air .
Training Base
CORPUS CHRIST!, Tex., Mar.
12 (UK) Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox today dedicated the
navy's laraesi air training base.
a; 144.000.000; cornerstone' of
southern coastal defense.-,-' .
"The United F rates, has. never
engaged In an aggressive war,
and I dedicate this station to the
preservation of peace," he said
as the flag was run up in a brief
ceremony.
"But the young men we send
here will come for but one pur
pose, to learn the art of making
warBy virtue of this fact, please
God, - we will build a lasting
peace based upon Justice which
it not a mockery."
Job to Do
One thousand enlisted men
and 200 officers stood at atten
tion while Capt Alva D. Bern
hard, a veteran of 30 years serv
ice, read the commission orders.
"We have a job to do and we
are starting to do it right now,"
he said.
The station is 70 per cent com
plete. It covers 10,000 acres on a
peninsula southeast of Corpus
Christi, haa four landing fields,
and total personnel will total
13,000. The station Is to have
1000 planes of all types and train
700 naval air cadets at a time.
Construction is two months
ahead of schedule and officials
said the base would be a perma
nent link in defense no "war
baby."
Matsuoka Off
For Moscow,
Berlin, Itome
TOKYO. March 12 (IP) Hun
dreds of Japanese shouting "Ban
zai" gave a rousing send-off to
night to Foreign Minister Yo
suke Matsuoka on a trip to Ber
lin and Rome to "tighten axis co
operation and explain the real
significance of Japan's foreign
policy."
The foreign minister, accom
panied by an 11-man staff, pulled
out of Tokyo's railway station at
10:35 p. m. (3:35 a. m. PST). Do
me!, Japanese newa agency, said
Matsuoka and his party would
leave the train for a visit to the
shrine of the Sun Goddess at
Ise, near Osaka, and then would
fly to Taikyu, Korea, continuing
their trip by train Friday by way
of Moscow.
Japanese officials usually fol
low the time honored custom of
reporting to the sun goddess up
on embarking upon or returning
from a momentous mission.
At the station Matsuoka had to
fight his way through the cheer
ing crowd of well-wishers. High
ranking German and Italian dip
lomatic officials were also there
to see him off.
One grey-bearded Japanese
loudly intoned prayers for the
success of Matsuoka's mission
while others shouted encourage
ment for what the Japanese be
lieve will be an attempt to enlist
wholehearted axis support of Ja
pan's plan for southward expansion.
F.R.'S LETTER
ASKS FUND OF
SEVEN BILLION
Making of "Every Plane,
Every Gun" for Democ
r a c i e s Is Requested
WASHINGTON, March 12 VP)
President Roosevelt sent to con
gress today a request for a $7,
000,000,000 - appropriation to
carry out a "fixed policy of this
government to make for democ
racies every gun, plane and
munition of war that we possibly
can."
In a letter to Speaker Kay
burn, transmitting detailed esti
mates of the budget director for
the $7,000,000,000 expenditure,
Mr. Roosevelt asserted:
Increasing Flow.
"I strongly urge the immediate
enactment of this appropriation."
The chief executive declared
that America has felt that "it
was imperative to the security
of America that we encourage
the democracies' heroic resist
ance to aggressions, by not only
maintaining but-also increasing
the flow of material assistance
from this country."
Therefore, he said, congress
had enacted and he had signed
the British aid bill. .
The president's request tor the
biggest peace time appropriation
bill In the nation's history went
to congress less than 24 hours
after ite signed the bill Into law
and approved the first list of sup
plies to be . shipped to Britain
and to Greece, v
The appropriation estimate of
Budget Director Smith broke the
$7,000,000,000 down into various
categories, of which the largest
by far war $2084,000,000 for
'"aircraft and aeronautical ma
- (Continued on Page Two) '
British Start
Fires At Kiel
LONDON, March 12 OP) A
large fire and heavy explosions
resulted from an RAF attack
last night on Germany's big Kiel
naval base, the air ministry an
nounced today. It was called a
"successful attack.
The communique told also of
attacks last night on the Bremer
haven docks, near Kiel In north
west Germany, and a daylight
raid yesterday on an oil storage
depot at Rotterdam, the Nether
lands.
(Berlin sources ' said houses
were bombed and some persons
were killed or Injured in one
north German town, but that no
military damage resulted.)
Two airdromes in northwest
Germany also were bombed, a
communique said, while yester
day in daylight "a single aircraft
of the bomber command bombed
an oU storage plant at Rotterdam
and a factory near Utrecht (Hol
land)." Date Set for
Labor Election
Thursday, March 20, is the
date set by the NLRB for the
run-off election at the Shaw
Lumber company operations at
Tionesta, union officials here
were Informed Wednesday.
The election will be held
through the afternoon, and will
determine the question of select
ing as collective bargaining
agent either the AFL Lumber
and Sawmill Workers local No.
6544, of the CIO International
Woodworkers of America, local
6-12.
The election will be held un
der the direction of E. S. Neal,
national labor relations board
field examiner.
Dust Storm nits
Columbia Gorge .
THE DALLES. Ore., March 12
(UP) A freak early spring dust
storm developed today in tha Co
lumbia river gorge as a result of
unusually warm weather.
The high temperature In re
cent weeks dried out the top soil
of wheat land summer fallow. A
near- gale from the eat' brouglt
clouds of dust down on the gorge.
Bulgaria Agrees to Join
Axis; Nazi Bombing of
Frontier Area Rumored
Copyright 1641 by United Prase
British expeditionary forces
have landed in Greece and are
setting up a base at strategic Sa
lonika barely 60 miles from
where German mechanized
troops are massed along the Bulgarian-Greek
frontier, according
to private advices to the United
Press late ednesday.
' The British arrived both at
Salonika, . at the top of tha
Aegean sea, and at Piraeus, tho
port of Athens, after secretly
crossing the Mediterranean from
Egypt aboard convoyed troop
ships.
no Confirmation
Official confirmation of the
move could not be obtained in
London. The United Press bur
eau there was "unable to reply"
to direct Inquiries concerning the
expeditionary force.
It was announced by the Brit
ish dominions office Wednesday
that new large reinforcements of
British troops, including Austral
ian and New Zealand contingents
formerly ear-marked for defense
of the British Isles against in
vasion, had been moved to tha
war zone in the "middle east."
Information to the United
Press from abroad disclosed the
British expeditionary force its
size unrevealed departed from
Egypt last week, presumably
from the great Egyptian naval
base of Alexandria which is
more, than 500 miles from Pir
aeus and 750 miles from Salon
ika. By The Associated Press '
Yugoslavia was reported late
today to have agreed "In prin
ciple," under heavy nazi pres
sure, .to -join-the. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
alliance thereby opening
(Continued on Page Two) .
Senate Kills
County's Hope
For Senator
SALEM, March 12 JP) Klam
ath county's hopes of gaining a
state senator of its own died to
day as the senate upheld a rec
ommendation of its rules com
mittee that a house bill to split
the 17th senatorial district should
not be considered.
The bill by Rep. Henry So
men (D-Klamath), identical to a
measure killed earlier in the sen
ate, would have given Klamath
a senator by separating it from
the Klamath-Crook-J eff erson-De-achutes-Lake
district. The meas
ure also would have abolished
the joint Morrow-Union-Umatilia
district, now represented by Sen.
Rex Ellis (R-UmaUlla). .
A move by Rep. Marshall Cor
nett (R-Klamath) to suspend the
rules so that the measure could
be considered again failed to re
ceive the required two-thirds
vote, the count being 15 for and
12 against.
Immorality In
London Raid
Shelters Mounts
LONDON. March 12 (UP)
Alarmed juvenile authorities and
social workers warned today
that with the renewal of the Ger
man aerial blitzkrieg immorality
was increasing in London's air
raid shelters "to a dangerous de
gree." - "There are few boys and girls
of 17 and 1,8 living under the
present conditions for whose
chastity I would be prepared to
vouch," said Watson Boyce, pro
bation officer of the South wark
juvenile court.
He added he often had seen a
boy and girl refuse to sleep in
the same shelter with their par
ents and instead, make up a com
mon bed. He also said two young
girls appeared at one shelter
wearing raincoats "and little
else." ' :
News Index
City Briefs Pag 7
Comics and Story Page 12
Courthouse Records .Page 2
Editorials Page 4
High School News Page 16
Information Page 2
Market, Financial Page 14
Midland Empire Newt . Page S
Pattern . Page 6
PTA Notes Page
Sports . Pages 10, 11
) March 12, 1916 Germans
gain foothold In Alsne Salient on
western front
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