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PAGE FOUR THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. ORE. March 18, 1941 The Klamath News KLAMATH NEWS PUBUSHINQ CO, Publishers FRANK JENKINS - ' Editor MALCOLM EPLEY Managing Editor Published every morning except Monday by The Klamath News Publishing Company at Esplanade and Pina streets, Klam ath Falls. Oregon Represented nationally by WEST-HOLLIDAY CO, Ine, San (Yanclsco. New York. Detroit Seattle. Lot Angeles. St Louis. Portland. Chicago, Vancouver. B C Copies of The News and Herald together with complete Information about the Klamath Falls market may be obtained for the asking at any of these offieea Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Oregon, November IS. 1931. under act of March 3, 1879 Member Audit Bureau Circulation Telephone 3124 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Official paper of City of Klamath Falls and Klamath County Delivered by carrier, month a 75 Delivered by carrier, year $7 50 Delivered by mail, year, in Klamath, Lake, Modoc and Siskiyou counties .. 36 00 Delivered by mail, 6 months $3 23 Delivered by mail. 3 months 33 3' Subscriptions payable in advance. Legislators Quit IT IS usually relief to the people or me srate when the I legislature adjourns. They probably feel that way over the finish of the 41st assembly in the wee hours of Sun' day morning. The session won distinction for the destruction of bills. That probably means it was marked for the introduction of large numbers of faulty or unsound bills. Although it had been expected ahead of the session that the volume of proposed legislation would be somewhat less than usual, it turned out differently. Altogether 970 bills were introduced. The session was not particularly satisfactory to Klam ath county. In addition to the defeat of the seventeenth senatorial district division bill, much desired here, the legislature failed to consider or turned down several other matters which had been initiated here. Klamath county's wish to remain in the second con gressional district, however, was respected by the law makers. There should be general disappointment that the legis lators failed to put through any program of legislative reapportionment It seems that if anything is done on this problem, it will have to be by initiative. The legislators can't agree because they let the personal element enter into the situation, as they did with the perfectly justifiable Klamath bill. In certain other respects, however, the legislative ses sion turned out a sane program. It came to fair compromise on such controversial issues as the workmen's compensa tion law. It generally refrained from demanding more taxes from the people of the state, with the single excep tion of the cigarette tax, which has yet to pass the gov ernor who has said he saw no need for added taxes. Why, What's the Matter, Boys? Time to Clean Up IOW is an excellent time for the people of this com- munity, particularly those in the citv and the auhurha. to start a program designed to improve general appear ances for the benefits of all who live here and. for the better impression on many visitors expected in the cpraing months. A lot of unsightly places still exist along roadsides in or near Klamath Falls. There is an auto wrecking place or two that are nothing less than scenic horrors. The city has an ordinance that calls for high fences, and it's time proper authorities were seeing 23 tnho efi?R,adside, C0UZcil- which hM et March whfu " " lean-uP week in Oregon, makes some worth T)Z L8geu1ODAl0Dg thw hne- tt Proposed surveys of wvP?a0heS of t"snd cities; repair or removal of broken fences, gates and old buildings; removal of tin cans and rubrnsh from roadsides; raking and burning of brush and weeds along fence rows adjacent to highway rights-of-way; planting of trees and shrubbery on road sides and on pnvate property. .0ur"H Iubs' Bov and Girl Scouts, Camp Fire eirls ?hU r"C 8nd 8ervice ,KrouP8 could entento this program as a means of do ng good deeds for their community. We hope that this yea? the junior chamber of KlVZltf Vigorous leadership to ?his activity ' Klamath was for many years subjected to the indes enramate dumping of rubbish by careless and thoughtleS tA1? this 80rt of thing has stopped ihere Is a new spirit of civic consciousness abroad. There b?pberm!fteCdhToCstlhnd. impr will yew - n m i BehinmIi -t hi miuim mm THD By PadlMailon , OBITUARY SALEM ALEX DAVID Salem Alex David, for the last six years a resident of Klam ath Falls, Ore., passed away in this city Sunday, March 16 1941, at 12:30 a. m. He was a native of Pierce county, North Dakota, and at the time of his death was aged 33 years and 28 days. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander David of North Sacramento, Calif, lout brothers. Edward, William ar.d Victor of North Sacramen to .Calif., and Habib of this city four sisters, Mrs. Victoria David of Houston. Tex., Mrs. Sophie Boddy of Redding, Calif., Mrs Ruth Assad of North Sacramen to, Calif., Mrs. Victoria David of Marysville, Calif. The re mains rest in the Earl Whitlock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth. Notice of funeral will be announced at a later date. FUNERAL JAMES SAMUEL HEMRI.TMIT The funeral service for the j late James Samuel Hembllng, who passed away in this city on Saturday, March 13, will take place from the chapel of Ward's Klamath Funeral Hum, aon High street, on Tuesday, March 18, at 2:30 p. m, the Rev. Eugene V. Haynes of the Com munity Congregational church officiating. Commitment serv ice and interment In the Link ville cemetery. Friends are re spectfully invited to attend. The first cotton mill In Ameri ca was built at Pawtucket, R. I., by Samuel Slater. Messages Sent To Itickenbacker ATLANTA, March 17 (JF) Eddie Rickenbacker once flew a plane against the winged fight ers of Germany. One of these was Ernst Udet, and he and Rickenbacker came to know of each other's prowess in the days of the first World war. Rickenbacker today lies in jured from the crash of one of his own commercial airline planes. Among the hundreds of messages wishing him well and awaiting his attention is one from Udet. SANDY, March 17 OP) The smelt here were running In the Sandy river today and hordes of dipnetters were making good catches. F. O. Haldeman, field representative of the state game department, said the smelt were "of a good size." WASHINGTON March 17 A well-placed government official of exceptional financial judgment figures this $7,000, 000,000 as only the first 23 per cent advance on aid to Britain. His reasoning: Britain is like ly to win but will require about four years. The 37,000.000,000 figure was a rough estimate to cover the first year of new British orders, rrobably no where near that amount can be actually spent the next 12 months, but increasing product ive capacity will enable larger expenditures next year and thereafter, so the average is apt to be around 37,000.000,000 an nually. This figuring would make the plausibly expected expenditure 328,000,000,000. Our own con templated three year defense program has already reached 332,000,000.000. The two to gether could thus approximate 360,000,000,000 twice the total of all government appropria tions in the last war years of '17, "18, and '19. A BILLION A magazine, the American Investor, has figured a new way of trying to tell people how much a billion dollars is. Their system: If an unusually alert and industrious young man of 15 started counting one dollar bills at the rate of 100 a minute, he would be able to count a billion dollars by the time he was 86 years old (working 8 hours a day, five days a week.) . BRITISH DEFEAT A profound internal disturb ance has been caused here by the arrival of the last London Economist showing Britain's " nancial predicament. The fed eral reserve board survey of pe riodicals is devoting extraordin ary-space to the economist article and financial officials are hand ing it around. The gap between British rev enue and spending will reach 31,200,000.000 a month (on the basis of a 34 pound) this com ing fiscal year, beginning April, the article says. Only half can be raised by means now visible. The other half must come from inflation, compulsory savings or additional taxes (the limit of taxation already having been NOW PLAYING Packed with Fighting Punch and Power! ZANE GREY'S JTTMT ihsifcir Ttcbirelor gf j mam itiwir .i:;siis, v wr .1 approximated). Inference Is in flation may have to come. British national income for the coming year is estimated at 336.000.000,000; government ex penditures at more than half that, 330,000,000,000. Automat ic new revenue increases have already been provided in excess profits taxes and purchase tax es. (Government levy of cos metics for instance la 33 per cent.) The deficit in spite of all this is estimated at 313,000, 000,000 for the year. Savings, foreign holdings, and sterling balances will be tapped for half this, but no one knows where the other half can be found. What stirred our financial of ficials so much was the possi bility that the British predica ment is a foretaste of what we will have to face In some de gree. NOTE: A considerable Infla tion is already under way in Britain. Using the pre-war year 1935 as 100, note circulation has already increased to 153. NUTTY NOTIONS Let it not dismay you to note in your daily news or conversa tions increasing numbers of nut ty notions. During the world excitement such ideas as "a concentration camp for Senator Wheeler, or institution of a general government wiretapping system for citizens are bound to come up, probably with increas ing frequency from now on. Yet there is no indication that the great bulk of dominant govern ment officials are being swayed in the slightest by the fury of an infinitesimal number of hot heads. As for wiretapping, Mr. Roo sevelt has already said he, with the late Justice Holmes, consid ers it a dirty and undemocratic business, and would tolerate its use by the government only 1 legitimate cases of espionage. sabotage, kidnaping and extor tion.'J. Edgar Hoover said about the same thing. Against their Judgment, the mysterious force which Is propagandizing for the Hobbs bill (tapping by all gov ernment departments for all sus pected felonies) is likely to gain more attention than headway. As for concentration camps. not even Interior Secretary Ickes has yet mentioned them and possibly he joins with every other official in considering the idea preposterous. The wonder of most officials NOW a-jlp BOYER Gems of Thought BRITISH SLASH INTO ITALIAN IL AREA Troops Still Massed on Greek Border; Ships Sunk in Sea War ACTIONS The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what Is most remarkable in them. David Thomas. Thought la the essence of an act, and the stronger element of action; even as steam Is more powerful than water, simply be cause it is more ethereal. Mary Baker Eddy. . I have never heard anTthin about the resolutions of the apostles, but a treat rf1 ahnnt their acts. Horace Mann. Deliberate with caution Hut act with decision: and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Colton. It is vain ti nH am, ad vantage from our profession of the truth if we be not sincerely Just and honest In our actions. James Sharps. V The Chief value of mnarlnr knowlaHffa la that It mmAm in a performing manhood. Bovee. Explosives of Orange Peels Said PoNsible LOS ANGELES. March 17 UP) Orange peel may become an im portant factor in the war. Dr. Walter J..Fischel of the Hebjew university, Palestine, flew here from Australia and told newsmen the university was working with the British government to make explosives from the peel of oranges. It seems that orange peel contains yeast, alcohol, sugar and acetone and chemists on synthetics believe they have an explosive In the making. ' Dr. Fischel stated. is not that bitter hatreds have gained root, but that the great bulk of the people, the 89 per cent, have so well kept their neaas and feet after months of hot pressure. By The Associated Press Prime Minister Churchill's threat to tear Italy's African empire Into "shreds and tat ters advanced nearer realisa tion today with the announce ment that Imperial forces have recaptured Berbera, British So- maliland port on the gulf of Aden, and seised Eritrean heights covering a long-besieged Cheran. A communique Issued by the middle east command at Cairo said the re-entry Into Berbers abandoned last August when the fascist occupied the British col ony, was made yesterdsy In co operation with the royal navy and air force. The brlrf announcement that the British flag again flies over Berbers was the first In dication that the swift British conquest of neighboring Italian Somaliland now has carried all the way to the gulf of Aden coast of the north. The British declared that the general advance by seven col umns of imperial and native patriot forces boring Into the country "continues in all sec tors." Troops Massed In the Balkans, Germany was reported by a military expert In Belgrade to have massed IS divisions perhsps over 240.000 men on jr just behind Bui garla's frontier with Greece. With another 180,000 men in Rumania. To match the nazi forces, the British were said to be pour ing 300,000 men onto the Greek mainland. 100,000 of them a ready disembarked with full fighting equipment. With- Adolf Hitler's all-out spring offensive against British shipping Just beginning, the au thorltative Lloyds shipping rcg Ister today listed British, allied and neutral shipping losses In the first 18 months of the war at 1245 ships totalling 4,962,237 tons. This total 700,000 tons more than the allies lost In the first two and one-half years of the World war was against 422 German, Italian and axis-controlled ships aggregating 2.028. 140 tons reported sunk up to March 2. Making a turn at "too high a speed" the 28-foot cabin cruiser of Edgar Thompson Sun day overturned In five feet of Williamson river water throw ing Thompson, Mrs. Thompson and Frank Snyder, local auto mobile dealer, from the craft and damaging the motor. According to Thompson, an employe of the Snyder Motor company, the accident occurred five miles uprlver as the trio were making a pleasure cruise. All three were thrown Into shal low water and only slightly bruised. The three were able to right the boat but were unable to start the motor after the wet ting. Potatoes Given To Society Following a request for pota toes from Mrs. Margery MacLar en of the Oregon Protective So ciety, Inc., Portland, tho first shipment to that organization went out today by Consolidated Freightways. C. V. Barton, prominent pota- SIDE GLANCES SLWlfTIHIIM(.tiVMIW. "The new minister if little Ion youns nml optimistic he doesn't pin people's enrs luu-k the wny old Hevcrrtid llccllo used to!" "Grandma" Flackus Passes After 54 Years Residence On Hildebrand Homestead Mrs. Minnie Elizabeth Flarkui 96 year-old pioneer of the Hilde- Drana ana unry sections of Klamath rnnntv un, hurlrf Monday afternoon by the side of her husband, August Fluckus, in luur cemetery at Bonanza. For the naat S4 Vnn 'r.ranrlmS" Flackus. as she was known to nundrcds of friends and neigh bors throuifhmit thi haaln miH, her homo In this district. Her acatn occurred Friday. March it. Mrs. Flackus was artlva tin until December of this past year when she suffered a light stroke. Up until one year ago. "Grand ma Flackus was busy at her spinning wheel which she brouaht from hr nlH (.omens, Germany. Born In Frucht. Germany. January 13. 1845. Mrs. Flackus was married to August Flarkim in 1864. Both were born and reared in thn litila i,,u,n n..i far from Coblenz. There were born their four sons. William. Charles, Theodore and Emll, and with them, the familv !.., cimr. many In 1B82 for Des Moines. la, wnere other relatives had settled. William Flackus. the etrii-t son, first came to the west coast in 1886 and went directly to the government InnH nffiro in Portland where he was advised to seek land In the Klamath bas-lfi. William was too young to file on a hompiiHH kut word to his parents and brothers to come west and August Flack us filed on 160 acres umn hi. arrival In 1887. The orleinal land Is still in the Flackus name. August Flackus rfliuf in m... 1008, at the age of 66 years. He' naa suiierca an Injury while working on his ranch and death followed an operation. He is buried in the old rnnr tery at Bonanza. Following the r to grower and dealer of Merrill. aonaiea mo potatoes to the so ciety. The shipment consisted of SO sacks. about 7 per cent of the total PODUlation Of thS Wnrlrl nun and operate 71 nor punt of tha worm s passenger ears. "Grandma" Flackus death of her husband, Mrs. Flackus moved Into a small cot tage on Theodore's ranch near Hildebrand on Four-Mile spring. For years Mrs. Flnrkus was an active member of the Hilde brand grange and up until this year the occasion of her birth day was observed by many of her friends and relatives. Members of "Grandma" Flack us family recall she was an ar dent gardener and could "make anything grow flowers, vege tables, or fruit." In late years she spent many hours carding and spinning wool which she would knit into socks for her four sons and grandsons. All residents of the Hilde brand country knew "Grandma" Flackus, according to her sons. and one of the closet friends of the family was tho late Captain Oliver C. Aunlriiate. a frcouent visitor at the Flackua home. Six of "Grandma" Flackus' grandsons served as her pall bearers Mondny afternoon. They were Walbcrt Flackus of Ash land, Charles and Silas Kilgora of Langcll Valley, and Ernest. warren and Victor Flackua of Hildebrand. The service wss read by Rev. Wilson of Bon- onra and arrangements were under the dlrectinn of the Earl Whltloek funeral home. NOW PLAYING A FREE-FOR-ALL AND LAUGH KNOCKOUT! 11 SfWttWi 1 2 li .mem 5a eLU'itlirti a mmkmmm GEORGI MURPHY LUCILLE IALL TODAY JAU of tuta LUuL oj lav . . THE KIND THIS WOMAN HAD... and very woman wonfsf CAROL! ' LOMBARDS V CEAUES LAUGHTON Kt4 Til Tltl TIC! CUnTESTfOUTCI ruawDrmi rr aV .- ll.T. 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