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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1941)
IDE WEATHER NEWS Caelar High Alt tow Mi Mldalfht It 4 hours to p. m. M ease to data S.tl Normal precipitation t-.M Last yaw to data '. 12.70 I PICTURES! Auoelatad Press TiUiuU, HEX Telaphe Im and live local newsploture and en graving aull provide Maw and Hacald raadara with a eomprehanslva photograph la service. I IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND ' '; ; Vol. 18, No. 103 Price Five Cents TWO SECTIONS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday) ,, , ..j .. . , , , J Day's ; -News By THANK JENKINS VI ASS bombing of London, pie A tured ai th wort to far In 1941, la the action feature of the new of today. London dispatches tell of five hospitals hit, a large hotel partly destroyed, a police station blunted apart and two policemen killed, a department store burned out and block! of residences wrecked. Berlin speaks of damage to docks and ships along the Thames. VOU must have noted by this V time that In reporting bombing attacks both sides speak of the civil damage, especially to hospitals and homes, done by the other fellow and of the MILITARY damage done by themselves. That Is a part of the technique of propaganda.) THKK mass bomblnifs of Lon don and other British cities Vara a pattern of the days to -, anrf Uill C.C ON M mt. ter what happens elsewhere. If and when Britain gains In air strength, she will reply In kind with mass night bombings of Berlin. In earlier times wars were ended by the destruction of armies and navies. Wars now end when the morale of the people AT HOME, on one side or the other. Is Droken down. De struction of morale la the chief aim of these night bombings. That Is why they will go on. i fVDDLY enough, at the pres- cnt moment, abouf the safest place In either England or Germany Is the army. That, of course, won't continue Indef initely.) . ''.-.' MORE serious, In a military way, than bombing Hitler's high command reports 88.900 tons of shipping sent to the bottom In lorays against Britain's seaborne commerce. Nazi U-boats, the communique says, destroyed 80,500 tons out of a strongly protected British convoy. Tha British say German re ports of shipping destruction are exaggerated at least twice, but even at that such reports of sinkings don t look too good. Tha battle of the Atlantic Is developing. THE battle of the Atlantic In- terest us particularly be cause the point at which we will go In will probably be determin ed by destruction of supply ships that Is heavier than the British can stand, V-fHE rumor crop In tha Balkans f continues to flourish. Yugoslavia Is reported to have agreed to a limited form of Ger man co-operation, and Is also re ported to be mobilizing troops heavily on the Bulgarian border. f, Russia Is reported to have given Turkey the green light in the form of an agreement to re main neutral If the Turks decide to fight either for themselves alone or to help Greece. ' And so on. If you are wise, you will con tinue to keep- your fingers crossed. ALSO . Draw no wrong con clusions from the rather long continued (comparative) lull in tha heavy .fighting. When the shooting finally starts, there will ba plenty of It. AFL Chosen At . Tlonesta Mill As Hargalner . Tha American Federation of Labor scored a victory In the NLRB runoff election at the Shaw Lumber company mill at Tlonesta, Calif., Thursday, an nounced Joe Boyd, AFL repre sentative for Klamath Falls. The result gives exclusive bar gaining rights to AFL, Boyd said. The vote was AFL 79, CIO 84. Thera were a total of 1S5 ballots cast, 12 of which were chal lenged. ' i The election was conducted at ' the mill from 2 to 6:30 p. m. The War 25 Years Aqo Br The Associated Press ' March 20, 1018 Allies make heavy air attack on Zeebrugge. SABOTAGE IN OF ARMY EYED Barracks Roof Timbers Cut;, Wires Spiked; Said Work of Experts FORT GEORGE 3. MEADE, Md March 20 OP) Construc tion quartermaster officers at this U. S. army post said today they had "definite photographic evidence" that there had been "prolonged and skillful sabotag ing" of construction work here. One officer who declined use of his name said "The sabotage by men who know their bust nens has been going on for sev eral months, directed at barracks works, the telephone system and electric power lines." He said tha acts, such as saw ing uprights of barracks to weaken them and driving spikes into power cables and telephone lines, "do not appear to be the acta of a man or men with a grudge, but give every sign of being real sabotage." BALTIMORE. March 20 W The Evening Sun says construc tion quartermaster officers at Fort George G. Meade admitted today that there had been "pro longed and 'skillful' " sabotage (Continued on Page Two) Lindy Asks U. S. to 'Take Reins in Hand' NEW YORK. March 20 (UP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, as serting the situation In the United States today la "alarm ingly similar" to that In France and England - before ' tha Euro pean war, called upon tha Amer ican people tonjght to "take the 'reins In hand once more" against American Involvement in tha war. . ' - In "A Letter to Americans" published in Collier's magazine, Lindbergh assslled British pro paganda as leading the United Slates to war though, "like Franca and England In 1839, we are unprepared today." - : -"We have not as many thor oughly modern fighting planes In our army and navy com bined," he wrote, "as Germany produces in a single week." ' "Short of War" . Lindbergh charged Interven tionists, believing that while the "people of the United States would not agree to a declaration of war, we could be beguiled Into supporting steps that would inevitably lead to war." advo cated steps which ."they called 'short of war' steps which have already entangled us, and which will leave us no alternative to war if we continue to take them." To enter the war against Ger many successfully,. Lindbergh held, "we must prepare for it not for one year or two, but for 10 years or for 20 as Germany has done." The situation In 1917 was dif ferent, he argued, since then the central powers were fighting France and Britain In the west, Russia In the east, and Italy In the south and the "German armies had already suffered se vere reverses." Hitlerhed America Visioned By Wheeler in Anti-War Talk WASHINGTON, March 20 (UP) Sen, Burton K. Wheeler, (D-Mont.), charged tonight that British propagandists and the committee to defend America by aiding the allies "have nearly attained their objective active American participation in a for eign war." Speaking over a nationwide NBC radio network, he called on the nation to fight against "war and against every step which gives dictatorial powers to the president." War, he asserted, would "produce a Hltlerized America even though HiUer will be dead and burled." Respects Law Wheeler, an outstanding op ponent of the recently-enacted lend-lease bill, said that law "must and should bo respected by all our people regardless of their previous opposition to It" because it is law. But he assailed the pending $7,000,q0O,000 Brit ish aid appropriation bill and said It was sponsored by legisla tors who opposed million-dollar Midwestern Visitors LSI II to 4 13 W 9 ! '"' "' l- I - '?'h' : Sevan hundred girl students from 8taphens college of Colum bia. Mo., paused briefly In Klamath Falls Thursday afternoon at about midpoint la tbalr 1(41 rail lunket through America's west ern states. Tha Jaunt is tha educational trip which each year of tha United States. Above third special train Tolling tha girls northward to Vancouver. B. C from where they will return home. .' LEAGUE BUYS SITE FOR HALL Community Building Will Rise at - C o r n e r of Madison, Shasta Way (Continued on Page Two) . Final approval of the purchase of one acre of ground at the corner of Madison street and Shasta way by the Suburban League to be used as a com munity hall site, ' was made Wednesday night at a meeting of ward representatives at the home of Lem Manning on Gary street. The acre was sold to . (Continued on Page Two) appropriations for domestic re lief. He recalled that In a speech last month, ho asked this ques tion: "Is the forgotten man of 1932 doomed to be the unknown soldier of 1942?" ' "Tonight," he said, "I venture another statement all-out aid for England, Greece and China means all-in war for the United States." r ' Reply to F. D. R. His speech was regarded as a reply to President Roosevelt's address of last Saturday night in which he appealed for national sacrifice In an all-out effort to speed aid to the anti-axis na tions. Wheeler said that "in the days when President Roosevelt, to use his own language, was driving the money changers from the temples of government and Wall street lawyers practiced law in New York City," payment of the soldiers' bonus "meant bank ruptcy" and "Dr. Townsend was (Continued on Page Two) sixteenth annual Stephens spring swings through different sections is 'a group detraining from tha College Girls Pause Here on National Tour Seven hundred sweaters and 700 tweed skirts on 700 Stephens college students stopped in Klamath Falls briefly Thursday in three special Southern Paci fic trains and with a minimum of delay over three slighUy missing girls continued on their way north to Portland and Vancou ver. B. C. The girls from the fashionable Columbia, Mo., finishing school were on the school s 16th annual spring educational, vocational Jaunt to far points in big Amer ica. This one took them from Missouri to Los Angeles, thence up the coast to San Francisco and Klamath Falls. From here they're bound for Vancouver and finally back home. - t The trek, which once drew four pages in Life magazine, this year resulted in a Hollywood screen test for dramatic artists and a movie contract for one of the number. She'll begin work this summer In the film city. Guiding the party are some 40 chaperones and others along for the ride, one-third - of whom wero tearing their hair early Thursday afternoon when three misinformed students scampered off to see the town in what they supposed would be a 43-minute stop. - Due to take off again In 20 minutes the second section was delayed another 20 until the er rant trio sprinted down Eleventh street and clambered aboard. Agriculture News Page A page of news of special interest to farmers of the Mid land Empire Is included in to day's paper. (Page 19). Featured on this page Is a report by County Agent C. A. Henderson on potato feeding jd livestock; a timely subject m view of the diversion pro jram now underway. Other interesting farm news will be found there. 'SURPRISE' JAB CIRCULATED IN GREEK REPORT Britain,. Turkey, Greece Rumored Readying for -Drive Against Nazis ISTANBUL. March 20 (UP) Reports circulating In diplomatic quarters today said that plans for a possible "surprise offen sive against Germany s army in Bulgaria by Great Britain, Tur key and Greece were discussed at yesterday's Anglo-Turkish conference at Cyprus. Confirmation of the reports that the groundwork for such an offensive was laid by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu waa lacking in official quarters, however. Jugoslavia Eyed bome lurkish quarters as serted Jugoslavia might possibly be brought Into the Anglo-Turk- (Cootinued on Page Two) . AUSSIESHAIL U. S. WARSHIPS Units of American Fleet In Australia Cheered As Friendship Token SYDNEY. Australia. March 20 W) Hundreds of thousands of -Australians stood on the shores of flag-decked Sydney harbor today and cheered - the arrival of seven United States warships, headed by- the flagship tniciio. ... . , The . visit, -part of a training cruise, Was hailed in press and otucist circles as a token of Australian American friendship ana Australians gave a tumultu- (Continued on Page -Two) i Six Trainmen Die In Wreck f SPARTANBURG, ' SaC Alar. 20 (fl , Six trainmen were killed when two heavily loaded freight trains of the Southern Railway System collided bead- on here last night. Their bodies were crushed and pinned In the wreckage of the two large locomotives, and it took workmen several hours to tear tiirough steel with acety lene torches and extricate them, The victims, all ot Columbia, were identified as: C. R. Holcomb, engineer of the northbound train; L. B. Me- Cord, engineer of the south bound train;. L. C. Grant, con ductor of the northbound train; J, C. Summers, fireman of the northbound train; J. D.' White, fireman of the southbound train. and Harry C. Schiffley, whose assignment was not learned im mediately. Brakemen G. H. Drlggers,- Conductor D. K. Jones and Flagman Bruce Robinson, on the southbound train, saw the lights of he oncoming freight ana jumpea 10 saieiy.- More Power to bWv . , akv . . "Grand Coulea dam starts :1 vvr --i-- . '3-T !.V'w-,-.. mnm3?z- shown at right of dam. Two 10,000-kllowatt ganarators will transmit power to Bonneville for re lay to national defense projects and to a community co-operative on tha nearby Colvllte Indian reservation. Ultimately, this powerhouse will contain nine gigantic generators, each producing 108,000 kilowatts. - - . - - - . . . Thrown Pen- - ' Plereeaj Eye ' SAN FRANCISCO, ' March 20 (UP) A ' fountain pen thrown at -Taylor Sink, 15, by an Irate classmate today punc tured his eyeball and may cost him the sight of that eye. Sink'was working in a high school biology class when girl brushed - past his desk, knocking his books to- the floor. He shouted angrily ait her and she threw her foun tain pen at him, striking him In tha eye. " ' . BAILEY WRECK TRIAL STARTS Judge Halts Testimony About Alleged Drinks In Manslaughter Case Three witnesses testified Thursday afternoon In circuit court in the re-trial- of Q. A. Bailey.- charged, with Involun tary manslaughter of Irving Bre shears In a three-car crash near Weyerhaeuser- junction Novem ber 3. 1940. ' First' witness was Marion F. Miller, who testified he was rid ing in the Bailey car at the 'time ot the accident. He said Bailey came to his home at 5 a. m. on November 3 and that a party of two cars soon- left for tha vicin ity of Worden for goose hunting. At '9 "a."m; 'they returned to Klamath Falls, he said, and pur chased two half-gallon Jugs of wine. After a brief stop at Mil ler a the party went to ' tha Weyerhaeuser . Junction store, purchased some lunch goods and drank a bottle ot beer each,. Mil lax said. . Wo Gaase' - ' The party moved on to the Kerns ranch west of t h e Junction,, h e . testified, but there were no geese flying over the fields, so they decided to go home. .They were parked on Una several hundred yards from tha highway. Mrs. Miller, With five chUdrao ta tha-v started back first, but1- was overtaken and passed by BaUayTO a speed of SO or 60," MUlet said. He said ha waa riding in tha. Bailey car. He ' didn't remember., anything after they turned onto the high way and beaded toward Klamath Falls. He said, he warned Bailey to -"take it easy" when Bailey passed Mrs. Miller's car. During Miller's testimony Dis trict Attorney I Orth Sisemore questioned the witness about the amount of liquor consumed by all members of .the party.' This line of questioning was objected to by Edwin E. DriscoU, one of the attorneys for the defense, on the ground that the indictment of Bailey did not mention drink ing. He said the question .of how much liquor was consumed on (Continued on Page Two) . Pine Orders s Continue lTp PORTLAND, Ore., March 20 (UP)Orders for western pine lumber , for the . week ending March 15th totalled 93,204,000 feet, compared -with 77,089.000 feet the previous week, the West ern Pine association reported to day. - Orders for the .corresponding week a year ago totalled 62, 430,000feet. . ..... Northwest! Here's Where It Starts 4aa v&f----Jtt.- 3 " k ttf ?t4ss5i,aT v - hydroelectric vreduetlen March 22, Jugoslav Group Okays 'Special' Axis Adherence Premier, Minister' Plan Trip to: Berlin for Formal Pact' Signing BELGRADE, Friday, March 21 (UP) The full Jugoslav cabi net. In an almost unprecedented session ending early today, was reported in reliable quarters to have approved a "special form" of Jugoslav adherence to the axJs three-power alliance, i ' The early departure for Berlin ot Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Alexander Cincar-Markovitch to sign for mally the documents of Jugo slavia's limited adherence to the German-Italo-Japanese pact was anticipated. Reliable Informants said the full cabinet session had approved a decision for the "special form" bf adherence to the tri-power pact whereby Germany will be given the right to move war ma terials, across Jugoslavia and Jugoslav-economy and policies will be geared to those ot the axis. Highlights ' The cabinet's decision, it would appear, has ended long, secret negotiations with Ger many over the course of this last remaining Balkan neutral and all that remains is the actual signing of the pact The highlights of the limited form of Jugoslav adherence to the tri-power pact, according to source of high reliability, are: 1 G e r m a n y to guarantee Jugoslav frontiers and territorial integrity, a pledge binding all signatories of the tripartita pact. 2 Jugoslavia - to be exempt from-providing any military aid totheaxls.- - ' . I German troops are' not' to occupy Jugoslav territory.. V 4 Germany to have the' right to send' war materials across Jugoslavia in'seabtd transit and to transport wounded German- soldiers across Jugoslavia from any Balkan warfront. s At .the end of the war, a snming an axis victory, -Jugo- . (Continued- on Page Two) Illnda Religions -. . Itlot Sets Fire BOMBAY, India, March 20 P) A large part of Dacca, in the province of Bengal, was re ported afire today following a Hindu-Moslem quarrel which started in a drinking shop. - The military has been called out to preserve order. - (Dacca, capital of a division and district of the same name, is on the Buriguna river, 155 miles northeast of Calcutta. . It has. a population of about 90, 000). Police, twice opened fire on the rioters and casualties were reported to include 14 killed and 100 wounded. A steamship, four smaller boats and a freight shed on the Burigunda river and many shops in the town were set ablaze. . ' - All educational institutions, banks and commercial concerns were closed. . Curfew was Imposed and street gatherings were forbid den. - w Vv, 4 from tha wast power slant r m LI Previous Raid Wednesday Called "Greatest" of All Time by Nazis BERLIN, Friday, March' 21 (UP) Wave upon wave of Ger man bombers guided to their tar gets by the blazing shambles of "the greatest air raid of all time" early today were reported to be) heaping destruction upon Lon don in a repetition of Wednesday night's all-out assault. -; The luftwaffe's gigantic often . sive, informed German quarter boasted, marks "the real begin ning of the spring war offensive" with its chief goal "complete starvation of the British isles." The waves of German planea were said by the official DNB agency to have renewed the as sault on London at dusk Wednes day and to be continuing tha at tack without abatement early today. nrea Light Way . Not only the British metro polis but "militarily . important objectives" in other parte of tha British Isles were said to be un der attack. j . The luftwaffe pilots were said by the DNB: to have reported early today that widespread fires - l V rM 4 - nloht -.--- stUl were visible from the sky over London, ."thus offering the luftwaffe orientation tor the new .attadcsH.-. ri Triad - -out -in good U-alher. -.-'. . Bombs of all calibre and many incendiaries fell on London and the" first German bombing crew reported "objective burning" with" other large fires observed nearby. ' " ' Authorized ''nasi spokesmen stated recent exchanges between the luftwaffe and the royal air force revealed the Germans en Joy a 15 to one numerical super iority in the air and hinted this ' (Continued on Fage Two) ; Axis Reports -First American. Shipment Sunk .' . NEW YORK, March 20 OF) The official Italian radio said in a broadcast beard today by CBS that "it is rumored at Gibraltar that the first cargo of war ma terials sent to Great Britain after the passing of the lend-lease bill has been sunk by axis sub marines." ; "That was a very good begin ning, wasn't, it?" the Rome an nouncer added. BERLIN, March 20 (AV-The newspaper Nachtausgabe, com menting today on an Italian radio report of a rumor that the first cargo of United Statea war ma terials sent after passage of the British aid bUl had been sunk, said this was "the first blow against aid to England." "That which was expected by aU clear-visioned men in the world has already happened," the paper said. "Herewith the American people finally under stand the real meaning of the lend-lease law." Coast Congress District Created ' SALEM. Ore., March 20 (UP) Governor Charles A. Sprague to day with the stroke of a pen cre ated Oregon's fourth congres sional district. The governor signed a measure which provides that Coos, Curry. Douglas, Jackson, Josephine. Lane and Linn counties become the new district, - A congressman to represent the district will be chosen in the primary and general elections ot next year. ; News Index City Briefs Page 9 Comics and Story Page 18 Courthouse Record Page 2 Editorials Page 4 High School News . P-g 11 Information ... .Page 6 Market, Financial ...Page 10 Midland Empire News . Page 20 Pattern Page 11 Sport '..,, Page 12, 13 . . - .. I
