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The Klamath News WEATHER NEWS Clear High 9i Low 2(t Midnight 41 24 hour to a p. m. .... .00 Season to data Ml Normal praciplUUoa t.M Laat ytsr to date 12.70 PICTURES! Associated Prm Telsmats. NEA Telepho to end live local newiplcture and en graving atall proTlda Mawa and Haiald raadara with a comprehensive photograph to service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 104 Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AS theaa worda ara written portrd to hava decided to Join the axis In aoma mors or leu limited manner not satlsfyingly described In the dispatches. There are hlnti of Internal trouble over the decision. Four cabinet members are said to have resigned with Regent Prince Paul (Yugoslavia has a boy king) refusing to accept the resigna tions. Four anti-German gen erals are said to have been quiet ly pensioned earlier In the week presumably to gel them out of the way. . It sounds like typical German Strong-arm work at the top. . WRECK quarters are described as "stunned" by the news, having been assured only a few days ago that the Yugoslav crown council would not take evany action at this time despite ' Insistent axla pressure. Nobody should be stunned by ANYTHING that happens in the Balkans. The air down that way . Is thick with fear and treachery ihese days. This writer's advice to readers Is to keep their fingers crossed until the shooting actually starts. DEFORE blaming the Balkan " peoples too severely, con- alder their historical back ground. For more than 800 years, while Rome was decaying, all they saw of government was the Intrigue, the treachery, the assassination, the venal cupidity that accom panied the struggles for personal power In the rotting empire. The ancestors of these Yugo slav! saw the Imperial throne of Rome sold literally to the highest bidder. 1 How ran you expect them to be other than disillusioned cynics where wars of empire (such as this one) are concerned? CROM Washington cornea this - dispatch: ' 'The treasury began today en foiling an army of 500.000 per sons to assist In the campaign to sell billions of dollars worth of the new defense savings ccr- tificatei to the American peo ple. The denominations of these certificates will be from ten cents to $10,000, and people are to be urged to buy regularly In moderate amounts (like install ment payments) rather than In one large sum, forgetting about It from there on. THE purpose back of the sale of defense certificates is two fold. I. To raise ACTUAL MONEY, In addition to IOU's, for financ ing the defense effort. : 3. To hold down price Infla tion oy draining off from peo ple's pockets the money they would otherwise spend for what the economists call "consumer goods" automobiles, radios, silk hlrts, night clubs, etc. THIS writer's advice: BUY SAVINGS CERTIFI CATES. After buying them, KEEP THEM. Don't sell them the next day and blow the money for something you don't have to have. Blowing your money for what you can do without Is the sure road to in flation and Inflation will make .the car cost double what It 'should. ', Besides, the securities of your government are the SAFEST In vestment you can have, and you may be very sure that the time Will arrive when a nest egg will come In handy. "BLACKOUT" PORTLAND, March 21 (UP) Fart of northeast Portland had a "blackout" last night, but It Wasn't emulating Europe. An automobile backed Into a transmission pole, burning out a primary circuit by jolting two power lines Into contact The War 25 Years Ago Br The Associated Preai 'March 21, 1916 Heavy Ger man attacks on Verdun repulsed. SHIPS TO BE Intel-coastal Ships May Take Place of Those To Be Sent Overseas WASHINGTON, March 21 (U.R) The United States will transfer 80 merchant ships, especially adaptable to convoy, work, to Great Britain "within a few days," a high official of the marl time commission revealed to night. Consummation of the trans action, which Is authorized un der the lend-lease law, was said to await only the arrival here of Sir Arthur Salter who has been assigned to coordinate Britain's shipping needs with those of this country. Details of the transfer contract could not be learned im mediately. Plea Answered This nation's answer to Brit ain's plea for "ships, ships and more ships!" to replace British tonnage sunk by German U-boats and aircraft came as a senate ap propriations sub-committee re ported without change the $7, 000,000.000 appropriation to fi nance President Roosevelt's war aid program. Sen. Gerald P. Nye, (R N. D ), made the only attempt to revise the house-approved measure. Ills proposal to halve the appropria tion was overwhelmingly re jected by voice vote. He said he would offer It again when the full committee meets tomorrow, but he has no hope of Its adop tion. William S. Knudsen, director of the office of production man agement, told the subcommittee before It acted that the entire $7,000,000,000 would be needed to finance the all-out aid opera- tion and to build up this nation's defenses. He said defense expen ditures In this fiscal year would total $6,000,000,000 and that they would be Increased by 60 or T' tCon-uuettbn page Two) Power Shutoff In HiinIii Aren Set for Sunday Copeo power serving the Klam ath basin towns of Tionesta, Calif., Tulelake. Calif., and Mer rill and Malin In Oregon will be cut off for three hours Sunday morning, March 23, while a switch-over is mode to relocated poles along the Malin-Klamath Falls highway, the company an nounccd Saturday. Current will be switched off at 8 o'clock Sunday morning and turned back on at 1 1 a. m. Relocation of the poles Is being done to conform with the new highway right-of-way over the new Lost river bridge. Home of the contestants for other countlss for 'Theme Girl" Top rowi Nora Mascotte, Rosa H- i-j?. m t i i ' ( ?v. p ft ' W fD h ty l(M m .rl d A .ihA V I tv Killed In i. Locomotives of two heavily Southern railway system were anburg. S. C after a head-on but It was several hours before the twisted steel that held them BAILEY TRIAL Defendant on Stand for Questioning on Fatal Auto Accident Here Testimony and arguments were completed by 9 o'clock Fri day and a Jury of 1 1 men and one woman was to be instructed this morning in the trial of Q. A. Bailey, charged with Involuntary manslaughter jresulting from the w death of Irving BkMr in so automobile accident last fall. Bailey took the stand as the first witness in his behalf, test ifying as to the circumstances at the time of the accident on the Greensprings highway near Wey erhaeuser Junction. Breshears was a passenger In Bailey's car The defendant's story was that he was driving prudently and carefully at the time and that circumstances so developed as to make the accident unavoidable so far as ho was concerned. Key state witness at the morn ing session of the trial was Holly V. Holcomb. state policeman who Investigated the fatal accident . It appeared the case might reach the Jury Friday afternoon, but Circuit Judge David R. Van denberg recessed the court until (Continued on Page Two) Six i U'ty i t' ' ; 0 If 0 f- N. v the honor of representing Klamath county In competition with for 1941 In the Shasta-Cascade Dodton, Marie White, Renata Sari, Head-On Crawh ir-i 41 4 Q (I (I (I loadtd freight trains of the locksd In this dsath grip at Spart crash. Six trainmen were killed. their bodies were removed from down. Valseiz Star Editors Air News Views VALSETZ. Ore., March 21 OJJO The reason Dorothy Anne Hob- son, 12, and Franklin Thomas, 10, like America is "because we can put butter an Inch thick on a big heel of hot bread after school." So wrote young Dorothy today in the Valsetz Star, monthly mimeographed newspaper which Hte and Franklin., ' , There was other semi -political comment For Instance: "Mrs. Roosevelt said for the American women to tighten up their belts, but mother said she could hardly breathe now when she gets her new corsets on." Big News And: "Dan Usher was drafted and will soon leave to Join the army and fight for Valsetx and the rest of the United States." Other big news of the month: Spring came to Valsetz early this year. Three babies were born, one boy broke his arm, one cut his head open. The Valsetz ladies hemmed a thousand dia pers for the Red Cross. Four batches of kittens were born un der our house. Fred Shadd's (Continued on Page Two) Theme Girls for the ShastaCaseade Wonderland C-3 .- - Wonderland are nictured above Virginia Sawchuck. Elaine 8U- DAYTON FIELD ARMY STRIKE ENDED BY AH Union Leader Terminates , 17-Day Old Tieup by j Calling Men to Work DAYTON, O., March 21 W In the avowed interests of na tional defense, an AFL leader today terminated a 17-day strike that had paralyzed work on an essential $5,900,000 expansion program at Wright .Field, the army air corps huge testing laboratory. John Breidenbach, president of the Dayton central labor union (AFL) Informed Col. Lester Mil ler, field commandant, that 400 men who left their Jobs March 4 would return to work Satur day alongside five CIO elec tricians employed by the Penner Construction company. Act Praised Colonel Miller described set tlement of the dispute "As a fine American act where any thought of personal and factional differ ences has been set aside for the good of the entire nation." Breidenbach called the strike after the war department or dered the CIO men back to work following a previous AFL walk out late In January. The first strike ended after two days when the work of the CIO men was suspended temporarily. The expansion program. In volving a wind tunnel for test ing new plane models, a torque stand, administration building (Continued on Page Two) Grand Coulee Power Flow Starts Today UmANOuCOW.EE. Wash., Marrffej . nrX&STTTh begin flowing Saturday from Grand Coulee dam, man's largest structure and key to the new deal's power development pro gram in the Pacific northwest. At 1 p. m. (PST) two 10,000 kilowatt generators will be cut into a transmission line linking Grand Coulee with Bonneville dam, 250 miles away. An Indian chief at the ' nearby Colville reservation wiU push a button to start the generators. The $157,000,000 dam will be completed next year. But it was called into service two years ahead of schedule because of na tional defense demands for power. When the huge structure Is completed, it will generate 2, 700,000 horsepower a thousand (Continued on Page Two) i Jan. Bottom rowi Gwendolyn Bettv Patske. Neva McAnultv. comsllt Nora Earnest. June King, Phyllis Basdea, Julia Logan. Theft In Zoo Traeed To Hat SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (UP) Police called in to investigate the "theft" of 104 prize birds from the Fleish nacker Zoo's aviary today found they had a "murder sase" on their hands. The killer a Urge rat which made a nest In the base jf a fountain was flushed out of his lair with a stream of water and exterminated without trial. The rat's burrow was filled with 104 birds, including canaries, love birds, parrots and pigeons all dead. Pair Located After 6 Days In Snowdrifts MONTROSE, Colo., March 21 (UP) A ranch mother and her six-year-old daughter were found alive late today at their ranch home they left last Saturday to wander about on the snow- crusted Uncompahgre plateau nearly a week. Mrs. Otis Boyd, 22, suffered badly frozen arms and legs in the six days she wandered some 50 miles over the six-feet-deep drifts with her daughter, Leona. First reports said the daughter suffered only a badly sun-snow-buroed face. The pair was found in their ranch cabin, 35 miles west of here, by a party of five men headed by Dr. Eston D. Orme, Montrose veterinarian. Meager Reports It was reported here they would be taken to a hospital at TeUuride, Colo. Mrs. Boyd's hus band works in a TeUuride mine. The meager reports phoned to Montrose gave no reason for her startign tha hazardous journey with her child. Dr. Orme, with Clarence Al bin. Bryan Batchelder and Roy Mock, all of Montrose, started out early today and drove 100 miles into the San Miguel valley". J Al McKeever, a sawmill owner. lumtinuea on rage rwo Better Weather ABOARD VS.S. BENSON, Port Everglades, Fla March 21 (P) The yacht Potomac, on which President Roosevelt Is waiting to begin a fishing cruise moved out into the harbor this morning to anchor and await weather reports before proceed ing to sea. The yacht left the dock to make way for the freight ferry Estrada Palma, in whose slip the Potomac was tied. The ferry operates between here and Ha vana. The Potomac moved around the end of the pier and anchored in the harbor about 100 yards from where the German freight er Arauca has been docked since December, 1939. Crew members. under guard, stayed below. Hammond. Shirley Sargent. Mae Other contestants not nictured Jugoslav Crisis In Cabinet Puts Of f Compromise PLYMOUTH ON No Nazi Planes Blasted From Skies, Although Kept at Great Height A SOUTHWEST COAST TOWN, England, Saturday, Mar. 22 (UP) Hundreds of German bombers, subjecting this historic seaport town (Plymouth) to its second straight night of "total destruction" assault, heaped un precedented death and destruc tion upon every part of it last night. Every section, almost every block of the town, felt the de structive blows and great sec tions were blasted into ruins with what probably will be a great toU of dead. Apparently determined to wipe the city completely off the map, wave upon wave of luft waffe bombers not a single one of which appeared to have been shot down subjected it to even worse fury than their all-out as sault of Thursday night and early Friday. Rescue Squads Dig The attack of last night, start ing at dusk and continuing until nearly midnight, came as rescue squads stiU dug in smoking ruins for dead and injured and while hundreds of homeless, stunned men, women and children many wearing blood stained bandages moved through debris-piled streets. , . Early today rescues. were-dig-ging feverishly in aU parts of the town, trying to remove trapped civilians from the rubble of what had been their homes. Hundreds of homeless were (Continued on Page Two) Man Fractures Skull In Fall George B. Mills suffered a fractured skull at 3:45 p. m. Fri day when he feU from a pigeon house at the Buckner residence at Wocus. Mills was taken to Hillside hospital in Ward's am bulance. The fall occurred while Mills was working on the Buckner's pigeon house. Although he was unconscious en route to the hos pital, attendants said late Friday night he is in "fair condition" and had regained consciousness. Coddlngton. LaVenna Bowers. lncludsi Martin Slvin. Ada aim- Three Cabinet Ministers Resign Against Order to Yield to Germany BELGRADE, Saturday, March . 22 (UP) A spreading cabinet crisis and "political revolt" by Serb nationalists angered by Jugoslavia's decision to line up with the axis alliance forced postponement of tonight's sched u 1 e d departure of Jugoslav statesmen for Vienna to sign a "compromise" pact. Tension spread throughout the nation, with bitter feeling among the Serb, comprising nearly half ' of the Jugoslav peculation, while the government ' and Prince Regent Paul struggled to sup press the cabinet crisis. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 21 OP) The Yugoslav government's plans to align it self in a modified way with the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis were forced into abeyance tonight by a cabinet crisis and Internal un rest over resignation of three recalcitrant anti-nazi ministers. After holding out aU day against accepting the resigna tions. Chief Regent Prince Paul tonight accepted them and di rected bis premier and vice pre mier to try to find replacements as quickly as possible. Signing Delayed . Until a cabinet reorganization can be completed, plans of gov ernment officials to go to Vienna tomorrow for formal signing with reservations of the three (Continued on Page Two) Coward Says Japs Unwise. To Fight MS: Br HARRY CROCKETT NEW YORK, March 21 ( Playwright-Actor Noel Coward now an unofficial ambassador of goodwill for the British min istry of information said today "it would be very unwise for Japan to take issue with the United States fleet in the Pa cific ocean." Completing a mission which, took him to Australia, New Zea land and the Far East, Coward arrived in New York for a brief visit before reporting to Aus tralian Minister Richard Case in Washington on Sunday. Coward was reluctant to de tail his observations in the Far East, but said in an interview that his conclusion as to the Japanese was based on his per- ' sonal observation ol the united States fleet at Honolulu and of the military effort of Australia. For the first time, Coward, disclosed that his mission in Aus tralia was that of an unofficial ambassador at the request of the Australian government to bring Great Britain's war effort and what has transpired, a little closer to the Australian people. He said he had made many observations which he could re port directly to Casey- before be would feel free to make them public. During a month s tour ol Aus tralia, he said, he made num erous broadcasts, telling of his experiences in France during the early part ol the war ana (Continued on Page Two) Norwegian Fears l'eople lo starve PORTLAND, March 21 (UP) Thousands of Norwegian men and women will starve to death this summer unless food is ship ped in from outside, Dr. Orlando Ingvolstad, executive secretary of the country's relief system, said here today. Ingvolstad said experiments are underway In an effort to make bread from tree bark. "Bread grains, like wheat and rye, will be gone by the end of May in northern Norway," he said. News Index Church News Page 13 City Briefs Page 3 Comics and Story Page 13 Courthouse Records ..... Page 3 Editorials Page 4 High School Newt . Page 18 Information .Page 3 Market, Financial Page It Pattern ... Page t Sports --- Page 10