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Mb kmmath NEWS WEATHER NEWS PICTURES! Associated Prase Triaaata. MIA Tsleph tot and llv local aawtplstur a ad graving (tall provide Maws and Herald raadara with somprebaaslv patf rapk U eervlee, Cloudy High til Law III Midnight 41 34 hour to p. m. . JO rti .07 1M4 to data - IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Normal precipitation Last year to data Vol. 18, No. 110 Price F lv Cento LAMATH FALLS. OREGON. SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), rlilEDIATOHSTO Sn inn " Pact Upsets Yugoslavs Hitler Advised Not To Attempt To Enforce Pad FACE INITIAL JOB SATURDAY KALPINE ASKS MEN TO WORK PENDING VOTE Chamber. Urges Labor Board Action, Says Situation Serious 77 ) la 1R3 ; News . Br FRANK JENKINS COMXTHING dramatic haa hap 19 pnd in Yugoslavia which la an Important part of tha un pradlctabla Balkana. That much wa KNOW at noon today. But not much la. Tha mean ing of what haa happened ii (till fogfed by censorship and propa ganda. e EROM "high diplomatic tourcea" (whatever that may be worth) we have In today's dle patches thla aatlmata of the alt uatloni - ' Tha new Yugoslav premier, -Slmovle. (an army man and a Serb) haa advised tha German minister that Yugoslavia haa no Intention of participating in ANY alliance with ANY nation Ger many, Britain or Greece. Slmovlo.la said to. have taken the position that his government will neither renounce nor ratify the axla treaty signed by the overthrown government. T ETS do a little guessing her. Yugoslavia, above every thing eke at tha present moment, NEEDS TIME. She has Just gone through a revolution of some sort. The new government hasn't had time to get its hands fully onto the controls. The army command can hardly be functioning with perfect smooth ness. ' Yugoslavia a obvious course would be to play for time, to apeak as softly as possible to Hitler In tha hope of holding back tha lightning of German blitzkrieg which any email na boa ln Europe has reason to dread.. Evan if ah Intend to Join Britain and Greece, now would b a poor time to say so. It ihe is going to fight aha needs tun to get her army Into position. e ,1 JF we may Judge by the atti- tuda (and the fate) of every other small, nation of Europe, Yugoslavia would like to remain neutral and non-belligerent If ah can. .e . e , UERE ax aome , things. to r- - member: 1. On the British side, the diplomatic battle of the Balkans I- ,.! Art rvo ai - ' im m immi iw micn3. nivllv. Britain can't afford to fight Ger many down there. The odds (long communication lines, etc..) would be too heavy against her. 3. Hitler s Job is to PREVENT Britain from lining up the allies that would make It feasible for her to open up another war front on a major scale which Hitler DOESN'T want. TJITLER undoubtedly can put verlze Yugoslavia If he de cides that la the thing to do. But once he starts pulverizing, once he lights the flames of war in the unpredictable Balkan area things may happen that he doesn t want to happen. The fact that he hasn't started shooting yet (at noon today) is pretty fair proof that he la feel ing bis way with considerable caution. a . UI' has hi Jap ally to con n alder. He la reported to be trying to egg Japan into an immediate attack on Singapore, thus drag ging the United States into war in the Pacific at the moment when getting supplies across the Atlantic to England la the big and critical Job. Japan must be watching the diplomatic battle in the Balkans lullh m .h.rn anf . l.ln .... waiting to see whether it Is going for or against Hitler. JF you want to know what is 4 happening In the Balkana, LISTEN FOR THE SHOOTING. Until it starts, you may be rea sonably sure the diplomats are still the major actors in the ex citing play. MOSCOW, March 28 (P) Twenty thousand farmers, and workers of the province of Mos cow were called today to start a -two-day exercise tomorrow in repulsing an "enemy" parachute landing. . , .. . The War 25 Years Ago Br The Associated Prats IarcH"2871916 Germans and Bulgari attack allied positions with heavy artillery In Balkan campaign. Management, Labor To Confer With Board on Two Strikes WASHINGTON. March 2S (UP) President Roosevelt's new national d a f a n a mediation board facea it first real teat Sat urday when it brings manage ment and labor to a conference table In an effort to settle strikes In two vital defense Industrie. , Companies involved are Vana dium corporation, of America, of Brldgevllle, Pa., and .Condenser corporation, of America, of South Plainfiald, N. J. The board will attempt, to mediate the strike at four plants of the In ternational Harvester company on Monday,. Management and labor in the three companies, and in the Universal-Cyclops Steel croporation, of Brldgevllle, Pa., were asked by the board Friday to resume production immediately and to come her for a discussion of their dispute. The board acted fewer than 24. hour after the four casee had been certified to it by the labor department. . Term Agreed Terms for aettlement of tha 41-day strike at the Universal Cyclops plant were agreed upon late Friday by the opposing fac tions and the company's caa will not coma before the board. Ne gotiations for aettlement of the condenser strike also were re ported progressing favorably with Indications of an early agreement. Vic Chairman WUllam H. tContlnued on Page Two) Pauses Here To G a s Up 'Rolling, in steadily for two hour and a half, Klamath' big gest military convoy to date paused here Friday for re-fuel-Ing on the 30th Infantry's move ment from the Presidio of Ban Francisco to Fort Lewis. ' Sixteen hundred men rod in the approximately 280 vehicles which took on 3880 gallons of gasoline in a "gassing" oper ation set up on Klamath avenue between Center street and Third street . , IM Cans Used An advance detail arrived In the city about 9 a. m.. Including a big truck1 from which were unloaded some ISO empty ten gallon cans to be used In fueling tha convoy. These were, placed at car-length intervals' along three blocks on Klamath avenue. Union oil company, which has the army's gasoline contract in this territory, moved In with (Continued on Page Two)' Hoover Says U. S. Driving Toward 'Psychosis of War NEW HAVEN, Conn.. March 28 (UP) Herbert Hoover said in a speech tonight that the United States, "in a fog of emotions and appeals," la "fast driving Into the psychosli of war." "Whether we take the final fateful step or not" he told the 78th annual dinner of the New Haven YMCA, "we have already made three positive ' appoint ments with destiny. "One la that we will ait at the world's peace table. Another is that we ' face ' the "problems of war emotions and war psychosis. The other la that we shall meet the - financial, economic and social aftermath of. a war." ' Cites World War ' Hoover asserted . the United States "Joined in an' exactly parallel war 25 years ago for the same .purposes .and - under-, the same Impulses." . . 'Even with victory," he add ed, "we failed to get either mili tary, economic,- or spiritual peace." : 1 i -'... Describing the World war as the first total, war of modern history," the former republican president said "such war can ap parently end only by exhaustion or revolution on one side or the other." "And the victor in this race of exhaustion." he continued, Vis only on lap behind the van to Seventeen rear eld Kin Pe ter II above) took the relaa of government la Yugoslavia alter antl-axia riots swept tha ceua- try and terminated the regency of Prince Paul and two eo-re-gents. Paul and his wife. Prin cess Ogla, war reported to have fled to Cri IN&ENDCRAStT Truck Skids From Wet Pavement Not Long After. Leaving Here BEND. Ore., March 28 (UP) A light army truck overturned 27 miles south of here late today. killing Privates James E. Hoar, 29, San Francisco, and Russell L. Rawson, 20, Berkeley. The truck slipped from the highway when It hit a slippery spot caused by a light rain, turn ing a complete summersault and landing right side up. Both men were instantly killed. State police, Deschutes county officials and an army officer In vestigating the accident indi cated a coroner's inquest might be held. , Rawson carried an Identiflca tion card in his pocket which asked that Mrs. Olga Rawson, (Continued on Page Two) quished." Despite "soft phrases" to cover government coercion of industry In the last war, Hoover said, "the cold fact was that govern ment in business was socialism, and government dictation to private owners was fascism.", "Tragic Jeopardy" "Is it to be the tragic Jeopardy of democracy," he asked, "that if it would go to war It must adopt the very systems which we abhor?" He attributed the failure of ARMY MEN DIE the Versailles peace to the vengeful demands of victorious peoples pressing upon statesmen who were "not free agents." "I recollect," Hoover said, "having had the temerity a few days after the surrender of the Germans at the armistice to say we must at once take down the food blockade on their women and children. You would per haps be surprised If you read the universal- condemnation I re ceived, not only in the allied countries, but in America. They demanded more starvation after the war was over. Starvation is the mother of generations of hate. 1 "Also remember Sherman's march to the sea. It has bred hate In our own southern states for 80 years." ' Declaring that certification of a bargaining agent by the labor relations board Is now inevita ble, the Kalplne Plywood com pany In statement last night urged that operation of the com pany's now idle plant be re sumed pending outcome of the NLRB action. "It is up .to the unions to re sume work and we earnestly hop that their response will be prompt and favorable," said the statement, which reviewed the situation at the Weed highway plant where both the CIO and AFL. unions claim a majority. The plant has been down sine March 4 because of a CIO union strike. Asserting that the company's "hands arc tied," the statement said there was no other course than an election to determine the majority issue and added that tha management "has no objec tion to entering into. a fair con tract with either union found to represent majority of tha em ployes." This was the final develop ment of a day that saw th Klam ath county chamber of com merce send pica to th national labor relations board asking an immediate investigation of the Kalplne . case. Elwyn Eagen, regional director for th board, replied by telegram that a repre sentative of. th board, will be her Monday. Presumably, the board repre- (Contlnued on Pag Two) Strange Story Toldead Girl's Return HARRAH. Wash.; March 28 (UP) A story seldom II ever equalled In f lotion, was unfolded today whea Mr.-and Mr. L. M. Rathburn learned . that - their daughter.' whom . they believed had died at birth 25 years ago. was alive and- Mppliy. married. The missing . daughter, Mrs. Jack Stewart of Seattle, will be re-united with her parents to morrow. Mrs. Rathburn. explained that she bore the child in Seattle and became critically ill. On recover ing, the nurse who attended the birth told the mother that her child had died. The couple grieved over the "death" but in subsequent years four son were bom. About two weeks ago, the graying couple learned that someone in Seattle waa attempt ing to arrange a meeting with Mrs. Rathburn. On replying, the parents obtained this explana tion from the child's ; foster mother: The nurse who told the mother of the child's death confessed on her death-bed recently that she had falsified both to the mother and to the foster-parents, whom she told that the baby's mother had died. No motive could be learned for the falsehoods. Far from embittered over their experience, Mr. and Mrs. Rathburn were Joyous tonight as they told of seeing their daugh ter for the first time earlier this week in Seattle. German Author Held in New York On Alien Charge ' WASHINGTON, March 28 (P) The Justice department said to day Richard Julius Herman Krebs, who wrote the best seller "Out of the Night" under the name Jan Valtin, had been ar rested in New York to face de portation proceedings. . . Krebs was arrested in the im migration offices in New York and, is being held at Ellis island under 83000 ball. Krebs is a German citizen who described his experiences aa a comn.anist agitator both in Ger many and among sailors in this country in his lengthy autobio graphical work which became a best seller. OAly last Wednesday . night Krebs, or Valtin, Introduced on the radio from "an unnamed spot in America, told of his ex periences' at the hands of the German Gestapo and said "there la hardly anyone in Germany now who does not have some norrioie memory. v , . SARAJEVO wKrUkGUJE VAC BERANE WAj ' podgorica - v(yyliyy 1 lA i31 Wfo reeceI -The Yugoslavian government which signed an axis pact at Vienna (1) waa out of office after pretest rioting during which there were demonstrations In Belgrade (2) and la ersry city shown la the white area her. Including Sarajevo (3), wbr as sassination of Archduk Frans Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary la 114 waa the spark which sat off tha World war. Warehousing" Concern O f f i c i a'l Succumbs In Local Hospital - Deal came at :30 o'clock Friday ntot fei Robert E. (Bob) Manning, 44, prominent Port- lander who Buffered Injuries Tuesday night in an automobile accident which occurred five miles south of Dorris as the Portland executive was en route to-Klamath Falls. . , Mr. Manning waa removed from Dorria after receiving treatment In Gray hospital and admitted to. Hillside hospital Wednesday at 9 p. m. At times his condition was considered im proved and several well known Portlandera who were called to his bedside returned to their homes. Member of a pioneer Oregon family, Mr. Manning was well (Continued on page Twoi County Seeks to . Dispose of Old Braymill Plant Members of the county court on Friday discussed the disposal of the Braymill White Pine com pany mill property, which has come into the county's posses sion through foreclosure for ap proximately 812,000 in unpaid taxes. : The Braymill plant is about four miles from Chlloquln, on the Sprague River road, and has not operated for a number of years. . The foreclosure covers 160 acres, including the lumber plant, said to be one of the best constructed in this area. .1; GASSING THE BIO TRUCKS , -- - Klamath avenue while gasoline was poured into the tanka from 10-galloa cans placed along the strt. Th truck In th foreground had been fueled and was ready to mov off whea th pic ture waa takea. ., , .. . Huge Report Prepared for Bridges Trial SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (UP) An encyclopaedic, 2300- page report, supposedly detail. ing Harry Bridges' activities over a 21-year period, will be presented by the government at Bridges' second deportation trial starting here Monday, It was dia-j closed UxUy. , . . t.., 1 1 The Bridges defense commit- lee announcea ztnages, uuuor nle CIO director, will receive pledge of "unity and support" I from more than 800 representa tives of CIO union, locals here tomorrow afternoon. Bridge Feted '. : The committee said Bridges will be guest of honor at a tuncb on sponsored by th San Fran cisco Industrial . Union council lest than 48 hours before the la bor leader appears at the open ing session of the deportation hearing ' m, the U. S. district court The government will attempt to deport Bridges to his native Australia on grounds he Is or was a member of an organiza tion advocating overthrow of the government : by force. Bridges in 1839 was absolved of a charge he was a member of the communist party at the time of his original arrest in proceed ings before Dean James Landis of the Harvard law school. FBI Report The huge, single-spaced report on Bridges was prepared by ag ents of the federal bureau of In- (Continued on Page two) GREEKS SINK SHIP ATHENS, March 28 (UP) The Greek submarine Triton on Sunday morning attacked a strongly protected Italian con voy off the Albanian coast and sank the heavily-loaded troop transport Carnla. of S451 tons, it was announced officially tonight if A part of tha 30th Infantry's " Jugoslav Government Downs A at i-British . Red Demonstrations LONDON, Saturday, March 29 (UP) The Exchange Tele graph news agency reported to day from Zurich that "excellent sources" in Berlin revealed mud leaders had decided to give Jugo slavia three days in which to de cide whether to observe the al liance with the axis. - BELGRADE, March 28 (UP) Jugoslavia's new army-led gov ernment tonight stamped out anti-British demonstrations by communists and struggled to overcome Croat opposition after advising Adolf Hitler against at tempting to enforce "certain points'.' of the three-day-old axis pact The government tacitly in formed Germany, through the nazi minister to Belgrade, that attempts to carry , out th un identified points" of Jugoslavia's adherence to the axis triple alli ance might lead to a resurgence of Jugoslav internal troubles. Leaflete Scattered - The communist demonstra tions, starting simultaneously In several parts of Belgrade, were suppressed by police and steel helmeted soldiers after a scat tering of leaflets assailing "Im perialist England" and demand ing an Immediate pact with Rus sia by tha new regime. Several communist leaders were arrested when police seized the pamphlets. . The 4,500,000 Croats of the na tion, whoa leaders signed the axis pact at Vienna Tuesday and whoa chieftain is Dr. Vladimir Matchek. were reported to. be withholding - lupnort from the government set up early Thurs day under Boy King Peter II af ter a swift army coup d etat The Croats,; generally pro- axis and traditional internal en emies of the Serb nationalists, wer said to be adopting a wait-and-see attitude. ; . . : ', .' - Troops to Frontier . It was uncertain whether Matchek would consent to re main in the new government as first vie premier, as designated. Troops rushed into frontier defenses in a full mobilization of the nation's fighting strength to bolster a go-mile-deep belt of (Continued on Page Two) Federal Men Start Probe in Indian Shooting Federal officers Friday had taken over the investigation of the fatal shooting of Abner Mo Nair, 60-year-old Klamath In dian, by his ex-stepson, Wilbur Hixson. ... Hixson is in the county Jail pending further developments in the case. J. C. O'Neill, his attor ney, said Hixson will ask for a preliminary hearing if and when charges are filed before U. S. Commissioner Bert C Thomas. . Two department of Justice men were here on the case Fri day, cooperating with Klamath Indian officers. Hixson has Indi cated he will claim self-defense in the- shooting case. hug convoy Is shown paused on AXIS AMIDE OF JUGOSLAVS Protest Delivered On "Anti-German" Acts Against New Regime BERLIN. March 28 (UP Germany tonight delivered a semi-official warning to Jugo slavia alleging that "anti-German outrages" against relch citi zens and the Jugoslav army coup d'etat an linked with tha United States and British Intri gues In the Balkan nation. - Official sources said a formal protest had been delivered to th new Belgrade regime against both the "anti-German outragas" and the swift Jugoslav military mobilization ' following yester day's German demand for "im mediate clarification" of Jugo slav foreign policy. Still IT Reply At midnight after a laps of almost 38 hours, there still had been no reply from Belgrade clarifying the new government's attitude toward Jugoslavia's ad herence to the axis tri -power ab Uance at Vienna on Tuesday. -. Many observers wondered whether Belgrade would reply at all but Jugoslav circles said a formal statement waa being drafted, including general out line of foreign policy. w ' "Blading." Masis tT- .i Germany's position was safcf to be unequivocal that th Tuesday pact-sign wa bind ing and that "there can be no question of the new government or parliament refusing to ratify it" . , . ., . - The Diploma tlsch Pollttach Korrespondenz, semi-official or gan of th German foreign, of fice," disputed an official Jugo slav announcement the army coup was purely an internal matter. .- ' The foreign office organ called attention to the statements of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U. S. Under-Secretary of State - Sumner Welles cheering the Jugoslav coup and promising fullest possible aid. -The statements, it was said, reveal how the United States and Britain "would like to view the Belgrade upheaval and ita contingent developments" with Churchill aU ready to "chalk up Jugoslavia as an allied nation on England's side." Being Prepared . The official DNB news agency said in a Belgrade dispatch th Jugoslav government declara tion of policy had not yet beers (Continued on Page Two) ; - President Cables Congratulations . To King Peter II "' I WASHINGTON, March 28 (UP) President Roosevelt to night sent a congratulatory cablegram to King Peter II of Jugoslavia in which he express ed his hope for "mutually bene ficial" relations between this country and the Balkan king dom. ' ; His message was regarded a extremely significant Only yes terday, Acting Secretary of Stat Sumner Welles gave assurances, that some U. S. war aid for Jugo slavia would be forthcoming un der the lend-lease program. If Jugoslavia were forced to defend itself against aggression. Some diplomatic experts in terpreted the president's mes sage as additionally assuring Jugoslavia that should Germany attempt to invade her boun daries, the United States would furnish the same all-out aid ah is furnishing Great Britain. mews Index City Briefs L Pag ': 9 Comics and Story Page 13 Courthouse Records Pag 4 Editorials Pag 4 High School Newt Pag IS Information Pag S Market Financial ... Pag 11 Midland Empir News, Pag 9 Pattern ... Pag Sports Page 10