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rr-wcTOKEsn-" AiMcUto4 Pre Tlat. MEA T.l.phe to nd ll local newspleture and an faring alali provide Naws and Herald teaaWr with a comprsh.nslv photograph U ssrvloe. met Skewer High 10) Law til Midnight 41 34 hour to I pi a. ' ' ' , . M ' 8hhi ta date , Ml Normal precipitation , ttll Last year ta data 14i IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 110 Price Five Centa THREE SECTIONS I KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), In The DayV ; Neivs 1 Br FRANK JENKINS VfO ihooting yet (noon Satur- day) In Yugoslavia or ele whtra In tha Balkan. That 1 today'a most Important news. It mean that tha diplomat art itlll doing tha work. a WHAT ha happened and I . happening in Yugoslavia I clouded by cenaorship, but bint are showing through. A'. Tha upset In tha government wa apparently engineered by tha Barbs, who are German-hat-- an. The Croats, who were a ' part of old Austria, wera lnatru , mental In signing Yugoslavia up with tha axis. Yugoslavia la a hodgepodge of ' race and nationalities and so Is necessarily a hodgepodge of 1 hatreds. 1 - UTFLER. an - expert In such matters, has apparently chosen to try stirring these an cient enemies up against each other, hoping thus to divide and weaken Yugoslavia Instead of trying to pulverize It with a swift blitzkrieg. That's where tha diplomats still com In. AS these word are written, a naval battle 1 going on In th Mediterranean. Tha British, who for months have been daring Mussolini s nary to come out and fight, seem to have caught a squadron of Italian warships out In tha open. Tha Italian vessels were prob ably trying to catch an Inade quately protected convoy of British troopships headed for Salonlkl. British reports Indicate -that aerlous damage wa Inflicted on at least one Italian battleship na two cruisers. Again it ap pears that Mussolini's navy doesn't amount to much In a pinch. fTN East Africa, Cheren falls, ' leaving Asmara open to Brlt- I Ish capture. It looks like Eritrea, Mussolini' oldest African col I ony, hr gone, with Ethiopia prrumbllng. ' I Tha British are straining every nerve to wipe up all of East I Africa before the rains start and B are claiming to be in sight of their goal. i That is important, because if Jlhey can manage it they will be Itable to withdraw heavy forces .from Africa and throw them into I Creece. 5,1 Tha more imposing the forces t the British can bring to bear the I greater is the likelihood the I 9'urk will get Into the fight in 5. tamest. h ... I Jlf'th background, of course, I liwimi Klalln whn aiming o stay out of it unless it should begin to appear that the British tiav lined up such a combina tion of allies in the Balkans as to bluff Hitler. J In that event, Stalin might 'join cautiously in the bluffing i . . ... THE fact that the shooting Is so ' long delayed Indicates the delicacy of the balance in this Balkan situation. Neither side 1 ready yet to make a decisive move. I Jap Ambassador In England Said 'Hostile Observer'. LONDON, March 39 (UP)- Lieut. Comdr. R. T. H, Fletcher, parliamentary private secretary to the first lord of the admiralty, today attacked the continued presence In Britain of the Japan- I I -J LI. . ,1 i cats immsMaur aim 111a bmui, servers in our midst. "I see no reason why we should wear kid gloves or even three-ounce gloves in this mat- a tar," Fletcher said, "and toler ate what are presumably hostile observer In our midst when we are fighting the enemy with, bare fiats and knuckle dusters." " Tha Japanese ambassador, de- , nounced by Fletcher, 1 Mamoru Ehigemitsu. He assumed hi post in October, 1938. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY -..By. The Associated Press ! March 29, 1918 Germans 1 launch fierce new assault on i verdun. F. R. ASSERTS TERRORISTS AT W01INU.S. President Hits Nazis, Communists, Sounds Warning to America PORT EVERGLADES. Fla., March 29 (UP) President Roosevelt tonight warned Amer ica of peril from communists, nazls, defeatists and their dupes but proclaimed that Americans are transcending partisanship to defend democracy. Lashing out at communist, nazls. and the Berlin-Rome- Tokyo alliance alike, Mr. Roose velt asserted that enemies or de mocracy and their agents or dupes in this country are at tempting to spread terror in America "to abetter tha conn dence of Americans in their gov ernment and In one another." Summon American The president summoned all Americans, whether democrat, republican or Independents, to rallx to tha defense of democ racy. He warned that tha task entails sacrifice "you have to work overtime and work harder than aver before in your life." He set a the alternative: "If our kind ot civilization gets run over, the kind of peace (Continued on Page Two) Britain Wont Take Princess Back to Fold SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (UP) Great Britain has refused to receive th Princess Stefanie Hohenlohe, once a leading Lon don society hostess, who has been ordered deported from the United States, it was announced tonight Lemuel B. Schofield, head of the U. S. department of immi gration and naturalization, said tha United States now is seeking a visa to permit Princess Ste fanie to be sent through Siberia back to her native Hungary. - Princess : Stefanie i be Indi cated aha wa afraid to return to Hungary, an axla affiliate, for fear of "reprisal " at the hand of th nasi government. For British Princess Stefanie, Insisting that she 1 pro-British and anti nazt, has argued that she will be executed if she returns to Hun gary. She is scheduled to appear in court Monday on her applica tion for a writ of habeas corpus. She is under arrest and held by U. S. immigration authorities. If Hungary refused to accept her, Schofield said, she will be one of i approximately - 8000 aliens ordered deported but held In thia country because their homelands refuse to receive them. I. F. Wixon, local immigration director, said the princess no longer is ill but is held at the Immigration department hospi tal, so she will not have to mix with other deportees. She will not appear at the Monday hear ing, Wixon said, but will be rep resented by her attorney, Ste phen White. Bridges Re-trial to Start Monday; Witnesses Called SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (UP) Twenty government wit nesses will be summoned to tes tify against Harry Bridges, Cali fornia CIO director, at his sec ond deportation trial opening Monday, Lemuel B. Schofield, head of the U. S. department of Immigration and naturalization, disclosed tonight. ."And the witnesses will be protected," Schofield said. While Bridge was guest of honor at CIO testimonial din ner less than 48 hour before start of the hearing in federal court, Schofield arrived here to help prepare the government's case. "I'm here to see Mr. Bridges get a fair hearing, and that all testimony I presented," he said. Commenting on his remark that the "witnesses, will be pro tected," the-- Bridge", defense committee said: - "We will be glad to give them protection also." The government, with a 2500 page, single-spaced FBI report as tha nucleus of It evidence, will attempt to deport Bridges Hall Can't Accept i Government Offer MOSCOW, Idaho, March 29 OF) A civil service Job as Junior shipbuilding in spector at Terminal Island, Calif., at a salary of 11820 per annum has been offered Mr. Llndley Hall, University of Idaho officials reported today. There' Just one drawback. With or without th "Mr.." Llndley Hall is a campus dormitory housing 160 stu dents." i ' DIES JpJRDAY Complications Follow B!irth in Portland . ..... Hospital; Boy Lives Marjorle Smith Sisemore. 30, wife i of District Attorney ,L. Orth Sisemore, passed away at 3:57 p. m. Saturdays? minutes after she gave oirin- to a son at a Portland hospital. ' - Mrs. Sisemore had been In Portland for several week, un der the care of a well;known clinic in that city. On Satur day morning District Attorney Sisemore and Mrs, A. Theodore Smith, Mr. Sisemore' mother, left for Portland on word of the imminence of ' the baby' birth. All went well and the son, weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces, wa born at 8:19 p. m. I Shortly after the birth, heart complication developed and her death followed. Child W.U The child, it wa reported Saturday night, waa doing well The boy waa named James Pel ton. Mrs. Sisemore served on the staff of the Klamath County chamber of commerce for nine and one-half year a assistant to Secretary Earl C. Reynolds, and was known to hundreds of people on the Pacific caast as "Marge," the name she signed to her "Good Morning" ' letters sent widely- to travel agencies and chamber of commerce. Her services to the chamber of commerce her won repeated praise from chamber officer and directors and persona ceivlng assistance through Ahe organization. ' ' Mrs. 8isemore wag born on (Continued on Page Two) 60,000 Soldiers to Maneuver in Games SAN FRANCISCO. March 29 OP) More than 60.000 soldiers of the fourth army will con centrate for maneuvers at Fort Ord and the Hunter Liggett res ervation on the central Califor nia coast May 24 to June 30, to engage in the greatest mimic warfare ever fought by troops on the west coast Maneuver will Involve 62, 500 officer and .enlisted men, including 40,000 now . stationed in the Pacific Northwest. Lieut. General John L. 'De Witt, com manding general of the fourth army announced today. Troops involved will be the 3rd and 41st divisions, compris ing the ninth army corps sta tioned at Fort Lewis, Wash., and the 7th division from Fort Ord, part of the third army corps. to hi native Australia o n grounds he is now or has been a member of an organization ad vocating overthrow of the U. S. government by force since his arrival in San Francisco from Melbourne In 1920. Judge Charles Brown Sears, retired New York U. S. circuit court of appeals jurist, will pre side at the public hearing as sie clal examiner appointed by U. S. Attorney General- Robert Jackson. Schofield said he wa anxious to emphasize that the new hear ing will be on a different point of law than the 1939 deporta tion hearing at Angel Island, In which Trial Examiner Dean James Land! ruled the govern ment failed to prove Bridge wa engaged in subversive activ ities at the time of his arrest, The new hearing will be based on the 1940 a'.ien registration act. Under this law Bridges would be held deportable if it was decided he had attempted to subvert the government at any time since he entered the United States 21 years ago. New General for T ,& I! sig'V I . From Berlin come this rsdiophoto of II Duce s new chief ot force in Africa. Can. Italo Gariboldi. (center with mustache), who succeeds Marshall Rudolfo Graslani. resigned. Gen. Rommel, (right), is chief of German forces In Africa. i IN 1ST DEGREE Federal Arraignment On Murder Charge Scheduled Saturday First degree murder charges were filed by federal officer Saturday morning against Wil bur Hixson, 20-year-old. Indian bald in the fatal shooting of Abner McNair his , ex-stepfather. . Hixson was scheduled for ar raignment In Bert C. Thomas' United States commissioner's court Saturday afternoon. ' The young Indian has retain ed J. C. O'Neill as his attorney. O'Neill said Saturday he would ask' for a preliminary hearing before Thomas. Agents Here Two department of justice agents were here Saturday, co operating with Klamath Indian officers in investigating the Mc Nair killing. Hixson has Indicated he' will claim self-defense in the shoot ing case. He told officers he shot McNair in an argument ' in a house - near1 Bly In which Mc Nair also held a gun. Earthworm Test - May Aid TB Cure . PORTLAND, Ore., March 29 (P) An experiment with earth worm in a tuberculosis-infected cranberry bog may produce a substance in the soil "which has a powerful action on germs," Dr. Kendall Emerson said yes terday. . The managing directors of the National Tuberculosis associa tion, told the Oregon Tubercu losis association the substance might prove a disappointment. but added its discovery was a "gleam of light on an otherwise bleak horizon. He said earthworms were placed In the soil after it had been liberally infected with tuberculosis germs. After living in the soil, the worm were found to be free ot tuberculosis, alive and . healthy, Emerson stated. Guinea pigs will be tested next. Governor Signs Liquor Measure SALEM, March 29 m Gov ernor Charles A, Sprague signed today the bill which will give the slate liquor control commis sion power to license and regu late drinking clubs. The measure, passed the clos ing night of the legislature, was sponsored by the house alcoholic control committee. Among four other bills signed was one to prohibit pollution of the McKenzie river and its tribu taries in Lane county . Italy's Old Cause r (HE A Rmdio-ltUmkafl Kalpine Case To Be Heard By Conciliator An announcement from AFL headquarters Saturday that a U. S. department ot labor con ciliator will arrive here Monday to investigate the Kalpine Ply wood Strike situation highlight ed an otherwise calm day in the current. local labor quarrel.. . According to M..T. Pavolka, AFL organizer, telegram waa disptched.jto the labof depart ment in '.'-Washington, Saturday morning asking-that a represent ative look into the Kalpine mat ter with a view toward effecting a settlement. A return message from Portland the same- after noon notified Pavolka an, agent would be present Monday. His arrival will coincide with that of a National Labor Relations Board man who will be here in response to an ap peal Friday by the Klamath County chamber of commerce to the NLRB. Presumably, the board's rep (Continued on Page Two) Alarm Issued as Mistake Found in Medical Tablets CHICAGO, March 29 P) Hundreds of federal inspectors, aided by physicians, were en gaged today in bracking down 410,000 medicinal tablets which, the American Medical associa tion said, had been contaminat ed in manufacture. ' The association disclosed that phenobarbital, a powerful seda tive drug, had been inadvert ently used in the manufacture of the tablets, which were is sued by a New York drug firm as sulphathiazole. Sulphathiazole. a derivative of the sulfanilamide, is used in the treatment of pneumonia and certain infections. The associa tion emphasized that the vast majority of this drug now on the market is unadulterated and safe to use at the direction of a physician. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the AMA Journal, issued a statement to physicians and druggists to be on the lookout for the adulterated drug which could be distinguished by the lot number MP 029. It was dis tributed by the Winthrop Chem ical company of New York, Dr. Fishbein said. "Records already available from Missouri and Kentucky indicate a considerable number of patients who received this product suffered severe narco sis, but practically all recovered without ill effects," Dr.. Fish bein said. "Records also . Indicate ' the possibility that patients with pneumonia who received this drug died. Rapid loss of con sciousness in patient receiving sulfathiazole should Indicate need for prompt determination of the nature ot the product administered." British War Fleet Ba ttles Italians IN JUGOSLAVIA BEING BURNED Diplomatic Severance Said Near; Russia Congratulates King BELGRADE, March 29 (UP) Tha soviet government was re ported tonight to have) sent congratulation to the new Jugoslav regime as the German legation here burned it arch ives, the -customary diplomatic preliminary to severance of re lation. The -soviet telegram was said to have stated the people- of Jugoslavia have again "shown themselves worthy of their glorious past." Jugoslavia thus faced indica tion of soviet approbation and German disapproval of her new government. Told To Leave All German national were reported .to . have been given urgent- instructions to quit the country, within 24 hours. From xeliable sources It was learned that .the government I preparing a declaration of Jugoslavia' . attitude . toward foreign nation the declaration which Germany is .awaiting with such patience. Thia declaration, it was said, wUi make the in points . 1 Jugoslavia desire to re main in peace and maintain the best . of relation with all ber neighbors. . - :'' 2 She can not accept any statu -which. might be consid ered to limit ber -integrity -or independence.: t ' - . j Th legation (tirted to burn it papers Oils mnrnooiv the usual, preliminary - to severance of diplomatic relations. - At . th Same time - an urgent "letter ' of' advice", wa trans mitted to all German citizens in Jugoslavia, telling- them to re turn to . Germany within 24 hours, if. possible..-. i - Governor Vetoes Cornett Road Bill ' SALEM March 29 W) Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague vetoed late Friday a bill by. Sen. Mar shall Cornett (R-Klamath) which would have given county courts authority to vacate or relocate county roads on or near air port. . . The governor said In his veto message that he had been ad vised by hi legal advisor, Ralph S. 'Hamilton, that the bill "ap peared unconstitutional. . Senator Marshall Cornett said Saturday that the airport road bill vetoed by the governor Sat urday was prepared for the sen ator by the attorney general's of fice. The governor vetoed the biU because he waa advised it "appeared unconstitutional." Senator Says Recent Europe Coup May Lessen Jap Threat WASHINGTON, March 2 9 (UP) Chairman Walter F. George, (D-Ga.V of the senate foreign relations committee, said tonight that Jugoslavia's rebuff to Germany will make Japan more reluctant to attack Brit ain' vital lifeline base at Singa pore. "Japan will not make the mis take of Italy in assuming an early termination of the war en tirely, favorable to Germany in view of the events of the last 30 days," George said in an interview.- Diminished "The probabilities of an attack by Japan on Singapore have di minished rather than increased In the last several . weeks and events in the Balkan since the arrival ot Japanese Foreign Min ister Matsuoka in Berlin make it further doubtful that Japan can be induced or forced into an at tack on Singapore or a direct attack upon English forces." Formidable Defansa ' George said that Japan appar- Premier 1 ii Gen. Dusaa-Siiaovtc (above). chief of the Yugoslavian air force.' took ov.r a premiar and formed a new Yugoslav government after King Peter IX. 17-rear-old monarch, took ever th rein of th govern- AUTO STRIKERS WON'T RETURN Enforcement of OPM " Settlement Asked By Unio!n Workers By The Associated Pre CIO United Automobile Work er voted in Milwaukee today to eeatinu their strike against the- - AW Chalmers r company "until the government compels the company to accept" a settle ment proposed by the office- of production management The vote was taken at a closed meeting while other em ployes were back on the job. At the request of the federal gov ernment, the huge plant resumed operations yesterday on $45,000,- 000 of defense orders. . . -Little Opposition Announcing the vote. Arthur Richter,- union attorney,- said there was only a sprinkling of opposition to prolonging - the strike.' . The government had asked the men to -return to work while negotiations for a-settle ment continued. . .In Chicago, an official ot the International Harvester-company announced that the company had cancelled Its plan to reopen on Monday- the Chicago ' tractor plant and the plant at Rock Falls. Ul. - He. said the reason for the decision was lack of union co operation. Hitch Develops At Washington a hitch devel oped in the defense mediation board's plan to hold it first hearing on one ot the four labor (Continued on Page Two) ently has been under pressure to attack the British base for a long time. Had she wished to do so, he said, Japan would have struck before the British garri son' was' strengthened. Now, he said, the empire forces have a formidable defense and although ha declined to comment on how the United States would react to a Japanese assault on Singa pore, another official said he be lieved that we might send Brit ain aid "in a volume not here tofore contemplated." - i "Japan cannot lose sight of Russia and possibly aggressive Russian intervention if Japan should be induced to attack Sing apore without assurances ot a speedy and favorable termina tion of her campaign," George said. "There is certainly nothing in the European picture at the present moment to reassure Ja pan while her premier la in Berlin." NAVAL POWER SAJIJIEATEM Six Warships Badly Damaged-in Biggest Engagement, of War Br WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Cuiiaspumlt LONDON. March 29 (UP) A British . war fleet pounded tha Mediterranean seas tonight hop ing to close in for a death blow upon an Italian naval squadron already badly shattered by tha sinking or damaging of probably six warships in the greatest sea and air engagement of tha war. The big battlewagonai of Ad miral Sir Andrew Cunningham raced at forced draft in an at tempt to smash almost the final vestige of Italian naval power before it could reach the protect' ing shelter of shore batteries oo the Italian mainland. . Bag Listed Already, the British reported. in a sea and air encounter which began yesterday In the Ionian waters of the eastern Med iter ranean, Italy baa (uttered: One 35,000-ton Llttorlo daat battleship badly damaged; twa to four cruisers badly. damaged and two possibly sunk; on ot more destroyer -shattered of sunk. . The crushing naval defeat waa inflicted at a moment when Brit ain feels certain Italian morale I at it lowest-ebb since start of the war. . ; The' Italian empire in Africa is regarded here a in tha final stages of dissipation with Italy clinging onlja to western Tripoli with tae aid of nail armored troops and apparently unable to- -make any move which will pre- - vent carry and complete British control of east Africa. ' Turn for Wen - In Albania Italy's plight ha taken a sudden turn for tha worse as a result of the Jugoslav coup d'etat. It was pointed out should Jugoslavia move Into tha war as an -ally of - Britain, : It would be a comparatively simgle . and quick operation for Greek and Jugoslav troops to overrun that portion of Albania tiU in Italian hands. - At this ebb-tide of fascism. Cunningham's eastern Mediter ranean war fleet finally succeed ed in coming to grips with that elusive portion of Benito Muao. lirii's navy which has not been previously encountered by Brit, ish warships and war planes. : . Reports ot what foUowed are' not yet complete since the admir alty said the engagement waa still "in progress" when it state ment was made. Great Encouatez But sufficient details wera re ceived to make plain it wa one of the great sea encounter of the war and Italian sea power had apparently been reduced to a negligible factor by the gun (Continued on Page Two) ' . Washington Keeps Eye on Yugoslavia . ; WASHINGTON. March 29 (ff The United State today watched ' fast-paced develop ments in Yugoslavia for the an swers to explosive question vitally affecting the war' threatened sweep into south eastern Europe and Asia. .' . Diplomatic quarters here, an alyzing each move in the Bal kan drama, predicted that tha whole future course of the con flict, and possibly American re percussions as well, would ba influenced deeply by what hap pen to the nazi-defylng Serbs, Croats and Slovene. , News Index Building News-... Church New . City Briefs Comics and Story . Editorials ...... --Pag 7 ... Sec ' S Page .3 ..Pag I -.Page 4 Garden Tip Pag 5 High School New Page 13 Information - ......Page 3 Market,' Financial . Pag 10 Pattern Page 6 Society - Sec. 3 Sports Pag Weekend Magazine See. -2 to. b