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yssg-i the Klamath News WEATHER NEWS Partly Cloudy High Mi Low lit Mldnlfht 24 boon to p. m. Troeo axon to date , .! Normal precipitation , , I.2S Last yea to dato i..lS.M readers with comprehensive photogrspn- IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND le service. Vol. 18, No. 112 Price Five In The Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS GERMANY end Italy demand today tho giving back of sfeielr Kiztd ahips and the re lease of the crowa. They don't expect their de mand! to be compiled with. What they want to know la whether we mean business, and if to how much. .TAP FOREIGN MINISTER J MATSUOKA. In Rome, telle Italian and foreign ncwspapcr men that: 1. Japan itanda for interna tional peace. a. More, In hia opinion, can be gained by negotiation In a apirlt of mutual undcritanding than by war. 3. A peraonal meeting among the leaden of the great powera would aeem desirable. 4. The desire of the Japanese people for peace la strong. -OEFORE you break out laugh V Ing. remember this: Aa Malsuoka was speaking, .the flower of the Italian navy had just been blown out of the water by a hard-shooting squad 'ron of British warships that came out of the encounter with out a single hit or a single cas ualty. IN today's dispatches it Is In timated strongly that HlUer ordered the Italian fleet to leave Its harbors and take a chance with tho British. Hitler is trying to egg the Japanese into war with the United States In the Pacific so that we may be kept too busy to give the British effective help In the Atlantic. Matsunka'a Interview in Rome sounds like he is getting cold feet c '.. "TODAY'S Berlin report tells of hospitals bombed by the British in last night's aerial at tacks. Damage to hospitals is one bit of news the censors can always be relied on to pass. The first law of propaganda Is that the other fellow must be made to appear a brute. HTHE British (referring to the same raid) tell of using a new and destructive type of aerial bomb. The London communique says: "Houses took to the air when the bombs burst. Masses of debris flying through the air were outlined against the glow of fires and the results appear ed to be devastating. That's total war. C . PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT tole graphs to the conference handling the threatened coal miners strike: "Uninterrupted operation of the bituminous coal industries Is extremely Important. Suggest if necessary you continue nego tiations during Tuesday looking to satisfactory agreement. TN other words: "Keep working i while you're negotiating Don't let production fall off. That is all the public asks of labor and management. It Is simple request, but TREMEND OUSLY Important. TN spite of all the threats, no shooting yet (at noon today) CJn Yugoslavia or elsewhere in l.ie Balkans. . From this you may Judge as to the amount of talking neces sary to make a war. Experts On Blasts Shun Explosions BEND, Ore.. April 1 (UP) Powder experts gathered here yesterday to take examina tions cvorlng new regulations. "Boom," went a blast out side, and pretty soon another "boom." The experts looked out. A powder crew was at worl In front of their meeting place. - To help them concentrate, the experts' examination loca tion was moved to another dis trict. The War 25 Years Ago By The Associated Press April 1, 1016 Zeppelins at ack England and Scotland. CenU U. S. CHARGES SABOTAGE OF Axis Protests To Be Ignored; Crewmen Facing Proceedings BERLIN, April 1 (UP) The United States' action in seizing ships of the axis powera consti tutes "an absolute violation of human rights" and a complete disregard for International law, authorised German spokesmen said tonight. Germany Is prepared to de mand reparations for the seised ships, it was stated In well Informed nail quarters. "When Germany considers an act to be absolutely against in ternational law It is only natural to demand reparation," it was stated. Hinting both Germany and Italy, In formal notes to Wash ington, may have demanded re lease of the seized ships, in formed quarters said they were unable to confirm such demands had been made "but it is quite possible." WASHINGTON. April 1 W) Attorney General Jackson today ordered United States attorneys to proceed Immediately with prosecutions in cases Involving sabotage of Italian and German vessels in United States waters. Immigration officials have ar rested 875 sailors taken from 28 Italian merchant ships and two German ships to face deporta tion proceedings and some of these are expected to face charges of sabotaging the ahips. Prosecution Starts The Justice department said that prosecutions already had been started at Boston, Mass., and Mobile, Ala. Justice department officials said the proceedings had nothing to do with possible moves ,to take title to axis iiupswnich' have been taken Jnto custody by Inderal agfhts. - -' The -lam provides maximum penalties of SO years' imprison ment and SI 0.000 fine for firing or sabotaging any privately owned vessel, whether foreign or (Continued on Page Two) Violin Music Of Spalding Heard Tuesday By ARTHUR BREMER Tho legendary gypsy violin sang to Klamath Falls lost night. The enchanted notes of song and story became real under the bow of Albert Spalding, America's leading candidate in the highest ranks of violin artists. This concert closed tho V m ath Cooperative Concert associa tion scries for this season on a high note that should be the foundation for even greater suc cess for next season . Spalding, keeping to a mini mum the stagey mannerisms ef- (Contlnued on Page Two) Asmara, Eritrea Capital, Falls Into British Hands CAIRO, Egypt, April 1 OP) Asmara, capital of Eritrea, cap itulated to the British today, it was announced officially to night. The report of Asmara's cap itulation came swiftly after the March 26 capture of Cheren, 42 miles to the northwest, a mountain stronghold which 33,000 Italian defenders made a major obstacle in the British path. One Port Left Only Massaua, on the Red sea, Eritrea's sole good port, remains ' now as a major goal of the British In their sweep across the East African colony from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan frontier toward the sea. The city of Asmara had been in Italian hands since 1889 and had come to resemble a city of southern Italy even to side walk cafes. It became tho Erltrean capital In 1900, when the seat of government was transferred from Massaua, 40 miles to the northeast. Of Asmara's last recorded population of approximately 98,000 persons, more than 80.000 were Italians the largest con centration of Italians in the en tire colony. The city was well fortified and Fort Baldlssera, on a hill Employes of the Kesterson relations board election to determine bargaining agent for all workers. The vote was In decisive. (0 ballots being cast for AFL and 81 for CIO. "No union'' polled 80. Since neither union received a majority. Robert E. Davie. NLRB field representative, seated left, said runoff election may be called by one of the unions. , '-.-- F. II. OPPOSES STRIKE LAWS President Wants Full Trial Of Mediators Before Restrictions WASHINGTON, April 1 (UP) President Roosevelt said today he would oppose all restrictive labor legislation until existing strike mediation machinery had a full and fair trial. The president hopes labor and capital can conciliate their dif ferences in a healthy atmosphere of give and take without slowing arms production. Mr. Roosevelt discussed the troubled defense labor situation with his congressional lleutetv 'anta.Senate Democratio 'Leader Albcn W. Berkley said after ward he did not expect any anti- strike legislation to reach 'the senate floor this session because "the national mediation board Is doing a fine Job." Mr. Roosevelt summed up his stand on defense labor disputes in a ainglo sentence: Tho general idea is that it the general labor and employer (Continued on Page Two) Hitler Effigy Hanged Tuesday City police Tuesday night re ported a "suicide at the Main street underpass. They said a prowl car was called to 'he scene at 10:30 to cut down a swinging effigy of Adolph Hitler, neatly hanged from the crossing and dangling over traffic. The dummy for that's what It turned out to be was garbed in a military coat, brown cap and shoes. Polico said they took the "body" to headquarters. The dummy was placed in position by youngsters as a Joke, police stated. The shoes are being held for their owner. overlooking the town, once had the reputation of being im pregnable. A new airport re cently was constructed south of the city and before the war regular service was maintained to Bengasi, Libya, to Rome, to Assab, Eritrea, and to Addis Ababa. It was linked by rail with Cheren ami Agordat, already in British hands, and to Massaua The rail distance to the latter city is 75 miles. Motor roads radiate in all directions from the town. Asmara has been bombed frequently by British planes but the Italians said littlo damage was done. NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, April 1 () The official East Africa communique reported to night that British forces enter ing Dlredawa had discovered the Ethiopian city's Italian In habitants "being injured" by a large band of deserters from the retreating Italian colonial army. (The British entered Dlredawa last Saturday. The Italians said they had abandoned the city.) Advancing British troops, the communique said, quickly re stored order, but were unable to prevent some Itallpn casualties. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Kesterson Workers Vote i 'tttttu. Lumber company Tuesday cast BULLETIN Only one vote separated the two labor unions in the na tional relations board election Tuesday at the Kesterson Lum ber company. Workers voted at Harmony hall on whether they wanted th CIO or the AFL as bargaining agent or were in favor of a "no union" satup. Robert E. Davis. NLRB field representative here for th ballot, and Douglas Cater, personnel manager of Kester son. announced th following results lata last night: Tote AFL 80 CIO 81 Neither . Eligible Voted Void ..... .. 80 238 228 . 1 Challenged 4 10 Mot voting' A a result of the vote a runoff election "will probably be called. Davie said, al though he mad it dar that 'on of th unions must re quest such a ballot if it is wanted, and that th "no un ion" would be omitted next time. U. S.-Mexco Pact to Aid Air Defense WASHINGTON, April 1 P The United States and Mexico today signed a convention pro viding for reciprocal use of air fields which will permit Amer ican military planes to speed to Panama in the shortest possible time. The convention was signed at 12:15 p. m. by Sumner Welles, under secretary of state, and Francisco Castillo Najera, the Mexican ambassador, in the presence of Mexican and Amer ican military experts who form ed the committee to draft plans for mutual defense measures for defense of the western hemi sphere. The convention will now be sent to the senate for ratifica tion and to the Mexica. con gress for appropriate action. The agreement, qualified au thorities stated, would greatly strengthen the aerial defenses of the Panama canal by making it possible for the United States to shift air force reinforcements rapidly southward from this side of the Rio Grande if danger threatened the canal zone. Under Its terms, army and navy planes would be permitted to fly the length of Mexico, utilizing Mexican air fields en route for refueling and repairs, and thus would be able to reach Panama In the shortest possible time. Harry Bridges Has Chuckle at Courtroom Door SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (JP) An immigration border patrolman stopped Harry Bridges and demanded his pass when the labor leader sought to enter the courtroom for the (.. enlng of his deportation hear ing today. "You can keep me out of here If you want to," Bridges said, with a laugh. A bystander explained that Bridges was the defendant in the case and the guard then admitted him. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2. 1941 ', their votes in a national labor NAZI CHUTISTS Jugoslavs Barricade, Mine Key Roads As Italy Pleads Peace BELGRADE. Wednesday. Apr. 2 (UP) Desperate Italian diplo matic efforts to prevent war be tween Jugoslavia and Germany at all costs were reported under way today as battalions of Ger man parachute troops and Al pine regiments massed at Jugo slavia's heavily defended fron tiers. The nazl parachute troop. many of them veterans of the .."blitzkrieg" across the low coun tries -JasT year, were reported concentrating at frontiers where key roads have been mined and barricaded by the Jugoslav army and where troop trains are pour ing thousands of fresh soldiers into defense positions. Italy Sks Pac Diplomats in Belgrade report ed that Italy is ready to mediate between Jugoslavia and Ger many for a peaceful solution but, for reasons of prestige. Pre mier Benito Mussolini wants the initiative to appear to originate with the new Jugoslav govern ment of Premier Gen. Dusan T. Simovitch. Because it is hardly possible for Simovitch to leave his post, it is understood the Italians have suggested Vice Premier Slobo dan Jovanovic, nationally known Serb jurist and expert in inter national treaties, accompany Foreign Minister Nomcilo Nln cich to Rome to arrange for Ital ian mediation. Under the fascist formula the Jugoslav government would send a letter to Mussolini ask ing him to mediate, but thusfar no concrete steps are understood to have been taken in that direc tion. Decision Reached Italy's move appeared to have been timed to coincide with ef forts of Jugoslavia's Croat popu lation to avoid war at all costs and reach a working agreement with the Serbian-dominated Sim ovitch government. At the Serbian capital of Zagreb Dr. Vladimir Matchek, who has hesitated to remain as vice premier in the Simovitch (Continued on Page Two) Talking Magpie Calls Each Day On Portland Tot PORTLAND, April 1 P Four-year-old Raymond Hanson has a rare playmate Dickie, the talking magpie of Glencul len. The boy's mother said that the magpie, an escapee from someone's home, calls at the Hanson residence every morn ing, pecks on the window and croaks, "hello Dickie," until Raymond comes out to play. Occasionally the bird will perch on tree and croak at Raymond: "Whatcha doln'?" then answer himself with "hello Dickie. Whatcha doln'?" . Mrs. : Hanson said the boy and magpie also play ball. The youngster tosses big rubber ball into the air and Dickie dives at it, pecking until it falls to the ground. Neighbors told the boy's mother that the bird was a pet of a Portland visitor, now In London,- who left him with friends here for safe keeping. 3 I 1 I 1 'I Sitdown Paralyzes Ford Motor Plant POLICE FIGHT 1 500 IN ALLIS PLANTSTRIKE Sheriff Not Able To Cope With Situation, Asks Additional Aid MILWAUKEE. Wis., April 1 (UP) Gov. Julius P. Hail was reported authoritatively tonight to have appealed for federal troop to safeguard production at th Allis-Chal-mrs manufacturing plant where 1800 CIO strikers and police clashed twice during the day. The request was sent by Brig. Can. Charles BonstL sixth corps area U. S. army commandant, at Chicago, the authoritative sources said. These advices also indicated that company officials bad relayed th appeal for troop to federal government offi cials at Washington. Hall requested SOOO troops, it waa said. MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 1 (UP) Sheriff Joseph Shinner of Milwaukee county notified Gov. Julius P. Heil tonight be was un able to cope with the situation at the AUis-Chalmers manufactur ing plant- where police battled 1500 CIO strikers with tear-gas this afternoon. Shinner told Hell the Mil waukee CIO planned a ' half- holiday Wednesday in sympathy with.the ft-day -AUis-Chalmers strike." My forces ire unable to-cope with the situation," Shinner said. "We will need auxiliary police (Continued on Page Two) Oregon Wins West Safety Prize for 1940 CHICAGO, April 1 (UP) The nation's 1940 honors for traffic safety tonight were awarded Kansas City, Mo., and Dallas, Tex. The grand prize among states went to Connecticut. The national safety council announced the awards for out standing effort in eliminating (Continued on Page Two) Bridges Trial Hears Gitlow Testify On U. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (UP) Josef Stalin In 1928 sup pressed a n attempt b y United States communists to free them selves from absolute Moscow domination, Benjamin Gitlow testified today at Harry Bridges' deportation hearing.; Gitlow, once a high-ranking communist, said Stalin forced recalcitrant American party members back into the Moscow fold by giving them a 48-hour "ultimatum" to repent and con fess, t The communist Internationale, Gitlow said, tried to establish a negro republic in the southern states; formed a successful dis ruptive movement within the American Federation of Labor which led to formation of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions; and tried to overthrow John L. Lewis as head of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, keystone of the CIO. AU this, GitloW contended, was part of a far-reaching, mas ter communist plot to take over the entire United States. Gitlow was communist party vice presi dental candidate In .1928. Gitlow, a government witness, occupied the stand all day. The name of Bridges, the defendant and California CIO director, scarcely was mentioned. The government's tactics appeared to be to first try to prove the communist party advocates over throw of the government by force, then try tcj prove Bridges (Every Miss Klamath - - Comart photo Miss Batty Patsk of Bly who was named, "Mis Klamath County" la the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland them girl contest Tuesday. A on of . the nine Wonderland "Welcoraettes she will bo introduced to Wonder land resident along with "Miss Shasta-Cascade 1S41 Alio of Wondarland" at Redding Satur day night and Sunday. COUMMIE OIRLSCHOSEN Betty Patzke . Of Bly Named To Represent Klamath In Contest "'EDDlSfG; April 1 Election of, Lydla Santini of Weed, Sis kiyou county,' -California, v as theme girl and official hostess of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland scenic region of northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon, was announced today by Tom L. Stanley, general manager of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland as sociation. She will be titled Miss Shasta-Cascade 1841 Al ice of Wonderland" and will be so proclaimed at opening cere monies of the 1941 Shasta-Cas- c a de Wonderland a 1 1 -season "Fun Festival" in Redding and at Toyon City in the Shasta dam area this Saturday raid Sunday. April 9 and 6. The public is in vited. Elected with Miss Santini to officiate as county theme girls and hostesses of "Fun Festival events in their home counties of (Continued on Page Two) S. Communists cooperated with, or was a mem ber of the party. ' '" ' ; ' I The procedure -was 1 reversed in Bridges' 1939 hearing when he was acquitted of. a charge of communist affiliation; " A letter was introduced dated June 21, 1929, with the letter head of the communist party of the United States. It was ad dressed to Gitlow, who said the letter dealt "with the situation leading to my expulsion from the party." The letter instructed him to make a written statement and deliver it to the party's execu tive committee within 48 hours, and that he unreservedly "accept without reservation the Comin tern decisions on the American question." Gitlow said these "decisions" had been reached in the form of an "address" by Stalin to the American party. Later a large group of American delegates to a Comintern convention . re quested a certain amount of freedom from Moscow a control, Gitlow explained. Stalin refused the request and Gitlow said he opposed Stalin on the matter, Gitlow testified. I was asked to sign a confes sion that I acted against the party, supported Herbert Hoo ver, and other ridiculous charges," Gitlow said. The party demanded that Gitlow follow Stalin unquestionlngly, support the communist party in the United States in fighting opposi tion to the Russian party, and denounce the "home rule" stand of the American delegates. ivSf Hfyrq Morning Except Monday), RIVER CIO FOIETIEUP 20,000 Affected By Strike In World's Bigest Industry Unit DETROIT. April 1 (UP) Th Ford Motor company's River Rouge plant, the largest indus trial unit In the world, tonight was paralyzed by a sitdown strike. United Automobile work ers , ucarms najnaw", file and clubs, systematically iorcect woraers ou production lines in all major deportments. Police Chief Carl Brooks of Dearborn said violence flared in the 1100-acre plant when work ers wearing union buttons rush, ed from the "B" building hous ing final assemblies to the fabri cating plant and broke down doors in an attempt to drive out , other employes. Riot Squads Ford officials called for all available police protection and Brooke - immediatelv reauested Gov. Murray D. Van Waggoner for aid from the state police. Riot squads went to gate 4, main entrance of the Rouge plant, and attempted to quell the disorders. Michael F. Widman Jr., direc tor of the UAW-CIO organizing drive against Ford, said the ces sation of operations was the re sult of "continuous and dellben ate" efforts by the company "to bring shutdown with the UAW. CIO before the issue could be .vldotwtaa -hsr- apeaee relatione board." t '- Big Contracts Ford baa $134,060,000 worth of defense contracts, most of which are for airplane engines) to be produced in a building that is- now being completed. The building is in the. River-Rouge group. Production of pygmy trucks for the U. S. army is a day shift job in one of the (truck departments. ,.-' The strike started late today as the night shift began work. - (Continued on Page Two), ' Nurses to Hear Hospital Head Lea the Humphrey, superin tendent of Shrine hospital for crippled children, Portland, and also president of the Oregon State Nurses association, will be honored with breakfast at S o'clock Thursday morning in the gold room of the Willard hotel . All graduate nurses are' urged to attend. Reservations - may be made with Mrs. Del Campbell at Hill side hospital, president of the local district. Wilson River - Road Opening Eyed for Fall H. E. Devereaux, state director of operations for the WPA, pre dicted Saturday that the Wilson River road would be open to traffic late this summer. Six hundred WPA workers are now completing the last section of the road, the twin of the Wolf Creek highway, Portland's short cut to the sea. he said. The section under construction is from Glenwood, on the old Gales Creek road. 10.8 miles west to Camp McNamers, 29 miles east of Tillamook. $240 Collected As Bounty for Cougar Family EUGENE, April t (Ph- A fonanr fsmllv enriched T. O. Vaughn, hunter and trapper, by $240 last weeK. ne Daggea a mother and three cubs in tho Foil rr.k district. They brought a bounty of $50 from the state and sio from ine county, each. ' News Index City Briefs , Comics and Story Courthouse Records Editorials Page S Page S Page 4 Page 4 Pago S Page Pag 7 Pag S Page S Information ... Market, Financial .... Midland Empire News.. Pattern Sports T