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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
Vol. 18, No. 118 Prico Five Cent
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday)
Kalpine Plant
Resumes Work;
Pickets Passed
Struck Plywood Plant in Operation
RIOTS RESULT
Suspects Sought
By Authorities
In Local Murder
IN DEATH OF
FOIPICKETS
T - N";'- '-"iT-" iA:
In The
c DayV
. News
By FRANK JENKINS
TN tha Balkan rumor fly
thicker than mosquitoes In
twimp. But NO SHOOTING
i yet.
Which mean that It' still the
diplomat' war.
YUGOSLAVIA 1 talking with
Turkey and Russia, with min
uter flying back and forth at
groat rate. An effort I ob
viously being made to line up
some sort of Creek-Turk-Russ-Yugoslav
front to present to
C Hitler.
' This writer's guess Is that
Greece. Yugoslavia and Turkey
are sincere and that Russia Is
practicing duplicity at the pres
ent moment and la ready to prac
tice treachery at ANY moment.
"THAT, of course, Is purely
cynical guess, based on per
sistent reading of censored news.
This writer has NO inside In
formation. fNE point In connection with
this Balkan ruckus Is at least
Interesting.
In the past (Poland. Norway,
the low countries, etc..) Hitler
has been Inclined to shoot first
and talk afterward. He now
clearly wants to do a lot of
talking before he does any shoot
ing (In the Balkans.)
He is feeling hi way cautlous
fty down there. . i
THREE foreign planes, today
ijl.n.lntiu saw MmnnnllrMl
southern Yugoslavia at a great
height this morning over the
Vardar valley.
This historic Invasion route
down the valley of the Vardar Is
the hot spot In whatever military
plans are being made behind the
smoke screen.
A CCORDING to Italy's Gayda
(you still remember, per
haps, who Gayda Is or WAS)
Japan's Matsuoka had a long
conversation with Mussolini on
Tuesday.
Gayda describes It as "a frank
exchange of views on all prob
lems Interesting to the two coun
tries and to the world." The
Interview, Gayda says, "made a
f 'ccp impression" on Matsuoka.
, v Another cynical guess on this
writer s part:
The destruction of a large
share of the Italian fleet In the
Ionian sea by the hard-shooting
British (without the loss of a
ship or a man) made MUCH
DEEPER Impression on him.
... . e
TF Matsuoka Is half as smart a
he ought to be he must realize
that Hitler and Mussolini (who
have everything to gain and
nothing to lose in the enterprise)
are trying to push Japan out on
a long limb that overhangs a
deep chasm.
Getting onto this limb would
be much easier than getting off
of It.
""LOSER home, today's dls-
in patches relate that:
v CIO automobile workers
truck today (Wednesday) at
huge - - Ford Motor Company
plant.
RIOTS forced the closing of
the defense Important Allls
Chalmers factory, with at least
48 persons injured In the clashes
between strike sympathizers and
police.
A wage dispute PARALYZED
most of the nation's soft coal
mines, with a mine guard shot to
death and a union picket wound
ed.
.
TT Is up to us all to reflect ser-
iously on this fact:
We can't fight Hitler and WIN
and FIGHT EACH OTHER at
the same time.
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The War
25 Years Ago
By The Associated Press
April 2, 1816 Russians rout
Turks near Baghdad.
39 Workers Reenter
Local Plywood Mill
After Confab Fails
Machinery hummed again
Wednesday at the Kalpine Ply
wood company plant after 30
worker voluntarily passed
through CIO picket lines and re
turned to work at a. m.
Don Drury, Kalpine manager,
Id operation would be n
tlnued on a 24-hour basis with
the first car of plywood sched
uled to be shipped Thursday.
Work on a carload destined for
defense us will be resumed inv
mediately and will be shipped ai
early as possible, he stated.
The men who opened the plant
Wednesday morning are em
ployes who were working there
before the strike, It was learned,
and all or most of them are be
lieved now to be affiliated with
the AFL Lumber and Sawmill
Workers union. Some time after
the strike occurred, the AFL
union announced a claim that
a majority of Kalpine's 70 em
ployes had designated the AFL
union a bargaining agent.
Still on the picket line Wed
nesday were members of the
CIO Plywood, Box Shook and
Door Worker union which de
clared the strike on Tuesdsy,
March 4. claiming a majority
membership among the em
ployes. Sheriff Lloyd L. Low and
Deputy Sheriff Jack Franey, ap
parently Informed that a crew
intended to go Into the plant
Wednesday, were on hand but
left when the Incident passed
peacefully.
Action on the pert of the men
came after negotiations between
the company and the CIO had
been carried on from early Tues
day until the small hour of
Wednesday morning. Present at
the conference was Charles
Wheeler,-of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor conciliation serv
ice who entered Into the labor
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Airport Area
Eyed for Road
Adjustment
A cooperative program for
road adjustment In the munici
pal airport area south of town
was agreed upon Wednesday at
a conference attended by mem
bers of the eounty court, city
council, city airport commission,
airport committee of the cham
ber of commerce and others.
County court members agreed
to road work, totaling about
$10,000, but said if no other than
county road funds are available
the work will require not to ex
ceed three years.
Efforts will be made, however,
to obtain government funds for
the road construction around
the airport, which will permit
closing a section of the Spring
lake road.
The plan Is to extend the
Johns road west across the rail
road tracks, and then slant
southeastward along the tracks
to rejoin the Spring lake road
south of the airport
Court members said they un
derstand the city will provide
rights-of-way for the road relocation.
Stalin Controls U. S. Reds,
Says Bridges Case Witness
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2
(UP) Systematic agitation In
the United States army to shat
ter Its morale 1 a prime tenet
of the communist party, Benja
min Gitlow, one-time communist
leader, testified today at the
Harry Bridges deportation hear
ing. The communist party of the
United State today is under
more complete control of Josef
Stalin and other Russian leaders
than it ever was before, Gitlow
said as he completed his direct
examination. The defense
waived cross-examination until
later in the proceedings.
The government made Its first
attempt to link Bridges with
communist activities on the west
coast through Ezra F. Chase of
Los Angeles, who identified him
self as a former member of the
Cars were parked beelde the Kalpine plywood plant ea the Klamath tint again, and smoke
poured from the stack Wednesday morning as 31 workmen entered the mill through a CIO
picket line. CIO pickets are shown at the right The strike was declared March 4. throwing 70
men out of work.
II. S. CITIZENS
HELDBYNAZIS
A
Axis May Confiscate
American Pr'operty
In War of Reprisal
BERLIN, Thursday; April 3
(UP Four United States citi
zens were arrested and held for
several hours late Wednesday In
what German criminal police ad
mitted might have "some con
nection with German reprisals"
for the U. S. seizure of axis ships
in American ports.
All of the arrests were con
nected with passport regula
tions, authorized German Quar
ter stated. - 4 ... -O.
S. Property
Possibility of confiscation -of
United States property In Ger
many in reprisal for the seizure
of German, Italian and Danish
ships in U. S. ports was rumored
in political quarters as the reich
government prepared a formal
answer to the American action.
The German official answer to
what is being called "an act of
gangsterism" will announce defi
nite German measures, it was
said reliably. '
"It is not absolutely impos
sible that the arrests had some
connection with reprisals against
the confiscation of German
ships," the nazi criminal police
admitted, referring to the case
of three of the four Americans
seized and held in custody tor
several hours.
Details Withheld
But the case of the fourth,
John Paul Dickson, a newspaper
man from New York, was said
to be "quite different," although
details were not divulged.
All of the four have been long
time residents of Germany.
Dickson was the last of the
quartet to obtain his release, af
ter being held from 8:30 until
10:30 p. m.
Others seized on the passport
charges were Arthur E. Dun
ning, permanent secretary of the
American chamber of commerce
in Berlin; a negro music student
from New York named Welsh
and an unidentified young man
whose home is in California.
The four were taken to . the
Alexanderplatz police station
where Richard C. Hottelet, a
United Press correspondent in
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Upholsterers' International un
ion (AFL), a one-time candidate
for Los Angeles city council and
tor the state legislature.
Chase testified in 1937 he was
ordered by Lou Baron, described
as an organizer of the trade un
ion section of the communist
party, - to attend a meeting
Bridges was to address.
He was told, he said, that
Bridges "would outline the pro
cedure to be followed by union
members in switching from the
AFL to the CIO.
Bridges "took quite a shot at
red baiters," Chase recalled. He
quoted Bridge as remarking, in
effect
"There was a time I felt if any
one opposed the communist
party, it was his privilege so to
speak. But experience has taught
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Pardon Asked
By 'Duchess
In California
SACRAMENTO. Calif., April
2 (UP) Mrs. Juanita (The
Duchess) Spinelli, ring-leader of
a small-time Detroit gang who
is under death sentence for mur
der, today asked Gov. Culbert
Olson to pardon or commute
her sentence to life imprison
ment. ...
Mrs. Spinelli is under strong
guard at the Tehachapi prison
for women following disclosure
of a purported plot to free her.
San Francisco police said they
had learned her daughter, Lor
raine, 10, had boasted she
"would get a gang together and
spring mother from prison."'.
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Mrs. Spinelli contended she waf
in her clemency application,
convicted of murder of Robert
Sherrard near Sacramento last
year largely on the testimony of
Albert Ives, another member of
the gang who later was de
clared insane.
Similar applications also were
received for Gordon Hawkins
and Mike Simeone, convicted
with Mrs. " Spinelli and also
under death sentences.
Sherrard was given knock
out drops in whisky and thrown
Into the Sacramento river in
fear he would inform authori
ties the gang had killed a San
Francisco barbecue stand oper
ator during a holdup.
Man Stabbed
Hero Wednesday
A man believed to be L. W.
Newlum was reported by police
to have been stabbed Wednesday
night at the Klamath Annex, 226
South Sixth street
Newlum was rushed to a hos
pital for treatment of his wounds
about 9 p. m. It was learned he
suffered severe cuts, one in the
ribs above the kidneys and an
other in the left arm. The man
was released frm the hospital
after about an hour. Police said
Newlum' assailant had not been
located by 1 a. m., but that they
thought him to be a transient
who had made a previous ap
pearance at the city hall.
Newlum is a newcomer to the
city, police informed. He is
said to be a cook at the T-Bone
cafe here, having acquired the
Job only a few days ago.
Czech Girl Skater.
Admitted to U. S.
VANCOUVER, B. C, April 2
(UP) Blonde Vera Hruba,
Czechoslovakian figure skater,
tonight was notified by Ameri
can immigration authorities that
she could re-enter the United
States under the Czech quota.
- An estimated 3000 American
suitors had offered marriage
proposals with U. S. citizenship
as the inducement Miss Hruba
rejected all bids and went into
hiding here, awaiting outcome
of consultation in Berlin be
tween American embassy at
taches and the German govern
ment. Miss Hruba also revealed that
Mrs. Nan Foley of Lafayette,
Ind., who had offered to adopt
the comely European ice star,
died recently and left her $20,-
000, according to notice received
from Edward Foley, the de
ceased woman's stepson,
"Now I will become an Amer
ican citizen forever, and I have
a lot of money," exclaimed Miss
Hruba. She said she would leave
tomorrow for Sacramento,
Calif., to rejoin her ice troupe.
1.EUP SETTLED
Congress Nears Anti
Strike Legislation
As Sentiment Grows
WASHINGTON. April 2 (UP)
The national defense mediation
board tonight announced settle
ment of the three-week-old Con
denser corporation of America
strike, while congress moved
closer to enactment of anti-strike
legislation.
The entire defense labor situa
tion was canvassed at a three-
hour meeting of President
Roosevelt and his "war cabinet"
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'..The 70-day-oltt Allis-Chaunerx
walkout was reported to be the
major topic of conversation.
None of the conferees would
comment but 'informed quarters
predicted the deadlock would be
turned over to the mediation
board within a day or two.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, (D-Va.),
demanded the government re
open the plant he also called for
prompt action to end all work
stoppages affecting rearmament,
adding his voice to rising cres
cendo of anti-strike sentiment in
ooth senate and house.
Sen. Tom Connelly, (D-Kex.),
normally a strong administra
tionist, advocated government
seizure and operation of all
plants where defense production
is halted by either capital or
labor.
To Study Labor
The house approved, 324 to
cne, a resolution vesting broad
authority in its military and
naval aifairs committees to in
vestigate all phases of the de
fense drive. The chairman of
both groups promised labor
would be one of the first phases
to be studied.
A d m 1 n i stration spokesmen
adamantly reiterated President
rtoosevelt's policy of giving ex
isting mediation macninery a
full and fair trial before drastic
action is taken.
Settlement of the Condenser
corporation walkout was dis
closed by Mediation Board
Chairman Clarence A. Dykstra.
He said an agreement had been
reacned for "immediate that
means tomorrow morning" re
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Back-to-Counties
Relief Bill Gets
Assembly Okay
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April
2 (UP) The state assembly to
night passed 42-32, and sent to
the senate a much-amended bill
returning relief to the counties.
The bill is the basic measure
of the proposed new relief pro
gram which would abolish the
SRA, return relief administra
tion to the counties, and create
a Job mobilization plan.
Assemblyman Augustus Haw
kins, one of the opponents of the
bill, served notice of reconsider
ation tomorrow of the vote. Pro
ponents needed 41 votes to ap
prove the bill.
The measure is a senate-
approved bill amended in assem
bly committee. : '
The bill, as amended, would
require the state to pay . two-
thirds of relief costs, and the
counties one-third with the state
paying 90 per cent of expendi
tures in excess of the 1939-40
fiscal year.
Kentucky Coal Mines
Halt All Work; Ford
Strike May Mediate
HARLAN, Ky., April 2 (UP)
Operators of soft coal mines in
Harlan county tonight shut
down all operations to avert re
currence of violence which kill
ed four miners and injured six
others during the day.
The decision was reached on
ret.jest of Gov. Keen Jonnson
who telephoned from Frankfort
that the "violence and slaughter
growing out of the mine lhut-
do rn is a dif "race.
William Turnblazer, UMW
district president, announced
withdrawal of union picket as
a safety measure. The mines will
remain shut down, the operators
said, pending outcome of the na
tional bituminous coal industry
negotiations at New York.
Six Wounded
The fatal shooting of four CIO
picket today occurred at the
Crummie mine, 11 mile east of
Harlan. Six union and non-union
mirer were wounded. The death
toll by violence was brought to
five in two days. A mine guard
was slain Tuesday and sporadic
rioting at eight of the county's
47 soft coal fields.
Today's battle was touched off
by a gun fired harmlessly during
a speech at the mine entrance
by a United Mine workers'
Organizer. Approximately 300
unionists, who had come to the
workings in an effort to collect
due from non-members, w
listening to the address. Non-
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- SET TOGETHER
Jugoslavians Pursue
Policy of Peace to
Avoid German War
BELGRADE, April 2 (UP)
The new Jugoslav government
tonight sealed an agreement
uniting Serbs and Croats in
common front against any in
vasion after promising to pursue
a ' policy of peace and strive
by all reasonable means to avoid
war with Germany.
The cabinet of General Dusan
T. Simovitch named a week ago
after the Jugoslav army s anti-
axis coup d'etat agreed to the
new working arrangement with
the Croats in a two-hour cabinet
session ending at 9 p. m.
Under the agreement Dr. Vlad
imir Matchek, the venerable
Croat political leader, will re
main in the government as first
vice premier.
Path Cleared
Although no cabinet communi
que was issued it was stated in
the most reliable quarters that
all obstacles have been cleared
from the path of Croat participa
tion in the new government
A cabinet declaration of for
eign policy will be issued soon,
perhaps Friday, it was stated re
liably.
Meanwhile hopes rose that
Jugoslavia's position in the face
of a threatened German invasion
would be strengthened by a de
fense block including Russia,
Turkey and Jugoslavia.
A report from Dr. Milan Gab-
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Man Elated At
SERBS
Sight After 7 Years Blind
TACOMA, Wash.. AprU 2 (P)
". . . . and then they took the
bandages oft. . . , Dimly, I could
see the nurse' white uniform.
. . . I felt like a lump of Jelly.
. . . I was so excited they had
to carry me back to bed. . .
After seven year and 14 days
of utter darkness, I could see
againl I could see agalnl"
From behind his dark glasses,
53-year-old Claude M. Wood Joy
fully told today his story f a
sight-restoring "miracle." It was
substantiated by Dr. Edwin B.
Warren, Tacoma oculist .
Wood lost his eyesight In an
accident so strange it Is hard to
believe. He was standing along
side a country road when a car
went speeding past. Wood fell
to the ground, clutching hi right
cheek. Something had gone
Sought
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Here are two prison "mags'
of George Parks. 3S. sought aa
suspect in the Buffalo lunch
killing of Dr. Salem A. David.
Parks and a companion are
Ueved to have worked oa po
tato sorting crews in the south
end district last falL They dia-
appeared from a " Jungles I
oaf here March if. the- darJ
n. nteui jAnr ""i
British Fall
From Libyan
Front Lines
CAIRO, Egypt April 2 ")
The British acknowledged
slightly increased pressure of
axis military power in Libya
today even as their victorious
forces in east Africa pursued
the Italians on two major
fronts, hopeful for speedy
knockout blows.
Imperial forces were declared
to have virtually cornered some
100,000 Italians in the east
African campaign to destroy
Premier Mussolini's empire.
Outpost Withdrawn
The acknowledgement of axis
activity in Libya, in north Af
rica, was noted briefly in a
headquarters communique
which said British advanced
elements northeast of Mersa
Brega were withdrawing.
This was done in the face of
what British sources called a
"reconnaissance in force." Pre
viously the British said the Ger
mans had part of three divi
sions to bolster the battered
fascist army in Libya.
Mersa Brega is about 30
miles northeast of El Agheila,
which was an outpo3t of the
British winter advance west
ward. The British withdrew
from El Agheila last week short
ly before nazi troops raised the
swastika over the village. .
Recovery of
through his rfght eyeball and
the bridge of his nose.
"I. thought I'd been hit by a
stray bullet," Wood said. "But
when the doctors took the eye
out they found small pieces of
stone in it. The tires of the pass
ing car had thrown a pebble
through my eye.
The pebble destroyed the right
eye and damaged the nerves of
the left one so badly he lost hU
vision. Doctor after doctor told
him the same story:
"The optic nerve is useless.
You'll get glaucoma and the best
thing you can do is have the
other eye taken out."
"But." explained Wood, "I
Just had a feeling that some
day I would see again. I told
the doctors: 'Years from now
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Suspicion Pointed at
"Jungle" Pair Who
Left Day of Killing
George Parks, 33, an ex-con
vict with a long record, was
sought Wednesday a No. 1 sus
pect in the Buffalo lunch killing
of Dr. Salem A. David. '
Murder warrants were issued
here for Park and "John Doe,"
hi companion, and Sheriff Lloyd
L. Low revealed he had sent out
police bulletin to all parts of the
coast in an attempt to catch tha
two suspects.
Suspicion
Sheriff Low said the finger of
suspicion points so strongly at
Parka he 1 convinced be is one
of the men who held up thai
South Sixth street cafe on the
early morning of March 18, and
killed Dr. David with a shotgun
when be .pursued the robbers
into the night and grappled with.
one of them.
Wednesday's development was
the first pointing definitely to
an identified individual aa one
of the killers, and came as a re
sult of painstaking investigation
by law enforcement agencies
here. Sheriff Low's quiet lift
ing of the clue in the case par
tially lifted the cloak of mystery
surrounding the identity of tha
sailers about a week ago. To
prevent "tipping off Parks that
he was suspected, if be was still
in this area, the sheriff did not
reveal the development publicly
until Wednesday.
Left March It
Parks and hi companion, a
man about his age, disappeared
from a Jungles "hangout" on
March 18, the day of the Buffalo
lunch robbery, and their where
n n. m
sSetherUf learned that the
two suspects had been living in
the Jungles camp located at tha
Long Bell burner on the old Mid
land road. Parks came to the
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Jury Ponders
Haynes Liquor
Selling Case
A Jury of 12 men retired to
the juryroom at about 8 p. m.
Wednesday to begin deliberation
toward a verdict in the trial of
Carlton Wheeler Haynes, pro
prietor of the Lost River club
in Merrill. Haynes is charged
with illegal selling of alcoholic
liquor. By 1 a. m. Thursday the
Jury was still out no decision,
having been reached.
Witnesses for the plaintiff
were Burt Gorrell and J. W.
Hayes, special, investigators for
the Oregon Liquor Control com
mission. They testified that on
November 18, 19 and 20 they
visited the club at Merrill and
succeeded In purchasing drinks
of straight whiskey over the bar
on the second and third days.
With a syringe they obtained evi-
Eastern Oregon
Has Driest March
LA GRANDE, Ore., April 2
(UP) Weather bureau officials
today said March in La Grande
was the driest experienced In tha
54 years records have been kept
Less than half an Inch of pre
cipitation fell during the month.
PENDLETON, Ore., April 2
(UP) Umatilla county today
recon.. the driest three nonth
period in half a century because
of rain deficiency.
County Watermaster J. M.
Spencer said rain lack for tha
last three months was 2.42
inches. He said the Umatilla
river is too low to fill the right
of regular water users. Ground
water for pumping purposes In
the Walla Walla district has dis
appeared. News Index
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