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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1941)
PAGK TWC THK NEWS AN1 THFi HERAI.P. KI.AMATH FAM.. ORF.OON April , 1H41 TO QUIT WQRK (Continued from Pag One) Jected by negotiators (or U. S. Steel's largest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, "indicating an Intention to cause a lockout of the men em ployed at the mills of these companies on April 8, the no tire said. Negotiators of the steel union and Carnegie-Illinois will meet again Monday after a weekend adjournment. They have been in session since March 20. con sidering the union's 9 point pro gram, including a 10-cents an hour wage increase, improved vacations, an "adequate" dues collection system, accelerated grievance machinery, exclusive bargaining rights and other con tract improvements. 'The Carnegie-Illinois Steel company has either rejected en tirely or submitted unsatisfac tory counter proposals with re spect to each of the points of fered by the SWOC in its pro gram, the notice said. The union will attempt to ar rive at an agreement with the involved companies to provide for necessary maintenance men "during the suspension of oper ations. Peaceful picket lines will be established, and "there should be no violence or other unlaw ful acts on the part" of union members, Murray informed lo cal union presidents." By Tba Associated Press An end to the soft coal min ing stoppage appeared imminent Saturday with the appointment a subcommittee representing labor and management "to edit a contract" and present it to the full bituminous coal nego tiating committee in New York of a subcommittee representing Other late-in-the-day develop ments in the national production situation included: Communist Question L A. Capizzi. Ford Motor com pany counsel, testified at a labor board hearing in Washington that "We are not going to con sent to do business with sub versive groups" and was told by Maurice Sugar, counsel for the CIO Automobile Workers union, "You are going to do business with the CIO." Capizzi asked dismissal of pe- Jesus Wore the Mask How do you picture Judas, the man who betrayed our Lord? As Jesus and the disciples travelled, Judas handled the money. He must have looked good to them to nave carried the cash. As for our part, we see in him the smiling brother, ever ready to do a good turn and by that keeping his hold but at heart a thief. Our Lord needed not that any should tell Him what was in Judas or any other man. He knew each of the Twelve and chose each for his part. On I many a day during His ministry, we vision Jesus casting an eye, mobile Workers for a contract taward Judas and seeing, not ; recognizing it as collective bar Juoas but the cross. For Christ i gaining agent, and covering knew all that He must undergo at the hands of Judas and the Jews in Jerusalem. Nothing Left To Chance The months pass. Jesus and ! the Twelve come to the Last Supper in the upper room. Christ turns to Judas with "That thou doest, do quickly." At this Judas i slips out to meet the Jews and! lead them to the place of be-' trayal In the counsel of God it wa3' decreed that the Son was to die I for our sins and you hear Christ say that He came not to do His I own will but the will of the1 r airier who sent him. Step by I step, Christ handled It. On to! the cross He went. There He ; 'Continued from Page One) suffered death and became the "ea against Germans in north Lamb of God that taketh nway Africa and shot down six of the sin of the world For this "le nar' machines and damaged Christ chose Judas. others in dog fights yesterday Old Law Done Away land before. Sum it up: 'When the fulness KHATnt... . . r ,. of the time came. God sent U KHARTl-M- Anglo-Egyptian forth his Son. born of a wo LU"dfy'DAfr!1 5 'r? inv man, born under the law." The law of Mose, that the Jews woe fully broke. Christ kept to the full. His was the blameless life that rounds o .h. (... j. mand. of th. Ia, i "1 -' merited eternal life. But before taking over the glory. He bowed His holy head and suffered the curse for all who repent of their sin: Jew or Gentile. From the cross you hear His cry: "It is finished." For four teen centuries the Hebrews had been under the law. Now the test is ended. From that day to this no man has ever been told by God to keep the ten com mandments to earn eternal life. Instead we have a new order This is God's command to us this side of the cross: "That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as He, Christ, gave us commandment." Se we are to believe in Christ as Saviour and love one another. By this test where do you stand? Have ; you the Saviour? Do you love the bretheren? Geo. N. Taylor, Beavcrton, Ore. Paid Adv. . Valedictorian fc.- X jar-' a..-- - f j? t.""A.- 11 m BLY Above are Miss Pearl Bowers, left, and Miss Maryclle McMillan, valedictorian and salutatorian respectively of the Bly high school on the basis of grade point average. Miss Bowers has attended school at Bly for all but one semester of her high school career, and Miss McMillan for all but three months. Both are outstanding in citizenship and participate heartily in several extra-curricular activities. Photos by Anita at Bly. titions for election of bargaining representatives for employes of Ford's vast Rouge plant, now closed by a strike. Gov. Murray O. Van Wag oner of Michigan expressed re lief that "things look bright" for settlement of the strike be fore long. Certified Three small out protracted strikes were certified to the de fense mediation board, to which President Roosevelt earlier today appointed 10 alternate members. Ford Motor company assembly lines over America stood idle to day as a result df a strike at the firm's River Rouge plant near Detroit At least 118.000 men were affected by the shutdowns. Another 250.000 workmen in the steel industry faced the threat of workless days begin ning at midnight Tuesday unless a deadlock is broken in nego tiations between the United States Steel corporation and its CIO employes over a new wage contract. Still another 400.000 soft coal miners were out of production while negotiations continued to ward a new labor contract. However. Dr. John R- Steelman, federal conciliator, predicted that some of the mines would re-open next week. These hundreds of thousands, engaged in industries holding ; ailment, is reported to be im billions in defense contracts, . proving. drew further public attention to the tabor situation. I Mode PTA Mrs. E. D. Asked at his press conference i Lamb will speak on flower ar- yesterday whether there was communist activity in connec tion with the Allis-Chalmers rfril. Dh1m -...1 , plied in the affirmative. He described the strike as the only serious one in defense industries. The company has $45,000,000 in Representatives of the com pany and striking CIO United Automobile Workers' union meet in Washiagton today for a con ference with the defense media tion board, seeking to settle the 74-day stoppage. Issues include a union shop, wage rates and seniority adjustments. The Ford strike hinges on de mands of the CIO United Auto- wages and seniority and griev- ance procedure. Strikebound for three days, the big River Rouge plant stop- feeding parts to the widely scattered assembly plants. They closed. The company holds $155,000,000 in defense con- tracts, perial British army's pincers around closed tighter today fe!""' ?" "j? " PTrt nJZ' .1 v.h 'T"' Ethiopian frontier ;'rom the northeast and closed on Adigrat. I Adigrat is 40 miles east of Aduwa, scene of the Ethiopian's rout of the Italians in 189S and the place where the Italians won their first victory in the invasion of 1935. It is about 80 miles south of Asmara, cap lured capital of Eritrea. Italians were streaming south by the main roads south of As mara toward Addis Ababa, but occasionally halted In attempts to ambush the pursuing forces. A "free French" pilot who flew over the whole area yester day said he counted 400 trucks tearing south on the road to ward Makale. "They gave the impression they were Just running for it," he said, and appeared to be making no preparations for a larger-scale stand. Picture framing. Goeller's, 230 Main. Phone E704. Salutatorien CITY BRIEFS Case Continued Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg on Saturday continued the case of an Indian boy charged with burglary at Chiloquin. The judge said he wants to know more about the circumstances before making final decision in his juvenile court on this mat ter. Another boy was sentenced to the training school by the judge Saturday. Married In Reno Miss Betty Kelley. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Kelley of Seattle and niece of Mr. and Mrs. How ard R. Wolf. Altamont drive, was married to Mr. Maurice Mil ler of Klamath Falls last week in Reno, Nev. After a short visit in Portland, the couple will make their home her. Attend Air Rodeo A group of Klamath Falls flyers are plan ning to attend a combined air rodeo and barbecue at the Fred erick Butte airport near Broth ers, Ore. Sunday, the local air port disclosed Saturday. County Clerk Improved 'County Clerk Mse K. Short, Iwho has been confined to her home for a few days with an ear rangement at a meeting of the Modoc Point PTA next Thurs day. 'Newspaper Reports p . ; r,m tXtetSlve Uamage gy Crazed Inspector BENDIX. N. J.. April 5 HV The Passaic Herald-News said in a copyrighted article today that a civilian employe inspector had run amok in the Bendix Aviation corporation plant here, destroying machinery and mod els valued into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and setting back production of some articles as much as four months. Neither Bendix officials nor the federal bureau of investiga tion office at Newark would con firm or deny the story. The Passaic newspaper said the man ran through the plant of Bendix's pioneer instrument div ision, swinging in each hand a metal housing which weighed more than ten pounds. One ob ject which the newspaper said had been destroyed was the mnslal 1fr a Hrift inHtatM- 4hat had taken months to build. I The plant is devoted to pre clsion instruments for aviation, among them parts of the secret bomb sight. The Herald-News said the In spector launched his attack at the 11:10 lunch hour last night. Stunned at first, employes had to knock him unconscious to subdue him, the newspaper re lated. He was taken to a psy chopathic ward, it added. The Herald-News said unof ficial estimates of the damage ranged as high as $250,000. He was described as a man of old American stock. Defense Against Organized Vice Eyed by Army SEATTLE, April 5 W) One phase of the national defense program is to be defense of the army and navy lads from or ganized vice conditions within luring distance of their posts. Charles P. Taft, son of the lata former president and chief jus tice, told representatives of numerous groups in the area embracing Fort Lewis and the Puget Sound navy yard meeting here yesterday that federal agencies are "going to go after every law enforcement officer in the areas affected and make them enforce the law " Taft is an assistant coordin ator of health, education, recrea tion and other related activities under the national defense coun cil. Abundant plant life is con tained in the ocean down to about 400 feet. All animal life In the sea depends on it for existence i GDEBBELS SAYS GERMANY AIMS AT BRITISH (Continued from Page One) been transporting vast stores of war supplies from Egypt to Greece. (Reports, which the British never denied, said that large numbers of British troops. many as 200,000 according to some estimates, had been moved across the Mediterranean to take up positions in Greece.) The axis powers had con' sldered these convoys of such importance that they sent the Italian navy out In an ill-fated attempt to intercept them the attempt that ended in the dis astrous battle of the Ionian sea Official quarters said if radio reports from Berlin were con firmed, Jugoslavia, "in her de fense against aggression, like Greece, can count upon the full support of the British empire." It was recalled that Prime Minister Winston Churchill, on March 27, had promised Jugo slavia would "receive from the British empire and, I doubt not, in its own way. from the United States, all possible aid and suc cor." "The British empire and Its allies will make common cause with Jugoslavia and we will continue to march and strive to gether until complete victory is won," Churchill said. NEW YORK. Sunday. April 8 (UP) Columbia Broadcasting system heard a Berlin radio re port early today that the Ger man army was marching against both Greece and Jugoslavia. A CBS resume of Ribben trap's announcement, as broad cast by radio Berlin, said: "England has just prepared a new crime against Europe. Eng land has landed troops In the Balkans after Dunkirk and they are attempting to create a new theater of war. A blind government has made a pact with Jugoslavia and has offered military aid against the reich. Germany always tried to secure friendly relations with Greece and Jugoslavia but all in vain. Hitler has announced that since this morning (Sunday) German troops have been marching against the English to teach them a lesson. This vatll teach them a lesson." LONDON. Sunday. April 6 (UP) Ivan Soubotich, Jugoslav minister to London, told the United Press today there was no confirmation from Belgrade up to 9 a. m. that Jugoslavia had been invaded by Germany. Alternates For Mediation Board Named (Continued from Page One) Clarence A. Dykstra; Charles Wyzanskl, Massachusetts attor ney, alternate for William H. Davis; Walter P. Stacy, chief justice of the North Carolina supreme court, alternate for Frank P. Graham. Representing employes Rob ert Watt of Massachusetts, spe cial representative of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, alter nate for George M. Harrison James Wilson of Ohio, another AFL special representative; al temate for George Meany; E m i 1 Rieve of Pennsylvania, president of the United Hosiery Workers, CIO, alternate for Philip Murray, and Clinton Golden of Pennsylvania, CIO steel workers organizing com mittee, alternate for Thomas Kennedy. Representing employers Gerard Swope of New York, alternate for Walter C. Teagle; John E. Connelly" of New York, alternate for Roger D. Lapham, and Charles E. Adams of Penn sylvania, president of the Air Reduction corporation, alternate for Eugene Meyer. Four Investigations Launched at Scene Of Airline Mishap VERO BEACH, Fie., April 8 JF) Four separate Investiga tions of the forced landing Thurs day morning of a giant Eastern Air Lines plane In swamp near here during a blinding squall proceeded today as 13 passengers and three crew members appear ed on their way to recovery. The captain, Gerald O'Brien, who Insisted on remaining In his wrecked ship until all others were removed, was reported suffering greatly from shock, but a physicisn ssid ha had not suffered a crushed chest as at first was feared. Dr. L. H. Martin of Fort Pierce reported Co-Pllot D. M. Crabtrea of Miami was the most seriously injured, with a fract ured leg, broken cheekbone and head injuries. Dr. George W. Crile, noted Cleveland surgeon, and Mrs. Crile remained in a hospital with injuries not believed to be serious. Try the Classified Ads. U. S. i f-'''l""'" ' '' -''fiiaaai.aMss. ... lye m ... j ,,. A bullet-rlddan Messerschmltt flahtlna olene. shot down Avar Calif., via boat lor delivery to the Vultee Aircraft -company for hoped to leara something about Oermaa construction methods, engine d align. New Assistant Kennell-Ellis . R. S. "Bob" Holden, recently appointed assistant manager at Sears Roebuck and company, who started on his new Job this week. He replaces Ralph Makl who left to take a position in California. Holden comes here from Yakima, and has served as assistant at Walla Walla under Bob Hubbard, who was formerly an assistant manatfnr in Klamath store. Holden has been with the company 8 years, orig inally starting in Riverside, California. The local Sears store has re cently been put into the "A" store class, a division which in cludes Everett. Wash., and other stores in cities of larger popula tion man Klamath Falls, accord ing to T. R. Thompsen, local manager, and now has a resident auditor. The new auditor is Morris Weatherford, formerly in the Seattle main office. Howard Hardesty is also a newcomer to the local store. He has taken over the duties of credit mana ger. E PROMISED OUT (Continued from Page One) was revealed soon after Secre tary of State Cordcll Hull had told a press conference Vat he was giving attention to the Ital lan aciay. ine offices were ordered closed in retaliation for the closing of U. S. consulates at Naples and Palermo. The U S. offices formerly assigned to Naples were reassigned to Rome yesterday. Meanwhile, U. S. attorneys at ports wnere the axis ship seiz ures occurred sought early trial of officers and seamen on the sabotaged ships. The sabotaged vessels may be subject to for feiture once the men are con fided. Charles G. Fenwick, famous International law professor and U. S. representative on the Rio de Janeiro inter-American neu. trality committee, said that the United States had every right to seize even the undamaged ships. Fenwick asserted that specific legislation would be necessary to give the president power to lane them. There is no question, he said, of the validity of such legislation. They have been in the United States so long that iney could be taken just as any private property is taken for public use, he added. He said this would be no violation of neutrality, regardless of owner ship of the vessels. WATER TO NIAGARA KANSAS CITY 0H Rain poured down, but Lester Hard ing and Bcrnie Shaner managed to keep dry by carefully duck ing under awnings. Then a sprinkling truck passed, faucets going full -blast, (Several words censored). Pennsylvania produces more anthracite coal than any other state. (P) tip .- ii J AT Experts Study German Ml PACT SIGNEO, LONDON SAYS (Continued from Page One) heard in London, reported early today. The treaty binds Russia and Jugoslavia for five years to pur sue a policy of neutrality and "strictest friendship" in the event one of them is attacked. Moscow radio said. (Signature of the treaty was reported as the German-Jugoslav crisis appeared headed for an imminent showdown and as Adolf Hitler's newspaper warn ed Jugoslavia that "the near future will show where this playing with fire leads.") Signed at Moscow A 5 a. m. radio Moscow news cast said the treaty was signed in the soviet capital yesterday "after negotiations which have been taking place in Moscow during the past few days." (Announcement of the treaty came at a time when diplomatic quarters were speculsting on "IT: if any. Russia would take to forestall a Ger- man iiiuvv in me oiikihs.; The treaty stipulates that Rus sia and Jugoslavia agree to re spect each other's Independence, sovereignty and territorial In tegrity, radio Moscow reported. Text of the radio Moscow an nouncement, as heard In Lon don: "The presidium of the su preme soviet of Soviet Russia and his majesty, King I'cter, moved by the friendship exist ing between the two nations TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY 18 IN. GREEN FIR SLABS, de livery at once. Double load 5.00. 2 double loads $9.00. Peyton & Co. Phone 9149. 5-4 HOUSEKEEPER WANTED to take full charge of small mod ern home, stay nights. 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Greyhound Depot Phono 5521 4-20mtf Plane Enaland. trrlvii aft Kan Parfra. study by its engineers. They instrument tvnai. irmiminl and and to satiafy their mutual In terest to preserve peace, have decided to conclude a treaty of friendship and non-aggression. They appointed for the pur pose of concluding such their representatives. V. M. Molotov, representative of the supreme soviet of Soviet Russia, M. Gav rllovitch, V. Sllitrh and Colonel Savlch as representatives of his majesty. King Peter. "They have agreed to the fol lowing: "1. Both aides agreed to re frain from any aggression and to respect each others Inde pendence, sovereignty and terri torial Integrity. "2. In case one of them should become a victim of ag gression by a third country, the other will keep a policy of friendship towards the first. "3. The treaty is signed for a period of five years and if not denounced by one of the signa tories one year before the end of the treaty, it automatically, is prolonged for another five years. "4. The treaty is in two orig inals in the Russian and Serb Croatian languages, both of which have the power of the original. "Moscow, April 3. On behalf of the supreme soviet of Soviet Russia. V. M. Molotov. On be half of his majesty, King Peter. M. Cavrtlovttch, V. Slllch, Col- opel Savich." . ,1 (J J. Awaits Berlin Arrest Explanation (Continued from Page One) lice admitted that their action "might have some connection" with reprisals for the coast guard's seizure of two German merchant ships in United States ports after discovery of a wide spread sabotage plot. There is no doubt In Informed quarters that Germany's antag onism stems primarily from American aid to Britain and en couragement of other threatened nations to resist nazi aggression American seizure of German ships, detention of nazl crews on immigration and sabotage charges, and Secretary Hull's flat rejection of German pro tests together with the cumula tive effect of numerous preced ing Incidents have further em bittered nazl feelings. mmmJ PMONI It ' i VWTWM fiTH- A . Continuous ft how luntfay i X 'tsaaf I frent tl Noon f 'C fl I ; NOW PLAYING ; Jr4 J UNMy I Bn-k I ; ADiisuslTrisasktal ; ij 1 IIullOOM - DHL ' ;. .i-ll.. ... ,; : 2ND BIG HIT! I ' : fmwtMtt i' ! VxfTClXrJ 1 1 III : MARCH SULLAVAN : TH I Q kl!JJ mHCfsDEE':H,:;.'?;i! : Aii-rn Ullors Itlrtlnl TlfMi Mi. I1 k f UlTUI,m ft I.M-llUP. M. flF V"k I"HNCDY"' i i.iii. .,,Tf5 hwlk , . pLU$ . ,; Tnri,,rf I MMwSrK """' '"."-" Action! (M E L Dl I Ulan UnUfnal Niws I i JW JOB FAVORED (Continued from Page One) cut-off from the Ijikevlew high way to the Weed Klamath Falls route. The hluhway commissioners, local delegates said, refused tn, give further consideration to the proposal that at least a section of the Sprague Hlver road be made a secondary state highway. There was talk of construction cost of (33.000 a mile, a figure the Klamath men regarded as "extremely high." The county mad department will proceed with considerable work on the Sprague Hlver road, particular, ly between the Lakeview high way and Sprague River, It Is ex pected. The Klamath delegation asked the state commission to oil six miles of graveled sections of W Malln Bonanza road. This w turned down. British Blast Two German Battleships (Continued from Page One) at Rotterdam and industrial tar gets in the Ruhr also were bomb ed The attack on Brest, 40th of the war, was the third since Sunday when the British first reported the presence of the big German battlewagona In the nail-occupied French port The ships could be clearly Identified in the moonlight and the attack was pressed home with great resolution." the air ministry communique said. Some of our aircraft bombed from veiy low levels and good results are reported. "Sticks of heavy bombs well seen to straddle both ships." In daylight attacks yesterday, the ministry added, a naval aux iliary was left sinking off the French coast and minesweepers were machine-gunned. Relays of German bombers at tacked the oft-bombed west coast port of Bristol for hours last night and early today in a raid described there as "heavy but not one of our biggest." Bristol reported only one per son killed and two seriously wounded The British said dam age was "nowheie extensive." Worms In England are esti mated to eat and deposit on the surface 320,000,000 of toll an nually. STARTS WEDNESDAY 2 BIG HITS 2 -ey swings Hi fSvJ) RISAN taj-g.,
