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KK-rTlHE KLAMATH NEWS graving iUH provide News and Herald " , aeaea,.. . v" Bmmb to datT HTlS-aO .Vl.:,,h ' omp,,h,M'T' pb0"P IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND r ?1T.:T ,1$ MBVaMaiBVMHaaMaHBMaHaaaaaBaaaBaaaBMBaaWlBaaaBaBaeSeBBBBSaBBaaeaB Vol. IK. No. 119 1'rico Five Cents TWO SECTIONS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 11, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), 3 BERLIN TAKES HEAVY BLASTS FROM BRITISH German Opera House, 3 Palaces Damaged By Bombs of RAF BERLIN. April 10 ( The magnificent Carman State opera house, ona of Adolf Hitler's fa vorite theatres, was destroyed and three palaces were damaged last night by British airmen In v what the high command ac knowledged to be the heavleat raid on Berlin line the war be gan. DNB, official German newa agency, aald, however, there were only alx dealhi In Berlin. Guest Caatle Hit Emden. Bremen and several other vital war centers In north ern Germany also were attacked, as well as Bellevue castle In Bur lln. guest house for foreign statesmen, the most recent of whom was Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuka Malsuoka. The high command said the luftwaffe. anti-aircraft and naval artillery shot down 18 British planes last night, presumably over Germany, while a 17th was brought down over the occupied area. A communique said seven British planes were downed Tuesday night and 10 In day light hours Tuesday In attempt ed RAF raids on the occupied territory. Heavy blowa against Birm ingham and the port of New castle as well as Ipswich and Southampton were also claimed by the high command. Heavy caliber bombs hit armament plants, ship wharves and docks and started fires, the communi que said. In the nail attack on British shipping tha destruction oftnlne ships, totaling 40,000 tons, was claimed, while five other large shlpa and a destroyer were said to have been damaged. Tha State opera house was burned out after a shower oi in cendiaries struck It This morn ing a dense cloud of smoke hung over the center of the city, at tracting hundreds of the curious Fire hose criss-crossed Unter den Linden and the area was roped off. . . LONDON, April 10 WV British air raiders dropped (Continued oo rage Two) Elderly Indian Hurt in Foil Watson Duffy, elderly Indian of Beatty, was Injured Thursday night In Klamath Falls when he fell over a seven-foot cement wall at the underpass on Main street. Ward's ambulance was called and Duffy was taken to the Klamath Valley hospital for treatment. Ha waa said to have been badly shaken up and may have suffered broken arm from the fall. Robert David, Chlloquln In dian, was Injured. In an automo bile crash near Rabbit flat on Highway B7 about 8 p. m it waa learned. David suffered a cut on the head and may have a broken rib, although the exact extent of his injuries could not be lenrned. He and two other occu pants of the car were picked up by a passing motorist and taken to Klamath Valley hospital. The others were released when it waa found they were uninjured. Folic Report on Hunt for Parks Several reports have reached the sheriff's office from police departments receiving Sheriff Lloyd Low's bulletin on George Parks, charged In a warrant with tha murder of Dr. Salem A. David In tha Buffalo lunch robbery. Nona of these reports, how ever, has led to definite clues of the whereabouts of Parks, an ex-convict. Parks has a long prison record. Proclamation Inasmuch as Good Friday Is a day held In reverence by all Christians, BE IT HEREBY REQUEST ED by the Administration of the City of Klamath Falls, Oregon, that the hours from 0:88 a. m. until 12'SS p. m. April 11th, be observed by places of business In order to cooperate with those who wish to honor the Christ and to wonnhip. . JOHN H. HOUSTON. Mayor. Voice Thrower Meets Dull End In Police Court JOLIET. 111.. April 10 (UP) Passengers filed out of Central bus depot today when they heard an announcement: "All schedules cancelled." Police, Investigating, ar rested James Masters, 60, De troit, a ventriloquist. Masters admitted practicing voice throwing with the depot loud speaker. He was taken before Police Capt. Ernest Over bey. Over bey heard himself say to tha arresting officer: "Let's get a case of beer up here; we all need It." Both officers stared unbe lievingly, then the subordi nate seemed to reply: "Cap tain, you're drunk." There were sharp glances before Masters was sighted, chuck ling in a corner. "What are you here fori" Masters was asked. From the direction of the arresting officer the reply: "Just an old man trying to ease his arthritis." Overbey was not amused, ordered Mas ters taken to a cell. A voice whispered from the basement: "No, not down here. It's crawling with varmint" But Masters went In Judge William Meade's, court later, a voice said: "Fined $3 and costs." And it wasn't the ventriloquist's. Price Control Agency Eyed By President WASHINGTON. April 10 (UP) Informed officials said tonight President Roosevelt shortly will sign an executive order creating a new agency with powers to control prices and avert Inflation Inherent in the huge defense ex penditures. According to these officials the order Is now at the White House and may be signed within the next 48 hours. They said Leon Henderson, member of the secur ities and exchange commission. Is elated to head the agency which will be part of the office of emergency management - The OEM, a "paper organiza tion" under which all defense activities are being coordinated, already includes the office of production management and the national defense advisory, com mission. Meanwhile, the OPM priori ties division placed all producers (Continued on Page Two) Machine Workers At SF Agree to Hold Conference SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 (UP) New negotiations were arranged today In the strike of 1800 members of the AFL ma chinists' union at 68 San Fran cisco machine shops and foun dries which are working on $7,000,000 in defense orders. Andrew J. Gallagher, federal conciliator, announced he had arranged for a conference of union- and employer representa tives Friday morning. The union rejected an offer of the California Metal Trades association and made no counter proposal. It rejected a suggestion of arbitration of the wage dis pute and said It "proposed to continue to settle disagreements by direct negotiations." The mas ter contract expired April 1 after negotiators failed - to agree on union wage demands, and the union struck last Monday. U. S. Power Systems Urged To Guard Against Sabotage CHICAGO, April 10 UPy Ma). Charles W. Leihy of Chicago de clared today that "should hostili ties develop," sabotage could be expected In vulnerable portions of the natlon'a electric power system and would be "more dreaded than bombing." The major, a field artillery of ficer and the editor of "Electric Light and Power," suggested In a paper prepared for the mid west power conference that the power - Industry consider such sabotage - combatting measures as these: Development of radio systems for the quick dispatching of trouble and patrol crews, use of mobile equipment standardiza tion of equipment, circuit re arrangement to circumscribe stricken power areas, and prior lty of restoration of service. He said that portable sub-stations, large In capacity but small In physical size, could be His Recall Demanded The Italian government de manded the recall of Captain William C. Bentler (above), as sistant military attache el the United Slates embassy In Roma In apparent reprisal for tha ac tion of tha United States in forcing the withdrawal of the Italian naval attache from this country. FACES CHARGE Chiloquin Man- Held In Connection With Shooting of Barkley Guy Schonchln, 61, Indian, was arrested Thursday night at Chiloquin in connection with the gunshot wounding of Melvln Barkley, 20, at Chiloquin shortly after midnight Monday. Schonchin was arrested by In dian Officer John Arkell at the office of the Justice of the peace In Chiloquin where he was called for questioning. A complaint was filed before U. S. Commissioner Bert C. Thomas Thursday night charging Schonchln with assault With intent to kill. , Barkley was shot in tha street near tha house of Orpha Schon chln, Guy Schonchin's daughter. The bullet, coming from a .22 caliber rifle, pierced Berkley's chest near the heart Physicians at the Klamath Agency hospital give Barkley a 80-80 chance to Uve. Officers said Barkley and Schonchln were members of a "drinking party" at the Schon chin house the night of the shoot ing. In the course of the evening some difficulty is said to have developed which culminated in the shooting. American Planes in Raids on Germany LONDON, April 10 (P The ministry of information an nounced today that the American-built Douglas DB-7, known as the "Havoc," was among the fighter planes taking part in last night's operations. A number of the DB-7S, also known as the Boston twin-engined fighter-bomber, were or dered originally by the French republic but later were taken over by the British. It is report ed to have a top speed of 320 miles an hour, with a range of 1200 miles. - - Unofficial sources said such a plane is considered useful for "offensive night patrols over German-occupied airdromes." mounted on trailers, barges or flat cars for quick transportation to trouble spots. Standardized equipment, particularly turbines and diesels, would facilitate rap id replacement of damaged or destroyed units, he said. MaJ; Leihy said the Industry waa well prepared to meet the requirements of the peacetime defense program. The national "power pool," he said, has an available capacity of more than 40,000,000 kilowatts, with an ad ditional 7,000,000-kllowatt capa city under contract In new plants. Facilities vulnerable to war time sabotage, he said, would In clude unattended substations, transmission lines, main distribu tion stations and underground systems that can not be protect ed as effectively without pro hibitive costs as fenced, guarded main power stations and larger substations. UNION ACCEPT 3-POINT PLAN Company Asks Modi fication of Plan of Michigan Governor DETROIT. April 10 (UP) Twenty thousand members of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) by a roaring affirmative tonight ratified proposals for settlement of tha nine-day Ford Motor strike and empowered their leaders to negotiate for a settlement of company counter proposals. Henry Ford, through his per sonnel director, Harry Bennett has announced qualified accep tance of Gov. Murray Van Wag oner's eleventh-hour truce terms. Ford's demand the union defer a hearing scheduled for Monday before the National Labor Rela tions board's Detroit office on a complaint against the company was the last stumbling block in the way of a settlement, which would send thousands of work ers back to production lines on $184,000,000 in defense contract DETROIT. April 10 (AP The Ford Motor company accepted with modifications today the three-point program of Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner for set tlement of the nine-day old strike at the firm's River Rouge plant Two hours and a half after the United Automobile Workers (CIO) accepted In full the gover nor's program. Ford officials made public a letter from Harry Bennett personnel director, to tha governor which said that "all of your proposals are fundamen tally acceptable with certain modification." - Modifications Alkad Bennett said the company was prepared to reopen Its plant on the governor's terms, except that "it is impossible to return all em, nloyes to their Jobs at once." - Bennett said- that as a rendl- (Contlnued on Page Two) 3 ' Generals In Libya Snared,' British Admit - By WALTER COLLINS CAIRO, -April 10 (UP One of Britain's most brilliant mili tary leaden, Lieut Gen. Sir Richard O'Connor, and . two other top-ranking generals ap parently have been snared as prisoners by Germany in the Libyan desert, it was stated offi cially today. O'Connor, field commander of the British army of the Nile, smashed the north African army of Marshal Rodolfo Grazlani in Britain's earlier conquest of eastern Libya and compelled Germany to coma to the rescue of the shattered fascist forces. The British Middle East com mand admitted as many as 2000 British troops might have been taken prisoner around Meklli. 40 miles south' of Derna, on the Libyan coast O'Connor and two of His chief (Continued on Page Two) Bonneville 1 vary ;y mftf-frnKtmrnm 4k,-- w - "n-j-w wf - - Vi t ;Jt.sewe4 fww,-; HMiMMHHHMM-JalMaaMaMai Pr. Paul Raver, above, la Bonneville administrator In charge of both Bonneville and Grand Coulee power administration. Ha will speak at tha Klamath Union high school auditorium Friday at p. a. on "Public Power," at a meeting arranged by tha Klamath county Bonneville power committee. Croat '5th Columnists' Surrender To Germans Swastika Flies V BELGRADE, 0 VfZARA . T JUGOSLAV 3 Racing German Panser divisions apparently paved tha way for another blitskroig victory as they marched through shaded areas mapped ahovei 1.' Took control of Greek Macedonia, captured Salonika and Xantba. planted tha Swastika on tha Aegean see. cat off the Turks from the Greakw 2-2. Swept across mountains to capture Yugoslav cities, aplit Serbian army from allies, took control of Vardas GREENLAND TO ; BE DEFENDED y.SfralestTor Big Island Agreed To Protect Colony v . WASHINGTON. April. 10 W The United States - embraced Greenland within its bemlsphe t defense system today under an agreement permitting establish ment of air bases and President Roosevelt said it was proposed to make sure the big island would remain a Danish colony The chief executive said in a formal statement that the pres ent setup, which in effect brings Greenland under the protection of this government "is a new proof of our continuing friendli ness to Denmark." An agreement to place the la land within the scope of Amer ica's plana for cooperative de fense of the western hemisphere was signed yesterday by the president and by the Danish minister, Hendrik de Kauffman, who, Mr. Roosevelt said, acted on behalf of the Danish king. In handling the president's statement to reporters. Presiden tial . Secretary Stephen Early said the agreement had been consummated after the United States "had received informa tion that German planes have (Continued on Page Two) Chief Comes Over Greece as Nazis T I A valley and slashed to Albania to Axis Po wers Say Jugoslav Arm y Doomed ROMS, April (UP) Ger many and Italy expect to knock Jugoslavia out of the war within two weeks and then swing their might to Greece for an expected fight to the finish with the Brit ish expeditionary . force, axis sources -said tonight? - 'Informants' professed . to. see the Balkan developments as mere preliminaries to a decisive struggle between., the axis and the allies along a line north of Athena on which the whole fate of the Mediterranean zone and north Africa might depend. The high command told of de termined and widespread action by the Italians in the new thea ter of war. They were said to be harrying the Jugoslavs from the west while capitalizing on the drain which the war with Ger (Continued on Page Two) Plane Crashes in Street; Kills Two LOS ANGELES, April 10 (U.B Two men were killed today when the light airplane they were flying crashed in a north Hollyood street and smashed against a house. The men, Gilbert Crowell, 28, and Robert James Wallace, 19, both of Los Angeles, died In the Valley hospital a few hours after the crash. Wallace, who was piloting the private plane, attempted to make an emergency landing after the ship's engine stalled. The plane was demolished. Salonika Destroyed Before Greeks Leave, Witness Says ATHENS, April 10 m With torch and explosives the Greeks destroyed everything of military value in the port of Salonika be fore abandoning the city to Ger man forces, Emanuel Spanakis, Associated Press correspondent, declared on his arrival here to day. Spanakis, the last newspaper man to leave the city before the Germans entered, declared: "I left Salonika on the last ship to leave the port Roaring Flames "Flames were roaring hun dreds of feet Into the air from blazing warehouses, oil tanks and airport facilities. "Blasts from exploding dyna mite roared across the deserted harbor as cranes and everything of military value were blown up "Hours later, more than 60 miles away, the flames still could be seen." -. Bomblesa Raids Spanakis told of early bomb- Drive to Albania BUCHAREST ?N.ea.. Join with the 11 Wcr Bulletins LONSOM. Friday. April 11 (UP) Fast British night fight ers, augmented ' with swift Americas) ' ' "havoc", planes, raised the total of nasi bomb- ' era shot down during the fear days of the second "battle of" the moon- to M last night oy destroying nine ranters. . BUDAPEST.- FridayV April 11 (UP) Admiral Nicholas de Horthy, regent of Hungary, is sued a proclamation last night announcing that the Hungar ian army had occupied that part of Jugoslavia lying be tween the Danube and Tisaa rivers which the Austro-Hun-garian empire lost at the end of the World war. ISTANBUL. April 10 (UP) The Turkish government to night sped its preparations for war by starting the evacua tion of Istanbul's 880.000 ci vilians to tha Interior and bol stering its frontier defenses la close collaboration with Brit ish general staff experts. - LONDON, Friday. April 11 (UP) Greek forces still hold ing out in the Struma valley, nearly SO miles behind the spearhead of the German "panser" sweep which has cut Greece in two. are valiantly at tacking tha nasis and taking (Continued on Page Two) FALLS INTO GRAVE M'MINNVILLE, Ore., April 10 (UP) A 60-year-old sexton at the Sheridan Masonic cemetery suffered a heart attack yester day and fell into the grave he had been digging. A passerby discovered him, but Edward Tur ppa died en route to a hospital- less German aerial offensives against Salonika. Apparently they were trying to overawe the defenders without causing any destruc'ion. "German planes were over Salonika continually," Spanakis said. "We had six or seven alarms a day and, although no bombs were dropped, the people spent most. of the days in air raid shelters. Many even would not come out to eat. "Salonikana learned for the first time that their city was doomed late Tuesday afternoon when a communique announced that the Germans had broken through the Yugoslav lines Id the Vardar valley. "Almost immediately,' hospi tals bundled their wounded lntr ambulances and left the city Military authorities requisi tioned boats of all kinds and (Continued on Page Two) JUGOSLAVIA'S SHALL FLEET Greeks Engulfed In Death Struggle Deep In East Macedonia ZURICH, Friday, April 11 0SJ A swift "fifth column" uprising of Croat separatists who pro claimed an Independent state comprising more than one-fourth of all Jugoslavia last night handed over the Croatian capital of Zagreb to the German army amid a frenzy, of cheering and waving flags. Jugoslavia s second city of over 200,000 population was sur rendered by Croatian 'Quia-', lines." identified by the Zagreb radio as the No 2 man of Jugo slavia's war government, Vice- Premier Dr. Vladimir Matchek, and Dr. Salvko Kvaternik, Croat . nationalist. . - - The German high command' Issued a special communique an nouncing German tanks and other mechanized forces rolling into Zagreb from the German frontier SO miles northward had been received "Jubilantly." VICHY. April 10 (UP)-Jugo-' slavla's small but comparatively modern fleet has escaped from its base on the Adriatic Dalma-. tian coast and joined the British, fleet operating 1 from Greek, ports, according to dispatches reaching Jugoslav quarter! in Vichy tonight. .. TKTi, n.ti.1 ..raft mm- said" to include destroyers, tor pedo boats, four submarines and., a number of swift "mosquito" torpedo boats of British and Ger man construction which will be particularly useful in British op erations in the Adriatic; Jugoslav quarters here, said that, insofar as could be learned, the Jugoslav fleet has suffered no serious losses in tha five daya of German blitzkrieg and was able to move: southward to Join the British behind the screen of the Dalma Ua islands. ATHENS. Friday, April 11 (UP) Greek soldiers engulfed by the German blitzkrieg are wacina a fierce death stxuaalai deep in eastern Macedonia where 1,000,000 Greeks, mostly civil ians, have been trapped by the nazi drive down to the Aegean at Salonika which cut Greec apart, it was stated early today. Several Greek forts and other centers of resistance, including the town of Kavalla, 80 milea . (Continued on Page Two) . April 23 Selectee Call Totals Five Only five' Klamath county youths will be called from home on April 23 to fill the next selective service quota, it waa revealed Thursday by Salem headquarters. - The announcement did not state how many would be taken from each board, but a contin uation of the established per centage would probably take two men from the Klamath Fall board and three from the county list. The call Is expected to be the last until June Draft head quarters have said there Is little likelihood of a May order. Looking Backward By The Associated Press - April 10 1940 Germans drive) north from Oslo on heels of flee ing government; German, allied warships, warplanes clash In numerous engagements April 10, 1916 French aban don Betn In court Salient In face of German drive at Verdun. News Index Agriculture Page 10 City Briefs . Pages 9. 11 Comics and Story .. Page 18 Courthouse Record Page . 4 Editorials ; Page 4 Information Page Market, Financial . 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