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Hue elamath News WEATHER NEW! PICTURES! Associated Press Telomala. NBA Telepho tos and live local newsplcturo and e graving stall provide Maws and Herald taadara with a comprehensive photograph ic service. Warm High (It Low It; Midnight 40 34 bouts to a p. gg 10.M . 848 I laasoai to date Normal precipitation Last roar to date IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 120 I'rice Fivi Cent KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), RED SEA OPEN AGAIN TO U. S. ; AS BAN LIFTED War Supplies May Be '. Sent to Egypt Under Provisions of Law , WASHINGTON. April It W) ipreslden Roosevelt today re opened the Red sea and Gulf of Aden to American vessels. . The chief executive announced at a press conlerence that he had taken out the stopper from the mouth of the waterway so that American vessels now may enter It. Neutrality Law The ships will be permitted to go all the way to the Sues canal, since Egypt la neutral territory. While American ves tela are not permitted under the neutrality act to carry supplies to belligerents, the president made It clear that cargoes des ' tlned for a neutral country could bo carried up the Red sea and Gulf of Eden. And, he Indicated, there will bo no tendency on the part of the government to explore the question of whetner supplies con Signed to a neutral might ultl i) mately get to a belligerent. , As a matter of fact, the presi dent a a I d, he was not sure whether, under the neutrality act it was forbidden for supplies sent to a neutral to reach a belligerents ultimately. Big Question , The question, he said, brings tip all aorta of things, so he would hate to say yea or no. Mr. ftieeevelt made It clear that American vessels could use the Buei canal, since only the (Continued on Page Two) Hungar Army Marches Into Yugoslavia "' - : - BUDAPEST. Hungary. April 11 (At The Hungarian army has marched Into Yugoslavia to reclaim territory lost In the World war. An army report said Magyar troops had crosied the Trianon frontier between the Danube and Tlsa rivers, as well as In the triangle In Baranya between the Danube and Drava rivers. ' The Hungarian nation was In formed ot this sep, taken yestcr day, with publication in morning papers today of a proclamation of Rcgi-nt Admiral Nicholas Horthy. "Dissolved" The proclamation said forma tion of an Independent Croatian state In the north left Yugoslavia "dissolved into several parts." This act left Hungary the "duty to take again In our own W bands the care for Hungarians living In the territories stolen from us,"- It said. "This was a national duty Which we had to fulfill without delay." Horthy's proclamation continued, "therefore I gave to day (Thursday) the order to my soldiers to defend Hungar ians living In the southern ter ritories from the devastation of anarchy. "The action of my soldiers was not directed against the Serb people. We have no conflict with them and wish to llvo in peace with them." Admiral Horthy congratulated the Croat peoples on formation of their Independent nation and asserted Hungary "will respect it for all time." Danish Minister Told To Protest Ship Sale, Claim ' ZURICH, Saturday, April 12 (UP) The German radio said at midnight the Danish govern ment had instructed Its minister in Washington to protest In ad vance any United States action to purchase or Charter Danish ships now In protective custody in American harbors. The Danish government also stated, the radio reported, that it had no knowledge of any agreement for the United States to occupy Greenland and con struct air bases there. "According to reports from New York an agreement was reached between the American government and the ' Danish minister in Washington for erec gfi tion of American air bases In Greenland," the radio said. , "The Danish foreign office states, however, that It has ab solutely no information regard ing such an agreement." Klamath Arranges For Huge Contingent Of Traveling Army Advance arrangements ware being made here Friday for a movement of troops by way of Klamath Falls May 10 to 25, when the 41st division passes south as a part of the biggest mass movement of troops In far west history. Overnight bivouacs will be made here for five nights, with 2500 men, the largest number stopping at one time and alto gether nearly 9000 staying hero over night In the movement. The chamber of commerce na tional defense hospitality com mittee conferred with advance army officers In making arrange ments heio It Is understood the army units will camp on sits on the Cumberland road, near the old Great Northern round house. The division Is to move from fort Lewis to the San Luis Obispo region, California, for maneuvers. The division in cludes national guard troops from Washington, Oregon, Idaho. Montana and Wyoming. Civic government and high way departments of Oregon. Washington and California will be requested to furnish traffic control, water supplies, areas large enough for overnight bivouacs and facilities for motor repair. A part of the big southbound movement of troops will go by way of Highway No 87 and the others will go by No. SB. London Hits Axis-Helping News in U. S. LONDON, April 11 (UP) The British government was reported tonight to have protested Infor mally to the United States against dissemination by Ameri can newspapers and radio of military Information helpful to ine axis. A more rigorous voluntary self-censorship must be Imposed la the United States, It was felt, to stop leakages of Information on which secrecy Is considered essential to Britain's war effort. The- final decision as to whether voluntary restraint will suffice or soma kind of govern ment censorship ultimately will be necessary must rest with the United States, it was stressed. There was a general feeling that censorship by law Is unlikely as long as the United States re mains a non-belligerent. Publication of stories and pic tures in American newspapers about the arrival of a British battleship In the United States drew bitter condemnation in authoritative circles. Colors for 1942 Licenses Told SALEM, Ore, April 11 (UP) White numeral aoain, ..i. blue background will be the coior 01 uregon s 1942 automo bile license plates, the secretary of state's office revealed today. The office said the blue will be a darker shade than that used two years ago, when blue numbers were mounted on a white field. Looking Backward By The Associated Press April 11, 1940 French pre mier says 18 nazl ships are sunk off Norway, against loss of four British men-of-war. In allied naval operations precipitated by nazis' Invasion of Scandinavia April 11. 1916 Germans con tinue heavy attacks on Verdun. Ford Strike Ends: General Motors Workers May Quit By The Associated Press The 10-day CIO strike at the Ford Motor - company's huge River Rouge plant was settled Friday, Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner of Michigan announced at Detroit The governor took the lead n seeking rn end to the shutdown which affected Ford plants throughout the nation and threw some 200,000 workers in to Idleness. Earlier the federal labor de partment announced that the General Motors corporation had been notified by the CIO United Auto Workers union of an inten tion to strike unless a new wage agreement was negotiated before April 20. Defense Orders A shutdown of General Mo tors would affect about 130,000 workers, - The firm has millions of dollars worth of defense con tracts. The labor department BRITISH, NAZIS START SECOND LIBYA BATTLE Imperial Forces - in Rugged Land Gather Strength for' Stand - LONDON. Saturday, April 12 (UP) British troops and Ger man-Italian mechanized columns have made contact In the "sec ond battle of Libya" In the rug- ged desert country west of To- bruk, the war office announced early today. The terse announcement was regarded here as indicating that the imperial forces had mustered sufficient strength after their withdrawal from Benghazi and Derna to make stand. There was no clue In the an nouncement as to what stage hos tilities had reached, but reports from Cairo Indicated a real showdown would occur on the Jebel Akhdar escarpment which runs parallel to the Mediterran ean coastline west of Derna. Attempt to Hold Well-informed sources said the British would attempt to hold the eastern edge of the escarp ment against the axis drive which has pushed hundreds of miles toward the Egyptian bor der since March 28. The British have contended for days that their troops were withdrawing before the Germans and Italians, merely fighting rear-guard actions, until they could reach an easily defended position. Royal air force planes have carried on ceaseless bombing and strafing of the axis columns to cover the withdrawal. The royal navy is expected to play a big part in the effort to halt the axis thrust by shelling reinforcements and supply trans ports being brought up along the exposed coast road. Military commentators con tended the loss ot only 2000 Brit (ContlnueO on Page Two) WHITE MAN liV . Rhoads Sold Whiskey To ! Indians Before Party, Say Officers Reservation Indian officers have arrested John Charles Rhoads, white, as the man who sold liquor to Indians In the party that preceded the shooting of Mclvln Barkley, 20-year-old Indian. Rhoads waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to a federal grand Jury late yes terday by U. S. Commissioner Bert C. Thomas. Left Party Indian Officer John Arkell, who arrested Rhoads, said the white man was at the Wednesday night party at the Orpha Schon- chin house but left shortly before trouble developed culminating In the shooting of Barkley. The officer said he had been told that trouble started when Orpha Schonchln was tripped as she walked by Barkley. Barkley later was shot outside the house. Arkell arrested Guy Schonchln, her father, and charged htm with the shooting. Barkley is In a serious condition at Agency hos pital. immediately assigned a concilia tor to try to prevent a work stop page. Negotiations on contract revi sions began March 11. Union demands announced at that time Included: A general wage In crease of 10 cents an hour; 80 hour vacation pay instead of 40; a new system for handling griev ances; adequate compensation for drafted workers; and additional authority for the impartial um plre to rule on Issues on which an agreement cannot be reached. No Comment President Roosevelt had no comment at his Washington press conference on the Ford strike, declaring epigrammatical ly that the less said, the quicker mended. Nor would the president say what he had discussed at a con ference earlier in the week with (Continued on rage Two) Naz is, Bri tis h Clash In Great Balkan Battle U. -'V These Danish ships, taken Into custody by the U. S. recently. are part of a considerable number which the government re- portedly Intends to purchase or charter from the Danish gov- ' eminent for purposes of sanding war supplies to nations resist- Raver Says Private Power Sell-out Coming, Soon In Northwest; 200 Hear Him Dr. Paul Raver, Bonneville dam administrator, predicted at a publlo meeting here last night that "you are going to seS-Som-plete jelling out of. all private power companies in the north west." . He asserted a "sensible plan" is being worked out which will pay off security holders, destroy no property, destroy no lobs and put the ownership and control of power distribution facilities In local communities.. The federal government, he said, will sell power wholesale to : these communities.-. Later In his address to an audi ence of about 200 persons. Dr. Raver said specifically that he anticipated the government will take over the transmission lines and hydro-electric plants of the California Oregon Power com pany, which operates in this dis trict Local Interest Necessary Upon questioning from the audience, however, he said that what may be done in any particu lar community depends upon lo cal interest and it will be neces sary for a public agency to ar range for power purchase and distribution. Asked specifically about the sale of power to a public utilities district if one should be set up here, he said "we will sell to such a district If we can take over the plants and transmission lines of the California Oregon Power company." Dr. Raver pointed out that there is a limit to the distance power can be transmitted over Army Reported Soon To Begin Building Greenland Bases WASHINGTON. ADril 11 UPl One day after Including Green land within the American hemi sphere defense system. President Roosevelt signed today a reso lution affirming a policy of non recognition of any transfer of western ' hemisphere land from one non-American power to an other, r ' ' He acted as word circulated that the army and navy would begin work immediately on con struction of air bases on Den mark's big northern Island with out waiting for formal leases to sites. , , . The resolution, in accordance with an agreement reached by the 21 American republics at the conference of Havana, provides for consultation among them In the event a prospective change of sovereignty over non-American territory in this hemisphere Asked at his press conference whether any consultation with the other American nations was In prospect on Greenland, the president said they all knew about it .,'.; S. WANTS TO BUY si t - S..s .. high voltage lines, and that in an integrated system it Is possible that the power will come from any a esvarar different sources. He indicated that in case of a public power setup here, power would probably come from other source than Bonneville dam it self. Dr. Raver spoke at Klamath union high school auditorium at a meeting arranged by the Klam ath county Bonneville power committee. Ned Smith of the eommlttee introduced . the Bonneville administrator to the audience, following the showing of the motion picture. Hydro. Groat By-Product Dr. Raver said that power was only one aspect of the develop ment of the Columbia river. Other features, such as transpor tation, irrigation and flood con trol, he said, fell definitely in the realm of necessary government development and power is a (Continued on Page Two) Balkan Fifth Column Paved Way, Report STANF ORD UNIVERSITY, Calif., April 11 (UP) The Ger man army's sweep through Jugoslavia climaxed years of nazl fifth column activity in the Balkans, Otto von Hapsburg, pretender to the now non-existent throne of Austria-Hungary, said today. He said the Germans foresaw a possible Balkan thrust as early as 1928 and have had a fifth column working there for "sev eral years." "It was only through fifth col umn activities the Germans were able to make such rapid progress in Jugoslavia," he said. "Though their arms are Inferior, the Jugo slavs are very good soldiers. He said there was no valid evi dence of a break between Russia and Germany. "The communists are still cooperating closely with the nazis," he said. Hapsburg arrived in the United States recently from Bor deaux, France. He was met here by Ralph Lutx, head of the Her bert Hoover war library, and Ed gar Eugene Robinson, acting president of Stanford In the ab sence of President Ray Lyman Wilbur. Hapsburg charged the Count Paul Telekl, premier of Hun gary, was "slain by nazis and did not commit suicide as was an nounced officially. "Telekl was pro-ally and antl-nazi. He was a healthy, active, Christian man, He never would have committed suicide." OR CHARTER DANISH Ing aggression. The six Danish vessels above, tied up at a dock at Bayonee, N. J are among the more than 60 German. Italian and Danish ships taken over by the U. S. coast guard in swift action. . - BRISTOL GETS BIG FIRE RAID British Trade Blow ' By Bombing German Ships Nat Erest Port LONDON. Saturday, April 12 (UP) German bombers, sweep ing fn waves across the west country at three-minute inter vals, subjected the Bristol region to a heavy fire raid early today in the light of a full moon. Trading blow for blow with the British aerial offensive which rained heavy armor-piercing bombs on the German sea raiders Scharnhorst and Gneise nau at Brest Thursday night, the luftwaffe concentrated its attack on vital shipping centers where Britain s sea lanes from America converge. "Bread Baskets' The raiders dumped thousands of fire bombs, among them bund reds of "bread baskets" which disintegrate in the air. The attack began about mid night after large numbers of in vaders had been detected roar ing inland over the southeast and southwest coasts. Casualties appeared light con sidering- the intensity of the at tack, in part at least because the proportion of high explosives dropped was unusually small. Gills' School Hit A branch library and cinema were damaged badly in one town, and a well-known girls' school was destroyed. Industrial premises took a pounding In an other town. An anti-aircraft barrage said to be the heaviest ever heard in the frequently bombed region was turned loose against the raid (Continued on Page Two) Canby Massacre at Lava Beds : Marked by 68th Anniversary Friday was the sixty-eighth anniversary of the Canby mas sacre of the Modoc Indian war. site of which is marked by the famed Canby cross in the Modoc Lava beds. General EJi.S Canby and Dr Eleazar Thomas ot the Methodist church were killed by Indians who came to a peace conference secretly armed, April 11, 1873 A. B. Meacham. a member of the peace commission named to treat with the Indians, was ser iously wounded. LeRoy S Dyar and Frank Riddle escaped by running when the Indians sud denly attacked. The white men were warned that the Indians intended treach ery at the conference by Tobey Riddle, known in history as Winema, Indian woman peace maker. She went with the white commissioners to the conference. SHIPS 3 J War Bulletins BERLIN, Saturday, April 12 (UP) The German high com mand announced in a special communique today German soldiers had "Joined hands' with Italian troops near the northern portion of Lake Ochw Tide eat the JugoaUelbjniair bonadary.- ------ -y '. 1.' ' ATHENS. Saturday. - April 12 (UP) German "pans ex" units have smashed ' throwgh the Monastir gap from southern Jugoslavia and dashed with the British and Greek force massed in a defense line be tween Fiorina and Vevis. it was announced officially early today. HOME. Saturday, April 12 (UP) Italian and German troops have joined forces in Jugoslavia, aa official an nouncement said today. ROME, Saturday. April 12 (UP) The newspaper Popolo dl Roma reported from Copen hagen today that young King Peter II of Yugoslavia had flown to England by way of. Athens. (Reports from various other sources in the last two days have said the boy king has left his country.) , - ZURICH. April 11 (UP) The German radio said tonight that the parilament of Iraq had named 'Tax as. cousin of King Faisal II. as regent, replacing Abdul Illah. who fled abroad." DETAINED VICHY, France, April 11 (IP) Marshall Petain's cabinet an nounced today that French frontiers were closed to all Frenchmen between IT and 40 years of age to prevent their fleeing to Join the forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, "free French" leader. The conference started at 11 o'clock and the Indiana drew weapons at 12:12 p m Captain Jack, Modoc renegade leader, started the shooting when he suddenly shouted in Modoc. "Let's do it and drew a re volver. He fired upon General Canby. who staggered about 33 steps, fell and was killed by an other bullet from Jack's gun. At the signal, Bogus Charley, another of the Modocs, fired at Rev. Thomas, who was permitted by the Indians to stagger about before they finally disposed of him. Meacham was wounded and would have been scalped bad not Tobey Riddle shouted, "The soldiers are coming'" frighten ing the Indians. Dyar and Frank Riddle ran from the conference scene unharmed. (Continued on Page Two) GREEK FORCES ALSO FIGHTING Mechanized Divisions Sweep Through Gap, To "Make Contact" LONDON, Saturday, April IS (UP) British- and Greek forces were reported early today to be locked in battle with German mechanized unite streaming over the Jugoslav, frontier into north ern Greece through the rugged hills around Phlorina. : Radio reports heard in London told of the beginning of what promises to be a decisive strug gle along the allied defense line across northern Greece. Phlorina Sector ' The Greek high command was quoted by the Athens radio as saying the Germans, sweeping through the famous Monastir gap from southern Jugoslavia, had "made contact" with the Greeks in the Phlorina sector. A short time earlier the Brit, ish war office had issued a com munique announcing the first brush between the Germans and the British expeditionary force in Greece. " A Columbia broadcasting sys tem report from Ankara said the Greeks, struggling to blunt the point of the nasi spearhead, were "holding out, and the British are helping them stand their ground -. The same, account said the enaisns had reached the) ti-eeks' second line of rtnfanea The extent of penetration was not clarified, but it appeared to have been minimized by the con current assertion the Greeks were "holding out," . i . - King George of Greece, in a proclamation broadcast from Athens, i described the ' Greek stand against the German blitz krieg as a bloody inscription) of "the most glorious pages of our history." .. , LONDON, April 11 (UP) Violent fighting in southwestern Jugoslavia, in which Jugoslav and British forces struggled against nazi divisions seeking a foothold in northern Albania, (Continued on Page Two) ruiiiw dignui - Bids for Klamath w wf"s sTiiaw w -. t v w - - SALEM. Ore. Aorfl 11 COP) Bids will be opened in Portland; Mav R for m flevlhlf, nrnsrmilva' Falls, the state highway commis sion said today. The system' will consist of signals at eight Intersections and local controllers at seven inter sections. All will be operated from the city hall. Signals and a semi-traffic actuated controller will be installed at one isolated Intersection. Klamath Tax Levy Shows Decrease; -Others Increase . SALEM, Ore., April , 11 (UP) The state treasurer's office to day said that 78 Oregon cities showed increases In their com bined tax levies for all purposes in 1941 while 112 cities showed reductions. Tillamook county's Bay City had the highest levy of 127 ' mills, while the lowest was at Granite, with 18.1 mills. Klamath Falls showed a de crease, down 4.1 to 72.3. Oregon City was down 2.8 to 73.5, and Portland .4 to 62. Eugene showed an. Increase of 1.2 to 58.2. . , News Index Church News Pages 10, II City Briefs Page 8 . Comics and Story Page 8 ' Courthouse Records Page 4 Information .. Page 8 Market, Financial .. Page 13 Midland Empire News Page 11 Pattern . Page Sports Page 11 i '