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PAGE SIXTEEN THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON April 1941 WRITER WAR HANGS ON Br dewit Mackenzie The decisive engagement of the battle of the Balkan still hat to be fought, and as matter now stand It likely will hinge on the Greco-British main line ot defense which Is being forged across northern Greece, from the Bay of Salonika to the south Albanian - Port ot Chimera on the Adriatic sea. Even this may demonstrate that the Balkan upheaval is merely a phase ot a tar greater project which is staggering in cope. Hitler's goal after he has smashed Yugoslavia and Greece (he hopes and not without son) is stated by the government-controlled Italian news paper Popolo Di Roma to be the Sues canal an announce ment- presumably calculated to serve some military purpose. That is a logical possibility, as I suggested here last Satur day. It would involve the forcing of the Dardanelles by the Germans and a drive through Turkey into the Near East. This being the case, its fruition would depend on the extent of the nazi success on the Balkan peninsula. There's still another possibil ity to which British Premier Churchill called attention yester day when he warned Russia "there are many signs that point to a nazi attempt to secure the granaries and the oil fields of the Caucasus." Hitler might strike such a blow In conjunc tion with a drive into the Near East, or he might simply safe guard himself from attack in the Balkans and concentrate on the Bolshevists for the time being. Should the drive against the canal through the Near East eventuate we shall, in my view, find that the present axis offen sive along the Libyan coast is booked with it very definitely, strange though that seem. It is to this aspect ot the situation that I wish to direct attention, especially since I have had num erous requests to explain the British Libyan retreat which has permitted an Italo-German force to reoccupy many of the fascist posts so recently conquered by General Wavell in his sensation al campaign against Italian Mar shal Graziani. When Wavell early in Febru ary . took Bengasi last fascist stronghold in Libya save Tripoli he had killed and captured so many of Graziani's men, and seized so much war material, as to render the great fascist army impotent. There wasn't a wallop left in the Italian outfit, and the menace against Egypt and the Suez canal had been removed for the time being. Wavell found himself in the enviable position of (1) being able to go ahead and capture Tripoli, of (2) employing his troops in the conquest ot the rest of Italy's African possess ions, or of (3) sending an expe ditionary force to help the Greeks. Actually the cream of his army was sent to the Balkans. In taking this action the Brit ish stripped the defending forces along the Libyan coast down to skeleton garrisons. Wavell did this deliberately, with full knowledge that the axis might take advantage of the position to try for a come-back. Had he wanted to, he could have kept his troops in Libya and held the posts until the sands ot the desert froze over. How ever, he felt that there wasn't any great menace from the axis at the time and those troops were needed badly elsewhere. Actually, as Premier Church ill explained yesterday, the nazis managed to smuggle - a large force of armored troops and planes through the British blockade to Tripoli, even before Wavell had captured Bengasi. Now they have struck in greater strength than the British expect ed so soon, and we see an axis force ot some 20,000 back-tracking and reoccupying posts and cities with little or no opposition. The only British reply has been that they are concentrating troops and will deal with the enemy when the time and place looks good. Parents never have, any trouble finding a name for a' baby who has a rich uncle. Jolly fellows tell the tale: Wieland's Beer and Wislsnd's Alel" $ Here's a dressy sports number, cleverly styled yet Inexpen sive, ' modeled by Mrs. Charles 133 Main street. This frock is yet practical, washable rayon. features the up-to-the-minute military theme, with tucked sleeve tops forming basis for an epaulet shoulder. Blouse is shirt-waist style. Draft Headquarters Gets Dig Volume of Fan Mail SALEM, April 11 W) Hun dreds of letters, ranging from the funny to the tragic, have been received by state selective service headquarters here, many of them written by persons who either want to locate strayed husbands or who give advice as to why there should be no draft. In spite of many announce ments that it cannot act as a missing persons bureau, selec tive service headquarters still gets lots of letters from per sons who want to locate friends and relatives. One of the most unusual let ters was from woman who wanted to make sure that her son-in-law would be drafted. She said he belongs to the Silver Shirts, with the result that he can't keep a job long enough to support her daugh ter. The lady also wanted to find out how her daughter could get her husband's army pay it he is drafted. The woman, after saying that the Silver Shirts are fascists, said a year in the army would 'free him from these insidious doctrines. He, like many oth ers, will not want to take the medicine that will effect the cure. He has lost many jobs because of his perverted ideas. Wooden Box Spring DANCE at the Armory On Saturday Night April 12 ' HERB COCHRAN'S BAND Admission Ladies 50c FREE Dancing Starts at 9 P. M. Spring Fashions ,j 1: Strader at Mode O' Day shop. of trench crepe, a rich looking It is stone blue. The styling He's willing to enlist if he gets a (officer's) commission, very typical of him to always want to start at the top." . But Lieutenant Colonel El mer V. Wooten, state director of selective service, said he was sorry he couldn't help her. Mat ters of that nature are up to the local boards. And then there was the fel low who signed up in an Ore gon city for three years in the army. After three days at Van-1 couver barracks, he decided he didn't like it well enough to stay three years. So he went to another Oregon city and vol unteered for a year, and was sent back to the army. But the local draft board, having its fingers crossed, thinks he might change his mind again, and end up in the navy. ; There are many letters from ' wivef, whose husbands have deserted them, asking that the ; hubbies be drafted and the money turned over to the wives. I A girl wrote to Wooten ask- i ing if she could join the army ambulance corps, but Wooten told her that is a man s job. Another girl wanted to be a pharmacist in the army. One woman wrote that her husband disappeared, and that the police ot many states, fed eral officers and newspapers were looking for ' him. She asked Wooten'a help, but four days later, she wrote that her husband had been found. Another woman, very much worried, asked, and got, Woo ten's cooperation in preventing her neighbors from finding out that her husband was not the father of her two sons. In 1911, the woman, who had two small sons, divorced her husband, and remarried. The sons, although not adopted by the new husband, used his name. Wooten made the woman hap py by saying the sons could register under their adopted names, rather than by their real names. Many cards and letters, most ly unsigned, come from persons opposed to selective service. One anonymous writer sent evidence that soldiers at Fort Lewis and Camp Murray are unpatriotic. His "proof" was that the kind ot measles many of the soldiers had was Ger man measles. A good Ameri can soldier, h reasoned, might get measles, but if he were pa triotic, he wouldn't get measles of the German variety. Whenever a newspaper prints a story about sickness at an ar my camp, a soldier being killed or injured in an automobile ac cident, or a soldier getting into difficulties with the police, Wooten gets an unsigned epis tle asking him "what do you think of the selective service law now?" Wooten still thinks that the law's all right, but even it he didn't, he couldn't do much about changing it Congress passed it, he didn't. HIGH SCHOOL ON WHEELS LENZBURG. Ill , W Doors to the Lenzburg high school will be locked Monday until T The entire student body (seven boys and four girls), and the entire teaching staff (two in structors), begin a 2000 mile automobile, tour of eastern states Monday for educational and rec reational purposes. "It is one of the things only a small school can do," com mented Principal E. D. Stahl man. English manikins arriving In New York preferred onions to orchids. Fortunately, the peace and quiet ot America probably will take their breath away. 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Electric companies will pay $2,609,496, steam railroads 2, S94.363, telephone companies $903,602, water companies $79, 329, electric railroads $77,781, tank car companies $34,407, gas companies $397,066, telegraph companies $43,029. Multnomah county will re ceive the largest amount from the utilities, $2,744,390. Klam ath county is next with $425, 886. followed by Clackamas with $417,920. Other county totals: Baker $168,910, Benton $33. 340. Clatsop $164,846, Columbia $126,633. Coos $196,483, Crook $8210, Curry $3984, Deschutes $83,618. Douglas $162,862, Gil liam $52,108. Grant $12,139. Harney $40.- 322, Hood River $104,862, Jack son $252,371, Jefferson $23,938, Josephine $105,400, Lake $11, 362, Lane $271,900. Lincoln $41, 736 Linn $133,382. Malheur $122,324, Marion $238,498. Morrow $77,736. Polk $31,- 249. Sherman $30,934, Tilla mook $71,791, Umatilla $192. 540, Union $125,264, Wallowa $30,508. Wasco $173,649, Wash ington $124,342. Wheeler $2400 and Yamhill, $61,720. 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MOCK BATTLE CAMP MURRAY, April 11 (A Six thousand 41st division fantrymen rushed to battle posi tions at dawn today and plunged into the biggest mock battle stag ed since the former national guard troops were called to ac tive service last September. ' APPAREL 901 MAIN o $100 ." :,nv mow" " 1 . . for u- . .mn"- " . tV 1. t