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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1941)
Klamath jI WEATHER NEWS ' Fair and Warn High SSt Low Hi Midnight 44 14 houra to t p. m. . . M Sesaon to drta .., Normal precipitation (.It Last year to data 19.44 V; PICTURES! Aasoslatod Press Tolemata. ME A. Telepho Im and live local newsplcture and en graving etalt provide News and Herald readara with comprehensive photog iapa la service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE-WONDERLAND ' Vol. 18, No. 121 l'rice Five ConU TWO SECTIONS KLAMATH FALLS, OKEGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 13. 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday) THE mm OF PLANT ON RIVER STARTS Conifer Lumber Firm to Occupy New Site Near Weed Highway A $20,000 addition to Klamath fall Industry waa In the maklnc Saturday aa bulldozers began tho job of leveling and grading fiv acres of land for tha naw ' Conifer Lumber company mould' Ing and cut-up plant on tha Wood highway According to R. H. Crowley, who with tha New York City wholeaalmg firm of Huaon and Son. la backing tha mill, con atmctlon will alart Immediately and be completed In about a month. ON Land Leeaed Land. Crowley revealed, la being leaacd from the Great Northern railroad and Ilea Just off the highway between tha ' Kalpine plywood mill and the Klamath river bridg". Tha mill building will be 50 by 200 feet, Crowley elated. Including the office. Plana call for employment of between 30 and 25 men. Pro duction will be devoted entirely to moulding and cut atock manu factured from pine lumber. Crowley, who will maintain an office here and actively man age tha plant, i a former sash and door operator from Spokane, Wash. The Huaon firm la large and well-known wholesel- Ing company operating along the eastern seaboard. NAZIS DECLARE FIR. D.-.tl-.4. AAlei, i-asl am ricaiuciu . iiiiiuumw - 'Jugoslav,. Situation, Say German Sources BERLIN. April 13 W Au thortied German aourcea said today that not within century haa a statesman so completely misjudged altuation aa Presl- dent Roosevelt did regarding Yugoslavia. They declared the American president a prestige had suffered Regarding Rooaevelt'f arrange menu with the Danish minister at Washington for bases on Greenland, these aourcea com mented: 'That Roosevelt ahrlnka from no violation of law la well known. According to Informs' tion we have, hla arrangement with the Danish minister la T Illegal. Until the Danish gov- ' eminent, however, haa an 1 nonnced Ita position Germany will not make known .Ita own. It will then, however, react in the manner deemed best and by measures deemed expedient." President Roosevelt's procla mation opening the Red aea route to Suei to United States Y' merchant shipping' waa des cribed aa "the first open Inter ventlon In European affairs and violation of the European Mon roe doctrine." Of events in the Balkans, au thorized Germans said arms alone 'were (peaking now and added that the next few days would .bring iwift-movlng mili tary developments. The early capture of the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade was hinted ' Americans Pardoned By King Of Italy . ROME, April 12 W) King i Vittorio Emantiele III today pardoned George Ehret, form erly of New York, and Miss Grace Gunther, long time Ameri can resident of Florence, who were convicted last November of Illegal dealings In foreign ex change. - Eret was given a seven-year term and Miss Gunther six years. Both are expected to be re leased from prison shortly upon payment of their finea 300,000 lire (about $15,000) for Ehret and 50,000 lire (about $2500 for Miss Gunther. ' The prosecution at their trial presented evidence purporting to show the two collected large i sums In dollars from Americana '"'and sold them for lire at rates higher then the official ex change. Their counsel contend ed they were unfamiliar with the law. . . . '.' IV!, . V Georgia Morgan. 133 Gobi street, wears a smile typical of American youth aa she antici pates Easter Sunday. Two white Easter rabbits nuxxle dose. . Good Weather, Style Variety Promised Nation fo?a$teri Sunrise Service Held Here By United Press The Easter parade 1941 will produce a great variety of styles on the avenues of Amer ica. The war influence will be re flected In the activities on the anniversary of the resurrection In the many special religious services and even In the design of women a . spring clothing. In most parts of the nation. ideal weather will prevail. ' Contrary to previous years, women's apparel has - emerged from the daring to the drab, Dreases, coats and shoes are pat terned after army and navy uni forms. Trinkets and accessories likewise are of military motif. But hats as always have taxed stylists'. Ingenuity. As a Chicago merchant explained it: "Last, year. hats. were a alight chuckle. This year ' they are really laughs. According to tailors, men will bear the brunt of Easter splen dor, bedecked In violations of good color combinations. Loud pastel plains in rough fabrics will be worn indiscriminately. Temperatures above ' normal and clear skies were predicted Spring Arrives n Time To Open' Angling Season That elusive young lady. Miss Spring of 1941, dropped Into town Saturday just in time to usher in the opening of this year's fishing. . Hundreds of Klamath anglers left their desks and their work shops as a beaming sunshine and rising temperatures gave prom ise of one of the best openings In recent local history. By noon nearby lakes and sparkling streams were Jammed by fly casters, millers and still-fishers. Advance dope promised only so-so conditions with waters made high and muddy, by recent spring rains. upper Klamath lake was pop ular, as was Sprague river and Lost river where bass were get ting good play ' Sevural of the more hardy crept out-of-town ' In the chill hours before dawn to attempt to reach Fish lake, still snow and mud bound. Others chose the long drive around by way. of Merttord. , . Generally speaking, veteran anglers called It one of the most favorable openings in years. They said interest was high al though available places were limited. Joy of Easter : . for all sectors, except the upper Mississippi valley and . Texas where scattered thundershowers threaten festivities. New York's Fifth avenue pre pared for Its annual aristocratic promenade, expected to be the greatest in years. Easter bonnets include a navy Dutch cap to be worn by Mrs. Vincent Astor; a stitched cadet blue beret, Mrs. Wendell Wlllkie; a navy sailor, Elsa Maxwell, and a white or- (Continued on Page Two) Comic Strips Said Way to Aid Children ATHENS, O., April 12 (Pi Newspaper comic strips, once targets of severe criticism by American educators, now arc being held effectively in diag nosis and treatment of the "problem child." . By having "problem" children play "author" and direct the ac tivities of their favorite cartoon characters, Ernest A. Haggard and Helen Sargent of North western university's psychologi cal clinic said they often were able to discern causes of delin quency after other efforts had failed. "As the child directs the com ic characters himself, it is often possible to uncover difficulties of family and child-group malad justment, which youngsters could never be persuaded to dis cuss," Haggard declared in a report prepared for the Mid western Psychological associa tion's convention today at Ohio university. "Frequently, In this comic strip game, the child unwitting ly reveals Just what conditions in his home life he thinks should be changed, or what troublesome problems his playmates are cre ating for him," Haggard assert ed. One child. Jealous of other youngsters In the family, was found to eliminate all rivals from the plots of his cartoon story, Haggard said. Another disclosed a thirst for revenge. Children with frustrated ideas selected heroes who bowled over all opposition in surmounting difficulties, often linking them selves so closely with their fa vorite character that they used "I" in unfolding the story in stead of the comic hero's name, Haggard found. U. S. DEBT NOW AT 70 BILLION Federal Debt Soars to Highest Level in History' of Nation ' By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 12 (UP) The total government debt of the United States stood tonight at about $70,000,000,000 a burden of about $480 on each man. woman and child in the nation. The large figure Included the obligations of federal, state and local governments and reflected the recent pace of defense spend ing which had . been rushing along at the rate of from $20, 000,000 to $50,000,000 a day. -Skyrocketed The census bureau made pub lic an analysis of the nation's ob ligations, showing that while state and local debts decreased in the last eight years in terms of population and national in come, the federal debt has sky rocketed to the highest levels in history. The federal debt on April 10 was $47,167,656,878 and increas ing every day toward the new limit of $65,000,000,000. At the close of the last fiscal year, June 30, 1040. the census bureau made a comparison of the three divisions of public debt. The federal debt then was $42,588,651,757, the state debt was $3,505,000,000 and the local government share was $16,720, 000,000. As it stands now, the federal debt Is approximately 68 per cent of the national total, state 5.5 per cent and local share is about 26.5 per cent. In years other than periods of war or depression, state and lo cal debt usually assumes a more important role in the total pub lic debt structure, t h e census bureau's analysts showed. , In 1932, before the depression and the federal-aid policy had affected state and local govern ment debt, local obligations were almost 3 per cent of the national total and state obligations were 7.4 per cent of the total govern ment debt. BORDER CLASH GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. April 12 (AP) Dispatches from the frontier village of Huaqulllas today told of an exchange of shots between Peruvian and Ecuadorean military detach ments on the banks of the Zar- umilla river. No casualties were reported. - Greeks Nazis Back Near Phlonna RUSSIA VOICES PROTEST OVER HUNGAR MOVE Kremlin Denunciation of Jugoslav Attack Holds Veiled Threat By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Correspondent MOSCOW, April 12 (UP) Soviet Russia tonight denounced Hungary's action In Joining in the- attack upon Jugoslavia and it was learned that the German ambassador. Count Frederic von Schulenberg. will leave for Ber lin tomorrow, presumably to "consult and report" to hla gov ernment. The soviet statement, con demning the action of Hungary, was the latest in a series of pro nouncements by Russia which have disapproved Bulgaria 'a Joining Joining the axis, reaf firmed friendship and non aggressive intentions with Tur key, and on the eve of the Ger man attack upon Jugoslavia granted the latter a pact of friendship and non-aggression. "Deplorable" The soviet criticism of Hun gary declared that her action waa particularly deplorable be cause it came when the Jugoslav Hungarian friendship pact was only four months old. - - The soviet expression - was made in a statement by Soviet Vice-Commissar for Foreign Af fairs A. V. Vishinsky. to the Hun garian minister, Joseph de Kris toffy, who had called upon Viih- bisky to tall him of. ilungary's : aaaml?!ii.Ji- - The version-issued by the offi cial Tass Russian news agency Quoted Vlshlnskr as saying: 1 must state that the soviet government cannot approve such a step on the part of Hungary. A particularly bad Impression ' is produced upon the soviet govern ment by the fact that Hungary commenced a war against Jugo slavia but four months after she (Continued on .Page Two) Mediators on Job in Coal Mine Dispute By United Press Government mediation efforts were focused Saturday night on the 12-day work-stoppage of 400, 000 soft coal miners and a threat ened strike of 160,000 employes of the huge General Motors sys tem. Settlement of the $154,000,000 Ford strike at Detroit started 125,000 men back to work and eliminated the last major labor dispute in defense industries. Seventeen minor strikes were in progress at the week's end three of them in the process of settlement by the defense medi ation board. At New York, federal labor experts took a 'Tecess in negoti ations between southern bitum inous coal mine operators and the United Mine workers (CIO) in their deadlock on a wage- boost issue. The southern operators, em bracing 150,000 miners, in 13 districts of the Appalachian min ing region, held out against a proposed wage differential elim ination which would cost them $1.40 per day per man above present costs. Operators In the eight northern districts, employ ing 250,000 men, agreed to the wage boost. It would cost them $1 per day above present rates. "Brawn" The southerners requested In tervention of the defense media tion board and said negotiations were disrupted permanently; the (Continued on Page Two) Looking Backward By The Associated Press April .12, 1940 Germans bomb temporary seat of Norwe gian -government at Elverum: King Haakon flees to forest. April 12, 1916 Turks move up heavy reinforcements to meet Russian drive near Trebl- tond. Reported Driving British Planes Blast Nazi Panzer Units; In Africa CAIRO, Egypt. April 13 OP) British and Australian air fight ers destroyed or damaged nearly 100 vehicles in a panzer column of German and Italian transport on the Tobruk-El Gaza la road in Libya, the RAF announced to night. Many casualties were caused. it was said. In a communique, the British air force declared 16 German fighting planes definitely were desuuyed on the ground and a bomber was destroyed as it was attemptli to take off The total toil of axis aircraft was put at zl. . British ground units in contact with German and Italian forces west and southwest of Tobruk. but the engagement has not yet developed into a battle reports from Linya said today. Informed quarters here added that patiols on both sides were operating over a wtdt area west NAZIS CLOSING ON BELGRADE Hungarian Troops In . March South Toward ( Jugoslavian . Capital BERLIN, April 12 (AP) The German -HSn 1 . iiigh comnasncVr an nounced today - that -tiazi. units are advancing Ifrom several sides" towards Belgrade, Yugo slavia's capital, and in a march from the south have "broken enemy resistance in. hard fight ing.1: v . . - . - V .Yugoslav resistance in Croatia has ."collapsed under the pres sure of the overwhelming and rapid' advance of the German forces." the high command de clared, adding that the "Serbi an northern army is dissolv ing." Sava Reached ' Varazdin, Yugoslav town on the Hungarian border, has been occupied, the war bulletin said, and a Serb brigade surrendered with its commander to Germans advancing southward from there. Mountain troops and Infantry divisions were reported to have reached the Sava river at sev eral points northwest of Zag reb after fights with Serbs in the ' pathless Croatian moun tains. Fast nazi units have advanced to Karl o vac in , northwestern Yugoslavia by way of Zagreb, the Croat capital, the communi que said. - Karlovac is on the railroad some 30 miles south west of Zagreb! - Linking of German and Ital ian lines in southern Yugoslavia (Continued on Page Two) , Tentative Plans Plunge To Go Klamath kids may swim this summer if members of the city recreation committee have their way about it. No stone is being left unturned to bring about the early construction of a swim ming pool to cost in the neigh borhood of $20,000 to $25,000, and further plans will be dis cussed at a meeting of the com mittee Monday afternon at. 3 o'clock in the, city ball accord ing to Chairman Andrew Col lier. . Submitted to members of the recreation committee Monday will be a tentative plan drawn up by Howard Perrin, archi tect, showing the proposed tank and bath house with re circulating pump and filter. Plans will call for future de velopment of property for hand ball, badminton and squash courts. - Formative Stage AH ' plana thus ditrussed are in the formative stjge. Collier explained and may be changed by the cemmittee At'the pres ent time !t is hoped to send out a committee,.' which will be named Monday, to garner as Battle Looms West of Tobruk of the Libyan port, which the British still hold. Throughout the 400-mile ad vance of axia forces in the past three weeks the British have In sisted they were merely with drawing light covering forces to a concentration point where they could fight with "assur ance of success.'' Today it appeared this second battle of Cirenalca would be fought on the rolling tableland between Tobruk and the Gebel El Achdar range "home grounds for the British who know every water ho!e and gully in the area. BERLIN. April 1? vP) Brit ish north African troops were reported today by Informed sources to have been ousted by German-Italian forces from de fense positions they built be tween Derna and Tobruk. The high command added that the axis forces "continue the pur suit of the defeated enemy." War Bulletins . NEW YORK. April It (UP) The Colombia . Emae easting sastoui tonight keard Ger ms. , radio . report that two columns of British troops which clashed with German faeces in northern Greece "are beginning to give -way before the German onrush,' ' ATHENS. SundayApril 13 (UP) Wave aftet wns of : misa-Uyinff planas pounded the pott of Piraeus Saturday morning, killing 20 non-combatants, wounding 40 and dam- aging many houses, the minis try of public security reported today. , .. ...V LOUDON. (Sunday). April 13 (UP) German air activity over the British Isles during the night was light and the only reports of bombings came early today from a south Wales town and a town in southeast England, which reported. the appearance of lone raiders. ' LONDON. April 12 (UP) Gen. Carton da Wiart of the British army has "fallen Into enemy hands while on his way to the Middle East," the war office said today. ATHENS. April 12 (UP) A wounded Greek soldier, giving the first eyewitness account of the battle of the Vaidar pass, ssid tonight that "the first we knew that Germany, was at war with us waa when an air fleet of 180 German bombers flew down the valley." ZURICH, April 12 (UP) The German radio reported to night that Iraq troops had oc cupied a British fort between Basrah and Baghdad and now controlled that area. For City to Committee many of the $100 memberships as possible. -These memberships will be sold to a family for a period of 15 years. ' The tank now proposed will be approximately 120 by 43 feet, one which should accommodate Klamatn Falls, swimmers and also take care of future growth of the. city This past week Thomas Smith son, member of the firm of Smith son and Gilbert consult ing engineers. Bend, waa in Klamath Falls and discussed swimming pools with Collier and David Bridge, recreational - of ficer. Smithson now has plans ready to build the $13 000 swim ming pool and bath house which the city of Redmond In Deschutes county, authorized in a recent bond Issue. He explained the problems encountered and how they were handled by the city of Redmond and his Information was considered valuable by the committee members. Other mem bers of the group will hear a report from Collier on Smith son's findings which should be considered in local plans. PANZER FORCE HALTED ALONG BITOLJ FRONT 'Terrible Disaster" Suffered by Nazis, Says Athens Radio ATHENS. April 12 (UP) A. Greek spokesman reported to night that Greek troops had hurled back a heavy German at tack in the region of Pblorina by an armored nazi column which. poured" through the vital Moo- astir gap. (Radio Athens, as beard in London, broadcast a communi que by the Greek high command tonight, reporting that there was "limited sctivity on both fronts." A Greek radio broadcast heard in New York by the Columbia Broadcasting system el aimed that the Germans suffered "a ' terrible disaster" -when they were attacked while marching in the direction of Bitoli by British and Greek .airplanes. The broad- ' cast claimed the Germans had made ui ogress -only in areas evacuated for strategic reasons.) The government .official de clared that the engagement was "more severe" than first re ported. -. ' i He explained that the spear head of the German armored column bad driven southward from Jugoslavia through the Monasttr gap to the vicinity of Pblorina, the western anchor of the" Greco-British' northern de fense line. .,- . Aided by tanks and numerous) -armored cars, the German in fantry plunged ahead until it reached the Greeks who were braced In prepared positions. LONDON, April 12 (UP The battle of Greece tonight rumbled toward blitzkrieg intensity at the northwest corner of Phlorina. where Britain's elite expedition (Continued on Page Two) . . Greenland Plan ; Voided by Danes, Says Dispatch COPEN HAGEN, Denmark, (Via Berlin), April 12 (UP) The Danish foreign office tonight de clared void the agreement beN tween the United States and the Danish minister at Washington placing Greenland under Ameri can protection. At the same time, the foreign office announced the recall of Henrik de Kauffman, Danish minister to Washington. The agreement, which gave the United States permission to establish air and naval bases and other military facilities at Green land, was said by the foreign office to be void under Interna tional law. (Announcement of the agree ment in Washington said it had been signed by Kauffman "on behalf of the king of Denmark." Denmark is German - occupied territory.) . WASHINGTON. April 12 (UP) Dr. Henrik de Kauffman, the minister from Denmark, will let Secretary of State Cordell Hull decide whether he shall obey or , ignore a summons from Copen hagen recalling him because ha signed the Greenland defense agreement, a Danish legation spokesman said tonight. , Eastern Firm Gets Tulelake Contract DENVER, April 12 (AP) The Morris Machine works of Balds winville, N. J., has submitted a low bid of $22,353 for pumping units for pumping plant "D," Modoc unit, Tula Lake division of the Klamath reclamation pro ject, the bureau of reclamation announced today. 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