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graving dall provide Newt and Herald Season to data jOo " :".c:"h " lomph,,,,' pb,'"Ph' IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KardLZZZZZZ:!,:" Vol. 18, No. 122 l'rice Kiv Cent KLAMATH OKEGON, TUESDAY, AFKIL 16, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), Russo-Japanese Neutrality Pact Ends Long Feud In The Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS A FTth a Rk of bittrr and f blood) (liihting in tin Bal kans, the aitualion U atlll con' fused to DETAIL, and thcra are many contradiction in tha news. For example: - The German high command baa officially Hated tha north' em Yugoslav army as destroyed. London reports today that this same army la counter-attacking the Germane In the mountain! southeast of Belgrade and thai its moral is good epHE naiis assert that the Serb J army ha been broken inio remnanU which are retreating in the face of German and Italian troopa. The London mln Istry of information saya today (Monday) it has good reason to believe the Yugoslavian Serbs have captured the seeport of Durauo in Albania. yHE British insist today the 1 garrison at Tobiuk (Libya) Is not surrounded, that British reinforcement serosa the dessert is still possible and that the axis lines there ara exceedingly thin ' The Germane say another Dunkerque is in progress at Tobruk. And so on. THIS writer, having no inside Information, judging only by What ha reads in the papers, is A Inclined to warn against over- l ne nusni u viiw u um... military machine is again be ing strikingly demonstrated. "ONT of course, jump to the '"'conclusion that It's all over but the shouting. Centuries of military history prove it's the LAST BATTLE that counts. The last battle of this war is ' still a long way from, being fought. nUSSIA and Japan sign a neutrality treaty appar ently one of these friendship and non-aggression affairs. The Poliyana school of thought argues that with her back door thus (supposedly) cleared of danger Russia will be in a position to get tougher with Germany at the front door. The more pessimistic realists 'lean to the idea thKt with her back door cleared of the Russian threat. Japan will get tougher with US THIS writer's advice la to keep your fingers crossed and WATCH EVENTS. Treaties in these days espe cially tne friendship and' non aggression, kind) aren't worth the paper they're written on. . When it comes to a pinch then is little honor among nations. There NEVER WAS much. The law of the Jungle has always been the supreme and final International law. i TIME will tell what Is back of this Russian-Jap deal. ; If Russia gets steadily milder toward Germany and Japan gets , 'Asteadily tougher in her attitude 'toward us. it will be a pretty dependable indication that both have made up their minds that Germany is the horse to bet on. President Asks for New Appropriation ' WASHINGTON, April 14 W) President Roosevelt asked con gress today for a supplemental appropriation of $728,767,000 for the war department for the fiscal year starting next July 1, In cluding $280,065,000 for the army alrcorps. : His request was contained in a letter to Speaker Rayburn. Looking Backward Br The Associated Press , X April 14, 1940 The Nether lands extends martial law and reaffirms policy of neutrality. April 14, 1916 Germans throw back Russians near Dvln-lk. Nations Agree Over Former China Land; Soviet Eyes Peace MOSCOW, April 14 (A1 A Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact wnicn ended z ycats of strain ed Far Eastern relations was welcomed today by the com munist party press as clearing the way for political and eco nomic cooperation without, however, binding Russia to the axis. The pact, signed yesterday by Premier foreign Commissar Vyachcsliff Mj lot off. and Japan's foreign minister, Yosuke Matsuoka. was regarded by ob servers as rivalling in world importance the non aggression accord of 1930 between Ger many and Russia which pre ceded the Invasion of Poland. Neutrality Plan It fitted the General pattern of expressed soviet policy peace and neutrality in the midst of an expanding war. It is the tint political pact concluded between the two countries since the resumption of diplomatic relations after the Bolshevist revolution of 1917. Major Questions Pravda, communist party or gan, said the pact and its ac companying declaration pledg ing respect of the integrity ot Manrhoukuo and outer Mon golia "clear the way for the regulation of other unsolved questiont between the USSR and Japan. The major questions outstand (Continued on Page Two) FOUR DIE IN BREAK Two Convicts Caught In Woods Following Do ring Tunnel Dash OSSINtNG. N. Y. April 14 (AP) Two long-term convicts who shot their wsy out of the Sing Sing prison infirmary In a sensational break which cost four lives were captured a few hours later today in the woods across the Hudson river. The two gray-clad convicts, still armed with smuggled guns with which they and a confed erate, who was later slain, had broken from the prison in a battle In which a prison cuard and an Ossining policeman were killed and a convict patient died of shock were cornered on the slope of Mout Hood in Palisades Interstate park. Appeared Dased Patrolman William Mullen, an experienced woodsman- member of the park's police complement and one of 230 peace officers trailing them, flushed them from underbrush w'thin a mile of the shore point from which (Continued on Page Two) A Picture shows members of Saturday at the new Salvation PRISON - . - ...., r o FBI man Says No Sabotage Drive Present In U. S. SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (UP Nathaniel J. L. Pieper, regional field director of the fed' cral bureau of Invest'gation, said today a fifth column exists in America and totalitarian agents are engaged in subversive oper ations, but there Is at present no concerted, foreign-directed sabo tage drive in the United States. I'iepcr returned from a five day conference In Washington, D. C. with J. Edgar Hoover, di rector of the FBI. Many accidents believed to have been the result of sabotage were in reality the result of in duatrlal hazards created under the stress of defense speed-up operations, Pieper said There have been ialoated cases of sabotage, he said, out in near ly every case they were carried out by individuals acting inde pendently and not a the instlga' tion of foreign powers, Pieper emphasized. JAPAN-RUSSIA PACT DOUBTED Hull Exhibits Little .Concern At Signing; China Reds Stunned WASHINGTON. April 14 (P) Secretary Hull declared today that the new Russian-Japanese neutrality pact "could be over estimated" and that the policy of the American government re mained unchanged. The secretary of state author ized this formal statement at his press conference: The significance of the pact between the soviet union and Japan relating to neutrality, as reported in the press today, could be overestimated. "The agreement would seem to be descriptive of a situation which has in effect existed be tween the two countries for some time past. It therefore comes as no surprise, although there has existed aoum wnewer tne two lovemments woald or would not agree to say it in writing. CHUNCKING. April 14 OP) Chinese communists i appeared (Continued on Paget Two) City Council Eyes Plan for Jail Clean-up Sanitation in the city Jail, muskrats along South Riverside, and clarification of the city tire department's interest in subur ban fires were topmost among the matters discussed at a quiet session of the city council laat night. Proper rehabilitation of t h e city's Jail in the basement of the city hall Is financially prohibi tive at this time, it was agreed, but after some discussion it was decided that the prison facilities' will be Drought up to sanitary standards immediately, while further long-range plans are drawn. Building Inspector Harold Franey told the council he be- (Continued on Page Two) Union Stages Salvation Army Building Bee IV. - r "tfi the Carpenters and Joiners union i.l, ,! t army building. Fourth and Klamath. ' , STEEL FIRMS WAGE BOOSTS Strikes Averted; End Of Two Tie-ups Told By Mediation Board WASHINGTON. April 14 (UP) The national defense mediation board announced tonight agree ments have been reached to end strikes it the Phelps Dodger Copper Products corporation, Bayway. N. J., and the Snoqual- mie Falls. Wssh., Lumber com pany. Both have defense con tracts and employ a total of 2880 workers. The agreements represented the eighth and ninth obtained by the newly-formed board out of the 11 cases certified to it thus far by the labor depart ment. Work at the Snoqualmie plant. which has lumber orders for army cantonments, has been tied up by a 24-week strike of 1060 members of the Sawmill and Lumber Workers union (AFL.) Br UNITED PPESS The nations' two largest steel producers granted a 10 cents hourly wage increase Monday to 350.000 empldyes engaged in $2, 000,000.000 worth of vital de fense production. Agreement of the giant US Steel corporation to wage de mands of the CIO steel workers organizing committee led to ac cord on a new contract, avert ing a strike of 261.000 men scheduled for midnight Tuesday. The Bethlehem Steel corpora tion, No. 2 pillar of steel produc tion, announced a flat 10-cent- (Continued on Page Two) London Asks S. F. Way To WebuilcLCiiy - ! SAN FRANCISCO. AprU 14 (UP) London, recalling how San Francisco recoveied from the 1906 earhquake-fire. has asked this city for advice on rebuild ing and reconstruction. W. G. Jackson, a member of the London city council, wrote Angclo Rossi: "I should be very grateful if we can obtain any information as to the methods by which pub lic authorities assisted in the work of reconstruction after the great disaster at Sau Francisco. This information is required In connection with the considera tion which is being given to the problem.- arising trom the war damage which has occurred in London. Some of the questions which Jackson asked Mayor Rossi: 'What part did public authori ties and private enterprise take in the work of reconstruction? Was it found necessary to trans fer the ownership of lands and damaged properties to the public authorities? "Was there any scheme of pooling of ownerships and redis tribution of plots? When land was acquired by public authori ties, on what basis was the pur- (Continued on Page Two) who Joined the "building bee" i ? yd I J V I 1 3 2 Nazis Promise Destruction Against Allies in Balkans German A German anti-aircraft sua la Yugoslavia. This picture radioed from Berlin to Mew York. BRITISH FORCE SAID TRAPPED V Tobruk Encircled In Africa; Nazis Bomb Attempts To Escape BERLIN, April 14 W) DNB, official German news agency, de clared today that British troops trapped at Tobruk were trying to esesroeJjy.jwabulejaBjmd'sr a "dunkerquelike aerial - bom bardment. Dive bombers were said to be smashing at transports and other vessels in that Libyan-harbor. In another report DNB said that British armored forces made a desperate effort to escape by land from "a harbor city of Cirenaica", but that the German beseigers destroyed eight of 14 armored cars which tried to break through. LONDON. April 14 (ff) The British war office announced to night that 20 axis tanks support ing infantry "crossed the outer defenses" of Tobruk in North Africa this morning, but were ejected with severe losses. BERLIN; April 14 (Ph-The official German agency DNB re ported tonight that nazi dive- bombers had sunk British trans ports aggregating 30.000 tons in the Athenian harbor of Piraeus F. R. Pitches First Ball In 1941 Majors By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aoril 14 (UP) Franklin D. Roosevelt, who pitched his third straight victory over the republicans last Novem ber, threw another strike today and touched off the 1941 major league baseball season. '- The New York Yankees got some slick hurling, too a three- hit job by Southpaw Marius Rus so and blanked the Washington Senators 3 to 0. This was the eighth time Mr. Roosevelt had tossed out the opening day pitch, a record since the presidential tradition was (Continued on rage Two) Secretary Visits Coal Negotiations ; NEW YORK, April 14 (UP Governmental Interest In the re opening of the bituminous coal mines in time to . prevent an acute coal shortage, was ex pressed tonight by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins during an unexpected visit to the Ap palachian coal wage-hour nego ciations. Secretary Perkins participated In negotiations between north ern soft coal operators and offi cials of the United Mine Work ers (CIO) for about one hour. She declined to discuss her visit to the conference. The meeting adlourned about 11 p. m. until 4 p. m. tomorrow. . Gun on Guard in Yugoslavia Area and crew guard ores a German Selection of Jury Slow In Anderson Case Jury selection proved slow and difficult in circuit court Monday in the opening; sessions of the -trial of Jamas Quentin Anderson, charged with the sec ond degree murder of Jerry Zulkoski, a white man. Out of the first 17 veniremen called seven were excused for cause. . At noon, 20 additional Lpanel. These vea exhausted by a p.' m., wnen-eoun was re cessed until 9:30 Tuesday morn ing. - Stil! more veniremen were to be notified to appear In court Tuesday.'.., ". . Defense questioning Indicated a probable self-defense plea in behalf of the young part In dian, son ot O. T. Anderson, prominent Beatty rancher. His attorneys, E. E. Driscoll and J. C. O'Neill, questioned Jurors closely as to their attitude to- (Continued on Page Two) 'Real Case' To Reopen Monday Against Bridges SAN 7RANCISCO AprU IS (UP) The "real case" against Harry Bridges, California CIO director, will begin tomorrow when his second deportation hearing reopens In federal court after a week's recess, govern ment attorneys said today. The first three witnesses called in the opening week of the hear ing provided a background of communist party activities and testimony concerning official communist policy. The govern ment Indicated that from now on it -vill seek to connect Bridges directly with "an organization advocating overthrow of the US government by force or violence. 6 P. M. Closing Saturdays Sought By Merchant Group A decision to bring about 6 o'clock closing of all Klamath Falls stores on Saturday eve nings was unanimously agreed upon at the Monday luncheon meeting of the Klamath Retail Merchants bureau. Vern Owens, chairman of the bureau, appointed N. P. Long as chairman of a committee to contact each merchant in the city personally relative to the 6 o'clock closing. Most stores now remain open until 8 p. m. on ' Saturdays, it was pointed out, but the merchants said that very few people shop after 6 p. m. and that they believed earlier closing would work no hardship on customers and would benefit employes. Other members of the com mittee .appointed to call on all merchants are: D. D. Reeder, Charles I. Roberts, R. R. Proeb stel and I. J. Olson. It was decided to offer the services of the bureau's parking meter committee to Mayor John Houston and the city council in an effort to solve the parking situation in Klam 1-1 n ' ff army motor route somewhere War Bulletins CAIRO, AprU 14 (UP) En circled British defenders of Vie Libyan port of Tobruk,' 80 miles behind the spearhead of aa Italo-German desert effen alTe which has swept into Egyptian territory, today beat off a heavy German tank as sault and inflicted "severe losses" en the naxis, it was stated officially. LONDON. Tuesday. April 11 (UP) The British commander-in-chief la the middle easfc Gen. Sir Archibald WavelL has ordered his army of the Nile to fall back upon Marsa Matruh and abandon Sidi Bar rani to aads armored forces, aa Ankara radio report said today. ROME. Tuesday, April IS (UP) The Italian army has occupied the vital city of Kor itsa in southeastern Albania after seising it from the Greeks as the start of a possible double flanking movement against the Greek and British lines, it was announced offi cially today. LONDON. Tuesday. April IS (UP) Highflying German bombers made two "snap" raids oa northeast England coast towns last night after the royal air force hammered the Merignac airdrome near Bordeaux, starting point for nasi raids on Atlantic and North sea shipping. LONDON. Tuesday. April IS (UP) Jugoslav Serbian troops in two attacks south of Belgrade are threatening to cut the Belgrade-to-Salonika railroad, chief line of supply for German assaults on the eastern wing of the British Greek front, aa Ankara radio report said early today. ath Falls. . The committee will offer to meet with the city plan ning commission or other group to work out a solution. This action was taken aft or the report of J. A. Souther, chairman of the parking meter committee, who announced that two sets of petitions circulated by his committee had been turned over to Mayor Houston, with the result that the city dropped the parking meter question. Merchants contacted by the petitions had overwhelm ingly signed the petitions against parking meters and only about six had signed the peti tions favoring the meters. ' The bureau voiced the opin ion that city parking lots prob ably would solve the parking problem, with locations estab lished in three different parts of the downtown area. Mem bers believed that, since they had circulated the petitions which caused dropping ot the parking meter question, they should try to help with some concrete plan to provide ade quate and convenient parking in the business district. BLOW COMING IN NEXT FEW HOURS, CLAIM Assertion Made That Germans Will Knock British Out of War BERLIN. Tuesday. April 15 (UP) The German army is ready to unleash its "blow of destruction" against the British and Greek armies within the next 24 nours and knock Britain out of the Balkan war, informed nazi quarters asserted early to day. The British expeditionary force already is embarking on ' troopships "Just as at Dunkerque last year" after being withdrawn from the fighting lines in north ern Greece and is attempting evacuation by sea under fierce) nazi aerial attacks, these quar ters claimed. Luftwaffe Assaults Shattering luftwatfe assaults on waiting British troop and sup ply ships at Piraeus, where 110, 000 tons of ships were said to have been sunk or badly dam aged, and other Greek ports were claimed by the official DNB agency. The fighting still underway against Serbian troopa in scat tered areas is "mere exercise for the German armored forces' who are ready now to launch their attack against the main British-Greek line in northern Greece. .'"Bulk of Serbian army de- . stroyedj? . said "th headline hi this morning's Voelkischer Beo bachter, official organ of Adolf Hitler's nazi party. 'Serbia lies on the ground," said the Loka- lanzeiger. . , German informed quarters as serted that the British army in Greece, although' realizing its predicament, is hopelessly un able to carry out a "successful evacuation" before the German blow of destruction comes. "US War-Mongers" "This blow win lead to the Englishman's quick elimination from the Balkan war which he, together with the war-mongers of the United States, instigated," one spokesman said. . The heavy aerial bombings of Piraeus and' other Greek ports serving as British supply bases were cited as one of the enorm- (Continued on Page Two) Five Injured in Crash South of Midland Monday Five persons were in J urea in a head-on collision two miles south of Midland on the Weed highway shortly after 4 o'clock Monday morning when a car . operated by Ralph Abbott, about 25, Mt. Shasta,. Calif., crashed into a parked car owned by Lloyd Brownell, about SO, 524 1 Main street. - Abbott told state police he was driving north toward Klam ath Falls when lights of an on coming car blinded him and be. drove onto the shoulder, ripped out a highway marker post and crashed into a coupe parked on the left shoulder near a small side road. The coupe was headed south but the impact spun both cars around on the ditch bank and they headed east at right angles to the highway, the Ab bott car overturning. Passengers in the Abbott car were the driver's wife, Doris, 22, Carl Johnson, 27, and his wife, Bertha, 22, all of Mt. Shas ta. Mrs. Abbott and the John sons received treatment at Klam ath Valley hospital, where they were found to be suffering from cuts and bruises, Mrs. Abbott being the most seriously injured with a deep gash on the top of her head. Abbott and Brownell had minor hurts, the latter com-' plaining of chest bruises. Both cars were badly damaged. 1 News Index City Briefs ...Page S Comics and Story Page 6 Courthouse Records Page 2 Editorials Page Information Page 5 Market, Financial Page 8 Midland Empire News Page S Pattern Page 3 Sports . Page