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The SlamathNews WEATHER NEWS Partly Cloudy High Mi Low 17) MldalflM M 24 boon to I p. m. M lessen to data . , , lQ.gT Normal precipitation , I.T1 Last year to date . ',, .14 PICTURES! Associated Press TsUmats. MBA Telepae lew and live local aawipleiure tad en graving stall provide Haw and Haiald readere with a comprehensive photograph lo service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND " Vol. 18. No. 125 Plica Fiva CenU KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), Anderson Jury Brings Verdict Of Manslaughter Jamea Quentln Anderson, 18-year-old Indian, heard a jury of 11 men and one woman pronounce him guilty of manslaughter at 6:80 p. m. Thursday In Klamath county circuit court after only one hour of deliberation following the trial in which Andorson was charged with second de gree murder for the fatal shooting of Jerry Zulkoskl. Foreman Charles Balin of the jury handed written verdict to Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg, who read the verdict to the court. The defendant was found guilty of manslaughter, but the jury recommended leniency for the Indian youth. Punishment for manslaughter carries a sen tence of from one to 15 years imprisonment. Defense Attorney J. C. O'Neill rose to his feet and uaked Judge Vandenberg if it were permissible to ask the jury what was meant by the leniency recommendation. HU request was denied. Judge By r'RANK JENKINS OY way of making conversation (as one speaks of the weather) this writer said yesterday to a friend: "Still Interested in the war news?" This was his answer: "Not since OUR SIDE began to lose. N w I want to stay as far away from it aa possible. rpHAT was a natural answer, reelecting an extiemely hu man and understandable frame of mind. Probably we are ALL tempted to feel that way. It Is a DANGEROUS tempts tlon. It MUST BE RESISTED. Running out on the war when It begins to look bad for our side Is akin to the mythical ostrich habit of burying its head In the sand when danger ap proaches. An ostrich with its head burled In the sand would be EASY MEAT for the hunter. - J -1 "' ,.;..v n- THERE irairterehc of opinion as to whether we ought o be where we re. But there can be NO difference of opinion as to this: ii WE ARE WHERE WE ARE Wa have to go on from here not from some point where we might have been but aren't. Wa have to take the war as It IS and make the best oi It. We can't Just dismiss It from our minds when it begins to look bad. ""THIS thought probnbly occurs to you: "I am only one Individual. I am aa a grain of sand In a desert. There Isn't much that I can do." You are wrong There Is PLENTY you can do. You can do your Job every day In the beat way you know how, remembering that in emergencies it is TEAM WORK that counts. You can say to yourself over and over: "This Is my country, and it is in danger. My country means more to me than any thing else If my country goes down EVERYTHING GOES DOWN. "No sacrifice that I can make will be too great if It helps to save my country." TN so thinking, you will be x right. Since human beings first began to organize themselves into social units, the welfare of each Individual has been bound up with the welfare of Ihe unit of which he Is a part. First it was the family. Then it was the tribe. Then it was the city. Then it was the state. But ALWAYS the fortune of the Individual has been bound up with the fortune of the unit. If his family, his tribe, his city, his state went under, he went under with it. That Is still as true as ever. (Continued on Page Two) Looking Backward By The Assodsted Press April 17, 1940 British war ships shell Stavanger. German bombing planes ' raid Scape Flow. April 17, 1918 Italians cap ture Col Di Lana from Aus trian. United Statel threatens to sever diplomatic relations with Germany If submarine at tacks are not abandoned. . , i ;v In The v k Days A Vandenberg said the law pro- fvldes the .meaning of the term. Young Anderson snowed no lt of emotion as the verdict was read. Beside him sat his father, O. T. (Buck) Anderson and his mother. All attorneys' In the case were In the courtroom when the Jury returned the verdict. Conclusion of the trial marked the second conviction In two cases for which Dayton E. Van .Vector, was hired as special .prosecutor, for. the state. Van Vactor.won a previous case with a corivictlon on secohd degree murder for Luther Joe Kirk recently. The Kirk and Anderson cases both Involved Indians who were involved In shootings off the Klamath Indian reservation. The Anderson trial gathered sudden speed .yesterday after a slow beginning and reached the Jury s hands by 8 p. m. The case took a surprise turn when the state let young Ander son go virtually without cross examination, and presented a single witness In rebuttal of his story of the killing of Jerry Zul- (Conunued on Page Nine) British Aid Futile, Says Lindbergh : , ;1 I l't t : col. Charles 'A. Lindbergh said tosUgnfc that! Great Britain lost the war ''before it was declared" and warned that "it la not within our power" to produce a British victory, . -.. He addressed a mid western rally of the America First com mittee upon the occasion of bis Induction as a member, lie was Introduced by Gen. Robert E. Wood, national chairman . of America First. Explaining his purpose in join ing the committee as "a plea for unity among the forces- who stand against our Intervention in this war," Lindbergh said the United States "has been led to ward war" by a minority of its population. "If we .can be forced into a foreign war against opposition or more than four-fifths of our people," he asserted, "then the Idea of representative govern ment and - democracy will be proved such a failure at home that there will be little use fight ing for. It abroad. He said that If America enters the war "we deserve to lose the heritage" of independence given .(Continued on Page Two) . Witness Says Bridges Was Called Communist In 1935 SAN FRANCISCO. April 17 (UP) A Seattle ex-communist today testified at the Harry Bridges deportation trial that when he Joined the party In 1939 he was told the waterfront labor leader was a communist. ' Maurice Cannalonga. a ship's electrician and the government's eighth witness in the hesrlng, said he became a communist at the persuasion of Walter Stack, Seattle. .. , , "Stack told me the party gave the workers' a break," Canna longa testified. "He told me Bridges wss a member of the party." Cannalonga told of attending numerous meetings st which Bridges wss present, and said some of them .were communist faction meetings. Among those present, he said, were Morris Rapport, Harry Jackson, Ed Fisher and Bert Nelson, whom he described as communists, and Bridges, Matt. Meehan, Henry .Vhmldt - and . Bruce- Hannon, waterfront unionists. ... , GREEKS ADMIT FORCES BEING DRIVEN BACK Nazis Drive .Toward Heart of Greece in 'Adverse .Conditions' enas Mm' v ATHENS. Friday, April 18 (UP) The Greek army has "un dergone reverses'4 under the smashing German blltxkrltg and ta tolling back, under a driving oazl ; advance' toward the heart of Greece, It was admitted today In an official statement appeal' big to the Greek people to avoid psnic. . - , The Greek army along the at lied line, fighting under "adverse conditions, was said in the offl. clal statement to be retiring un der the blows of vastly rein forced German blitzkrieg forces. "The enemy advance contin ues despite the stubborn re sistance of our troops and the heroic efforts of the British forces," It waa said. . ' Fight Continues In Albania at the western end of the allied line the Greek army still is "fighting to Its utmost' almt.an Italian push down upon. Argyrocastron, which i is about 50 miles north of JanTna. The Greek high command an nounced the evacuation of KM sura and Erseka above Argyro castron. Rumors that Larlssa had fallen were officially denied and the Germans actually are "far (Continued on Page Two) CHILD RESCUED IN CANAL HERE Kessler Dives- Into Swift Water, Saves ; Tot From Drowning Vernon Kessler. about 28. ad. dress unknown, waa Thursday's nero wneti he dove into the rov- eraraasuXacal at the Mauvatreet bridge to rescue llttaa- Lester Cronk. 9. son of MT. and Mrs. V. K. Cronk. 144 Lacuna- (tract - The child waa' given first aid by police officers and returned to his home suffering from cold and shock. . Fall off Brldoa .-According to officers the boy and two playmates, little Ronnie and Beverly Roberts, 218 Hill side avenue, were playing on the Main street bridge. Lester left his wagon on the bridge and crawled under the-apan, falling into the ditch which Is deep snd swift. Kessler was crossing the bridge in his car when he no ticed- the two children weeping. He Jumped from the machine, ran along the bank and Jumped into the water. He caught the child's clothing about 100 yards from the bridge as the boy was sinking beneath the water. The city fire department responded with a pulmotor which was not needed. Mrs. Cronk told police she had lost a small boy- six years sgo by drowning in Boise, Ida. Kessler was loathe to give his name or address to officers and left to get into warm clothing upon seeing Lester had been re vived. . - William Schnellerman, Cali fornia state secretary of the com munist party, attended one of the meetings "to give the party line in regard to waterfront ne gotiations," Cannalonga testi fied. Cannalonga said his principal contact with Bridges was during the 1936-37 Pacific coast mari time strike, in which Cannalonga was a member of the negotiating committee for the Independent Marine Firemen s union. Cannalonga was a reluctant witness. Government Counsel Albert Del Guercio questioned him concerning a statement he gave to the federal bureau of in vestigation. Cannalonga said he had not been threatened by the FBI. . - "Did you say you were willing to testify?;' Del Guercio asked. "Yes, against the party, but not against Bridges," . Canna longa. replied. He denied telling government attorneys he was afraid of losing his Job if he testi fied. , . . .'. Jugoslavia Surrenders To "German Blitzkrieg NEW TAXES IN ALL BRACKETS EYED BY U.S. Secretary Mordehthaii Asks $3,500,000,000 Money-raising Levy . WASHINGTON. April 17 UP) Secretary Morgenthau an nounced today that the admin istration and both democratic and republican . congressional leaders had agreed to a 13.900,000,000 of new taxes to be raised in the next year. . He told reporters after con ferring with the leaders .that President Roosevelt . had . ap proved the program and would, at an early date, discuss . the program with the American people. No Details : No details of how the money would be raised were disclosed, but the treasury secretary indi cated the government would tap every possible means of raising a dollar In taxes. Despite former policies of the administration, he indicated that such drastic means as a general salea tax. payroll taxes and other heavy money-raising ideas were under consideration. - For the first time in treasury- congressional tax conferences during this administration, re publican' leaders, as well as democratic leaders were called in. Both Approve Morgenthau said, "I am hap py to say that the - combined democratic- and republican lead ership of the senate and house ; , (Continued on Page Two), T Curiailmeni Of for' 1942 Agreed - WASHINGTON, April 17 (UP) The automotive industry agreed today to reduce its output of 1942 automobiles and. trucks by about 1,000,000 units, so addi tional manpower, -materials and facilities can be diverted to de fense production.- .- ' r . i This was revealed by OPM Director . William S. Knudsen who said a 20 per cent curtail ment in output starting August 1 was agreed upon at'a meeting with automobile and truck pro ducing executives. "I have Just concluded a meet ing with the leaders of the entire automobile, and truck producing industry which I called to con sider the growing, defense, pro duction Job that faces us," Knud sen said. - : ' - "The entire industry willingly accepted an initial 20 per cent re duction in the production of mo tor vehicles for the model year beginning August 1 this year,. In order to make available- mere manpower,, materials, facilities snd management for the defense load now being made ready. The reduction will--amount, to ap proximately 1,000,000 units." . . The industry, which last year turned out ' 7,978,163 passenger cars and 737,993 trucks, . Is among the largest users of ma terials needed for defense. '. ' Knudsen's disclosure came, a few hours' after he told a special senate - committee Investigating the defense program that this na tion's armament production ca pacity "will .equal that of any two countries In Europe, when we get going." . . . , Cat. Mothers ' Coyote Pups - REDMOND, Ore., April 17 (UP) Three coyote puppies were growing fat . today be-; 'cause of the tender care of a ' strange mother a house cat.' Charles and Bdbby Harmon discovered a coyote. den .with' 18 pupa in It and made away, with three. They placed -the, 'young coyotes In a box. The mother cat, which had lost her kittens -only shortly before, t discovered and promptly, be '.gan nursing the coyotes. German Bombs In Sicily, in sight of Mt. Etna, right background, a German flier and two soldiers san them selves a too a buea eerie! bomb destined for Greek and German foea in the war in the Balkans. This, picture. German approved, pered-to Mew York. AXIS MEN AT British : R e p o r t Says Defenders ; Capture Troops Outside City CAIRO, Egypt, April 17 UP) British troops defending Tobruk. Libya," yesterday captured 23 axis officers and 787 men and killed over 200 in bitter fighting. British middle east headquarters annoonord, today. . ,-' Officers said 20 tanks were de stroyed: ' .-.. . --"ivxj --;k. 4 61 MBe ,2xmps): British! smosmaaaor, .onununicstea uic news to the Egyptian premier. .Authorities said German casu alties in dead, wounded and prisoners are now over 1500 in the desert campaign, while the total number of tanks destroyed is about 35. British losses were reported to be light. The first German - prisoners have reached the Nile - valley and have been sent to camps. The communique said a Brit ish patrol had "successfully pen etrated an enemy position out side the defense of Tohruk"- and captured seven Italian officers and 139 men in one phase of the operations. An attack on Tobruk was re pulsed with artillery fire, it said. . There, was still considerable patrol activity In the area around Salum. Egypt, the com munique added. It reported fur ther advances by the troops mov ing on to Dessie, Ethiopia, and said prisoners in Addis Ababa now total 5000 Italians and 4000 of their colonial troops. , Gypsy Flees Tribe, Avoids Male Suitor PORTLAND, April 17 (UP) A 19-year-old gypsy girl today told- Portland police she fled her tribe at San Jose, Calif., because her grandfather arranged to sell her to "a man I do not love." ' Police held the girl and three gypsy men after word from San Jose authorities that they were wanted in connection with a "kidnaping case." - The girl, who gave her name as Mary Mitchell, ' denied she had been kidnaped and said that she had simply Joined another tribe of gypsies. . , "I left when they wanted to sell me to a man I do not love," she said. "I want to stay with my new friends. They gave me food and clothes." The girl also said She was in love with' a man of the new tribe. ! Police. said, the- four gypsies had refused to waive extradition to California and that word was waited from San Jose authorities Ss to disposition of the case. . . The men being held gave their names as Frank Stevens, Leo George and rrank Ephren, and said they were Brazilian gypsies. On the waa flown to South America Lewis Reports Southern Coal Parleys Asked By The Associated Press President John L. Lewis, of the CIO United Mine Workers said Thursday that the union was willing to resume negotiations with, southern coal mine opera tors for a new industry-wide wage contract to end the Ap palachian bituminous shutdown. Northern operators in the eight-state coal field were for; mally ratifying a new two-year contract when Lewis said be had telegraphed Li..2VPutmaiv lead er ofthe southern operators, at the" request of :derifl -Conciliator John P. Steelman. proposing a conference in Hew York to morrow to. negotiate a wage scale for ihe southern mines. . Steel Strikes At Washington Secretary of Labor Perkins certified the strike at the Birds boro (Pa.) Steel Foundry and Machine com pany to the new national defense mediation board. CIO organizers called a strike at the steel wire and cable plants of the John A. Roebling's Sons company at Trenton, N. J., and company officials admitted 1000 workers were absent from the two plants.-- The company has recently had 5000 employes. A CIO leader said the union was protesting against a new produc tion schedule. At Youngstown, Ohio, 600 em ployes of the Youngstown Steel Door company were idle because of a walkout of CIO steel work ers protesting dismissal of an em ploye. . . - , Precautions The CIO Aluminum Workers union announced at New Ken sington, Pa., that it would seek wage increases of 15 cents an hour for 20,000 workers in five Aluminum Company of Amer- (Continued on Page Two) i for Axis Foes ' President Assures Editors No Control of Press Eyed WASHINGTON, April 17 UP) President Roosevelt told the na tion's editors today that so far as he was concerned "there will be no government control of news unless it be of vital military in formation." i In a letter to the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors, read to the organization's 19th annual convention by Tom Wallace, its president, the chief executive declared free speech was in "un disputed possession" of the press, magazines, motion pictures, and the radio and so far as he was concerned "it will remain there for that is where it belongs." "It Is Important that it should remain there," the letter contin ued, "for suppression of opinion snd censorship of : news are among the mortal weapons that dictatorships direct against their own people and direct against the world. Aa far as I am con- cerned. there, will be no govern- Job" in Italy mi by an Italian airline, then slip Wcr Bulletins BERLDT. Friday. April It (UP) The Royal afar force raided Berlin during the night. 24 hours-attar the Germans bad subjected London ta the greatest aerial bnmherdmont of the war. in reprisal far as earlier attack .on the German capitaL . . -1 , -..:.(;-- LONDON. Friday. April II (UP) The German luftwaffe turned its fury ea a south Eng land towst last night and early today but . avoided . the , bomb, ahattered city. of London what residents angrily . da rn aa dad -Bit"', asMs against Berlin, '. U-., "' CAIBO: Xettt (TjU-irii ish land, see and air. wresting tbevtnitUtive German and Italian armored, forces in Libya are striking de structive blows deep behind stalled spearhead of the axis desert offensive, official com muniques said today, - ROME. Friday, April It (UP) The official Stefanl news agency reported from Salonika lest night that Gen. Charlee da Gaulle, head of the Free French movement, had. arrived in Athena to reach an accord with British and Greek military leaders "for eventual participation -of strong contin gents of Free French troops in" the battle of Greece." Only 16 in Next Draft From Oregon SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (UP) The eighth draft call for May 5-7 will take only 310 men in the ninth corps area, the smallest call to date, army head quarters announced today. California will contribute 218 of these, Washington 34, Oregon 16, Montana 15, Utah 13, Idaho 11 and Nevada 3. - ment control of news unless it be of a vital military informa tion. "Like all of our liberties, lib erty of speech and of the press is not a mere phrase, a mere form of words, a constitutional abstraction. It has a living mean ing whatever meaning . the press itself gives it ... " "How that freedom should be used, what contributions it should make to national defense, national interest, and . national morale are questions for pub lishers and editors themselves to decide. , . . .' .. ., , . . ;. . - 'It would be. a shameful abuse of patriotism to ' suggest .'that opinion should -be stifled in its service. Unified national senti ment,, which all of us should de sire, -bears no resemblance to a totalitarian - regimentation . of opinion ' and ; treatment . of news.. . . . . ,. . i HITLER PLANS ' TO SLICE IIP LATEST BOOTY A : -:. A ter 12-Day Fight, High Command Says BERLIN, Friday, April 18 (UP) Jugoslavia has surrendered "ua-' conditionally" to Germany's Balkan blitzkrieg, effective at noon (S a. tn. EST) today, after only 12 days of assault that shat tered an army of more than ,VW,WV well, UK U1U WHV mand announced last night. . - The German war machine. It was said, is now ready to turn its full fury upon Greece where armored columns smashing "deep into the enemy line" are reported to be swiftly entrapping the British army at Mount Olympus. A special high command com munique, Jubilantly blared over the radio, announced "the entire Jugoslav army to the extent not already disarmed" had incon ditionally laid down its arms at 9 p. m. (2 p. m.) Thursday - Capitulation ' "The capitulation Is effective April 18 at noon." it was stated. The last guerilla-like gasps of Jugoslav resistance were said tot have been wiped out in the Bos nian mountains around Sarajevo, the "birthplace", of the World war where the entire . second Jugoslav army ; previously bad capitulated. -!'; The surrender of five entire Jugoslav army corps previously had been announced.' . v -- -A' series of "flanking maneu vers" by German tanks and other lain around Saratevo waa said troops. . . After announcing the special high command '. communique, over all German radio stations, the stations observed three mio utes of "victory silence" follow ed by nasi anthems! -' - Frontiers Changing - - - Adolf Hitler and his advisers already are re - drawing . the frontiers of Jugoslavia, born of the last Great war to exist for barely 20 years, like Czechoslo vakia and Poland. The nasi plans were vague but it was indicated in informed cir cles German and Italian repre sentatives, with those of Hun gary, . Bulgaria and Rumania would meet soon and study-the various claims. - The Serbs of the south will be (Continued on Page Two) 'Eye Bank' Has . 40 Orb, Donors j - SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (UPForty pairs of eyes have been willed to science, by the "Dawn society" so the eyesight of the living may be restored, it was revealed today.- T h e '. donors have signed pledges giving doctors the right to remove their eyes within one to six hours after death, for use In performing delicate grafting operations. The . International Order of 1 Good . Templars sponsors the Dawn society and expects the "eye bank" to expand as more pledges are obtained. . "The society will allocate the eyes to registered applicants in strictly numerical order," Ted Olson, grand counsellor of the Good Templars; said. In many cases of - blindness, doctors have been able to trans plant corneas Or other parts of the eye to restore sight ' ! The doctors warned that the "eye bank" movement did not promise miraculous cures. j ... 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