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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.
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Agriculture ....-.''Page 13
City Briefs .Page 1
Comics and Story ....... Page 12
Courthouse Records ...J'sge 2
Editorials ....... Page 4
High, School News ...Psge ., 6
Information , ..'....... Page , 7
Market, Financial- ........Page 14
Midland Empire - News Page 9
Pattern ....'...:.. Page S
Sports,
Transportation
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