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KLAMATH IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND WEATHER NEWS ' Partly Cloudy ' ' . High Mi Low 42) Mldalghl 46 24 houra to I p. m. Traoa liana to data ... ; . . IftTB Mormal precipitation OjM Last raar to data fi PICTURES! Associated Press TtUniti. MBA Telepho toe and a live local uwiplctuia and e graving tlall provide Mawa and Haiald readers with comprehensive pbotog repk la service. Vol. 18, No. 130 Price Five CenU KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY. APRIL 24, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday) THE News -,:;-rIn 'Th3- i Days News By FRANK JCMK1NB AS to tha altuatior. In Craaca, which today dominates ALL tha news, keep thil In mind: It lin l aa bad a tha German dispatches picture it. HITLER havlnf won tha battle of the Balkana (all but tha mopping up) li seeking to terrify tha Turki. tie hopea to frighten them to the point where they will abandon tha Britlih and coma over to him. That would open to him the land route to Suez. So he la boastlnr mightily of another Dunkerque By every poMlblo trick ot propaganda he la trying to (hatter furkish (and Runlan) belief in British pres tige. "REECE is, ol course, another Dunkrque. Bu a relative ly SMALL one. When the British (for reasons not yet cletir) were deliberately provoking Hitler into beginning the battlo uf the Balkans, they talked largely of lurce of 100, 000 to 300.000 in Greece Recent dispatches indicate they had not more than 74.000 men there nrobably l.tsa than that. Losa of an army of that size won't fatally weaken Britain. If any considerable part of the LARGER OBJECTIVE she must have had In mind has been real ized, the lnu can be written off as an Investment. TVHAT waa thla larger objec- " tlva (If anyrT This writer, who has NO in side sources of information. doesn't know. But one can t be ahot for guessing. Six wexks ago, when tha ad venture in Greece was first con ceived. Britain was almost HOURLY expecting invasion. She must have wanted vary much to POSTPONE tha Invas ion attempt In order to give more time for American help.) pledged under tha tvsse-lettd bUL4 to arrive . -t Under such circumstances, what would have seemed more natural than creating DIVER SION somewhere to delay Hit ler's Invasion plans? AS a boy, strolling through the woods, you must at some time or other havo come sud denly upon a hen pneasam or quail, seemlnglv crippled, flut tering along Just out of reach. If so, you probably gave chase. Vnit rnli.ri almost LlV hands On the seemingly helpless bird but never quite manag.il it. When you had been led suf ficiently far away from her NEST, she FLEW AWAY. THE Greeks, showing up Mua- sollni. must ha-e irked Hit ler terribly. Britain's little 'army, landed In Greece must have added, to the provocation especially after what had hap pened in Africa. The temptation to SMASH them both, along with the up start Yugoslavs, muat have been great because HIMer KNEW that any time he put his mighty war machine in fui' motion no aggregation of little nations, aid ed by a puny British expedition ary force, could s'and against him. TT Is Just possible that In mov- Ing In force to smash the ob streperous Greeks and the up start Yugoslavs and the reckless ly bold little British army Hitler may have been led away from the BRITISH NERT. Long enough, maybe, to give time for badly needed American aid to reach Britain. Once started rolling, his war machine MIGHT roll on into RUSSIA. History proves that you' never can tell what world conquerer will do. ' This, please remember, la guesswork, pure and simple. Only the hlstorluns, delving among the records years hence, can confirm or denv It. AT least, it is a thought. If Hitler's war machine SHOULD keep rriling away from BrltMln it will seem to have been a reason-jble guess. Looking Backward By The Associated Press April 23, 1040 Canadian a..d French troops seize town of Cratanffpn. 25 miles nnrth nf Narvik, from Germans. April 23, 1018 British re cover trenches from Germans in hard fighting at Ypres. - REOPENING OF COAL President's Request Followed by Union Action by CIO Men BULLETIN WASHINGTON. Thursday. April 14 (UP) Secretary of Labor Francos Parkins early today certified the entire bituminous coal dispute to tha national defense mediation board after collapse of Now York negotiations for reopen ing the mines la response to President Roosevelt's appeal. Southern ooerators In tha Appalachian field announced In New York last midnight that their negotiations with tha United Mine Workers (CIO) were "hopelessly dead locked" and that they were re turning hero again to seek certification of the contro versy to the mediation board. Miss Perkins acted at once. NEW YORK. April 23 (UP) The northern soft coal mine op erators and the United Mine workers (CIO) tonight agreed to reopen Immediately mines closed three weeks ago by a work stoppage resulting from failure to agree on a new wage hour contract Attitude of the southern min ers was not known Immediately, however. John L. Lewis, presi dent of the UMW. said that "the miners will not divide their forces." rneaning that they would not open the northern mines without the southern mines also being reopened. The action followed a request by President Roosevelt to oper ators and workers to reopen mines immediately. A union statement said, "We will recommend to our policy committee complete acceptance of tha president's proposal." The northern operators,- who (Continued on Page Two) Bridges Arch Labor Enemy SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 VP) A former communist who once idolized Harry Bridges, tes tified at the longshore leader's deportation hearing today. "I think he Is the greatest enemy labor has today." The witness. Robert Patrick Wllmot of Portland. Ore., said when he first met Bridges In Oc tober, 1937, on the stage ot the Norse hall In Portland, "I thought ho was a great labor leader." "You don't think so nowT" asked Aubrey Grossman of de fense counsel. "I certainly do not," Wilmot answered. The statement that he thought the Australian was "the greatest enemy of labor' was made in an affirmative reply to Grossman'a query of whether the witness was hostile to Bridges. He testified that he gained the "clear Impression" at a top frac tion meeting of the communist party In the Lennox hotel in Portland, on April 12, 1938, that Bridgea would carry out the meeting's decision that CIO rep resentatives In Oregon should be ousted from office. Richard A. St. Clair, deaf 50 (Contlnued on Page Two) Speedy 'Mosquito' Boats Ready for Great Britain WASHINGTON. April 23 (JP) Secretary Knox said today that about 20 fast naval motor tor pedo boats were rvady for de livery to Great Brltuln aa part of the lend-lease program, and possibly were on the way now. Knox said the boats, capable of speeds ot more than a mile a minute, were to be shipped across, ratuer than undertaking the trans-Atlantic trip under their own power. More Bullying The navy had 2H available, Knox said, and the British were supplied from these. Other "mosquito" craft, mostly of type 70 feet, long and able to speed 70 oi more miles an hour are under consideration. Knox told his prers conference also that the navy was negotiat ing with Canada for construction In Canada of number of- war ships, probably ot tlie new Brit Britain Wants U. S. In War, Says Lindy NEW YORK, April 23 (UP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh told an "America First" rally tonight "it Is now obvious that England is losing the war" but has "one last desperate plan" to persuade the United States to send an other American expeditionary force to Europe. - He accused Britain of misin forming the United States and other nations "concerning her state of preparation, her mili tary strength, and the progress of the war." Rally Guarded The rally was guarded by a special detail ol uniformed and plain clothes policemen. Dr. L. M. Blrkhead, national director of the Friends of Democracy, Incorporated, had announced beforehand it would be picketed by members of his organization, charging it would be "the larg est meeting of pro-nazls and pro fascista In New York since the German-American Bund rallies in Madison Sua re garden." The crowd outside Manhattan center, where the rally was held, was so great that pickets could not operate. Mounted police kept hundreds of persons from ap proaching. There were 5000 In side the hall, including "Jafsie" Condon, and it was announced that there was an overflow of 30.000. In his speech Lindbergh held "the United States Is not pre (Continued on Page Two) NEW TAX PLAN HITS INCOMES Two Proposals Now Before House Group To Raise Huge Sum By ARTHUR T. DEGREVE United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 13 (UP) Congressional' -ta$ -experts were revealed today to neve'propnaed new defense taxea that would fall more lightly on low and middle class 'incomes and more heavily on large salaries than those proposed in the treasury's (3,400.000,000 revenue program Both plans were being studied by the house ways and means committee which begins public hearings tomorrow with Secre tary of the Treasury Henry Mor genthau Jr., defending h 1 a de partment's recommendations. He will be accompanied by one of his aides. Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan, who shocked members of the house group Monday when he explained the severe treasury tax program. . High Gift Tax ' The alternative schedules ad vanced by the congressional ex perts would raise an estimated (Continued on Page Two) First Thunderstorm Drenches Klamath An April shower which brought the year's first thunder pattered the city Wednesday at noon. The rain broke after clouds had piled up out of an early morning clear sky but continued for only about fifteen minutes. By two o'clock streets were again dry and old man sunshine was again peeping out from the edge of a retreating cloud. The weatherman predicts fair day for Thursday. ish Corvette type, such as are used to escort convovs Any combat ships Canada would build for the U. S navy, Knox said might be turned over to Great Britain under the lend lease system. The decision, he said, would be made when they neared completion. Aside from providing Canada with needed dollar exchange, Knox said the arrangement would tend to reirforce United States construction He said the arrangement was projected aa a part of the co operative program worked out last weekend between President Roosevelt and Prune Minister MacKenzie King of Canada. -' To questions about American aid Jo Brltnirl and 'he battle of the Atlantic, Knox said he un derstood that the larger and faster cargo ships had been sail ing independently to run the gauntlet ot nazi U-boats and bombers for some time. MaimArmy BERLIN CLAIMS 'LAST ACT IN GREECE BEGUN Little Chance Given British for. Escape From Nazi Bombers BERLIN, April 23 (JPt Claim ing axis domination of all Greece north of Thermopylae, a Ger man spokesman declared tonight that "the conquest of alt Greece la practically-effected." , Earlier, authorized sources de clared that tha German army had crushed the British rear guard at fabled Thermopylae and that at least 230.000 Greeks had surrendered to axis forces In the Eplrus and Macedonian sectors. The military spokesman called the control of northern Greece the "last act" in the in tensive military campaign. "What remains of the Greek action is the energetic pursuit of the British who are desperately trying to escape," the military Informant said.- Ships Sunk He asserted that British losses already were approaching those of the retreat from the r landers plains at Dunkerque, France, 11 months ago.. . "Another Dunkerque situation is in full swing." he said. Germans estimated that 132. 000 tons of British shipping had already been sunk-off harbors of Greece, including transports car rylng retreating troops, as, the Germans said. .-. ) ,1 - Geraiany's tuku,4 was gaedr bad dive-bombed many to-itM bottom. : '.- . . i In addition, they said that 1 ships had been extensively dam aged, many left In sinking condi tion. ; " - Nazi panzer unlta already have passed through the historic gateway of Thermopylae and ere relentlessly pursuing the retreat ing British In the direction of Athens, these sources declared. , A less expansive communique of the high command, however, said simply that moves in Greece were "proceeding according to plan" and that "f-rces advancing by way ot Lamia, further south, compelled English rear guards to fight at historic Thermopylae pass." Germans expressed confidence that only small contingents of Britain's expeditionary ' force would ever see home again. "Only the weather and God, they added, could save the Brit ish from annihilation. "Our scouts are watching (Continued on Page Two) - Rising Australian Discontent Seen Over War Reverses; LONDON, April 23 (UP Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney. Australian commander in the middle east, today was named second in command to Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell in an effort to put down rising Australian dis content over the conduct of the war in Greece and North Africa Australian laborite . leaders and the press, warning of a pos sible crisis there, are bitterly as sailing the -British high com mand for sending the hard-fight ing "Aussles" up against the crushing German .blitzkrieg in Greece "without adequate sup port." ' ;. There were fears in nigh quar ters "another Dunkerque" in the withdrawal from Greece might produce Australian political re percussions Involving the; tall of the Menzles government. t Cash, Pledges for V Pool Total $2350 ; - Cash on hand In the municipal swimming pool membership ef fort totals $1225, while cash and pledges now amount to , $2350, according to David Bridge, city recreational director.. Bridge called at'ention to i coupon, appearing in The Herald and News, to be used by persons wishing to purchase swimming memberships. . ' He said there is increasing In terest in the membership angle ot the swimming pool project. . Surrenders To Where AXIS ATTACKS EDH r NtTRATION , ORIGINAL ALLIED DIFEMSE LINES , , KAvAAlmi;r;?i . , CA I After two weeks of blitskreig. the main Greek army, numbering capitulated to the axis and SO.000 square miles lost. Maps show unee ana extent ot penetration TURKEY ARMS, FEARS ATTACK fattorPoncyCStill Peace if . Possible; Nazis Take .-Islands ISTANBUL, April 23 (UP) The official Turkish radio re ported without confirmation to day German troops had seized the island of Lemnos in the Ae gean sea, less than 50 miles from the mouth of the vital Darda nelles. . The report followed by a day the disclosure by reliable sources that Samothrace, , another stra tegic Greek island 23 miles north of Lemnos, had fallen to nazi soldiers landed by speed boats. ' ISTANBUL, Turkey. April 23 OP) Turkey prepared tonight for any eventuality., guarding against any attack from the axis even though it was declared that such a development was not ex pected at present. There was no official com ments on reports that Germans have seized Greek islands close to Turkey, but officials in An kara said their policy still is peace if possible and war if Tur key's independence is threat ened. (Prune Minister Churchill acknowledged in London Tues day the possibility that the Ger mans had occupied the Greek island of Samo Thrnke.) Civilians Removed Removal., of . many, civilians from Istanbul as a precaution was getting under way tonight and soma wooden houses re garded as fire traps were being demolished , Foreign circles here held that the ambitions of Bulgaria are (Continued on Page Two) City Takes Steps To Buy Property For Airport Job Ordinances had been started through the councilmanic mill Wednesday for purchase of most of the property in the city air port expansion program, and Mayor John Houston said it ap pears total property cost in the development will be about $30, 000. A city levy for the purpose will raise about $68,000. Deals are virtually closed for all but three pieces of property, and it now appears that condem nation will be necessary on only two, those belonging to the Kel ley brothers. Options cover most of the other property and action taken 'oy the council at an ad journed meeting Tuesday will take up these options. - A board of appraisal studied values of the property for. the council. of Main Greek Army Surrendered By oerman-itaiian lines. RAF Attacks ; Libyan Cities I Held.By Axis v feFZ; k ' TAtRO. Egypt AprU 23 '0pp. Raids on the now axis-held Lib yan cities of Bengasi and Bares were reported today by tha RAF middle east command. Four axis planes were said to have been shot down overBritish-held To- bruk. , The communique, covering ac tion of the past 24 hours, said al so that British fighters carried out "successful" patrols over Greece while ground defenses shot down four German dive- bombers and a dornier. - The n&zl raid on besieged To bruk was carried out by a large force, the communique said, but the "greatly outnumbered" RAF fighters quickly shot down a JU-87, two ME-109's and a G-50 and badly damaged several oth ers. It was confirmed that In a German raid on the same city last Saturday four attacking planes were destroyed by ground fire British fighters and bombers retaliated with attacks on mech anized forces throughout yester day, the report said, machine gunning troop-filled trucks with "heavy casualties and much con fusion to the enemy." Impersonator Gets Term in Prison SEATTLE, April 23 (UP) Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black today sentenced Leon Behard. who posed as former Turkish army officer and G-man, to 14 months in McNeil Island federal prison. . He was convicted of Imper sonating a government agent and obtaining $30 from an unsus pecting stenographer. Witness Describes British Attack on Tripoli Seaport By LARRY ALLEN WITH THE BRITISH BAT TLE FLEET BOMBARDING TRIPOLI, : LIBYA, . Monday, April 21 (Delayed) VP) The red hot guns of Britain's Med iterranean battle fleet set Trip oli harbor aflame today in what officers said waa the biggest and most spectacular bombard ment ot naval history. They pumped more than a thousand tons of high explosives into the Barbary coast base of the Germans and Italians. Fifteen-inch, 6-inch and 4.5 inch projectiles from the battle ships . rumbled over the hlgh bastloned Moorish walls of Mus solini's last big African strong hold, starting great fires, crush ing enemy striking bases like Greece from 2 30.000 to 300.000. has receding British-Greek defease - . PLYMOUTH HIT Return 'Raid "of "Nazi Bombers. Results: in Fire s(; ; . Destruction PLYMOUTH, England, April 23 UP) The luftwaffe smashed at' Plymouth during the night with a major raid for the sec ond successive night, piling on death and destruction in an al ready hard-hit .city-. The violent assault left many fires blazing and caused consid erable damage. ' Thunderous Damage ' The attacking planes, driving through a thunderous anti- air craft barrage, were . over the coastal area until nearly dawn. The assault started slowly, de veloped into a shattering hail of incendiaries and high explosives, then died away. After a lull, the droning bomb ers and escorting fighters re turned again in waves. Although the attack was severe, the gov ernment said it did not match in intensity previous raids on this area. Parachute flares were used at first to light targets. After them, the luftwaffe poured on bombs ot all sizes. Homes, business buildings, churches, hospitals and theatres were hit. With bombs exploding about them, rescue crews worked hour after hour to release persons trapped in shelters. - By daybreak, emergency feed ing centers were being set up for the homeless, and - special convoys of food and supplies be gan to pour in as the townspeople went grimly about the task of re storing conditions of normalcy. egg shells and terrorizing the population. The guns' scorching fire con tinued steadily for 42 minutes from 5 a. m., repeatedly scor ing direct hits. I was aboard the most pow erful battleship of. the fleet, close to the streaks of flame from her powerful guns. They turned blackness into light and the one-ton shells ', rumbled through the night with a noise like a rushing subway train. The huge shells exploded on Tripoli with shattering force and the entire seapor seemed ablaze. . Shells ripped Into the heart of each of the battleships' des ignated targets. Six axis ships, (Continued on Page Two) , KING SETS UP RULEIN CRETE TO DIRECT WAR Government Leaves Athens for Island After Capitulation BERLIN, April 23 (UP The formal surrender of the main Greek army numbering close to 300,000 troops became effective at 6 p. m. today after the sign ing of a document of uncondi tional capitulation in a cere mony near German-held Salon ika. The surrendered Greek troops of the armies of Eplrus and Macedonia will be released and sent back to their homes as soon as hostilities In Greece are con-' eluded, as Germany's and Italy's gesture of tribute to their brav ery, it was announced. The surrender was signed at 2:45 p. m. and became in effect three and a . quarter hours later. The -surrendered Greek troops. R was stated, will not be herded into prison camps but will bo "released Immediately In desig nated areas immediately after the conclusion of hostilities." - The capitulation was signed after the Greek armies, hope lessly entrapped In the north, had "unconditionally laid down their arms," the statement said. ATHENS, April 23 (UP) British and Greek troops facing the final all-out fury ot the Ger man:, blitzkrieg tonight made their last desperate stand JusV north ot aucient. -Aihesse from which King George II and his government fled with a pledget to "fight on until final victory." The 51-year-old monarch and his government fled by ship 60 miles southward to the British defended island of Crete after the capitulation of the main Greek army of Eplri perhaps) 250,000 men in a surrender which the king berated as un authorized. " ' ' " The government fled, after Is days of crushing blitzkrieg, aa the steel-clad German tide) ground its. way down through Attica constantly nearer to Athens and droves of nazi bombers heaped havoc upon, cities, towns, ports and ships leaving the Greek coasts. Harbor Damaged Great waves of German bombers today smashed at Greek ports and waiting ships including the harbors of Piraeus, Attica, Salamis and Megara and "caused considerable damage to (Continued on Page Two) Britain Finding Answer to Night Bombing, Claim LOS ANGELES,. April 23 VP) Britain is "finding the answer" to Germany's night bombing raids, reports Air Marshal Wil liam A. Bishop, head of the) Royal Canadian air force. - - "We were three months ahead of Germany in night bombing, and although when she began, she had a superior force of bombers, we are still the super ior navigators at nigh and we still benefit from this." he said in an address prepared for a noon luncheon of the chamber of commerce. He asserted the German "have reached their maximum, allowing for other commitments. "Both sides at present are sending their night bomber over without appreciable or Im portant losses. "The answer is not to ba found in any sudden remedy. But the remedy will be found. There are methods of making it mora difficult for the night bomber. I only wish I could tell you how swiftly we are finding the an swer In that regard." News Index City Briefs Page 5 Comics and Story Page 8 Courthouse Records Page 4 Editorials , Page 4 High School News Page 10 Information . Page S Market, Financial Page 10 Midland Empire News Page 9 Pattern . 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