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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
Vol. 18, No. 136 Price Five CenU
TWO SECTIONS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday),
News
H
; In. The
Day's-
News
.
By THANK JENKINS
THE President of tha United
Statu laya American war
jl'tlpa engaged in "neutrality"
patrol -MAY (lit doesn't say will)
10 Into til war zona In carrying
out their duty to protect the
Western Hemisphere.
. In Berlin today (Wednesday)
m German "spokesman" say:
: "Amarlcan ships venturing
Into the war xon WILL BE
TORPEDOED."
r; will be obvioui to moit read
era that a tremendoua game
Of bluff la going on.
Hitler la trying to bluff the
United Statra out of using war
ahlpa to help the British get
American aupplira to Britain.
, The United States la trying to
bluff Hitler out of ahootlng If
American warships are ao ued.
i It ia one of the war'a stiffest
poker gamea to date.
AN "authoritative aource" In
O London today assert that
3.000 British and Empire troopa
4ve ao far been removed from
Greece "to carry on the war In
other theatrea."
Where these "other theatrea"
are Isn't aald. A good gueaa
would be Crete, where King
George of Greece and hia govern
ment are now established.
It doesn't aeem probable that
the British will give up Crete
without a fight. If they do, It
must mean they are hard pressed
In Egypt.
THE British fore sent to
Greece la today estimated,
more or lesa officially, at 60.0OO.
Casualties are announced at
8000. That leavea 12,000 unac
counted for. Nothing la said
about losses of material.
. It three-fourths of the British
-H 1 1 Innnrv force has been rr
moved It la apparent th Ger-H
nana nave Dcen exaggerating
efLeatly In their claims of dam
age don to British shipping In
Greece.
A NEW tale come out of
Russia today.
! Pravda, the Russian commun
ist newspaper (which say what
Stalin tella It to say) reports that
12,000 German troops have been
landed at Turko, In Finland.
Immediately afterward it la
announced from Moscow that
transit of war materials through
soviet Russia has been forbidden.
-
VWHAT doea It mean?'
" This writer doesn't know,
nd doubts It anyone outside
Moscow knows. This latest
Russian move, like all the others,
Is ambiguous and is capablo ol
being Interpreted in whatever
manner wishful thinker may
eehoose to interpret It.
9 This writer's advice ia to do
NO WISHFUL THINKING about
Russia.
r
. TT Is a cynical but reasonably
safe guess that whenever
Stalin thinks he knows who is
going to win the war he will
know what he Is going to do
about It.
...
CROM Singapore comes the ro-
port that the British commander-in-chief
there say there
1 definite danger of Invasion in
that area.
. Ho doesn't say from what
quarter, but if the Malay pen
insula is invaded it will be
Japan that will do it.
...
nrOBRUK. according to the best
jT news available as this Is wrlt
Jn, still holds.
As long as Tobruk holds out.
don't look for th German to
advance very far Into Egypt.
Plymouth Again
Target of Nazi
Night Bombers
LONDON, April 30 (IP)
What remains of once flourish
ing Plymouth was th target of
nazl raiders in a blistering four
hour assault again last night
the fifth In eight nights which
German planes have swarmed
over the channel port and the
government expressed fear that
"a large number of persons"
may have been killed.
Seven of the raiders were
claimed by the British, how
ever, In the overnight attacks
Britain at least five of
jm over Plymouth.
Authoritative reports listed
three of the raider a bagged
by RAF night fighters and three
shot down by the anti-aircraft
barrage.
80 PER CENT
ESCAPE MADE
Fl
British Troops Leave
Under Fire; 12,000
Not Accounted For
CAIRO. Thursday, May 1 (UP)
At least 80 per cent of the Brit
lh expeditionary force in the
Balkan has escaped the open
beaches of Greece, under th
fury of bombing and machine
gunning attacks by German
planes that had complete com
mand of the air, the Middle East
command announced last night.
Murderous attacks on Piraeus,
the port of Athens, rendered It
unusable for evacuation pur
poses, the communique revealed,
and th soldiers were forced to
scatter along open, unprotected
beaches and clamber aboard the
rescue ships while swarms of
nazl planes zoomed down on
them.
Spirit Holds
Much heavy equipment was
lost, It was admitted, but the
men succeeded In carrying their
small fighting equipment with
them "as well as their fighting
spirit."
T h communique revealed
that the withdrawal began at the
request of the Greek govern
ment while allied force were
battling with the German In
vaders at Thermopylae.
'The successful withdrawal of
so large proportion of these In
valuable troops la a noteworthy
achievement," general headquar
ter said.
Heavy equipment lost will
quickly be replaced, it was
stated, and the men who escaped
carried with them the conviction
(Continued on Page Two)
Army Reserve
Post Denied ,
H ugh Johnson
WASHINGTON; April 30 (UP)
Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson to
night accepted without "criti
cism or complaint" President
Roosevelt's refusal to renew his
army reserve commission. But
he challenged "misleading so
called reasons" cited by the
White House for the action.
Presidential Secretary Ste
phen T. Early revealed earlier
that Mr. Roosevelt had over
ruled war department recom
mendations by refusing to renew
the reserve commission held by
Johnson, newspaper columnist
first head of the NRA and sharp
critic of administration foreign
policy.
Letter Mad Public
Early made public a letter to
Johnson from MnJ. Gen, Edwin
M. Watson, Mr. Roosevelt's sec
retary and military aide, inform
ing Johnson of the president's
decision. The letter was In reply
to one from Johnson reminding
Mr. Roosevelt that the war de
partment had recommended his
reappointment and inquiring
whv no action had been taken.
Watson wrote Johnson that
"the president has read your let
ter and has asked me to say
(Continued on Page Two)
Looking Backward
By Th Associated Press .
' April 30, 1040 Germans take
main rail connection between
Oslo and Trondhelm.
April 30, 1918 Russians re
pulse Turkish offensive in Cau
casus. British capture German
trench near Ypres.
President Urges
Buy Defense
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UP)
President Roosevelt and two
cabinet officers appealed to the
nation tonight to buy a financial
stake In the struggle to preserve
democracy by acquiring de -
tense savings Dond and stamps
which go on sale tomorrow.
A a "symbol of the determin
ation of all the people to save
and sacrifice In defense of de
mocracy," the president bought
the first bond and stamp Issues
The president, Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
Jr. and Postmaster General
Frank C. Walker participated In
a Joint radio appeal to the coun
try. Public 8upport
Mr. Roosevelt asserted the
strength, effectiveness and safety
of th government could be
U.S.-Built )
Havoc Planes
Hit Airdromes
LONDON, April tO ' OP)
American-built havoc planes car
ried out "successful attacks" last
night on three airdromes in
northern Franc from which
German raider fly against Brit
ain, the air ministry New Serv
ice aald today.
One nazl fighter was said to
have been shot down when it
attempted to engage a havoc.
The ministry said a stick of
high explosive and Incendiary
bombs dropped from a low level
was seen to burst on an airdrome
Just as three German aircraft
were about to land and two
others were taxiing across the
field.
The havoc la a Douglas DB-7
equipped for night fighting. (It
is a light bomber, known in Eng
land also as the "Douglas Boa
ton.") At the second base, a havoc
crew was said to have surprised
a number of Germsn planes
landing In a flare-lighted path,
but results of the attack were
not disclosed. At the third, it
said, a havoc bombed a flare
path and then shot down a Mes
serschmltt. Thousands of fir bombs and
a "large number" of explosive
missiles, including new super
bombs, were dropped on the
German Rhineland city of Mann
(Continued on Page Two)
NAZIS SEIZED
Four German Fliers
Taken Off U. S. Ship
By Canadian Cruiser
HONOLULU, April 30 (UP
The Canadian auxiliary cruiser
Prince Robert seized four Ger
man aviators from the United
State liner President Garfield
400 miles off Honolulu late yes
terday, passenger revealed
when the liner docked here to
day.. . ,
The Germans, returning to
their homeland from San Fran
cisco, were the first removed
from United State ship In this
war.
The passengers said the unex
pected halting of the President
Garfield, on it maiden voyage
to Honolulu, was taken as a Joke
until a boarding party reached
ther ship.
-W Halted"
"I had no alternative but to
stop." said Capt. J. E. Murphy.
"The Canadian cruiser appeared
suddenly about 2 p. m. yester
day off our starboard bow and
flushed signal lights to halt. We
halted. i
"Two long-boats put out from
the grey-painted Prince Robert.
A ladder was dropped and five
men, armed with revolvers,
came aboard and stood guard
while the officers inspected the
(Continued on Page Two)
Stolen Pickup
Recovered Quickly
Law enforcement worked
swiftly in Klamath county late
yesterday afternoon. State Police
Officer Holcomb received a call
at 8:25 p. m. from William E.
Titus, BIy Justice of the peace,
that a 1941 Ford pickup truck
registered to Owen R. Watts,
Bly rancher, had been stolen. "
At 5:40 the car was recovered
In Klamath Falls by city police
officers. George Edwin Black
more was arrested for theft of
the car and Is being held In the
county Jail.
People To
Bonds, Stamps
measured only In terms of pub
lic support.
Because "distance is no
longer a guarantee of safety," he
said, the country Is rearming on
an unprecedented scale. He ask-
led
the people to aid in defraying
the cost of this program and "to
pay for the American existence
of later generations." ,
It is not a sacrifice to pur
chase the bonds antd stamps, but
an opportunity "to share in the
defense of all things we cherish
against the threat that Is made
against them," he said.
"We must fight that threat
wherever It appears; and it can
be found at the threshold of
every home In America."
Objective
Morgenthau said the program
has three objectives: (1) spread
(Continued on rage Two)
.......
Five
In
ANTI-CONVOY
PLANS BEATEN
BY SENATORS
Hull Declares Vote
For Measures Would
Be Misunderstood
WASHINGTON. April 30 UP)
The senate foreign relations
committee, told . by Secretary
Hull that "it ia manifest" that
passage of an anti-convoy reso
lution "would be misunderstood
abroad," voted down today two
resolutions designed to restrict
use of navy vessels for convoy
purposes.
One of the resolutions, by
Senator Tobey (R-N.H.), would
have prohibited convoys and
the other, by Senator Nye (R
ND), would have permitted them
only If congress approved.
Fight Predicted
The committee, in refusing to
report the resolutions to the
senate for debate, acted after
hearing from the state depart
ment chief that his recom
mendation was flatly against
passage.
The committee voted 13 to 9
against holding hearing on the
Tobey resolution, 13 to 10
against reporting it -without rec
ommendation and 14 to 8
against sending it to the senate
with an adverse report.
Then the group voted 13 to
10 against reporting the Nye
resolution favorably and de
clined a voice vote to order
hearings on the proposal.
- "We . have Just -begunt-to
fight." Tobey told reporter
(Continued on Page Two) -after
the committee meeting.
"The people are demanding that
the senate consider these pro
posals."' Senator Clark (D-Mo.1 said
motion to take the Tobey reso
lution out of the hands of the
committee might be made later
In the senate. -. ., .
Warships of the United States
navy, patrol bomber, and In
all probability carrier-based air
craft. Informed sources reported
today, are already playing a
vital role In patrolling ocean
stretches which figure In Brit
ams "battle of the Atlantic."
BERLIN, April 30 VP)
American ships venturing into
the war zone will be torpedoed,
a German spokesman reiterated
today with reference to the
statement attributed to Presi
dent Roosevelt that United
States vessel could be sent Into
the war zone.
The American president was
quoted as telling a press confer
ence that the United States had
(Continued on Page Two) -
Turkey Awaits
Proposals of
German Envoy
ISTANBUL,- April 29 (Delay
ed) (VP) Any German demands
threatening the Independence of
Turkey will plunge the two
countries into war, the Turkish
press Insisted today as the na
tion expectantly awaited the re
turn of German Ambassador
Franz Von Papen from Berlin.
It was believed that Von
Papen might bring proposals
from the Wilhelmstrasse that
would mean war or peace. The
newspapers made no mention
of the absence of President Is
met Inonu from the capital at
Ankara.
(In Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse
spokesmen said today they were
aware that Inonu had left An
kara, but they said they did not
know where he had gone. Prev
ious reports that he was en route
to Berlin had been denied there.
The Wilhelmstrasse spokesmen
said Von Paper Is "believed to
be" still in Berlin.) ,
In an editorial entitled, "Will
Turkey Be Forced to Enter the
War?" the newspaper Aksam de
clared that the answer largely
depended on Germany, and
added: .
"But any demand concerning
the independence of Turkey will
force Turkey into war. Turkey's
policy is clean and open. We
are ready and believe In our own
trength." j
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ned five Klamath Indian to drowning deaths. Th Main street
about 23 ti I shown in th background. .
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9250
Cars Sent
Out
Still
This
Season;
500 To Be Marketed
Klamath basin's potato ship
ments had reached the all-time
record figure of approximately
9250 carloads for the 1940-41
season Wednesday, and there
still were an estimated 500 car
loads of spuds in the district
yet to be sent to market.
The season total included
train and truck shipments np
to the end of April, but did
not include potatoes saved for
seed, consumed in this area or
diverted for livestock uses.
County Agent C. A. Henderson
said that altogether, it appears
the Klamath crop ran to al
most 10,000 carloads.
Highest previous shipments
for any one season were in 1938-
39, when the final carload figure
was 8776.
Commenting on the fact that
the current crop proved the
heaviest ever produced here,
the county agent said the aver
age yield had run to 420
bushels per acre.
The carload figure of 9250
up to May 1 indicated a total
of 2,331,000 sacks. Approxi
mate value of this shipped crop
was $2,497,500, while the value
of potatoes not inspected and
shipped- would bring the total
for the entire crop close to
$3,000,000.
Biggest value on record for
Klamath crop was 53.uuu.uuy
in 1936, when prices went sky
high. Klamath Boosts
Lumber Shipments
PORTLAND, April 30 (UP)
Carl R. Gray Jr., executive vice
president of the Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail
road, today said freight business
for the year Is 161 per cent
ahead of 1940.
He said lumber shipments
from Oregon to the middle west
have increased rapidly, with
much of the freight increase due
to this commodity.
He added that half of Oregon s
lumber shipments to the middle
west come from Bend and
Klamath Falls, with the remain
der from the coast.
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pulled from th main canal tha
John L Lewis
Calls Knudsen
Labor-Baiter
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 30
(UP) Former CIO Chieftain
John L. Lewis described Defense
Commissioner William S. Knud
sen tonight as a labor-baiter
"who is doing his country a dis
service and who should be re
strained or be removed."
Lewis spoke at a testimonial
dinner for CIO President Philip
Murray. He cut short negotia
tions with bituminous coal oper
ators in Washington today to at
tend the dinner and honor his
successor.
Lewis complained that there
is no place in the cabinet, the
OPM or the war or other depart
ments for true representatives of
labor, and charged that labor's
few representatives in Washing
ton "do not represent labor in
(Continued on Page Two)
STRANGE FLAG
STOCKTON, Calif., April 30
(UP) A large bedsheet with the
soviet and sickle painted on it.
was found waving from the 60
foot flagpole on the College of
Pacific - campus ' today. The
prankster had cut the halyards
so it could not be lowered. The
fire department, using an aerial
ladder, fnally cut it down.
Price of Indiscretion Told
By Heart Balm Defendant
By GEORGE E. JONES
United Press Correspondent
SEATTLE, April 30 (UP)
Three decades ago Jay C. Allen
gave Mrs. Margaret Gable a $20
gold piece as the price of their
first indiscretion and never fore
saw that it would lead to more
indiscretions and a $250,000
breach of promise suit, the
wealthy attorney testified in su
perior court today.
Now 72 and paunchy, Allen
detailed the course of the 30-
year romance. and light-hearted
ly discussed his theories on kiss
ing. Hotel Room
Hi first rendezvous with the
attractive Mrs. Gable, he de
clared, resulted from her urgent
telephone call for a meeting In
her hotel room not, as the
silver-haired plaintiff testified.
Big Canal
:
car which early Wednesday ear
bridge, which the car missed by
. .
12,000 Troops Land
As Russia Plans May
Day Demonstration
MOSCOW, April 30 (UP)
The landing of 12,000 fully
equipped German soldiers on the
southwest coast of Finland was
reported by the newspaper
Pravda today as Russia massed
her airplanes, tanks and guns
for what is expected to be the
greatest May day demonstration
of soviet might in her history.
MOSCOW, April -30 (IP)
Pravda, communist party organ,
reported today that four Ger
man transports had landed
about 12,000 German troops
equipped with tanks and ar
tillery at the port of Turku
(Abo) in southwestern Finland
April 26.
The troops proceeded north
east to Tampere April 28, Prav
da declared in a dispatch from
Tallinn, Estonia. '
The report of the German
troop arrivals was contained in
the following nine-line dispatch
printed at the top of Pravda'
(Continued on Page Two) ,
in Allen's kitchen when they
were doing the dishes.
"She came in," Allen related,
"and sat down. She asked for
some money. One word led to
another ... we had an Indis
creet moment, and I gave her
a $20 gold piece."
Under cross-examination, Al
len expounded on kissing:
"Of course I kissed her
many times. Kissing is one thing;
passionate kissing is another.
One with passion is one you
would resent if I gave it your
daughter or wife."
He said the first time he kissed
Mrs. Gable was "about" the
same time he went to her hotel
room.
At Same Time
"Do you mean you were In
discreet before you kissed her?"
(Continued on Page Two)
AUTO PLUNGES
OVER BANK AT
JOG IN STREET
Three Bodies Taken
From Water; Sixth
Victim Gains Shore
The live of five Klamath In
dian, two women, two men, and
a one-year-old baby girl, were
snuffed out
early Wednes
day morning
when their car
plunged into the
government
rUmsth's 1M1
Ante ToU M,,n reet
ju iu bridge A sixth
person, Florinda Davis, 39,
Beatty, freed herself from th
submerged machine and reached
the canal bank safely.
Victims of Klamath county's
record life-taking accident were:
Mrs. Dean (Edna) George. 34.
Beatty, and her infant daughter.
Mavis.
30,
the
wai
of-
Da via
hospital
15
notified
operation
recover
the car from the canal. Light
still shining from the machine
made it possible for officer and
wrecking machine operators to
locate the car in the murky early
morning light. -One
in Car
As the car was pulled from
the canal, officer located the
body of Mrs. George lying half
out one of - the window. A
diaper, said to have belonged to
the George baby girl, floated
down the canal stream as the
car left the water. The machine
was found upside down 20 feet
from the bank, four feet under
water, and some 20 feet below
the bridge.
Officers were notified by US
reclamation service operators, .
about 7:30 a. m, a body of a
woman had been found at the
south branch station near the
Enterprise power plant, about
six miles down stream. The
body was later identified as that
of Gertie Barkley.
Two Men Sought
A short time before, the body
of the little George baby, fully'
clothed, was found floating in
the canal near the power gate.
Both were removed immediately
(Continued on Page Two)
Britain, Iraq in
Disagreement on
Troop Landings
VICHY, France, April 30 (IP)
British and Iraq authorities are
disagreeing over landing of new
British troop contingents at
Basra, at the head of the Persian
gulf, according to dispatches
reaching Vichy tonight from
Baghdad, via Beirut, Lebanon.
These advices said the Iraq
government had objected to fur
ther debarkation of Indian
forces until after units already
landed April 17-18, had been
moved across the country.
The British, it was said, had
taken measures to remove Brit
ish women and children from
Iraq.
The original British landings
in Iraq were ostensibly to pro
tect oil field and preserve com
munications. This country miv
be one of the next objectives of
the German march to the south
east. News Index
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Comics and Story Page 18
Courthouse Records Page 2
Editorials - ....Page 4
High School News Page 17
Information .-.Page 6
Market, Financial Page 14
Midland Empire News - Page 19
Pattern Page 13
PTA Note .Pag 9
Sports . Page S
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