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Tm Klamath N PICTURES! Associated PraM Telemate. NEA Telephe Im and live local aewsplettare and en graving stall provide News sad Harald taadata with comprehensive photograph la service. WEATHER NEWS Xala High IT) Law 4b Midnight 41 24 hours to i . m. .12 Shhi to data - 10.7 Normal prodpitatloa -.10.lt Llit -oar to data 11.4 1 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18. No. 137 Price Five Cent KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), EWS : l In Thz ;Days News Br FRANK JENKINS fllE expected hot spot in Iraq has developed. On the bail! of today'i dis vtehcs (which are limited by censorship and muddled by pro paganda) Iraq artillery li (hel ling the British air field at Hab bonlyah, 00 miles writ ot Bag dad, the British troops landed at Basra have been surrounded by Iraq forces, the new (German backed) Iraq premier who rode Into power on some tort of up heaval a few days ago la beat ing the drumi for a "holy war" and British women and children are being evacuated from Iraq. TF you're really Interested In 'all this, you'll have to get out your map and check on It as you read. Otherwise the dis patches will be meaningless gib berish to you. Your map. If it Is a good one, will make the situa tion reasonably clear.) , VOU must also remember this: ' The Moslem Arabs of Iraq hate the Jews. The British, thanks to tha situation In which they are Involved In Palestine, are regarded by the Arabs as the PROTECTOR of the Jews. That has made It duck soup for the Germans to pose as the friends of the Iraq Arabs and stir them up against the British. VTOUR map will tell you all about the oil fields ot Iraq, which are related to the some what lessor oil fields of adjacent Iran, and will show you the his toric Invasion route Into Egypt by way of these eastern Medi terranean lands. OH and Suez. These are glit tering prizes. You may be sure that Hitler la planning to seize them. ' Ancient hatreds, such aa that JVyf the Arabs for. the. Jaws are -monftttha weapons he Is seeking to use. SO much for Iraq. Watch It. It is hot. It will get hotter. Great events are centering around these desert wastes which have been so prominent In the history of tha world. KJOTE also that the Germans A (one feels that the Italians are hardly worth mentioning) are driving harder at Tobruk every day. The dive bombers are ap pearing there In Increasing num bers. Tobruk Is a British base of operations, supplied from the sea, that threatens the flank of the German advance into Egypt. It will have to be taken be fore they 'can safely go on nless the annoying British fleet an be shut out of the Mediter ranean. In that connection, don t entirely forget Gibraltar. 'TWERE are some dispatches from home today. One, from Washington, relates that defense expenditures are expected to reach the rate of 24 billions a year by the beginning of the government's fiscal year on July 1. That Is five billions above Treasury Secretary Morgen thau's recent estimate of 19 bil lions. Under his theory of rais ing two-thirds by taxation It will mean adding SEVEN BILLIONS Instead of three and a half bil lions to the nine billions to be raised by existing taxes. Every time taxes are men tioned In the coming years, the Ul will be HIGHER. It will nve to be. MEANWHILE the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, meeting in Washington, suggests that the non-military ex penditures of government be DE CREASED by two billion dol lars. That sounds reasonable. WOULD "DISTURB" BERLIN. May 2 W) The American flag in the European war zone would "directly dis turb the interests of greater Ger many" in the opinion of. semi-official nazl sources. , Looking Backward Br The Associated Press 1 May 2, 1940 British troops, evacuate all Norway south of Trondheim. May 2, 1916 Five airships at tack northeast coast of England, southeast coast of Scotland. GERMANS SAY LAST BRITONS LEAVEGREECE Tobruk Still Holding Out Against Axis at Garrison in Africa BERLIN, May 2 (UP) The last British soldier has been driven from Greece, the German high command said today, after a disastrous campaign that was claimed to have cost Britain al most 1,000,000 gross tons of ship ping and two-thirds of her ex peditionary force. Driven relentlessly to oust the British from the Mediter ranean, German and Italian armed forces were reported to be pounding at the Libyan port of Tobruk, where the British garrison has been encircled fv 23 days. CAIRO, Egypt, May 2 (AV A British counter-attack in one sector of Tobruk s outer defenses cost axis attackers 11 tanks and many casualties and fighting still Is In progress In other sec tors around that Libyan port, the middle east command re ported today. 'Throughout yesterday the enemy continued to attack the outer defenses of Tobruk," the communique said, indicating the tank charge took place a day ago. Patrol action also continued in the area of Salum, over the frontier In Egypt, about 90 miles from Tobruk, It said. BERLIN, May 2 (JV-Germany wrote an official finis to the Greek campaign today, claiming that In this latest nazl victory the British lost two thirds of the Imperial troops sent to Greece. (By Britain's own figure on the strength of the expedition ary force, two-thirds would be 40.000 men.) The high command, announc ing.. eorjiplgJJtp of the occupa tion ot- ira-Ce'a ..Peloponneslan (Continued on Page Two) Senate Group Opposes Axis Ship Turnover WASHINGTON, May 2 (P An unexpectedly strong move developed in the senate today for curbing the proposed auth ority of the president to turn over seized axis shipping to Great Britain. Projected as an Integral part of legislation which would per mit the president to requisition and pay for about 80 foreign flag vessels lying Idle In United States ports, this provision was said to have aroused a storm of protest within the senate commerce committee. Some committee members as serted that the transfer of one belligerent's ships to another belligerent could only be re garded as "an act of war." Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission dis agreed with this view, although Senators Clark (D-Mo.), Johnson (R-Callf.) and others took the stand that such a transfer would be a warlike gesture. 'Business As Usual' To Be Out Until Emergency Ends Br ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Correspondsnt WASHINGTON. May 2 (UP) A government spokesman told the nation'a food and clothing producers tonight "business as usual Is out" as long as "a life-or-dcath" emergency exists. The warning came from Don ald M. Nelson, OPM purchasing director, who spoke before a de fense conference on consumer goods at which the nation's prin cipal producers of food, clothing and household furnishings were represented. Mistake "Business aa usual ' la out," Nelson said. "You are not going to see any more of It until this emergency Is over. The most ter rible mistake any of us could possibly make la to fail to un derstand that fact." Earlier, Price Control Admin istrator Leon Henderson sound ed a warning that "fictitious" price increases would not be tol erated In the present emergency The business men also heard that the government has collected evidence that certain manufac FDR Is No. 1 Customer for Now Defense Savings Bond (NEATtUpkMo) - The nation's first customer for the new issue of national defense savings bonds was the nation's No. 1 executive. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Here he hands his check to Secre tary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau as the bonds were placed oa sale la Washington. STRIKE ENDED AT N. J. PLANT Mediators Still Try To Avert Threatened GM Plant Shutdown By The Associated Press Settlement of a strike lnvolv lng 1600 workers at the Eliza beth, N. J., plant of the Phelps- Dodge Copper Products corpor ation opened the way Friday for resumption of work on $30,000, 000 In defense contracts. The big -copper, firm's CIO workers votod last night to' end a 20-day strike and go back to work while negotiations con tinue for a new wage con tract The defense mediation board at Washington today con tinued its efforts to avert a threatened strike In 61 General Motors corporation plants em ploying 160,000, many of whom are working on 1700,000,000 in defense orders. The CIO United Automobile Workers seek a 10-cent hourly wage rise, but the management, offering two cents additional for hourly workers and more for some skilled craftsmen, contend ed no Increase was Justifiable. (Continued on Page Two) Officers To Direct City Traffic Today Chief of Police Frank Hamm announced that traffic officers will be stationed on Main street at Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth streets between the hours of 4 p. m. and 7 p. m. to allevi ate the Saturday afternoon traf fic problem. The chief requests the motoring public not to make left-hand turns in the business district. Pedestrians are asked to refrain from crossing Main street until receiving a given signal from officers on duty at tho various intersections. turers have maintained stable prices at the expense of the qual ity of goods they produced. Nelson, asserting that "we can not go on as we have been go ing," said that "unless we wake up to that fact and act accord ingly, no sensible man has any right to be very hopeful about the future of American business or anything else American." "We have got to begin by real izing, once and for all, that we are in an emergency a real, Ufe-or-death emergency, not just a make-believe one. We have got to realize what that implies. We have got to see, for Instance, that what we have done so far In building a defense program is not nearly good enough; that every part ot our national life has got to be readjusted to the emergency if we arc to have a national life worth living when the emergency is over." He reminded the conferees that "France clung to the business-as-usual concept up to the very moment when the panzer divisions turned the Maginot line into a forlorn chain of empty telephone booths." Legion Urges 'Remedies' for U. S. Defense By WILLIAM BRINK JR. United Press Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. May 2 (UP) The American Legion to day urged use of the United States navy, If necessary, to In sure delivery of war-aid to Brit ain. The Legion's national execu tive committee, in a resolution to President Roosevelt, recom mended other "remedies" for de fense problems: 1. That the president tell the country . ."the full facts" about the present emergency.'--1 -v 2. That "the cause of national unity in national defense" will best be served oy the resignation of Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins. .3. That legislation be enacted to prohibit strikes and lockouts in national defense Industries during the present emergency. 4. "That organized labor and the citizens of the Vnited States in general voluntarily - forego strikes which impede defense of the nation and remove voluntar ily and- by legislation "subver (Conttnued on Page Two) CIO Wins Poll At Chiloquin Lumber Company The International Woodwork ers of America (CIO) last night was declared the winner ot a National Labor Relations board consent election at the conclu sion of two days of balloting by employes of the Chiloquin Lum ber company at Chiloquin. Out of 180 eligible workers, 143 voted for the CIO union as their bargaining agent against 24 who voted against the organ ization. A total of 168 votes were. cast ny Doin mill ana wooas em ployes of which one ballot was declared void. Twelve did not vote. According to Robert Davles, NLRB field representative, the CIO will probably be certified by the board as the Chiloquin workers' sole bargaining agent in the near future. Ys f-w 5 I I 1 j I- :? YU W; Ml . - 1 .i wains mmmmmJiB, fsB-a--. A.. JLV-I mmmmmmm mm 111 li II I I I ------------------ .' Kennell-EUta. Oueen Jerry Ann Denehie, senior at Klamath Union high school, ruled over the ninth annual 20-30 club track meet at Modoe field Friday night. Miss Denehie, at left, had as her cour t Virginia Howard, Junior) Joanna Hamilton, sophomore, and Roberta Tucker, freshman. Not shown is Phyllis Emigh. . - M BUY; TOOL SPEEDUP APPEAL MADE Stops Only, for Over haul Asked During Rush for Munitions WASHINGTON, May 2 0P President Roosevelt called today for defense Industry to work Its machine tools "24 hours a day and seven days a week, re lieving then)) only for overhaul M IC1RU. I i '" J I He eppWed, through thei of fice of production management for an expanded and expedited supply of new tools and said he believed existing ones could be used hours longer without boosting Workers', individual' hours. . - ... ..".. - Mr Roosevelt made the plea to meet what- he. called the "ever increasing demands - for munitions, planes ; and ships, caused by the' critical situation which confronts jour nation In. another defense discussion, at his press conference, the president was asked whether plans were being considered to speed up lane production by increased use of automobile plants and replied that efforts (Continued on rage Two) Redmond Youth In Auto Mishap Seichi Konno, 13, reported to the sheriff's office Friday that a car he was driving skidded on wet pavement at an S turn on highway 97 ' and left the road and landed in the bushes. Konno was on his way from Redmond to Klamath Falls to the annual 20-30 club track meet. Young Konno said he had an instruc tion permit to drive and that, a licensed driver was in the car beside him. No one was injured. C. W. Brown, 1349 Ivory street, reported a truck driven by Charles O. Hancuff overtook him and crashed into the rear of his truck at Bark ley springs on highway 97. Brown was injured slightly. Queen and Court Reign Iraq Troops Clash With British A rmy TAXATION FOR 'WAR EFFORT' ASKEDBYF.R. Basis To Eliminate Inequalities Urged For Minimum. Needs CHARLOTTESVILLE, V a . , May 2 (UP) President Roose velt tonight called for taxation to finance America s "war ef fort" on a basis that will elim inate inequalities which have ex cluded "substantial and signifi cant elements of income." In a letter to Chairman Robert L. Dough ton of the house ways and means committee Mr. Roose velt warned America that the $3,600,000,000 which congress now is seeking to raise repre sents only the "minimum of our revenue requirements." - May Tax Deeper His letter left no doubt that the "exigencies" of America's "war effort" an ail-out strug gle to aid democracies in defeat ing the axis powers might re quire even further taxation be fore the ultimata goal Is achieved. White House officials refused to make more explicit Mr. Roosevelt's orders to tax deeply into income: hitherto relatively secure from heavy taxes. "The income tax cannot fix the tax liability of Individuals and corporations with equity as long as the tax base la defined to exclude substantial and sig nificant clamant, of income,' Mr. Roosevelt wrote Douglitqn. '. The letter to Doughton was Mr. Roosevelt's statement to the .- (Continued on Page Two) - 1 - .' Delegates To J CC Conclave Arrive Here:' : ' Their spirits undampened by the wet turn of the weather. Klanath'a junior chamber of commerce men Friday afternoon met the first delegates to the state junior chamber convention. Heavy delegation arrivals were reported from 6 p. m. on, and - the convention program schedule started with a stag party, at the Wiliard hotel last night Over 100 delegates, in cluding local chamber members, had registered by midnight. Heading the outside groups were 15 members of the Portland organization. The Klamath men were look ing forward to the arrival Satur day morning of Mark Matthews of New York, president of the national junior chamber. He will speak at a breakfast at 10:30 a. m. Sunday at the Wiliard hotel, to which the public is in vited. ' Junior chamber men were ex pected to bring their wives to the convention, and special enter tainment was slated at Reames Golf and Country club for them Saturday morning. Either bridge or golf was to be offered as a diversion at that time. Over 20-30 Track Meet U. S. Considers Freezing All Foreign Funds WASHINGTON, May 2 (UP) The United States is considering freezing all foreign funds In this country to bring further eco nomic pressure against the axis powers. Secretary of State Cor dell Hull revealed today. He said no decision had been reached and indicated none was Imminent. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. persistently has advocated the freezing of axis credits and urged such a course upon Presi dent Roosevelt earlier this week Hull has been equally persistent in objections. Thus far the government has restricted freezing operations to the credits of countries con quered by Germany and Russia. Hull compared the sequester ing of foreign credits with po tential tightening of restrictions on exports of oil and gasoline to Japan, and shipments of war ma terials elsewhere. At his press conference the president had re ferred to the state department inquiries about curtailment of shipments of oil to Japan. Without indicating such a step (Continued on Page Two) TAXCHA1ES CIO Chief Proposes !l Lower -Jncome Levy fn Lowest Brackets WASHINGTON, May 2 (P Elimination of present federal income taxes on married couples making less than $2500 and on single persons earning less than (1000 was urged today by Philip Murray, CIO president, in advo cating that new revenue be oo tained from "high individual in comes, estates and. growing cor poration profits." - The proposal was in sharp con trast to recommendations made earlier in the day by the Ameri can farm bureau federation that present income tax exemptions of $2000 for married couples be cut to $1000 and for single per sons from the present $800 to $500. The federation also sug gested a flexible income tax sys tem designed to offset potential inflationary effects of the de fense spending program. "Wage Cuts" Murray's statement was pre pared for presentation by Ralph Hetzel, CIO research director, to the house ways and means com mittee which is considering pro posals to raise $3,600,000,000 ad ditional federal revenue. Edward A. O'Neal, farm fed eration president, presented his organization s view to the com mittee, in person. 3-Point Plan' Murray said that tax Increases proposed by the treasury and the Joint congressional committee on taxation would, If adopted, mean "wage cuts by taxation" for workers and therefore would re sult In "less food, less clothing (Continued on Page Two) TINY COUNTRY FORJfAR AID Fight Centers Around Oil Fields, Air Base In Baghdad Vicinity LONDON, Mar 2 (UP) The pro-German government of Iraq tonight was reported to have ap pealed to Adolf Hitler to rush military aid to its tiny army battling British troops on a new warfront in the Near East. - Fighting continued tonight, it was stated officially, after -a dawn bombardment by Iraq artillery of Britain's Habbaniya air base, 65 miles west of Bagh dad on the Uphrates. Iraq troops were said to have seized the vital Mosul oil fields, airdromes and other strategic points. According to axis radio . broadcasts, they have "sura rounded" contingents of British imperial forces landed at Basra, 60 miles north ot the Persian gulf. Nasi Aid reared Informed quarters, fearing a swift German "protective" at tack as result of the pro-oazi pre mier's appeal, said it would "not be surprising if British forces seized the fabled city of Baghdad to forestall the nazis and protect the Mosul oil fields. liny out ou-ricn Iraq is ine goal of Germany's long dreamed of "Berlln-to-Baghdad" march cf conquest and there were ris ing British fears that Hitler might attempt a daring invasion by parachute troops.-' '. . ..- - Germany was reported to have hundreds of Junkers-52 trans ports, each capable of carrying 20- fully-equipped soldiers or their weight in artillery, and new models capable of landing midget tanks, all held in readi ness for a possible thrust into the . Near East - At least 100 of these are said to be in Libya and others in Greece and the Balkan. They might make "crash" landings in Iraq, - sacrificing the planes as was done in Norway and the low countries. Long Odds Gamble It is about 1000 miles to Iraq from the luftwaffe's Greek and Bulgarian bases but it was pointed out in London that the troop-carrying planes might be able to refuel in the Dodecanese islands. It would be a long-odds gam- . (Continued on Page Two) -. AFL Wins NLRB Runoff Election At Kesterson's .'. AFL scored a victory over CIO In an NLRB runoff election at the Kesterson lumber company mill, results showed Friday night Of 212 eligible to vote, 122 cast ballots In favor of AFL as bargaining agent and 77 voted for CIO. Twelve workers failed to vote, and one blank ballot was cast. In a previous election held about a month ago, neither un ion received a majority, and the runoff poll was requested. Joe Boyd, AFL organizer, an nounced late last night that an AFL meeting will be held at the Klamath Falls labor temple at 2 p. m. Saturday. Diversion Program Buys Klamath Spuds SALEM, Ore., May 2 (UP) The state department ot agricul ture today reported that more than 380 carloads of Klamath basin potatoes have been pur chased by the federal diversion program this spring. The department estimated that 500 carloads of Oregon po tatoes will have been purchased by the time the program is con cluded. News Index Church News Page IS City Briefs ..i Page 5 Comics and Story .. Page 12 Courthouse Records . Page 2 Editorials Page 4 High School News Page 16 Information -..Page 5 Market, Financial Page 14 Midland Empire News, Page 8 Pattern ,. Page 9 Sports . ...Pages 10.11