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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
Vol. 18. No. 142 I'rlco Klv Conta
TWO SKCTIONS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday),
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TTHE lull In lha war contlnuca
1 today.
But the clouda ara gathering.
Soon another alorm will break.
TVHERE will It breakT
w If you can read Hitler-!
mind, you can answer that quts
tion. Otherwise, you will be as
much In the dark ai the rcat of
us.
Nobody KNOWS perhaps not
even Hitler.
BUT there are signs.
The Germans and the
" beaten French are dickering at
Vichy. There are reporta today
of a reduction of 100 million
franca In tho cot (assessed
against France) of supporting
the Gorman army of occupation.
We may bo very sure that (or
every auch concession made to
the French a price will be de
manded. There are rumors that
the Germans are demanding
passage for axis troops through
Cinoccupled France, naval bases
m the French Mediterranean
coast and more German leeway
In French Africa. The rumors
don't mention It. but one may
feel certain that demands (or
the French fleet are also being
made.
That all points toward a Ger
man move to close the Gibraltar
end of the Mediterranean.
CROM the Near East comes a
r tale that all telegraph and
telephone communication be
tween . Iraq and French Syria
has been closed since last night.
That hints of a German land
drive around the eastern end of
the Mediterranean, aimed at
Sues and the mouth of the Nile
How will the Germon army
get to Syria? That la another
question that can not yet be
answered." It Is a question that
0 bothers the Turks.
It Is quite within the possi
bilities that It bothers Stalin
also. History tells us that when
conquering armies strike Into
the Near East there is no telling
where they will stop.
Once Alexander got, really
going In Persia (now Iraq. Iran,
etc.) he went places he hadn't
even dreamed of when he start
ed. Hitler may do likewise.
Hence Stalin's worries.
BRITISH bombers continue to
hammer the German battle
ships, Scharnhorst and Gncis
enau. In the harbor of Brest.
They have been at it for weeks,
and for some reason the German
battleships stay and take It. The
British think they are crippled
and can't leave.
This thought intrudes on wish
ful thinking:
a
If British bombers can serious
ly damage two crack German
battleships. German bombers can
damage crack British battleships.
( Thousands of years of mill-
J tary history make it crystal clear
that war is a game two can
; play at.
. fti our side of the oceans:
In Washington today it is
! reported that figures of the U,
i S. Maritime Commission show
I that less than four per cent of
the British aid ships leaving
; American ports in the past three
montni have been sunk.
Today's dispatches Indicate
, that congress Is keenly Interested
in the report and is planning to
l call in the Maritime Commis
( sion to get the facts.
'EVERYONE Is interested.
T- If only four nor cent of the
(ships carrying American aid to
! Britain in the past three months
have been sunk, the situation
'! isn't as bad as those who want
I to get us Into the war RIGHT
6 NOW have been claiming.
7
1 WAR NINO
i . NEW YORK. May 8 (P) A
seven-day rise In commodity fu
$ tures prices throughout the na-
tion appeared sharply halted to
! day after a warning by the dc-
j partment of agriculture that it
,was prepared to take prompt ac
tion to prevent excessivo specu
- latiqn.
Looking Backward
By The Associated Press
j May 8, 1940 Prime Minister
Chamberlain wins vote of con
fidence but margin is only 281
4o 200 with 132 abstaining and
outcry against his government
Continues.
May 8, 1018 Australian and
New Zealand troops arrive in
France.
Germans Seized in Roundup
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A (ew of the more than 100 German seamen who were
seised by detectives and immigration officers In New York
City and charged with overstaying their leaves board a coast
guard cutter for removal to Ellis island for detention.
LOW BID MADE
ON SIGNAL JOB
Traffic Lights for
Klamath Offered By
Firm for $15,474
Acceptance of a bid cn the
Klamath ralls.trafflc signal sys
"tcni appeared certain Thursday,
after the highway commission
opened contractors' offers and
found one as low as $15,474.
That was the low bid of the
lot, offered by Dimitre Electric
company of Portland. Mayor
John Houston said he had been
Informed by telephone the next
bid was only about $300 higher
Local officials havo felt some
concern over the possibility the
bids might be higher than that,
and would call for moro money
than is available. Mayor Houston
said that the bid offered, how
ever, appears amply within the
range of funds available.
The city has approximately
$9700 financed by special levy
voted by the people. The state
highway department will pay
for half of the cost of signals on
state highway intersections, but
two of the signal locations at
Tenth street and Eleventh street
on Main are not on stato high
ways. As a result, the city will
pay about 60 per cent of the
signal cost, and the highway
commission '40 per cent.
Last fall, when bids on the
local signals were opened by the
highway commission, all were
rejected as too high. Local of
ficials were of the opinion that
such would not be the fact of
the current bids, in view of the
figures reported from the com
mission meeting Thursday.
'Send Halifax to Halifax,'
Demand Anti-War Placards
CHICAGO, May 8 (UP) Brit
ish Ambassador Lord Halifax,
embarking on a seven-day test of
"public sentiment in the Ameri
can midwest," tonight encoun
tered "Send Halifax to Halifax"
placards borne by pickets at his
hotel.
Lines of women, representing
four anti-war organizations, par
aded at the hotel entrance as
Halifax was scheduled to ad
dress the Commercial club of
Chicago.
"Remember Dunkirk, Beware
of the Double Cross," said one
banner. Another boro the legend:
"Drive the British Out of Wash
ington." No Interference
Police kept the picket lines In
motion, but declined to inter
fere. The ambassador made no
comment.
At least 315 women started the
picketing. They were from the
America First committee, Citi
zens Keep Out of War commit
tee, Mothers' Crusade, and We
the Mothers Mobilize.
Later they were joined by 15
youths from the Youth Commit
V- NX-'.,
Nudists Get
Used to RAF
Observers
By EDDIE GILMORE
GREEN HILLS. Hertfordshire,
England, May 8 (P) Britain's
biggest nudist camp has faced
the fact that modern war is war
in the air and now trades stare
for stare with RAF pilots who
conduct low-altitude reconnais
sance flights over the eamn.
- ."They seem'trf" he-over the
camp a great urai, ' said the pro
pnetor. his black beard stream
ing in the cold May wind, t"bu
I expect they'll get used to us
as we're getting used to them.1
At first the nudists, who
sprawled on the greensward
within the woodland camp,
thought of hot-footing it for the
bushes whenever inquisitive
filers swooped over.
"But, everything in life be
ing relative," the proprietor
philosophized, "we adjusted ourselves.-
Nowadays, we just look
up at them as they look down
at us."
It didn't take the RAF pa
trols long to spot the 10-acre
park which is dedicated to the
absorption of sunshine and fresh
air in the altogether.
"If those pilots are as good
at locating their targets across
the water as they were in find
ing us, they will serve their
country nobly," he said.
The proprietor's wife ex
plained that the nudists do not
shun their responsibilities dur
ing air raids.
"Tho nights are too cold now,
of course, for fire-watching in
the nude," she said, "but on
summer nights we'll be out with
only our tin hats on."
RENO, May 8 (UP) Marriage
licenses issued here today in
cluded: Kenneth L. Jarrctt, 24,
and Ethel Balcom, 32, both
Klamath Falls.
tee Against War and the Mid
west Fellowship of Reconcilia
tion. They still were marching
an hour after their banners first
went up.
Picketing began just after
Halifax had told newsmen that
this nation's 135,000,000 people
will prove a margin "of com
plete British victory" over the
axis powers.
Machines Needed
"Wo don't need men now," he
said. "Britain needs machines
and supplies just as quickly and
in as great quantities as you can
send them."
He said his tour of the middle
west, his first extended trip
away from Washington, would
afford him first-hand knowledge
of the views of people "In all
sections of tho country" in order
to report them "faithfully" to
his homeland.
He arrived with Lady Halifax
by plane shortly after 1 p. m.
After a limited Interchange of
comment with reporters, they
went to their hotel and did not
receive the press officially until
evening. t , ,
25 ADDITIONAL
SHIPS TO AID
BRITISH FIGHT
Vessels Turned Over
To Canadian Firms
By U. S. Companies
WASHINGTON. May 8 (UP)
Twenty-five more ships were
added tonight to President
Roosevelt's 2,000,000-ton ship
ping pool "for the service of
Britain" as a sharp dispute raged
over the extent of British ship
ping losses.
The vessels, owned by the Al
coa Steamship company, Incor
porated, of New York a subsi
diary of the Aluminum Company
of America were made avail
able to Canadian interests under
a charter arrangement approved
by the U. S. Maritime commis
sion. Figures were not disclosed, but
the fleet Is believed to total
more than 200,000 tons.
This is the second group of
vessels to be made available to
the service of the British since
Mr. Roosevelt ordered the mari
time commission to create the
vast pool last week.
SO Tankers
American operators have
agreed to turn over 50 tankers
aggregating 500,000 tons
within 30 days, and 25 are in the
process of transfer.
The Alcoa ships are being
chartered to the Aluminum
Company of Canada, the Cana
dian government sugar admin
istration, the Anglo-American
Purchasing company, and the
Trinidad Oil Fields Operating
company. Standard Oil Company
of Venezuela, Creole Petroleum
company, and Lago Petroleum
company.
. They will be placed In coastal
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New Draftees
To fl Called
at
To Register
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Pi
Army and selective service offi
cials were reported today to have
decided on July 1 as the date
for registration of approximate
ly 1,000,000 men who have be
come 21 years old since the first
selective service enrollment last
October.
The registration will take
place at the headquarters of the
6500 local draft boards now
functioning. Authorities said it
would be a "fairly simple job
compared with, last fall when
16,500,000 men, 21 to 35, were
signed up for possible military
training.
The date for the new regis
tration will be formally fixed in
a proclamation by President
Roosevelt. Authorities Indicated
that the day not tentatively
agreed upon was chosen to give
the new group of prospective
military trainees time to learn
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Ex-Grid Player
'Offside' in Court
PORTLAND, Ore., May 8
(UP) An ex-football ' player,
appearing in traffic court to
day, was thrown for a five
dollar loss by Municipal Judge
Julius Cohn.
"Did you play football?"
the judge asked the traffic
rule violator who was wear
ing a three-stripe athletic
sweater.
"Yes," the defendant re
plied. "What's the penalty for off
side?" "Five yards."
"All right. You were offside.
I'll make it $5."
Gallery Watches
Champion Golfers
In Reames Match
An enthusiastic gallery
watched two top-notch golfers.
Marian McDougal of Portland
and Muriel Veatch of Longvlcw,
Wash., go through an exhibition
match at Reames Golf and Coun
try club Thursday afternoon
playing with two local men,
Harry Weimar- and Howard
Scroggins.
The skies cleared for the ex
hibition which was given as a
benefit for the local unit.
Bundles for Britain. Both young
women, northwest champions in
their own right, played in ex
cellent form.
Hyde Park
Bombing Plot
Held Doubtful
RHINEBECK, N. Y., May 8
(IP) Captain John Gaffney of
the state police said his men and
secret service agents were in
vestigating a report that two
men had planted dynamite on
President Roosevelt's Hyde Park.
N. Y.. estate with the intention
of "setting it off if the United
States went to war." Gaffney
said he believed "there- was
nothing to the story."
Later, after an investigation
which included a check of the
estate grounds, James Maloney,
head of the secret service in the
New York district, advised his
office that "the whole thing is
silly" and that no arrests would
be made.
Gaffney said the report orig
inated with a workman on the
estate.
"But we don't believe it."
Gaffney said.
Nevertheless, he added, James
Maloney, head of the secret ser
vice in the New York district,
was accompanying the workman
about the estate in a checkup of
his statements.
State police said the workman
had told them that two men,
about 35 and speaking broken
English, had disclosed their plot
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PLANE ORDERS
STRIKE SNAGS
Allis-Chalmers Rift,
Threat of Walkout
Of Hudson Men Eyed
By The Associated Press
Delivery date on $15,000,000
worth, of lane parts and anti
aircraft gun mounts were rend
ered uncertain today by a strike
at AUis-Chalmers factory at La-
porte, Ind., and a threajnqed
walkout at the Hudson I t y
car company, Detroit. -
Nearly all the 950 employes
of the Indiana concern struck
yesterday, calling for union se
curity, wage increases and "a
more substantial contract."
Union and company officials did
not disclose the present wage
scale or the increases sought.
The plant has $5,000,000 in
defense orders and has been
making gun mounts.
The Hudson factory at Detroit
has been working on $10,000.
000 worth of airplane parts and
in addition is building a $20,
000,000 naval ordnance plant.
In several previous cases in
volving threatened strikes in de
fense industries, the Michigan
state mediation board has order
ed 30-day cooling off periods
while mediators sought to adjust
differences.
The national mediation board
at Washington, currently seek
ing to avert a threatened strike
against General Motors corpora
tion, got a new assignment a
wage dispute at the Bendix Avi
ation plant. South Bend, Ind
In the General Motors case,
involving 60 scattered factories
and 165,000 workmen, the union
has asked an increase of 10 cents
an hour and the corporation re
portedly has offered 2 cents.
School's Out for
m . . ' M Ml
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School was out 10 days early in Camdenton. Mo after two school teachers, Hilda Rhodes,
2$, left, and Aldythea Keith were accused of flogging Max Caldwell, 23, while Miss Rhode's
fiancee. Dr. Robert Murrell, assertadly held him on the floor of a cabin at the point of a gun.
The teachers were charged with
Nazis9 Loss Heavy;
Bombings Continue
PREMIER GONE
SAYSREPORT
Direct Hit Scored On
Magazine Near Iraq
Capital, Says RAF
CAIRO, Egypt, May 8 (IP)
Premier Rashid AH Al Gailani,
in office for little more than a
month, has suddenly left Bagh
dad after public demonstrations
against his government, the
Egyptian press reported tonight.
Tewfik Suweidi Bey, foreign
minister in the Iraq government
ousted by the Rashid All's coup
d'etat, was said to have lett
Baghdad by air for Amman,
Transjordan. to meet the de
posed regent, the Amir Abdul
Iiah.
The Amir announced in Pal
estine last Sunday that he was
returning to Iraq and called on
Iraq troops to return peacefully
to their posts.
LONDON, May 8 (UP)
Trustworthy quarters reported
that two high Italian army offi
cers had reached Baghdad to ad
vise Rashid Ali Beg Gailani, pro
axis premier of Iraq, on military
operations against the British. It
was stated officially tonight that
Britain had no knowledge of
rumors abroad that Rashid Ali
Beg had fled Baghdad.
CAIRO, Egypt. May 8 (IP)
British planes bombed the Bagh-
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pour Die In
Hotel Fire
At Seattle
SEATTLE. May-8 (P) The
city's worst hotel fire in years,
spreading rapidly before most
occupants awakened, killed four
persons in the small downtown
residential Stewart hotel early
today.
The dead:
John Seller, 76, identified
from a marriage license issued
in London.
Mr. and Mrs. William Mur
doch, each about 60, suffocated
in bed.
Mrs. Violet Morrison, 48.
Eleven Injurtd
Eleven persons were injured,
four of them in leaps to the
ground from second and third
floor windows when flames
raced up the stairway. George
Robert Jordan. 28, Des Moines,
Wash., was critically burned, and
suffered a severe back injury in
jumping from the third floor.
A truck driver, Jeano Cec
carelli, who turned in the first
alarm soon after 2 a. m said
men and women were screaming
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Teachers Accused in
felonious assault and released
Left Baghdad?
("N1- L- jr
Conflicting reports centered
Thursday night around Iraq's
Premier Rashid Ali Beg Gail
ani. above. The Egyptian press
states ha has suddenly left
Baghdad, but British writers
from London say there is no
confirmation to the report, Gail
ani was swept into office a lit
tle more than a month ago in
a coup d'etat.
SPEECHES FAN
CONVOYFIGHT
Willkie, Senator Nye
Champion Opposite
Views . on Question
WASHINGTON, May 8 VP)
Two uncompromising speeches
-one by Senator Nye (R-N.DJ,
the other by Wendell L. Willkie
and some unexpected statistics
on ship sinkings from the mari
time commission intensified the
controversy raging today over
convoys to Britain.
Anti-convoy legislators were
patently intent on ' forcing a
clean-cut decision in congress,
and there were indications of an
opportunity next week when the
senate takes up the house-ap
proved administration bill for
acquisition of 83 foreign ships
now idle in American ports.
Nye, who accused the admin
istration of "blitzkrieging for
convoys," declared in a broad
cast from here last night that
"This week, or these next few
days, are to determine whether
or not America is going to be in
Europe's war."
Willkie, meanwhile, was tell
ing a "freedom rally" in New
York that delivery of lease-lend
supplies to Britain must be in
sured by "convoying patrolling
airplane accompaniment or
what not."
Before Nye and Willkie took
to the air waves, to champion
opposite views, a new element
was injected into the convoy de
bate by maritime commission
figures showing that less than
four per cent of British aid
ships leaving American ports
had been sunk in the first three
months of 1941.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (JP
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Flogging Row
on $500 bend.
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RAF BAGS 37
AIRPLANES IN
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Suez Canal Zone Hit
In Two-Hour Bomb
ing By Axis Forces
LONDON, Friday, May 9 (UP
Apparently oblivious to its high
losses during the last 24 hours,
the luftwaffe sent waves of
bombers across the English chan
nel early today. Virtually every
section of the country, including
London, was attacked.
The new nazi attack, appar
ently building up to one of the
greatest in weeks, came on the
heels of a 20-hour period of des
perate air battles in which RAF
pilots shot down 37 German
planes.
Enemy raiders In large num
bers were reported over the east
and south coasts, the northeast.
northwest coasts, the Midlands
and over London itself.
London Hit
Bombs were dropped on one
London district. London's de
fense guns were roaring, sending
a terrific barrage skyward. '
In all regions where enemy
raiders had appeared anti-air
craft batteries were sending up
a heavy fire. Air actions between
British night fighters and the
nazi bombers were constant.
Two raiders - were reported
shot down in flames during the
early stages of Thursday night's
moonlit battle
; ' - By, United Preas -t
Heavy, widespread air attacks
on the British Isles were report
ed in progress Thursday night.
The royal air force was striking
back at the raiders in an effort
to boost the toll of 105 German
planes for the first eight days of
May. .
British defense forces Wednes
day night destroyed 23 German
bombers, 22 being the victims of
night fighters, to establish a
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Sprafjue Loggers
To Have Copco . .
Electric Line -
Copco crews Thursday were
at work on a new quarter-mile
extension to a Hosely Logging
company headquarters settle
ment on the north outskirts of
Sprague River, according to Sam
Ritchie of the power company.
The new line will service the
Hosely cookhouse, bunkhouse,
shops and eight employes' cot
tages. -
Ritchie said a survey will be
started this week on a construc
tion project involving a new line)
to 14 farms and three irrigation
pumping plants between Dairy
and Bonanza. The planned line
win De approximately seven
miles long. Completion is ex
pected in three weeks.
Cold Wave Sweeps '
Over East States.
By United Press ' '
Snow and freezing tempera
tures swept across the north cen
tral states Thursday night on 1
the crest of a belated winter's
blast from the Canadian north
west Light snowfall was reported
from Montana to Wisconsin,
with temperatures ranging 15
degrees below normal in eight
plains states.
Moderate showers fell
throughout the north central
states and a belt of rain extended
eastward to the Atlantic sea
board. Thundershowers were re
ported at New York City and
across the upper Ohio valley.
Lowest temperatures Thurs
day included 28 degrees at
Minot, N. D and 30 at Lemmon,
S. D and several points in Min
nesota. :
News Index '
Agriculture ....Page 17
City Briefs ...Page 5
Comlos and Story Page 18
Courthouse Records Page 4
Editorials ; .Page 4
High School News ...... Page 7
Information ... Page S
Market, Financial Page 14
Midland Empire News, Page 1
Pattern .... ; Page 17
Sports .... Pages 12, 13
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