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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1941)
r WEATHER NEWS PICTURES! Associated Pmi Tslemata. NEA Tlpho to and live local newsplcture and graving mil provide News and Harald readara with a eomprahanalva photograph lo service. Fair High (li Lew 43l Midnight 42 24 hours to I p. m, ,, ... Trate Season to -data n f Normal precipitation , f o it Laat year im IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 143 Price Five CenU KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday) THEKIAMMH News .11 ;.:V:iv InTtizf- : Day's ; , News Br rRANX JENKINS "TWO Interesting rumor are In 1 the wind today, a. Rum la haa withdrawn dlplo malic recognition from Gorman conquered Yugoslavia, Belgium and Norway. Thti li Interpreted In diplomatic quartera ai indi cating a new Russian agreement with Germany. France' Vichy government la rumored (by way of Swltzer land) to have agreed to passage of German troops through French province! and mandated territories Including Syria. This (rumored) permission la believed to be Germany's price for concessions concerning oc cupied France. COME advice here to Amerl- cans, who are hanging on the edge of shooting war: Do no wishful thinking about ,N Russia. Russia la looking out 4 .'for RUSSIA, and Is badly scared of Hitler. COME more advice: 13 Do no wishful thinking about France. The decay of French spirit (among the poli tician who hold the fate of what Is Irtt of France In their hands) is COMPLETE. A FINAL bit of advice: . " Bo no wishful thinking about ANYTHING OR ANY BODY. Let nobody tell you that a shooting war, when we get into It, will be short and easy. If you feel that we must go to war, grit your teeth, roll up your sleeves, spit on your hands. pull in your belt and prepare to maVa whatever SACRIFICES may be necessary knowing IN ADVANCE 4nM before the 'war 4 I won the sacrifice that J 'EVERYBODY will be Called -upon to make will be heavy. - That 1 the spirit that wins wars. TF Germany seek to strike at Suez through Syria (thus by passing Turkey) watch Crete. Watch Cyprus. These are British bases threat ening the flank and rear of any German attempt by sea to land Invasion forces In Syria. Watch Tobruk, which is a sea supplied base threatening the flank of the German land ad vance from Libya toward Suez and the mouths of the Nile. Churchill told us the other day that Crete and Tobruk will be held to the death. ANOTHER word here as to " Stalin. 4 With all his evidences of Ger man co-operation. It is still true that he is worried by the Ger man advance through the Bal kans and into the Near East. Stalin know he'll cut Hitler's throat If the opportunity comes, o he must know that Hitler will cut Stalin' throat at any time It suits Hitler's purpose to do so. Such Is war among dictators. A GERMAN airman, his cloth " ing afire, parachutes from hi shot-down plane, a human torch, and lands on an English golf course. Members rush from th club house and beat out the flames, but the aviator (some German mother's son) is already dead. There Is hatred in England for GERMANY as an ambitious na- ) tional entity. But there was no hatred among the members of this English country club for one', lone German boy dying a horrible death. They hurried to save him, Just as they would have hastened to save anyone else In peril. Human nature Is full of strange contradictions. Slayer Sought as Secdnd Victim Dies SAN BERNARDINO. Calif., May 9 (P) Rose Destree, 17, died at 8 a. m. today as Under sheriff James W. Stockcr led a posse of 40 men in search of the gunman she had named as the man who killed Mrs. Jean Wells, 20, then turned his gun on her. Stocker said an informant re ported Alfred Wells, former con vict, was hiding In a cabin In semi-accessible Cable canyon, seven miles north. Ho left at dawn with the posse. He said he was told Alfred's missing brother, David Raymond Wells, 24, was held captive In the cabin. I RUSSIA CUTS CAPTIVE AREA New Accord Between Stalin, Hitler Seen In Diplomatic View MOSCOW. May 9 OP) Soviet Russia withdrew recognition to day from Yugoslavia, Belgium and Norway as sovereign states an action Interpreted In dip lomatic quarters as indicating a new understanding with Ger many. Diplomatic sources believed that Joseph Stalin, who only this week assumed the premier ship, was personally settling dif ferences with Germany over nazl penetration Into the Bal kans, In order to maintain the soviet policy of peace and neu trality. Neutral Trend Today's press reflected this trend, prominently displaying report of an axis air raid on the Suez canal and David Lloyd George' abstention from the British house of commons' vote of confidence In Premier Churchill. Whether Russia now would Join the axis was not known. She refused to do so last No vember. (Russia declared officially yes terday, in reaction to foreign reports, that she has not and doe not intend to concentrate troops on her western frontiers, facing German-dominated terri tory). Th Russian foreign office sent a note to the three minis ters, now representing emigre governments, notifying them that their ministerial powers had lost their validity. The withdrawal of recogni tion was disclosed step by step first to Norway, then Belgium and then Yugoslavia.- DATES SET ON ' SCHOOLPOLLS Vacancies for Five Directors in ' Three Boards To Be Filled Five directors for the various school districts of the county will be chosen at June elections, and this week there were indi cations of growing Interest In the forthcoming vacancies on the boards. Election dates are: city ele mentary, June 16; county school district, June 16, and Klamath union high school, June 23. Confused Situation A confused situation haa de veloped in school district No. 1, the city elementary district, as a result of the passage of a law at the last legislature increasing terms in first class district to five years. Other confusing fac tors include the possible resigna tion of one member who has moved out of the district, and the fact another member is serv ing out an unexpired term of a (Continued on Page Two) Henry J, Bean, Justice of State Supreme Court, Dies SALEM. May 9 Th name of Arthur D. Hay. Lake county circuit judge, was prominently mentioned today as a possible successor to the lata Justice Henry J. Bean of the stat supreme court. O t h r s mentioned wore Judges James Brand of Marshfield and Carl Hend ricks of Fossil. An appointment probably will not be made until next week by Governor Sprague. SALEM, May 9 P) Supreme Court Justice Henry J. Bean, 87, who served longer on Oregon's highest tribunal than any other justice In the state' history, died in a Salem hospital last night after an Illness of several months. Justice Bean, first elected to the court In 1910 and reelected six times, underwent an opera tion December 26. He has been In the hospital since that time. He served two term as chief justice, in 1931 and 1932, and in 1937 and 1938. Born in Bethel, Maine, Nov. One-Man 'Class' I EJ , j ,J "1 ' I K r .. ' 4 ' '? S -f- f -stun Harold Xeese Parrish, six fact two and 21. scored all sen ior class graduating honors at Spraguo River high school for 1841 in a clean sweep. He Is the only member of th tint graduating eltts. T-Mpn Class ; Combines' All Grad Honors SPRAGUE RIVER The Sprague River high school fac ulty committee had little trouble selecting the 1941 valedictorian, salutatorian, class historicn, class prophet and outstanding senior athlete. Harold Keesee Parrish won all the honors as he is the only graduating senior. - The first graduating "class" is 21 years old, a native of Venita, Oklahoma, is red headed and is six feet two. In reality the first Sprague River high graduating class will be the class of 1042, composed of nine members. Harold Par rish needed only a couple of subject for graduation, which he was able to get by taking Junior subjects. This action gives him the honor of being the first graduate of Sprague River high school. Superintendent Fred Peterson will be the chief speaker and will present the diplomas to the eighth grade and to young Par rish. Peterson is making his third straight appearance at Sprague River graduation and achievement day exercises. His ready wit and homespun philos ophy have caused the pupils to make him a unanimous choice for this annual talk. i ujy.LA Justice Henry J. Bean 13, 1853, he was educated In the public schools, and at Hebron and Gould academies. He then taught school six years. After reading law In a law office In Bethel, Justice Bean (Continued on Page Four) I BRITISH LOSE BIGSEA FIGHT Na va I - Ai r Encounte r Sees Loss of Many Ships, Fascists Say By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Correspondent ROME, Saturday, May 10 (UP) A furious battle was re ported last night In the Mediter ranean where Italian planes at tacked a British convoy. Six British warship and five large merchantmen already have been hit by Italian aerial torpedoes and 16 British planes shot down, according to the fascist high command . The naval-air battle, which raged for hours yesterday as Italians celebrated the fifth an niversary of the Italian empire, was said to have occurred when the fascist air force struck at a large British convoy trying to move reinforcement to the Egyptian battlefront. Duce Lose Plane The loss of five Italian plane was admitted by the high com mand in three separate attack. Huge aerial torpedoes and other big bombs were claimed to have scored hits on a battleship, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three merchant ships of the convoy. The convoy was said to have been attacked while moving from the western Mediterranean toward the narrow strait of Sicily late Thursday in bad weather. Two battleship escorted the convoy, as well as the aircraft carrier and other warships. Italian planes operating in the Aegean sea were said by the high command to have hit two big steamer and cruiser et 7000 tons with torpedoes. The cruiser wa reported e been left listing and aflame. Head for Base . I The aerial ' attacks on the British convoy were reported continuing late .lasV night The British ship were - rushing at full speed to reach Alexandria naval base on the Egyptian coast ' Italian" dispatches from "the zone of operations" said it was estimated at 6 p. m. Rome time the convoy needed 18 hours to reach Alexandria. Although the bombing of the British ship was hailed jubi lantly as an Italian victory it waa admitted German plane had "intervened" to bag three of the 16 British planes. Fascist quartera said It her alded the certain "doom" of British naval power in the Mediterranean. Raider Sunk By British In Indian Ocean LONDON, May 9 VP) A Ger man raider, believed in London to have been the 21,131-ton trans-Atlantic liner Hansa, has been sunk In the Indian ocean by a British warship, the admir alty announced today. The announcement said that the 10,000-ton British cruiser Cornwall rescued 27 British merchant seamen from the raid er and seized S3 of the raider's German crew. Authoritative London quarters estimated the vessel carried 300 crewmen and said she probably was armed with six S.9 guns, torpedo tubes and was equipped for mine laying. Her speed was 19 knots. There have been numerous reports concerning the activities of German sea raider in the In dian ocean, World war hunting ground of the famous Emden and the See Alder, but this is the first one reported sunk." It is believed here that the British occupation of the Italian east African coast has consider ably hindered operations of the nazi raiders by eliminating im portant source of supply. Looking Backward By The Associated Pre May 9, 1940 Chamberlain' attempt to form new govern ment falls: resignation close. German railways placed under military command for weekend. May 9, 1916 French repulse four attacks on Verdun, win back trenches north of Thlau-mont. British Rain Bombs On Hamburg, Bremen Ports I ? - t - ' t. , " ' TheeoXarttM-Wrlght 'tTosaahawks. ting) Mat flghtear being fee Nee-try tne roy4 iJtorce. cloud formation "somewhere Federal Operatives Nab Italians, Hunt For Others Accused NEW YORK. May 9 (P) Federal immigration operatives who took 160 German teamen into custody early Wednesday suddenly launched another roundup of aliens today, arrest ing several Italians and search ing for acores of others accused of overstaying permits to remain in this country, lie immigration inspectors arrested four alien Italians work ing in midtown hotels and other agents, supplied with warrants, went to the Hotel Ritz-Carlton to arrest six Italian waiters. WASHINGTON, May 9 (JO Attorney General Jackson said (Continued on Page Four) 8000 Lumber Workers Quit In Washington TACOMA May 9 (P) More than 8000 men in 25 western Washington loggisg camps and lumber mill struck . today as operators and representatives of a faction of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) failed to negotiate a wage dis pute. While Federal Conciliator E. S. Jackson kept the two groups in session in an attempt to work out a compromise, II mar Koivunen, chairman of the IWA negotiation committee, pre dicted 22,000 men in 80 opera tions would walk off their jobs before Monday "unless this thing is settled." ' Operations already down ex tend from Ryderwood, near the Columbia river, to Skagit coun ty, In northwest Washington. Jackson said there was no in dication when a compromise might be reached. The union seeks a 7i cent an hour wage increase, to a basic wage of 75 cents an hour; a closed shop, a week's vacation with pay. and improved work ing conditions. American 'Tomahawks' Fly engage in operations., is; UA.in. in England. " - ,, Cqr Strikes .. Horse, Hurts . Woman Rider Mrs. Victor I. Douglas, 31, Homedale road, is in Hillside hospital in a semi-conscious con dition suffering from injuries received at 8 o'clock Friday night when her horse was struck by a car on the South Sixth street canal bridge near Summers lane. Driver of the car, according to state police, was John D. Ross JiC, 4511 Boardman ave nue. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. George Godard and Eddie Eittreim, were returning on horseback from a Sheriff's Posse drill at the fairgrounds and were en route to the Douglas home at the time of the accident. Mrs. Douglas' horse had his front feet on the pedestrian walk, and its hind feet on the bridge pavement. Young Ross had just passed a car on the bridge ap proach and had swung back in to the lane of traffic when he struck Mrs. Douglas. Her horse (Continued on Page Four) American Girl Death In Russia Sails Home MOSCOW, May 9 (UP) Saved from death before a sov iet firing squad by U. S. Am bassador Laurence A. Stein hardt, the 23-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia minister sails from Vladivostok for the United States tomorrow. Dark-eyed Irene Pick, laugh ing gayly as she left for Vladi vostok from the trans-Siberian railroad station, was sentenced to death last January for counter-revolutionary activity'' while a student of the Polish university in the Russian-occupied city of Lwow. 40 Seised. Shot Forty men and women friends of the girl, all members of a club at the university, were seized with her and sentenced to death January 18 by a local people's court. All of the 40, she believes. have been executed, most of them while she sat In prison cell awaiting the outcome of her appeal before the Ukrainian su preme court at Kiev. In the same railroad compart- for RAF produced In lhe United States Brills tignter - - cemniaad'soTe -e AIR FORCE OF IRAPOWNED RAF Declares Blows On Airports Finish Destroying Planes CAIRO. May 9 (P) The royal air force announced tonight it had "probably completed the destruction of the Iraq air force' by two bombing attacks yester day on Kakuba and Shahnaban landing fields near Baghdad. Remnants of the dissident ele ments of the Iraq army which a week ago attacked the British held Habbaniyah airdrome, some 60 miles west of Baghdad, have withdrawn to Ramadi and Falluja, the British middle east command announced today. Ramadi is about 12 miles north of Habbaniyah. Falluja is some 22 miles to the northeast, across Lake Habbaniyah. Both are communication centers on (Continued on Page Four) .. Saved From ment with Irena en route to Vladivostok was another Amer ican citizen released from soviet imprisonment and permitted to leave Russia 23-year-old Rozh kovsky, a farm-hand of Bialo stok, just freed from a three- year prison camp sentence. Rusty Shotgun Unable to speak English, al though his father Michael lives in Chelsea, Mass., Rozhkovsky told the United Press in Polish that he was arrested last June 29 for unlawful possession of firearms because he failed to hand over to police a rusty old shotgun when the Russians oc cupied eastern Poland. He too won his freedom through the Intervention of U. S. Ambassador Stelnhardt who acted on a written appeal from the youth's mother, still In Bialostok. Rozhovsky's arrest was not revealed until last October, nearly four months after he had been taken into custody, when hi father in Massachusetts wrote to the state department and made Inquiries. IN DUSK TO BAWNATTACK Germans Retaliate in Kind With Further Raids Over Britain LONDON. May 9 (UP Equivalent of the luftwaffe's worst "total destruction" raids on Britain was claimed tonight after a British armada of 300 to 400 bombers, in a record break ing dusk - to dawn assault. smashed and set fire to the great German ports of Hamburg and Bremen. ........ It was the royal air force's biggest raid of the war on Ger many, unleashed a the nazi air force carried out costly, wide spread "blockade" attacks on Britain s ports and cities. Shortly before midnight the Berlin radio went silent and RAF bombers were believed to be sweeping across the channel again, bent on spreading the havoc of the record-breaking at tack... . .. . .. U. S. Planes Used New American bomber and the biggest of all bombs were used in the British attack. Near ly 1000 ton of explosives rained upon the North sea naval and U-boat centers aa well a Berlin and Emden in "remorseless bombardments.' The rumble of violent explo sions and erratic movements of searchlight beams in the direc tion of Calais indicated the RAF Regain was hammering 'the rrench "invasion ports." "Hamburg and Bremen were engulfed in flames and smoke when the RAF bombers turned home at dawn, leaving behind seas. of "raging fires," smashing war industries, docks and oil stores. British pilots told of "terrific explosions" reaching nearly two miles high and masses of spread ing flames so fierce the burst of huge bombs could not bo seen among them. Specified Target The assaults cost the British 10 big bombers, the air ministry said. Neither German night fighter planes nor blasting anti-aircraft (Continued on Page Two) . Youth Badly Hurt In Motorcycle Crash At Oregon, Upham B. Frank Card, 22, Pelican City, employe of the Pelican Bay Lumber company, is in Hillside hospital in a semi-conscious condition as the result of a motorcycle accident which oc curred about 3 o'clock Thurs day afternoon at Oregon avenue and Upham street. Card, accompanied by a friend, was coming into Klam ath Falls following a trip to Chemult. The streets had re cently been flushed and round ing the Oregon avenue corner onto Upham street. Card lost control of the machine. Wit nesses said the young man was thrown from the motor, and against a telephone pole. His face is badly crushed and it ia thought he has a skull frac ture. His companion was unin jured. Man Digs Out of ' Prineville Jail BEND. Ore., May 9 (UP) State and county officers were , on the lookout tonight for Don-' al James Danner, 19, who es caped from the Crook county jail in Prineville last night. Danner, recently arrested here on a larceny charge, dug his way out of the Jail, accord ing to information received here. . 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