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The elamath News WEATHER NEWS Partly Cloudy High 11 Low 41; Midnight M 24 houra to p. m. .00 Soaaoa to dato U Normal precipitation if if Last year to dato ' as PICTURES! Associated Press Telemats. MCA TeUpho Im and live local newspicture and an graving alall provide Nawa and Hatald readers with a comprehensive photograph la service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18. No. 144 Price Five Ccnta THREE SECTIONS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday) Sailing, Soiling SPEED URGED Fierce Raids Made On London, Berlin r k a. t 4 AX1SVESSELS ; In The News By rilANK JENKINS SOME 23 centuries ago, Philip bocamo king of Macedonia C(ln the northern part of Greece.) Macedonia was then amall and poor and weak poorer and weaker than Germany when Hitler becamo dictator. Philip wu able and AMBIT IOUS. LIE had nrved hit military ap prentlceshlp under Epamtn ondaa of Thebes, when Thebes was on the rise. The Theban phalanx was then as irresistible as the German panzer division now Is. It was a close-massed body of men 1(1 files deep, armed with spears 21 feet long. Each man rested his spear on the shoulder of the man In front, presenting a mass of points that was practically un breakable. With its aid. Thebes smashed hitherto undefeatuble Sparta. ''pHILIP streamlined the The- ban phalanx, adding squad rons of DISCIPLINED cavalry on the wings to prevent an enemy from turning the flank and attacking the phalanx at Its weak spot In the rear. He was really the Inventor of cavalry discipline. Before his time, horse soldiers were more or less unor ganized Individualists. With the aid of his streamlin ed phalanx, he made himself the master of Greece and then turn ed to the conquest of Persia, Greece's ancient enemy. Before he could get his Persian campaign under way, he was assassinated. His son Alexander took on the Job. CROSSING the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) Alexander passed down through what Is ' now Turkey and Syria, defeat ing Darius the Persian (he was the third Darius) at Issus. At the first shock of battle Darius abandoned his army and ran. TJE succeeded In getting to gether another army and awaited Alexander at Arbela, in the flat valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, near where the Brit ish are now fighting the Arabs in Iraq. Darius pinned his faith on his war chariots some 200 in num berdrawn by two or four horses and with scythes on the axles and the poles (or tongues) ahead of the horses. These had been hot stuff In past Persian fighting, breaking and terrify ing the enemies against whom they were sent. He put thousands of men to work smoothing off an area on the flat plain so that the charge of the chariots might be un broken. ALEXANDER, sizing up the situation, did two things. He put Javelin men and arch ers ahead of his phalanx to kill or wound the horses before the chariots could strike home. He then marched his army obliquely before the Persian host, so as to MISS the ground Darius had so carefully smoothed off. The chariots had to charge PREMATURELY, before thoir prepared ground was by-passed and left behind and the charge was promptly broken by Alex ander's Javelin throwers and bowmen. The Persians were dis comfited by Alexander's march to the side. A gap appeared in their line. Instantly Alexander's disci plined cavalry charged Into the gap, breaking and routing the Persian host. When the sun set that night at Arbela, the power of Persia was BROKEN FOR EVER. JJARIUS, smoothing off the plain for his chariots and expecting Alexander to attack where the Persians were all set to ANNIHILATE him, reminds us Inevitably of France building her Maglnot line and expecting the Germans to attack at the point where the great Maginot gum were aimed and ready to blow them into eternity. Alexander and Hitler acted alike In similar circumstances. Instead of attacking where the enemy was all set and ready, they attacked where he WASN'T READY, and WON. In its basic principles, war doesn't change much from cen tury to century. Here's a view of the new Klamath Yacht harbor opposite Moore park on Lakeshore drive. A-bulldlng for the past year, the new anchorage will have a capacity of over 100 boats when completed. Entire Inner fringe will be rip-rapped with rock and floating slip moorages built. In the plans also are provisions for a boathouse which will be constructed on the right spit between the lake and harbor. MILL STRIKE IN DEADLOCK Senote Studies Labor Trouble in Detroit, Shipyards at S. F. TACOMA. May 10 VP) Chances for a weekend settle ment of the growing lumber strike vanished today as a four hour meeting between operators and union representatives broke up after reaching a deadlock. Federal Conciliator E. S. Jackson, who has been trying to bring about a compromise before the mills opened Monday morning, said the operators and the representatives of the In ternational Woodworkers of America were so obviously deadlocked I'there was no rea son to continue the meeting." ' Ho said the next strike con ference 'would not be held un til sometime Tuesday, in his Seattle offices. The failure to reach a com promise before Monday will send an estimated 22.000 men out on strike, officials oi the union said. About 10.000 men already were on strike as yesterday's conferences between a federal conciliator, employers and union representatives failed to end differences. By The Associated Press The special senate committee Investigating defense production turned its attention today to strikes In Detroit and San Fran cisco, asserting In a statement that "there Is no time In this emergency for employers and employes to engage in intermin able bickering." The statement, given out by Chairman Truman (D-Mo.), went on to say: "There is still less time to wait until loss of profits in the case of the employers or loss of wages in the case of em ployes can determine the result of a strike. Speaking plainly, the public has a right to ex pect and even to demand that its paramount Interest will be respected." Truman said the conference had asked for data on a west coast shipyard walkout, which, he said. Involved $293,000,000 of shipping. Information aljo (Continued on Page Two) Farmers Urged fo Increase Food Supplies for Britain WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP) Agriculture department officials tonight asked farmers for still larger increases in food produc tion so that larger stockpiles can be built up for Britain. Reversing the "plough every third row under" policy of the last decade, the officials said that increased production of meals, dairy products, poultry and eggs, dried fruits and vege tables is needed to meet defense and export demands. The farm program is being ad justed to encourage increases of these products. Wheat Not Needed While offering farmers as sured higher prices for increas ing production of some foods, the agriculture department planned a referendum May 31 among wheat growers on pro posed quota restrictions for the marketing of their 1941 crop. That Is the first step toward crop reduction. - Wheat Is not State Sales Tax Opposed By Grangers One hundred members of the Klamath county Pomona grange, meeting at Fort Klam ath for their quarterly session Saturday, went on record after a spirited but friendly discus sion as opposed to a state sales tax. According to R. H. Anderson, grange master, a resolution fav oring a sales tax was received from the Jefferson grange. The resolution argued that because taxation for national defense is taking a heavy toll on real es tate a sales tax would lower Mic burden on those possessing land. The Klamath county men, how ever, failed to approve the reso lution. The only other resolution by the group was a letter to the state highway commission urg ing that action be taken to re lieve the traffic congestion on the entire length of South Sixth street. A Mrs. Thompson, chairman of a cooperative organization at Grants Pass, was a visitor at the meeting. She was Interested in arranging a meeting of the Grants Pass and Klamath granges for discussion of the co operative movement. Mrs. John Taylor was elected as an alternate delegate to the state grange meet to be held at Newport, Ore, June 10 to 18. She will attend if Grange Mas ter Anderson is unable to go. Local granges of Fort Klam ath, Altamont and Shasta Vu s entertained the gathering witu lunch at noon. Anderson an nounced that the YGA will con fer the fifth degree next Friday night at Altamont school. Mother of Minnie Bornum Passes Mrs. Cora Ellen Barnum, mother of Minnie R. Barnum of the Klamath county tax office and Lena B. Everett, teacher of Sacramento, Calif, passed away at Ashland Friday. Mrs. Bar num was a long time resident of Klamath and Lake counties and was a native of Yreka, Colif. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the J. P. Dodge and Sons Funeral home at Ashland. East ern Star and Rebekahs will be in charge. needed for Britain now. ''Quota restrictions, if approved by two-thirds of the farmers voting in the referendum, would require growers to limit wheat sales to allotments estab lished by the government, or pay a penalty of IS cents a bushel on excess marketings. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard's proclama tion calling for the nation's first quota restriction on wheat saji j did not establish a natioiiui quota. Farmers who planted within their AAA r.crcage all ments will bo permitted to mar ket all of their wheat free of penalty. Wheat Is not one of the foods for which a heavy British de mand Is expected. Canada has a wheat surplus adequate for British needs. American exports to other countries are small. Large quantities of foods which Britain has indicated she DUTCH FLIERS HELP BRITONS Squadron Uses U. S. Built Planes for Attacks in Norway LONDON, May 10 WV-Royal Dutch naval fliers, using US built Hudson (Lockheed) planes. Joined British pilots in attack ing nazi airdromes in Norway lost night on the eve of the first anniversary of the German inva sion of the lowlands the air ministry news service said to day. It was the first time a Dutch squadron "has formed a striking force against objectives in enemy-occupied territory," the re port said. -. . t . - u j.. -The Hudson plane which were used were said to have been "presented by Dutch peo ple overseas." With the cooperation of the British coastal command, the Dutch attacked airdromes at Kristiansand and Mandal, both in southern Norway, and report ed that they kept high explo sives and incendiaries dropping most of the night. The crew said numerous fires were start ed. At the same time docks at Kristiansand were bombed. The anniversary of the Ger man invasion of a year ago to day found the exiled govern ment both of the Netherlands and Belgium fighting on as cogs (Continued on Page Two) Attempt to Block Lake Harbor With Ship Discovered CHICAGO. May 10 VP) An attempt to sink the coal boat, Industry, in the Indiana harbor canal servicing steel and oil company plants of the Indiana Harbor, Ind, area was disclosed today by J. C. Hoskins, presi dent of the Hoskins Coal and Dock company, owners of the boat. The boat was saved from sinking and blocking the chan nel to heavy steel, ore and fuel traffic by the crew of a sister boat, the Commerce, Hoskins said. The reported incident oc curred about S a. m. Thursday Hoskins said a seacock on the Industry had been' opened some time during the night and water was pouring into the hold when the Commerce passed by and drew alongside at the Inland Steel company docks. The Commerce began lighter ing the Industry with its cranes and pumping the water from the hold of the sister boat immed iately. The Industry had been loaded with coal the night before to fuel an ore boat and the crew had left, Hoskins said. He added that the watchman who had been stationed aboard the Industry was missing. "By seven o'clock," Hoskins said, "she'd have been on the bottom." Looking Backward By The Associated Press May 10, 1940 Germans in vade Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg; Neville Cham berlain resigns as British prime minister, Churchill called to form new cabinet. May 10, 1916 Germany tells U. S. attack on steamer Sussex was error; promises to pay In demnity for Americans injured. Sabotaged Craft to Put to Sea As Part Of Big Defense Pool WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP) The maritime commission to night ordered all possible speed in repairing sabotaged axis ves sels and worked out plans to prevent any possible damage to requisitioned ships of axis-dominated countries by their crews when they put to sea as part of the huge defense shipping pool. These moves were revealed as the nation awaited President Roosevelt's address next Wed nesday before the Pan-American union. Congressional circles re gard his expected pronounce ment as of transcendent impor tance in the next move to aid Britain. Armed Guard One of the plans authorities are working out to protect ships expected to be requisitioned is an armed American guard aboard marines or sailors. Such an arrangement. Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the maritime commission, told the senate commerce committee, would have a dual purpose. It would tend to prevent sabotage or scuttling. Furthermore, he testified, it would tend to re lieve such crew members as those of Danish ships and of otner occupied countries of re sponsibility for' their acts and consequent retaliation by the Gestapo on their families at home. ... Land explained that the guard plan would become effective on requisitioned ship In American service. More than 100 idle foreign ships, including the 25 Italian and two German ships ordered to be repaired at once. wmlbT taken nvr rtinH.r smn.S th requisitioning bill the - committee is considering and ytiich the senate is sched uled Mo take up next -week. Some shipyards repairing the damaged axis vessels are work ing three shifts. roroign crews - .... - Toe crews of sabotaged Ger man and Italian ships now in protective custody, naturally, would not be sent to sea on their ships with or without American guards. ' Several of (Continued on Page Two) Tornado Kills 3 In Texas, Hurts Many PLAINVIEW, Texas, May 10 VPl A tornado that slashed a 20-mile path of destruction on the west Texas plains snd a vio lent electrical storm accompany ing it killed three persons and injured a score or more last night. The tornado struck 15 miles northwest of here and levelled everything before it houses, barns and crons. Drivinff rain and hail followed. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hay were found 200 yards from the site of their crumbled farm house. T. Ewlng Parkham, 44, was killed by lightning near Lub bock while his wife was stand ing 40 feet away. Former King Carol Greeted by Stares HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 10 (UP) Former King Carol of Rumania and his red-haired friend, Magda Lupescu, de barked here from the American export liner Excambion today without so much as a "hip" or "hooray" from about 100 Ber mudans who watched with mild interest. Both were greeted with stony silence as they came down the gangplank and waved to the crowd. Carol debarked first. He was attired in a double-breasted blue suit with gray stripes, blue shirt with white stripes and a narrow stiffly starched collar, gray felt hat, and carried a bam boo cane. He wore a small dec oration over his breast pocket. As he reached the foot of the gangplank, he raised his hat and waved to the silent crowd. Ashore he was met by' Major General Denis J. C. K. Bernard, governor general of Bermuda, and drove away in the gover nor's carriage to the Belmont hotel. , . . . BRITISH FLEET HITS BENGHAZI, SINKS 2 SHIPS Admiralty Gives New Evidence of Control of Mediterranean LONDON. May 10 (UP) The admiralty reported tonight that Britain's Mediterranean fleet had given fresh evidence of its control of the narrow waters of the inland sea, beating off a determined air attack by axis planes and hurling a thun derous bombardment at the axis base of Benghazi. Both actions occurred Thurs day with the Benghazi bom bardment as a curtain raiser. The Benghazi attack occurred In the early morning hours and was credited with inflicting seri ous damage to the quays and shipping in the harbor. Two axis supply ships, intercepted as they approached the harbor, were sunk. One of them, a munitions ship of 3000 to 5000 tons, was reported literally "blown to bits." Axis Planes Fall In the encounter of the Brit ish warships and axis planes, the admiralty reported that no ships were damaged and seven axis planes shot down. Five axis planes were badly damaged and others were known to have been injured. British losses were two aval fighters, the crew of one belngrecovered. , v The admiralty said that the Dig guns or trie .British ' fleet scored heavy hits upon the axis base of Benghazi in thev course of the bombardment which was similar to -that previously car ried out upon the equally im portant axis base at Tripoli. : Hits Scored ' - The admiralty said that naval shells from the fleet's heavy bat teries were seen to score hits (Continued on Page Two) Selassie Orders Roman Eagle on Palace Beheaded ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia. May 10 UP) The stone Roman eagle which surmounted the doorway of Haile Selassie's pal ace during its occupancy by the Italian viceroys has been be headed by his order. That was one of the first decrees of the reconquering Lion of Judah on his return after five years of exile. A British Journalist - talked with him today in the vast ground floor study of the pal ace. Stretched before him was a map of Ethiopia. In a corner ticked a grandfather's clock which the late King George V had given him. ine enemies of Britain are my enemies," Selassie answered to a question whether Ethiopia was at war with Germany as well as Italy. I am prepared to attack both fascism and naziism. It is my earnest desire to organize a regular army in Ethiopia." Lindbergh Raps Government For Witholding Intentions MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, May 10 (UP) Charles A. Lindbergh charged tonight that the "prin ciples of democracy" were de nied the American people in the last national election and said he doubted that "any coun try in Europe has been less in formed about the intentions of its government than we have been here in America." Lindbergh, who recalled that a generation ago his father was speaking on platforms in Minne sota against American interven tion in a European war, ad dressed a rally sponsored by the America First committee. He v. as introduced by Hanford Mac- Nider, Mason City, la, former national commander of the American Legion. Sen. Henrlk Shipstead, (R-Minn.), also ap peared on the program. Will of People "There was once a time in America when we could Impose Common Foods High in London LONDON, May 10 OP) London housewives shopping today found these price tags on some of their favorite edibles: Strawberries 20 cents each, not each basket, each strawberry. Cucumbers 50 cents each. Tomatoes 30 cents each. Lettuce 20 cents for a head with about four leaves on it Mushrooms 60 cents a pound. ALLIES FIGURE SHIPPINGLOSS 1098 Vessels, Near Five Million Tons, Sent Down in Year LONDON, May 10 MV-Britain, her allies and the neutrals lost 1098 ships aggregating 4,734,407 tons in the year since the nazi invasion of the low countries, new admiralty sta tistics showed today. This, chiefly, is the toll of British, allied and neutral ship ping in the battle of the Atlan tic but the totals include Brit ain's losses in the Dunkerque withdrawal in May and June, 1940, and the withdrawal from Greece last month. During April losses were 488, 124 tons, the. admiralty dis closed, a total surpassed by only two previous months in the year- June, 1940,. when 533,302 tons were sent to- thevbotMm, and March of this yir0htn the total reached 489,229. - Included in the April losses, however, were 187,054 tons sunk in the recent "intensive operations" in the Mediterran ean, the admiralty said. . Subtracting of this Mediter ranean total from the whole of the April losses shows that only 301,070 tons were sent to the bottom in other naval war the aters last month. Woman Suffers Cut Leg During Fire A fire which started in a large overstuffed chair at 2263 Applegate street called city fire fighting equipment at 8:54 Sat urday evening. According to the fire station Mrs. Gladys Ruff was 111 in bed at the time and suffered a cut on the leg from broken gloss as she was being carried from the house. Neighbors were said to have had the fire under control with water from a garden hox when the fire engine arrived. Con siderable damage was done to the interior, however. The chair and part of a rug were burned and a radio, piano and other furnishings were badly scorched. GERMANS IN IRAQ NEW YORK, May 10 (UP) Radio Budapest, heard by the National broadcasting system. reported tonight in a dispatch from Ankara that "large num bers of German troops are ar riving in Iraq." our will by vote," Lindbergh said! "Many of us thought we were still operating under that prin ciple at the elections last No vember. Both political parties had adopted platforms against intervention in this war. . . . But it now seems doubtful that we even had two parties last November, at least as far as the presidential candidates were concerned. The people of the na tion were not given the chance to vote on the greatest issue of our generation the issue of foreign war. And yet we are told that we must go to Europe to fight for the very principles of democracy that were denied to us in our own nation last November." Blockade "Ridiculous" Lindbergh reiterated his be lief that England cannot win the war and said the idea that the entire continent of Europe can (Continued on Page Two) OVER CAPITAL, RAF Hits Mannheim Rail Center During Heavy Night Attack LONDON. Sunday. May 11 (UP) Authoritative quarters reported early today that 33 German planes had been de stroyed In last night's mass raid on London. By NED RUSSELL United Press Correspondent LONDON. (Sunday). Mav 11 (Uf) London rocjeed and rum bled early today under the se verest bombardment since April 19 as German bombers swarmed over tne capital and loosed hail of high explosives and in cendiaries. In possible retaliation for heavy tiritisn attacxs on Ger many trus week, nazi nlanes un loaded tnousanos of incendiaries and hundreds of high explo sives, neaping new aestrucuoa and death on the city. The scream of bombs with their deafening explosions, min gling with the ens Iter of burst ing "Molotov breadbaskets, ' the clatter and cruncn of incendi aries showering streets and buildings, and tne rattle of anti aircraft guns combined In an ear-splitting din. Full Moon - The raiders were aided by that brilliant ttght of a full moon, illuminating the capital. . At least four German planes were destroyed. The raiders appeared to be employing the new terror tech nique in some districts of the city- There they dropped high explosives first, apparently in an effort to frighten fire-watch ers . away, and then - followed witn a nan of fire bombs. The "battle of the moon" raged furiously above the city, but anti-aircraft fire was not heavy. There were many lulls. When the guns blazed, observers could see sharp starlike bursts in the sky together with tiny smoke rings that disintegrated lazily. Long, winding vapor trails from the planes streaked the deep blue sky as waves of raid ers streamed overhead in rapid succession unloading their car goes, f Crash Described ' An observer, who saw one of the raiders crash, said there was a heavy barrage from the ground guns at the time. "The plane," he said, "flying very high, suddenly burst into flame. It looked like a ball of fire in the sky. It took a long time to come down and exploded when it hit the ground, with a flash that could be seen for miles." A residential area on the out skirts of London was hard-hit. A direct hit was registered on a warden's post there, killing the chief warden and wounding several others, and a number of houses were damaged causing several casualties. The debris of one house was being searched for trapped per sons early today. A number were feared buried. Two bombs in another area wrecked three houses and darn aged several others. Injuring four persons. There were addi tional casualties and a number of houses damaged in a nearby area. Two hospitals were hit, ona with casualties. The full fury of the German attack apparently was directed at London, for the only other reports of enemy air activity came from a southeast coast town, where incendiaries were dropped, and a Midlands town, (Continued on Page Two) . News Index ; Building News Pages 4, S City Briefs Page 7 Comics and Story ..-.. Page 8 Editorials Page High School News Pale 6 Information Page 7 Market, Financial Page 10 Midland Empire News, Page 7 Pattern Page 13 Society Section Two Sports Page 9 Weekend Magazine .....Page 3 (Continued on Page Two) v -v