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Vol. 18. No. 146 l'rico Five Cent
TWO SECTIONS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. MAY 13, 1941
(Every Morning Escept Monday
In The
Day's
News
Br rnANK jenkins
OVER tha week-end, tho Gcr-
mana pound London Irom
j-the air, acrloudy damugltig
CWestmtniter abbey and the
houses of parliament.
The British hammer back at
Berlin. Bremen, Hamburg, etc.,
and tha Germans admit con
aiderablo damage.
A ...
'VOU will have noted by this
time that air bombing most
erf it at night) la the regular
daily pattern of modern war
tare. Land and sea battles are
the dramatic Incidents.
In tha past (among allrgcdly
ivillted peoples) wars were de
cided by battles on sea and
land as when the Greeks
destroyed tha bulk of the Per
elan fleet at Salamls and fin
lahed It off at Mycale, thua end
ing tha threat of a Persian in
vasion, and when Alexander,
less than a century later, broke
forever the power of Persia in
tha land battle of Arbela.
fa. In these days, breaking the
morale of ALL the people (not
Just the armed forces) la re
garded aa the most likely way
to win a war.
Hence constant bombing at
Bight for which, as yet.
neither aide has found an
answer.
TJfE call It TOTAL war
" meaning by that Involve
ment of all the people of na
tion; civilians aa well as armed
forces, women and children, old
and young, aa well as men of
military age.
Total war Is not new In the
world. It has always been prac
ticed by savages, raiding enemy
villages, killing, burning and
tooting- Modem total war copies
these aavaga device, except lor
tha looting.
f The purpose, in both cases. It
W to break morale.
...
fN the so-called fighting fronts
(using the term In its older
sense), tha lull continues.
In Iraq, the Arabs announce
the decisive repulse of a British
attack on Rutba fort, along the
line of tha oil pipe line to the
Mediterranean. The British an
nounce the TAKING of Rutba
fort on Sunday morning You
can take your choice.
The British forces appear to
be cracking down on the Italians
remaining in East Africa. Ethio
pian Emperor Haile Selassie, re
occupying his palace at Addis
Ababa, orders the beneamng oi
an Image of the Italian eagie.
(A little showmanship, to buck
his people up.)
At Tnhrnk. the British make
sally, capturing some German
'It prisoners and a tank. (Salllcj
such as this are part of the day-
to-day routine of a oesiegra posi
tion.)
a
nON'T deceived by this
''lack of activity (other than
continuous air raiding.) It won't
last. The next big blow wilt fall
soon enough.
Where?
Your guess Is as good as any.
one's. But Hitler's hope, like all
military leaders In all the cen
turies men have been fighting,
will be to strike where the
enemy is LEAST prepared.
Surprise la as important in
warfare now as it ever was.
MEANWHILE from Chung
11 king, where Chiang Kai
Shek makes a speech on the oc
Ocaslon of the departure of
American Ambassador Johnson
for his new post In Australia,
comes a bold note.
Chiang says:
"China, without the help of
an expeditionary force or naval
action, is prepared to undertake
SINGLE-HANDED the task of
putting Japan down."
WAGES RAISED
PORTLAND, Ore., May 12 (U.ffl
Wages of approximately 1000
Oregon truck drivers will bo in
creased as a results of an agree
ment concluded today between
operators and 13 locals of the
state Joint council of teamsters
(AFL).
Looking Backward
By The Associated Press
May 18. 1040 Key Belgian
fortress of Liege falls to Ger
mans. May 12, 1918 Battle of Ver
dun rages Into 82nd day.
1 1 SHIPYARDS
HALTED WHEN
1700 STRIKE
Half-BiHion's Worth
Of Circus on Defense
Delayed by Tie-Ups
By The Associated Press
A Joint strike by AFL and
CIO machinists closed 11 Cali
fornia ahipyards and drydocks
Monday which have 1500,000.000
worth of warship and defense
contracts as an AFL strike also
stopped work on a $3,000,000
defrnse construction Job at the
South Boston, Mass., navy dry
dock. The strike by the 1700 machin
ists, in face of protests from
government and high union of
ficials, affected between 15,000
and 20.000 workers.
IS Injured
In connection with a teamsters
strike, police at Detroit said at
least 18 men were injured when
fighting broke out as the Cur
rier Lumber company attempted
to move trucks manned by non
union workers. AFL strikers
seeking union recognition and
wage increases, hurled bricks
and stones. The present wage
scale was not revealed.
Officials of the office of pro
duction management in Wash
ington requested leaders of the
strike at South Boston to meet
with them tomorrow.
Spokesmen for the union said
tha walkout halted work on
facilities under a $30,000,000
program, now about half
through, but said it did not stop
ship building activities since 300
men working in the navy yard
were not called out at once.
CM Strike Set
E. A. Johnson, secretary
treasurer of the building and
construction trades council, said
the strike was called as a pro
test to hiring of 1200 WPA and
civil service - worker at tha
base, H added that tha. union
would call out tha 300 men at
the navy yard "in the event-of
no settlement in this existing
dispute.
The CIO United Automobile
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F, R. Cancels
Speech, Plans
Fireside Chat
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U.B
President Roosevelt is expected
to make a momentous statement
of national policy in a broad
cast fireside chat May 27.
Tho address will be a sub
stitute for the one the president
was to have matte on Wednes
day night before the Pan-Ameri
can union. H will be broadcast
throughout" the United States
by the three major networks
from 9:30 p. m. to 10 p. m.
(EST) and translated for short
wave transmission to other coun
tries. "Homey Party"
The president will speak from
the White House in the pres
ence of Latin American diplo
mats who were to have tender
ed a reception from him on Wed
nesday. White House Secretary
Stephen T. Early said it would
be "a homey party very in
formal." The change in plans was an
nounced by Early after the
governing board of the Pan
American union had adopted a
resolution suggesting cancella
tion of the Wednesday engage
ment to enable the president to
recuperate completely from a
stomach disorder.
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull then invited the diplomats
to attend the "homey party."
In announcing the revised
plans. Early said he was sorry
to explode newspaper dispatches
which had speculated on the im
portance of the Wednesday night
speech.
"Despite reports from abroad,
there will be no world-shaking
pronouncement from the presi
dent on Wednesday night," he
said.
Vog Prefers Rule
Of Josef Stalin
Earl Clarence Bradshaw,
picked up on a charge of vag
rancy, told arresting officer
Monday, that "Stalin's govern
ment was a lot better" than
that of the United States, Judge
J. A. Mahoney, Justice of the
peace, sentenced Bradshaw to
15 days in Jail. Officer will
probably take the man' finger
prints and check hi record.
Judge Mahoney said.
Sentenced to Life imprisonment
' Nj
I 1 i't mi 1 iViii 11 ii i T itfaartiim y.--
John Wyli. IS, walks out of the courtroom at Xapa.
Calif., with his arms around his hysterical mother, "fiitt be
ing sentenced to Ufa imprisonment and two additl.-- long
prison terms for tha confessed slaying of Dale Martin sod tha
kidnaping of Martin and Mrs. Ann Zimonsen at nearby Vel
U)o. Calif. Tha prison term ware for on to 20 year each
on two kidnaping counts. He piaaded guilty.
DRAFT BOARD,.
ASKS CHANGES
Deferment of Older
Registrants Sought
As Problem Remedy
WASHINGTON, May 12
Selective service headquarters
asked congress today to amend
the conscription act in order to
permit the deferment of older
draft registrants.
Brlg.-Gen. Louis B. Hershey,
deputy director, informed
Speaker Rayburn in making the
request that "our experience dis
closes that a comparatively
small percentage of men are be
ing inducted from the higher
age groups, and that many of
our problems arise in connec
tion therewith."
"I am informed," he added,
"that men in the younger age
brackets are best qualified for
the training and service con
templated under the act."
An amendment to the law
which Hershey proposed would.
he said, "permit the president to
prescribe rules and regulations
for the deferment of men whose
age is such that they should be
deferred in the national inter
est," Hershey did not specify at
what age the proposed defer
ment would start. There have
been suggestions that defer
ments start at 28 or 30 years.
In addition to younger men
being qualified, Hershey said
the deferment of older men was
important since it was planned
to keep the selectees in reserve
status for 10 years.
Yichy Reports
Dictotors Moy
Hold Meeting
VICHY, France, May 12 m
Diplomatic circles reported to
day that meetings among Adoif
Hitler, Premier Mussolini and
Joseph Stalin are sonsidered
likely in the near future.
These informant indicated
the meetings would be in con
nection with possible reorgan
ization of European economics
if not the European military
bloc.
Diplomats believed that the
meetings, if they actually take
place, will be part of far-reach
ing moves all over Europe in
cluding a shake-up of the Span
ish civil and military organiza
tion and French Vice Premier
Darlan'a negotiation with the
German. i
ri
20-30 Club 9
AsksWaiver
Of Circus Fee
. Prolonged discussion over pos
sible waiver of tha Recreation
park license fee for c circus late
this month and over tha new
state "club law" for restaurants
selling liquor service featured a
tedious meeting of the city coun
cil Monday night.
In the park matter, brought
up on application of the Klamath
Fails 20-30 club, opinions pro
and con from a large audience
consumed a good share cf the
three and one-half hour session.
The club is seeking use of the
park May 27 and 28 for the club
sponsored Pollack Brothers cir
cus, proceeds of which will be
turned over to the organization's
milk fund.
Sam Goldstein, speaking for
the youth group, asked that the
$10Q-per-night fee be waived so
as to allow as much as possible
of the revenue to be turned over
to the fund. He said the club had
signed a contract with the cir
cus whereby it was to receive 15
percent of the gross and out of
which it was to pay for light
and park rental.
Supported
Goldstein argued the city
would benefit by the milk fund,
the more so if the $200 fee was
waived. He was supported by R.
G. Pollack of the circus and sev
eral members of the 20-30 club.
. Mrs. Rose Poole, a member of
the audience, maintained such
action would set a bad precedent
for succeeding show. Her com
ment drew affirmation from
several councilmen. Councilman
W. E. Wiesendanger suggested
that Pollack Brothers should pay
the fee drew some support. .
Another stickler was the ques
tion of whether the show would
be over by the 9:30 curfrew time :
recently set to placate nearby :
property owners. Pollack said;
this could be arranged.
General feeling was that the:
council was wholly In favor of
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Kirk Appeals for
High Court Trial
A motion for a new trial In
state supreme court of Luther
Joe Kirk, Klamath Indian con
victed of second degree murder
her in March and sentenced to
Ufa imprisonment, wa revealed
Monday in a notice of appeal
from Judgment oi Klamath coun
ty circuit court.
The motion was dated March
12, and was signed by W. C.
Van Emon, attorney for the
plaintiff. Kirk was found guilty
ot the second degree murder of
Leonard John, Indian.
British Capture No. 3 Nazi
Rudolph Hess In Scotland
BRITISH PILOTS
TRADE BLOWS
WITH GERMANS
Hamburg, Bremen Hit
Again by RAF; Nazis
Strike at Airports
tack officially declared to have
left vast area of flaming de
struction.
It was Hamburg that was at
the focus of these new assaults.
said the air ministry, and a "dis
organization of vital parts" of
that biggest of German harbors
was claimed.
Shipyards Blasted
Shipbuilding yards nine mile
in length, which line the banks
of the river Elbe, were threated
and crossed with British fire,
said the air ministry, and high
explosive and incendiary bombs
fell heavily in alt that section.
Among the objective hit, the
British said, were the Biohra
and Voss shipyards where Ger
man capital ships were laid
down in the last great war.
All this was accomplished
abroad at the same time that the
British defender at home
LONDON, Tuesday, May 13
(U.fD The Rhineland railway and
industrial center of Mannheim,
often a target for Royal Air
Force : bombers, was attacked
again last night, it was said auth
oritatively today.
Sunday night British bomber
struck heavily at Hamburg and
Bremen. , ' .
, By T Associated Pratt
f LONDON, May 12 British
pilots, trading steel for steel and
fire fpr fire with the nazis, beat
at the German ports of Bam'
burg and Bremen again last
night in a mighty bombing et-
(Continued on Page Three)
SENATORSOKAY
SHIPSEIZl'RE
Opponents Seek Rule
Against Transfer of
Vessels to Bntcin
WASHINGTON, May 12 m
Legislation authorizing the gov
ernment to take over foreign
ships lying idle in American
harbors was approved by the
senate commerce committee to
day. 11 to 4.
Prior to the final ballot the
committee rejected 10 to 8 an
effort by Senators Vandenberg
(B-Mich.) and Clark to-Mo.J to
prevent the government from
taking a vessel owned by one
belligerent nation, or its na
tionals Italy, for example
and turning it over to Bnother
belligerent Britain. This pro
posal was expected to be pressed
again on the senate floor when
debate starts, probably late this
week.
Those voting against the leg
islation were Senators Clark,
Vandenberg, Johnson, (R-Calif.)
and Burton R-Ohio).
The committee wrote an
(Continued on Page Three)
Three Judges High
in List of Possible
Successors to Sean
SALEM, May 12 (Pi Gover
nor Charles A. Sprague indicat
ed today he would appoint a suc
cessor tomorrow to the late Su
preme Court Justice Henry 3.
Bean, who died last week.
There were indication that
the new justice would be an
eastern Oregon man. Hundreds
of letters and telegram in be
half of various candidates
poured Into the governor's of
fice today, but the names most
prominently mentioned were
Circuit Judge Robert M. Dun
can of Burn, Arthur D. Hay of
Lakeview and Carl Hendricks of
fossil.
The nw Judge would serve
until the next general ejection.
Bean's death created the first
vacancy on the bench since July i
16, 1837, when Justice James U
Campbell died and was succeed-:
ed by Justice Hall S. Lusk, who:
was appointed by former Gover-:
nor Charles H. Martin.
England, U. S.
Will Win War,
Says Halifax
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 12
UX Lord Halifax, British am
bassador to the United States, to
night said spiritual war, "the
most formidable challenge which
mankind has yet been called
upon to meet," will be won by
an indomitable Britain, support
ed by the United State.
"For here is no dispute be
tween nation for the sake of
territorial gain; it i a naked
struggle between ail that we
recognize as good and ail thai
we have come to know as evil,"
he told a rally at Municipal audi
torium. Halifax deviated from hi pre
pared address to take cognizance
ot Rudolf Hess escape to Scot
land, which he called "the para
chute descent on Scotland."
"It has been said," Halifax
stated, "that he was mad before
he left Germany. If that is so,
he was not the only one left in
Germany. Perhaps he acted as he
did because he saw the handwrit
ing on the wail. If that is so, it
was very significant action."
DEFENSE'
EYED BY KNOX
Navy Secretary Says
Convoys Might Not
Solve - Aid Problems
WASHINGTON, May 11&U3
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox said tonighf tbsf U, S. con
voys may not be the solution to
the British .aid problem that
"possibly we will have to devise
a new defense to see that the
the goods which we manufacture
will reach the other side of the
Atlantic-
Knox, who last week called
for use of the V. S. Navy to pro
tect war supplies for Britain, told
the Americas Society of Military
Engineers that the United States
must make its opposition to Adolf
Hitler count, "what ever the
price may be."
Awaiting Word
"We can not half fight this
battle.'' he declared. "America al
ready has taken a good many
steps In the direction oi forth
right action. All that America is
awaiting for tonight is the word
to go forward."
The navy secretary spoke ex
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Woman Dives 14
Stories fo Death
NEW YORK. May. 12 fliJS :
Cora Mae Groover, 25, a beauti
ful brunette from Homestead.:
Fla., hurtled through the glass
window at her Greenwich vil
lage apartment tonight and fell
14 stories to her death after a
quarrel with her sweetheart,
Wail street attorney.
Scot Plowman Describes
Hess' Landing in England
GLASGOW, Tuesday. May 13
Lfii David McLean, a sturdy
Scot plowman, told the story to
day of how Rudolf Hess, the man
rated third in the naii party,
drifted down from the clouds in
the gathering darkness last Sat
urday hard by the little McLean
cottage.
A thorough gentleman I
could tell by bis bearing and the
way he spoke, McLean said in
describing Hess.
Everyone else was tn bed
when I heard a plane roaring
overhead," he related. "As I ran
into the back of the farm there
was a crash and I saw a plane
hurst into flames.
Setttcaed For Help
'I wa a bit frightened when I
saw a parachute dropping slowly
through the gathering darkness.
Peering upward I could see a
man swinging in the harness, and
concluded it wa German air-:
man bailing out. So I returned to )
the house for help.
They were all asleep. I look-:
ed around hastily for some weap-:
on, but could find nothing ex-i
cept a hayfork. Fearing I might j
lose my airman, I hurried around
Captured
Rudolph Hess, ojuty iuh?
r mad Ho. 3 csxi. bailed out
ot a Measenchmitt 118 fight
r plsa and floated dawa by
parachute s Glasgow, Scot
land. Rumors diculated ia
London that Hess brought
peace proposals to Britain,
but that they did not hare
tha support of Adolf Hitler.
IRAQ FIGHTERS
CLAIM VICTORY
Cairo Says Italians
Pursued; Defenders
Of Tobruk See Win
BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 12 m
The Iraq general staff declared
today British armored forces
were repulsed to violent fighting
around the fort of Rutba.
The British were said to have
tost two of their armored ears
in the attack, and a British
plane, caught in machine-gun
fire from the ground,"" r-
Dorted shot down in flames. .
The details .were given is ad
dition to a high command com
munique which declared the
Ttulba fort still ia the hand of
Iracjuis and that there wa in
creased activity sear Basra, to
the south.
CAIRO, Egypt, May 1J m
British forces closing in on 38,-
900 Italians holding Arabs Alaji
fortress, perched si an altitude
of 8000 feet in northers Eth
iopia, have occupied the nearby
stronghold of Gumsa, the raid
die east command announced to
day.
Four big fascist guns and
quantities cf war materials were
declared seized by Indian troops
advancing south toward the
mountain citadel, which lies 280
miles northeast of Addis Ababa.
A second British column driving
from the north is making con
tinued progress, the war bulletin
said.
Things picked up oa the north
African front over the weekend,
the British command announced.
with imperial forces at Tobruk
capturing 32 axis prisoners and
inflicting casualties is a surprise
raid. In the Salum, sector, SO
miles farther east on the Egyp
tian border, the British reported
capture of an axis tank in con
tinuing harassing raids on the
German and Italian positions.
by myself again to the back of
the house into the field, where
1 saw a mas lying on the ground
with the parachute nearby.
"He smiled, and as X assisted
him to his feet thanked me."
"I could see he had injured
his foot in some way. I helped
him into the house. By this time
my old mother and sister had
got out cf bed and made tea.
Too Late For T
"The stranger declined the
tea, and smiled when we told
him we were very fond of it
in this country.
"He said 1 never drink tea a
late as this. I'll have only a glass
of water."
"Word was sent to military
authorities and meantime the
visitor chatted freely with us and
showed pictures of hi little boy
of whom he spoke very proud
ly. "He told us he left Germany
about four hours previously and
landed because night was ap
proaching. "1 could see from the way he
spoke that he was a man of cul
ture. Despite hi foreign accent
Continued oo Cage Three
brSaile
Various Theories on
Flier's Act Brought
Forth in Arguments
LONDON, Tsiesdsy. May 13
Deputy Fuehrer Hudoiph
Bess, Germany's No. 3 sazi.
parachuted from a Messer
schmitt lis fighter with un
loaded guns over Scotland Sat
urday night, as official an
nouncement said today. There
were rumors that he bad fled
Germany after a Quarrel with
Adolf Hitler.
Hess floated down from his
twin-engined plane onto the
estate of the Duke of Hamilton,
first peer of Scotland, fractur
ing his ankle ia the faiL Xie
be was takes la a Glasgow so
pita! for treatment.
Carried Photos
With him he carried shot'
graphs, through which he etab
iissed bis identify, and tseda
dries for treatment of heart and:
gall bladder ailments from which
he wa said to ffenng. - -
"The identity i.e mas who
landed from m Hesserscsssiit la
Scotland as Rudolph Hess has
now been established beyond ail
possible doubt," a ministry ot
information, eemmisuoe said
early today,'
It was understood that Xvoo
Kirkpatrkk, former first sec
retary of the British embassy in
: Berlin and now a foreign office
i official, wa interviewing' HesS
ia Glasgow. Kirkpatrics: attend
ed the Godesberg and Munich
conferences between Bitier and
the late Neville Chamberlain,
former British prime minister,
a the latter interpreter. He is
intimately acquainted with sazi
leaders, including Hess,
Hess plane, with empty gas
tanks and carrying neither
bombs nor ammunition, crashed
ia the Moorlands sbout 10 miles
from Glasgow. - -
Asks For Water
A plowman helped bins to a
farmhouse where the plowman's
mother offered him a cap ef
tea. The nasi deputy fuehrer
declined, bewever, and asked
for a glass of water. .
"It more refreshing," he
said. - ,
Hess left Augsburg, is south
ern Germany, where Messer
schmitts are manufactured, at
6:30 p. m. Saturday, it wa
learned. He reached the coast of
Scotland five hours later.
Rumor aa lest strange than,
the flight cf a national leader
to a nation with which bis own
country was at war sprang up
the wake of the announcement.
One, . without authoritative
confirmation, wa Hess fled Ger
many after a disagreement with
Adoif Hitler and he brought
peace proposals to Britain which
did not bear the fuehrer's ap
proval.
: Sot Insane .
British authorities quickly
denied a Berlin hint Hess might
be insane. They said all the cir
cumstances of the case pointed
to his complete sanity, wiucii
wa vouched for by those who
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Couple Killed As
Plane Hits Hill
LEWISTON, Ps May IS gi!
Ben Brewster and hi wife, the
former Leonie De Bary lyon.
were killed instantly when their
private plane crashed into Shade
mountain 2S miles northeast of
here Friday, a rescue party re
ported tonight.
The small Beechcraft plana
struck the mountain and burst
into flames. Both Brewster and
bis wife were killed by the im
pact and their bodies were burn
ed badly.
The wreckage was spotted iat
today by Norman Biaiosi, a com
mercial pilot.
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