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Mn., 1941 THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE L How Axis New Order Will Split Up the Old World Night Life in London tube Tl i ACTIVITIES OF FOUR- CLUB i - . t i :i m 1 1 raw. RELIEF GROUPS SCHOLARSHIPS REGISTER DENIED BY U AGAIN SLATED 1 WASHINGTON. May 12 (U.R) A (elective service proclama tion calling for tlx registration of an estimated 1,000,000 nu-n who have reached 21 since the lint K iluy lent October 18 ! ready (or tllo president's alg nature. The proclamation draft was completed by selective service officials today but It contained blank space for the registra tion date. President Roosevelt will decide that. It was plan ned to transmit the draft to the White House next week with the recommendation the date be set early In June, pre ferably the , first day of the month. Officials said they expected the proclamation to be Issued within three weeks. They said plana are being perfected to hold a lottery for the new reg istrants 10 days after registra tion. New regulations have been drafted providing the registra tion be conducted by local se lective service boards Instead of by county election officials as In the case of the first R day. Each member of a local board will be In charge of a precinct registration station. They will be assisted by volun teer workers. The registration proclamation, officials said, will be similar lo tho original one except for the age of those who must register. It calls for simultaneous regis tration In Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska. In the first regis tration, different dates were set for the territories and posses sions. Officials also said they plan to provide more substantial reg istration cards for the new reg istrants. The original ones were flimsy. Various proposals concerning . . - nietnoa oy wmcn new reg- l.tr.nt. would be selected 'or military training have been atudied. But officials are eon- vincea me method wh eh miolit lirni'a tmrmmt -. .. .1 ,. -. . . . to criticism" would be to add r -"-'-" ."j-v would be to add the new registrants to existing lists. A large percentage of the new registrants are expected to be eligible for service. Officials hope that fart might serve to bring about a more liberal at titude on the part of local boards toward present rrl. t runts. National headquarters made public an analysis showing ap proximately 77 per cent of the men Inducted under selective service before March 1 were IB to 27 years of age Inclusive. Only 11 per cent of those in ducted were In the age group 31 to 38. The 22-year-old age group upplied the greatest number, contributing IS 55 per cent -of the men accepted. Youths, IB, 19 and 20. elected to take their training Immediately although lint subject to call, constituted 3.02 per cent of the total. Of the 183,198 men Inducted prior to March 1, the analysis showed the following distribu tion by age groups: Pctg. of Age No. Total 18 1.257 .695 " 2.027 1.105 2" 2.251 1.23 "1 17.209 9.47 22 28.477 15 35 2' 26,019 14.18 24 21.011 11.455 25 17.088 9.315 2B 17,989 7.615 27 11,095 6.05 28 9.245 5.02 29 7.201 3.925 !" 6,069 3.31 to 5.001 2.73 32 4,316 2.355 :t 3.741 2.04 to 3.103 1.89 'I 2.725 1.49 38 1,392 .755 Artist Leaps From Hospital Window ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., May 12 (,T) Haskell Coffin, 63, nationally known artist, commit ted suicide by leaping from the third floor of St. Anthony's hos pital today. Magistrate John T. Fisher said. Coffin had been confined to the hospital since April 17, Fisher said, under treatment for melancholia. . , APPLE POLISHERS OMAHA, Ncb (AP) A mes senger boy walked into Prof. John W. Lucas' classroom at Omaha university, placed a bushel of cellophane-wrapped apples on his desk and sang: "Oh, we had a dream the other night We dreamed wc got an A Because we've worked with all our might And, been so good each day." , ''he telegram was signed, 'Male Members of the Market ing Class." Here Is how the axis new order" will divide up the world, as outlined In a German propagsnda map. Old World Is to be split three ways while U. S. gets all western hemisphere, rirst grabber evidently ' gets open area at Junction of three Eurasian spheres, and Greenland Is left up in the cold. Savage Assault On Tobruk Described By Eye -Witness Editor's note: The following eye-witness description of tho Germans' heaviest assault on Tobruk Is by United Press Cor respondent Jan Yindrich, only correspondent within the be sieged British fortress on the Libyan coast. By JAN YINDRICH Copyright 1141. by United Press Willi Tilt ULblECbD OKIT- ISH IN TOBRUK, May 2 (UP) (Delayed, via Courier to Cairo) The most savage assault on To bruk fortress since the begin ning of the axis siege Just three weeks ago was led by 60 roaring German tanks and crack "pan zer pioneers" flown from Sicily. It has penetrated the outer British defenses. Tho German assault, launched amid the din of furious "stuka" dive-bombings and a thunder ous 36-hour bombardment by German artillery, pierced the outer defenses yesterday. A de- tl.... i . """ " . jhe crack "panzer pioneers" nd "Khting sappers can be "edited with the advance. They " nuwn irom icuy aboard ll 1 1 B T 1 T II IVirt nlatlM M-fuwtnllu ,or ",e b'K r"ort to knock out ,,,,..,'. . -J-'V'-"' uu, uiv ui-ii'iiucia, a was in formed. Some of the "panzer pion eers" among the cream of Adolf Hitlers nhocklroops had been In the African desert only few hours when they were thrown into the smashing as sault. Following the 80 tanks catno trurkloads of infantry whilo re lays of dive-bombers streamed overhead, bombing and machine-gunning the British peri meter positions without a min ute's respite. The attack cost the nazis 14 tanks. Three were knocked out with "cocktail" aerial bombs of the royal air force, four by Brit ish tanks, thtee by artillery fire and four by mine fields in the sandy wastes. As a prelude to the attack perhaps to muffle the noise of the tanks moving up and to dis tract the British gunners Ger man artillery Wednesday eve ning opened up with an Inten sive shelling of the British artillery positions. For 38 hours shells crashed in almost constant din, echoing through the wadis, or dried-up river bottoms, while the tanks moved up cautiously under the light of a thin crescent moon and the Gorman infantry fol lowed in trucks. Despite the crash of shells around their entrenchments, artillery positions and tanks the "Aussica" held stubbornly to their outlying posts. But at dusk after hours of savage battling the German In fantry held a wedge of territory 3000 yards Inside Tobruk's peri meter forest near the Acroma rood. Make Scarf and Chair Set to Match mmmm - PATTERN 690 Bring your household acces sories 'up to the minute with this popular sunbonnct girl in filet crochetl A chair or buffet set and matching scarf are all crocheted of string. Pattern 8904 contains charts and direc tions for making set; lllustra- ( SOUTM-N ( 1 $ AMimcAy' Ik i u 1 r The German Infantry far out numbered the Australians. German sappers carrying hand grenades labored under fire to make a brideghead through a shallow British anti tank ditch and permit the tanks to move up. Thirty tanks nenetrated the wire barriradrs at one nnint nnrt labout 600 . German sappers uoured tlirnuoh diuinnir in like frenzied moles In the midst of a horseshoe-shaped British mine field. The sappers began removing ! ,he uril,j. mines, opening the way for more tanks to come pounding up. Thirty tanks which pene trated the wire turned west ward, engaging the infantry positions. A young Australian infantryman related: Thirteen enemy tanks ap proached our post about 10 a. m. Two perched about 30 yards uww... iiniciiaticu.Hiuuvw grenades at them, but was un- .ble to make the distance as lhcv drcw o(f A,. ?"j i,i ... .u. v.. t,..-i .... .... ! ' nrnrherf ...rf ih.,r fi oncr. more units men ap - re was so severe we had to keep down. I think they must have opened a tank door because minute later a big stick bomb came hurtling into our concrete post. "1 -shouted 'Look out, its on' as we tried to dive around a corner, but the burst got me In the legs. Our artillery then got the range of the tanks and they drew off, one being hit and go ing up in black smoke a short distance from us." All day British artillery shelled tho German tanks be tween Intermittent blinding dust storms which covered the whole perimeter with a thick yellow cloud, reducing visibility sometimes to less than six feet. Thursday morning 14 British tanks engaged 30 German tanks and forced them to withdraw. A man who took part in the battle told this story: "We saw the German tanks advancing tinder an artillery barrage, followed at a good dis tance by truckloads of infantry. Our artillery fired on them and we sailed out with all guns blaz ing. After hours of battling amidst the dust. In which 1 saw four German tanks hit and burst into flames. I was wounded. "I was hit by a machine gun bullet in the arm as I jumped from my tank to take a first-aid kit to another tank nearby which was knocked out by the German tanks." A 22-year-old former cabinet maker from southern Australia said he had only one regret: . "They got me with a bullet through the thigh before I had time to fire a shot. I have not yet fired a shot in this war." Read the Classified Page. Filct String Crochet Makes Chair Set Or Scarf Ends tions of it and of stitches; ma terials needed. To obtain this pattern send 10 cents in coin to The News Herald, Household Arts Dept., Klamath Falls, Ore. Be sure to write plainly your name, ad dress and pattern number. TRUST FUND NUT REACH 'CEILING' SALEM. May 10 With Ore gon's unemployment trust fund attaining a new high of $12,170, 124 this week, officials were busy trying to estimate whether or not the figure would reach the "ceiling" of $14,373,312 be fore the end of the year. If the fund reaches the "ceil ing." which amounts to 8 per cent of the average annual pay roll of covered employers over the five-year period, 1936-40. no penalty rates (above 2.7 per cent) may be applied against em ployers with unstable employ ment records. With the new ex perience rates, varying from 1 to 4 per cent, due to take effect July 1, employers in many groups aro watching anxiously the rise in the fund. Unemployment benefits drop ped 32.3 per cent for the first four months of 1941 as com pared with last year. The com- $2,141,- Total recelnta fnp th Hrt four montM increased 9 8 oer cent from S2 84695 Tin 1940to " n I rom, .30 In IMu to $3.130 902 this year i "iveu mmiiiK i ail lie LJ1 1- tinued for the remainder of the year. the fund will increase more than the additional 2, 203.388 required to reach the "ceiling." officials point out. If the 6 per cent figure is reached at the end of any quarter, the ieent legislative amendment provides that penalty rates may not be collected on earnings in me suDsequeni quarter. Benefit payments In April were $273,244, a decrease of $145,921 from the previous month and a drop of $228,077 from.prH, )940. CONTINUES IN WEST PORTLAND, Ore.. May 12 (AP) Pacific northwest con struction continued to boom proportions through April, a survey of 25 cities disclosed Friday. The statistical department of the Equitable Savings and Loan association reported building was 45 per cent above April of last year. Bremerton had an astronomi cal 917 per cent gain in dwel ling construction, and the aver age for Washington, Idaho and Oregon was 40 per cent higher man April, 1940. Total building in Bremerton, increased 585 per cent, followed by Vancouver, Wash., with 391 per cent total and 101 per cent in housing. Oregon cities were led by As toria with a dwelling gain of JJ7 per cent and a total of 146 per cent. Others where housing con struction Increased more than 100 per cent were: Hoqulam. 298 per cent; Longview. 121: Tacoma. 192; Baker, 290; Pen dleton, 320. Nebraska To Join Oregon Trail Fete PORTLAND, May 12 VP) Nebraska will join Oregon in observing the 100th anniversary of the Oregon trail in 1943, Robert S. Farrell Jr., speaker of the Oregon house of repre sentatives, said Saturday. He said he received a copy of a resolution by the Nebraska legislature endorsing the cen tennial observance. Oldest City Among ruined cities, probably the oldest In the eastern hemi sphere is Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria, which was known as far back as 2500 B. C. Whan in Madford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND , Thoroughly Modern Jot and Anne Earley Proprietors , WASHINGTON, May 12 (UP) The United States Saturday night brought to a climax a week-long campaign against axis activity within its borders by forbidding two Italian relief or ganizations to collect funds any longer because it believes they are working for the Italian gov ernment rather than in the In terest of charitable relief. In the first revocation of licenses to solicit funds on such grounds, Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull ordered the Federation of Italian World War Veterans In the USA. Inc.. New York City, and the ladies auxiliary of the Providence, R. I., branch of the same organization, to stop soliciting and collecting funds at once. The order, preceded by anoth er letter, cancelled plans for a big benefit concert in Madison Square garden. New York City, at which leading Metropolitan opera stars had been advertised as hcadliners. ' The state department letter asserted that the organizations had been found to be so closely associated with the Italian gov ernment that their activities transcended the neutrality act. This law forbids the soliciting and collection of funds by or ganizations "for or on behalf of a belligerent government or any agency or instrumentality there of." The New York organization had collected $226,847 between Dec. 19. 1940 and March 31, 1941, according to filed reports, for relief to be distributed in Na ples, Torino, Palermo. Bari, Venice, Rome. Catania and Reg gio Calabria. Italy, by the com munity welfare fund there. Various New York anti-fascist organizations have charged that the funds actually were intend ed for use in propagandizing in the U. S. Revocation of license prohib its the organization from collect ing more funds, and informed sources said that if the funds previously collected had been used for other than relief pur poses, the organizers and offi- cers might be prosecuted. Actions restrictine axis e. tivity In this country this week included . German" seamen were round ed up for deportation on the grounds they had overstayed tneir leaves in this country. Italians who had worked at the New York World's fair and subsequently found Jobs in the united States in various capaci ties also were rounded up and neid for deportation. Funds of the I. G. Farben In dustries, giant German chemical concern which is a defendant in an anti-trust suit growing out of alleged control of the produc tion of vitally needed magnes ium, were attached by court or der when the firm refused to ap pear in answer to the suit. Manfred Zapp and Guenther Tonn. officials of the German subsidized Trans-Ocean News service, already indicted for fail lng to register as alien agents. were arrested and held without bail in deportation proceedings. They were accused of overstay ing their leave. Bail for Zapp an-t Tonn was opposed by US District Attorney Mathias F. Correa who recalled that the German war ace. Franz von Werra, had Jumped bail when released here after escap ing from a Canadian prison camp. The state department is investigating charges that Ger man consular agents aided that escape. Federal Grand Jury Indictments Rapped PORTLAND, May 12 (AP Federal grand Jury indictments in Oregon are illegal because women are excluded from the Juries, an attorney charged Fri day. Leroy L. Lomax made his claim in seeking dismissal of a kidnaping indictment against Harold H. Conner. I atgM leu'bon Wkl.Ly, K hool. THII WHISXIT London fir spotters watch flames roar after Nazi night raiders &howered down Incendiaries. Blazes often make raided areas light as dar. Church 'Empire Crumbles After Seattle SEATTLE. May 12, (AP) Bereft of the firm but benevo lent hands of its tall, gaunt, picturesque builder a church "empire" was crumbling here today. It is the First Presbyterian church, classed as the largest of the denomination when its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Mark A. Matthews, noted fundamentalist. died a year ago last February. Friday N. A. Jepson, an eld er who walked out of a meet ing of the session this week, announced that 100 or more eld ers were withholding their tithes in protest against the choice of the Rev. Dr. Jesse Baird and the Rev. Dr. Aaron Ung'-rrma, San Anselmo, as supply pastors. 'The church has departed greatly from the fundamentalist theory since Dr. Matthews' death, said Jepson. "1 don't snornv nf thin anH manv nth. I ers do not." Elder J. C. Jespersen, chair man of the session's prayer meeting, told interviewers "the I dissenting elders are not with- more who president of the drawing from the church, but!0"10"8 OU company, by A. C. will worship elsewhere tempo rarily. Jepson said his principal ob jection was that Doctor Baird signed the Auburn affirmation, a creed Jepson said denies the inspiration of the Scriptures. As a result, he said, he would not lead the men's Bible class in its usual Sunday Broadcast over the church s station; KTW. He has done so for the six years the class has been organ ized. Other than the fundamentalism-modernism issue, a major stumonng Diock to finding a successor to the personality who built up the congregation, has been the rapid dissolution of the church property since Doctor Matthews' death. At his death, the church in cluded some 8000 active par ishioners on the rolls of 30,000 names including deceased and inactive. It had the big down town house of worship and 26 branch churches throughout the city and nearby suburbs; 14 pas toral assistants; its own radio station, and a women's Mission ary society supporting four mis sionaries in Alaska and among the San Francisco Chinese; three missionaries in chosen, Siam and India; a hospital at Six on, N. M., and supplies mission; at Point Barrow, Alaska, and Neah Bay, Wash. Since the loss of its leader, the church has reduced its list of assistant pastors; three of the branch churches have attained independent status and three more have petitioned the Seat tle presbytery for like action. Several prominent eastern clergymen have been called to the Seattle pulpit, and have gone home, rejecting the charge or rejected. Said Doctor Matthews, in his 28th and final annual report: "In 1901, we first saw the discouraged handful of faithful saints who had already done a mignty work, and who were ready to take their harps from the willows, sing a new song and proceed to the fields of ac tivity and service. There is one thing that makes a church ex- lint 4 NASI WD. I.IW.I.V Dtwlltn Cm., N. Y. C Leader Dies ceedingly happy and successful, and that is the spirit of fellow ship and cooperation." But his empire is crumbling, and the flock bereft of the strong will of its leader, is per plexed and divided. Trade News Interestiaq Notts of Herald aad News Advertisers, Their Products oad Activities Naming Earl B. Gilmore as "the man of the year" . . the Individual who has contributed most to the automotive industry . . the Edenburn trophy com mittee, following an executive meeting in Indianapolis this week, announced that he is to be the next recipient of this famous award. News of the decision of the committee, which is composed of members of the contest board of the American Automobile as sociation, was brought to Gil- Pulsbury, regional director of the AAA and committee mem ber. Honoring the memory of the late Eddie Edenburn, noted rac ing expert and former chief steward of the Indianapolis Mo tor Speedway, this national award is perpetual and has only been held by four previous per sons. ,v Storm Ends Oregon Coast Heat Wave PORTLAND. May 12 UP) A blustering coastal storm drove off Oregon's two-day heat wave yesterday, causing temporary power and communications fail ures in the Portland area. Wind reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour west of Portland, and a half-hour rainstorm of near-cloudburst proportions sent the thermometer down from 84 to 70 degrees in a few hours. The state had its warmest day of the year Saturday with tem peratures reaching a peak of 93 degrees at North Bend on the usually cool coast. Portland had 87, warmest May 10 on record. The weather was cooler in western Oregon yesterday, Med ford having a high of 85, but eastern Oregon was slightly , warmer with 86" recorded at Ba ker and 88 at Pendleton. ! i If there were such a thing as a refrigerator in which ice did not melt at all, it would be abso lutely useless for keeping food cool. I FROM your home to the Atlantic Coast and back only $90 in new est deluxe individual reclining chair coaches. Here's a 1941 Travel Bargain offered by the NORTHERN PACIFIC Railway. Return by any of a number of diverse routes through California if you desire. See New York, the Nation's Capital with Congress in session stopover at interest ing spots you have two months' return limit. This is the ideal summer vacation trip for thrifty travelers who seek comfort and railroad safety. . Ask tor ill detaifj and let us help you plm a careree (rip asr. PASSING! OMKti TOT Amrku Sank iMs. S'Sw Mil - FnttanS, On. Sears Roebuck and company has notified the county club agent, Clifford Jenkins, that the firm will again award ten $18 scholarships to this year's 4-H club summer school, to be held on the Oregon State college campus June 9-20 Inclusive. In making this announcement. T. R. Thompsen, local Sears store manager, stated that his firm was convinced that this was one of the finest projects that they were sponsoring and that they hoped to make this an annual award to outstanding 4-H club members. These scholarships will be awarded to boys and girls who do not already have other schol arships. Winners of these schol arships will be selected by the scholarship committee of the 4-H local leader's council, ac cording to recommendations made by club leaders and from records maintained in the coun ty club agent's office. These scholarships pay all expenses of the club members to summer school, including board, room, tuition, and railroad fare. The 10 boys and girls will join the other delegates to sum mer school from Klamath coun ty, Monday morning, June 9, making the trip by train. They will enjoy two weeks of classes, recreation, and entertainment on the OSC campus, where they will live in dormitories, fraterni ties, and sororities and mingle with some 2000 other girls and boys from every county in the state. The Oregon 4-H summer school is considered the red-letter event in 4-H club work in all states west of the Mississippi river, and is the only two-week session for club members held on a state college campus. Merrill Observes Mother's Day MERRILL Mother's day was observed at the Merrill Pres byterian church Sunday morn ing with Rev. Lawrence Mitchel more bringing the message, "My Home." Numbers were sung by the junior choir and a violin solo was offered by Donald Bowman. Rev. Mitchelmore spoke Sunday afternoon at a service at Bonanza. RAZED AND DAZED SUPERIOR. Wis.. (AP) Aadyne Kyllingstad of Minne apolis got the surprise of his nie when he made one of his infrequent visits to his farm in northern Wisconsin. All the buildings had vanished. An investigation disclosed, he said, that the county sold the property and that the new own er razed the buildings. Animal Pests House sparrows, rabbits, and rats, are the three worst animal ' pests English food growers have to face. Rabbits alone do annual damage of $280,000,000. Save 20 On Memorials By Calling at Klamath Falls Marble and Granite Works J 16 So. 11th St. and Making Your Own Selection S) mvti veva raiMur avKinuamurifc
