Mn.,
1941
THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE NINE
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How Axis New Order Will Split Up the Old World
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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. !
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melt at all, it would be abso
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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.
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