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THEKLAMM'H News WEATHER NEWS rail High Sf Low 31) Midnight 44 24 houri to I p. n. ,01 fteason to data 11 aft Normal precipitation o Last year to data lata PICTURES! Associated Press Talamala. NEA Talapho lot and II locil nawsplctur and an (riving Hall provide Newt and Harald raadars with comprahanalv photograph I service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 18, No. 146 l'rice Five ConU KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), .In The Day's "News By FRANK JENKINS THE British radio uld today: 1 "Urn is talking and writ ing worda that will make the iic-iiuaii mail Thai la an Intimation that he la divulging Grrman military secrets. NJAZI official, evidently wor A ried. Insist that despite Hess' position as a member of Miller's secret war council ha was not "initialed Into the plans of the relch's supreme military leader ship." "THIS exchange of propaganda 1 (for that Is what It l will give you some Idea of whal Is going on today as a result of on of the strangest episodes in history. The British are using it in every way they know how to -brace the morale of their own people and shake the confidence of key neutrals such as Hussla and Turkey in German invln- rlhllltv The Germans are trying des perately to reassure their own people who must be doing a lot of worried speculating as to what It all means. "ERMAN uneasiness today Is obvious. For example: Our old friend "Berlin spokes man" asserts that Hess "was ex pected to fulfill his so-called peace mission in about two days, returning then to Germany with gasoline FURNISHED BY THE BRITISH." That Is clearly Intended to make It appear to the Germans that "we had planned it all that way." T"HE same uneasiness appears In another quarter. DNB, the official German press service, which says what ever It is ORDERED to say, pub lishes today a list of seven case In which Germans have been sentenced to prison terms of four to six years for tuning their radios In on foreign broadcasts. That is a perfectly Plain warning to the home folk not to listen In on what the wicked British are saying. DV this time you must have " learned enough about war time propaganda and censor ship not to believe Implicitly what either the British or the Germans are saying for publics- linn Th thing to do is listen lo both and DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS. THE thought that Hess may have spilled the German high command's inside war plans (a a raal wnrrv fnr the Hermans. 1 Surprise is one of the most Important elements In warfore. If the other fellow knows ex actly what you arc going to do and-Is ALL SET FOR IT. you are at a distinct disadvantage It Is entirely possible that as a result of Hess' flight to Scot land the German high command may have to change lis plans at the last moment. a ITITLER and his generals may even THINK Hess didn't know the inside plans. But they can't be SURE. There is the dis concerting possibility that he may have known more than they thought he knew. You can be sura they're worried. VJEANWHILE we have today the statement that France's Vichy government (represented at some sort of conference by Admiral Darlan) and Hitler have got together on terms of "co operation" between Germany and France. What the terms are Is not divulged, but they are pretty certain to include French help for Hitler in the Mediterranean and Africa. Merrill Invited To Free Show A free picture show at the Merrill Community hall Thurs day evening at 8:30 o'clock has been arranged by John Stolt of Merrill, It was announced. Thn public Is invited to sec two March of Time productions, "Tobaecoland. U. S. A." and F-4 Waring In "Pleasure Time" $ 'tl comedy and short And, U. S. A." is a .merlcan tobacco farm 4n from Liggett and ,. book of the same name, i SENATE FAVORS ADDED POWERS FOR 0PM HEAD Plan Rejected That Would Place Power With Army and Navy By RUSSELL TURNER United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, Msy 14 (UP) A bitter undercover battle over efforts to deprive tho office of production mariakement of its priorities powers ended in vic tory for the OPM today. The senate military affairs commit tee rejected a plan that would have vested the army and navy with these powers. The committee reported a bill giving President Roosevelt broad priorities powers and authorizing him to delegate the powers to the OI'M or any ag ency he chooses. It first cllmln I ttted a house amendment which ' would have made the priorities administration an Independent agency controlled by the army and navy munitions board. Group Appears The committee acted after a group of high-ranking defense officials came to it in person and urged that the house re striction be deleted. They were lid by OPM Director General William S. Knudsen, who took the occasion to deny categori cally that he had threatened to resign If the amendment were left In the bill. The fight may be renewed on the senate floor but it was noted that the committee rejected the amendment unanimously, les sening its chances for final adoption. The amendment was spon sored by Rep. Eugene E. Cox, (D-Gs ), and was adopted on the house floor when Cox said its only purpose was to "freeze" Edward R. Stettlnltu, now the OPM's priorities director, into leadership of the new set-up, That the measure gava control to the army and navy was dls- . (Continued on Page Two) Carnival Fat Lady Rescued After Ordeal ST. HELEN'S, May 14 (Ph The Douglas carnival's fat lady, stage name "Tiny." went off the the road near here yesterday and if you don't think they had a deal of time getting her back on. "Tiny" was in an automobile It was no trick to get the auto mobile back on the road, the car having wheels and a Judi cious distribution of weight, but it looked for a time as though Tiny was in the ditch for good. Tiny, who weighs 673 pounds, was in the back seat. In the front seat were two other carni val employes of normal dimen sions. The car went down a 20-foot bank and landed with a thump. Nobody was hurt be yond minor scratches. The two front seat occupants, through the application of simple mathematics and a bit of lm- (Continued on Page Four) Japanese Facing Stalemate In China, Observers Claim By CLARK LEE SHANGHAI, May 14 (A) Japan's current offensives in the interior of China were des cribed today by foreign mili tary observers as but a contin uance of tactics which have held the Japanese at a virtual stale mate for the past 30 months. These sources expressed be lief that the Japanese attacks actually are defensive measures aimed at relieving Chinese pres sure on the Japanese bases and supply lines. They said the Jap anese lost the initiative two years ago by reaching the limit of their ability to hold and ade quately police the territory gained. On May 9, Lleut.-Col. Kunio Akiyama, official spokesman for the Japanese military forces In China, said Japan has no inten tion of penetrating further into the interior. "The present offensives are mopping-up operations," he said. The Chinese refuse to take the offensive therefore we must strike." Foreign observers in Shang hai compared present Japanese Long Range dmi WA MM:. -1 $ Lew lUwf Pleas I I 41oificOcwii f Hi i lolim'.'' mm VppT NOKWAvl Jl I I x. " aairfin Ara lor ALGMIA ' Y"'YAJ IGYrT f" SAUDI Mor long rang bombers ar Britain's nd for an xtndd offnsiv to all parts of German-occupied Europ. Distanc rings on map show how British bombers can strlk obctivs up to ISOOmlles from England, than raturn. or fly on to land and rafual at a Nar East base. Round-trip raiding limits ar shown for som of th types of British and U. S.-built bombers now In us. Marshfield Man Gets Appointment To Fill Vacancy on Bench SALEM, May 14 (JP) Circuit Judge James T. Brand of Marsh- field was named by Governor Charles A. Sprsgue today to become a supreme court justice, succeeding th late Henry 1 Been, wh -died last week Brand will serve until the next general election- In November," 1843. Brand if one of the three judges for the circuit district embracing Benton, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Lane and Lincoln counties. "I have given careful consid eration," the governor said, "to all of the men whose names have been proposed. I have made my selection after careful consideration of the various fac tors Involved." The governor said he would wait a few days before an nouncing Brand's successor on the circuit bench. James Tenney Brand is 54 years old, and was born in Obcrlin, Ohio. He was educat ed at Oberlin college, and was graduated from Harvard law school in 1914, when he moved to Marshfield. He was city at torney for Marshfield from 1917 to 1927, and has been circuit judge since 1927, He was married In 1916, hav (Continued on Page Four) DAUGHTER BORN BALTIMORE, May 14 (A0) An eight and a quarter pound daughter was born today to Mrs. Harold L. Ickcs, wife of the in terior secretary, at John Hop kins hospital. campaigns, as well as those of the past two and one-half years, with the act of pushing a stick into a sandplle. When the stick is withdrawn, the sand floods back into the hole. It has become standard Chinese tactics, they said, for the defenders to slip way when the Japanese strike. Then, when the Japanese return to their bases, the Chinese move back to resume harassing attacks. The periodic mopping-up cam paigns of the Japanese and their subsequent withdrawals have left the war picture essentially unchanged, these observers as serted, beyond the human losses which China can better afford than Japan. Japanese conquest In China reached the high-water mark in 1938, these men say, when the capture of Canton and Hankow failed to bring about China's submission. Today the Japanese are baf fled and at a loss to know how to move next in tho China af fair, the foreign observers stat ed adding that the Japanese lack military strength necessary to break the stalemate. Bombers Boost British Physicians to Celebrate at 50th Meeting More than SO outstanding phy sicians and surgeons throughout the state are expected here Fri day, May 16, to attend the gol den anniversary of the Southern Oregon Medical society organ ized May 16. 1892. Headquar ters will be at the Elk hotel. Dr. Ralph W. Stearns, presi dent of the society, announces the following speakers. Dr. H. Brodie Stephens, San Francisco surgeon, and Dr. Homer P. Rush of Portland, specialist of inter nal' medlchl. " 'Other guest- speakers will be Dr. George Earle Henton, Portland, chair man of the board of medical service for Multnomah county; Dr. Verden E. Hockett of Salem, head of the selective service board of Oregon, and Dr. W. W. Baum of Salem, president-elect of the Oregon State Medical so ciety. . The Southern Oregon Medical society takes in Coos, Douglas. Jackson. Josephine. Klamath (Continued on Page Two) Grange to Exemplify Fifth Degree Klamath Pomona grange has announced that an exemplifica tion of the fifth degree of the grange will take place at Alta mont primary school Friday, May 16, at 8 p. m. The newly organized YGA de gree team will officiate with Charles Mollenhour, master of Merrill grange, taking over the office of Pomona master for the occasion. Three other masters of Klamath granges are members of the team which is composed of young grangers from six sub ordinate granges. It is urged by Master Mollenhour that all members of the team be on hand at 7:30 p. ro. and that all candi dates desiring to take the fifth degree be on hand before 8 o'clock. This is the first time the fifth degree has been exemplified in Klamath county since the meet ing of the state grange in Klam ath Falls in 1938. For that rea son it is expected a large class of candidates will take advan tage of the opportunity to take the degree. The YGA will furnish refresh ments in the school cafeteria af ter the degree exemplification Pomona Master R. H. Anderson will be the guest of honor and will transmit the password of the Pomona grange to candi dates. Banks Abandon Summer Hours SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (UP) The California Bankers association today decided to continue its regular banking hours throughout the summer instead of going on the five-day week as in 1940. Lauder Hodges, executive manager of the association, said last year's Saturday bank clos ing plan was unpopular, espe cially ln rural districts. Raiding Radius EASTSHIPYARD STRIKE ENDED San Francisco Yards Still Struck; OPM Moves To End Tie-up By The Associated Press A strike which stopped a $30, 000,000 construction project at the big Boston naval drydock was ended Thursday and in an- Ah fn VIiaw,. D Spellacy sought- ari immediate! Teopeninr of the Colt's Patent Fire Arms company at Hartford, Conn. Efforts were redoubled at Washington during the day to avert a threatened strike against General Motors corporation. Ernest A. Johnson, secretary treasurer of the AFL Building and Construction Trades council at Boston, announced differ ences had been- "ironed- out suc cessfully" upon his return from conferences with federal offi cials in Washington. The 900 odd strikers went out in protest against use of WPA workers at the naval base. Mayor Spellacy asked Colt's employes to return to work at once pending a national labor relations board election. Repre sentatives of federal and state agencies, the management and officials of a CIO union met to try to settle the dispute. General Motors officials and United Automobile Workers (CIO) union officials met with a defense mediation board panel for 90 minutes, then reopened direct negotiations without fed eral mediators. Another meet ing with the panel was set for late in the day. A mediation board panel start ed efforts in Washington to set tle the week-old strike of CIO steel workers at the Vander grift, Pa., plant of United En gineering and Foundry com pany. The shutdown affected 900 men, as the union asked un announced wage increases and a union shop. There was a new threat of a tie-up in the Appalachian soft coal fields, and 11 shipyards on San Francisco bay were still closed by strikes. SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Continued on Page Four) Klamath Student Gets UO Post EUGENE, Ore., May 14 (UP) A Eugene student, Lou Torgen son, fraternity ticket candidate, was elected student body presi dent of the University of Ore gon in yesterday's vote, the bal lot count showed today. Independent candidate Rob ert Calkins of Klamath Falls received the second highest vote and the job of first vice presi dent under the preferential sys tem. Other new officers are Jim Frost, Newberg, independent, second vice president, and Bette Morf itt, Portland, secretary treasurer. Senior members of the execu tive council are Becky Ander son, Eugene, and Bob Lovell, Astoria; Juniors, Steve Worth, Roselle Park, N. J. and John Busterud, Marshfield; sopho mores, Charles Woodruff, Prine ville, and Oglesby Young of Portland. Hess Talks Freely On Nazi 'Tyranny' HITLER TERMS ACCEPTED BY VICHY CABINET German Pact Attacks U. S. and Britain in Favor of Axis Order VICHY, France, May 14 (JPh The French government unani mously approved today terms ne ffotiated between Adolf Hitler and French Vice Premier Jean!Tney confirmed Darlan. presenting the United States with what diplomatic cir cles called the accomplished fact of European cooperations design ed to halt American entry into the war. This, apparently, was the out come of a four-hour meeting at Berchtesgaden between the nazi fuehrer and the French admiral statesman who is his govern ment's foreign minister. Talk Cordial Their talk was said to have been cordial and Darlan was said to have been accorded full mili tary honors. When they talked still has not been divulged. There still was no official in dication of what the terms in volved but a communique, is sued after the cabinet meeting, said "The effects of these nego tiations will be felt soon." Collaboration Diplomatic circles were agreed generally that the terms includ ed not only economic but po litical collaboration as well be tween the French and their Ger man conquerors. , Usually informed French sources. also-Mlestrlbed the ne. gotiations as going beyond the economic and into the political field. Belief was expressed, how ever, that they had not yet reached a final stage. In the exchange, France was reported scheduled to receive varied advantages as, for exam ple, the return of a number of prisoners who are primarily farm workers and a hoi th ward revision of the demarcation line, putting Paris in the zone not German-occupied and leaving the nazis in control of only one fifth of France. What France Is giving other than full economic and, perhaps, full political collaboration is not yet officially indicated here. This morning's communique was considered in some quarters to be more than anything a warning to the United States that France is committed to col laboration. All it said was: "The cabinet met under the presidency of Petain. It heard a report from Darlan on French German negotiations. It unani mously approved the terms. The effects of these negotiations will be felt soon." One semi-official source said Darlan was expected to return to the occupied zone "very soon" to meet a "high ranking Ger man figure." They Were P M pi " . . j This picture shows Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Rudolf Hss, nasi party ladr. In Nuremberg in 1938, Th condition of this friendship was much in question following Hss' flight to Scotland. U. S. Bombers Make Secret Hawaii Flight HONOLULU, May 14 (UP) The army Hawaiian department tonight officially confirmed ar rival of 21 "flying fortresses" from the mainland with a com plement of 190 officers and men, completing "one of the greatest massed flights ever made by military aircraft." Simultaneously army authori ties revealed they hoped "fur ther material reinforcements for the Hawaiian air force would be received in the near future." also the Ha- i waiia" Harrison recently had been "very materially strength ened by the addition of a large number of modern pursuit and light bombardment airplanes." WASHINGTON, May 14 (JP A secret flight of 21 long range 4-motor army bombers from the mainland to Hawaii was dis closed today by the war depart ment. The planes departed last night from Hamilton Field, at San Francisco, and the last safely reached Hickam Field on the island of Oahu today. Lieutenant General Delos Em mons, commander of the army's general headquarters air force, was in the leading plane on the flight of more than 2000 miles over the Pacific, the war de partment said. Because the big bombers arej land planes, the navy took the precaution to provide destroy ers at three stations en route. HIT HELGOLAND RAF Makes Daylight Low-Level Attack On Nazi Isle Base LONDON, May 14 UP) Brit ish bombers made a successful low-level raid on Helgoland, German North sea island base. before darkness yesterday, an authoritative source asserted to day. This source said: "Helgoland was raided in day light yesterday by a RAF squad ron. Successful attacks were made with bombs and machine gun fire from a few hundred feet, causing great confusion. "Other daylight activities of the bomber command included an attack on shipping off the coast of Holland, France and the enemy base at St. Nazaire. Several ships were sunk or dam aged. "Weather last night was un suitable for large-scale opera tions but fighters attacked an airdrome at Ostend." Hurricane fighters swooped on the Belgian field at dawn, the air ministry news service (Continued on Page Four) Friends Then TURNED OVER TO OFFICIALS German Planned Visit To Lord Hamilton's Estate in Scotland LONDON, Thursday, May IS (UP) Rudolf Hess, in a secret meeting with the Duke of Ham ilton after his bizarre "peace flight" to Britain, handed over valuable information "of great use to the British in overthrow ing the tyranny now existing in the reich," it was stated author itatively early today. Hess himself proposed the in formation be used to crush Adolf Hitler's "tyranny," the press association said, presum ably after British military auth orities had granted his request he be permitted to talk with the duke. The No. 3 nazi leader and deputy fuehrer was revealed to have met the young duke, his friend and a member of King George VI's Royal Scottish bodyguard, in a rendezvous near Glasgow immediately after his sensational parachute landing Saturday night on the duke's estate. Latter Written It was revealed Hess began laying the groundwork for his sensational flight three months ago. He wrote to the duke, frantically urging an attempt to end the "lunatic" war between Germany and Britain by nego tiation. - That letter, tipoff. of Hess froarlr.! tresfre to thing about peace even la aeiiance ox aqihi Hitler whom he had worship ped as his master for 20 years was turned over to the British authorities immediately. A fuller denouement of L- Affaire Hess" is expected to be revealed today by Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill in speech to the house of commons. 'Talking FrIy" The authoritative press asso ciation said Hess is "talking freely" in a hospital whose loca tion is a closely-guard secret. and is revealing a story of tyranny, distress and suffering within Germany. The 47-year-old nazi leader rwas said by the press association to have told the farm folks who found him on the Scottish Moors Saturday night that grave hardships are being ex perienced by -the German peo ple and there is "great distress and suffering as result of the (Continued on Page Two) Threatened Strike Of Barbers Here Averted by Accord A threatened strike of Klam ath Falls journeymen barbers was averted Tuesday night when the barbers' local elected to ac cept a compromise agreement calling for a haircut price boost to 65 cents and an earlier Sat urday night closing hour, be ginning June 16. Barbers had previously voted to walk out Thursday, May 13, if their demands for a wage and price increase were not met by that date. Demands were first presented to master barbers approximate ly three weeks ago for the 65 cent scale and a Saturday night eight o'clock closing hour. Negotiations have been in progress since then with sev eral counter proposals put forth. Monday night the compromise settlement was agreed upon by ' both sides and accepted by the entire local Tuesday night. In master barber-Journeyman barber relations, the latter re ceive a percentage of gross hair cut revenue. The new agree ment calls for only a haircut boost. Other prices will remain the same. News Index City Briefs Page 5 Comics and Story Page 12 Courthouse Records ... Page 4 Editorials Page 4 High School News Page 16 Information Page 13 Market, Financial Page 14 Midland Empire News . Page 8 Pattern ... Page 7 Sports . Pages 10, II