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Vol 18. No. 150 Price Five Cents
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, FBIDAY, MAY 80, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday),
THE
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By FRANK JENKINS
'TODAY'S dispatches Indicate
that Italian forces have been
landed on the eastern end of
-'rcte, thua putting the British
VjtUrrck defenders between the
Jawa of a viae.
The Germane are reported to
have captured Suda Bay harbor,
giving thrm a landing place for
troopa and heavy equipment
such as tanki.
A REPORT from Italy asserts
that hundreds of little
Creek sail boa ta loaded with Ger
man troopa have been wifely
rscortcd to Crete under the guns
of Italian warahips, indicating
(If true) that the British fleet
has been driven from Cretan
waters.
This Indication Is strengthen
ed by a dispatch from Alexandria
yesterday saying that a part of
the British fleet had arrived at
the base there.
OARRING a miracle (and mlr
acles have been few and far
X.setwecn In this war) Crete Is
lost to the British. What re
mains Is merely a matter of time
and detail.
TJOW did It happen?
1 1 It la the same old story,
beginning In Poland and run
ning through all the German
conquests since:
The Germans had ALL THE
AIRPLANES THEY NEEDED
and their opponents didn't.
Tins writer, having no inside
sources of Information, can
only gueas. But this seems a
fair guess as to what has hap
pened In Crete:
The British, lacking air
strength, undertook to defend
Crete with their Mediterranean
navy (supported, but INADE
. t)trATELYv by lhcau arm of
J I lie fleet.)
The result Is history.
The ADEQUATE German air
force first landed enough para
rhute troopa to seize a foothold.
Then It drove the scanty British
air force from the Island, mean
while pouring In reinforcements
steadily from the air.
After that it attacked and ap
parently mastered the defending
British fleet, which was inade
quately supported In the air.
THE military lesson of Crete
(guessed at from Incomplete
and heavily censored data) is
this:
Only airplanes can successful
ly fight airplanes.
'THE lesson is heeded NOW
Two days ago. President
J' Roosevelt allocated an addition
al three billion dollars, most of
it to be spent for planes. Today
Secretary of War Stimson dis
closes a plan to train 8,000 Brit
ish filers In this country, be
ginning June 7.
If it had been heeded years
ago, when Colonel Lindbergh
warned Britain, France and US
of the immensity and complete
ness of German preparation for
air war, the history of the world
In this present era might have
been changed.
' A FEW side issues at this point:
Germany and Italy are re
ported to have relaxed the arm
istice regulations to permit
France to build up a continental
air force for the "defense of her
empire."
Defense against whom?
V Certainly not against the Ger
mans, who are permitting her to
strengthen herself. One must
conclude that she Is getting
ready for Britain and for US.
A NOTHER sidelight:
The German ambassador
conferred for an hour this morn
ing with Jap Foreign Minister
Matsuoka In Tokyo. Immediate
ly thereafter, the BRITISH am
bassador talked with him for an
hour.
The seat Japan is sitting on
Is getting hotter by the minuto.
Looking Backward
By The Associated Press '
May 29, 1940 Belgian port of
Ostend falls to Germans; allies,
n retreat, open flood sluices
around Dunkerque to guard last
exit to England. Allied forces
in northern Norway capture
Narvik.
May 29, 1916 Riga railroad
is shelled by Germans.
Named Chief
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This is Arnold Gralapp. praaant school auperintendent at La
Grande, who haa bean choaan auparlntandant of Klamath Union
high school for the ensuing year
come auparlntandant of both high and elementary schools here
for the period of a two-year contract. Gralapp was selected from
among CO applicants for the local Job, regarded aa one of the
biggaat educational positions open in the state this year.
LUMBER STRIKE
Union Head Declares
He Can't Call Men
Without Authority
s. . ., ,
SEATTLE. May 29 (UP) O.
M. Orton, president of the Inter
national Woodworkers of Ameri
ca (CIO), said tonight he has no
authority to call 12.000 striking
unionists In western Washington
back to work In compliance with
a proposal of the national defense
mediation board.
Spokesmen for employers said
they were ready to re-open mills
and camps next Monday in re
sponse to the board's plea.
In a wire to Clarence A. Dyk
stra, chairman, Orton asserted
that the board's findings were
based on operators' arguments.
Orton said a membership vote
rejected the board's settlement
formula but authorized resump
tion of negotiations on the union's
minimum demands of a 7 cent
hourly wage boost, a closed shop,
a week's vacation with pay and
elimination of piecework.
Navy officials meantime acted
to release three shiploads of tim
ber piling consigned to defense
construction in Hawaii. The ship
ments were tied up in Tacoma
by a strike of CIO boommen. The
first cargo will be loaded this
weekend.
By The Associated Press
The defense mediation board
cites President Roosevelt's proc
lamation on an unlimited nation
al emergency Thursday for the
first time in an appeal to striking
CIO lumber workers In the Pa
cific northwest to return to work
"as patriotic citizens.'
The board appealed to the
lumber workers after being ad
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Senator Seeks
END REQUESTED
Vote on President's Policy
WASHINGTON. May 29 (UP)
Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., who
pioneered all-out aid to Britain,
sought today to obtain a senate
vote of confidence in President
Roosevelt's newly enunciated
foreign policy but was persuaded
to withdraw his unprecedented
request.
Pepper demanded Immediate
consideration of a resolution
which would have declared it to
bo the sense of the senate Mr.
Roosevelt ' was "right" In his
Tuesday night fireside chat and
ho "deserves the full confidence
of the congress and the country."
The move was frustrated when
several senators served notice
they would not give the neces
sary unanimous consent. Pepper
then reluctantly withdrew his
request.
Chairman Walter F. George of
of Schools Her
and en July 1. 1942. will be
Llndy Asserts
F. R. Argues
World Control
PHILADELPHIA. May 29(UP)
Charles A. Lindbergh charged to
night that President Roosevelt
"himself advocates world doml.
nation when he says it Is our
business to control the wars of
Eurone and Asia,-and that we in
America must dominate islands
lying off tho African coast.
"Our own president says that
the safety of America lies In
controlling the Cape Verde is
lands off thte coast of Africa,
Lindbergh said in his first ad
dress since the president's speech
Tuesday night. "Even Hitler
never made a statement like
that."
"If we take the attitude that
we must control the islands of
the eastern hemisphere. Europe
has Just as much reason to de
mand control of the islands of
the western hemisphere," he
added.
"If we say our frontier lies on
the Rhine, they can say theirs
lies on the Mississippi. If we
attempt to follow a policy as
the president suggests, we will
start a war between hemispheres
that may last for generations.
He predicted the world would
be thrown "Into complete cnaos
If we try to control islands that
"do not belong to this hemis
phere."
He spoke at an America First
rally at the arena, only a few
blocks from convention hall
where last night Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia of New York and
William C. Bullitt, former ambas
sador to France, urged support of
the administration s foreign pol
icy. FOUND ALIVE
KOKADJO, Mc., May 29 ()
Paul Atkinson, 14, and Melvin
Davis. IS, Dover-Foxcraft boys
lost In the Moosehead lake re
gion woods since last Sunday
were found alive today.
Confidence
the senate foreign relations com.
mittee, stating the resolution
would "precipitate unnecessary
and most regrettable debate
suggested the proposal cither be
referred to his committee or be
permitted to "Ho on the table,"
where it would be available for
future consideration.
Pepper yielded but told news
men he may bring up the reso
lution after he returns from a
speaking tour next week.
Requests such as the outspoken
Floridan's are common to the
British parliamentary system
under which governments are
traditionally obliged to resign
when a vote of no confidence is
forthcoming. There is, however,
no such- provision In the Ameri
can system.
Nnn-lntervcntlonists on the Re-
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BRITAIN EYES
WORLD PEACE
War Aims Announced
First Time; German
Challenge Must End
LONDON, May 29 (UP)
Britain announced her war aims
today for the first time, adopting
President Roosevelt's "four free
doms" and adding the stipulation
stern military and political meas
ures must prevent Germany from
ever again challenging world
peace.
These aims envisage a post
war reconstruction of the world
by the British empire, the United
States and the other "free na
tions" unravaged by the war.
The government has given no
hint of the nature of the meas
ures which would be used to
curb a German challenge, but
both Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill before the war
were among the strongest sup
porters of the league of nations.
It appears logical, therefore, to
believe any peace settlement
which they dominate would aim
at providing an effective system
of collective security backed by
armed force.
Post Wax
Britain's aims were disclosed
by Eden in an address at the
Lord Mayor s mansion house.
They apparently were timed to
follow up President Roosevelt's
statement of American foreign
policy and to answer widespread
demands In America particular,
ly among non-Interventionists
that Britain make known her
post-war plans.
Eden presented this outline of
British war aims:
1. Peace based on President
Roosevelt's Ideals of freedom of
speech, freedom of religion, free
dom from want and freedom
from fear enunciated in his
January address to congress.
2. "Political and military
terms" to put Germany In a po
sition where she never again
could challenge world peace or
become "the worst master Eu
rope has yet known."
3. Establish social security
abroad as well as at home,
through coordinated efforts of
Britain, the dominions, the Unit
ed States and the nations of
South America stabilizing cur
rencies, feeding starving peoples
and averting fluctuation of em
ployment, prices and markets.
4. Extension of this new
"moral order," as opposed to
Adolf Hitler's "new European
order," to the Far East once the
Chinese-Japanese conflict has
been liquidated.
5. British support of the inde
pendence of Syria and of a uni
fied Arab world.
"What has Germany to offer
on her side?" Eden demanded.
"Absolutely nothing. . ."
"Five times in the last cen
tury she (Germany) has violated
the peace," he said. "She must
never be in a position to play that
role again.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UP)
Sen. George W. Norrls, (D-Neb.),
said tonight that Great Britain
should undertake to destrov.
after the end of the present
struggle, "Every single ship
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Government Eyes
Price Control
For Petroleum
WASHINGTON, May 29 (P)
Leon Henderson, government
price administrator, told sen
ators today that officials were
Investigating recent gasoline
price Increases with an eye to
possible price ceilings for the
petroleum Industry.
Henderson told the senate
agriculture committee this after
Senator Gillette (D-Ia.) said the
motor fuel price had gone up
1 cents a gallon in the mid
west and 2 cents a gallon in
tne east recently.
The increase, Henderson said,
was attributed to "diversion of
tankers for carrying oil for the
British account."
"If the tendency' In the oil
Industry to raise prices con
tinues either at crude or re
fined levels we will set price
ceilings unless we are stopped,
Henderson testified.
In earlier testimony, Hender
son said he would oppose a
suggested 33 per cent increase
in railroad wages if the increase
could be absorbed only through
increased transportation costs.
He had been asked by Sen
ator Ellender (D-La.) whether
he had made any effort "to fix
the price of labor."
Guard Troops
May Remain In
(J. S. Service
WASHINGTON. May 29 PV
Indefinite military duty for the
national guard was considered
virtual certainty by army of
ficials today because of the un
limited national emergency pro
claimed by President Roosevelt.
An early request to congress
for authority to retain the 291,-
000 guardsmen in service beyond
the current single year of train
ing was accordingly anticipated,
although no final decision has
been disclosed on the question.
In the light of the threat to
American security pictured by
the chief executive, an informed
official suggested it would be
"hardly logical" to demobilize
18 full divisions of trained
troops, representing more than
half the number of such major
units under arms in all the ex
panding land forces.
Pending a definite decision,
the war department has gone
ahead nevertheless perfecting de
tailed plans to fill the guards
men's places with selective serv
ice trainees, organized into en
tirely new divisions.
JAPS' AXIS TIE
Matsuoka Reaffirms
Stand; Chat Effect
Eyed by Legislators
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Pi
Responsible legislators said to
day there is a growing belief in
administration circles that Ja
pan's adherence to the axis soon
may weaken, and they cited as
evidence President Roosevelt's
virtual omission in his fireside
chat of any discussion of Amer
ica's problems in the Pacific.
This belief, reported to be en
tertained in high quarters, was
said to be based on information
that business interests apparently
were gaining influence In the
Tokyo government and might
eventually prevail over the mili
tary party which led Japan Into
the war with China and into the
axis alliance.
The president made only brief
references to the Pacific in his
address Tuesday. He mentioned
aid to China, but nothing else
beyond the assertion that the
dictatorships were organizing a
system which might be used to
force enslaved peoples to build
"a naval and air force intended
to gain and hold and be master
of the Atlantic and the Pacific
as well."
NEW YORK, May 29 (P)
Japanese Foreign Minister Yo
suke Matsuoka declared today
that the present world crisis
must end either in destruction
of modern civilization or in es
tablishment of a new world or
der, Domei, Japanese news
agency, reported in a radio
broadcast.
Matsuoka, addressing teachers
at the Ministry of Education,
again declared Japanese loyalty
to the three-power axis pact.
He said that the original text
of the pact was drawn up by
the Japanese government and
that both Germany and Italy
had accepted this text without
proposing a single modification.
TOKYO. Mav 29 UP) Herman
Ambassador Eugen Ott conferred
for more than an hour today
with Japanese Foreign Minister
Yosuke Matsuoka and their nh-
ject matter was reliably under
stood to nave been President
Roosevelt s fireside chat.
Klamath Business
Houses to Close
Memorial Day
Klamath Falls business
houses, banks, the federal build
ing and postoffice, city hall and
courthouse will observe Memor
ial day Friday, it was learned
Thursday afternoon. Also closed
during the day will be the state
liquor store.
By order of the city council
and Police Judge Leigh Acker
man, the city hall will remain
closed Saturday as well as Fri
day. The courthouse will be
open Saturday until 1 p. m.
The Herald and News will
publish as usual on Friday but
with an early publication hour.
Due to the national emergen
cy, the United States coast guard
recruiting office in the federal
building will remain open Fri
day and Saturday.
Crete's Defenders
Encircled By Nazis
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Air Torpedo Strikes Death Blow
I mil" s----n-Ti .iTir-ri-i nfiftin
A British "Swordiish" torpedo piano, of tho typo which ond-
od tho lighting em ft of tho Gorman battles hip Bu march,
"ftoroowhoro ovor tho Atlantic."" A cotot of thoso pianos, launch-
od from tho anciont ' aircraft carrier Ark Royal disabled tho Bis
marck, hold hor halplots whilo units of tho British nary rushed
in for tho kill, ending one of
tho war. The British admitted
in the battle.
Germans Deny
Death of Max
Schmellng
BERLIN. Friday, May 30 (UP)
Authorized German sources said
today Max Schmellng, former
world's heavyweight champion
reported by the British as having
been killed in Crete, is alive.
Informants said Schmeling
now is at an air force hospital
where he was brought from
Crete after contracting a "slight
tropical disease" a few days ago.
Schmeling was revealed for
the first time to be a lance cor
poral in the German parachute
force.
Spokesmen said he was among
the first group of parachutists
landed in western Crete, where
he took part in the fighting. Op
erating under great difficulties,
they said, he helped establish the
bridgehead there which made
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'No. V Nazi Held
At Ellis Island
NEW YORK, May 29 (UP)
Immigration department inspect
ors today attested Kurt Hein
rich Reith, prominent German
nazi agent, and took him to Ellis
Island for deportation proceed
ings on charges that he had given
false information on entering the
United States from Mexico
March 22.
Reith had been living at the
Waldorf Astoria. He appeared
there during the afternoon in
custody of immigration officials,
asked for his luggage, paid his
bill and departed for Ellis Is
land. Washington officials said he
was the "No. 1" nazi now in the
United States.
I ekes Asks Daylight Saving
Time; Power Shortage.Seen
WASHINGTON, May 29 (JP)
Interior Secretary Ickes today
advocated daylight saving time
on a nationwide scale, and sug
gested that America may have
to resort to restricted use of
electricity and institute "gasless
Sundays to meet shortages of
power and oil.
The statement came as an of
ficial of the federal power com
mission foresaw a power emer
gency, "perhaps the most serious
in history," and revealed studies
were being made on means of
diverting power from civilian to
industrial uses, to prevent in
terruption of defense production.
May Hit Baseball
Daylight saving, Ickes said,
could be instituted by an act of
congress, to save substantial
amounts of power.
in mentioning the possibility
tho most dramatic sea battle of
loss of tho destroyer Mashona
WARSHIP LOST
I BIO BATTLE
Admiralty Announces
1850 -ton Destroyer
Sunk After Bismarck
LONDON. May 29 m The
British destroyer Mashona was
sunk by German planes when
they got in the last blow of the
sea battle which cost Germany
the 35,000-ton battleship Bis
marck, the admiralty announced
today.
One officer and 45 men are
missing from the 1850-ton Tribal
class destroyer, which went down
shortly after the Bismarck was
pounded to ruin 400 miles west
of Brest, France, last Tuesday
morning.
The admiralty said that more
than 100 officers and men of
the Bismarck were picked up
after the battleship was sunk.
. BERLIN, May 29 m The
German high command today
credited destruction of 52,000
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Pedestrian Hurt
By Motorcycle
John F. Fitzgerald, about 50,
of Oakland, Calif., was struck
by a motorcycle Just east of the
underpass on East Main street
at 11:20 last night. Ward's am
bulance rushed him to Klamath
Valley hospital, where it was
learned the man suffered from
a badly shattered leg and other
injuries.
An ambulance attendant be
lieved two men were riding the
motorcycle that struck Fitzger
ald. of priorities in the use of power,
the secretary said restricted con
sumption might easily include
night baseball, and he comment
ed: "It's more important to
make aluminum than to have
night baseball."
The power shortage, he said,
might "be met by moral sua
sion," through civilians volun
tarily restricting consumption.
Turning to oil, Ickes told his
press conference the problem
was strictly one of transporta
tion and he foresaw a possibility
of restricted use, especially on
the eastern seaboard.
In this connection, he advo
cated oil pipe lines from the
south to the east, where severe
shortages of oil are feared be
cause of the transfer of one-fifth
of the American tanker fleet to
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BRITISH LOOK
TO CYPRUS AS
NEXT DEFENSE
Capture of Suda Bay
By Germans Makes
Route for Panzers
LONDON, May 29 (UP Im.
perial forces in Crete are in a
desperate if not irretrievable sit
uation after losing Suda Bar
under smashing dive-bomber and
land attacks. The loss allows the
arrival of German "panzer" units
by sea, qualified observers ad
mitted tonight.
As fresh nazi shock troops ad
vanced against defenders ex
hausted by 10 days ef hand-to-hand
fighting, public attention
was turned to the defenses of
Cyprus, the British island In the
far eastern Mediterranean. It
generally is conceded to be Adolf
Hitler's next stepping stone in
his mammoth scheme to drive
Britain from the Middle East.
Blasted from their only first
class anchorage at Suda Bay, the
imperial forces commanded by
Major General Bernard C. Frey
berg were reported fighting desa
perate rear guard actions against
overpowering axis land and tea
forces.
No Landings
Germany was expected to jam
her heavy equipment ashore at
the newly-won anchorage under
cover of darkness. It was admit
ted the fleet, which has dona
yoeman service in blocking ar
rival of sea-borne re Inarcements,
no longer could be expected to
stop all landing attempts now
that it has lost its main base.
The main Cretan front was;
said by tuthoritative sources to
be near the shores of the Armyro
Bay, 18 miles east of Suda Bay.
The British position was
doubly hazardous because the
Germans appear to have estab
lished themselves at Candia, be
hind the main British, forces.
The outnumbered royal air
force, operating from distant
bases, faced a huge job of strik
ing at the German aerial troop
ferries and protecting the worn
out British troops from inces
sant dive-bombing attacks.
Springboards
Responsible quarters feared
Hitler would force the French
government to permit use of
Syrian air bases as springboards
for invasion of Cyprus.
Cyprus could be defended
more easily in some ways than
Crete because it is only 150 miles
from Palestine, where the Brit
ish have good airfields and fa
cilities. However, it is less moun
tainous than Crete and has fewer
natural fortifications.
From reports received here,
the battle of Crete appears to be
the old story of insufficient
equipment insufficient anti-air.
craft to protect vital targets
against swarms of stukas and
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Memorial Day to
Be Observed by
Ceremonies Here
Homage to soldier, sailor and
civilian dead will be paid in fit
ting ceremony Friday through
out the nation as Memorial day
is observed. In Klamath Falls
graves of veterans will be decor
ated at 6:30 a. m. and on the
water of Link river a wreath
placed in memory of those who
have died at sea.
A parade will leave the Link:
river bridge at 10 o'clock sharp,
proceeding to the armory where
Adjutant Norman Bowyer will
give the Memorial day address.
Samuel P. Miller, chairman ot
the parade, asks all marching
units and organizations to be on
hand promptly at 9:30 a. m. at
the bridge. Following the serv
ices In the armory, the parade
will continue to Linkville ceme
tery where Veterans of Foreign
Wars will conduct a ceremony.
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