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IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND
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Defense Plants
Guarded
During
By THANK JENKINS
CKETE. fiercely, doggedly and
bravely defended WITHOUT
ENOUGH AIRPLANES, savage
ly allnrked with TLENTY OF
AIRPLANES, U lost to the Brit
ish. "NLY once tinea the war
began when for a few des
perate houra Ilrltaln'i whole air
strength was concentrated In the
skies above Dunkerque have
the British been on equal terms
in the air with their enemy.
' On that one occasion, the Ger
mans were stopped long enough
to prevent complete disaster.
REMEMBER again: It It the
LAST BATTLE that counU.
Crete isn't the last battle.
A ITER Crete will come Cyprus
and Tobruk and Alexandria
and Iraq. At all these points
desperate battles will be waged.
At Crete, the Germane have
been only 80 miles from the
Greek mainland and back of
Greece are relatively short linet
of communication and supply.
At the German! advance, their
communication lines will (row
longer.
At their communication lines
row longer their superiority In
the air, which at Crete wat ab
solute and unchallenged, will
become relatively lest crushing.
Cyprus and Tobruk and Alex
andria and Iraq wiU take time.
VEEP thla In mind:
At long at the Germans are
pointed toward the Near East
and Africa, they are POINTED
AWAY FROM the British islet.
It teemt at true now at ever
that In order to win the last
battle they must win the battle
of Britain.
THAT la where WE come In.
If the final all-out assault
on Britain can be deferred long
enough for ut to provide the
British with enough weapons for
their defense, Including enough
planet to DOMINATE the air
over and around the British Islet,
the battle of Britain will not be
won by Hitler.
' Every plane, every gun, every
tank, every SHIP we can build
between now and the zero hour
will contribute tremendously to
the tuccest of the British cause,
which we have now definitely
underwritten.
A FINAL thought here on
Crete.
For three thousand years the
happy Island of Crete, surround
ed by her protecting ocean, wat
unlnvaded. For a thousand years,
the wat at peace.
"URING these thousand! of
years of freedom from Invas
ion and the resulting thousand
years of peace the Cretana pros
pered amazingly. They built up
a civilization that for ita time
compared with oura.
They had such conveniences
as bathrooms with running hot
and cold water. They developed
sculptors and painters. Their
gem and Ivory work, their metal
and Inlaid work, was at fine as
any that mankind has produced.
Their textiles and their pottery
equaled our best. Their women
wore corsets and flounced
dresses. Ivory figures dug up In
the ruins of Cnossos might
easily be used as modcla for to
day's advertising of women's ap
parel and women's coiffures.
Bull fighting and athletic
events (on the scale of our foot-
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Looking Backward
By The Associated Presa
May 30, 1040 First of Allied
forces to escape Flandera trap
reaches Britain; nazi dive bomb
ers smash at transports, war
ships. May .10, 1016 Germans bom
bard Allied lines at Vardar and
Kilindir, in Serbia; atrip other
fronts to tend troops to Verdun.
In The
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Closely
Holiday
Scattered Sabotage
Campaign Feared in
Brief Layoff Period
By The Associated Press
Military and civil guards stood
watch Friday at defense plants
from coast to coast, summoned
overnight by civilian authorities
who spoke of sabotage and mili
tary officers who talked only of
tactical maneuvers.
Highlighting the sudden ac
tivity from New England to Cal
ifornia was cancellation of leaves
of 14.000 Fort Dix. N. J sold
iers and a "practice alert" at
Fort Custer, Mich., wat to real
istic that officers confessed "it
even fooled us."
The war department said at
Washington It had Issued no In
structions of any kind to lead
to precautions such as were re
ported. It said It knew nothing
of the activities at Fort Dix
and Fort Custer but rjolnted out
j that post or corps commanders
euvers" at any time.
Airplane factories and estab
lishments engaged In defense
production. It was explained, are
under the protection of the FBI
and of Individual protection
forces at most plants.
Anti-aircraft guns were plant
ed atop California plane fac
tories. Lot Angelet harbor thlps
were floodlighted, police guards
were augmented In several cities
and west coast "patriotic bodies"
were asked to stand by.
Most spectacular of the mili
tary measures was the clamping
on Fort Custer, Mich., of a
"practice alert" which was so
much like the real thing that
Battle Creek police took to the
streets to warn civilians against
armed sentries.
"We have been advised that
there is a threat to the security
of the post and every precaution
la being taken to safeguard the
post," the office of the command
ant announced last night At
once, sentries were Increased,
fire equipment went into posi
tion, guards took over the post's
water and power supply and
Battle Creek Industrial concerns
mustered full quotas of watch
men and special police.
When the word came that It
was all In practice, Capt. Richard
Merrick. Intelligence officer, con
fessed "It even fooled us."
At Seattle, port commissioners
ordered extra guards along the
waterfront after warnings by the
federal bureau of investigation
that they should exercise "un
usual" alertness over the Me
morial day weekend to safeguard
shipping facilities.
Federal authorities closed the
Lake Washington thip canal
locks, tourist attraction, to visi
tors and doubled the ordinary
guard. The locks connect Pugct
bound with Seattle's Lakes
Union and Washington.
Bus Overturns
Near Portland;
Several Injured
OREGON CITY, Ore., May 30
(UP) A north-bound Grey
hound bus overturned five miles
south of Oregon City on U. S.
highway No. 99E late today, in
juring several of its 24 passen
gers. Oregon City police aald sev
eral persona were taken to hos
pitals here and In Portland, but
believed none was critically in
jured. Driver W. J. Hall, Eugene,
said his wheels locked after he
applied the brakes when a pass
ing automobile cut in front of
him. The big bus spun on the
rain-drenched highway and
overturned.
Treated at hospitals were:
Mabel Baughy, Silverton.
Ore., back head and shoulder In
juries; Mrs. E. J. Guttlnger,
Portland, ' lacerations; Harry
Crusdell, Portland, lacerations;
Mrs. Frank Britten, negress.
Portland, bruises; Lester Carl-
Isle, Walton, Ore., bruises.
Wilbur Hixon Trial
Slated for June 2
PORTLAND, May 30 (VP)
Wilbur Hixon, 20, Klamath In.
dian, pleaded Innocent to a
charge of murder in federal court
yesterday and Judge James A.
Fee set the trial for June 12.
Hixon Is accused of killing
Abner McNalr with a pistol on
the Klamath reservation March
26.
'Machinery of Defense Must Not Be Interrupted by Disputes"
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II" Wi
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Morning after President
be Interrupted by disputes between capital and labor," found machinist pickets doing picket duty
in front of the Moore Drydock
partially tied up by a machinist
DAVIS WINS AT
SPEEDCLASSIC
Rose Relief Driver in
Winning Car; Wil
bur Shaw Cracks Up
BY HARRY FERGUSON j
United Press Sports Editor -
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30
(UP Floyd Davar-of Spring,
field, 111., won the BOO-mile
sweepstakes race today stand
ing on the sidelines and watching
the cars whizz past.
He won it because Mauri Rose,
whose car was forced out by
carburetor trouble at the 61st
lap of this 200-lap contest, got
behind the wheel of Davis' red
and blue Bullet as a relief driver
after the first lap and drove like
a demented demon to come up
from eighth place at the half
way mark to finish first.
It was an unusual ending for
this great test of speed and spunk.
Only once before in the history
of the race have two men shared
the gold and glory. That was in
1924 when L. L. Corum started
the race In a Dusenberg special
and Joe Boyer relieved him and
came home winner.
' Crowd Roars
A crowd of 162.000 persons,
sweltering in the big saucer, let
loose a roar as Rose swept past
the finish line under the flut
tering checkered flag that hails
the victor.
It was a record throng for
this event and even if the win
ner's average speed 115.117
miles an hour was far off the
record of 117.200, there were
thrills enough.
An entire lap behind the rush
ing, roaring Rose came Rex Mays
of Glendale, Calif., to take sec-
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U. S. Ambassador
Home From England
NEW YORK, May 30 (UP)
U. S. Ambassador to London
John G. Winant returned to the
United States tonight to report
personally to President Roose
velt and Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull. He refused to discuss
publicly Britain's war effort and
conditions in London.
Winant, extremely reticent
with newsmen after his arrival
at LaGuardla airport aboard the
Yankee clipper from Lisbon at
3:57 p. m., snid he first would
confer with Hull and then with
the president.
There was no indication
whether he would see Mr.
Roosevelt at the lattcr's Hyde
Park home where he is spending
the weekend or would wait un
til he returned to Washington.
NOTICE
The business of.'.cs. editor
ial rooms and mechanical de
partment of The Herald and
News will be closed for one
hour, from 2:30 to 3:30 p, m
on Saturday, during the funer
al of Loyd Malcolm Cox.
' Funeral services will be
held at Whltlock's at 2:30
P. m. t.
KLAMATH FALLS, OKKGON.
Roosevelt's ominous warning that
plant in Oakland. Calif-, one of the
strike.
Italian Troop
Ship Sunk in
Sicily Straits
ROME. May 30 m The 17.-879-ton
Italian liner Conte Rosso,
laden with troops, has been sunk
by a torpedo south of Syracuse.
Sicily, but most soldiers aboard
were saved, the Italian high
command said today.
On the other side of the led
ger, the high command said the
1340-ton British destroyer Here
ward had been' blown up by
bombs dropped by Italian planes
The daily war bulletin said 229
members of the crew had been
rescued, including 26 seriously
wounded.
iThe 19-year-old Conte Rosso,
traveling in convoy when she
went down, apparently was
transporting troop reinforce
ments to Italian garrisons in
north Africa, since the newspaper
II Popolo Di Roma said fresh
manpower was being convoyed
across the Mediterranean by the
Italian navy.
At the eastern end of the
Mediterranean the high command
said constant Italian aerial at
tacks were forcing the British
fleet which had been seeking
to prevent the landing of sea
borne axis reinforcements in
Crete to withdraw toward
Alexandria.
British Naval Bases
Target for Attack
BERLIN, May 30 W5) Naval
bases at Portland and Plymouth
and the port of Torquay were
the main targets of nazi air at
tacks on the English western
and southern -coasts last night,
the official German news agen
cy, DNB, said today.
(The British government said
there was little German air ac
tivity over Britain during the
night, though bombs were
dropped at one point in the
south without causing damage
or casualties).
Sinister Influences Bring Trouble to World, May Threaten
United States, Says Norman Bowyer at Memorial Service
A plea to drive out Isms and
blemishes from the American
hearts and shores was voiced
Friday in a Memorial day ad
dress by Adjutant Norman Bow
yer as Klamath Falls paid hom
age to soldier, sailor and civilian
dead. .
Cloudy skies and a chill spring
wind greeted drum corps. Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts and other
marching organizations which
paraded down Main street to the
armory at 10 o'clock. Following
Adjutant Bowyer's address at
the armory services the parade
continued on to Linkville ceme
tery where Veterans of Foreign
Wars conducted a ceremony.
At 6:30 a. m. graves of veter
ans were decorated and a wreath
placed on the waters of Link
river in memory of those who
died at sea.
.."Sinister Influences," Adju
tant Bowyer asserted in his ad
dress, ;"have literally brought
hell to millions of the world's
SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1941
defense machinery must "not
San Francisco bay area plants
JAPANESE MAY
ALTER 'PEACE'
Change of Policy in
Attitude on South
Seas Seen Warning
TOKYO, May 30 () Foreign
Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, reaf
firming Japaw adherence to-the
three-power pact, declared at a
press conference today that she
might have to reconsider her
"peaceful policy" toward the
South Seas.
Informed quarters Interpreted
this part of Matsuoka's state
ment as a direct warning to the
Netherlands East Indies, in view
of the current deadlock in eco
nomic talks.
"As frequently has been af
firmed," Matsuoka told Japanese
reporters, "Japan's policy to
ward the South Seas is peaceful.
"Should, however, untoward
international developments ren
der execution of such policy im
possible, it is a possibility that
Japan may have to reconsider
her attitude in the light of the
changed situation."
Matsuoka referred to what he
described as rumors in some
American newspapers that Ja
pan was becoming indifferent
toward the three-power pact
with Germany - and Italy, in
which Japan is pledged to go to
war against any new belligerent
attacking any of the signatories.
He called the rumors an "absurd
misconception."
'There is no question what
ever as to the fact that the tri
partite pact constitutes an im
mutable basis of Japanese for
eign policy," he said, adding:
"I could hardly believe that
United States authorities were
entertaining such a misunder
standing. ... If such erroneous
views are current in the United
States they are ascribable to mis
leading information spread wll
fully."
finest people and will soon 'con
vince' us if we permit them."
If we are to continue to enjoy
the fruits of democracy, the Sal
vation army leader said, we must
drive out self-aggrandizement,
self-pity, hatred and selfishness
We have been too materialis
tic, Bowyer stated not giving
time to worship and meditation.
When the material has disap
peared we go to pieces not so
with the spiritual values, we then
prove their real worth, he said
His address follows:
We gather this Memorial day
to pay homage to those departed
veterans and loved ones, who by
their heroism have presented to
us the glorious freedom and land
we possess. To me the most fit
ting tribute we could pay them
would be the preservation of this
great union and expediting the
early return of international
peace and righteousness.
A young woman said to her
Germans Say Crete
Victory Completed
TO MIKE
Orton, Group's Head,
Again Rejects Plan
Of Mediation Board
SEATTLE, May 30 (UP) The
International Woodworkers of
America (CIO) today rejected a
second request of the national
defense mediation board that
1 2.000 western Washington
strikers return to work.
O. M. Orton. IWA president,
telegraphed Board Chairman C.
A. Dykstra that a referendum of
the entire union membership
had "overwhelmingly rejected
the board's settlement formula.
Orton a telegram was a re
sponse to Dykstra's declaration
that the board could not accept
the action of an IWA conference
which rejected the board pro
posal. Dykstra urged that the
proposed settlement be placed
before the union membership,
It was the second successive
day in which the defense medi
ation board had met a rebuff
from the striking woodworkers.
Yesterday Orton told the board
he had no authority to call the
men back to work.
WASHINGTON, May 30 (UP)
The national defense mediation
board today moved toward
carrying out President Roose
velt's edict of "no rtoppages" of
work in defense industries by
ordering its plan to settle the
strike of 12,000 timber workers
In Washington re-submitted to
the membership. "
O. M. Orton, president' of the
International Woodworkers of
America (CIO), 'informed. Board
Chairman C. A. Dykstra that he
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York Declares
U. S. Aid Must
Save Britain
WASHINGTON, May 30 UP)
Before the tomb of the unknown
soldier. Sergeant Alvin C. York
called today for immediate all-
out aid to England, and added
"If that means that we have to
use convoys, then we should use
them."
The tall Tennessee mountain
eer who became one of the out
standing heroes of the World
war AEF was invited as prin
cipal speaker at Memorial day
ceremonies in Arlington Nation
al cemetery.
Hits Isolationists
In his prepared address, York
struck out at advocates of "iso
lationism." He declared that Sen
ator Wheeler (D-Mont.) "ought to
know by now that you can't pro
tect yourself against bullets with
an umbrella." To "a United
States senator whose favorite
bird must be the ostrich" York
coupled a reference to ."a fam
ous trans-Atlantic aviator." Both,
he said, "feel differently than
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mother, "I can't marry John."
"Why not?" asked the mother.
"Because he doesn't believe there
is a hell." "Marry him, my dear,
and between us, we'll convince
him."
Sinister influences have liter
ally brought hell to millions of
the world's finest people and will
soon "convince" us (USA) if we
permit them. If we are to con
tinue to enjoy the fruits of de
mocracy we must drive from
our hearts and shores the blem
ishes or Isms, which when re
duced to their component parts
are nothing but self aggrandize
ment, self pity, hatred and sel
fishness. Why should we drive away
these isms, you ask? America has
proven that it's way of life gives
us the highest' standards of liv
ing. Education facilities for our
citizens exceed those of any other
nation, we worship as we choose,
and we are not subjugated to
(Every
Only 28 Ships
From U. S. Lost
at Sea, Claim
WASHINGTON. May 30 VP)
Apparently authentic reports
reached congress today, that
only 28 ships loaded with war
supplies in United States ports
have been sunk en route to Brit
ain since the European conflict
began in September, 1939.
While no tabulation was avail
able on the total number of such
vessels to clear US porta, inter
ested legislators said it was safe
to assur-.e that the loss ratio of
American goods thus far had
been relatively small.
Sinkings listed were said to
have Involved some food prod
ucts from South America which
were trans-shipped it ports here.
It was pointed out, however,
that the sinkings do not include
sea losses of equipment produced
in the United States and sent to
Canada for shipm-nt from do
minion ports.
The figure of 28 sinkings in
the 21 months the conflict has
been under way, some legisla
tors said, tended to bear out the
report Chairman Emory S. Land
of the maritime commission gave
the senate commerce committee
recently.
Land revealed that out of 205
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Gailani Flees Across
Persian Lin e, Says
Report From LondorW
LONDON, May 30 OP) The
anti-British premier of Iraq,
Rashid Ali Al Gailani, has fled
into neighboring Iran, it was
authoritatively announced here
tonight.
Rashid All, in power through
a coup d'etat, had been leading
Iraq forces against the British
since they first opened fire on
Britain's treaty airdrome at
Habbaniyah, Iraq, on May 4.
Help Limited
He called for axis aid to his
cause of expelling the British
from Iraq, but apparently on
account of Germany's preoccu
pation with the conquest of
Crete, axis help was limited to
a trickle of warp lanes and
technicians.
The text of the London an
nouncement follows:
"It is learned in official quar-
Kaiser's Condition
Reported Serious
BERLIN, May 30 (UP)
Kaiser Wilhelm II, former em
perior of Germany, who has
been living In Doom, Hollander
23 years, is in serious" condi
tion, a German news agency dis
patch from Amsterdam said to
night. The former monarch's daugh
ter, the Duchess of Braunsch
weig, was said to be at his bed
side and the crown prince, his
son, was reported en route to
Doom.
the will of a few. Shall we sur
render these and other privileges
which were so dear to our fore
fathers?
Liberty In America was plant
ed by the Pilgrim Fathers and
watered' by their own blood.
Soldiers since then until 1918
have continued to give then-
bio o d to continue liberty's
growth. Some wars have been
Justified that righteousness might
prevail, but I am convinced, war
at anytime is unnecessary if
man's compunctions are right.
St. James in his epistle asks
and answers the question, "From
whence are wars and contentions
among you? Are they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in
your members. Ye lust, and have
not; Ye kill, and desire to have
and cannot obtain, Ye fight and
war, yet ye have not, because
ye ask not. Ye ask and receive
not, because ye ask amiss, that
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Morning Except Monday).
ISLAND TAKEN
AFTER 11-DAY
FIOjlCLAIM
Commander - i n-Chief
Of Allied Defenders
Said Killed in Crash
BERLIN, May 30 (UP) Brit
ish resistance has collapsed .
"everywhere" on Crete with tha
enemy in flight to the southern
coast under a murderous rain
of bombs, the high command
proclaimed today. The reports
reached Berlin of the death of .
Maj. Gen. Bernard C. Freyberg.
the allied commander-in-chief la
Crete.
The battle of the strategic is
land base has been "won" after
11 days of furious, air-borne at
tac unprecedented in the history
of warfare, it was said. The shat
tered British remnants are try
ing to flee to Egypt aboard fish
ing boats and every available
means of escape. -
Freyberg, Aide Die
Freyberg and his chief aid
were said in unconfirmed radio -reports
to have been killed In a
plane crash while flying to Alex
andria, Egypt, after abandoning
the struggle in Crete.
Today's high command com
munique told of the wholesale)
surrender of thousands of Brit
ish and Greek troops, the cap
ture)' of the port of Retimo to
complete the mop-up of the Crete)
northern coastline and promised
grim- reprisals for what It al
leged to be the "barbaric muti
lation" of German wounded 4nd
ria3iiers by . the British an4
Nasi spokesmen said the Brit
ish survivors reaching the south
ern coast had scant chance of re
peating "another Dunkerque." It
was predicted they would be?
compelled to ' capitulate after
finding escape cut off.
Allies Trapped ,
A bloody mop-up of the British
and Greek troops entrapped on
Crete was threatened as result
of a high command assertion
German troops falling prisoners
had been "mutilated" in a "bes
tial manner as only occurred in
this war during the Polish cam
paign." The report of the death of Ma.
Gen. Freyberg and his chief aide.
General Gabrey, during a flight
from Crete to Alexandria was
not contained In the high com
mand's communique but was car
ried by the official DNB agency
which quoted reports of the Da
mascus, Syria and Cairo radio
stations.
DNB said captured British
prisoners confirmed Freyberg,
one of the British empire's out
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Holiday Causes .
Many Accidents
By United Press
The nation counted at least
86 persons dead by violence Fri
day night in the first 24 hours
of a three-day holiday weekend.
Traffic casualties contributed
more than two-thirds of the toll.
The Memorial day vacation
brought out heavy automobile
traffic from coast to coast and
the travel urge was measured
in the cost of human life.
At least 66 persons died in au
tomobile accidents. Sixteen
were killed on California's high
ways alone, another eight per
ished in Pennsylvania, six in Mis-'
souri and five In Indiana. Mas
sachusetts and Wyoming counted
four traffic deaths each. ' -
Three persons were killed In,
a single crash at Columbus, Ind.
The two cars were carrying 19
passengers, ten in one and nine
in the other. Six others were
critically injured in the acci--dent..
Drownings, suicide and fir
caused other deaths.
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