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Vol. 18. No. 16a I'rico Five Cents
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1941
(Every Morning Except Monday))
In The
Day's
News
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By rnANK jenkins
JJITLER and MumoIIhI mcot
today at tlia Brenner paw.
Simultaneous official reports
Wom Berlin and Roma announce
4hat the deliberations "ended In
complete agreement on points of
View."
(Hitler said to Mussolini:
"You'll do so and so," and Mus
Collnl answered: "Yes, mister.")
. .the Brtl,h dmlt My th,
v'1 with the fall of Crete the
Mediterranean has become vir
tually an axis sea.
Your map will show you that
regardless of what may happen
at Gibraltar there are now two
bottlenecks In the Mediterranean
the 100-mlle-wlde strait be
tween Italian Sicily and French
Tunisia and the 200-mlle gap
between Crete and Libya.
A What happened In Crete shows
plainly enough what the Ger
man air force could do to British
' ships In these narrow waters.
...
7JCUEZ ' now primarily an out
iP let for British ships in the
' eastern Mediterranean. It is no
" longer a through route. British
shipping must now go the long
' road around Africa. As a matter
of fact, it has been going that
way for some time.
Look for something to happen
at Dakar. German planes, subs
and surface raiders based there
eould do a lot of damage to this
vitally Important around-Africa
: traffic.
... -
; T OOK also for the heat to be
turned onto Turkey. Hitler
i can by-pass Turkey by way of
Syria, but that will be Inefficient
and Hitler and his advisers
; don't like Inefficient arrange-
; menta.
. .
'nrllB London Dally Telegraph
(still free to criticise after
Jwo yeara of war) bluntly de-
' mn vnlnniitinn of Brit-
aln's fourth straight set-back of
! the war at the hands of the
German war machine (Norway,
- Flanders, Greece and Crete).
The British war office gives
this answer:
, "It became clear that our
NAVAL, and military forces
t could not be expected to operate
'' Indefinitely In and near Crete
5 without mora AIR support than
' could be provided from our air
I ... I Atrinm "
, That comes startllngly near to
being an official admission that
Hitler's air force has won the
first major test of the war be
tween sea and air power.
...
COR your own explanation of
r Britain's defeats, go back
rJour or five years to the time
ivhen Germany was building a
mighty air force and BRITAIN
WASN'T in spite of clear and
definite warnings.)
. .
A NOTHER lesson of Crete:
The great battle there shows
what will happen to OUR BOYS
If wo send them against Ger
many unprovided with the tools
. ,ua,fnrit InflllHinff
PLENTY of airplanes.
...
A N interesting sioengni on
A Iraq:
British troops arc being fer
ried there from India In Ameri
can transport planes probably
civilian passenger planes requisi
tioned from American air lines.
It Is reported from London
that these planes have been
Uftrippcd of their scats and all
3rimmings, thus almost doub
ling their capacity for troop
transport.
Use of planes In this service
indicates the desperate urgency
to get adequate British forces
into Iraq.
...
fvTEAR final figures on the
Memorial day week-end:
Violet deaths in the United
States over the three-day holi
day reached a total of at least
450 exceeding by 69 the fore
cast of the National Safety
Council.
Of the 459 violent deaths, 308
resulted from traffic accidents.
Looking Backward
By The Associated Press
f$ June 2, 1940 German dive
bombers, fighters smash at allied
forces withdrawing slowly from
Dunkerque area.
June 2, 1916 Mcuso offen
sive carries Germans nearer
Verdun.
TWO KLAMATH
FUNDS GIVEN
FEDERAL EYE
Sprague River Road,
Sump Project Given
Okay by Committee
Favorable appropriation news
came from Washington Monday,
In the shape of the following
developments:
1. Senate appropriations com
mittee allowed $130,000 for re
construction of the Sprague
River road, provided the state
will match that amount.
2. The same committee boost
ed current reclamation appro
priation for the Klamath project
from $200,000 to $500,000,
which will virtually complete
construction of the big sump and
tunnel project.
Telegram
Senator Rufus Holman wired
the chamber of commerce with
regard to the road money as
follows:
Referring your Interest la
reconstruction of Chiloquln
Sprague Rlr.r road 1 finally
succeeded in inducing senate
appropriations committee to
allow $150,000 to be spent on
this project during the next
fiscal year provided this
amount shall be matched by
state funds. Hope I shall be
able to maintain this appro
priation and that state funds
can be made available to
qualify this project for federal
funds.
Rufus C. Holman USS.
Chamber officials indicated
that renewed effort will be made
to Induce the state to take over
the Sprague River road as a
secondary highway and take ad
vantage of the funds authorized
through the federal government
C. S. Scharfcnstcln of Klam
ath Falls, who is Just home from
Washington, conferred there
with Senators Holman and Mc
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SHIP STRIKERS
NDMB Cracks Down
In S. F.; Five Alcoa
Plants Vote Walkout
SAN FRANCISCO. June 2.
(UP) The AFL bay cities metal
trades council tonight ordered
the members of its 17 affiliated
unions to return to work tomor
row morning at the big Bethle
hem shipbuilding plant In San
Francisco, largest of the 11
shipyards tied up by the 23-day
machinists strike.
By UNITED PRESS
Less than two hours after it
had been asked to obtain settle
ment in the $500,000,000 San
Francisco shipyards strike, the
national defense mediation board
Monday night requested striking
AFL machinists to resume pro
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Lou Gehrig, Ex-Iron Man'
. Of Baseball, Dies in V. .
NEW YORK, June 2, (UP)
Lou Gehrig, former first base
man of the New York Yankees
and the one time "iron man of
baseball," died at 10:10 o'clock
tonight at his home in the
Bronx.
Lou Gehrig was the most dur
able baseball player in the
game's history. From June 1,
1925 until April 30, 1939, Gehrig
never missed a ball game with
the Yankees and ran up the
amazing record of playing in
2130 consecutive games.
Through those 15 years Gehrig
by sheer grit and an extraor
dinary constitution performed
one of the miracles of baseball
and earned the title of "The
Iron Man." Of all the men in
the baseball world, Gehrig was
considered tho one least likely
to fold up overnight the victim
of an insidious disease which de
fied medical aid.
But after a week of examina
tions at Mayo Brothers' clinic,
Rochester, Minn., a shocked
baseball world was Informed
that Gehrig was suffering from
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a
type of Illness known in lay
terms as chronic poliomyelitis
Chief Justice to Retire
Charles Evans Hughes, who guided the supreme court
through the turbulent depression era and later helped block
President Roosevelt's famed court reorganisation policy, Monday
advised the president ha will retire from active duty on July .
Chief Justice Hunhes Asks
To Retire from High Court;
Health, Age Reasons Given
HYDE PARK, June 2, (UP)
Charles Evans Hughes, 79-year-old
chief Justice or the United
States supreme court, tonight
asked President Roosevelt to ap
prove his retirement from the
nation's highest tribunal and Mr.
Roosevelt Indicated he would ac
quiesce. Under date of June 2, Hughes
wrote Mr. Roosevelt asking ap
proval of bis retirement tor "con
sideration of health and age."
Mr. Roosevelt replied that
though his "every inclination is
to beg you to remain" his "deep
concern for your health and
strength must be paramount."
Two Vacancies
The exchange of letters obvi
ously wrote the end to Mr.
Roosevelt's historic supreme
court battle, which, actually, he
already had won. With the va
cancy caused by the resignation
this spring of Justice James
C. McRcynolds still unfilled, Mr.
R o o sc v e 1 1, upon accepting
Hughes resignation, will have
two court vacancies to fill. The
administration already has a sol
id majority on the supreme
bench.
Hughes' letter to the president
said:
"My Dear Mr. President:
"Considerations of health and
age make it necessary that I
should be relieved of the duties
which I have been discharging
with Increasing difficulty. For
that reason I avail myself of the
right and privilege granted by
the act of March 1, 1937, 28 U.
S. code, section 3758, and retire
from regular active service on
the bench as chief Justice of the
(infantile paralysis.) Gehrig
was given the sad news on June
19, 1939, his 36th birthday.
Gehrig remained with the
Yankees the rest of the 1939 sea
son but retired from baseball
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Lou Gehrig
uiniiiij,. i hi i ii i . mmj. i
United States, this retirement to
be effective on and after July 1,
1941.
"I have the honor to remain.
"Respectfully yours,
"Charles Evans Hughes."
To this letter, Mr. Roosevelt
replied by telegram under J'-)e
aaie aa loiiows:
. My Dear Mr. Chief Justice:
"I am deeply distressed by
your letter of June 2 telling me
of your retirement on uly 1
from active service as chief Jus
tice of the United States. This
comes to me, as I know it will to
the whole nation, as great
shock for all of us had counted
on your continuing your splendid
service for many years to come.
My every Inclination is to beg
you to remain; but my deep con
cern for your health and strength
must be paramount. I shall hope
to see you this coming week in
Washington.
"Sincerely and affectionately
yours,
"Franklin D. Roosevelt."
Milk Prices
Given Boost
After June 1
Klamath county housewives
were advised by market milk
producers and distributors of an
advance in milk and cream
prices which went Into effect
June 1. The increase was also
noted in wholesale as well as re
tall prices, and only skim milk
and buttermilk did not come in
the increase column.
This increase in retail and
wholesale prices makes possible
an increase of seven cents per
pound for butterfat to dairymen
producing market milk and
made necessary by increasing
costs of operation to both pro
ducers and distributors, it was
learned from an authoritative
source. Nearly two-thirds of the
increase is received directly by
market milk producers.
Milk previously selling at 11
cents per quart took a one-cent
Jump, as did 12-cent milk (five
per cent), which rose to 13 cents.
Cream selling in half-pints for
18 cents rose to 20 cents, pints
from 33 to 38 cents, and quarts
from 65 to 70 cents.
In the wholesale field, there
was no Increase in half-pints and
pints of milk which sold for
three an.! six cents, respectively,
but nine-cent quarts rose to 10,
and gallons which sold at 36
cents, jumped up to 40. A four
cent jump was also noticed in
retail prices of milk by the gal
lon, going up from 44 to 48
cents.
CASHIER ROBBED
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2,
(UP) A thief snatched a bag
containing $241 from the cash
ier's counter at the San Fran
cisco Call Bulletin office today
and escaped.
D. S. HASTENS
DEFENSE UNITS
Bismarck-Hood Battle
Too Close To Home;
Coast Cutters Voted
WASHINGTON. June 2, (UP)
The United States, spurred by
the Bismark-Hood sea battle
that brought the European war
to' the new world's front door,
today was understood to h a v e
hastened plans for the protection
of Greenland.
While all activity concerning
defenses of the huge ice-capped
island were military secrets, the
moves were presumed to include
strengthening of land, air and
naval defenses in view of the in
creasing emphasis being placed
on Greenland's strategic role as
the North Atlantic gateway to
the western hemisphere.
Troops Sent
The United States reportedly
started sending troops to Green
land shortly after it took over
the responsibility of defending
the island April 10. The protec
tive agreement with the Danish
minister gave this country the
right to establish air bases and
other naval and military facili
ties. Troops are believed to be pre
paring air fields, and U. S. naval
units also are presumed to have
been strengthened.
Congress today acted to build
up Greenland a defenses, ine
house unanimously approved and
sent to the senate legislation au
thorizing construction of 10 new
coast guard cutters, including
three ice breakers described as
needed for purposes "which in
volve certain activities in Green
land. A group of American offi
cials were en route here from
Greenland with a report on the
island's strategic role in western
hemisphere defenses.
President Roosevelt, In his
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Joseph Stemphuber in
Hospital; Thugs At
Large After Beating
Two youthful thugs severely
beat an elderly man at 8 p. m.
last night, robbed him of $3
in his small house at 1631 John
son street and apparently es
caped in a waiting automobile.
Joseph Stemphuber, about 60,
victim of the assault, Is in Klam'
ath Valley hospital with a com
pound-fractured Jaw and head
lacerations.
Local police said Stemphuber
brokenly gave an account of the
slugging and robbery after he
was taken to the hospital. Two
young men stopped their car in
front of his little bachelor quar
ters, and as he opened the door
they came In slugging. It was
more than an hour later before
Stemphuber recovered conscious
ness and found his way to a
neighbor's, where police were
called.
The thugs were apparently not
satisfied with a light "take" of
only $3 found in their victim's
pockets, according to Night
Chief Earl Heuvel, and proceed
ed to ransack Stemphuber's liv-
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British Ships
N Ji-
By radio from Berlin today, this alrviaw of Great Britain's much prised Suda Bay naval
bases In Crete shows British ships burning after German diva-bombers attacked. White spots in
water are exploding bombs, and
Nazis Said Landed
At Syrian Seaport
HITLER, DUCE
MEET IN PASS,
DISK PLAN
Dictators Agree To
Close Mediterranean
If U. S. Intervenes
ROME, June 2, (UP) Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini, in
a five-hour conference today at
Brenner Pass, were believed to
have agreed on closing the Medi
terranean to any U. S. aid to
Britain in event of open Ameri
can intervention in tne war.
Meeting in their sixth wartime
rendezvous to map the next
"blow of destruction" against
Britain, the dictators were re
ported to have chosen between
an attempted invasion of the Brit
ish Isles this summer and a
smashing offensive against the
Suez Canal, using conquered
Crete as a springboard.
Aboard 11 Duces armored
train, parked Just inside Italy's
northern Alpine frontier with
anti-aircrait guns pointed sky
ward. Hitler and Mussolini first
talked alone. Then they called
in German and Italian Foreign
Ministers Joachim von Ribben-
trop and Count Galea zzo Ciano.
Others Called
Finally in a detailed military
discussion, they were said by
the official Stefani Agency to
have summoned General field
Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of
the German supreme command,
and Italian Chief of Staff Gen
eral Ugo Cavallero.
Although the official Italo
German communique describing
the conference was . usaniorma'
tive, talk in fascist quarters to
night following 11 Duces flying
return to Rome indicated the
five-hour council of war had
dealt with:
1. Definite military and poli
tical steps to be taken if the
United States openly intervenes
on Britain's side, including
means of closing the Mediter
ranean to prevent U. S. aid from
reaching the British either by
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City Fathers
Discuss Club
Law, Traffic
General discussion of city
business took up the compara
tively brief meeting of city fa
thers last night with the session
as calm as a summer's breeze.
Even the restaurant "club
law," when brought up for re
discussion, met a quiet conclu
sion as the council agreed to is
sue the license fee-free until
1942 when definite action would
be taken to include all partici
pating restaurants.
The proposition of paving
Seventh street south from the
postoffice was discussed, all
agreeing it would alleviate traf
fic on already crowded South
Sixth street. Mayor John Hous
ton advised council members the
city planning commission had a
plan under advisement in regard
to a parking lot and that action
might include improving that
(Continued on Page Four)
Aflame After Nazi Attack on Suda Bay
' :
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iirea are ablaze across the harbor.
No Sabotage
round in Big
Jersey Blaze
JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 2
(P) Blackened nibble and
heat-twisted steelwork held the
secret today of the cause of a
24-hour fire that ravaged eight
blocks along the Jersey City
waterfront, but the police, coast
guard and federal bureau of in
vestigation expressed belief that
it definitely was not sabotage.
Fire Chief Frank Ertle, who
estimated the damage at $25.-
000,000 told newsmen to "put
any sabotage ideas out of your
mind," adding that the fire
could have started from a carelessly-tossed
cigarette.
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief,
who also discounted the sabo
tage possibility, said In Omaha,
Neb., that there were no nation
al defense materials destroyed.
The fire broke out Saturday
afternoon in a stock yard and
was not extinguished until af
ter the flames had mushroomed
spectacularly through the wa
terfront area between Sixth
street and Pavonia avenue.
FATALTO FOUR
Sabotage Charged in
Wreck of Big Plane
After First Takeoff
SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 2,
(UP) The suspicion saboteurs
were responsible for the crash of
a . four-m o t o re d "Liberator''
bomber and the deaths of four
nf it. five-man crew was voiced
tonight by a spokesman for Con
solidated Aircrait company. i
Feriffal bureau of investiga
tion agents went to San Diego
bay where the plane crasnea ana
were assembly ing evidence on
nnih1f Kahntaee even before the
wreckage had been raised from
the water or the bodies recov
The 20-ton high-wing mono
plane was on its final test flight
preparatory to snipmenx io ins
land. It crashed within three
minutes after taking off from
Lindbergh field, adjoining the
Consolidated plant here.
Elevators Jam
The plane was only 400 or 500
font in th ji i v when witnesses
noticed it began to flutter on an
uneven keel and the pilot ap
peared to be having difficulty in
operating the ship's elevators,
less than a minute later the plane
suddenly nosed downward and
with hueh snlash struck the
waters of the bay within 100
yards of the B street pier.
Th dead were:
William V. Wheatley, 38, Ches
ter, N. Y., chief test pilot ana
service manager for Consolidat
ed Aircraft enmnanv.
Allen T. Austin, 28, Kansas
City, Mo., assistant test pilot.
Bruce K. Craig, 27, Chicago,
William H. Rieser, 23, Cam
bridge, Mass., engineer.
The only survivor of the crash
was Lewis M. McCannon, 25. a
mnotinnlc who wan iniured seri
ously and was rushed to the
North Island Naval hospital.
The plane struck the water
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ASSAULT ON
CYPRUS SEEN
NEXHATTLE
British Claim Most
Of 20,000 Evacuate
In Safety to Egypt
ALEXANDRIA, June
2, (UP) Authorities estimated
tonight that more than 75 per
cent of approximately 20,000
British troops in Crete had
arrived safely in Egypt
In complete order and most
of them carrying full equip
ment, the last of the men
trooped off battle-scarred des
troyers and cruisers and the
evacuation by the navy was
reported complete.
By The Associated Press
German motorized infantry
troops were reported today to
have landed at the port of La-
takia, Syria, and the British an
nounced the removal of British
women and children from the
island of Cyprus, off the coast of
Syria, in anticipation of a quick
axis assault there following the
conquest of Crete.
A British crown colony since
1914. Cyprus is the third largest
island in the Mediterranean air
ter Sicily and Sardenia.
- Equipment Landed
Dispatches from Ankara, Tun
key, said the German troop
landed on the Syrian coast May
29. arriving b freighters.
Trucks, armored cars and mo
bile field guns accompanied the
nazi contingent, it was reported,.
tLatakiais. due easV ofythe
-eastern tip of Cyprus.' 1
- - On- the smouldering middle
east war front, the Berlin radio
reported that a fierce battle has
been raging for three days be
tween Arab nationalists and Brit
ish forces in Transjordan.
The nazi radio also asserted
that the exiled Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, who attempted to
precipitate a Moslem uprising
against the British during the
conflict in Iraq, had arrived at
Mosul, Iraq, to reorganize native
resistance against the British.
At the same time the British,
acknowledged that the Mediter
ranean had become virtually an
"axis sea."
Qualified informants in Lon
don said the past week's devel
opments notably the fall of
Crete and the. alignment of
France with the axis had prac
tically eliminated the Mediter
ranean as a link between Brit
ain and the middle east.
Even fast warships, it was said,
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Restaurant Owners
Give Their Side
Of Wage Dispute
Local restaurant employers
Saturday afternoon asked for
further negotiations or arbitra
tion on new wage scale demands
made by the Culinary alliance,
it was learned Monday. .
The alliance is seeking 50
cent per day wage boost for all
cooks, waitresses, dishwashers
and bartenders employed by
over 40 local eating and drink
ing establishments. A majority
of employers have either signed
or have indicated they will sign
the new contract but eleven are
fighting the increase. Of the
eievei-, three are among the
largest restaurants on Main
street.
A statement released by H. C.
Merryman, attorney for the
Klamath Falls Restaurant and
Caterers association, said the
present scale in Klamath Falls
is in line with that in Portland
and Seattle, two large cities
booming with defense activity.
Merryman gave the following
reasons for restaurant operators'
insistence on maintaining the
old contract:
"1. The contract now In op-'
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