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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1941)
page rovn Junt 4T. 14f THE VFWS AND TTtE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON The Klamath News KLAMATH NEWS PUBLISHING! CO, Publishers FRANK JENKINS Editor MALCOLM EPLEY - Managing Editor Published every morning except Monday by The Klamath Nwi Publishing Company at Esplanade and Pin itmU, Klara th falls, Oregon Represented nationally by WEST-HOU-JDAY CO, loc, San Francisco. New York. Detroit. SaatU. Los Angeles, St. Louis. Portland. Chicago. Vancouver. B C Copies of The News and Herald together with complete Information about the Klamath Falls market may be obtained for the asking at any of these offices Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls. Oregon. November IS. 1932. under act of March 3. 1879 "Check!" Member Audit Boreas Clrcnlatioa Telephone 3114 H'Wimn RATE Official rapar at C4. Klamath Falla aaS SJaaata Cant Dalraaraa1 by cwrw, ar moata Dallfarai a? aarrtar. par mt rW!r4 (it Ban. par rrar. tlamalk. Lata, llodoa aad Sliatroa. CounUat IWlTwrf by aaO. noatha BaUaaraa ai Ball. I SaaaerfpOaea Parabla B advaaca A Match Money Opportunity A SOLUTION to the tough Sprague River road problem is offered through the action of the senate appropri ations committee in providing $150,000 match monev for reconstruction of that important secondary thoroughfare. This money is available, according to word from Sen ator Holman, if the state will provide the same amount for the reconstruction program. Final congressional ac tion, presumably, is yet to be taken, but the word from Washington makes that seem very likely after the action by the committee. This development re-opens the question of state ac tion on the Chiloquin-Sprague River road. First step would of necessity be the inclusion of this road in the state secondary system, in order to make it eligible for the expenditure of state funds m accordance with the fed eral proposition. The road is a logical secondary highway. It connects the Klamath Falls-Lakeview and The Dalles-California primary highways, it serves the important industrial com munities of BIy, Sprague River and Chiloquin. and it is a feeder of business traffic into Klamath Falls. It even has certain defense possibilities. The state road policy in the past seems always to have been to take advantage of federal match money whenever possible. Here is match money for a road which. If not reconstructed now, will be bobbing up repeatedly In the future as a problem for state, federal and county authorities. This newspaper is well aware of the problems before the state highway commission, but it believes the oppor tunities are such in the present situation as regards the Sprague River road that they should not be permitted to pass. It earnestly urges the commission's consideration of this chance to do something on this deserving highway. We're in the Festival Parade KLAMATH County Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Sheriffs Posse are doing this community a distinct service in their sponsorship of entries in the Portland Rose Festival parade on June 13. The posse, in full trappings, will ride in the parade with the flower and girl-bedecked float to be entered by the Junior chamber. Both should make a most creditable showing for Klamath Falls in a procession that is viewed by thousands. It has been 14 years since Klamath Falls had an entry In the Rose Festival parade. In 1928 Oscar Moeller took a float to Portland that won high honors and the plaudits of a huge crowd. It is more important to this community today to get favorable notice in Portland than it was in 1928. Today we have excellent highway connections with Portland and the whole Willamette valley, and it is desirable that the residents of that area be made aware of Klamath Falls as a leading Oregon city well worth visiting, either on a trip that terminates here or when passing through on the best route between the northwest and all Cali fornia points. So it is good news Klamath is going to join in the pageantry at Portland's big rose show this year, and here's tribute to the junior chamber and the posse in making this possible. They deserve the community's full cooperation in this enterprise. r ,0 "... actual HtrtfdK&f II AAPCAPni, lASoe aw usee, CAFrAL ap ias&z. irte nruee or au rzee etfrfzfKSf or CAfrAi aw lA&oe AUCB S Ar STAJte. & 17 JL3 By PAULllAlUjQy Sidelight: Ex-Mayor Clifton Richmond, dodging that hole in Pine street between Seventh and Eighth streets. The ex-mayor can cuss such aggravations at will now, for they re no longer on his conscience. In case of hostilities, we hope the services of both Captain Easy and Alley Oop are not overlooked. We want them both on our side. WASHINGTON, June 3 Those uninformed souls who believe Mr. Roosevelt was not sufficiently belligerent in his cooiing - systemside chat, may find out why if they will look up the statement of General Marshall, chief of state, issued May 23. He says his training army is in the high school stage at present. General Marshall's frank dis cussion may not have gained deserved attention. It did not disclose at what he was shoot ing. Actually he was aiming at the charges of Congressman Koss Collins that he was ac cumulating a mass army of men in preparation for a foe who is highly mechanized. Marshall's answer, in essence. is that he does not have the equipment (mainly tanks) with which to start training a large panzer force or its equivalent. Every soldier must learn the tration. He found the new 47 mm. anti-tank guns and S mm. field artillery effective, but they could not be used long because their crews mere exposed. Big ditches will never stop tanks, he says, unless you build big ditches all around your coun try. The best to start, he thinks, is to get bigger tank forces. The big armor-piercing guns should be in these tanks where the gunners are better protected. a a a AIR SUPERIORITY NEEDED Superiority in the air. how ever, seems from Girard's ac count to be primarily necessary The screaming dive bombers. with wind sirens in their tails. demoralized any concentrated French opposition which the nazi tanks could not easily over come. Full protection from the air is necessary for any ground troops to withstand the armored needle thrusts. In defense in depth (some thing which had not even been worked out by the British the Balkans) will prove to be the nlumate complete defense. Apparently this will involve a succession of forts along roads, aided by superior numbers ol tanks and superiority In the BIT. a a a Fifth columnists? Lt. Girard hardening disciplinary methods I "w th'm at work: ne -of an infantryman before he!noon hJ commanding captain can graduate into soecialized I re5eived. . vislt from ""J" warfare methods. So while .no aja 1 1 ,rench Unks would tanks are being made, he is giv ing them their high school train- Baghdad Object of German Plans for Last 50 Years By Th Associated Press Baghdad, the city of Ara bian Nights into which British troops have marched a second time In 25 years, has been de sired by German Imperialists for at least a halt century. formed at the end of the World war, by a readjustment of front iers. Baghdad, terminus of a Berlin Gaghdad railroad of which Kaiser Wllhelm II was said to jhave fondly dreamed, rose to Lying on the Tigris river in I the rank- -.it- i- . JT?.er . 1Bj,ghdad was i h" ' he eighth century when i. , J -a"pn me Arabs moved from the old Mansur in 762 A.D., on the site! town to build on the west bank of an old Babylonian city of a j of the Tigris, similar name. Once the center At the height of its fame In of Islam, Baghdad formed the the early years of the ninth meeting point of many caravan century, the "abode of peace," r0f fhe middle east. as Baghdad Is known in the me ibii 01 ine city to the Mohammedan world British this time hardly com' pares with the manner in which lt was occupied March 11, 1917, by British and Indian troops under General Sir Stanley Maude. Ottoman troops commanded by German Field Marshal Von Der Glotz made a shambles of an attempt by the British to take Baghdad late in 1915. Baghdad, during the World war, was head' quarters for Turkish resistance. Its capture then was Important in greater operations by the British to occupy all Mesopo tamia and break the Turks. The city, now inhabited by Arabs, Turks, Jews, Persians, Kurds, Armenians, Syrians and some Hindus, was made capital of Iraq, independent Arab state 500,000. was the home of wealthy merchants and learned scholars. In 1258, Hulaku the Mongol and his hordes overran old Mes opotamia. At the beginning of the 15th century, Baghdad fell under Turkoman domination and a century later became part of the Persian kingdom. The Turks gained full control of Baghdad in the 19th century but by that time the city was considered remote. It wasn't until the Germans, near the turn of the century, began to mention Baghdad that it became compar atively important again. Baghdad, now an almost west ernized city, exports principally carpets, wool, gum, hides and dates. It has a population of in;. "As production of material catches up with our develop ment of the manpower our army will contain a higher percent age of mechanized units than any other army," he said, al though his figures showed "im mediate" and presumably only tentative plans called for a to tal of eight armored divisions whereas Hitler had 10 at the break through at Sedan. The head of the U. S. army is a man in whom even the strongest critics of army meth ods have sincere confidence. He is not known as a devotee of the old army game of pass ing the buck, a game with which the name of the army has been associated throughout history. His statement clearly suggests that if this country's army proves insufficient to meet de fensive requirements in time, the blame will be with strikers and non-producers who did not give It the weapons In time. a a a INFILTRATION How France fell In this same pit has never been better told than in a paper, in circulation among military men here, by a young French officer, Robert Girard, now a student in the Harvard school of business ad ministration. Girard was in a mechanized suicide squad of 250 French who volunteered to cover the retreat (100 were killed, 50 wounded, 80 taken prisoner, only 17 came back). He is not guessing how the Ger mans did it. He was there, and writes uncensored. Instead of the popular con ception of masses of tanks roll ing in waves, Lt. Girard saw them coming as thin single col umns, stabbing like needles, long columns of about 50 medi um sized tanks (of which we have none), 10 light tanks, 88 mm. artillery guns, 60 miles or more ahead of the German troops. Girard's suicide squad started out with 10 tanks which got 15 of the Germans before they were all lost in the fight ing. Once he lay low in the woods with the remnants of his force, watching single lines of armored nazi divisions coming in such continuous file he was unable to escape across the road all day long. This he calls-a war by lnfil- De passins alonz the rnarl at twilight. These could be dis tinguished by a white flag wav ing from the turrets. They were to be allowed to pass. At twi light the tanks rolled up on schedule, each with its distin guished white flag. But the cap tain was a skeptical fellow. He stood in the middle of the road and started to look into the tanks, whereupon they opened fire and escaped. They were seized French tanks. The myste rious major not only had a French uniform but all papers in order. airy DAIRY Jack Robers and Vic tor Flackua of Dairy and Roger Jones of Langell valley, gradu ates with the class of 1941 at Bonanza high school, recently enrolled at the sheet metal school which is being conducted in the Klamath Union high school building in Klamath Falls. When the boys complete their 12-week course, they will be sent to Burbank. Calif., to work in one of the Lockheed factories. Mrs. John Warner, nee Vivian Jonas, with her infant son, John Dale, of Klamath Falls, was vis iting old friends in Dairy Wed' nesday. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Bcltcher of Glendale, Ore., paid a sur prise visit to their old friend, Olive Mounts of, Dairy early Thursday as they were en oute to Lakeview. Mr. and Mrs. Erchel Smith and daughter. Charlcen, of Klamath Falls, spent Sunday visiting rel atives in Dairy. Lenore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jonas of Pine flat, re turned to her home last week after spending the school term in Klamath Falls. Mrs. Sid Hall and Mrs. Ray Roberts and children of Klamath Falls spent Friday in the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Schmoe. Nad ien Schmoe returned home Friday after spending the past week with her cousin. June Taylor, In Dunsmuir, Calif. One degree of latitude varies in length from 68.7 to 67.4 miles, according to the distance from the equator. Flavor! Flavorl FLAVOR! No flavor like Wieland's Bear! DEATHS DECLINE Improvement In Oregon's traf fic accident situation for the first four months of 1941 compared to the same period In 1940 Is shown by the traffic death rate, showing the number of persons killed in relation to the ex posure to accidents, according to word from the secretary of state's office today. The death rate so far this year Is 10 6 persons killed per one hundred million miles of travel. compared to a rate of 13 for the corresponding period last year. The decrease in the death rate indicates the improvement In driving and walking practices of Orrgun citizens because in spile of a strong increA.tr in the use of motor vehicles, the fatality ratio dropped, it was said. Motor vehicle use Increased nearly 17 per cent during the first four montlis of this year. SEATTLE LICENSE SEATTLE. June S () Mar riage license applications: Carl V. Larsen, 23. Portland, and Joella Mayer, 23, Klamath Falls. Milk Is delivered In hollow bamboo stalks in India. More than seventy varieties of cabbage are known to man. SIDE GLANCES w mi rr w. nai ot t a m v t aw a "I wish our minisltr would marry to he'd gel tome homt cooking even when he was saying grace today, I saw him eyeing the roast beef." "paTO22- U 0spV rt T .-nr.
