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ic service.
Strikes Hit New
Peak; Aircraft
Factory Closed
In The
y Day's
News
By frank Jenkins
TIEADING over the mountain.
On every bund the eye-f tiling
pnticrt of Southern Oregon In
early June.
No radio In the car. Therefor
(for a fi'W hours at leant) no war
newt to analyze. (Or, to be
wholly truthful, guess at.) Gueu
inii In about all any of us can do.
It is a pleasant Interlude.
AT Tub Spring, the dogwood
li still blooming. lt white
blossoms catching the flantlng
raya of the late afternoon tun.
. v A wisp of blue imoke drifts
foa the highway. It 1 CAMP
FIRE smoke, redolent ot the
comxori, ine comparative icvur
ity and the end-of-the-day relax.
atlon that camp firei have meant
to human being! through all the
thousands of generation since
mankind began.
TAOWN from the aummlt Into
" the lush Rogue River valley
Beside the road 1 a home. It
U an AMERICAN house. Not a
peasant cottage. One knows
that Inside It must be a radio
Also an electric refrigerator.
Probably MOST of the mcchanl
cal servants brought by modern
American civilization to the aid
of mankind.
One side of the house Is half'
buried under a rose bush, and
the bush la aflame with roses.
N a field behind the house a
A man walks with a spade over
his shoulder the badge of the
irrigatlonlst.
Eight thousand years ago, In
tho fertile valley of the Tigris
and the Euphrates, men watered
the fields from Irrigation ditches,
as this man is doing.
But what a difference!
The Sumcrlan who 80 cen
turies ago spread the water from
the Tigris over the rich soil was
a SERF, tho personal property
of the great king.
This irrigator in the valley of
tho Roguo is FREE. The land
Is his. The houso Is his.
This Is AMERICA.
'TMIE grass is green and luxur
lant. The roadside Is brilliant
.with flowers. From tho black
Y.oil crops are growing. Happy
children play in the lawns
around the well-kept house. Bees
buzz. Birds sing. The golden
sunlight pours down.
It is Juno In Southern Oregon.
And Southern Oregon is OURS.
A rich heritage given into our
keeping by the sturdy pioneers.
So runs one's musing.
"VFF to tho right Tabic Rock
comes Into view. At Table
Rock a great battle was fought.
' Between the Indians and the
. whites.
Tho Indians were more num
erous. But the whites were
tougher and better armed and
DISCIPLINED. The Indians
wore not disciplined at oil.
Tho WHITES WON.
NTO one's pleasant musings
comes a rudely shocking
thought.
This valley of the Rogue was
as lovely then (In a somewhat
wilder way) as now. It was the
INDIANS' HOME. - In their
savage way, they LOVED IT
as In our more civilized way we
love It now.
They LOST It. They lost It
because they failed to keep up
with the procession. A tougher,
better armed, DISCIPLINED
race took it from them.
nnHIS is the rudely shocking
thought:
It WE permit ourselves to (all
behind tho procession, we may
lose it also.
For such is the story of his
tory. lANIC follows the thought.
DETERMINATION follows
nnnle. One's fists clinch. Blood
drums in his cars.
It is ours! We love III Our
fnthcrs are buried In Its soil.
Our children will possess It after
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Log
21
Tie-up Settled;
Defense Plants
Struck Over Nation
By United Press
The government's defense
mediation board, fresh from a
settlement of a west coast log
gers' strike, turned Its full In
fluence Friday night on efforts
to terminate the work-stoppage
at North American aviation
company's Inglewood, Calif,
plant.
A strike by the United Auto
mobile workers (CIO) stopped
production of one-fifth of Amer
ica's war plane production.
More than 11.000 employes
were affected by the walkout
and the UAW claimed a major
ity membership. The company
closed the plant and directed
workmen not to report, confus
ing estimates of the actual nunv
ber of employes on strike. About
2000 pickets surrounded the
principal gates.
"Breach of Faith"
The strike call, to enforce de
mands for v.o increases, was
Issued as union and company
representatives negotiated at
Washington with members of
the nationat defense mediation
board. Union spokesmen at
Washington denied knowledge
of the strike; management rep
resentatives condemned the
walkout as a "breach of faith.'
At Inglewood. a Los Angeles
suburb. President William P
Goodman of the UAW local said
the strike was provoked by
"stalling" practices of the
NDMB negotiators.
Chairman Clarence A. Dyk-
stra, previously occupied with
the Oregon loggers strike. Join
ed the NDMB settlement efforts
In the North American strike
late Friday. Discussions with un
ion and management leaders
continued Into - too . post-dinner
nours.
Oregon Logger
The NDMB reported agree
ment between the CIO wood
workers' union and lumber
camp operators In a dispute de
laying defense lumber orders in
the Columbia river basin of Ore
gon and Washington. The form
ula for settlement ot the three
weeks' striko requires ratifica
tion by the 4000 workers.
The case was a companion to
the strike embracing about 20,
000 CIO woodworkers at some
SO Washington logging camps,
in which the union three times
has rejected the NDMB settle
ment formula.
The Oregon strike settlement
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Wilson, High
Will Run for
School Board
Two present Klamath county
school board members have filed
for election to the board at the
annual polls to be held In
the county June 16. Harry Wil
son, Malin, present board chair
man representing the southern
zone, and Rex High, Poe Valley,
who was appointed by the board
to serve for the eastern zone In
place of the late C. B. Brown,
are the only applicants for the
Jobs thus far, according to the
school office.
Each member of the school
board is elected for a five-year
term, but it elected, Rex High
will serve only until the end ot
tho school year in June, 1943.
when Brown's term would have
ended. It was learned. Other
members of the five-man board
who are not up for reelection
are Fred Hagelstein, Algoma,
northern zone; Percy Dixon,
Henley, central zone, and Lewis
Botens, West Klamath, western
zone.
Hagelstein will be chairman
of the board for the next school
year wh(ch begins June 16, the
third Monday of June. The
member who has served longest
automatically becomes chair
man. Although Wilson Is present
chairman, if elected he will be
gin a new five-year term and
will not head the group.
At board meeting Wednes
day most of the time was de
voted to consideration of bids
for two new trucks for use as
school buses. No contract was
decided upon. The board pur
chased bodies for the trucks
some time ago.
Teachers Beth Davis and
Thelma Storey were granted
leaves ot absence In order that
they might attend school next
year.
'Lease -
Bmm m
American "lease-lend" material for the British far eastern
riving there on American freighters. Recently arrived Indian soldiers pass along a dock between
a freighter and cases of American material consigned to Ministry of supply, Singapore.'
ARMY EXPANDS
No Increase Planned
As to Land Forces,
Says Quartermaster
WASHINGTON. June S VPh
Authoritative congress ional
sources said today a forthcom
ing f 1,000,000,000 army con
struction program would be de
voted almost entirely to creation
of new munitions plants of var
ious types.
Legislators said Brigadier Gen
eral Brehon Somervell, army
construction .quartermaster, ex
plained to a special house - In
vestigating subcommittee ' i n
closed session that the proposed
building was to complete the
second phase of the army a orig
inal munitions production pro
gram and to provide certain new
capacity required under the
lease-lend program.
Cryptic Reference
Somervell was quoted as say
ing that a small amount of can
tonment expansion might be in
cluded in the program but that
no expansion of the land forces
was involved.
Somervell's first cryptic refer
ence to the new program, made
at a public session late yesterday,
when he said he had been in
structed in the preceding 24
hours to rush the awarding of
contracts for "about $1,000,000"
of new construction, immediate
ly stirred congressional conjec
ture that the army was con
templating Increasing the num
ber of men under arms from the
present goal of 1,418,000 to pos
sibly 2,800,000.
At today's committee meeting,
however, members said Somer
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Automobiles Get
Boost in Price
DETROIT. June 5 (UP)
Chrysler corporation today
raised prices on Dodge, Chrys
ler, Plymouth and DeSoto auto
mobiles.
Price Increases on the Chrys
ler line ranged from $15 to $53;
on the Plymouth from $10 to
$37, and on the DeSoto from $15
to $47; Dodge did not immedi
ately announce its price
changes.
East Indies N
With Japan
BATAVIA, Netherlands East
Indies, June 5 (P) On the eve
of the Netherlands Indies' fate
ful reply to Japanese demands
for quantities of such war es
sentials as rubber, oil, tin and
copra, the newspaper Javabode
tonight quoted Japanese negoti
ator Kcnkichi Yoshlzawa as de
clearing: "We have reached the edge of
a precipice; now we either fall
over or retain our foothold. The
next 24 hours are decisive."
. Refusal Expected
Reliable sources indicated
that the promised Dutch reply
to the long-drawn-out trade ne
gotiations with the Japanese
would be an offer of substantial
ly smaller amounts .nan the Jap
anese want, and that the Japa
nese would refuse.
The formal Dutch reply to the
Japanese trade, proposals is
Lend" Supplies for Singapore
rr fr W Lll Tiff flrCTi 17
25 Selectees
Entrain For
Duty In Army
Twenty-five youths, answer
ing the tenth Oregon selective
service call, left the city Wed
nesday nighty aboard a Southern
Pacific train for Induction into
the US army in Portland.
Three other men registered in
Klamath county at the same
time were scheduled to report
at induction centers on the coast
and in the midwest. Two trans
fers from other boards were al
so with the group.
Of the 25, 1 1 board 1 men and
14 board -2 selectees reported
Wednesday morning at Portland
Eight of the Klamath men slated
for Induction either In the rose
city or elsewhere were volun
teers. Following, together with their
order numbers, are the men
from board 1:
Joseph Wayman, No. V-266.
transferred to Lincoln county
board, North Platte, Neb.; John
C. Laing, V-2377. Klamath
Falls; Menzel E. Thompson, V
3120. Rt. 1, Box 897, Klamath
Falls; Thomas O. Livingston, No.
69, 73 Pine street: Glen H
Templcton, No. 196, 1824 Port
land street; Walter P. Esterby.
No. 210. transferred to Seattle,
board 10: William L. Parr, No.
212: Sebastian GeU, No. 224:
Robert H. Porter, No. 233, 445
Market street: Keith L. Graves,
No. 235, 628 Oak street; Thomas
J. Briody, No. 242, 1211 Pine
street
With the men were Russell A
Schaefer, transferred from Holt
county board. Oregon, Mo., and
Richard G. Treadway, transfer
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Can of Gold Found
In Glendale House
GLENDALE, Ore.. June 5 VP)
Undiscovered for 17 years, a
can containing $440 was found
yesterday by Jess Tevebaugh of
Glendale while engaged in
cleaning the farmhouse formerly
occupied by his parents and lo
cated near Olalla.
The can, hidden away on top
of a cupboard on the back
porch of the home, contained
$405 in gold coins and JJ in
currency.
A note. In the handwriting of
his mother, who died 17 years
ago, directed that Tevebaugh
should have the money.
earing Rift
On War Goods
scheduled to be delivered to a
Japanese delegation tomorrow.
(Dr. E. N. Van Klcffens, Dutch
foreign minister, after a confer
ence with President Roosevelt
in Washington yesterday said
the Netherlands Indies were not
prepared to furnish the Japa
nese strategic materials in great
quantities.)
Although the nature of the re
ply was not disclosed, it was un
derstood that Netherlands' auth
orities would offer to meet ex
port quotas based on a survey of
Japanese imports over the past
year and calculated to prevent
the shipment ot surpluses from
Japan to Germany.
It likewise was understood
that the East Indies government
would reserve the right to re
duce these quotas if necessary to
supply the demands of British
or United States war Industries
Pi
stronghold of Singapore is ar-
0PM TO SEEK
PLANT SPEED
Purchasing Director
Declares Federal
Government To Act
WASHINGTON, June 5 Mc
Donald M. Nelson of the office
ot production management pre
dicted today that the government
would act "very soon" to speed
up defense production by re
negotiating many existing con
tracts to provide earlier delivery
dates.
Nelson, OPM's director of pur
chases was testifying before the
senate defense Investigating com
mittee. His prediction followed
a discussion in which he agreed
with Senator Connally (D-Tex.)
that defense industry should be
required to put on extra shifts.
Extra Shlits
Connally had expressed belief
that the government might re
quire contractors to put on extra
shifts or adopt a bonus plan for
work done ahead of schedule.
"We're working toward that,"
Nelson said, "and I think- you
will see that in a very short
time."
Nelson said he believed it
would be necessary to advance
the present delivery time sched
ule all along the lines as one
means of putting pressure on
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BULLETIN
Culinary alliance members
In an afternoon meeting on
Thursday voted 124-2 to strike
against Klamath Falls restau
rant employers who have not
signed the new union con
tract. It was announced lata
last night by C. C. Tatman,
alliance secretary.
A compromise offer mado
yesterday by the Restaurant
and Caterer's association was
rejected.
Results of a similar vote
taken at an evening meeting
of other union members were
not available.
Tatman said the strike, it
approved at the second meet
ing, would be called Saturday
at 2 p. m.
Sprague River Road
Project Expensive,
Says Commissioner
WASHINGTON, June 5 (IP)
A road to bisect the Klamath
Indian reservation in Oregon
at an estimated cost of $600,000
would be "a relatively expen
sive bit of construction" in the
opinion of the assistant commis
sioner of the bureau of Indian
affairs.
William Zimmerman Jr., the
assistant commissioner, told a
senate appropriations sub-com
mittee at hearing on the interior
department appropriations tor
1941-1942, however, that it
would facilitate communication
between the western and eastern
ends of the reservation and
would shorten the through route
for traffic from other points.
Only $150,000 would be re
quired Immediately for the road,
known as the Sprague River
project. Senator Holman (R-Ore.)
said.
Holman said that after its con
struction the state highway de
partment would take it over and
maintain it.
Hull Warns France
On German Policy
BRITISH, NAZIS
RACE TOWARD
SYRIANBASES
Huge German Planes
Landed; Royal Navy
Moves Into Position
LONDON, June 5 (UP) The
British fleet tonight was re
ported moving into battle posi
tions off the coast ot French
Syria.
Imperial forces, awaiting an
order to attack, faced French
defense forces across three bar
ricaded frontiers.
Military experts suggested the
British high command might or
der an invasion of Syria with
air-borne troops, cooperating
with ground forces.
Britain's commander-in-chief
ot the Middle East, General Sir
Archibald Wavell, was said to
regard his position as sufficient
ly strong to permit extension of
his fighting front and an attack
on Syria at any time.
ISTANBUL. Friday. June 6
(UP) Relays ot big German
transport planes loaded with
men and materials early today
were reported streaming across
the eastern Mediterranean into
Syria, where the nazi luSwaffe
was said to be swiftly taking
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Bonanza Girl
Wins Oratory
Contest Here
Marileo Givan of Bonanza
high school won first place in
southern Oregon district, com
petition of the Elks oratorical
contest last night at the Elks
lodge. Miss Givan was among
four young speakers represent
ing lodges of Klamath Falls,
Medford, Ashland and Grants
Pass.
Charles Pixley of Grants
Pass, representing the Grants
Pass lodge, won second place;
Lucille Brown, Yreka, repre
senting Ashland, was : judged
third winner, and Ned Liedman,
Medford, took fourth, represent
ing the Medford Elks.
First prize winner received
$15, second, $10, and third and
fourth each received $7.50.
Miss Givan won the right to
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He's a
Here's Kenny, 15-months-old
vfiy
1 ? v ' t
mm -
Elroy of Klamath Falls, who has been whistling since he was
10 months old and can practically carry a tune. This picture was
taken in Longvlsw, Wash., where Kenny's whistling ability won
attention ea a recent visit. The picture was provided by his
grandmother, Mrs. Patsy Richardson. -. . -
Falls Dead
&
Rep. Michael Edelstein (above)
(D-N.Y.) fell dead outside the
house chamber in Washington a
few minutes after making a
speech.
HITLER 'PEACE
GESTURE EYED
Quasi - Independence
For Run-Over Lands
Hinted From Vichy
VICHY, June 5 (UP) Rumors
ot an impending "peace gmtuB"
by AdolX Hitler in an eftofr to
forestall open United States in
tervention In the war flew thick
and fast in Vichy tonight The
rumors were based on foreign
reports carried by the official
French news agency.
' These reports said the axis is
prepared to restore at least
quasi-independent status to in
vaded Holland, Belgium, Den
mark and Norway provided Hitler-
and Mussolini are given a
free hand in "organizing" Eur
ope. The rumors, which came from
Italy and neutral Switzerland,
developed as the French-British
crisis came nearer the point of
explosion and France's relations
with the United States contin
ued in an acute state.
The gist of the reports was
Hitler and Mussolini at their
Brenner pass conference this
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Whistler
son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Mc-
BRITAIN SEES
U. S. Concerned Over
Franco-Nazi Set-up,
Secretary Declares
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UP)
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
revealed today Franco-German
collaboration making France an
instrument of "aggression and
oppression" will have grave re
percussions In this country.
He clearly warned France the
price ot such active collabora
tion would be forfeiture of this
nation's friendship and friendly
cooperation.
'It has been the determined
policy of this government," he
said in a formal statement, "to
continue friendly and helpful
cooperation with France in the
present difficult situation in
which its action is restricted and
limited by the terms of its arm,
istice with Germany and Italy.
This policy has been based upoi
assurance by the French govern,
ment that there was no intention
on its part to exceed the strict
limitations imposed by those
terms.'
Leahy Reports
Hull said, on the basis of pre
liminary reports received from
U. S. Ambassador William D.
Leahy, the United States is
"frankly . . . very much con
cerned about the situation
which seems to be growing up."
Leahy conferred with French
Premier Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain asterdar and atmarenuV
el forth this government's posi
tion.
Soon after the statement was
issued French Ambassador Gas
ton Henry-Haye asked Hull for
a conference tomorrow. The en
voy had no comment except to
say that he wants "enlighten
ment" on some of Hull's points.
Hull told how the United
States has maintained relations
with Vichy, has sent good to un
occupied France, given "con
crete evidence of our sympa
thetic friendship and thought for
the well being of the French
people and the French empire,"
and cooperated with other
American republics to safeguard
the welfare and Integrity of
French western hemisphere pos
sessions. Severance Threat
He hinted strongly all this
might be changed il Vichy binds
itsell to the axis.
Some observers saw in the
statement a threat of ultimate
severance of diplomatic rela
tions, depending on whether
France actively joins Germany's
war.
The statement coincided with
London reports John G. Wlnant,
U. S. ambassador to London,
who returned here last week to
make a personal report to Mr.
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AFL Named at
Two Basin Mills
Lumber workers in two
Klamath basin mills showed
preference for the American
Federation of Labor Thursday
in NLRB elections. According
to figures released by Joe Boyd,
AFL organizer, workers gave
AFL 58 "yes" votes, 12 "no"
votes, and one blank ballot In a
consent election at the Long
Bell Lumber company mill at
Dorris. The vote was to decide
whether no union or AFL will
serve as bargaining agent at the
mill.
In an NLRB runoff election at
the Algoma Lumber - company
mill at Algoma, AFL polled 120
votes while CIO received 104.
One ballot was blank. A major
ity only was necessary to nam
AFL bargaining agent. The elec
tion at Algoma Thursday was
not connected with Algoma
woods crews, which designated
CIO their agent in a poll sev
eral weeks ago.
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Comics and Story -.Page 12
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