The Weather
Fair .today "and Saturday,
occasional fog and clouds on
coast. No change in temper-.
ature. Max Temp. Tliurs. SO,
MIn.54. River -3.9 feet.
AVestwind.
Foreign News
A large part of European
and far eastern news breaks
Just before the morning
newspaper goes to press.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, September "2, 1938
Price 3c; Newsstands 5c
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Reported).
Chinese
Japanese Lose
Bloody Rattle
Along Yangtze
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Chinese Commanders Say
Heavy Casualties
Are Inflicted
Key Point on j Rails Said
Captured by Chinese
in Counterfight
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2.-(Friday)
-P)-Chlnese . military command
ers reported today) Japanese forces
had been defeated pn Yangtze
valley f r o n t s "in .the bloodiest
fighting of recentj months.
Counter attacking westward
from Juichang, about 100 miles
southeast of Hahkow, the Chinese
said their fighters Inflicted 4,000
casualties on the invaders at
tempting to advance toward the
Yangsin river. ..'-: ' -
A second counter attack south
ward from Juichang was said to
have resulted in .the recapture of
Anshao, key point for a Japanese
attack on Telan, the Naachang
Kiukiang railway;.
On the north bank of the
Yangtze river, the Chinese "said
they fought HjFWgmel, 20 miles
north of Kiukiang, base of " the
Japanese Yangtze valley opera
tions 135 miles below Hankow,
China's provisional capital, which
the Invaders' hope to." fceach before
winter sets in.
Japanese reported earlier that
their offensives were' "progress
ing" on both the Yangtze and
Yellow river fronts.
Japanese spokesmen said sim
ply that both army, and naval
. forces southeast of, Hankow were
advancing. wlthavIation playing
a most important part: On&e
Yellow river fron, they said Jap
anese troops were poised for a
river crossing in northwest. Honan
province. .
Unconfirmed Chinese advices
said Japanese troops were, routed
and driven back to the east in a
battle near. Juichang, about 100
miles southeast o Hankow. Pre
vious reports .from the Chinese
side said 13 day and night attacks
west of Juichang had been re
pulsed. .
Japanese naval airmen reported
bombardment of the rail junction
town of ' C h u c h o w , south of
Changsha, Hunan province. They
said tracks and freight cars were
destroyed.
Rattlesnake Pete
Passes to Beyond
PORTLAND, Sept l-(P)-Rat-tlesnake
Petedied Wednesday at
the age of 60.
Melvin N. Olbert, In charge of
livestock for' the Schlesser Broth
ers meat concern, was the way the
death notice read but old range
riders mourned the passing of
Rattlesnake.
Born in Columbia, O., in 1877,
Mel Obert went to Miles City.
Mont,, as a boy and got to be a
"top hand" known from Texas to
Idaho. His fondness for rattlesnake-skin
neckties, hatbands and
saddle-adornments won him . the
sobriquette-of Rattlesnake Pete.
. Even after he settled down to
city life, ; Rattlesnake went back
to the range in? 1926 to partici
pate in the dramatic rounding up
of 350,000 head of wild horses in
Montana, Nevada,. Oregon,: Wash
ington and northern California-
A roundup that consumed five
years.
i FLYING HANDS. Tho night
crew at Hunt Bros, cannery will
pit its crack pear-trimmer, Mrs.
Flay" St. Clair of Salem route
6, against all other pear trim
mers hereabouts. : -
i Working with precision that
almost re-proved the magician's
rule that the hand is quicker
than the eye, Mrs. St. Clair yes
terday put.19,005 pears through
her routine. (There's no guess
work about it, for counters on
the machines told the story.) '
i she worked from 7 p. m. to
E:45 a. m., and up to midnight
had 9000 pears to her credit,
which means in the next half:
of the shift she gained 1000 on
the time in which workers are
supposed, to be the peppiest.
I One factor which helped was;
that on her belt medium size
pears so , nearly perfect that
little trimming was necessary
came throughbut that doesn't
take away from the fact that
she had to handle every pear. .
Incidentally, many workers
are happy if they pile Tip 9000
or 10,300 pears for a shift. .'
. Finale: Trimmers are paid by
the thousand!
Claim
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Pictured with his family is Sheridan Downey, who defeated William
Gibbs McAdoo in the race for nomination as democratic U. S. sen
ator in the California primaries. Pictured in their Atherton, Cal.,
home, the Downey family is listening to latest tabulations of the
elections.! Left to right are Margaret, Richard, Sheridan Jr., Sheri
dan Sr. Sirs. Downey seated in chair, and Patricia, seated on floor.
Downey is a -vigorous backer of the $30 Every Thursday" pension
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Pickets Withdraw
FromjHotel Doors
Union'- . Officials Decline
! Comment on Removal
After 85 Days
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. l.-(JP)
-A-major break in Portland's 85
days old hotel strike came tonight
with removal of pickets at five
downtown hotels. '
Union officials declined to com
ment on the situation. Pickets
disappeared from the Roosevelt
hotel. At midnight, replacements
failed . to appear at the Benson,
Imperial, Park Avenue and Cor
nelius hotels. .
Pickets were withdrawn yester
day from the Fairfield hotel when
a new management accepted union
conditions. I .
Eleven other hotels continued
to operate behind picket lines.
The five AFL unions involved seek
recognition. '
Elderly Man Dies
When Hit by Car
WOODBURN; Sept. 1. Joseph
Hortsch, 72,- was killed .shortly
after 8 o'clock tonight when he
was struck by a southbound car
as he was crossing the Pacific
highway . here. Dr. Gerald B.
Smith pronounced Hortsch dead
15 minutes after the accident. ;
The driver of the car, Harry
Poland of Philomath, was not
held.;.: , ..
Hortsch, who celebrated his
golden wedding anniversary here
June 18, 1937, had been caring
for the auto wrecking shop of his
son, Steve, who is on a trip to
Minnesota,' and was going home
from work when the accident oc
curred,'' 1 . . ' -.
Survivors 1 include the widow
and six children.' Arrangements
are in charge of Beechler-O'Hair
mortuary.
Suit Filed to Block Measure t
To. Stop Fixed Gear Fishing
: Suit to restrain the secretary of
state from certifying for the, No
eember election ballot the initia
tive measure forbidding fishing
for salmon and steelhead with
flxel gear; in the Columbia river
and its tributaries was filed in
circuit court here yesterday in
the name j of Dist, Atty Lyle J.
Page.- i ..' j---;
Sponsors of the initiative, nam
ed defendants 'along with Secre
tary of State Earl Snell. are list
ed as J. ! O. Beck, Hugo Pauh
Frederick S. Wllhelm, E. A. Stor
vik and Oglesby. Young. Jay. Bow
erman and W. S. TJ'Ren are attor
Victory
Him, I McAdoo
Complaint Issued
By Electric Co-op
Plaintiffs Seeking , Rule
From Utilities Rody
on Power Rate '
The Salem Electric Cooperative
association which was organized
here recently Thursday filed a
complaint with the state utilities
commissioner to compel the Port
land General Electric company to
furnish It power at a commercial
rate apparently for distribution to
certain Salem downtown business
houses. .
The complaints charged that a
clause in the commercial power
schedule of the Portland General
Electric -company based on sale
to one customer at one point
which prevents its resale or dis
tribution when the company has
or is willing to provide distribu
tion facilities as unjust and dis
criminatory. The public utility commissioner
was asked to substitute for this
such regulation as may be Just or
reasonable, alleging the provision
to be unjust, unlawful and dis
criminatory. . 1 .
Plaintiffs said they would use
45 kilowatts of electric energy per
month and demand to be awarded
the be'nefit of the commercial
power meter rate. -
... This was ald tovbe the. first
move of its kind ever made in
the state.
Postal Receipts:
Strike new High
"."Salem-, postal receipts for Au
gust skyrocketed $7323.10 over
the local Teceipts for the previous
month and also marched $5191.46
beyond the figure for August,
1937, Postmaster H. R. Craw
ford revealed yesterday. ;
Receipts last month were $29,
219.18; for August, 1937, $24,
027.72: and for July, this year,
$21,895.99. - r- -: :;
neys for the plaintiff. .
The ; complaint charges the
sponsors conspired to present the
secretary of state 900 petition
sheets not verified by the actual
circulators but by others. It also
alleges ' that notarial signatures
were forged, that 8000 signatures
were paid for in violation of the
law and that over 600 accompany
ing affidavits were false. '
Of the 22.894 lenatur unK.
mitted to Snell less than 12,000
are proper ones, the complaint
asserts. Twenty thousand twenty
signatures are required to put the
measure on the ballot. ' -
on River
Navy to Form
Atlantic Fleet
Oij new Craft
Sudden Change in Policy
Hints Defense Plans
j Are Revised
No Atlantic Force Kept
Since Sino-Japanese
Crisis of 1931 '
WASHINGTON. Sept. l.-W-The
navy unexpectedly announced
today that a "temporary" Atlantic
squadron of 14 of its newest war
craft I would be formed immedi
ately.! "
Without explanation, a formal
announcement said seven 10, 000
tcn light cruisers and seven de
stroyers would comprise the force.
effective September 6. Rear Adnv
Forde A. Todd was designated
commander.
The nation has had no organ
ized Atlantic force since the fleet
was concentrated in the Pacific
in the midst of the 1931-32 Sino
Japanese crisis.
The order for the new squad
ron, .issued by Adm. William D.
Leahy, chief of operations, hinted
at a recent revision of defense
strategy and stirred Immediate
speculation as to whether Eu
rope's tension over the German
Czech dispute was Involved.
From naval officials came only
the comment that the force was
.formed "in preparation for. fleet
problem twenty and to visit such
ports as are designated." -
To work out this problem, In
volving defense of the Panama
canal against a simulated trans
Atlantic attack,- the main fleet of
approximately' 'ISO warships is
scheduled to engage in war games
In the Atlantic early next year.
It has not left the Pacific since
1934, when the armada was re
viewed at; New York by President
Roosevelt; '
Ships to join the squadron Sep
tember 6 are: .the cruisers Phila
delphia, Brooklyn and Savannah,
and the destroyers Mugford,
Ralph Talbot, Helm, Shaw, Som
6rs and Washington.
Ships to join after completing
shakedown cruises are the cruisers
Nashville, Boise, Honolulu and
Phoenix and the destroyer Samp
son. . V
The cruisers are ail of 10,000
tons and .are armed with six-inch
guns. The destroyers Mugford,
Somers and Sampson are flotilla
leaders of 1,8.50 tons and other
destroyers are" 1,500-ton craft.
In addition to the new squad
ron, the navy has three of Its older
battleships, a demilitarized battle
ship, two new aircraft carriers and
16 older destroyers on the At
lantic coast.
Hull Stays Aloof
From Purge Drive
Ickes, However, Is, not so
Quiet; Speaks Piece
on Maryland Race
WASHINGTON, Sept. l-(Jfy-Secretary
of State Hull he'ld aloof
publicly today from the adminis
tration's campaign to unseat
democratic Sen. Millard E. Tyd
ings of Maryland.
He was asked at his press con
ference whether," if he lived in
Maryland, he would vote tor
Tydlngs or Representative David
J. Lewis, the new deal candidate
for the senatorial nomination.
Hull replied that if his ques
tioner would take care. of , the
acute problems of the far east,
far west, far north and far south,
he 'would be glad to give some
time to domestic questions.
However, any idea that the ad
ministration' would abandon its
effort to defeat Senator Tydlngs.
as the result of the victory of
presidentlally-opposed Senator E.
D. ''Cotton Ed" Smith In South
Carolina this week, was dispelled
by Secretary' of the Interior Ickes.
Showing none of Hull's hesita
tion about indicating his prefer
ence in the Maryland "contest, to
be decided September 12, Ickes
told reporters he favored Lewis'
candidacy.
Estabrook Retrial
Will Open Tuesday
Retrial of " J o h n Estabrook,
Washington county, who is char
ged with bombing operations, will
open at Hlllsboro next Tuesday,
Ralph E. Moody, special prosecu
tor, announced here Thursday.
Estabrook was charged with
throwing a bomb into a store near
Hlllsboro.; The juries disagreed
at the two previous trials.
. - Moody said the trial would last
nearly a week.
Defense Bares
Davis' Trysts
With Showgirl
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Stryker Charges Visits
"Inducement" to Turn
State Evidence
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Dapper 'Kid Mouthpiece'
Reddens as Private
Life Revealed
NEW YORK, Sept. l-(P)-Tbe
defense today threw a blazing
spotlight on the semi-clfndestlne
trysts of Hope Dare and J. Rich
ard (Dixie) Davis, the state's star
witness in the policy racket trial
of Tammany District Leader
James J. Hines.
Chief Defense Counsel Lloyd
Paul Stryker charged that Dist.
Atty, Thomas E. Dewey permitted
Davis to visit the red-haired show
girl as an "inducement" to turn
state's evidence against Hines as
a co-conspirator in the multi-million-dollar
Dutch Schultx policy
racket.
With such hammering empha
sis that Prosecutor Dewey sprang
up again and again' to protest
against repetition complaining
that "the witness has already an
swered" Stryker brought out
that Davis made his excursions to
Hope Dare's apartment' while he
was a some-time prisoner in the
Tombs.
Davis Squirms
Under Quiz '
The dapper erstwhile "Kid
Mouthpiece" of the Schultz mob,
squirming and reddening under
Striker's search Into his private
life, protested that while he was
a married man he had not lived
with his wife for three years.
Davis insisted that during! the
visits to Miss Dare's apartment he
was never alone in the same room
with her.
"Detectives were always pres
ent," he said.
The witness said he was re
leased froT-". the Tombs on a court
order to permit him to see his
doctor, and that on "about 80 or
90" such sorties from the gloomy
old Tombs the physician had elec
trically burned out half his ton
sils. Hope's Mother
Always There
Besides detectives, he said. Miss
Dare's mother was always present
when he stopped at her apartment
to change his clothes.
, "Did her mother always know
when you were coming so as to
be there to chaperone these vis
its? asked Stryker.
"Her mother hardly ever left
the place. She is a stranger in
New York and she wouldn't go
out by herself unless she went
with Hope.".
"OhT" said Stryker. ".Well,
let's see. Was Miss Dare, always
fully attired in the presence of po
lice?" "Yes, sir'
"Was she ever in negligee at
any time when you had your outer
shirt offjust your undershirt?"
"She may hate worn a morning
gown," Davis snapped. "She was
not in negligee."
"And you just in your under
shirt?" Insists He Had
His Panti On
"And ,my pants on, Davis
amended firmly.
With a dramatic flourish, Stry
ker then exhibited an enlarged
newspaper photograph of a scantily-clad
man and the woman
standing close together at the
window of an apartment.
"Is -that a picture of you and
someone else?" asked Stryker. He
handed the photograph to Davis.
The witness studied.it with a
grimace. "I really can't tell, sir,"
he said. "I am sure I don't have
that stomach. I don't know it
might be it Is very Indistinct."
"Indistinct or not," Stryker
snapped, . "can you recognize who
it is?"
"It is very indistinct," Davis re
peated feebly. "I couldn't recog
nize either Hope or myself." .
$75,000 of Opium
Seized From Ship
; PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. i.-P)
-The second big seizure of nar
cotics of the summer was made
today aboard the Philippine
steamship Don Jose 'by a U. S.
customs searching squad.
They found 1576' one tael cans
of smoking opium valued at about
$75,000 buried deep in coal
bunkers. .
The vessel, Ued sp at Portland
vegetable oil dock, was subject
to a fine of $52,335. No arrests
have been made. L
Chambers Appointed
'. At Business Agent
Walter A. Chambers has . been
appointed business agent for Sa
lem local -No. 9 91 of the Retail
Clerks -International Protective
association,- L. Wendell Cross,
president, . apnounced yesterday.
Chambers is also president of the
Salem Union Label league and ed
itor of the Union Labor Bulletin.
Death Toll
As Japan
After Typ
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Damage to Property Is Estimated at $28,000,000
as Eastern Section of "Nippon Resumes
Normal Activity After Blow .
TOKYO, Sept. 1. (AP)--Japan, clearing away wreck
age left by a 75-mile-an-hour typhoon, tonight counted at
least 99 dead, scores of persons injured or missing and
property damage estimated as high as 100,000,000 yen
($28,000,000). : j J
Authorities estimated the damage to shipping at Yoko-
Contracts Agreed
For Food Stores
Only Minor Changes Made
in Clerks Coiitract "
With Employers
Terms of a new union contract
between ' the larger food stores
and Retail Clerks .International
Protective association, local Nb.
9 9 2 of Salem were agreed upon at
a meeting of employer and em
ploye representatives at the labor
temple last night, L. Mendell
Cross, president of the local, an
nounced. He said negotiations had
been actively under way for l
week.
"All the larger groceries an
markets have agreed on the co at
tract," Cross said. "It will be
signed within a few days." f
The new agreement makes np
changes in the wage and hour,
scales of the old contract, which
expired June 1. One -of the major
changes made last night was the
provision for the new agreement's
being a continuous one, to be al
tered only if either the employers
or the union give notice 30 days
before the June 1 annual expira
tion date.
The new contract continues thie
54-houf work week for. the food
trade, puts no restriction on busi
ness hours and calls for double
time for holidays and time and
one-half for overtime.
The union was represented by
Cross, Leo Olson, secretary, .and
W. A. Chambers, business agent.
Exodus of Jews
Ordered in Italy
Six Months Time Allotted
Jews to Leave Italy by
new Decree
ROME, Sept. 1-fPWThe Italian
government today ordered all
Jews who have established them
selves in Italy since the world
war to get out of the country
within six months."
The order was' contained in a
decree which was approved at a
cabinet meeting over which Pre
mier Benito Mussolini presided.
It applies to Italy, Italy's North
African colony of Libya, and the
Aegean isles, but not to Italian
East Africa Eritrea. Italian So
maliland and Ethiopia. , j "
This omission presumably
leaves Ethiopia, which Italy an
nexed May 9, 1936, open to the
banished Jews if they are not able
to get into any other country, j
Definite information on the.
number of Jews affected will not
be known until results of a re
cent census of Jews is published,
but estimates placed the figure jat
more than 10,000. Many Jews en
tered Italy shortly after the wofld
war' and their number was aug
mented after Germany annexed
Austria on March 13.
Dick Dur ranee Visits
Winter - Olympic Field
PORTLAND, Sept. 1.-JP-Dck
Durrance, captain of the Dart
month college ski team, and Jar
vis Shaef fler, - ex-Amherst college
captain, today visited TimberMne
lodge on Mount Hood and scanned
probable courses for the national
Olympic tryouts here next April
1 and 2. I
Holmstrom and
First Leg of
GREEN RIVER. Wyo., Sept. 1
-(A1) Buss Holmstrom and Amos
Burg rested at Covered Wagon
camp west of here today after
completing the first leg of their
projected 1800-mile boat Journey
from the Green river's headwat
ers to the Gulf of California. '
Holmstrom, Coquille, Ore., riv
er adventurer who navigated the
Colorado river's grand canyon
alone last year, and Burg, Na
tional Geographic society photo
grapher, arrived at the camp last
night after traveling from I Che
Green river's source in the Wind
rive- mountains. v j
.They plan to resume Saturday
their trip down the Green river
to its junction with the Colorado
river in southwestern Utah.
Reaches 99
Counts Cost
h don Passes
O ($1,400,000).
The populous eastern section
of the nation which bore the
brunt of the typhoon in the disaster-crowded
hours between 2 a. m.
and 6 a. m., resumed a near nor
mal .activity. . .
Trains, trams and buses were
running and communications had
been - restored.. Markets opened
briefly during the afternoon,' but
schools remained closed. School
authorities said buildings might
be kept .shut for several days
until inspected for damage.
Collapsing houses and land
slides, caused most of the deaths,
but two Korean students wece
electrocuted as an electric wire
snapped and coiled around them
when they were fighting their
way through a Tokyo street.
The typhoon struck Japan on
the 15th anniversary of the 1923
Tokyo earthquake, in which 150,
000 perished. Winds, leveling
houses by the thousands, left
an estimated 15,000 persons
homeless In Tofcyo alone. Tokyo
reported most of the casualties.
Thirty-four r passenger and
freight vessels were drivgn
aground, mostly at .Yokohama.
Hundreds of small boats were
wrecked. . Eighty-six small craft
and barges were reported swept
out to sea from Yokohama and
others sank. Five wharves were
destroyed.
Northwest Girls?
Softball Title up
Washington Champs Meet
Pade-Barrick Tonight .
on Sweetland
.The- northwest girls' sof tball
championship will be at stake on
Sweetland field tonight when the
Seattle Owls,, all-negro girls team
which, won the Washington cham
pionship, . will oppose the Pade-
Barrick girls of Salem, "Oregon
champions. The first of the' two
games will start. at 7:30 o'clock.
This game was hurriedly sched
ules last night when it was dis
covered " that the Washington
champions, playing that night in
Portland, wotzld be available for
a trip here.
The Seattle Owls were described
as being exceptionaUy speedy,
with an outstanding pitcher in the
person of Lillian Brown, a south
paw.: One of their specialties Is
bunting for base hits, and the
Pade-Barrick inflelders will have
to be on their toes. -- - ' "
In Portland the Owls were en
gaged last night in a tight, exciting-
game with " Lind-Pomeroy,
Portland champions who were un
able to play in . the state tourna
ment here. "
State tournament prices will
prevail for tonight's game, as well
as for the men's interstate games.
Papermakers vs. S e a 1 1 1 e Dog
House Bulldogs, Saturday night.
Bandits Victimize '
Bantlon Merchants
BANDON. Ore., Sept. '
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schlndler were
forced from their home to their
drug store and made to empty
the safe of $300 by .three men
armed with a sub-machine gun
last night.
The bandits, abandoning one
car. fled in the druggist's 1938
model and took Mrs.. Schindler's
hat and c at.
. Schlndler is .a member of the
city council. The bandits said they
were from Idaho.
Burg Finish
18,000 Mile Trip
P. B. Lunstrom, Portland, Ore
artist and cartographer, joined
the pair here today,, planning to
accompany them-down, the Green
river as far as Jensen, Utah. .
Burg said he and Holmstrom
traveled into the Wind river
mountains to the head of Green
river glacier, 250 miles by airline
north of here, where he photo
graphed Gannet ' peak, -13.785-foot
mountain ' known for its in
accessibility., ; - -' - "'
The upper Green river section
of the Wind river mountains la
the most beautiful country I have
ever seen," Burg declared,
r Heavy rains in the upper riv
er's basin was expected to aid the
navigators in. the next leg of their
trip. A fire-foot rise was forecast I
before Saturday. .
Sudeten Head
Confers With
Nazi Fuehrer
Henlein Reported Bound
Home. With Rejection
of Peace Plans
Hitler . Believed Seeking
Quick End of Czech
- Minority Issue .
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' BERCHTESGADEN. 'Germany,
Sept. 1-P)-Higii nari sources
tonight reported Konrad Hen
lein, leader of Czechoslovakia's
Germanic minority, had depart
ed bv Diane for home hear in r
Adolf Hitler's rejection of an im
portant part pf Czech peace plans
but carrying new counter-proposals.
': Hitler was understood to have
rejected the part of Premier Mi
lan Hozda's "plan No. 3 call
ing for a three-month truce in
Czechoslovak-German n e g o t ia
tions to- permit passions of the
contending parties to cool down.
Prompt Solution
Asked by Hitler ! .
The reichsfuehrer's position,
reached after a long conference
with Henlein and highest nazi
officials, was- said to be -that a
more prompt solution of. the danger-fraught
Sudeten minority
question was desirable.
-What counter-proposals Hen
lein carried to Czechoslovakia re
mained a mystery.1
Conferring with. Hitler and
Henlein at the reichsfuehrer's
Bavarian mountain .retreat were
Field Marshal Wilhelm GoeriBg.
Propaganda Minister Paul Jo
seph Goebbels and Rudolph Hess,
deputy nazi party leader the
top of the nazi hierarchy.!
At the same time Britain's
ambassador to Germany, Sir Ne
ville Henderson, was tackling the
same Czech-German problem w'ita
Foreign Minister Joachim von
Rlbbentrop at Sonnenberg, the
latter's country, home! near, Eer
Hn. "... - . J :( -.
Henderson Brings- - -British
Word
Henderson, fresh frnm fntifcr.
ences with -the British cabinet in
London, was believed to have laid,
before the foreign minister Brit
ain's latest expressions for main
tenance of peace in central Eu
rope. . '
Reliable sources said Von Rib
bentrop would come to" Berchtes
gaden tomorrow when a confer
ence of even" greater importance
than- today's will be held.
It Was understood Henlein
would return for the, next meet
ing after quickly- laying Hitler's
counter-proposals, before' Czech
officials. ;
The Sudeten ''little fuehrer"
wore no uniform when he "ar
rived here today for his- meet
ing with Hitler, the fourth this
Tear.
-r Henlein's adjutant said ." the
present visit was at the sugges
tion of Viscount Runciman. Brit
ain's unofficial mediator in he
central Europe qurrel,- who
wished to push a peaceful set
tlement of the trouble,
Important Talks
Planned Today
Official quarters insisted the
really vital talks, from the Ger
man viewpoint, will-take place
tomorrow and that nothing of
ficial on results will be maria
known until Friday night.
Though still surrounded by
secrecy, the- Czechoslovak plan
advanced': was said to. call for
governmental changes in Czech
oslovakia to a canton systemi
similar to Switzerland's, thus
attenfpting to satisfy Sudeten
German autonomy 'demands with
authority divided between can
tons and. a " federal government
responsible for defense and for
eign affairs." ;
- Two preceding- schemes of
fered by Czechoslovakia to meet
the demands of-the Sudeten Ger
mans, a minority otj 3.500,000,
for autonomy had been rejected.
Ranrlman Urges
New Concessions -" -
As the leaders conferred, hope
gained ground that the present
acute crisis, over the Czechos
lovak ' dispute might be solved
by new concessions urged by
Viscount Runciman, "unofficial
British mediator In Czechoslo
vakia. These facts served to ease the
tension: - ;
1. Czechoslovak quarters la
.Berlin let u do Known the new
Czechechoslovak plan contained
such sweeping concessions that,
from their point of view, the
Sudeten Germans could not re
ject It.
. 2.' Heinlein rushed to confer
with Hitler just as soon as he
was Informed last sight of the
British-backed ' nlan. the third tn
be offered the Sudeten Germans-.
The" Sudeten German Political
committee also conferred today:"
in Praha on- the proposals.
- 3. German officials In Berlin
expressed belief tht British ad
vised the Czechoslovak govern
ment to make concessions which
would break the crisis.
4. The Berlin boverse react
ed , favorably to the resumption
of negotiations, . after a danger?
ous atalemate, and to the calmer
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