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"''-. " ' - " ' ' " '4. VCvC The "Weather Cloudy today, increasing; Monday with probable show ers." Jio change In tempera ture. Max. Temp. Sat. 74, Slin. 67. RlTer -3.9 ; feet. Pouth wind. Sare-A-DoUar For a limited time rural abscribers may now obtain year's subscription to The Statesman for only ft- a clear saving of 20 per cent. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 25, 1938 Price Se; Newsstands fa No. 156 at it mi Hum ble Linfield 15 - 0 LONDONERS PROTEST AGAINST HITLER October 1 Set U H " f if I ' T As Final Date ' POUNDOD 16S1 .-''.'. Awai s J I f 1 ecu -. " - . i Schmidt Grabs Two Passes in Fourth Period Shaffer Rifles 1st Pass and Carl Chapman 2ud for 2 Scores ' Safety in First Period Gives Bearcats Lead From Start , By RON GEMMELL Two brilliant freshman half backs and a new-found pass catching wingman last night on Sweetland; pulled the strings that bagged Willamette's Bearcats their 24th consecutive North west conference Victory and their 12th win in 13 games In the last 16 years of gridiron competition with Linfield college. A first quarter safety and two final-period touchdowns gave Willamette a 15 to 0 win over the Methodist school's bitterest conference ; rival. " : Itlafee, Sirnio Play All Game While 'almost the entire Bear cat squad had a big hand in the victory, including the two near- 60-minute men. BiaKe ana sir nio, it was the pass snatching prowess of Schmidt, the passing and running of Carl Chapman, the running of Don Gigler and the alert blocking ability of George Abbott that spoke the loudest. ' . The Bearcats were supreme as the statistics show. They boomed and passed - to 12 first downs and .a net gain- of 307 yards, as compared tor but two first downs for Linfield, one from passes4?onr-ott a peni alty, for a net gain of 40 yards. George 'Abbott, veteran wing man who had partially blocked Linf ield's first punt, fully block ed Roth's second attempt from behind his own goal line for a two-point safety with the game but five minutes old. But while the Bearcats -stormed into Wildcat territory through , out the' remainder of the first quarter, got as far as the Lin field 1 in the second and clear to the Wildcat seven-yard mark er in the third, It wasn't until the final period that they found pay dirt with stomping cleat. Hi-hmidt Xabs Five Aerials Francis Schmidt, converted by alert Coach "Spec" Keene into a Wingman irom uuqn" v- oter but this year, am a wnaie of a job catching two short pass " es for both those touchdowns. They were almost Identical, except Shaffer flung the first and Chapman the second. The quarter had just begun, with the Bearcats, on the Linfield nine yard mark and third down. Shaffer missed Kolk on one try, then sent a sharp pitch right down the center to Schmidt on the goal line. He had to squirm from the grasp of a would-be tackier to flop over the goal, but be didf and clung tightly to the pigskin as he fell. His second touchdown grasp was identically completed. Gig ler, with a punt return of 19 yards from his own 42 to the Linfield 39, and with runs xof 11 and 13 yards, set the stage for Schmidt's- final goal line grab. . -Chapman Pitches Second Touchdown The little wiggler from Cam as, Wash., was relieved by Chap man after a ground losing fum ble that put the ball on Lin field's 12 -yard line. Chapman missed Shaffer with his first toss, and then rifled his second to the ball-hungry Schmidt for the touchdown. Chapman boot ed the extra point from place ment, as coolly as if he'd been playing collegiate football all his life. - Cnapman was. i me ieuu ground gainer , of the night for the Bearcats, chalking up 55 a- am i-. TniH. fVoaVlev. the hard-working right halfback who repeatedly tore off substan tial yardage on reverses through the Linfield right tackle, nd Gigler with 38. Prettiest and ' longest pass completion of the night was the ex-Salem high gridder's 28-yard heave to End Art Baird for 33 yards. Baird had to strain to take( it, on the dead run, and would have been away to a touchdown had he not stumbled. . .. ' ' Linfield saw Willamette ter ritory but once In the game, at . the start of the' second , half, when Chapman let Hippl's kick off bounce off his chest. It was , recovered by the Wildcats on the Willamette 26, and they eventually moved to the 17 be fore being held. Their only two first downs came in that drive, one on a 15-yard pass from Hippi to Anderson, and the other bv virtue of a holding nenalty Inflicted on the Bearcats. Lineups' and game summary will be found on the sports pajj. "Shoot to Kill" Orders Given as Looters lake Advantage of Disorder Work ofi Cleaning up Storm Stricken Region Goes Forward with 100,000 WA ! and Regular Army Aiding v I : .:. : : . : ! 1 (By The Associated Press) 1 An army of 100,000 WPA workers, reinforced by thou sands of volunteers, regular army soldiers and national guardsmen, toiled, far into last night on "the gigantic task of cleaning up the seven-state hurricane front where nearly 500 known victims lay dead and scores of others were miss ing amid $500,000,000 property damage. O High Bench Action Slated on Tenture i - Supreme Court Will Hear Appeal of Teachers in October WASHINGTON, Sept. 2i-(JP)-The supreme court is expected to decide at the term opening in Oc tober whether to hear an appeal challenging I the validity of .sec tions of the' Oregon teachers ten ure1 law requiring retirement at 65. i A group of teachers in the pub lic schools of Multnomah county appealed from a decision of the Oregon supreme court which up held the law. . The court said that "many reasonable-minded persons believe that there is a danger of schools being loaded down with superannuated teachers who have lost their appeal to youth." The teachers argued that they acquired contractual rights under a previous tenure law and could nor be dismissed. Positions of three Salem school principals hang on the decision the US supreme court makes on constitutionality of the retirement act, which applies only to the Portland and Salem school dis tricts. Teachers subject to the act are retaining their jobs under a state supreme court injunction pending outcome of the case in the federal court. 15,000 Ducks Die Of Food Poisoning 1 PORTLAND, Sept. 24-(JP)- Fifteen thousand ducks at the Malheur lake refuge, one of the most extensive projects in the federal biological survey program to rebuild wildlife resources, have died of botulism poisoning in the past six weeks. n William M." Rush, district di rector, said workers had "hospi talized" approximately 400 ducks a day. About 93 per cent of the birds treated recovered. Authorities traced the poison ing . to decayed vegetation. The birds developed limoer necks and drowned when their heads flopped Into the water. Fresh ' water treatment has been effective as a cure. ' Young Democrat Posts Announced PORTLAND, Sept. 24-(J)-Rob- ert- F. Cronen. of Wheeler, presi dent of the Oregon Young Dem ocratic clubs, announced the fol lowing appointments today: Irma Martin, . Eugene, histor ian; Helen jLoomis Laine, Salem, co-chairman of the student com mittee; Ellse Schroeder, Salem, social chairman; Howard Hamil ton, Medford, membership chair man; Ethan Newman, Eugene, co chairman of intra-party relations committee. 1 Counsel for Nelson Strives To Show He Was Unbalanced TOLEDO, Sept. 24-(tfJ)-rCoun-sel for Henry Nelson, Portland salesman, strove today to prove that he was the victim of an un balanced mind last July 18 when he was accused of slaying Richard Earle, Depoe bay boat operator. Through la doctor, old friends and a coast guardsman, George Mowrey, " attorney for Nelson, Bought to establish grounds for Nelson's plea of innocent by rea son of insanity. -. After questioning a boatswain's mate of the coast guard about the weather that prevailed the day of the slaying, Mowrey was asked by the court to explain the objec tive. The lawyer replied that he I wanted to show that such a heavy fog lay over the sea that the trip Nelson made that day with Earle was a "crazy idea." Workers Jackals of the storm roving bands of looters led Adj. Gen. Charles II. Cole of Massachusetts to issue "shoot to kill" orders to national guardsmen. As the reconstruction work went forward. General Cole rush ed 250 guardsmen to Cape Cod to stamp out reported looting of rich estates at Falmouth, Gray Gables, Bourne, Buzzards bay and Mashpee. "It Is open and bold-faced, Cole said. "At such a time as this, nothing is more despicable. I have issued orders to shoot to kill." Officials estimated the damage in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and i Massachusetts at more than J130.000.000. State and federal authorities rushed tons of food, blankets and medical supplies to the j wide spread stricken areas, where 12,- 000 families were homeless. Crowning the three-day ordeal of j stunned tragedy and desola tion, fears, of a possible disease epidemic led to emergency mea sures in many communities. Relief workers Inoculated 700 persons against typhoid fever at Adams, Mass., and town officials at Ware, Mass., where drinking- water reserves gave way, asked for 200 vials of anti-tetanus vac cine. i ' 4th Idaho Escape Caught by Police PORTLAND, Sept. 24-(Jp)-J-Douglas Swenson, of the federal bureau of investigation, said the fourth member of a gang of es caped Idaho prisoners was cap tured today as he entered a gov? ernment building. Swenson Identified him as Wal lace E. Rule, 34, alias Wallace Crews, who was alleged to have escaped from Pocatello on Au gust 9 with James O., Wayne, 29, Robert Bowersox, 32, and San Juan Earl, Wayne and Bowersox are in jail at Coquille, Ore, following their recent capture by state police aft er they were alleged to have robbed and terrorized a Bandon, Ore., druggist and his wife. Earl, caught near Toledo, Ore., already has been returned to Pocatello. ebh-ti!J-'SGQPI GRIDIRON PLAGUE Foot ball fields are dirty. White shows dirt. So 'the Willamette gridmen looked exceedingly dirty along toward the end of the Linfield game. The degree of dirtiness shaded from a pale gray on the jerseys of backs and ends, to almost coal black in the middle of the line. Lelghton Blake, Willamette center, was in the game nearly all the way- and right in the thick of it, as is proper for a center. His jersey was the dir tiest of all. --j?' But it seemed that it was not by design at all that as Blake finally retired, the game an nouncer happened to start an advertising plug. "Use to remove that tattle-tale gray!' Nelson has alleged -that he ask ed Earle to take him to sea and marry him and Lucille Coenberg, but that the boat operator mo lested the woman. Later, ashore, NelBon claimed that he upbraided Earle for his alleged conduct and shot him only after the sailor attacked him. Dr. C. A. Downs, Salem, one of a parade of nine defense witness es - questioned Saturday as the court remained open to expedite the trial, told of treating Nelson in 1932 for a broken arm and fractured cheek bone suffered In an automobile accident. Mowrey tried to bring out the possibility that shocn from the accident might have Injured Nelson's men tality. On cross-examination by (he state, the doctor said he had never known of a case of insanity to result from such injuries. ! Guerilla War Sweeps Along Border Sudeten 'Free Corps and Czech Troops Clash Frequently Czechs Blow up Bridges Halt Train Service to Germany ASCH, Czechoslovakia (near the German frontier), Sept. 24 (-Guerrilla warfare swept to day, along Czechoslovakia s bor ders with Bavaria and Saxony, growing more serious hour by hour. Engagements between Sudeten German free corps units, organ ized in Germany, and Czechoslo vak forces multiplied as the re sult of the Prague governments general mobilization order -of last night. Fleeing Sudeten Germans were the chief cause of shooting frays reported all along the frontier. German territory on the north west and southwest borders of Czechoslovakia was without com munication with the war-born re public except for the Asch dis trict, a strip ol land 15 miles long and five miles wide jutting into Germany. Asch yesterday declared itself free from Czechoslovakia and bar ricades were erected across all roads to prevent reoccupation by the Czechoslovak military. . What was happening at Eger, less than IS miles from here, was not known even In German bor der points which are three miles from the ity's limits. Strong mil itary reinforcements arrived in Eger last night. The Czechoslovak army today blew up bridges, barricades and roads all along the borders with Bavaria and Saxony. No more trains entered Czechoslovakia from these sections of Germany. The Sudeten German free corps undertook its largest, and first daylight,1 raid this morning at Buelbach, three miles from Eger. One machine-gun was nsed in the action against Muelbach and Czechoslovak customs houses. Some 30 free corps men par ticipated in the fray and the Czechoslovaks retired down the road toward Eger, blowing up two bridges as they went. Plunge to Death Puzzles Officials NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-P)-Police puzzled today over the motive for a death plunge shortly before midnight in which Dr. Raemer Rex Renshaw, 5S, New Toik university chemistry profes sor and " former member of the staff -of the University of Ore gon, and his wife, 50, died. Authorities were told that Dr. Renshaw was heard to yell before the fall. Detectives were inclined to the belief that it was a double suicide. The doctor, who was noted for chemical research and was the author of . 35 scientific papers, was fully dressed but his wife was nude. No notes were found. ' Before coming here In 1920. Dr. Renshaw had served at Ore gon. Wesleyan university. Iowa State ; college and the Harvard medical school. He and Mrs. Ren shaw were married In 1931, each having been married before. Multnomah Vote To Pass on Levy j' PORTLAND, Sept. 24 - fF) -Multnomah, county voters will pass upon a special $732,490 levy at the November election for gen eral assistance and the relief of dependent children, the blind and the aged. Frank L. Shull. commissioner, said the resolution approving the measure would be given routine authority Mdhday. The amount will be added to by the state relief committee to bring the county funds to $1,374,817. The amount needed for all pur poses next year was estimated at $2,441,309. Shull said if the tax measure was defeated the county would lack about $745,000 to meet relief, social security and other, demands. A sum of $835. 000 provided for direct relief this year has been exhausted. Faces Morals Count PENDLETON, Sept. 24.-()-Charged with transporting a woman, Marjorle Calllver, from P tland to Seattle for Immoral purposes, William A. Himes, 34. Dallas, was arrested today by federal authorities. Czech Anti-nazl demonstrations hare 1914. Paraders shown above inarched through Whitehall and massed at o. 10 Downing street, bearing posters such as that at the left reading, "Stop Hitler and Stop War. Mounted police were hard put to keep order as feeling ran high during the tense hours while the cabiaet was shaping Britain's course. i I ! Sheriffs Office Raids Road House Marble Boards Are Taken From Playmore Park Near Hubbard Marshall McGee, 21, manager, was arrested and three payofff type marble boards were confis cated at Playmore park, on the Pacific highway north of Hub bard, in a raid conducted by Mar lon county sheriff's deputies at 9:15 o'clock last night. 1 Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honey cutt said McGee was cited to ap pear in Salem justice court at 9:30 a.m. Monday on a charge of possession of a slot machine. The raid was made , at the re quest of Dist. Atty Lyle J. Page, who reported It had been called to his attention that allegedly il legal gaming boards were being operated at Playmore, Deputy Honeycutt said. Two of tie boards taken by the officers were of the large; electric ally operated type, one a horse race game and the' other called the "golden wheel." The third was a mechanically - driven "jumbo" board. All three paid off in token coins lto a hidden, sliding recep ticle. From five to 20 cents could be played on each ball shot. Roosevelt Studies European Events WASHINGTON. Sept. 2i.IF) President Roosevelt Is staying close to the White House this weekend while Europe broods over war. The chief executive saw no vis itors today but was in close touch with Secretary of State Hull, who relayed to him the latest reports from abroad. ' Tomorrow, if there Is continued Improvement in the head cold that has been bothering him, he in tends "to leave the White House only to attend the president's cup regatta on the Potomac river here. Butchered Corpse Is Found in Camp SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Sept. 24 , -(P) The dismembered body of a woman was found on a ranch near here today fire hours after Joe D. Ball, operator of a bar at Elmendorf, was shot to death. . Justice of the Peace Raymond Gerhardt said Ball committed rul cide while officers were question ing him in connection with the reported disappearance of his wife four days ago. Deputy Sheriff John Keleven hagen said he found, on Ball's premises, an ax covered with what appeared to be blood and matted hair. : Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore.,. Sept. H-iPi -The Portland university Pilots came from behind tonight to trim an underdog Pacific university football team, 28 to 8. The Pilots, claiming one of their best teams in history, wore down the Badgers, for three pe riods ,and licked them in the fourth. Pacific scored a touch down in the opening quarter and then relinquished, the lead. 7 to 8, in the second. . ' Portland got another - touch down in the third quarter and two more and a conversion in the fourth. . i " ' - "T""' - - T: . become frequent In London as Europe sears Its worst crisis since Britain Lays Germany's Demands Before Czechs No Attempt Made to Dictate Acceptance as Nation Turns Resources Toward War Footing in Company With Others 1 "3 i LONDON, Sept. 24 (XP) GreatHttin today laid Germany's peace terms before the Czechoslovak government without an. immediate attempt to dictate acceptance, and speeded the country's powerful resources towird a war foot ing in pace with other European nations. j Masking his worry behind a smile,- Prime Minister Chamberlain returned from hi tO ". historic Godesberg mission-bear- ing Reichsfuehrer Hitler's demand for transfer of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany by Oc tober 1. In official Czechoslovakia cir cles tonight it was said the fueh rer in his peaee terms had re fused to guarantee .the frontiers of the remainder of the Czecho slovakia republic unless Hungary and Poland also became guaran tors. " ) This was Interpreted as being Chancellor Hitler's way of de manding Hungary and Poland al so be given chunks of Czechoslo vakia in! which their minorities live;. j The foreign office gave the memorandudm to Jan Masaryk. Czechoslovak minister, "without comment" as Chamberlain called the pinner cabinet" into session at 3:35 p.m. Two hours later he summoned the full cabinet, which met from 5:00 p.m. until 7:35 P-in. I No communique was Issued im mediately,, but It was expected parliament would be called Into session early next week. The cab inet was, called to meet again at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. There was no indication to night that Britain would exert further pressure on Czechoslova kia, since the original British French plan, accepted by Prague under strong urging 'from Paris and London, envisaged only trans fer of the Sudeten regions. Browr nevo Owner of I Southwestern Newspaper MARSHFIELD, Sept. 24.-iipV-W. K. Brownlow, who formerly published weekly papers at Brownsville, St. Helens and Elgin, became the owner today of the weekly Southwestern Oregon News here, succeeding Lynn A. Burch, formerly , of McMinnville Brownlow has been In charge of the mechanical end of the news paper for seven years. h Northwestern But Little of , WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-Wp)-A recent survey of highway records bT the hnrMa f nnhiic marfa Aim. m' ... . ciuacu iao uict i-acuic nonuwen poses. This Included, however, states using virtually every cent debt service charges on emergen collected from the state road taxes cy relief bond (Issues which were to. build or improve highways. -4; prorated In proportion to use of This, according to the bureau proceeds for. state highway, local was not true of many sections of road, other highway and non the country. It found that on an highway purposes. ' average of 13.5 cents of every ' Oregon spent J7.2S0.000 of the state tax dollar paid by highway money she collected In 1937 for users in 1937 went into non-high- construction, Maintenance and ad way use. j ministration df state highways. The state of Idaho reported no $2,031,000 tot work on. county diversions .to non-highway use and local roads, $3,784,000 for from . the $, 641,000 collected service on state highway otH ga in rough imposts on highway . us- tions, $350. C00 for a state police ers in 1937. Oregon diverted but force, and $708,000 for collection $75,000 of the $14,275,000 col-4 and distributianexpenses. 311 i , r,I,a.,-- TZwAA In Teschen Area ' 1 . Many Said Killed -During Clash Betvj een Polish, Czechi Police - WARSAW. Poland, Sept. 25- ( Sunday) -JPH The Polish tele graphic agency reported today that many persons, were killed during the- night in a series of clashes between police and Polish minority . groups it Teschen, Czechoslovakia.) .v . The agency said "reports of the fighting were brought across the border by refugees, many of them deserts from the Czechoslovak army or men who had fled rather than obey the Prague mobilization order. I Fighting lasted all night at Ja- blonkowo, the reports stated. An undetermined number of persons were Killed. There also were clashes at Bystrxyca; Trzyniec. Fryznat and ia the city of Tes chen itself. In Teschen aUne a dozen Czechs the agency said. Two Czech gendarmes were said to have been killed- at Tryzniec and one person was killed at Fryznat. . President Resigns RENO, Nev.,jSept. 2 Wal ter E. Clark, president of the Uni versity of Nevada for the last 21 years, .today submitted his resig nation to the board of regents of the institution effective Oct. 1 Slide Blocks Traffic GRANTS PASS, Sept. 24-UP)- a suaaen munaerstorm jareoched the Siskiyou national forest last night, 'causing a mud slide south of Canyonville which blocked the Pacific highway for a time. One way traffic was restored. States Divert Highway Fund lected the same year. Washington nsed 11.005,000 of the $19,929. revenue from state levies on motorists for non-highway pur- ForSurrendtr - - i Hitler Gives Last "Word to Czechs on Sudeten! Solution Nazi Head Still Adamant on Aiding Minorities! Cain Lands (By the Associated press) Europe settled down to a- un easy" breathing space today after a week of hectic diplomatic ma neuvering and waited in a state of ' ever-Increasing mobilization' for what apparently was to be a fateful day. Saturday, Octo ber 1. ; . j Yesterday (Saturday) the gov ernment of Czechoslovakia was ; Informed of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's "final" word on the Su deten German solution. Confronted with distinct indi cations that Britain, France and Russia might yet rally to the defense of Czechoslovakia j if pressed too far, it was said in Berlin Hitler, had preferred peace to war. . ", He still insisted upon surrend er of the Sudetenland to Ger many "as Czechoslovakia has agreed to do by negotiations -but he gave her until October 1 to do it. j Previously the fuehrer had been represented as insisting; u p on Immediate evacuation by the Czechoslovaks and occupation by German or Sudeten German forces pending formal demarca tion of the new frontier. ! Other Minority " I Concessions Asked j But a Berlin informant who saw Hitler's memorandum said he declined to become a guar antor M the new Czechoslovak frontier Unless other minorities Polish and Hungarian- also ? attained their desires of reunion with their homelands. Official Czechoslovak quarters in London viewed this refusal as an extension, in effect, of Hit ler's demands for "self deter mination" to include Poles and -Hungarians. . " . j- The Czechoslovaks therefore regarded the "final memoran dum' as going beyond their agreement of last Wednesday with the French and British to concede the Sudetenland as the price of peace. "j The memorandum was said by the Czechoslovaks to demand evacuation of the areas where 75 per cent or more of the pop ulation is 'German, and a pleb iscite in remaining Sudeten dis tricts. ' . -Prime Minister! Chamberlain, after returning from his Godes berg conference with Hitler, yes terday conferred with his cabi net and arranged' a conference . With the French premier; Edouard Daladier, today in ' London. Czechoslovakia Hurries Defenses I Czechoslovakia ; w a s turning herself into an armed camp be hind a wall, of steel and eeraent, 1,050,000 soldiers were mobilized ; under the leadership of a gov ernment headed by a one-eyed . military hero, and her isolatioa was virtually complete, ; Under the circumstances-little expectation was expressed any where in Europe, that . Prague again would surrender, and con sequently -each government - ccn- . rcerned was taking vigorous pre cautions. . The British home fleet streamed in a procession eight miles long from Ivergordon in ' north Scotland out Into the North sea -in position,' apparently, to clamp down a blockade If war. came. -But there 'was no British conscription or j mobilization whicti could only come after ac tion by parliament. France Orders , i S50.000 Reserves France ordered up 350.000 re serves, , the second and third echelons, and began evacuating civilians from border town. The first already had been called up and It was intimated the fourth, fifth and sixth might be called in the next three days to. aug ment the more than 2.000,699 men already under arms. Hungary apparently 'completed her defense measures for the time, though she denied a general mobilization had taken place. An official statement said that a "united Hungarian-German-Pcl-tsh fronfexists and that Hun gary would notrecede from her demands for return of 700, 6C4 Hungarians from Czechoslovakia. The American and British lega tions prepared special trains to evacuate - their nationals from Budapest. . . - Hungarian towns, were reported ordered darkened at night. - Premier Mussolini, addressing 300.000 blackshlrts at Padua, said "If the conflict must nevertheks break out there is a possibility of localizing It."; but went on tr warn that if It proved to be at ideological , war - against nazi:m and fascism. Germany and Italy would form a "single' block." s