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S5 The Weather Cloudy, possible showers today and Thursday. Lowr Temps. Max Temp. Tnet. 78, Mia. 55. River -3.9 feet. South winds. Bargain Days . IU11 subscribers may now btaln The Statesman for one year for only $4 during special bargain period. EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, September 28, 1938 Price 3c; Newsstands be No. 153 IBfM iuLe H couNDnD ' 1651,';-: ' ! ' - - -J 1 J l ; ' , -?o7 AcHf' Sralfy -i At C 1 MoM A K oosevelt Appeals to Eiiekre Again Fate of World "J " Held at Stake In 2d Message President Asks Fuehrer to Continue Parleys at all Costs States Peaceful Solving to Be Great Service to Humanity WASHINGTON, Sept., 27.-P)-President Roosevelt tonight ad dressed a new peace appeal to Chancellor Hitler. The president said the "fate of the world today and tomorrow" now is at stake. His telegram ' went to Berlin at 10 p. m., Eastern Standard time, following conferences . with state department officials. It was di rected only to Hitler. '...,.,! j Appealing Ito. the German chan cellor to continue at all costs pres ent negotiations, the chief execu tive said: "In my considered Judgment and in the light of the experience of this century continued negoti ations remain the only way by which tne immediate problem can be disposed of upon any lasting basis. "Historic Service . To Unnianitjr" "Should you agree to a solution in this peaceful manner," the message continued, "I am convin ced that hundreds of millions throughout the world would rec ognize your action as an out standing . historic" service to all humanity." "Allow me to state my unqua lified conviction that history and the souls of every man, woman and child whose lives will be lost In the threatened war will hold us and all of us accountable should we omit any appeal for its prevention." .' Hitler Points To Versailles The message was in answer to Hitler's reply to Mr. Roosevelt's first peace appeal, in which the chancellor had pointed to. what he called the historical mistakes of the Versailles treaty. "The question before the world today, Mr. " Chancellor, is not the question of errors of Judgment or of injustices committed in the past," Mr. Roosevelt said. -"It Is the question of the fate of the world today and tomorrow." Death of Logger Bound in Mystery "PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 27-2p) Charles Nelson, 45, Gales Creek logger, who was found -unconscious early Sunday in the street at Southwest Scond avenue and Grant, died today from a frac tured skull and apparently left police with a mystery, killing. : .Detectives Al Eichenberger and Herman Horack said a resident of . theTricinity heard two men argu ing 1 -one exclaimed: "What were you doing with my wife?" The resident said he heard a dull thud and looked out the win dow to see a man stretched in the street. A woman whose name po lice withheld tried to visit Nelson at a hospital and police- have since been unable to locate her. The detectives said Nelson re cently had separated from his wife. . Cottage Grove Passes Bonds for Union High COTTAGE GROVE, Sept. 2 7.-an-Bv a vote of 410 to 119, cit izens of 14 districts approved a bond Issue of $150,000 for a new union high school here to be hnilt with PWA aid. The PWA will be asked to contribute about 11000,000. - Czechoslovaks an oppressed people before they gained their -present national stafusT No, says Joseph A. Weber, machine designer for the Ore gon state highway department. "Why when I was a boy and the Czechs were under Austria, we had to learn their language in high school," Weber de clare d. "They weren't op pressed." Educated in an Austrian military a c a d e m y, Weber learned ftoeak nine . langu ages, 7 for' President Discusses Course in Jill :::-: s- President Roosevelt yesterday directed his second appeal for Euro i pean rx'ace to Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, asking, urgently : that negotiations on the Czechoslovakian question continue with out resort to war. The president is shown above as he conferred re cently with Cordell Hull, secretary of state, on the European crisis. Roosevelt Names Railway Arbiters Strike Forestalled - When Railway Labor Act Is I Invoked .I''- WASHINGTON, Sept. 27-P)- President Roosevelt asked two veteran arbitsrs and a former top flight administration executive to day to find a solution for the cur rent wage dispute between major railroads and 19 employe unions. Invoking a seldom-used section of the railway labor act in an at tempt to avoid a nation-wide strike, Mr. Roosevelt created this commission to study the contro versy ana report to mm oy Oct. 27:: . Chief 'Justice Walter P. Tracy of the North Carolina supreme court, chairman; Professor Harry A. Millls of the University of Chi cago; Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Law school, former securities commission chairman. President Roosevelt acted less than 24 hours after the unions an nounced in Chicago they would call a strike if the railroads put a 15 per cent wage cut into effect Saturday, i Invocation of the railway labor act postpones at least until Nov. 28 both the pay reduction and the strike. The law requires the emer gency board to "report respecting such dispute" 30 days after its appointment. The status quo is maintained : during that period period and for 30 days after the report is made, p , Chinese-Japanese War at Standstill SHANGHAI, Sept. 27-P-De-spite almost continuous aerial bombardment of vital Chinese de fenses on the Hankow front, Chi nese reported today they had fought ; Japanese land forces al most to a standstill. ' Chinese tactics were aimed at holding off the Japanese to force them to wage a wintertime campaign- against the provisional cap ital, j ' Salem High Students Desire Increased Band Instruction A . reported surprising" j in crease in the demand for band In struction at Salem high school was attributed by Salem school board members in part to the extension of instrumental instruction down into the grade schools in recent years. ; The ."demand was emphasized by Director L. E. Barrick, who said he had : been beseiged by parents asking why their children were not permitted to play in the senior high band. He said, halt in Jest, he was "at a loss to know what to tell them and wondered "why they should seem to pick on me: when I don't know a pic colo from a hand organ." . t The problem is one of admini stration under crowded schedule and room conditions but probably can be solved by finding quarters la which a second band class can Peaceful Sit Nation's 1 ! Situation With Hull u ! rr- 4 Molalla Girl Dies In Road Accident Two Others Little Hurt When Car Leaves Road on bad Curve Lois Shank, 21, Molalla, met death almost instantly when a car in which she was riding, going west on the Hubbard-Whiskey Hill -road near Hubbard, left the road on a curve, jumped an eight foot WPA-constructed drainage ditch and landed bottom side up. The driver of the machine, Ver non C. Landis,. and his mother, Mrs. Frannle Landis, both of Mo lalla, were unhurt except for mi nor lacerations and shock. Landis, 20, sustained a lacerated chin, and Mrs. Landis, 66, was said by state police to be suffering from minor abrasions and shock. i A state officer who investigated said Landis claimed he was un aware of the curve in the road and that his machine shot off the road bed before he could turn the wheel. ' i The Landlses were treated for their injuries in Woodburn. The body of Lois Shank Is at the Keith O'Hair mortuary, Woodburn, j Deer Season Toll I In State now 10 McMINNVILLE, Ore. Sept. 27. (JPf-The Oregon deer hunting opened its second week today by taking a tenth life. -. t ; -. Tom Moronna, 3 7,s Portland longshoreman, was accidentally shot and killed near Willamina by his companion, Henry Knott, 28, Portland. Sheriff G. W. Man ning said Knott's gun discharged while it was being unloaded in the rear of an automobile. Moronna, whose back was shat tered, lived 'through the night. The sheriff said no charges would be made. meet. Supt. Silas Gaiser suggest ed. He said lie would investigate the possibility of utilizing a room on the second floor of the high school shops building for addi tional band work. The room ; in the new building originally desig nated for the band is now avail able only one period ' a day be cause of the need for more ac commodations for other classes, he explained.'- ! I ' Other business before the board was largely routine. The direc tors agreed to rent attic space in the old high school to the Salem Civic Players for ft t month. subject to other demand for the epace, voted to permit release of children from school to ' attend church religious education classes as provided by law, and signed a tuition contract with the Polk county non-high school board ' on tae same terms as laat year. ; ilement Hope of Peace Continuing Is Big in France Pressure ofv Democratic Powers on Nazis Said Cause of Hope Meanwhile, French Move Guns and Men to Face German Border (By the Associated Press) PARIS, Sept. 27 A surge of optimism that peace can be saved rose in France tonight. Sources close to the French foreign ministry said pressure of the world's democratic powers had created a definite impression in France that Germany would hesitate before going to war to exact her claims from Czechoslo vakia. They said that pressure would increase steadily between now and Saturday "der tag" which Adolf Hitler has set as the deadline for satisfaction of his Sudeten de mands. Preparedness Is ExampTe France's military preparedness. Increased by the calling of addi tional reserves daily, was an ex ample of that pressure. Troop-trains rumbled through the south of France moving men and guns into defense position. Advices from that region said many . troops were being - trans ported to the i'alian - frontier where an estimated 150,000 men already were manning mountain positions. While military preparations were stepped up, civilians started an exodus from Paris to beat1 the rush which would follow any gen eral order to evacuate the capital. Railway stations were crowded with families departing for other sections. Americans Leave French Capital Americans, too, were leaving on the advice of their embassy to re trrn home if they were able to do so. Adding to the 2,000,000 'men already under arms, reserves with red unnumbered mobilization cards were called up today. Their exact number was a military-secret. The French reserves were dis tinct from the two echelons (re serve categories) of white card holders mobilized formally last Saturday. The British announcement that Britain would fight with France and Russia against German inva sion of Czechoslovakia and Pre sident Roosevelt's message calling for peaceful solution were taken as further evidences of democra tic pressure. f Frank Winslow Is Handed Discharge Notice of his formal discharge from the city police force was yesterday given Frank Winslow by Chief of Police Frank Minto, who also notified the Salem civil service commission of his action. Charging "incompetency and discourtesy In treatment of the public," with emphasis on - the "brutal treatment" used in the arrest of William Stalling for drunkenness on the night of Sep tember 18, Minto notified Wins low to turn in his badge and oth er city property in his possession. Brazier Small, chairman of the civil service commission, said last night Winslow had not as yet filed any demand for a hear ing. Winslow, If he so desires, may ask for such a hearing. Filipino Trio Held On Opium Charges PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 27nyP) -US Commissioner Kenneth Fra zer held three members - of the Philippine steamer Don Jose for the federal grand Jury today on a charge of Importing opium and continued bonds of f 5 0,0 00 each. The trio, Pedro Deleon, 38, chief engineer, Jose Clemen te, 42, third engineer, and Alberto For mentos, 33, chief machinist, were arrested after customs agents here took opium valued at 972,000 from the ship's coal bunkers. Woman, 102,.Dies PORTLAND. Sept. ll-i-lin. Sarah F. Martin, born 102 years ago when Andrew Jackson was president, died here today. Ore gon Had been- her h o m e since X$12, Czech Cabinet Meets Behind Dark Windows Entire Nation Darkened During Night as air Raids Feared Troop Trains Rattle on - Endlessly to Border Territories PRAGUE, Sept. 27-UP)-Behind darkened windows, the Czechoslo vak cabinet met tonight with clocks ticking off the minutes leading up to "der tag" Satur day and expiration of Chancellor Hitler's ultimatum. ' It. was decided that Gen. Jan Syrovy, who became premier last week, would make a radio address tomorrow, name day of St. Wen- celaus, patron saint of Bohemia, Premier Syrovy has a strong hold on the popular imagination He was the general who led 70.' 000 Czech soldiers in an epic march across Russia to the Pa cific and thence around the world to fight against Germany on the western front in the World war. After tonight's cabinet meeting a' foreign offica spokesman said of today's radio address by Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain: "Chamberlain's speech Is con sidered as the very last effort to maintain peace. Chamberlain went to the extreme limit to which man can go." Catholics Pray For Peace Cardinal Kaspar issued an. ap peal to all Catholics to pray for peace, and tonight women laid flowers at the foot of St. Wence- laus' monument in Prague's main thoroughfare. On guard against a possible air raid, Czechoslovakia was blacked out, with only powerful search lights brushing the'' skies after dusk. President Eduard Benes and the cabinet ministers studied Cham berlaln's add res s , and also scanned reports on large-scale war preparations as troop trains con tlnued to rattle toward Czechoslo vakia's twisting borders. Anti-aircraft batteries studded the hills surrounding the capital Swift pursuit planes, tuned for take-offs at a moment's notice, waited at nearby air fields. All physicians and medical stu dents were mobilized. Discipline Kept. By People And yet through the whole nightmarish structure people were keeping perfect discipline. Scattered fighting still rolled along the borders, but a sense of impending disaster had forged other pre-crlels political dissenters into a firm defense phalanx. Support came from the Associa tion of German Democratic Youth in Czechoslovakia. This organiza tion sent President Benes a letter saying it was ready to fight for the integrity of Czechoslovakia, and it congratulated the country's leaders on the measures already taken. Their offers of military service, however, were not needed, now, for it was stated officially the army cannot accept any more vol unteers at the moment. The ranks are filled to their present capacity, and trains car rying recruits in their new uni forms to the frontiers were jammed. Sprague Disfavor Raids PORTLAND, Sept. 27 - (JP) -Charles A. Sprague, republican candidate for governor, said in a radio address tonight that be was "warmly hostile to spoils raids on departments for political pur poses. . Sprague, presumably answering speculation on what would hap pen to hundreds of democratic state office workers at Salem If he were elected declared his "gen eral policy respecting commis sions would be to avoid sweeping changes unless conditions jus tify each actions." . . Henry L. Hess, Sprague's dem ocratic opponent, has been quoted as saying he would make "whole sale revisions in personnel at Sa lem if he were elected. Truck Operators, Teamsters Agree l PORTLAND. Sept. 27-CP)-The Truck Operators' League of Ore gon and the powerful AFL team sters onion signed a contract to day embracing the same hour and wage conditions as existed under the previous pact. Each group agreed to submit differences to a Joint conference board. - Local No. 12 and the Joint council of teamsters signed for the union. The league represented about 37 firms. - Given Spoils Mystery Veils Journey Of livo Light Cruisers From San) Diego Harbor Secrecy Surrounds Hurried Preparation of " Boats for Long Trip; Rumors Persistent That Ships Will Head for Europe 1 SAN DIEGO, Calif- Sept. 27 (AP) Bound for an unknown destination, two navy port at 10 o deck tonight, after a day of feverish fuelling and provisioning. . .; ! They are the XJSS Concord and Cincinnati, light cruisers. It was rumored that 10 o'clock also was to be the sailing Rumor Circulates Der Tag Advanced Reports That Hitler Had Issued new Ultimatum Unconfirmed LONDON, Sept. 2 7.-;P)-Re-ports circulated in diplomatic quarters tonight that Adolf Hit ler had made a new threat that Czechoslovakia must accept his demands by Wednesday at 2 p. m. (5 a. m. PST) or he would act.' The reports could not be con firmed. (Informed sources with official connections in Berlin denied for eign news agency reports that there was any Intention to mobil ise by that lime if a favorable Czechoslovak answer was not re ceived. It also was denied in Ber lin that the German radio had an nounced Prague must accept Hit ler's terms by tomorrow or Ger many would mobilize Thursday. (Previously official spokesmen In Berlin denied an opposite re port that Hitler had extended the deadline , beyond October 1 as "pre speculation"). (The French foreign office, also hearing the report of an advan ced deadline, cautioned that they had no confirmation of it.) The reports circulating In Lon don diplomatic quarters were that Hitler had- given his warning to Sir Nevile Henderson, the Brit ish ambassador, in Berlin, j I Return of Logger To Prison Denied I Extradition of Yoncalla Woodsman to Missouri Turned Down j . Harry Van Winkle, young (Yon calla logger who says he came west two years ago to keep from going wrong, was spared a return, under arrest, to Missouri, when Governor Charles H. Martin re fused yesterday to allow him to be extradited. j It was the second time Missouri authorities had been denied extra dition of Van Winkle. This i time Sheriff J. F. Powell of Stannon county and two fellow officers left for home empty-handed. Van Winkle said he was paroled from a three-year prison sentence for grand theft, involving the cut ting of five trees across a dis puted property line. : He told Dep uty Sheriff Kenneth RandaU here that "he broke his parole by leav ing the state when because of hunger and lack of employment he feared he would get into trou ble If he stayed. The governor of Missouri, he declared, denied his plea for permission to leave. Body From Ocean Is Believed Frvar PORTLAND, Sept. 27 - (JP) -Authorities believed the body of a man found in the sea yesterday near Twin Rocks might be that of Charles Fryar, 52, of Silverton. Fryar has been missing since Sep tember 4 when he left on a! clam digging trip..' .The dead man's clothing tallied with descriptions of Fryar. j Bank Robber Gets no Chance To Enjoy His $500 of Booty - SEATTLE, Sept. 27 Fur and a half hours after the Green Lake State bank in the north end was held up and robbed of .more than 1500. Ralph SuUlvan, 25, was held for questioning in the city Jail tonight.- . The bank was held up at 1:45 p.m. At 1:40, SeatUe police noti fied Everett the suspect was en route there aboard a northbound bus. At i o'clock Sullivan, with $524 and a black pistol in his pos session, was taken from the bus at Everett and placed in jail. At 7:15 he was in the city Jail here.-- . - -v ' In a written and signed confes sion tonight, Sullivan told Detec tive CapL Marshall Scrafford: "I was broke and hungry. and I thought I might as well stick up a bank as a service station or cruisers slipped quietly from O time from. San Pedro of their sis ter ship, the USS Trenton, which has been at the northern port for. overhaul alongside the tender Medusa. " Where the cruisers are bound is a matter of conjecture, but the most persistent rumors were that their next stop would be Panama, then the east tcoast -and across the Atlantic. But so far as official confirmation was concerned, na val officials were silent. - First word of the impending departure t of the " light cruisers came today, when It was reported that all had been-ordered to pro vision for six months, and to bunker to full capacity, the task to be completed by 8 a. m. tomor row. Throughout the day. fuel barges .were busy alongside the cruisers, while cargo lighters and motor launches kept, a stream of stores moving from shore to ship. By nightfall, the provisioning was complete. With late afternoon came more rumors.. No liberty was being giv en by the Concord or Cincinnati. Men already, on leave were being recalled. , The vessels would sail at dawn. Then they would go at 10 p. m. j ' V Norris Declares He'd now es Nebraska Senator Opines Europe Heading Into War at Present COLUMBUS, Neb., Sept. 27-(ff-Sen. George W. Norris, one of the . six senators who- voted against United States entry into the World war; said - today he would vote "yes" for war this Ume if the United , States were threatened or attacked: He predicted Europe is head ing for war. now. Norris, veteran j Independent resting in his home state, reiter ated his belief the nation should stay out of European war, but said if he were a European he would be "willing to fight against the dictators. - . "Dictators in Europe are crazy," he said in an interview, "It's too bad that a couple of blood-thirsty dictators can hold the fate of the whole world in their hands. "If I were living in Europe 1 would be willing to go to war and have the fight settled for once and all. They are going to face It some day anyway." f Norris declared there Is "a great deal more cause now to save the world for democracy than in the days of the World war." to Accept Contract SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27. (P) San Francisco longshoremen, of a Tote of nearly ten to one, fa vored acceptance of a revised con tract with the Waterfront Em ployers association, union offi cials announced tonight. The vote was announced as 2, 746 to 285. i International Long shoremen and Warehousemen's association officials said the trend of the San Francisco balloting practically "assured" coastwise ratification of the pact. store, because I'd get more mon ey." - .M - John A. Page, SeatUe cab driv er, reported to police he carried a man with a small bag to the lit tle north end bank and waited for him, on the fare's Instructions. He tald - he was ignorant that while he waited the man ''menaced Miss Dorothy Pfiater, a teller, with a pistol, and obtained more than SS00 by handing her a note reading: "Don't make a sound or alarm. Clean out your cage.' SUckup!" Pag said he .drove the man back to the University district, where his pasenger paid his fare, tipped Page and . walked away smiling. The "tip" to Everett authori ties followed a hurried conference of - Seattle 'police, and federal aganta- oav i Longshoremen King Decrees Land in State Of Emergency Chamberlain Gives Scant Hope of More Peace Conferences. Reserve of Royal . Ordered to Report Depots Today - Fleet. at i LONDON". Sept 27-MVrhe en tire British navy was . ordered mobilized tonight and a "state of emergency" was decreed for the nation on a call by Prime Minister Chamberlain for the empire to prepare for war if fight it; must. The admiralty suddentty an nounced at midnight the mobiliza tion of the world's most powerfal navy In the face of an immineat threat of war. Under the same threat, Kiag George and the privy council de creed the state of emergency. . Earlier Chamberlain told the empire and the world in 'a ix minute radio broadcast that would trv for peace "until tae last moment. Mediation Hope -Scant But he held out only scant hope of further mediation with Adolf Hitler, whose demands for a lair slice of Czechoslovakia by Satur day he termed ."unreasonable." In a grave, deep voice the; prima minister said: ' "If I were convinced aay na tion had made up Its mind to dominate the world by fear of ita armed force. I should feel hat it The mobilization snnounce ment of the admiralty, which ald ita decision was taken es a "pre cautionary measure." assumed special significance for two rea sons. . - Active Navy Units J On War Basi ! One was t h a t active ert Ice units of the navy already wee virtually on a war-time footing since the home fleet was concea trated off the coast of Scotland tor "normal maneuvers'! last month. I The second was that since the navy can mobilize quickly and quietly without public announce ments such as are needed lo call up army reserves, .the admiralty statement obviously meant that naval officials recognized the ur gency of having all available trained man power on th pot for immediate duty. Just what mobilization means is one of the British navy's many secrets. j The admiralty refused to deayv that - merchant ships are; beisg commandeered. Plans for such re quisitioning certainly are Includ ed in naval preparations; lor a major war. -Men Reporting j This Morning . -i Without waiting for individual summonses, men serving in the royal fleet reserves were ordered to report at their depots Wednes- " day morning. j The fact that the order applied to members of the royal fleet reserve Class B only" obviously meant mobilization of all regular units already had been effected. The king will issue a proclama tion tomorrow calling out the re servists. Admiralty instruction announced tonight will follow im mediately. ! Royal fleet reservists iin the submarine service were to go di rect to. Fort Blockhouse, at Cos port, submarine headquarters ad joining the great naval base of Portsmouth,' j Members of the royal naval re serve, meanwhile, were ordered te follow instructions issued at va rious ports. j Other naval reservists, the ad miralty said, would receive ind3 vidual summonses if their eer ices were required. . j. Hundreds of millions of listen ers all over the world heard the prime minister's address.! Rains Halt Combat in Spain HENDAYE. France Ut the Spanish Frontier), Sept. 27-i") Reports reaching this border town today said that heavy rains and uncertainty over European crisis combined . to keep the Spanish civil war at a virtual standstill. Military dispatches from the Ebro river front in South Cata lonia said artillery alone was ac tive. Activities on other front were said to be similarly ilimlted. Mayor of Albany Ashs City Prayer of 'I Peace ALBANY, Ore., Sept. 21-iTy-City-wlde participation in prayers for world peace was requested to day by Mayor C. R. AsSton for services to be held Wednesday evening. The Albany Ministerial" association issued the call to praver.