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1 "H? . -fik vtN World Series ; Cubs s. Yanks - take your choice. Listen to the rame over KSLM MBS, 11 a.m. today, then read detail in The Statesman's port paes. The Weather Partly cloudy, unsettled ; with mild temperatures to- j day and Wednesday. 3 lax. 1 ' Temp. Tnes. 84, Min. 43. J River -3.7 feet. South wind. ? EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday-Morning, October 5, 1938 J - ; j ; - Price Sc; Newsstands 5c NoJ 164 .Dal ecu timer !o v-;f" t'M i '".'J. .';! ! : ' '1' Soviet - French AFL Awaiting CIO 1st Move Green Unhopeful About Prospects,However, . at conclave Roosevelt Speech - Urges juai luuujr ' ucin ecu inw . r Labor Bodies -Houston, Tex.. ' Oct; 4-;p)- The AT ft' is waiting for the CIO to make the first overtures in any peace movement, William Green said tonight after President Roo sevelt had addressed a- message to the AFL convention urging Am erican labor harmony. 'There isn't any immediate prospect of the American Federa tion of Labor making peace with the CIO," Green said after the president's, message had been read to the convention. Watchful Waiting IS AFL Position j "We are In the position of waiting for suggestions from rep resentatives of the CIO," Green said. "We negotiated an agree ment hut it was vetoed by John L. Lewis so there .is nothing for us to do but wait for a response from the CIO." I The president of the AFL said If any concrete suggestion toward mediation of the labor dispute is made by President Roosevelt, it would be submitted immediately to the executive council of the AFL. i "We accept his message today as merely an expression of hope nui peace can oe maae ana as such his message was ready to the convention,"-Green said- "I do' not expect to reply to it." 'Message Aimed ; - At "Both Sides" Green interpreted the message jas. being addressed to "both sides" and added that the AFL was will- !ing to resume peace negotiations. As recently as last August, flrppn said. T.wi rpifrf-fl nrnnni. als I that peace talks be started ; rwhora - thno lofr rtf loaf TlAAam I ,her; A committee from the Inter national Ladies' Garmen Workers ' unioiTtalked to Green and Lewis to sound out thi prospects for ; reunion of the warring factions. Referring- to reports the '. CIO was planning to meet In No vember and adopt a permanent constitution, Green said: "I am afraid the other side will push the door almost closed when they set up a permanent organization." He i said he believed the exec utive council of the AFL would react "favorably" to a definite proposal from Mr. Roosevelt to serve as a mediator for labor's embattled factions. , Gren charged the United Mine Workers had tried to break up organization meetinir "of th Progressive Miners of America, & federation , unit chartered in May,' and followed with this as sertion: ' "We are going to continue to support the fight to bring the mine workers freedom and In dependence," Green said. ! Koosevelt Asks For Labor Peace President Roosevelt said In his appeal he had close friendship with ' officers of the American Federation of Labor and the in ternational unions it represents for more than 25 years and "be- u va vu .a. vvubutv xa press the hope that the conven tion will leave open every poss ible door of access to peace and progress In the affairs of organ ized labor In the United States. He said If leaders of organized labor can make and keep peace ' between the various factions "it ; will vastly increase the prestige of labor with the country and prevent the reaction which oth erwise Is bound to injure the workers themselves." Mr. Roosevelt asked labor and Industrial leaders to read the re port on relations between em ployers and employes of England and Sweden brought back from Europe In the summer by a spe cial presidential " commission. f i "The outstanding feature of this report is that in both these - countries cooperation, compro mise and labor peace seem to be the rule rather than the excep tion, President Roosevelt's mes sage said, Coinmander Hibbs n?re in Pnrtlnrirl JLlCS 111 X Uriiailil PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 4-(JP) Lieutenant - Commander Nelson W. Hibbs, USN, retired, and nav al aide to Governor Charles H Martin, died at his home tonight after & brief illness. Commander Hibbs, a graduate of the United States naval aca demy in 1912, was appointed nav al aide to Governor Martin in 1936. He was a member of the Oregon boarfl. of pilot commission Toward Peace ers at -the time of his death. Senator Says merits Deve US Increase lop L Senator King Declares Forces .WhiclrMake for War Strengthened by - "Spineless I Attitude ( of Great Britain and France i I " -V ' j ; ) - j:Vk WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (AP) Sen. King (D, Utah) said today last week's developments in Europe might make .. m " il A rii' i It ' I 1 J ' -L J 1 It necessary lor xne unitea millions of dtulars more for military purposes." ' ' He said Great Britain and tude", toward Adolf Hitler, which make for war and the dom-O- ination of peoples and nations." For that reason, he was of the opinion America must take every defensive precaution. With this view, however, Sen. Bulkley ! (D-O) partially dis agreed. It is too early to determ ine the consequences of the Mun ich settlement of the Czech-German territorial dispute, he said. but at least the prospects for dis armament seem ''more hopeful.,,ij Sen. Logan (D-Ky) sided with King, asserting - the outcome of the European crisis had made it essential! that "our national de fense program be carried out with all the more vigor." King contended "the cause of peace had not Deen served ai Munich and additional crises and threats of war were to be ex pected, i A senate veteran and one of the original ( advocates of American participation in the League of Na tions, he blamed the present dis turbed state of European affairs partially! upon the United States, for its 1 failure to support the league. Logan, who also had fav ored American entry into the league, again agreed with him. Hungary Presses Minority Qanns T mtAl at . fWnnntinn of Border Area Is Asked in Communique BUDAPEST, Oct. 4-(fl-Little Hungary, eager to regain terri tories of which she was stripped by World war treaties, tonight pressed the Czechoslovak govern ment for immediate occupation or some Hungarian zones of Czecho slovakia. In a note to the Prague govern ment proposing a conference to discuss t the minority claims be held Thursday, Hungary demand ed that before the talks begin Czechoslovakia first must give; these guarantees: : 1. Hungary must be allowed to occupy, as a symbol or tne return of territories in which 800,000 Hungarians live, two border towns and communes. ; "" 2. All Hungarian political 'pris oners In CzecnsiovaKia must De released. . 3. All Hungarian-speaking sol diers in the Czechslovak army must be sent home on leave im mediately. ; 4. Local police and r troops must he created In the Hungarian zones under a "mixed command." Hungary proposed that ; the claims be discussed at a confer ence at 4 p. m. Thursday at Ko marom, a town on the Danube 80 miles west of Budapest, part of It In Hungary, part In Czecho slovakia. There were unconfirmed reports tonight that the Czechoslovak au thorities were evacuating the Hungarian - populated border re gions along the 450-mile frontier. Messboy on Liner Charged With Tibbett Jewel Theft SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4-P) -Meyer Sopher, 23, messboy on the liner Monterey, was charged here today with the theft or Jewels from Lawrence Tibbett, the singer, and his wife during their voyage : from Australia , to California. ; f NatiJ. L. Pieper, chief of the federal bureau of investigation office f here, said Sopher con fessed the theft, and that FBI agents had recovered more than 20'000 wort ftf the Jewelry. s?oner. who v his address as Gwynn Falls Parkway, a Bal timore, Md., suburb, appeared before US Commissioner E. E. Williams and his bail set at $16,- 000. He was charged specifically with stealing jewelry on the high seas, i Mrs. Tibbett reported the theft j when the Monterey arrived at San Pedro yesterday. She said $50,000 worth of jewels had been ! taken from the stateroom Sunday while she and her hus iiance o Army, otaies . 10 ; spena nunureus vl France, by "a spineless atti had "strengthened the forces Japanese Envoy Is Called Home HIROSIII SAITO ; TOKYO, Oct. Z-iff-The for eign office today announced ap pointment of a new ambassador- to the United States, Kensuke ' Hor inouchi; who has been vice minis ter of foreign affairs. ,- j The foreign office said Ambas sador Hiroshi Saito was being; re called because of poor health. Horinouchi formerly was a coun cillor of the Japanese embassy in Washington. i! : I Work on Hospital Is to Open Today PORTLAND, Oct. 4 The state's 1250,000 tuberculosis hos pital at the University of Oregon? medical school will be started! to morrow with the breaking; of ground. ! ' r"!, ; : Formal award of the general contract to George H. Buckler, Portland, was announced by f the regional office of the public works administration. The ; government allotted 190,000 toward the jcost of construction. M A general contract for replace ment of Oregon State college's burned chemistry building was awarded by the PWA to Dougan Hammond Construction company of Portland on a low bid of $213, 000. The plumbing and heating award went to Cherveny & River man, Portland, for 382,298. ! The government granted $225, 000 for the $500,000 project-! j Federal officers boarded j the vessel at San Pedro, and two FBI agents remained aboard to investigate during the : trip to San Francisco. i I ' The Tibbetts were returning home after the singer's concert tour in Australia, at, the time of the theft. : s :..:' '.. i Jt was disclosed. Sopher's capture followed a "tip" to the ship's captain, E.R. Johanson, from a waiter, Hubert Campbell, who related, the captain said, Sopher showed him the array of glittering gems Monday morn ing a few minutes after the bur glary was reported. Campbell said he thought they j were Tpaste," until he learned of the robbery. ; . J Agents , said Sopher confessed on the return trip to San Fran cisco, and produced some Of his loot from the nozzle of a fire hose, some from the top I of a dumb waiter and some from on top of a beam. But the missing " : : : o ' - . . : ; I European May Make Navy 1 UJ UMMJmM. . : ; - :.:: .' . ' f x l i p . . A ; j M s I . v - - - f , i ' ' '- t parj remained a mystery, ' End at Moscow Paper Hints France Without Britain Alone Standing by French Is Report in Moscow j ; " ! No Formal Move Is Made "; in Paris by Russians to End Pact V MOSCOW, Oct. i-(JFy-The French language newspaper Le Journal De Moscou which babl nally reflects the views of the so viet foreign -office gave expression today to what . was regarded In diplomatic quarters as Russia's farewell to her ally, France. ; France "no longer has an ally in Europe except Britain," the pa per said, f . . This was accepted as meaning Soviet Russia no longer regards herself partner In the Franco soviet mutoel assistance pact In event of aggression. ; What Value : France's Word?" "International public opinion now says what is the value of France's word the value of her pledges to the USSR, and of the Franco-soviet pact?" the newspa per asked, in a discussion of the four-power Munich settlement of September 30 in which Britain, France, Germany and Italy agreed to the partition of Czechoslovakia Neither Czechoslovakia nor Rus sia, an ally of Czechoslovakia's in that she was pledged to aid her against an aggressor . provided France did so. was represented In the Munich conference. ! i "The fact is that France on her own initiative and without con sulting the Union of Socialist So viet Republics has already an nulled the Czechoslovak-soviet pact which was a corrollary of the. Franco-soviet pact," Le Journal De Moscou continued. "What now is the value of the latter pact since France has just orn up her treaty with Czechoslo vakia a treaty which bound her much more strongly? Loss of Allies Price of Peace "It has done this at the .very moment when the latter country (Czechoslovakia) waB under the threat of fascist aggression. Loss of her allies and isolation that is the price France will pay for her capitulation to the aggressor. "On whom can France rely now Her sold" ally in Europe now Is Britain this same Britain which went behind France's back and signed the naval agreement with Germany (in .1936) . . . and which today comes to terms with Hitler r again behind France's back. H "Isolation that is the Inevita ble price of France's capitulation to the aggressor and that isola tion was precisely Hitler's aim." (In Paris it was noted there had been a recent cooling of rela tions between France and Russia, although the foreign office said no formal move had been made by Russia to denounce the pact) (Political leaders'close to Prime Minister Chamberlain In London viewed a cancellation of the Franco-Russian treaty as a necessary step to the completion of a four- power pact between France, Brit ain, Germany and Italy, a pact many of them would like to see negotiated.) . (France s alliance with Russia was made the excuse by Chancel lor Hitler for his remilitarization of the Rhineland and his breakhig ef the Locarno pact because he felt the spirit of that pact was broken by the alliance.) Who'll Buy My Buffalo, Asks US Government PORTLAND, Oct. HP)-Tlte US biological survey sought buy ers today for buffalo and hull elk, at dirt cheap prices. Stanley Jewett, biologist, said a 1000-pound buffalo could i be purchased for $60, with the pur chaser paying the freight from Valentine, Neb., or Fort Totten, N. D. A bull elk, with a ..horn spread guaranteed small enough to fit into a double garage, can be had for $55. : Jewett said the animals were being -offered for sale to reduce herd surpluses. j Safety Devices Reduce Portland's Traffic Toll PORTLAND. Oct. 4 -rV De vices to smooth the flow of traf fic and a public education cam paign have led to a 30 per cent reduction in Portland's automo bile fatalities this year. Fifty per sons Were killed during the first nine months of 1937 compared Allies with 3 5 this year. ; Hitler Moves Further Into Sudeten Area Henlein and Der Fuenrer Ride Into Karlsbad Behind Troops Appeal ' Made in ; Berlin for Winter Relief -of Sudetens . (By the Associated Press) r Karlsbad. Sudeten '- Germany, Oct. 4 Adolf Hitler in exultant military procession added another slice of Czechoslovakia today to expanding Germany which he de clared "nobody will ever be able to destroy again." . Accompanied by Sudeten Lead er Konrad Henlein, the fuehrer of all - Germany rode ' behind1 his troops into this famed resort town where the Sudeten movement re ceived great impetus April 16 through promulgation of Hen lein's autonomy demands. "I don't know how I would sometime get here," Hitler told a hysterical, helling crowd. "But I did know that I would come." ' Hitler, Henlein and their party arrived early this afternoon after troops occupying this third zone of Sudetenland to be taken over under the Munich four-power ac cord of Sept 3. Military Rule In Zones Military rule 'already existed throughout zones one and - two. occupied by German troops Sat urday, Sunday and Monday. The fourth is to be occupied Thursday and Friday. On this second day of his tour through "liberated" Sudetenland, Hitler chose this city when Hen lein's followers first drew world attention with a definite program for Independence, for his second talk tn the newly German terri tory. Because the people of Karlsbad had remained true to their race and he had remained failthful to his belief in the German people. Hitler said, "We both find each other in our common racial com munity ... in our greater reich which nobody will ever be able to destroy again." Big Task Faces Greater Germany While Karlsbad Sudetens saw in Hitler the realization of their dream union with Germany an appeal issued in Berlin on the opening of the winter relief cam palgn called special attention to the tasks facing the expanding nation. "In this (ear 10,000,000 Ger mans wno nad to endure misery and distress for 20 years returned to their home in the reich," the appeal said of Austrians and Su detens. "Our special concern this win ter. is for them. They will know that the enUre German people is ready to lead the battle against hunger and cold." Crowbar Attack Is Charged -East ALBANY, Ore., Oct 4 - (fl) -State Police Sergeants Ernest Larios and L. Hertzel, arrested Tom Wiseman east of Crawfords ville tonight on a Lane county warrant charging he attacked his employer, Herman Scott, with a crowbar. Scott died at a Lebanon hospi tal from a fractured skull. An alleged dispute, occurred between Wiseman, a woodcutter, and Scott south of Crawfordsville in the upper Calapooia river valley. GSQP2 MARKET NEWS The ware house of the Labish Celery Growers cooperative at-Brooks ' is a 'busy place in a big way. Truckloads of lettuce, celery and onions come rolling in from the rich beaver dam lands; hun dreds of carloads go rolling out on the railroad, and big trucks also haul huge loads of produee to PorUand. Important buyers occasionally drive In to look over the crops and register their needs. ' . ; . V'.V A new buyer visited the ware- house and engaged the atten-" Uon of Ronald E. Jones,' general manager, the other' day. She. came on foot and her head was just barely visible over the top of a crate of lettuce. "Mama sent me over to get a .head of lettuce." said the little , Brooks girl, aged six. - Jones hunted up a broken erate and produced a head of , lettuce; , : . - "Mama said I wasn't to take it unless I paid for it" the buy er continued, and produced a nickel. , Manager Jones took the mon- l ey, but upon reflection decided ' to turn it over to the Commun ity Chest "If the cooperative had accepted it and posted the transaction on its books, the re cording of it would hart cost more than the amount received. Czech Ministry Shaken isyiovaK Autonomists AaitatinQ 1 Slovak Minister Resigns of Government for Slovakian Autonomy - Inadequate Charges Stalling T--. . ! ' : '. , : - :J - i ' :," - ' PRAGUE, Oct. 4 (AP) The Czechoslovak government under Premier. Jan Syfovy was shaken up today as Slovak autonomists agitated for more speed in consideration of their autonomy demands.' ! .-. Jr- Minister Without Portfolio Cermak, a Slovak, carried out a threat to resign after, declaring government proposals regarding Slovak autonomy de-O : r- mands , were inadequate and charging the government with stalling. V- . Premier Syrovy in his new cab inet Included , three Slovaks as a concession to Slovakio, but the three were not considered -likely to be accepted as satisfactory, by the Slovak autonomists 'because they do not have a big political following. ' Premier Syrovy retained the posts of premier and minister, of national defense. Frantisek Chval kovsky, Czechoslavak minister to Rome who arrived here Only to day, becamejminister of j foreign affairs, succeeding Kamil Krofta. The new government was con sidered moderate and as marking a move to the right, rather than to the left, as has been expected in efforts to solidify what remains of Czechoslovakia after cession of German and Polish minority areas. I Contest Possible In Patton Appeal McMahan Quashes Notice of Withdrawal Order - " Given State Possibility of a contest over the attempted appeal! of the state capitol' reconstruction com mission's i condemnation case against Edith Louise Patton and ethers developed yesterday when Rex Kimmell, for the state, se cured a circuit court order with drawing the state's appeal no tice, ony to find the order set aside a few hours later. Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan Quashed the order on the ground it had been made inadvertantly and by mistake and that the de fendants had had no notice or knowledge of the motion . by which the state obtained it, con trary to the rules . of the court The order secured by j Kimmell was based on a motion asserting that no formal judgment on the jury's $45,600 verdict ! for the defendants had been filed and that the appeal notice was there fore premature. The order later annulled by Judge McMahan in cluded the judgment order al leged by the motion to have been lacking. j John H. Carson, one of the defense i attorneys, declared . at the county clerk's office that the necessary judgment order had been entered long; ago. If that was the case, the time for the state's perfecting its appeal has; expired. . j . Winslow Demands i - - - i on Case Frank1 Winslow, discharged from the city police force Sept 26 for cUrged mistreatment of Pris oner William G. Stalling while, es corting him. from a downtown pool hall to the city police sta tion September 18, yesterday filed formal demands of the! city civil service commission for an in vestigation and hearing. Winslow's document of de mand was filed with City Judge A. Warren Jones, secretary of the civil service commission, just following that body's regular monthly meeting yesterday morn ing. Brazier Small, chairman of the commission indicated & spe cial meeting would be called to hear Winslow in the near future. Hearing Record Registration Clerk9 s Office to Be Open 1 To facilitate registraUon for the November election County Clerk U. G. Boyer announced yesterday his office would be kept open un til 8 p.m. tonight Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. nights. The of fice opens at 8 a.m. and ordinar ily" closes at 5 p.m. 1 Although Saturday is the last day for registration, the lineup of voters at the clerk's counter has been relatively light to date. Boy er said. '' The number of regis trants, however, began to gain yesterday. , :; If the usual Increase In general election 'registration over thitf or the primaries occurnras 'year, an all-time high in voters tiay be es-j tablished. Last spring's registra-i Uon total, 34,254, was only 1073 ' r ' S or Demands After Declaring Proposal French Premier Gets Full Power I i - - 5 ( 1 EDOUARD DALADIER Second Furniture Plant Shut Down B. P. John Employes Vote Refusal of Open "Wage Pending Contract PORTLAND, Octl i-iff-A sec ond Portland, furniture factory was closed today when employ es refused to work under; ah open wageschedule pending ne gotiations for a new contract i The ,B. P. John corporation, employing 421 men, was closed shortly after noon, when workers voted down the proposal ; which grew out of, . a conference- with federal labor agents. The ; Doembecher Furniture company was closed. Monday for the same reason,-throwing 1092 workers off its payroll.; Union workers denied they were strik ing, describing ' the plant shut downs as lockouts. "The men turned down the proposal because they wanted to know what i they would be work ing for during negotiations for a new contract. Frits Igel, busi ness Agent for a furniture work ers union local, said in explain ing the Johh vote. . Harry - George, national labor relations board Investigator, con tinued a, "'preliminary survey," but said no charges against any furniture firm had been filed. below the record set at general election time in 1936. . . At least 3 5 00 . registrations will be withdrawn from the files as inactive " following next month's election, H. C . Mattson, deputy clerk in , charge, predicted yester day. Before registrations of vot ers who have not cast a ballot at least once in ' the last two years are thrown out, the clerk will no tify them by mall that their regis trations are subject; to cancella tion. : - ' ; No count of registrations this month has yet been made. The counter clerks have noted a con siderable number being changed back from, democratic to. republi can, by voters who changed their party declarations last spring. Depii ties V. Premier Right After Battle j ' . '. ; Part in Munich Parleys Approved Earlier by Parliament - i-i'v-ii j. uttu - .lA CI all U 113 With Italy, Will Send Envoy to Rome PARIS, O c t. 5-()-Premir Daladier was voted fall financial powers to rule by dictatorial de cree today by the chamber ef deputies. The vote was 343 to 77, with 187 abstaining. The vote came after the pre mier had fought a. night-long battle. Yesterday , the chamber by a vote of 535 to 75 had ap proved his part in the Menieh partition of Czechoslovakia to purchase Europe's peace, and he had announced his intention or resuming full diplomatic rela tions with Italy to extend tbat peace. ; Socialists Fight Decree Powers Opposition of socialists forced Daladier to compromise some ef his demands for decree powers. He promised to maintain the so cial laws of the Peoples treat and to reduce the d station ef the decree powers from Decem ber 31 to November 15. Even these promises won tbe socialists only to the point where they agreed to abstain from vot ing Instead of joining with com munists and some independents in opposition. .. Shortly i before 2:30 a.m. ap proval of the finance commission was gained . when 18 votes for the measure, with five, voting against and 18 abstaining. Yesterday the chamber voted 535 to 75 in approval of Dalad ier's part In the Munich con ference to buy the peace of Eu rope. : . Daladler's ministerial statement- on the four-power Munich accord which appeased Germany at Czechoslovakia's territorial expense said France was in a state of "permanent mobiliza tion" to preserve the peace saved at Munich. 5- ItaUaa Relations . To be Restored j Earlier, it was disclosed that the .government had decided to resume full relations with Italy by recognizing Premier Musso lini's Ethiopian conquest. . -- Foreign Minister George Ben net called Italian Charge d'JLf faires Rena to Prunas to the foreign ministry and asked him to notify his government Fraare had decided to name an ambas sador to " Rome. . I The notification ; was couple?, with. French thanks for Premier Mussolini's part in solution of the German-Czechoslovak crisis. Italian approval of a specific nomination for the post was ex pected to be asked within 24 hours. The French notification te Italy indicated France . was ready to recognize King Vittorio Emaa uele as emperor of Ethiopia. While former Premier Camilla Chautemps read Daladler's decla ration in the senate, the premier, from the rostrum of the lower house, summarized his govern ment's goal as the maintenance of peace by. strengthening the naUon by a general solution of European problems. Defending the Munich dismem berment of Czechoslovakia as an escape from war, the preniieT asserted that the success of the four-power talks was the result above all of the "demonstration of our strength," "Know - all - Frenchmen who desire the safety of France must consider themselves In a state ef permanent mobilization for the service of peace, and the father land," Daladier bluntly informed the chamber of deputies.. September Rains Fall Below! Mean State fair week rains pushed last month's precipitation nenrty half an inch above the September, 1937 mark of .91 Inches, but the 1.38 total for the month was .47 Inch below the mean average. The rains begin September 4. day before the fair opened, with .10 Inch, continued on the fifis, sixth, seventh and eighth with .51, .43, .13 and ,.01 inch, raespec tlvely, and then stopped until the 19th, when .03 was recorded. On the 24th .05 was noted, .03 on the 28th. .0 on the ; 29th and none op the 30th. The heaviest September rain fall on record was 4.84 inches in 1914 and the lightest, .01 in 1922. Pioneer Tomari Dies KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 4 HA ") Mary Ellen Campbell, 71, who Lad lired In Klamath county louper than any . other surviving setUer, died here yesterday. She was born at Canyonville in 1867iand carf here with her parents in 1S73. ote band-; were dancing.