! "i ' - ' . ..... ; j x 1 r I : Now or Never Registration for the No . reniber election closes at 8 ' i lock tonight, Mr. Voter.' It's your last chance to -register. The Weather Cloudy today and Sunday, - bo change in temperature. Max. Temp. FrL 64, Min. 41. - Hirer -3-3 feet. South wind. POUNDQD ; I6S1 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 8, 1938 Price 3ej Newsstands 5c v NoJ167 Anti-Spy Plans Considered by Mr. Roosevelt Resigns Position , As Commissioner German Troops March Into 5th Zone 'uits O 9 Job on Water j Board of City r i Hungarian Talks to Commence Sunday Oo. vry if X J: II ...... . ' : ' " itickmany Coordination of - Actions to Thwart Espionage : Is Hinted ' Officials State Foreign Spies After, Defense ' Secrets HYDE PARK, NY, Oct. 7Htf) An increase in foreign spying In the United States in thelast ten years. President Roosevelt said today, '. has led him to consider coordination of counter-espionage activities of various federal investigating agencies. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed at his press conference he was giving serious "consideration to possible improvements in methods of thwarting naval and military espionage in this country. He added that while foreign Bpying may not now be on the increase, it had grown substantially the Uast 10 years Coordinating Bureau Talked One possible approach to the problem, he asserted, might be the creation of nesr administra tive machinery to coordinate to vestigation3 by the military and naval intelligence services, the federal bureau of investigation and various treasury agencies. - At present, he Mid, all of these are responsible Jpr some measure of protection against spies. ---. The president, - chatting with reporters in his study at the summer White House, made it clear he considered military and naval spying as a question en tirely separate from foreign ef- fnrta tt Hiseomlnata rtrrkva vaYifta in this country. While the gov ernment has the responsibility of protecting the nation against military and naval spies, he said, there is no reason for it to set up a huge anti-propaganda ma chine. Aliens Employed In Army Posts In response to Questions; the president said one part of the spy 'problem might be the fact that aliens are employed in some army and navy 'posts. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. Rep. Dies (D-Tex) urged Presi dent Roosevelt today to recom mend legislation outlawing "any organization which Is under the control of a foreign govern ment." "There are several hundred or ganizations in this country that are under the influence of Soviet Russia, Italy and Germany," said a statement by the 'representa tive, : who is chairman of the house committee on unAmerican activities. Dies said he was gratified that President Roosevelt was consid ering Improved methods of thwarting foreign spies. 'He urged also that the presi dent back a proposed bill re quiring organizations, which are disseminating foreign "isms' to make an accounting of their funds' and contributions. This, he said, would keep "many good people from joining the organ izations and being, used as dupes." Officials Second Executive's Remarks President Roosevelt's remarks at Hyde Park today were second- ed by officials here, who said foreign spies have been trying hard to get details of the new j American defense program. : "This country has a superior brand of armament in certain j lines," one official said, "and it J Is only natural foreign govern I ments are most anxious to. know i what wo have, and that we are i equally anxious to 'protect our . Eecrets." -l '- i. . It is known that Innovations in armament, machinery, fire con trol and communication are be ing Incorporated in the - huge ship-building program now under way. The navy has 75 new ships building. Treaty Proclaimed WASHINGTON,. Oct. 7 President Roosevelt has ' pro claimed a treaty of friendship, commerce and' navigation be tween the United States and Siam. It was signed at Bankkok November 13, 1937. .. tt7 rr uGMi-UU- LIQUOR AGENT'.S WOES Charles S. Kerr, state liquor agency operator at St. Paul, went to bed Thursday night hoping to forget the problems of running a liquor store but three thirsty cus tomers wouldn't let him . sleep, he reported to state police yester day. . 'C The trio pounded on his door at, 10:10 p.m. and demanded he ' go back down town and sell them a bottle to quench their ' thirst. When he refused they broke the glass out of his front door with the bottle he had set out for the milk man and yanked down the porch light, fixture and all. - State Police Sergeant Farley Mogan reported the three had been identified by one of their . number, a young St. Paul man, but no. charge has been filed against them. . "" , J.i M. RICKMAN Harvard Students Beat Legion Sons Students Attempt to End Legion Parade Near Harvard Yard CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Oct. 7. (JT)An attack by Harvard fresh men on aa American Legion jun ior band composed of youngsters from 8 to 16 years old, brought official condemnation today and a suggestion from - Mayor John Lyons that his youth commission studying I juvenile delinquency broaden its scope to include the Harvard yard. Four students were arrested in conection j with the attempts last eight to break up a Legion pa rade in (tbe university city and were ordered to appear in court Oct. 18 on charges -of interrupt ing and disturbing a public as sembly.' 1 j . ' .' r I The Harvard dean. A." C. Han ford, in a' statement said the mat ter '"is - being caref ally 'investi gated by i the university, with a view to taking J disciplinary : ac ton." He asserted that no com plaint or , statement as to what actually tooS place had been lodged with the college author ities by the police or members of the legion. "I have personally conveyed my regrets for the incident to the commander of the Cambridge post of the American Legion," Hanford said. I Two Auto Plants Shut by Workers CIO Unionists Demanding 32-Hour Week; 15,000 Men Are Idle DETROIT, Oct. 7.-P)-The CIO United Automobile Workers' de mand for a 32-hour week in the automobile industry resulted to day in shutdown of two large plants here, throwing approxi mately 16,000 men into Idleness. The main plant of the Plymouth Motor Corp., a Chrysler division, closed when more than 3,000 men refused to report for the day shift. The men massed around the plant gates, joining nearly 3,000 night shift workers in what police said was a peaceful demonstra tion. ; . A few hoars later the , Briggs Manufacturing company's Mack avenue plant, which supplies Ply mouth bodies, was closed - until Plymouth resumes operations. It employs approximately 9,000 men. - i The UAW Briggs local tele graphed a protest of the shutdown to the union's international execu tive board, meeting at Washing ton. The local asked that the 32 hour week demand be given "more serious consideration." Emil Mazey, president of the Briggs local, s a i d its members were "unalterably opposed" to the short week, unless they were given "40-hour wages ; Scientists Determine Safe And Sober A BOSTON, Oct 7-JPi-To keep sober, check up on your' milli grams .:. . . Three Yale scientists today dis closed the quantities of alcohol in the form of whisky highballs, gin cocktails and beer that could be Imbibed before alcoholic concen tration 1 , in the : blood stream reached a dividing line they pro pose between strict sobriety and "under, the influence." One (count it) whisky high ball; ; or one (count that, too) Martini cocktail; or one to one and one-half quarts of beer may. be taken, (on an empty stom ach) without the concentration of alcohol in the blood exceeding .05 milligram per. cubic ceritlmeter. Reporting td The New Englaad Journal of Medicine, Physiologists Commissioner Outside Ci' ts,; i . ..it- O f - - , ; 1 j ' solution 0 de Rule; . Act r , 't :. Puts Thro Def inin The Salem wter commission last night accepted ' "with re grets" the resignation of J. M. Rickman, who would have com pleted a ' four-year term' as com missioner December 31. Rick man explained that he was mov ing outside the city, to his farm near Liberty, next week. j Rickman's last act on the com mission was to put through a resolution defining water depart ment policy as to Water service to outside the city consumers. Adopted after efforts by Com missioners Olson and Graben horst to modify it had failed, the resolution provided, in ; part, as follows: ii j ; That the department should not build, own or maintain mains or -service outside the city except mains now owned by the city by virtue of purchase from the Oregon- Washington Water; Service company. j i : That outside service be subject to disconnection in caseof a wa ter shortage. N ; That the commission may or may not take over mains in ter ritory annexed to the city in, the future. ( ' ; i That responsibility of outside groups, corporations and towns for water bills be fixed and cen tralized. That individuals and cooper atives maintaining outside water systems cooperate reasonably with others in securing city wa ter. That each application for out side service be acted on upon Its merits. The extensions of mains in side the city to furnish service outside be laid only in case the return to the commission will be at least 12 per cent a year on Its investment. Grabenhorst and Olson object ed to the paragraphs concerning taking over outside systems . and regard to other contracts but considering applications without were voted down by Commission ers Rickman, Doughton and Gab riel. . ; : : H The commission, will notify the city council of the vacancy be fore the latter body's meeting October 17. Belief was indicat ed the council would appoint Van Wleder, who was elected last spring to the commissioneTship term beginning next January ; 1. Nelson Is Granted Time for Petition COQU1LLE, Ore., Oct. 7.-(JPj Circuit Judge J. T. Brand today granted Henry Stanley Nelson, sentenced Monday at Toledo to nine year3 in prison on a man slaughter conviction for the fatal shooting of -Richard " Earle, : 30 days in which to petition ; for a new trial. ' " i Robert Bowersox, member of an Idaho trio charged with robbing Otto Shindler, Bandon druggist, of $240 and bis automobile, pleaded guilty to robbery with ag gravation and was sentenced: to an indeterminate term with a maximum of 20 years. James Wayne, arrested with Bowersox, pleaded guilty but sentence was deferred, i Rosser Remains In County Gaol ' DALLAS, Ore., Oct." 7-(JP)--Albert E. Rosser, ex-AFL Teamster chief of Oregon who. is under a 12-year sentence for; participa tion in the West Salem box fac tory fire, was still a patient un der guard in the Dallas hospital today. ' . i ' He has been granted until Nov. 15 to file a bill of exceptions and an aditional 10 days to file a bill of exceptions preparatory for an appeal. He was tried and convicted here during the sum mer ' . '. - . ' Icohol Amounts Howard W. Haggar, MD, Leon A. Greenberg, PhD, and Louis H. Cohen, BA, said they chose that criterion because it was the value "below which all men are reason ably sober," and not the value (1.5 mg) "at which the majority are just on the verge of serious intoxication." ; -'i-.; .r. !;" f - Between these two poles : (pre sumably because Joe Dokes . can hold his likker with more grace than his brother, Pete) comes the big headache for police and courts in determining who is "under the influence." ! - If the .05 mg arbitrary line were adopted, the scientists held, it "would enable the courts to put the burden - where it ; belongs. It would rest, not on the physician, but on the motorist and the pe destrian." : . . . . : i . New Minister To Head Czech Body at Thought Some Hungarian Demands Met Already ; hy Prague Foreign Minister Kanya and Count Teleky Top Hungarians BUDAPEST, Oct. 7 - VP) - The Hungarian foreign office an nounced tonight that negotiations for settlement of Hungary's ter ritorial and minority claims against Czechoslovakia would start Sunday at Komarom, on the Hungarian-Czechslovak bor der. Officials of the Czechslovak le gation said the Prague delegation would be headed by Dr. Joseph Tisot, prime minister oT" newly autonomous Slovakia. Hungary's claims - affect primarily the Slo vak part of the diminished re public. (At Zilana, Czechslovakia, the new siovaK prime mimsier de clared his administration, above all, would work to maintain ter ritorial Integrity. Slovaks were counseled to create no pretext for foreign intervention.) Come .Concessions Thought Given " f , It was believed in diplomatic circles that Prague already had granted certain concessions to Hungary whereby Hungarian forces would . occupy two border towns "symbolically" before ne- gotlations start Sunday.; The Hungarian delegation will be headed by Foreign I Minister Koloman Von Kanya and. Interior Minister Count Paul Teleky. The word which opened the way for the conference was said to have come from Prague as the Hungarian - cabinet council . dis cussed ultimatelve measupes to be taken if Prague delayed the talks further. The conversations were to have started yesterday after one postponement.' Diplomatic quarters said the cabinet council' would have de manded unconditional return of Hungarian minority districts by next Tuesday and might have asked for a plebiscite In Ruthenla with the expectation that Ruthe- nians would join Hungary, estab lishing a Polish-Hungarian fron tier. Changkufeng Hill Bears Red Banner PEIPING, China, Oct. 7.-Pl- Foreign travelers arriving today from northern Korea reported the soviet flag was flying atop Chang kufeng hill, where Russian and Japanese forces battled during the summer over the disputed frontier between eastern Siberia and Japanese-supported Manchoukuo. A truce which ended the month- long hostilities on Aug. 10 left the Japanese occupying most of the disputed area, but it was stated they withdrew west of the Tumen river during the September floods which caused the death of about 1,000 Korean peasants. The Russians were believed to have occupied the area in the meantime. Japanese military authorities at Hsinking, capital of Manchou kuo, were said to believe that soviet trucking activity seen east of Chanrkufenx might indicate the Russians were again fortifying the hill. It was understood, how ever, that no official statement had been made in Hsinking. Bids for Forest , ! Removal Sought BEND, Ore., Oct. 7.-(JP)-Blds for removal of all merchantable timber embraced in forest service lands of the upper Deschutes basin, which will be flooded by the Wlkiup reservoir, were called by federal officials today. i They estimated more than 16,- 000,000 board feet were included. The reservoir will Hood 100,000 acres, all of which must be cleared of timber and brush. TACOMA, Oct. 7 Inter cepted passes led to both College of Puget Sound touchdowns here tonight as the Loggers defeated Whitman college, 15 to 0, In a northwest conference football game. " " Puget So and scored touch downs in the first and second quarters and added a final two points on a safety with three minutes to go in the final per iod. - V:'- GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Oct. 7- F) The University of Oregon Freshman ' football team opened Its season here tonight with a 26 to 13 victory over Southern Oregon Normal school. Late Sports SUDETEN VILLAGERS WELCOME GERMANS : :-.cr-v ciof iv:- (is -tv Preceding Fuehrer Adolf Hitler himself Into the Sudctcnland, German troops are shown . being wel comed by the villagers at Glockelberg, as the Nazis take over the Czech Sudeten zones. Hitler made m. triumphant entry into Eger. This is radiophoto from Germany. - " 7 hree A rrested Charged With Making Car 7 arget Automobile ! Stolen, Riddled With Slugs, Burned and Dumped; Into Willamette River : Near St, Paul Log Dump Discovery of . a bullet-riddled, burned automobile in the Willamette river at a log dump near St. Paul yesterday re sulted in the arrest of three jowAfC men on charges of grand larceny, preferred by Arthur VanDamme, St. Paul, the owner. . . '.. . ' ; . . - ' The three were Orden Roule Wilson, 21, Newberg; Pat rick McCarthy, 25, St. Paul, andO Edward Milton Smidt, 24, River side farm, near St. Paul. McCarthy,-whom Sergeant Far ley Mogan of the state police said admitted complicity in the theft and destruction of the car, was bound over to the grand jury fol lowing a preliminary hearing in Woodburn 'justice court.. Wilson and Smidt will appear there to day. - - : Police at first suspected foul play and began sifting ashes taken from the car before McCarthy was arrested and his7 story heard. Mogan quoted McCarthy as staying the trio found the Van Damme carta light, 1930 sedan, parked at an orchard near St. Paul Thursday night and drove it to thelog dump,, near Horse shoe park. They went home after a .38 calibre pistol, a .22 rifle and a shotgun, returned and used the machine as a target until it was thoroughly riddled, then set fire to it, Mogan said McCarthy told him. Street Predicts Broad Recovery NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-P)-Some high circles In Wall street tody predicted a broad economic re covery in the United States, bas ing their 'expectation largely on the opinion the federal govern ment was about to intensify Its recovery program as it affects heavy industry. ; i ! " In this sources,' it was said re cent discussions between business leaders and administration offic ials in Washington had developed a gigantic tentative plan to stimu late spending by the electric pow er companies as tfart of a national defense measure, and serious con sideration of measures to facili tate - heavy equipment purchases by the railroads. ' This viewpoint was brought out in a canvass of nearly a score of financial and industrial leaders and Wall street economists, who were asked , to give ' their candid, of f-the-record views of the busi ness outlook, now that the dis turbing influence of European in ternational tension has subsided. Funeral Js Today ' For War ,Motiier BEND, Ore., Oct. 7.-P)-Fu-neral services will be held tomor row for Mrs. Laura P. Stevens, TO, World war gold star mother, for whose son, Percy A. Stevens, the Bend American Legion . post was named. .' - ', ; f ' . ".: ... -Stevens lost his life when the British troop ship Tnseanla, loaded with American soldiers, was torpedoed in 1918. .' . Mrs. Stevens died of complica tions from a -broken hip. Two (daughters survive. j t-" f -V1 " " ..yi 1 i 7 . e-r ( Japanese Shelling Hankow Railroad Forces Within Ten Miles of Strategic Railway ; to Northwest! HANKOW, Oct. 7.-(P)-Offi-cial Chinese communiques 'to night said Japanese forces were within 10. miles of the Hankow Peiping railway 100 miles north of Hankow and within 50 miles of the Canton-Hankow line 60 miles south of this military cap ital. ' Reliable sources reported Jap anese artillery already had dropped shells on the Peiping Hankow roadbed, breaking Han kow's rail connection. with north west China. i : The Japanese were said not to have made any new gains along the Yangtze river approach jto Hankow but there were reports that two fresh Japanese divisions were moving up to strengthen Yangtze forces depleted by re cent fighting. . -. ; The United States consulate general was informed that the American Methodist mission mis sion hospital at Nanchang was damaged ' in an aerial bombard ment yesterday but there were no American casualties. - Coot Bay Lumber Plant Closes, 300 Lose Jobs ". MARSHFIELD, Oct. 7.-(P)-The Jobs of 300 men disappeared to night as the Coos Bay Lumber company suspended cutting until sales reduced inventories , . A regional labor dispute was settled yesterday when' the Daniels Creek, Logging .company on Coos river informed employes it had cancelled a proposed 10 per cent wage reduction and the crew ended a one-day strike. - ' Lavodie Sentenced to Serve Tico Years After Guilty Plea Frank Lavodie, Portland burg lar whom Eugen Manock, IS, and several - companions subdued at Aurora ; September 16, pleaded guilty in circuit court yesterday end was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary Young Manock, from an apart ment . above his parents drug store, heard Lavodie bfeak into the room below, rushed down and grappled with him. Lavodie fled but later-was caught by Manock and his friends nd held for police. - Five other criminal cases came before Judge L. H. McMahan yes terday' -and were disposed of as follow:-'--'.';;.- .- " ' Joe Williams, . 17$ v pleaded guilty to burglarizing the Roy Fu kuda store at Labish July 18, sen 1 4 " T Italian Deputies Abolished by Fiat Chamber of Fasces, Guilds to ' Replace Chamber ' of Deputies - ROME, Oct. 8-(Saturday)-() The fascist . grand council early today decreed abolition' of the Italian chamber of deputies and establishment in its . place xr a new chamber of fasces and guilds. ; In a Btep long promised by Pre mier Mussolini, the chamber of deputies, already shorn of vir tually all power, will cease to exist at the end of its present Bession. Henceforth legislation will be enacted by the Italian senate and a new lower house composed of representatives of fascist party units each unit . known as a fascio and of the guilds and corporations into which ' com merce, labor, industry and the professions have been united by the totalitarian regime. The fascist party and guild rep resentations are to be com nosed of the members of tfieir two nation al councils. II Duce and the fascist grand council, which ended a midnight meeting with announcement of the new legislative set-up, also are to be members of the chamber, Minimum age limit for mem bers is to be 25 years. The grand council, fascism's su preme policy-making body, is to meet again tonight for considera tion of international affairs. .:' Union Heads Meet To Mull Proposal PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 7-CP)-Furniture and Upholsterer Work ers union chiefs will meet to morrow to study a. wage and hour proposal submitted by the Doernbecher Furniture company in an effort to end. the plant .shutdown and return about 1100 -workers to their jobs. -- Any. accord at -Doerobecher's, it was asserted, might settle dif ficulties at the B. J7 John plant. Both plants i have been closed since the first of the week. " Howard D. Chastain, vice-pres ident and general manager of Doernbecher's, issued a state ment in which he said the com pany felt it was necessary to ad just the wage scale decause it was paying 'above the majority of our competitors." tenced" to one year In the pen! tentiary, and paroled on condition "he stop using liquor. . Frank Conroy; pleaded cuflty. sentenced to six months in jail for having threatened to kill David S. Bucklln August. 28. , ? Roy and . Harley Charpilloz; pleaded guilty, cases,; continued until today for sentence for lar ceny of livestock September 5 be longing to Clay Porter. : Ernest Leonard Chapman; pleaded guilty to larceny by .bailee August 27 of truck belonging to Ray Botsford, case continued to January term ! and Chapman re leased on his: own recognizance. Ronald Gif ford; pleaded inno cent, charge of "larceny of cornet belonging to Carl Stamey October 4 at SUvertonj case continued. Hitler Angered - - v i When Bouquet Scratches Him Orders Ban all Flowers on Route of Parades in Future Germany win nave rutli" T" TTT 11 TTT 1 sn m m of Czechoslovakia by Monday ! (By the Associated Press) BERLIN, Oct. 7.-JP-Germans estimated tonight that by: Oct. 10 Germany will have annexed near ly -one-fifth of Czechoslovakia. Reichsfuehrex Hitler (himself toured his new territory and was scratched on the face by rose thorns when struck by a bouquet thrown by an admirer. i .Authorities immediately banned all flower-throwing in the future and even small bouquets in the hands of spectators along his line of march must be seized.! Army to March i ' i - Into Fifth Zone 1 The army prepared to advance tomorrow into the. fifth rone de limited by tb.9 international com mission in .Berlin. German troors today pushed to complete: occupa tion of. the last of the four Sn- detenland cones delineated in the Munich four-power conference. When the fifth tone is becupied completely by Oct. 10, the best available figures Indicated Ger many will have annexed 11,560 square miles an area nearly the size of the state of Maryland. Post-war Czechoslovakia I had an area of 54,244 square miles. There were no official estimates but the nazl press and.j in par ticular, the economic section of the Industrialist Deutsche Ail Gemelne Zeitung compared the size of the territory to that of the Prussian province of Saxony---11,500 square miles. ! Hitler suffered the first mishap in, his series of four triumphant tours of Sudetenland in the flower-throwing incident) which eccurred at Jaegerndorf, in the fourth rone of military; occupa tion. Although medical attention was not needed for the scratches on his face, the accident caused a stir in nazi officialdom. i Nazi party leaders will be held personally responsible for seeing that the ban on flowerjs in tbe future is carried out. f i Hitler was treated to another day of ovation today in his tour. He was accompanied by his right hand man. Field Marshal Her mann Wilhelm Goering. ) . Tomorrow the fuehrer will nd his first Sudetenland visit and on Sunday he will opea a new theater in Saarbruecken, : in . the Saar valley. Government circles said he may make an "important . pronounce ment"" on French-German rela tions then. In a brief talk today in the Ajeferndorf market place Hitler declared that, when the rest cf Sudetenland stood under the swas tika on Oct. 10, the territory would be forever free and . irre vocably a reichsgau (district) of the German nation. j . -i Clerk Keeping Open Late for Registration County Clerk U. G. Boyer will hold . his office open un- til 8 o'clock tonight for voters who wish to register for tne ro- vember 8 general city, county f and state elections. At that hour the. registration books will be t 'closed until after the election. 1 In answer to many inquiries , the clerk's staff emphasized . that citizens otherwise qualified must register if they have not 1 voted in the last two years, or fif they have moved from the ; precinct in which they were last registered or, if women, it they have changed their names j by marriage since the; primary election. I f VThe clerk's office) will be iopen continuously from 8 a. m. Jto 8 p. m. today for last -minute registration.- I Battered Salmon Xrrive Metolms BEND, Ore., Oct. 7.-F)-L. V. Hunter, forest service official, said today chinook salmon, badly battered in leaping over biierer falls, had reached the headwaters of the Metolius river, tributary to the Deschutes, this fall. Hunter said the fish were found in the cold stream only a few hun dred yards from its source la a serles.of springs near Sisters. I Lightning Kills' Girl " LONGTON, Kas., Oct.' 7HT) Ellzabeth Ann Penner, 1.2, -was killed late today by a lightning bolt that left a small hole under each of her feet and scattered. her clothing 15 feet,