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Europe in Wat The Statesman r- cut be ' Counted on to' brine readers fast news and pictures writ . ten . and photographed at the spot where history is be ing; made. . ' 2 Tne Weather ! Generally fair today and Sunday but occasional cloud and '' fog on coast. Max. Tempi 68, Min. 52. River 34 ft. south wind. poundoo: 1651 .EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Horning, September 2, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 137 War Immieeimt as Ulttimatam Unanswered. :': :-: - - it -" . : : -' : ' ! ' - ;j ' '.; : : ...... " ' ... ' -i- ' ; 1 ' . , " ' i. Silesia US Looks for Coming Today Officials End Drafting of Proclamations to ' Guard Neutrality President -t Believes US Can Stay out and . Will Bend Effort WASHINGTON, Sept. l.-iJP- ExDressine belief! that Great Britain and France would declare war on Germany tomorrow, high officials said tonight that they had finished drafting a. series of proclamations designed to Tre serve United States neutrality. It was made known the govern ment would begin" to issue these proclamations over the weekend if the war declarations are forth coming. President Roosevelt, at a nress conference earlier in the day, had announced his adminis tration would do everything in its power to keep this country out of the conflict He said at that time that de relooments would have to be awaited before decisions were reached on invoking the neutrality act and calling -a -special session of congress. It was made known that the principal element in the developments to which he referred are the declarations of war, now expected tomorrow. ; President Tired : And Shows It Tired, and showing it, after a night spent -wrestling with the tragic realities of actual war, Mr. Roosevelt held a press conferenct today and gravely made bis pledge, to bendeTery effort" to keep America at peace. ' "Mr. President," came a ques tion from about 200 or so report ers, many of them weary and grim as was the chief executive, "per haps the foremost thing in the minds of most Americans today Is: 'Can we stay out of it?' Is there anything you could say about taatf.,"-. - :-" - Mr. Roosevelt thought for a moment, passed a hand across his eyes and replied: W'Only this: I not only sincerely hope so, but I believe we can, and that every effort will be made by the administration to do so." Roosevelt To Talk ' Over Radio Sunday ... The president later arranged to address the nation over the three major broadcasting companies fa culties at p. Pacific standard time, Sunday. Aides said, the talk probably would be informative in character, aimed at allaying any - anxiety. It was intimated It would be an outline of conditions rather than a discussion of positive steps to be taken. . . - The press conference, although It came at mid-morning, was far - along In the president's day. - Be fore three, he was up and receiv- .(Turn to Page 2, Col. 4 - Denmark, Bulgaria To Stay Neutral COPENHAGER, Sept. - l-HP)- Denmark - tonight officially an . xtounced its Intention of maintain in r atrict neutrality J The official statement explained It was based on a die cl a r a 1 1 o n .signed in May, 1938, by Denmark, Finland. Iceland, Norway and Sweden. " - ' The war ministry announced that five classes have been called to the colors, three of which will be sent homo with their uniforms after a ten-day period. , SOFIA, Bulgaria. Sept. 1-iPjr- A government,-spokesman an nounced tonight that Bulgaria was more than ever 1; determined to maintain strict neutrality since the outbreak of German-Polish hostnities. Failure to' Set Declarations I FuHd Charged UCC in Suit Alleged failure -of the state un employment . compensation com mission to set np separate reserve funds for cpntrlbuting employers was attacked yesterday In circuit court with the filing of a man damus action against Secretary of State Earl Snell. ? ' The action, filed by Emmet T. Rogers as the tax reduction and control bureau, is to compel Snell to "show . cause why the reserve fund, provided for in "the original Jobless compensation law, was not set np and why audits have? al legedly not been made. . Snell, whose ; department In cludes the state audit division, is : charged with auditing the unem ployment compensation commis sion books annually and after re tirement of each executive head, the jlalatlff'f petition arerv-- Is C0j$fct' MayBShLeader Frerwh Parliament FIRST PICf " iSv - .V RadioDhoto from Berlin Is the first picture of German troops coins; shows soldiers advancing fa their attacks on the depot, which is on Russia "Relieves to Merkaloff oat; Germany " Wants Russ-Japanese Pact, Soviets Say MOSCOW, Sept. a--Soviet Russia has "relieved" her am bassador to Germany, A. S. Merkaloff, of his duties, It was disclosed today. " A. A. Shkvartzeff waa ap pointed to succeed him. - Merkaloff, who handled much of the important negotiations for the recently-signed non aggression pact between Russia and Germany, was relieved "in connection with his appoint ment to other work." MOSCOW, . Sept. 1.-JPH-many was reported unofficially to night to be making feverish diplo matic efforts to arrange a non- acgression pact between soviet Russia and Japan which are en gaged in an unofficial war on the Manchoukuo-outer Mongolia fron tier. .- i- Immense difficulties obviously lie in. the way of . such an agree ment, but German diplomats were said nevertheless to be trying des perately, to engineer such a pact. On another diplomatic front, in formed sources : said they were skeptical of rumors .from abroad Russia and Germany would enter a military alliance as sequel to , (Turn to Page i, Col. I) . US Communists Okek Russ Pact CHICAGO, Sept l-(55-A reso lutlon approving the soviet-Ger man non-aggression pact . was adonted tonight as a mass meet ing celebrating the 20th anniver sary of the communist party in the United States. - - We : "especially rejoice over signing of the pact, the resolution said. ... 4.7 '' i'H f Earl Browder, general secretary of the party, in an address said the pact was "the only possibility of a decisive blow for peace.",. Up Reserve; Rogers states in his petition that he is a taxpayer. In Multno mah county and that his bureau has been" since January II Jl, a contributing employer, to the unemployment compensation com mission, i C-' ' - The order for writ, of man damus, signed by- Judge L. O. Lewelling, would require Snell to show cause why audits were not made In 1935. 1SS, 1937 isss and from January 1,- 1939, to March 1.' 18 19. K.: when amend ments in the unemployment com pensation law went into effect. The petition also alleges that audits ' should - have been made after retirement of Otto Hartwlg, A. R. Hunter. Roy Buchanan and J. C. Joy as executive heads of the commission. ' - .(Turn to fiie ft rjgl JJ, Envoy Germahy - v J r H r --o i : II I OF POLISH :5S- !J, ' vr'A,rN iHWl fi'i'i 1'ff.Wltwlil.iialiiiiii innffll iinii ii nr I attacK on vtesterpiatte, roiisn munitions aepou the Danzig harbor, had been repulsed, j YsseliTortland9? Disappears Af ter 4 Leaving Everett PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. l-OP- Coast guard amphibian planes searched off the Oregon coast to day for the German motorshlp Portland, unreported- since leav ing Everett, Wash., en route here. The coast guard cutter Ononda- na said the planes covered an area seaward 40 miles west ' of the mouth of the Columbia river to 40 miles southwest of Coos bay, 250 miles to the south. Macksy radio said several calls to the ship went unanswered. - - The Portland sailed Wednes day night from Everett, where it was held three days because of the International crisis. The ship os tensibly was to load lumber and logs here. . j Twenty-three passengers, most ly Californlans, left the vessel in Everett and returned home by ov erland routes. WPA Drops 5000 t SEATTLE, Sept. lv-OPV-State WPA headquarters reported a slash of more than SO 00 in Wash ington rolls today, k L, SPEECH TO ....... . It 13 This radlephoto from Berlin shows. Adolf Hitler, cUd in field gray, to the German Reichstag In Berlin that, sent troops and planes - fitter, Eti! XErii fc fc33 fcfe FIGHTING 1 V hi 'oof 41' ' 1 1 4 '-.if .J "3 Into battle against Pound ana Poles said initial Stays out Unless Attacked "Any Initiative" out of Government Plans; People Relieved ROME, Sept. l.-0P)-The Italian government declared today it would refrain from taking "any initiative" in military operations growing out of the German-Polish hostilities. The announcement, issued after a brief cabinet -meeting called by Premier Mussolini, was inter preted in foreign circles as mean ing that Italy intended to stay out of war until her own territory was attacked. ; Announcement of the cabinet's decision relieved Italians, whose hope of avoiding conflict had dwindled with the outbreak of fighting between Germany and Poland. They had taken some comfort earlier from Chancellor Hitler's declaration that he did not Intend calling on Italy for aid. . I .. The official communique said the cabinet had examined the Polish situation, "the origin of PLUNGE EUROPE IN WAR . . , -. -i ,i ..... , I . .- : ... :i A. V Warsaw Takes - Large Number Of 4Air Eggs' 17 Towns Held Bombed; Nazi Ships Driven off, Many Lost Polish Report Capture of Armored Trains in Corridor Area j WARSAW, Sept. l.-()-(Vla Budapest) -Battles between Ger man and Polish troops raged un abated tonight in Polish border areas, a general staff communi que said. The most violent fighting was reported from Silesia, one of the three main sectors in which Ger many launched its Invasion of Po land early today to begin her un declared war. I The general staff said 16 Ger man warplanes were shot down and that nazi fliers had bombed 17 Polish cities, including War saw. Two Polish planes were lost. i Casualties had not been deter mined. . Huge, high-flying bombers dropped large, cargoes of explo sives in the Warsaw area close on the heels of similar raids on sum erons smaller cities. The land at tacks, official : advices said, were in these, main sectors: First, from East Prussia against Dsialdowo and Mlawa; second, from Pomeranla against Chojnice at the narrowest part of the dis puted corridor; and third, from Breslau against Katowice. The nasi air raiders succeeded in getting over Warsaw after they had been balked in four earlier at tempts...- ; H - j German Armored Trains Captured j The first communique from the Polish general staff stated Polish troops gained possession Of two German armored trains. It said ; (Turn to Page 2, Col.! 7) Ribbentrbp Given Note Upon Speech LONDON. Sept. 1-JP Passed by British censorship )-It was learned authoritatively I tonight that British Ambassador Sir Nev lle Henderson 1 had called , on Ger man Foreign ; Minister Joachim von Rlbbentrop in Berlin and handed mm a communication on Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech to parliament today. i Foreign office sources said von Rlbbentrop told Henderson that he must refer the communication to Adolf Hitler. (Chamberlain said in his speech that Britain would fulfill her pledge to fight for Poland's inde pendence unless Germany ceased her Invasion of Poland and with drew her troops.) 1 as he made his momentous address against Poland, with threat that : :rrT .'v:v:-;-:v.:-V'.v,;:--l j.-r v f-C:'"-' V i -, ,;" it, - s f ? " ' w 'if .-nidbL WDf STON CHURCHILL LONDON, Sept. S-( Saturday)- (Passed through British cen Borship) The British lrcss as sociation said today "there is a strong impression in political circles that Mr. Winston Churchill will join the govern ment shortly." It added: "3Ir. (Anthony) Eden's return is not regarded as so probable." Britain Gives rinai warning Halt of Polish Battle by Germany Is Held as Only Hope By J. C. STARK LONDON, Sept. 2.-( Saturday) -JPfi. Passed through British censorship) Great Britain and France have given Germany her final warning and the British press today, virtually with on$ voice, accepted war as lnevitaDie, The press charged the respon sibility to the ambitions of Adolf Hitler. i Both Britain and France were in full readiness to go to war in defense of Poland. The only hope of escape was for Germany to cease her aggres slon and withdraw her armies from Polish soil. France stood fully beside her partner in the defense pledges to (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Fliers Concerned, Will Head South Japanese Resuming World Flight Today, Going to Oakland, Calif. SEATTLE, Sept. l.-(flVThe Japanese good-will fliers ex pressed concern today over the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, but, after a day's rest following their 5000-mile four-hop trip from Tokyo, planned to : resume their world flight tomorrow to Oakland, Calif. Led by Takeo Ohara, the Jap anese ' people s envoy" on the flight, the party of eight visited Mayor Arthur B. Langtie to pay their respeets In the forenoon, and were guests at a luncheon and a banquet tonight. - H Qhara disclosed the fliers were (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) . Postal Business Growth May Add Carrier Foreman .' - ' j . With receipts of the Salem post office mounting well above the $300,000 mark, an addition to the local staff is soon to be announced according to H. R. Crawford. The federal government allows the po sition of . foreman In charge of carriers, to be filled If the receipts go above $390,008 a year. There has been a rapid growth in the volume of business handlel by the Salem office, the increase being approximately 60 per cent since 1134. The receipts "were $111,745 in 193&V $296,133 In 1034, 1326,882 In 1137, and 167,- 667 in 1188.'.. v :.U- ' In 1100 receipts were only $17,- 337.83; corresponding figures for ltlO were $68,731. Gross collec tion reached $114,133 In 1920 and $242,713 In 190. : ' Sports CHICO, Calif., Sept 1. (Special) Pade-Barriek girls softball team from Salem, Ore., defeated Chico girls; to X 'tonight, .It was the fifth straight rictory for the Oregonlans on fheir south ern barnstorming trip,- and ' their 30th straight win; Kurls ac counted for several runs with her two circuit clout, ic -, ! '- " Chico- jjr i Pade-Barrick 1 t ,1 - f , 1 1 Duncan and Johnson r Morgan. To Give Go Word; Army Waits Signal Powerful Fighting Forces Lined up; Inteirest in Diplomatic Effort to Avert War Spread Wanes - " - 5". Paris Citizens Leave; State of Siege Proclaimed Througliout Nation; Non-City Bombing Agreed PARIS, Sept. 2. (Saturday) (AP) Authoritative French, sources said today that parliament would decide unan imously to support Poland by making war on Germany. A French-British ultimatum delivered in Germany and demanding the immediate withdrawal of German troops now invading Poland went. unanswered. (This dispatch was filed from Paris at 5:55 a. m., Paris time 11:55 p. m., Friday. EST.) ; France's powerful fighting forces, "strengthened by gen eral mobilization, tonight were prepared to go to the aid of her Polish ally in war against Germany. They awaited only the word to move. Officially,. the first day of French general mobilization dates from midnight tonight. Actually, it has been in effect several days. A state of siege ' was proclaimed today throughout France. But the fact is the army,! navy and air force have been in control of everything necessary for days in a smooth, orderly change-over from normal control by civil author!-1 ties. , In official Paris interest waned, in diplomatic efforts to keep peace or find a settlement in view of the German inva sion of Poland. The Germany embassy staff apparently had nor doubts about French action on the morrow. They packed to be ready to go as soon as they learn from Berlin whether they have a . reply to deliver to the French ultimatum or whether it sim ply will be ignored. Paris' balloon barrage was up today. Parisians who took a last lopkat the Eiffel tower, asihey left the city before sun dpwri saw saiisage balldoris spaced around the capital swing ing their cables. They were. up so high they looked like tiny children's toy balloons. In spite of the situation on the German-Polish border, however, the Daladier government found, time to agree "in principle" to a final Italian mediation proposal. French observers, however, considered both the offer and the acceptance as little more than gestures. President Roosevelt's message on outlawing the bdmbing . of civil populations was well received in France. The main worry of most Frenchmen marching off to their posts wasi the safety of those at home. . 1 The French government told the American president that "orders already have been given the commander-in-chief ' of all French forces" to avoid bombardment of civilian popu lations. It declared the orders were to ''limit aerial bombard ment strictly to military objectives." This, however, was significantly added: "It goes without saying that the French government re serves any action it considers appropriate if its - adversary fails to observe the restrictions which the French government itself has placed on the operations of its aerial forces." Where France will strike if war comes- remained a se cret with tight-lipped Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gam-' elin. ' ... Q ' There was no doubt,, howerer. .... , i I mtier yuoteti as Psychopathic Case ; LOS ANGELES, Sept. l-ff)-Halting a psychopathic hearing today, Superior Judge Ben Lindsey told the. crowded court room: 'This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world." " - f Whereupon he toned his of-, flee I radio to a re-broadcast of .Adolf Hitler's speech. .. Thirty minutes later he turn ed off the 'radio and resumed consideration of a score of psy chopath! cases. - Ag Chief Advises Farmers Not to Expand Production WASHINGTON. SepL lflV Secretary Wallace urged American fanners tonight not to ''OTer-ex-pandf the ' nation's .agricultural production in the hope of higher prices and enlarged markets which' might result front the Eu ropean conflict.-' . r- V In an appeal broadcast nation ally after: a White Bouse confer ence, the! secretary told farmers that because of present . "Urge" domestic supplies . at most f arnfl commodities, there was no need tor, an immediate expansion in production. .? .: i- "The production of large Quan tities . of agricultural commodities for which; there is on satisfactory market could prore just as demor alizing in wartime as in peace time," he paid.-f ';: "I i urge American farmers ta proceed with -their ? (1140) pro duction plan as if the outbreak In Europe hid not occurred." The major portion of the nation's wheat erop for next year will be sown within the next six weeks. ' : The secretary's appeal came aft er wheat prices shot np as. much i 7 cents a bushel on domestic markets. - i', . J:. - .: The secretary assured bis listen ed tut ta agriculture depart that by the time France did strike. her land army, long rated by neu tral; obserrers as the finest in the world, would contain far more than 8,000,000 men a figure published. in Paris newspapers as' the : approximate strength before general mobilization. - uYemuauy, witn general mo bilization completed, that number will; be more than 8,000,000 well trained, well-equipped men whose places in the giant military ma . chine long hare, been determined. Much of the smoothness of the current change from ciril to mili tary life comes from corrections -made by General Gameiin follow-v ingi last September's "rehearsal (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) ment was prepared to invoke pro- " Tislons of the crop control law and the commodity exchange 'act , to protect "producers and the pub- : lie from excessive market fluctu ation and. harmful speculation.';.' Wallace said it was only naturV al that some farmers, remember ing high, prices of world war days, may he considering whether toex-, pand their acreages ot wheat and ; other crops, i . --j J "I would remind 1 them b said, "that the average prices C; wheat, corn.': hosa and beef were ; lower a . year after the World war -started than .they Were in 1114. ' He added that "the very -ma- i chinery. which farmers have used ; to adjust production to decrease ; demand in peace-time can be used in war-time to increase production i if and when that becomes advis able." . . r-:,4-,ij The secretary told the farmers that the "primary effort ot the de-. pertinent of agriculture, together with all other branches ot the ad ministration, will be to keep this country out of war. Secondary to that will be the efforts to protect ! American farmers and consumer! as fully as possible against the ef fect ot war abroad i - . A'