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ittSlitl News. Breaks The Associated Press : The Weather Partly cloudy today and Thursday, fogs on coast slowly rising temperature and ! decreasing humidity. ' Max. Temp. 72, Mln. 60 River -3.4 ft. NW wind. abled The Statesman to be first ... in this i area .. with : printed word of the Second World War. Alert corre-' . spondents assnre graphic con tinned coverage. 4 - PwUNDOD 1631 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, September 6, 1939 Price Sc; Newsstands 5c No. 140 arsstw Melled Over. 3 7 tis NAZIS NEAR WARSAW 5 runs IS I I I a I - BW I I'Vf I A MJllAl TTD S City- re P I : i . ' i 'Ll Ca ! I1' w RaMiMa Dita JL Neutrality of United States Is Proclaimed - - - J ;-.-.- ? s- .' - !-r- " J . " '" 'Arms Embargo Provision i 'Invoked by President i Who Opposes It - ' Series of Declarations Outlines Conduct of American Gtizen By RICHARD L. TURNER . WASHINGTON, Sept. With an historic stream ot proc lamations and significant but in formal statements, President Roosevelt told the world of Am erica's neutrality today, clamped down the neutrality act's tight em bargo on arms shipments to the belligerents and disclosed that: Gaps In the national defense are soon to be filled by Increasing the personnel of the nary, now at only 85 per cent of peace time strength, and augmenting the defensive garrison at the Panama Canal. A flotilla of World war destroy ers will be' reconditioned and re- commissioned to take up the dra matic task ot patrolling American territorial waters. Measures will be taken to com bat propaganda aimed at the Am erican form of government, - es pousing communism, dictatorship and the like; and to prevent the United States from becoming a center for the gathering of infor mation useful to the belligerents. Three Proclamations Made by President . In all, there were three procla mations, the first, in accordance with International law, notifying the interested nations that Amer ica would be officially neutral, the , second invoking the arm, ban of the neutrality law, andj&e third dealing with protective measures at the Panama Canal. "But the president had a press conference, too; and, seated at his desk opposite a Ms map of Poland, on which, brown; and black lines showed the progress of the fight ing there, he outlined the addi tional things which the adminis tration has in mind, and comment ed on various aspects of the war situation, as It affects the United : States. - . ' k j- - ! -One thing he made as plain as day: that the embargo automat ically supersedes any orders or contracts for aircraft which American manufacturers may be filling for the naUons at war. There had been some confusion on that point, and the president was explicit. ; ... j He made it clear,' too, that Germany's denial that a nasi sub marine sank the British ' liner Athenla, with many Americans on board, is not yet accepted here. Won't Send Convoys ' For Passenger Ships In addition, the president dis closed that one decision had been . reached. American naval vessels : will not be sent to convoy Amer- lean passenger ships through the submarine zone. Instead,: : the ships will have American flags painted on hull, decks and super structure, will keep to the usual shipping lanes, will not darken ship, will not follow a xlg-sag course, and will make no secret of .their, schedules. :.!,.' In invoking the neutrality act, Mr. Roosevelt gave effect to a law, with which he Is In outright disagreement. He wants the arms embargo removed, so that aU bel ligerents ' will have access to American markets. In practice this would mean that Great Brlt ' ain and her allies could buy here, and that Germany could not. The British fleet would see to that. The president has announced he will call a special session of con gress to revise the law, bnt today fee still left indefinite the, date on which that would be done. Aside from the arms embargo, a regulation issued under the neutrality act forbids Americana after SO days to travel on i belli rereut shins Into ' danger sones as delimited by the state department. The act also forbids i . (Tarn to page z, eoiumn ) Portlanders Entries Take Honors at , The - children's Jumpers event opened' the second night of the . horseshow at V the : state'! fair grounds, with Barbara Russell, on Kitty Hlgglns from the Nicol Rid ing academy of Portland winning first place. - - fyr-S t V X"- The combination . three-galted horse event was won by - Mari posa McDonald from the C Roy Hunt stablea of Portland. Third event la the performance last night was .that: of five-galted mares which was-won by Corin thian's Edna from I R. Banks stables of Portland, Tom Metealt p. -.; --- ' " .'V. Briarwood's Knave, owned and CROWDS 2 if . , Li . .wrr - :ttA - 1 - . ; srt v -t-t ; ' - r : ! ' -J ' .t-'v - J 111" i iiiiiiiiiiMi i nifiiili if th niiiiMi Him i iAiii rfiifcm t i. 4 r. Fair, time packs the state fair grandstand (above) to ee races on LMe Oak track (center). Other thousands visit agricultural and 4H buildings (below, right) and the midway. Toy fire engine (be low canght the fancy of Robert Schmidt, small son of L. H. Schmidt, Corrallia. Salem Has At State Officials Hope big Attractions Will Draw Many to Set up new Attendance Records; Business of City Suspends V By PAUE H. HAUSER, JR. Salem shuts up shop today and goes to the fair and fair officials are not hiding the news that they hope the Salem day crowds will throng through the gates to set another at tendance record. , j Stores and other business houses will shut up tight at noon as Salem treks to the fairgrounds for its traditional day. Banks will be closed alLday. The courthouse alone will be open ' . ; - , Governor Charles A. Sprague. as Salem's and Oregon's No. 1 citizen, will be there and he'll appear in the Lone Oak O Thousands Work On Prune Canning 1939 Pack CeU Started Here as Rain Threat Worries Grower i With cloudy skies threatening damage to the fruit, canning of the 19S9 prune crop got underway here yesterday. Nearly all the can neries that pack prunes started re ceiving yesterday, some doing the first canning with might crews last night and others waiting until to day to start canning. " . : j ! Over 2000 persons are employed in local canneries at the present time, some working in pears and peaches as well as prunes. By the end of the week, when prune can nine Is expected to be , at Its , - (Tarn to page 2, column S) 2nd H6rseshow ridden by Dr. George Saunders was awarded blue, ribbon in the road . hacks event,- and Dean Har vester, owned and driven by Dr. James A. Bradley placed first In the roadsters to bike event count ing toward the f 100 stake offered. - After the huge" Labor. day. au dience that crowded the stadium, last night's handful of watchers looked small, but he San Fran cisco posse drew a good hand, and the - Tennessee walking horses proved popular. The performers offered more thrills than during the first night's program. ' and indications are t for 1 a " speedier show and earlier closing hour for the remaining nights ot the fair, PACK RACES, MIDWAY I I 1 to- Her Day Fair Today grandstand in time for the open ing harness race at 1:10 o'clock. He'll award the trophy in the governor's plate, the eighth and feature race ot the day. The San Francisco Sheriff's Mounted Posse, feature attraction ot the night horse show, will be on hand to salute the governor and bring official greetings from the Golden Gate International Expo sition. Yesterday was Just another Tuesday at the fairgrounds.? At tendance, decreased by overcast skies, was 7121; slightly,' under last year's figure of . 79 S3. Total paid admissions were ISB98. A scattered crowd at the races shoved , bnt 18012 ? through the parl-mutuel windows, bnt saw snappier set of races after Gover nor Sprague's edict that the track events must be speeded up. The All American revue, night feature at the grandstand hailed as the best professional entertain ment ever to appear at the fair (Turn to page z, column Z) Hunters of Boys Are Discourased . j - With six days past since they were last seen, optimism among searchers; for - Bobby Ethell, -8, and Bobby, Hillman, 7, who dis appeared . last ; Thursday after noon, was at a low ebb yesterday, Efforts yesterday to locate the two children In Portland follow ing the statement of a transient here Monday that he had seen one of the boys In Portland " cn Saturday yielded ' no result." In tensive search" along eon nty roads, draining of streams, and careful - Investigation - of all pos sible parts of Salem and its out lying areas' into which 'the c two lads might have "strayed have all likewise proved ; fruitless in the last several days. r-H .fit 44 Dead Is AtheniaToll Survivors Testify Sub Torpedoed Steamer Then Shelled Her LONDON, Sept. S.-6ip)-Forty- four persons were believed today to have lost their lives in the tor pedoing and sinking of the British liner Athenla by what survivors declared was a submarine which shelled the stricken vessel. w :s.IBwttt?:Tewrtf "reeetrediiere and at the United States maritime commission office in New Tork showed 1,374 of the liner's 1,418 passengers and crew were picked up Sunday night in the ocean wastes west of Scotland. There were 811 Americans on the Ath enla. The maritime commission said the American steamship City of Flint had radioed the names of 09 American and 112 alien sur vivors. Previously, the Donaldson line, owners of the Athenla, had listed 500 survivors landed at Galway, Ireland, 497 at Greenock, Scot land, and 150 on the yacht South ern Cross. The Donaldson line had report ed last night that the City of Flint picked up only eight persons. About 200 were said to be In ured and many suffered from ex posure. The survivors ridiculed the Ger man assertion that no German submarine had torpedoed the Ath enla and that the liner must have struck a mine. Captain James Cook, master of the stricken vessel, said that Im mediately after the torpedo was fired the submarine rose to the surface and shelled the Athenla. "One shell carried away the main mast," he said. 'It was evidently aimed at the wireless iroom but missed its mark." I Other officers and. passengers corroborated his statement. Earl Stanhope,' lord president ot the council, .told .the house of lords: "The mere suggestion that a mine had been laid by this coun try is obviously ridiculous and absurd. ! "That part of the sea 4s too deepfor the laying ot a moored mine ana it wouia oe an aosura (Turn to page 2; column i) GERMANS IN Radiophoto from Berlia shows soldiers near small Polish town, v .-- - Anti-Aircraft Guns Open up Upon Invaders No - Damage Reported or "Whether any : Bombs Dropped Appearance of Aerial Visitors Follows Earlier Alarm PARlS, Sept 6-(Wednesday)- (P)-Several airplanes, presumably German, flew over Paris today at 8:14 a.m. (6:14 p.m. PST Tues day) and were fired on by French anti-aircraft batteries. The air raid siren sounded at 1:41 a.m. (4:41 p.m., PST) send ing people Into their cellars for the second successive night. The alarm was lifted at 4:13 a m. (7:18 p.m., PST). Planes crossing the border from Germany ordinarily are allotted half an hour to reach Paris. These planes appeared an hour and a half after the alarm first was giv en. Many had emerged from their refuges, when they heard the hum of the planes and the popping of the French guns. The sky was pierced by flares sent aloft. No Bombs Dropped In City, Belief No explosions were heard in the center of the city. It was not learned immediately whether any bombs had been dropped in the suburbs. Searchlights ringing Paris stab bed the skies. Persons watching for the planes said they were nn- Jable to see them because of their hlghA altitude .but they thought they heard them plainly. The planes approached swiftly from the east, and the sound of their motors as they left faded to ward the west. French guns sent red flares streaking over the city, fired a few shells and then became silent The alarm continued an hour. Many persons who had fled to refuges heard neither the guns nor the planes. This second consecutive night alarm caused most of the populace to leave their beds and spend the night in refuges. Women carrying babies made makeshift cribs in stone-vaulted dungeons beneath old parts of the city. Their hus bands carried bottles Of beer and wine. Paris' air raid signals, sounding like a lot of fire alarms all toge ther were heard via radio at 4:41 p. m. yesterday by many Salem listeners. The Associated Press corres pondent, John Lloyd, had just fin ished telling of his relief at hav ing sent his wife and children out ot Paris, when the mournful sirens Interrupted him. After about two minutes the station went off the air. Both Sides Lose t Ships on Ocean German Sent to Bottom, Cunarder Torpedoed; Planes Pay Call LONDON, .Sept. CHP-(Wednesday) -The British ministry of Information said early today that three German ships "which might have been converted into armed . raiders' had been de- (Turn to page 2, column C) POLAND GREET German inhabitants of Poland rnshing mm m 1 ; . a-"" hi) t Warsaw, beleaguered capital of Poland was being evacuated early to day with the advance guard of reported shellinir the city from shows a military demonstration French Army Reports Pressure Northern Flank Facing Siegfried Line May Be i Attack Scene; French Mull Problem ofj Taking Offensive; South Is Active PARIS, Sept. 6 (AP) army tonight increased the of the German forces along a 100-mile front. Army communique No. 4 tonight said simply: 'Our troops are in contact everywhere along the fron tier between the Rhine and the Moselle. It is recalled that on the Rhine permanent fortifications border the river here and there." This 100-mile frontier, where the French Maginot line faces the nazi Siegfried line at some places a little more than Moral Reaming Code Is Simple Quadripartite Contains all Warring World Needs, Buchraan Says Here By RALPH C. CURTIS Absolute honesty. Absolute purity. Absolute unselfishness. Absolute love. This concise Quadripartite sums up the full meaning of Moral Re armament, that new spiritual movement which has captured the imagination of millions throughout the world and' which was introduced formally to Sa lem on Tuesday. That's all there is to it and that's all the world needs to free itself from fear, hate and greed, from wars and industrial strife. Such was the message brought by Dr. ' Frank N. D. Buehman, founder ot the Oxford group and now world leader ot Moral Re armament, and his co-workers who addressed 100 Intensely In terested persons at a lawn party 4 Tuesday afternoon at : Fircone, country hoiye ot Senator and Mrs. Charles L. McNary north of Sa lem, with Mrs. McNary presiding.' But as., the program was un folded by the Moral -Rearmament "team'! some members of which did not deign, to hide the thought that while they spoke,' loved ones at home faced death from the war engines of Europe, listeners caught the Impression that Moral Rearmament, so simply stated, embodied a revolution ot thought (Turn to page 2, column 8) -, INVADERS out to greet Invading German -v. - Germany's field grey clad soldiers within a few miles. Thls-scene before the war began. Is Put on The left wing of the French pressure on the northern flank -a stone's throw distant, forms the northern flank of the German line. , This German line makes a sharp bend in the vicinity of Karlsrude, Germany, where the French frontier juts out into a point forming the northeastern "corner' of France. The line fol lows the Rhine south to Switzer land. Artillery . Batters Son t hern Defense The main attack Was' to the southward, where the Burgundy Gate passage between Vosges and the Alps leads to the German Black forest. Here apparently was concentrated , an artillery bar rage. : . Describing activities .on the eastern front, Havas, French news agency, credited the Polish tele graph agency with the report that 30 planes had raided Berlin and returned to their bases. Semi-official sources said the French were trying to soften the southern German lines while the northern forces were clearing hills and valleys hear Luxem bourg, before starting any major offensive. Advance pillboxes and machine-gun nests dot the terri tory between the two fortifica tions. At the same time dread aerial warfare, the unknown factor on a major scale in Europes' new war, was started. French planes contin uously were scouting the Siegfried line- and spotting German com munication lines. The German air fleet answered with an early morning reconnais sance flight over the north and east of France which lasted three and a half hours. s The problem which General Maurice Gustavo Gamelln's gener al staff confronts was. In the broadest terms, no secret. It Is one ot delivering' a sufficiently hard blow against Germany In the west to result in effective aid to Poland by forcing the " naxis to withdraw a substantial portion of their forces from the eastern front. i.-'-" w -i v. - Since Hitler has chosen : to re (Turn to page 2, column S) $36,000 Cnf Set as Goal ''sFor: Scdemty A goal of lopping I3S.7CS.27 from. Salem city, budget estimates for 940 was proposed at the ini tial meeting of the citizens' bud get committee last night:: ' The budget presented 1 to the committee would - increase taxes for '1140' by : that amount - over those for . l s 3 9. Alderman David O'Hara told the other members. It cans for a 3s8,97f.2C levy. : - Recalling' that the total proper ty tax levied, this year was 4 mills higher than in 1932, O'Hara sug gested a minimum cut of 125,000 from the estimates, which would still leave the taxpayers with a: 1 mill increase to meet;, he said. "We ought really, to keeplthe tax down where it is now, O'Hara declared, with Immediate approval voiced by E. M. Page, chairman of the committee. ' - ,1 - - Page divided the general com mittee of 14 aldermen, the mayor Site May Be Moved Guns and Planes Destroy Parts of Capital Snligly - Rydz May Quit; Germans Tell Wins BUDAPEST. Sept. 6 (Wednesday) (AP) Diplomatic dispatches from Warsaw- early today , said the German army after a light ning advance from the north was shelling the city. The Polish capital, already evacuated by the Polish, gov ernment and foreign embas sies and legations, was described as partially destroyed under the heavy bombardment. Willie the German forces were reported to be shelling the city heavily, airplanes conducted con tinual raids. The government was said to have fled to Lublin, 25 miles southeast of Warsaw. Unconfirmed reports received here early this morning said Mar shal Edward Smigly-Rydz, head of the Polish army, had offered his resignation to President Ig naee Mosclckl. Diplomatic dispatches said that all Americans already had left Warsaw by the time of the at tack except an official ot the American embassy left behind to protect property of the American government. The diplomatic reports said the Germans early today were less than 50 miles from the capital and moving rapidly through a broken Polish front The dispatches suggested that the Poles, if unable to stem the advance of the nazi troops, would take up positions on the east bank ot the Vistula river, which runs through Warsaw. Rich Industrial Cities Taken, Say BERLIN, Sept. 5-;P)The Ger man high command today an nounced r the capture of the rich Polish industrial cities of Kato wice and Chrozow In a drive to ward Poland's historic ancient capital of Krakow, and- declared "the;foe, partly retreating in dis order, was badly shattered." Capture and retention of the two cities would give Germany control ot the highly important uiuuuiu region oi upper siieaia. . In, addition, the German forces reported they had crushed the en tire seventh Polish army division southeast, of Czestochowa, which was captured two days ago. Germany's air force was Jubil ant OTer ttn anoorteri miilun a Poland's air and over the sound thrashing It elatmeri riri-nr th British royal air force in their first : engagement yesterday. Claim West Front IS Still Quiet On the western front, officials said at ( p.m., not a single shot had been fired by either France or Germany. . The, supreme army command communique which asserted - Pol ish defenses were crumbling largely in disorderly retreat be fore jthe German -advance to the east also announced the British air raid on German naval bases had utterly failed." German confidence - that the reich will be master of its own air, as is claims that of Poland, In creased with an official announce ment that the British lost 12 oat ot 20 planes which flew over northwestern Germany' just fee fere l dusk last night (including the. Wllhelmshaven and Cuxhavea raiders), v ---.--:,;) - The : announcement - said, . "Na damage whatsoever was inflicted by - the British.,' (Britain aa (Turn to page 2, column 7) . and IS citizens Into seven subcom mittees to study the department estimates and report back on Sep tember 15. The subcommittee ap pointments were: - -, . t City- attorney, incidental ' ex pense, recorder ' and - treasurer A. O. Davidson," chairman; E. A. Bradfield, Dr. Harold Ollnger and F. B. Keeler.- ; 9 ' Health service, youth center, sewing: projectGertrude F. Lob dell, ; chairman; W. D. Evans, D. O. Lear and Lestle 3. Sparks. ; Engineer, sewers, street clean ing, intersection assessments, sew er fund loan, - street repair tax fund E. B. Terrine,5 chairman; Glentf Gregg, W. E. Hanson and P, II. Holmes. , - , , Bicycle licenses, dog pound, jail expense, police department, emer gency fund, traffic' signals, aud its, warrants', bonded debt David ; (Turn to page 2, column ,