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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1939)
The Weather. ' Fair today and Sunday. Still foggy on coast. No fan portant change in tempera tore. Max. temp. 85. tllni 47. River .8.9 ft. North wind Note .' the dateline . ob European' stories', carried . In The' Statesman. Early news of the aame day to carried. Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, September 9, 1939 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Price Sc; Newsstands 5c . No. 143 -i v !" -v. - ,' - - L .:- Poundqo r 163! ; -.-J'::,1 ...... . ... - . BeuiY Warsaw f o . ' ' Salem Gets In Pro Ball Loop For 1940's Season Beffingnam's W I Place Bought -: by Bishop GlVs First Team in History to Get new Park SEATTLE, Sept. 8. (AP) -The .Bellingham Western International league baseball franchise . has , been sold to Biddy Bishop of Beaverton, Dre., and the club will operate hi Salem; Oregon's capital, next year. League President F. H. Knickerbocker announced the deal." - -j. He said Bishop had purchased the franchise outright and had promised to provide a new base ball park next year. 1 The league has been operating the club since early this season when it was reclaimed from Al Kurbltz, who was forced to give up operations because of debts Incurred in previous years. Bellingham Has . Financial Misery The Bellingham club had a sorry time of it this season, being mired deeply in the cellar. Ken Penner. who piloted the team , to a league playoff victory last year, had difficulty obtaining players from the Hollywood Coast league club and finally tossed In the ponge when the league took oyer. Penner was replaced by Jimmy Reese, who was fired recently. Al Llghtner, young; inflelder,. has been piloting the team since. . .Bishop la . president. of-An . old timers baseball association and has been associated with baseball 50 of his 47 years. He also is an automobile dealer. . . "We are Quite tickled about the deal," Knickerbocker said. "League operation of the . fran chise was entirely satisfactory and the poor season 1 df ; Belling ham had made poor attendance a foregone conclusion. Official Praises Broadening League "We feel that we are broaden ing the scope of the league to a marked degree by spreading into Oregon. The league next year will have clubs In Oregon, Washing ton and British Columbia." , Reports have been current re cently within Salem's sports minded circles that Biddy Bishop was an applicant for the vacant franchise In the Western Inter national league with a Tiew to moving the club to Salem. The reports mentioned George F. Waters as one local man who would be financially interested. Mr. Waters, who took an active part In promoting semi-pro ball while the Senators were organ ised here, could not be reached Friday night for a statement. The same reports indicated that if Salem's proposed municipal stadium were not built, an effort would-be made to obtain a suit able park and there was mention of the fairgrounds, though Bish op's quoted statement that a new (Turn to page 10, col 6) to 1939 Chest Drive The", first general meeting of eitizens Interested In making the 1931 Community Chest campaign a success will be a luncheon at tended by About 100, ; Monday moon at the Marion hotel Doug las McKay, chairman of the cam paign, will preside. - Those ' attending will be the directors of the Tseven particlpat- inr agencies, members of tne eamnalrn. budget speakers com' mittee and board of directors, of the chest i . Sneakers will include W. M. Hamilton, chest chairman; Card ner Knapp, publicity "chairman. and a representative of eeen par- tldpatlnr agency.: The lattor group will be given three min- aceompllshmenU and problems. Meeting Amity High School Ft A'ers Champions in Amity's - Future Farmer live stock Judging team was proclaim-, ed champion among 27 high school where Smith-Hughes ag riculture is taught as about 100 members of the organization cli maxed their fair activities at a banquet at Salem high school last night The award to the Amity team, which scored llItt. was an nounced by J. D. Miekle, director of the fair and state director of agriculture, who presented the winning team with, the fun-gold Attendance at Fair Gaining Farm Organization Day Crowd Pushes Total $4282 Over 1938 By PAUL H. HAUSER, JR. There were plenty of good udges of good livestock and good crops on the fairgrounds yesterday as the grange, the 4H clubs and the Future Farmers made a day of it I While fair officials saw at-j endance mount to 11,796, a igure 526 less than last year's Friday crowd of 12, 231. Financial success of the fair was Indicated by a totaling which showed the fair receipts for the first four days 14.282 over the paid admissions for the same peri od last year. The fair is over 1000 ahead of last year's total attend ance. Patricia Clark of Multnomah county was announced grand champion of the 4H style revue last night after modeling her "best dress" with other county winners in the concluding event of the 4H club work program for elrls. As winner she will lournev 1 to Chicaza to comncte In the na-1 tlonal 4 H snow there I Winners in other classes werel Joan Howell. Astoria, cotton" about the time Britain and dress: Alice Adams, Portland, wool dress: Mary Olive Starr, Portland, Informal party dress. Robert Zlellnski of Quinaby wag presented with the I. Li Pat-1 terson cup, awarded annually for outstanding leadership -and outstanding jeaaersnip ana I achievement The presentation of the late governor. Zlelinskl, now 18, has been a 4H club member for six years and has won 19 first prizes, 23 seconds and -21 thirds in competition. The Amity livestock judging team was announced as winner in tne Future Farmer livestock Judg- ing contest and awarded the sun-1 goia oanner oy J. u. MicKie, state commandeered by the govern dlrector of agriculture, at a ban- j ment to help in evacuation, set QUet last night I nn for ITnrnnA tnnlffht without More than 8Q0 members of the passengers or cargo. Cots to raiselBnow at tne state fairgrounds last Oregon state grange registered at ner capacity from 236 to 4001I,Kht proved to be the most ex the grange booth in the agricul- noronTia rH with I citing thus far, when Trojon, own- tural pavilion during the day. Wlllakenzie grange of Eugene and warner grange or ClacKamas couuijr Buareu top nonom in me Betting Windows Busy The agriculturists proved better ports" than either S a 1 e m or sports Portland day crowds as $14,708 was wagered at the pari-mutuel windows, the biggest total since the $25,000 record handle of La bor day. It was exactly $1000 over last year's handle of $13,708 for the same day. Children's day, with children I under 12 being admitted free, Is (Turn to page 2, col. 6) Largest Corridor City Is Retaken By Poland, Word LUBLin, roiana, epl. o. . . . a (1:20 p.m., 4:20 a.m. PST)-(By .. Tn m Tt Tnl :.n': W iC6iutu ivu v.u i,oujr uj ruunu uuuo. uyagoszes turomoergMSDoui 60 miles SOUthweSt Of the East werder, was captured by the nazls Monday. Refugees reaching here from the German-occuDied town of Krakow said more than 1,000 ci vilians were killed In an air raid Ufere. Responsible sources said that the lives lost among civilians throughout Poland during the first week of the war were "sev- eral thousand." I (Dlnlomatlc dispatches received in Budapest after this eommunl- cation was tiled reported that the Polish government had ned farther eastward from Lublin.) Stock Judging trophy. " ' Members of the lAmlty team which Judged sheep, swine, beef. ntuivucu, ciut Atv . ... M M 1 W I, no. s.ka.m wa . Mni. tu bany, fourjV Independence, fifth and Salem sixth. . .1 Tint nUlM in ih 'ihnvmlll. ship contest went to Ralph Berg- tonight t continue looking for I There was nothing de luxe about this once handsomely fitted four-place Palrchfld cabin monoplane si atram Ralmn: iWb! Tint fThri. It rr a iat niitta hv I ter aa rrolodiiur nlzht flare set fire to three ships lathe Salem municipal airport hangar Friday fore- tofferson, Salem, dairy; and Or - yal CUne, Independence, swlns, POLISH .1,111 1. 1. 1 inimw'.wi wr'WywrifPrMit4viMM , ftL--Tr'! K X' vl tx ' O r ill I " o , Backing up claims of capture of tens of thousands of prisoners in addition to stores of war materials. wdiophoto above shows a hastily constructed nari concentration camp with Polish soldiers behind barbed wire fence. Location of the camp was deleted by nazl censors. Defenders of the Polish cap ital, meantime, were reported fighting against Uennaa tank thrusts. Big French liner Brings 1677 in De de France' Docks at New York Following Perilous Voyage NEW YORK. Sept 8.-i"PV-The big French liner He de France brought 1,677 passengers safely Into New York's neutral harbor tonight, ended a perilous Toyage through the submarine-stalked shipping lanes of the Atlantic, &ne ai i1". n Tencn port France Joined the war against uermany ana naa to cross wnere tne slnxing or freighters had in aicatea nasi submarines hare been, operating. Her course and experiences were not yet known as her radio has been silent to as ner raaio naa neen niem xo 1 keep her position from enemy J The liner anchored at quaran Id tine for the night and was to in themorning. Many American citizens fleeing from Europe's war were aboard, and as they I reached home prospects bright- ened for getting other thousands back from Europe In a hurry. The Orizaba, first U. S.' vessel PTtro mA raftn and belts The American Banker also n ihnorj ... ss asen- Kerg all British citizens, If. VA6CAIG Vim IT AV f vOOuO OlallA. In War Thus Far By the Associated Press The known toll of ships sunk by torpedoes, mines and shells In the widespread sea - warfare accom panying European hostilities mounted to 1 last night (Friday) as belligerents continued .their ef forts to choke off the flow of sup plies to their foes, Five ships were reported de stroyed during the sixth day of the new conflict - Among them were the British freighter Wink- leigh and tanker Regent . Tiger, wnicn sent infl uiawn oriiinu-1 which sent the known British- - v. r .vi "eBCB . , v. T,V!rDr uciiuau iiciguier xicni.u uir observers believed n.--,.- Wfi hlAWII 11 1.mB TtTVfl TAT) f lv m1n victim like the Half rid ... thft Danish island of Aeroe. I -nit all hanila wetA ronnrtA1 Vtlleil. Meier & Frank Loser of 1450 In Novel Theft PORTLAND, Ore.i Sept Two robbers i displayed a: new "wrlnkle In sneak thievery here today and escaped : with . $1450 I from the cashiers cage " of the J Meier 4b Frank department store, I The m 1 d d 1 e-aged and - well 1 dressed thieves, . their operation witnessed ' by ; many customers. speared - the currency roll from the cage with a long, pencil-thin ana f needle-pointed - eane while the clerk was answering what po lice tensed "aa obviously : faked telephone can.'? i Police said b hour earlier the two tried- unsuccessfully to dupe tellers : st two banks irltfc ths same rase. The tellers ' refused to answer the spurious calls., The thieves operated recently I I reported. I Irlane searcli toes on J . CRISTOBAL, a Z., Sept S-iM I -Despite four days of fruitless I Hlwli armv ' knhnrtHa AmtAA I I Lieut H. A. Jenkins which has been missing usee Monday. CAPTIVES IN NAZI CAMP wm ii , ii nv J ' - M urn, i f ni . n'-ir -flat"."-iy.'i-,V... 'it mi , iir-- . ... . . a Rat-Hunting at City Incinerator Nets Shot in Leg It may sound funny but It wasn't for Hugh O. Taylor, West Salem visitor from Calif- nia, when he went rat hunting on the Salem municipal Incin erator grounds last night and came back at 11:30 with bullet bole in his leg. One of the .22 calibre rifles being used by Taylor and bis companions, Darren and Lee Donaldson, 1351 Third street. West Salem, fell apart, setting off the trigger, they told po lice. Taylor was able to return to the Donaldson residence af ter having the resultant flesh wound dressed by a physician. 1 p JxQrgg OllOW VjlVCS Spectator Thrills Riders Hit Ground When Entries Stumble in Jumping Event By MAXINE BUREN The opening event of the horse- ed nd ridden by Bert Cook of Portland knocked over the jump, feu and tnrew tne rider, LAter, during the same event, Highland's Leader caught his leg on the eame fence, slightly Injur ing the leg. Kitty Higglns, owned by the Nicol Riding academy of Portland and ridden by Pat White won the speedy event The Wonder Man, owned by the Tlrnwn Arre farm of Portland ridden hv Jn Boh Price, was -ward ht f th v-aited h0rges Witn the famous Corin- thlan's Edna from the L. R. Banks (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Pooling of Bets On Horses Legal PORTLAND, Sept 8.-65VDis- ltici. juuko wuuu a. aicnra ruieu I .j.. .."v,.m.-. I 1 ' ""tulU5vumcuLa wuei ug euiu wu uursn ibi;i uo uvi man with maintaining a public I Mttlonfiaa I tt t?t, t,.t tnaamn.h th I t.Hai.n .o io.ai nr I a . i v.r lng and horse racing where bets are paid off under the mutuel sys tem, the nuisance statute could not apply, i i DE LUXE PLANE BURNED TO SKELETON ; jr mitt 'Ujij ' - A I -jaoon. This hip owned by Dr. , 1 hurriedly wheeled away from Italy and Britain Conferring Again Diplomats Argue Italia Would Do Best in Keeping Hand out ROME, Sept 8.-i)-New diplo matic conversations took place to night between Great Britain and Italy. Informed quarters said follow ing the meeting between British Ambassador Sir Percy Leralne and Italian Foreign Minister Gale- azzo Clano that Britain was doing everything possible to persuade Italy, sot to enter the war at Ger many's -eide. . Official Information was lack ing bnt usually well-informed cir cles were of the opinion Britain was telling Italy that Britain and France were prepared to continue the fight with Adolf, Hitler for years if necessary, and that be- (Turn to page 10, col. 5) Windsor Speeds For Motherland CANXES, France. Sent 8-UPk- The Duke of Windsor, ready to undertake an important wartime task for the empire which he ruled until he left as a voluntary exile three, years ago, sped across France tonight on the way home with his American-born Duchess. Responding to a summons from his brother and successor. King George VI, the former Edward VIII and his wife, the former Wallls Warfield left Cannes at 5:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m. P.S.T.) for Paris. They were bound for an undisclosed English channel port where, It was reported, a 'destroy er waited to rush them to Lon don. ' The nature of the task await ing the Duke was- not disclosed. He has been reported anxious to get back home and help his coun try in its struggle with Germany. During the World War, Windsor then Prince of Wales, saw ser vice in the front lines. Whale Plays Four Days Off Coast at Newport NEWPORT, Sept 8-(V-The whale that has been nuzzling the coastline near here for several days either has fallen In love with this section or is trapped by reefs, fishermen opined today. The gray-white mammal has disported about 200 yards oft shore for the last four days. I. H. GaraJobsU 4SO Oak street, nearby pianesj saving the attet French Drive 7 to 8 Miles Into Germany Germans Retreat Before Increasing Attacks i v Into Saar Land Tanks and Armor Cars, Planes Join With - Infantry Push By TAYLOR HENRY PARIS, Sept J.-MVPrench forces were reported tonight to have penetrated from seven to eight miles Into German territory. with German troops retreating be fore increasingly heavy attacks on the. northern sector of the western front. Nazi troops were reported thrown back on their main Sieg fried line fortifications. The farthest advance of the French left wing, whose flank Is protected by the neutral Luxem bourg frontier, was believed from information reaching Paris to be in the direction of the Important German industrial center of Trier, in the rich Saar mining basin. An official army, communique said French troops were adranc Ing behind retreating nazl troops who were destroying bridges. railroads and tunnels as they gave ground. Aerial Forces Actively Supporting The extent of aviation particl pation In the drive was shielded behind the terse statement that "our aerial reconnaissance Is ac tive." The communique added that "on the sea our patrol forces are showing very great activity. Co operation with British naval forces Is closely assured, with a view to defending sea communi cations." The communique indicated that Infantry patrols were supported by tanks and armored cars, mov ing through the Saar mining area nearest the French, frontier. The French mechanized forces were meeting their first real test as they ran Into the blasted area which had been mined by the Germans to cover their retreat The deployed French infantry was reported to have received support, for the first time, from tanks and armored cars. The infantry was reported In a give and take position with German troops in the no-mans- land at the tip of the frontier where the French Maginot line and the German Siegfried lines fan out to a distance of some 25 miles apart Weidemann Stays In Olympic Club SAN FRANCISCO. Sent 8-JP1 -Captain Fritz Weidemann, Ger man consul general, decided to day to keep his Olympic club membership, which someone in a fake telegram had demanded that he give up. The Nazi representative with drew his proffered resignation after the club's directors had re fused to accept his resignation. Club Secretary Frank J. For an, meantime, hunted for the person who telegraphed Captain Weidemann that "1(5 members of the Olympic club will resign unless you withdraw." Foran said the telegram, sign ed with his name, was an "un derhanded and vicious hoax." ; In withdrawing his resignation letter, Captain Weidemann prais ed "the fine and gentlemanly manner In which officials of the club bandied the situation. Elk Kills Slump ASTORIA, Sept 8-()-SeYen checking stations reported today the kill of bull elk since the start of the week-long season In Clatsop county Sunday fell off sharply the first three days. and twe eihen also .destroyed were War on Airwaves Being Fought by Opposing Pa rties Earlier Message Nazis Enter Capital Followed by 'Opposite Version; Poles Say Wavelength Taken First Air Raid Sirens of War Heard by Berlin Citizens; Invaders Apparently Fail to Arrive BERLIN, Sept 9.-(Satiirtay)-(;p)-The first air raid alarm since the beginning of the war sounded in Berlin at 3:38 a. m. (9:30 p. m., Friday EST.) A second alarm was sounded at 4:20 a. m. There were no immediate indications that enemy raiders reached the vicinity of Berlin. Defense forces failed to turn on their searchlights. Nevertheless, Berlin's 4,000,000 residents were roused ia the dead of the night and herded Into air defense shelters. BUDAPEST, Sept. 9. (Saturday) (AP) A broad caster speaking Polish with a German accent on the Warsaw station's wave length announced . early today the Polish capital was being entered and warned all residents punish ment would be meted out to Poles found with weapons when the city "finally falls." Meantime, another announcer professing to speak from the Polish station denied the capital had fallen, and stated "the Germans have taken our wave length." The Polish station said "everyone in Warsaw is at his post." O The Warsaw radio broadcast a Polish Mission Is at London Britain Announces War on Punishing Subs to Clear Seas ,; . .. " LONDON, Sept. 8v-0$A . Polish mission arrived in lion don tonight "by secret route. It was met by Polish Am bassador Count Edward Raczyn ski, the Polish military attache and- a representative of the British war office. General Miezyslaw Horwid . Neugebauer, an army inspector of Warsaw, headed the mission. LONDON, Sept 8.-(ff)-The British government announced to night that its navy was taking "energetic measures" to halt what was described as Germany's "ruthless submarine warfare." At the same time It was stated that Great Britain would use her belligerent rights "to the full" to prevent war supplies from reach ing Germany. The communique Issued tonight by the ministry of Information on the naval activities said It was now evident "that German subma rine commanders have been given orders to sink merchant ships on sight and without warning" and that this was "in direct contraven tion of the rules of submarine warfare." "It la Inevitable," the commu nique said, "that initial losses should occur when dealing with an enemy which was obviously planning a ruthless submarine warfare for some time before war broke out and where there are a numberof submarines distributed over a very wide area of sea. "The effects of the German submarine campaign will, howev er, -decline rapidly as soon as a full convoy system is Introduced and the German submarines at present on the high seas run out of supplies." Ship in Distress DUBLIN, Sept 9-OFV-Llfeboats were called out from Arklow, In Wicklow eounty, early today to aid a ship reported In distress In , the Irish sea. Arklow. lies about 40 miles south of Dublin. Three A irplan i Ati Local Field; Loss 9000 Fire destroyed three privately owned airplanes valued at about $9009 yesterday at the Salem mu nicipal airport hangar at about 9 - Planes destroyed '- Included -a Savaol-Marchettl Italian type fly ing boat, owned by Lieutenant William Turner of the army sir corps; a Waco tour-place cabin plane, owned by Ernest Eldridge of Balem; and a Fairehud tour place cabin ship belonging to Dr. J. H. Garnjobst 490 Oak street The blase started when a night flare waa accidentally1 dropped from a plane belonging to the state forestry,; - department.- The flare exploded, setting lire, to the other three ships, .which were in the hear of the hangar. . , The forestry plane and four 'others In the hangar were moved general order to the army frosa the chief of staff to his soldiers, saying: Warsaw Okeh, Others Assert "Soldiers, you must defend tne capital with all your strength. We have taken positions from which we cannot retreat one step. "The time has come to take revenge tor the spilling of blood of; women, children and soldiers who have fallen in Poland's de fense, . "The attack of the enemy w31 exhaust Itself against our defense. Order will prevail." Earlier the Polish announcer said German planes were bombing; the capital and stated Polish land forces In the southwest were with drawing' in the face of the Ger man onslaught At 11:40 p.m., the anno tracer, speaking in English, said "the Germans are bombing purely non-military objectives In the central and most densely popu lated sector of the town." The English speaker said: "Due to constant heavy air raids on the bridges, the Inhabi tants had moved to the center of Warsaw, where now there Is se vere bombing.' 'The entire populace, with the full support of radio warnings, now is preparing a defense ia tbe streets, erecting barricades of all sorts and digging deep trenches in the hope of catching enemy tanks. "Street cars are tunning, shops are open and there is no food shortage. ''Yesterday three German pi lots parachuted down in outlying villages and were Immediately de (Turn to page 2, col. 1) German Accent Speaks Polish But Slips up BUDAPEST, Sept 9.-(S a t u r day)-(A3)-An announcer speaking " Polish with a . German accent broke In suddenly on a Polish sta tion at 12:J5 a. m. today (1:11 p. m. Friday, EST) and called upon Poles to "lay down your arms for your leaders hare desert ed you." The speaker, obviously German. . pretended to be speaking not only from the Warsaw station, but also from the station at Lwow, which is still far behind the Polish lines. The speaker made a slip when, after announcing hewas the War saw radio announcer, he used the phrase "when we enter Warsaw tomorrow.' es shortly after the tire started and were undamaged; Tbe airport hangar, escaped- Injury 'except for minor scorching on the walls and eeillng. - ' '.; : ' - . Salem fire equipment assisted airport' employes, who manned a small boss and firs extinguishers, In "preventing the Spread of th blase to the hangar ' and other ships. -" -t , ' , Lieutenant Turner, whose plane has been stored for some time at the airport, is -now -with the army air- corps ' at ; Kelly Field, Texas. His ship was recently offered tor sale st I1S00. ,;. -. 'i, The Eldridge plane, which was not Insured, was valued at about $2300, and the Garnjobst ship at $4000. to $5000. It Is not known whether, the' Garnjobst plans was Insured. . J . . , Destroyed
