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Newspaper Page TextBalanced News War mews dolnestlc news, state and local newt -all are necessary for the reader to keep well Informed. The Statesman offers a well bal anced news . diet. The Weather Fair today and Thursday with slowly rising tempera tare; lower humidity. Max. temp, i 09, min. 47. Hirer -3.9 ft. Northwest wind EIGHTY-NLNTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, September 13, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 146 POUNDOO 1631 Haas Arti ttery Lands In New World Safe; FR Says President Says US Will Resist Seizure Here . by German Force Monroe Doctrine Tenet Restated Embracing France, Britain WASHINGTON, Sept. Indlreetly hut diflnitely. Presi dent RooeeTelt serveM notice that Germany would not be permitted fa seize any British or French territory on-this side of the At lantic. - : - -Restating: the Monroe doctrine, Mr. Roosevelt made It plain to a press conference that the United States for its own protection would "be bound to resist such more. At the same time, Mr.- Roose velt said he would hare an an nouncement "soon," on the cal ling of a special session of con gress tto - revise the neutrality act. Although Chajrman Sabath (D-Ill.) of the House rules com mittee left the presidential office a few! hours earlier predicting the session -would convene about Oct. 1, Mr. Roosevelt did not set a date. He merely said that Sabath's guess was as good as that of any of the reporters pres ent, i Canadians Promise a Is Brought Up The discussion of the Monro doctrine arose when a correspon dent began questioning the presi dent about his speech made at Kingston, Ont, last year saying that "the people of the United lutes will not stand idly by if , Dominion of . Canadian soil . is threatened by any other empire (than the British empire.)" The Monroe doctrine was en unciated," Mr. Roosevelt said, at S time when a number of por tions of Central and South Am- . irlca had won their independence from European sovereignties and had set up republics. At. that time there was talk in Europe of forming a coalition of powers to restore European sovereignty over Central and South America, Mr. Roosevelt added. President Enlarges On Doctrine Meaning Much was written on the sub ject of the doctrine at the time, said the president, adding that a reading of this literature would disclose that the Monroe doctrine as accepted by the country at the time. Included a definite thought that no European power should reestablish - its sovereignty over any section which had gained its freedom. It applied, too, Tie add ed, to changes in the sovereignty f "sections which had not re volted. . , 1 The latter, he went on, were not large, were, in fact, mostly small islands in the West Indies, together with some sections of Eouth America: held by England, France and the Netherlands. In another of the day's develop ments, Secretary . Hull miormea a press conference that since the halting and searching of the American steamship. Wacosta, by a German submarine, state de- partment authorities are assem fci in e- all nossible facts on British and German blockade activities with a view to making a state ment of the department's conclu sions. Portland Strike Call Is Sounded - TnnrTjANIv Ore.. Sent. HMlPl -Robert Florence, executive board member, said tonight Portland district boommen would strike at t a. m.. Wednesday and Astoria rafters would follow them Thurs day. -. . : The strike rote was taken at a meeting today at Longview. Fior nee said. Longview boommen truck two weeks ajo. Florence said the action fol lowed refusal of boom operators to negotiate a new contract. He as serted operators willing to pay the "Puget Sound scale," 40e a day above the local SS.CO, would sot . be affected . . War Jolts Plans Of Duke, Duchess For Fishing Trip VANCOUVER, BO, Sept. 1-(CP)-The Duke and Duchess of . 6utb.erland.Jeft here tonight for. New York where they win ooara a boat enroute home to England. The couple .. arrived hers a few hours earlier aboard their 100 ton yacht Sans Peur. ' They will leave behind the lux nrlous r yacht, anchored In Van couver harbor. , "I suppose It win be laid up here 4f it is not used for service by the (British') admiralty,' the duchess said, " '.---.V : The duke and duchess broke a fishing expedition oft the Alaskan Coast when war broke out, Duel 71 MLconom iziv Takes All Drastic Measure Takett Private Automobile Ownership Made Difficult in Warring Nation ; BERLIN, Sept. 12AP) Adoptinsr a stringent econ omy measure, Germany tonight announced the confiscation by the state of every privately-owned rubber tire In the reich. The confiscation order, issued by the federal bureau for rubber and asbestos with the approval of the ministry of ec- vufjuuMBf w4Ki in cuujuucuuu O Ward Is Elected As School Clerk Religious Education Plan Adopted Conditionally . for Grade Level The city school board last nlht unanimously elected Connell C. Ward to succeed the late William H. Burghardt as clerk of the board in Its regular meeting at the school offices on North High street. Ward, who was one of 14 applicants for the position, has served for 10 years as chief de puty county clerk and as clerk of the county court His was the only nomination made at the meeting. . ' ; The board also granted contin gent approval to a program of weekday religious education to be carried on in city school buildings as an optional part of the regular grade school curriculum. The permission was granted, following extended debate, on the request of Mrs. Roy Lockenour, representing the weekday church school committee of the Salem Ministerial association wfckhHliaa sponsored the program, that non sectarian classes in Bible" instruc tion be allowed. Donald Toung, member of the board, indicated his opposition to the request unless it should be made with the unanimous written consent of local churches, on the understanding that those churches which did not actively underwrite the program would at least offer no opposition. Other members of the board offered doubts that such consent would be of parti cular value to the board, though Mrs. Lockenour assured the group (Turn to page 3, col. 7) More Men Rushed Into Fire Battle Blaze Near Grants Past Caiuses Concern; fight Is Won Elsewhere GRANTS PASS, Ore., Sept IS -P)-The 1000 -acre Frultdale forest and brush fire roared on unchecked tonight as fighting agencies rushed more men to the front At least three houses, numer ous summer cottages, barns and other buildings, hay and fences had been razed by the apparently Incendiary blaze. Many families saved their homes but lost out buildings. More than 200 men were fight ing the fire tonight and more will reach the scene tomorrow, Fire Warden John Klncaid said. Elsewhere in southern Oregon, rain and snow lowered the fire hazard, and civilian fighters were being released from the month old Rondean fire In the South TJmpqua district of the Umpqua national forest The blaze was under control of about 200 CCO enrolees, who will be left on the front . Poison Query Due i: i ' THE DALLES, Ore, Sept, 12 (AVAfter a post mortem examin ation showed her stomach con tained poison. District Attorney A. Brown today ordered an inquest into the death last Friday of Mrs. Hasel Keller, it. Huge California Arms Cache Hints Illegal Sale Abroad SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 12.H33) -The Chronicle said tonight tour federal agencies were conducting an Intense investigation of an arm aments ring which had offered arms and munitions rained at be tween $5,000.00 Oand 17,000,000 for sale illegally In the San Fran cisco bay area. . The newspaper; said; the arma ments were cached in this area, but that the investigation was be ing pressed also in New York. Mexico and Los Angeles. The war materials reputedly were offered to belligerents In the present war and ' to revolutionary j parties in Central and South America, '- The federal bureau ft iniestlga Msralds Push o uermany Auto Tires as Reich Tightens Belt; wiui k utxi cc vvxiicii virtually prohibits the use of automobiles after Sept 20. Collection stations to which cit izens will be obliged to bring new, partly used and worn out tires are being established. : Tires In dealers' stock and re serve tires owned by Individuals but not actually on cars or spare wheels must be delivered to the collection agencies at once. Tires now in use may be held by the owner, who is required, how ever, to keep them in good condi tion until he is notified to deUver them to the state, The decree regarding automo biles, published yesterday, prac tically abolished the private use of automobiles by revoking permits to buy gasoline unless the driver is able to prove the use of his car is in the state's Interest The order affected tires of au tomobiles, trucks, trailers, sport planes, bicycles, motorcycles and wagons. Shipmen, ILWU, Break Impasse Operators and Stevedores Agree to Negotiation on ; new Contract ; SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 12-()7-Breaking an Impasse of a month, ship operators and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union agreed to day to take initial steps to nego tiate a contract replacing the one expiring September SO, mean while keeping the present pact in force until a new one is drawn up or negotiations are hopeless ly deadlocked. The break was forecast 24 hours previously, but minor dif ferences which developed today postponed an accord until late in the afternoon. Dr. Louis Bloch, member of the maritime labor board, held alternate meetings with employers and union repre sentatives throughout the day in an effort to find a "formula" ac ceptable to both sides. Late today Harry Bridges, president of the CIO union, pro posed the two sides meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow to discuss the new agreement and suggested that should no agreement be reached by September SO the present contract remain in force until such time as a new pact is agreed upon or a definite dis agreement arises. Byron Carney to Head Census Here PORTLAND, Sept 12-()-J. C. Capt, assistant to the director, bu reau of census, disclosed from Washington, DC, today that he had asked Byron G. Carney, ex state senator from Clackamas county, to come to the national capital for a 0-day training course preliminary to formal ap pointment as supervisor of" the census for Oregon In 1940. -Carney was first vice-president of the Oregon Commonwealth Federation. He said he would leave his Mil waukee residence Friday or Satur day for Washington. . Carney will draw a wage of 2 25 a month, pins IS a day, plus a percentage based on the num ber of Interviews made by his staff. He will direct approximate ly 1100 enumerators. tioa. army and navy intelligence departments and the customs aery Ice are engaged la tracing down the armaments, as well as the ringleaders, the newspaper stated. : In the hands of the FBI, the Chronicle said was a list of the following materials: 109,000 Manser rifles, caliber 7.92 at $18. SO each; 20,000 military rifles. caL .303, at $24 each; hand and rifle grenades at $1.10 and fl.fi S each: trench mortar shells of var ious sizes; 200.000,000 cartridges. .303 caliber at $2S per thousand. and new type 'small, airplane bombs at $1.25 each. Gas masks in lots of 10,000 for $4.75 each also weia filtered Xoi sale, Poilus Pierce Into Key Gty Of Saar Land Saarhruecken Suburbs See Motorized Unit Advance, Report Switzerland Observers Report Biggest Duel of Artillery BASEL, Switzerland, Sept IS . (Wednesday) -(JP) Reports reaching Switzerland early to day indicated one of the great est artillery duels in history began daring the night in the eastern Moselle valley between Germany's Siegfried and France's Maginot lines Shells shrieked high over the border hills. The Moselle valley has been converted into one of the heaviest fortified regions in the world, with the great Sierck forts on the French side and the strong Tras- sen area on the other line. Swiss observers expressed the opinion the British and French staffs were building up an actual assault on the Siegfried line itself in the near future. Saarbrnecken Seen As Siegfried Key PARIS, Sept 12.-()-French motorized units were reported to night driving into the suburbs of the German Industrial city of Saarbrnecken. The city of the German Saar Is regarded as the key to the ad vance positions of Germany's Sieg fried line on the 100-mile north era flank, between the Moselle and RUlne rivers, 4 the wesV trcw.r.,r- The French drive on Saar brnecken put a wedge into the ad vance fortifications of the main German Siegfried line at their strongest point east of this capital of the rich Saar mining basin. The French drive was concen trated on Saarbruecken for two apparent reasons: Saar City Wanted For two Reasons 1. Capture of the city and bridgehead across the Saar river would force a wide breach in the advance system of blockhouses and machine gun nests covering the nazi west wall through which the French could drive toward their main objective the Sieg fried line. 2. The city's fall would give the French possession of the rich Saar mining basin, which for its size is one of the most productive coal areas in the world. From the main Siegfried line positions some seven miles behind Saarbruecken the heavy fortress artillery for which the Germans are famous laid down a heavy bar rage to cut the advancing French troops. On this sector of the front the Maginot line itself was unaffected by the battle as the French ad vance guard positions have been pushed ten miles in front of the permanent fortifications from which the Poilus jumped off. The French tactics in the drive against Saarbruecken were typi cal of those they have used up to date. First, French scouting and fight ing planes roared out over the German positions fighting the air clear. Armored units followed rolling down on the German concrete pill boxes and crashing through barb ed wire entanglements. Behind these came fighting en gineers who mopped up German "suicide squads" which the tanks and squad cars had left behind. Squalns. Raising h Slated Today PORTSMOUTH. NH. Sent 12 -(-AIl was ready, tonight for a start at daybreak to lilt the sub marine Squalus to the surface of the Atlantic and tow her nine miles Into the navy yard.; Pumps aboard the salvage ship Falcon, stationed over the spot where the submarine rests in 90 feet of water, sneked an estimat ed 400 tons: of water from the craft's hull during the day. Navy officials calculated 250 tons of water were Imprisoned there.' Tomorrow salvagers Intend to pump air into the submersible which, with Uro pontoons at tached to the bow and two to the stern, Is expected to bring the Squalus and . Its 25 dead to the surface. . Washington State Opens ; prrLLMAN. Sent 12-UPWWith more than 4000 expected to be eventually enrolled. - Washington State eolleee buckled down to its college year tonight with an opening assembly from the 1400 freshmen and other, new students, ATHENIA SINKS-FIRST PICTURE t ' "N I ' - '- x ' r : t - Above, from the decks of the rescue ship, Knute Kelson, survivors of the torpedoed British liner Atbenla watch their ship sink In the distance. Below, rescued passengers line the rail of the rescue ship as the haven of Galway, Ireland, Is reached following the sea trag edy of September 8. (ITX photos.) Two Ships To 27 Vessels Sunk (By The Associated Press) Shipping losses mounted to at least 131,259 tons yester day as Germany announced an "eye-for-an-eye" campaign in the merciless struggle for The tonnage loss did not also an unidentified German with an undetermined loss of O Atheiiia Suryivors To Arrive Today HALIFAX, N. S., Sept 12.-- In an atmosphere made tense by a mixture of Joy, bewilderment and hope, this outpost port of a Can ada at war tc'ght awaited arrival of the cargo ship city of Flint to morrow with the first survivors f the sunken British liner Athenla to reach North! America. US Consul Clinton E. MacEach ran announced late today the last report from the American freight er timed at 11 a. m. (Eastern Standard time) pieced her about 180 miles from HaUfax and said she would reach here tomorrow, probably. before noon. Waiting here, anxious relatives and friends of persons on the ill fated Athenla closely watched last minute revisions In the "tenta tive", list of the 300 survivors the City of Flint was reported carry ing, 110 of -them Americans. Britain Accused Of Seizing Ship NEW, YORK, Sept 12-tfVVio-tor J, Sudman, president of Black Diamond lines, which operates a cargo service between the Unit ed .States' and . The Netherlands and Belgium, tonight accused (ho British admiralty of seising one of the line's ships and said he had lodged a protest with the state department i r The ship was the Black Osprey, which left New York August 25 for Antwerp and Rotterdam. Sud man charged it was seized In the English Channel September ' I and taken to - Weymouth. - Kng-. land. - . - : -j : ' Another Black Diamond ship, the Black Eagle, was due in Rot terdam yesterday, Sudman . said, adding he had reason to believe tit, too, had been detained, ii);'wjai . . - - . - - - - I - are Added mastery of the seas. include cargoes and excluded destroyer which went down life. At least 181 are known to have perished in the other sinkings. Twenty-seven ships are known to have plunged to the bottom- victims of submarines, mines and naval shelling. Three German merchantmen have run aground on the rocky Norwegian coast after changing their routes to avoid British men-o'-war. With Britain claiming she had established a blockade and run nail ships off the surface of the seas, the German government an nounced in Berlin that it would let England set the blockade pace but the reich would match It bo low "eye for eye,, tooth for tooth." Asked whether a neutral ship found carrying contraband would be allowed to return to its home port a German official in Ber lin said: "Certainly not. Then it would simply look around for some oth er way of reaching England. So there is nothing left for us to do in such a case except sink it Known British losses to date total IS merchantmen all sunk by U-boats. Known German losses total I: S mined, S chased aground and S sunk by English warships The French have lost 1, and (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Is s S. x, ' ' s ' B 4 i Chamberlain Flies to France To Confer with War Chiefs LONDON, Sept llHhBrit. sin's flying - prime minister in a short and sudden visit "some where in France" conferred today with British and French leaders in a meeting of the supreme war council, on . allied plans against Germany. The ministry of Information an nounced on his return tonight: - The meeting has folly con firmed the firm resolve of, Great Britain and France to devote their entire strength and resources to the waging of the conflict which has been forced upon them and to jrivo all possible, assistance to del?.1 9 Reich Divisions Called West, Word Invaders Driven Back Suburbs, Official Asserts in Polish Armies Reported Escaping Trap of German to West Marching to Aid Capital Defense LONDON, Sept 13-(Wednesday)--A Reuters (British) news agency dispatch today quoted a "reliable source' as say ing Lods had been recaptured by the Poles from the Germans. BUDAPEST, Sept. 13 (Wednesday) (AP) An offi cial Warsaw radio broadcast said early today nine German divisions had been diverted from the four-day Warsaw siege to the western European. and Vistula fronts and that the nazi invaders now are definitely "on the run." Warsaw began the fifth day of siege with the announc er's statement that the invaders had been stopped and hurled back. The official announcements said German pressure on the city probably had been decreased because of the with drawal of the divisions, and that the Germans had been driven back about six miles. . O City Doomed, Nazi Version Iron Ring Encircling Warsaw Tightening Upon Defenders BERLIN, Sept. 13-(iP)-The su preme army command issued the following communique this morn ing (7 a. m.-y-lO p. m.. PST) : "In Galcia the pursuit of the enemy continued. Sambor and Krakowiee were taken. Advance guards reached the western edge of Lwow, East of Warsaw, the forces f rota "the south crossed the Warsaw-Siedlce road." BERLIN, Sept. 12.-(flPound- Ing at the Polish defenders of Warsaw on three fronts, the Ger man army drew tighter tonight an Iron ring which, its high command declared,, was threatening to choke off the besieged capital. From the west, the northeast, and southeast, the armies of the reich hit at the Poles simultane ously. The vanguard of the north eastern force was reported to have crossed a railway due east of War saw. The Germans said the resist ance of a Polish force of four di visions was broken and an unestl mable number of men and war supplies were captured in an area southeast of Warsaw. The third active spot was a. tri angular area south of the Vistula and above Lodz, to the west of Warsaw, where between 50,000 and 60,000 Poles were said to be endeavoring io break a German circle. Both the German fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and his ranking lieutenant Field Marshal Goering, were on the Polish front, personally su pervising the land and air move ments of their forces. - - i - . Three Year Exile Of Windsor Ends LONDON, Sept 12.-(ff-The Duke of Windsor and his American-born duchess, . the former Wallls War field of Baltimore, have come "home" after nearly three years on alien soil. Expectant, Britons learned from a terse announcement by the Brit ish ministry of information to night that their former king, Ed ward VIII and the woman for whom he renounced his imperial throne December. 10, 193f, are now in England. The cryptic two-line communi que read: "Mention may now be made of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Eng land and where they are staying." Later the British Press associa tion said the duke and his duchess were met at Portsmouth by Major Edward Duley Metcalfe, former aide de camp and friend, with whom they, will stay for a few weeks. The Metealfes have a (country home In Sussex. - Polish ally who Is resisting , with so much gallantry the ruthless In vasion of her territory.. - In a half-hoar audience with Kins George Chamberlain - gave an account of his surprise trip to France. It was believed the prime min ister would mention his important discussions with France when he gives his second "war bulletin to the house of commons tomorrow afternoon. Chamberlain gave his first review of the war situation to the house, last Thursday and such statements are expected peri- pdicaliv Six Miles From Broadcaster Messages Martial music blared from the Warsaw station last night to tell - Europe the dogged defenders ef Poland's capital clung to their heavily shelled positions. Meantime, meagre reports from . announcers and Polish army headquarters at Lwow Lum ber g) indicated: Meagre Reports Sift Through 1 German attack has intensi fied pressure of the giant nut cracker around Warsaw, : while the direct drive from the west continues. . i 2 Warsaw's defenders! are holding grimly to the gains they reported in pushing German ad vance troops back from the city's suburbs. 2 Reinforcements . determined not to "lose their beloved capital are being rushed to the defense through a narrowing lane front the southeast ' The Warsaw radio at 9 p. . " (noon, PST) in a review of the day's fighting said the capital was quieter than yesterday. Shell ing of the city continued but there were no serious fires re sulting. Only three enemy air raids were reported. Polish losses, in Warsaw, it was declared, had been but one colonel, two other officers and 13 soldiers. Many Residents Return to Warsaw Thirty minutes later Mayor Starzinskl of Warsaw declared many who had fled the city had returned today to aid in defend ing their homes. He! warned the population to stay at home at night "as other wise they would be arrested. Civil courts will resume their work to morrow, he added, trying minor cases, exempted from martial law. "Many thousands" of young Poles, he related, volunteered to day to defend the capital but the army; could not accept them alL Failure of the Warsaw radio station to continue news an nouncements was interpreted by listeners at Budapest as indicat ing the fifth day's fighting at the capital had brought little change in the bitter siege. The music told its own story. Translated, the words that ac companied one military march were: How beautiful is war; When the Uhlan falls from his horse His comrades ride gallantly on. Sleep, ' comrade, in the dark frave And dream of Poland. Poles! In West ("Strive to Return An announcement from an un identified radio station said two Polish divisions that had beea cut off in fighting along Poland's western boundary were- marching eastward In an effort to fight their way through to Join the Warsaw defense. Their location was not given. Other reinforcements, an an nouncement from the station at Lwow said, were being rushed in to the city. The Warsaw announc er said earlier the defenders, aid ed by citizen-soldiers, were in fighting positions along the east bank : of the Vistula river, which runs through the capital. - The Polish army headquarters declared that the besiegers had been (thrust "far into the out skirts of the city" and the near est German troops were tdx miles . from the center of Warsaw. . I Chinese Klission : Reported Bombed . HONGKONG, Sept 12-(.De-layed dispatches from Chungking said fiOO Chinese were killed and a Canadian United church mission and school "wiped out". Monday at Luchow in a Japanese air raid. The reports said fires destroyed one-third of Luckow, the. fourth largest city in Szechuan province. .The Canadian missionaries . were said to be safe.