it j Territorial Disputes European wars have their counterpart in territory dis putes over here when the gridiron . battles open j this Week. Get the scores first In The Statesman. The Weather Partly cloudy today and Sunday, no change in temp and humidity. Max. temp. T7, mln. 51. Hirer -S.9 ft. South wind. 4 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning:. September 16, 1939 Price 3c;. Newsstands Sc No. 149 POUNDOO 1631 G News Behind Today's News By PAUL MALLOX WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 The key business index will hit 110 this month. Industrial production will expand about 9 per cent to that figure, highest since this month two years ago. ' Until war anticipations start ed, Mr. Roosevelt's economists figured it would not get np over 102 or 103 in September, and not over 110 before the end t of the year. Now they believe December will bring 115. They are inclined toward con servatism in their revised private estimates for the next few months because the expansion so far can be traced mainly to steel. Opera tions in that basic commodity will reach 73 per cent of capacity Im mediately, but may not be able to go much higher. The flood of cur rent orders is based on the logl- shortly. The Statesman Presents No. 1 News Columnist ' Paul Mallon is recognized as . the ' outstanding Washington, DC, news commentator. He deals in facts. Interesting facts that affect you and your neigh bor. His column, News Behind Today's News, will be presented daily in The Oregon Statesman. Watch for it on this page again Sunday and thereafter on the editorial page. " Cotton textiles, crude oil, bi tuminous coal production are ex panding similarly -. which indi cates 10 to 15 'per cent improve ment all along the line. This data suggests the enthu siasm, in the stock market was well based, but, could easily be overdone. The 25 or more German sub marines which have been plan- derinir British ahlnnimr . are not getting In and out of the Bal tic, North Sea or English chan nel. They are refueling at sea and probably in remote fjords of Iceland or Norway in rendez- Tons with German ships. These' German subs are of the Italian type with a cruising range of 7500 to 9000 miles but they must have dlesel oil to operate! Their havoc , may be curtailed when .their, supply ships, placed ' according 'to pre-arranged plans, run out of dlesel oil or are spotted eventually, by the British. It isn't true about the lepre chaun ring (formerly known as the brain trust.) It is still here, but Just a little harder to find ,thaa aoual. Rendezvous with banshee Tom Corcoran has become practically Impossible even for the highest In the new deal spirit world. The moon must not be right or some thing. One official called lepre- enaun neaaquarters, wnicn is uor coran's office, and the White House switchboard, for an entire day this week without being able to make contact. Higher mediums reported the missing White House banshee was "down helping the Justice depart ment." Careful investigation there brought denials. 'Twas said he could not have been working on the president's, many, proclama tions including the proclamation of a limited national emergency because these were prepared , by the solicitor general's office. How ever, further inquiry developed that the solicitor general was out of town and had not been in his office for a week before the pro clamations were Issued. (Turn to Page 4, Col. ) Weiss Sentenced, And Fined $1000 NEW ORLEANS, Sept, 15,-iff-Federal prison sentences up to SO months were imposed . today on fire prominent Loulslanans con victed of using the malls to de fraud Louisiana State university of $75,000. Concurrent sentences of SO months and fines of f 1,0 00 on each of two fraud counts were meted to Seymour Weiss, dapper New Orleanr hotel man and key figure In the late Huey Long's po litical machine; Dr. James Mon roe Smith, whose resignation as president of the' state university precipitated widespread investiga tion of Louisiana politics, and Monte Hart, wealthy Louisiana contractor, , Both! promptly filed notices of appeal from the convictions. I'- H ' ' ' -V"- 7"- 7 . Antarctic Ships To Be Protected From War Attack WASHINGTON, Sept. 15PV The government is taking pre cautions against mistaken attacks by war vessels of the European - belligerents on the. . ships of its antarctle expedition. . The ships, officials said today, will have huge American flags painted on their sides and hatches, illuminated at night, so that their identity will be plain to all during the long sail through the southern Pacific. Led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition will make scientific observations and claim for the United States a part of the Antarctic continent. ' US Frontiers Not Overseas, Lindy's Stand Don't Meddle Again in old World Affairs j Flyer's Appeal Ocean Is big Barrier, Even for Airmen, ! Lindbergh Says WASHINGTON, Sept. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh urged America tonight to keep carefully out of Europe's war, asserting that "if we enter fighting for de mocracy abroad, we may end by losing it" here at home. "We must not be misguided by this foreign propaganda to the ef fect that our frontiers He In Eu rope," the famous flier said in an address prepared for broadcast by all major networks. "One need only glance at a map to see where our true frontiers lie. What more could we ask than the Atlantic ocean on the east and the Pacific on the west. . . . An ocean is a for midable barrier even for modern aircraft." Lindbergh, who first came to prominence by flying one of the ocean barriers he mentioned, made no allusion to the currently agitated question of repealing the neutrality law's embargo on arms shipments to the nations at war. Speech One Of Few Made Publicly Lindbergh's address was an un usual occurrence, in that he rare ly makes public utterances. He ar ranged to make it in the seclusion of a hotel room, with very few per sons present. "Now that war has broken out again," he said, "we in America have a decision to make on which the destiny of our nation depends. We must decide whether or not we intend to become forever in volved in this age-old struggle be tween the nations of Europe. "Let us not delude ourselves. If we enter the quarrels of Europe (Turn to page 2, column S) War to Snag US, Tokyo Paper Says Involvement Held Certain if Nation Antagonizes Germany Further TOKYO. Sept 16-)-The news paper Asahi said today that the United States would be dragged into war "whether she likes it or not" The neutrality stand proclaimed Thursday by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Asahi commented in an editorial, actually is a "unilat eral warning to Germany to re spect the right of the American people to aid Great Britain and Prance." Germany, said Asahi, will at tempt to avoid drawing the United States into war by "irritating them to no useful end," but "is not likely to submit meekly to such treatment from the United States." The United States "seeks to continue to increase her trade with belligerents in order to bring war prosperity, by the sale of mu nitions," said the paper, but add ed that President Roosevelt had made it clear this did not mean trade with Germany. "The attitude of the adminis tration must be regarded as most biased, non-neutral and partial," said Asahi. - Automobile Union Vote Won by Q0 ' DETROIT, Sept 15.-i)-The (30 United Automobile Workers union won a smashing victory over the AFL United Automobile Workers in a national labor rela tions board election for Brlggs Manufacturing Co. employes, Frank H. Bowen. NLRB regional director, announced tonight. The election was held yester day In six Detroit plants and one at Evansville, Ind., but tabula tion of the votes was not com pleted until late today. City May Install Pipelines Soon to Escape Cost Rises The city water board meeting last night considered immediate purchase of a consignment of cast iron pipe which at present prices would cost more than $8000. . Reason for contemplating the purchase for future needs was sudden price increases on heavy goods which may result from war demands abroad. ; Manager Carl Guenther indi cated that the . system , has com pleted plans for the installation of pipelines in different parts of town whenever materials can he provided and the additional serv ice is deemed necessary. . Such projects, he stated, might RSAW STREETCARS TAKEN BY NAZIS : -&-. ..:4,- Streetcars to the front of them, trenches to the rearthat's the position of invading nasi troops pic tured In the radiophoto above in a Warsaw suburbans they edge closer and closer toward the heart of the Polish capital. Streetcars in photo provide an obstacle in the hostilities. Trenches are those dug by Polish defenders who retreated back into the city. ' PB Team Takes Unofficial Title Vancouver Downed Twice by Local Girls Who now Rule Coast They had to do it twice, -the Pade-Bar ricks, to win the unoffi cial Pacific coast women's soft ball crown from Vancouver's Con servatives, but that wasn't too big a chore for the local lassies. Be hind Rae Tocom's two-hit hurling, they took the first S-0, and with Tocom coming to the rescue in the second, both by way of the mound and at bat they came from behind to take the second, 10 to 8. This all happened last night on Sweetland, amid disputes, counter disputes and what have you. Ollie Houston showed the P-Bs a neat raise ball in the opener, holding 'em to one hit for three innings and a total of six for the route, but the never-to-be denied locals lammed home a pair in the fourth and one in the sixth. The fourth-frame tally same by dint of Kurtx double and singles by Mor gan and Rae Yocom, and the sixth inning tally was earned when Ruth Tocom, who had doubled, was driven home by Kurtz' triple. With the score 7-7 and the (Turn to page 2, column 4) Belgian Steamer Sunk in Channel Name not Learned; British Trawler, Crew of 12, Irisher Also Sunk LONDON, Sept lR-(ff)-A Bel gian steamer whose name was not learned Immediately was sunk in the English channel tonight. Survivors were picked up by a south coast life boat and British naval vessel which received a message that 'the ship had been badly damaged and was sinking. Six of the men were taken to a hospital suffering from shock and other injuries. They told hospital authorities their vessel had struck something about 6 p.m. and an ex plosion followed. It could not be ascertained at once whether the entire crew was saved. A later report said a Greek ves sel had picked up 49 survivors. LIVERPOOL, Sept 15-(ff-The crew of IS of the British fishing trawler Davara tonight disclosed the craft had been sunk off the English coast They arrived here (Turn to page 2, column 2) Brumfield Says Innocent PORTLAND, Sept 15--0PhAl-len D. Brumfield, 24, indicted two weeks ago on a charge of first degree murder for the shoot ing of Mrs. Hattie Hooker, CI, Good Samaritan hospital attend ant pleaded Innocent today be fore Circuit Judge James W. Crawford. in several instances be completed In the near future if pipe can be made available. He was given power to investigate price quo tations on the material and to act with the approval of the board at once should conditions appear favorable. The board gave some consider ation to . possible expansion , of present tank facilities, and dis .cussed the status of the old re servoir on the north face of Falrmount hill. Possibility that the latter might be filled in. di vided, and sold for building lots was suggested, though no formal action was taken on the matter. fi Bear and Rising Sun To End Border Scrap Russian - Japanese Armistice Becomes Effective This Morning; May Grow Into Pact of Non-Aggression Later MOSCOW, Sept. 15. (AP) Soviet Russian and Japan today agreed to an armistice In their "vestpocket" war on the troubled Manchoukuo-Outer Mongolia border In a move which some diplomatic quarters saw as a possible fore runner to a non-aggression pact. The agreement to end hostilities on the frontier between Japanese-dominated Manchoukuo and sovietized Outer Mon golia was announced through Tass, soviet official news agency. Japanese - Manchoukuoan and soviet -Mongolian forces had been fighting utermittgntly onHhe disputed frontier since May 11. O . The appointment of Cons tan tin i Smetanin as soviet ambassador to Tokyo was announced a short time later. Smetanin has been serving as charge d'affairs in Tokyo, where Russia has been without an am bassador since June 5, 1938, when Mikhail Mlkhailovltch Sla- vntsky went back to Moscow. The earlier announcement said that the armistice would begin at 2 p. m. (3 a. m. PST) tomorrow. The respective forces, under the agreement, will maintain their positions held at 1 p. m., today. A commission of two Japanese Manchonkuoan and two soviet- Mongolian representatives will be organized ' at the earliest possible date" to establish a frontier line between the two states in the area where intermittent warfare has been in progress since May 11. The argreemeut was reached following negotiations between Japanese Ambassador Togo and Soviet Premier-Foreign Commis sar Vyacheslaff Molotoff. Late Sports HOOD RIVER, Ore., Sept. 16- (JP)-Hood River rolled over the Chemawa Indians, 40 to 0. in a football opener here tonight. BEND, Ore., Cept. 15-UPY-Bend high opened its football season with a 40-0 victory over the Hill Military academy eleven of Port land tonight. ASTORIA, Ore., SepL.15.-(flV The Astoria high Fishermen dropped an opening football game tonight, 0-12, to Washington high of Portland. PORTLAND, Sept. 15-tiPY-San Francisco won its second consecu tive doubleheader from Portland in the Pacific Coast league to night, 6-4 in ten innings and 2-1 in seven. Larry Powell southpawed the Beavers into submission in the short game, giving them only two hits. Norbert's triple and Jen nings' single in the fourth pro cured the two Seal runs after Portland got one unearned coun ter in the third. San Francisco ....... IS 1 Portland 4 13 1 Shores and Wood all; Blrkhofer, Hlleher (9) and Monxo. San Francisco 2 12 Portland Powell ft Salkeld; Monro. .12 0 TJska and SEATTLE, Sept. lS-(ff)-Night game: Los Angeles .......... t 19 1 Seattle 1 I 2 BonettL Flores () and Sueme; Soriano and Hancken. LOS ANGELES, Sept U.-iJPj- Nlghl game: San Diego S 7 S Hollywood... ........ 7 S 0 Tobin, Gonzales -(7) and De- tore;! Ardizola and CrandaU. Sacramento .......... 4 8 1 Oakland ............. t S 2 Schmidt and Grilk; Fallon, Dar row (7) and Conroy. City laxes to Expand Little Budget Committee Feat Cuts off $22,564; Allows Warehouse HOW CITY BUDGET LOOKS FOR 1940 Total expenditures. $440,173.18 General fund tax . . 247,042.74 Street tax 12,309.04 Fire tax 11,910.16 Bond debt tax .... 99,206.65 Total tax $371,658.59 City taxes' for 1940 will Increase but four-fifths of a mill, according to figures available last night af ter the citizens' budget commit tee had pecked here and whacked there to bring,, the 1940 budget down to within 113,020.17 of the amount it cost to run the city in 1939. In three hours time the com mittee, amid much bickering and many arguments, lopped off a to tal of $22,564.49. Only Alderman David O'Hara and Harold Pruitt registered "nays" when Commit tee Chairman E. M. Page put ad option of the budget to a vote. That the feat was accomplished despite retaining an item of 38000 for a city warehouse and addition of six men to the city fire depart ment came as a surprise to even the most optimistic budget stu dent of the 23 who sat around the council chamber. If uncontested during the nub ile hearing of taxpayers to be held in conjunction with the city coun cil meeting of October K, and if adopted by the council, the bud get for 1940 will contain total general fund expenditures of xz9i.ise.07. Receipts are estima ted at $92,873.02, making a to tal of I203.S1S.0S to be raised to balance the budget. .Addition of 18 percent for taxes It is estima (Turn to page 2, column 5) SP Trains Mix, Few Are Injured LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15P) A 33-car freight train collided to night with a nine-car passenger train on the Southern Pacific main line at Hassom, north of the Chatsworth tunnel. Physicians were sent to the scene but no serious injuries were reported. Some of the passengers were shaken and bruised. Fire man J. M. Burns of the north bound freight train was hurt slightly when he Jumped from the cab. ' The southbound passenger train was halted on the coastal track,: waiting for the freight to pass on to a siding. Railroad of ficials said that for some undeter mined reason the train did not switch hut continued on into the nassencer. Both trains wera de layed for an hour. Anglo-French Force Matches Warplanes of France Defeat German Sortie Strafing, Bombing Party Aimed at Advance Is Driven off More Poilus Thrown in to Match Enforced German Lines PARIS, Sept. 15. -(-French warplanes were reported tonight to have defeated an undisclosed number of German planes which were bombing and strafing French troops In an effort to halt their general advance on the western front. Dispatching from the front in dicated German forces were re treating slowly from advance posi tions all along the front's north ern flank. The French and German planes clashed so low over the lines, it was said, that advancing troops almost could distinguish the faces of the pilots. "The Germans were reported to be bringing to bear the full force of their airforce and artillery in an attempt to stop the French. At least three full nasi divisions were reported fighting to hold the strongest advance defenses of the German Siegfried line along a 12 mile front before the great Indus trial city of Saarbruecken and to the east of that city, whose de fenses hold the key to the center of the active front. Although there was no official information, the French were as sumed to have thrown as many if not more divisions into the fight ing in this sector. Germans Take to Fteu Onard Action The Germans were said to be fighting a dogged rear guard ac tion to cover their main forces falling back toward the Siegfried line. Local counter-attacks held up the French for hours until rein forcements arrived. The attack was stopped and the announced forward march of the French was resumed. From the brief description of the air fighting in the official communique tonight, it was ap parent that German planes dived low on the French advance lines, raking them with machine gun fire and forcing them to dig tor cover. French pursuit planes roared out from airdromes behind France's Maginot line and fought off the German ships. Screen of Shells Fronts Saarbruecken The French were said to be advancing through a screen of shells laid down by German ar tillery on a 40-mile sector extend ing from the Moselle river on the extreme north, where the front touches : Luxembourg, to a point two miles beyond the great indus trial city of Saarbruecken. (Dispatches from Brussels said Lthe Moselle valley fighting pro ceeded all day with intense bom bardments. Terrific gunfire was heard at the Luxembourg fron tier, where Inhabitants were an noyed by the fumes from ex ploding shells). The present phase of the French attack, it was said, began to make Itself felt on the Germans when the French penetrated nasi ad vance positions lnv front of the Siegfried line to the east of Saar bruecken, threatening the central keystone of the German northern flank. A fresh French attack was re ported to have started in force along the Moselle late today. One Body Gone in Squalus: Other 25 PORTSMOUTH, NH, Sept, 15-Vfy-AU, 25 bodies taken from the salvaged submarine Squalus were Identified tonight by the navy department- . , . ! Missing from the list was, the name of Robert P. Thompson, of Nashville, TeniL ship's cook, pre viously recorded as ampng the 21 who perished. It was believed his body was lost through a hatch which sprung open during salvage operations. ' After removal of the bodies a naval board of inquiry put Its finger on the possible cause of the disaster. : . i. - Huddled around in borrowed oilskins, the board watched a test operation " of two air induction valves, saw one fail to close prop- 1 erly, and heard Lieutenant - Oil- All 31 Polish Destroyed i Reich Airmen Wreak Damage on Baltic Skips cjf Poland, Hinder Retreat of defenders, Messages Say Hitler Troops Storming Warsaw and Kutnot Nazi Messages Ignore War on Western Front "v. !'"' i BERLIN, Sept. 15. (AP) The German high command reported tonight that a total of 31 Polish battle planes had been destroyed j today on the eastern front. .The command said the German air force caused such havoc on the railways and roads east of the Vistula river that the retreat of Polish forces was greatly hindered; DNB, official news agency, said in a report from Koenigsberg, East Prussia, that power divers of the German air force had bombed and "destroyed" a Polish minelayer and two gunboats in the harbor at Heisternest, which is on the Hela peninsula, near Gdynia, The flyers! reported, DNB said, that an explosion oc curred on another ship and that two more were damaged. (The only! Polish minelayer listed in Jane's Fighting Sub Strafing Held Success British Adpiiralty in Report Says; Number' Taken Care of LONDON. Sept 1 5. - () - The British admiralty declared to night its forces had destroyed a "number" of German submarines in widespread fighting on the high seas. Without detaining the engage ments, the admiralty gave this 42-word report ori its part of the announced campaign to stop Ger man shipping and hunt down en emy submarines: 'His majesty's destroyers, pa trol vessels and aircraft have been carrying out constant patrols over wide areas in search of enemy U boats. Many attacks have been made and a number of U-boats have been destroyed. Survivors have been rescued and captured when possible." I An official silebce kept secret how much blood was shed in the action. ! Success in the British drive to Choke off Germany's overseas sup plies were reported by the minis try of information, which said tons of contraband consigned to Germany had been! intercepted and detained. . j Included In 'the contraband were petroleum, iron ore, wood pulp, pebble phosphate and a va riety of mired cargoes. - The government also announ ced that organization of the field forces which will swell those al ready in France was proceeding "much faster" . than during the World war. It added the rapidly growing army , was "being supplied with a vast industrial cushion" in line with Britain's plans for a long war. - The Duke of Windsor, returned to aid his country latter an almost S-year voluntary lezile that fol lowed his abdication, called on Prime Minister Chamberlain. He also conferred with War Minister Leslie Hore-Bellsha. Queen Mother I Mary lunched with King George and Queen Elis abeth today. It was the first time she had seen her son since the war began. Are Identified - I.. ver P. Naquin, still skipper of the ill-fated craft, submit his, belief that the valve behaved then as it did May 13, when the Squalus went down.. j ; Earlier,: the seal-battered craft relinquished her long-imprisoned dead as nary friends and relatives found some consolation in an ex pert's opinion thit the victims had died swiftly and mercifully. Grim-faced, white-coated navy hospital aides carried the 25 en tombed for 115 days in the aft end of the submarine to an. im provised morgue inj the nary yard, where fingerprint 'and dental ex perts carefully- carried on the work'of identification. Among those identified was Ro bert R. Weld, Kooskia, Idaho, fireman. Claims Planes in Day Havoc, Report snips, standard work on the world's navies, is the 2,227-ton Gryf. which was completed early in 1938. Only two gunboats are listed, the Komendant Pilsudskl and the General Haller, both of 342 tons.) In the Ukraine region 11 Polish planes were destroyed at the air-' field at Luck, the high command said in Its announcement. Two of these " were shot down in battles, it was said. At Brody eight planes were re ported shot down in flames after a sharp clash with German fight ers. Dispatches from German land forces stated that seven Polish planes were captured. The high command said the outstanding group of German, aces so far developed by the war Is the squadron commanded by Captain Wilhelm Gentzen. These fliers are credited with the destruction of .74 planes, of which 28 were reported shot down in air battles. Hialystok Taken, Communique Reports BERLIN, Sept. 16(i?-The German supreme high army command today Issued the fol lowing communique; "Fighting around Lwow con tinues. Polish divisions en circled around Kutno still are offering resistance. Hialystok was captured." BERLIN, Sept. lS.HVGer man - army communiques ' today told of new nazi successes In Po land while diplomatic quarters re newed talk of possible peace pros pects. ' The communique said nazi forces continued pounding at two of three mainstays of Polish de fense, Warsaw and Kutno. The third of these mainstays, at Ra dom, was reported annihilated. The armies also were said to have entered Polish fortifications at Brest-Lltovsk (Brzesc Nad Bugiem), 100 miles-east of War saw, after fierce bombing activity by the air force, despite unf aror able weather, had paved the way. The fortifications were reported partly blown up and nine enemy armored : cars destroyed. Polish war vessels stiU lying in the harbor of Heisternest were sunk by bombs," the communique asserted.; Talk Of peace efforts by Pre mier Mussolini persisted with th return from Italy of the Italiaji ambassador, Bernardo Attollco. The ambassador made a flying visit to his homeland after con ferring with Nad State Secretary Ernest von Welzsaecker early in the week. Official quarters were silent on. the report that "Berlin political circles were noting with interest the fact that the international press la again discussing the pos sibility of peace. ; 7 Some diplomats said they be lieved "something was in the wind," but added that they had small hope for its success. Poles Make Try To Reach Warsaw Poles, reported surrounded by the Germans north of Lodz, 80 miles southwest of Warsaw, wer said to -hare made another at tempt to break through', toward? the capital but the high command communique said the effort failed." r .yi .v -- v--- ' What was described as the big gest battle of the war ended th sixth day with Polish troops still fighting ' like tigers against sur- Turn to page 2, column 1)