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News Behind
By PACI BIAIXOX ;
WASHINGTON, Sept. U.-VPh
, Principles of a new war working
irrangement between Industry
. nd government hare been quiet
ly reached during the past three
Weeks. - . -. -
: Conferences have been fre
. quently held at the commerce
department and elsewhere, at
tended not only by the heads
of the largest Industrial plants
bat 1 by secondary government
officials in charge of planning
policies, . government e c o n o -mists
and even some outside
economists like Dr. Harold G.
Moulton of Brookings institu
tlon, pressed Into active im
official government service.
This work is all advisory. Con
clusions have not been submitted
fully to Mr. Roosevelt. No' one
vet knows what he may decide
ultimately to do with the recom
mendations, but It Is expected
he may change some, heartily
approve the whole.
The 1939 revision of the In
dustrial: mobilization plan will
serve as the skeleton formula.
This seta up price, labor, finance,
foreign trade, and other commis
sions to operate under ' control
of a top war Industries adminis
trator and a top advisory council.
The Statesman
Presents No. 1 s
News Columnist
Paul Mallon Is recognized as
the outstanding Washington,
DC, ! news commentator. Be
.deals in facts, Interesting facta
: . that affect yon and your neigh
i bor. His column. News Behind,
Today's News, will be presented
daily In The Oregon Statesman.
Watch for It each day on the
editorial page, its regular posi
i tlon beginning Tuesday. . .
i Ia '.. the mobilisation plan this
was alt directly under the presi
dent, but some changes are to be
suggested which may relieve him
of some detailed responsibility.
Personnel of the various com
missions has been discussed and
dates will be submitted to the
president as suggestions. (So
many alternative names have
been mentioned,; it is impossible
to say-who might get what, but
there is considerable support for
the selection of Bernard Baruch
or a man like joe Kennedy, Lon
don ambassador, as war indus
tries administrator. Strange as
It Bounds Federal Security Ad
ministrator McNutt has been
mentioned to head the war labor
administration, possibly on the
assumption that his contacts with
labor would thus enhance his fu
ture political position In the ad
ministrationmay be. Federal
Loan Administrator Jones is, be
ing mentioned for the finance
post.) : . ,
This means government
would move swiftly on the oat
break of war to control pro
duction, raw materials, prices,
labor, foreign trade, railroad
and track distribution, through
- these boards of business men
and government officials but
In a moderate way at first.
(Skeleton policy adopted: "The
surrender of all Individual
rights in war time is unde
sirable. If It can be avoided.")
For Instance, no arbitrary price
fixing is mentioned in the revisad
mobilization plan. It says: "Con
trol of prices should be limited
largely to reliance upon the vol
untary cooperative pressure
which an enlightened public
opinion will bring to bear upon
interests which fail to cooperate."
It adds some anti-profiteering
legislation may later be neces
ary. " h
Also on labor' the purpose is
defined as One of trying to
maintain equal distribution
"by dose cooperative relations
between labor, industry and
the government." It contem
plates that Industries will be
divided into essential and non
essential classifications. Labor
requirements then will be de
termined end distributed.
Whole setup has the same
guiding spirit of "cooperation"
rather than "force, but latent
power (not mentioned much) will
lie in government hands for use
as necessary.
(Turn to page 4, coL 8)
War Dissenters
Jailed, Executed
PARIS. Sept. 16HffV-A man
and woman who criticised
France's position In the war were
ailed and fined today. ' r "
Maria Rumbacb, . a chamber
maid of Hungarian descent, was
sentenced to eight months In
.prison and fined 1,000 francs
(about $21) for saying:
r "We should have given Danzig
to Hitler for the city should be
long to him." , ,..
BERLIN, Sept.' ll-aVExecu-Uon
of "Germany's first con
scientious objector was reported
today by authorities. - .
August Dickman, of Dinslaken,
was shot by a firing squad on
charges of refusing 'to go to the
from. '
Big Scai
' s 1
Decisive Stage
Being Reached
Nazis Retreat
Reich Troopers Charge
Shattered Against
Withering Fire j
i
Germans Destroy Towns
to Impede Poilnsf
Daladier at Front
PARIS, Sept 16P)-The
European war's first real grand
scale battle on the western
front appeared tonight to be de
veloping by the hour, with hun
dreds of thousands of French
and German troops engaged, j
German troops were report
ed retreating and methodically
destroying small villages as
they abandoned them. j -
French observers reported back
to the general staff that the Ger
mans, as they doggedly gave
ground, blasted entire villages out
of existence in an effort to slow
the French drive through the no
man's land toward the Siegfried
line. ,.
- The general staff announced the
Germans were , "constantly
throwing reinforcements Into the
battle, which was swinging Into
its decisive stage tonight after two
weeks of preliminary skirmishing.
This "battle of the Saar" was
being waged along a 40 mile front
from the Moselle valley southeast
ward to Saarbruecken. U
Tonight's official general staff
communique acknowledged for the
first time that French and Ger
man troops were In contact along
the entire front.
Daladier Visits
Fighting Sector
Premier Edouard Daladier, the
"little dictator of France." who
is his own minister of national
defense and foreign affairs, left
Fans suddenly today to make a
surprise personal inspection of
the Maginot fighting zone.
He left for the front in1 a
military automobile on what, so
far as Is known, was his first
inspection of the battlefront. The
premier, who entered the last
war as a private soldier and
fought the entire four years, win
ning promotion after . promotion
and three citations for valor un
der fire, ! started for the front
without previous announcement
He was accompanied only by
General J. p. O. De Camp, head
of his military cabinet, and their
military aides. i
Military dispatches said the
French struck at " the German
lines at three distinct points:
Along the Moselle river valley in
the north; at the Industrially rich
city of Saarbruecken at the south,
and about midway between the
two down the Little Nied river
which is a tributary to the Saar.
French Take
Valuable Ridges
What was described ' as the
most important French advance
of the last 24 hours was reported
to have brought them into the
angle formed by the two rivers
east of their injunction.
From a high ridge and two
heights which flank it French
guns were said to be able to
dominate the opposite bank of
the Saar from the town of Merzig
to Saarlouia, a distance of 10
miles.
Military observers estimated
that at least IS German divisions
and about the same number, i If
not more, of French divisions had
been drawn Into the fighting.
(French and German divisions
consist of between 10,000 and
15,000 troops.) !
' In the area of this battle be
tween Saarbruecken and the Mo
selle valley, are Germany's
(Turn to page 16, col. 7) !
City Schools and College
Open to Thousands Mond
Over 5000 students will troop
back to Salem schools Monday
morning as the 1939-40 school
year opena with a half-day pro
gram. : v. :-:--- - -1"--"?- 4-..
Pre-reglstratlons indicate that
enrollment will be approximately
the same as last year when 5077
students enrolled the first day.
01 these 1543 were high school
students. In 1937 the total first
day enrollment wis-4743. - K
" Registration and assemblies
will take up the morning at most
of the schools, but " short-class
schedules' will be run through at
some, illgh , school . will ' open at
8:40, -Leslie junior high school
at 8:45 and Parrlah junior high
at 8:50. All these will be dis
missed at noon. ,
Grade schools will take up at
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German Air Bombets Pave Way
For Tank Thrusts in Poland
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Small German tanks advancing "somewhere in Poland" after heavy
artillery fire and bombardment from the air have paved the way.
(UN Cablephoto.)
Tamed Channel Patroh
Seen Again off Isles
By JOHN W. CULMER
DOVER, England, Sept. 16 (AP) Britain's navy,
tuned to fighting efficiency weeks before war started, has
reestablished the famed Dover patrol that kept constant
World war guard over the English channel.
In peacetime little more
station, Dover today watches
island's "sea wall."
From the turf clad white cliffs in the shadow of battle-
: Omented Dover castle you get oc
Germany Answers
"Humanity Plea
Note to France. States
Determination" to Be
Kind to Civilians
BERLIN, Sept. lS-HVGer-many
sent a note to France ' to
night stating she was determined
to abide by the rules of civilised
warfare but warned she must be
guided by what her opponents do.
The note, transmitted through
Sweden, was in reply to a British
French declaration at the begin
ning of the war setting forth me
thods by which the western allies
proposed to conduct the war.
France asked a German answer,
which was given in tonight's note.
Germany called attention to the
fact that Hitler on Sept. 1 told the
reichstag that the reich was not
warring against women and child
ren. The note emphasized that
thereafter Hitler ordered the Ger
man airforce to attack only mili
tary objectives.
Germany said she welcomed and
applauded the plea by President
Roosevelt that the war be con
ducted as humanely as possible
and later told Britain she pro
posed to abide by the Geneva
agreement of 1025 against use of
poison gases. .
ay
Willamette university fresh
men will prepare for the annual
entrance examinations ordeal and
look forward to their introduc
tion to campus social life as the
institution opens its 1939-40 year.
Freshman enrollment will -begin
at the office of the new regis
trar, Walter Erickson, at 8 a. m.
Monday. The ; new students will
assemble for the -first' time on
the campus In the Waller hall
chapel at, 10:30 to hear a wel
coming address by Dr. Bruce R.
Baxter, president of the univer
sity. At 11:15 they will be form
ally Introduced to the campus by
Professor W. Herman Clark. .... .
English department freshman
placement examinations will be
conducted In Eaton hall at 1:15
p. m. Monday.
(Turn to page S. col. 3)
West
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than a handy naval coaling
the British navy policing the
casional glimpses of the navy at
work.
Three destroyers, steaming lei
surely In line formation enter the
harbor and drop anchor, their
lead-grey hulls bright in the
morning sun.
Back from channel duty they
have been relieved by other ships
of the emergency "barrage squad
ron." Three miles from shore, slim on
the pale sea, . two patrol ships
move almost Imperceptibly a half
mile apart. Westward a third
stands over the French coast,
barely visible through white sea
mist.
Away to the east in a dim ir
regular line a group of war craft
stand as poised to strike.
They fade as clouds screen the
sun, reappear as vague! shapes in,
the distance. Beyond them, invis
ible, you know where are other
ships of the "king's navy."
An occasional naval seaplane
drones overhead, wheeling above
the sea like the gulls that still,
oblivious to war, cry across the
red-pebbled beach.
Who leads the 1939 version of
the world war Dover patrol is an
admiralty secret.
Whether he is using the same
tactics that won medals and pro
motion for retired Admiral Sir
Roger JCeyes is the navy's busi
ness. Ashore Dover folk say they are
grimly confident that land de
fenses vastly 'improved from
.(Turn to page 9, col. 8)
Western Fkhing
For Trout Halted
PORTLAND, Sept 18-CSVTbe
state game eonynission barred to
day trout fishing In coastal
streams and lakes west of ' the
coast range.
f- Such streams will be closed
from mouth toaource between Oc
tober 15 and April 15. .The com
mission asserted an emergency ex
isted and anglers' were taking a
heavy toll of brood trout
- Before the new order. It was
legal to take trout of 10 Inches
or more from tidewater at any
time of the year. The order will
also affect the Columbia-river.
' Open seasons on does in'Oregon
win not be abandoned , despite
protests of Klamath e out y
sportsmen, Frank B. Wire, state
supervisor, said. -
"The doe season In Grant
county never- was questioned,"
Wire said. "That was provided by
the legislature.
40,000 Troops
Join Warsaw
Defense Lines
Shattered Captial Has
Hopes of Thwarting
Germans Buoyed
Radio Relates Horrors
as Nazis Open np
After Ultimatum
BERLIN, Sept 17.-(Sunday)
-W-The German army high
command issued the following
communique at 7:22 a. m
(10:22 p. m. PST) :
"In at Deblin, which was
captured by attack. One hun
dred undestroyed enemy planes
fell into German hands.
"Fighting around Warsaw
continues.
"Kutao was captnred by
German troops.
"Near Siedlze, 12,000 pris
oners were taken besides 86
cannon, six armored cars and
11 planes."
BUDAPEST. Sspt. 1 7. -(Sun
day WflA-Bet ween 40,000 and
50,000 Polisft troops under Gen
eral BartnowBkl have joined the
defenders of the besieged Polish
capital of Warsaw, it was stated
in Polish circles here early today.
General Bartnowski led three
divisions .to the relief of the
capital despite a terrific all-day
air and land bombardment by the
surrounding German forces, It
was said.
The news buoyed Polish hopes
here that the capital might yet
be saved.
UoS? being informed that the
German army had given the War
saw populace 11 hours in which
tqfeave 4he city, under threaM
of rdestroying" it. FOies nor
saidt that Warsaw would hold out
to rthe last man, woman aao
child."
Entire City Is
Now Objective
(The Germans have maintained
they were bombing military ob
jectives only. The ultimatum
meant that the entire capital
would be subject to attack if the
order were not complied with).
Many Polish towns were bombed
heavily Saturday, Polish advices
received here said. These includ
ed Wilno, in northwest Poland.
The army of General Kutreie-
bas at Kutno, 75 miles west of
Warsaw, on Saturday repulsed 17
attacks which were aimed at unit
ing German forces trying to close
in on Warsaw from the north and
south, the legation announced.
200 Heavy Guns
Shelling City
The all-day attack on Warsaw
was described late Saturday night
by a Polish government radio an
nouncer who said the attack was
the "beginning of an' apparent
German attempt to take Warsaw
at all costs."
He said 200 heavy nasi guns
were pouring shells into the cap
ital's streets. '
Through the scream of air raid
sirens, the speaker's voice could
be heard here, saying there was
constant bombing by large nail
squadrons.
The Warsaw announcer, broad
casting at 8:50 p. m. (11:50 p. m.
PST) said nearly all civilians in
the capital were hiding as best
they could in cellars, although
buildings were collapsing on
them.
(Still in Warsaw and cut off
from outside communication were
six United States consular offi
cers, beaded by John K. Davis, a
veteran of 30 years in the foreign
service).
The battered capital was Bald to
be lacking adequate water and
food supplies In the ninth day of
the German aiege.
The announcer said streets were
piled with wreckage created by
bombs and shells dropping Into
"nearly every block of the city.
"All day Warsaw has been un
der heavy fire said the announ
cer. "Air raids destroyed the Pro
testant church while service was
being held and the roof collapsed,
killing 100 persons. .
"German planes flying low over
buildings tossed incendiary
bombs. The capital now is almost
a flaming torch. '
"The fire department la racing
helplessly all over town for there
have been more than 400 separate
fires today.
"Women and children and old
men-i-all the rest are fighting the
invaders are trying to extinguish
the blazes with sand and the little
water than can be spared from the
drinking supply. Their faces are
blackened by soot and pitifully
lined by fatigue." -
The announcer said new postr
ers signed : "Smigly-Ryds" (Mar
shal Edward Smigly-Ryds, com
mander-in-chief of . the Polish
army) had. been plastered on
"those walls still left standing.
He Quoted the posters as calk
lng upon men, women and child
ren to "defend Warsaw to the last
drop of blood, for the honor of
Poland demands It We must fight
the barbarian Invaders In every
field in every manner with every
weapon." . .
Ukraine Needs
Pole A
Nazis Give
Time Expires
On Ultimatum,
Polish Silent
Army Wants Surrender
or City Will Feel
Terrific Attack
Capital's ' Citizens Told
None to Be Spared
if Note Rejected
BERLIN, Sept 17.-(Snnday)
) A German army ultima
tum to Warsaw to surrender
without resistance expired
some time after 8 a. m. today
(9 p. m. EST Saturday) but
them waa no immediate report
to Berlin as to what happened
at the Polish capitaL
The German high comntand re
ported at 4:30 a. m. this morning,
one and one-half hours after ex
piration of the ultimatum, that
Its army in the field still had had
no word from Polish authorities.
Government officials here said
they were without information.
The ultimatum said Warsaw
would be regarded as a war area
if the German terms were not ac
cepted, meaning that the city
would be bombarded by artillery
and the air force.
German filers - during the aft
ernoon dropped leaflets warning
the civilian population of the Po
lish capital to get out
24 Honrs Notice
Believed Meaning
The German terms specified
that the military command of
Warsaw had 12 hours to give up.
and then rather ambiguously
stated that civilians would have
11 hours to escape in the event
the .Polish military stood pat
A propaganda ministry spokes
man said a smashing bombard
ment and air attack on the Polish
capital were not expected before
S p. m. (6 a. m. PST). " .
As he interpreted the ultima
tum, "the first 12 hours was giv
en the army after which, in the
event of its rejection, the civilians
have another 12 hours to flee."
US Consular Head -
Still At Warsaw ,
VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept 1.
-(CP)-John K. Davis, United
States consular official reported
to be still in Warsaw, served as
United States consul here from
1934 until early this year.
He left Voncouver last Jan. 9
to take up a position in Warsaw,
reported to be In ruins after count
less German attacks.
Americans Missing
LONDON, Sept. 17 - Iff) - Two
Americans were reported at
Flushing, The Netherlands, today
as among 17 persons missing from
a Danisn steamer wnicn neuters.
British news agency, said had
struck a mine near Terschelling,
The Netherlands, Sept 13.
Late Sports
PORTLAND. Ore.. Sent 15-UP)
The San Francisco Seals and the
Portland Bearers split a Pacific
Coast Baseball league double
header here tonight '
San Francisco grabbed the
opener, 11 to 4, and Portland
came back behind the four-hit
pitching, of Clarence Pickrel in
the second to win, 11 to 0.
The Seals sewed up the first
game in the eighth inning when
they scored six runs, four of them
on a home run by Salkeld with
the bases full.
San Francisco 11 14 0
Portland 4 13 1
Jorgens, Ballon and Salkeld;
Thomas, Radonits and Monto.
San Francisco . 0 4 1
Portland 11 15 0
Gay, O'Doul and Woodall; Pick
rel and Monzo. "
SEATTLE, Sept l-(ff)-LoS
Angeles ruined Jack Lelivelt's
"night" at the Seattle baseball
stadium tonight by defeating Leli
velt's league champions, 7-4 and
11-3 in a "who cares" double-
header that came too late to have
any effect on league leadership.
Los Angeles 7 13 1
8eatUe . 4 8 3
: Prim, Berry and Sueme; Bar
rett Van Fleet and Hancken.
Second game (7 innings) :
Los Angeles- 11 1 0
Seattle . - 7 1
Thomas, Kush and Sueme;
Gregory, Van Fleet and CampbeU.
Protection
mbassador
Warsaw
Russia's Note Declares Poland Exists
as Nation no More; Government
Whereabouts Unknown
Polish Ambassador Refuses to Accept
Note Formally; Expects toBe
Withdrawn From Moscow
MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (Sunday) t-(AP) Soviet Russia
has decided to send her army across the Polish frontier to
day and tooccirpythe Polish Ukraine and white Russia.
The time when the Russians would march was not spe
cified but unofficial reports widely circulated in Moscow said
the frontier would be crossed today, i
The Polish embassy disclosed it had received a note from
the soviet government announcing that Russian troops would
occupy the Polish Ukraine and white Russia regions of Po
land that once belonged to Russia.
Polish Ambassador Waclaw Grzybowski formally re
fused to accept it.
At the same time, however, he referred the matter to
his government asking for instructions. He had conferred
yesterday-with Ivan Potemkin, soviet vice commissar of
foreign affairs. The subject of the discussion was not dis
closed. !
- . . ' . 111 O Russia's note was said unoffi
French Cruiser
Explosion Told
At Least Hundred Sailors
Dead, Reports Say of
- Tuesday Disaster "
PARIS. Sept. i-(tfVAt( least
100 french sailors tonight were
reported to have been killed in
an explosion and fire which" Swept
the cruiser Pluton, a main unit in
France's minelaying fleet.
It was believed possible that
the final toll might be twice that
number.
The explosion, was understood
to have occurred off Casa Blanca,
French Morocco, last Tuesday.
Two hundred would be half the
Pluton's normal crew of 400 offi
cers and men.
The 4773-ton cruiser, although
smaller than other vessels of the
minelaying fleet, carries" a normal
cargo of 450 mines, which is
twice that of some or the larger
ships.
The first advices which nene-
trated official secrecy surround
ing tne disaster railed to specify
the port out of which the Pluton
was operating and gave the im
pression it stUl was in port when
a mine exploded accidentally.
Later Information indicated.
however, that the minelayer was
out on an expedition in Moroccan
waters.
The explosion was followed by
fire which swept over the 10-year-
old warship.
2 Seaside Youths
Die in Car Wreck
ASTORIA. Ore.. Sent. 16 -zpw
Two 18-year-old Seaside youths
were killed today when a car
overturned on the Nehalem sec
ondary highway near Astoria.
They were Robert Babcock and
Frank Thomas." '
Charles Irvin, owner , of the
car, escaped injury.
Japanese Launch New Drive
On China Following Truce
SHANGHAI, Sept lMfly-Jap-anese
troops were reported, to
night to have opened a general
offensive on one central China
front and observers .predicted
possible development of major
campaigns to crush Chinese 're
sistance. "
S' The report of the central China
activity was from- Dome!, Japa
nese news agency. Coming after
a year of only desultory opera
tions, the attack was regarded
as a possible prelude to major
offensives by the Japanese, now
relieved of their preoccupation of
the Manchoukuo border by the
new Tokyo-Moscow . truce.
Domel said Japanese troops- in
northwestern : Kiangsl province
were driving westward south of
Nanchang. Four Chinese army
corps were said to - have been
hurled back by the advance.
Foreign observers expected the
Japanese to strike in south China
In an attempt to crush Kwangsl
Is Told:
i 1
24Hours
cially to have declared the red
army would .cross the border at
6 a.m. today (7 p.m., PST last
night) on a line from Polotzk to
Kamanetz-Podolsk.
Copies of this note were said
also toj have been sent simultan
eously to all diplomatic repre
sentatives here saying the action
was taken because Poland no
longer sexists. It was said to have
declared there no longer is a Pol
ish government because its where
abouts are unknorn.
ujsSR Keeps Neutrality
The note was said to have de
clared that "the soviet union wil
retain Neutrality but feels It ne
cessaryi to"protect white Russlar
and Ukrainian minorities in Po
land and will do everything tc
keep peace and order.
(Poland is bound with Brita.
and France In mutual assistance
treaties, by which the British anrt
French are pledged to aid Polan
In defense of her Independence
against any aggression.
(Polish Invocation of this trea
ty brought Great Britain and
France into war against Germany
September 3, two days after a
German army invaded western
Poland.)
The scene of the Russian action
would extend across the whole of
Russia's Polish frontier.
It would increase considerably
Russia's frontier with Ru muni.
Rumania holds Bessarabia, wrest-
ea irom Kussia after the world
(Turn to page 13. col. 4)
Up tp Minute
European Map
In This Issue
Those European names!
And old maps!
They perplex a news hungry
reader,! no end in his attempt
to keep np with fearful events
on the; continent.
The ' Oregon Statesman to
day, therefore, , Is presenting
'or Jts readers three large
maps as np to date as can be
had, depicting Europe as m
whole its boundaries, fortifi
cations, air and water routes
and other strategic . points
and showing vital spots of
London and Paris, capitals of
the allies.
Turn to page 3. These maps
are worth saving.
and Yunnan province forces and
cut 'major communication, and
supply lines of Chungking, tem
porary Chinese capitaL -
Heretofore, it was said, Japa
nese had. delayed further advance
into the interior because of fear
of a soviet attack in the north.
With conclusion of a truce they
apparently have a free hand to
attempt to smash the armies of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
V
TOKYO, Sept. l-ff)-Japanese
today, hailed . the Tokyo-Moscow
armistice generally as an Impor
tant step which would permit Ja
pan to ; devotexgreater attention
to her China campaign.
J Some officials warned, ' how
ever, that the. agreement which
ended fighting' on the. Manchou-kuo-Outer
Mongolia border did
not mean necessarily the settle
ment of all the numerous Jape
nese-soviet problems '
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