ir 111 11 v 1 m 111 ,111111 11 11 11 vv t ' ,5 Vr?: I .EIGHTY-NINTH YEAH . Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, September 19, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 151 O 1-1 t" tuKi$;:::M to Bcuik Robbery PCUNDOO 1651 Battling "isma -.f?..-.- 1 School opened for Gary Gooding, con of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Gooding, 401 North 20th. Gary, a first grade student at Washington, was In a contemplative mood on his Tery first day of school. it rr u J? : ; , I A J iismi ilSaHind ai iJmsiI Mnn nlii uii hum fi ffl lim I a am &M.ifmt(ai' iWitteSjwawiit rriWrriiaWiiri iA aw Senior t f enlor high are Dorothy . strolling down the spacious front 1 l.JI'.- 1 t; T 1 ir ii 1 mr 11 j L i v 1 T V i . f- llother's helped Stuart Norman Leslie Lee, left, and Mary Louise Lee, center, to Bosh grade schooL Mother Clare Lee, 1488 Booth :" Commercial, Is at far right, while Mlas Eleanor Forde helps. :7-M ' - - 7 .- t vtM- JkaflamssBMv'Krr' Junior high girls ere these, at Parrislu From left, Emlline Craig, Joan Frlgaard, Janette Btratton, Opal 8eld and Jane Denison (Statesman staff photos.) i -:-:--w.v - :.v'. - . -s- 6elby and Bob Bailey, seen here walk at Salem high. I i.ll B I III II I J ,7 I r":ti ': j i All-of $? Swee y. o imp UU1V . - "v. - "5 - Loot Located Clyde Jensen, 24, Held Here After Arrest in Taxi- Chase SalemV Clotning Clerk's Suspicion Provides Tip to Police Nine hoars after the Bank of Sweet Home was robbed of $3586 yesterday,, morning, 24-year-old Linn county man, uiyae Jensen, was In ppliee custody and had confessed to the crime, Sergeant Asa Fisher of the Salem police department and Captain Lansing of the I state police announced last night., The two officers arrested Jen sen in a taxi cab after trailing him on : a tip gtren by a local clothing store clerk. He r had 13200.55 on his person and a suitcase, $226.19 In coins was located la a cache half a mile from Sweet Home and the re mainder -of the loot was account ed for by purchases made In Sa lem, the officers said. Confession Made, Police Report Jensen confessed that he had been planning for about a month to rob the bank and finally had Kone there after midnight Sunday, sawed the bars from a rear win dow and entered, there to. await the arrival of Mrs. Dorothy Grant, assistant cashier. Entering the bank at abont 8:45 a. m. to prepare for the day's business, Mrs. Grant reported she was confronted by a short man wearing a black mask and J log ger's raincoat. She said he pointed a revolver at her and ordered her to till a sack with money from the rault. He departed after attempt Ing unsuccessfully to lock her in the rault. The two officers quoted Jensen (Turn to page 2, column 8) National Officials Review Art Center Dr. Defenbacher, US Head Sees Local Aid Need After WPA Goes The Salem Art Center was visit ed yesterday by national and state dignitaries who met with the members of the executive board to outline plans for future devel opment of the center. Dr. Daniel S. Defenbacher of Washington, D. C, national head of all art cen ters was chief speaker. -' Coming from Portland were Miss Gladys Everett, Portland at torney, who is in charge of all WPA projects in the state other than construction, Miss Marjorie Hoffman Smith, federal art pro ject director, and her assistant Thomas Lehman. Defenbacher stressed the neces sity for looking far into the future (Turn to page 2, column 3 ) FBI Police Class Open October 16 ASTORIA, Sept. 18.-(VA fed eral b u r e a n of Investigation school for police will be held Oc tober 16 to 21 under sponsorship of the Oregon Association of City Police Officers, Police Chief John K. Acton of Astoria, association president, said today. Instructors will include three regular national police academy Instructors of Washington, D. C, US District Attorney Carl Don augh, Police Chief Harry Niles of Portland, Wayne L. Morse, dean of the University of Oregon law school; Cantain Dana E. Jewels director of the Portland nolle school; Eric W. Allen, dean of journalism. University of Oregon, and L. L. Ray, Lane county dis aim aj. u.. iuij, uue cQuniy aw trict attorney. City School Signup Shrinks On Onenin& as Wns Rxnenfpd i j One hundred sixty-eight fewer pila registered in Salem city One hundred sixty-eight fewer pupils registered in Salem city schools Monday than on the first day of school last year, a shrink age 'termed yesterday by Super intendent Frank Bennett as "Just about what we anticipated." . This year's figure waa 4909, as compared with 607? last year. First-day; enrollment is still con siderably above . that of 1937, however, when 4743 children started hack to school on the first day. M; V. ' Elementary schools, with an en rollment of 2033 showed a de crease of a fraction over. 4 per cent,, while the junior and senior high schools' enrollments, totaling 1486, are down a little more than S per cent First graders number 207, compared to S34 last year. Plane Carrier Survivor list Of 438 Named Incomplete Count Fails to Show Fate of 1100 on Board "Courageous" Sinking Is Severe Setback to Britannia's Navy LONDON, Sept. 19-(Tuesday) -ffj-Ttie British admiralty issued today a list of 438 survivors of the torpedoed aircraft earlier Courageous, first warship casual ty in the war with Germany. The admiralty emphasized that the list was not complete. The ship's company numbered slight ly more than 1100 when she went down at an unnamed spot yester day. About 400 of the survivors were landed in England tonight by destroyer, some of them tell ing vivid stories of the sinking. The British declared their be lief the attacking submarine had been sent to the same grave "with the Courageous, by a spirited on slaught from British destroyers. Commander Listed Among Rescued . The first list of survivors In cluded Commander E. M. C. Abel Smith, former equerry to King George, the ship's chaplain, the commanding engineer and var ious officers. Commander Abel-Smith was appointed to the place six weeks ago. Commander C. W. G. M. Wood house also was listed among the survivors, but there was no imme diate mention of Captain W. T. Makeig-Jones, who was last re ported by survivors on the bridge directing his men to abandon ship. J The ship had two commanders, Abel-Smith for the air Irm, Woodhouse for the executive, while Captain Makeig-Jones was In direct command of the ship. The survivors reported crewmen sang and cheered while they swam after the Courageous foun dered. Terse Message Flashes News The admiralty's communique oh the sinking of the Courageous, first British warship to go down in the two weeks of war, was bar ren of detail. It said only the Courageous had "been lost by en emy submarine action," that an undisclosed number of survivors had been picked up by destroyers and merchant ships andHhat the submarine was "heavily attacked by destroyers and is believed to have been sunk." "There were two distinct bangs at Intervals of about a second," related one of the survivors. "After that there were a few minor explosions and most of the crew jumped into the water. The order to abandon ship came with in five minutes and the Courage ous foundered 30 minutes after the first explosion. The ship heeled so badly some lifeboats could not be used. The losa of the Courageous, while a severe blow, left Great Britain with six other, newer air craft carriers the Albatross, Ark Royal, Eagle, Furious, Glorious. and Hermes. Five more are under construction. A communique tonight review. ing England's air patrol of the sea said "many submarines" have been found and attacked, some sunk and others severely dam aged "with little opposition from the German air force." The communique also gave an eyewitness account by a British (Turn to page 2, column 6) Double Funeral Held G LEND ALE, Sept. 18.-UH-A double.funeral was held today for Richard Grenier, 60, and his wife. Myrtle, 44. Grenier died Sept. 11 of injuries suffered in an auto ac cident and Mrs. Grenier died two days later of illness, unaware death also had claimed her hus i ueaia aiso ma cmimea ner (band. Seven children survive. ; jt j Many senior high students are still working in seasonal Jobs and are expected ' to register within the next week, largely wiping away the shrinkage of 67. . Only three schools showed any increase. Parrish . j gained one, Englewood three -end Bush 11. Sacred Heart academy reported a registration of 320 and St. Vin cent de Paul's parochial school 125. Both figures are higher than last year's. " t : School starts in earnest today with full-day . schedules , tor all schools. Only half-day schedules were run -yesterday. Hours for the various schools - are as fol lows: First and second graders, 9 to 11:30 a. m., 1 to 2:30 p. m.; other elementary grades, 9 to 12, (Turn to page 2, column 4) "Strong Man of Steel" Is Dead N ... 'A Schwab Called At Ase of 77 Major Figure In Steel Was 111 and Alone; Rites Thursday NEW YORK, Sept, lS.-ffl5)- Charles M. Schwab, 77, who con trolled billions of dollars in the steel Industry and made available hundreds of ships for the govern ment during the world war, died tonight at his Park avenue apart ment. Ill and lonely since the death of his wife in January, the once "strong man of steel" gradually declined in health. During the last two days he bad been un conscious. Schwab returned from Europe on August 31 he had crossed the Atlantic almost 170 times and complained he had been ill of a serious heart ailment in London His doctor said it appeared he would recover until a week ago, when a new attack' of coronary thrombosis set in. "He Just slipped away," said Schwab's brother, Edward, who, with his wife, was at the death bed. The brother said funeral serv ices would be held at St. Patrick's (Roman Catholic) cathedral, probably Thursday. Besides his brother, Schwab is survived by two sisters, Mrs. David Barry and Sister Cecilia, the latter being a nun in the Carmelite monastery, Loretto, Pa., which Schwab built. Schwab had been president of the Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., 1897- 1901; president of U. S. Steel Corp., 1901-03; chairman of the Bethlehem Steel1 Corp. and Beth lehem Steel company; director of the Chase National bank and the (Turn to page 2, column 7) Landon and Knox Aid Asked by FR GOP Chiefs Called Into Neutrality Huddle; Borah Sees Rift WASHINGTON, Sept, 18.-P)-In an unusual step which, recalled his recent plea for "national uni ty" on problems arising, from the European war, President Roose velt today broadened the coming White House conference on neu trality legislation to include the titular beads of the republican party, Alf M. Landon and Col. Frank Knox. He obtained their readily given consent to attend the meeting, which is to be held Wednesday, the day before congress convenes in special session to consider the administration plan for revamping the neutrality law, which now em bargoes arms shipments to bellig erents. While preparations for the ses (Turn to page 2, column 8) Clipper Is Safe After Fear Felt LONDON, Sept 19. (Tuesday) -WpThe British news agency, Reuters, said today the American clipper, flying boat of Pan-American Airways, was winging Its way safely across the Atlantic to New York after an 'Interruption in wireless 'communications tempor arily had caused feara for Its safety.- ' i 'The flying boat left Horta," the Azores, at 7:10 p. m., (2:10 p. m. EST) Monday. i Reuters said that i Portuguese tunboat - dispatched to the as sistance of the clipper when the break in communications led to a belief the flying boat had come down in the Atlantic, 100 miles west of the Azores. The gunboat was reported returning to its base after it was learned that all was well aboard the clipper. - Britain Avers USSR Offside; War Continues Will Keep Fighting to Gain Objectives, Is Official Word Soviet Step in Poland Branded Unjustified Act to Her Ally LONDON, Sept. 18-()-The British government stated to night that it considered soviet Russia's invasion of Poland un justified and asserted it would "prosecute the war with all en ergy until its "objects have been achieved." It was the first official com ment from Great Brftain on the entry of Russian troops into Poland Sunday. A terse communique from the ministry of information asserted, "The British government have considered the situation created by the attack upon Poland or dered by the soviet government. This attack upon their (Britain's) own ally at a moment when she is prostrate in the face of over-: whelming forces brought against her by Germany cannot in the view of his majesty's government he justified by the arguments put forward by the soviet govern ment." The communique added: "The fuil implication of these events is not yet apparent but his majes ty's government take the oppor tunity of stating that nothing that has occurred can make any dif ference to the determination of his majesty's government, with the f uu support of the country, to fulfill their obligations to Po land." Another development tonight (Turn to page 2, column 6) Gen. White Cites Unpreparedness Army Out -of-Date Wilh Modern War, Chief of Guard Says SPOKANE, Sept. 18.-(fl)-The United States army is neither pre pared for modern warfare nor for defense of the nation, Maj. Gen. George White, commandant of the 41st division, national guard, said today. General White dropped his "bombshell" in an interview late today when he arrived from Sa lem, Ore., for an inspection of the 161st infantry and the 14th divi sion, aviation, units stationed here. "With the world in names around us, it is time for the aver age American citizen to know the truth about our Own national de fense," said the general who was one of the founders of the Ameri can Legion and who commands the national guard of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. "The whole military force of the United States is obsolescent. not properly trained and illy equipped for modern warfare. "Our army is the 17th in size in the world, but it doesn't even rate that high in efficiency. We are not properly prepared for modern warfare. The one bright spot In the offi cer's picture of the army was the air corps. "What the army lacks in other branches, it makes up in the air service." Swastika, Sickle Meet as Chiefs Eye Poland Plan i BERLIN, Sept. 18P)-Ger-man and Russian army officers were drawing op an occupation line for their armies in Poland tonight as it was reported the nazis were resuming their bat- tie to force the surrender of Warsaw. Detachments of the two arm ies of occupation met at Brest Litovsk, the fallen Polish city; where Russian revolutionists: and Germans , signed their sep parate peace In the World war. ' Officers bearing the nazi swastika exchanged fries dly greetings with officers bearing the communist hammer and ' sickle. . The two commands were con cerned with fixing a line in Po- -land. Beyond which the Ger man and Russian armies. would not go. ' : Reports were heard here that the best the Poles could hope for was a possible protectorate similar to Bohemia and Mora- 3 A rmies Su rro Polish President, Army Commander in Kumaman Haven; Russian Army Still Rolls Westward Warsaw Still Center of Resistance; Undirected Polish Soldiery Fights Without Air Aid BUDAPEST, Sept. 18. (AP) The Warsaw radio be came silent suddenly at 10 :10 p. m. (1 :10 p. m. PST) tonight as Col. Vaclav Lipinski was telling of fighting against Ger man besiegers in the Polish capital. ' He said fighting in the Praga district of East Warsaw was violent last night with heavy shelling. The west sector was quiet. Col. Lipinski claimed the Poles had taken many prison ers. Yesterday, he asserted, German artillery had shelled the center of the city. "And yet," continued the radio announcement, "we have comparative order here. "We have lived through yesterday and today despite Buffer State Believed Aim "Assistance" to Poland, no Clash With Nazi Goal, Soviet Says MOSCOW, Sept, 18-j5P)-Ger-many and , tevlet Russia were be lieved by some .sources tonight to be pointing toward creation of a small Polish buffer state as their armies bit further Into Po land. These sources said they saw a hint of such a possibility in a joint communique broadcast over Russian radio stations. This announcement declared the intention of the advancing soviet and German armies was to "assist the population of Poland in reconstructing conditions of their state existence." The soviet general staff an nounced a continued advance along the entire 500-mile front of yesterday's invasion, with the capture of 13 additional towns and cities. The farthest thrust was at Volkovysk (Welkowysk), 110 miles from, the Russian border, and representing a 60-mile ad vance from" Baranowicse, the farthest point reached Sunday. The Joint Soviet-German com munlque declared: "In order tn forestall unfnn Tid ed rumors of every description with regard to the . tasks of So viet and German troops in Po 1 and, the government of the U.S.S.R. and Germany declare that the actions of these troops pursue no aim counter to the in terests of Germany or the SoTlet Union or contradicting the spirit ana tne letter or me non-aggression pact concluded by Germany and the U.S.S.R. "On the contrarv. the tanV of these troops is to reestablish tn roiand the peace and order dis rupted . by the collapse,; of the Polish state and - to, aanlat tha population of Poland ia recon structing conditions or i n e i r state existence." : . The -Weather tlT with some cloudi ness today and Wednesday; a c a 1 1 e red thunderstorm. Max. temp. 79, min. 49. Ri ver -3.9. North wind. ish, French Experience By E. C. DANIEL Associated Press Staff .Writer 1 It was ' blue Monday for the British, French and Poles. Not only was Poland losfe to the allies, but the political stability of all Europe east of the Rhine was left in doubt, arwell. . . Germany and Russia, supported at least by- Italy's , good wishes, now dominate the middle Euro pean 'scene while lesser states qua ver. - -: '': . ;.. , : . . It is a situation bringing to mind a remark made ' in 1936 when. Hitler announced plans for Germany's .west wall:- "It will make, the French army a prisoner in France." That, in effect, is France's im mediate status. Fowerless to go to the aid "of the Poles, she also seems helpless to prevent ' Ger many, Russia and ' Italy, If they wish, from redrawing territorially or politically the map of eastern, northern, and southern Europe.' Beyond the barrier of concrete, steel, and -' neutral states that stretches from the . North sea to Splits unded DomDing, machine gunning and sneinng. Day before yesterday we thought the great onslaught had broke.n Warsaw's spirit, but . . ." Here the radio sneech WAS hrnlr en off. The broadcast ws th firm heard from the Warsaw radio in many hours. It was silent all Sun- aay night. By LLOYD LEHRBAS CERNAUTI, Rumania, Sept. li. -(Tuesday, 1 . a. 4 p. m. PST Mondayl-()-Three widely-separated Polish armies, badly battered and almost surrounded, today were reported continuing to fight against overwhelming German armies despite the flight of the Polish government from the na tion. Advices received at this border town; showed the Polish armies were entrenched as follows: 1 In Warsaw and west of the city, still holding out after a 12 day siege. 2 -Along the Bug river north of Pinsk and in the Bialystok sector. 3 Along the San river west of Lwow, the capital of the Ukraine territory now being in vaded by the Russian and Ger man armies. 100,000 Follow Chief to Rumania As the polish president, Ignace Moscicki, Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Marshal Edward Smig-Iy-Ridz, Polish army commander, crossed the border, the Cernautl chief of police estimated that at least 100,000 refugees had fled Poland for safety in Rumania. The Polish infantry and artil- lery were said to be ' fighting practically without assistance as most of the Polish air force has been destroyed or Interned in Ru mania. The Jthree armies were said to be resisting the. Germans as indi vidual units, f without unified di rection from "the Polish general staff.; Observers here said the open ing days of the ' Polish-German war were made up of long dis tance i warfare. . German planes have bombed troops and communications la cities far behind the battle lines while most of the German ad vances have been achieved by mo torized and mechanized "units speedily encircling towns and cit ies rather than by direct frontal attacks. - . ...... f: Polish staff officers and for (Turn to page 2, column 1) and Poles 6 Blue Monday the Mediterranean, Germany and Russia; temporarily, at least, are masters. Poland, once proud pos sessor of Europe's fourth or fifth strongest army, is crushed be tween them. r From the long-range stand point, the diplomatic- political vic tory for. Germany appears of no less Import than the actual dis persion of Poland's armies. t -The ! end of Polish resistance will free perhaps 55 of Germany's divisions in Poland, not only to go to the western front but to over awe eastern Europe as well. . Germany appears to be 1n posi tion to demand any of the vital raw materials she needs from the little neutral states on her bor ders. Likewise, she can discourage them from selling supplies to the allies, much less lending any mil itary ld to France and England. If Germany, with the sanction or help of Russia and Italy, should continue rewriting the Versailles treaty, as has been done in Po land, Rumania alone might lose . (Turn to page 2, column 3) A-