vcvc The Weather Generally cloudy and cooler today and Wednea ' day; rising humidity; north rly wind off coast. Max. Temp. 83, Mln. 40. River -3.0 ft. North wind. . Football Finals .Look first to The States ' nan for first accounts of the i games and scores daring the big 1930 gridiron wan now resuming orer the country. in EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, September 26, 1939 Price Set- Newsstands 5e No. 157 Rniia Clamps " 1 . . Ap . Bar Frontier 1 ! ifornmMas w Million -Dollar Property Loss Taken - From Pounding Rain and Wind in Stormy Southern State Many Drowned as Ocean Craft Wrecked; .. 14 Boats Are Unreported; . Disaster Follows Heat LOS ANGfcLES, Sept. 25 (AP) At least 43 persons were believed tonight to have perished in a violent wind and rain storm which struck southern California late yesterday and caused damage that may exceed $1,000,000. Dozens of other persons were aboard 14 pleasure boats reported missing along the coast. The storm wrecked, sank or beached more than a score of boats, created flood conditions in many localities, includ ing mountain resort-areas, put 35,900 telephones out of com mission in Los Angeles and nearby towns, seriously disrupted rail and highway traffic and cut off power service. A 30-mile gale swept the Los Angeles harbor area to night More rain for the next 36 hours was forecast. Thirty homes were damaged and eight destroyed on Alamltos peninsula near lxn go- Beach, causing damage estimated at 100,000. Portions of Whittier, Artesia, Downey, Montebello, Burbank, Pasadena and San Fernando val ley were without lights or tele phones. Damage of $100,000 resulted from pounding waves at the Los Angeles Yacht club'B cove at Fish Harbor. Five racing sloops sank and others were battered. Hundreds Saved From Periled Boats Some 200 persons were rescued last night and today from wrecked and disabled pleasure boats and fishing craft. -. The casualty list Includes: Eight persons drowned over board from boats and in rip tides ""and their bodies recovered. ; Twenty-three persons believed drowned overboard the fishing boat Spra, from which the body of a 24th victim was recovered and included In the known death list of eight. Ten "J other persons believed drowned In the wrecked sloop Conchlta and yacht Nino-O. Wreckage of what apparently had been an 80-foot yacht was found in the surf today near Hunt ington Beach, Orange county. No craft of that size was listed among those reported missing. Two unidentified bodies were washed ashore in the Los Angeles Long Beach harbor area. One was that- of a woman about i 3 0 and the other of a man about 40. No Definite Idea Of Death Total Swamped , with rescue work, coast gnard officials said they had no definite idea of how' many boats might actually be missing. : The storm created near-flood conditions in some parts of Los Angeles with 6.41 inches of rain In less than 24 hours preceding today noon. This is the . heaviest September rain in Los Angeles' weather - history. ; The rain broke up the worst heat wave here in weather burean records, as measured by its ln- i tensity and eight-day duration., Most of the storm victims were aboard the sport fishing boat ; Spray which sank off Point Mugu i near Oznard, 70. miles northwest of here. ' , - ' .23 Believed Dead' On Capsized Boat Twenty-three persons apparent ly were drowned when the Spray , eapslxed last 'night within 600 feet of the : pier. - Two persons fought their way safely ashore. A water taxi rescued 1 65 per sons from the fishing . barge Vir ginia, caught In the gale oft Malt- bn beach. i The coast guard rescued 40 oth ers aboard the live-bait boat Indi ana after: she had been reported missing all night. V- '. c ThA US destrover Cassin took in tow the sport fishing cruiser Dia- natch with 26 men . aboard. The cruiser had been adrift for nearly two days in the storm. j ', , More than 50 other persons were rescued from seven other disabled craft. C. P. Holdren, assistant harbor master at Santa Monica, issued a warning that a new storm was ex pected that might be as bad or worse than yesterday's, t , Railways, Highways .. Telephones Useless --" High winds and rain put out of commission more than 29.000 tele phones in the city of Los Angeles. - Heavy rajns In southeastern California disrupted railroad and highway traffic. ,; -'"- - The Santa Fe main ' line was washed out In several places be tween Needles - and Kingman, Ariz., and service was suspended Indefinitely. Two trains were ma rooned at Needles. Highway 66 was .closed both ways from here. More than ISO feet of Southern Pacific track was washed out in Coachella valley. Trains; were de layed from two to four and one- half hours. ... J A 70 'ner cent loss of the date crop resulted from storm dim age . yesterday and heavy rains 10 days ago, said S. H. Winters, manager fit. the United Date Growers. Embargo Plan Gets Support Substitute Is Offered by FDR Forces to Woo Opponents WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-(ff)- Tbe Roosevelt effort to repeal the arms embargo gained strength In the Benate today after administra tion forces had proposed formally a substitute which was described as a strict-and all-inclusive cash and; carry system., - i The introduction of the measure brought private expressions of ap proval from several senators who have yet to commit themselves publicly on the crucial issue. In addition, the Influential Senator George (D-Ga) announced his out right support. He said the new bill would mean "strict cash and car ry, not only for arms but for every artcle and all materials" exported to belligerents. Forty-four senators (only five less than a majority) had previ ously announced themselves in fa vor of repeal of the embargo on arms shipments to warring na tions. However, the opposition of the group led by Senators Borah (By Ida), Vandenberg (R-Mlch). Clark (D-Mo.), and LaFollette (P Wls), remained undiminished. Several of the bloc immediately expressed a renewed determina tion to hold out until the end against repealing the embargo. : In an harmonious atmosphere of uncertain duration the senate foreign relations committee met, received the measure and readily approved a request from Borah to postpone further action until Thursday. Spokaiie Tot Dies ! As House Blazes SPOKANE, SepL 25.-WVDa- vid Lee Eastman, 30 months old boy. Was burned to death shortly before dinner time tonight when the home A his aunt, Mrs. Charles Eastman, was razed by fire. Mrs. ' Eastman told Deputy Sheriff Pat Griffin she had 'gone to a well to draw water and when she returned the flames were so fierce she could not reenter the house where the child was sleep ing. Parents of the child. Mr. and Mrs. David Eastman, were away working In pear h arrest at White Salmon, Wash. The Eastmans came west this fall from Hortonville, Wis. v German Zeppel Raided by ROMANSHORN, S w 1 tzerland, Sept. 26.-(JP)-0ne of Germany's principal airplane motor plants In the former seppelln .works at Friedrlchshafen was reported to day to have been raided by enemy planes. i Observers here .on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance; five (miles away, said they saw the raids last night. , -,. ! The same observers said they believed the plant had been put out of commission by several di rect hits from the planes, which were not identified. But the Ger man border was closed and the re port could not be confirmed. v (DNB, official German news ag ency. Quoted the high command was saying French airplanes had been sighted and fired on over the area but the raiders had failed to bomb any object in Germany, The agency said the planes had been chased into 8wlss territory.) . Thousand stood along the jfrlsa 7. ,GWWS "LITTLE MAGINOT' AWAITS ATTACK 4o , - Should the rnmored German drive through Belgium toward northeast France occur, the Invaders will not find the open country, dotted with isolated fortresses through which they swept in 1014. Span ning the little country from north concrete and steel forts which connect with the Maginot line on the sea. Top view shows part of Belgium's "asparagus bed" and tank how Belgium's little fort system now fully manned, prepared for O Another Theatre Added for Salem 'Liberty' Showhouse, With 700 Capacity, to Open After Remodeling A new motion picture theatre will be opened at 170-178 South Commercial street as soon as the building there can be remodeled for the purpose, It was announced Monday : by E. H. Randall and B. R. Keller, newcomers to Salem who had Just closed a long-term lease with the owner of the prop erty, Mrs. Mary Wenderoth. The deal was handled by 'the W. II. Grabenhorst company. Mr. Randall who recently sold a theatre in Condon which he had operated for 17 years, will move to Salem to make his home. Mr. Keller, active in the film distribu tion end of the motion picture in dustry for 20 years, principally in Portland, will also make his head quarters here. The hew show house will be known as the Liberty theatre and the policy, the proprietors said, will be that of offering the high est class of entertainment at a cost which will appeal to persons of moderate income. (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Med ford Packing Plant ' Fire Loss Is $40,000 m MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 25.-p) -Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the Huber packing plant near here tonight at a loss of ap proximately J 4 0,0 00, partially covered by insurance. in Plant Is Allies9 Airmen shore of Lake Constance to watch the bursting bombs on the ground and the exploding shells in the air. Darkness screened the attackers. Watchers said the bursting bombs were visible clearly. The detonations echoed through the Lake Constance hills. Reports of the raid were con firmed by this communique of the Swiss " general staff: "Sunday night after 9 p. m. an air attack took place, against, in all proba bility, hangars of the Zeppelin fac tory at Friedrlchshafen. The ex plosions of bombs were heard and very violent defensive tire with the nse of tracer bullets observed, r ; "In the late eveninr. between 10 p. m. and midnight, many fron tier towns In Switzerland report ed hearing the noise of airplane motors. . "An investigation was opened In an effort to ascertain whether our territory was really violated ,by the sassage pi loxeiga plane. f i A'r to south Is Belgium's version of connects with- the French fortifications. The "little Maginot" Is any eventuality. (IIN photo.) Nazis Explain Troops Massing Near Belgium BERLIN, Sept. 25 (AP) ters explained tonight that the massing of troops near the three-cornered border of Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium was a precaution against any French or British de signs to find a soft front for into the Reich. These sources said it would ests to carry on military operations there because of its . - I War Uriels BUDAPEST, Sept. 25-JP-With Warsaw's lone radio voice mute for more than 24 hours, European listeners learned from German broadcasts tonight that the Polish capital still was un conquered. Using a wave length once be longing to Warsaw, German an nouncers at 11 p. m. (2 p. m. PST) said that Warsaw again was under heavy artillery fire and that Modlin, SO miles northwest, was surrounded. They spoke Polish, but with a strong German accent. ' Last night the Warsaw radio staff ' still was at its micro phones, telling the outside world of the siege, describing m new German bombardment which the announcers said had killed more than 1,000 civilians. BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 25. -p)-Frencn troops resumed their drive against the Siegfried line along a 40-mile front today in what dispatches- said was the heaviest action thus far on the western front. Troops in many sectors were said to have moved up with the advance of heavy batteries from the Maginot forte, which sent shells battering against the Ger man barricades. - ! ' Swiss said the reports indicated the Poilus were closing their lines almost within the shadow of main German fortifications., . t BUCHAREST, Sept. S5.-(V An unofficial sarvey today showed Poland lost , between 800 and 70O planes Is 19 days of aerial warfare with Germany, j Poland was reported to have had .approximately 1,000 serv iceable planes of all types at the beginning of the war Sept. 1. ' Aside from about 80 bomb ers, combat, reconnaissance and training planes Interned in Ru . mania and Lithuania, the Polish alrforce virtually was wiped out by Sept. 20 as a result of Ger manf'f whirlwind aerial attack; ::x;x-::::;:;:-x'v:- 6fJtMAM TQOf France's Maginot line string of south and sweep up to the north barricade. Map at bottom shows Germans in informed quar a drive through neutral soil be against Germany's inter Oproximity to the Ruhr coal fields and lower Rhine Industrial region. With German military leaders devoting most of their attention to the western front, the opinion was expressed in circles close to the high command that "if the Reich is vnlnerabe anywhere, it is along the frontier facing neu trals." Commenting on new reports in Britain that Germany was mass ing troops near The Netherlands and Belgium with the object of attacking from the north, DNB official news agency, said: "The constant revival of this discussion must lead to the con clusion here that there is basis for suspicion that there Is the intention on the part of Ger many's opponents to violate Bel gian and Holland neutrality for wnicn they are now seeking plausible excuse." "Germany wants no extension of the war cone in the west and has emphasized she has no war aims against England or France," x was said in authoritative quar ters. "Certainly Germany would least want the battlefront along the Netherlands and Belgian frontiers because that is uncomfortably close to the Ruhr coal fields and to the highly developed lower Rhine Industrial region," these quarters said. "It may he true that the neu trality of Belgium and The Neth erlands is endangered, but not from the German said." DNB quoted the high command this evening that Freneh air planes had been sighted and dred upon-over Lake Constance, near the Friedrichsafen seppelln base. The German report said the planes failed to drop bombs and were chased off over Swiss terri tory The high command earllCT refused to comment on foreign re ports of a,, raid in the Friedrich safen area." Tack lifted From Lung i PORTLAND, Sept 25.-A)-A carpet tack was removed from the right lung-of William Gerow, 18-months-old Portland child, by use of a bronchoscope Friday, St.' Vin cent hospital attendants disclosed today. The child has' recovered French Planes Defeat Oerman Aerial Fleet I -As Guns Pound Forts Admit two Tricolor Ships . Entire Front Leaps Into Life as Poilus DriveOverland to Haardt Mts. PARIS, Sept. 25 (AP) The French announced tonight they had defeated a German air over the western front. The battles were fought the pounding of Germany's main Siegfried forts from one end of the western front to which opened up today. The French said "superior were defeated in. two distinct The French admitted they lost two planes, but said they 1 -Owere certain the Germans lost a ISubs Add two Allied Victims French, British Vessels Reached; Planes Get One of Raiders LONDON, Sept. 25.-(;P)-The twin problems of munitions and supply occupied Britain's govern ment today as the Royal air force continued to pepper Germany with pamphlets, German submarines claimed two more victims and the nation continued its placid, al most humdrum prosecution of war. Prime Minister Chamberlain and his ministers of supply ana labor, Leslie Burgln and Ernest Brown, talked with MaJ. Clement Atlee and Arthur Greenwood, la- for party leaders at No. 10 Down ing street. The interview was be lieved to be in preparation for to morrow's first meeting of tne eouncil of ten, the roup that will control munitions during wartime. Subs Chalk up Two More Ships Germany's submarine warfare yesterday accounted for two more allied ships and 11 British lives. In each case the submarine was believed to have escaped. A British freighter, the 4646- ton Hazelside was attacked and sunk off the Irish coast with a loss of 11 seamen, according to the government's report The Information ministry said Royal air force patrols hurried to the rescue of the Hazelside while the U-boat was trying to sub merge. Without saying any hints were made the communique said the submarine "made a good target for bombs." It added nothing fur ther. Watchers on the shore got their first sight of the war at sea when the French Collier Phryne of 2660 tons was sunk Just off the Brittlsh coast. Coast guard boats rescued the crew of 24. Hunting Partner's Pellet Kills Man BAKER, Sept. 25-(ff)-Charles Austin Morgan of Pondosa was fatally shot yesterday by his deer hunting companion, Albert Skaggs. also of Pondosa. Skaggs fired at a deer and the deer moved, resulting in the bul let striking Morgan In the leftleg. it was reported. Morgan died a short time later from loss of blood and shock. Sherman Bennett of Baker suf fered a sknlly fracture when his automobile plunged over an em bankment on Dixie Bntte near Prairie City. He was on a deer hunting trip with his son-in-law. Jack Grove. Coast of Norway Stirred By Crashes of big Guns . COPENHAGEN, Sept 25-(ff-Inhabltants of communities and small islands on the coast of Nor-1 way today reported day-long can nonading far at sea which they in terpreted to mean a naval battle was raging. it wa impossible to learn the time the " firing started but it stopped at least temporarily between 7 and 8 p.m. (io ana u a.m. PST). Inhabitants of a small uiand south of Bergen in southwestern Norway said they saw several ships of undetermined nationality proceeding northward at full speed last night amid a constant exchange of gunfire. Late In the afternoon residents along the coast said the firing ap peared to be moving northward and westward away irom Nor way. Earlier the residents et Algroi island, six miles west of Bergen, had said the battle if It was a battle seemed . to be moving toward shore. (The British admiralty - said Monday night lhat it had received Downed in Great Battle; fleet in two major air battles yesterday as a preliminary to the other by big .trench guns numbers of German planes fights. 1 ! prc,t,r nnmhpr liofirtttA thair su perior strength The pilots and machtnegunners of two German planes shot down on French territory were cap tured.. The French pilot of one plane shot down by the Germans para chuted safely to his squadron headquarters. French authorities said they were certain more than two Ger man planes were snot down but they were able to report only those which fell behind the French lines. German military advices reach ing Paris said the French lost eight planes. Infantry Attacks As Planes Dogfight While the planes fought over head, the French started the drive which today carried them Into the German Haardt mountains be tween Wissembourg and Pir masens. Waves of French infantry, aided by artillery fire, were said to be attacking toward the only main road through the mountains in one of the most difficult sectors of the entire northern flank of the front As the French infantry attack began on the northern flank, the ITurn to -page. 2, col. 1 ) Friendly Bombers To Drop in Here Flight of 15 big Planes From Hamilton t Field Will Land Friday HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Sept 25-(P)-The railroad center five miles north of Spokane, Wash., had better marshal sandbags and dig air raid cellars, for the sev enth bambardment group is going to head up that way Friday morn ing on an official "expedition of destruction." Lieut Col. Ralph Royce gave gentlemanly warning today that the 15 bombers would be dis patched for the jrallway terminal objective as part of the United States army air corps war games. It is to be a one-day raid, with bombers scheduled to arrive over the terminal at 3 p.m. Friday, and to make stops at Boise, Ida., Pen dleton and Salem, Ore., before re turning to their hangars here Fri day night ' The management of the Salem airport had not been advised last night of the bombardment group's projected stop here, Mrs. Leo Ar any, wife of the lesse of the field, said. . Aged Pedestrian Kilted On South Santiam Road SWEET HOME, Sept 25.-tf')-John W. Cnlbekson, 77, was struck. and killed by an automo bile yesterday while walking on the South Santiam highway near Cascadla. . " no report of a naval engagement off the Norwegian Coast "as would have been the ease had one taken place-") Reports came from Martenen, a small island off Bergen, that six or seven boats had been seen to the northward constantly maneu vering, but they could not be iden tified, i .. . The cannonading lulled a halt hour early in the afternoon but when it was resumed the sound of lighter caliber guns could be heard distinctly In the coastal towns... - ' . Reports of the firing began reaching Copenhagen at !a boat the time it was announced that Swedish naval authorities; had in structed Swedish ships bound for England to stay within territorial waters along the Swedish and Nor wegian coasts- until contacted by British convoy a waiting for them somewhere oft Norway. ; Since a point off Bergen con sidered by naval observers as a logical place to organize such a convoy, some sources thought it possible German warships .might be attempting to disrupt it Estonian Coup Held Possible In Slavs9 Act Conversations Between Russia and Estonia Halted Suddenly Turkish Delegation It Welcomed by Soviet, Pact Rumored MOSCOW, Sept. 26-(Tuesday) -(ffJ-The entire frontier between Soviet Russia and Rumania and Russia's big Black sea port of Odessa were reported unofficial ly today to have been closed to travelers. The frontier closing was re garded as the result of precau tionary mores by both govern ments. Russia's acquisition of Polish territory considerably increased her border with Rumania and for the first time gave her a frontier with Hungary. Rumania and Hun gary were said to be uneasy. Meanwhile, diplomatic circle said Russia might be making de mands upon Estonia, a little Bal tic neighbor whose territory was-. Russian-ruled before the World war like Rumania's Bessarabia. Foreign Minister Leaves j Moscow Estonia's foreign minister rushed; home yesterday, abruptly ending! his stay in Moscow after less than 15 hours. It was re ported' reliably his hurried trip concerned urgent business. Secrecy shrouded the sudden, cessation of conversations be tween Karl Selter, the Estonian minister, and high soviet officials, however. At the same; time a number ot Russian officials welcomed a dip lomatic mission from Turkey, amid a great display of soviet and Turkish flags. : The I Turkish delegation, head- ed by Foreign Minister Sukrm Saracoglu, came- from important diplomatic and trade talks. Po tern kin Greets Turkish Visitors The welcomers were headed by Valdimir Potemkin, vice commis sar for foreign affairs. Envoys ot five Black sea and Balkan states were at the atatiosl to greet the visitors. They were, the ministers of Rumania, Bul garia, Greece, Persia and Afghan is tan. : (A Black sea pact has been re ported numerous times In recent months aa among Russia's object ives.) i , It was said in diplomatic cir cles that Russia has a tremendous bargaining advantage over Tur key now that Germany and Brit ain, her chief rivals for Turkish . trade, are at war. Trade; With Turkey Believed Aim Foreign circles said "they ex pected; Russia would seek a guar antee (from Turkey to close the Dardanelles to any ships opposed to Russian Interests in return for ' possible soviet guarantees against any German attack on Turkey. Diplomats were keenly interest ed in the sadden departure of the Estonian foreign minister. It was learned reliably that he had bees called; from a ballet performance to a midnight conference with, Russian officials, last night. It was understood that after the conference he left Moscow's leading hotel, the Metropole where he was welcomed last .light by a display of Estonian flags, aad spent the remainder bf the night at the! Estonian legation. Poisoner of Pets Declared at Work Declaration that three dn?a ana two cats hare been nolannAd vitv. out provocation within the last lour montns, all within a halfV block In the vtclnltr of Division. North Commercial and D streets was maae Monday by Dr. w. C Kantner, retired minister. One dog in the next block east met m similar fate, he added.- The most aggravated case wa the most recent involving a doy belonging to Dr. Kantner's daugh ter. This dor was poisoned la" spite Of the fact that a fence had been built around the home te make f sure i that the . animal bothered no one. ' Dr. Kantner said ha annealed tit the police, but was told that noth ing could ' be done abent appre hending the poisoner. Tuna Price War ; Raises to $120 ASTORIA. Ore., Sept -The price war between Oregon and J California alhacore tan packers was intensified today as the Tan Camp Sea Foods, Inc., of California boosted Its price to fishermen to 1120 ton. The Increase was the third in ?two days.? ;-'v r .''V"' -Oregon packers ? raised '. the ' price to 9117.0O yesterday after 7 California packers upped the ' price from f 110 tollS,