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Fall football For 'ALL the news of Sat '. urday football games, turn i to The Sunday Statesman. Late press time enables - The Statesman to report late games. Weather Generally cloudy with moderate temperatures to day and Monday, higher hu midity. Variable wind off the coast. ! Max. Temp. 69. Mln. 4. RIVer -4.1 ft. South wind. Sill POUNDDO 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 1, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 162 Plan Obcb tops mhLss warfare on 1940 Political Buds Bursting Months Early Gaps to Be Filled in Courthouse Staff Stir Aspirants Choice Plums Available at Statehouse, too, Arouse Activity By RALPH C. CURTIS , They've called a political armis tice in Washington, DC or don't you -believe in fairy tales? But be that as it may, there's just the op posite in Marlon county; political pots' are boiling away out of sea son. Rarely do candidacies sprout before the turn of the campaign year, but that's three months away and already a number of them are almost ready to bloom. There's more to it than Just the fact that practically every office in the courthouse is to be filled in the 1940 elections the circuit judges are the only exceptions among the elective officers for due to obvious reasons there is a aentiment growing up among the electorate that the county is due for a "housecleaning," and peren nial office-seekers are first on the Job determined to see to it that the ' sentiment doesn't languish, and that they will be in position to move in behind the broom. Of course there is the further Intriguing circumstance, not yet officially announced but rather obvious nevertheless, that from one to three of the Incumbents will not seek reelection. This movement is strongest among the republicans, for last year's elections showed the county atronger in that party's column than at any time since the new deal; but the democrats are at least going to be in there pitching. And It wouldn't be fair to brand all the early candidates as peren nials; some are newcomers to the political arena, motivated by a sin cere bellet-Xhat the eonnty needs substantial men in office and that they can fill the bill, i Now it wouldn't be cricket to mention names this early and without the prospective candi dates authority. But it's no secret that there will be at least two, possibly three republicans seeking the office of county Judge, one ri val for the assessor, who is expect ed to seek a reelection and will be strongly favored to win it, two for district attorney aside from the Incumbent; and that there's a strong republican candidate for sheriff. Names will be popping in to the picture before long. There have been no more decap itations at the statehouse in the past week, but the appointive term of the; state superintendent of banks expires today. The banking board .won't meet until October 10, but when it does there-is a treat deal more than an even ehance that there'll be a new su perintendent. Fred Lamport1 of Sa lem and A. A. Schramm are men tioned as likely appointees. Lloyd R. Smith of Portland will ; (Torn to page 2, col. 5) Al Smith Takes i To Airwaves in , Neutrality Talk NEW YORK, Sept SO-iflV Speaklng in behalf of changes in the neutrality; act. Alfred B. Smith lss cheduled for a W ABC- CBS broadcast at 4 p.m. Sun day (PST). Other neutrality broadcasts MBS 5. American Forum, Sena tors Key Pittman of Nevada, Ger ald P. Nye of North Dakota, Tom Connolly of Texas, Bennet Champ Clark of Missouri, Frederick aVn Nnva of Indiana. Vie Donahey of Ohio and John A. Donaher of Connecticut NBC 6:45, Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas. I Jdditlon, NBC and CBS at 12:15 ire' to relay from London the talk Of Winston Churchill, first lord of the British admiral ty, on "First month of the war.' Stolen Car Stalled in Path Of Train Saved; Duo Jailed Three Salem policemen nabbed two alleged car thieves last night, flagged a fast manifest freight on the Southern Pacific main line to save the stolen car from becom ing a mess of splinters and metal, and '? brought their handcuffed . prisoners to Jail, all in a matter .;'- of 37 minutes from the time the ear was. reported stolen, j Eugene Clyde Reese: and Ver non L. Reese, both I Portland, were the two men arrested and charged with possession of a sto len automobile belonging to J. "A. Remington, 891 North Winter. The two men were apprehend 7 where the car had s,talled as mfcey tried to "horse" it over the main line Southern Pacific tracks between - Smith street and tne Fairgrounds depot. They were eaught by Officers Lou Burgess, falter EesUy and Hobart Kigginf kike Ea-. -Paul Hauser's Column We are again, due to the insis tence of the boss, launched on the perilous career of a columnist So herein every day that this newspa per goes to press galley of good. hard- working. unoffending type will be prostitut ed to our schem ing designs. We are not particu larly proud of re turning to the ranks of those whom Mr. IckeaFani H Hnier, Jr. has dignified with his dislike. Somehow we keep paraphrasing that quip of to fit columnists Mark Twain's about proofreaders: "First of all God made idiots. That was Just for practice. Then he made columnists. The rains came" in California and then came the deluge as our lads from Eugene tied the mighty Trojan, the Beaver born and Bea ver bred found the Stanford In dians of the cigar store variety, and little College of the Pacific upended the mighty Golden Bear to 0. It would seem that there must have been something in this heat alibi Oregon teams have been us ing for years, for no sooner does Los Angeles have a world-beating rainstorm than the Web foot 3 per form their best since 1915. ODE ENTITLED OKEUU.N STATE 12, STANFORD 0, OR KISSELBURGH'S MY DARLING. (Apologies to Masefield) I must go down to the game again. To the roaring game on the grid. And all I ask is for Oregon State To do once more what it did. Those shrieking sounds which South Commercial street residents have been hearing of late are not, we can assure them, air raid warnings. It is just the gendar merie, personified by Officers George Edwards, Hobart Kiggins and Lou Burgess, swooping down to strafe unwary violators of the basic rule (l.e. speeders). They are polite as pie in giving a ticket and we heard one of their chast ened victims . praise 1 policemanly courtesy highly. Emily Post has yet to write a chapter on how to write out a ticket without offending, so they must have picked It up by them selves. ODE ENTITLED OVER THIS HILL TO THE JAILHOUSE" (More apologies, Mr. Masefield) I must go down to the jail again, The city's high Jail and wide, And all I did was 20 miles, But the Judge,- he said I lied. Qulcky department: Pauline Corning, the Bluebird's flying waitress, taking the order of a customer noted for his love of looking on the catsup when it's red: "And what'll you have to drink besides catsup." State game commission don't low no pheasant shooting 'round here, so 'Bus Herren at Ander son's sporting goods emporium has illustrated the situation graph ically. One very dead China bird hangs head down, bearing a sign Past years." A mounted pheas ant bearing the label "This year" gives the passing nimrod a well known derisive gesture with one claw hooked in waggling position before its beak. 'The French and British are find ing progress slow in breaking through the Siegfried line. Local military experts compare the alt nation to driving from State to Court on Liberty street on a Sat urday afternoon. Hoquiam's Rain Guessed Exactly BOGPIAM, Sept. 30-(V M. I. Benson of Tacoma a ' soap salesman, won the third quarterly prize of S50 In Ho quiam's rain derby by predict ing the exact amount of rain fall 'for the past three months ending at tf p.m. today. The rainfall for the period was 4.31 inches, two inches be low the quarterly normal. O- in answer to a radio call sent out at 6:18. When Kestly and Burgess ar rived, according to the police re port, the two men were standing by the stalled car and immediate ly ducked under a string of box cars parked on a siding. Vernon Reese was caught easily and was handcuffed to a telegraph pole while the officers hunted for the other man. Eugene Reese was no sooner caught than the fast freight loom ed in the distance and-the offi cers had to flag down the train until they could remove Reining ton's car from the tracks. ; During the two alleged thieves' flight out Capitol street they side swiped a ear, parked in the Hol lywood district belonging to Cecil R. Manning, 1581 Elm street t - Turkey FurtV Britain Black Sea Pact Nears as Russian Shadow Falls on Balkans Britain's Plans Fading for Blow at Nazis via Dardenelles ANKARA, Turkey, Sept. Turkey, her role in thenear east greatly altered in the past few days, was reported reliably tonight to be ready to cancel her mutual assistance obligations to France and Britain if they go to war with soviet Russia. A clause providing such re lease was said to be contained In the new economic and military agreements which a Turkish mil itary mission headed by Gen. Kla zim Orbay is taking to London. The mission left for the British capital tonight. Sukru Saracoglu, Turkey's for eign minister, has been in Moscow since early this week, discussing his country's altered situation in view of Russia's emergency as a partner of Germany in the parti tion of Poland. Dardenelles Would Be Neutral Waters Foremost among the points dis cussed was believed to have been a Black sea pact, to Include Ru mania and Bulgaria. Saracoglu was understood to have agreed with Russian leaders that Turkey would close the strategic Dar danelles to warships of all belli gerent nations. Such an act would lessen the possibility of Britain and France striking at Germany through a back door, since it would neutral ize the Black sea. (A plan frequently discussed in allied capitals would involve send ing a force through the Dardan elles and the Bosphorus to the Black sea and then presumably through Rumania. Rumania, how ever, has given no Indication she would aequiesce to being made a theatre of war.) Bulgarian Claims May Block Pact Before a Black sea pact could (Turn to page 2, col. 5) PEP Bondholders Tired of Waiting A. Miller "Speaks for Committee, Urging Portland PUD PORTLAND, Sept. 3 O.-TiTVEs- tablishment of a people's utility district in Portland was urged at a state hydro-electric commission hearing yesterday by E. A. Miller, chairman of a Portland Electric Power company stock and bond holders committee. Members of his group, Miller said, were convinced they would never receive anything from their Investments" under the pres ent private ownership set up. Harry M. Kenin, chairman of the Bonneville-for-Portland com mittee, said the "determining fac tor" Is the "ability of the people to operate a publicly owned sys tem." Wisdom of the governing board will determine the system's success, he said. Kenin and Miller were among several speakers who urged the commission to rule favorably on a PUD for Portland. The commis sion had 120 days to rule. Kenin s committee plans to place the proposal on the May pri mary ballot. Yacht of Chaney Misses Sea Gale COQUILLE, Ore., Sept. 80.-UP) -The home-made yacht Strumpet, bearing State Senator George Chaney and his family to Cali fornia, was reported safe today at Newport Beach, Calif. Relatives advised the Los An geles coast guard earlier that the family was missing. Mrs. Sarah A. Rihble, Mrs. cnaneys mother, said she re ceived a letter saying the Strum pet reached the port before the recent California storm and was never in danger. Aboard are Chaney, his wife and their sons, Davis, Patterson and Allan. A fourth son, George, jr., who sailed on the Strumpet when it left here September 2. re turned two, weeks ago to enter Oregon State college. War Briefs CALGARY. Alta.. S e p t 80- (CP)-The internment of about 145 aliens in a government camp in the Kananaskis district, 45 miles south of here, was disclosed today. ; ' It was learned prisoners also were held in the citadel of Que bec at Kingston, Ont, and that a large internment camp is 1 ing prepared at Petawawa, Ont. NUNS v. 42r? Vwfc -cv ir-rrvt i ,&t&&l " 1 . W-- 'mmml - M. - . . i-r - ; 1 wife , - , i - a"8 HUutl"'!'"" 1 it i ., , - - " V VSv v rYVNA If ::::-:-.;: J $m - ir- is . , : , -fisz Crowded into the rear of a truck with youngsters, nuns are shown as they rode out of Paris to safer ter ritory in the country as warfare on the western front seemed likely to become more severe. (Para mount news photo, AP). Speeding Half Beats Bearcats Gaucho Back Tallies on two Long Jaunts to Make Final 20-14 SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 30-iiP)-Blonde Bill Mc Arthur, speeding senior halfback, scored twice on runs of 90 and 65 yards tonight as Santa Barbara State college defeated Willamette uni versity of Salem, Ore., 20 to 14. With Willamette leading, 7 to 6, at the start of the second half, McArthur ran the kickoff back 90 yards for a tally. A few min utes later, he took a punt on his own 85, reversed his field and romped 65 yards to another touch down. Lynn Lightner kicked both conversions. Walden Goes Over In Early Minutes The visiting Bearcats scored in the opening minutes of the game, Halfback Al Walden going over from the two-yard line after recovering a kick-off fumble on the 26. Santa Barbara's first tally ca.me In the second period. A poor kick by Gene Stewart gave the Gauch os the ball on Willamette's 23 and Fullback Hubert Neely went over from the one-foot stripe a few minutes later. The .invaders took to the air in the cosing minutes in a des perate attempt to tally. Halfback Buddy Reynolds connected with a 80-yard toss to End Maurice Lonergan for the touchdown. Bunny Bennett, tiny quarter, was the Bearcat star. Santa Bar bara's line had an edge through out over the visitors' forwards. State Leader in Guard Recruiting PORTLAND, Sept. S0.-()-Na- tlonal guard recruiting main tained a brisker pace in Oregon than any other state, Major-Gen-eral George A. White, commander, earned today from the war de partment. White said Oregon reached its quota of 991 new recruits in five days and was the first state to do so. BRITISH TOMMIES ROLL THROUGH FRANCE - If r I t - - ' I v Radlophoto above pictures truckload of British Tommies, part f Britain's rpeditlonary force, trav eling "somewhere la Prance, headed for Genua my 'a western front. They ace pictured aa they paused to exchange greetings with two French aviators. The fliers are regarded s sum who pave the way or the Brltlah and, preach fTound .ames agams Genpeayi FLEE PARIS IN TRUCKS Neutrality Act Credit Terms May Be Ousted Backers of Bill See Easter Passage if Contents Changed to Strict Cash and Carry; Debaters Ready to Open WASHINGTON, Sept. SO. (AP) Indications of strong opposition to allowing; -warring: nations to make purchases here on any credit terms whatsoever led to talk amonsr some administration senators tonight of changing the neutrality bill to a strict "cash and carry" measure. Senato MintonD-Ind.) the Majority whip and one of the leaders in the light for theo administration program, told re- porters he thought it might he advisable to eliminate the 90-day credit provision and require strict cash payments. "It would make it much easier to pass the bill," he asserted. "We will be back here in January, and if the cash provision is found un workable we can change it." As reported by the senate for eign relations committee, he measure would oarry out Presi dent Roosevelt's recommendation that the existing arms embargo be repealed, would permit bellig erent governments to obtain f 0 day credits on purchases in the United States, would require that shipments to belligerents be car ried in non-American ships. If a foreign government failed to pay for its purchases within 90 days, it would be required to pay cash for future purchases until the debt was paid. Senator Pittman (D-Nev.), chairman of the foreign relations committee, who filed a majority committee report on the measure today, contended this credit le strictlon was tantamount to cash. It was apparent, however, that many senators were ready to dis pute this in the long-awaited sen ate debate which will begin on Monday. Coast Guard Training School for Washington SEATTLE, Sept. 3 O.-OTCapt. William H. Munter, commander of the Seattle coast guard district, announced today a coast guard shore training school, capable of handling 300 recruits, soon would be established at Port Townsend. - Maritime Unions Resume Parleys Two Groups Contracts not Yet Extended as Time Expires SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30-tiF) -Negotiations were resumed at 11 o'clock tonight between water front employers and representa tives of two of five maritime un ions whose working agreements expire at midnight. Three unions already had signed contract extensions. They were the longshoremen, the masters, mates and pilots, and the marine engi neers. Representatives of the sailors and the firemen's unions met Jointly with the employers' com mittee at 11 o'clock- Nothing had been heard, however, employers' spokesmen said, from the dock checkers, the marine cooks and stewards, and the radio operators. The last two named are coastwide unions, the dock checkers a local organization. A spokesman for the employers said the dock checkers had re jected an extension basis similar to that agreed to by the longshore men. Meiers Parents PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 30-() -A daughter was born at Wilcox Memorial hospital tonight to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Meier. Meier is the son of the late Julius L. Meier, former governor of Oregon. . HiiV'-TIr iWW eet WalL US pbotcj. Cannon-Carrying Steamers Treated Same as Warship "GmrchilFs Snipers" Must Face Fire Without Warning as Legal Result of Arming Merchantmen Berlin Reports Indicate Anger Rises by Recent Attacks From Guns On LONDON, Sept. 30. (AP) tonight the German radio had that Germany now would consider every vessel of the British merchant navy as a "warship." j The admiralty said it interpreted this as a possible indi cation of "an immediate change of policy in German submar ine warfare. An announcement by the tion said : "The following message has been promulgated to all British merchant ships by the admiralty : "The following has been received by German broadcast Othls evening: 1 . . I " 'Several German submarines British Lose In Air, Claim Seven Planes Sent Down In two Clashes Says Reich Report BERLIN, Sept. 30.-)-DNB. German official news agency, said tonight seven British planes were shot down today in two engage ments with German planes, one of which occurred over the North sea and the other over the west ern front. The news agency said the Ger mans aleo "caused one French plane to crash." (The British air ministry an nounced in London that British planes had engaged in an air battle over enemy territory and "some" British casualties had re sulted.) DNB asserted two of the Brit ish planes were destroyed over the North sea by two German pur suit planes. ' In the vicinity of Saarbruecken, on the western front, it said five British planes approached the west wall and that all were shit down. The news agency added (Turn to page 2, cel. 4) Mail Dispatcher Dies on Highway Aged Jefferson Man Hit in Carrying Pouches From SP Depot JEFFERSON, Sept. 30 Samu el A. Pease, 78-year-old Jefferson mail dispatcher, was killed at 8:30 o'clock here tonight when he was struck by an automobile driven by WUburn Sidney Russell. 21, Mar ion, at Church street and the Pa cific highway. Clarence Wilson, 12, who was assisting Pease In carrying mail pouches from the SP depot to the postoffice said he warned the elderly man, whose eyesight was dim, not to cross the highway In front of the oncoming car. Russell was fined 825 for fail ure to hare an operator's license and released pending further in vestigation by the eoroner. Caught beneath the Russell au tomobile, Peace was dragged 192 feet, according to state police. No arrest was made. Mr. Pease had lived here for more than 30 years.. Surviving are the widow and two sons, Levant of Eugene and Ferris of Portland, and a daugh ter, Mrs. Eva Duckworth of Eu gene. - . Funeral arrangements are be ing made by the "Walker and How ell mortuary, Salem. Britain Bored Blackouts as LONDON,. Sept. 30. - (iP) - Be - neath the deceptive tranquility of an autumn weekend, Britain's soldiers, sailors and statesmen worked at war tonight from the North' sea to the Dardanelles. Minions, bored by sandbags and blackouts, knocked off work early just as always, and headed for the country. They were cheered by newspaper headlines which, told them MAnglo-TurkLb pact is ready," and by repeated authorized assurances that the Russian-German . agreement rn Poland and a dictated peace "changes nothing for England." , War held nothing of the thrill of the fleeting "peace In our time" which' Prime Miolster Chamberlain brought home from Munich Just one year ago today. But a steady procession of grey clad, troop-jammed - transports on Submarines Ships' Decks The British admiralty said broadcast an announcement British ministry of informa have been attacked by British merchant ships in the past few days. " 'Hitherto, the German wire less asserts 'German submarines have observed International laws by always warning merchant ships before attacking them. Now, how ever, Germany will have to retali ate by regarding every vessel of the British merchant navy as a warship.' " 'While the above of course is entirely untrue, it may indicate an immediate change of policy in Ger man Submarine warfare and yon should be prepared to meet it." (There was no Immediate con firmation from Berlin of the re ported German broadcast.) German Paper Defines Attitude BERLIN, Oct. l.-( Sunday )HP) -The controlled nazl press today answered an alleged British deci sion to arm merchant ships with indications that such vessels might be sunk without warning. The newspaper Boersen Zeitung, in an editorial headed "British snipers at sea," defined the Ger man attitude toward armed ships and declared: "If merchant ships offer armed resistance or are convoyed by en emy warships, they must be pre pared that, according to interna tional custom, respective means of combat will be employed against them. ! . . . The arming of merchant ships draws legal consequences. Such ships must be treated the same as warships. . . "It lis a self-understood fact that German warships cannot be sub jected to the danger of being shot at by Churchill's snipers at sea (Winston Churchill is British first lord of the admiralty.) TheiDiesnst Aus Deutschland, commentary close to the German foreign office, said: t. "If 'submarines now face the danger of attack from merchant ships stopped by them, the sub marine commander is compelled to break the resistance if possible. In case of emergency, however, be must take steps to sink the ship." The! commentary said Germany regretted intensification of the war against merchant shipping bat charged that the blame lay on Great Britain. Kuhn Still Pines In Jail as Bond Reduction Flops NEW YORK, Sept. 30. (P--Fritz Kuhn, fuehrer of the German-American bund, spent a sec ond night iu Tombs prison to night after his counsel -again fail ed to get a reduction in' his suddenly-Increased bail. State Supreme Court Justice Thomas F. Noonan refused to lower bail, originally $5,000 bat raised yesterday to $50,000 after the district attorney declared ho had information that Kuhn in tended to flee the country. Kuhn is eharged with the theft of $14, 560 In bund funds. by Sandbags, War Goes on O steamed to France. The might of the fleet held Germany In a tight ening blockade. Royal airforce bombers roared low over the Sieg fried line with photographers and mapmakers. Whitehall threw all the power of its secret diplomacy into the tug-of-war for the upper hand In the near east and the Balkans. News that mutual assistance and i economic agreements - with Turkey are ready for signature and that a five-man Turkish mili tary ' mission headed by ruddy, handsome Gen. Klazim Orday Is en route to London was printed widely. Receiving less prominence were reports that the pacts con tain ;a clause cancelling Turkish commitments if Britain and soviet Russia go to war. y- v- v 1