j Weather Fair' today and Vednes day; local frosts; no change in humidity. Northwest wind off the coast. Mai. Temp. 62, Min. 40. River -3.2 ft. Northwest wind. News Diet Local and state newi to-! gether with war coverage by the Associated Press make ! The Statesman ! a well bal- i anced news diet. peuNDBo 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuestfay Morning, October 3, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 163 it One Ear Paul Hauser Column Some of the hunters are home from the hills and. anybody who can pass the buck these days Is bragging about It. The best deer story-we hare 4 heard is relayed r from: southern ; Orepnn hv Paul friend of his there had . long been hounded by his .12-year-old son to go deer hunting. Finally the fa ther reluctantly rare in, but Jold the boy he would have to do nis hunting pretty close to camp. So oft through thicket and brush V tramped the doughty deer slay ers and the lad, who had never fired anything heavier than a .22 rifle, ear on a stump a few hun dred yards from camp. Time went by and .suddenly from the dlree- tlon of camp the hunters heard burst of rapid firing. "l got 'em all, daddy," the ' little boy with 1 the big gun shouted as the rest of the party hove Into view. I; Splattered across the hillside lay a buck, three does and a fawn, all very dead. "Slim" Maw, the mighty hunt er, has been having a hard time convincing friends that the little squirrel-size .critter he has been carrying around with him is not - one of the - deer he reportedly shot on his eastern Oregon Jaunt with. Recorder Warren Jones. We investigated and are happy to lay that canard. The beast is a mar moset monkey, which comes from Brazil and is about the smallest monkey that monkeys. None have ever been seen in eastern Oregon. PAILTICAL INTELLIGENCE The Republican club band, will henceforth practice 15 minutes earlier. No political significance Is attached to the move. Keith Jones, former Willamette and Salem high football player bow a member of the -Portland police force, and r his "fellow offi cer in a Portland police prowl ear have a little trick they love to play on parked romancers. One officer goes to one side of the parked car, his bufldy to the other. They say nothing while the lovebirds protest that they were just looking at the moon. Finally says one cop:-. Lv ." i . - 4 .. "That's the same Xeow, "right."!.. ' "Yeah,", says bis partner in a puzzled tone, "but that's a 'T'r'.rr-,,,... Wm Z Sh. nLTrif -ttSj nii nl lZl OTifi1 lly under way behind them. I . : There Is probably no-truth in the rumor that : the California legislature will abolish September 30 from the calendar in that state because jof its unpleasant mem- or,e8 j : ' I i r - r Television is -here. Anyhow one I local radio shop has a television I receiver, which It will gladly sell yon If you Just can't wait to own one. Ton might have to wait few years to use it, however, for there aren t any television trans mitting j stations in these woods md no signs of anybody putting ! up the 1100,000 it costs to Install one. There Is a blessing in'tMs, however, for If some of the radio darlings look as bad as they sound we can wait Indefinitely. I NOTES OP THE HIGHER ARTS 1 The artistic renaissance on State street has resulted In anoth er modern green tile front. Should j the trend continue, oldtimers fear. the entire boulevard will take on - ter bathrooms Burgnnder Plans To Appeal Case PHOENIX,' Arix., Oct. t.-m- Robert Burgnnder, 22 -year -old condemned murderer. In an un precedented appearance before the state supreme court, announ- vlctionVfte; rhVcourlinedTo act upon his request for a re prieve, i - It was the first time in the state's history tha t a defendant under ' death - sentence has ap peared before the supreme court. : .Burgunder's answers , to ques tions by the court Justices Indica ted that his apparent purpose In elouding the appeal issue was to delay his execution In the lethal gas chamber, scheduled for next Friday. . ' . - Chief. Justice Henry p. Ross asked Burgnnder , directly If be wanted to. appeal from the death sentenc4 rr i ."Supposing I told yon I did not desire to appeal Burgnnder re - plied, "but asked yon to give me two or three weeks.; so that my parents could visit met" ' 1 Chief . Justice . Ross . Informed Burgunder that the supreme court had no power to reprieve. ; New Corporation Head Takes Desk T.ini w. Smith Portland. Mon - day assumed his new duties as state corporation commissioner, i Smith recently was appointed by Governor Spragne as succeeds James H. Haslett, democrat, who nomat ninArttnn - enmmlst- . ...rT. tn ih er-Oovernor rhnriM it. Martin administration; Arms Hitler Wants Duce to Release Ciano Hastens Fuehrer's W To His Ghiet What Italy Is to Do I About War Is Also Reported Query Fascists to Cling to Neutrality, Press Spokesman Says ROME, Oct. 2-(3)-Foreign cir cles tonight reported a growing feeling that Adolf Hitler had asked this end of the Rome-Berlin axis to lead a "peace offensive" on the allies. ; Foreign Minister Count Galeaz 10 Ciano was speeding back from Berlin, bringing what diplomatic observers believed to be a request front the fuehrer that Italy pre sent a proposal to end the Euro pean war now that Poland has been conquered. : These sources said the consid ered it likely that Hitler also let Ciano know what he expected of Premier Mussolini should Britain and France turn down the Berlin Moscow peace overtures, as gener ally expected. , Italians Appear In Peaceful Mood Italy's desire to stay out of the conflict, however, was as apparent as ever. '. Informed circles said they ex- S cted Ttalr to remain on her pres t non-belligerent statpn --,long as possible, and in a; for some timejto come. , r Eveatf. Hitler should ask aid eventuaHy under the, military elli ancewfbese sources thought such a.fequt would be wade' only W -helo actually - w r -c kiam vfkit AnjiHim TflF nflin ill... i they said, would be Interpreted as a sign of German weakness. Virgino Gayda, authoritative fascist. writer, warned today in II Giornale Dltalia that European P0We" Were at a "decisive POint." "Two currents, one constructive and t destructive, are ap- parent here and there among the belligerents in the west," Gayda continued He aeciared Italy would prefer t0 nope thosQ "healthy forces re- Bponslbie for the two national ln- terests and those for Europe lt- self may prevail over those which gravitate more or less consciously toward the Irreparable. America Refuses To Drop Poland WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - (JP -Germany and Russia received em phatic notice today the United States did not recognize their par tition of Poland. Secretary of State Hull, in a statement, said this government would continue to regard the Pol ish government as In existence. "Poland," he said, "is now the victim vf fAMA .-1 on t a an Inctra- tory has been taken over and its government has had to seek ref uge abroad. "Mere seizure of territory, how- i ever, does not extinguish the le gal existence of a government." First Lady in Seattle i i SEATTLE, Oct. 2.-flVMrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived by airliner today to visit her daugh at Vf wm IaVh DaaIHmaw ai A a M JP.re!7"e main ' until Wednesday at 8:45 a. m., when she will fly to Los Angeles to visit a son, James. then to Fort Worth, Tex., to visit son Elliott. City Council As 1940 Centennial Plans for a centennial celebra- I Hon in Salem in 1940 received I their first impetus from the city i council last night as It passed a -Mention emnowerlna Mayor 1 rh.dwlek: to call a meeting of heads of fraternal and civic bodies to draft a campaign for the city's "Century of Progress." Sponsorship- of the centennial, which will celebrate the erection of the first house In Salem in 1840, was espoused by the coun cil: '' - A request for widening of State street from 12th street to the city limits will be made of the state highway commission, the council 1 decided by resolution, with pro- visions that the widening should not cause expense to owners of abutting property or 1 Interfere with the highway commission s plans for widening of South Com- mercial street. I The council breesed through Its 1 business in record time as It ad- ales Ban C Jo sch, World, Mourn Leader & t - VV 1 1 r V CARDINAL MUNDELE1N Eminent Cardinal, Mundelein, Dies Catholic Leader of West, Arch -Foe of Nazis, Had Noted Career Chicago, Oct. 2-iP)-The extra ordinary career of George Car dinal Mundelein, First Prince of ' I V A " - - was ended today by death. The eminent churchman, spir itual leader of more than 1,000,- 000 of the faithful and admin istrator of one of the largest and wealthiest dioceses in the world, succumbed to coronary throm bosis approximately 15 minutes before his body was found at 7:45 a.sawin his bed In his res idence in suburban Mundelein His unexpected death he was 67 and apparently had enjoyed good health evoked expressions of shock and regret from out standing contemporaries in civil and religious life Protestant, Jew and Catholic alike Pope Pius XII spoke his sorrow and sympathy when he received the news in Castel Gandolfo. A message in similar vein came from President Rossevelt. Mayor Edward J. Kelly, Gov. Henry Horner. Alfred E. Smith, Meth odist Bishop Ernest Lynn Wal dorf, Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, Secretary of Com merce Hopkins, Secretary of La bor Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Illinois Senators Luca (Turn to Page Z, Col. 8) Kentucky Senator Dies Early Today WASHINGTON, Oct. 3-(Pr-Senator H. M.-- Logan (D, Ky.) died of a heart attack about 2:30 o'clock this morning. He was 64 years old and had served in the senate since 1931. The senator had not attended yesterday's senate debate on the neutrality issue but had not oeen considered seriously ill. A physi cian was called during the night and was with him when he died. Logan favored repealing the arms embargo as recommended by President Roosevelt but had not taken an active role In pub lic discussion of the issue. He had fought for many new deal meas ures, Including the Roosevelt court bill in 1937. Starts Drive nsor journed at 8:25 o'clock. Just Id minutes after it had convened. - Petitions from property owners In the area near 13th and D streets opposed change of part of the district from a class 1 to a class 2 residential district in" public hearing before the council. Rich L. Relmann appeared la fa vor of the change and said It was proposed to build eight or nine buildings of duplex type, each of which . would house two ' to six families. Don ' Young, representing the Salem school board, appeared at the hearing and. stated , that the school board would oppose the change if it had no more definite knowledge of what types of build Ings ; would : be permitted in the proposed classification. The council adopted an ordin ance I authorizing changing of parking stalls on State street from Front to Commercial streets and (Tars to Page 2, Col. 1) 1 Spo British Warbirds Fly Over Berlin at Night On Reconnaisance Trip Complete Success Announced Along With Threats of London "Reception to Nazi Bombers; German Raider Strikes off S. America LONDON, Oct. 2 (AP) The British government to night coupled an announcement that the royal air force had reconnoitered at night over Berlin with a warning that Ger man bombers attempting to raid London would "get the re ception they deserve." . At the same time a new menace to British shipping ap- Opeared in an admiralty announce War Briefs LONDON, Oct. 8 .(Tuesday) P)-The London Daily Mall declared today a "veiled threat to sink the new SO,-700-ton Canard-White Star liner Manretania, waa con tained In the English news bulletin broadcast from Hamburg last night. "The announcer men tioned that the Manretania left New York on Saturday with only a few passengers - and three guns mounted on her decks." v The newspaper quoted. the " announcer in Hamburg as saying '"-he British Adrair. alty will no doubt accept the responsibility for this ac tion." 8TOCKH0LM, Oct. X-ifir-Tae Polish patrol boat Batory arrived today at the Swedish Island of Gotland with Polish military men from the surrendered Polish - for tress of Hela penninsula who told an exciting tale of playing hide and sec with German - ships in the B!?... Several times after they left Hela Sunday the Batory was chased by German ships but man aged to elude capture. The Polish fugitives included 18 military men, mostly officers, among them was the commander of the Hela fortress. (Hela, a last center of Polish military resistance, surrendered Sunday after holding out through four weeks of German siege.) Until they talked to Swedish coast guard officers, the Poles did not know Warsaw had sur rendered. LONDON, Oct. 2-JP)-A can unity list issued by the air ministry tonight showed 10 fliers killed, seven wound ded, three missing and five believed taken prisoners since the war started. The dates covered were not . an nounced. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 2--The Mexican government emphasized tonight it would "not recognize for any reason conquests obtained by force" and therefore would continue its present friendly rela tions with diplomatic representa tives of Poland. Mexico has not yet recognized the new Franco government of Spain. Linn Welfare Chief ALBANY, Oct. 2.-m-3ohn A. Beard, Marshfield, was named Linn county public welfare admin istrator today, succeeding Mrs. Gordon Hood, who will move to Portland. i"v Nazi officers meet Polish officer ioiiowing the terrific 20-day 'Attacked. r .1 ment that an armed raider had sunk the 6051-ton British freight er Clement in the south Atlantic off the coast of Brazil. The attack was vieved here as meaning that Germany had start ed a new phase of sea warfare after a lull. The admiralty said the raider had not been identified, "but the correct steps are being taken." It said it believed she was either a cruiser or one of Germany's fast, hard-hitting "pocket battleships." (Reports reaching Rio de Ja nlero from Maceio said 11 of the Clement's crew had reached there In a lifeboat, that others had been rescued by the Brazilian steamer Itatinga. The captain and chief engineer were said to have been taken by the raider.) The British, who have made elaborate preparations against possible air raids on London, heart of the empire, have sought to emphasize the "ease" with which the royal air force has been able to make reconnaissance flights over Germany. Today's communique said "suc cessful" air reconnaissances had been carried out over Germany by day and by night, the night flights including one over Berlin and Potsdam, the first to be an nounced since the war started. (In Berlin responsible German quarters laughed at the report "Citizens of Berlin and Potsdam must have slept soundly," one of ficial said, "because no one heard the motors.") The warning to German bomb ers in event of attempted London flights was made in parliament by Foreign Undersecretary R. A. Butler. Secret Supplying Of Subs Reported PHILADELPHIA, Oct. t.-fPy The " Record said tonight it had learned federal- authorities are investigating reports smugglers are carrying fuel oil, food and drinking water to German sub marines off the Atlantic coast. The newspaper said federal bureau of Investigation and cus toms officials in Philadelphia re fused to comment except to say they "have their suspicions of some seamen." Represented as carrying sup plies to the submarines, are rum runners of the prohibition era and "unscrupulous skippers of freight ers who are making side money by delivering parts of their car goes to the subs." The newspaper said the federal authorities have learned that three Germans In Philadelphia hired "several known old rum runners living in Philadelphia and along the New Jersey coast." Fall oi Warsaw Pictured by Radiophoto -. if J on street In outskirts of beleaguered Warsaw to arrange surrender siege or tne roiisn capltaL (Iatanutlonal Illustrated Ifews radiophoto.) Dove . of Peace Allies Ignore Olive Branch, Press Onward yrenct and British Second Month of Unabated War V in Local Enemy Attacks Thrown Back in Saar Sectors PARIS. Oct. 2-UP)-French. and British troops on the western front continued pressure against German lines today as the war en tered Its second month without major change in battle positions. Although the French govern ment watched German diplomatic maneuvers to reach a peace settle ment, Adolf Hitler's efforts appar ently had no effect on the military situation. The French nigh command in a communique tonight said "local enemy attacks have been re pulsed" near Saarlouis and east of the Saar. Land and Sea Pressures Timed The communique reported that German artillery fire over the French positions was falling "on German localities behind our line." Tactics of the high command seemed to be keeping a steady pressure on German land lines while naval forces pressed the eco nomic blockade at sea. At the same time, however, French troops constantly are seek ing to improve their positions on Germany territory so that the nasi command will have that much harder job if it decides to launch an offensive. Military observers In Paris re ported It likely that when the nails see their 'efforts to make peace have failed and the blockade begins to be felt the German army probably will be ordered to strike in force on land and In the air in an effort to break the siege. Tracks Tiinneling Job Opens Today 30 Men Start Underpass at Parrigh Grounds as WPA Project Construction of the pedestrian tunnel under the Southern Pa cific railway tracks at Parrisb junior high school, to connect the school grounds with Olinger play field, will start this morning, W. M. Bartlett, district WPA coordi nator, announced yesterday. Two shifts of 15 men each have been assigned to the job and plans made for adding a third shift, to work at night, if weather condi tions merit, in an effort to com plete laying of the tunnel's con crete floor before fall rains set in. Bartlett estimated the tunnel would be completed in two months. It will be seven feet wide, 6 feet 8 Inches high and 34 feet long, with an additional 84 feet of inclined approaches. Bartlett has assigned Earl Coons to serve as WPA operation superintendent on the job. City Engineer J. H. Davis is in charge of the engineering. B eieeciiecu 66 Ark Royal 99 Okeh, Says US Witness LONDON Oct. 2.-(5J)-Captaln Alan G. Kirk, United States naval attache here, said tonight he had attended religious services yester day aboard the British aircraft carrier, Ark Royal, which German officials had hinted might have been destroyed by nazi planes. Captain Kirk, after a visit to the home fleet,- said the normal force, including every one of the capital ships, was present. (Berlin officially announced last week that German planes had attacked the British fleet in the North sea and "destroyed" an air craft carrier with a 1,100-pound bomb. Radjo broadcasts from Ger many asked English officials to say whether it was the 22,000 ton Ark Royal, Britain's newest plane carrier.) Monday Date Set For Jury Return Task of Investigating of County Court to Be Resumed, Report The Marion county grand Jury avill return next Monday . to Its task, assigned by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan, of Investigating the county court,, it was reliably reported yesterday in courthouse circles. Because of the recent death of Ralph Swarts, one of the seven Jury members, drawing of a new Juror and repeating the instruc tions given the original group will be necessary. Judge McMahan and - Mark weatherford, Albany attorney whom the judge- appointed as special prosecutor of the investi gation here, were observed In con ference for several hours at the courthouse yesterday. No inkling was given as to the nature of their discussion. The Investigation grew out of Instructions given by Judge Mc Mahan in mid-summer advising the grand Jury officially that a shortage had been discovered in the county treasurer's office, as disclosed by state auditors, and suggesting the Jury ascertain if the county court had had audits of this and other offices made ac cording to law. , Chinese Warriors Say Foe Repelled SHANGHAI, Oct -(SVCon-Olcting Chinese and Japanese claims tonight obscured the pro gress of the Japanese drive for Changaha in Hunan province. The Chinese . reported a counter-attack had forced the Japa nese column to retreat 15 nlles after It reached the suburbs. The Chinese said they had checked the Invaders' advance elsewhere along a 100-mile front and estimated that 20,000 Japanese had been killed or wounded in the last two weeks. - The Japanese said 19 Chinese divisions had. been " surrounded and "dealt a crushing blow." Union Station Is Scene of Blaze PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 2-pV-A Are swept through the; third floor of Portland's5' union station tonight, putting telephone and telegraph cables oat of commis sion and destroying old records of the Northern- Pacific Terminal company. ' t' " ' 4 Fire Investigator William Goers estimated, the loss at 17000. ian Minister Parleying With Soviet . MOSCOW, Oct. 2.-(jSr-Joseph Stalin aa& ' other soviet. Russian officials vheld a two-hour confer ence tonight with Foreign' Minis ter William Uunters of Latvia. Diplomatic : observers agreed the conference ! was a ' likely .attempt to strengthen soviet control of the North Battle and the Gulf ot Fin land gained through a treaty last Friday" with. Estonia. : , No announcement was made of the purpose,' however, and official Interpretation likewise still was lacking of negotiations that are proceeding with the Turkish for eign minister, Sukrn Saracoglu, who is Is Moscow. : - " , -j H ; Besides Hunters, invited here for the conversations, was the Latvian director ot department et treaties, M. Kampe. i The soviet minister to Latvia, Borah Paints Vivid Picture Of War Peril US Sure to Get War. ildohoan Savs With Dramatic Touch Senator Pittman Calm I n Presentation of.. Administration Side f WASHINGTON, Oct. i.-m-K. history-making senate debate tm determine whether this country should lift its ban upon arms sales) to belligerents began today wltfc Senator Pittman (R-N'ev ) decJar- . ing the embargo gave unfair ai4 to Germany and Senator BoraH (R-Ida.) warning repeal woula put the United States into war. Before crowded galleries tense with a realization of the gravitjr of the occasion, the slim 67-year old Nevadan quietly stated the ad ministration s case and the "Lon of Idaho" replied with a vigor that belied his 74 years. Pittman, chairman ot the sen ate, foreign relations committee. declared at the outset that th proposal to repeal the arms ban and place all trade with belliger ents upon a 90-day-eredit-and-car-ry ;basis was "the most important legislation that has ever been pro posed to congress." The present world situation was the gravest im history, he said, and "we as tha representatives of a peacelovins? democratic people have no right t refuse to take Into consideration that such war. or a war that de velops out of It, may not some day bej brought to the gateway of oar own country." Unfairness to Britain Cited The maintenance of the em bargo is a discrimination in favor of Germany, because it pr events Great Britain, which is surround ed by water, from purchasing' 1 our market armsv -ammunition and - Implements ot war, whilst Germany, being a land powtr, has access to arms, ammunition and Implements of war that maybs manufactured In Russia, Italy, Rumania, Yugoslavia and othet) countries." Borah, speaking as dramatical ly 5 as years ago when he. led the) successful fight against American entry into the League ot Nations declared: f'We will be in the war from the time the machinery is set in mo tion which carries these instru mentalities (arms and munitions), ' tolthe seat of war." Referring to the legislation' provision that belligerent pur chasers of American ' goods must take title to them before they are shipped, and transport them in non-American vessels, the Idaho-P an said it had been argued Amer icans would no longer invite at, taek from the combatants. Borah Sees Sabotage As Natural Result "'It does not seem to me quit so! simple," he continued, "If a manufacturing plant, we will say, is -located at Wilmington, Dela ware, engaged in shipping muni tions to Great Britain, will the an tagonists, belligerents, wait until title has passed? I (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Where to Deport Polish Sailor Is Portland Problem PORTLAND, Oct. Joeeph SzalaJ, Polish seaman, was under order of deportation today bat Immigration officials were ' as puzzled as he About what to do next. Officials, unable to get him home because it would mean passing through German army lines, probably will place him on a foreign-bound vessel. He wants to fight the nazls an would like to go to England. I "Poland still exists official!; and has an embassy In this country, Immigration officials explained. High Officials t.fs. Zotoff, and the soviet trade representative in Latvia.' M Ter entyev. arrived with Munters. -;Munters was received in Hiplo matlcally correct fashion; but his reception contrasted with the ef- i fualve .welcomes' that" have been ' ' given others In the s t r i t m of foreign diplomats who hare been ' arriving in " Moscow in recent weeks.' !.y'-;. -'v-;,.,;. t .-' :'V:, - - lit w.as" reported unofficially the Lithuanian minister to Moscow, Dr. Jurgis Baltrusaltis. left here for home and that the Lithuanian foreign minister would be sum moned to the soviet capital after dealings - with Latvia bad been . concluded. - -rxr '' 'iJfl -."v. , Reports from abroad that Rus sia bad i shifted 20 divisions' of troops from the Estonian, border1 to the Latvian frontier, were noC confirmed here. - .. V