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I Weather Cloudy with occasional rain today and probably Friday; no change in tern pcrature and humidity. West to northwest wind off the coast. Max. Temp. 56, Mln. 01. River -4.1 tW South I wind. News Diet .- Local and state newt to (ether with war coverage by the Associated Press make The Statesman a well bal anced news diet. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, October 5, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 165 LONDON JITTERY AS BOMBERS DON'T SAR A. " .RhEmoiii Opinions Mired Middle East PauNDOD 1651 ' Signed m Debate May Be Next London has as yet been free of enemy air raids, but an elaborate system of bomb shelters and air raid alarms continues to be pushed to completion by the British gorernment. Pictured above Is a group of housewlres in southeastern London at entrance to a line of novel brick and concrete bomb shelters. Each compartment Is shelter for a single family and, according to reports, makes a comfortable sit ting room. (IIX photo.) I la tee Bar. Paul Hauser'g Column Not so long ago Mr. Val Clear's Federal Art Center was exhibiting a collection of prints from the work of the mas- ters and it was, i according to - -those who should eollecUon. While the exhibit as In progress a woman who had long deprecated the work of the art center and its earnest young - ..,.3 artists happened h. Haasr, jr. to stroll in. She belonged to the art snob classification and it was her first visit; to the center. She was not aware of thespecial exhibit, find she refused to xatalogne. - Hastily she sailed around the room, nose at the approximate tiring angle of an antl aircraft gun, giving not a second glance to the reproductions ef masterpieces by Durer, Rem brandt, Whistler, Goya and oth ers. Then she sailed out. "Very poor work," she sriiffed as she scurried under full canvas past the reception ist's desk. STRANGE BUT TRUE DEPT. Pearl Love lives at Cupid's Court, Woodburn. We got quite a shock the other night in Portland. Wandering in our usual disconsolate fashion, we were brought up short by a neon sign advertising a product it lias never been our pleasure to sam ple. Due, no doubt to an elec trical failure somewhere in the contrivance, the big sign of the Oregon City Woolen Mills store In two foot high red letters her alded OREGON CITY WOO ; If the Yankees win this world series too we suggest they send them over and let them deal with Hitler, neutrality or no neutrality. CORRECT USAGE DEPT. The recorder of the incorporat ed City of Salem, Oregon, one Jones by name, recently received from a man named Charles Raf fety a letter thanking the city for a service it had rendered him. The letter addressed the city officials as "Gentlemen.. Two days later Mr. Jones received another letter from Mr. Raf fety, identical In text. Only this time, possibly after due reconsideration, Mr. Raf fety sa luted the city officials simply as -Dear Sirs." , Bock-of-the-Month club The newest member is John Steelham mer, whose buck had the misfor tune to meet Mr. Steelhammer un- socially near Palsle yin Lake county. Mr. Steelhammer's buck weighed 240 pounds dressed, but without shoes. POET'S CORNER The re guar poet, having con sumed too many hamburgers In technicolor. Is 111 today. In this corner; wearing pink -and blue trunks and fighting at 128, we ere pleased to present Mr. Hank Zlzzle, challenger : and f or mer world's champeen.' Mr. Zlzxle is a poet of the short-haired school, having studied under that re nowned literary figure of Ossin tng, New York, Mr. Lewis E. Lawes. : i . : ; AUTUMN IN VIENNA a man walked Into a barber shop 1 want a shave said the man you - don't need a shave said the barber but your hair looks like (censored due to war conditions) so the barber cut the mans hair P s if youre looking for ' a moral there lent any Rush this to the print shop, boy, "Lost"Hunter Safe , GOVERNMENT CAMP, Mt Hood, Oct. 4.HiP)-Statftpolice said today J. W.-Lynch ot roruana reported missing on a deer hunt ing. trip, was found building sabin near here. ' Police and rangers, became, alarmed when Lynch'g car, parked here, was not fiiV A. Vj' r. City to Get Disposal Plant's Need State Sanitary Authority Capital to Consider Problem . of Cleaning up Willamette By STEPHEN The expensive business of piani will lace me cuy vi oaiem iu me iieai iuiiuc, mc iicwijr created state sanitary authority is preparing to tell the city council. . 1 This advance notice was M. Everts, jr., of the state board -i Oh alden Gate Fair i To Close Earlier Decision to Close Island October 29 Prompted 'by Weather Outlook SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4.-flV Thlrty-four days were cnt from the scheduled run of the Golden Gate exposition of 1939 today when the board of management decided t end it October 29, In stead of December 2. Fear of bad weat- 'n Novem ber was listed as the official rea son for the deHs'on. The fair will end in a blaze of glory instead of dragging out in ! a way that might leave an unfavorable taste in people s mouths." said Managing Director Charles Strub. However, as plans were an nounced to turn out the lights of the 1939 exposition, a group of San Francisco citizens struggled to raise money for a shorter 1940 exposition at the same site on Treasure Island. AonroximatelV $1,600,000 must be raised if the exposition in 1940 is to become a reality. The 1939 exposition originally was to have been a 288-day pre sentation. It opened Febmary 18 on the 4 00-acre man-built island in San Francisco bay. A 20,000.- 000 attendance was predicted However, paid admissions through yesterday totaled only 8,580,747. AFL Votes Fund For War on CIO CINCINNATI. Oct. 4-6PV-The American Federation of Labor armed Itself today to carry on the struggle with the Congress Of Industrial Organizations by voting to continue for another year the special assessment levied in 1937 when CIO was pressing Us campaign in the mass produc tion Industries, The convention also- approved a more intensive campaign to or ganize workers In all lines of In dustry. " The special levy .amounts to one cent per member a month. A special meeting of metal trades and building trades chiefs took un union complaints that the Tennessee valley authority had refused to enter into closed shop contracts with AFL unions. Payout of Jobless Benefits Reaches new Low in State Payment of benefits to eligible unemployed Oregonians reached a new low of $184,881 during Sep tember, the state unemployment compensation commission reoprted Wednesday, This was $25,000 less than the preTious low month, October, 1938. " Officials said the marked de crease in Job insurance, which has been steady since March, was due to Improved business condi tions and a comparable Increase in placements by the Oregon state employment service. September disbursements boosted the eumuUUva-Attribu ' ' Notice of Preparing to Remind C. MERGLER installing a sewage disposal brought here yesterday by Clin the Pittman bill (the admini- of health. He was sent here, hM tn fnrownrn Alderman I vi A I Glenn Gregg, chairman of the city council s sewage ana arain-ia age committee, that a letter would I be sent the council soon suggest-1 inar it befcin considering the prob- I ing its sewers into the Willam- ette river. 1 The sanitary authority, which I Rn1m Tntorn helned create last I November 8, does not intend to attempt to coerce baiem or otner i cities soon to receive similar no-1 Hcttnd the 1938 lnitiatlTe measure gave the state no extens ive new powers of coercion out side the nuisance statutes but it does aim to encourage an early cleanup of the rivers, Everts indl cated, according to Alderman Gregg. Tho last sHmtfi msd of the cost to Salem of a disposal plant and related interceptor sewers and revamping of the system was $360,000, the sum fixed when a similar program was under con- JJ ll SI a i .,a nS Th. nrHi bo. I II" r r.,r ir.rvrr " cured but later relinquished ap proval of a federal grant. Alderman Gregg declared it would De "only a matter oi a year or so" until the city must con-1 slder voting bonds for a new dis-1 posal project. I "I tfclnfe we all are aware of I the fact that as soon as Portland puts in a plant, it will start a! drive for other cities along the river to follow suit." Greefr said. Eugene is already putting a plant." x Ralm' nrt aanltarr ' aew. rfw'". r VrIt rrJ 5rU"2 S.' '"T, "u The problem of a site f or a dis- posal plant was settled, City En-I.. gineer J. H. Davis believes, by the purenase several years ago 01 a mau ixaci 01 iana norm 01 vae A A. - . . - . At v iimiw u w-. un t Dr. Pound Named Prison's Dentist The state board of control Wed nesday elected Dr. B. F. Pound, i Salem, state penitentiary dentist to succeed Dr. Floyd. L. Utter, who resigned recently. The position carried a salary ot $50 a month. Utter was appointed prison den tist early In the- ex-Governor Charles H. Martin administration. He also served as a. member of the old state parole board. tion of benefit payments f; to $9,321,671 paid out In 842.C11 checks. . V The Portland metropolitan area. Including Washington and Columbia counties drew I9S.1S1, or 51 per cent of the state total for September.' Salem re tained second position with B.I I per cent, followed closely by Ore gon city and. Eugene. i Eight per eent of the Sep tember benefits went to Oregon ians now residing in other states. principally California and. Wash-J Embargo Held Peace Symbol By Vandenberg Senators Carry Debate put of Congress to; Nation's Radios Connally Sees Sinking of US Ships Unless Bill Is Adopted WASHINGTON, Oct 4-(ffWThe momentous senate debate as to whether repeal of the arms em bargo would lead this country Into war or keep it out produced these opinions today: Senator Vandenberg. of Michi gan: The arms embargo is an "in dispensable symbol" of non-in-Yolvement In Europe's war. Senator Connally (D, Texas): 'Keeping the embargo is helping Hitler. Stalin and all the others spreading fire and the sword Senator LaFollette (pro g., Wis.): "Once we have taken sides through action by our government in order to make arms available to England and France, the pres- 8nre ni be terrific to get us into Senator Johnson (D, Colo.): If the American people will ac cept the great sacrifice called for nation's measure to repeal the embargo and require that all I A.M gooas scia 10 warnng nauons u BhIpped m non.American vessels). long and lasting peace will be their reward. Tobey Urges Ma weoaie Senator Tobey (H, mhk -By bargo repeal iectlon of bm are holding un nassaze of those sections designed to keep OUT Ships OUt Of the danger We m08t ut flrst ttlngs Vandenberg, Connally and To- bey talked before packed galleries (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Parole Violators Give Guards Slip Washington Convicts in Daring Escape While on Way to Prison WALLA WALLA, Oct. 4(JP)- State and county officers were scouring southeastern Washing ton tonight for Fred Albert Ander son, 32, and Memn c. scnuiiert. 131, parole violators, who over- powered a traveling guard and two other prisoners and escaped in the guard's automobile between Burbank and Attalia about 5:15 ims aiternoon .Anderson and Schuffert, who had removed tneir nanocuns m ome unexplained manner, seized t. Armstrong, aaima, state I parole oixicer, and rorced mm to HWP ' ue car "e was cnameu to Morrison and the trio was aban doned on the highway. af tt.ila .J? .in, -nremi m.n Mrrin were lretnrned to Pasco to await other 1 .-nanArt-lon tv the atata. urison I m 1 nere Jngt of Armstrong IlllflTi II I I ITT T. W , Walla district parole officer and traveling guard, with four more prisoners to the penitentiary. HITLER-CIANO i 0 Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazxo Clano left Berlin October S for Rome, concluding first conver I sations between the Rome-Berlin axis partners since the outbreak of the new European war. It ap peared the two countries were In compete agreement on future mores, although no details of the con ference were announced. Photo above pictures nasi Foreign Monlster Von Rlbbentrop (eft), Adolf Hitler and Clano, who Aiscnssed questions arising from Gennaofs new agreement with soviet Russia. France to Finish War Hitler Began, Daladier Nation Won't Continue to Live in Insecurity of Past Years,' Chief Asserts; Nation Lines up With British Stand PARIS, Oct. 4. (AP) France will fight on until vic torious in the "war that has Daladier declared today in a reply to peace overtures from Germany and Russia. , "France does not wish to live longer in the state of insecurity of these last years." the premier told the foreign , Oaffairs committee of the chamber Hitler Will Tell Policies Friday Reichstag Given Summons; Fuehrer Cancels Part in Warsaw Parade BERLIN, Oct. 4-fi?)-Adolf Hit ler' tonight summoned his reich stag for a meeting Friday noon to hear a new German declaration of policy 'in the European war. Speculation centered on 'the possibility whether Hitler in one of his stirring addresses would disclose any new chance to end the conflict. The German point of view re mained that the action in Poland is ended and that action in the west has never started. Indications late tonight were that Hitler would decide not to go to Warsaw tomorrow for a tri umphant parade of German troops into the Polish capital. The need for giving the closest attention to the latest interna tional developments which might have a bearing on his reichstag declaration was said to be the Im pelling reason tor a decision to stay In Berlin. While Hitler will talk to the reichstag, his remarks will be In tended for the whole world. In official eircles it was emphasised that guessing what he may say was "hazardous and a disservice to everyone." Neutral observers, however, looked for no great departure from the frequently asserted Ger man statement that "Germany is ready either for peace or war" and that responsibility for the de cision is up to Great Britain. It was observed that the possi bility of the United States becom ing involved in the war had dim inished in the past few days. War Briefs MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4 .-')-The secretary of communica tions and pubUc works today scoffed at reports from London that the German passenger liner "Columbus" now anchored In the neutral Mexican waters off the coast of Vera Croz had re celved Instructions from Berlin to raid the Atlantic. A spokesman for the depart ment said departure of the Columbus from Mexican waters Is practicaUy Impossible dne to the fact that Mexican authori ties have rationed the crew's supplies and fuel. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-JPh Amerlcan merchant vessels were warned by Secretary Hull today to stay away from European danger cones because, Hull said, there was a probability that war fare on shipping would be intensi fied. At the same time, the secretary said that the United States govern ment did not recognize the "legal lty of unrestricted interference (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) PARLEY HINTS been imposed on us," Premier of deputies in a three-hour ses- sion. Thus the French government was aligned with the stand taken by British leaders concerning peace moves from the opposing camp. Daladier said his govern ment would stand loyally with Britain against any German-dictated peace. Daladier declared that France "refuses to bow to violence and accomplished facts. She wishes not a truce between two aggres sions but a durable peace guar anteeing absolutely her national security within a system of se curity for all nations." No Proposal Made Directly to France German talk of peace, the pre mier told the committee, was a "trap" designed for internal propaganda purposes In the reich. No concrete 'proposal has been made to France, he asserted, but should one be made, the French government remained in entire accord with Britain's Prime Min ister Chamberlain, who yesterday made a declaration against a dic tated peace. Answering questions in the long session, Daladier paid particular credit to Premier Mussolini for the Italian's "efforts . up to the last minute" to prevent the out break of war. He said France and Great Britain had tried In every to solve their differences with Ger many short of war, adding that Hitler "provoked the war and must shoulder the entire responsi bility." Neutrals Suffer Two Ship Losses 18th and 19th Marked up as Creek, Norwegian Reported Sunk (By the Associated Press) Two more neutral ships -the 18 th and 19 th of the war were reported sunk yesterday as Secre tary of State Hull advised Ameri can merchantmen to steer clear of European danger zones in the face of anticipated intensified sea war fare. First of the new losses was the H o e g h Transporter, 4.914-ton Norwegian vessel, which sank after striking a mine at tbe en trance to Singapore harbor. All aboard. Including two Americans one of them Sherman Plimpton of Seattle, were rescued by a British patrol boat. The loss was Nor way's fifth. The second victim was the Greek steamer Diamantls, 4,990 tons, which was sunk Tuesday off the coast of Ireland. The 28 sur vivors were landed at Dingle, county Kerry, Ireland, by the Ger man submarine which they said torpedoed the craft. The Diaman tls was the second Greek ship de stroyed. In addition, a Stockholm news paper reported yesterday that an unidentified German ship, loaded with iron from Sweden, had hit a, mine near the island of Borkum in the North sea. If confirmed, this would be Germany's 10th known loss. AXIS ACCORD i . f-.: :J A To Lead Poles Against Nazis Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorskl, former Polish premier and leader of the Polish army which beat Russia in 1020, will command the re public's new army, being organ, lzed among refugees to aid the allies in the war on Germany, Paris reports. J Parliament Waits On Hitler Speech Another Leader Joins in Plea for Considering Offers Carefully LONDON, Oct. 4.-()-BritaItt watched with a wary eye tonight the diplomatic maneuvering in European capitals which she be lieves may foreshadow a "call off the war jnove" by Adolf Hitler. For the second successive day the possibility that Germany through some neutral power, may .in some way suggest a peace set tlement occupied a big share of parliament's attention. For the second day came a sug gestion from a parliamentary lead er that Britain should not be too hasty in casting aside such pro posals if they are made. Lord Snell, leader of the labor opposition, toid the house of lords that he hoped that "the govern ment would never refuse to listen to a real proposal for peace" and that it should show that "in addi tion to' . being a nation of shop keepers,1 we are also a nation of pathfinders of a way to a durable peace." " First Lady Pays State Short Call PORTLAND, Oct. 4-(JP)-The nation's first 14dy, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, predicted nothing butneutrality legislation will be considered at the special congres sional session when she stopped briefly here today. "The more I see of what people write," she said, "the more I realize the public doesn't under stand what the issues really are." She was en route by plane to Los Angeles from Seattle. MEDFORD, Oct. 4-(iP)-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president, had a box of pears to day after a brief stop here. She was greeted by 30Q Rogue river valley residents. Wright to Die Friday WALLA WALLA. Oct. 4.-UP)-Roy Wright, 19, convicted slayer of John Dee Moore, Takima auto mobile dealer, is resigned to his fate and holds no fear of the fu ture, the Rev. E.- T. Allen, stat prison chaplain, said tonight Wright is In death row and is also being counseled by tbe Rev Arvid OhrnelL, prison missionary from Seattle. Tbe youth is sched uled to be' hanged early Friday morning. k- -; . ' W'- I Jr "V t Y $ -, , ' ' :- V; firt aLW American Seas Safety Belt Has Flaws, Shippers Think CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Oct 4 P) --Steamship agents repre senting neutral lines in the Pana ma Canal Zone said today they feared the Panama: inter-American neutrality ' xone - declaration would" prove to be' impracticable j They said, the work "of insur ing the defense of the safety cone would fall too heavily on the United States, whose navy would be Insufficient to patrol the vast territory and at the same time defend Its own coast lines. Some North American steam ship agents said the neutrality tone would Permit German ships now ill America to continue with Impunity their Inter American trade, competing with the 'efforts of the United States companies to take over the bust ness the Germans are ' losing . at present, .... Slavic Move Afghanistan Control Would Put Soviet; Next to India British Dominance iit East Coveted hy Ancient Rival TALLINN, Estonia. Oct. 4.-4AA- The Russian-Estonian mutual as sistance pact was ratified at If p. m. (1 p. m. PST) here tonight by an exchange ot letters. The pact was ratified Just hour before the midnight deadline for ratification set- last Friday when the agreement was signed in j Moscow. :( Reports received in Riga said the ratification, which had bees expected Tuesday, was delayed by a dispute over the number et troops Russia would station at tho Estonian bases provided for her. It was said Russia had asked that 25,000 troops be allowed In E tonia.) The mutual assistance pact and an accompanying trade agreement give Russia the right to establish naval and air bases on the North Baltic Estonian islands of DagoO aqd Oesel and at the mainland port of Baltiski, and to trade out lets through Estonia. Middle-East Coup Believed Next MOSCOW. Oct. 4.-(jP)-Reports of the conclusion of a Russian Latvian agreement giving the soviet air and naval bases in the neighboring Baltic state reached Moscow tonight. As Joseph Stalin pressed hit far-flung diplomatic campaign, foreign quarters advanced tho possibility that soviet Russia also would attempt to strengthen her hand. In the middle east, age-eld theater of Russian-British rivalry, once she has completed negotia tions with her European neigh bors. j Diplomatic quarters said that Russia might first try to extend her influence in the middle east by making proposals to Afghanis tan, which lies between Russia and India and now is within tho British sphere of influence. A soviet foothold in Afghanis tan would give the Moscow regime a strategically important position lit relation, to India's northern frontier. Afghanistan Needs Resources Developed (Afghanistan, a nation of about 10,000,000 inhabitants, mostly Mohammedans, is poorly devel oped with no railroads and few other forms of communication. , Her northern area reputedly is rich in copper, lead and iron. Coal and some oil are found in other parts. Wool and skins are tbe principal exports.) i The Turkish delegation in Mo& cow, meanwhile, received new in structions from its government la reply to what was reported re liably to be Russian insistence upon absolute Turkish neutrality in the European war. Russia, these reports said, told Turkey in -effect to "choose be tween Russia and Britain" and demanded strict neutrality regard less ot any pact she might enter with Britain and France. I In addition, the soviet govern ment was reported to be demand ing that Turkey allow no foreign warships other than Russia's to enter the Black sea through tbe Dardanelles. . . .. Woman Is Injured I In Albany Crash l ALBANY, Ore., Oct. 4 -(A- Mrs. Mary B. Cousins, Pasadena, Calif., was seriously Injured today when her automobile collided with a car driven by Mrs. L. F. Beggf of Seattle on the Pacific highway near here. i Mrs. Gladys Hayes of Pasadena, mother of Mrs. Cousins,' suffered head cuts. Both were taken to tho Albany General hospital. I Agents of British and French companies were of the 'opinion the safety zone would permit German ships to ' re-enter with Impunity the lnter-Americaa trade clandestinely and wage war fare against British and French shipping. I One agent said it would be impossible to expect the British and German warships within tho safety zone to - meet without gaging In hostilities. , t Several agents -. ot lines' of belligerent countries remarked that the - best protection our shipping has anywhere in tho world is our own navy.' - More than a score of German freighters still are tied op ia Atlantic ports of South America, as a result of the British block ade,