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Weather Generally fair today, but unsettled. Fair Sun day; moderate tempera ture. Max. temp. Frl. 70, rain. 40. River -8.7 ft. South wind. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 21, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 179 You'll Laugh For a smile, a laugh, m twite hof your funnybone, turn to the Statesman San day comic pages Popeye and Wimpy, Polly and Her Pals, and Blondie. PSUNDQO 1651 Paul Hauler's Column The ' goose, that old harbinger of winter on the wing, has been flocking overhead of late on his way to keep a date in southern California. We have noth ing against the goose. He can go his way and we'll go ours.1 We're been to Califor nia, anyway. He might be a little quieter about it, though. To us it seems pbj a aatr. tt. just a wee bit ostentatious for those fellows to keep yapping all night long, "Well boys, I'm off for the south for the winter." Darned old migratory birds, anyhow! . . The best thing geese ever did was to save Rome from the Visi goths or the Ostrogoths, we for get which. The geese set up such a clatter that the Ancient Romans were aroused, slipped on a toga and chased off the Goths. They were public heroes and geese were given the privileges of the senate. They still have 'em. Sally Rand has taken bank ruptcy and will have to start from nothing again Which all shows that If you do a strip tease you're liable to lose your shirt. Times were mighty hard In 1892. Tha Salem citv council of tnoee days viewed witn alarm ana prepared for drastic retrenchment as shown in a resolution brougnt to light in the back minutes of the council. Among the resolution provisions was one that reaches a high point of industrial efficiency. It piovided: "That we dispense with one driver, say the driver of the hose wagon, move the engine driver to the hose wagon, then let the chief engineer act as chief and driver, and during the day he can act as day policeman." i Another section provided: "That instead of keeping our hoboes or prisoners at the county Jail, we rent a room and confine them therein, feeding them on bread and potatoes." i The Swedes, the Norwegians and the Danes apparently fear that the Rnsso-German agree ment lore the familiar words, "All rights reserved, including the Scandinavian." I Trivial Information Last week KSLM's football prophet predicted Idaho would easily defeat Gon aaga and was. immediately after the. broadcast deluged with phone calls from citizens who were of fering to give 14 points and take Gonxaga. The game had been playd that afternoon and Gonzaga won 19 to 0. .. A daughter of a certain sheriff of Marion county, who is a Willamette university student, recently was in dire need of a certain text book. A police radio call went out, the book was procured from its West Salem hid ing place and the sheriff's daughter-went about her studying. . . Those two rip-roaring waddles, Al "Buck" Adolph and Red "Hopa long" A., slipped out of their Bar None corral on Church street yes terday and whent Jouncing - up State street, cowboy boots, levis, six-guns and all. - . ' The city of Salem is planning a Oentnry of Progress for next year. We humbly suggest the city wait until 1054 when it ran kill two birds by celebrating the last payment on the city hall at the same time. Neutrality Debate Is Nearing Gose WASHINGTON, Oct. tKP)-A barrage of short speeches from both sides carried the senate's general neutrality debate toward its close today with1 Senator ' Brown (D-Mlch) asserting that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh offered Canada a "gratuitous Insult" with a recent radio speech. The Michigan senator, support ing the administration move to repeal the embargo on arms ship- menta to belligerents, referred to an address in which the famous flier called for retention of an embargo on "offensive weapons' and virtually demanded that Can ada cut her link to Britain. Asserting that if Canada should be attacked . from abroad, the United States would have tode- xena mac country, uaaoergn simultaneously , questioned - the Dominion's "right to draw us into a European war ' simply because they prefer the crown of England to American independence. Brown charged that Lindbergh was trying to deny Canada the control of her" own affairs and thus was encouraging ''the spirit of nationalistic Imperialism' that has cursed the world for centur ies and which is the potent poison that has; killed peace." 88 Oregon Non-Federal PWA Projects Completed - PORTLAND, Oct. Eighty-eight of Oregon's 134 non federal PWA projects approved in 193S have been substantially com pleted, Kenneth A. Godwin, re gional TWA director, said today The 4f remaining Jobs have a con struction Talue of 15,847,000. Total expenditures amount to 19,300,000 with the PWA assist ance totaling S4.e99.7io Hoover States US Should not Sell Munitions Says Gear Stand V Si Against Civilia- . Be Talr Former PreP & , Talks Over ,?ide Radio le 5rk NEW YORK, Oct. 20-UP)-ToT' mer President Herbert Hoover de clared tonight that the time had come for America to take a clear and explicit stand on wars against civilians, and that "whatever else may be done about the embargo. America should not sell bombing planes, their bombs, poison gas or submarines." In an address prepared for an NBC network, Mr. Hoover gave his reasons for his proposal ten days ago of a substitute for either repeal of the embargo or no re peal a proposal "that In what we do, we seek for a firm basis in broad humanity." He said his speech was designed partly to "clear up a mislmpres- sion" as to his stand on the question of this country's selling arms. His proposal, he said, was that this country prohibit the sale of the weapons nsed to terrorize and attack civilians bombing planes, their ammunition, poison gas and submarines and sell the instruments, such as pursuit planes, light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns and their am munition, which can be used to de fend civilian populations agatnst such attacks. Proposed "We limit Arms Business" "I proposed," he said, "that for the present we limit our arms business right there. . . . "Before I proceed I wish to clear up a misimpression as to this proposal. I have not proposed that we divide every kind of weapon used in war into defensive wea pons and offensive weapons, nor that we embargo such offensive weapons and sell such defensive weapons on that basis. "What I have proposed is to limit our basis of action first, to that .part of war carried on against civilians, and second, that we confine our action to certain apeeiflo weapons which I hare named." "I mention this," Mr. Hoover continued, "because some of the writers upon this proposal are un der a misimpression that I have proposed to cover all kinds of war weapons. That wider field was in deed proposed by myself in 1932 and by Mr. Roosevelt in 1933. Starting from this misimpression, these writers have lost themselves in a maze of discussion as to what, where and when a weapon is ag gressive and when It is defensive. Says Distinctions Are Not Difficult "Whether different weapons can be used for either benevolent or malevolent purposes between fighting men is not what we are discussing. The distinctions are not so difficult. "Every child in Europe knows its destruction comes from bomb ing planes and poison gas. Equally every child knows that pursuit planes, observation planes, search lights, anti-aircraft guns and gas masks are its defense. Every child in Europe can tell these weapons apart." Vernonia Unions Split on Proposal VERNONIA, Ore., Oct. 20.-UP)- Di8puting AFL and CIO factions at the Oregon-American Lumber company here split tonight In a vote on a compromise proposal suggested during a conference Thursday with Governor Charles A. Sprague in Salem. The proposal would have com' pelled non-CIO members to pay a 10c monthly tax for permission to work. AFL members, in the minor ity, rejected the plan while the CIO membership approved it to 1. State Tax Federation Plan Initiated by Uam than 200 western Oregon citizens, many of them represent ing local taxpayers' organizations; heard Frank Arnold, Nebraska tax crusader, blame an apparent lack of .public interest in government for what ha described as unsatis factory tax burdens now prevail ing in many parts oi ine uniiea States in an address at the Mar ion hotel last night. - Rtens toward settinr un an Ore gon federation of t a x p a y e r s' leagues were taken Immediately following the address with Claude Buchanan, ex-Benton county legis lator, aervinc aa chairman. Buch anan was authorised to appoint one or more representatives irom each ! of the nine counties repre sented at tne meeting to serve on a committee to form the new or ganization. ArnnM nreaMortt nf tha Nebras ka Federation of Taxpayers leagues, came to saiem on invita tion of the Oregon Business and Investors, Inc., and the Marlon count Taxnavera Learue. : "Never once In all the years of mv axneriene In tax work have I seen one single, solitary intimation His Conference Is Secret One 3 ' "5 .: hit KING BORIS III New Bulgarian Cabinet Sought Various Representatives Confer With Boris in Secret SOFIA, Oct. 2 0.-()-Conf er ring in secret with representatives of every shade of political opinion in Bulgaria, King Boris III to night continued his effort to form a new cabinet whose nature may have an Important bearing on the issue of war or peace for the Bal kans. Up to a late hour tonight, there was no indication that the mon arch had been successful in his quest for a successor to the gov ernment of Premier George Kios selvanoff, which resigned yester day. Observers predicted the palace conferences would continue over the weekend, with no announce ment until Monday. Belief was expressed among neutral observers that the issue was being complicated further by strong diplomatic pressure from Berlin, Moscow, London and even Rome. There was some belief that King Boris was sparring for time to see what positive effect the breakdown of Turkish-Russian negotiations would have on the Balkans. President States Ship Types Differ Draws Sharp Line Between Belligerent Undersea, Surface Vessels HYDE PARK, N. Y., Oct. 20 -(JP)-President Roosevelt drew a sharp line of demarcation today between undersea and surface ships of belligerent nations, as serting at a press conference that they were dissimilar as apples and pears. He turned aside in that man ner a question about the possi bility of extending to surface ves sels of the nations at war in Eu rope the restrictions he imposed, by a proclamation Issued under the neutrality law, on the use of American ports and and territor ial waters by their submarines. Some persons received the im pression, however, that since he placed the two types of ships in different categories he invited the interpretation that he would not put them in the same clas sification under the neutrality act. Portlander Is Elected EUGENE, Oct. aO.-ifl'HRob-ert Hlatt, editor of Portland's Franklin high school paper, was elected president of the Oregon High School Press association at its meeting on the University of Oregon campus today. He suc ceeds James Thayer, Carlton. Arnold Speech from professional career welldoers indicating that a careful analysis should be made of the ability , of the people to support the increas ing cost of government,' Arnold declared. "Neither have I seen any indica tion that these people who were so lavishly spending our public funds had the remotest Idea that the bottom of the barrel would soon be reached." Arnold said he was sure all agreed there was a most urgent need for militant citizens' organ izations to take an active interest in governmental affairs.' " The speaker then . referred to his home state, Nebraska, which he termed the "white spot" on the nation'a tax map. Arnold said it had not been the practice in Nebraska to adopt any fool theories of government. "We never advocate In any way anything that is not proved prac tical and workable and an advan tage to government in some part of the United States," the speak er continued. ....... ... "When tax leagues were first i ' - -A - ' ' I "' i fc-.V.'y.vly.l sy (Turn to page 1, col. I) Survivors of English Ships Tell of Terror Passengers of Yorkshire, City of Mandalay Safe in France Some Barefoot; Many Are Suffering Heavily From Exposure By WILLIAM McGAFFIN BORDEAUX. France, Oct. 20- (i!p)-Tales of terror and suffering were told tonight by many of the 300 survivors from two Brit ish steamers sunk by a submarine Tuesday in - the Atlantic about 500 miles off the Spanish coast. Those who could manage it sang "God Save the King'" and "My County Tls of Thee" as Cap tain D. J. McKenzie brought the rescue ship, the American freight er Independence Hall, into port. Some of the survivors were barefoot. Many of them had suf fered heavily from exposure. Long rows of ambulances were drawn up and a corps of nurses were waiting when the small freighter steamed into the harbor. Estimate 61 Persons Lose Their Lives A revised estimate was that 61 persons lost their lives In the sinking last Tuesday of the York shire and six or seven in the sipking half an hour later of the City of Mandalay. Some of those rescued said that the City of Mandalay and the Yorkshire were grouped with 19 other ships being convoyed by warships but became separated from the convoy after one day out from Gibraltar. A submarine described by Brit ish passengers as German first struck at the 10,000-ton York shire after following it all day. Submarine Strikes City of Mandalay Next A half hour later the submar ine struck at the 7,000-ton City of Mandalay. The number of passengers aboard the two was over 100. The Independence Hall got an SOS about 4 p. m. Tuesday from the Yorkshire and then shortly afterwards, another from the City of Mandalay. Putting as much speed as pos sible on the freighter, Captain McKentle'a crew reached the City of Mandalay first, about 40 minutes later. Two of the Mandalays life boats were awash, with scores of people floating in the heavy seas girded in life belts. By the time the freighter reached it the City of Mandalay was breaking in two. Rescue work took two hours because of the tremendous seas. A four-year-old baby in a life belt was rescued, but its mother died. As the (0 Independence Hall passengers did what they could to help and watched the terror izing scene, a submarine believed the same as that which sank the English boats suddenly emerged from the sea near the rescue freighter. Both survivors and passengers aboard the rescue ship screamed their fright, the passengers said, but the submarine merely sig nalled, "How many have you saved?" It remained alongside a short time and then dived once more into the sea. White Says Pacific Coast Vulnerable PORTLAND, Oct. 2HflVThe Pacific Coast is vulnerable to in vasion and it would take 10 months to equip and train troops for its defense, Major General George A. White, commander of the Oregon National Guard, said in an address last night. A more virile nationalism was urged by the General. He asked the people to remember they were the government and that congress had to follow their dic tates. He declared they should authorize congress to appropriate funds for more rifles and ether equipment now lacking. OC Mayor Dies PORTLAND. Oct. JHP)-Uoyd Ordway Harding, mayor et Oregon City, died at the United States Veterans' hospital here today. He had been a patient for s e v e r a 1 weeks. Late Sports MONMOUTH, . Oct. SO. Their two big guards, Emigh and John son, injured in the first quarter, the Oregon College of Education Wolves lost to the St. Martins Rangers, C to 0, on the gridiron here tonight. The lone score came on a quick series in the second .halt, after Gamblnl, Rangers Tight halfback, had run the kickoff back 40 yards SEATTLE, Oct. 20.-P)-Ham-merin' Henry Armstrong, the world's welterweight champion, scored a technical knockout over Richie Fontaine of Missoula, Mont, tonight in the third round of their scheduled 15-round cham pionship fight. The Los Angeles negro ham mered his challenger to the mat fire times in the second and once in the third before delivering the blow that brought a towel from Fontaine's corner. afeffli Mam MeM up Germans Said to Continue War Nazis Reported Ready if Enemies Are So Inclined Reich Contemplates no French Concession Is Report BERLIN, Oct. 20-(iP)-Indica-tlons that Germany is prepared to continue fighting if her enemies are so inclined came tonight from authoritative quarters here. DNB, official German news agency, Baid "England and France have rejected the fuehrer's out stretched hand. They threw down. the gauntlet and Germany has picked it up." It was said authoritatively that the reich contemplated no con cession to France. Nazis Claim Turkey Stooge of Britain A short while earlier, Nazis had declared Turkey became "Bri tain's stooge" when she signed a mutual aid pact with the allies and could no longer be regarded as a neutral. Spokesmen in high places and DNB cautioned the world against assuming that Germany was mak ing conciliatory gestures toward France on the meager basis that the war communique on Thurs day said the German west army failed to step across the French frontier at the moment conditions seemed auspicious because of the withdrawal of French troops. (By the Associated Press)' Th -ar-reachlng implications of the new stand taken In Europe's affairs by Asiatic Turkey now termed "Britain's stooge" by dis appointed Germans were weigh ed last night in European chan cellories in the absence of wide scale developments on the western front. Germans Again Fly Over Great. Britain As for the war itself, yesterday's principal developments were fresh flights by German warplanes over the strategic Firth of Forth, which drew British resistance and proved fruitless for the nazls, and; the reported taking of a "few prisoners" by French troops in pa trol and reconnaissance activity: between the Moselle and Saar rivers on the western front. j Across the Atlantic, in quiet Hyde Park, NY, where he went for! a weekend visit, President Roose velt told reporters that the ter ritorial limits of the United States; went as far as necessary for na tional safety. He said the limits might range from three to hun dreds of miles off the coast. ! Says Japan Won't j Alter Asia Plans ODAWARA, Japan, Oct. 10.- (-Feretgn Minister Klchisaburoj Namura declared today that the "determination of the entire Jap anese nation to bring about a new; order 4n east Asia is too strong to be changed of affected by the Interference of a third power." Diplomatic observers regarded; the Namura statement as a prompt answer to the strong speech of United States Ambassa dor Joseph C. Grew yesterday in which he said American public opinion was sharply opposed to Japan's military program In China. Namura was interviewed here1 while en route to the Grand Shrines at Ise to make devotions to the sun goddess Amaterasa. a traditional pilgrimage customar ily made by ministers after as4 suming a cabinet post. He became foreign minister September 20. Sweet Home Thief I Draws 18 Years PORTLAND, Oct lO-itfVClyde Richard Jensen, 24, was sen tenced today by federal Judge James A. Fee to 18 years in fed-, eral prison for robbing the Sweet Home bank of ISfiOO. I Jensen pleaded guilty to hold ing np cashier Dorothy Grant on September 18 and forcing her to open the vault. He was , arrested later the same day at Salem and led police to the loot and a pis tol he had hidden. Officers said he entered this bank the night before the rob bery by sawing bars on a rear window. Judge Fee, replying to sugges tions Jensen should be examined fby specialists to analyse possible future conduct, declared the time has come to quit speculating about his future: the court will have something to say about that," Prepared and Oregon Left out of Shipbuilding Picture as Heavy Orders Placed XT ' ia m 10,635,000 $4 60,000- LOS ,560,0OO After SO years In the doldrums. Pacific coast shipbuilding Is again un der way, Impelled by over $50,000,000 worth of orders which will produce 23 steam and dlesel cargo carriers and give work to be tween 4000 and 5000 coast workers but Oregon, scene of feverish shipyard operations during the World war years, is left out. Chart above shows graphically where coast shipbuilding awards were placed by the US maritime commission. One hull In the San Fran cisco area has already been built and launched. Italy Accepts Pact Of Turks Calmly Peace in Mediterranean Is Interpretation of Diplomats ROME, Oct. 20.-()-Italy's cairn reception today ox the sign ing of the British-French-Turkish mutual assistance pact was inter preted by diplomats as a new har binger of continued peace in the Mediterranean. . This calm contrasted sharply with violent attacks on the pro posed pact as published last sum mer. Fascists then condemned the prospective agreement as part of a French-British "encirclement" policy and anti-Italian in effect. ' One newspaper in an editorial reflecting fascist bitterness at that time described the Turks as "trai tors by nature." The serenity with which Rome today received the treaty which made Turkey a potential enemy in case of Italian military aid to Ger many therefore was taken by diplomats as further assurance that Italy was determined to stay aloof from the war. liquor Stores to Close Earlier PORTLAND, Oct. 20 -(JF)-Drinkers of hard liquor will have to start a little earlier in Port land hereafter. State administra tor J. J. Hague today ordered all but two state stores closed at 11 p. m., instead of midnight beginning November 1. Trade at most Portland stores Is insufficient to justify the late hour, Hague said. Employes will be concentrated to handle the 8 to 10 p. m. ruBhj period, instead. The Oregon Brewers' Associa tion request to bar eight-ounce beer bottles was taken under ad visement by the commission. 'A California brewer has been send ing small bottles into southern Oregon since the California su preme court upheld their prohi bition there. Oregon's smallest bottles are 11 ounces. Representatives of the association said they were inter ested principally in standardizing the trade. WCTVHead Complains Drink Tolerance on ''The present situation Is so i alarming that persons who never before hare taken a stand on the liquor question are now openly appalled at what public indiffer ence has brought to pass," de clared Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president, at the closing meeting of the annual state con vention of the Women's Chris tian Temperance union held in the Methodist church last night. "Tolerance of liquor is much greater now than it was former ly," she declared in denouncing what she described as present-day attitudes toward the liquor ques tion. "The new saloon appeals to women and youth as well as to men." Mrs. Smith discussed the his tory of the temperance movement, lauded its achievements and de fined its purposes in the culminat ing address of the convention which approximately 190 dele gates hare attended. Kidmaroed. tMiiMI If Vfil ikv . takr ANGEU5 CACH 'SYMBOL ",000,000 - i Reorganization of Army Considered War Department Said to Be Planning Nine Mobile Corps WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-P)- Reorganlzation of the army to form nine highly mobile corps of more than 40,000 troops each is contemplated by the war depart ment, reliable sources said today. The program was described to members of congressional mili tary committees as a part of ef forts to weld the present scat tered units of troops into a force which would be ready for any emergency. Putting it Into full effect de pends on congressional approval of army Increases recommended to President Roosevelt by the war department. These call for ex pansion of the regular army by 53,000 men to its full peace-time limit of 280,000, and the expan sion of the national guard by 85,000 men to 320,000. First steps of the contemplated reorganisation already? have been taken, however, with the orders for five ''streamlined" regular army divisions to undergo special training this winter in the south and northwest. Postal Heads Say British Stop Mail WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-(Py- United States postal officials for mally called the state depart ment's attention today to Great Britain's action in stopping Amer ican mail addressed to Germany. Secretary Hull began consid ering whether to make represen tations to Britain. Queried by re porters, he said that the govern ment would reserve all its rights under International law and that he would give the question what ever attention it called for. Postal officials said yesterday that the British, in searching ships tor contraband, had taken American mail, censored it and then sent it back to this country. Increase Today "la six years since 1933." she affirmed, "the liquor traffic is infinitely worse than it was be fore the days of prohibition." Mrs. Wise offered statistical proof that the number of saloons now In ex istence is over three times the number for the whole period be tween 1863 and. 1920. She de nounced the frequency with which liquor is "woven Into stories, movies, and social life in all its forms. The national president visited with particular denunciation what she declared to be the increased use of liquor by women, and the habitual appearance of women at bars. She contrasted former con ditions when "disgrace was the portion of women seen In the vicinity of liquor dispensaries. "Liquor revenues have not. as the promise was before repeal. solved domestic problems " the declared. "More money is spent V II i, Turn to page 2, coL-1) George Beaty Made to Drive Car to Kelso Gunman Boards His Xutj. at 12th and State, Demands Ride Takes $12 on Way out of City; Police on Watch in Washington KES0, Wash., Oct. 20. (AP) An armed kidnaper, holding- a pistol to his face forced George Beaty, 55, of Salem, Ore., to drive him here tonight after entering his automobile at a stop light in the Oregon city. Beaty reported the man, large and heavy set, robbed him of $12 before leaving the Salem city limits and then forced him to drive north ward across the state line. Deputy Sheriff A. C. Beckham of Cowlitz county said the offense constituted kidnaping under the; so-called Lindbergh law, punish able by death. All state, county and city officers in this south western Washington area were notified to be on the alert for the abductor. . He left the car and allowed Beaty to drive away after reach ing the northern city limits oB Kelso. Highly nervous after tbe ordeal, the Oregon man reported immediately to the sheriff's of fice here. He said the man stepped into his back seat ss he stopped for a stop sign at 12th and State streets at about 6:45 p. m4 pressed a pistol against his faca and ordered: Assailant Threatens Victim With Gun "Get moving along now, aadi do as I say if you don't want td get hurt." At another traffic light, th man reached from the back seat and removed Beaty's purse and its $12 contents, the victim told officers here. Deputy Beckham said the man apparently was not well acquaint ed with highways in the regiost because at the interstate bridga to Vancouver, Wash., he asked what span it was. When Beaty informed him, Beckham said be replied: "The hell it is." Beaty was not able to give a He said he was heavy set and wore a gray suit and a dark hat. He told Beaty to drive on wheoi he alighted from his car here. Beaty said he would stay ia Kelso overnight. Salem police - said their first notice of George Beaty's kidnap ing came early this morning la a radio message relayed from Kelso requesting funds or trans portation for the man. Officers here immediately ad vised Vernon Myers, 2325 Center street, whose address Beaty gave, and Myers left at once by auto mobile for Kelso. Beaty served as a member of the Salem police force during tbe World war. Sprague Joins Chest Campaign PORTLAND, Oct. 20.-(rVGov- ernor Sprague Joined the cam paign for Portland Community Chest funds last night with a ra dio broadcast In which he stressed rslue for youth training agencies. "The more I see of crime end moral delinquency as revealed ia inmates of our penal and reforma tory institutions, the more I am convinced that prevention is a tar better cure than subsequent ef forts at rehabilitation," the gov ernor sadi. - Attack on Police Disturbs Shanghai SHANGHAI, Oct. 21.-(Satur-day A uthoritlesof th Shanghai international settlement turned today to officials of the various foreign . consuls ys , for guidance in an emergency arising from an 'attack last night on set tlement police. - A Chinese policeman was shot and killed and a colleague, an Indian Sikh, wounded seriously in a set-to with a group of men dressed aa Chinese civilians. ' Two Students Burned , McMINNVILLE, Oct." 2 0.-4JP Paul Crapo, Klamath Falls, and Bill Waind, McMinnvUle. were burned last night by debris from tne unueld college sophomore- freshman bonfire. Crspo's hands hands wera scorched