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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1939)
First! Look to the Statesman, for first news. With it ear ly . morning press time this newspaper leads all others distributed la this territory wmm Weather Cloudy today with rain; rain Saturday, Max. temp, rhurs. 55, mln. 45. Hirer B3 tU South wind. 1631 EIGHTY-NINTH TEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, October 27, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 6c No. 184 oe9t Leadl to War ate Mooeveltt 1 W c 1 OS O W Britain Makes New Pleas for Russian Amity English Partly Excuse Partition of Poland ; In Gesture Halifax States Germany : 'Started It and Set the Example ' LONDON, Oct. 2e.-aVBritalii today nartlr excused without de fending soviet Russia's part in the partition of Poland while new pleas , were made in parliament for another try to gain Russian friendship for the British-French allies.; Foreign Secretary Lord Hall fax told the house of lords that Russia would never hare occupied eastern Poland if Germany "had not started it and set the ex ample." " As he spoke Prime Minister Chamber lain, addressing - the house of commons, declared that Britain was ready for Germany's "fight to the finish." Halifax Explains Action Of Soriet Russia Lord Halifax explained to the upper house that the soriet action "has been to advance the Rus sian boundary recommended at the time of the Versailles confer ence by Lord Curxon," then Brit ish foreign secretary who was a Versatile delegate. However, he said he did not wish "to defend the action of the soviet" government at the . par- (Turn to Page 7, Col. 1.) -Paul -HsttuerV Column 10 a. bl,' Willamette univer sity Dr. Baxter, the college pres ident ' who gets around,, writes from Ohio, where he la scouring the bnih tor a law school dean, "Having a fine time. Wish yon were her e,M or words to that ef fect. Dr.1 Baxter was born, reared and educated (Oherlln) in Ohio and knows the terrain well a. hmhi, jr. enougn not to get lost. : 10:30 a. m., The Governor's Of fices where the staff is busy typing letters to be signed by Acting Governor, Robert Duncan, who'll not come to Salem during Gover nor Sprague's absence. . . . Gover nor Sprague win promote apple week by having every member of his staff eat an apple. To solve the surplus problem he took his daughter, Martha,, who lives in San Francisco, an apple. 11 a. m., the capital coffee shop where Cecil Edwards is making breakfast of a poached egg and ac cessories. He is miffed because no ne will believe he actually shot the deer he shot, he the one-time possessor of 120 guns. --;!- ' - - 11:48 a. m., Parker's sportery, talking to Carl Charlton, assistant police chief, about parking tags. aV msiVa ski (ram nV fttisk, Jnal A u as o ana sivut wwwe uv woman who came Into the station with a tag the other day and de nied vehemently that fier car had been parked downtown at the time marked on - the tag. I wasn't downtown,'! she Insisted. I was home taking a bath. Ton can prove it by the neighbors." 12:80 p. dl, The Spa where Tommy Hoxie is gulping a beef sandwich before going on the air with a sidewalk quiz at 12:35. The international situation is ta boo as a question now because most people won't talk about it and those that will talk won't stop talking. " i ' 1:80 p. mn State street. Ironic note. Pasted in the window of the Western Union office is a large sited replica of a telegram sent to Zane Grey, congratulating" him upon publication of his 1 a t e a t book. "Western Union," on Octo ber 20. Zane Grey died October IS. 8:00 p. nu, 8 till State street where "Frisco" Edwards leans against an automobile fender and pines that baseball will drive Softball out of the money. Says he's going to figure up how many miles he rode tm trains as a coast league : umpire last- season ; and bets Its a lot of miles. 4:00 p. bl City Han where the fire department has i one of the few collections extant of early morle "stills" forming the decor ative border for the mesxanlne recreation room." Shots from Wil - liam Fox's "Lazybones" with lfadca Bellamy. Charles "Buck Jones, Zasn Pitts and Leslie Fen- eries. . There are two city fire engines bearing the number l. 7:00 p. . m. The Statesman, where we reprimand the supe for allowing the underline on our pic ture to fit so well with the adjoin ' inr line. Straight across it read. "... the big deer lay quietly, ap parently as dead af . Paul H. Jj.au TwoSoutherr a Smash ef .ie .- -w. -V v , v s A mm - W a t IStlllll I II S ,,M , n After breaking the unlimited endurance flight record at Lancaster, Calif., yesterday, Clyde Schleipper and Wei Carroll announced uey expected to remain up in the air 80 days. Fliers State Remain up light Pontoon-Equipped on September 29; Most of Time Spent Above Rosamond Dry Lake LANCASTER, Calif., Oct. 26 (AP) Two eouthern California aviators broke the unlimited endurance flight record today. At 3:42 p. m. their time in the air exceeded by one hour the old record of 653 hours, 33 minutes. Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll .said they expected to remain up 30 days. The Long Beach fliers tooto their light pontoon-equipped plane Into the air from the Marine sta dium there September 29. They said today they planned to ter minate their flight at the stadium next Sunday. Most of their time aloft has been spent in circling above Rosa mond dry lake near here to eliminate the temptation, the fliers said, to alight. Cans of gaso line and oil and other A supplies have been hoisted aboard the plane from an automobile speed ing along the dry lake bed Tommy Manville Affair on Rocks NEW YORK, Oct. 2l.-flrV Tommy ManrUle's costly five-day romance with minor Troy went afoul today under circumstances not too clear to the principals. Said the ebunuent Tommy: "We went up t my country home in New Rochelle last night and she found 28 rooms too small for her. Besides, she ob jected to- the presence of Yvonne Arden (radio singer). I called cab for her after she told me I was too damned busy with my business to get married." Said the comely Elinor, a 'na tive of Washington, D. C, lately of Hollywood: "My intention was to - marry Tommy Manville, not the whole world. Alter all some privacy is necessary In life. I actually didn't object to Yvonne, because never considered her competi tion. After a few hot words I decided rd continue my morle career for a few years before settling down." ' Look now or Moon Eclipse Unless the weather man has different ideas the man In the moon can bo observed going into biding here tonight as a near total eclipse of the moon takes place. . A weather bureau forecast of cloudy skies makea It doubtful that the ' phenomenon can be viewed here, but, at any Tate, B. L. Bradley, local astronomer, will keep bis observatory on Wal do atenue open from 1:20 to 11 o'clock for Salem people to take a peep at the eclipse " free of charge. " The eclipse will begin at 2:14 aa the moon, moving from west to east, begins passing through the earth's shadow or umbra. The eclipse will reach it's maximum at 10:20 p. m. when 09.2 per cent of the moon win be shad owed. . Because of reflection of light sdornia Aviators Endurance Record They Will for 30 Days Plane Was Air Roosevelt Forces Wiii in Test Vote Final Ballot May Come Today; McNary Sees Objections WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 .-)-Administration forces won by a two to one majority today the first test of strength on the crux of the president's neutrality program, re peal of the arms embargo. The vote, 65 to 17, came on an amendment proposed by Senator Downey (D-Callf) which would have forbidden munitions sales to ail foreign nations, neutrals or belligerents, In peace time or war, except states of the western hem isphere at war with non-American nations. Administration forces although they received but IS Totes on the Downey amendment, or' 57 includ ing two that were paired, were still highly confident of amassing a final total of si or so. In justif ication of this claim they pointed to the fact that 14 senators were absent and unrecorded today, most of whom are avowedly on the ad ministration side of the argument The final ballot may come to morrow. Majority Leader Barkley (D-Ky) announced that he would ask for an agreement to rote on the bill and all amendments at 5 o'clock tomorrow. Senator Mc Nary, the republican leader ad- rlsed him,, however, that there would be objections to such a pro posal, and suggested that he seek instead, a stricter limitation of de bate. Barkley heeded McNary's ad- ITurn to Page 10, Col. 1.) Wait Till '41: Is Due Tonight from the earth the moon, even at the height of the eclipse, win not be really blaek. The upper part of the disk will probably, as sume a dark, copperish hue with the coloring dullest at ' the ' top and progressively brighter below. A small area on the lower rim, the slightly less than 2 per cent un eclipsed, will glow brightly. - ; The ecUpse win end at 12:11 a. m. -NEW YORK. Oct. It - IB - virtually total eclipse of the moon will occur tomorrow night, the last time the phenomenon can be observed until If arch IS. IS 41. It will be the second eclipse this year. At Its bntffbt. It will Kao1w served by a group of scientists xrom ue American museum M natural history flying high over -new i or in an airliner. . Showdown Due On Bonneville Power Proffer Bluffing Tactics Running . Course; Power Still Going to Waste Right of Rate Control by Utility Commissioner Ignored by Raver By RALPH C. CURTIS Apparently only a few weeks behind the World War n sched ule, the Bonneville war shows signs of being translated from negoUaUon and bluff to "blits krieg" shortly in case the parties cannot agree upon an armlsUee and as in Europe, the question ; of "face" has something to do with it. For some weeks past the Port land General Electric company has entertained sincere hopes that it might consummate a con tract with the Bonneville ad ministration for the purchase of a sizeable block of power. The arrangement would have been mutually advantageous, since Bonneville Is now selling power only to the city of Cascade Locks though it has contracts with two non-operating publicly -owned ntiliUes. That puts Bonneville somewhat in the same position as Germany; it must begin to seU some Juice to somebody or be labeled the "white elephant" which some observers were Quite wUling to designate it before con struction was well under way. "Terms and Conditions" Cause Delay, Says Raver But Administrator Paul Raver. back in Washington, DC, to re quest more funds for extension of lines and hookup facilities, has reveaiea tnat "problems or terms and conditions" are holding up the signing of the PGB contract and has indicated his unwilling ness to sell any power and re linquish along with it control over resale rates. He insists upon an arrangement that will "pus the benefits of Bonneville on to the consumer." Now it Is conceivable that the Portland General Electric com pany, not occupying any finan cial bed of roses and faced like wise with a PUD threat in every sector, might be willing to "pass the benefits of Bonneville on to the consumer" and even to make a. con tract to that effect. But the PGB is a privately- owned utility operating in Ore gon, which means that it has no authority to set its own rates or to 1st the Bonneville administra tion set them; that prerogaUve belongs to the public utilities commissioner. On the other hand it Is true that under the rules of the utilities department, there is no Question but that if the PGE bought Bonneville power for less than its own generating costs, that saving would be passed on to the consumer. (Turn to Page 2, Cel. 1.) Oregon City Man High School Head Oregon junior high school principals elected L. A. King, Ore gon City, as their president at their annual convention here yes terday. Other new officers are James R. Evans, Baker, vice- president, and D. A. Emerson, Salem, secretary-treasurer. Senior high school principals of the state, and the music sec tion of the Oregon State Teach ers' association will be in ses sion here today and Saturday. Yesterday's meeting was devot ed to discussions of cnrrlcular and social problems ot the junior high school. Dr. Hugh B. Wood, University ot Oregon, was the principal speaker at the princi pals annual banquet last night. THESE ARE Minesweepiuge Is aa Important part ef keeping sea lanes epeni for truffle, and here is flotilla, of British minesweepers at work somewhere off the English coast la this radiophoto from London. Blackball signals atop the foremast of the McNary Is Willing To Be Candidate 4- V I v-xtm Senator Charles I McNary Hat of Minority Leader in Ring Senator Only Interested In Aiding Areas Of West WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -)-Senator Charles. L. McNary of Ore gon, republican minority leader, said today he was willing to be come a 1940 presidential candi date to aid agricultural areas to unite on a republican candidate and platform. "In no sense am I Interested," the veteran senator said, "except for the purpose of getting togeth er on some candidate before we go to the conrention. "I hare no interest in the mat ter, no ambitions, nor any illu sions but if It is thought best for the Interest of the republican par ty In Oregon, or any part of the west. In order to provide party solidarity, I would accept the re sponsibility." McNary's friends have formed McNary-for-President clubs In the west, urging him to accept dele gates in an effort to hare farm and reclamation states active at the 1940 convention. Trunk Murderess Is Still Missing Relatives Express Hope She Surrender and Aroid Execution PHOENIX Ari., Oct. 2.-ff -Wail anxious relatives ex pressed the hope she would sur render to avoid the possibility of being declared sane and executed, Winnie Ruth Judd, mad murder ess, succeeded today in keeping her whereabouts unknown. Investigators admitted they had found no trace of the 24-year-old blonde, slayer of .her two best friends in 1921, since her mid night Yislt Tuesday to the home of her parents, the Rev. end Mrs. H. J. McKlnneU, a few minutes after she fled from the Arisona state hospital for the insane. As baffled officers pushed the search for the trunk murderess, a brother. Burton J. McKinnell, Washington, D. C. Joined the husband. Dr. W. C. Judd. Los Angeles, in declaring the escape a "mistake" and a "foolish more" and expressing the hope she would surrender. Should she remain at large un til officers catch up with her. Young McKinnell expressed the fear she might be declared sane and executed, a fate she twice escaped, once In 1922 by appeal of her conviction to the state supreme court, and again in 1922 by virtue ct being declared Insane. BROOMS OF BRITAIN'S NAVY ' barest ressel show she fa. actually Flint Reported Again in Hands Of Nazi Crew German Dispatch Implies Reich Crew Takes Ship Command Soviet Releases American Vessel From Port in Russia COPENHAGEN, Oct. 16-(JP)-A dispatch by DNB, German official news agency, from Moscow to night implied that a German prize crew again was in control of the United States freighter City of Flint after it had been set free from Murmansk by soviet Russian authorities. MOSCOW, Oct. IC-iTV-The so viet government tonight released the American freighter City of Flint and well-informed sources said she had sailed under the United States flag from Mur mansk, Russian port where she was taken by a German prise crew. The government announcement said merely that the ship had been given clearance after inspec tion of her cargo and ordered to leave poet Immediately, but failed to throw any light on the all-Important question whether the American or . German crew was directed to take the vessel away. Well-informed Sources Deny German Reports Well-informed sources, how ever, denied German reports that she had sailed under the nasi banner. The Germans have charged she was carrying contra band. (Even If the City ot Flint was flying a United States flag, how ever, it was not certain she was actually under the control of an American crew and officers. (If a German crew in control of the vessel were following United States Naval practice, a United States or neutral flag would be hoisted and flown until the vessel reached a German port and her status determined by a prize court.) Danish Radio Says Cargo Is Unloaded (Although a Danish radio broadcast said the ressel first had unloaded her cargo, this point was not mentioned in official dis patches from Moscow. If the cargo was unloaded it was possi ble the Intention was to ship the goods overland to Germany.) (United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced earlier In Washington that the United States government had demanded of the soriet govern- i (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4.) Nazis Confident Reich to Get Flint Informed Circles Report Ship Will Be Taken To Germany BERLIN, Oct. 2S.-jP)-Supreme confidence that the American freighter City of Flint would reach some German port safely before long was expressed tonight In well-informed German circles. These quarters intimated that despite the demand of United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the ship be returned to the United States, the ressel would be convoyed from Murmansk by submarines whose commanders would be only too happy if British men of war would try to seise her. The view ot some observers that Germany was preparing, mean time, for some great offensive on the western front seemed borne out, they said, by today's ban on private telephone calls and tele (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1.) 4 ' S at work. - - .. , Says Belgians Ready to Fight .t; -i s s s ? i f Leopold III, King of the Belgians, last night stated that Belgium was ready to exert Its entire strength to up hold Its inde pendence In a six-minute radio address to the United States. Three Salem Men Escape Drowning Boat Capsixes in Siletz '. Bay; Trio Is Swept Out to Sea TAFT. Oct. 26-(JP)-Three Sa lem men escaped drowning today when their small boat capsized in the Siletz bay. They clung to the overturned boat and were swept to sea by the outgoing tide. The men Dr. Verden Hockett, R. D. Woodrow and B. E. "Kelly" Owens were rescued on the open beach a half mile south of the bay'a mouth by three men who witnessed the accident and tossed them life preservers. The coast guard was summoned but arrived after the rescue was effected. Hockett, Woodrow and Owens had not returned here late last night, but Mrs. Owens had learned that the three were unhurt. One of the men, she reported, was slightly ill from the effects of ex posure. The men left early yesterday for the Siletz river area to fish and expected to return last night. Mrs. Hockett said she had been worried because of recent stormy weather on the coast. Dies Committee Offers Evidence WASHINGTON. Oct. 2t.-Uf- The Dies committee submitted to the justice department tonight what it described as "evidence" that the American league for peaee and democracy was guilty of "a flagrant violation" ot the law requiring agents of foreign principals to register with the state department. The material was forwarded to the department In a letter from Chairman Dies (D-Tex) to Attor ney General Murphy, which said that the committee had "ample evidence' that the league Is "an agency of the communist Interna tional In Moscow." Dr. Harry F. Ward, national chairman and other officials of the league have denied before the committee that the league Is con trolled by communists. Turns Down Prize WUPPERTHAL, Germany, Oct. tt-ffy-TT. 0 e r h a r t Domagk, Wupperthal doctor who was awarded the Nobel prize for re search in Infection, said tonight he could not accept the prize without authorization. German law since Karl Ossietzky was awarded the Nobel peace prize tor bids German citisens from accept ing any Nobel prizes. Ossietzky was a noted liberal and opponent ot the nazi regime. shwf: ;;;:: ;-.v x4F US Housing Policy not new Program, Swings' Men Told Savings and loan . activity, as an outstandingly important factor in the "American way" of life, helping to maintain the nation as one ot home owners, was the theme of Morton Bodfish, execu tive vice-president ot the United States Savings and Loan league, at the annual banquet of the Oregon Savings and Loan league convention Thursday night at the Marion hoteL Bodfish pointed out that contrary to a widespread Impression, the United States has had a land and housing policy throughout its history and not merely for the last few years. Sketching some ot the present trends of interest to savings and loan associations, the speaker praised some of the governmental activities In this field but criti cized some phases of the federal housing program.. - " About ISO persons attended the banquet, at which Ralph B. Cake Takes to Task Critics of His Foreign Stand President Makes Address" From White House for Forum Leopold III, Belgian King, Also Speaks to US Over Radio NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-UP)-In- splred by a Joint problem Euro pean trife the president ef the United States, the king of the Belgians, and men of influence in American public life lectured the people of the United States tonight on varied phases of the new war. Concluding the ninth annual New York Herald-Tribune forum on current problems. President Roosevelt, speaking from the White House, took to task those who "beat their breasts" and as serted that his foreign policy might send this country to war. He tacked the label "shame less and dishonest fake" to state ments he said had been made in and out of congress that the presi dent's policy would lead "the boys ot American mothers to tight on the battlefields of Europe." This country is neutral and does not intend to become involved in the war, he asserted. Leopold III, king of the Bel gians, spoke to the forum and, the United Stated In a six-minute radio address from Brussels, and declared Belgium was ready to ex ert Its entire strength to uphold its independence. Appeals to TJS for Support of Attitude "If we are attacked," he said, "and, I pray God that this never will happen, we would not hesW tate to tight with the same con viction but with forces ten times stronger than in the last war." He appealed to the United States for support "in the attitude we have adopted." McNutt Warns Against Isolation Earlier Paul V. McNutt,. the fed eral security administrator, warned against "hemispheric iso lation" which he asserted would mean for the United States "aa upheaval almost as great as war Itself only wars do end, whereas this process would wreck a gen eratlon." Such a policy, he said, would require the country to maintain a military establishment "capable of putting a protective force into any part of the new world at any time." "It means reshifting of a great part of our population, and stag nation in many, if not all, of our manufacturing center in the indus trial east. Foreign trade is less than ten per cent of our total trade; but that trade is the key to a great deal of what we do." Turn to Page 10, Col. e.) Alsatian Leader Awaits EYAPiitinn PARIS, Oct. 26.H5V-A 10-year-old Alsatian Autonomixt leader and an unidentified French sol dier tonight awaited execution on espionage charges while allied patrols trudged through snow and sleet on the western front In search of information on Ger man war plans. Conviction of Dr. Karl Roos, veteran sponsor of home rule for Alsace, by a military court at Nancy today overshadowed news from the front where there were comparatively few developments. Dr. Roos .was, arrested Febru ary 7, almost seven months be fore the war started, when the French charged him and seven others with having furnished Ger man agents with precise details of the movements of French troops during March, 1936, when Germanay reoccupied the Rhine land, and September, 1138, dur ing the Czecho-Slovak crisis. was toastmaster. The convention; which opened Thursday forenoon,' will continue today with a report breakfast at I a. m., the final convention session. at 2:20 and a "question , luncheon" at 12; 12. There will be a golf tournament in - the afternoon. Speakers this forenoon wlir include Fred W. Catlett member ot the Federal Home Loan board; Kirk Rey nolds, chief underwriter tor the Portland FHA office; C. C. Chap man, editor ot the Oregon Voter, and Mr. Cake, who is a member of - the legislative committee ot the national organization.' ' v The report of F. E. Grant, treasurer ot the state league, de livered Thursday afternoon showed that there are 22 federal associations and IX state associa tions in Oregon at present. . six of them In voluntary liquidation.-' ne said mese associations repre - (Turn to Pago f, CoL il
