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... ,J(.- .-.- 1st Games Near : Salem's two . major foot nail team, Salem high and Willamette, play tbeir first prunes September 27 and 28. Keep posted on their prospectg, read the States man t ports page. ? ,., . 7ealher Partly doady today, seat tered light showers tonight or Wednesday; cooler with rising humidity. Max. temp. . Monday 80, min. fLi Sontb west wind. L w. - tbUNDSD 1&51 - r inNETIETH YEAH Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning. September 24. 1949 Price) 3c; Nevrsstands 5c No. 1S4 I: canned. BO.O - T - - -x.,. fir Vim 1H 7-MJI - XV f I III On (Ltam Atliliuidle New Deal Lets Labor Down, Is Willkie Charge Would Keep Present Law but More Jobs Chief V Need, Declaration Over 25,000 at Seattle Rally; Power Policy Is Portland Topic By WILLIAM B. ARDERY " SEATTLE Sept. 23-(-Declaring that the Roosevelt admins istration "has let labor down.? Wendell L. Willkie promised to night: continuation of "minimum safeguards" for labor and said that labor's fundamental need Is "more - Jobs, " more work, more growth, more expansion." -Speaking at the Seattle base ball park to a crowd whieh In cluded many working people In a city of strong labor unionism Willkie declared thatjAhe wage hour and the national labor re lations laws bad his - support.' - - "But I say these minimum safe guards are not enough," .he added. "They cannot really protect you. ...The only thing that can basic ally safeguard yonr rights 1 and opportunities" 1b new employment and more Jobs. ' Common Interest Is Emphasized . "Believe me," the republican presidential candidate said, "if I am elected president of the Unit ed States I shall protect your side of the Industrial team. But . . the other side of the Industrial team, the employer, must be given a chance. .' ! n - "We can lick the employer if we Want to. JVe 4an beat him down, we can, frighten him, we can even eliminate him. But if we do that and that Is what the new deal is 'doing yon - won't have any Jobs. The only employer left under those circumstances "would be the state. 'VXit V- -ir Willkie stood ' brneatb: "brilliant floodlights in the city's baseball park to read his address. When he came In with Mrs. Willkie the audience stood and sang "The Star Spangler Banner." The bleachers with a capacity of 15,000 were filled, and an over flow group stood on the baseball diamond. The park was decorated with flags and bunting. Willkie's voice was carried to the crowd over loud speakers on a sound truck. Sergeant Frank Fuq.ua of the Seattle police estimated the crowd at between 25,000 and 30,000. Mayor Arthur B. Langlie, re publican nominee for governor, said In an address Introducing Willkie that "this Is the greatest political rally ever held in the history of Seattle." Jobs for All Who Want Them Is Aim Willkie said he was undertak ing his presidential campaign be cause "I want t r y man and woman In this country to find a job if he or she wants one. I want that Just , as much as yon do because I hare given my pledge to labor that I know what makes Jobs and I will get them for you." Pledging a continuance of re lief until persons receiving fed eral funds "are returned to private employment, Willkie added that relief "is not enough." He termed the unemployment problem one affecting the whole nation, and added: m "There are three chief reasons why American workers should fear the continuation of unem ployment. .- " i "First,: there are MOMOO persons out of work today, which means that -there are 8,600.000 persons looking for your Job. "Secondly, ours Is an expanding population. If , . young people Save no place to go they will be out looking for your Job, too. Bill Being Paid by Those Employed "But thirdly and this Is the (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Strength, Peace -Legion's Demand 1 BOSTON, Sept. V I J-iavThe American Legion was told tonight that progress was being made in a drive to speed up a $7, 500,000, 00 armament program, after the Teterans opened their -22nd con vention -with demands for - a strong national .defense as "the surest way to keep our country at peace." - v -' in a city given over to noisy aad eolorful celebration by 250- 00 legionnaires and their fami lies. William S-- Knudsen, chair man of the national defense ad visory committee, described dif ficulties besetting the Tast pre paredness program but declared, hi belief that "we will be able to coma through. ' " ' . . His declaration came after the convention opened with a message trnm Tritirifiit Roosevelt, warn ing . that the present "test of atrenrth" abroad constituted a threat against the peace cf the antlra wnrM i. HstlAnal Commander Raymond J. Kelly sounded the keynote of 4ha fniir-div meeting W1LB uu armament-for-peice assertion Confessed Kidnaper to Be Viewed l iAsSuspect in Maikson Abduction S - - f This picture of Wilhelm Jakob Mnhlenbrolch, "confessed 'kidnaper of Marc de Tristan, 8, apparently was made In 1023 when be was ar rested In Oakland, Calif., on an Immigration charge.' He was to be viewed by a member of the 2Uattson family of Tacoma to determine whether he might bo jthe kidnaper-slayer of Charles Mattoon four years ago.- UN pbotcv.v l-ic- - . ' v Says Contractors Are 'Shaken Down Defense Jobs Depend Upon Demo Contributions, Is Holt Charge WASHINGTON. Sept. 23-UPl- Senator Holt (D-WVa) charged today that concerns which had ob tained national defense contracts were being "blackjacked, into contributing to the democratic na tional committee. He also asserted that Washing ton hotels were crowded with "contract vultures" who "are wav ing the American flag with one hand and stuffing nice Juicy con (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1.) VFW Seek Place On Armory Board Reports that Marion post 61. Veterans of Forelcm Wars, was not being considered for represen tation on the civilian committee that is to manage the Salem ar mory during the national guard's absence led to appointment of a committee at the post meeting last night to wait on Mayor W. W". Chadwick. - The committee will consist of Paul R. Hendricks, ehalrman. Dr. George Lewis, Fred Steiwer and C. C. Edwards. Mayor W. W. Chadwick was out of the city and so could not be reached for a statement as to his plans. . A ceremony was made of pre sentation to the post of a Philip pine insurrection battle flag, with 45 stars, on behalf of Mrs Wil liam McAdams. It belonged to her husband. A myrtlewood pedestal made by state prison Inmates also was presented. Thousands Greet W. Willkie; Favorable Impression Made By RALPH C. CURTIS -, "Willkie said . . ." Such was the manner In which many a conversation Began most anywhere in Oregon o a Monday. Wendell L. Willkie had come and gone.' . . .- That his campaign as the re publican presidential nominee had already made a . dftep Impres sion -apon-- Oregonlana -was - at tested Sunday and Monday when thousands of them turned out merely to watch his special train pass by, to hear his brief remarks at the few stopping places, te throng the route of his motor trips In Portland, to hear direct ly, by - loud-speaker or over the radio -hie one formal address . In Oregon at the Portland aaditor lasi. - - " "-" . . Nowhtre la Oregon, however, was Interest In Mr; Willkie's visit stronger than In Salem. Estimates of the crowd which Pressed about the rear platform of the WiUki train Tried .all the way , from r, . .".V" ' pelectiye service Office Opens Here Wooton Is Head; Armory Headquarters Set up; Will Choose Aides Selective service, or conscrip tion, headquarters for Oregon were established here Monday In the offices of the adjutant general of the national guard with Lieu tenant Colonel Elmer V. Wooton in command. Major Sol V. Richanbach, "Port land reservist, arrived here yes terday to serve as liaison officer between the state headquarters and the assistant secretary of war. Later Major Carlton E. Spencer, advocate of the - state staff, will come to Salem to as sist at state headquarters, l Civilian personnel will be ob tained from a list to be supplied Colonel Wooton by the manager of this United States civil service district. Such personnel . la - re quired to be obtained from civil service rolls. The first shipment of. master forms for nse in carrying out the conscription process arrived here over the weekend and waa turned over to the state printing depart ment, which will print from 50,400 to 270,000 copies of each form. The printing department will give priority to the produc tion - of registration cards and certificates. , HYDE PARI?, NT. Sept. President Roosevelt ,put Amer ica's first peacetime draft into ef fect today, prescribing minutely detailed rules to guide an army of civilians in handling the conscrip tion of men for the nation's ex panding armed forces. The chief executive called on the 48 state governors for; their "every help." . (Turn to page 2,; eoL 4) 1 0,0 0 0 to twice that : ' at any rate the throng. .. standing ugnuy packed, covered most of the open naca from the railroad station to a point about 200 feet south of Mill street, an area almost two blocks long and averaging almost a block .wide, others watenea along , the railroad. - right-of-way for its entire lengw xnrougn ue city' Parking space for at least a mile In every direction from the railroad station .was. occupied. People, congregated here ; front all parts of the Willamette val ley xtorth of Albany where the last previous atop had heen made. Fof three reasons, Mr." Will kle'e remarks to the crowd In Sa i,m war brief. First, ha was de termined to make no political talks on 6 ana ay, a resolution m kept though urged to break it by i-ra-KAm her, at Enzene and : at Albany. Second, -the train was ten minutes late, and the stop hr had to be curtailed. : And . (Turn to page 3, oU 7) " MiiUeiilich Being Grilled, Brother . of Victim Goes to Look at Him; Once Portland Resident De Tristan Abduction ts Confessed; Family Is Grateful, Wetzel SAN FRANCISCO: Sent. 23-flP A lad who saw his young broth er kidnaped In Tacoma lour years ago by a man who later killed the child flew to San Francisco today to sea . it - Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbrolch, ;held in the de Tristan, abduction, resembled -that man. .-. William Mattson was accompa nied by a federal agent on the plane trip to this city. He was 1C that day in Christmas week, 1936,; when a swarthy foreigner with a hump-nose slipped into the house, snatched 10-year-old Charles Mattson, and left a ran som note 'demanding $28,000. The family never saw Charles alive again. Fifteen days later his nude, beaten body was found in a snowbank. The ransom was not paid because the family could not contact the abductor. - Muhlenbrolch was eaptured yes terday In the wild hills of Eldora do county as he fled with three- year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., only son of Count and Countess de Tristan of fashionable Hillsbor ough. The, $100,000 the kidnaper demanded had not been paid, al though the family had offered it, and the little boy was returned laughing and unharmed to the home of his parents. Place Kidnaper Is Held not Revealed Today. Muhlenbrolch, held in an unrevealed place, was questioned by the best kidnap "experts of the federal bureau. -of investigation: What- tay-" discovered 'remained! undisclosed. But It was. learned that they were most interested In some apparent resemblances : be tween the man held here and the sketchy description of the kid naper In the brutal Mattson case, one of the few unsolved kidnap lngs on the books of the FBI. Earl J. Connelly, chief Investi gative officer of the FBI, who headed the Mattson case manhunt, attended the questioning. The FBI announced that Muhlenbrolch had confessed the de Tristan abduc tion. At Tacoma, Dr. William W. Mattson, father of Charles, said "I'm sure the FBI will put him (Muhlenbrolch) through the milL I have and always will rely on the FBI to clear up the ease. I've nev er taken a defeatist attitude." Ex-2rfdder( Logger Capture Armed MCaa . Muhlenbrolch was captured yes terday in the hills of 1 Dorado county by Cecil Wetsel, logging operator and former Washington State' college football player and wrestler. Ellis Wood helped him subdue the German alien, who had a pistol strapped under each arm. and a nne in his ear. Muhlenbrolch said he was a bar ber when' he obtained a visa -in 1135 at Vancouver, BC, to go to San Francisco. At Vancouver to- (Turn to page t, col. 1) Retail Gain Here- Is 133 per Cent 8 AN FRANCISCO, Sept. ti-VPl -All states from the Rocky moun tains to the Pacific coast chalked up gains In retail trade last month over August, 1939, census bureau reports showed today. Consumers spent 14.4 e e n t more on the dollar in Washington, which led . the western state for the month. Washington also tied Idaho in gaining 10.9 per cent in sales tor the first eight months of 1940 over the 1939 period. - ' Idaho consumers increased their August purchases of furniture more than anything else, going up 31.2 per eenU Oregon npped.thls division's Sales 14.2 percent' - Trade gains In some of the larg er, cities: Los Angeles 5.6,-San Francisco 3.3, Portland 9.4, Salem 13.3, Astoria 11.2, Eugene 11.4. Klamath Falls 10.1, Medford t . ' 'Seattle 14.S, Spokane 11.5, Ta coma 23.4, Boise 9.2: Lato Sports BUTTE, Mont - Sept. It-OPf The San. Jose state football team scored in every period tonight to smother the Montana State team. 34 to . - . . Smooth passing and reverses counted tor the Calif ornians. FnUback Tornell plunged over for the first touchdown from the three-yard line. -.;-:";?.- a new Snartan team was sent in for the second period. Hub- bell's 24-yard pasa to wygren mnnted tha second touchdown. - - Wolff lnrton. v behind good blocking, ran 29 yards on a re verse . and Ford ' scored on - a spinner. - , - - , -Tha Snartans rot loose for 1 more points In the final period. SALEM'S SOLDIERS DEPART Twelve Thousand At Camp Murray Last -Troops Arrive; Field Training Due to Start v Late in the Week CAMP MURRAY, Sept. 23P) Comnletins' a mass military mi gration from five Pacific nor th west'states. the last of over 12.000 national guardsmen arrived here tonight to begin a year of active service designed to make them a potent part of the nation's armea Camp Murray, becoming a fnll- fleagedinultary.- encampment, xor the first Ume since 1917, swarmea with men today as 9000 guards men arrived to Join advance de tachments already in camp. The final troon train arrived late tonight from Sidney, Mont., as the last line tf tracks was puii lnar in after a virtually non-stop movement from southern Idaho. FlaM traininc- will not begin until l&te this week. Major Gen eral George A. White, 41st divi sion commander, said. Troops wiu (Turn to page 2, coL ) Power Link Fund Reported in Bill Current Use for Second Bonneville Bond With Coulee Explained PORTLAND. Ore-' Sept. 22-4P -Bonneville Administrator Paul J. Rarer said today that. $3, $5 0,0 99 to complete the -Bonneville-Grand Coulee power link was contained in the $247,733,728 ervU func tions deficiency "bill. : - The bill waa reported today by the house appropriations commit tee. . t ;; ;; . . Raver said the tand would be used te complete the second half of a double circuit linking tne two great government power proj ects. The line would carry Grand Coulee power, direct, to the Pnget Sound area, connect with the Bon neville line already under con struction from the Vancouver snb sUtion to Seattle and provide two sides of a triangular transmission loop between the dams. -The third leg, flirecuy ap tne Columbia from Bonneville to Cou lee, has been completed ' PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 3-VPi Bonneville Administrator Paul J, Raver said today northeastern Washington and northern Idaho would be served by a Bonneville- Grand Coulee power administra tion office at Spokane. ' "Haiclim Held PoorPdueyr i : WASHTNGTON.' Sept. 2 JP Senator Gibson (R-Vt) asserted in the senate today that the civil service commission had taken' a "dangerous step". In ruling that national guardsmen,- while on ac tive . duty,, were auhject to 1 the Hatch act's restrictions on politt eaT activity. i--.--t.v" 1 ?'i .i The commission . ruled - that when .' guardsmen - were inducted Into active service or while they were attending weekly drill, their political activities .must be cir cumscribed in ; conformity with the act's provisions. The act, for bids government workers. to . dis cuss -candidates publicly, or.; to oaxtlclpate in a campaign. - - - "I sincerely trust that the com mission Is wrong In, this ruling, or. If It-la Tilht, that i congress will see that this situation la cor rected,. Gibson declared. He said he feared that the ruling would extend . to ' men conscripted , Into the army'-'. -V. 1 1. J 7 It was "Goodbye, mom and pop,! and "So long, sis,? as Salem'a SS7 mea'aad 23 officers of the national guard boarded special trains boerad for a year or training at Camps Clatsop and Biurray, The ' capitaTa rookie unit, the searchttght battery, took the car pictured above. Below, Colonel Cllfto M. Irvrtn, regimental commander, leads the JM9th coast artillerymen in parade from the armory toward the station, with Captain Charles L. Unruh at left and First Lieutenant John Reidy, regimental chaplain, at right Statesman photos. - Troops Depart; Scenes Are Reminiscent of 9 17 Crowd Out When Artillerymen Leave; Infantry's Departure too Early; Presented; Vets Scenes akin to those of Pacific passenger station here yesterday morning' as Salem's national ffuard units entrained for regular army training that will last a year, perhaps longer. V . There were tears as well as plaudits as many; youths found themselves leaving home for an extended period for the first time and parents bade their goodbye. Few but relative saw the mem bers of Company B, 142nd Infan try off to Camp Murray, wash., because ' of their - departure at - 4 a. m. ' v - v.'--:::: -J--.--. But; hundreds were on hand shortly before 8 ' o'clock- as the 2 4 th coast artillery units and regimental staff marched to the station from the armory, the Sa lem high school band leading the procession, the Salem Junior band, Cherrians and' veteran - capped members of the American Legion and -Veterans of Foreign Wars following. The Marlon county (Turn to Page Z, CoL 1.) . . Berlin Raided Three Sours; DeGaulle Leads Dakar Drive (By The Associated Press) Tiritlah homhera attacked Berlin early today in the longest aus- talned raid yet on tne nan capital, carrying out Prime Minister Wra- IWtt VJLHt m - Don't worry they'll get. It back. ' . - " - . - Bombs fell in central Berlin, as British planet flew over the city for more than three hours.' There were no : Immediate reports ef luimh damare. however, and no fires. were visible from the root of the Associated Press ornces.- Berlin's millions huddled in sir raid, shelters heard the heaviest anti-aircraft defense .yet thrown aloft against the raiders. ?- - British naval ' guns last night shelled the port of Dakar, French west Africa, inflicting untold cas ualties after that Vichy-ruled port Hfnuit tn surrender noon demand of Cen; Charles de. Gaulle, leader FOR CAMPS 1 t " - f Check for Mess Fund Sponsor Sendoff M7 took place at the Southern Pupils ea'Wiillde; Just Coincidence PORTLAND, Sept. tt-UPy-Ot course it was - sheer coincidence that a fire drill sent thousands of students onto the sidewalks as Wendell Willkie drov past three Portland high schools today. .-- r School authorities had -ruled that pupils could not be excused front classes without written re quests" from their parents; Two ether schools adjourned classes anyway. ; ; , w C;'- -' '" " of the TTenehmev still fighting Germany. - ' " -'. . French government advices said General de Gaulle, -who is under a death sentence by . the fViehy gov ernment, was aboard a British warship off Dakar along with four troop ships packed with soldiers ready to land and take over,;-" General de Gaulle called upon Dakar to surrender. Instead,' the French with ; three cruisers and three destroyers, refused. "The general gave the word- then to tire on his countrymen. The bom bardment', began , at 2:15, p.m. (5:15 a.m., PST) and ptill was go ing on late last nights In Vichy, a spokesman said France, ."wounded as she may be," had decided to "reply blow for blow. ; -t Despite this open warfare, the Vichy government declared It did not intend formally te declare war ; ; f (Turn to Page 2, CoL. 4.) . " 1 Japanese Seek Entry Before Accord Signed Casualties Reported at . 131; Vichy Says AU Demands Are Met Hull Says 'Status Quo Is -. Upset ; Tokyo Wonders" About Reprisals . TOKYO, Sept. 2 .-(Tuesday ) (fPfDoinel. Japanese news agency,1 . reported today from French Indo " China that 131 Indo-Chinese hasl ' bei knied in fighting with Jap anese at an nnriislnaAi1 nnlni the Japanese pushed forward -into the French colony under Sunday's accord. . It said the Japanese captured -240 prisoners. Including aeveral French officers, and quantity of " arms and ammunition. . HANOI, French Indo-China. Sept. 2 3.-(p) Japanese troops in full war kit, seeking tq carry out a "peaceful" agreement ad vane- , ing their domination In south Asia fought two battles with French forces last night and again today The second attack was at mid afternoon on positions of French legionnaires and colonial infantry men near Langson, 12 miles in- side the Indo-China northern fron- tier, after ' Japanese planes twice had bombed' the airfield there. Outcome- of the fighting waa not known -here late tonight.' The native population in Hanoi took to air 'raid shelters., French pursuit planes patrolled the eapt tal. The French were reported ' te r have suffered 60 casualties la fighting last night at Dongdang, , 90 miles north of Hanoi, when the Japanese- attacked a border blockhouse. Langson is In the same general sector.. , ' Head- of Mission .- - 'TTY 1 Stops Fight Once . MaJ.-Gen. I s s a k u Mlihlhara.: head of a Japanese mission which negotiated an agreement Sunday for a limited.. Japanese occupation of north Indo-China, sent emis saries to Dongdang and succeeded in getting the fighting stopped. In mid-afternoon the Japanese again attacked, however. French officials classed as mis taken a Tokyo report that the ' French defenders fired first be cause they were not Informed of the agreement. . : They, said the agreement did not provide for Japanese troops of the south China army to enter Indo-China. They said the entry of these troops was subject to a subsidiary agreement, yet to be reached. , j- :( Well-informed sources aV Vichy said all the economic de mands of Japan. in the colony has! been granted. (In Vichy, French Foreign Minister Paul Baudouln said the agreement provided for the right of passage of an unspecified num ber of Japanese troops across Indo-China, nse of three air bases in Tokin, landing facilities at the -port of Haiphong, with the Japa nese limited to one ship there at i any one time.) v ; Ammunition trucks were rushed northward last night to the sta- (Tnrn to page 2, coL 5) , , ' "XiONDON, '..Sept. 24v-(Tne-' ' day)-(P)-Tbe British air, force returned to the attack on nasi held coastal bases late last , night and kept np a f nrion ; bombardment despite heavy : anti-ircraft fire bnrstlng like rockets in the night-black sky. : Observers on the Kent coast of England" could feel tho con cussion from the bombing 20 to SO mile lacroas the etrait of Dover and said the exploslene nt the horixon like heat light ' nlns ?;-.- FOLKESTOXE, England, Sept. Z4v-F)-Large formatione) f German war planes creased the southeast coast of England . this morning. I - : j Two formations ef 17 Jank ers SS's, eeoorted by nearly ICO figliters, came oat of the, swe at an altitnde of about 1 0,094 feet. r i The bombers were met wita heavy anti-aircraft fire aa they crossed the coast. Shells bnrst so close to some of the bocab, 1 era that It appeared to grevad ; ebservers they most have been : damaged . ..-. ;i Simultaneously the first day light alann of the day eonnded , in - the London area, drivinsj 'residents to nndergroond ahela ;ters.-.;. n-lJ..":: r T&s British IVesa assoeUUeit f reported that a vvery , larg flight of nazi planes was seen ' following the Thames river to : ward London. , - ! .i' ; The formation was ; aald to ' have been broken np by eon eentrated anti-aircraft fire. After a short bat sharp eaA rafemcnt the German" raidere t diaappeared, leaving the: ekie over the London area clear. .