H Growing Newspaper! " The Oregoa Statesman Is . steadily grow In j? new spa-, per Its -readers know the reasons: It's reliable,- 'cora-t plete, lively and always in teresting. . - i.. i So m , . Unsettled today with lo cal showers; partly dowdy . Saturday. Max. temp. Thurs , day. B9 miau -44. West wind. XtaJoa . tacB. BiTcv. -a4 tU imrsnnn yeah Cclsxn, Crayon, Friday t.fornlng. October 25. . Price So ' Xwsxtsada 5c JIo. Ill f :( (I J ) ' IK - En Paul ' IJauaer't Column Pedestrians a State' street were mildly surprised the ether day when they taw a harried, hat leas man rushing along, an arm ex" t ended i b front of his' eyes and his thumb and forefinger held rigidly about fire Inches apart. - One of our ev er present spies was so intrigued by the man's be havior . that -he followed, h i m. (Don't look now. but that's one .of hut soles peek ing o t e r .your rV . Vf shoulder.) ; He .followed .him ; into the Sears Roebuck store .and trailed him down steps, into the basement.' ' 'TJl'l'PA- SrVi -Arm still extended, thumb and , forefinger stfll .rild, , the ,mah rushed into the plumbing depart ment and freniiedly signalled a clerk. 'Jj.'i - - - "Here, , bo. said, ; I want a piece of pipe this long, and he , stuck his two stretched fingers under the clerk's nose. The surprised T clerk whipped out a measure and. found that the distance between the man's thumb and ' forefinger" was fiTe inches. As soon as.themeasuring was done, the man gave a huge sigh, shook his fingers- rapidly and' then rubbed them rigorously. "Whew, t he m n said, 'that's a relief. Ito beld my hand that way from my place seven miles oat in the country." What's more, onr scout says, they didn't even give the man a yardstick. In keeping with our policy of bringing our readers the very lat est in war news we beg to report that a 14,500,000 cargo of Swiss cheese has eluded the blockade and arrived in New York, , that the British will ban sale of silk bose after December 1, that work era In London arose early to tear down two condemned houses and found that a German bomb in the night had done their work ' for them and that a London pub, hit by a bomb, Is advertising. "Bombed Out, Blasted Out, but not Sold Out." - 4 - .. ; H ' ,; n fataxt f rtuci epp- : . Uy klnt m tb Nttwi t a . -Vtolrt fcttlt laald Vleliy " fTrmnwt, ... wlt-tnfme ioarcM mU. tsy. Tou, 9an the si wag .-purpltt fress dispatch from " the eeat em how the Japanese are goimg to bomb beck oat of the Burma road nearly always re fer to the disputed highway as -Kipling famed 'Road to Man.' dalay. " If that Bonn girl Is still a-eetttn there she'd better move. - : ;'- j. - Nazi Planes Dump! Load on Midlands LONDON, Oct. Friday)- German warplanes In h e a v y squadrons violently assaulted; the Industrial midlands last night and in on town In that area two pub lic air raid shelters were ih.it by bombs. ' i ''."rt An Associated Press correspon dent reported from the scene 'that the loss of life was "comparatively small considering the - hour ' of night at which the raid was made. A motion picture house and a theatre were among the buildings hit, and fire bombs of a new typo were loosed upon the town, one of them falling upon a' large drug tore, . . . . ' Business and commercial prop erties were damaged. Here in London the all-clear sounded early this morning after an attack during which the" mans had come over in .'greater numbers than for the past several nights. :f- But the respite was only a brief one, tor another alarm soon her aided the approach of new. raids. While the raid atill was on, the people hard a reassuring broad east from Air Marshal Sir Philip Jonbert. He explained the new de fense strategy and spiked rumors of an ammunition shortage.',. Gas Truck, Train Hit; Trio Burned TUCSON. Aris., Oct. 14.-(fflf- Three persons were Injured . and damage estimated at 15.000 was can sed today when ft 5 0 0 gallons of gasollae exploded after a truck and passenger., train: collided on a crosslEig here.: - The 1 gasoline damaged ' three baggage and -mail : coaches, set eight ' . small .houses afire and caused ' explosions in a service station tad cleaning plant. Mail -ras destroyed in two of Southem. Pacific (Golden State Limited) ears, but the flames were -co a trolled before Teaching passenger- coaches. : Burning gasoline flowed down a street to a school yard, pupils were marched ' from their class rooms. : ; lt?"'0J ' , 500 :-.Piaaei': "IontliM NEW TORK. Oct.. 24-IVThe British - Broadcasting '. corporation announced tonight, in a broadcast QuoUd t y NBC that "the United States is . sending - warplanes to Britain now at the rate of nearly ft Oo .a months; this number is still grtwln.g and' is over, five times as mtny as were sent four Bad Blood Era In Labor Held NewJDfeal Child Willkie States He Wants -to "Unify t'mrit " , 'of Av-SP . - Says New Concept ; of. Lah gaming . Tg 4ary ' ; . . . r AKRON , ; -Ott. tiiPj Wendell L, Willkie . tonight der scribed' the new deal concept of collective" bargaining 7 as": 'reac tlonary' and said he wanted "to put an end to this era of. bad feeling' between 'labor and , In dustry. . l ; Returning . to the city where he practiced law' for l years the republican , presidential nom inee declared In a prepared ad dress " that . "the. true purpose of collective bargaining Is to achieve a; coordination of effort by the American people and coordina tion between them." '.'The new. deal has created had blood between, certain groups In maustry and .certain, groups in labor,' he said.' "With the help of the leaders, both of labor and industry, I want to put an end to mis era. or baa reeling, i "I want to nnlfy vth spirit of ' America. With, the help of both, we can not fail. . . Broken Promises And .Failures? .-- Willkie"; came here for- thre,e evening ' meetings after assertin in a national broadcast at noon that the new deal had , written a record "of broken promises and failures s of performance so stag gering as to ahock . the faith of the American people." That address was In reply-to President . Roosevelt's Philadel phia speech,. Willkie contended that ths president had failed to keep democratic platform pledges, , ii urn xo fags a, fou 7) . . Sprague Says War Makes Camouflage Chargea Crisis Is ; Used ; by New Deal to Hold Selves in r Power TULSA, Okla., OcL U-(JF)-Charles ; A. Sprague republican governor of Oregon, charged . in an address tonight that new deal era were "using the war crisis as a camouflage for an attempt to entrench themselves in p o w r, perhaps for a generation. . - "I call on the people to - look behind this screen. he said, "and face issues on their merits and to repudiate those who would de ceive the people . Into thinking that one man and one man only Is to. be trusted, in thi hour of peril. I , - Eprague, speaking at Conven tion hall In behalf of Wendell L. Willkie, thev republican presiden tial nominee, asserted that the Roosevelt administration 'vraa building " centralUed-socIallsed bureaucracy which la eating away the foundations of democracy by wiping out local power. "The; political and economic formula! of the new deal, he add ed, "resembles that of national socialism in Germany; concentra tion of power in the state. - "But let me remind you of the rest of Lincoln's great declara tion i fW shall not long have gov ernment for the people unless It is, also of the people and by the people. r r Sprague eald President Roose- : j (Turn to page t, col. 1) Roosevelt Son Is To Come at 20 : - l g, v s - ' " Persons, wishing to see Frank lin Delano Roosevelt; Jr., on his visit to Salem today were advised by county democratic oflclals yes terday to be at democratic head Quarters, : 18? South Commercial street, by 2:80- p.m. - , . ' - - - The president's son," touring the Willamette valley, by auto--mobile, ; will arrive here between 2:30 and 3 p.m. He Is expected to make a brief address In the in terests -of his, father's campaign for reelection. . 46 Right Makos FDR to WASHINGTON. Oct. Against foreign-propagandists whom he accused of seeking "to divide us with their strategy of terror" ! President Roosevelt - to d a y 4 hurled Abraham Lincoln's declaration of a faith that "right makes misrbt,' -While the Civil war president's statement of 'faith gives the Am erican answer to these propagan dists,: Mr, Roosevelt said in a, ra dio" address, the "nation is not neglecting its JmtgflU Rather, he asserted, it is arming to defend the -Americas and the oceans serv ing as their highways. The president, closing the New York-Herald Tribune's forum; on "Saving Democracy spoke from the diplomatic' reception room of the White House. ' . . "Deepising democracy and not knowiag ; oaf strength," he' de clared, "these who-have destroyed ether Cee ptcpleedeem the Unlt- Foreig Air Commander Killed in Crash i " "j " '"" .. .... .&. . jj., :.-.:-.. ftan . . Air Vice-Marshal C H. B. Blount . (above) has been killed in an air crash, the Press association in London said. He commanded an RAF division In France prior to France's surrender. It was understood he met his death in a flying accident and not is any combat. Charles Bier Has Draft Number 13 Statesman Employe Says It's Been His . Lucky One for Years "That's my lucky number 1" It was C. E. "Charlie Bier speaking and he was neither sur prised nor chagrinned when a fellow member of The Statesman staff informed him last night that he had drawn serial number IS In the draft. Number It bears no fears or bad luck superstitions for Bier, Statesman advertising! solicitor, because . it's entered his-life- sev eral times in the last few: years and has as yet brought Mm noth ing but good luck.. ... ' "I tot my first 'major Job ' on the ISth of the month."; Bier recalled. . ? "I got married on November ISth," he added. "And that was no unlucky day." "The first ; two figures of my auto license for 19 ST made . a 13, and I didn't hare .any acci dents that year. r - - And ; now Charlie - Is ' draftee No. IS. . It makes you wonder If No. 11 will be the : ISth number drawn in the national ; draft lot tery, next Tuesday. Bier - might have been any number from 1 to S492; .for the latter number 'was the highest that had been assigned to regis trants by the Salem selective (Turn to page 2, coL 4) Rainfall Is Heavy Throughout State PORTLAND, Oct. H.-iTV-Near-record deluges hit' several sections of Oregon yesterday as general rains dampened the state from east to west borders. The Coos Bay area received 2.SS Inches of rain in the 24 hours ending today. A ' fall of 1.19 Inches was recorded at the mouth of the Columbia river, 1.21 Inches at 'Portland, ' Rose burg 1.0ft, Eugene-. 1.9S,; lled ford .43. Hood . River i4, Bend .12. Lakeview .21. Baker .02. .The federal weather bureau predicted rain would continue Friday, although southeast storm warnings were hauled down at Oregon and Washington coastal points. Cooler weather was pre dicted for . eastern Oregon. , .... - Rocks washed by the. rain onto the Southern Pacific ? tracks at Shasta dam in California before daylight resulted in the derail ment of a southbound freight engine and four. ears. No , one was Injured. but the southbound Cascade passenger train was de layed for several hours at Duns-" muir.-.and - a - northbound . freight train was held up at Redding. f'1 'Quotes it Propaganda Mien ed States an 'effete, degenerate democracy. .- u . - "At first we dismissed this eon tempt with our traditional spirit of good humor; We . are now . re plying to It in characteristically American terms. "We are preparing for the de fense of the two American contin ents, "and of the oceans that are the highways et those -continents. And we are doing so ln a mood of determination, but unafraid and resolute la our will to peace t Foreign propagandists, -the chief executive said, seem to be lieve that if they tell as. often enough that democracy is tut worn, and that we are decadent, wa will begin to believe It our selves and ; we will - Immediately, obediently proceed, to decay. , 1 They believe, also, he said,' that we are no.xa&tch for a dictator ship in which uniformity is com- , .(Turn t pase 2, cel. t) - Hoover Assails Power of FDR As dangerous ' ; V ' - ' 'A - .. - : ' ' . . " - - " . " ' . Former President States : New Deal Is on Road '. to Naziism ( V V ... Political Machine Places Free Election in .. , r Jeopardy, Says; COLUMBUS, o:, Oct. ; S4.-GFV Herbert Hoover assarted - tonight that the new deal la creating an economic .system w h 1 e h . drifts "down the suicide road of na tional socialism.. "v . . ; ' I The - former president declared that his successor, , Franklin D. Roosevelt,' had obtained extra ordinary powers which point - to "an American breed of national socialism." . That in - the past seven years peoples liberties had been shackled and that a . third term would violate "an unwritten provision of our constitution. - : Hoover declared that "we were on our way to recovery when Mr. Roosevelt came into power in 19SS." .: . However, he added, the' presi dent "violated a promise not to tinker with the currency and cre ated a bank panic in the United States." Urging the election of Wendell L. Willkie as president. Hoover In an address prepared for a re publican rally in Columbus audi torium, and broadcast nationally, viewed the third term tradition as a check upon personal power which he said .President Roose velt had built "to a dangerous point in this republic." Free Election In Jeopardy "In building bp these powers the independence of the supreme court, congress and the local gov ernment has been degraded,'.' (Turn to page 2, coL 1) icing Carol Seeks ; FDR's Protection Faithful Follower Places Regest41fpr : i at " Legation Vfvi' LISBON. Portugal Oct. 4-P) -The exiled Former King Carol of Rumania, detained In Seville, Spain; with. red-haired Urns. Mag da Lupescu, sought today through a faithful follower to put him self under the "protection of President Roosevelt. Jean Pangal, one-time Ruma nian minister to Lisbon, and now the harassed ex-monarch's per sonal representative, asked War den M. Wilson, the United States charge d'affaires here, to appeal to Mr. Roosevelt for help in Carol's behalf. Specifically requested was the president's intercession to Induce the Spanish authorities to allow Carol, Madam Lupescu, and his former palace minister, Ernst TJr dareanu, to come to Portugal. They have been promised asylum here and Carol, in turn, has pledged . himself to remain here throughout the war and to- refrain from all political activity. The American legation was stu dying the request. - Pangal : declared - that Carol's detention . had followed' the cir culation of reports by a German news agency that he was plan ning to go to London and form a new Rumanian government under British protection. In spite of the fact that the former king had de nied any such intention, Pangal added, his arrest soon followed, - Ammunition Depot Plan for Umatilla ARLINGTON, Ore., Oct. !4-(ff) A plan to establish US army mu nitions depot on 24 square miles of northern Umatilla and Morrow county lands was revealed here to day by Major J. Ct Gates. . The selected site, : equally di vided between the counties, is east of a bombing range the army is negotiating for, major Gates said. The operating base for bombers will be located here. , . ' The army officer said he had consulted with Umatilla county au thorities at Pendleton and indi cated he Would go to Heppner for conferences "with Morrow county commissioners In the near future. He declined to discuss any details. Lands under discussion for the depot lie on water, rail and high way transportation lines. Tiiiiibliiig Boulders Destroy 2 Trucks ... 5 -,--;.:. ..... PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 14-(jn Three great rocks tumbling from the crags above the Columbia liv er highway.; near - Bonneville to day destroyed two trucks and seriously injured one driver. Traffic was gnarled tor three hours. ; ' - . r . Both -trucks caught fire after one, driven .by George Dalglieah. ST, Hood River, aideswiped one of the rock and was thrown into the path , of another, driven by Walter Embrysk, Pendleton. Dal gllesh suffered a broken leg and other injuries and was pulled from the flaming truck fcy Ira brysic, who was virtually unin jured --'- ' us May:': 7T7I Observer Clinches Deal France Probably to : Get -uacK ran ot JLandc; , : ? - xor-xjases . ; . , v . , - ' , Vichy Spokesmen Declare ; ; Petain and Weygand I 'Oppo8e;War -; By CHARLES 8. FOLTZ, Jr. ? - BERN, SwiUerland, Oct; 24-jn The inescapable conclusion , that France has .finally agreed to lim ited cooperation with - Germany against Britain in return for an easing of the nasi yoke was drawn by informed quarters tonight fromhe personal conference this afternoon between victor and van qulshed Adolf Hitler of Germany and 'old Marshal Philippe Petain of France . The two protagonists, the one In field gray, the other in faded hori- son blue of- the French army of an earlier day, conferred at length In Hitler's private railway car near Tours, France, in the German-oc cupied area. The only official word was that there was such a meeting. Their conclusions were darkly secret. It appeared certain however. that France was drawn Into Hit ler's "new European order. . Informed observers In this neu tral corner reiterated that France quite probably was regaining part of the area now occupied by Ger many, with Petain achieving . his dream of returning the tri-color to his-beloved Paris. . The price they said, was the handing over of French sea and air. bases in - the Mediterranean, Africa and the near east for German-Italian use against Britain, 89. recently France's ally. - - - -.Xhe Petal n-IH tier meeting must have been conclusive, they said, else it would not have been held. Hitler and his foreign minister, Joachim von Rlbbentrop, already had conferred two days ago with France's vice-premier, Pierre La val. Petain Meeting Is Com firming Obviously, the observers said. Petain needed to see Hitler merely to confirm an agreement already drawn at the Laval parley. : In addition to the terms men tioned, . there may be other con cessions from the Germans, such as release of all French war pris oners and the turning over of cer tain civil powers to French admin istration in the occupied sone, bat the return to Paris was termed the main consideration that and (Turn to page 2, col. 4) - Few Youths Trail Footsteps of Dad CORVALLXa, Ore., Oct. 24-() "Dad, no lannr la t)i ,MI. light f or youngsters selecting their life career. O. B. Badger. director, of vocational education in Portland schools, said tonight. He told 200 members of the Oregon Guidance association meeting at Oregon State college that formerly 7 ft per cent of all sons followed their fathers voca tions. Now the ratio has dropped to 25 per cent, ; Guidance for rural youth is the biggest problem, Badger said, be cause nearly 40. per . cent go to cities, driven from farms by mech anised agriculture and a decreas- Img city birth rate. The 1940 census showed 11.000 different jobs. Badger said, with f00 major divisions about which individuals need to learn more. Rex Putnam, Salem, state superintendent- of publle Instruction, discussed the problem of "improv ing' high school teachers. oints All Budget Board Reappointed members of " ths Marion county budget committee Thursday: :by the county court were "'Ray J." Glatt, Woodburn. AJ A. Alvin. SUverton. and E. L. WJeder, .Salem. Today the court awaits acceptance from the .three so. that plans for the annual hearing- to get ander way next Tuesday - may be completed. ' " 'Although Wleder la . scheduled to return today from an eastern trip, it was understood la county official circles that he would con sent to serve, as would " also Glatt. U Word." hasj not yet ' been received from 'Alvin." . '" Budget totals have-. not yet been . computed from ths figures submitted .by various departments. of the county. SCQO BaHotj Cast : . PORTLAND. Oct, 2 ore than 3000 absentee ballots, larg est number on record, have been cast in .Multnomah; county,--Keg-litrar James W. Gle&son reported today.. -; : . ,: retain Parlev .. ... . j Reapp wwpy Thirty Seconds After the Crash London Bobies Are out Sniffing A British censor approved captkm aays this plctnre was made Just ' SO seconds after a bomb exploded in a London street. The two bob bies are smelling a lamp post to determine. If the bomb blast has caused a gas leak which might result in a fire or another explosion. Homecoming Play W Event Tonight , -, v-"- 0 v -..- --4v Large Number of Alomni Expected to Return to Alma Slater. "Mellerdrammer In the form of "The Little Brown Jug, pre sented by Theta Alpha Phi at Wll lamette university, will open the campus Homecoming celebration at ft o'clock tonight. No seats are reserved for the presentation in Waller hall. A airn contest will draw to night, preceding the play, all liv ing organisations. Headllninr Saturdar are the alumni banquet at the Quelle at i:S0, noise paraae at 7, rooiDau tiff with College of Paget Sound on 8weetland field at 3. followed by a student body , and alumni dance in the gymnasiunu- An increased number of former studenta are expected back for the traditional weekend. -because of the changing of the schedule put ting the game and banquet Satur day. Herbert Hardy, '34. of Port land is alumni-association - presi dent. . - - - - . The audience will hare-tonight a chance to hiss the villain. Leon ard Steinbeck, and to. cheer' ths hero and heroine. Boh MeGee and Ruth Matthews " ' Others in the play are Wes Mc- Waln, Art Olson. D. de Laneey, Francis, Pickard and Helen New- land. - - . rr Capitalist Diea . : LOUISVILLE. Ky Oct, 24-4P) -James Buckner. Brown, T 2, for mer Kentucky' capitalist, hanker, newspaper publisher and politic ian, died at his home here, tonight following a heart attack. New Army A ir Mobile Force WASHINGTON. Oct. 24-rfVA new air corps organization ? plan aimed at having , more than 18.- 000 war planes ready to speed to the defense of a n y threatened point in the hemisphere was an nounced today by the army. ' It involves the creation of four' major air districts in continental United States and an increase in the number of combat groups from an existing 25 to 54. . - - "The highly mobile fighting force, the war department said. "will be so organized as to per mit efficient operation by t h e whole or any specially organized portion In the defense of any the atre of the western hemisphere. Not until sometime In 10 42 will the vastly augmented force, com parable In size to thos e of warring Germany and Great Britain, be complete, it was stated. 11 e a n while. the training of pilots and mechanics has been sharply accel erated, the department said, and new ft siting units -are being or- Stxdt&i as fast as planes cone from factories. The army now rates only about 500 of its more than SCO planes a first line fighting cralU Pilots. mechanics 'and etlsr t irsosnel number about 20,003, -contrasted French hi 4 .... Berlin Is Boiahed ; In Two Hour Raid Electric Plants, "Railway Yards Are Claimed Hit by British LONDON. Oct. 24-(ffV-Heavy British bombers cruised over Ber lin for two hours early today, pounding electric plants, railway yards and other targets In their 22nd foray against the German capital, .the air ministry an nounced tonight. The pilots said they flew squarely through a- giant anti aircraft barrage and dodfd group searchlights- to bomb such objectives as: The Berliner andK21ngenberg electrlc plants; 1 Rail facilities at Tempelhoff airdrome, the Lehrte station, ter minal for Hamburg and Bremen, the Puliti - Strasse station in northwest Berlin, the Potsdamer (Turn to page 2, coL 2) More Soviet Gold Is Brought to US SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.-) -Carrying 13.000,000 worthr of Russian gold bullion. . the soviet tanker Batumi 'docked here' to day after a stormy trip from Vladivostok. 1 The vessel's rich "cargo,, con tained in ' 120 -. sealed wooden casks, was transported to the- US mint .under heavy . guard. . This shipment-brought' the six weeks total of gold bullion cargoes re ceived - here from Russia to ap-' proximately; 323.000,000. On her return, the Batumi will carry-$ 1.200.000 worth of Cali fornia gasoline to" the soviet union. . -'" Plan Provides ;i in All Regions with 113.000 contemplated' more than a year hence, v , The air corps announcement co incided with these additional de fense developments: - "Announcing that army rifles and equipment were ready for home guard units recently au thorized by congress. Secretary Stlmson said that should the Unit ed States enter the war math more dangerous attempts at sa botage were anticipated , than In the . World war. He "referred to "thorough development of sabo tage as a weapon by Germany. The war department disclosed that it ' had. purchased, for 1 2, 090,000. seven ranches totaling 154,000 acres ia California, which will be combined with the 1.7 50,-GQQ-mcra Los Padres national for est to form. "one of the finest tar get ranges and maneuver gron&ds in the entire country. The ranch es ..were bought from William Randolph -Hearst, - Two air corps squadrons to re4 lnf&ree the Philippines garrison will be equipped' with sorae of. 110 pursuit planes manufactured in this country for EweSe-r and confiscated ty ths army, Mr. Stia son revealed. 'v . Islmids O 5 Plans Readied TolakeOver US Would Act yitit Other , American" Nations in . ; " - Acquisition : ' r ' (Camp Act of . Havana ' Is Basisr - j for Seizing Land as v Defense Move . By j. & stars: . . The United States, acting la coop- . oration with other Amerioan re publics, was said reliably tonight to have plans ready for occupying French territory in -the Caribbean area in case such a step is deemed necessary from a hemisphere de- -fense viewpoint. . Signs of possibly closer cooper ation between Franco and the) axis powers were creating Intense interest here. The talks of Adolf Hitler with Marshal Henri Petain' and Vice-Premier Pierre Laval ' were watched closely for any In 21- cation of a new trend in French policy which might affect France's colonial empire or its fleet. .;.v..-. The broad terms' of -the' recent act of Havana allowed ' Wide lati tude to the Americas; republics la . determining the circumstance un der which French or ether Euro pean possessions ta " this hemis phere might be seised, ? ' It provided for emergency ac tion if any of these areas "are tn danger of becoming the -subject ef -barter of territory or change ef sovereignty . The fact that the French am bassador to the United States. Gas ton Henry Haye, .paid an unex pected visit to the state: depart ment this evening was. taken as an . Indication of the concern felt ry United - States ,ffimf ctfeT"lh possible codrse of r tench ' policy... . It was reported that the envoy was called to the -department by Sumner Welles, undersecretary ef state, and while there was no an nouncement .as to the nature et the talk, it waa believed that Welles outlined the government's attitude toward closer collabora tion between France and the axis. French Policy . . Outline Asked It also was considered posslhls' that he asked for information con cerning French policy. Whetaei be mentioned the possibilities in herent In the act ef Havana was unknown. - ' , ; t The act, adopted by the 21 republics at Havana, last July, called for creation of a commit. tee with a representative from each country to assume the ad ministration of the region at-: tacked or threatened. It was te be constituted when two-thirds, or fourteen, of the nations had designated- representatives. - -The committee came into he tag today with the- appointment t the fourteenth member by Ecus-, dor. Others now- represented en the committee are Bolivia, Bra zil. Costa Rica, Cuba,' El Salva dor, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras; Nicaragua, Panama, - Dominican - Republic ' Venezuela and the : United States., Sumner. -.Welles, undersecretary of.- state,; is the United States member. - ' ; I ; ' Any of the American republics could hare acted singly or jointly in assuming control before : the committee' was established ... Islands : Are ; . -s." - - : Sear Canal " j'r - The French colonies which might be seized. In lhe event the Vichy government's. poHey became more pliant to Germany and Italy Included Tlhe Islands of 'Marti nique and : Guadaleupe ' In ths ; eastern . Caribbean ' approach to the --Panama canal, and French Guiana," on , ths South American mainland. " ', Off the coast of Newfoundland, where the United States has . ac quired naval and air bases, are the French Islands of Mlquelon and Et, Pierre. . r ' Martinique has been under (Turn to. page 2, coL S) Chief Broadcasts On Campaign : Are Listed . Major radio broadcasts en cam paign issues scheduled for today: 12-12:15 am ' ' fim. Oorre W. Norrle f or Roosevelt, KOI.V. a :43-4 pjn lTnthleen- If or ris and Clare Lsx-e,for Winkle, 'KOIX. -,.-: - -' -t - ' f CV:an t.m. 3 ohm 1m Lewis. 'head vt- tUm CtO from Wash ington, KUW. KOTX, KALK. ; - 6 :0-7 . p.ta Irvin S. . Cobb for winsj. j;oix. : ' - " T7:S J-B 0.Jjnw : de, forni-r cor;" cf L-Ja- ois, for :WUIVie. iX. - -T:SO-7t43 p.Hiu v e a dell Willkie' fro as - T. ;.cs-Iirre, ' KOIX." -' '"' 7:45- p-nL A skodatod Willkie clsb speaker. KOE?.. ' ', Hit38iS9- EtSwrd J. - Flyms f or-Jteoaevel, EEXi r io-lO:SO p.m. Henry .A. Wallace, 2LALZX - f