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
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, day. B9 miau -44. West wind.
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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." -
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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
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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
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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-
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Hoover Assails
Power of FDR
As dangerous
' ; V ' - ' 'A - .. - : ' '
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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,'.'
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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
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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
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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
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