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Th OBEGOIf STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning September 12. 1S41 FAGS TWO t- ? r . . Bulgaria Hit For Nazi Aid Russ Qaim Germans Set for Offensive From Slav Slate " (Continued from Page 1) gar lan port of. Roschunk on the Dsnube river. 1 4. The German Grand Admlr r al ; Erich Raeder was new to Bulgaria organising with his staff a Black sea naval fleet to loose against the Russians. . - .The Germans themselves had announced during the day that their dive bombers smashed -Russian submarine base on the Black sea, destroying an unstat ed number of submarines along with a 10,000-ton steamer ths was trying to flee besieged Odes sa. This could have been an ope ration from Bulgarian bases, al t though of cource not necessarily so. German reports were again ' preoccupied with Leningrad where Berlin said fires were .leaping on many sections from nazi bombs and artillery shells. Pursuing an altered policy of trying to reduce the city with out making a frontal assault. German pilots dropped along with their bombs . pamphlets nrring the citizens to surrender It The alternative, they assert ed, was Its utter destruction. . Berlin spokesmen themselves raised the question of the coming winter weather, insisting that in any case the major required vie , tones would fall to German arms before the period of real blizzards It - was admitted by the Ger mans that at one point Russian tank charges had broken into the ' main nazi lines, but these were said to have been repelled with the destruction of 68 out of a total of 100 red tanks in a single . action. .. The Russians for their part in military dispatches of Thursday ' claimed their armies held the initiative all the way from Gomel along the center north to Yelnya and then to Velikie Luki, the lat ter only some 250 miles below the . northwestern metropolis of Len ingrad. The red drive at the center, in the vicinity of Gomel and Smo lensk, was claimed to have rolled en from 10 to 12 miles with the recapture of 10 more soviet towns. Marine Unit Inducts Heads L. L. Pittenger was elected and Installed as commandant of the Salem detachment of the Marine Corps league at its meeting in the Salem Brewery's recreation room Thursday night. Michael Flax is new senior vice commandant; Her man Doney, junior vice comman dant; B. E. "Kelly" Owens, judge advocate; Paul E. Davies, ser ' geant-at-arms; David Furlough, . chaplain; William A. Noyes, ad jutant paymaster. Installing officer for the occa sion was Michael Hodes, Portland, national junior vice commandant. A delegation of ex-marines from the Portland detachment attend ed. Final plans were discussed for the program to be presented at 3 : o'clock tonight at Salem Art Cen ter under auspices of the league and the Salem recruiting office for marines as a feature of Marine week there. to et sDor PACIFIC TPLiPIIONH 713 SSaie St. Deadliest Bomber Ordered in Mass Mass production of ths new long-range, high altitude bomber, the B-1T-E, shown to test flight OTer Seattle. Wash, has been ordered by the war department The bomber, one of the world's deadliest, is the most improved model of the Boeing flying fortress. The U. & awarded contracts totaling 1347,- 156,874 for construction of the bombers. ! Axis Prepares African Plan France, Spain Join . With Germany in Defense Program (Continued from Page 1) Oran go loaded with coastal and anti-aircraft guns, searchlight batteries, mines, knoeked-down 80-and 129-ton submarines and fast torpedo-boats. Such is the outline of the story brought by Europeans of credibil ity, persons who can cite adequate if unpublishable sources for their information. BERLIN, Sept ll-()-Adolf Hitler has received the Hungarian regent and premier and new en voys of Spain, Portugal and Den' mark at his readquarters on the eastern front, it was announced Thursday night. Regent Admiral Nicholas Hor thy and Premier Laszlo de Bard ossy of Hungary visited the fueh rer from Monday until yesterday, (The visit was believed to have accounted for sadden in terruption of international com munication with Budapest last night. Communications were cut off presumably pending the regent's safe return.) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept ll-itfVThe Quisling regime in Oslo asserted Thursday that two days of strikes in the iron and ship-building industries of the Norwegian capital had ended after the execution by a firing squad of two Norwegian labor leaders. The Oslo area was encircled by German troops. Yidkun Quisling's men took ever com plete control of both worker's and employers' organisations to Norway, bat the status of a reneral strike called for Thurs day remained uncertain. The state of siege which Ter b o v e n proclaimed Wednesday when German authorities report ed discovering plans for the gen eral strike In Oslo was expected to be extended to other areas of Norway. - Schooner Damaged ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. U-JP)-The steam schooner Stanwood, which sailed from the Columbia river in the night, damaged her tail shaft and was under tow, back into the river Thursday night AND TZLSGSAPn CO MP ANT TeleobMW Sltl V X 4 4 m e?. :::J," a Jj5 .m- c f. I. Jf. Soundphoto Flood waters cause havoc to northern and central Wisconsin as rivers, fed by torrential rains, overflowed their banks, isolating communities and stranding vacationists to resort section. The White and Bad rivers to the far north flooded ths entire village of Odanah, an Indian community, and the Indians were removed by boats. Damage was estimated over the 1500,000 mark. This picture was taken to northern Wisconsin. United Ready For Air Stop At City Port (Continued from Page 1) that they may utilize temporary quarters for operations at the Salem airport until a permanent administration building, with needed space for ticket office, control tower, offices and ) gov ernment weather station, is' con structed. Stops by two north bound and two southbound planes daily have been promised the city. Plans for an administration building to be built with funds from sale of bonds approved by Salem voters last month are now being worked oat by Tom Armstrong, chairman ef the city council airport committee and interested local citizens. Service to Klamath Falls, de- hied by the CAA to Thursday's order, would have been by feeder planes based at Medford. Realtor Hit By Auto Said Resting Well (Continued from Page 1) 15th street, a Kay Woolen mill pedestrian. Bundle, 559 South employe, sustained lacerations, according to city first aid car men, who also were called for Elliott. Cars driven by Marlon Ray mond Davis, 460 Jefferson, and Bernlce Day, 1925 Broadway, collided at Broadway and Jef ferson at 4:23, police said. Sev enteenth and Center was scene ef a collision at 3:15 between automobiles driven by Hallle Barton Lynch, 1 950 Broadway and Erwln Southard, 120S Court, according to police re port. Minor accidents to which neither motorists nor ears were noticeably Injured were numer ous and blamed largely to wet streets. The city- first aid car had its first call of the day shortly after noon when Mrs. Webb W. Has kins, 138 South Cottage, suffered second degree scalds of face. neck, hands and side in pressure cooker explosion. Prison Break, Hah? WASHINGTON. Sept !!-)- Representative Bloom (D-NY) received a telegram today from a constituent which read: "My son has been to the Atlanta penitentiary for six months and he doesn't like it Can you get him out?" 7 Lydt K. Pinkbtm's Vctabl Compound not only belpa teU monthly pain but also weak, norr ous feelings dua to monthly func tional dlsturbancos.lt helps build vp tMittaaoa armtDst dUttreaa of "diffi cult day. Follow label direction. Production ' - - fX: , Highlights In Talk by President (Continued from Page 1) fully In a nasi-domtoated world. Normal practices of diplomacy note writing are of no possible use to dealing with International outlaws who sink our ships and kill our citizens. One peaceful nation after an other has met disaster because each refused to look the nazi danger squarely in the eye until it actually had them by the throat The United States will not make that fatal mistake. No matter what it takes, no matter what it costs, we will keep open the line of legitimate com merce in these defensive waters. In the waters which we deem necessary for oar defense, Am erican naval vessels and Ame rican planes will no longer wait until axis submarines larking under water, or axis raiders on the surface of the sea, strike their deadly blow first From now on if German or Italy vessels of war enter the wa ters, the protection of which is necessary for American defense, they do so at their own peril. The sole responsibility rests upon Germany. There will be no shooting unless Germany continues to seek it The American neoole have faced other grave crises to their historywith American courage and American resolution. They will do no less today. Fort Lewis to Lose 515 Men This Month -( (Continued from Page 1) before December it it was or dered by the war department, weald be released by December It so they "may be with their families during the holidays." FORT LEWIS, Sept ll-ffr-Captain Charles Buxton, former publie relations officer of the 41st division and aide tn UW run. al George A. Whit -wHi enroll this week to the battalion com- manaers scnoM at fort Bennlng, Gt, preparatory to being award ed the rank of major. ''I Quake Hits Turkey LONDON, Friday. Sept. 12 - V ah r.xcnange leiegrapn dispatch . V. . . - " ' from Ankara today reported that j The sky was so overcast Thurs 500 persons were killed to n se- day niht that m big' B-lt four- vere earthquake at Agri, 7ft miles east of Erzurum to eastern Tur- Capital Reacts Differently on Shooting War Comment Heard From 'War Declaration' to Approval of Stand (Continued from Page 1) tial proclamation. The president I declares in effect that we shall 1 defend our rights on ' such seas I es are essential to out security, jmation of the seas lor them with the president reserving to j selves" himself alone the determination of I which waters are thus essential, j be they the Canbbeah, Red or 1 Black seas." - O O . : Democratic Leader Barklev 1T a the esAnt TT I a a.Ok-r va av wiacai ucu i laid before the American peo ple the problem that faces them and the method by which he proposes to deal with it In my ' opinion, he could pursue no other course. Senator McNary (It-Ore), re publican leader "It was a eandM statement en the part of the president ef his porpeses and policies, without any at-' tempt to involve congress. Chairman ConnaUy (D-Tex) of the senate foreign relations com mittee "The address was an eloquent and clear exposition of the historical and traditional pol icy of the United States with re gard to the freedom of the seas. rt .hinc . Aito u;.ro. are attacked we shall defend them. I hnno our destrnvera will I etiAAr Is a wyi an4 orra ? tVi4 i buwi sMuu auueuaifut. General Robert E. Wood, na tional chairman of . the Amer ica First committee "The pres ident has initiated an undeclar ed war in plain violation of the constitution. In 1917 President Woodrow Wilson sufficiently respected his oath of office and the constitution of the United States to ask congress to declare war. ... This attempt to take the American people into war, in betrayal of the most solemn promise a candidate ever made to his people, will be repudi ated." Sen. Van Nuys ,(D-Ind) : "I con sider the address an alarming and terrorizing message tantamount to an unofficial declaration of war. . . . Instead of inflammatory broadcasts, let some concrete pro-1 posal to enter into another foreign war as a shooting belligerent be presented to the congress and we shall dispose of it promptly and cu.ecuvcijr ana m uie negauve. Eep. Patrick (D-Ala) "It was the only tenable position the president could taker To foUow that action through Is the logical way to hold what has been gained. Rep. j Young D-Ohio) "Our I commander-in-chief gave the na- tion a masterly appraisal of the danger of a nazi-controlled world. His c anon caU to defend our sovereignty will have approval of a united people, Rep. Martin (R-Mass) repub lican leader "The president has told the country what his course of action will be in the ' event axis ships appear in cer tain sea zones. This means we move closer to the shooting." Chairman Bloom (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs committee "President Roosevelt is on eternally solid ground when he declares that the American flag will be protected wherever it flies." Senator Gillette (D-Iowa) "The address of the president is I declaration of war so far as it can be made by the executive branch alone. Every American citizen will support the com- mander-in-chief in an Kten h. takes in foreign relations regard- less of whether we approve OT not However, in my ooinion it would have been a Dreferahle id. proach if the executive had laid before the congress a message ciung ine lacts be had covered to speech and had asked for the appropriate legislative action. Rep. Cochran D-Mo), acting majority leader of the house "1 don't think the. American publie eould expect the presi dent to do anythtog else." Senator Hill (D-Ala) "All Americans can thank heaven that! we nave a president who has the courage and the wisdom to repel the assault by Hitler on the United States. The defense of. our court- uy nemanas sucn action. Rep.; May (D-Ky) The pres ident's speech was a fearless state ment of sound American doctrine and ought to and will receive the support of the American people." Search for RnTTlflPl lTfiila lUlIUjcr X UliS y , (Continued from Page 1) i five B-18 -bombers slstersbips of the missing aircraft had been scouring the district without avaiL Providing .the weather holds. - 1 Colonel Croa said army airmen I .. 1 wouia . continue tne nuns Friday. J motored bomber on routine flight out of Spokane' sat down I . Al 1 1 1 XI Jl Ml.. . ... . President Tells World US Navy Ordered to Fire on Axis Subs, Ships, Planes (Continued from Page 1) naUonaUty of the sobmarine is . clear. ' I These Incidents, taken coUec- Um ,rfan. thely, the president said, could only be regarded as part of a general nazi . designi "to abolish the freedom ol the ; seas, ana to acquire absolute control and dom With that control in their hands, he saidthe next step would be "domination of the TTnitiut stutM and the vmiom I t.MM.tMlM4 Vw wve . with wf v- ,Zr - atnn vi -fri tn rarrv i 1 I onv rHnrviui nHiiimn:ar caii-ul ajw m w m oinrfn r of thim . " " , m - - Although, Mr. Roosevelt con- f S United States navy as invincible, this was true only so long as toe tsnusn navy survives, wiut rni- ain gone, Hitler would be able to far out-strip the United States in building ships. . "It is time for all Americans of all the Americas,' he added. to stop .being deluded by the romantic notion that the Amer icas can go on living happily and peacefully to a nasi -domin ated world. Then, he turned to the question of freedom of the seas, terming j it a "basic and fundamental" I nolicr for which generation after generation of Americans had bat- tied. I "That has been our policy time and again, in all our history, he said. "Oar policy has applied froi time immemorial and still ap plies not merely to the At- lantte bat to the Pacific and to all the ether oceans as welL "Unrestricted submarine war fare to 1941 constitutes a de fiance an act ef aggression against that historic American Belie "It is now clear that Hitler has begun his cp'g" to control the seas by - ruthless force and by wiping out every vestige of international law and humanity. "His intention has been made clear. The American people can ? loner have illusions about ll- "We Americans are now face to face not . with abstract theories but with cold ruthless xacts. "There has now come ..time . m. T .v,. mij hen you and I must see the cold when inexorable necessity of saying to these inhuman, unrestrained seek' ers of world conquest and perman ent world domination by the sword Ten seek to threw ear children and our children's children into your form of ter- rorism and slavery. Ton have attacked ear own safety. Tea shall go no farther,' " Pnllinff nazi submarines' fthe raltleSnakes of the Atlantic.- he it was clear that the time when the Americas I themselves must be defended, be cause if submarines anoV raiders can attack in distant waters "they can attack equally well within sight of our own shores." If attacks within our own wa ters or in waters which could bo used for further and greater at tacks upon us are continued, he argued, they "will inevitably Hitlerism." There was no sense to "split ting hairs," Mr. Roosevelt said, about whether American resist ance should begin after the fifth attack or the tenth or the 20th. Nor, he continued, should there be hair-splitting on whether we should defend ourselves only "if 1 018 torpedo succeeds in getting I home," or passengers and crew are drowned. "This is the time for prevention of attack, the president said, and J then added: I "In . the waters which we deem necessary lor ear defense, American naval ves sels and American planes will no longer wait until axis sub marines larking under the wa ter, or axis raiders on the sur face of the sea. strike their deadly blow first "Upon our naval and air patrol now operating in large number over a vast expanse of the Atlan tic ocean falls the duty of main taining the American policy of t freedom of the seas now. ."That means, very simply and clearly, that our catrolline ves aels and planes will protect all I merchant ahinB-Lnot onlr Amer- j lean ships but ships of any flag 1 .jv m,f r engaged in commerce in our de- Thew will nrotect them from ihm9rin thev wfil nrntect them w.a not "an act of war-he . WA aMi, . Drotect the seas which are vital to American defense, for "the ag gression is not . oars; oars is solely defense i There followed his direct warn- tog to Germany and Italy that if their vessds icf war enter areas of T n at mtm wnirn lxi ix rnunur cm.it .7 .. . . - . ... ' , I aen protection, mose t"" v w" r . - "y -".Y " w nil - -mm mw ram Miirw m m crisis," he said. -That is, tne clear -irfcrht M tMt ovetwivn natlnn.l That is the onlv sten nossible. if we wouW keeP to wall of defense which we are pledged to maintain around this western hemisphere. 1 have no filasiens about the gravity ef this step. I have set taken it hurriedly or lightly. It Is the result of months of con stant thought and anxiety and prayer. In the protection of year nation and mine it cannot be avoided. And with th Inner Ktrenrth that comes to a free DeoDle con-1 cious of their duty and of the righteousness of what they do, j they (the American people) will I with rtMn hein and m!Hana stand their eround aeainst this latest assault iinon their lnnr. racy, their sovereignty and their frnnilnm Arrangement, were made for all major networks to carry the speech, and for all available short wave transmitters to carry it about k- k 4 rr"V" 7T tTZT" siuvu, ramaii, tjywiimi l, Jl LU guese, Italian, Polish and Serbo- Croat among others. A series of recent incidents at sea formed the i background for the address. Last Thursday, a German rabmartne fired torpedoes at the American destroyer Greer to the North Atlantic, some 309 miles southwest of Iceland. The Greer, onhit ; replied with depth bombs, bat the subma rine apparently escaped. Mr. Roosevelt ordered the navy to search for the U-boat and elim inate it The navy picked up three sur- vivors of an American-owned steamship the Sessa. formerlv sieaxnsmp me aessa, iormeriy Danish, who said she was tor- I nednml. shelled tknii cnnlr nHthmrf I ' notice on Aug. 17. Twenty, four of her crew were presumed lost Sessa flew the Panamanian The American flagship, Steel Seafarer' was bombed and sunk! in the Red sea by an unidentified plane on Sept 5. Apparently as a result of these further incidents, the president I extended the lentrth nf the sncwh from 15 to 25 minutes. It was drafted at Hyde Park, NY, and was all but finished when the presidential party entrained yes- a S a a m reraay to return to wasnington. The address, however, remain- ed open to revision until the tone oi delivery, ana weanesaay mgnt Mr. Roosevelt went over it with Secretary of State Hull, Secre - tary of War Stimson, and Secre - tary of the Navy Knox. He caned to congressional leaders of both parties. His con ferees, to addition to ConnaUy. were Vice President Wallace, Senator Barkley, the democra tie floor leader; Senator Me Nary, the republican floor lead er; Rep. Woodrum (D-Va), the acting speaker of the house; Cochran (D-Mo), the acting majority leader; Rep. Martin (R-Mass), the republican floor IK-mass;, ine repuDucan noor leader, and Chairman Bloom lu-m x j ei .ine noose ioreign affairs committee. In connection with the, Greer incident. Senator Nye (R-ND), an opponent of the president's for eign policy, Thursday proposed a secret congressional Investigation, with officers and men of the de stroyer and high government of ficials on the witness stand. "Congress ought to be inform ed,' he said, "about the circum stances of this encounter. It ought to know from an official source, also, the nature of the orders un der .which American vessels are proceeding in the Atlantic pa trol." Indian War Vet Dies ROSEBURG, Sept 11-tfVOne oi we last veterans ox tne inauo wars, Frank Wheeler, 83, Cres - cent City, Calif died Wednesday fay liqh QzZsQ British Haft US Naval Aid In Ocean War Churchill Expected it Blake Response; to Hear Rebroadcasts (Continued from Page 1) time but he had made arrange ments to hear rebroadcasts by the British Broadcasting corporation later in the morning. Late editions of the morning vwvcaf enleeKA 4haT tnMrh lindjMF r biglecapUo carried to weekfc But came iaie ior eauonai comment. . ... . . . Th TtaiW i Mitl'i froni-naffe banner was "UJS. to Guard our second line. Hitler 'Keep "Koosevm warm . Out m rt n i j ,-. .Iv phone and printed the speech under the headline, "FDR Orders 'Sink Nazis to US Seas. The Daily Express described the "shoot first" declaration as "sensationai, and la the first editorial comment to appear said: ' "Today is a big day for the democratic cause, a decisive day to the war. 'In advance of Roosevelt's soeech the Germans feared the worst They shouted abuse to keeP UP courage. And as the flashes of the President's speech reached this office early this morning the fears of the Germans proved to be Justified. , "7 ,? I V' orxvisu rciuiu ui its ursi S-f .i?! ?"' to comment on President Roose- lZTjr i.nr ,: expulsion from the Atlantic is I starting immediately." The announcer heard by CBS said "Germany has lost the battle of the Atlantic . . . should Germany remain to the Atlantic ocean, the British as well as the American fleet will attack the warships of the German Italian navies. WASHINGTON, Sept U-Ut) The exact make-up of American naval forces in the Atlantic is a military secret Opinion in well-informed quar ters, however, is that there are some 300 surface craft, great and small, as well as numerous air craft tn enforce President Rnnsm. velt's policy of keeping American 7, , S Zl", defensive waters free of axis war rraft craft It was noted that Mr. Roose velt said his Instructions had been given to the army and the navy -1 There was no elaboration of what might h the aiW. rt Vint it Tar a m nrsaci tm A fhlei tnfartA Urimarilv to niane. nf the kir force based on island outposts. WASHINGTON. Rent. I i n : j a. t. . ..u Thursday rh thTt the ited sSeThad aoutoost inLabrador tTlZJfr.r: j land and Newfoundland, was be- lieved to be the first revelation Df such an outoost The president did not amoUfr I the statement in the historic deal h whih j the United States transferred 50 1 over-age destroyers to Great Brit- lain. President Roosevelt said the nation acquired the right to estab lish naval and air bases in New foundland, Bermuda. The Ba hamas, Jamaica, St Lucia, Trin idad, Antigua and British Guiana. Outposts have also been establish ed at Greenland and Iceland but available sources Thursday night recalled, no previous mention of a Labrador outpost r w Xa .DOUrO. jLJOOStS Qnlnm'c Tif ill Odldll lTlilii. Price 1 Cent (Continued from Page 1) Klaus, manager of the Dairy Co operative association here. "Although I believe oar mem bers will appreciate the raise la milk prices provided by the board, considering the increased operating expenses for them it is probable that the board will be asked for a farther raise to price, Uaos said, adding that labor costs have gone sp 41 per cent and feed 39 per cent Strictness of the Salem milk or dinance has also increased pro- ducerf costs, Klaus asserted. J night at the veterans hospital here. 'CO . an Will u i key. , at McChord field.