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Axis mother ::U Iceland. Haill Fall Close en the heels ef the advent of fall will come Sa lem merchants' annual Fall , Opening , Thursday nirht Be ahead of the procession by reading the Thursday morn in Statesman, Weather ' : Fair and moderate.! y warm today ' and Wednes day. Max. temp. Mon. - 75, mtau 43. Northeast wind. Uver, -LS feet. Clear. PCUNDDtT) vexsnmst yeah Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, September 23, 1941 Pric 3cf Newsstand 5c No. 154, - Wiied Slro iini " A:tliaLini tic --Neair . - . . . ' . . : ; , Ju. ' v ' '. j , ... First Attack Since FDR Warning IsTold By State Department ; Germans Report Successes at Sea Against Reds, Asserting Ports Sealed Against Aid By The" Associated Press ' The first sinking of an American-owned vessel since President Roosevelt's shoot-first warning to' the. axis was announced Monday night by the state department. The victim,! the 6850-ton Pink Star, owned by the US government -and flying the flag of Panama, went down in the north Atlantic near Iceland on September 19, it was stated. The first word of the incident did not disclose wheth er she was torpedoed, struck by a bomb or destroyed by a mine. The news brought up the immediate prospect that the -sinking, if subsequently estab 'lished as of German work, might bring a break in relations between 'Panama and the Reich. Informed persona in Panama had stated ' some time ago, on the occasion of , a protest to Berlin over previous attacks on Panama flag vessels, ! that repetition probably ; would lead to such a rupture. . The innitial announcements did not disclose whether any of the Pink Star's crew of 34 none Americans ha d survived. A German spokesman in Berlin said "Sorry, nothing is known , here," when informed of the Pink Star sinking. ; Her loss momentarily somewhat '' overshadowed the great, and bloody " struggle on the eastern front ! - . .The Germans, subordinating ' . reports of successes afield to 1 those i at sea, claimed late Mon day might to have seriously re duced Russian naval strength both In the Baltic and Black teas and asserted that they had substantially sealed Russia's European Torts arstast the sup- plies so urgently urh-iris ' Britain and the United SUtes. - The soviet command in its com munique for Tuesday morning re ported only local success some where along what the Russians call the western front presum ably at the. center and in the .Ukraine. Six German battalions, along with 4000 more nazi troops killed, were declared substantial ly destroyed in the" west and it was said that in the' south, prob ably about Odessa, a Rumanian Infantry brigade lost 600 men. Aside from this, however, the red general staff gave only the familiar, uninformative report of heavy fighting everywhere. Moscow had offered Monday only the most general iniorma tlon, which had a tone of des perate determination illustrated by the appeal made by armament workers in Leningrad to the red armies and civilian volunteers struggling bitterly at the city's gates: . ' "Win or die there Is no other choice. Win or die: This Is the law of the soviet fighter; this Is the slogan of the entire soviet nation! Let as give our holy oath that wo will not lay down oar arms until we bury the fascist beasts." The soviet position both at Leningrad and at Odessa on the Black sea plainly remained most grave, although there Was noth ing to indicate that any final de cision was in sight on either front At the center, a Russian counter-offensive still was in progress. Berlin termed it an unsuceess ful and costly action to j relieve the northern and southern red flanks, but ' unofficial British re ports said the nazis were slowly being forced back to the south- - east of Smolensk. ) Far behind this front the Mos (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) , Jewish Rites Observed Here Rosh Hoshanah or Jewish New Year, first day of the year 5702 by the Jewish calendar, was ob served with congregational serv ices Monday by Salem Jewish families. September 30, one week from today, Is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement when services will be conducted on the eve and dur lns the day. in the hall at Che- meketa and Commercial streets. On the Air For Defense Eleanor Francisco, 18 years old. and Eddie Jackman, about 18. selected because of their knowledge of the flag as re pealed, in answers to questions recently asked on the procram, are scheduled to bo guests to- r tt ca the Ilarlon county civil defense council's 8:15 o'clock trca-casu . 1 - Bulgars Shoot, Intern Solons Parliament Members ; Eliminated as Martial Law Is Declared BERN, Switzerland, Sept 22. -iT)-The execution of an un stated number, of communist members ot the -Bulgarian par liament and the sending of 120 communists to German concen tration camps as hostages for sabotage were reported Monday night in Sofia dispatches. Legislators of the former peasant party were also reported interned as speculation turned on whether the state of martial law proclaimed in Bulgaria over the weekend meant that country was preparing to enter the waregainst Russia. (A Sofia, DNB dispatch from by way of Berlin, said Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Philoff told a conference of professional organ izations Monday that combatting communism is one of the most important problems facing the government and "there is no doubt the Bulgarian people must do everything to eliminate the evil which has menaced Bulgaria more than once." (The British Broadcasting corporation reported King Boris of Bulgaria was on his way today to meet Hitler and the fuehrer's chief aides in what the BBC called prelude to declaring; war on Russia.' Au thoritative Berlin quarters is sued a virtual denial of such a meeting.) Sofia dispatches were not clear on the date of the execution of the communists but apparently . they preceded-the weekend martial law declaration. The dispatches also failed to state the reason for the executions and internments, but it was recalled that it was secret (Turn to Page 2, Cot 1) Salem Budget Group Called Special and final meeting of the Salem city budget committee has been called for Wednesday night Mayor W. W, Chadwick announc ed Monday after all aldermen had been notified ot the special council meeting to be held in con junction. ; ; C What the recommendations of the, sub-committee on salary changes of which he is chairman would be the mayor declared he did not know. A meeting of that committee was tentatively' slated for this afternoon. Sole purpose of the special council ; meeting, Chadwick said. is to make provision for a bud get hearing. Red Cross Prepared If War As an organization, the Red Cross Is not afraid to face the possibilities of war, although its part in meeting a nation-wide dis aster would tax its financial and personnel resources, Paul Harvey, Pacific coast roll call chairman for that organization said Monday noon in Salem as he addressed members of the Marion county Red Cross board. The experience of many years dealing with disasters on large and small scale, the great net work of organisation which the : Red Cross boasts are at the na tion's services, he declared. That even the greatly-enlarged budget requirements of' wartime I could be met with little diffi T7 UP As remodeling work on Willamette ( - - . .! ; i ' - 4'-" '- S 1 1 - s X I X . , 1 X im smut' . the science hall, progressed toward completion. Dean Melvbt u. Gelst ef the schtool of music (left) anxious to ret. moved into bis new Quarters, took dff his coat and doiujcd. coveralls Monday to give ear penters a helping hand. Con.ractor Albert A. Siewert (center) looks on as Carpenter J. C. Enlow shows Geist what needs- yet to be done to the dean's Office. CBelow) Orientation of freshmen to collegiate surroundings began Monday at Willamette and the newcomers were busy choosing their courses. Here Recorder Francis Harris in the reg istrar's office helps Florence Daffy, pretty Salem freshman, work oat her schedule tor the year. Statesman Photo. French Fear Occupy Entire Nation German Army Seen Riled Over Slaying of Officer; Petain Appeals f or Help of People VICHY, Unoccupied France, German captain latest victim in a series of outbreaks in once gay Paris intensified fears Monday night that the German army might step far beyond the retaliatory execution of hostages to Salem Guard In Army Now One Year One year ago today Salem's na tional guardsmen marched to trains which took them to Camp Murray and Camp Clatsop for a year, or more, of training. Some, listed as "hardship cases, are now being released. Early In the morning Com pany B of the 162nd Infantry started for Camp Murray, Wash., and a little later units of the 249th Coast Artillery were on their way to Camp Clatsop, Ore.- ""- i ; Tour per cent about 700,' of the strength of the 41st division are to be released this month after asking for discharges because' of dependency or other circumstan ces. Probably 200 will be Oregon men. culty is generally accepted as fact Harvey, said, pointing to the growth over a period of four years during the last World war of the organization from 15,000 to 24, 000,000 members, t r : ; - This year the Red Cross in the United States expects to double its membership, reaching a total of between 18,000,000 and 20, 000,000 persons. That number alone will not be able to provide finances for wartime operations and a special' drive will be re quired should war come to these shores, he declared. : , Biggest current Job of t h e Bed Cross la this country Is not that of supplying war-driving civilians la European countries n Q-m. AT university's music hall, formerly Nazis To Sept. 22.-P-,rhe slaying of a avenge and stamp out the repeat- ed attacks. The Paris press revealed Mon day that the officer, Captain Scheben, was shot last Tuesday. Over his bier, at services Sunday in fashionable Madeleine : church in the heart . of the old French capital, a vow was delivered in the name of the German army to "employ every means that these attacks. . . shall not go unptuv. Ished." (Authoritative sources at Bern, Switzerland, reported that some elements In Vichy feared all Franco might be oe cupltd by the Germans if ; shootings and sabotage eontin I ued in the present occupied sone.) r--. : . 1" Marshal Petain, who appealed by radio Sunday for all French men to help him avert new dan gers to France by preventing the attacks' which he attributed to foreign agents, followed up with a new appeal - today in Savoy, French territory desired by Italy. j He urged Frenchmen to "close ranks" around him to save French unity. France, he declared, "has (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) with food and clothing, not that ! of providing the TJS with a j heavy order of surgical dress i Ings nor of answering calls for nurses, although all of these j loom large among the organlsa- tlon's activities, Harvey said. , ' The heaviest task the Red Cross is undertaking today Is its routine home service to US armed forces, a service performed for many years under its charter as a quasi governmental : agency and . one which has increased considerably with the influx of new men into army, navy and marines. Because the Red Cross had no desire to be placed among "war mongers," its activities in pre paration for possible attack on the O .. WU Freshman Class Enrolls Women Outnumber Men This Year as 221 Men This Year as 22 Newcomers Register Registrar's figures Monday bore women outnumbered men in the entering class of '45 at Willamette I university. The total enrollment of freshmen was nearly as high as on uie ursi aay in mv. Of 221 freshmen who enrol led Monday, according to Wal ter Erkkson, registrar 121 were women. A year ato, when 234 enrolled, 98 were women. , Erickson said the figures indi cated the class would.1 equal last Star's. Although no official pre dictions were made,-reports from returning students, who were numerous on the 100 -year -old campus Monday, were that sev eral of their number would not be back to school .this year, That defense- activities work both to keep some away from and to send others to school was seen in other reports of new students coming because of improved fl- nancial condition. Freshmen were Introduced to the campus Monday by Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, dean of freshmen, and English place ment tests were taken. Today's program includes phy sical examinations for men, reg istration in the library for fresh men and the first meeting of .the class "on its own. Wheeler Hits War Monaers At Portland PORTLAND, Sept 22-KaVSen ator Burton EL Wheeler of Mon tana declared Monday night, "We are not prepared for war and our entrance would bankrupt the United States as well as cost the lives of millions of our boys." ives oi muuans 01 our ooys. . Speaking : extemiKraneoasly before MM persons at an America First committee rally, the senator said, "Talk of In vaslon of this country is non sense. There Is no Intelligent officer of our army or navy who believes this country could be Invaded, wminsnesa of In terventionists to five aid to England, China, Kassia . a n d South America shows Invasion is not feared by them.' He suesestea that "il mere are those who want to go'to war, It the same date, while Leslie un is only a short distance to Canada lor high school is up 38 to 500, be where thev can enlist.' cause Polk - county- pupils were : "We are building up a debt that (Turn to Page 2. CoL CO . jGomes, Courity Chapter Told Atlantic coast have not been widely told, Harvey said.". Now, he i told the Marion county committee, that civilian defense' organizations have been set up with federal ap proval, admitthur the fact that preparations 'have been under- i way for more than two years to take care of emergencies tn ease of attack does not seem to be giving way; to hysteria The turn of attention to the Pa cific coast as a probable target for enemy bombers should this na tion enter the war or other na tions desire to draw her into it has led the Red Cross to resurvey its preparedness plans here. The same organization which, Lost " McChord -BoMlber Located. Hull Declares Neutrality Act Due for Repeal Statement Made After Parley With FDR on More US Aid to Allies WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.- (JPy-VThile President Roosevelt conierrea wnn advisors on ways of accelerating American assistance to nations fighting the axis, Secretary of State Hull indicated Monday that he thought, tiie time had come to lift restrictions of the neutral ity act Alreadv modified hv the reneal. in 1939, of its rigid embargo on sale of arms to belligerents, the act still forbids the armintf of L, u.v.. . from 8ailm mto combat nes requires belligerents to take title to implements of war ob- tained in the United States before such implements are shipped. Hull declined to venture any prediction as to whether congress soon would repeal or modify the act- Bat at the same time he-eoni- 'mented at his press conference that both ho and President Roosevelt had critlclxed the neutrality act front the start as a measure more likely to get this country mto war than to keep it out President Roosevelt soon after returning from a weekend visit to Hyde Park, NY, held a confer- " , L. ""C SSLf 52 McCormack of Massachusetts, Chairman Cannon (D-M6) of the house appropriations committee; Representative Woodrum (D-Va), also a member of the house ap propriations committee; Chairman Connolly (D-Tex) of the senate foreign relations committee, 'and Senator McKellar (D-Tenn) rank ing democrat on the senate ap propriations committee. Their talk dealt principally, the conferees said, with the new $385,000,000 lend-lease appropriation, and proposed price control legislation. Wallace and Connally said the consensus was that there would be little difficulty in obtaining congressional approval for the new lend-lease bill. McCormack said Mr. Roosevelt was advised that the lend-lease measure would reach the house in about two weeks. i O 1 1 (Jy CUOOlS I A- mJ - Total 5048 Enrollment was up 418 , from a week ago in Salem public schools Monday, but the total vims 229 be low the second Monday figure of 1940. The number at present Is 5048, according to Supt Frank B. I Bennett's office. t : l -l The senior high school, at 1629, lis 107 below last year's figure on I changed this year from Parrish to Leslie. , has" met disaster, over the nation would be prepared to assist civil ian defense groups; with evacua tion of bombed areas, .he said, de claring that the Red Cross al ready . has " organizations within every city and- town -to provide assistance. - ; ! . Less dramatic but as Import ant 'as evacuation, the speaker declared, 'are his organisation's preparations to turn service de livery tracks into ambulances, its training in first aid, its as sistance tn meetings the nurses ahortago with nurses, aids, its -tralnlnr in nutrition, the sewing and knitting for war referees and the collection ef blood , plasma tor use la emergencies. Wreckage B are Plane Crew Missing 13 Da ys Believed to Have Died -- , - ! Air Searchers Sight Ship on Side of Olympic Mountain; One Crashes, Pilot Unhurt TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 22. (AP) Array air corps officers announced Monday night the wreckage of twin-rnotored bomber, before dawn 13 days ago, had Olympic peninsula peak, and a few hours later report ed the crash of a training plane that had been engaged in the far-flung search for the bomber Two men in the training plane miraculously es caped without serious injury, Col. William H. Crom, McChord Field commander reported, when their ship struck treetops of a peak near Morton, Wash. The trees cushioned the crash enough to save the men, although the plane was almost demolished. j The two survivors of the trainer crash were brought to McChord Field by automobile shortly bef or Storm Tensioii Eases on Gulf Hundred Seek Refuge Awaiting Passing of . Southwest Hurricane PORT ARTHUR, Tex, Sept 22 -JPh Tension among gulf coast residents eased somewhat tonight with word from the New Orleans weather bureau that the rate of movement of a tropical storm threatening the area had decreas ed during the last six hours. Storm warnings were ordered down east of Biloxi, Miss. The weather bureau said the disturb ance was centered 190 miles south of here. . The hurricane was described as moving - west . northwestward at about eight miles per hour. The 8:30 p. m. advisory added: "All vessels m vicinity of storm should exercise extreme caution. Tides have risen rap Idly on the upper Texas and Cameron , Parish, I, coasts, and will rise to more danger- ' ens heights Monday night and Tuesday. V--I "Storm warnings are now dis played east of Port Arthur, Texas, to Biloxi, Miss., and south of Ar ansas pass to .Brownsville, Tex. Hurricane warnings are displayed from, Aransas pass to Port Arth ur, Texas." .- ; " At Galveston the barometer reading was 29.64, up two points In a half hour. The tide was 6.T feet above mean low - and the wind blowing at 32 miles an hour and higher in gusts. . j Hundreds of . persons sought refuse in the courthouse and public schools. Spray was dash-: ing sometimes IS feet above the sea wall. Hotels were filled to capacity, many citlxens believ ing there was safety tn big; i (Turn to Page 2 CoL 7) ' As the community chest pros pers so - wfil the Red Cross and other worthwhfleentures Hai vey declared, urging Salem resi dents to give generously to the chest - and those from outlying communities , of : the county ; to double the Red Cross member ships' there. ' : ; In the absence from the city of Judge George Rossman, chairman, Milton Meyers presided, over the special board session. In addition to regular board members, the emergency finance committee and a representative .; from the' com munity chest board were ma; tendance tt tfcf luncheon meet ing at we "Quelle, " . - -. . .Peak:: in Crash in which six men vanished been sighted on a rugged midnight and taken to a hospital for checkup. Officers declined. however, to identify them further f Monday night or to allow, them to " be interviewed. The bomber wreckage was sighted by two searching airplanes, Colonel Crom said, scattered over a wide area few hundred feet from the top of 7700-foot Mount Constance on the Olympic pen In- -sula. ' The wreckage of the bomber was first seen by Pvt J. R. Walk er, who was acting as an observ er in a plane piloted by 2nd 14. William A. Lanrford. Walker Is based at Spokane with the 37th bombardment squadron and has been at McChord for training pur poses. Co-Pilot of-the plane was 2nd Lt C S. Towles. Crom said it apparently explod ed and burned upon crashing. The aerial observers flew low over the area and could identify easily the tail assembly, which was intact In a ravine. Other portions of the plane were scattered about a rocky area and In the few trees at that altitude. . i Colonel Crom said the B-18 ap parently struck near the top, and then the pieces were thrown or skidded down the slope. Maj. H. H. Pennington, who was in the second of the planes which sighted the bomber wreckage, de scribed the scene Monday night: "This bomber was nearly tn identical - position to the one which crashed near Morton last winter. (Seven men were killed in the Morton crash last Janu ary.) "The bomber apparently bit against the stone-faced peak of the mountain about It feet from the top. "Most of the wreckage then slid down a few feet to the edge of a 500-foot sheer eliff and fell over the cliff into a smaU . ravine. It-mlsht have exploded ' ' Just before going over the ledge. . "There was less left of the bomber from what wo could see from .the air than of the one that crashed near Morton last winter." i -V-- '-" J Officers; said that the, airmen who sighted the bomber wreckage : could find no trace of a trail near the crash scene, and faced a prob-" ably fun day of trail blazing under difficult conditions. 'C: A A trail runs up the mountain s slope. Forest, men said its ascent - from the Dosewallips river road was a five-hour task under favor able conditions. It is steep and narrow.' '.VZ. ii;-:!vw. . Two parties set out from Mc . Chord field and Fort Lewis Mon- , day night for the scene, which is an estimated 40 miles - airline across Puget sound from Seattle.' It was approximately 75 miles northwest of the Cascade mount sin area where search had been concentrated for the bomber and where Cotanel Crom and' other officers had expressed belief th4 bomber would be foundV 4 ( Oro ef the part'os !i w4S a (Turn to Pass t, CoL I) ' :