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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1938)
6 Market Reports Daily market report giving tim ing figures an received dally by the Capital Journal, the only newspaper In the dlatrlct ottering thla service over two leased wirea. Local mar ket quotations verified each day. Weather fair tonight and Thursday, loea morning elouda, fog near coast. Changeable wind. Tuesday: Max M, mln. 4 Rain . River -IJ ft. South wind. Clear. 50th Year, No. 225 Bntwred m Moond lm mtttetr at Salem. Orecoo Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 21, 1938 Price Three Cents SwESl "S.S." orceJ to Yield to Hitler Demands zee c hsF Storm Hopkins Fails To Get Martin "OutofTent" Governor Confers with WPA Boss But Refuses To be Lured Back in Fold By Harry Craln Governor Charles H. Martin was back in "my tent," from which he has been silently ob serving the gyrations of Ore gon's political merry-go-round since his defeat for renomina- tion with the aid of the na tional administration's influ ence four months ago, after an hour's conference in Portland yesterday with Harry Hop kins, federal works progress administrator and vociferous champion of the Roosevelt purge movement. The conference was held at the In vitation of Hopkins, who during his week-end visit to the state spent much of his time in consultation with such democratic leaders Willis Mahoney, candidate for United States senator; Henry Hess, candi date for governor, and Elton Wat- kins, disgruntled patronage seeker who repudiated Martin and sparked and maneuvered Hess to his primary victory. Not a Candidate If the chat, as rumored, had anything to do with salving wounds left In the ranks of Oregon de mocracy by the bitter gubernatorial primary or the desirability of re establishing party harmony for the fall campaign, Governor Martin gave no hint of It except to remark: "I am still the good democrat that I have been all my life." Further comment on the subject matter of his conversation with Hopkins was limited by the governor to the statement that "Hopkins ex pressed himself as much pleased with the cooporatlon I have given the WPA In this state." "I did tell him In the course of our visit that, while I have been urgently requested by many of my friends to become an Independent candidate, I have no Intention of doing so," the governor added as an aside. Not to be Wedge There Is small consolation In such a statement for the harmony seek ers particularly those in the Hess camp who have known for weeks that the governor had no Intention of permitting himself to be used as a wedge to split the conservative vote in November. Further Indication of the failure of yesterday's conference to lure Governor Martin back Into the fold of the hybrid party if such was Its .Intent is contained in the fact that It was a personal, man-to-man con versation from which all others, In cluding party leaders, were excluded. Thus was the governor's record of having given no sign of recogni tion or conciliation toward Hess and the forces conniving and con spiring to defeat him last spring kept Inviolate. Thus. too. was a third consplcious attempt of the national administra tion, which permitted Itself to be used In the attack upon him last spring, to pacify and soothe the outraged feelings and loyalty of the fighting governor frustrated. Remains Holed-In Political observers and anxious party leaders have not forgotten that Governor Martin was "too busy' with the affairs of his office to ac cept a thrtce-extended Invitation to meet President Roosevelt on the occasion of the chief executive's mid-summer visit to California, and that he even declined for obvious political reasons to call on Post master James Farley when he re cently visited Portland or grace with his presence the love feast there at which the faithful and devout new dealers paid homage to "Big Jim.' The political fixers, It would seem should be getting the idea that the uncompromising old warrior has holed-ln In "my tent" for the dura tion of the war and that the tent Is not large enough to supply shelter for Hess and his partisans. Watson Heads Tnsrtees McMlnnvllle, Ore., Sept. 31 U.B Dr. J. F. Watson of Seattle has been elected president of the Llnfleld college trustees. Dr. Watson, Wash lngton Baptist denominational lead er. succeeds Dr. Olof Parse 11. who has accepted a position with the state board of higher education. Loss Heavy in East Churchill Raps Policy London, Sept. 21 P) Winston Churchill, one of Britain's elder statesmen, declared tonight "the partition of Czechoslovakia under Anglo-French pressure amounts to complete surrender by the western democracies to the nazl threat of force." In a statement Issued after his return from an airplane trip to Paris, the wartime first lord of the admiralty, often a rebel within the rank of the conservative party, said: "Acceptance of Herr Hitler's terms Involves a prostration of Europe before the nasi power of which the fullest advantage certainly will be taken. The Idea that safety can be pur chased by throwing a small state to the wolves Is a fatal delusion. Parliament should be called without further delay." Sudefens Stage Border Attack Wels, Czechoslovakia (at the Ger man Frontier), Sept. 31 (IP) A night raiding force of the Sudeten Ger man "free corps" early today at tacked the Czechoslovak customs house at Weis, three miles from Eger, seriously wounding one Czech oslovak soldier. At least one of the raiders was believed wounded. At daylight Czechoslovaks found one German rifle and some civilian hats at the scene of the raid. They said at least 35 of the "free corps" took part In the attack, in which some 15 shots were exchanged. A detachment of 40 Czechoslo vak soldiers armed with hand gre. nades arrived here two hours after the clash. A "free corps" camp Is reported located at Redwisz, 10 miles from Weis. The attackers apparently Intend ed to storm the customs house from two sides but were surprised by a Czechoslovak border patrol. The Sudetens scattered after firing into the front door of the building and into bedrooms of customs officials. It was the second day of "free corps" raids along the German- Czechoslovak border. Three attacks on customs houses by parties from German territory were reported by the Prague government yesterday. FDR Wrong on Election Guess Washington, Sept. 21 UP) Presi dent Roosevelt was 100 percent wrong in his prediction on the out come of primary voting in new York's 16th congressional district, In which Representative John J. O'Connor lost his fight for demo cratic re-nomination but was nom inated by the republicans. Stephen Early, presidential secre tary. said today the president pre dieted last night O'Connor would win by about 500 votes In the demo cratic race over James H. Fay and lose In the republican contest to Allen Dulles, The forecast was made orally at about 8:30 p.m. last night to Dr. Ross Mclntlre, presidential physician, and Miss Margaret Lehand, the presi dent's personal secretary. Early said Mr. Roosevelt told him today to remind reporters person alities were subordinated to the Is sues In his attempt to un-seat dem ocratic members of congress whom he considered too conservative. The president, still suffering from a head cold, remained In his study today. O'Connor Only Victim Of Roosevelt Purge ra th Aiioett td PrM The defeat of Rep. John O'Connor for democratic renom ination in New York gave President Roosevelt today his first and only victory in his personal campaign1 against four demo cratic legislators. Mr. Roosevelt's sole triumph was not complete, how ever, because O'Connor will be on the November ballot, having won the republican nomination by 1,000 votes over Allen W. Dulles. O'Connor lost the democratic nomination for the seat he has held since 123 to James H. Fay, new dealer who narrowly missed defeat ing him four yeara ago. The com plete vote gave Fay 8,352 and O'Con nor 7,789. O'Connor, chairman of the pow erful house rules committee, attri buted his defeat to election "dis honesty" and hinted he would seek a recount. Regardless of the outcome of such Powers Ignored Russia's Offer For Czech Aid Litvinoff Assails British And French Attitude Toward Czechoslovakia Geneva, Sept. 21 (fP) Max im Litvinoff, Soviet Russia's foreign commissar, today ac cused France and Great Brit ain of capitulating to Adolf Hitlers demands and dis closed they had ignored Rus sia's offer of military help to protect Czechoslovakia. The foreign commissar, in a scathing denunciation of League of Nations powers, said Russia stood ready to back up any collective action In defense of Czechoslovakia with arms and men. In what he left unsaid, how ever, assembly delegates saw a state ment unless France fights for Czechoslovakia under the terms of the French-Czechoslovak agree ment, Soviet Russia would do noth ing to help Prague. He accused Britain and France of avoiding a "problematical war today In return for a certain and large-scale war tomorrow." Aiding Aggressors Russia's spokesman told the lea gue of nations assembly the price Britain and France were consider. lng paying to prevent war over Czechoslovakia was "satisfying the appetites of Insatiable aggressors by the destruction and mutilation of sovereign states." He contended the "league of na tlons is strong enough to stop ag gression by collective action," de claring "aggressor states" still are weaker than a possible block of peaceful states. "The policy of non-resistance to evil- and of humoring the aggres sor which we are being recom mended to adopt by opponents of league sanctions," he warned, "will have no other end but that of strengthening the forces of aggres slon. Russia Ready "Then the moment may really arrive at which aggressors have grown so strong the League of na tions, or what remains of It, will be unable to deal with them even should It desire to do so." Litvinoff declared flatly: "Our war department Is ready lm mediately to participate in confer ence with representatives of the French and Czechoslovak war de partments In order to discuss mea sures appropriate to the moment." "Independent of this, we consider it desirable the question be rals ed at the League of Nations is only as yet under article eleven, with the object of first mobilizing public op inion and secondly of ascertaining the position of other nations whose passive aid might be extremely valuable." One Labor Union Will Support Hess Portland, Sept. 31 Dissatis fied with what It termed the "fence straddling" of the Oregon State Fed eration of Labor In the matter of gubernatorial candidate endorse ment, the Venetian Blind Tent & Awning Workers' union No. 85 last night adopted a resolution sup porting Henry L. Hess, democratic candidate. a move, however, he would have to meet Fay In November because the latter won the American labor par. ty'a nomination without opposition The Massachusetts democratic primary witnessed a triumphant comeback by former Oov, James M Curley who won the democratic gu bernatorial nomination from Gov Charles F. Hurley. Curley had ac cused the governor of having failed to cooperate with the new deal. Curley, silver-haired, silver- tongued veteran of Bay state pollt leal wars, will meet Leverett Salton stall, former speaker of the state legislature. In the general election (Concluded oa page a, eoloaia ) Floods Menace Many Regions Along Seaboard New England and At lantic States Lashed by Week of Drenching Rain (Br His Auoclsted Prtw) Ruin spread through rich industrial and farming sec tions of Massachusetts and Connecticut today as drench ing rains which have fallen for a week along the Atlantic seaboard concentrated in force on the New England states, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. Eleven lives had been lost in the flood waters of rivers and streams which have burst dams, washed out sections of high ways and railroads, undermined houses and farm buildings and reached levels In places above the stages of the devastating 1936 floods. Massachusetts State college at Amherst reported an all-time rec ord rainfall of 12.40 Inches for Sep tember. The old record was 12.34 inches In 1933. A total of ten Inches fell since Saturday. Dam Endangered At East Hampton, Conn., work men labored desperately to save a 50-foot dam holding back the wa ters of a pond. If the dam went, town officials said, the center of the town would be swept away". Several families In North Haven were evacuated from their homes by rescue workers. In Petersboro, N. H., 50 families were evacuated from second floor tenements as the Contookook and Nukanurlt rivers raced through the town. Farm buildings were pitched into both streams, business estab lishments In the main street were flooded, and two bridges destroyed. Massachusetts rivers neared 1936 flood levels. Half a dozen bridges had been carried away and Indus trial plants In Gardner, Athol and Southbridge, flooded by rising wa ters, were shut down. A nurse, Mrs. Linda Woodls, 41, of North Brookfleld, was the eleventh victim of the New England floods. She was drowned when a dam burst at Doane's pond, Brookfleld, Mass., burying an automobile under an avalanche of water. Her companion, Dr. Thomas J. O'Boyle, was rescued. Dams Washed Out A dam and two bridges at Bald wlnsvllle, near Gardner, which had withstood the 1936 flood, were car ried ' away, and the Boston and Maine railroad reported five wash outs, the worst at Winchendon, Mass., where an engine and two cars were derailed. Many bridges, dams and state highways were washed out In Con necticut where ralnfaU since Satur day was more than twice the nor mal precipitation for the entire month. The Connecticut river at Hartford was more than two feet above the flood stage of sixteen and a half feet. Glastonbury, Conn., was without drinking water. The damage to state highways was estimated officially at $75,000. Crop damages were heavy. New York Deluged New York City s weather bureau said five Inches of rain had fallen In the metropolis since Saturday. Philadelphia received an even great er dose with 11 consecutive days of rain, an official measure of 6.68 Inches, most of It In the last three days. Neither New York nor Phila delphia, however, reported any ser ious damage. New Jersey also was drenched, and at Atlantic City small vessels were advised to stay In port for at least another 24 or 36 hours. Meanwhile the tropical hurricane which had threatened the east coast of Florida swirled northward In the Atlantic, holding a menace to ship ping north of Wilmington, N. C. Meteorologists thought It likely the hurricane would not touch the coast but would be close enough to cause dangerous gales and high tides. The southwest also hsd a taste of stormy weather. Presidio, Tex, a border town, reported the lowlands of the Rio Orande flooded as cloud bursts fed Its tributary, the Rio Conchos In Mexico. Thousands of acres of rich valley cotton land, flooded last July and replanted to wheat, were under water. Passenger Trains Collide Head-On; Eleven Killed Streamlined coaches were crushed In the terrific collision of two crack Southern Pacific passenger trains on a siding near NUand, Calif., and eleven persons were killed and 100 Injured, some critically. The streamlined coach (above), shows how the impact crumpled It. A brakeman's mistake was blamed for the tragedy. Associated Press Photo. Germans Over Victory (OoDrristht by Godesberg, Germany, Sept. 21 (U.R) A gay and happy Godesberg awaited Adolf Hitler today, eager to cheer and sa lute him as he came to receive, from the prime minister of Great Britain, the surrender of the Sudeten area of Czecho slovakia. A propaganda ministry bulletin, announcing that ine Czechoslovak government had yielded to a reported British -French surrender ultimatum, had preceded him. A thrill of pride and joy swept through the little town as the news circulated. The fuehrer had won. Germans were careful to say that his approval must still be won by Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain to the dismemberment plan as he and Premier Edouard Daladler of France had Imposed It on Czech oslovakia. But there was an atmosphere of geniality In German official circles. The crisis was past, it was said, with the successive surrender of the British, French and Czechoslovak cabinets; details could be Ironed out between Chamberlain and Hit lerwith Hitler, naturally, holding the Iron. - "This makes Just a nine social call out of Herr Chamberlain's visit," said one observer. II Duce Backs Claim on Prague Treviso, Italy, 8ept. 31 (U.PJ Pre. mier Benito Mussolini declared to day that the problem of all minor ities the Hungarians and Poles ss well as the Sudetens In Czecho slovakia must be settled "Integrally." The fascist premier, who has put Italy firmly behind Adolf Hitler's demands on the Czechs, emphasized his determination also to back up the claims which Poland and Hun gary are making on Prague. The Polish minority in Czechoslo vakia is between 80,000 and 100,000 and the Hungarian minority Is about 700.000. Mussolini praised Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain or Oreat Brit ain for his efforts to avoid war. "At this moment, Chamberlain. who took the political Initiative, Is piloting the ship to the port of peace," he said. "Czechoslovakia to day Is passing through a moment that might be called delicate." Mm sollnl continued, putting sarcastic emphasis on the word "delicate." The crowd booed and hissed. "I Insist once more that this prob lem Is being and must be faced hr tegrally." By "Integrally Mussolini meant that the claims of all minorities In Czechoslovakia must be settled at the same time and as a whole, ra ther than separately. Bonds Voted at The Dalles The Dalles, Sept. 21 ( The Dal les will get Its gymnasium. Vot ers last nlnht approved a 1SS.0O0 bond Issue, needed to augment S0. 000 PWA funds to construct a 1105. 000 school (fin. The unofficial count was 43 to W. Rejoice United Pr Nearing Abyss Asserts Eden Stratford-on-Avon, England, Sept 31 VP) Anthony Eden, former for eign secretary, declared tonight "the conviction Is growing that continu ed retreat can only lead to ever. widening confusion." Eden, who left Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's cabinet Just seven months ago yesterday In i protest against dealing with Pre. mier Benito Mussolini of Italy, told the audience at an English-speak. lng union dinner: "The British people know a stand must be made. They pray It be not made too late." "There are some people who be lieve If immediate Issues can some how be resolved without resort to force, the ambitions of all powers of Europe then will have been large ly met and the crisis Is over. I can find no Justification for such hopes, which seem to me Ill- founded." Warning against delusion, Eden continued : "The truth is that each recurrent crisis brings us nearer to war. We slide ever closer to the abyss. Dur ing the last weeks It must have seemed to many that we have been upon the very brink." He recalled "several warnings I have felt obliged to give against op timistic forecasts as to the interna tional outlook," and said: "I told you such optimism was unfounded. I wish my forebodings could have been falsified but un happily the International situation now Is far worse than It was six months ago and It la still steadily deteriorating." Indian's Right to Import Horses Argued Portland, Sept. 31 (Pi An In dian's right to bring horses across the border into the United States without paying duty on them is at stake In a case being argued to day before the federal circuit court of appeals. Indians brought nine horses Into Idsho from Canada and sold them at Bonners Ferry. The government seized them and the federal district court at Boise ordered them for feited because no duty had been paid. The purchaser appealed to the higher court on the grounds that the old John Jsy treaty gave tne Indians the rlsht to bring horses into the country duty free. Probe Ordered Into Collision Nlland, Calif., Sept. 31 (A1) Fed eral and county officials moved to day to conduct Inquiries Into the collision of two Southern Pacific passenger trains at a little water stop near here early yesterday, which killed 11 persons and Injured 100. The wreck was caused, Southern Pacific officials declared after their own Investigation, when a 84-year old brake man, Eric Leonard Jacob- son, threw a switch which sent the New Orleans-to-Los Angeles Argo naut plunging at 60 miles an hour Into the Los Angeles-to-Chlcago Callfomlan, standing on a siding. J. H. Dyer, a vice-president of the railroad whose private car was attached to the Argonaut, said he saw Jacobson walking about the chaotic scene as If In a trance. 'He quoted the brakeman as saying: "I'm responsible for this wreck I threw the switch. I am not crazy, but I do not know why I did It.1 Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes set an Inquest for Friday at Brawley. Hughes said he was informed by an investigator for the Interstate com merce commission a federal Inquiry also would be opened Friday Into one of the stale's worst railroad wrecks. Eight hundred feet of track had been replaced late last night and east-west service was resumed after an interruption of nearly 30 hours. The Southern Pacific said loss of equipment would total 1132,800. Loyalists Withdraw Foreign Volunteers Geneva, Sept. 21 fJP) Dr. Juan Negrln. premier of government Spain, announced today his govern ment had decided on the Immediate total withdrawal of all foreign vol unteers fighting with government armies. Chamberlain Offers To Consult Hitler London, Sept. 21 (U.R) Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain ordered an airplane today for a flight to the Rhine to morrow, when he will inform ernment's capitulation to the Brit- Ish-French demand for acceptance of partition. Chamberlain Is scheduled to leave Heston airdrome. London, In a Brit ish Airways plane about 10 am. (( am. P.T.) arriving In Cologne shortly before lunch. From there It Is a short trip to Godesberg, scene of the meeting. Sir Horace Wilson, chief Indus trial advisor to the government, and William Strang, foreign office ex pert, will accompany Chamberlain. Both were with htm at the Berch tesgadeu conference with Hitler. Shortly after the news of the Czech government's capitulation reached London, Chamberlain held a full cabinet meeting la map his Anglo-French Pressure Forces Compliance Peace Secured by Terri torial Sacrifices to Avoid Destruction of State Prague, Sept. 21 (Pi The Czechoslovak government an nounced officially at 7:25 p. m. (10:25 a.m. PST) today its acceptance of the British French plan for meeting the peace terms of Keichsfuehrer Hitler. The decision came at the end of three days of fateful discussion of the proposals agreed upon by British and trench leaders in London as the price for maintaining peace In Europe. The news of the capitulation came to Czechoslovaks by radio broadcasts carried through loud speakers In the crowded streets of Prague. To Avert Destruction The announcement said Czechos lovakia's final decision to yield to the British-French plan was com municated by Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta to the British and French foreign ministers at I p.m. (11 a.m., PST.). A communique was Issued from the office of Premier Milan Hodza at the same time as the announce ment was broadcast. It was the proffered solution of the Czechoslovak-German dispute accepted at the urgent representa tion of France and England, 'Our friends to whom we hare been attached for 20 yeara advised us to secure peace by making ter ritorial sacrifices," It said. Czechoslovakia suggested a set tlement by Judgment of the Inter national court but that suggestion was rejected. To Be Negotiated "What Is to be lost Is stlU the subject of negotiations. "Your government In the Interests of peace decided to make some sacrifice to avoid suffering and the loss of Its whole existence." "Czechoslovakia was threatened with violence," the statement said. Destruction of the state was threatened." It declared the changes to be worked out In the Sudeten German region to be ceded to Germany still was the subject of negotiations. At the moment, It said, nothing In the structure of the nation and its administrative machinery was changed. "Existing laws prevail, all offi cials retain their positions,' It con tinued. "Normal functions of the state carry on." Details Unsettled The announcement Intimated vast amount of details to regulate the transfer of 8udetenlond to Hit ler's greater Germany must be set tled by international discussion. There was no suggestion of the amount of territory to be ceded to Germany nor which of the Bohem ian territories were to be declared autonomous within the Czechoslo vak state. Silence' fell over the crowds, which earlier had been demonstrating In the streets, as the government's words were broadcast. Then, In a few minutes, excite ment spread like wildfire through the streets. The government's snnouncement included a plea to the populace to maintain discipline. Soldiers particularly were asked to remain calm. "Workers, farmers, employes, em (C'nndiiiled on pase 7, roliimn S) Adolf Hitler of the Czech gov final program before he reported to the king. Both British and French leaders, panic stricken, had sought desper ately to force Czechoslovakia to ac cept their dismemberment plan be fore Adolf Hitler delivered a "light ning stroke" on the Czechoslovak Oerman frontier. Their own surrender had turned Into a diplomatic debacle. The ques tion for long, anxious hours had been not whether they would humble themselves to the dictates of the fuehrer but whether they could hand him In time a surrender by Czecho slovakia as unconditional as their own.
