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McNary Opens
Campaign with
Talk to Farmers
Charges at Aurora, III.,
New Deal Made Agricul
ture Ills Chronic
Complete text of Senator McNarys
speech on page 8.
Aurora. 111.. Sept. 21 ()-
Senator Charles L. McNary,
in his first major campaign
address, charged today that
the new deal found "agricul
ture ill of a functional disor
der" and "made the disorder
chronic."
The Oresron senator and re
publican nominee for vice-
Ttresident SDoke to a party rai
ly in exposition park on the
outskirts of Aurora and to a
national radio (CBS) audience.
Announcing that he was speaking
as a farmer who worked since child
hood on the land his grandfather
homesteaded almost a century ago,
McNary declared that the fanner
had been frozen into a dependence
on the government, and added:
Farm Income
"The new deal, it Is true, has kept
the farm population off the bread
lines. That is not my idea of suc
cess. In the seven new deal years,
average farm Income per farm has
been only $1,124 Including benefit
payments; in the seven preceding
years, it was $1,432.
"In its futile attempt to increase
prices by withholding crops from
the market, the new deal now has
on hand in government ownership
and control 10 million bales of cot
ton, BOO million bushels of corn and
100 million bushels of wheat. I do
not regard that as successful, espe
cially as farm commodity prices on
August 1, 1940, were In approximate
ly the same range as on August 1,
1933.
No Solution Yet
"Actually, the basic farm problem
Is no nearer solution today than It
was on March 4, 1933. The new deal
has reached none of Its fundamental
objectives. Its farm program Is a
thing of shreds and patches; set
tling nothing; merely putting off
the day of reckoning.'
McNary said the new deal was
satisfied with its farm program and
saw the aggregate improvement it
had accomplished for the farmer a
maximum aim. He said he saw it as
a "minimum" and continued:
"I accept that program only as a
stopgap substitute for something
better until something better can
be provided. And I assert, in full
confidence, that the next adminis
tration will be able to provide
something better.
Not in Dotage
"The next administration will not
begin, as did the new deal, with the
notion that American economy is
winding up; that it is In its dotage.
The republican party and the
next administration take direct Is
sue with the concept of a shrinking
economy. We propose to create
greater abundance; not to strive
from scarcity and devote our chief
energy to planning how to dis
tribute that scarcity. I have said
that the farm problem Is primarily
one of markets. The new deal,
(Concluded on pare 14, column 6)
Cloud X-Ray Used
By Nazi Bombers
Berlin, Sept. 21 (U.PJ An air ministry spokesman assert
ed today that Germany had developed and was now using in
attacks on London a secret apparatus which permitted crews
oi uuiuuuig put ilea iu oca uiruugn
clouds, fog and rain.
The weapon was described as a
cloud -roentgen (or cloud-x-ray) be
cause it "saw" as clearly through
clouds as if they were not there. It
closely resembles a small television
set, the spokesman said, and is in
stalled next to the pilot's seat In
"cloud cracking' bombers. It is
these bombers, the spokesman said,
which have brightly painted noses,
yellow and other colors.
The paint is specially mixed with
chemical solutions, the spokesman
said, to serve as a conductor or lens
or feeler for the apparatus.
The whole idea, according to the
spokesman, is reminiscent of the
use of Infra-red rays in filters on
New Hitch Over
Frenchlndo-China
New Japanese Demands on French Put Monkey
Wrench in Proceedings and Crisis Takes Turn for
Worse Exact Nature of Ultimatum Secret 1
Vichy, France, Sept. 21 (fl) Negotiations at Hanoi on
Japanese demands for military rights in French Indo-China
have entered a difficult period "from which anything can be
expected the r rench government announced today.
Hanoi, French Indo-China. Sept. 21 (&) The French In
do-China government reported
negotiations with Japan alter there-
had been indications the crisis had
passed,
A government communique said
"a new shift has compromised" the
negotiations and that the situation
was back where it was two days ago
when Oenerarl Issaku Nishlnhara
packed up and prepared to walk out
of the conferences.
The negotiations were resumed
yesterday, the announcement said,
"when the viewpoints of both par
ties appeared drawing closer togeth
er." But new Japanese demands, It
declared, have put a monkey wrench
in the proceedings.
Earlier the French colonial gov
ernment announced the Japanese
had "modified the range" of de
mands which caused the collapse of
negotiations yesterday In the wake
of a 72-hour ultimatum submitted
by Japan,
"It Is believed these conversations
wiU 'terminate in an agreement tak
ing account of the interests of both
sides,' the French communique said
"It is emphasized that during these
negotiations Indo-Chlna's territorial
integrity and French sovereignty
over the country were never open to
question."
The announcement came only
short time after Major General Iss
aku Nlshlhara, head of the Japanese
mission, had said he was leaving
for home and that his departure
could be Interpreted as heralding a
"crisis." Nishihara remained here
with some of his staff.
Army Plane with
General Missing
FayettevUIe, N. C, Sept. 21 V-
An airplane In which Brigadier
General Francis W. Honeycutt,
commander of Fort Bragg near
here, was a passenger, has been
missing since 7:34 p. m., last night
when it was reported over Savannah,
Ga., enroute to Jacksonville, Fla.
Lieutenant Col. Earl C. Ewart,
public relations officer at Fort
Bragg, said great concern was felt
over General Honeycutt's safety.
A squadron of five planes left
here today at 6:15 a. m to search
the territory between Savannah and
Jacksonville, but reported finding
no trace of the missing observation
plane, which bore besides General
Honeycutt, Gapt. George F. Kehoe,
pilot, and Corporal Robert J. Sen
nits. Defense Stamps Sale
Washington, Sept. 21 (P) Post
master General Walker announced
today that the date of first day's
sales of national defense stamps had
been changed from October 12 to
October 16 In order to coincide with
registration day. Stamps will be issu
ed in one-cent, two-cent and three
cent denominations.
photographic cameras to eliminate
disturbing atmospheric conditions.
However, it was added, the so-called
cloud-ray is an entirely new in
vention. Essential new parts of the appar
atus were invented last year by
Prof. Leo Ubbelohde, head of the
Technical Chemical institute of Ber
lin, the spokesman said, and the
apparatus itself is made by the Lo
renz Wekt, makers of delicate elec
trical machinery and instruments
here.
Construction of the apparatus 13.
exceedingly complicated, the spokes
man said, and is familiar to only a
few specially trained engineers and
students of Prof. Ubbelohde.
London Raids
a turn for the worse today in
Home Guard
Units Protested
Washington, Sept. 21 (a3) Senator
Johnson (D-Colo) asserted today
that a plan approved by the war
department to set up state "home
guard" units might permit gover
nors to use such organizations at
"political footballs."
The proposed units would be or
ganized in states from which the
national guard has been called to
active federal duty.
Johnson voiced his objections to
reporters after he was said to have
protested to the senate military
committee that a bill authorizing
the home guard units gave almost
unlimited authority to governors to
establish' armed groups which
might be used for almost any pur
pose. "Some governors might use these
units for political footballs or form
vigilante groups," he told reporters,
The military committee subse
quently reconsidered Its previous ac
tion approving the measure.
Chairman Sheppard (D-Tex) said
that John L. Lewis, CIO leader,
had protested to the committee
against what Lewis called "Inde
pendent state armies."
Lewis, Sheppard said, urged that
additional units be set up within
the framework of the national fuard
and that their use be subjected to
present guard regulations.
Approved by the war department
and the house military committee,
the legislation before the commit
tee would permit the secretary of
war to furnish arms and equipment
for the home guards but control of
the troops would rest solely with
the states.
ONG Reopens
Recruiting
Recruiting was re-opened for the
186th Infantry and the 218th field
artillery of the Oregon national
guard this morning because of heavy
losses of men through physical dis
qualifications, Major General George
A. White, 41st division commander,
announced.
General White said Oregon's pre
vious surplus of more than 300 men
was wiped out as reports of examin
ation' boards came In. Losses am
ounted to 500 men throughout the
state. Several Oregon officers as well
as enlisted men been disqualified.
A belated drive for 200 recruits
was ordered.
Pendleton, Grants Pass and Bak
er were the heaviest losers, General
White said. Overweight, bad teeth,
underweight and defective feet pre
vented many men from meeting the
standards set for active service.
Similar losses were reported from
other northwest states, where late
recruiting also Is going on In ad
vance of the troops' movement to
Camp Murray Monday.
Robert E. Downing
Summoned Today
Robert E. Downing, who spent
most of the 75 years of his lifetime
in Salem, died at 3 o'clock this
morning after an Illness of two
weeks. He was born on the old
George Downing land claim in the
Waldo Hills district. Surviving are
a daughter, Mrs. Benjamin B.
(Hnzel Downing) Goodman, of Port
land, who was with her father at
the time of his death. He is also
survived by a number of nelces.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed but will be from the
W. T. Rlgdon mortuary Monday
afternoon.
Waves of RAF
Dump Bombs on
Invasion Fleet
All Night Attack on Ger
man Channel Bases
London Again Attacked
London, Sept. 21 () Offi
cial sources disclosed tonight
that Koyal Air force bombers
in three great waves had
dumped tons of bombs on
German "invasion fleets" of
ships and barges, lying in
clusters 60 strong in the
French harbor of Dunkerque,
and had left a ribbon of fire
in other ports all along the
German-held channel coast.
In attacks that began early
last night and were not finished
until almost dawn, the RAF night
raiders punished the approach
channel, basins and canals at
Dunkerque with salvo after salvo
of explosives.
Other bombers drummed metho
dically at the coast from Flushing,
The Netherlands, to French Bou
logne, while long range raiders
struck Into Germany.
Renew London Raids
The government declared that the
British raids, night after night,
already had encompassed between
80 and 90 per cent of aU Germany's
gasoline plants.
Meanwhile Adolf Hitler's air
raiders, Inaugurating the third week
of mass assaults aimed at London,
roared through channel mists and
drizzling rain today but were re
ported to have run Into a storm of
British anti-aircraft fire along the
Kentish coast.
One group of raiders appeared
over the British capital after a
night-long series of attacks and
British counter-assaults on nazl-
held channel "invasion ports." Anti
aircraft guns blazed away for a
short time in central London, the
first formation of raiders soon dis
appeared and the brief raid alarm
ended.
Forced to Retreat
Exchange telegraph news agency
reported three of the nazi raiders
over Kent retreated today In the
face of the heavy British fire, one
of them jettisoning its bombs into
thesea. Later a lone Messerschmltt
fighter tried to steal above the
clouds, only to turn tail when it was
accorded a hot reception by the
British ground batteries.
Nazis dropped bombs near two
southeastern towns and bomb frag
ments fell in several districts. One
German bomber, apparently winged
by anti-aircraft fire, was finished
off near the southeast coast by a
British fighter.
An official announcement said
last night's attacks on London
caused casualties "rather less than
on previous nights." East, central
and south London and the Thames
bore the brunt of the 14th consecu
tive dawn-to-dusk assault.
Berlin Version
Berlin, Sept. 21 VP) Powerful
German overnight blows at London
were reported today despite adverse
weather conditions, while two waves
of British bombers were said to
have been turned back from counter-thrusts
far short of Berlin,
Nazi bomber pilots claimed heavy
attacks on important rail lines
west of the big bend of the Thames
in "thick weather" which they said
gave them more trouble than did
the British defense.
Severe damage to "war-essential"
objectives, especially in the center
of London west of the big bend In.
the Thames, was reported by the
high command in a resume of the
last 24 hours of aerial warfare.
London port facilities received the
brunt of the assault during the
night, with frequent hits on the big
royal- Albert docks, said the com
munique. 'Furthermore, smaller units In
the course of the night attacked
war essential supply Industries
south and east of London, as well
as airports and other war essential
targets in south and central Eng
land," it stated.
Only Eight Out
For Disability
Ashland, Sept. 21 yp) Only eight
enlisted men of Battery B, 248th
coast artillery, were rejected by
army medical examiners and all
officers passed fitness tests yester
day. . i
Willkie Refuses
To Pussyfoot
In Campaign
Candidate Climaxes
California Campaign by
San Francisco Speech
San Francisco, Sept. 21 (IP)
Wendell Willkie told a San
Francisco crowd today that if
he were elected president, no
citizen would be taken off the
relief rolls until he had a job.
"The difference between
the new deal view and mine,"
said the republican nominee,
"is that they want to keep the
people permanently on relief.
I want to put them to work at
good wages in American in
dustry. "If you watch the relief rolls," he
told a crowd In Jefferson Square, as
he toured the city, "you will see that
they have always gone up In elec
tion years. I see the process al
ready commencing.
"I see this powerful government
bringing pressure on those below as
to how they should vote."
Tribute to Joe
At Washington square, in the
heart of San fTanclsco's "Little
Italy," where he stopped later, he
paid tribute to Joe DLMagglo, fam
ous basebaU player, who was born
in the neighborhood.
"There are those among us who
preach there Is no longer opportun
ity for American youth," he said,
adding that he wanted to bring back
the America "where American boys
JBM that" can rise. .
He observed that president Roose
velt quoted yesterday from Thomas
Jefferson, but, Winkle remarked,
Jefferson opposed a third term.
Willkle told a crowd at city hall
that he first came to San Francisco
thirty years ago in a box car, as a
youth from the San Joaquin valley
harvest fields.
No Welcome Then
"There was no speech by the may
or then," he said, "In fact I wasn't
very enthusiastic about seeing any
officials."
Willkie spoke to crowds who had
been chanting, "We want Willkle."
As he drove through the business
district there was applause from
groups along the streets.
Willkle will climax his campaign
for California's electoral votes to-
(Concluded on page 12, column 4)
Willkie Here
4:55 Sunday
With the Willkle special train
running closely on schedule through
California, according to Southern
Pacific officials, last minute ar
rangement for the republican pre
sidentlal nominee's reception here
still set for 4:55 o'clock Sunday
afternoon were being made today
to take full advantage of the 10
minute stop here.
utilizing a loud-speaker with
which the train Is equipped, Willkle
will deliver a ahort impromptu
speech from the rear platform but
will not leave his car, which will be
spotted in the Southern Pacific de
pot yards just south of the Mill
street crossing.
Standing room will be the only
accommodations available to the
crowd, because automobile parking
will not be permitted anywhere on
the railroad grounds.
One of the features of the demon
stration here, which will Include
band music, will be the Identifying
banners around which various clubs
and organizations will group them
selves. Today officers of the Hoosier
club, embracing all former residents
of Indiana, Willkie's home state, an
nounced that they would be on
hand with their banner and asked
that all Indlanans gather about it.
Police are laying their plans to
handle an estimated crowd of 10,000
persons on and around the depot
grounds.
Protest Light Penalty
For Setting Fires
Klamath Falls, Ore.. Sept. 21 (U.PJ
A protest filed by the legislative
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce here was being forwarded to
state authorities today on the al
leged leniency of state penalty for
deliberate lihgting of forest fires.
The action followed yesterday
after the passing of a two year
sentence by Circuit Judge Edward
Ashurst on Alfred J. Helm, who
confessed firing the Black Hi lis for
est near fieatty. J
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Kidnaped Child Three-year-old Marc de Tristan (above), son of
Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Calif., was
taken from his nurse by a man who struck or shoved the middle
aged woman. A ransom note demanding $100,000 for the return of
the child was received. Below are his parents, Count and Countess
Marc de Tristan. Associated Press Photo.
Wooton to Head
State Draft
Lieutenant Colonel Elmer V. Wooton, Salem, head of the
state staff of the national guard, was today named by Gov.
Charles A. Sprague to head the state draft board. Although
the dralt will be almost entirely
nf -
civilian activity, the governor said
Colonel Wooton was "highly quali
fied for the post" through his long
study on the problem.
Wooton, who Is a Mexican border
and World war veteran, has for 10
years been on the staff of Major
Oen. George A. White. For the past
five years he has attended the school
on selective service at the San Fran
cisco Presidio, and has kept in con
stant touch with the Joint army and
navy selective service committee in
Washington, D. C.
Governor Sprague said draft head
quarters would be at Salem, In the
national guard offices, which will be
vacant except for skeleton crews af
ter the guard moves to camp next
week.
Plans for the draft have been
worked out "In some detail," Spra
gue said, but added they could not
be put In complete operation until
receipt of regulations and special
directions from the national select
ive service headquarters in Wash
ington. Blanks for the registration of all
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Board
men In the state between the ages
of 21 and 35 will soon be printed.
On Registration day, October 16,
election machinery of the state will
be used to register the men.
Questionnaires to determine the
capabilities of the men and any
reasons why they should be deferred
in service will not be filled in on
registration day. Not until after the
holding of a national lottery in
Washington to determine the order
of going will the questionnaires be
filled In. .
Loudspeakers to
Carry Willkie Speech
Portland, sept. 21 (f1) Loudspeak
ers will carry Wendell Willkie's 15-
mlnute address from the auditor
ium to persons outside Monday,
Ralph Cake, republican national
committeeman, said today.
It will be "first come, first served"
for seats Inside the auditorium.
The republican presidential nom
inee's address will start at 10:17
a. m., following a parade through
downtown streets.
Instructions
Of Abductor
Lived-up to
Law Officers Withdraw
From Case Until Child
Found or Returned .
Complete text of kidnaper's ran
som note on Pace 4
Hillsborough, Calif., Sept.
21 () Delivery of $100,000
ransom to the kidnaper of 15-year-old
Marc de Tristan, Jr.,
today awaited only a contact
between the abductor and
Count Marc de Tristan, Hills
borough socialite.
At the request of the count
and countess, police withdrew
from the case yesterday, five
hours after little Marc was
snatched from his nurse.
The FBI and local and county of
ficers withdrew from the de Tris
tan estate at the plea of the
parents who insisted that the life
and safety of the curly-haired
youngster were all that mattered
and that they must comply with the
kidnapers' instruction to avoid "po
lice Interference" In the case.
Money )s Ready
The $10,000 was ready, It appear
ed, should the abductor take the
next step In negotiations.
Sheriff James J. McGrath said
today "we are absolutely abiding by
our promise to the family and we
have withdrawn completely from
the case.
Friends said the young countess
had steeled herself and was bearing
up remarkably well under the
strain. After the first shock, they
said, she had not wept.
Neighbors and other residents of
the exclusive community antici
pated the desire of the family and
there were no visitors today. The
only police in the neighborhood
were at a distance from the estate,
stationed at road entrances to keep
strangers and "sightseers" off the
grounds.
Earl J. Connelly of Washington,
D. C, assistant director of the FBI
and an expert on kidnap cases, was
here to direct the G-men, once the
child has been returned, or found.
Meanwhile laboratory technicians
were understood to be subjecting
the typewritten ransom note to
tests. A gray felt hat dropped by
the kidnaper was to be given a rigid
analysis.
In a 800-word, typewritten note
just before noon yesterday, the de
(Concluded on pnge 14, column 5)
Kidnapers Face
93 to 1 Chance
Washington, Sept. SI (fl?) The
kidnaper, or kidnapers, of 5-year-old
Marc De Tristan took a S3 to
1 chance of ending up in prison
or worse.
Since passage of the "Lindbergh"
law in 1932, the federal bureau of
Investigation has Investigated 187
kidnaplngs and solved 185. The
unsolved cases are those of Charles
Mattson, 10, kidnaped at Tacoma,
Wash., December 27, 1838, and Peter
Levine, 12, New Rochelle, N. Y.,
seized February 24, 1938. Both boys
were slain.
Their work adds up to this:
In the 185 solved kidnaplngs, the
a-men have gained 367 convictions
in which the courts have imposed
12 death sentences; 42 life sent
ences; 3,952 years in prison; 72
years suspended; 108 years proba
tion, and $34,270 In fines. Only 24
federal kidnap defendants have
been acquitted.
The "Lindbergh law," which made
kidnaping a capital offense, result
ed from the abduction and slaying
of the Infant son of Colonel and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh from
their Hopewell, N. J., home on
March 1, 1932. Bruno Richard
Hauptmann was executed for that
crime.
Suidde Squad Digs
Out Hospital Bomb
London, Sept. 21 (&h-The same
"suicide squad" which dug up a huge
unexploded bomb from near St.
Paul's cathedral was credited today
with digging out another this time
from the grounds of the German
hospital in London.
- Lieut. Robert Davles of the Royal
Canadian engineers, chief hero In
the St. Paul's exploit, crawled into
the crater and pulled out the fuse.
The bomb was taken to an outlying
marsh and detonated.