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I Capital JoBinnial The Afternoon Newspaper Leads The Capital Journal Is first with the latest news of the European crisis. United and Associated Press news dispatches. The only Salem paper carrying both services, giving you today's news today. Weather Partly cloudy tonight; Tuesday generally fair; cloudy near coast; moderate west-northwest wind. - Sunday max. 62, mln. 53. Rain 23 in. River -4.2 It. W. wind, cloudy. 52nd Year, No. 252 matter at Salem Oregon Salem, Oregon Monday, October 21, 1940 Price Three Cents On muu and News Stands--Flv Canto Britain Warns .Germany &r Air ensnve st-m 1 3 W IB 1 Jtt French People Warned of Fate By Churchill Germany Intent on Wip ing Out Nation; French men Urged to Rearm London, Oct. 21 () Prime Minister Churchill warned the French people tonight that Germany "is resolved on nothing less than the com plete wiping out of the French nation" and urged Frenchmen to "rearm your spirits before it is too late. In a fireside pep talk to the people of Britain's fallen ally, broadcast in both English and French, he declared that Brit ain is fighting for a victory which "we will share with you" and said all Britain asked of Frenchmen "is that, If you can not help us, at least you will not hinder us." An apparent reference to Ameri can aid for Britain came in this passage of Churchill's fighting speech; Retribution Coming "The crimes of Herr Hitler are bringing upon him and upon all who belong to his system a retribu tion which many of us will live to see. "The story is not yet finished, but it will not be so long. We are on his track and so are our friends across the Atlantic ocean." Churchill's broadcast came at a time when the Germans were ru mored attempting to maneuver the French into Joining forces with the axis powers against the British.' "Do not imagine, as the German. controlled wireless told you, that we English seek to take your Bhips and colonies," the prune minister remonstrated. Only After Hitler "The British seek only 'to beat the life and soul' out of Hitler," he continued. Churchill reminded Frenchmen that Britons have not forgotten the "ties that unite us to the French The British, he continued, "now as ever," have command of the seas and "in 1941 we shall have command of the air." Remember what this means, he urged Frenchmen. The prime minister made a bid for the good will of the people of Britain's former ally, declaring that "when good people get into trouble because they are attacked and heavily smitten by the vile and wicked they must be careful not to get at loggerheads." Appealing to France he said: Appeals to French "Frenchmen, for more than 30 years, in peace and war, I have marched with you and I am still marching along the same road to night. I speak to you at your fire sides, wherever you may be oi whatever your fortunes are. "I repeat the prayer around the Louis d'or, (French cain): 'Dieu protege La France.' (God protect France)." Declaring London is bearing up well under German bombardment, Churchill said; "Our airforce has more than held its own. We are waiting for the long-promised (German) invasion Then he quipped, "So are the fishes." s Asks Showdown On Army Bombsighf Washington, Oct. SI W) Senator Holt, (D W. Va.), called on Secre tary of War Stimson today to say publicly whether Great Britain had been given access to the army's secret bombsight and whether the British had been promised delivery, "after the election Is over," of long range bombers now In use by the army. Speaking during a senate session that lasted only six minutes, Holt told a half-dozen of his colleagues who were present that he was pre cluded from introducing an In quiry resolution because of the "gen tleman's agreement" under which the senate will not conduct business until after the election. Missing Youngster Well Described Portland, Oct. 21 W The police radio Saturday described a lost youngster as "3 years old, wearing shoes that don't match, a green sweater and red pants, and having a dirty face and badly In need of a haircut." The youngster was returned to his parents IS minutes later. - Draft Lottery Set October 29 President to Draw First Number from Glass Goldfish Bowl Used in World War Draft En closed in Same Blue Capsules Then Used Washington, Oct. 21 (ff) the first number in the draft Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, selective service director, made the announcement today after a conterence with the chiel execu tive. Dykstra said the drawing would be held in the inter- -departmental auditorium adjacent Deny Long Aids Court Review Washington, Oct. 21 OP) Sey mour Weiss, one of the chief politic al lieutenants of the late Huey P. Long in Louisiana, failed today to obtain a supreme court review of his conviction on a charge of using the United States mails In a scheme to defraud Louisiana State univers ity. Two other defendants Louis Les age and J. Emory Adams also were denied a review. The three were con victed of selling to the university for $75,000 the furnishings in a New Orleans hotel which the Institution already had acquired in purchasing the hotel. Weiss, New Orleans and New York hotel executive, was sentenced to serve 30 months and was fined $2000. Lesage, former assistant to the pres ident of the Standard Oil company of Louisiana, and Adams were sen tenced to a year and a day and fined $100 each. Among other actions today, the court: Denied a review to Morton David Bluestone, a Pittsburgh law student who contended he was denied regis tration for the state bar examina tion because of previous membership In organizations having communist members. Refused to pass on the conviction of two men calling themselves "Je hovah's Witnesses," on a charge of breach of the peace at Drayton, S. C. The men J. D. Langston and E. F. Godwin contended they had been deprived of freedom of speech and of the press and of the right to worship God. Japanese Oil Deal Hits Snag Tokyo, Oct. 21 (U.B Reports of a serious hitch in Japanese negotia tions to obtain oil from the Nether lands East Indies were followed to day by a foreign office announce ment that Seizo Kobayashl, chief of the Japanese negotiators, was re turning .to Tokyo. The foreign office Insisted that negotiations were progressing satis factorily and will be continued dur ing Kobayashl's absence by mem bers of his suite and the Japanese consul general. A Dome! news agency dispatch first reported Kobayashl's return. Domel said Kobayashl, who is minister for commerce in the cabl' net, would leave Batavia, Nether lands East Indies, tomorrow in the liner Nichlren Mara to return to Japan "temporarily," to attend cere monies commemorating the 2,600th anniversary of the foundation of the Japanese empire, "and also to con sult the government regarding his mission." Roosevelt Declines Willkie 's Proffer Washinttton. Oct. 21 (P) President Roosevelt, a secre tary said today, is not accepting Wendell L. Willkie's offer to share an auditorium with him in Baltimore October 30. Stephen Early, the president's press secretary .said that rather than be in Baltimore or Washington on that date Mr. Roosevelt probably would speak at the Academy of Music hall In Brooklyn, N. Y, Asked whether the chief execu tive had any disposition to accept Willkie's challenge to debate, Early remarked that it had been a "pub lic" challenge. Then he added to a reporter at his press conference: "If I were going to invite you to my home, I'd send you the invitation, and I don't think I d sent it if I knew you weren't coming." Originally, the secretary explain ed, the president Intended to speak on October 30 in Constitution hall In Washington. But Chairman Ed- President Roosevelt will draw lottery at noon on October zv. to the labor department building in Washington, with the chief execu tive pulling the first number from the glass goldfish bowl used in the World war draft. Dykstra said they did not discuss whether Mr. Roosevelt would be blindfolded and that additional de tails would be announced later by his organization. But the draft numbers, he said, will be enclosed in the same blue capsules used in the last draft. He showed reporters one of them, with a small tag bear ing the nubber 258 the first in the lottery in World war days. Dykstra said he did hot know who would take over the bulk of the drawing after Mr. Roosevelt had se lected the first number, but that he thought the process would take at least 12 hours. The numbers drawn will corres pond with serial numbers assigned to more than 16,500,000 men who registered for selective military ser vice last week. The order in which the numbers are drawn will deter- mine the order in which the men in each draft area are called lor service. Drawings will continue until num bers have been reached exceeding the highest serial number assigned in any selective service area. The reason for exceeding the top serial number, Dykstra said, is to "be sure that late comers get a number." Work Rushed At Fort Lewis Fort Lewis, Wash., Oct. 21 (P) Fort Lewis officers and construc tion crews rushed preparations to day for arrival next month of the first wave of Pacific northwest con scrlptees. Capacity of the fort's reception center one of 12 flung throughout the nation Is being doubled so it can care for 1000 instead of 500 re. crults at a time. It will be complete long before the first of 14,151 draf tees from Washington, Oregon, Ida ho, Montana and Wyoming begin arriving. Rugged frame buildings are ris ing in the reception area. They in clude registration and medical ex aminatlon buildings, mess halls and clothing issue centers. A prelim inary training drill field is being cleared. Cement and wooden tent floors are being laid and a tent city Is rising. At the reception center, draftees will get their first district contact with army life. It will be their tem porary home until they are assign ed to tactical units. As draftees are moved to their permanent units, new ones will come in, keeping the center's facilities at capacity, army officers said. Preliminary draft estimates In dlcate 14,151 men will be called to duty at Fort Lewis before next July 1. The state totals: Idaho 1954 Montana 2563: Orgeon 2806; Wash ington 6821 and Wyoming 1047. ward J. Flynn and his associates on the democratic national committee suggested he make an address In Baltimore. Apparently, Early continued, they did not know the only available and sizeable auditorium in Baltimore already had been leased by the re publicans for that night. While Mr. Roosevelt had said he might talk In Baltimore, since then, Early said, Flynn and others of the national committee had urged him to follow a tradition begun in 1933 of making campaign addresses at the Brooklyn Academy .of Music, "They are looking into that," the secretary said, "and I think the president will do what they ask him to on that." ie Raps f hird Term As Dangerous Precedent Likely to be Used by Some Successor To Destroy Democracy Aboard Willkie Train En Route to Milwaukee, Oct. 21 (P)Wendell L. Willkie, at tacking President Roosevelt s third term candidacy, declar ed today that under "one man rule" the first things to be curbed are labor unions, churches and education. "The precedent once estab lished, even assuming that the president has the noblest of motives, will be used by some successor to take away this life of ours," the republican nomi nee said at Wausau, Wis. He quoted letters from Thomas Jefferson in support of his conten tion that the two term tradition should be preserved. Jefferson, he said, once wrote that should president ever consent to be a can didate for a third term, "I trust he will be rejected on this demonstra tlon of his ambitious views." Urges Debate There is great danger, Willkie contended, that once a president has been elected for several terms, he will seek the office for life. Willkie began the final two weeks of his presidential campaign by urging that President Roosevelt de bate with him In Baltimore Octo ber 30. The republican nominee, who two months ago challenged the chief executive to a series of debates on national issues, said last night he had been told that his backers ob tained the only sizeable hall for that dace. "As a result," added a statement issued from Willkie's train, "it is understood Mr. Roosevelt was com pelled to cancel his proposed Balti more speaking engagement for that date. To Share Platform "Mr. Willkie, in an effort to avoid any possible Inconvenience to the president or disappointment to the people of Baltimore, has wired those in charge of arranging his meeting to get In touch with those who had been arranging for the president's appearance and offer to share the platform with Mr. Roosevelt. "Mr. Willkie infqrmed the com mlttee he would be delighted to have the president on the same platform with htm In Baltimore." The Baltimore talk will be one of the last campaign addresses given (Concluded on page 9, column 6) Many Civilians Killed in Berlin Berlin, Oct. 21 (IP) An apartment building in West Berlin was destroy ed and numerous civilians were kill ed and injured in last night's Brit ish raid on the German capital, DNB, German news agency, report ed today. The news agency said the British dropped four explosive bombs on the city in addition to a shower of in cendiaries. Earlier reports sadl that only In- dlary bombs fell on the capital in the attack which sent Berllners into air raid shelters for the first time in five nights and which authorized nazis characterized as "an outright terror act against the Berlin popu lation." An intensified U-boat campaign, the high command reported today, was responsible for destruction of a British auxiliary cruiser of more than 10,000 tons and of two British convoys. In the latter attack, the high command said, two submarines participated. "By so doing," the communique as serted, "Lieutenant Blelchrodt in creased the score of his latest cruise against the enemy to 53,300 tons and Lieutenant Schepke to 40,565 tons." Torpedo planes were credited with sending three "strongly protected merchanters" totaling 20,000 tons to the bottom of the east coast of Eng land during the night. Light German battle plane units were reported to have carried out 'retaliatory flights on London and other parts of Britain during the night. Educator Breaks Leg Ashland, Ore., Oct. 21 WV-Dr. Walter Redford, president of the Southern Oregon College of Educa tion, broke his leg in a fall yesterday. is ffltKfatlM Billed For A Busy Day Carl J. Hambro, president of the Norwegian storting (parliament), Is snap ped as he disembarks at the Salem airport with members of a local reception committee after a flight from Portland this morning in a plane piloted b y Lee U". Eyerly. Members of the party, left to right, are Theodore G. Nelson, Hambro, J. A. Sholseth, president of Thor lodge, Sons of Norway, which is sponsoring Hambro's visit here, and Ernest Arneson. Hambro Talks on World Problems . Isolation does not exist in the modern world and we can not continue as civilized nations without international coop eration, Carl J. Hambro, president of the League of Nations assembly and of the Norwegian parliament, told a record crowd at the Chambttr of Commerce" today noon. In connec-' ' tion with the league he declared Italians Bomb Bahrein Island Rome, Oct. 21 iP) Stefanl, offi cial Italian news agency, said today a far reaching political motive be hind Saturday's Italian bombing of Bahrein Island in the Persian gulf was the hope it would Incite antl Brltlsh feeling In India. "The Italian air force reached clear to the gateway of English In dia," Stefani said, "where the pop ulation's ferment against the dom inating nation is increasing daily. The air action against Bahrein will have world repercussions." Yesterday's communique of the Italian high command said Italian planes flew 2,800 miles to bomb the British oil center in the Gulf of Persia, setting "enormous fires' with hits on pipe lines, refineries and tanks. The Bahrein Petroleum company, which conducts operation of the is land Is described as a British firm registered in Canada, which is partly owned by Standard Oil Com pany of California and the Texas corporation. Stefan! said the military success of the "surprise" Bahrein Island bombing arose from the destruction or setting aire o! oil supplies which "the enemy could have considered unattackable and unreachable be cause of their dlstar.ee from Italian air bases." The agency described the expe dition as "the greatest flight since the beginning of the war and a most Important war-like action car ried out against an extremely im portant enemy center of fuel sup plies." Moving Civilians Out of London London, Oct. 21 (IP) The govern ment took steps today to expedite the removal of London's civilian population to places of safety out side the capital and Improve the lot of those compelled to stay in the danger cone. Malcolm McDonald, minuter of health, advised authorities in the reception areas to use their com pulsory billeting powers "without hesitation where necessary and to make the fullest possible use of empty houses." McDonald disclosed that many civilians are arranging themselves to leave London and this exodus, to gether with the government remov als, necessitated more extensive use of the billeting system. To eliminate long lines in front of public air raid shelters used for sleeping, Herbert Morrison, minis ter of home security, authorized the London civil defense region to Issue admission tickets as an experiment. r .1 that no Instrument is stronger than the mind which directs it. Hambro, making one of his three public appearances today, is a large man and master of several foreign languages. He has a perfect com mand of English and only a slight accent in connection with certain words. He addressed the Willamette university chapel this morning and will speak at the Leslie high school auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight. He is also former editor of the "Mor genbladet," one of Norway's largest daUy newspapers. Need of new methods In diplom acy and diplomatic relations was emphasized, with people with new kinds of knowledge and experience taking the places of those hemmed in by tradition. "Importance of Intelligence de pends upon the character and will power behind it," Hambro declared. "Where moral Issues are at stake democracy means that every adult must have opinions and if shirkers of this responsibility are in the majority, a aemocracy can not stand." These shirkers the speaker placed in the category of the fifth columnist. Because no country attempted to meet the problem presented by de mobilization unemployment has dated since 1919, he said. This can only be solved by using all experts in labor conditions. (Concluded on pnxe 9, column 6) Kay Woolen Mills Get Army Contract Washington, Oct. 21 (U.B The war department today awarded contracts totaling $19,874,784, the major por tion of which was for wool blankets and aircraft parts. Wool blanket orders Included Tho mas Kay Woolen Mills Co., Salem, Ore., $188,250, and Portland Woolen Mills, Inc., Portland, $192,532. .oi r- .1 Windows Smashed in New U.S. Embassy London, Oct. 21 (P) Windows were smashed In the United States' big new embassy building on Grosvcnor Square in a recent nazi air raid, but the red brick, white-trimmed Co lonial structure was not badly dam aged. No member of the staff was in jured. Permission was given today by British censors to tell about it. A German plane laid a stick of bombs across the big square hi Lon don's fashionable west end. One demolished a house, damaged two others across the square and blew in a few windows of the embassy. Another bomb failed to explode Immediately, but dug Itself a deep pit about 50 feet from the front door. It went off a few hours later, blasted more windows and hurled 11 ' ', if o m - British Bomb Italian Bases Rome, Oct. 21 (U.B British air. planes bombed northern Italy, where Premier Benito Mussolini is making an Inspection tour, and Italian North and East Africa during the night, a high command communique disclos ed today. Several persons were killed and 15 wounded in British raids on nor thern Italy, industrial heart of the country, a high command com munique said. Mussolini fs now on an inspection tour In the north. Because of mili tary secrecy surrounding his move ments, it was not known where he spent the night after leaving the village of Ronchl Del Veglonari for another part of the northern area. Coming into Italy from Switzer land, according to the communique, the British planes dropped bombs on Verona, In the provinces of Favla and Alexandria, and on the commune of Borgto Verezzl, near Savona, and other parts of the ad Jacent countryside. In raids on Italian Africa, Brit lsh planes bombed Decamre, kill ing one person and wounding 11 and damaging a barracks, and bomb ed Asmara, Gura, Agordat and Massawa in Eritrea without doing damage, the high command said. Italian planes bombed military targets In Kenya. Leo Spifzbart Seriously Hurt Accidental discharge of a gopher gun he was setting on his Polk county farm Saturday aitemoon may cast Leo Spltzbart, manager of the Oregon state fair, the loss of eye. Spltzbart was almost oveT the gun when It was discharged and ap proximately 25 of the pellets struck him about the side of his face and forehead. He was rushed to the Salem General hospital by private automobile. Attending physicians state that while none of the fine shot direct ly Injured the eye, there Is serious danger of an Infection which may re sult In the loss of sight In one eye. soli and stones on to the roof and against the front wall. The inside was not damaged and a spokesman said today "we're still open for business." Ten persons wero killed in the same raid when a big German bomb crashed near the YMCA hendquart- era in Great Ruwel sAtcH, ota&Ung out doors and windows and blowing down Inside partitions. Between 400 and 800 members sheltered in the gymnasium were not hurt. Although the outside walls were not badly damaged, officials said they would not be able to use the building again until after the war, To Transfer Air Battle Into German Skies RAF Stages Attacks From Norway to Italy; Berlin Badly Bombed (By the Associated Fresi) London. Oct. 21 Anti-air. craft guns opened up a deaf ening barrage in the London area when darkness fell on the capital tonight after ear lier sporadic firing. The bar rage signalled the return of nazi raiders to (he city after a day they had devoted aige ly to scattered hit-and-run at tacks on Britain. Great Britain served notice on Adolf Hitler today that the RAF is girding to transfer the air battle into "German skies over German' fields" and that "the day we can take the of fensive steadily approaches." This double-barreled warn ing, voiced by First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexan der and Colonial Secretary Lord Lloyd, was further em phasized by a London air min istry statement declaring: "Both ends of the Rome-Berlin axis had a foretaste of the gather ing strength of the Royal Air Force last night, when the capital of the German relch and two of Italy's great industrial centers were simul taneously bombed by aircraft on the bombef command." ... " Naval Docks Bombed The air ministry also reported that RAF raiders slashed at Ger many's big naval docks at Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven and a large warship "It believed to hare been hit." Other RAP bombers attacked Berlin, the great Krupp armament works at Essen, oil refineries and other military objectives. Lord Beaverbrook, minister of aircraft production, disclosed that England now has more planes than ever before, he said he would not be satisfied until "the sky is swarming" with them. Late today, heavy explosions across the channel indicated that the RAP was hammering anew at German-held invasion bases, which last night underwent a 100-bomb-a-minute assault by British air men. Britain's intensified aerial counter-offensive stung nazis to com plain bitterly of "outright terror methods. Berlin Complains Berlin reported many civilian! killed and wounded as British war planes, striking in several waves, destroyed an apartment building In west Berlin and showered incendi aries and high-explosive bombs on the German capital, It was Berlin's first air raid in five nights. The Germans asserted that their bombing squadrons had dropped 609 tons of bombs on Britain in one 24 hour period over the week-end. Rome reported eight killed, 15 wounded by British raiders attack (Conclmlcd on pane 0, column 8) Dempsey Named to Maritime Board Washington, Oct. 21 (IP) Presi dent Roosevelt today nominated Wayne C. Taylor, former assistant secretary of the treasury, to be un dersecretary of commerce. Taylor Is a Chicago banker. Mr. Roosevelt also sent to the senate the nomination of Represen tative John J. Dempsey of New Mexico to be a member of the fed eral maritime commission for a six year term starting last September 26. Dempsey, who was an unsuccess ful candidate for the democratic senatorial nomination In New Mexi co, will succeed Rear Admiral H. A Wiley, whose term expired Septem ber 20. Portland Girl Loses Life at Beach Portland, Oct. 21 VP) Funeral ser vlcts Titre htte VVv iat Mry tan Tceple, 16, prominent member of the Portland younger set. who was killed Saturday at Gearhart. A log from which she whs tossed htr hloh hronkpm nn the bench rolled over and fatally crashed her. She was the daughter of L, R. Teeplt, president of L. R. Tceple Co.
