The Fuse in Europe's Powder Keg Begins to Sputter, and Munitions Plants Foresee a Prosperous Year. Bye, Bye "On Earth, Peace; Good Will Toward Men." THE WEATHER Highest temperature yesterday 40 I.nwcfll temperature lust night 21 Precipitation for 21 hours 0 Prcclp. dliu-e rirsl of month 0 Predp. from Sunt. 1, 11PM 4.SS Deficiency since Sopl.'l, 19:1(1 9.S7 Partly Cloudy; Cold. TVO sections TODAY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY VOL. XL NO. 132 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1937. VOL, XXVI NO. 212 OF THE EVENING NEWS mt mwm mas imh mm . . I 3 I ' - - - - ' , Editorials On the . XT D ay s news By FRANK JENKINS rX THE Inst .night of the old year, people celebrate (some times more enthusiastically than wisely), welcoming the new yeur with demonstrutions of joy. Why? (In attempting to answer that question, remember, please, that each year that passes adds one year to the age of every person living, and ouch added year brings 4 us that much nearer to the un solved mystery that lies at the end of life.) So why do we celebrate the passing of tlmo, ns marked by the ending of the old year and the be ginning of the new? T'HE answer, probably, lies In this proverb: "Hopo springs eternal in the human breast." If things have been bad with us this year, we hope that next year they will be good. If things have been good with ns, wo hope that next year they will be better. And so on. Always wo look to the future ns holding somelliing better than the past has held. Hence we welcome tho passing nf time regardless of tho fuct lhat each hour that passes brings ns-.neuroi; to that final door in the wall that leads to tho unknown. WE SEEK to pry Into the future. and there are few of us indeed that have not at seme lime cross ed the palm of tho fortune teller with silver In Ihe effort to lift the (Continued on page 4.1 VATICAN CITY. Jan. 2 (API Weakened by lack of sleep and facing the danger of gangrene in an open wound In his left leg. Pope Pins Insisted todny on dis cussing church problems with nn 4 archbishop. Vatican ' officials reported "no material change" In the condition of the 79-year-old holy father after a recurrence of the affliction in his paralyzed limb. The setback followed " a brief period of recovery yesterday when the pain, from an open ulcer caus ed by the bursting of a varicose vein, abated and nllowed His Holi ness uninterrupted rest. Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, secre tary of state, was understood to be prepared to take over his duties at a moment's notice of the pontiff's death. He would act as head of the government for the Holy See between the death of the one pope nnd the election of his successor. FLASHES OF OREGON EVENTS i Reckless Driving Charged SALEM, Jan. 2. (AP) W. A. fierllnger, 28, of Portland, was ar rested yesterduy charged with reckless driving. Police sold he was driving his automobile nt high speed and that his cur was weaving in and out of traffic. Poison Taker on Mend SALKM, Jan. 2. (AP) Robert Lerew, 33-y enrol d pharmacist from Eden, Colo., was recovering at a Salem hospital today from the effects of poison tablets, physi cians reporled. PoLjce said Lerew was taken to the hospital December 27. Lerew told the police that his wife had died last full and he had been des pondent. Long Pulpit Duty Ends PORTLAND. Jan. 2. (AP) Dr. E. Earl Du Rots, pastor of the Inti relhurst United Presbyterian church for more than 30 years, re signed because of 111 health. The congregation refund to accept his resignation in 1931. Deadly Stairway PORTLAND, Jan. 2. (AP) Two weeks agog sheriff deputies found Mrs. M. S. Madison's body FRESH TRAIL IN KIDNAPER SEARCH FOLLOWED DR VER WHO ACTS QUEERLY BLING SOUGHT Officers Also Hold Former Ex-Convict for Probe; Quiet Prevails at (Mattson Home. TACOMA, -Wash., Jan. 2. (AP) Searchers for Charles Mnttsou moved toward an Olympia, Wash., turkey ranch today, held a former convict for questioning in Tacoma and experimented with Inks as the sixth dny of the hunt failed to re veal the kidnaped boy's where a bouts. . L. E. Rucker, of Olympia, sent officers on their newest trail this morning when he reported to Olym pia police a suspicious man re sembling young Muttson's kidnaper had inquired direct ions aL hit home at 10 p. m., Sunday, about an hour after the abduction. Rucker said the man drove to his home three miles east of Olym niu (about 80 miles from Taroma) in an automobile which "made noises like nn old one." snt In front 10 minutes and then approached the porch cautiously. At the door, ho asked directions to "an abandoned turkey ranch," Rucker wuid tho man octed sus piciously, ispoUe nhruptlv and re fused tofftoo the ligVbRucknr.-ot' teiripted to question him further hut become fearful nnd told llm rtothme-. he said. The man left hurriedly. , A state patrolman said Mrs. Rucker told hi in a turkey ranch owned hv John Mnttsou. of Port n3. Wash.; a relative of Dr. W. W. Mattson, is near the Rucker home. The patrolman and another unidentified mnn went to the tur key ranch immediately. They said thev did not inspect any of the high gabled fowl coops which dot the ranch. Any one of these coops is lare- enough to house one or two persons. The ranch. Mrs. Rucker snhl, haR not been operoted for some time, although a caretaker and his wife have lived there for the last three (Continued on page 6) OREGON YEAR-END TRAGEDY TOLL 18 (Ry the Associated Press) Violent deaths in Oregon for the Christmas-New Year period stood at 18 today. New Year's day brought death to three. Glen McKinney and Mrs. Anna Lou Hunt, both 28, at Vale died as they sat in nn automobile. Dr. Roderick Relknap, deputy county coroner suid they drove- to Mrs. Hunt's home nnd sat In the ma chine with the motor running. Gas fumes overcame them. Alfred Faist, 2fi, of Canby died at an Oregon City hospital of in juries received when a car struck him. ' Other deaths Included nlnn In au tomobile accidents, one suicide, one drowning, two accidental shootings uud one skiing. at the foot of the basement stair way at her home. They arrested the husband In connection with the death. Yesterday Mrs. Madison's moth er, Mrs. E. H. Wllber, tripped and fell clown the same stairs, fractur ing her shoulder. Road Work to Advance PORTLAND, Jan. 2. (AP) Although funds for 1937 are less than last year, W. II. Lynch, Unit ed States district engineer, pre dicted increased activity In road building. Oregon will receive tl3.33.r.-107 of the $42,000,000 available Tor Ore gon. Washington and Montana. He id the 1H36 allotment reach ed $f0.0u0.000 hut only $25,000,000 was spent. Incubator Holds 1st Baby (Ry the Associated Press) Orenon's first Infant of 1037 ap parently Is the tiny daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Elsenman of Al bany. The one pound. 13-niince tot bowed Into the world just one and one-half minutes after 1030 f n mi larowen. Aiinougn nr nnme SPfnAncubaior at tho Albany hos- pnai, Bitennants saiu sno nan a good cbatice to live. England and Italy Sign Sea Agreement Sneli Opposes Repeal Driver License Law SALEM, Jan. Z (AP) Secre tary of State Earl Snell said to day that repeal of the drivers' li cense law would be a "backward step In view of the splendid re sults obtained by the many safely organizations." Snell's statement was made on the proposal advanced by some I legislators that the law be repeal ed or the biennial renewal fea ture changed to make drivers' li censes perintfiipnt. The renewal fee of $1 every two years, Snell pointed out. brings about $200,000 annually to the highway fund, nnd if this revenue is unnecessary to the highway de-: partment he saw no objection to changing the law to eliminate the renewals. "IT any changes are to he made Hi the provisions for a license to drive automobiles, the legislature should strengthen the act rather than repenl the law," the secretary of state declared. The drivers' license law is ad ministered by Snell's office. T Florida Governor's Order Meets With Injunction at Daytona Beach. DAYTONA REACH, Fin., Jon. 2. (AP) Defiant Mrs. Irene Arm strong clung to her mayor's job to day under protection of a court or der which balked (iovornor Dave Sholtz's bayonet-backed effort to oust her. Adjutant Genera,! Vivien Collins summoned 200 guardsmen yester day to enforce tho executive oiKr seating a new city administration but the soldiers were sent home soon after Judge Herbert Frederick enjoined the Sholtz appointees from taking office. "Nothing can be done before Monday," the adjutant general said in dispersing his soldiers. The writ is returnable for argumet.it in Judge Frederick's court Monday afternoon. Meanwhile, n detail of city po lice remained on guard in tho city hall which had been turned inlo an armed stronghold. Airs. Armstrong nnd other offi cials named in the ouster retired to their homes after they had pro vided their officers with cots. The housewlve-mayor orally pin claimed today as a second New ear's holiday, providing a reason for keeping the hall closed. Harry Wilcox, designated by tho Sholtz-named commissioners nn mayor, said "our appointments most certainly will stick. This is nn emancipation for the taxpayer and citizens. We are going to re turn the government of Daytona Reach to the people." Governor Sholtz Is to leave the governor's chair next Tuesday nnd will be succeeded by Fred P. Cone. Before becoming governor, SholU lived ut Daytona Reach. The removal order charged the Armstrong administration with malfeasance in office, neglect of duty und Incompetency. TWO OREGON CITIES . NOW LEGALLY DRY NEWRERG, Ore. Jan. 2. (AP) This city and Monmouth were dry today. All legal sale of beer and win? stopped because of a ricOdon of voters at the November 'A election to ban their sate under a local op tion provision. New berg never permitted the sale nf any liquor In prc-prnhiht-tlon days but with repeal, licenses were granted for the sale of beer and wine. Q DOCTOR ON CALL .... DIES IN BLIZZARD HOXIE. Kb.. Jan. 2 (AP) Dr. L. H. McCartney, fiO, Hoxte osteo nrtth who became lost In a blizzard last nieht, was found dead today In a field threo miles north of his abandoned automobile. His automobile was found In a ditch a mile east of hero after he had left on a call lo a patient last night. U.S.AGTION E GTE DQCKSTRIKE Deadlock Sends McGrady Back to Washington to Confer With Labor . Dept. Secretary. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 (AP) Predictions of federal action to end the (io-tlay Pacific coast mari time strike replaced hopes of peace through settlement negotiations to day. Some observers expressed belief legislation by the new congress, opening Tuesday, will provide ma chinery for solving the tangled conflict. The view that tho next impor tant move will come in Washington was supported by the departure of Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed ward F. McGrady for the national capital. McGrady left , yesterday after two months or negotiations came to an apparently helpless deadlock on .the demand for hiring prefer ence to union ships' officers. ,15f P. Mai-sh,- labor'-departliienC cocillalor, took, over negotlatins attempt but said he did not ex pool' any further . conferences before Monday. He hopes to bring the shipowners' committee together with repretontutives or longshore men and radio telegraphists. McGrady said he will make a de tailed report to Labor Secretary Fiances Perkins, who, ho slated, "might" discuss the situation with President Roosevelt. A committee representing the seven striking unions plans to go to Washington with a request for legislation, reported to be pattern ed after the national railway me diation act. Captain George Chariot, presi dent of the deck officers' union, said he will ask the shipowners' committee to discuss at a public meeting tho preferential hiring issi'e, "We wont to make our position (Continued on page 8) PORTLflWO HIKE PORTLAND. Jan. 2. (AP) Em ployes ol the Oregon Worsted com pany checked over their enrs un easily today following tho' dlscov ory of a fourth bomb attached to tho autoomhlle motors of persono associated with tho firm, A. J. Hocniscn, whoso wife Is head of the mill's Inspection de partment, found tho fourth "bomb plot" when he raised tho hood of his engine. Had he turned on the ignition first, police said he prob ably would huvc been blown to bits. Threo other workers removed home-made dynamite machines from their enrs and a plant elec trician received minor injuries when one of the objects exploded as he examined It. Roy T. Itishop. president of the plant troubled by n labor dispute since Novembor, described the In cidents ns "torrnridtic." "On the whole, our emploves live In Scllwood. Thev nre . ouiet. peaceful and law-abiding home owners of the district und I am sure thev would not do iinythlnc knowingly or wilfully that would be "unlawful." he said. Ho remarked that "eight or ten ore rnnnlne the whole show" but would not "mention names." Joseph E. Lee. pecretnry of the textile union sutd his organization favored nnlv a oeoceful strike and was as "Intended ns anyone" In solving the bomb mystery. FALLING TREE KILLS LUMBER WORKER LEfUXON. Jan. 2. (AP) Earl Powell, member of a welt known Ibnnon familv, and employe of the Ford Lumber company, was crushed to death Friday afternoon near I.npomb when a guy wlro sun- porting a spar broke permitting a tree to fall on him. Supply Trucks Fight Snow to t Aid 300 Indians GALLUP. N. 51.. Jan. 2. (AP) Supply trucks battling heavy drift ed snow converged from three points today on tho bleak western New Mexico plateau where more than 1100 marooned Navajo Indians were reported eating their horses and facing tho rigors of 10-bolow-zaro cold. An airplane circled over tho des olate region, seeking to spot the snow-bound groups and direct the ground rescue parties. Famished Indian scouts, who broko through the drifts to bring word of their tribesmen's predica ment, said their horses were being killed nnd eaten. Mure than 100 of tho animals wore with tho mn rooned groups. 'jFrom 60 to 31 lr.ilos of narrow trail, In which snow was drifted In places as deep as eight foot, was tho harrier between tho rescuers and the marooned Indians.. ' A truck load of food and hnsnltal supplies which flf.t out from Zunl hist night was halted by tho heavy drifts after covering only a few miles. Reports of the marooned wore brought into Zunl Into yesterday by a weary, famished hand- of nearly fifty men, women and chil dren, who also had been trapped hfc Monday's blizzard.-:. ,. Gangsters Who Slew Pal Sought by Officers in t Four States. SIOUX FALLS. S. D., Jan. 2. (AP) Police In four states press ed a manhunt today for threo men they believed to be the gangnlcr trio who blasted n companion to hits New Yenr's evo with five tons of explosives and seriously wounded his "girl friend." Officers were on tho lookout Tor ,ee Rradley, South Dako.-i bank robber, Harry (Slim) R-viver.. ex convict of Iowa and William Nee- beth of Sioux City, la. Helen HI el or, 25-year-oi 1 Sioux City woman, told pollco they were the men who took her and Harold Raker, former California convict, lo a powder warehouse Just out- sldo tho city, Rlugged them with a hammer, shot them and lert them to bo blown up by 3,000 pounds of dynamllo nnd 7,500 pounds of blasting powder. Miss Sleler, recovering In a hos pital here from eight bullet wounds and frozen legs and feet, Identi fied the trio from police pictures. Tho concusHlou of the blaHt wa3 felt for more thun 60 miles and shattered windows In Sioux Falls business houses with approxtmuta ly $20,000 damage. he woman escaped from the storehouse after watching a num ber of tho band, sought for safe cracking In Sioux City, touch off u sputtering fuse. She crawled to a nearby ditch where she was later picked up by a farmer, her feet and legs frozen. The exnluslon blasted Roker to bits. Police found only a fmull strip of flesh, a bit of bono, nnd a piece of cloth, apparently from tho dead mon's trousers. Miss Slelder sold the fantnstlc killing wns prompted by the fear of other members of tho Kang thrit she or Raker would "squowk ' about a lewelrv store safe burg lary In Sioux City last week. TARDY MOTORISTS BEING ROUNDED UP PORTLAND. Jan. 2. (API Woe lo the tardy Oregon motorist today. State police began a drive this morning to round-up drivers si ill displaying 1H3H license -lntis. George Alcxuuder. assistant sup erintendent, reiterated the order that ull officers hand out provi sional arrest slips. Car owners without now plates will bo re quired to purchase the Imme diately and then report buck to ilio nearest state police office. Failure to comply will result in court prosecution. Alexander said, Wnvry Nlles. chief of the Port land police department, estimated there were approximately 60,000 enrs In tho Portland area without tho proper licensos. FRICTIONTHA SKIRTED CLOSE Closer Cooperation in Use of Mediterranean Will Result; Approval of France Expected. ROME. Jan. 2 (AP) Great Rrltain and Italy today signed a gentlemen's agreement, an official communique announced, guaran teeing the status quo of tho Medi terranean and drawing tho two great powers to closer cooperation. Only a brief communique was published to announce tho Impor tant news that friction between England and Italy, which at this tlmo last year threatened to hurst into open conflict, had neon elim inated, However, tho authoritative fas cist commentator, Vlrginlo Gayda, made It plain the agreement in no way modules the Halo-German understanding on European prob lems including Spain. This un derstanding, he asserted, "always remains the backbond of tho lini lan . .'policy." -. Gayda- also charged' tho Frenoh had "attempted until tho last min ute" to nartlcltmto In the- Medi terranean pact, "or at least to de lay Its conclusion." Ho did, how ever, say Italy had no Intention of adopting n hostile attitude to ward France, but wanteu a clari fication of tho French policy to ward Spain, "which Is an Integral part of the Mediterranean prob lem." France Excluded It was considered probable the accord would assist In an eventual regulation of tho Spanish civil war as a danger tn tho status quo of the Mediterranean. Informed sources have reiterat ed, however, that Italy does not intend to desert the Spanish fas cist Insurgents. Tho agreement was understood to begin with a general preamble to the orrect the activities of the two countries In the Mediterranean were naturally not antagonistic but complementary. The accord was understood to be atrictly bilateral and does not contemplate the entrance of other (Continued on pngo C) KILLS 3 OFFICERS HEFLIN, Ala., Jan. 2 - (AP) Lieut. Carey Clarke, commanding a CCC camp here, said today he had received a radio message from a rorest service Nre tower lhat an army plane with three officers dead was found wrecked In woods near Munford, Ala. Clarke made his report while soutneastern airport, workers were seeking word of Col. F. I. Elgin, U. S. A., and Naval Lieut. Howard E. Sheltoti, Jr., who were overdue on a flight in an nrnty attack plane from Langley Field, Vn to Maxwell Field at Montgomery Ala. Clarke said he had sent four CCC men to the scene of tho crash. The dispatcher at Maxwell Kleld said Colonel Elgin's piano had only enough fuel to continue fly ing until 2:30 p. m. yesterday. Maxwell Field officials had said their only theory was that the plane was down hi an Isolated sec tion. The Helfln area of east central Alabama watt drenched by heavy rains yesterday and flying condi tions were hazardous. CLUB DANCE BLAZE CLAIMS 4TH VICTIM SKl.MA. Alii., Jan. 2 (API The fourth victim nf flro nt holiday roHttmiP bull. Mrn. Ilornnrtl Rpynnlflft, ilifit tnilny ami grave courprn wan ixiufBi'(l for .Mrs. Kd Smith nnil Mm. Itlrhaid Wli- llunm. Klcvrii young poefi-ty matrons were humeri whon ft match, lined to lichl a clunrotto, acclrii'nlnlly iKiiltwl Coasnik costumes they wore for tho grand mnrch of the annual Phantoms club Christmas ball. TOWARENDED Saved From Bomb fl NC RD UC Plutarco E. Calles, above, ex president of Mexico, escaped possible death last night when a lighted bomb was seen in front of his home In San Diego, Calif. The burning fuse was snatched from the bomb, but the man who planted the missile escaped. GALLES TARGET OF T Lighted Missile Observed in Time to Save Home -; . From Destruction. SAN . niBOOr , Calif., . .Inn. 2. (Art-A -"IlKhtodV-Rohib ''ftmnir-'lri front of tho homo of (ton. Pltithlco Klias Calles cauHeri nolico todny to plnco a heavy Ktmnl about, tho reaidonco of tho , exiled former Iron man" of Mexlcun politics. A mombor of Ibo Calles' house hold saw a mnn lighting' the bomb Into laKt nlKlit from n window of tho residence. Me run from the bouse, snutcheil the burnliiK fuse from tho bomb nnd pursued the man into an Isolated section of Dalboa park. Police Chief flooriio sears snlri the bomb, a crude affair fashioned out of a quart beer bottlo nnd filled with bluck crystul powder, was sufficiently poworful to de molish the Culles' mansion. Callea nnd several relatives were In the residence playing cards when tho apparent attempt to us snsslnnto the former Mexican provi dent was mariu. Cnlles denied receipt or threat onitiR letters or telephone mes sages. The former Mexican president rocently gave newspupornicn nn In terview In which he snld that Mexico was on tho hrlulc of revolu tion, claiming his exile, ordered by President Cnrdenna In April, 1930, would nggrnvato'tho situation. o GIRL FORCED INTO CAR, BUT ESCAPES POItTMNII, Jan. 2. (API I)e tectlve Sergeant .InmoB Fleming attempted Inriny to find n man who was accused by a lD yenr-old girl or forcing her Into an nulomobllo and taking her to Troutrinlo, where she escaped, Tho child told the orflcer sho was walking on Southwest 14th street near Yamhill when the man seized her, clapneri bis band over her mouth ami forced her In to an automobile. Near Trnntdale. b'io succeeded In Jumping from the machine, scrambled through r. b.nrhecl wlre rence. tearing her clothes, and ran to a rarmlmimn, Ihe owner or which brought her hack lo tho city. Sub-Zero Temperature and Deep Snow Chill Various Oregon Areas (By tho Associated Press) Q Subzero nnd helrtw freezing temperatures Blurted Oregon off on a cohl 11137. the thermometer fall ing at many points to the lowest marks of the winter season. One of the coldest points was Hums on tho central plateau, where (he temperiilure dropped to In degrees below zero. ' Storm conditions wero absent, many localities reporting clear weather, and the weather bureau predicted cloudy conditions tomor row hut n moderating of the cold snap In eiwleig) portions or the state. ' Sub-zero temperatures also were recorded at f.nkevlew. where It was below, and Mllllrnn, (I below. Snow lay so deeply on the Cas cades that motorists traveling the McKonzIo pass could not see sur rounding mountains In many places. Tho highway department UU11U II1IIL ONE ASHOR 21 SEIZED Detention of Cargo Of Palos, Branded Act Of Piracy, Brings Retaliation. . 'Rough Treatment' Will Go on Until Nazi Vessels . Respected on Seas, Berlin Warns. ; DERUN, Jan. 2 (AP) Ger man warships will continue "rough treatment" of Spanish shipping until 'nnzl vessels are respected on the high seas, the foreign offico announced tonight through Its mouthpiece, niplamatischa Polltls che Korrespondonz. The warning apparently In tended as a throat to Spanish authorities at Dllhao came on the heels of nn official announce ment that Cerman warships had "retaliated" : against two Spanish vessels. . One ' the freighter Arngon was seized. The ether the freigh ter, Soton was driven ashore by shellfire. "No one had any light to ex pect relations between Germany nnd red (socialist) Spain would he allowed to develop Into a one-sided nrrangement by which German ships on the high : sens could' lo coolly regarded as rree plunder," Korresnoudenz Biildi-.vi.i.jJ..i.,.,i. "If red Spain wishes to Intro.' ducer such practices, It must nlsp realize that, its measures will not remain unretullnted - and Hint means until the reds In power fin ally return to methods accepted In International relations ns custom ary nnd necessary." '. Furthermore, the niouthptaco added, socialist Spain's ritsregnrri for foreign life nnd property has reached such n high degree that It Is time for nil stntes, with any Interest In restoration of "civiliz ed conditions" In the Iherlnn pe ninsula, to glvo the ll nation their "most enrnest attention." Tho propaganda ministry, de tailing what it called two Indepen- (Continued on page 0) E CHARLEVOIX, Mich., Jan. 2. (AP) Coast guard Captain Wll- f Hum Ludwlg anld today ho f cured ; all hands perished when tho Ilea ver Island mall boat Murold II was "blown to pieces" by an oxploslon ; whllo salvaging a gasoline cargo from tho abandoned tanker J. Ob- wald lloyd in upper Lake Michigan yesterday. Cuptuin Ludwlg, who returned to his Heaver Island station after an , all night search for , survivors, ' said five members of the crow und "possibly four othor persons" . woro aboard tho 110-foot salvage boat,- Doth voHsela caught fire after tho explosion and continued to burn throughout tho night. Tho Hoyd, laden with 20,000 f drums of high test gasoline, ran aground Nov. 8 In a snow storm. Tho crow was rescued by coast ( guardsmen. f Coast guards brought ashore this afternoon the bodies of two mom- . hers of tho crew of tho Mnrnld II. continued to keep n high-walleil ' trench cut through the pass but k It was expected that the first high wind would barricade the rouie, nl- ready open the latest In htghwny records. 1 A light cover of snow Iny over the central plateau hut motor nsso- . elation officials said all arterial rentes were open nnd In good win- . ler condition. Six Inches of riiow. lay on the , ground nt Tho Dnlles, whero Ihe thermometer dropped to 6 degrees t iihoxe zero last night. Skies were clear there. Klamath Tails exper- lenrcd n low of five degrees nbovo zero A fog wns frozen Into a j powdery snow. It wns IS above zero at the coldest marks In Sa . Icm and Grants Pass, whllo Pendle ton reported n low of 12 degrees Portland's low wns 25 degrees nnd Mnrshflnlri's minimum temperature was 20, with the woutlior clear.