Picture T Yes! By radio, wire and fast Audi come pictures to Tbo Oregon Statesman for the Interest of lta thousand of readers. Today: War pic tares from Montevideo. Weather Unsettled, rain today and Sunday; snows over monnt alns;. moderate temp. Max. temp. Friday 58, mln. 48. Kiver 1.9 ft. Booth wind. Rainfall Friday 2.8 in. EIGHTY-NINTH YEAH Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morninj, December 16, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 227 pee B an SI III I ! ; POUNDDO . 1651 - - Be eFiied. Kb 0e9 Hay.. -Paul Hauser Column We got a letter from one ot our correspondents , who , keeps goldfish the other day and she reported that Dr. Conrad A. Loeh ner. seeing ber , goldfish swim ming around in their bowl, said, e r y seriously, "The climate ot Oregon . is too damp for gold fish." , Yesterday was a day to make any goldfish, on- PmI H. Bum, Jr. happy, so, risking the frowns ot the chamber ot commerce, we called up Dr. Loehner to find ont about this. Dr. Loehner ad mltted authorship of the state ment and said that the goldfish get tick from watermold, but re ferred us to Mrs. Loehner, who, he saM, Is the botanist' of the fam ily. .v Well, Uils Is a bad place for goldfish and It Is due to water mold, we learned from Mr. Loehner. However, watermold (the chamber of commerce may breathe easier from here on in) Is by no means exclusive in Oregon. It's everywhere, bat especially la mild climates like oars (plag). The watermold, Mrs. Loehner told as, is a fungus. (It's a mem ber of the Saprolegniales order and as far as 'we know its lodge dues sre paid op in full.) It grows on the gills of the goldfish, covers the surface, clogs np their capillaries and makes it very dif ficult for them to get any oxygen out of the water. The feeling is undoubtedly like that a heavy smoker gets the morning after an all night poker party. The gold fish, confined as they are. are an. able to take the next train to Art gona and eventually go where the food goldfish go, providing, of course, they have been good gold fish. We might note that it la pretty hard to be bad In a glass kouse. Mrs. Loehner told us that in New York City once she saw goldfish ao bad off that th watermcld was sticking right out of their gills so yon could see It. Furthermore, she said, they were selling the goldfish to people who didnt know that ' the days of their purchases were numbered. , la Alaska, rMs. Loehner has heard, fish ermen hare a lot of trouble with watermold because ft clogs np their nets and erentnally makes them so heavy they can not be manipulated. Damp climates are very condu cive to the growth and propaga tion ot watermold and other fungi, we learned in our pursuit of botanical knowledge. Mrs. Loehner told ns that It Is very easy to get watermold In your goldfish bowl and that a goldfish fancier (all goldfish fanciers please raise their right hands) must be rery careful what plants be puts In his bowl. Once contam inated with watermod, the bowl, or aquarium if yon're going to be ambitious about this thing, is rery difficult to purify. It fa possible, Mrs Loehner said, to treat goldfish who have picked np a case of watermold, bat it Is qalte difficult. Mrs. Loehner kept a couple alive for two months, bat says she ap parently didn't try hard enough. Anyway, they died. If you're not a goldfish fan cier there's no need for yon to worry about this. As far as we know watermold still prefers goldfish to humans. Car Owners Asked To Get Licenses Secretary "of State Earl, Snell Friday urged automobile owners to make application for their 1940 plates Immediately. He -referred particularly to those who make application by mall. Snell estimated there are 300. 000 cars In the state yet to be li censed for It 40. He warned that the Christmas rush in the post office might delay transmission of the plates. Earl Snell Den Of Co ngress ion a I Camp a ign By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Would-be successful political guess-makers lost one of their bets yesterday afternoon when Secretary of State Earl Snell made known his answer to inquiries as to whether or not he might run for congressional representative from the second Oregon district next year. His answer? A mildly quail fled "no." "I was Just reelected a short while ago to serve the state for four years.' Secretary Snell ex plained. "Unless some emergency should develop. I feel that I should fulfill that obligation to the people. Therefore, I am not giving consideration at this time to becoming a candidate for con gress from the second district." This announcement came in spits ot actual, strong urgings by many of En ell's friends and fellow republicans to take op his heavy vote-r siting cudgel against Wal ter M. Pierce, democrat and la- cumbeat. For these "expressions of confidence" & la genalnaly appre British, Nazi v Airmen GV LiHotFight Growing English Air Force Boldly Runs Into Germans Intensified Sky. War Designed to Stop Mine Laying By ROBERT BUNNELLE LONDON, Dec. -(tfV-Great Britain's fast-expanding alrforce was disclosed tonight to have flown boldly to the attack in mass offensives i against Germany's boasted air superiority, launching a big scale war In the air. With the cold and cold-blown North sea as the battleground, the British pressed repeated waves of fast long-range planes, capable of both bombing and fighting, against the air and sea escort of a crippled German cruiser, and against nazl seaplane bases 'at Borkum, Sylt and Norderney. These continuing offensive pa trols were Britain's answers to persistent nasi air raids and mine- laying forays on British naval an chorages and sealanes. British Estimate Nazi Loss at 5 ! Planes Tonight i an authoritative ac count of the great air-sea battle Thursday afternoon raised the es timate of German planes shot down from four to fire and ln- (Turn to page 2, column 7) Brakeman Killed i m r ii l As 1 rains loiiiae Three Freight Cars Sent Hurtling Down 200 Feel ta RiT.,; REDDING. Calif.. Dec. 1S-4F) -Alfred H. Tyrer, railroad brake- man, was kmed and two other trainmen were Injured critically in a wreck ot two Southern Pa cific frelcht trains tonight at Horley. 25 miles north of here. The Impact sent three cars hurtl ing down a. 200-foot embankment into the Sacramento river. Harvey Ahl, 37, fireman, and Bill Shallman, SS, engineer, were scalded when the engine's boiler burst in the crash. Tyrer, too was burned, but was pulled Into the twisted wreckage in such a way rescue crews were unable to extricate the body for some time. All three men were from Dnna- mulr. Engineer Shallman is mayor of the town. Railroad men. at the scene re ported that the crash occurred when the northbound No. 520, fourth section of . a through freight train, rounded a curve and crashed into a locomotive which was slowly hauling empty (Turn to page z, column j Clean Record Is OLCCV Criterion PORTLAND, Dec. 15-y!pV-Re- newed permits for 1940 will be is sued without question, only to Oregon liquor control commission licensees with a clear record this year, the commission said today. The commission authorized the administrator to Issue new li censes providing privilege taxes are not de'inquent, local author ities have approved the renewal, the application covers the same lo cation and does not carry requests in excess ot 1939, no protest to license or operation has been made in previous year, no discip linary action has been necessary in 1939. i . The commission will consider next month renewals not meeting the conditions. ies Rumors ciative, he said, but still does not feel he should yield. As to the qualification left In Lis answer, Snell had nothing more to aay. ''c An "emergency" conceivably could be an unscheduled resigna tion not at all to be anticipated on Representative Pierce's part or other reason for a sadden va cancy in the house position. ICoro tempting would be a senate resig nation, " rumors of which hare been growing but confirmation of which has been lacking. The question may also rest la Snell's mind, "Why drop a strong position as secretary of state whose department : ot state for ernment Is a large one for a pos sibility of winning a congressional seat, a battle that would have to be ref ought every two years" The public has taken to Snell as administrator of the state de partment. And Oregon democrats should whether they are or not be appreciative of his coopera tion with the late democratic gu bernatorial administration. BRITISH SHELLS BATTER NAZI . ywwlm. II HI, ..II II lll .l.ll WWHT-. MiviMliiJiii"Ui tilMMilii.i.iJ WWW' '.WI'lliJII.'.JL IJWIL.mW-Wy.MWWW'. '. . I ii.i, iKl 'r "1 y , . .. 111 . - , , - .., ,.. - v . JLT i I - - " - a - , - - - ' - " - ' I L v , "n ---- J-- - -' v!." : I, ii ; Lf ' .. 1 I : .... tt , - - THiJ I' ' - ' r- . 'S' " ' " "- f I S - ' ' , " - twit1 r - m M 9mm ' ' ' ' V - - i ' " ' - - - - v. , - - --. i - , t J?-'. T ' ' ' 5 X V -1-.-. ...,-:.tf3 -' .laMJJ";"-:': ':-- " t :.JVIM,;' '" I.', ...,' mm .11 II. I ii ii n in,,. m Mini II III. ..Ill- 1 1 , fl Both the nose and the tall of this Spce were splintered by sheila front the guns or three British cruisers in as 14-hour running battle off the port of Montevideo,. Uruguary, South America, Thursday. The damaged 10,00O-ton Graf Spee entered the port for repairs to her battered hull (below) and was given an extension of time by the Uruguayan government over the legal 24-hour limit to complete) the repairs before she makes a dash past the heavily guarded entrance to the port to return to active warfare. Both British and French Teasels are standing watch to prevent her return to the wars. Grand Jury Asks Law on Shortage Question of Violation of Statute Presented to Judge McMahan The Marion county grand Jury yesterday appealed to the circuit court for assistance in the investi gation of alleged shortages on the books of City Recorder A. War ren Jones when it filed a present ment with the court which asked whether, "under the statutes ot facta following, the acts of A (figurative designation for the city recorder) constitute a vio lation of the criminal statutes . . . and If so, of what particular stat ute or statutes?" The remainder of the present ment, which filled slightly more than a typewritten page, was de voted to a summary ot the re corder's fiscal affairs from Oc tober 27, when an auditor dis closed a deficit of funds in the sum ot $4081.30. ' "The deficit, as disclosed In said audit," the presentment states, "is based on the fact that said funds were" not found in the place which we find that the city ot Salem provided for the keep ing ot same, and which we find is the place where said funds were usually kept by 'A (the city recorder)." Finding no turnover whatso ever of funds to the city treasur er by the recorder in the months of June, August and September, 1939, the jury declared that it did discover a turnover on Satur day morning, November . 4, . of $1082.60, and another later the same day of $1418.95. Finally on .(Turn to page 2, column 7) Silverton Woman Shows Prize Bird OAKLAND. Dec. 1 S-OPV-Orand champions in the live standard and utility divisions of the north western turkey show were named today. , 4 The grand champions and re serve champions in that order: , Standard division: Fay Leath- erwood of Oakland, black year ling torn: Sadie Small of Silver ton, yearling White Holland torn. Utility division: Mrs. Joseph Kupetx of Harrlsburg, bronze old hen ; E. F. Strong ot Rice B11L Narragansett old ben. , - : jk. jr. strong, uaaiana, was re elected president of the North western Turkey Breeders associ ation last night.-Other re-elected Included Henry W. Domes, Rick re all, vice-president; Mrs. O. C Brown, Roseburg, secretary-treas urer, - - i,-.fct : i . . ii'JW ""te plane (above) carried oa the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Speed Is Idea, But Where Card Goes Is Query A Salem mailer was fh such a hurry for his postcard to be de livered that he put a special delivery stamp on it, but he for got to address it. The card, mailed yesterday at the Salem post office, is blank where the name and address should be and Is signed with a first name only. . McNary Petitions To Start Today Sprague to Give Send-Off Talk to Sleeting of County Committee The Marion county Mc-Nary-for-President official petition cir culation program will get under way this afternoon, signaled by an address by Governor Charles A. Sprague who will speak brief ly at 2:30 o'clock at the special ly called : meeting of republican precinct committeemen,' commit teewomen and others interested, starting at 2 o'clock In the Mar ion county courthouse. Grant Murphy, state committee man, will speak on "The Object ive of the Marion County McNary-for-President r Committee." . Following the address. Instruc tions in the proper circulation of the petitions will be given and petitions will be available to pre cinct committeemen and commlt teewomen for circulation in their respective precincts. - It is expected that Marlon county will be the first to report a completed program of circula tion. Plans are being made to have at least 15,000 signatures In time for celebration at a ban quet to be held on Lincoln's birth day. Slight Injuries Result of Crash Harry L. Williams, 154S North Commercial street, escaped with minor bruises and a scratched chin last : night when he drove into the side of a southbound Southern Pacific passenger train at Court and 12th streets about 7:80 o'clock last night. Williams told police he was traveling . east . on Court street watching a car approaching from the right on 12th and did not see the train. The train, the West Coast, was traveling slowly. Williams was thrown from , bis car, which was badly damaged la front. ; , , SEA RAIDER Rain Is Heaviest In Many Months 1.41 Inches Falls in 10 Hours Friday, Raises Valley Streams Gutters ran full, sometimes with muddy water swishing to the center of streets, as Salem yesterday experienced the heav iest rainfall for many months. The precipitation -1.41 Inches between 7 a. m. and-1 p. m. quickly raised streams all over the valley and raised the level of the Willamette river 1.3 feet to a reading of 1.9 feet at 5 p. m. The 7 a. m. reading was 0.6 feet. Although a number of storm basins failed to function proper ly, mostly due to leaves and de bris washed over and into storm drains by the heavy downpour, the city engineering department reported there w a s no serious trouble caused by the storm. No reports of flooded base ments or - backed-up sewers came to the engineering department. Shelton ditch, designed to carry flood waters off the lowlands to the southeast of Salem, was han dling the water diverted into it with ease. City Engineer Harold Davis reported. ; Street crews, kept busy early In the afternoon clearing drain gratings, were released before 6 o'clock. . Manager Carl E. Guenther of the Salem water system made a trip to the system's Stayton island supply source and reported the storm had not affected the city water supply. Sprague to Lead Gherrian Program The program for the Cherrians ceremony Monday night, Decem ber 18, in connection with the Il lumination of the Chorrian Christ mas tree on the courthouse lawn, was announced Friday by CoL Carle Abrams, chairman of the committee In charge. Christmas carols will be played starting at 7:30 p.m. by Prof. T. S. Roberts on the; Rigdon orga tron.'but the program proper will start at 8 o'clock and will 1 be broadcast over KSLM., Carols by the Willamette university - glee club will be followed by a talk by Governor Charles A. Sprague, the formal' lighting of the tree by King Bing Harold ,Buslck, v a Christmas message ; by President Bruce R. Baxter of Willamette university and Mayor W. W. Chad wick's Christmas season procla mation. ,-y'r:-i.. " Red Destroyer Is Downed By Finn Battery Declaration to 'Fight to End' Made in Radio Speech Tanner Says V a y to - Peace Still Open to Russians HELSINKI, Dec lB.-iThe Finnish high command tonight announced that a Russian destroy er had been sunk by coastal bat teries, twenty soviet tanks cap tured and others destroyed and that Russian troops had been de feated in 14 hours of fighting. While Finnish forces were re porting these setbacks to the Rus7 sian invaders, Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner was putting the is sue of continued war or peace ne gotiations squarely up to the So viet Union government in a sud den radio speech addressed to Premier Foreign Commissar Vy acheslaff Molotoff. He declared that the Finns are still willing to negotiate a peace but, "if Moscow's aim is conquest of the whole country, then the Finns will fight to the end." A high command communique said coast defense batteries, dur ing a battle in the outer Turko archipelagos damaged a Russian destroyer of the Gordl type so badly that it sank later in full view of a Fnlnlsh military look out. Airmen Fire Russian Automobile Column (Jane's Fighting Ships lists the Gordi type destroyers as 2800-ton vessels launched in 1937.) The Finnish air force, the com munique continued, made several reconnoltering flights and at tacked enemy columns and de tachments, setting tire to part of a Russian automobile column transporting fuel to the front. - Rosslaxr planes were said to have attacked the southwestern Finnish islands and the Petsamo region, the far northeast corner of Finland. Suomussalml, about 12 miles from the frontier and 225 miles north of Lake Ladoga, has been a scene of fierce fighting for sev eral days. Now, the Finnish com munique said, the Finns have cut the roads leading to the frontier and driven the Russians back near Kiantajarvi. Russians Attack In Many Places on Isthmus Part of the defeated Russians were reported isolated and sur rounded in this lake region a few miles north of Suomussalml. Russian attacks took place at many places on the Karelian isth mus, supported by tanks and pro longed artillery barrages, the com munique continued. "At Punnuojokl they launched repeated assaults but were re pulsed everywhere - and many of their tanks were destroyed," the report said. North of Lake Ladoga the Rus sians attacked under cover of ar tillery fire between Llmola and the lake but were driven back,, the communique said, adding that we captured five tanks, as well as other material." " In addition, the Finns said the captured 15 more tanks In the Tolvajarvi district, some 45 miles north ot Lake Ladoga. Architect of FSA Killed in Wreck TIGARD, Ore., Dec. 15-UPW Collision of an automobile and an Oregon Motor stage near here to day took the life of a man identi fied by documents in his pockets as Burtln B. Cairns, regional arch itect In the San Francisco office ot the farm security administra tion. Garrett Eckbo, 29, San Fran cisco, passenger in the car driven by Cairns, sustained possible skull fracture and other Injuries. Mrs. Ruth McClamrock, Portland, in the stage, sustained a leg injury. The driven and seven other stage passengers - suffered minor in juries. Farm security officials here said that Cairns and Eckbo, the latter a FSO landscaping archi tect, were making a tour of In spection of northwest migratory farm labor camps. Late Sports - ' BOUNCED! PALO ALTO. Calif., Dec. 15- (JPh-Thfi Stanford board ot ath letic control voted tonight to oust C E. 'Tiny" ThornhlU as foot ball coach. FIGHTS DALLAS, Texas, Dec 10-(&V -Stoat Bob Pastor, the former . New York- university halfback with , a ? yen for Joe Louis' heavyweight title, defeated the hometown boy. Buddy ; Scott,' tonight, but he had to keep his rapier left going the full ten rounds. ... Battered Ship h Se nt Ultimatu m by Uruguaf Officials Action of Government Follows Demand of British; Pocket Battleship to Make Run to Maintain Prestige English Warships Lie in Wait Outside Harbor; French Vessel Reported Also on Way to Keep Vigil MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 16 (Saturday) (AP) Uru guay early today gave the German raider Admiral Graf Spee the choice of sailing tomorrow night to sea, where British warships are waiting to sink her, or accepting internment in this neutral port for the duration of the war. The government handed its ultimatum sail by 4 p. m. Sunday (12:30 p. m., PST) or be interned -to the commander of the crippled pocket battleship shortly after midnight. Uruguay acted promptly after an Uruguayan naval board inspected the Graf Spee at her mooring in Montevideo i o harbor and recommended such a n. -m nuss Capture Mining Areas Finns Suffer Defeats in North as Rues Crueller Moves In MOSCOW. Dec. l.-5)-(Satur-dayj ipy Communique from the headquarters ot the Russian mili tary area at Leningrad today an nounced that soviet troops had oc cupied the town of Salmljarvi, in the center of the nickel mining area of Arctic Finland. , Salmljarvi has been the objec tive of a soviet drive southward from Petsamo, arctic coastal town (0 miles to the north, since early In the 16-day-old war. (Reports from Kirkeenes, Nor way, just across the Finnish bord (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Smith Smnmoned In NLRB Inquiry Member of Board Denies Aid Was Given in Mill Boycott WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S-P-Witn dramatic abruptness, a house investigating committee summoned Edwin S. Smith of the national labor relations board to its witness stand today, pep pered him with charges that he sought to promote a boycott of a hosiery mill, and received flat and emphatlcal denials. The accusation was based upon correspondence between - Smith and Louis E. KIrsteln. vice presl (Turn to page 2, column 7) Little Finland, " As Usual, Makes Debt Installment WASmXGTOy, Dec. 15-(A) While the major world pow ers among the United States' war debtors tendered only po lite regrets, little war-torn Fin land - punctually delivered to the treasury today her $234, 693 semi-annual payment with this message: .jfo emergency can be so deep as to make Finland dis regard an obligation incurred in good faith." . Power Rate Reductions to Save $1,340,000 Annually Reductions in electric power rates scheduled for January 1 on residential service and May 1 on commercial .service . which the companies estimate will mean an nual savings to customers of $1- 340.000 a year when in full oper ation," were announced Friday, by the Portland General Electric company and the Northwestern Electric company. The saving to residential consumers Is estima ted at 1670,000. The reductions involved in the schedule submitted to Utilities Commissioner Ormond R. Bean are t&a result of extended confer ences between the companies of ficials and the commissioner's staff, called to determine what savings might be passed along to the public due to the signing of contracts for delivery of Bonne ville power to the two utilities. Savings promised to customers of the PGB, whose rates of direct! interest to residents of Salem and vicinity, total tl.OtO.OOO, $580, 000 to residential users and 500,- 0QO to others.; On this basis the saving would be about 11 per cent on the average to all customers: but the percentage saving will I step. Previously, Great Britain had made two urgent demands upon the South American country to force the Graf Spee to sail or to Intern her. The action of the naval board was announced shortly before midnight, several hours after Great Britain had made a second diplomatic demand that the G rat Spee either be Interned for tew rest of the war or forced to ven ture Into the high teas, where al lied warships are watchfully wait Ins for her. Previously the Uruguayan for eign office had announced Ger many would be permitted to make the Graf Spee "seaworthy," fol lowing her damage In Wednes day's great sea battle with three British cruisers. . "Seaworthy Doesn't Mean "Combat Worthy" Subsequently, however, the Uruguayan foreign minister, Al berto Guani, asked the naval board to look over the Graf Spee and define how long she might be permitted to remain in this neu tral port to be made "seaworthy," without simultaneously being? made "combat worthy." This definition was made neces sary by the blunt British demand that the Graf Spee either be in terned or ejected, to fight it out with the British cruisers which forced her into refuge here Wed nesday night. These now are re inforced. . Earlier tonight, Guani bad an nounced he was consulting wl la the foreign ministers of other American republics on a joint declaration to w a r n belligerent warships to do their fighting out side the SO 0-mile Pan-American "safety belt." The British demand came ae a formal note transmitted by the British minister to Uruguay, Eu gene Miliington Drake, to the Uruguayan foreign office. British Pretest Time Given by Uruguay A spokesman at the British le gation disclosed at. the same time that . yesterday the British gov ernment had handed a first de mand to Alberto Guani, Uruguay an foreign minister. The Graf Spee has been given time to make herself seaworthy; by the Uruguayan government. ' Informed persona said the sec ond British! note included a pro test that the Graf Spee had beea permitted to remain In Monte video harbor for more than 24 hours without Interment, and that she was permitted to take aboard; supplies " and equipment wltt which to repair her damage. The first note was described (Turn to page 2, column 4) - vary depending upoh the volume of electricity used. Users of ex tremely small 'amounts will save as much as 30 per cent; in home with extensive electrical equip ment the saving will apparently approximate the 11 "per cent gen eral average. But the patron ac customed to paying around f 3.7S a month will find his bill only slightly reduced. The reason for this is to be found in the variation in volumes; (Turn to page 2, column 6) Shopping Ays TILL