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-- - Basketball -Score appear first la The Oregon Statesman. Wbilo fim sleep, Statesmaa report er cover the games. Read about them oxer your break fast. wmwm Weather Occasional rain today and 'Wednesday little change in temperature; (ales off tbo coast. , Max , temp. Monday 17, min. 48. River 841 ft. Sooth wind. KlfJHTY-NINTH YEAC Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 2, 1940 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 241 alem Catty Fopmlattion Estimated, att POUNDOO 1651 32,58(0) Hei Siie Ear.. -Paul Mauser's Column One of our operatives informi s that Harry Rowe, the man who for some Tears now has been turning- oil the lights of Salem's mercantile e s -t a b 1 1 shments, has at last been baffled by the machine age. Mr. Rowe Is a cyclist. For 20 years hei has been propelling aside bicycle avnnnd the ; - rmtm a he fkiu tt MOMI. 11. snakes his rounds as the mer chants' patrol. The bicycle was a good bicycle and a faithful ser vant. Harry was satisfied with it. But Harry's family decided he'd better keep up with the times and have a-1940 model wheel. Ho under the Christmas tree there was a new bicycle for Harry, bright and shiny, with six speeds forward and two re verse and enough gadgets to please Back Rogers. Since Christmas, we are reli ably -Informed, Harry has been scratching his head trying to fig ure out what all tne gaageis are for ni wearinc dark glasses to keep the shiny newness of the machine from blinding mm. Australian divisions landed In England recently singing "The Beer Barrel Polka." This lm another unfair tactic Mr. Hit ler hadn't anticipated. REBIRTH X year and all the years before it too, is dead. Their carrion can be used to fer- tilixe the next. as burdenwe refuse to bear them any more. Their weights made up of drag ging hours end and end, AH reckoned on a scale, tlck- tocked monotony. We now Inter and hurry through last rites for them; as women at the funeral of one, whom' they la life have envied will secretly enjoy The burial, while shame at this goads them to speed. Bo we sow bury disappointments and mistakes. We do not know the problems, which the squallag brat ieft on our doorstep, now to fos ter for a year, Will bring to us, or how we'll raise this child so new, Who's not conceived by us, but is ours none the less. Mayhap 't'will be the one, which In our brood of years. Upon maturity, we'll view with prldeful eyes And love, as parents will one child, beyond the rest. Perhaps a renegade, a criminal of time. Will grow, and take with it, be cause it Is our child, Some portion of our heart to shame we can't forget. But do not mourn for carrion, conjecture not Upon tomorrow's chance; for both are now unreal. la our solarium of memories there stands Against the light an alabaster Jar. It Is not made as ordinary ves sels are, But as the womb around a grow ing fetus gives More room as needed for such growth and nurtures it. This chalice also bears the beauty we've conceived, Presenting at our wish, a bright faced child of ours, Whose loveliness we know be cause we placed it there. There now, we'll also find they'll - be an opiate tAcainst the ugly, and a catalyst ivr t CINNABAR. No Leap Tear casualties were reported yesterday, opening day t the season. Hoity-toity, Maeteen-foity! . ... Vatican Officials Investigate Fixe . ROUE, Jan. 1-V-Vatlean and Italian authorities today Investi gated the possibility of Incendiar ism In a fire which partially de stroyed the papal palace of the Cancelleria, aft architectural mas , terplece of the renaissance, and an adjacent church last Bight. Although some investigators worked on the theory the fiie was started by a short circuit in wiring that had been condemned, others parts of the building at once. In dicating incendiarism. Experts at first hoped priceless frescoes by Giorgio Vasari in the building could be restored but later said they were ruined. The T thick walls withstood the fire, however, making restoration of .'. the structure possible. , Congressman Leaves Bound . for Washington, DC, and the session of congress. Rep resentative James W. Mott left alem Saturday night. Troy Gridmen Victors Over Valiant Vols USC Wins Rose Bowl Contest by Score of 14 to 0 Amby Schindler Leads Trojans to Defeat Tennessee Team By ROBERT MYERS ROSE BOWL, PASADENA, Calif., Jan. l-(P)-The orange and white of Tennessee drooped in defeat tonight for the first time in two long years, and there was gloom and sadness in the Volun teer stafe of the south, for the mighty Trojans of Southern Cali fornia defeated Its team. Flashing a relentless attack that spelled power and more pow er, the Trojan giants of the west crushed the valiant Vols, 14 to 0, in a gam that kept a howling, capacity throng of 92,000 on edge for 60 minutes. One savage burst of strength In the second quarter broke the Tennessee record of never a score against it, much less a defeat, in 26 games, and when the Vols -turned loose a whirlwind parade late in the fourth period, luck was against them. A fumble. Southern California recovered and the Warriors of Troy, ringing up their sixth tri umph In this post-season classic, travelled 85 yards Ih 20 plays for the second touchdown. Hero of the Trojan victory was the lad "who came back," Ant blin' Ambrose Schindler, 190 pounds of battering ability from San Diego, Calif., who scored the first touchdown and passed over the goal line for the second. On the receiving end of that pass, which came as darkness drifted over the roaring throng, was Antelope Al Krueger, the substitute end who caught the pass that brought defeat to Duke In 'this bowl one year ago. Tennessee with its star back, George Cafego, playing intermit tently but never up to his old form, was unable to get across the 50 yard stripe until early in the final quarter. The offense that had whipped 23 teams in succes sion couldn't penetrate the Tro jans. Suddenly the V0I3 came to life after they had been forced back (Turn to page 2, column 1) Fugi itives Evade Search bv Police j Bartges,, Tomlin Still at Large After Escape From Salem Jail W. E. "Gene" Bartges, Jr., and Jack Tomlin. who escaped from the Marion county jail Saturday morning, were still at large last night. No further trace of Bartges was found after he left Mrs. A. R. Hunter, whom he kid naped in Salem and forced to drive him to Portland, on Market street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Portland. Tomlin was last seen by Pa trolman H o b a r t Kiggins of the city police who lost Tomlin after chasing him into an alley near Winter and D streets. There were prospects tha Bartges, when caught, may face (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Three Hurt HOBOKEN, NJ, Jan. 1-V Three persons were injured slight ly today in a fire which swept through a city block, destroying the home of Mayor Bernard N. McFeely, four other houses, a cabinet faetory, a paper plate plant and two office buildings. Fir officials estimated damage might amount to $500,000. Wallace lells Farmers Crop Adjustment to be Necessary By OVID MARTIN WASHINGTON, Jan. l.-CP)-Secretary Wallace warned farm ers today that unless they pre serve and strengthen government al machinery for crop adjustment, peace in Europe would throw American agriculture Into a new depression paralleT)ng that which followed the World war. There Is grave danger, the agri culture department' chief der clared, that the war, with Its stimulating effect upon demand and prices of farm products, will be regarded as a solution of the farm problem. That would be folly, he added, because a slump may follow-the war. In his annual report on the agricultural situation and efforts of his department to restore farm income to a parity with tiat of non-farm groups, the secretary placed special emphasis on new problems he expects the current war to toss at American farmers. "Whether or not the pattern American Business in Better Condition Than Wf formerly Believed Manv Jtr rns Have Enough Orders on Hand to e Brisk Activity for First few Months of 1940; Pitfalls Avoided By CLAUDE A. JAGGER (Associated Press Financial Editor) NEW YORK, Jan. 1. (AP) American business starts the new year much more confidently than seemed probable a few months ago. First reactions of many business leaders and economists to the autumn splurge of buying and manufacturing ranged from uneasiness to frank skepticism. -O But it is a widely held view Red Sox Pitcher No. 1 Semi -Pro ROY HELSER Semi-Pro Leaders Nominate Helser Silverton Pitcher Honored as Outstanding Player for Year 1939 PORTLAND, Jan. 1.-JP)-RQJ Helser, 24-year-old 8 1 1 v e r ton, Ore., pitcher, was named the na tion's No. 1 semi-professional baseball player today by the na tional semi-pro baseball congress. Helser chalker up four wins against no defeats while pitching for the Silverton Red Sox at the annual national tournament at Wichita, Kan. He Jed the tourna ment in strikeouts with 34. The husky fa6t-baller blanked the defending national champions from Buford, Ga., 6 to 0. His se lection marked the second time the award, went to a Pacific north west player. Freddie Hutchinson, now of the Detroit Tigers in the American league, was named in 1938. Other individual awards Includ ed the following: Leading Beml-pro batter Bruce Sloan of Duncan, Okla. Most popular player Johnnie Hill of Mt. Pleasant, Tex. All-American players Johnny Hill, Mt. Pleasant, Tex., lb; Ver don Gilchrist, Enid, Okla., 2b; Johnny Pesky, Silverton, Ore., ss; Arland Schwab. Silverton, Ore., tb; Charles Derrington, Los An geles, Calif., outfielder; Dick Whitman, Silverton, Ore., out fielder; Otto Wolf, Phoenix, Ariz., outfielder; Joe Erauut, Silverton, Ore., c; Bun Edwards, Branson, Mo., c; Kenneth Heist, Silverton, Ore., p; George Hall, Golden, Colo., p; George Reigle, Phoenix, Ariz., p; Arky McConnel, Chanute, Kan., p; Joe Block, Vangergrift, Pa., p; Carl Scott, Struthers, O., p; John Boggs, Slater, SC, utility. and Clarence France, ML Pleas ant, Tex., utility. of the last war and the post-war period will be repeated we do not know; but we know that war usually destroys or reduces the purchasing power of belligerent countries. "Hence the outbreak of hostili ties Is not a reason for abandon ing bur efforts to conserve the soil, to keep farm output in ad justment with current and pros pective demand, and to establish a rural-urban balance on the basis of equitable price relationships. "On the contrary, it Is a rea son for strengthening our machin ery to accomplish these ends." The secretary said it was prob able that peace "will find us thoroughly maladjusted to peace time conditions; that agriculture will again be faced with the need of drastic acreage limitation; that rural and urban unemployment will cause a further Increase of non-commercial, farming; and that commercial agriculture will (Turn to Page 2, CoL .) si - among experts today that accom panying maladjustments which often make such sudden upturns short lived, have been avoided. Available information, they agree, does not indicate any se rious accumulation of unsold merchandise. Furthermore, several industries have enough business on their books to assure brisk operations during the early months of 1940. After the exceptional final quar ter of 1939 some slackening In the first quarter of 1940 would not be surprising, yet analysts. who look for a recession sufficient to under mine the recovery trend are hard to find. Few these days are willing to look very far ahead, but e,ome think a test may come in the sec ond quarter, when the current Impetus may have worn off. A good many, however, face that period without misgivings. Unless buying is checked by some shock to confidence that cannot now be foreseen, continuance of expansive forces, they think can be anticipated. First Is the effect of war. While supplies of most commodities are ample, and runaway price rises have been avoided, it is noted the effect of war would seem likely to have at least a sustaining 01 a firming JnQiieaca en prices. A second Important factor Is the pickup in heavy Industry. Electric power in use has been consistently breaking all past rec ords, and the power companies are planning a substantial amount of construction. Railroads also are in the market again for equip ment. Another Is the continued ple thora of idle funds. After its early weeks, the war in Europe failed to disturb the money mar ket, and high grade bonds are back close to record prices. Whether any considerable flow of private capital Into industry for new development can be expected in face of the uncertainties of war and a national political campaign, is a moot point. After the sudden wave of buy ing in the early weeks of war, (Turn to page 2, column 4) Rainfall Lightest In Last 4 Years Only 31.25 Inches Noted at Salem Weather Station in '39 The driest year since 193 5 and the least cold in winter since 1934 was 39. The year just past brought only 31.25 inches of precipitation to Salem, while the mercury sank only to 23 degrees on December 24. Rainfall was 6.9 4 under the average of 38.19 and as the lowest except for four years since (Turn to page 2, column 7) Two Babies Born New Year's Day New Year's day will be a birth day for two infants who were de livered at Salem hospitals yester day. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Doerfler of Aumsvllle are parents of a 7 pound, 6 ounce baby girl brought Into the world at the Salem Gen eral hospital at 4:05 a, m. yes terday. Also at the Salem General Mrs. J. Simmons, Rlckreall, gave birth to a 7 pound, 10 ounce baby, also a girl, at 12:18 p. m. Rain Ushers in Salem New Year And still it rained in Salem to start the new year out in true Oregon style. Showers through out Monday kept umbrellas In the open and the forecast was for occasional rain today and Wednes day with little change in tempera ture, which has remained high for a week. Minimum temperature for the fourth consecutive day was 43 de grees and the maximum was 57. Saturday and Sunday brought down .82 inch of rain while the mercury went up to. 57 ,for the third warmest day of December. RUSS DEAD Spraw Itl dead in Finnish snow are soviet Russian soldiers shown in radiophoto, mute witneKses to des peration with which defenders are holding their foe at bay on the Karelian Isthmus. Soldiers are lying where they fell when their detachment tri ed to storm Finn lines behind road to the right. Ski troop were reported December 80 to have .rot o ff 10,000 Russian troops from communication with their base. Blockade Run by Nazi Freighter St. Louis Slips Past Ally Guards to Reach a 'Home Harbor' BERLIN. Jan. WPl-AnotheOl ship of the hunted nazl merchant fleet, the 16,732-ton Hamburg American liner St. Louis, reached "a home harbor" today after slip pig through the British naval blockade. The official news agency's an nouncement of her arrival gave no clue to the course of her wan derings since she slipped out of New York AoigTist 27; but in formed sources said she had been one of 16 German ships which found haven at .Murmansk, Rus sia's arctic port," soon after the war's outbreak. Many of these, including the great 51,731-ton luxury liner Bremen of the North German Lloyd, already are back home. The St. Louis had been abroad for seven ' months. She was the fifth and last of the Hamburg American's crack North American liners to reach home safely since the war began. The others are the Deutschland, New York, Ham burg and Hansa, all of more thin 21,000 tons. The New York wis one of the 16 at Murmansk. Gradually these ships have been navigating the perilous sea lanes back to Germany, those from the arctic apparently have .had better luck than others. The Columbus, third largest unit of the nazl merchant fleet, was scuttled office Virginia coast December 19 and her crew brought to New York, and the fast Cap Norte was taken to Britain as a prize. A dozen other ships took refuge in South American or African ports and were captured or scuttled by their crews. (The 8268-ton freighter Taco ma was Interned today at Monte video.) The high command communi que reported that an attempted air attack on Germany's North sea coast yesterday was, beaten off. It said: " "On the western front no spe cial events. Enemy planes at tempted to attack the German North sea coast the afternoon of December 31. It was apprehend ed In time, however, and re pulsed." Friend of Hitler Sent to England LONDON. Jan. 2-(Tuesday-()-The Honorable Unity Valky rie Freeman Mltford, blonde daughter of Lord Redesdale and probably the closest British wom an friend of Adolf Hitler, Is ex pected to retnrn to her native land today on a stretcher. Hitler, it was reported here, ar ranged the carefully-guarded Journey. The London News Chronicle re ported that Unity, who was In Germany at the outbreak of war and has been there ever since, was given every facility for the trip by the German Fuehrer, including a special ambiance-type railway car through the releh. She has been ill In "Munich. Some. British reports have said she Is ' suffer ing' from pistol wounds. The 25-year-old British girl has been an ardent admirer of Hitler and naxllsm for several years. In return. Hitler Is supposed to have spoken of her as "a perfect type of Nordic beauty." WITNESS TO FINN DEFENSE -Tf 1 'jAri1 '"""T 0 JWWcgfennim-m iinniri. 1 m 11 1 ai mm m u 1 hSJ I tt 1 1 Soviet Bombers Fire Finnish Air Force Strikes Back for Reverses of Land Annies on Central, Northern Fronts; Finns Say Motor Column Smashed HELSINKI, Jan. 1. (AP) Many buildings in Turku, seaport city which has been the terminus of war materials sent to the Finns from their Scandinavian friends, were re ported in flames late tonight after a fierce raid by soviet bombers. The red planes, striking "back for reverses suffered by ORusslan land armies on the cen Reaper Takes 346 Lives in Holiday Traffic Accidents Account for 173 Deaths of Weekend (By The Associated Press) The old man with the scythe lopped off mote than 346 lives on his way out. Of this number of violent deaths in 4 2 states and the Dis trict of Columbia, 173 were caused by traffic accidents. The weekend also saw 37 suicides, 23 slayings and 13 deaths by fire. The death list by states follows: Alabama '1, Arizona 3, Arkan sas 3, California 38, Colorado 8, Connecticut 11, Delaware 2-, Dis trict of Columbia 3, Florida S, Georgia 4, Illinois 20, Indiana 11, Kansas 1, Kentucky 12, Louisiana 13, Maine 2, Maryland 5, Massa chusetts 5, Michigan 21, Minne sota 5, Missouri 14, Montana 1, Nebraska 1, New Hampshire 1, New Jersey Id, New Mexico 1, New York 21, North Carolina 10, Ohio 15, Oklahoma 6, Oregon 7, Pennsylvania 21, South Carolina 2, South Dakota 2, Tennessee 11, Texas 15, Utah 3, Virginia 2, Washington 9, West Virginia 3, Wisconsin 8, Wyoming 4. Uruguay to Hold German Freighter to War's End MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 1-(iP)-The black-clad nazl freight er Tacoma rolled dismally at anchor In Montevideo harbor to night, prisoner of Uruguay neu trality for the rest of the Euro pean war. Her master. Captain Hans Know, submitted io internment this morning at expiration of a Uruguayan deadline giving him until 8 a. m. (3 a. m. PST) to get out. Thus ended the bold show the Tacoma made yesterday of taking to sea to .face British warships which have watched this harbor since the German pocket battle ship. Admiral Graf Spee fled Into refuge here at the end of a 14-hour battle on December 13. The 82C8-ton Tacoma stood by the Graf Spee and took aboafd some of her crewmen Just before the pocket battleship s command er, Captain Hans Langsdorff, blew up his floating, fortress December 17, rather than accept Internment or battle. Today: without any such show of defiant violence, the Tacoma's war usefulness was ended ap parently, just, as effectively as was that of the Graf Spee or the great German liner Columbus, scuttled off the Virginia coast within sight Seaport City tral and northern fronts, roared over Turku in mid-afternoon. Finnish dispatches said many incendiary bombs fell in the heart of the city, starting tremendous fires. Turku, or Abo, Is a city of some 20,000 population in south western Finland at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. It formerly was Finland's capital and is the terminus of three important rail lines. The new aerial "blitzkrieg" w;as unleashed as Finns officially were announcing the smashing of a soviet motorized column and continued pursuit of a shattered red army division on two snow? bound fronts, and while Presi dent Kyosti Kallo called upon the (Turn to Page 2, Column 8) Daughter Scalded By Irate Father WILMINGTON, Del.. Jan. 1-UP)-Vincent Llacer, 38, was ar rested on an assault and battery charge today, accused of pouring a kettle of boiling water over his stepdaughter. The girl, Grace, 13, was treat ed at a hospital for scalds on. her shoulders and back. Detective George Keinberger quoted Llacer as saying the girl started crying when he scolded her for having a "date" New Year's Eve and "her coughing and sneezing got on my nerves." of a. British warship December 19. Fifty Uruguayan marines on the steamer La Valleja went out to the Tacoma this morning and boarded her. She had lain at anchor all night Just Inside the outer breakwater. A Uruguayan naval clerk drew up the certificate of internment. Captain Know signed , It and tonight, with her captain and all her crew of sixty still aboard was guarded by a lone officer of the Uruguayan navy. Uruguayan authorities gave Captain Know and his men two days to wind up shipboard af fairs. Then they will be in terned and sent to live In the in terior of Uruguay. h The freighter will he beached Wednesday. If she still Is In the harbor that morning she may see the entry of the British cruiser A ax, one of the three victors over the Graf Spee. Grat Britain has applied for permission for H. M. S. AJax to -enter Montevideo on a "courtesy visit," and officials of this, little country were consider ing granting a 3-day extension of the 24 hours - in port usually granted belligerent warships. If tt is granted, the AJax will, come Into port on January 3. 541 Increase Noted in Poll By Statesman Newspaper Survey Is Jump Ahead of US Census Takers Count Is Based . on City and School Records By STEPHEN C. MERGLER One jump ahead of the decen nial census taker. The Statesman yesterday connted noses In Sa lem, by a prqeess of averaging, and found' that this city may now reckon Its-population at 32,580 persons. The city apparently gained 541 residents during 1939. ' If this figure be tre. Oregon's capital may elalm a 24 er cent, increase in population since Uncle Sam's' counters last made their rounds In 1930, when they, found 26,266 people at home or' otherwise accounted for as resi dents. The Statesman survey also in-' dicated that a deadline In rate of population increase, noted, when the count was made one year ago, is continuing. Yearly increases since the first States man estimate was made late in 1936 have been: 4.4 per cent in 1937 2.225 per cent in .1938 and 1.69 per cent In 1939. The 1938 Statesman estimate was 32,039, in 1937 il fis 31, 333 and in 1936, 30,010. City Records Used In Making Survey While the census bureau may not find the exact number of residents in Salem as, has The .Statesman survey, the latter . should not be far from an actual count unless drastic changes have occurred in the last 10 years in the number of city water users, electric power consumers and school age children in relation to total population. Bolstering the survey's Indica tions of a continuing yearly popu lation gain in Salem are the re ports of the city building de partment that 231 new residences were build in 1939, of real es tate brokers that few, vacant home are available to renters or buyers, that apartment houses are generally well-filled and of hotel men that the number of persons making their residence In hotels is, if changed, a little higher than a year ago. The Salem chamber of com merce, evidently taking Its cue from the 1938 Statesman survey, considers the city's population to be "a little more than 31,000," according to F. D. Thlelsen, man ager. He said the chamber be lieved the population had in creased in the last year Jut not to a great extent. ) The Salem school district cen sus failed to show a gain last year for the first time since The Statesman population "counts" were begun. The other two major indices resulting in the 32,580 figure, electricity consum ers and water services, increased by 2.839 and 2.27 per cent, re spectively. Comparison with school census totahj for the decennial census years of 1910, 1920 and 1930 with federal population census counts shows a gradually increas ing proportion of school children to total population to exist. Were . ' the 1930 ratio of school to fed eral censuses used, the city's pres ent population would be indicated as 34,604 persons while an aver age of the 1910, 1920 and 1930 ratios would show 31,701. ' Flood in Turkey Takes 300 Lives ANKARA, Jan. l-(P)-0icl4ls announced tonight that more than 300 persons were killed throughout Turkey by floods, some of which raged through sec tions devastated by last week's earthquakes. Simultaneously new storms along .the Black sea caused great damage. The 700-ton Turusn freighter Turklan capsized andx went down with a crew of 20 and It was feared several other freighters may have sunk. . i Hordes of rabid dogs, racing throughout the stricken area and biting many: persons,- brought fears of a .rabies epidemic. Al- . ready, typhoid and pneumonia are prevalent and many 'have J died of gangrene. - In some mountain sections, . wolves were attacking homeless survivors. ' - Hundreds of square miles be tween Amassia and Tokat were 1 marked by deep ditches, some 3 feet wide, where the earth's crust was broken hj the quakes. Some! of these dltchesi sulphurous fumes' exuded. Geysers spouted ' from -others. . ' Autopsy Ordered PORTLAND, Jan. l.-P)-Coro-ner R. M. Erwln said today an autopsy would be performed In the death yesterday of Peter K. Pederson, 80, Injured when struck by an automobile December 2 Physicians said he died of pneu monia. ' , ' . .