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Newspaper Page TextNo Substitute I You'll find no aeMp;per can Rive more real aatlnfac tlon than your UM'AL MUK.MNd t'AI'KK, with Its WOIM.D NKWH pin HO.MK COMMUNITY NEWS. Weather Partly cloudy today; light In Monday; continued told. Mas. temp. Saturday , mln. 81. River 0. North triad. I&5I KKiH l Y-NINTH YKAB Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, January 21, 1940 Price 3c; Nesrsslanda Se No. 258 Era sie Ear . . -Paul flausers Column Cliff Parker, the State street port merchant, was U1 and en able to be at his sportery during most of Decern- p ber, bat came the new year and Cliff re ported on the lob bale and hearty. Yester day came to Cliff from the Vets ot Foreign Wars a bouquet of flow ers and a a o t e wishing" him an early ' convales cence. PU H. Haaaat, Jr. pta McCaff err. the Softball eatcher and fireman, has had an aiMitton to his family and has MiMd.ant over 100 cigars. Hear hir nf the clear largesse, Pete riearr of the city treasurer's of fice started on a dash for the ad Jolninr fire hall. Just as he tarti a fire alarm clanged out and Pete and his fireball friends went sidening off to a cnimney fire. Gloomily Pete returned to iha cltv's cash boxes. "Saved oy the bell," quoth be. One of oar statehouse scouts reports that Frank Davis, new deputy public utilities commis sioner, whose aim is to make the Pre efficient, modern and np-to-the-second is, in private life, a collector of . . . fossils. FOR 8HAMK, BUTCH Butch, the Mayor of State Street, has fallen from his former glory. It la reliably reported io us. Time was when Butch hawked papers with vigor and a fine Ori ental disregard ior esiaonsuBu nrlce. And never, no, not ever. were the papers today's papers Venterdav's naDers. if you were lucky, but more likely last week's or last month's papers. And now the sad news is out. Butch, the mighty, hath fallen. He has lately been observed sell ing today's papers. And at es tablished prices, too. POPULAR SAYINGS Of Unpopular People TELEPHONE OPERATOR When do you expect him in? Where can he be reached? Will you have him call Operator 109 when he comes in. (This is re peated every ten minutes until you throw the phone out the win dow.) . . USHERETTE: The best choice of seats )s in the balcony. Stair way tdl yotfr left, please. " STENOGRAPHER HOW do you spell that last word? RADIO ANNOUNCER Due to transmission difficulties the pro gram has been interrupted. We take you to our studio where you will hear the Idlewind Trio. DENTIST Well, well, here's another cavity I didn't see before. GARAGE MECHANIC The parts come to 30 cents. With the labor that makes $9.85. The Lions club show for the benefit of blind children is over and dene with, but still on the docket is the story of the local merchant, whose business hadn't been any too thriving, who was approached to put an ad in the program for the event. "Well, 111 buy an ad," said the mer chant, reaching into the till, 'But I tell you you're robbing the poor to help the blind." Local Lad Hurt, Fall From Train Elmer Cutsinger, 16, 1085 North 17 th street, received a broken arm when he tumbled from a rapidly moving freight train sear 12 th and State streets yesterday. He was taken to the Deaconess hospital. His companion, Sterling Cronn, 15. 305 South 18th street, who followed Cutsinger off the south bound freight, was treated at the city first aid station for a deep head ent and 'abrasions. The two boys, Cronn said, rode the "blinds" on a passenger train to Portland yesterday morning and were returning to Salem on the freight Expert Flax Weaver to Be Assigned to Mt. Angel WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-JP) Ait expert flax weaver from Ire land, who has been inspecting the Willamette valley, will be as signed to the Mount Angel com munity to advise the flax indus try on ;. machinery and weaving methods. Senator McNary (R Ore) reported today. Earl Long Emulates Brother, Calls Solons to Aid Campaign BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 20. 4P)-Governor Earl K. Long called the Louisiana legislature into special session today and presented, members with the task pf enacting 20 legislative propos als Into law within six days, In order that . he might renew his campaign for reelection In a run off primary against a "reform" candidate, Sam H. Jones. Convened Into joint session at t p. m., the house and senate heard the governor express be lief that he already had been reelected. Referring to last Tuesday's democratic primary. Long said that "anyone who came through State Honors Arranged for Senator Bor Solemn Rites to B in Senate's Chr Monday Mor -4? Ob O o o "LionV Deau alked Plan to Protest US Mail Censorship WASHINGTON, Jan. t0.-P)- The Grieving senate arranged to day for a state funeral for' Wil liam E. Borah. The service at 9:38 p. m (PST) Monday will be attended by President Roosevelt, members of his cabinet, justices of the su premo court, members of the house, and foreign diplomats. The Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, senate chaplain, will conduct it. Senators sat with bowed heads when Vice-President Garner put before it a resolution to hold state ceremonies for the 74-year old Idaboan who died last night in his 33rd year of senate service. Gar ner did not bang his gavel, as he customarily does when declaring a measure approved. Borah passed away after a four- day illness. He was stricken with cerebrial hemorrhage Tuesday and was conscious thereafter only at intervals. Death came to him at 8:45 p.m. (EST) as he lay In a profound coma. Senate Meets Briefly To Authorize Rites The senate, meeting for only five minutes, heard Senator Clark (D-Idaho) anuounce formally that Borah was dead and declare that the country felt a "profound sense of futility" at his passing. Then the chamber adopted the resolution expressing "profound sorrow and deep regret" over Bor ah's death, providing for the state funeral in the senate chamber and authorizing Garner to appoint ten senators to escort the body to Boise. Idaho, where a service for Borah will be held in the Rotun da of the Idaho capitol on Thurs day. Burial will be in a Boise cemetery. Expressions of sorrow over Bor ah's death came from all the na tion and from many foreign coun tries. - Borah, former chairman and ranking minority member of the senate foreign relations commit tee, was the senate's dean in point of service. Promised Newsman Story on Impending Protest The day before he was stricken, Borah told Lloyd Lehrbas, an As sociated Press staff writer, that he was preparing a speech protest ing British interference with American mails. Over the luncheon table, Borah declared that he did not like "this idea of the British holding up the United States mail, and I'm going to talk about it in the senate." He suggested that Lehrbas see him again on Tuesday, but the Lion of Idaho" never returned to the capitol. There was universal grief in Idaho, and little immediate specu lation over who might be appoint ed to succeed Borah until next January, when a man elected in tbis year's election will take his seat. Those mentioned included Gov ernor c. A. Bottolfsen, Chief Jus tice Jam's A. Ailshie of the state supreme court, Mrs. Borah, Don ald A. Callahan, unsuccessful re publican nominee in 1938 and Thomas Heath, a state senator. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 20.-vP)-A statehouse funeral, with military honors, will mark Idaho's last homage to Its most respected citi zen. Glen Balch, military aide to Governor C. A. Bottolfsen, an nounced today that services for William E. Borah, the state's vet eran republican senator, would be held in the great hall of the cap itol here next Thursday at 2 p.m. (Pacific standard time). A funeral train, bringing the senator's body home from the na tional capital, will reach Boise Thursday morning, Balch said. A military guard of honor, som- posed of Idaho national guard of ficers, will board the train as it enters Idaho, and a military es cort will accompany the body from the station here to the capitol, where the guard will be resumed as the body lies in state under the rotunda. Governor Bottolfsen appointed justices of tbe Idaho supreme court and elective state officials as honorary pallbearers. Mrs. Bor ah, the senator's widow, will choose the active pallbearers. an election with a 75,000 lead ought to be considered elected." Long received 220,000 of the 538,000 votes cast. Before the roll call ended to day administration members had dumped into the hoppers 20 bills which Long previously said must be disposed of In a six-day ses sion. The runoff primary election has been set for February 20. In calling the special session Long followed closely the methods of his brother, the late "Kingfish" Huey P. Long, who built the or nate state bouse where tbe legis lature convened and where Huey was "hot In September, 1935. 'Small Employer Jobless Hope9 1 .... : '- ""sT If '"N. V" Sl vM X 2 ' 7 y, 1 I ih v:?y:X- ANN? JAMES ROOSEVELT FR's Son Advises Employment Study Tells Portland Audience Four Million Smaller Companies Needed PORTLAND, Jan. 20.-(P)-James Roosevelt, eldest son of the president, urged careful ex amination of every suggestion by responsible persons for tbe solu tion of the unemployment prob lem, in an address here tonight. Speaking at a banquet honor ing T. R. Gamble, Portland theatre manager, selected as the city's "first Junior citizen for 1939," Roosevelt declared "some of us are frankly worried when we note that only a few weeks ago the industrial activity of the United States reached an all time record yet such activity produced comparatively few addi tional jobs." He asked tolerant and sympa thetic examination of "even the wildest suggestion offered by re sponsible persons." He said he would suggest that the only real hope fc. absorbing the many mil lions of unemployed lies In the direction not of our bigger In dustries and greater businesses. but in the direction of the four million smaller business men and companies." He declared that monopoly whether in business, finance or labor, "tends to kill competition, and both the rugged individual ist and the new dealer will. think, admit that competition has produced most of the advances in our standard of living." 3 Oregonians Die In Fire, Mishaps PORTLAND, Jan. 2 O-UFV-VIo- lent deaths claimed three Oregon residents today in a logging acci dent, a fire and an automobile collision. James Kotera, 40, Hillsboro, was crushed to death by a log near his Chehalem mountain farm. Mrs. Perry Strong, 60, of Tual atin, bled to death following an automobile collision two miles fouth of Tigard. Her husband suf fered minor injuries. Flames which spread from a small heating stove Ignited the clothing of Mrs. Jennie A. Mur phy, about 80. at her home in Portland, burning her to death. A neighbor found the body be side the kitchen sink where she apparently had attempted to reach a water faucet. Desk LaFollette's WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-P)- The senate chamber desk which Senator Borah (R. Idaho) used from March 4, 1917, until his fatal illness will go to Senator LaFollette (pro.. Wis.) by right of seniority, if LaFollette chooses to move there. SOVIETS RETREAT IN COLD I 5,4- I . - r: .. '.. ;:: -:.Jr- V-:-.-:.--.:. i . 1 (M- vs t T - 1 I . v ;.:- - Amid flamlna; ruins of soviet-bombed Vilpuri, FIhIabmL radiophoto UIKk.. 1 1 m i I . . , , wOT.uu..?-Ir,auviruuria inKMiK iuvfir oi tn? MuaoiDira is m Dinnn dt Muto, Aa tbe photo was berngtrsnsmitted, Helsinki reported January northern Sala front were in full retreat in knife-Like cold, while a new Russian force advanced to pro- I Oregon Trail pageant and cele tect tbe retreat from relentless Finn ski troops. bratiop, every three years. 15 Offices Go On Ballot for Gty Election Longest Roster In Recen Years to Face Salem Voters in May Drastic Changes in Form of Salem Government May Be Proposed Br PAUL H. HAUSER. Jr. It's a long way until May, but the political bug has already be gun to crawl, out of his chrysalis to look over a city ballot that will be the largest in a number of years when the primary election rolls around May 17. Salem voters will have 15 city officers to elect as well aa voting on a possible charter revision pro viding drastic changes in the city's governmental system. Nine Aldermen Mil it Face Electorate Besides a mayor, a city record er and a city treasurer the voters will have to elect nine councllmen and three water commissioners. Mayor W. W. Chadwick has not yet indicated whether he will be a candidate for reelection and tbe majority of the nine councilmen who must go to the polls have not decided yet whether to seek office again. Mentioned also as possible can didates for mayor have been Tom Hill, Capitol street confectioner, and Alderman David O'Hara. Only five councilmen are hold overs who will not have to go on the ballot to retain their seats They are E. B. - Perrine, first ward; Frank P. Marshall, second ward; Arthur O. Davison, fourth ward; David O'Hara, fifth ward and Glenn Gregg, sixth ward. Nicholson Not Inclined to Run Only James H. Nicholson, Of those filling posts which come up at the primaries, has Indicated that he will not be a candidate. Nicholson, however, said later events might cause him to change his mind. He represents the first ward. Those who must run for re-elec tion to retain their council sea; include the thie members ap pointed iv the council during the year to fill vacancies. They are Chandler P. Brdwn and Harold "M. OHnger of the third ward and Bert Ford of the seventh ward Others are: Dr. S. B. Laughlln, second ward; Mrs. G. F. Lobdell. fourth ward; Ross Goodman fifth ward, and D. O. Lear, sixth ward. Water commissioners who mnst go to the polls are Chairman I. M Doughton, D. O. A. Olson and E. B. Grabenhorst. Weather Man Says Warmth Is Coming Higher Temperatures Are Expected to Cut Down Moisture Content PORTLAND, Jan. 20 .p)-01d Man Oregon, shivering for days in the most prolonged cold of the winter, can shuck off some of his wrappings tomorrow. The weather bureau promised that somewhat higher tempera tures in the southwest portion would move Into the northwest section Sunday. Increasing south erly winds will blow off the coast. Weather will be unsettled Sun day, however, with occasional snow flurries in the east and rains in the west portion, augmented by snows in the mountains. Ice and packed snow made trav el slow in mountainous regions to day but all major Oregon high ways remained open. Eastern Ore gon was most seriously affected by a half-Inch of fine, moist snow which froze on roads during the night. The day's minimum temper atures, some of them taken at air ports, Included Baker 18 degrees, Bend 14, Burns 14, Eugene 32, Grants Pass 3 4. Hood River 26, Lakevlew 28, Medford 30, New port 39. North Bend 40, Pendle ton 23, Portland 33, Roseburg 33, Siskiyou summit 31. y r u f 'Join Us or You Fall' Warning Handed Neutrals by Ghur chill Russ Threaten Formal Order, War on Finns Assert Weapons "Stolen From Red Army After Division's Rout Soviet Bombers at Same Time Punish Turku, Sonthwest Port COPENHAGEN, Jan. 21.-(Sun- day)-(jiP) An announcer on the Moscow wave-length broadcast a threat In the Finnish language early today that Russia would declare war on the Finns unless they returned weapons "stolen" from red army troops at Suomus- salml. The "stolen" weapons appar ently were Runs and tanks cap tured by the Finns after - the alleged destruction of the red army's 163rd and 44th divisions. The Russian Invasion was launched without a formal decla ration of war. HELSINKI, Jan. 20.-iiP)-Fleets of soviet Russian bombers roared over southern Finland today in punishing raids extending as far as the strategic southwestern port of Turku. No bombs were dropped on Helsinki, although air raid alarms screamed four times during the (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Lone Cavalryman Bags Tank, Crew Solo Feat Staged in Mock War; Take's Lieutenant to "Prison Camp" MONTEREY. Calif.. Jan. 20- (yP)-If the invaders who landed near here yesterday ever expect to complete a make-believe ad vance on San Francisco, they bet ter put a certain defense cavalry man out of action. Wandering all alone near the enemy front lines today, he sur prised a 10-ton truck and cap tured its crew. From a nearby pay station, the unidentified cap tor telephoned headquarters and asked what he should do with the tank. "Sit on it," headquarters ad vised, "and grab anything else you can." Umpires were promptly dis patched to settle matters so no body would get hurt. When they arrived, the cavalryman had add ed an enemy staff car, a lieuten ant and , three Invading privates to his personal war loot. The umpires decided he would have to give back the tank it, was kind of bulky but they let him escort the staff car, the lieu tenant and the privates to a prison camp. r? Tonight, the cavalryman still urked about his private battle field under orders from his troop commander to stick around and seo what else .you can pick up.' Second Million Pledged to Finns NEW YORK, Jan. Z0-6P)-Her bert Hoover announced tonight that a score of United States in dustrial leaders had pledged themselves to raise a second II.- 00,000 for Finnish civilian re lief. The money will go to the Finn- sh Relief Fund, Inc. The former president, who heads tbe organ ization, said the fnnd already has raised Its first $1,000,000 of which $600,000 already has been sent to Finland. WEATHER Vir shows Arthur Menken. New York . n nnna ls i smpriQMB r rail i 10. that 40.000 Soviets on tbe 5 Britain Flatly Turns US Mail Protest Down Reiterates Right of Removal, Censorship Because "Organized Traffic in Contraband' Held Evident; Washington Silent LONDON, Jan. 20. (AP) Flatly rejecting; the United States' protest against the removal of American mail for cen sorship from British, United States and other neutral ships, the British government tonight said there was "clear evi dence of the existence of an organized traffic in contraband on a considerable scale between German sympathizers in the Michigan rnson Riot Is Quelled Dining Hall Demolished in Protest Over Supper; Leaders Caught IONIA, Mich.. Jan. 20-(A)-A general riot of 14 00 Inmates at Michigan reformatory broke out late today and hastily reinforced guards armed with rifles and tear gas bombs battled prisoners for ntarlv an hour before it was brought under control. Deputy Warden Edward C Good, in charge of tbe prison said 60 shots were fired during the uprising but that no one was struck. The riot broke out in the pris on rotunda, central lniet to tne cell blocks, while 1000 of tbe inmates were returning from the dining hall. One of the Inmates complained about the prison sup per, Good said, and hundreds of others took up the protest. The rioting spread to the pris on baseball field, inMde the walls, and to the dining htf,' he de clared. Several Inmates attempted to scale the walls, be said, but none was successful. Dining hall and kitchens were reported virtually demolished. Windows were broken and plumb ing damaged. A detachment of 45 state troop ers under Capt. Laurence A. Lyon assisted prison guards and coun ty authorities. After a search, Good announced that 35 Inmates were found hiding inside prison walls and that they were re turned to their cells. Good named three men tonight as "ringleaders" and placed them in solitary confinement, Senate Croup Lops Off Huge Amount WASHINGTON, Jan. l0-m- Outdoing the house In eirorts to economize, the senate appropria tions committee today lopped $12,788,664 off a deficiency bill being hurried through congress to meet the cost of President Roose velt's emergency expansion of the nation's armed forces. Approving total expenditures of $251,822,588, the senate group gave notice that economy was to be its watchword in consideration of the regular appropriations measures. First of these larger bills to reach the committee was the house - approved $1,100,187,000 independent offices supply meas ure, on which the group will go to work next week. Some mem bers predicted that the senate committee not only would up hold the house action In refusing fuDds for three Roosevelt-created agencies, but would make fur ther cuts In funds for other agen cies. Portland IWA Local to Ask John L. Letcis for Probe of Recent Vote PORTLAND, Jan. 20.-(P)-Portland local No. 3 of the Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica announced today it had asked John L. Lewis, head of the CIO. to investigate "the recent IWA election and the whole IWA situa tion." The anion's publicity com mittee, with one member not sign ing. Issued a statement that a resolution by the Columbia river district council to withhold per capita taxes from the IWA pend ing a new election had been tabled without further action. Eugene Considers Plea For Right-of-Way for Salem Centennial Fete EUGENE. Jan. lS.-6iPV-Amon the problems which will confront the members of the Oregon Trail Pageant association's board of directors Monday night will be a request of the governor and the city of Salem for Eugene to postpone its celebration. State capital officials, planning a centennial for summer months. fears the two major events would conflict. Dates for the Iocsl pio neer holidays have been tenta Uvely set for July 25, 26 and 27. Ordlnarllv Eunma ha. Its O United States and Germany I thrrkfiK Ih. moll " The rejection, made in a lengthy note, contended that the situation regarding such contraband traffic Is Identic with that of 1916. It referred to an aide memoire transmitted to United States au thorities on November 23 of last year citing proof of such traffic, and added: "An article in a news paper published in German in tbe United States," transmitted at tbe same time, "showed that an or ganization existed in United States territory for the purpose of facilitating this traffic." The British rejection of the United States protest was based on the contention that a belliger ent has the right under Interna tional law to assure itself that ocean-going mall bags and tbeir contents do not contain contra band. It was the second time within a week that tbe British had turned down a suggestion from across the Atlantic that Britain was infring ing American rights. WASHINGTON, Jan. i0.-(JP)-The British foreign office's publi cation of ite note rejecting this government's protests against censorship of American mails brought no comment tonight from the state department. Pope Wishes FDR Peace Greetings Appointment ol Taylor Is Hailed in Vatican aa Peace Move WASHINGTON, Jan. tO.-UPl- Haiiing with ' grateful Joys Pres ldent Kooseveit s efforts to pro mote peace. Pope Plus XII wrote him today that the friends of peace had little chance for success "so long as the present state of opposing forces remains essential ly unchanged." Replying to the president's Christmas message of December 23 suggesting a "personal repre sentative" be sent to the Vatican to assist "our parallel endeavors for peace and ftfe alleviation of suffering," the pope said he would find a "special satisfaction" in re ceiving Myron C. Taylor, the peace ambassador without portfolio. Taylor, former chairman of United States Steel and Interna tional refugee committee director. Is expected to sail soon for his (Turn to page 3, col. 4) What? Only Two Hours to Design Pair of Gavels? Purchasing a gavel for the hearing room of the state tlli tle commission here is at rious problem. Onnond R. Beaa, state utili ties commissioner, Friday la formed Frank Davis, bis cbief deputy that m new gavel was required. Davis summoned a veteraa of the commission's engineer ing staff and directed that blueprints and specification of two gavels be prepared. Tbis work required two boors. The blueprints, together with the specifications, will be placed before the board of con trol which considers all state pare bases. Truck Crops Are Menaced by Cold Wave in Southern Slates (By The Associated Press) Wintry weather menaced multi- million dollar fruit and vegetable crops In tbe deep south yester day. Cold waves barged Into the southeast and southwest while the Icy north expected little re lief and the list of deaths attrib uted to week of frigidity length ened to Include 141 rictlms In 27 states. Sub-freexing conditions extend ed far into the rich Florida citrus belt. No damage was reported bnt growers prepared for another night of tending smudge pots when the weather bureau forecast not much change in temperature except slightly colder on the south coast," Minimum readings included 16 above in Pensacola, Fla., 21 In Jacksonville and 49 in Miami. A low of seven above was reported in Atlanta. In Alabama, where i the mercury dropped to two above ) War's Spread Feared, Fiery Lord Declares Savs any British . French' Peace Would Result in States Division Little Fellows Urged to Accept Protection of English Convoys LONDON, Jan. 20-OD-Europe'S fear-ridden neutral nations were urged tonight bv sharp tongud Winston Churchill to join Drltala and France in "united action" to speed the war against nail Ger many to an end. and warned grim ly that otherwise the flames of conflict would envelop them. Asserting that the small state are the "victims upon whom Hit ler's hate and nplte detwenri," the first lord of the admiralty de clared In a radio broadcast which reached all the neutrals and was relayed In the United Btates: "They (the neutrals) comfort themselves that the allies villi win. Each one hopes that the storm will pass before his turn comes to be devoured. Bat I great ly fear that the storm will not pass. It will rage and It will roar even more loudly, even more widely. It will spread to the south. It will spread to the north. "There is no chance of a speiy end except through united ac tion. ..." PoMftlbllltleM of "Shameful Peace Cited If at any time France and Brit aln. "wearying of the struggM. were to make a shameful peace.'V Churchill adaed. ''nothing wou't4 remain for the smaller states Ot Europe with their Shipping aaV possessions but to be divided be tween opposite, though "similar," barbarisms of natldem and Bol shevism." Then he asked: "What would happen If all the neutral nations I have mentioned and some others I have not men tioned were to do their duty la accordance with the covenant of tbe League of Nations and stand with the French and DrliUa against the aggressor?" For themselves, Churchill sall. the allies were not concerned over the eventual outcome. Never before, In any naval war, Churchill declared, "have thing gone so well with us." "Liberty" Only Ifcue Halifax Contends Churchill spoke a short time after Lord Halifax, British for eign secretary, had aaserted s broadcast address at Leeds that the war Issues was "tbe liberty and Independence of our own,.-, country and commonwealth and ' of all European states." Halifax said Germany had kt ber "only chance" of winning the war by failing to launch a whole sale offensive. Churchill declared Britain Hi "more confident day by day of or ability to police the seas sad oceans and to keep open and art- lye the waterways by which we live and along which we shall draw the means of victory. It seems pretty certain to night," he said, "that half the 0 boats with which Germany began the war have been sunk and that their new building has fallea far behind what we expected." Bluntly he told Europe's small neutral states, however, that only with the British and French. convoys is safety to be found" aad declared: "Neutral ships art be ing sunk without mercy." The Netherlands, Belgium and other neutrals have refused Brit ish convoys for their shipping. Finland's Valor Held "Sublime" , Praising Finland, "sublime in the jaws of peril," for showlae- by example "what free men can do," Churchill said: The service rendered by Fla- land to mankind Is magnificent. There, exposed for all tbe world to see. Is the military Incapacity (Turn to page 3, col. 1) In Florence snd eight above tm Birmingham, Charles J, Brock way, county farm agent at afoMle, estimated damage to the cabbage crop alone at more than 115,000. Cold, snow and sleet moved to ward tbe f 100.000.001) citrus fruit belt in the Rio Grande val ley of Texas. Thousands of smudge fires were arranged to wsrd off the chill of an expected siege of 27-degree weather. Gov ernment agriculturists opined such severity would be ruinous. Continued cold wss predicted for most of the states In the east and midwest although some mod eration was In sight. J Subzero readings were general in tbe northern section of New England but a measure of relief was la prospect. Greenville, Me., with -20. established the nation's nadir. i PanimlMnla ti m r rtt nm tcr t rote slightly after sinking as far (Turn to rage z, col j . i .