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Who Won? First la sports news, the Oregon Statesman not only tells who wins but bow, giv lag detail essential to fol lowers of the season's con tests. Follow Statesman sports. Weather Rain Saturday and Sun day; rain and snow ever mountains; moderate tem peratures. Max. temp. Fri day 45, mln. 36. River 1.8 ft. North wind. 1651 EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, February 3, 1940 Price 3a Newsstands 5c No. 269 6Meni From Mare' Ruiss Attack Branded futile In One Ear . . -Paul Mauser' Column We have been thinking about groundhogs and other marsupials. The reason for this is undoubt edly that yesterday was Ground hog day and will go down in the annals as such. We don't want to scoff at the? annals but on mature re f 1 e c-j tlon we don't re- call that we ever saw a ground hog except on a blue plate spe cial, labeled Sal Mi isbury steak. p H Htmr. I Never having known a ground hog personally (although one named Wilmer phoned us once when we were out and said he would call back, "but never did) we can only report hearsay. This, as any lawyer will tell you for a slight fee, ia not admissible into evidence. The hearsay we have to say is something toM us by a fel low who dropped in the other day and tried to sell us a pat . ent leather necktie. We forget bin name, but it sounded some thing like Aesop. He left in a huff (because we already had a necktie) after telling us the following curious tale. "Oncu upon a time," we quote, "there was a groundhog named Hank who lived in a quite com fortable hole (combination living and bed room, kitchenette and bath) and In the Introverted way peculiar to his race was very happy. "There was only one thing that worried Hank. Like his mother and father and brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and cousins Hank was scared of his own shadow. So he went to a psychoanalyst. - "The psychoanalyst looked at him and looked at him and counted bis reflexes and asked him about his childhood. Then the psychoanalyst said, : 'My friend, yon are realjy not scared of your shadow at all." Ton are victim 4 iranafevenes) of ver biage and what yon are really scared f is your fourth dimen sional umbrage. 'So Hank went away very hap py and not scared of his shadow a bit. So February 2 came and the sun Shlned brightly and Hank came out of his hole. When he saw his shadow he pooh-poohed bad said 'Yah, yah. who's afraid of you.' All his brothers and sis ters, who had no truck with psy choanalysts, went back in tjieir holes, properly scared. "So Hank wandered in the sun und enjoyed himself until he came to a place where there were a lot of people and a lot of cheer ing. Hank wandered down there to see what the fun was, only it turned out not much fun. Because It was a greyhound track and the greyhounds took Hank for a bun ny and Hank couldn't run very fast and that was the end of Hank. "First moral: If you are scared of your shadow keep it in the dark. "Second moral: If you are chased by a Greyhound, next time try the train' Cloud Cap Inn Is Sold, US Forest PORTLAND. Feb. 2-)-CIoud Cap Inn, historic, rustle resort on the tOO 0-foot level of Mount Hood's north slope, was pur chased today by the United States forest service. Plans for extensive moderniza tion without destroying the inn's picturesque design were an nounced by the Mount Hood na Uonal forest administration, which tuchased the property from Dor ley Smith, Portland, for $5000. It wHl be leased to a private con tern. The Mount Hood Trail and Wa gon Road company constructed the inn in 185S. It commands a spectacular view of the Hood Riv er valley, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens. -The ilte is owned by the forest service. Leap Year Perils Of Bachelor Real Says Cupid Qerk This Leap Tear stuff isn't all blarney I That's the conclusion of dep uties in the county clerk's of fice following the announce ment that three times as many marriage licenses were handed out daring the month of Jan nary Jut passed as in January, 1939. Last year the number was only 11, but during the month ending last Wednesday Depu ties Harlan Judd and Lee Oh mart did the honors for IS wishful couples. Best proof that Leap Tear has something, they pointed .out. Is the fact that the 19S9 marriage law, which went Into effect last June, makes the physical examination required for licenses much stiff er and applicable to both parties. LTI Abaers look at! Troops Falling In Parachutes Are Picked Off Those Who Land Fail to Rally, Are Captured or Shot by Finns Tank - Propelled Sledges Also Fare Badly but Planes Take Toll By WADE WERNER HELSINKI, Feb. 2-(JP)-A. bi zarre and mighty red army on slaught "in the shape of things to come" tonight sent parachute troops, strange, steel - roofed eledges and smoke screen laying tanks against the unyielding de fenses of the Mannerheim line. While the eerie battle on the Karelian isthmus was being waged, more than 20 new civilian deaths from air raids, far behind the fighting lines, brought the week's total of bomb victims in homes, hospitals and other build ings to nearly 100 at the cost of at least 35 soviet planes shot down within the same period. The second day of this almost Wellesian attack, directed at Vii puri, an objective 20 miles dis tant which the soviet army has been unable to reach in nine weeks of war, got nowhere, Finn ish military advices asserted. Many of the parachute troops, dropped' in convoys from dozens of planes, were picked off in the air by sharpshooters or machine gun fire. Those who landed be hind the Finnish lines became separated from their fellow sol diers, stumbled about and began shooting wildly, only to be cap tured or killed by the Finns. They carried automatic rifles to the ground with them. Sledges Attack, - Pwahed byTanka " - , While this ill-fated aerial ex pedition was being disposed of, doiens of Russian tanks again began moving toward the Finn ish lines from the soviet posi tions at Summa, the apex of a triangle on the western Karelian isthmus formed by that town, the Gulf of Finland, and Viipuri, Fin land's second city. The large tanks pushed ar mored sledges ahead of them. (Turn to page 2, col. 7) Peace Proposals Irk Nippon Army TOKYO, Feb. 3-( Saturday )-JP) Parliamentary criticism of the government's policy in China and a suggestion that troops be with drawn to pave the way for a ne gotiated peace drew from infuri ated army officers today a charge that the author made "open in sults against the objectives of the sacred war in China." The army leaders met in an emergency session after Takao Saito, veteran member of the low er house of parliament, had made tho suggestion. He asked the gov ernment to explain the meaning of its program for a "new order in east Asia." A political tempest raged in the diet over the remarks of Saito, long known as one of the boldest critics of the army, who caused similar furores by attacking the military's Influence in national policy in 1935 and 1938. TR's Widow Injured OYSTER BAY, NY, Feb. i-W) Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 77, wid ow of the late president, was shak en up but not seriously injured to day when her automobile skidded Into several other cars on an icy long Island road. Rumania Doesn't Get Pledge Of Definite Balkan Support BELGRADE. Feb. t.-OPWor- ried Rumania, squeezed between strong: demands by Germany and the allies for the lion's snare oi her oil. tonight was reported reli ably to have lost her chance of winning guarantees of automatic support from her neighbors in the Balkan entente. After their first meeting behind closed doors, the foreign ministers of Rumania, Turkey, and Yugo slavia and the premier of Greece were understood to have decided! formally that there would be no change in the present entente. Observers said this meant that representatives of Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece definitely had refused Rumania's request for au tomatic help in the case Of an at tack by Germany or Russia. However, the conferees were re ported to have decided to enlarge economic contact between the four nations and to try to main tain economic relations with the belligerent powers on a pre-war Easts. This was an attempt to prevent being flattened between the conflicting demands of Ger Sf V J Charge aces Ex-Clerk F. L. COON GRANTS PASS, Feb. 3-(P)-Sheriff A. Donley Barnes ar rested Former City Clerk F. L. Coon tonight on a warrant charging larceny of $504 in public funds. Circuit Judge H. D. Norton recently paroled Coon on a pre vious similar charge and of fered to contribute to a fund to help him make restitution. District Attorney Orval JT. Millard said the new shortage was discovered in the "beer in dorsement fund after a one day audit." French-Operated Railroad Bombed Government Will Protest Raids by Japan Planes on Line in China SHANGHAI, Feb. 2-(iiP)-Japa-nese bombing planes renewing raids which have drawn sharp ybtesfr from the French govern ment, blasted again today at the French-operated Hanoi-Kunming railway, killing or wounding 100 persons as they blasted a north bound passenger train 50 miles Inside Chinese territory. Ten of those killed or hurt in the raid, which wrecked a bridge, destroyed the train and disrupt ed traffic on the line, were re ported to be occidentals. Many Frenchmen are employed on the railway. The meter-guage railway, which links Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, with the French Indo-China port of Haiphong by way of Hanoi, is a vital supply line for the Chinese. The Japanese air force has been blasting at it since last year when the Japa nese army drove into Kwangsi province, southwest China, estab lished air bases- there and carried their rising sun flag to the Indo China border. Twenty-seven planes were re ported to have taken part" in the raid. Some of the train passengers were said to have been severely burned by steam from the wrecked engine. A number of British seamen (Turn to page 2, column 5) Widow Claims in, First for County First widow claims In Marion county under the social security law were filed yesterday when three Salem women whose bus bands, covered by the law, died since January 1 filed for widows' benefits, District Manager Rich ard C. Stlllwell announced. Three other claims have been filed from this district' but have come from other counties. About 10 retired workers in this district received their first benefit checks from Washington, DC, Thursday Stlllwell estimated. many and Russia on the one hand and France and Britain on the other. Informed sources said that Ger many was bringing pressure on Rumania to accept a sweeping plan to make Rumania's indus tries, petroleum production and agricultural a f f 1 1 1 a t e s of the retch's economic structure. The entente representatives Foreign Ministers Grigore Gafen- cu of Romania, Sukru Saracoglu of Turkey, and Alksander Cincar- Markovic of Yugoslavia, and Pre mier General John Metaxla of Greece ran Into immediate dif ficulties in their quest for a Bal kan peace formula. They were reported on high au thority to have "agreed to dis agree" Immediately on their indi vidual plans for keeping peace In southeastern Europe. - While ruling agalns t any change in the entente, they decid ed they would Issue a 'commun ique expressing their - fwill" , to settle ' all questions ' with their neighbors in a friendly manner and without force. TOPnWWWblRWSBeisjtWBOTfSjtltisnVBglHBBHSflBSS ' , v ' V v , - - i i ' - t J MM Mhiiili i i ii M i , aiMML' I U Four Members Cleared, Plot On Dies Probe Itepresentatives Attend Dinner but Without Pre-Knowledge Advised Against Use of Documents Involved in Mayne Issue WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-JP- Rep. Starnes (D-Ala), acting chairman of the Dies committee, tonight cleared four members of the house of any "collusion" or "concerted action" to abolish the committee. He told the house that there had been allegations that a Plot to kill the committee was discus sed at a meeting attended by the fourj but that such statements were "wholly untrue and inaccur ate." The four are Reps. Coffee (D Wash), Larrabee (D-Ind), Rams peck (D-Ga) and Murdock CD Utah). Three of these. Coffee, Larra bee and Ramspeck, appeared be fore the committee today. Mur dock is out of the city. The party they attended was given at the home of Gardner Jackson, legislative representa tive of labor's non - partisan league, and Jackson told newsmen a few days ago that the question of continuing the Dies committee was discussed during the evening. Rep. Thomas (R-NJ), a com mittee member, also told news men yesterday that Jackson had testified at a closed committee hearing that possible ways of pre venting continuance of the com mittee were discussed. Statement Made At Night Session Starnes rose at the end of a night house session at which the farm appropriation bill was passed. He said his announcement was made on behalf of the committee. "It has been alleged falsely, so the committee finds," he said, "that these gentlemen attended a dinner or a meeting at which a supposed plot to kill the special committee was discussed and (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Europe Will Need Aid Hoover Warns Famine, Pestilence Ahead if War Is Protracted; Urges Generosity NEW YORK, Feb. 2. -(Former President Herbert Hoover de clared tonight that if the war were long drawn-out the United States would "need to meet the question of famine and pestilence over the whole of Europe." He said that but for American food and American relief in 1918 "famine, pestilence and commun ism would have engulfed Europe." In a speech prepared for the overseas press club of America, Mr. Hoover urged that this coun try remain at peace because "the chance for civilization In Europe to come back again may depend upon America." Appealing for funds to "meet the heartbreaking needs of Fin land and Poland," he said the United States has a food surplus out of which "we can furnish the little nations without depriving our own people of one atom." "I do not believe," he added, "that as a Christian nation or as a nation loving liberty we have any moral right to stand by with these large surpluses of food and see people starve wholesale, who are helpless to help themselves." "And more especially is this true if they are victims of aggres sion, if they are dying on their frontiers fighting for their inde pendence and fighting for the sur vival of human liberty in the world. We have more than enough to supply our own people." French Vessel in Distress, Report THOMASTON. Me., Feb. 2-(P) -Fate of an unidentified French ship which radioed it was in trou ble approximately COO miles west of the Azores remained undis closed tonight as several vessels headed for her position. The distress message, heard by Mackay Radio late yesterday, gave the unlisted call letters "FTGY," indicating the ship had been placed in commission only recenUy. The American freighters Tulsa and Exmoor and other ships were in the vicinity. The Tulsa report ed she was within 100 miles and was proceeding to the scene. Woman Is Killed 4 As Auto Strikes PORTLAND, Ore., Feb., -flV Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 19, died tonight a few minutes after she was struck by an automobile at an east side intersection. Her husband, , Charles B. Brown, 7, walking with her at the time, suffered euts and bruises and possible rib .fractures. . t j Mrs. Brown's death was the 7 th traffic -fatality of 1940 in Portland- " - Farm Bill as It Passes Mouse Reflects $106,928,435 Saving 50 Firms Talk Buying Power At Bonneville Inquiries Cover Field of Many Industries Says Head Man Raver Signed Applications in From 123 Agencies, Over 600,000 Kw. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2-(JPl Bonneville Administrator Paul J. Raver told Secretary of the Inter ior Ickes today that more than 50 firms or individuals had made in quiries concerning purchase of Bonneville power for industrial use. The statement was in Raver's annual report to the secretary. "While most of these inquiries. which cover such fields as electro metallurgical, electro chemical and allied operations, are not like ly prospects for immediate deliv eries of power, negotiations are being actively conducted with a number of those industries having aggregate demands approaching 100,000 kilowatts," he said. The report said the administra tion had received Inquiries and signed applications for power from 123 other agencies, with es timated aggregate preliminary de mands of more than 600,000 kilo watts of firm power. Aluminum Contract Said Merely Start The report predicted tnat tne recent execution of a 20-year con tract with the Aluminum Com pany of America for 32,500 kilo watts of energy "marks the begin ning of industrial expansion nasea on Bonneville power." The com pany recently announced It would construct a plant near Vancouver, Wash. JWver reported that power con tracts had been "signed for sale of more than 57,000 kilowatts of firm power and additional amounts of surplus energy" and predicted that other contracts would soon be signed boosting the sale to more than 100,000 kilo watts which will bring an annual revenue of nearly $1,000,000 for fiscal 1940 and 92,200,000 for fiscal 1941. The report also said that "fea sibility studies indicate that if the wholesale rates are maintained, the government would recover within 15 years of the completion of all power generating units in Bonneville dam not only the full investment allocated by the fed eral power commission to power production, but also Interest thereon at 3 Vi per cent." 2 Burned Fatally In Mystery Blast SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Feb. 2-(JP) -Two prominent Sedro-Woolley men were burned fatally late to day by a mysterious blast in a cold storage lockeT room which was being painted with a spray gun, and a third was injured cri tically. Loyd Crossman, 25, manager of the Arctic lockers, died about 9 p.m., and Roy Campbell, about 55, a tavern owner and a painter, died half an hour later. Their clothes were burned off and the concussion of the blast tore off their shoes. Howard Campbell, 23, who was helping his father in painting the new addition to the locker estab lishment, was able to walk from the building, but was reported to night to have critical back burns. The explosion, attributed to fumes from the paint spray, blew one wall of the new frame building ajar. There were two possible clues to the explosion. Ail-Time Meanie Aspirant Sought; Set Fire to at GOLDENDALE, Wash., Feb. 2. -P) Sheriff C. R. House, aided by an irate group of Goldendale residents today were seeking the identity of Goldendale's all-time candidate for meanest manone who poured gasoline over a cat and then set its fnr afire. Sheriff House said the erased and screaming animal ran across a residential street here last night and into a woodpile setting the wood afire. The cat was so badly burned it was killed as soon as the fire was extinguished. Criminal charges will be pressed if the gasoline douser can be found, the sheriff said. Plywood Workers Seek Shorter Day PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2.-(flV The plywood section of the Oregon-Washington council of AFL lumber and sawmill workers un ions recommended today Its ex ecutive board seek . a shorter working day at the current wage scale. Ex-Inmate of Concentration Camp Talks of Trip Here, not Politics yniM ni'tr - f ...:..'!-r 'I t 'J -4 JOSEF : Recent Vienna Citizen Glad to Be in Salem Informality of American JNoted by new Arrival; Veteran Leather Sorter Finds Employment By WALLACE A. SPRAGUE If you've just arrived from Vienna in Hitler's new Ost mark, if you've had the misfortune to have spent time in a concentration camp before coming, and especially if you've left a good many relatives and friends behind when you came to America, the one thing you won't do when you get here is talk politics in any way, shape, form or manner. : O That, at least, is the opinion of . i wi i v trews ot English Subs Are Rescued Men From two Destroyed in Helgoland Bight Prisoners, Word LONDON, Feb. S. -(Saturday )- (P)-The British Press association said today that it understood the entire crews of the sunken British submarines Starfish and Undine were prisoners of war in Germany. The Starfish and Undine were destroyed In Helgoland Bight on January 15. The admiralty has listed the crew of the Starfish as five officers and 24 men and the Undine's as four officers and 26 men. The British submarine Sea horse also was lost in the Bight (Turn to Ftge t, Col. 3.) Salem Guard Unit Ranks 3rd, State Salem's Headquarters battery, 249th coast artillery, rated 92.8 per cent to win third place in the annual Oregon national guard competition for the unit having the highest attendance at armory drills. Major General George A. White announced here yesterday. Company C, 162nd -infantry, took first place with an average of 94.6 per cent and Company D of the same regiment, with 93.4 per cent, placed second. The 249th coast artillery regi ment took first place in regimen tal ratings w i t h an average at- ( tendance of 89.3 per cent. Manager Plan In Talk by ex-Mayor Kuhn Adoption of a managership form of city government for Salem was advocated by Former Mayor V. E. Kuhn in a talk before the Salem Credit association yesterday noon at the Argo hoteL - Describing the present council of 14 members as "an unwieldy body In which there is little co operation between departments," he said the mistakes in the old charter drafted in 1862 should be rectified in the light of experience. A council of five members elected at large, rather . than by wards, .was also recommended by Kuhn. Objection to a commission form of government, sometimes sug gested as an alternative change, is that it would be too costly for Salem, . Kuhn said, since it would require at: least; three paid : com 7T7 ..Tj ; Staff photo. KRAUTH Life Is one Pleasing Item I Jsef Krauth, who reached Salem recently with his wife Milada and daughter Johanna after having left the German reich early in De cember. Tou don't mind talking about the weather, the pleasantness of the trip, the size of the buildings in New,, York, or how big Amer ica is, Krauth indicated yester day, but if you're wise you don't have anything to say when some one asks how is the coffee in Vien na these days. Krauth, who was a leather sort er for 30 years in one of the larg est leather goods stores in the Austrian capital, was happy to talk -in his native German yes terday when a reporter interrupt ed him at the F. N. Shafer leather goods store where he is currently employed. Voyage Is Pleasant, Sea llrnnsiiallv Calm I "We left Vienna on December 1," he said, "reached Rotterdam a day or two later, and boarded one of the Holland - American ships to come to America. "The voyage across was ex tremely pleasant the people on the ship told us it' hadn't been that calm in mid-winter for years before. And when we reached New York the Immense buildings much larger than in Vienna were clearly to be seen." (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Whitdker Named Census Taker for Stayton Area A. ft. McCall, district census supervisor, yesterday announced the appointment of John -O. Whi taker as census enumerator for Stayton; Arthur H. Paquet, Til lamook; Mrs. Eleanor - W. Rich, Newberg, and Lester W. Wllli ford, McMinnville. All are residents of the areas In which they will serve. Is Advocated missioners. Salem is not large enough to justify the expense, he stated. '" ' . , "Managership form Is the most practical form of government for this city. the former mayor said. "Salem is a $15,000,000 business. No other type of business of near that size would think of operating without a competent paid official at its head to manage its affairs. The most discouraging fact about oar present form is that there is no direct supervision of the var ious divisions. A manager would rectify this condition," 7 Besides two terms as mayor, Kuhn served nine years on the council and is now a member of a committee appointed by Mayor W. W. Chadwick to investigate possi ble changes in tfceJ:Ity govern ment i . jry m, Tenant Relief Fund Left out In Close Vote Sugar Benefit Restore3 as Only Concession by Economyites -i Cut Technically Is Only 67 Million but REA Item Is Included WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-p)-De-spite Roosevelt's protests at cuts made in his farm funds recom mendations, the house tonight passed an agriculture department appropriation bill which contained 366,928,435 less than he asked. The measure, carrying money for the department's far-flung crop control and other programs for the fiscal year 1941, totaled $722,001,084, which was $579, 339,231 under the total available for the current fiscal year. While officially the total of the bill was $66,928,435 less than the president asked, the nit sMnall could be considered $106,928,435. xne president's original budget called for $40,000,000 for the rur al electrification administration, but this money did not figure in the total of the bill originally be cause it was to be borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance cor poration. However, the bill as It passed tonight provides that the money shall be appropriated in steaded of borrowed. It now fig ures in the bill's total. Sugar Benefit Only Farm Bloc Victory Farm blocs, engulfed by the current congressional economy drive, fought cuts in the bill da-' manded by the house appropria tions committee, but succeeded ia; only one major controversy. , That was a $47,500,000 fundi for bene fit" paynrents id sugar growers. . Farm members made no at tempt to write into the bill the customary $225,000,000 fund for "parity payments" and lost In at tempts to restore a $25,000,009 (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Bourbons Scheme, Later Convention Would Wait to Set Date Until After Meeting of GOP Committee WASHINGTON. Feb. 2-(.4V An increasing number of demo crats are seeking to force repub- licans to hold their national con- , mention first and republicaa leaders conceded today that the effort might be successful. Several senate democrats said the party's national committee should take no action on a con vention date when it meets Mon day, but should turn the Job over to a subcommittee. The subcom mitte could delay picking a date until after the republican national committee meeting February If and hence could choose a later one than that selected by the GOP. Endorsement of this strategy came from Senators Pepper D Fla) and Murray (D-Mont.), among others. Another democra tic senator, speaking anonymous ly, said he. had been in touch with a number of committeemen and that most believed a decision on the convention date should ba de layed. Many republicans. Including Chairman John Hamilton, have been anxious to have a look at the democratic nominee and platform before the GOP convention. It was in order to have second choke on convention dates that Hamil ton set his national committed meeting later than that of the democratic Groundhog Spies Shadow Early in v Day, Sends Rain The reputation of the ground nog as a weather prognostica tor was Increased yesterday when Groundhog day dawned clear and sunny but suddenly turned cloudy about t o'clock. First rain in a week fell in Salem around noon, which would indicate that Mr. Ground hog saw his shadow during the sun's brief appearance and scur ried back to his hole for six more weeks of winter, accord ing to those wen posted on sup erstitions. ' Bat who cares, If it's winter such as Salem has experienced so xar mis- year i . Scattered showers fell from an overcast sky, while the tern- . perature rose only to 45 de grees, the lowest maximum for a week. The minimum was St degrees. : 4 The weather bureau's fore Mct rain todav and Satur- day with moderate tempera- w tures.