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The Weather t'oreratt: rain tonlcht and Tamua.v: utile change In trmperaturt: moderate to frcMi anulhpast wind. Highest yesterday 6s Lonpst thft morning .4g Real Advantages Hhop for uvlnc the Want Ad nay. ThouMtnds of ejM are on the r!ali,rd page etery cvrnlng. Join the readett and you will realize there are real oihantacrs fur tliobe who hae this habit. Medford BUNE Full Associated Praia 11 United Pr Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 19-10. No. 242. ATtE Washington, D. C Jan. 1. In the big, ugly, red brick build ing, the government printing of fice, where thousands are em ployed on three shifts, the presses are turning out the ad ministration's most carefully Ruarded secret the budget. ! While President Roosevelt, with members of the inner cir cle, are working on what will be his last formal message to con gress (unless he is elected for a third term), the printing office is working day and night to have the budget ready for re lease and distribution Thursday, at the latest, but if mechanic ally possible, for Wednesday, when congress convenes. ITNTIL released only the dl- rector of the budget, the president and the printers and proof readers will know what each and every government ac tivity will receive (provided con gress makes the appropriation. Sometime late Wednesday af-k-rnoon or early Thursday the 'people of the Pacific Northwest 'will be able to learn whether the president favors expanding R ( the personnel and payroll of 5 ; Bonneville; what ho favors for '.' (Grand Coulee, for the various j.' reclamation projects in the area. j AS PRINTED, the budget is f " larger and thicker than a mail-order catalogue; twice as thick as the most hefty tele phone book in Oregon or Wash ington. It has more pages than Sanburg's four volume bio graphy of Abraham Lincoln. No one ever thumbs the hundreds and hundreds of pages filled with tables of figures showing .-how many atitomohJ?.is. the for- est service needs, or is allowed; what the president thinks is re quired by Deschutes project, for Crater Lake, the revested O. & C. lands, for exterminating bugs in the Ponderosa pines, for I weather forecasts, for travel ex- pense. Every federal agency, without exception, is sitting on pins and needles wondering what the (Continued on Page Two ) PLUNGE TO DEATH Chicago, Jan. 1. (U.R) Mrs. Anita Hoffberg. 26, wife of a Chicago building contractor, listened for 20 minutes Sunday to her mother's telephoned pleas not to commit suicide, then hung up abruptly and leaped to her death from the 21st floor of a downtown hotel. "I talked to her for 20 min utes," the mother said. "Then all of a sudden she hung up. I tried to trace the call, but it was too late then." The hotel management re ported that Mrs. Hoffberg, moth er of one child, had registered in the afternoon. Less than 40 minutes later, Mrs. Hoffberg was dead. Her body hurtled to the sidewalk in view of scores of pedestrians on Michigan ave nue. SIPE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS . Grandpa John and Grandma Jean Perl having Just as much fun as their grandchildren. Billy and Marieanne Perl, at the Crate show. Belle Paine enthusiastically inquiring If there was to be a paper today, and upon an affirmative answer being very cheerful. D. Ford McCormick fascinat ing a couple of fans with in teresting tales regarding Clip per flights, Latin countries and all. Jessie Mastin exhuberantly wishing a group of friends a swell New Year and vice versa. ' Everett Brayton and Walker (Quiz' Quienbrrry being re garded as the gold dust twins s they staeed some funny go- tjn-on, one starting in where e oLUer left oil and such. owl games Rose First period: U.S.C. 0; Vols 0. Pasadena. Calif., Jan. 1 i,V With football honors of the Old South and the Far West at stake, Tennessee's Volunteers and Southern California's Trojans matched gridiron strategy, brawn and punch here today before a capacity Rose Bowl throng of 92,000 fans. The classic was played under gloomy skies and in the face of a slight wind that swooped down on the field in occasional gusts. Rebel yells of some 5,000 Tennessee rooters whooped friendly challenges to the home guards. Tennessee won the toss, chose to receive, and chalked up a first down on a 15-yard thrust in five plays. Tailback Cafego packed twice, for a total of 8 yards while Fullback Coffman ripped off 9 yards with a sneaker through guard. The Trojans took the ball on a long punt from Coffman and made 9 yards on tries by Lansdell and Peoples. They kicked from their own 24. East - First period: East 7; West 7. . . . San Francisco, Jan. 1. (IP) The West scored an aerial touchdown in the first six minutes of play in the 15th annual Shrine East-West football game here today. Before the approximately 45,000 fans who braved inter mittent showers could get used to the wet seats, Kay Eakin, Arkansas halfback, heaved a 50-yard pass to Bill Anahu, Santa Clara end, who was virtually in the clear as he sped 25 yards down the left sideline to the goal. Dick Favor. Oklahoma quarterback, kicked the extra point. The West took to the air after the easterners had been held to a standstill on the ground. Two days of rain left the Kezar stadium field soaked do spite a protective canvas, and at the kickoff a light drizzle fell. One minute before the end of the period the East tied up the game at 7-7 on a short pass from Ed Boell, New York university quarterback, to George Stirnweiss, North Carolina halfback, who grabbed the pass on the West 23 and eluded five western players. The place kick for extra point by Ben Kish, Pittsburgh fullback, was blocked, but carried over the goal line by end Francis Stulgaitis of Columbia. Orange Final: Georgia Tech 21, Missouri 7. Miami, Fla Jan. 1 MP) Georgia Tech's slick football corps got up off the floor today to whip Missouri's Big Six champions, 21-7, after Paul Christman and company had scored first in the Orange Bowl test before 38,000 customers. Missouri started with a rush against the Southeastern co champions by "stealing" the ball from Howard Ector in the first five minutes and marching 45 yards to a score with Christman bucking the final half foot after setting it up with two fine passes. But Tech mixed deception and power to roll 68 yards for the tying touchdown in the same quarter, Ector diving the last foot after fumbling and recovering on the 1-yard line. The Engineers swept into the lead In the second frame when Bob Ison galloped 59 yards on an end-around sweep in which he took the ball after a double fake and completely fooled the scrap ping Tigers. Another dose of hocus-pocus clicked in the third frame when Earl Wheby traveled 34 yards after a double reverse in which three men handled the ball. Sun Second period: Catholic U. 0; Tempe 0. EI Paso, Tex., Jan. 1. (IP) Arizona State of Tempe and Catholic university battled to a halftime deadlock in the Sun bowl today, the Arizonans smashing repeatedly at the Card inals' sturdy line to threaten in both periods. Two Tempe fumbles and a partly blocked punt placed Tempo in the hole twice, but the easterners each time failed to capitalize. Tempe gained five first downs to three and 76 yards from scrimmage against Catholic's 46 in the first half. Cotton Final Clemenson 6; Boston C. 3. Dallas, Jan. 1. (IP) Clcmson halted Boston college in the shadow of its goal line in the final three minutes today to win the Cotton Bowl game, 6-3, in a wild and wooly battle that kept a crowd of 20.000 on its toes. Charley Timmons plunged for Clemson's touchdown and Alex Lukachik kicked a field goal for Boston college. Sugar New Orleans. Jan. l.W Behind the battering power of Jarrin John Kimbrough. the Texas Aggies today stopped Tu- lane, 14 to 13, before 73.000 frenzied Sugar Bowl fans who saw lulane leading by one touchdown for a short time in the final period. PROWLER KILLED TO FLEE Chico. Cal.. Jan 1. (U.R) Lest Raker, 21, was shot In the back Sunday when he attempted to escape from E. J. Lurati while Lurati was marching him to the police station. Lurati and his sister, Mrs. Margaret Holm, who witnessed the shooting, were held by po lice for questioning. Lurati told police he found Raker prowling in the bedroom of Mrs. Holm's two daughters, aged 14 and 16, while they were sleeping. He captured Raker by threatening him with a .12 guage shotgun. Only three American eoh??i wnnam and Mrr. Harvard. Yale are older than tba University of Havana West IN DEEP SILENCE Washington, Jan. 1. (p) Vice President Garner, arriving for the 1940 session of congress, said today he had "no com ment on the weather, politics, economics or any other subject you might mention." Garner, who spent much of his vacation hunting in the vi cinity of his Uvalde, Texas, home, appeared in ruddy good health and high spirits. The Texan declined to say when he might talk with Presi dent Roosevelt, but added that this question probably would be answered tomorrow. Mr. Roosevelt presumably plans to talk with legislative leaders be fore the session ttarU Wednej-day. FINNS MOPPING UP AFTER SHATTERING Red Survivors Chased Like Rabbits Through Snow, Trees Near Suomussalmi. Helsinki, Jan. 1. P) The destruction of another Russian column and ' continued pursuit of the Red army were reported today by the Finnish high com mand. "Our troops destroyed an en emy column of 12 cars," said the communique, describing an ac tion near Salla on the northern central front, above the Arctic circle. Continue Chase In the Suomussalmi sector, some 160 miles to the south, the Finns continued their chase of the 163rd division of some 15,000, which yesterday's com munique reported "definitely cut up and for the most part de stroyed." Further war material was col lected in this sector to be added to huge quantities already taken. The high command said Rus sian planes flew over the Nor wegian frontier in the Petsamo, or northernmost, fighting zone. 1 and dropped two bombs on Nor wegian territory. It was officially announced that Turku (Abo) was heavily bombed today but there were no reports of casualties or damage. Hunt Panicky Redi Like huntsmen, the Finns trailed their panicky quarry through snows and forests of the Lake Kianta country in the region of Suomussalmi, ready to fight it out or take prisoners in surrender. The Finnish high command reported the 'great victory" last night after the two-day battle in which "the enemy's 163rd divi- sion. was definite!;' cu up'nnc! for the most part destroyed. "Remnants of the division were partly scattered in the for est and partly fleeing, pursued by our troops, toward Juntus ranta. . . . the enemy's losses can be counted in the thousands, (Juntusranta lies about 27 miles northeast of Suomussalmi on the middle eastern front and i i.-3 uiaji live limes irom ne Russian border. Conceivably, Finnish patrols might cross the frontier there in pursuit of the 163d's survivors.) Major War Upset Finland rejoiced over the out come of the battle which raged through Friday and Saturday perhaps the greatest upset of the 32-day-old war, except the war itself. However, the grim joy in this! triumph over part of the vastl army of invaders on or within! Finland's frontiers was tempered1 by reports from southern and western cities caught in the sweep of Russian bombing planes. It was announced that 14 civilians were killed in an air raid on Jyvaskyla, 170 northeast of Helinski. The capital itself W3S quiet today, without air raid alarms. Apparently hardest hit in the air attacks was the western coastal town of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia, where 24 to 30 planes dropped more than 100 bombs in four raids within an hour yesterday. I uf J WAT HUllRTinS 1 London. Jan. 1. iP) King George VI tonight ligne'd a proclamation providing for regiitration of approximately two million more Britons for military service. Helsinki, Jan. 1. (fP) Many buildings in Turku, tea port city which has been the terminus of war materials sent to the Finns from their Scan dinavia friends, were report ed in flames late tonight after a fierce raid by Soviet bomb ers. Officer Suicides. Portland, Jan. 1. MP) Char les McDulin, 50, special police man assigned to the Eastmorc land district here, died of a gunshot wound in the head early Sunday, Coroner R. M. Erwin said. He had been in ill health. Portland. Jan. 1. (Pi Sharp drops In shipments of flour, wheat and fresh fruit from Port land cut the value of December exports to $1,253,714, but the year's total went 10 per cent over tha 1938 figure. Rescue Hero Tf J ' l . . i' R. E. Decker (above), 28, Seattle, is shown in a hospital where he was taken after rescu ing Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Slelte, neighbori, from thoir burning home. Decker climbed a ladder to the Stelles' upstairs bedroom and dropped them unconscious, to the ground. The Steltoa' son Gerold, 20 months. suffocated. i TO AIO CONGRESS SOLVE PROBLEMS By H. R. Ingraham Washington, Jan. 1. (P) Improved business conditions may help congress solve some of the momentous problems pil ing up for the session beginning Wednesday. Congressional leaders exnress- ed belief, for instance, that the goneral economic -s i tu a 1 1 o n would materially lighten the unemployment relief load and ease the pressure for new or higher taxes. Revenues Zoom Their contentions were bols tered by an increase in estimat- ph immirv mm,',.c fm iha : $5,700,000,000 predicted for this i year to about $6,200,000,000, a , j.lmn whirh wnnM hnlr. linM the prospective deficit to be tween two and three billion dol lars. Speaker Bankhead has sug gested, too, that higher prices for farm products might make it unnecessary for congress to appropriate funds for parity payments to farmers a current subject of controversy between ""' " Stormy Session Seen Nevertheless, other pressing : domestic issues, complicated by imernaiionai lurmou ana the accelerating presidential elec tion campaign, foreshadowed a stormy and possibly prolonged session. Bankhead told reporters It virtually was inevitable that, under the pressure of a presi dential campaign, administra tion opponents would press their causes with a maximum of de- I bate and parliamentary maneu- ; venng. sharply contrasting condl tion wjH nrcvail in the senate and house during the early days of the session. President Roosevelt will de liver his annual message in per son to a Joint session Wednesday afternoon and submit his bud get message on proposed expen ditures on Thursday. London, Jon. 1. (IP) One of two German warplanes raiding the Shetland Islands today made a power dive over a British war ship, dropping bombs as it swooped low but foiling to in flict damage British officials an nounced. The air ministry, reporting the raid north of Scotland, said one of the raiders apparently had been shot down, as was a third German plane In an en counter with a coastal patrol plane over the North Sea. Anti-aircraft guns on the war ships, which the announcement did not identify, directed heavy fire at the plane which levelled off and flew away from the Shetlands. of 1940 GF(ED BY,I IN U. S. GUNS IfHUROPE Millions Spent in Night Clubs-Largest Celebra tions in Bowl Game Cities. By the Associated Press Life began for young Mr. 1040 today and he liked it. For the first half dozen hours of his life the infant year heard nothing but laughter and music; saw nothing but gayety and mer rymaking. That was in America. He stumbled around in con fusion in Europe entering the war-stricken countries guided only by the flash of cannon. The nightly blackout was a somber setting but there was not much gayety arrows the Atlantic. t S. Spends Hoavy Americans hit the jackpot of hilarity in the dying hours of 1939 and then spent their en thusiasm welcoming the new year and new decade. The celebrants there were hundreds of thousands aided by the Sabbath holiday started early and stayed late for the business at hand. Some of the merrymakers had their celebra tions slightly curbed because of the Sunday liquor laws but for the most part there were no restrictions and millions of dol lars were spent in night clubs, bars and hotels. Today's football games brought thousands of visitors to the "bowl" cities and they joined in the revelry. Los An geles had the wildest celebra tion in a decade. The central downtown area was blocked off to all but pedestrians. The movie celebrities were at the high priced Hollywood and Beverly Hills cafes and night clubs. Amusement piers and nearby beach towns were jammed. Miami Riotous Micml in the midst of tlie Orange Bowl festival had ( riotous celebration. Harried po liccmen gave up efforts to coiv trol traffic and pedestrians. In New Orleans, another bowl city, the merrymakers crowded wide Canal street in hornblow- ing jamboree and night clubs turned away crowds. Now York's Times Square and Chicago's Randolph and State streets were massed with horn- tooters and cowbell ringers. The swank Everglades club at Palm Beach had its largest party and other resort night clubs had sellouts. 20 SAIL0RMEN. LOST IN NORTH SEA BLAST Lonton, Jan. 1. (IP) The British steamer Box Hill, 5,677 tons, sank in the North sea yes' terdiiy after an explosion which was believed to have resulted in the loss of 20 members of the ship's crew. Twelve surviving members of the crew of 32 landed at a Brl tlsh port today. Robert FechnerCCC Founder Dies of Heart, Lung Ailments Washington, Jan. 1. (IP) Robert Fochncr, who put depression-Idle youth to work rebuilding America's forests and parks in the CCC, Is dead. President Roosevelt said he had brought into public service "great administrative ability vision and indefatigable indus try." Fcchncr, who died yesterday, at 63, from a complication of heart and lung ailments, had formed the forest army of un- Robert Fechner May cad, m, 1 KA)' 1 The St. Joieph (Mo.) Gasetie said it had learned from "usu ally reliable sources" that Don Faurot (above) University of Missouri football coach, will take over football duties at Stanford university at S8.500 a year, succeeding Tiny Thorn hill, recontly dropped. FLOODS HOD MISERY FOR SURVIVORS OF TEWIBL Ankara, Jan. 1. (P) Floods added new misery, deaths and damage to the toll exacted by last week's earthquakes and blizzards. Rain-swollen rivers ran out of control some 700 miles west of the earthquake zone. The Swyrna and Brusa districts in Asiatic Turkey and Adrlanople on the European side were af fected most severely. Tons of thousands were add ed by the floods to the thous ands already camping In the numbing cold of open fields in the earthquake disaster region. Livestock, houses and some of their occupants were carried off. While no death toll for the flood thus far was available, more serious losses were feared before the waters nbatcd. Blizzards, meanwhile, drafted snow over the northern and eastern Anatolia district shaken by last week's earth tremors. The cold steadily Increased the 40,000 deaths already attributed to the disaster and its after effects. Reports from the city of Er zincan, hardest hit by the trem ors, said hunger-crazed, half frozen survivors attacked a re lief crew arriving there, scream ing for bread and other aid. employed young men and war veterans In the early days of the new deal. In the seven years that the corps has fought forest fires, rescued lost mountain-climbers, aided flood sufferers and those made homeless by tornadoes, about 2,400,000 men have serv ed In its scattered camps. Fechner, former vice presi dent of the International Asso ciation of Machinists, had been a boomer machinist In his day, working at mines, smelters and plantations through Mexico, Central and South America. He worked for a time on the Pan ama canal. Because he served with the Second George infantry during the Spanish-American war, he will be buried tomorrow In Arlington national cemetery. Born in Chattanooga, Tcnn., March 22, 1876, he left public school at 15 to sell periodicals notions and candy on railway trains. " In respect to the memory of Mr. Fechner, flags will be flown at half mast throughout the Medford and all other CCC dis tricts until sundown Tuesday, it was announced today by Capt, Philo D. Smith, Medford district adjutant. Eg tr x SIX CCC YOUTHS HURT AS TRUCKS COLLIDUN FOG Two Hospitalized With Ser ious Injuries G. P. Man Killed in Provolt Mishap. Eight youths were injured, two seriously, in traffic acci dents in the Medford area over the New Year's week-end. Altho reported accidents were few compared with the Christmas list, the New Year's mishaps were much more severe. In Josephine county, near the Jackson county boundary at Provolt, Phillip R. Penn, 23, Grants Pass service station em ploye, was killed yesterday. His car skidded, overturned and pinned him beneath. He was travelling alone. He excelled in football when he was a student at a Portland high school. Two Hospitalised Ricnard L. Shelton, 23, was in a critical condition in Sacred Heart hospital today as a result of a collision between two CCC trucks last evening on the Butte Falls road nine miles east of the Crater Lake highway. In the hospital also was Joe Martin, 21, who suffered a fractured noso and lacerations in the same acci dent. Shelton suffered a frac tured jaw, several broken ribs and internal injuries, the at tending CCC surgeon said. The doctor said his condition was serious. Samuel Brewer, 22, was also taken to Sacred Heart hospital from the CCC crash but was dis missed after receiving first aid treatment. Willie Sexton, Carl , Crowd and Arthur Kalen were injured slightly and were treat ed at the South Fork CCC camp infirmary. All Were CCC Enrotlees Robert Sutton, 14, of Central Point,' was confined to Sacred Heart hospital today with a fractured left ankle suffered when his bicycle was struck by a car as he was pedalling along East Jackson boulevard near Riverside avenue about 1:30 Sunday morning. Ernest Sutton, Robert' broth er who was riding on the bi cycle, was treated at the hospital for general bruises and dis missed. v Hit From Rear A report given police by the boys' father, R. J. Sutton, said the bicycle was Hit from the rear, that the driver upbraided the boys, told them they were not hurt and ordered them to get on home. Virgil Leslie came along then and took the boys to the hospital, Mr. Sutton'a re port slated. City police, having learned who the asserted driver of the car was, wero to lnvostl gate the driver's conduct at the accident. The CCC trucks were badly damaged, the body of one being torn completely off. Fog, which . had reduced visibility, was blamed for the accident. One truck, operated by Mar tin and containing 18 other CCC cnrollceg, was headed for Med ford from Camp South Fork, the boys being en route to town for an evening of recreation. The other truck, operated by Elton Graham and containing two other CCC men, was going In the opposite direction to Camp South Fork from the Un ion Creek sidecamp. Not enough clearance was left and the trucks sideswiped, the accident occur ring at 6:30 when It was get ting dark and a thick fog ob scured vision, state police re ported. Shelton, Martin and Brewer were taken to the hospital by Walter R. Allen, who resides near the scene of the accident, Craih Near Phoenix Only other New Year's holi day accident reported up to this afternoon Involved cars oper ated by Dave Gould, 32, of 223 West Jackson boulevard and Roy Love, 27, of 126 Portland avenue. Tho cars collided yes terday afternoon on the Pacific highway near Phoenix, accord ing to the report. Each driver blamed the other. A belated report today showed that Mary A. Collier of Phoenix was Involved in an ac cident last Tuesday. The nature of the mishap was not listed. Publisher Dies ) Myrtle Point, Ore., Jan. 1. (JP) Robert L. Tucker, 40, for ten years publisher of the Myr tle Point Herald, died early to day. The cause of death waa not immediately determined. Tucker worked yesterday altho he had been in poor health for tow, Un
