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OOD MORNING! Be slow in considering but resolute in action. Bias. EATHER FORECAST Unsettled and cool today and Saturday; Saturday scattered showers. vSS. (KORNENB ISSUE OF THE FASADENA (TAR REWS1 PUBLISHED DAILY VOLUME 18, NO.

112 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1937 COMPLETE EASED ttIRE NEWS SERVICE RECORD THRONGS WILL VIEW ROSE PARADE TODAY QUEEN NANCY TO GREET THRONGS 1937 TO BE FIRST YEAR OF REAL PROSPERITY SINCE 1929 -B ARSON Eight Per Cent Gain In Business, Real Estate Boom, Higher Wages And More Jobs Predicted By Economist i if 55FLOATS, AT 9:30, TO MOVEAWAY Tournament Officials Confident Sun Will Shine On Crowds 'w 4. OUTLOOK BRIGHT Ship With 52 Aboard Sends SOS For Aid Coast Guard Cutter Speeds To Rescue Of Freighter BOSTON, (Friday) Jan. 1. (UP) The Coast Guard Cutter Algonquin end the Patrol Boat Faunce early today sped to the a.ssitance of the New York-bound Freighter City of St. Louis, aground on Hog Island off Buzzards Bay with a crew of 52 Bboard.

The vessel radioed for Coast Guard assistance shortly before midnight. First reports said the City of St. Louis, of the Savannah Lines, was a passenger steamer. However Coast Guard Headquarters here later reported the vessel, which left Boston Thursday, recently was converted into a freighter. Lloyds register listed the ship as being a 5425-ton craft, owned by the Ocean S.

S. Company of Savannah. Her port of registry is Savannah. She was built in 1910. Expect Crucial Development In Kidnaping Long-Awaited 'Break' Indicated Near By Family Friend TACOMA, Dec.

31. (UP) Lieutenant Colonel Gus B. Appleman, long-time friend of Dr. William W. Mattson, tonight told the United Press that he was expecting a crucial development anytime now in the kidnaping of Mattsons 10 year old son Charles.

The statement of the man who frequently has been mentioned as a possible intermediary between the Mattson family and the kidnaper was interpreted as meaning either: 1. That definite contact had been made with the abductor and that complete arrangements had been effected for handing over the $28,000 ransom, or 2. That the ransom already had been paid and that Appleman was "expecting the release of the boy. Family Waits News When he talked briefly to the United Press, Appleman was walking into the Mattson home which was noticeably quiet tonight after the bustling activity of yesterday and last night. In his arms he carried several packages.

Observers thought it possible that eilher a man from the Federal Bureau of Investigation or some other person was acting as the "go-between. Both contentions lacked confirmation. Meanwhile, the weary family sat around the fireplace of the Mattson home, hoping that their child would be returned within a few horns. Frequent Trips Dr. and Mrs.

Mattson were approaching exhaustion from the ordeal of wouy und waiting for Iheir 1. ici. a-uv ment agencies retleeted iheir concern over the boys fate. Mattson, Ins face lined by strain, has made frequent trips from the house the past two days either alone or accompanied by his 1G-vear-old son, William, Jr. Mrs.

Matron has not left the home since she and her husband returned Sunday evening from a wedding to find Chailes gone and her two older children and a guest in a frenzv of fear from the kidnaper's sudden coup. By ROGER BABSOX BABSON PARK, Jan. 1. (Special to The Post.) I predict that 1937 will be our first year of real prosperity since 1929! It will be a year of genuine business expansion, considerable real estate activity, constant labor troubles, shortages of skilled workers, rising prices and living costs, and brisk $retail trade. Nearly every line will enjoy good gains in both volume and profits with the heavy industries showing the greatest percentage improvement.

Tuck this forecast away for a check-up next December and I predict that you will find general business around 8 per cent above todays figures and not far from the 1929 peaks Business At Normal A year ago at this time my forecast was: "By next Christmas general business, as measured by the Babsonchart, should be hugging the X-Y Normal Line and heading into another period of prosperity. Statistically, that is exactly where business is today. We are right square on normal! For the first time in fourteen years, we are crossing the X-Y Normal Line on the way into a new prosperity era. A moments retrospect shows the tremendous distance that we have covered since we touched bottom in March, 1933. The total gain in business has been 78 per cent! Nearly a third of this rise has come during 1936 alone.

1936 Remarkable Year The year just closed has been a remarkable one in many ways. While it is generally believed that elections do not change the basic course of business, most analysts concede that they are temporarily upsetting. The tide of recovery was running so strong 1936, however, that it swept over every obstacle and washed out the old year in a burst of glory, There are scarcely any figures on record that can match 193G's steady gams in jobs, payrolls, industrial activity, profits, and dividends. Topping off the year was a real post-election boom. Wave after wave of wage boosts and (Continued on Page Ten) The Tournament Of Roses; What And Why Is It? Two men, of diffeient temperaments, asked two questions.

One asked: Is the Tournament of Roses beautiful? The other asked: Does it pay? I answered "yes" to both questions. but I did not mean exactly what the questioners meant. As to beauty. Mount San Antonio, clothed to its knees in snow this New Year's Day, is no more beautiful than a single snow crystal. But we are much more likely to look at it and admire it.

Three golden yellow roses on a bush are more beautiful, really, than three thousand on a float, if we stop to look at them. But we don't. We may pause with Ruskin to contemplate the philosophy of beauty, or with Shelley to weep with ecslacy over the measureless orbits within the dewdrop. We may pause, but not for long. Our pagan eyes search restlessly for the vivid, the dramatic, even the rococo.

Folk festivals of many kirtds owe their origin in part to this search for the dramatically beautiful. They owe their origin in part alo to the social instinct, the desire to get together and have a good time. The Tournament of Boses is a folk festival, no than if it were the creation of a remole group of villagers in Czechoslovakia. Sometimes we forget we are folk, but it is true in spile of everything. We are not so When Grand Marshal Eu gene Biscailuz, astride a prancing white Palomino horse, waves his hand in a sweeping gesture at 9:30 o'clock this morning, the 43th annual Tournament of Roses parade will be under way.

It will proceed in majestic splendor over a four-mile route before the admiring eyes of 1,500,000 spectators expected as the city's guests for the day. And if the superstitious hunches of Tournament President Cyril Bennett and the predictions of weather observers are upheld, Pasadena's usual good luck with New Year's Day sunshine will be sustained for the holiday throng. President Bennett wore his vest buttons askew all day yesterday on the advice that such procedure would insure clear skies. Highways leading info Pasadena were jammed with traffic even before daylight this morning with out-of-town visitors anxious to locate advantageous positions to view the parade. Hours before the parade was due, spectators, many armed with camp stools, occupied the front spaces behind the "honor lines painted in the streets.

Working All Night Float decorators who have been constructing their masterpieces for several weeks, worked the entire night placing the roses and more perishable flowers which are left until the last minute. At midnight when several hundred decorators gathered at the Garfield school to partake of a hot lunch served by the Tournament of Rosen Association reports were continued that sufficient flowers had been received to complete all floats despite damage suffered by some flower grower during the rain. Float judges, hose Identities always remain anonymous, began NANCY BlMPl'S Who will reign today as Queen of the Tournament of Roses Parade. She and her attendants, riding on a beautiful float, will greet the estimated 1,590,090 person? ho will be gathered along the line of march to view the floral parade. FOOTBALL GAME WILL START AT 2:15 TODAY Tie Possible As Washington And Pittsburgh Prepare For East-West Grid Classic By R.

C. SAMUELSEN Two of the nations leading football teams, so evenly matched that the wagering odds were reported even last night, will meet in the Rose Bowl at 2.15 o'clock this afternoon when the University of Washington opposes the Uimeisity of Pittsburgh in the twonty-seeond annual Tour-1, if ilo is ilj.ie The game vid he placed hi foie the hugest crowd ever to see a game in Pasa- Todays Program jcltna, with a capacity crowd of 87,196 attending. All of the actual E5.511 Rose Bowl seats were sold out on Dec. 4, one week after the sale opened, but additional seats have been installed at the ends of the Held to insure a new attendance record. Coaches Pleased As time for the game neared, both roaches, Jimmy Fhelnn of Washington and "Jork Sutherland of Pittsburgh were cheered by the announcement that clear weather, with no rain, was predicted for today.

The two rival mentors prefer a fast, dry field to execute their offensive plans. Sutherland was especially pleased with the condition of the Rose Bowl 9:30 a. m. Tournament of Roses parade. Starts at Orange Grove Avenue and California Street, proceeds north to Colot ado Street, and west to Tournament Park.

9:30 a. m. to 10.13 Description of Tournament Parade over Radio KFI, KXX and KHJ. 12 noon Lunrheon for mayors at Brooksidc Park; also luncheon for tournament guests at Hotel Vista del Arroyo. 2 p.

m. Football game, Rose Bowl (will be broadcast over KFI). PATIENT SHOOTS IIIS NURSE 2 p. m. Post-parade exhibit of floats at Tournament Park (continuous until midnight).

5 p. m. Mile of Christmas trees opens. 9 p. m.

Presentation of football trophy to winning team at Biltmorc Hotel. different from our grandfathers or from the villagers of Czechoslovakia. We like our holidays and the splashes of beauty that may be brought to interrupt the routine of our years. But our festivals must express us as we are, not as some other people are or were. The Tournament of Roses is the Riviera translated into English.

It is the spirit of the ancient village brought down to today and planted at the crossroads of the West. Yes, the Tournament of Roses is beautiful. It is beautiful, not because three thousand roses "are lovelier than three, but because it expresses, with emphasis and with whatever vivacity we may summon, the spirit of a matured nature worship and the joy of holiday. Does it pay? Oh yes. it pays.

Various hotels, restaurants, flower merchants and workers in certain trades actually make money. But I was not thinking of that. If we ever accept that as a primary consideration, we shall no longer have a Tournament of Roses but something else. Nor was I thinking of the publicity value of the event. Each year 1 hear somebody say.

without due thought, that the Tournament of Roses is the world's greatest publicity stunt. Each year I am obliged to reply that if the Tournament of Roses were a stunt, its attendant publicity would not be worth two cents. Publicity may accrue to it, but publicity cannot be made its objective. The Tournament of Roses pays because it serves to keep alive the spirit of holiday and the love cl beauty. It pays because it gives the community a center of loyalty, a star to which to fasten its wagon.

It pays because it influences the lives of those who dwell lieie, und because It tends to a selection of now dwellers by the test of their appreciation of this spirit of holiday and this love of beauty. These are the reasons why we may answer "yes" to the two questions: "Is the Tournament of Roses beautiful? "Does the Tournament of Roses pay? W. L. B. BH.L APPROVED WASHINGTON, Dec.

31. UP)-Pre-'irlrnt Hnosevcll has approved the bill providing for the sale and distribution ot power from Bonneville Dam, Sen. Charles McNary said today after a 'White House confer ence Rebels Bomb Center Of Madrid MADRID (Friday), Jan. 1. (U.R) Rebel artillery spread fire and destruction through Madrid early today as 12 giant shells exploded in the heart of the city of Usher in the new year.

Cracked clarions and clocks Yhich survived the many rebel bombardments were ringing out the old year when the rebel barrage started. Shell followed shell, sending men, women and children scurrying to subways and cellars. Blast Heart Of Cl.y A few newspapermen, including this correspondent, ran from the Puerto Del Sol district when the fi'st shell tore a h. le in the pavement of that centtal part of the capital. Six shells, exploding almost at minute intervals, blasted the heart of the city.

Several buildings caught Ire. Madrid celebrated New Years Eve behind heavy curtains to native (Continued on Page Two) Pontiff Hears Midnight Mass Pius' Condition 'Satisfactory' VATICAN CITY (Friday), Jan. 1. (U.P) Pope Pius, from his sick-bed, heard midnight mass celebrated today before an altar placed in a room adjoining his private chamber. The mass was celebrated by Msg.

Carlo Confalconieri, one of the pontiff's private sccietaries, who also administered holy communion to the ailing prelate. A few members of the popes household were present at the midnight service. About 1 a. after mass was concluded, the pope fell into a slight slumber. At that hour his condition was repoited satisfactory.

A special prayer for the health of Tope Pius was offered in the Basilica of Saint John tonight. RETTEK BUSINESS CONDITIONS SEEN HI. Giannini Says 1936 Gains Basis For Optimism SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31. (UP) L.

M. Giannini, president of the Bank of America, influential California branch banking institution eaid in a year-end review tonight that gains made during 1936 gave ample grounds for anticipating continued improvement in general business conditions both in California and the entire West in 1937. Giannini said the usual business Indices such as the volume of retail tiado, car loadings, building construction, automobile sales, employment, bank debits and the like show percentage increases for the year which have been in nearly every case highly gratifying. THREE MEN KILLED IS EXPLOSIOS NOCONA, Tex, Dec. 31.

(U.R) Thice men wcic killed near here lute today whrn an oil storage tank exploded whilr one of the v'chms was welding a gun barrel on it. The victims of the accident were Kenneth Deeds and Roy Jones of Kocona and E. R. Crow of Wichita Falls. ROGER W.

BABSON Noted economist, whose 1937 outlook is presented in the following thumb-nail sketch: Business Eight per cent gam for year. Congress Will not be harmful to business. Real Estate Sharp improve-, ments; rents higher. Building Boom in new homes year's feature. Strikes Possibility of grave labor troubles.

Labor Higher wages and more jobs. Farm Prices Spotty; total farm income higher. Living Costs Clothing to lead sharp advance. Retail Trade Big year; best since '1929. Advertising Boost quota It) to 29 per co.t.

Stocks Higher but good selection ital. Bonds At ceiling: watch money policy. foreign No European war in 1937. Summary First year of prosperity since 1929. ENRAGED WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND LOS ANGELES, Dec.

31. (UR) An enraged wif screaming that she was a victim of "mother-in-law trouble, shot and killed her husband, u'ry A. Love, during a celcbwition tonight at the fashionable Del Mar Club, according to a police lcport. The woman, Mrs. Helen Love, 31, described as a prominent Los Angeles socialite, was held by police.

BOMB BLASTS HOLE IN RESIDENCE MELROSE, Dec. 31. (U.PJ Twe sjsters weie seveicly shaken up tonight when a bomb exploded on the front porch of their home, shattering windows and blasting in a hole through the fiont ot the house. The girls, Esther Benedict, 14, and her 24-year-old sister Jeanne, were the only occupants of the house lien the explosion occurred. They became hysterical and were treated at the scene.

Investigators learned that the gills married brother, William, fac-uty athletic manager at Melrose High School, had been tlneatomd. 31. (UR! Denied medical aid for five depended ori religious beliefs to save liting an apparently losing battle of the local school disturb said: "Mrs. Newbold insisted that medical aid would be useless to save her daughter, and said that her religious beliefs fm bade asking sue!) aid." Later Smith dispatched a physician and two nurses to the home, but only after a church official had written her, and the physician had told her the child was near death, would the mother consent to Nona's admission to a hospital. Today, ns she and tier tm band Nona's stepfather stood hand-in-hnnd outside the siekiootn.

Mrs New hold's attitude had changed. "Things are different now," she said. "I hope with all my heart they smwdmit TUCSON, Dec. 31. (UR) Peter Popoff, 42-year-old Czechoslovakian war veteran, was held on $10,000 bond tonight on charges of deadly assault after he assertcdly pumped five bullets into the body of a 38-year-old nurse, with whom he became infatuated while he was her patient in a hospital.

The nurse, Mrs. James Hastings, was in a United States veterans hospital, given little chance to recover from the bullet wounds. POWDER HOUSE SET OFF IN DEATH PLOT Girl Critically Injured In Brutal Murder Attempt SIOUX FALLS, S. Dec. 31.

(UR) Three men, believed to be gang members, tonight shot and seriously wounded Helen Snyder, 25-year-old Sioux City, girl, dumped her body near a powder house and set it alire. The resulting blast shook the city and caused near panic among new year celebrants. The girl, whom police said "knew too much, about the mens activities, miraculously escaped death, but was critically hurt. Pittsburgh Washington Announce Final Lineups (Continued on rage Two) The Question-Rain Or Shine? Anyway, Pasadenans Hope For Luck Paadcnans late last night eyed dropping tempeiatures. a clear sky and twinkling stars and wondered' i jnr this onre, weathermen tre not all wrong their pieairtion ct rain for today.

In Southern California rain and cold seldom go together ind henca Pasadenans found little jibing between the three weather predictions offered and last nights chilly, clear conditions. Three Forecasts At Caltech. Air Mass Forecaster Dr. Ining P. Krick stood by his original prediction of partly cloudy and cold with little or no rain.

From San Francisco the United States Weather Bureau amount eel: Heavy rain for the southern half of th- state. In I.os Angeles the same bureau predii ted: "Unsettled and cool ith scattered showers. Arguments Against Ram Against those words Pa.sdenans had several arguments to offer. The well known luck of ths Tournament of Roses can abeve a mere mailer of elemental obstinacy. Ths weathermen are fighting among themselves.

One aaya (Continued on Page Two) Laughs Flash In The News I.OS ANGELES, Dee. 31. (U.PJ Police Chief James E. Davis hobo patrol headed for the border shortly before midnight tonight to try to resist the Invasion of 1937. A spokesman for the chief who Is usually unreliable told the United Press: Well stop the little bum before he gets started! TON AW AND N.

Dec. 31. (UP1 The postnffiee today said oil firm purchased a money order for one cent, setting a new record low. The amount was neceesary to balanre an account. The order cost the oil firm six renin Marine Strike Rift Widens Renewal Of Dispute Maries Meeting SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

31. (U.R) Pacific Coast shipowners and Iheir sea and dock employes ended a year of almost ceaseless bickering and battling tonight with a fresh icnewal of their dispute as to who is responsible for the prolongation of the maul nne strike that began Oct. 29. Surprise Conference In a sui prise conference, representatives of the Masters, Mates and Pilots and of the Marine Engineers Union met with the Coast Committee fur Shipowners to discuss peace terms. The principal effect of the meeting appeared to have been to widen the gap sepal atmg the employes and their woi kors.

Game Of Cat-Mice Thomas G. Flint, spokesman for the shipowners, said they had made a new offer of "immediate peace." E. B. O'Grady, leader of the licensed officers, came out of the meeting complaining that the unionists had been "the mice in a two and one half hour game of cat and mice played by the operators! TURNS DOWN REQUEST DETROIT, Doc. 31.

(UR)-WilHam S. Knudson, executive vieo-pies-ldent of Geneial Mutois Corporation, turned down tonight a United Automobile Woikers request for "nation-wide collective bargaining. CLEMENCY ASKE1) FOR CHANG NANKING (Friday), Jan. 1 d.P)-Generuliv imo Kai-Shek today formally petitioned high officials of the government political pailv the Kuomintang -lor clemency for Marshal Chang ilsuoh-Liang. who held him pi isoner for a fortnight.

A pinon sentence of 10 yeais wii" imposed on Chang yesterday, but it was believed this could be remitted late todav Child Denied Medical Aid For Five Weeks By Mother Faces Death Of Pneumonia turf after thorough examination yes 7tv 4 Vtn vpnf rf fmlnpr terday. In the event of fuither rain, however, the Panthers came picparcd. They have both their regular and mud cleats in readiness, but will not rely upon the heavier supports unless it rains fur- (Continued on Page Two) Seattle; Umpire, Bliss Goodwin, George Varnell, Chicago: Field Firmo Breda, g. 41; George Broz. Jim Cain, 62: A1 Criiver.

73; Bud Douglas, 39; Duane Duke, 69: Walt Elliott, 43; Bud Trickson, 51: Tony Gasporovicli. 55: Coburn Grahenhoist, 57; Bill Green, 71: Byron Haines, Gordon Bushy, 15: Dick Johnson, Jimmie Johnston, 18; Burdette Kindred, 21; Jim Lenuu. 49: I liner Logg. q. 14; Jack McKenzie, 61; A ie 63; ail Matronlc, 20; Frank Mattes, Hi; Alt Means, 73; Merle Miller, li, 50; Mitchell Moiul.ila, c.

61: Chuck Newton, 54; Pal Nowogroskl, 17; Rudy Parkhurst, 11; Frank Peters, 32: Tom Sheldrake, 42; Stee SlivinsM, g. 34; Max Straeevich, 66; 1 rank 45; John Wiutruk, 13; Henry Wise, 53; Rich Worthington, t. 76: Walter Z.cmeek, 12. Pittsburgh Squad William Glassford, 10; Anthony Matisi, 11; Dante Dalle Tcze, g. 14: George Delicti, 15; Henry Adams, 16; zAvcrell Daniell, 17: Walter JtasUowski, 19; Albin I.ezouski, 20: Robert I.a Rue, 21; Donald Hensley, 22: Frank Sourhak, 23: 1 rank Patiiek, 21: I.eo Malarkey, h.

25; Arnold Greene, 26; John Michelson, 27: William Stapulis. 28: Robert Dannies, 29: Robert McClure, 30; John Chirkernro, 31: William Daddio, 32; John Dougrrl, 33; John Wood, 34: Charles Fleming, 35: Ulmer Merkovsky, 36: Ben Asavitch, 40; Walter Miller, 41; Marshall Goldberg, 42; John Urban, 41; Albeit Walton, 41; Ted Schmidt, 51; Harold Stehbins, 52: Stephen retro, 53; I aid, in Hoffman, 62; l.dward Spntovich, 65. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. weeks while her mother reportedly her, 9-year-old Nona Newbold was for life at Salt Lake General Hospital tonight. In a despot ate el'fott to save Nona from deatli of pneumonia, physicians today resorted to the second blood-transfusion within two days, but hospital attaches said tonight the child's condition was "very poor.

For five weeks None's fever-wracked body lay in her parents' poverty-stricken home in Bennion, a tiny hamlet south of Salt Lake City, while her mother icfuscd pleas of neighbors, school nui.ses and others begging her to call medical aid. Only God can save my child," Mrs. Newbold reportedly told neighbors. Dr. Calvin Smith, superintendent Officials Referee, Boh Morris.

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