The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

IDAHO PATTY STATESMAN Published Every Day No IS 9 ESTABLISHED 1864 BOISE IDAHO TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 3 1939 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAT AND NIGHT LEASED WIRES Price Five Cents Southern California Scores In Last Minute For Rose Bowl Victory New Administration Takes Office Amid Ceremony Crowds At Reception And Ball Weekly Plane Trips Across Atlantic Will Start By June Imperial Airways of Britain Reveal Plans To Launch Regular Service Soon Football Finals Duke Bows 7 to 3 in Thrill-Packed Game Passes TCU To 15 to 7 Triumph Message Today To Urge Economy In Government Bottolfsen Sworn In as Governor While Guns Boom Salute By Associated Press Rose Bowl: Duke 3 Southern California 7 Sugar Bowl: Carnegie Tech 7 Texas Christian 15 Orange Bowl: Tenessee 17 Oklahoma 0 Sun Bowl: Utah 26 New Mexico 0 North-South: North 7 South 0 Cotton Bowl: St Mary's 20 Trxas Tech 13 East-West: East 0 West 14 Pineapple Bowl: I A 32 Hawaii 7 the insurance fund may receive consideration along with advertising of resources Governor Bottolfsen is expected to touch on the recent grand Jury investigation and the rhanges it recommended A merit system of selecting state personnel has been advocated by him in the past and may be nrged again Problems dealing with the fiscal affairs of the state will be disenssed Redurtion of the auto license fee to a flat $5 advocated by Bottolfsen in his campaign for election and to which many of the Republican legislators have been pledged is certain to be recommended in the message today The school problem Is also likely to receive much Economy in state government pledged during the campaign expected to be the central theme of Governor A Bottolf-sen's message to the legislature today House and senate will meet in joint session at noon to hear the message which will be delivered by Governor Bottolfsen in person Besides economy the message is expected to urge passage of a tax deed moratorium revision of the public assistance and social security law which caused much trouble recently improvements at the state penitentiary including a means of segregating the first termers from confirmed convicts suggestions dealing with administration of state hospitals Labor industrial hygiene and Martin Heads Republicans Representative From Massachusetts to Lead Minority WideRevision Of Laws Loom As Congress Opens Session Senate and House Will Meet Today Speaker Bankhead Forecasts Legislative Changes By RICHARD TURNER WASHINGTON On the eve of a congressional session which finds the Roosevelt administration beset by an in creased opposition Speaker Bankhead Monday night predicted a broad revision of numerous highly controversial new deal laws In fact he urged his colleagues of the Democratic party to study Republican victories of last elections to determine whether laws that have been passed or the administration of such laws led to those victories If so he advised the Democrats to public by modifying and correcting the laws lie foresaw changes in the Wagner labor relations act the social security act the administration of relief and the crop control act In addition he forecast another effort to enact a governmental reorganization bill and declared that national defense wuld be a foremost subject before congress Meanwhile both parties got ready for the opening of the Seventy-sixth congress a congress which many expect to be rife with controversy and historically important for its bearing upon the future of the nation and the presidential elections of 1940 Some Republican leaders contend that with the Increased strength resulting from the November elections they can In coalition with conservative Democrats out-vote the new deal forces They are frankly hopeful that they may be able to reverse several governmental policies by this method In particular they hope to end the policy of making blanket appropriations for relief and permitting the President to allocate the funds as he sees fit No one expects a formal closely-knit coalition or Republicans and conservative Democrats to take form however Tha Seventy-sixth congress will convene at IS noon Tuesday with Vice President Garner calling the senate to order and South Trimble clerk of the house calling the roll in the lower chamber After the roll call a shaker of the house will be elected and he will preside through the session LONDON OP) Regular weekly trans-Atlantic airmail service forerunner of a 21-hour England New York passenger service wil start before June between Southampton and Montreal Imperia Airways announced Monday The British company announced it was ready to begin the service with four especially strengthened 24-ton Cabot flying boats traveling via Foynes Ireland and Botwood Newfoundland as soon as the Botwood harbor is clear of ice "New York Next Goal Permission to land in New York has not been granted but the company stated are negotiating for a permit to extend the service to New York and expect to have it by the time service begins" Beginning with a weekly service two flights weekly each way are planned for later in the summer The planes will make the east-west ocean crossing in about 16 hours The time from Southampton to New York would be about three hours less Passengers Later The big flying boats at first will carry about 6000 pounds of mail and later up to 18 passengers The company made it clear passengers would not be carried until the schedule had been tested Imperial Airways' spokesmen would not make any statement whether Pan-American Airways of the United States would be ready at the same time to start its projected service Idaho: Occasional rain Tuesday and Wednesday little change in temperature BOISE TEMPERATURES Monday January 2 1939 (From Weather Bureau) Both Houses Pick Attaches Brilliant Affairs Socially Launch New Regime for Capital By BETTY MATTHEWS Idaho's new governor A Bottolfsen and his wife were socially launched for a brilliant two years at one of the largest inaugural receptions seen in many years Monday evening in the state capitol Several thousand well-wishers packed the building from 7:30 until well past the 9 deadline to pass around the receiving line in the rotunda on the second floor Boiseans were nearly out-numbered by the many visitors from all over the state who had assembled to greet the new Governor state officials and their wives Music by Band Traditional legislative atmosphere was enhanced by the fragrance of hundreds of gardenia corsages worn by the women and the pungent smell of Idaho fir trees arranged in small forests in every corridor Throughout the reception music was played by the Boise city band Crowds were efficiently handled by members of the Idaho national guard under the direction of Maj yle Rowell Mayor Edlefsen and members of the council and their wives were hosts The reception line also Included officials of Boise Senior and Junior Chambers of Commerce justices of the daho supreme court and several prominent members of the legis-ature Immediately following the recep-ion several hundred formally attired men' and women crossed the Street to the Elks temple to attend he twenty-fifth inaugural ball The affair was acclaimed by many as the most brilliant since the last Republican governor was the honor guest Grand March The grand march which began at 10:30 was led by a military guard of honor and concluded at he front of the hall when the audience sang Supper was served in the dining room by members of the Colum-ian club and dancing to Faye orchestra continued until late in the evening (Additional story on Page 7) Liquor Setup Fight Ahead i Bottolfsen Planning: to Appoint GOP Commissioner (Detailed stories of the major post-season football games Monday are on page 8) (By the Associated Press) Five football teams whose performances during the 1938 season earned them the privi lege of playing in games proved their claims to greatness by scoring clean-cut victories Monday before banner crowds of new year fans Five others were as the saying goes defeated but not disgraced In addition squads played right up to that designation as the West conquered the East at San Francisco and the North defeated the South' at Montgomery Ala Southern California's Trojans1 Pacific coast champions took the place at the head of the winners' parade when they defeated the Blue Devils of Duke 7-3 before 91000 fans in the Pasadena Rose Bowl classic oldest of the New Year's games The Rose Bowl game undoubtedly took the prize for thrills Scoreless until the last quarter Duke drove inside the 35-yard line for the first time and took the lead on a field goal by Tony Ruffa Then the Trojans made an opening and sent in Doyle Nave a fourthstring back who can pass He completed four in a row the last going 18 yards to Antelope AI Krueger for the winning touchdown in the final minute of play Briefly the other results were: Darcy and Connie Sparks led Texas Christian to a 15-to-7 triumph over Carnegie Tech in the Sngar Bowl at New Orleans before more than 50000 the largest crowd ever assembled there Patterson of Baylor threw the passes that enabled thOYest 1 upset the East 14 to 0 as 60000 fans gave the annual charity game its first capacity crowd in 14 years Tennessee overpowered Oklaho-mas' Sooners 17 to 0 as an overflow throng of 32191 looked on in Orange Bowl One 83-yard drive featuring Tony Ippolito of Purdue and Mike Kabealo of Ohio State enabled the northern all-star team to defeat the southern aggregation 7 to 0 before 8000 in the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery WASHINGTON OP) Republi cans in the house elected Representative Joseph Martin jr of Massachusetts by acclamation Monday night to lead a minority greatly strengthened by the November elections Martin 54-year-old publisher lawmaker has interpreted the general elections as a mandate for congress to be more independent of the President He was nominated by Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts as a man behind whom all factions of the party could unite in preparation for the 1940 presidential election Martin regarded by many associated as a Republican having neither ultra-liberal nor ultra-conservative leanings had been chairman of the congressional campaign committee which helped swell the Republican membership of the new house to 169 nearly twice its strength in the last congress He also had been assistant to the minority leader he will succeed Representative Bertrand Snell of New York who retired voluntarily after 24 years at the capitol The conference reelected Repre-sentaive Woodruff of Michigan as chairman and Representative Hope of Kansas as secretary It selected Russell county reasurer of Delaware Pennsylvania to be special minor-ty clerk of the house a position hich pays $5000 a year Martin said in a statement issued after his election that he be-ieved that It must be our responsibility to place patriotism above Message to Be Heard Today Harmony Seen By BILL CARTAN and DICK Organization of both houses of twenty-fifth legislature was practically completed Monday afternoon At noon today both the senate and house will assemble in joint session to hear the new message The message is expected to stress the same theme Gov A Bottolfsen used in his campaign economy in state government It was indicated It would run at least 7000 words Confirmation of legislative officers picked at caucuses Sunday was made Monday afternoon Tom Heath Franklin county senator became president pro tern Scott Hall Oneida county floor leader and A Eckersell Jefferson county assistant floor leader At least 20 committees remain By WILLIAM TELL Tom Boise Lewiston Democrat took over Homer $4000-a-yea job as liquor commissioner Monday and therein lies story a headache Despite reports' to the contrary Governor A 'Bottolfsen it was said planned Monday to go ahead and name his own commissioner thereby ignoring retiring Governor appointment of Boise Thus' the question which may ultimately require the services of a dozen lawyers appears headed or a decision by the supreme court Bottolfsen it was said was still digging through names of good Re-jublicans Monday in an effort to ind suitable timber for a liquor commissioner But if he yet decided on the man he definitely convinced that foxy Barzilla Airport readings FIRE IN THEATRE ST LOUIS OP) A fire swept through the Star theatre in a Negro community early Monday causing $3500 damage The movie Too Hot to was the current presentation (Continued on Page 2 Column 5) (Continued on Page 2 Column 2) Statesman Camera Catches First Pictures Of Idaho Inauguration Ceremonies At Statehouse By WALTER BOTT HER (Associated Press Staff Writer) The twenty-fifth administration in Idaho's half century of statehood was sworn into office Monday by Chief Justice James Ailshie while a 75-millimeter gun boomed a military salute to A Bottolfsen the state's first newspaperman to become governor Packed galleries in the house chamber and the 44 senators and 59 representatives watched the solemn ceremony in the pillared marble halls over which the new governor ruled as speaker in 1931 as a delegate from Butte county Tuesday shortly after 11 a he will read his 6500-word message in the same chamber to another joint assembly of the lawmakers to chart the course upon which the legislators overwhelmingly of his own political faith Republican will get out in earnest Bottolfsen ruddy-faced quiet smiling a dark business entered the chamber at 12:15 after national guard officers had cleared a way for him and Governor Barzilla Clark throngh the crowd Cameras clicked the spectators rose to their feet and applauded Chief Justice James Ailshie climbed to the chair made a brief statement and asked: the Incoming governor ready to be The cannon on the statehouse grounds began to boom Governor Clark arose and presented his successor The Chief Justice inaugurating he third Idaho governor of his career on the bench intoned: you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of ihe United States and the constitution and laws of this state that you will faithfully discharge all of the duties of the office of governor according to the best of your ability? So help you Bottolfsen replied clearly He had achieved an ambition he dreamed of often an ambition he strove for during an intensive campaign based on a pledge of sincerity and Integrity in Chief Justice Ailshie then administered the oaths of office to seven other elective state officials and two re-elected justices of the supreme court Lieut Gov Donald Whitehead of Boise was presented by his predecessor in office Gossett of Nampa Eldridge of Boise presented Justice William Morgan Justice Raymond Givens introduced Justice Edwin Holden Secretary of State Ira Masters presented his successor George Curtis of Boise Retiring State Auditor Harry Parsons Introduced Calvin Wright of Burley who succeeded him Mrs Will Simons of Boise Democratic national committeewoman for Idaho introduced State Treasurer Myrtle Enking only woman state treasurer in the United States who started her fourth term Justice Alfred Budge introduced Attorney General Taylor who was re-elected Asher Wilson of Twin Falls presented Superintendent of Public Instruction John Condie who also was re-elected Representative Arnold Williams Democrat Madison presented Arthur Campbell- re-elected state mines inspector Then the oaths of office were administered to the senators and house members and Representative Bailey Democrat Xei Perce dissolved the joint session The house and senate reconvened In their respective quarters and virtually completed their- organization before adjourning about 2 until Tuesday I I I I Hundreds Visit Picture Display At Owyhee Hotel Hundreds of persons visited the mezzanine floor of the Owyhee ho-el afternoon to see and admire the 137 national prize winning snapshots being exhibited this week by The Statesman The snapshots which won $10-000 in cash prizes at the national contest in Washington late in 1938 include a wide range of subject matter The exhibit will be open each day this week No admission is charged and the public is invited to visit the display GOVERNOR A BOTTLFSEN takes the oath of office' (center above) Monday noon with retiring Governor Barzilla Clark introducing him The oath was administered by Chief Justice James Ailshie (above) of the state supreme court who later administered the oath to other state officers and members of the legislature A 19-gun salute was fired by the artillery as Governor Bottolfsen was sworn Lower center shows three legislators smilingly discussing matters They are left to right Thomas Heath Republican senator from Franklin county president pro tern and Republican state chairman Senator Carl Brown Democrat of Valley county and James Newport Democrat of Canyon (Photos by Fuller Statesman staff photographer Additional pictures on Page 12) 1" THREE IDAHO GOVERNORS GET TOGETHER for a little chat at the statehouse during Inaugural ceremonies Monday At left is A Bottolfsen Republican who took office as governor Monday noon Center is Barzilla Clark retiring Democratic governor Right is Baldridge of Parma a Republican who served from 1927 to 1930 Governor Baldridge had the pleasure of seeing his son Claire Baldridge take the oath as representative from Canyon county.