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I I : Si t 4 i 'w' it " I WNETT-nTTH TEAS 12 PAGES ! Salem, Orogoou Thursdcry Morning, riorember 22. 1945 r Prlc 5c No. 208 MNazis "Chuckle's" Going Home - l -( 'V DETSOIT. .Not. ZL Walkout: General Motors workers, employed it - vision here, shown walking and wmikouc tAP wirephoto) era5 same WD0DO1 Today in formal services in churches - the nation will give " thanks lor its blessings, chief of which is the return of peace with victory. In" millions of homes a grateful people will celebrate Thanksgiving day, thankful that the risks of warfare are ended and SDDreciative uf t h e abundance which graces their festal boards. There is more than a 'chance though that our thankfulness will be attended with boasting of our good fortune, of our armed might, of our proven military prowess, of our enormous -wealth, of the ex tent and : variety of our posses . sions, of our plans for bigger things to come. All of which sug gests the story of the pair who I went to pray in a temple: "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are . . . even as this publican. "And the Publican . . . smote . upon his breast, saying, God be ' merciful to me ... " i. We shall thank God today that i , vur iiuuun jb now vkuvcu iu ruiui as are Germany and Japan; that fl- our people are not starving and in rags as are the people of Poland ra?..- or or Italy, we snau accent uus as proof that God was on our side in the late war. Will there be any prayer for God to have mercy upon ', ' (Continued on Editorial page) Russians Move Troops in Iran TEHRAN, Nov. 21-P-An Iran Ian military spokesman tonight declared that "approximately 6000 Russian troops have been moved toward KaraJ," 15 miles northwest of Tehran, and asserted "tension Is growing" in troubled northwest Iran. Karaj is on the highway be tween this capital and Karvin, 80 miles to the northwest, where i Russian troops yesterday halted Iranian reinforcements sent to put down disorders in Aierbaijan, the . roouniainous, xiuswani occupied . . a a - v t ; - Iranian . province bordering .tne soviet union. The commander of the four-Iranian battalions halted, but ignored soviet orders to return : to 'Tehran. ' ' ' Bakery Reopens -Minus 3 Employes sauslactory . negotiations are under way hi connection with , the one day walkout at Smith's bak ery, 445 Court st. and all but three of the Vakers were back at work as the bakery reopened Wednesday morning. Herbert Barker, business man ager of the bakers and confection ery workers local, said Wednes day that difficulties between bak ery owner Ernest Smith and -un ion members are in the process of settlement. ' , Animal Cracltcrs By WARREN GOODRICH t-ll " CfaincoSMiSfrtntt Look, baby-it's not that I don't want to go south for, the winter-WE JUST. ml' running as they leave plant in United Auto' Workers ( CIO J- union ', 100 G. M. dperatioiil Closed byi Walkout .- I r -i. : ' By the Associated Press I f, A labor battle of titans began yesterday when the nation's biggest union, the CIO United: Automobile Workers, went on strike against the largest operating corporation General Motors.' The start of the long-threatened walkout over a wage issue boosted the national total of workers off the job because of labor troubles to between 462,000 Warrior Dies Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch, for mer commander of the Seventh army in Europe, who died of pneumonia yesterday. Lt. Gen. Patch, Past 7th Army Leader, Dies SAN ANTONIO, Tex Nov. 21- (JPy'L.t. Gen. Alexander McCar- rell Patch, jr 55, commander of the Seventh army in Its drive through France and Germany and commander of the Fourth army at Fort Sam Houston, died of pneu monia tonight in Brooke General hospital. General Patch succumbed to pneumonia after an illness of more than a week. At his bedside when death came at 8:10 pjn. (central standard time) were his wife, his daugh ter, Julia, and his . daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alexander M. Patch III. Patch handled the final mop ping up of the Japanese on Guad alcanal, moving in which army troops late In 1942 to relieve ma rines. -T . r , It was early In 1944 that he was made commander of the Ui. Sev enth. army, in Europe. In midsum-. mer - he --led that army when - it carried out invasion operations on the southern French coast A few days - after the landings -he. was given the temporary rank of lieu tenant general. . . . ' , :- -1 $ - Tyrone Power?T6p$ Movies9 Best in Homecoming Clinch PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 21.-(a5) Tyrone Power and Annabella gave a shipload of GI's an unscreened love scene today that rivals any thing either, of the. picture stars ever gave the public on screen or stage. . Power's shipmates screamed en couragement from the decks. . The screen star hurdled- the ship rail and jumped to the dock as he spotted his blonde wife among the hundreds of screen fans and GI relatives, packed on the berth ing platform as the U.S.S. Marvin Mclntyre tied up this afternoon. One veteran yelled "take it easy, Jesse James" as the bronzed ma rine air corps lieutenant embraced and kissed his wife, who came here for the surprise greeting after learning the ship was not to berth at San Francisco. Almost 'the first thing Power - ;,.- vc .1. . j. !.; ,M y ii.y.y,)- in i m i.m ( m m ! v.w.m:.t.m n-J ..i'i" ij,u iiii- ---- -I .ijiwo!.-'.w-4i,"..-...U '.11 - iii-iii liig-T-jry j , 'pi-mi ----- r gap --i m m paiii,.j i n.i -------, , i in -t . i -l "ll ' ''''mm l ' - - ' - - ' . 1 " i.i i. . -i -i mi ii . '..-,r m , ,M . , . i m m ' i L, . . ,. n ... n i... I ""Si the Chevrolet rear and axle di- ' '; j r .v-;f ;. and 425,000. The highest total previously was 550,00 Oon Oct. 6, at the; height of the big miners' strike. . r- r ' i i The company estimated 162,000 workers were out at 100 GM plants in 20 states. The union'placed the figure at 325,000. . j ;i At II a m. (EST) yesterday, thousands : of GM workers filed through plant gates across the country and picket lines were set up immediately. i f 14 Michigan, GM headquarters, Gov. Harry F. Kelly offered state aid 4in ! keeping order because of the strike's magnitude, but added "I do not assume there will be disorder." JTio instances of violence were reported. H l4 Meriden, Conn., approximate ly 6000 workers at GM's new de parture division remained at their jobs. A union spokesman said the Meriden local had joined the CIO only: last month and had. never taken strike vote under that or ganization; . f I - The j walkout came - after two months; negotiations failed to set tle thej union's demand for a 30 per cent wage rate increase. Three company counter-proposals were rejected. . i i Hope Dimmed For Lumber ! f i- i'i! ' : .1 Strike S i -11 SEATTLE, Nov. 21,-CflVThe possibility that the strikebound northwest lumber industry might follow Lthel suggestion of Dave Beck, international vice president of the Teamsters union ( AFL) and resume; negotiations was dimmed tonight by J B. Fitzgerald secre-tary-manager of the lumbermen's Industrial Labor .'Relations vCom mittee,ilnc. ' :;': ;. r-' He declared the operators had been Turned down in plenty of negotiations,' - '" Hj ; l ; Fitzgerald " said the . unions . in northern California had accepted an increase of 12 cents per hour, making the minimum wage there $1 per ;hour.M, The -same -increase has been offered he said, in the "big : fir" territory of Washington and ;Orf on, , where it j would "boost the minimum to. 1 1.10 per rhour." 1- 4 1 asked his wife was ,"how'd you get so smart, blondie?" He then mumbled excuses for his apparel a flight battered leather ; jacket, overseas cap and sun tan trousers. "Xost all my clothes in the Okin awa ; typhoon," he explained with apologies, if ; I ';f ' It j was the first meeting of the screen couple in over a year. They will; leave tomorrow for Los An geles and Thanksgiving dinner at home, j .J! ; jl " , Power, a marine first lieutenant with; 1)00 hours flying time on transports, left Japan three Weeks ago after being relieved from oc cupational duty. He expects to re port to the San Diego marine sep aration center soon for discharge. He will then begin work in the starfroie of W. -Somerset Maugh- am'i The Bazorg Itfge," I Power saldi ! H . -r . Parleys i - - t tAmerican Sure : iOf Conviction of IWarf Leaders i 1 ;. ' ;.t:'V : I (Picture on Page 2) ' -NUERNBERG,' , 'If ov. 21 - VP) - Justice Robert ; Jackson: asserted today that the 20 top-flight nazis on trial before the international war crimes tribunal ' would be convicted by their own Teutonic thoroughness"; for. recording everything from plans in 1940 to attack America to the; smallest atrocities. Jackson, presenting the United States' case against the men he described as "living symbols of racial hatred, of . terrorism and violence, and of arrogance, and cruelty," spoke after , the defend ant- had entered pleas , of inno cence and their attorneys had sought unsuccessfully to quash the I trial. Except for the brief opening period, when the fallen nazis faced the microphone one by one to deny their guilt and defense attorneys disputed the court's right to try the defendants, the entire second day of the historic trial was devoted to the 20,000 word statement of the U. S. prose cutor. ; Jackson, wearing a black morn ing! coat cited nazi records to show that Hitler made plans as early as October, 1940, for war against the United States, that Germany was instigating Japan to eiiterithe war in March, 1941, and. that the nazis in January, 193d, had knowledge the Japa nese were plotitng the assassina tion of Stalin. "The real complaining; party at your bar is civilization," he de clared, asking the tribunal in his masterly four -hour address to strengthen international .law against the future menace of armed aggression by punishing the 520 German "mad men." Soviet-Chinese i 1 gotiations Break Down i- i . P:D?ING, Nov. 20 -(Delayed) (JPi-i It was reported authorita tively today that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek ordered his ad ministrators home from Manchur ia because of a breakdown in ne gotiations with Russia. I ' ' : Members of the nationalist del egation, which was' sent to Man churia's capital of Changchun af ter Japan's surrender to take over the administration, said on their arrival by plane here they . had been; held almost incommunicado. ' Members of the delegation, who would not be quoted by name, said the Russian authorities in Chang chun had presented "a - score of demands" to Gen: Hsiung Shih Hui,:i representing the generalis simo, who took them "to Chung king! hi person. ' ' Siut to Block ters Sidled ' A representative of the Salem Retail Trade bureau will file an Injunction suit to block execution of the contract for installation of parking meters as soon as the contract has been signed by -city officials, Chris J. Kowitz," attor ney :ijf or the still-unnamed plain tiff, said' Wednesday;' f Because the contract proffered by the company which won the bid for sale of the meters differ ed in several respects from that approved by the city council, the contract was returned to the com pany and on Wednesday a cor rected document had not yet been received here. : NORBLAD MAT RUN f ' Walter Norblad,iJrn in lSalem from Astoria Wednesday said he was I giving serious consideration to proposal to enter the contest for- representative In -congress to succeed the late Rep. James W. Mott; First-Oregon district; - pro vided Governor Earl SneH calls a special election. ! Me r - T-l 1 . -i . , ... - . f ' " X i ,, . ' : -4 S t - ' ';j . ! 1 :' - - I ! fr.-,.- 5. i .-x :. :'t . i ' ' - '''' - - . - . ! " -" ' .-i. y f I I '.v " i -- J fCTS ff jsJ. 1 This Is 14-months-old Charles Baker, on the stairs of the Reynolds clinic, 21S N. Liberty st, with a note in his pocket directing police to re torn him to 3217 W. L&Crosae s Spokane, Wash. "Chuck," who apparently has a weakness for stairs, Is shown on the steps of the courthouse, waiting for his grandmother who arrived Wednesday to take him back to Spokane. (Statesman photo) Tot's Grandmother Comes From Spokane to Little Charles Baker, 14 months old grandson of Mrs, Charles I. Mse of Spokane, Wash., was believed en route home with his grandmother Wednesday night after his discovery on the steps of the Reynolds clinic Tuesday, resulted in his spending the night in the custody of Mrs. Nona White, county juvenile of ficer. ! I Mrs. M:se was called from her Spokane home after the baby was found with a note directing police to return the; child to her. She said the baby had? been with its mother. Mrs. Jane Baker of Seat tie. "I I Although suffering with a cold Tuesday,: th& ibabyf was in good condition Wednesday , afternoon and its sniffles had entirely clear ed up, Mrs. White said. In Manchuria r CHUNGKING, Nov. 21.-vDtA nationalist army, striking CO miles into . Manchuria without a ' fight, threatened today to overrun the communist-held port of ' Hulutao and seize a solid foothold In -the territory.' . - j . ' , -T A - ' triumphant sweep across southern Manchuria was reported by the army bewspaper Ho Ping Pao as -communists charged the nationalists had massed 12,000 troops- and heavy guns In Nankow pais historic i invasion gateway for the Mongol hordes in past cen turiesfor a ; simultaneous drive into inner Mongolia. Navy Man Officially Listed as Dead Jerry SlickJ AOM 3c,4s offi cially listed by the ;navy as dead, his mother, Mrs. Grace Slick, 1532 Center st, wai notified this week. The pilot ' and co-pilot I of the pavy patrol bomber on which the I aiem .man was serving wac picked up on a life raft six days after the plane was shot down May 25, 1945 j by bullets from a Japanese destroyer! The bomber was completely - destroyed,- they reported. j, . U -J - - A graduate of Sacred Heart academy, - Slide left employment with the state highway depart ment to enter the navy shortly after the Peart Harbor attack. He had been serving ta the -Padfie six months-when he was- reported missing in. action. I (Picture. on page ). 5 Chiang who was found Tnesday evening Get Child Salem to Close For Holiday, Services Set All Salem will be closed today in observance of the first peace- time Thanksgiving in three years. Union Thanksgiving services will be held at 10 o'clock at the First Methodist church. The Rev. Wil mer N. Brown, pastor of the First Evangelical church, , will speak on Thanksgiving Milestones." i The .union services are spon sored by the Salem Ministerial as sociation with details in charge of the Tri-Y and Hi-Y groups of the YMCA. Masses of Thanksgiving will be celebrated-at 9 o'clock at each of Salem's- Catholic, churches,- St Jo seph's and St Vincent de Paul. A choral service of the Holy Eucb rist will be celebrated at St. Paul's Episcopal church. . -, ' Special Thanksgiving1 - services will be held at the American Lu-fheran-chureh at'll o'clock this morning. ' . . ' ; " Bond Drive Workers Predict Spurt in Sales After Holiday Friday's tabulations will enliv en Marion county's Victory queen contest and brighten the Victory Loan bond sales record, workers in the eighth loan campaign are predicting today. ' Bond headquarters offices are Marlon county Victory bond purchases t dale: Total all issues $1,143,394.15 eat of a Quota f Series E bonds 1434.S40.25 f s fwU mt $L150,Mt. closed today In Thanksgiving ob servance, and - a backlog of votes which failed to appear Wednes day before the closing hour will uieadly By WILLIAM WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 ardson's 1940 protests to President Roosevelt that the fleet was 'unmanned" and "unready" came as a evrprist to Ad miral. William a. Leahy, th latter testified today. Leahy told the senate-house committee Investigating' Pearl Harbor that he was "distressed" because he had been saying the fleet .was ready and because he considered war ; with Japan ia "likely contingency.! ! Leahy was at that time later became chief of staff o From Leahy . the committee h e a r d his recollections of "the luncheon, conference the two ad mirals had with the president and of the conversations to which Richardson attributed his later removal as commander of the fleets 1 Thpugh he had no recollection of some others remarks Richard4 son said were made, Leahy agreed that his fellow admiral told the president that American ships did not have their full complement of men, lacked facilities at Pearl Harbor, and lacked oil for exten sive operations. Richardson had said he had urged that the fleet be removed from Hawaiian wa ters to the west coast but the president disagreed. j That was on .Oct. . 8, 1940. . The following February .1, Richardson was detached as commander in chief of the fleet and. relieved by Admiral Husband X. Kimmel who was in command when the Japa nese attacked. ' f When Senator Ferguson pressed as to whether he ever received any indication of why he was de tached, -Richardson related - that on one occasion the late Secre4 tary rtnox told him: i "The last time you were here Amy' Serves Notice of End j Of Airport Stay Formal notification that Mc4 Nary field had been declared sur- plus by the army was received here Wednesday by Maj. C. II, Westovcr, in command at the Sa lem air base for the army, j Notification that the Salem field was on the army's surplus list was brought to Salem a week ago by Led G. Devaney, -state di rector, of aeronautics, and on his advice the city council Monday .approved an application for in- terim use of the field by civilian planes. Such an application, Devaney told Alderman Tom Armstrong, chairman of .the council's com mittee on airport and aviation,' would -make it possible for civil ian fliers to use the field before all ' the details of cancellation of the! army lease have been hand led. - Only one flight unit, the S5th fighter squadron, of the 354th fighter group, trained at the field, which was taken -over by the army in 1941. That squadron ope rated In the European army of operations and is. still with the army of occupation, although its headquarters unit has recently returned to th United States. In . recent months . it has served a standby, purpose, ; . be on hand for the Friday morning tally, it was said.. . ;i - porkers at bond headquarters urged Wednesday that all queen votes be turned in daily at all bond-issuing agencies. Standings of the six candidates in Marion county's race did not change Wednesday from the pre ceding day's listing. Faye Larkins, Salem Hons club candidate, with votes , from $33,175 worth of, E bonds' to her credit, leads , the field. Jean Wolcott, Miller's store, is second with $23,127.50; Beth Greenlee, ttatehouse, $18,725; Bet ty Lou Kayser, Kiwanis club, 16,-025;- Beulah Lott, Junior Cham ber of Commerce, $10,230 and Le ona Tlngelstad, Hollywood Uont dub, $8275. Fleet ifdDir Japs T. PEACOCK (AP) Admiral J. O. Rich- governor of Puerto Rico and the president. Strike Closes j 2 Theatres, f Open Today Both the Elsinore and Capitol theatres will be open today, Cart Porter, manager, announced Wed nesday night, after a 24-hour strike by the building -service employes union - resulted Jn closure , of . the shows Wednesday. -I' The union had previously said that pickets would patrol the theatres until the matter was com pletely settled. They alleged three Janitors employed by the theatre refused to join the union and said that the motion picture operators, while not on strike, would not cross the picket lines to return to work. 4. An arbitration meeting will be held Friday evening,' the union added and if the strike is not set tied then, pickets win resume their patrol Saturday morning. U.S. Agreed to on Soldiers Home WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 HfP)-r Heretofore secret assurances W Japan that the Allies would re turn its surrendered soldiers to Japan were revealed today by Secretary of State Byrnes in ex plaining continued presence of U. S. marines in China. , Byrnes told a news conference that these assurances go beyond the Potsdam ultimatum which, said merely that the enemy sol I diers would be "permitted'' to re-! turn home. He said lt is the duty 1 of the Allied forces to accomplish ' the surrender of Japanese units everywhere they are and see that they get home. The speed Is de pendent in some degree on trans portation, Byrne said, i His comments immediately rais ed speculation among diplomats here that American -marines and other forces would be active la strife-torn China for a iairly long time. , ' Fr ench Cabinet j Crisis Ends PARIS, Nov. 21--Presidenl De Gaulle, ending a nine-day cabinet crisis, today announced formation 'of a coalition govern ment in which all France's armed forces are unified under his sin gle command. j - De Gaulle created a new cab!" net post for communists the min istry of armaments; De -Gaulle himself, however, as president and 'as chief of the armies, "as sumed direction of the national defense." - j : The announcement said De Gaulle "will be assisted" in di rection of national defense by Communist Charles THlon, for mer air minister, nova- appointed minister of armaments, and by Armand Michelet of the popular republican movement (MRP) aa minister, of the' armies. ? Weather San Francisco Eugene Salem Portland Seattle Wills FORECAST (from US. weather bu reau, McNary field, Salem): . Cloudy, with occasion Ugbi rate. , Hifhasi temperature today M -Octrees. Bring Nipp Max. Via Bain 1 41 M 44 21 , J0 .se - . m 7 - : Mt ntt ria la 1 ft i C1T DO ITF c