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IV PAGE TWO Tno OSEGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oragron. Thursday Morning. November 22. 1145 Witness Denies Gen. Yamashita tonsinie ; n nesB J MANILA, Thursday. Nov. 22.-(P)-Lt Gen. Akira Muto, chief of staff to Lt Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita who is -on trial as an accused war criminal, threw in a few good words for his old boss today, but the praise quickly was stricken from the record. MaJ. Gen. Russell B. Reynolds, president 'of the U. S. military commission hearing charges that Yamashita condoned w h o 1 esale horrors by his troops in the Phil ippines, interrupted Muto to cau tion that be was not a character witness and that his remarks were out of tine. - . vk Muto- tried a final plug for his former commander. "I was - absolutely astounded when I learned about him being indicted as a war criminal,' he said, but the remark was ordered stricken. Questioned by Yamashita's chief counsel, Col Harry Clarke, Muto reiterated former testimony that all of Yamashita's operational or ders came direct from Tokyo. Clarke was trying to show that Yamashita was not in full com mand. ': . -'- j The, defense witness, LL Gen. Akiro Muto; said that of 300,000 troops on Luzon under various commands, Yamashita controlled 120,000, and these only as a sub ordinate of Field Marshal Count Hisaichi Terauchi, commander of southern areas including the Philippines. Wolfe Funeral Due on Friday WOODBURN Funeral services will be held here Friday at 2 p.m. at St Mary's Episcopal chuach for Frank Preston Wolfe, who died at his home. Spare Acres, here Wed nesday night. Wolfe had lived in this commun ity for the past 34 years and had been an Oregon resident for 44 years. He was born at Cambria, Pa., October 28, 1863. His widow, Annie 3. Wolfe, sur vives. - The Rev. George H. Swift will officiate at the services .to be fol lowed by interment in Belle Passi cemetery. The rites will be under the auspices of Woodbtrrn lodge No.; 106, A. T. & A. M, of which he was a member. Tr-ain Wreck in Wisconsin Kills 2 r. : V' j APPLETON, Wis., Nov. tl.-iJpf !-At least two persons were killed and about 33 injured tonight when a northbound Northwestern railroad's crack streamliner Vthe j.400" struck an automobile and c piled up. . . Hospital officials said that 35 persons ha4 been admitted and police said that two of the occu pants of the automobile were killed. The injured were , taken to hrmes near the , accident scenes and priests and ministers went " from door to door attending them. A group of ' cadet nurses who were passengers on the train were - I'M -S umiTjurca ana neipea to give first la. I BUY A VICTORY BOND! WW mMm iuo - CONT. FROM 1 P. M. - NOW PLAYING! THAKXSGITNG DAY HAPPINESS. HITS r ' " if - . wi s J auts.ru . C MAXWELL J 1 '" JOHN I CONTf A 1 Boueus v J j WMBRltU V THRILL CO-HTTI CI TK2 V . . . a - i 4 , TIack Arrow" Uo. 12 Not Guilty, Goering Says 1 1 1 i -- lll.llll I Tl i " ? NOV. 21 Hermann Goerta, relsehsmarshal of fallen Germany, wearta translation earphones, stands in the prisoners' box in the Nuernberr, Germany, courtroom' today to plead not entity to crimes of war charred to him in an International military tribunal indict ment. (AP Wlrephoto via radio today; from Nuernberg-. (Story on 'Pare 1) , ' . ; I . si Bob Benchley, Movie Star, Succumbs NEW YORK, Nov. 21-(;P-Rob-ert C. Benchley, whose gift for humor brought him success as a writer, motion picture actor and radio star, died today. He became Dl .at his Scarsdale, N. Y, home. The 56-year-old Benchley, who gained Hollywood fame after a .successful career of many years as a dramatic critic and author of j humorous books, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He returned only a month ago from the wett coast after making six pictures which have not yet been released. A native of Worcester, Mass., Benchley was graduated -from Harvard university in 1912. He was dramatic editor of "Life? from 1920-29 and of "The New Yorker" from 1929-40. He was first of all a humorist, not only inj his books and on the screen but in his private life as well. . Hollywood legend credits him despite his denials with origi nating the saying: "Now to get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." s Too Late to Classify FOR S4LE: 1940 Buick sedan. Phone 91M. After 6. phone 2-2940. BUY A VICTORY BOND urnrrTiria - CONT. FROM 1 P. M. - NOW PLAYING! FOR A HAPPIER THANKSGIVING OS 00 JOSE ITURBI JIMMY DURANTE JUNE AUYSON ar Reclamation to Meet Group The annual meeting of the Oregon Reclamation congress has been set for Nov. 26-28 at the Multnomah hotel, Portland. The soil conservation section will meet on Nov. 26 and the operations section on Nov. 27, with the an nual I banquet of the congress scheduled for the evening of that day. i f j- . . ' ,: The general meeting will be held on Nov. 28. Topics, for dis cussion will include work of fed eral agencies such as the army engineers,: reclamation bureau and f Bonneville administration. Consideration will be given to re sumption of, a reclamation pro gram: for Oregon. 1 ! , E.5E. Lage of Hood Riven is president and' Arthur S. King, of Oregon State college secretary of the congress. - ji' i i; I P1 IT" ' !. ENTERPRISE IN ENGLAND SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Nov. 21 -(fliprhe j carrier Enterprise ar rived today i to ; take a load of American troops back to the Unit ed States. S ' ii; W Most snakes Venom is secreted in modified; salivary glands lo cated on each side of the posterior portion of the head. BUY A VICTORY BOND f IFOR THANKSGIVING! I -i CONT, FROM 1 P.M. bow! SHOWING! ! RolHrMngTna lor the Whol FcddJItI A Rtol Thancggiv4 In? TracrtI J ALL-FUN CO-HJTI : ':. ULTEi rX -NEWS! - ' I ATTLEE Arrives in ua EISENHOWER GETS DE GREE .'AT OXFORD! LATE FOOTBALL- RESULTS! ' S Servibes for C Rontrites Set For Friday - Funeral services for Ronald W, Crites, who was killed in an air plane crash Saturday near . Eu gene, will, be held at 130 p.m. Friday from the W. T. RIgdon cbapet ' I j ; Interment will follow in Bel crest Memorial park, where are buried his father, sister, and brother Eugene. The brother, a member of the army air corps, was killed in !a plane crash in California in 1942. i Crites was a member of the University of! Oregon football team and had lived in Salem some time ago, ' attending Salem high school for m . short time. He was a veteran of three missions over Germany, serving with the army air corps. j j - Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Alamedia Gerking; his step father, J. I O. Gerking, and his brother, Norman B. Crites, and sister, Marlene Crites, all iof Woodburni Two otiier sisters, Ruth Morrison of Long Beach, Calif., and Pauline Guins of Port land, and a nephew, Paul Benner of Salem, also survivsw PROPOSAL REJECTED PORTLAND,' Nov. 21 -)- An Overland Greyhound Lines pro posal to end the eight-week old drivers' strike: has been over whelmingly rejected,- the AFL union said, today. There is one atom of heavy hy drogen in every 5000 units of the ordinary kind, j Forestry Department ; Adds to Jurisdiction i "i v :.. -. . : ' The state forestry department now has jurisdiction over fire prevention and Crej fighting ac tivity governing 2,000,000 acres of timbered, cutover and burned over lands, Nels Roger, state for ester, reported Wednesday. Two fire patrol districts, in Ben ton - and Polk counties, recently were taken over by; the forestry division along with a debt of $250,000. i . i : 4655 yets Arrive At Portland Docks PORTLAND, Nov 21 A total of 4655 veterans arrived here today on three escort de stroyers and three troopships. The Cape Canso docked thjs morning and the Gilliam, Marvin I. Mclntyre, Fieberling. Gendreau and Paul G. Baker late this 'af ternoon. : I Tomorrow the Queens, Mon tour, Mathew Thornton and Southampton will arrive here with 3405 men aboard, j ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF Ilovelty illooh NOVEMBER 20th Games, statuettes, I card tables, glass sets, etc. I Vr Manufacturers & sole .dis tributors patented automatic poker chip dealer. ? . 154 S. Cttnrchi Truman Has Buses Seized By tbe As elate a Ptm In Washington, D. C, a new walkout by bus sind streetcar op erators precipitated presiden tial order seizing the city's trans portation, system. The White House said the of fice of defense transportation had been instructed to taker over tbe properties of the Capital Transit Now Showing; BtTUiU-JMra-AMlUYt! i in t ejuiLfiieai Co-Feature TIGER WOMAN Adele Mara Kane Richmond Now Showing M i ii' Si Co-Feature company which operate! the Washington system. The order came only a few minutes after workers had shouted down a pro posal that they return to work and arbitrate their wage dispute. Some 4,000 members of the AFL' Amalgamated association of Street, Electric Railway and Mo tor Coach Employes had voted to hold a 'continuous meeting' in an effort to secure wage increases. rRCSS CONCLAVE TODAY EUGENE, Nov. ll.-About 125 students are? expected to at tend the Oregon high school press conference here Saturday, Acting Dean George - Turnbull of the University of Oregon school of Journalism said today. - The proton, a unit In the nu cleus of all atoms, is 1,800 times larger than an electron. 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