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. ; " . I : ' ' i ' ' ' .it'. i ' - - ,'Kailroad War Weary GVs Protest Delu fill DeedsUp -. Ordered : rf ; - pounddd 1651 h 1 - inrnmr-iUTJi year. , it pages . ; Satan Oregon. Wt&Msdar Moraing, December' 19. 1945 Price 5c No. 229 .LkVyAyAy: milAJ(Q)iyj(g(aj , LQA7 lo3UgJS FTP 0SKDDS While there are some Ameri cans who are decrying, the pro posed loan to Great Britain on the (round that its terms are too gen-. erous and repayments too uncer tain, there are many in Britain who object to the loan from their side, regarding the terms as 'too severe and the conditions dan gerous to British economy. In spite of its being made a party measure 23 labor members of commons voted' against ratifying the loan along with 69 conserva tives. I. ! The situation in which Britain finds itself is Indeed embarrass ing. ' England was the seat of the Industrial revolution and became the core of vast empire Napoleon taunted the country with being "nation of shop keepers" and so it was. It devel- - oped into a great center of manu facturing and trade. As such it depended on imports of foodstuffs and of raw materials and on ex port demand for its , finished goods. It became also a center of world finance, with London the money capital of the world and the great pool 'or men with tech nical and managerial skills. In this role Britain .prospered and Its population increased rapidly In the 18th and 19th centuries. Competition developed from Germany and Japan and from the United ,. States. Britain finally moved from it frte trade position to one wltH moderate tariffs and later to in 'empire preference system which encouraged trade within the empire. But i competi tion developed within the empire. India, long a huge market for the cotton goods of Lancashire, got cotton mills (Continued on Editorial Page) These Are Busy Days cd$awmPostoffice r - , Z v ! ... ;;. -",- -' ' . ! t r t ' v - I l p,r Li :n ! - 1 i A f$ y -j 3 3t LOBBY 1 -pa' i , I L ' It '., j ; 1 x BACK-STAGE . 1 TfWT h r ik r 1 1 ' IT I V :':'" ill if : f ft i jk .. i ' 1 1 - - ii i-oDDy oi we fcaiem postomce was crowded all day Monday and Tuesday with persons waiting to mall Christmas packages. More than 126,000; pieces of niail went through the cancelling machine Monday, the greatest number ever i recorded locally. In the back room the ontcping holiday mail wnea vj aispKiiers. inccwan rnotes) cliools Close As Flu Spreads By the AiaociaUd Pre Schools at Talent land St Helens, Ore., and Hoquiam, WaiJt, were closed today by an , outbreak of mild influenza which left vacant seats in several other northwest classrooms, j Neither the Talent; nor St . Helens schools will reopen until i after the holidays school officials . said. Principal Roy Parr, Talent, ! reported a 40 per cent absence : rate yesterday, and Supt Francis Gill of St Helens said about 250 ; of 1000 pupils were ill. , County health officials estimat ed 400 to 600 persons afflicted at s Ontario, Ore- and many pupils were reported absent from Canby Ore- schools. Wife Commands, Hubby Drives Tank MOSCOW. Dec 18-tfVA mar ried couple who bought their own tank and used It, with Generalis simo Stalin's permission, to kill : 160 enemy soldiers have been de mobilized from the red army. The couple, Lt Ivan Fyedoro- , vokh Boiko and his wife, Senior Lt Alexandra Boiko, who early In the war turned their savings of 50,000 rubles over to the soviet union to build a tank, took part . in campaigns on Poland, Ger many, Romania and Czechoslovak . kla. The wife commanded the 1 tank; her husband drove. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH . 33 V Ortr SrWtf "But you must learn to like ttrawbt try jam people don't have picnics in the .winter? t Western Union Strike Called For January 7 WASHINGTON, Dec. 18-UPV- The general committee of the Western Union Commercial Tele- grapners union tonignt ordered a strike for January 7 to begin at in in each time zone. The AFX. union, which claims 8,000 members in the nation, has lemandeda 25 per-cent increase ih pay and concessions on 12 other issues. Negotiations with tpe company have been deadlock- since last August, and a vote strike was returned in ballot ing conducted by the national la- Tr relations board December 1. The strike date was fixed at a jeneral committee meeting here. 6TH DIVISION HOME FORT LEWIS, Dec. "3-(VThe rst group of high . jint men of le 86th, (Dead Eye) infantry di vision to return home from the Pacific arrived at Fort Lewis to night They came up from San Francisco to Tacoma on the shut tleship Zeilin. Christmas UfaiL P'-i ii-- . eak elieved i Past in Salem j The peak ff the outgoing Christ? mas mail was believed past Tues day night j when cancellations dropped from the all time high of 126,000 for ( Monday to well over 100,000 for Tuesday. I I I 1 ; The incoming holiday mail is in creasing daily and the local post office staff j delivers all packages received each day before; quitting and callingjj it a day, Postmaster Al Gragg said last night , ' iThe parcel post, and stamp win dows of the Salem office will be kept open until 6 o'clock again Saturday and Christmas packages Will be delivered Sunday, Gragg announced.! . ,"s 3 "I I The previous high for local can cellations was more than 125,000 and was registered in the local post office On a day when exten sive mailing by the secretary of state's office was included. . ji ' J , SHIP DISPOSAL PASSED ? j WASHINGTON, Dec. -4JPr Legislation providing for disposal of 50,000,000 tons of wartime ships won approval in the senate late today. ; ; j Group Meetr to TV --'! IJlSCUSS Nazis Admit 3,544,281 Men Lost Before Battle of Bulge' Future Of Camp Adair Representatives of seven cities of the Willamette valley met at the city hall in Monmouth Tues day night to discuss plans for the future of Camp Adair and its rel ative importance to the adjoining areas, The group Interested in promoting new industries in the valley will be designated as the Seven City Development Group." Clay Cochran, secretary of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, and a Salem representative at the meeting, pointed out that Camp Adair, upon its release by the government, will be an ideal site for one or more large industries since power, sewage, climate, housing, streets, rail connections and its large cold storage plants are the ground work fox post war plans of some major industries. The organization would have five representatives from each town to work together on the plan. George W. Cooper, of the chamber of commerce, Mon mouth, has been appointed tem porary chairman. osion Fell For 1 90 Miles SAN DIEGO, Calif.. Dec. 18- W-A navy; ammunition truck and trailer . caught fire and ex ploded on a highway about 15 miles ; north of here - about 330 pjn. today with a terrific concus sion that rendered almost 1000 persons homeless in a nearby- f ed eral housing; project and caused about 20 casualties. The blast was felt, 90 miles away. V .. I . Camp Matthews, hear the hlasi reported 16 marines were treated for . cuts. : Windows were broken in the area, furniture blown into the street, and nearby army and marine camp structures reported damaged extensively. 1 I Truck driver John Ayala, of Fallbrook, Calif., noticed his gas tank aflame and leaped out to no tify authorities at La Jolla junc tion, 150 yards away, of the im pending danger. j 1 Police and, firemen had time to evacuate residents of adjacent iTorrey Pines federal housing pro ject and block off traffic at both ends of Rose canyon before the explosion..:.! ' , j Navy reports said the truck was jenroute from here to Fallbrook .with 57 rocket motors, 49 depth charge pistols, , 24 depth charge extenders, 29 depth charge boos ters, and .40 millimeter shells. A section of the gas main which supplies San Diego from Hunting ton Beach was broken, and f& smoke pillar shot up that was 4 seen; 90 miles away at Mt Palo- bmari? The gas company reported SBbutSSO pjn.'that four- to six hour supply remained and af ter; that the city would have to go on emergency rations until re pair could I be made! Electric light and telephone service in the area was disrupted. - W 'I More than SOOt retarniag veterans f the 37th "BBckeye" division from Ohio, held their noses and booed when told they would have to spend' another 24 hoars aboard the General Howse at the part f debarkation at Los Angeles. (AP Wirephoto) Nippon Learned Of t1. S. Fleel Via Radio By TOM REEDY WASHINGTON, Dec! 18.-WVTestimonv that the Japanese learned on Dec. 6, 1941 through intercepted U: S. radio messages that warships were at Pearl Harbor was laid before the con gressional investigating committee today. This! information came from General Douglas MacArthur's staff in Tokyo, along with other word that: 1. The enemy plans to smash the had! alternate TeStilHeS V, SJ fleet outside the NUERNBERG, Dec 18-(ffV-The German army high command ad mitted secretly just before its last great gamble, the Ardennes counter-attack, that Germany had lost 3,544,284 men killed or missing in action 65 per cent of them on the Soviet front in more than five years of war, it was learned today from a nazi document Prepared for the fuehrer's head quarters, this casualty report by the intelligence branch of the German army indicated that Hit ler publicly told the truth about tjhe low price in Teutonic lives he paid for conquering Poland, but was an inveterate liar tHfereafter. ! The report did not include the wounded, as American army tab ulations do, but an attached note stated there were 729,031 wehr macht wounded and sick hospital ized in the reich at the time. Soviet officials have said that German casualties in the east, in cluding dead, wounded, captured and missing, reached 12,000,000. The wehrmacht report covering eastern operations up to Novero ber 30, 1944, listed 1,410,728 dead and 907,050 missing. Military men estimate that the wounded usually number four times as many as the dead. Applied to the wehrmacht report this for mula would mean adding more than 5,500,000 to the dead and missing figure of nearly 2500,000 for a grand 8,000,000 in total of approximately the east 1 Hitler's last public remarks oh wehrmacht losses were made Aug. 11, 1942, when he said 350,000 Germans had been killed; in the war up to that time. He gave no figures on wounded or missing. 1 tics listed 701,734 rmy, iavy and alrforce dead for the same period -Kioubie wnat Hitler had re ported. New Snow on Way To Eastern U. S. By the Associated Press ; A new snow storm began en veloping the eastern half of the nation last night bringing some moderation but no lasting relief from one of December's bitterest cold spells. More than 34 deaths already have been directly attri buted to weather conditions in the Current cold wave. I The new snow increased traffic hazards over wide areas, b u heightened prospects W a white Christmas. if it Was anchored harbor. 1 2. orders went to the Japanese navy to prepare for the attack as early as Nov. 9. This information was obtained by MacAf-thur's staff in question ing Japanese prisoners after the rail ox Japan. Meeting Described The joint senate-house commit tee received at the same time memoranda of Sumner Welles, former I Undersecretary; i of F state, describing the Roosevelt-Church-1 ill meeting at sea when the Atlan-j tic charter was drawn in August, 1941. Welles revealed ! that Mr. Roosevelfi was reluctant to agree right then on a postwar organiza tion to disarm aggressor nations, urging (that this wait until a U. S.-Britishj "police force" was es tablished.) The evidence was introduced as vice admiral Theodore S. Wilkin-j son, chie4 of naval intelligence at Pearl Harbor time, went through his second day of questioning. Sharn Oiiestioninff . m . - . 1 - ways w mw m ZzZT ZTT rouTnthe Japanese had assigned a force The state's lowest official read 4500 Jlen jfeni ! : San Francisco 'Port Facilities : - .WASHINGTON;' Dee.i lS.-vPr-The army said tonight that 82,00 GIs from the Pacific would hav to spend Christmas in west coast -ports awaiting transportation horn unless the rail Jam cleared UP. The navy announced that many of its men scheduled for discharge or furlough will be in the same fix, too, but gave no figures. - t l' Hoping to relieve the' situation some, the office of defense trans portation ordered all railroads west jot the Mississippi to mow troop trains "just as fast as they do their regular passenger trains' from now until March L , ; : The army's statement' reported that more than 35,000 soldiers had been waiting more than' 48 hours for trains to the east as of last midnight It added that with 110,- 700 more troops expected to reach west coast jx)rts between now and Dec. 24 "the backlog wSl contin ue to mount rapidly From San Francisco came word that nearly 100,000 soldiers and sailors in all were in west coast staging areas and ports awaiting transportation. Of these the. hea viest concentration, 45,000, was in the San Francisco areaj Los An geles reported 17,000 men in two camps ashore and 10,000 aboard ships in the harbor, with the jam expected to last through the hol idays. - ) .1 A' .liifL 17 Below Hit Near Baker to hit at the fleet if it was outside recorded at; the Baker airport The highway commission, however reported it I was 24 below zero Wilkinson said more than half the six battleships, six cruisers near Meacham-The city of Baker apd doh destroyers smashed In registered 3 below; Lakeview, 4 above. The moon's first total eclipse since 1942 was clearly visible here, lasting from 5:40 to 7 p. m. No let-up from the week-cold snap was predicted by the weather bureau. I J Other minimum temperatures; Pendleton , Burns 8, Klamath Falls 21, Medford 22, Portland 28, Salem 30, Eugene 33, Roseburg 38. . - r r the raid harbor. j could have escaped the SPATJLDTNG HQ TO OPEN A Headquarters for the Bruce Spaulding for Congress organiza tion will be open in Salem in a few days, according to Ralph Campbell, Salem attorney who nas been named treasurer for the group. The location of the offices have not been decided. Eugene Hayter of Dallas has been named secretary. --I " Weather Satan Eugene Portland Seattle San Francisco Max. 3S 38 - 40, 41 83 Vfn. ! 32 IS J4 41 Rain Tract Trace Trace .00 - J0O Willamette river lJt feet. FORECAST 1 (from VS. weather bu reau, McNary field, Salem): Foggy - ttont!. 1 partly cloudy in after noon. Maximum temperature 40 de gree. Homma Denies 'March' Guilt i j 1 ; MANUKA, Wednesday, Dec 19. -iip-Lt jGen. Masaharu "Homma pleaded Innocent today to atro city charges growing : out of the cruel Bataan march of death and other crimes against allied civil ians and prisoners of war In the Philippines. " . Homma was arraigned before a U. S. military commission. His trial is expected to begin about Jan. 7 before the commission. ' Homraa, former commander of Japanese troops in the Philip pines, is charged specifically with responsibility for the ghastly death march, in which 17,200 Am- and withjother brutalities and ex- General Marshall ecutions that killed 4,831 Amer- t . leans and 45,000 Filipinos from JLailClS flt Manila April to August, 194Z in tne lnia imous 0Donnell and Canabatuan I prison camps. Vlce-Admiral Theodore C WOUa- son, former head of Naval In telligence and later a seailfhter with Adm. William Halsey, ap pears at the Pearl Harbor In vestigating committee session. (AP Wirephoto). . Congressional Special Ballot Plans Complete Plans for the special election January 11, to choose a successor to the late Representative James W. Mott, first Oregon district, have been completed by the state elections bureau, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr, an nounced here Tuesday. The 10 counties in the district have 510 voting precincts. The polls will be open from 8 a. m. un til 8 p. m. Farrell estimated the cost of the special election at $18,- 000 of which the state's share will not exceed $2500. . ' Nominations for the office most be filed by December 31. Walter Norblad, Astoria, was nominated by the district republican con gressional committee here 10 days ago and also will file by assembly of 250 or more voters to be held in his home city immediately fol lowing the Christmas holiday. ' Bruce Spaulding, Salem attor ney, nas announced that he win file by petition. He is a demo crat and previously served as dis trict attorney of Polk county. - feusssa lAgireed Dn Frinciple" to Jbin Axis i - 'to.1t ( I TOKYO, Wednesday, Dec 19. CffVRussia In late 1940 agreed "ih principle'' to join members of the tri-partite alliance in a four-power entente j which assigned the eastern world between them. Prince Fumimaro Konoy posthu mously revealed in a special doc ument defending the axis.: I In the document, Koooye re ports that then Japanese! Foreign Minister Yosuke MatsuOka said he had been told in Berlin that Iran and Indta were to be Russia's future sphere of rnflueice' un der a secret agreement accom panying the; proposed entente. Japan was jto receive the South Seas area; Germany would have taken Central Africa, and Italy Northern Africa, said a document released today by Konoye's son, Michitaka, who stated, it was pre pared by his father preceding his Sunday suicide. . I Konoye said, however, the plan failed to-progress and that three months after the agreement in principle was reached, German officials openly talked about the inevitability of a nazi-soviet war. j Japan once officially requested Berlin to avoid war -with Russia, but the overture : was brushed aside with the contention "It will be possible to terminate opera tions in two or three months. j Both he and Japan had been duped by Berlin's "traitorous' power politics, Konoye said, and ne added neither uermany nor Russia seriously attempted to con elude the entente agreement . Matsuoka, then foreign minis ter, knew about the prospective nazi - soviet 3 hostilities when he sought and 'obtained a neutrality pact from Moscow, the document said. Matsuoka's purpose was to hedge on Japan's posWon. J. . ... Konoye repeatedly contended that Japan expected,! by Joining the axis, to obtain a rapprodiment with the soviet as well as Ger many and Italy. He said Germany "was advancing in the direction of Japanese-German-jSoviet col laboration until at least about the time of Soviet Foreign Commis sar Molotov's visit td Berlin in Nnvemher. 1940, ? ' : Nazi Foreign Minister Von Rib- ben trop advanced the plan for the four-power agreement, which in cluded; -."Firstly, the soviet union. will declare that it agrees with the principle on the tri-partite pact in the sense of preventing war and swiftly recovering peace: "Secondly, the soviet union will recognize; the leading position of Germany, and Italy and Japan re spectively in the new order In Eu rope and I Asia and the three na tions Willi pledge respect of soviet territory. v - t "Thirdly, the three nations and the soyie union pledge not to as sist any nation being the enemy of the other, nor to join such a group of jrt-ons.' . -, s . MANILA, "Wednesday, Dec 19 -G"P)-Gen. George C Marshall arrived early this afternoon, two and a half hours ahead of sched ule,' enroute to China in his new role of U.S. ambassador. He immediately left with Lt Gen. W. D. Styer, commander of army forces in the western Paci fic and Maj. Gen. L. J. Whitlock, on a tour of the ruined city. Marshall . plans to leave for China tomorrow morning. UAW Rejects Ford Offer of 15 Cent Raise Bt the Associated Press The CIO United Auto Workers promptly rejected as "completely unacceptable" yesterday ' "a ' Ford Motor company offer of 8 12.4 per cent wge rate Increase. - I The UAW-CTO, which Is de manding a 30 per cent jwage rale hike, twice previously turned down offers from General Motors for a 10 per cent pay boost The Ford offer, which; the com pany said would represent an ad ditional outlay of $33,000,000 an nually above the $35,000,000 it estimated it stood to lose next year on the basis of no salary raises, embodied these condi tions: I The increases would become effective when monthly produc tion reached 70,000 units; they would -remain in effect for two years but any boost inj the OP A ceiling price on cars would not be a basis for wage adjustments; a "company security" plan would be , agreed on barring wildcat strikes,, protecting "company pre rogatives" and reducing I the num ber of union committeemen. The rejection did not create a deadlock in the negotiations, how ever, and another conference was arranged for Thursday. Soviet Favors Big 3 Meets MOSCOW, Dec 18.-t-As for eign ministers of the United States, - Britain and -soviet Russia met for. their third formal session today, the Moscow newspaper "New Times" indicated iRnss! a would favor, continued I meetings of the big three powers p the in terest of world collaboration. 'Referring to recent I proposals that veto rights of the five major cations on the United Nations se curity council be abolished, the New Times called this an "attempt to balk on firm collaboration of rvM-cOoving great powers, and an attempt to "transfer! intema bcnal policy to new rails" which "cannot lead peoples to 'a way of reliable peace." Driver Stops, Victim ' ; Runs In Salem Accident A hit and , run accident with reverse twist occurred in the 700 block on Center st Tuesday afternoon when a child ran into the street and into the side of a moving car. The driver of the car stopped but the boy got up and ran quickly outdistancing the driver of the car who chased, him in an endeavor to make sure the boy was not injured.. . boo!ojVe ONLY GOT XI ( ra SHOPPING oivS 1 UTY LEFT UNTIL A 1 t .- 1 - '"" " ' - i : . ' , i ' " . j - : - ... "