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m mm TOIL 0JGGOQS mDQQQCH Stung by criticisms . of slow motion in return of servicemen from overseas, the war shipping administration and the army and navy have opened the throttle on ocean shipping until now they are pouring more men Into the west coast ports than the railroads are able to move out The pile-up is so great that thousands are kept on shipboard in port for lack of accommodations , In the nearby staging areas where men are held until transportation is available. Meantime, the railroads are put ting into service almost every old car that will roll in the effort to move men out and move them fast OOT has ordered the roads to give' troop trains the same con sideration in schedules as regular passenger trains. There simply isn't enough ' equipment pullmans, coaches, locomotives to haul the men away as rapidly as the ships are bringing them across the ocean. The situation is regrettable but the cause is so obvious that all concerned might as well accept It in a spirit of resignation. It does no good to gripe at the govern ment or to cuss the railroads or to grouse at the crowded condi , tion of hotels and restaurants, Sure, it is disappointing not to be ,eble to step on a train and speed : off for the home one hasn't seen '. for two years or more. Sure, it is disappointing not to have the boy come home for Christmas, espe cially If he is only a few thousand miles away just sitting on a bench waiting for transportation. A little reflection Is in order, however. He is getting back much faster than seemed probable year ago. Then it looked as though the Jap war would last well into 1941. And he will not be ducking bullets on Christmas day, or shlv cring In a rocky foxhole or sweat ing on hot South Pacific atoll He's com In i? back, and generally whole.- -in't "there room for rejoicing rather than complaining, even if Gl has to sleep on ship board two days longer? It's time to count our blessings, and chief of them is that the war Is ever, with ell' its hazards to life. The other things which dis tress us are for the most part minor irritations in comparison. Communists Release Fliers ' TIENTSIN, China, Dec. 19-W six marine zuers wno were neia In Chinese, communist custody more than a month made their way into this UJ5. marine" head quarters today after the commun is ti had -escorted them much of the way.' All six were In good physical condition. Taken before Ma. Gen. Keller E. Hockey, commander of the ma rine Third amphibious force, they! beamed "This Is the best Christ- . mas present we could get" Mail Cancellation Hits Record High card aod letter mail Christmas oeiora in. docks were unauy cios- ea luesaay nignt usuy aaonaay a new recora oi izo.uoo conceua- tlons had been set when an ava lanche of package mail, was re ceived. Outgoing package mail is def initely past the peak while incom ing package - mail is increasing daily. Postmaster Al Gragg said - Wednesday night The Tuesday rush of mailing was late and even at p. m. workers did not believe It would pass 100,000, Gragg said. Animal Craclccn By warren Goodrich "lloui do -you spell roque- fortr Vk CIO. Wwi .,. - Vork 1 O No Settlement Made on Major Issues Involved WINDSOR, Ont., Dec. 19-WV Members of the United Automo bile Workers of America (CIO) voted to end their 14-week strike at the Ford Motor company of Canada, it was announced tonight, and return to work pending nego tiation and arbitration- of .the issues. . When the last ballots in the two-day vote were counted it was announced that the strikers of lo cal 200 had chosen to accept the government's plan to return to work. Of 10,000 Ford workers, 8500 were eligible to vote. It was said that pickets, in con stant attendance around the Ford works here since the strike began on September 12, would be with drawn immediately. Before the result of the ballot ing was made known, Ford offi cials said that as soon as they were notified officially of the un ion vote, cleaning squads would make the plant ready for regular shifts and production work would resume as quickly as possible. The plan accepted by the UAW local calls for negotiation of most issues, and arbitration of the chief deadlocked issues, such as the union's demands for a closed shop and dues check-off. War Powers Extension Fails WASHINGTON, Dec 19.-yty-Six southern democratic senators teamed with a solid republican bloc today to vote a six-months rather than a full year's extension for the second war powers act under which rationing Is carried out The thin margin of one. vote the roll call, was 31 to 30 as sured the six-months-only exten sion previously approved by the house. 1 The bill goes back' to the house for consideration of an amend ment affecting the naturalization of soldiers. It sets Dec. 31, 1945, as the deadline for application of members of the armed forces for naturalization papers. U.S. Evidence Cllt at Trfal YOKOHAMA, Thursday, De cember 20 -WV An affidavit de tailing abuse and murder of an American prisoner ox war was stricken from the records today at the trial of the Japanese charg ed w,tth his death. The prosecu tion protested the ruling "will cause many of our cases to fall. The affidavit of Pf c. Charles D.- uavord, Deming, N. was ruled out by the U. S. military commission' because the prosecu tion could not produce , the origi nal and attempted to introduce a mimeographed, copy as a certi ued duplicate. ; 1 $85 in Currency Stolen Theft of $83 In currency from . table at the rear of the HoUy- wood Beauty Shoppe. 2075 Fair grounds rd during the noon hour Wednesday has been reported to city police. A check for $11.80 was also included in the loot ! Elsie Bishop, proprietress, said.. City police also were investigating Wednesday a burglary at Ed's I Lunch, 554 State st As Parley Continues Fathers Made DraitJJExempt; New Score to Loose 837.000 . 1 . ; ill a- , . WASHINGTON, Dec - !.-')- AH fathers were made draft-ex empt today and the army and ncvy announced further - reduc tions in discharge requirements which would make .837,000 more persons eligible for release.' Selective service instructed lo cal draft boards not to induct any more fathers and not to accept on a volunteer basis any father hav ing three or more children. When the war ended, the draft ing of fathers was restricted to men under 28 and today's order removed that one remaining cate gory from the draft. ! On Dec. 31, the army point score will be cut from 55 to 50 for en listed men and from 73 to 70 for officers. ' ' - r The 'navy program will affect 1 237,000 more persons between now Gierrians Put Decorations on 4 j: Christmas Tree i - . M Thousands ef Salem residents were surprised . and delighted ' Wednesday, night when the I CherrianV Christmas tree ' en the county courthouse lawn j sparkled and glowed In its net- ! work of; colored electric globes' j a .full . 24 hoars ahead ef the promised hour for Its lighting. The 500-600 red, blue, green and gold lights hang In ribbons I and scallops down the sides of ;; the great old Norway spruce seem to;be rays front the great j blue star which stands erect on' the very; tip of the community's! Christmas tree.' . ? ! . f Since j the 1941 blackout the dark spruce has not been light-! ed until yesterday, although the! custom established by the Cher-i rlans In 1913 had always pre-f vfously; been observed. - i Mrs: Mansfeldt - if ... 'J -" P. 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19-( Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt was convicted of manslaughter to night inlthe gun slaying of Mrs. Vada MartinJ,36-year-.old nurse whom she had accused of steal ing the Sfove of her husband, Dr. John Mansfeldt -; i?!' . The jiocially prominent Mrs. Mansfeldt took the verdict of a jury of $ix men and six women in stunned silence buf seemed on the verge of collapse-as she was led front the court room. ;j The jury had deliberated four hours and 38 minutes- and reach ed its verdict at 10K)3;pjn. The law is that the sentence cannot exceed ten years. i Wednesday at 10 a.m. was set for trial, on her second plea of innocent j by reason of insanity. The defendant's mother, Mrs. Susie Hunter, 71, of Fresno, and thejrictlm's husband Naval Offi cer William Martin of Baltimore, sot in the court room. Freeze Death Toll Now 56 By the-Associated Press The chilled and snow-covered eastern half of the nation was offered more of the same diet of snow and cold last night that caused at least 56 deaths. Since feone of December's bit terest cold waves started moving east from the Rockies about two weeks ago ' the weather pattern has been snow, followed by clear ing and colder, followed by mod eration and more snowJ , While;! a fresh storm dumped from three to nine Inches of snow from eastern Kansas! to the At lantic seaboard, temperatures be gan to plunge again in the south and northwest and colder weath er was i forecast for the entire snow belt ... J: I Glnircliill to Visit States WASHINGTON, Dee. 1M)- Winston Churchill will sail for the United States early In the new year for a visit to be climaxed by an address at little Westmins ter college in Fulton, Mo. - President Truman tiot only en dorsed the invitation -to the far mer British prime, minister to speak In the, president's home state, but agreed to introduce him to the audience. Thei speech, en titled "World Affairs,! will be delivered March 5, 1948. - Churchill is coming to the Unit ed States largely for a rest ; I and Feb 2. Critical scores In the navy drop Jan. 1 to 38 for enlist ed men and 43 for officers; to 23 for - enlisted Waves and 29 for Wave officers. These are one- point reduction front the present cores; ii ; a :. Further one-point reductions jgo into effect Jan. 15 and Feb. 2 tor most enlisted men, and for Wave personnel cn Feb. XI j - l! The navy's schedule calls for release 1 by . Feb. 1 o( half the 3,000,000 subject to- demobiliza tion, and b y April of , two-thirds. One third are out now ft In the army the length of serv ice required after Dec. 31 for separation of enlisted men will; be reduced from 48 to 42 months and from 51 to 48 months for male of ficers except medical department Manslau hter ofiicer;j ; ' : 1!; -4 NINETY JTfTH. YEAH 12 PAGES f Hermann' Finally Harmless 1 T 4 - JgJ . iff x f ,( -.-i ' i , I w v - v ; . 4ts LONDON, Dec. 19. Two members ef ' British bomb disposal unit finally dog around "Hermann," a 4000 pound Nasi bomb, imbedded in a lumber yard near this city. The bomb, dropped In 1941, failed to explode . Not until now, however, were engineers able to render the missile harmless by draining Its TNT. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman) t ' Salem Veterans Organize Cooperative A veteran's housing i.cooper.tIve;Joseph M. Devers, law: J. ative, was organized Wednesday Ray. Rhoten, law; William ' C nigm at tne omces.oi ine f ar mers Union Cooperative associa tion. Various ideas were suggest ed. Purchasing about 30 acres for subdivision into plots for the con struction of a community of homes appealed to the majority. Cooperative organiz ing, financing, purchase of ma terials and supplies, construc tion and installation of utilities were discussed. Additional pur chase of materials for the con struction of homes on privately- , owned plots was also considered. - Among those who were pres ent and appointed on the organ izing committee were W. R. Wil lis, engineer; Vince Genna, Blake, Moffitt & Towne; R. Vance Mac Dowell, Farmers Union Coopefa- Sleepy Prowler J Goes Unnoticed I In Victim's Bed I MIAMI, fla Dec W-W-A sleepy prowler entered the home of Nathan Donner here last night and carted up In bed with his host. ( 1 Donner said he didn't even knew he had a guest until he was aroused by police looking for the prowler, whese entrance had been witnessed by a neigh bor. ' f; - He was about te leap from bed to Join the search when he realised the object of K was nertnff peacefully beside him. - The . prowler! - rest : was In terrupted by a trip te police headquarters where he was charged with drunkenness, i Commons Passes I' - - . w. - ... i' Nationalization of Bank of England i- LONDON, Dec lMflVThe la bor government pushed its bill to nationalize the 250-year-old Bank of England through the houses of commons tonight and took steps toward nationalizing the coal min ing industry and civil air lines. By 306 to. 128, commons ap proved and sent to the house I of lords the bill for public owner ship of the Bank of England It had been hailed by lahorites; in debate as "a great charter of free dom for the English people," and denounced by opponents as use less and involving an unwise en croachment of authority on other financial institutions., '"v-v':-- ... 1 ; I EPIDEMIC CLOSES SCHOOLS JACSNVILLE, Dec 19.-f)-The current influenza epidemic closed schools here today. Forty per cent of the pupils had been absent. The talent school closed yesterday. - . 3 Salem, - -1 1 1 i 1 " r ... -ir - . 1 j. .. - f for Building juagness, mstruexor. Additional support was pledg ed by members of the American veterans committee, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and telephone calls were received 'giving promises of help from many sources. Committees were appointed to investigate further .possibilities, properties and sources of materials. f Another meeting was called for Jan. 3 at the offices of the liar-1 mers Union CooDerative associa- tion. All veterans who feel that the hausing problem is a personal matter and wish to attempt a"co- operative solution of that prob lem will be welcome, representa tive from the nucleus organiza tion said. Court Divides! I McVay Verdict WASHINGTON, Dec 19 -iPh CapL Charles B. McVay ,3 rd, was acquitted on a charge of inef ficiency today in the loss of, 'the cruiser Indianapolis but no 'im mediate report was filed on anr ad ditional charge of negligence.! j Under general court martial pro cedure, a finding of guilty on any count is nof? announced Immedi ately. It is withheld pending re view by the Judge-advocate gen eral of the navy. Immediate an nouncements are restricted to al legations which the court finds "not proved." ;' ' 3. -I Capt McVay was pale and' ob viously shaken as the court mar tial failed to announce acquittal on the negligence charge. Willamette Students Get 12-Day Vacation ! Willamette university students will embark on a 12-day Christ mas vacation-.with the conclusion of classes Friday. Studies will be resumed on - Wednesday, January 2 at 8 a. m. i University officials announced Wednesday that all school offices would dose for a five-day period extending from noon on Saturday until 8 a. m. Thursday, December 27. , til.. !,.-;: : -. SOMERVELL TO RETIRE 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. U. j by this Oregon Pulp & Paper corn General Brehon- Somervell,- chief J panyj officials of Oregon Pulp of army service forces, wm retire on April 29. - weatlier ' . - f -' Max. - 3S -35 -38 - 41 . Min. zt 25 24 13 . galea Kugeno Portland Sttl AO M San Francisco 51 .37 WUlamette river 1.4 Teet. FORECAST (from U5. weather bu reau. McNary field.-Salem): Local tot this morning, partly cloudy in after noon. Maximum temperature 40 de- Irarees.;, Oregon, Thursday Morning December 20. 1945 - t f j ! Morning Blaze Woodburn Takes 4 Lives . . nWOODBURN, Dec. 19 -(Special). Mrs. Norman B. Seely, 24, her three" daughters,, all under 3 years of age, were burned to death about 6:45 this morning at the family home three miles east of town. ' : : ; The father, Norman Seely, left the house just after 6 o'clock to do the: milking at his" father's (Ralph! Seely's) place across the road. He had started the fires in two wood stoves in the house be-! fore leaving. The house was . seen in flalhes by 'Ralph Seely at about j 6:45. Mrs4 Seely was awake and nursing the three months old baby, Sharon Rae, when the hus band., jand father left the house. Their bodies were found near the sink in the kitchen, and it is be Jievedlishe may have heard the fire and left the bedroom with the baby to seek the other girls, asleep' in separate rooms upstairs. Possible escape through a door on the other side of the house was evidently ignored in an at tempt; to save the children. At least one of the girls is be lieved to have awakened, for her body j was found some, distance from the bed springs, L. E. Bar- rick, County coroner, reported. Mrs.' Seely could have-made her escape; with the baby through the window near her bed. Her father- in-law, the first person to reach .$e.;4&HL5tf .Jhefirete pulled Jhe mattress ' from ' the bed " through the window; " " The!! house was completely de stroyed in the fire, the heat of which): was so great that pennies from a child's bank were found fusedjt Barrick said. Woodburn and Monitor fire departments re sponded to the alarm. (Story also on page 12) Qf-oliri W PPPlVPfi I IICIOIT KO 1 "wry VTIieS ISeVlIl J " - . MOSCOW, Dec 19-UrVGener- alissimo Stalin, just returned to Moscow after a lengthy vacation, received U.S. Secretary of State Jamei F. Byrnes and British for eign Secretary Ernest . Bevin to day and the Russian leader was reported looking "well and rest ed." i Byrnes ahd Bevin are In Mos cow tonferring with soviet for eign Commissar V. M. Molotov on the multiple problems facing the world. They met for the fourth time today in a session lasting one hour and 15 minutes. Maybe They Got A Bargain Rate PETERSBURG, Ind Dee. 19 Lannie S91e, suffering from a broken rib, was aeeom 'panted to a doctor's office by his wife and sister-in-law Mrs. Maefl Wmia. I L ' . Mrs. Slple slipped en ice at the idoor ef the building and broke her right arm. i Mrs. Wlllia started Into the office, fell, and broke her right The doctor patched, ap all three. .;' 1 Sold to Oregon i All; timber holdings, logging and lumber operations and equipment of the Charles K. Spaulding Log ging Company has been purchased announced here Wednesday. Tne I price -was reported to , he more than -$400,000 for the residue of I tmmcrtr. assets. - ?? 11L ' The operations, which win con- joo I tinue for awhile under the Spaul ding name, include- approximately 100,000,000 feet of standing tim -1 Gnildreri 5 Cremated SDauldinsr Land, Eauii) 11- - O ' - ' - 1 1 ber in western Polk county withi trucks and : other logging equip ment, the sash and door factory and retail yard at McMinnville, 6 Tons of Nuts, Candies Needed 1 For Institutions Approximately 5000 pounds of assorted nuts, 8000 ' pounds of candies, mixed and chocolates. and SOS eases ef oranges will be required to snpply Oregon's state Institutions for the Christ- mas holidays, the state purchas ing department announced here Wednesday. ? Turkey dinners will be served Christmas day at virtually all of the institutions. There will be Christmas trees at most of the institutions, purchasing' depart ment representatives said. At the Oregon state hospital here more , than 3009 patients and' attendants "win participate In the Christmas feast' Turkeys for most ef the institutions were produced en state farms. i "l Pearl Harbor Time Extension WASHINGTON, Dec 19-flV The joint senate-house committee investigating Pearl Harbor decid ed tonight to ask congress for authority to continue its inquiry and complete' hearings by Feb ruary 15. . s The committee now is operat ing under a resolution requiring a report and conclusions by Jan uary 3. The extension of time was de cided in an executive session and announced by Chairman Barkley (D-Ky.). .. The committee authorized Bark- lev- as he nut it "to cruise ( t.i." mi ,i Lm-.. - WrUiam D.. Mitchell, former at torney general, and his staff have resigned effective January 3 on the ground that the committee was taking too much time in its cross examination of witnesses. The committee received evi dence today that the army feared a German-Japanese move into South America in June, 1940, screened by a naval raid on Pearl Harbor and sabotage of the Pana ma canal. j The army went on an tmme- diate alert in Hawaii and Panama, then reduced it after several weeks when nothing unusal hap pened, i Continued .Gold, WeatHer Forecast For Northwest No relief is in sight for the Pa- cine Northwest, caught in the grip of winter. The forecast is for continued cold and little change in temperature. Holiday motorists wlll find it difficult and hazardous travel on the highways for the rest oi me wee, new roaas leaa- ing out of the state are in normal condition, state highway commis - sion offices said Wednesday night RithwiTi tn the aouth via Grant. Pas nd Klamath Fall reoort nacked snow and frost- The! Santiam nasa has 83 inches of r . snow with roads open. Spots of1 ice and snow were reported all along the Columbia river .hlzh- way. Astoria reported nonnal con - di tlons. American .Telephone and Tele graph company's long line depart ment said delays as much as four hours on calls coming in to Wash ington and Oregon were due to bad weather. ment Pulp, Paper Co. both of which are to be reopened shortly. . An estimated 55,000 acres - of logged-off land Is included in the deal which is one of several made In recent months Involving more than $1,000,000 in- new invest ment, including reconstruction of portions of ; the paoermiH de stroyed here, by fire in August The papermill major operations which have been down since the Augustus fire will be resumed by i February . 1, Nels Teren, vice president and general manager of Oregon Pulp & Paper, said In Sa lem on Wednesday. Approximate ly $350,000 is going into the re building and improvements, at the I papermilL Probers Ask .ITo. 223 Fight Due Proposal I Air Force. Wins j. Equal Footing Under Measure j: By William R. Spear TT j' . WASHINGTON, Dec 19 -C President Truman, the constitu tional commander-in-cbJef, . laid out a course for complete unifi cation of the army and navy to day to a divided congress and wrangling service chiefs. ! ' , j He told them, in a detailed message to congress, that Tfurth- er studies of the general problem would serve no useful purpofe. There is enough evidence now. - Sink the Navy" ' ! Bitterest .. comment came from Rep. Vinson (D-Ga), chairman of the house naval committee, ilt would "sink the navy," Vinson's statement said. It "smacks of the . Germany of the kaiser j and of Hitler, of Japanese militarism. "I am shocked. . . " What the president recommen ded was largely what the army has favored and the navy has opposed: j . A single "department of na tional : defense" headed by one cabinet member in place of the present war and - navy depart ments; ' Equal Footing An equal footing in this de partment for the army,' the navy and an air force, with s civilian assistant secretary for each; A single chief of staff to be the top military jcbmmandet - of all t mice Drancnes . ox 4 uie - wktwiet. i witn inoiviauax . military com- air force. Broad discretion for the presi dent and. the new defense secre tary to set up such coordinated bureaus for the three services as they see fit. Clerks , read the long-waited message in the senate and house at noon and congressmen who commented to reporters indicated there would be no rush to give the president the bill he wants. I g A -i g I oil PA 111 lltJ All Kidiiap Hoax CHELSEA, Mass Dec li.(Jf) B.1J rnln ure in New England's outstanding kidnap hoax, died of "asphixia tion and acute respiratory infec tion1 and "there was no evidence of violence, medical - examiner William J. Brickley said today in a preliminary Teport. .As events moved swiftly, the Boston psychopathic hospital re ported it had completed examina- tion . of Mrs. Rose Carlan, the baby's mother, and Judge John w. McLeod set tomorrow for a I court hearing of the murder 1 charge against her. I REDS TO HANQ 7 KH LONDON, Dec 19.-o-Seven I A m a. . . mi . 1 m w uerman men xnea war un cnarges ny ut kus- amoiensa were seniencea tonight to be hung, Moscow radio 1 ,Th other three -were sent- enced to from 12 to 20 years in prison. ; - - i - - : VETERANS GET GRATUITIES HOLLYWOOD, Dec 19.-VPy-The Hollywood veterans service council announced tonight that gratuities will be paid to 13,611 Americans who served In the Ca nadian forces during World war IL . .; , 6ETTA BUSY MONK iVlA 1 ONLY COTTA SHOPPIM6DAYS UNTIL Price 5c Over New r X l I I T !5