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TUT) lTini"3 Patton Rites Set For
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Luxemboui
Soma of our western town
sever teem to grow up. They
want to pose as reiki of the old
west of the fun-toting, rip-roar-Ing,
hell-for-leather west, most of
which never was. Legend always
exaggerates, and the wild west
which survives In western movies
and western adventure stories is
the magnified glorification of a
west which was by no means uni
versal. Most of the western towns
were drab, dull, uneventful. The
holdups and the shooting scrapes
were occasional, just as they are
today. Only in the mining settle
ments was there any steady run of
killings. There the combination of
gold and liquor, of greed and re
venge, kept the crime chart at
fever stage.
But this pose of being wild west,
of being tough and primitive,
teems to have a grip on some of
our cities, until even the respect-
, SDie elements, wno reaiiy ar in
big majority, accept the pose as
cenuin and meekly acauiesce.
This observation is prompted by
a recent report of the grand jury
of Klamath county respecting en
forcement of gambling laws in
Klamath Falls. The authorities
' . t t J
were recenuy crc.ea uuwn w n wT
law violators and confiscated slot JrOStmeil WOfK
machines. The grand jury, after
'commending the district attorney
and state police for vigilance "in
detecting and suppressing viola
tion (Continued on editorial page)
By Richard Ai OTteran -
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec :
22-vP)-Past sorrowing lines of
his comrades in arms, the body
of Gen. George Smith Patton, jr.,
was borne tonight to ancient
Villa Reiner, where the warrior
will lie in state until funeral
services tomorrow. .
Patton, one of the most vivid
figures in American military
history, will be laid to rest
Christmas eve in a JJS. military
cemetery at Hamm, Luxem
bourg, in soil hallowed by the
blood of his fellow fighting
men in the gallant U.S. third
army.
The steel casket, draped with
the banners of the UJS. third,
seventh and 15th armies, was
placed in the oak-panelled
drawing room of the villa. The
spacious room was filled with
fresh roses and carnations
flown in from France.
The somber tones of an or--gan,
played In an upstairs room
by Sgt Joseph Crosby of Cor
vallis, Ore, broke the solemn
silence.
NINETYIFTH YEAB 16 PAGES Salem, Orecjon; Sunday Morning, December 23. 1945 - Price 5c No. 133 Ilolld SL V S
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inangiea
g I Today
', At dusk descended over this
old university city, a regulation
army ambulance beating ' the
body moved out of the yard of
the ;130th station hospital, where
Patton died late yesterday. A
staff car and three ; military
jeeps, flashing red lights escort
ed the machine. 4
Silent American soldiers stood
stiffly at attention, their arms
raised in salute, as the proces
siori wound through -iihe twist
ing' cobblestone streets. Stolid
Germans wat c h e d unemotion
ally.) I .
' Patton's comrades will con
duct Episcopalian services to
morrow in ancient Christ church
of Heidelberg. fe;
Mrs. Patton, who flew to her
husband's bedside after the au
tomobile accident which para
lyzed him, will attend the ser
vices with her brother, Freder
ick Ay er of Boston, Mass., who home for Christmas was running
flew here several days ago." It ghort of I time today, with little
was Mrs. Patton's wish that her hope for newcomers to western
; husband be buried m tne sou norts which have about 168.000
Stranded
GIs TTotal
168,000
Remains of 'Navy Truck
Little Hope Seen
For Servicemen
Left on Coast
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 22-(JPi
The army's ' "operation s Santa
Claus to get Pacific warriors
::.
he 'did so much to liberate.
Today to Deliver
Christmas Mail
Staff Sergeant
Storms Sweep
Pacific Coast,
Warnings Up
By the Associated Ptcm
Gales swept areas of the Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington
coast today, while heavy rain
throughout most coastal regions
became a hazard to highway
travel.
Two disturbances were traced
by the weather bureau in the east
ern Pacific, and storm warnings
were issued along the northern
California, Oregon and Washing
ton coast A small craft warning
was In effect off touthern CaU
fornl.' " '
The weather bureau reported a
disturbance which -formed about
600 miles west-southwest of San
Francisco brought on the gales
along the California coast Storm
warnings from Point Conception
to Cape Blanco, Oregon, have
been extended to Sunday noon, j
An earlier storm, which cen
tered about 300 miles off the As
toria coast today, was moving
northward. Southeasterly gales in
Washington and Oregon resulted.
The warnings were extended to
Include inland waters of Washington.
For the first time en Sunday
la many years mall will be de
livered today In the residential
districts ef Salem. This an
nouncement was made late Sat
arday by Postmaster AI Gragr.
The delivery will clear eat
the heavy backlog ef Christmas
eard and letter mall received
late Saturday and early this
morning. Delivery of parcel pest
mall win be made today as It
was last Sunday.
While it was thought all out
going package mall had been re
ceived earlier, considerable was
taken In Saturday afternoon. At
time I the line of persons
waiting In the lobby was so long
- that a second parcel post win
dow was opened.
Faces Charge
Of Espionage
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec 22
P)4A good looking army air
cprps staff sergeant is held in
solitary : confinement at nearby
TTamOtAn flp'M th armv ctatMl
tw rHVi .nvirnr and navy headquarters.
against his country and dealmg I San Francisco area had the
with German espionage agents.
mImm ontVinH-ro tka orsr Hw I OOUfc ,VW, W1UJ OIW W move
Housing Looks
Dark to Snell
I "It looks as though things may
get worse before they get better,"
Gov. Earl Snell averred Satur
day as he discussed need for
housing facilities . for ; returning
servicemen.
"I have received letters from
mayors of many Oregon cities
which Indicate that there is not
enough room for many of the
men now returning home," Snell
declared. The letters were In re-
sponse to a request Dy we gov- ctavtrt xrrnnlM m:11
ernor that mayors survey housing
conditions and appoint commit- Pays $11,000 BonilS
places to live.
Epliraim Tutt's
Creator Dies
After Illness
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 -AV Ar
thur C. Train, 70, lawyer, novel
1st and creator of "Mr. Ephriam
Tutt, a fictional character whose
corporeal existence was taken
for granted by countless readers,
died today in Memorial hospital
after a year's Illness.
Train, reelected last week as
president of the national insti
tute of arts and letters, had been
in the hospital several times
since spring undergoing a series
of operations. He was a native
of Boston.
Equally capable as a lawyer
and writer, Train received his
greatest tribute as an author last
year when Ephriam Tutt, fic
tional lawyer with the stovepipe
hat became the subject of a legal
wrangle.
Train and Charles Scribner's
Sons, publishers of "Yankee Law
yer," were sued in supreme court
by an attorney who charged that
Mr. Tutt's failure to materialize
ii- the flesh constituted fraud.
awaiting ; transportation.
Army land navy officials ex
plained that over-taxed transpor
tation facilities were assigned on
"first come-first served? basis and
that the thousands, arriving from
now until Christmas day had lit
tle hope 1 of getting on a train or
plane going east of the Rockies un
til after Dec 25.
With indications that the port
cities of 1 San Francisco, Los An
geles, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma
and Sani Diego would likely hav
at least 150,000 stranded men of
both services on Christmas, thous
ands of turkey dinner Invitations
for the veterans poured into army
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SAN DIEGO,! Dee, 22. Pictured is the nvy ammunition trnek which exploded on the coast highway
aear l Jells, Calif. One thousand persons' were left homeless by the flaming explosion. Rockets,
depth charges and shrapnel shells ripped through Torrey Pines and Camp Callaa housing centers.
tmsxhing every window and leaving etrery house uninhabitable. Empty shells and (at extreme right)
can be seen an unexploded shell.' Intermational Soandphoto) .... !
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aven to 39,000
U. Si Ito Ofifer;
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EiiroDeah Rfefueees! Yearly
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east today and 3348 arriving by
ship. The navy's backlog rose to
nearly 9000. J
About 45,000 soldiers, sailors and
marines are . scheduled to be
brought ;to. western ports by the
Pacific transport fleet in the
navy's "magic carpet" operation !
from now until Dec 26.
- Christmas trees on. all ships and
piers and at all camps where vet
erans are billeted, distribution of
presents, entertainment by-crivu?
ian nmfMinni1i fia nroll fiarm
entertainers and, most Important, f
ffinrnnd 11Kn1 innlnA&t ICOnflrmed It.
in the elaborate plans to make the ,Tv never mentioned it before,"
delay pleasant. - luie acwr scuo. aiayuc same pw
in aaMtinn w. win pie will think I shouldn't have
to send to Germany information I church services. Everything I dpne it I was only doing what
partment, Identified him as 30-year-old
Frank Hirt, formerly of
North Babylon, Long Island, N. Y.,
tod? more recently of Petaluma,
Calif, r :',".
"It Is expected that he will be
tried by an army courts martial
within the next month at Hamil
ton field," the statement said.
Sgt Hirt native of the United
States, j lived with his grandpar
ents' in Germany for many years.
He enlisted in the U.S. air corps
sooit after returning to the Unit
ed States. ; i ST
He is accused specifically, of
conspiring with German agents in
Europe and Brazil to obtain and
Joe E. Brown Dropped Comedy
To Kill Japs. General Reveals
j COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 22.-53-How Joe E. Brown switched
roles from actor to fighter and, killed two Japs in a foray on
northern Luzon was related by the comedian today for the first
time. - ! : I i 1
-,! .The incident was disclosed by Major Gen. Robert S. Beight-
er, commander of the 37th (Ohio)
Quotas Remain
Same Under!
Brown reluctantly
about VS. military airplanes.
Sailors Take
TcLxicab East
possible
through
tlves of the men and special pay
advances are being made so ev
erybody will have some funds.
CHATTANOOGA, j Tenn- Dec
22-4ty-Four Atlanta sailors and
one; from Chattanooga licked the
transportation problem and came
home for Christmas by making a
shuttle taxicab trip from the west
coast ; I f;
r-v,o .o tnA u the state of Oregon
Not From Qioice!
The Stateaman'a Sunday
comic section b missing to
day but not from choice. It
will return in full next Sun
day, and we hope from then
on the supply of still-ecdrce
newsprint will be such that,
well never have to pass up
dandle and our other comic
friends again. j j
STAYTON, Dec 22-(Special)-Chrisunas
bonuses aggregating
$11,000 were distributed to 50 em
ployes of the Paris, Woolen' mills,
according to J. B. Powell owner.
All employes who have been
with the company since July 1,
1945, through December 15, re
ceived a bonae at the rate of 10
per cent of their yearly earnings
from January 1 through December
15.
Animcl Crodccrs
By WARKEN GOODRICH I
mJ toy could I borrow one of
your itocJkins for tne
Is beins done to nut every one else: was doing trying
communications to rela-P neP wm war."
: "Besides," he added, "the Japs
were shooting at me."
! And they were, reported Gen
eral Beightler, who was host to
Brown when he 'visited the 37th
troops last June in . his entertain
ment tour. He said:
i "One of our men standing be
side. Brown was shot by a Jap
sniper and wounded.1
Brown and Beightler had a re
union last night on the stage of
a local theater, where the actor
at the WWte 13 playin m show? "Harvey "
X was U1C1C Hk DdK'iwa. wiu
Oreson Man to
Receive Honor
For! Volunteers
,An Oregon man, to represent
t w nA volunteer, unpaid members of the
unobtainable. ift a, d"win nxt
In Dallas they transferred to Z ,T 1' vloolOR'
another cab which took them to stale selective service director, an-
Atlanta. Harris made the hop nouncedhere Saturday,
fmm th rwria Htvfto rhntta. Qregon representative will
nooga on a bus.
be chosen from among 101 volun-
m . ..iA- u I i w iwve scrveu va iucu
tuc uiy cash was iusue ut uus i. - i, . . , , ; ...
days and cost the sailors $55 Hthe inception of the
piece. .-.&? I - on.L j : wi. v.u i
(VU. IUWU1 WW US UC1U Ul
tVia ATomitilfA A mi rv Ami TSum
rarreli Urges Safe - Iday with Mrs. Earl Snell, wife
Tln'vlnfy Ovor TfhliMva K Oren's governor, picking the
-""r- .Z?ZZ7i - numberifrom a hat
aeCTeiary ox wvefvoo o. ected will be no
Farrell, Jr, Saturdajt issued an ni-tpi- anA 1mv.
the Christmas holiday season. At-
tentlon was called to the unsatis
factory condition of highways in
many parts of .the state.
Both car . drivers and pedes-1
trians were asked to observe traf
fic regulations, o
ington about January 15,,
Unemployme
CathoKc, Lutheran, Episcopal
:nt
Hits New High
Churches Plan Yule Services
Christmas day church services
in Salem will be held by Cath
olic, Lutheran and Episcopal
churches, and midnight services
will usher in the Christmas day
at St Paul's Episcopal and Amer
ican Lutheran churcheev "
The first mass will ' be cele
brated Christmas day at ain.
at St Vincent de Paul's church.
It will be sung by the children's
choir and win be followed by
low mass at 7:30 and the second
sung mass, "the Mass of the
Shepherds, wiU be at 9 o'clock.
The last will be a low man at
10:30 which win be followed by
benediction.
Hisses are Scheduled
The first mass at St Joseph's
will be a solemn high mass at
7:30 followed by low masses at
8:30 and 9:45 and the last mass
will be sung at 11. Christmas
carols will be sung at each of
.Oregon's unemployment reach
ed a. new post-war high last week
as 24.Q67 payments were made to
those without Jobs, the state un
employment compensation com
mission reported Saturday.
Not since April, 1938, j have so
M.1 . , j,t I many weekly checks been sent out
the masses. Confessions wul beJT7j,,J", . :
hMrri Simdaw mrui Hi . . by the . coinmissioiu . , .. : .
V i. ..j The number of payments com
Joseph's from 10 to 530 and I nrmm ,M . XVMv aa
fiom 7 to tZQ pjxwwblle at St I -1 VT C ZZZ
ended ; October 6. 8658 for the
week ended November 3, and 18,
383 for the week ended December
1. More tSas. $400,000 was paid
this -week, and officials said the
amount showed no signs of falling
how Brown Went into combat j
Elaborating today, General
Beightler said; . j
Joe was Worrying the life out
of me, because I personally felt
responsible for his safety and he
insisted on staying up at the front
when he was j not putting on a
show. ' ' '
"I finally asked him if he would
like to help capture the town of
Bambang, and Joe thought that
would be swell.
"I put him into the lead tank.
and the attack got underway." j
As the spearhead broke into
the town, the general related, Joe
popped out of the tank and began
firing a carbine at the Japanese.
During the attack, a machine gun
in Brown's tank exploded and a
soldier was stunned.
When the skirmish was over,
the colonel and Joe had a friendly
argument over who got two Japs
lying near them. The Gi's set
tled it by .awarding to Brown
flag one Jap carried.
Vincent's the hours will be from
330 to (30 and 7 to pjn. on-Monday.-;
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Mass on Christmas day at In
dependence will be celebrated at
9 ain. f in St Patrick's- church,
which Is a mission of St Joseph s jpring when con-
Ui i IMJCUS
ttructiotv lumbering - and other
seasonal -operations will be re-
- The American Lutheran church
revemll to ll ta 5 Volumt
o'clock Monday night Then , on
Christmas morning at 11 o'clock J Igalhcr
will be held.
. Central Lutheran church wiU
hold its festival program at 10
o'clock, Christ's Lutheran church
service will be at 10:30, and St
Salem ;
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Occasional iini ram tooajv ana ihiuih
Abundant Meal
Awaits Patients
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Christinas; Day
CORVAIXIS NATAL HOS
PITAL. Dee. 22 - (Special) -There
isn't any half-way meas
ure in providing an abundant
dinner for the naval veterans
here on Christmas. Here's the
dinner menu:
Shrimp cocktail, sauce a la
Benson, saltlnes, Jumbo olives,
stuffed celery, sweet mixed
pickles, roast young torn tur
key, Virginia style baked ham,
wmpped iron potatoes, can
died j sweet potatoes, buttered
fresh asparagus : tips, iceberg
lettuce quarters, French dress
ing, mayonnaise, hot Parker
house rolls, butter, plum pud
ding, 1 hard sauce, fresh - frozen
strawberry sundae, cigars, cig
arettes, coffee, milk.
STATE TOPS E BOND GOAL
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 22-ff)
Oregon's -Victory loan E bond
sales topped the state's quota to-
day. Total sales, of $22,858,659
were 101.6 per cent of the quota,
state war finance officials said.
FLIGHT TO ENGLAND
NEW YORK, Dec &2-(VCar-
rying 21 passengers, a Pap Amer
lean World i Airways clipper; took
off today, inaugurating the .com
pare new schedule of daily flights
between New York and England.
BNRXA Ut "FULL STRIDE"
WASHINGTON, Dec 22 HP
Recent American contributions
have enabled UNRRA to reach
"the full stride of actkm," Direc
tor General Herbert H. Lehman
said today, t ;
TO RESTORE POWER
MOSCOW, I Dec. 22 -m- The
Soviet Union will " complete the
restoration ; of all war-damaged
electric power stations by 1948,
Planned Policy
WASHINGTON, Dec
President Truman today directed
the entry Into the United States
within. .. established immigration
quotas of European war refugees
at the rate of about 39,000 a year.
Most of them. will come from
Thousands Wait '
Ati Depots for f
Transportation
By, the Associated Press .
The worst traffic jam in his
tory spread throughout the nation
last night as servicemen, civil
ians and brand-new dischargees
surged into trains, buses and
planes in a gigantic home-for-Christmas
movement'
Determined to celebrate the
gayest Christmas in five years
with their families at home, tens
of thousands waited ' in endless
lines at ticket windows, pushed :
into - buses, stood ' for hours
Jammed in the aisles of trains,
and some even slept overnight at
airports in the hope mat someone
might cancel a reservation.
Ignere Warning
No longer , obligated to. ask
themselves "is this trip neces
sary," the holiday travelers ig
nored warnings by railroads that .
space was at a premium, that mil
itary travel was at its highest
peak - in history despite the end
of the war.
Travel reached such a volume
that the New York Central sys
tem suspended ticket sales at a
number of points "until further
notice," i and in Washington all
lines shut off ticket sales to ci
vilians for 30 to 90 minutes at a
time, i
Air lines had 40 to 50 persons
on waiting lists for each flight
Telephone jams developed as
thousands besieged railroad sta
tions for reservations. '
15,808 Left
In Chicago, a Union depot sta
tion master said 15,000 were left
in the - station last night when
trains pulled out without them
because of lack of space. Shore
patrols and military police sup
plemented regular policemen in
keeping order at the stations but
minor stampedes - still were re
ported. In Madison, Wis, a sailor
22-iJPf I suffered ji mangled leg when a
surging platform crowd acciden
tally pushed - him under the
wheels o a train.
Aggravating the national 1 tie
up was shortage of equipment re
ponea oy au ran lines as a re
sult of wartime deterioration and
central and eastern Europe and
the Balkans where approximately I military demands.
2,000,000 persons are said to be I - (Additional details on naze 61
homeless. I - ;
Theeffectof the order Utore-ITVT,4T J
quire that the regular immigra- j 1 1 CW ILuglcinCl
be filled with persons whom the 4jl V0ifl llttf
war drove away frpm their homes ' VA
and whof for one reason or anoth- LONDON, Dec. 22.-WVM o s t
er, are not returning. There will delegates . to the United Nations
be little; room left for other na- preparatory commission appeared
uonais oi mose countries wno may tonight to favor some small New
want to come here England community in the vicinity
"This (is the opportunity for 0f Boston as the permanent home
America to set an example for 0f the world peace agency,
the rest of the world in coopera- The New York City area was
tion towards alleviating human considered a close second, but
misery,"! the president said In a other areas still were in the run
statement ; ning, and many delegates said they
Along with the statement the stm had orwm mind
wniie nouse maae puduc an om
cial directive to six federal agen
cies to put the-plan into effect
The shift to New England de
veloped in informal discussions
after the commission voted 20 to
5 to establish the permanent head-
5 RAF Men Ambushed
By Indonese Rebels
BAfAVTA, Java, Dec 22-ipy-
British troops and tanks battled
Indonesians in the troublesome
Kramat- area of Batavia tonight
after five RAF men had been
killed in ambuscades there earlier.
Four men were killed and two
men wounded when an RAF truck
was fired upon in the Kramat sec
tion, the British announced, and
the Dutch news agency Aneta said
that later a flight lieutenant was
wounded .fatally and his Jeep
driyer hurt. when they drove
through the same area.
ders as Denver, San Francisco.
and the Black Hills area.
Panama Kevolt te? of tT-
Iganization in the eastern United
A .J,sj. . States,:thus eliminating such bid-
mu tV unrest
PANAMA CITY, Dec 22 -JP)-Former
President Arnulfo Arias
was arrested today by government
authorities on charges of instigat
ing a short-lived revolutionary at
tempt at Colon last night in w.'ch
seven persons were killed and
seven wounded.
The arrest of Arias and a na-
Ickes Urnes
Hawaii as
State
WASHINGTON, Dec 22.-CTV
The admission of Hawaii "in the
tionwide roundup of his followers state in' the union was recom-
was ordered after a meeting of the mended today by Secretary of the
cabinet S called by President En- Interior Ickes. -
rique Jiminez. Felice reinforce- The people of the Padfic ocean
ments from Panama City were outpost already have voted in the
Hurried to Colon, at the northern ratio of 2 to 1 in favor of state
mimA " 9 ..j) am h -1 . -
official statement said the situa- The final decision on admittance
tion was. "perfectly under con-1 will be un to conaresa which will
trot"
Simplified Tax Form to Lower
State Revenue Mnimum of 3
check up on the territory's quali
fications through a committee visit
I - i.
pected. Not long ago be said thai
he.-doubted whether he would
make any recommendation on the
issue before next year. ,
State income tax revenues for
1946,1 based on 1945 incomes, will
be reduced at least three per cent
by use of the new simplified in
come tax. form approved, by the
1945 legislature, state tax .com
missioners said here Saturday.
"'Sending out - the , short 'forms
will jstart, this week. !
The law providing, for use -of
such; forms was held valid by the
state; supreme court here Friday
In a decision on a suit brought
by F H.-Young, manager of Ore
gon Business & Tax Research,
Inc Young contended that the bill
signed by presiding officers of
senate and -house of representa
tivei and hj the governor was
not lie one approved by the legis
lature. , . A : . ':
Under the new law individuals
ed gross Income may take a stan
dard reduction of the federal tax,
plus per cent- of the adjusted
income, except certain taxpayers,
including estates and . trusts and
those Who file returns .for less
than Sri 12 months period. ;: - ' :
These who have adjusted gross
income: of more than $5000 can
not use the simplified computa
tion but may use the standard
reduction of federal tax, pies
1350. U v : .
The exemption for single per
sons is reduced from 1300 to $750 j
a year while exemptions for mar
ried persons remain at $1500. De
pendents, based on July 1 of the
tax year,' also remain at -$300.
Officials said that while ap
proximately a million short forms
would! be printed only. 400,000
would be sent to individual tax-
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61MME A QUICK HAIRCUT
AND SWAVEJVEOKJLYOOT
jZfl I TtEFT UNTIL - I I
nV J I CHRrSTMAS j
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wfil be at 1030.
the news agency Tass said today
with,' not more than 503 adjust
payers,;'.;.:;
temperarar ss aetr. --