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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1945)
f f i t i II, 'I PACS CDC The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem,' Oregon. Sunday Morning. December 23. 1945 Oregon Youths Win Awards i : I ACK Grtmz, 18 (left) and Jans Ammon, 18, (right) both of b Albany, receive congratulations in Cincinnati, 0 daring 11th an ual convention of NationalJunior Vegetable Growers Association, ,or championship i ki fKoductlon-rnarketing contest from John A. iLIndgren, Jr., Indianapolis, IncL, vice president of A & P Food Stores which made $8,000 availaKe for prizes. John welbes (cecond from right), Albany high school Instructor, coached youths in their pfojrets which led to 11 -state Western Region $200. Championship award for Grenz and $500 for Ammon as IMS na tional Junior vegetable growing champion among entries in 46 states. Stall Pacific Power, Santa-Clous Light CoiwjianyjTo Get 'Shot9 Purchase Due Kansas City's on Packed With Travelers KANSAS CITY. Dec. 22-CT-A milling throng of several thous and luggage-laden travelers, more thin half servicemen, taxed the capacity ! of Kansas City's giant union station tonight in what pne veteran ij railroad official termed "the worst night I ever spent.! Long queues shifted wearily in front of the 27 ticket . windows and three j packed information centers, and thousands of others Jammed the huge waiting room, many waiting for lagging trains which finally arrived, and then departed without loading a sin gle passenger. Two fully loaded Santa Te trains pulled in at the track level. then headed for : Chicago without the addition of a single fare, leav ing more than 200. desolate ser vicemen stranded on the plat form. 'Another 100 expectant, home-bent: soldiers and sailors looked j on ' helplessly as a St. Louis-bound Wabash train de parted without loading. Even with strict observance of the "servicemen first- rule, many of the j GIs paced the waiting room area from 12 to 24 hours with no space available. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 22.-UP) The army plana to vaccinate San ta Claus for small pox when he THE DALLES. Ore.. D. 22-lci;mb aboard the quarantined (fvNeeotiationa -ere jfrozrtsslnd I rxoopswp uruaay Here Monday I ward a system-wHe purchase to blp H73 Pacific veterans cele- bt the Pacific Power nd Light! Dral tne enristmas noiiday. e-mDany cicciric umur TtroDer-1 jr, m uwrge iii-s In Washington end . Oregon, of personnel on the ahip on which Charles Baker of Wall Walla, one man was stricken in at sea president of Interstate Electric; with small pox. said the big party Inc., said today after a meeting of &o would include a 20-foot tree the new -con-profit cHKration. 1 on the forward hatch, turkey din- The corporation, formed by jeer and Red cross gut packages. rUDs and Ceet i Pacific I He said the men could leave the Pwer territory, has Vren mak- ship early Tuesday when the quar- tig steady pregremi towards the antine will be lifted at 8:00 a. m. purchase, he Mid. "At our next Capt. Crist reported none of the rtuetin. act for Fefc HI aaencies ether serricemen have shown vitl be fully rere.nted by an I symptoms or smau pox. their officers and we ere conli-l r I Woman Falls From Airplane C.Tit final contract! wiH be ap proved and signed at that meet it: i authorizing Interstate Elec tric to proceed I with negotiations to purchase the private system Baker added thatjrucrng or HaroM. Scott. 10. of Joliet, plung a -ntilt!m la kaMr 4f w Kank. I ... - . . . - . V r " I trt nw . AMth IMi ffnin or. airport. Her body landed on the football field of the Hindsdal high school. Sheriff John H. Horstman of Lupage count said Charles W. Mittler. of La Grant e. trilot of the Inlin rA him th wnnun ronf ALGIERS. Dec. 22-OV An Algiers ctwrt haawvwUed the Sheriff Horstman said Mittler told th sentence impooed on Fer- him that after the ship had reach ed Euene Bonmcr De La Cha- an .ititnrl Tdln 1060 fl Mie, wno was exeenwa by the he turned and saw his passenger Vichy regime tut the assina- h..,s k. nun m nomrn jp inucvn Boy Cleared of Darlan Death - 1 i ? " i r . Reds Arm on J i : IrahlBorder TEHERAN, Dec 22-0VA gen eral staff i officer of the Iranian government army asserted today that army intelligence reported the "presence of armed civilians and an unusual concentration of Russian tanks and troops at Garm Lsar," rau Junction 75 miles south east of Teheran. i B The rail line runs Shahl and the Caspian Mazanderan province where . an outbreak of insurgency' within iwo weeks was predicted yester day Seyid Zia, Iranian parliament member, ii Mazanderan is east of Soviet-occupied Azerbaijan proV' ince, in which insurgents have set up all nation il government of Iranian AzeiLaijan. yr; Sorry, He Isrft In Right Now TACOMA, dec. 22-()-Taco- ma s OPA had its first and doubtless its last open house Friday afternoon. Every nice pre-i Christmas party of that character brings forth its good reminis- censes. 1 j Tacomas OPA best: A most irate and lathered Ta- coman phoned! some months ago to scream his' indignation over some OPA ruling: north to 6eacoast in u WOOL WAREHOUSES USE DDT Wool warehouse managers; are now investigating the use of DDT to control moth in wool storages. Early I reports are that this has been -e great .find as experiments indicate that control will be: suc cessful by DDT. ; NAZI SUB S T OB E S U N K German submarines are tied p tn the; U-boat -trots" at Lech Ryan, Scotland, waltmg te be towed te a "graveyard" off Bloody Foreland, Northwest Ire' laad. where they will be sunk by destroyer rnnflre. Hitler's U-boat packs are being towed six , to eirht at a time from Lech Ryan and art beinr sunk la what the Royal Navy terms "operation deadlight," (British Plan ion Through UNO By Flora iLewis . . LONDON, Dec. j T2 (JF) -The I British governmcni has developed a plan whose ultimate objective i Is a world .government . to be achieved through steady strength ening of the. United Nations or ganization, a responsible aumon- ty said tonight, 1 - - 1 The officials -working on the plan acknowledge that the -idea tould not become reanty ior a long time to come. But it is the British belief, this authority said, that the United Nations ultimate ly should have jsole and direct control of the world police force, and every country should be dis armed to a point where none would dare challenge the police I force. i .v British cabinet members have I worked out ideai looking toward a merger of sovereignties of pres ent day nations Even now, tne Silverton Woman r V Dies In Salem SILVERTON. Dec. 22-(SpecIal) r Catherine Elizabeth . (Lida) Ush er, 83, died Friday night in Sa lem where she had recently made her home. Born Nov. 10, 1852, in New York, -she came to uverun -25 years ago and had resided -here until going :to Salem. She is survived by : a nephew, , KODer Seaman Molalla) - ... ' Funeral services will he neia at 2 pjn. Monday from the Ek man Memorial, chapeL the Rev. Russell Myers1 officiating, wnn. interment in ItliUer cemetery. . informant said, they are planning steps in what diplomats can the -technical sphere" the economic and social measures which make up mucltof the! services national governments 'normally perform for their people. ;' - r TUnKEYS 29c lb. SAVING CEIITE Salem IVest Salem Fishery To Continue WASHINGTON, Ded 22.-ff)-A war-inspired Pacific fishery de velopment project will be carried to completion to "assure saf e guards for the government and the fishing industry The reconstruction finance cor poration announced: today it has agreed to finance the experiment sponsored bv the war food ad I demand to talk to Chester ministration. It ) will I embrace Bowles," he ihowled over the factory ship with refrigeration and phone. The switchboard girl was J canning equipment to process fish, new. "Just a minute, please," she together with four trawlers. This cooed, and hurriedly scanned fleet, cost of which is not expected through the local OPA personnel to exceed $3,750,D00k wUl be made list available on lease to. the Pacific "So sorry," she back over the phone, even know anyone here by that name." ! . tiohs, State Police Lt Francis , T. Moore reported. Lt. Moore said her husband. Moses T. Connolly, asserted that Mrs. Connolly 1 recently suffered a nervous , breakdown. The police officer reported a sanity, exami nation was planned by Dr. Charles Gelper, coroner, i i Lt Moore said Mrs. Connolly, 35, told him jthat she smothered the children while they slept, first Don, a year and a half old; then Terence, two land a half. Rubber Shipment - -1 To Arrive at Uf S. ; '. WASHINGTON, Dec 22 HIP) The reconstruction finance cor poration disclosed today that the xirs wjvi w day iri a suburban cottage gar three , yeers from toe rehabUitated Christmas decora countries oi uie zar easi ,u uue soon. The shipment is expected aboard the SS Canton Victory, due Sunday Monday at New York with 2060 tons of rubber from Malaya land Java. finally sighed exploration company, Seattle, ne, "we don't . ; !' MothcrKills 2 Baby Bpy NEW ORLEANS, Dec 22-P)- Mrs. Irene Connolly smothered her two baby boys to death to UinJerprool Your Hone How i Pneumatically Installed Rock Woo) Insulation; and Metal Interlocking Weather Stripping will - save up to 40 in your fuel bills AND ALSO f t - make your home vp te 15 degrees cooler in summer. . 88 MONTHS TO PAY Free No Estimates Obligation I Campbell; Rock Wool Co. Salem! Owned and Salem Represented 1132 Broadway - Ph.! 8498 CS ill '-'f& A r Iss Salem 810 N. Uberty ' j Orocjon ' SL . i . I rv A t 42. and the youtrfa Mother said LjaWlOrClS Yl8lt . A & I J . , i - 1 1 - g hU tori's -own? efter a three lOOtltllWeSt OiateS fear fight. A "chamijer of ledew set up I eiiortly after the UWration of North Africa. te review-sentences tisiod under the "Victor govern tent, yesterday completely an- pulled the youth V cowrt martial f-jnvlction of premetMnted homi- etle. Trt. Green Riles 8ft for Wcdnesilar SILVXarXON. Dee. -U-(Spdal) Tuneral seryicM wfS beheld Wed &?sday at 2 v-ja, (ram the Ekman Funeral home 'here foe Mrs. W. A. Greeo, wko sUeHOaU this week t Sweet Homo. The tfemily, for merly al SiWorton, tied resided there the past two -rears. Surviv- rs include the wittowor, former member of the Silverton city coun eit, and .several ebillren. Inter- anenc u to wm on Minor cwnwwr; Writing, from Scottsdale, Ariz Henry R. Crawford, former Sa lem postmaster, remarks: "We are down here in the land of sunshine "but it seems to freeze most every night and the frost m whiter than we seem to hare in Oregon." Mr. and Mrs. Crawford left Sa lem December 2, ran into storms and anew in the Sixkiyous, -end after visiting three days in Los Angeles orrth a cousin of Mrs. Crawioro? went- on to Phoenix. Scottsdale is. a few miles out of Phoenix end is the ' home of an old school friend of Crawford's, who found accommodations for them in a comfortable moteL The Crawfords plan to spend few months viewing the southwest We're even Pb.cm 8751 ' I1 getting 'em home over the Holidays! The Carolina varMKiet, once abundant in the aooithem states from Virginia to Colorado, Is now almost extinct. ICE CBEAII 23 c 01. sayiiig CEimn Salem A West Salem HAVE YGU21 MB" ETIfiM m DS . . . Exceptional Values for Hie Golfer . e est? EiLii 1 9 THE railroadg are happy to b able! to bring so; many of our service men home for the holidays. This Would be Impossible without the; cooperation of the public Many of you, we knowj realize that in traveling now you deprive some umformed mail of a chance to gel home. It is a typical American act-f ghring the boys a break. I -j EEPAHITED BET APED BECOIIOED Now is the time to hare your Venetian Blinds re finish e d . ' Quick, expert service. Ia Salem Since 1937 Tontine ITahble 1 - " -SHADES We tern then, repair them, er mike then to tJze. . , UEATHER ; STRIPPIIIG An experienced weather stripper is available to give you a first elass job. l!o2:!:o! litems Esrons Set of 6 ... Irons Set of woods 3 -dJ3ny Vy- . V. ' - i - ; !! . r But even greater numbers of service men must Still be moved. Hundreds of thousands from the Atlantic Coast even more from the Pacific Coast. Their thoughts are on home, and it is up to all of us Ihe railroadr particularly, to seo that they get home. f i That's wty 75 per cenf of all sleeping ar space ft -stiff assigned to movements of our ftgnting men; why so many passenger coaches ore still working full- time for Uncle Sam. IV Set of These Clubs Are Oar I Jelal , . . . . . ft, . , Shall 'long Flile" Clnis. M . J i! ft ontgomery Ward A. It di..r . ... . . 1 . - tram Btf dti rm .rv tt nr trrnJk rtrtr minlu . . . i t -'- " '" " f - . .- l J Gvilians are accepting the tight travel situation cheerfully. Most of you realize that this unexpected rush of uniformed men back to American shores demands passenger cars and still more passenger cars troop trains still more troop trains. ; . and The situation, however, is temporary. Within a few months we will be able to announce that the rush is over and that passenger . service has returned to normal. Well, hardly normal. For the plans now well under, way include many innovations that will make train travel more pleasurable than ever before: But getting the boys home is still our No. 1 job. Again, thanks for "thg help.you are giving! us. u n o tO'AD Of THE UZC&l AND ' TNI &f J , . VENETIAN BLINDS TelepionevSWl n re, A ..... : , ; ;,; . - i ' ?.' :;;-" y ..