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, STATESMAN, . ScdeX' Wednesday Momffcg. Dcmbr 2S. 1945
Quarantine off,
Confined GIs
On Way Home
PORTLAND, Or.. Dec. 2W
Quarantine was lifted on th
troopship Grundy today to allow
her 1800 passengers a Christmas
celebration on American soil.
But a sad note crept Into tht
otherwise joyous occasion. Army
1 officials announced that the ship's
smallpox victim, TVS Francis R.
Price, SO, Wheeling. W. Va., died
at Barnes General hospital yester
day. He became ill enroute her
from Jlnsen, Korea.
' Other servicemen aboard, ren
dered Immune by vaccination,
feasted on sumptuous turkey din
ners at Vancouver .barracks. Near
ly 73 wer scheduled to start for
horn late today.
Christmas carols, apeclal enter-
- tatnment, and stacks of Red Cross
donated fiftt brightened the day
for about 9000 soldiers and sail
ors stranded her by a transpor
tation tie-up. Many Portlanders
shared dinners with homesick vet
erans, i
Six troop trains wer expected!
to leave Portland today, and mil
itary officials hoped to put sev
eral hundred other men aboard !
ships and regular passenger
trains.
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EWISH DIMONSTRATIO N A Jewish itrieeasloa cnarhs Tel-Avtrfor S e-
. monstrauon after holding a 'mass meeting m th Uktna f the cityi f eeal trouble spat.
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5 aiildren Burned
To Death in Bbze
On Christmaa Day
F A YL l'l JL VTIXX, W.Va., Dec
U-Jiy-Ty of th U eWWren of
If r. and ' Urs. Cec Rodder
wer bwraed to death today when
Christmas day fie destroyed
theW two-story fraea heus two
miles rth of PayettevHIe, Stat
Trooper T. I. Spriager reported.
Th -victims, raaging in age
tram six la 13 years, were trapped
on th top floor of their feeane de
spite th frantic f forU of their
Barents and other brothers and
sisters to. rescue them.
I Springer identified the dead
children as Maurice. IS; Martha
Lee, 12; Louis, nine; Jennie, eight,
and Betty, six.
Four other children and the
parents fled to aafety in their
night clothing. -
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Striking Yanks
TOKYO, Wednesday, Dec. 2
Formerj Prison Guard Tatsuo Tsu
chiya admitted today ' in Japan's
first war crimes trial he -struck
prisoners eight or nine, times with
the open palm." Th defense then
rested Its case - l'l '
The: abort, bland Japanese whom
his exrprisoners dubbed "Little
Glass iZye," denied prosecution al
legations that he used his fists or
instruments against American
prisoners. He asserted he did not
Ration Sought
To Die in Battle
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, DC
25-()-Qen.:J). S. Rockenbaclv.
USA retired.: who was Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr.'a instructor
in tanks in World War I, today:
released a poem General Patton
wrote in tribute to a friend in
the last world war telling; hdw
he would like to die. 1 , ; ,
The poem, written on" Nov.
11, 1918, to an otherwise un
identified Captain JEnglish read:
The war is over and we pass
To pleasure after pain
Excepfc those- few who ne'er
shall see , . .
Their native land again.
To one of these my memory
turns '
Noblest of the slain; -
To Captain English of th tanks
Who never shall return. . .
Yet should some future war
exact
Of me the final debt
My fondest wish would be, to
tread
The path wjdeh he has set
East Coast GI
Arrivals Feted
Evidence hi War Crimes Tri
NEW- "YORK, Dec.: 25.
Thousands , of ,Gl's who arrived on
the east coast : too late to ' spend
Christmas at home had the best
suDsutute - eelebrauon the army,
American . Red ' Cross and ' USO
could offer. '. s , j
They, had turkey Vith trim
mings, Christmas ,trees and gifts,
holiday parties and, in the case
of patients in one hospital, free
telephone calls home.
The army' staging and . separa
tion centers in the New. York,
Boston and Richmond,! Va., areas
outdid themselves to disspell any!
disappointment ' the ' servicemen
might have felt. ' r
The Red Cross: and USO staffs
worked overtime, sacrificing their
own Christmas at home , to bring
the men yuletide cheer.
At Camp Shanks. N.,Y where
5000 troops arrived ; and . 10,000
were awaiting shipment overseas.
there werfr 10 tons of turkey.
Sixteen, thousand cartons of cigar-
ets were distributed, as well as
gifts sent from New Jersey - fam
ilies.
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For faithful unto God and man
And to his duty true '
"Hedied to live forever
In the hearts of those he knew.
Death found In him no faltering
But faithful to the last
He smiled in the. face of fate
And mocked him as he passed.
: No, death to him was not defeat .
But victory sublime;
The grave prompted him to b
A hero for all time.
Suicides Beside
Slain Wife's Grave
GREENVILLE, Ky, Dec tt-UT)
The body of Edgar A. Donovan,
40, under indictment; in Da vies
county for the slaying of his wife
was found dead today beside her
grave at nearby Bremen.
H. T. Harkme, - Muhlenberg
county coroner, said j death' was
caused from "suicide joy poison
ing.' The body was found bv Si-
morf Peveler, who Uvea! near th
cemetery.
Mrs. Donovan wa4 shot and
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Thotnaa Dadd. an assistant preaceaUnc attorney lor u u. b. ai
theNoermberc, Germany, war crimes trial, holds a hamaa ahraakea
W4 1m fefendaeed aa evidesM of eraeltr ta GermaJi eoMentrattaa
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prisoners, ne ssn i lea n aia noiln vj J W71l I Mr- uonovan was snot ana
recollect PFC Robert Gordon Teas, NttOV Hanged T lllle I killed In her home hare and in
the presence of one of their five
children. There , wer two sons
and three daughters ini or near
the houao at the time.
Former Governor
01 -Pennsylvania to
Wed Belgian Girl ;
George H. Earle. W, former dlplo- Qen. Masahara Ilamu (center), plead. Umcentfpre
mit -nr mtim, . uvmw1r of mUltary cobmbImIoo In Manila, P. L. at frralgiunent a war crimes
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accuse i ! JGettinfi Presents
Tsuchiya testified for two and! : ; i-'
one-haU hours as the trial was re-1 SUNNYDALE, Utah, Dec. 25.-
sumed after a Christmas recess. A I JPt-ZajvuAj 11-year-old Joseph
decision today by the American I Carl Fahl went to the closet to
military - commission hearing his j bring out some Christmas presents
case was considered possible. . last night.
- : : , - " f I He climbed up on a box to
TOO QUSY FOS CAROLS , j reach the gifts on the closet shelf, common shares of Alaska Air-
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec l5-(ff)- wnen josepns motner went to lines, Inc wiU be made Wedne
Planai jfor Christmas carols for look tor him 15 minutes later, the day by a syndicate headed by R.
criDDled children at Shriners hos- youth was hanging dead from a H. Johnson Co. lat $15.50 a
pital jwere called off today because leather strap, his neck broken. share. The shares are part of an
the youngsters were too busy with Deputy Sheriff Frank Ellis said original authorized issue of 1,000,
toys. As for stockings -4- Santa the boy apparently slipped and in 000. Proceeds wm be used to pro-
nad round mem tacxea to oeos in- laumg chusqi ius necs. m we sirap i vtae aadiuonal , equipment and
stead 0f a chimney. 1 hanging in ,
AIRLINES STOCK OFFEKED '
NEW' YORK, Dec.-a5-GPV-Pub-
lic offering of 125,000 .additional
the closet
I other improvements.
Pennsylvania, will be married
here Friday to Jacqueline Marthe
Jermine Sacre,a23-year-old Belgian
beauty.
Earle returned to Turkey re
cently where h formerly was as
sistant U. S. naval attache. Prev
iously h was American minister
to Bulgaria. Miss Sacre. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Charles
Sacre of Ostend, Betgiasn, was
born 1st Paris and educated in
French and Istanbul cooveots. Her
father is la. charge of construction
of new railroads in southern Tur
key.
charres. Left fcs Major John H. Skeen. Jr Baltimore, Md chief
defense eoanaeU and (right) CapL George W. OU, Chicago, Kerens
counsel member. (AP WlrephoU)
Soldier FUes
lnlrpnLung
. DENVER,Dec. 2MWednesday)
(P)-Cpi- Wallace H. Hargrave of
Topeka. Kans.. arrived at Lowry
field shortly after midnight com
pleting an 11,000-mile plane trip
in an iron lung from India where-
he waa stricken with infantile
paralysis.
ON MISCHIEF CHARGE Capt. J. E. Gninn, public re-
POMONA. Calif, Dec. 5-V j lations officer at Fitzaunmons gen-
rtnrmtin Alfara. SI. failing toleral noswiai. said ne would ne
post 1200 bail on a malicious mis- J removed from the iron lung, plac
chief charse. spent Christmas day 1 ed In an ambulance fitted to ad
in JaiL A neighbor. Mrs. Santos minister oxygen and taken to the
Gutierret. accused him of iurop-1 army hospital and again placed
Intf Into a tub and trampling 37 in n iron lung.
babv chicks to death- Corporal Hargrave, began; the
xugm at uaicuttam India, and ar
rived on the west coast last week
Evangeline Booth;
80 Years Old
HARTSDALE, N.Yn Dec. 25-(ff)
Evangelin Booth, retired inter
national commander of the Salva
tion Aimy, said todaj&on her 80th
birthday mat she was' "in busi
ness more than ever !:
She said she was planning a
five-week campaign for the Sal
vation Army in San Francisco and
Los Angeles during February and
March! and was continuing her
work f'to make my later years
fruitful 1 for the benefit of man
kind." j . v ?
CAE TflEFT. XEFOKTEU
A 1935 blue Chevrolet coupe,
carrying Oregon 1M2 license
213-630 and belonging to Leo
Halter, was stolen from Wood
burn at approximately 8:30
o'clock Christmas . night, state
police have been notified. '
RESTAURANT RAZED
SEATTLE, Dec. 25 -AV Fire
from blazing grease did extensive
damage to Don's Oyster House .in
downtown Seattle today. There
was no official estimate of the
loss, although firemen said the in
terior was virtually demolished.
MAES CANDY HEAD DIES
LA JOLLA. Calif.. Dec. 25-()-Mrs.
Ethel Veronica Mars, 81,
president of the Mars Candy Co.,
of Chicago, died today at a hos
pital after a lingering illnesa.-
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