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Ta OBEGOlf STATESMAN. Salami Oregon, We4aday Moroina. March 8. IMS PAGE TWO 24,432 Troops Due Today at 4 Major Ports ' By th Atsociated Pre tiled debarkation of approximate ly 24,432 ' Pacific "and European service veterans from 22 vessels Wednesday.5 New York expects five transports bearing 8446 per sonnel while three west icoast points are due to dock 17 ships with 15.986 returnees. 3 Ships and units arriving oft the west coast: A San Diego: Miscellaneous on following: Transport Guilford. 1.742 navy, 'marines and coast guard; de "stroyer tender Hamul. 366 ; navy and marines; destroyers Metcalf, Shields and Grid ley and escorts Savege, -' Mills. SalUtrom and Ramrien, 348 navy. At Seattle: S S Waipio from Oahu. ; four soldiers. The USS Gen. William J Hase due here late this week, now diverted to San Francisco. . l At San Francisco: . ' Miscellaneous on following: Ad miral W. S. Sims from Okinawa. SI navy, 4950 army; Gen. Charles G. Morton from Einwetok, 3098 army (due originally yesterday); Missoula from Okinawa, 555 navy, 69 marines, 1438 army; Talladega, from Pearl Harbor. 781 navy, 64 marines. 1124 army; Berrien from Yokosuko, 894 navy; Sitka Bay from Hera! Harbor, 490 navy; ATR 86 from Pearl Harbor, navy. 12 Death Takes Salem Native Martin O. Muellhaupt 40. Port land, died unexpectedly at his home Sunday. He was born and raised m Salem, living here until he entered the merchant marine 10 year ago. Services are under the direction of J. P. Finley and man. He is survived by his wife, Al ice Muellhaupt. Portland; his: fa ther. Otto Muellhaupt. Salem; his mother. Mrs. Mae Robinson, Van couver. Wash.; a sister, Mrs. Mil dred Vernon. : Mill City; and two brothers, Donald Muellhaupt. Sa lem, and Jack Stevenson, Port land. Couneel Say Negro Killed in Self Defense BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. March 5 WVCounsel for Joseph Luther Wool ridge. 29 -year-old negro charged with slaying a couple in Bloorrungton itone quarry, said today his client was "forced" into the kilMna In self -defense. - , Lawrence Shaw, Indianapolis attorney, said Woolridge4old him be was attacked byKoontz after be had surprised the couple.; and after he had struggled with Koontz he was attacked by Mrs. Coleman. mi -THE SUSPECT with Charles Laughton 8c Ella Raines, Co-Feature ' -HER LUCKY NIGHT" with the Andrews Sisters and Martha O'DtlscoII Bargain Night - Opens (:4S 6 BoubW At Leonard's Ilillson Twins Feotured with Spike Jones 3cmd and Bob Bums Radio Show Bring Your Twin Be Admitted FREE Any Nite This Week I J M mm,- Garry Live Grenades to School j b. X'. L SANTA MONICA, CaL, Mar. I Michael Nicholson (center) J, and his brother Patrick, t. seemed puzzled at the attention they drew when they arrived at a Santa Monica, Calif, school with hand grenades dangling from their belts. Jarenlle Officer Robert Toong (left) said the boys borrowed the explosives still armed from their war veteran father's collection. Michael's was attached . to his belt by the eeies Hag. (A Wlrrphoto) ,.- Manchuria is In Command Of MacArthur TOKYO, Wednesday, March 6 (Jpy-A spokesman at General Mac Arthur's headquarters said today that "It is true MacArthur has jurisdiction over Manchuria, but information Is very difficult to ob tain from there." He made the statement at a press conference for Japanese newsmen, who unleashed a flood of questions as a result of U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes' com ment that MacArthur commands Manchuria. The spokesman explained! that Russian reports from soviet-occupied Manchuria are relayed through Washington to allied headquarters h e r e . Manchuria "nominally" is under Chinese con trol, he added, and communica tions with the Chinese capital, Chungking, also are handled via Washington. 6000 Job Found for 40,000 Disabled VeU PORTLAND, March 5. --Although 42,000 disabled veterans applied for Jobs throughout the nation in December, only 6000 were placedj a national veterans employment j officer declared toH day. j Gilbert S4 MacVaugh, address ing a conference arranged by the U. S. employment service, urged representatives from 10 western states to txSopt a- "man to job matching" system for disabled servicemen. jjThis technique, he said, outlines the jobs' physical requirements on one form and the disabled man's' abilities on anoth er, then matches the two. .Too Late to Classify WANTED: .Experienced grocery and vegetable man. State Street Market, 1230 State St. TroonMe! Supper Club Ilillson Twins Featured with Spike Jones Band -and Bob Burns Radio Show BringYourTvm Be Admitted ' FREE Any Nite This Week X 1 - . ifl .- ' f if I . a Planet-Scare Hens But Progress Goes. On PORTLAND, March 5.-P)-Tn march of progress will continue. even if airplanes in southeast Port- i,h h. k.. -v -'-i premature eggs. James W. Crawford declared to day. He denied a request from the area's chicken owners to curtail flying activities at R.OJC. airport Stating this is an "age of pro gress,' the Judge said "what would have been regarded as objection able 90 years ago now is accepted as part of Our everyday life." Prineville Man's Throat Paralyzed PRINEVILLE, March 5HjPH Herman Gillen, 25, mill j worker! si i ffaeintf fvswm thrAot ffVat-flil veitl was reported slightly better today Hia wife and brother, who also became- ill after eating vegetable salad, were in fairly food condi-J Hon. health authorities reporxea. Meanwhile, federal and state: board of health officials began; At chamber of commerce investigating the report of Dr. luncheon for a group of touring Raymond Atkiason, attending; newsmen, Glen L. Jackson, power physician, who said the salad; company official, declared con contained commerdally-canned trols on lumbering were. hinder- peas and beans. Blasts Military Control Over Learliner Scientis WASHINGTON, March 5-- A ranking government acien declared tonight that scientific men in this country "are being held very strictly under military domination- because of the atom- ic bomb. Dr. Edward U. Condon, dicer tor of the national bureau of standards, addressing an auSience that Included 40 high school sen iors assembled here from over the country to receive scholarships for scientific talent, said "science sim ply will not go forward under mil itary domination. ' FIRE AT HUNT HOUSE The back of the R. H. Hunt house at 433 Shipping st received considerable damage from a fire Tuesday afternoon, according to Salem firemen. The fire started from a cardboard carton in a laun dry room in. back of the house. It had supposedly -been extinguished after being put 'in a stove. I start8 Today! HOWLING SEQUEL TO -SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE!" Si mi HIT NO. ? - A EUiett I der la I I aedwed lj i-WU&n Bill as Red Ryder "Sheriff ef Red weed Valley Statement by Nimitz Sought In Nazi Trial ! NUERNBERG, March 5- -P)-Defense counsel for Grand Adm. Karl Doenltz, asked today for a sworn statement from Adm. Ches ter. W. Nimitz, in an attempt to prove that U. S. submarines oper ated under "sink without warning orders, and also requested British confidential fleet combat orders to. merchant vessels. I Meanwhile the international mil itary tribunal trying 22 top nazi said the defense of Hermann Goer- ing would open Thursday. Tomor row the court wiH hear applica tions for witnesses for Grand Adm. Erich Raeder, Baldur von Shirach, Fritz Sauckel and Col. Gen. Gus tav Jodl. t Raeder's counsel, it was said, will seek to Introduce evidence that Raeder, as commander-in- chief of the German navy, used all his influence to avoid war with the United States and was un ware of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor curred. until after it oc- House Downs GOP Version Housing Bill WASHNGTON, March i-V?)-h republican substitute for- the ad- mi"i,raon1 m bIU w" feted 177 to lit on a party line vntM tK. hn.,u InH.T The chamber then put off : until to morrow a final shutdown on the sharply trimmed -down Truman measure. By its action on the republican bill, the house turned back an ef fort to prevent the government from putting price ceilings on. new dwellings. : A few minutes earlier the body, by a 128 to 87 standing vote, ap proved a section of the admirus tration bill providing $1,000,000. 000 worth of mortgage insurance on homes for veterans. The gov eminent would insure mortgages on new dwellings up to 90 per cent valuation. MntrOl8 UppOSCd MED FORD, Ore., March 5HfP) Merchants and manufacturers In this area left no doubt today that they are "dead set" against gov eminent controls. ing the flow of new capital into Jackson county. He said the gov ernment'! requiring bids on tim ber on public-owned lands, with a ceiling price, results in aU bids being tight at the ceiling. So bids are awarded by drawing lots, I Jackson stated. , Manila Students Rally tj I. gn,: Against Ked In China MANILA, Wednesday, March 6. (JP) - Students from 21 Manila schools and colleges demonstrated Tuesday, urging immediate with drawal of Russian forces "from Manchuria. They paraded through Manila's Chinatown and were re ceived by the Chinese .counsul general, M. L. Tuan. He estimat ed the demonstrators exceeded 5000. 20S IN NEW AL FOST Membership of the Salem post ho. : 136, American Legion, has passed the 200 mark, Command er Don Goode announced at a hneeting last night. He also an- nounred that temporary chairmen of all the post's committees had been appointed ! ; ' DIRRYL F. I f ; 2 J MUJ1 U jj I if -.Iffff '.'.'"- . I yrV I f I '" " I 4 TftCHHicoiSil! , -ssr I ) IB ELSniORE f Over Oregon By the Aaaoctated Press MeMINNVILLE. March 5. -Last rites will be held here tomorrow for Dr. Herbert Lee Toney, for mer mayor and chamber of com merce president here, who died Sunday. ASTORIA, March S.-The last of three bodies recovered after a car plummeted into the Columbia River from a street here has been found, 37 days after the accident. Blanche Lucille La Counte, whose body was recovered yesterday. was killed vSsth two companions. LEBANON, March 5.-This town's weekly newspaper, the Lebanon Express, , has begun its 80th year of publication. Lebanon had only 600 inhabitants when the first issue was printed in Feb ruary, 1887. PORTLAND, March 5.-Dr. I. George Nace, former executive secretary of the Portland council of churches, will represent Ore gon March 5-7 at a Columbia, Ohio, meeting of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Dr. Nace became gen eral secretary for the national missions board of the Evangelical and Reformed church on Jan. 1. PENDLETON, March 5.-Adeaf mute couple, whose vows were interpreted by a lip reader, were married by County Judge Carl Chambers last night at the T. J Leiske home. Miss Martha Smal ler. 20. Benicia. Calif, and Har old Switzer, 21, Pendleton, sign! fled -I do" after Mrs. Howard Nelson --also a deaf mute - - translated the Judge's words. PORTLAND, Ore., March 5 -Dr. Joaeph Beeman, 34, since 1939 di rector of the state crime detection laboratory, announced today he would resign May 1 to become pathologist and laboratory direc tor at St. Luke's hospital, Boise, Idaho. OKEGON Cnrr. March S Oil and mill refuse from Milwaukle Box, and Veneer company Is be ing dumped so close to the Wil lamette river that it washes into the i stream, imperiling fish life, sportsmen asserted today. A cir cuit court order to keep the saw mill from allowing debris to reach the river la being sought by three member of the M i 1 w a u k i e Sportsmen's Rod and Gun club. PORTLAND. March 5.-Union Pacific railroad will have its spe cial livestock trains, diverted dur ing the war for military use, back in operation from the Inland Em pirt late this week, officials said today. Police Wound 50 In Egypt Rioting CAIRO, March MP)-Fifty U yptians suffered buckshot wounds and 70 were arrested today as small groups of demonstrators in Alexandria clashed with' Egypt ian police who. used guns and batons to break ' up attacks on British clubs. Government sources in Cairo J said five more Egyptians had died since yesterday's "day of mourn ing" riots in Alexandria, bringing the total casualties to 20 Egypt ians and two British soldier Kill ed and about 300 injured. TODAY ANp THURSDAY "Notorious Lone WolT Refused Steel . For New Cars, Kaiser Claims NEW YORK. March 5-JP- Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer said today the steel com panies had refused tonnage of sheet steel for the manufacture of the new Kaiser and Frazer au tomobiles In their Willow Run, Mich., plant. i Steel Industry executives, who asked they not be named, com mented that the industry, far be hind because of the recent strjke, was using a voluntary quota sys tem and "naturally was taking care of old customers first" CLEVELAND, March 5-P)-Tom M. Girdler, chairman of the Republic Steel Corp., today de nied "emphatically" a statement attributed to him by Joseph W. Frazer - that the Kaiser-Frazer corp.'s signing of a union contract affected the firm's ability to ob tain steel for manufacture of au tomobiles. Henry J. Kaiser and Frazer earlier asserted the steel indus try would not give them sheet steel needed for their auto pro duction, and asked the govern ment to allocate equitable supplies of steel among auto producers. China States Russian Acts CHUNGKING, March i-UP)- Foreign Minister Wang Shih-ch"ieh asserted today that the Russians were staying on in Manchuria contrary to their treaty, and had taken the position last Jan uary that they should take over Japanese Manchurian industries as reparations. The Chinese foreign minister thus brought the long-secret Man churian question out into the open officially for the first time in ad dressing the kuomintang's central executive committee, while re porta circulated that General Mar sltall would visit part of the Rus sian-occupied zone in Manchuria ENDING TODAY! (WED.) Inarid Beraman Groaorr Pock "Spellbound" ALSOI Snowbound Family Gets Food by Plane LA GRANDE, March &-iJT)-An airplane is dropping food to a caretaker's .family, hibernating all winter at the snowbound city wa ter intake, 32 miles back in the mountains, since the four persons got hungrier than city officials ex pected and phoned for aid. John Dockweiler, the caretaker first man to stay at the station all winter reported food supplies alarmingly low. It's difficult to reach the sta tion by pack train, and a near impossibility by auto. So City Manager Ed Ford dispatched a plane to drop food to last the four persons until mid-May. Tydings Asks For Fair Play 4 WASHINGTON, March i.-lP)- Senator Tydings (D-Md) appeal ed to the senate today for "fair play" for Edwin W. Pauley and had Harold L. Ickes summoned for Cross-examination tomorrow. Senator Tobey (RNH) replied to Tydings speech with a state ment denying that Pauley has been "crucified, lynched, perse cuted, prejudged and dehydrated" in the naval committee hearings on his nomination as undersecret ary of the navy. Meanwhile Pauley himself re leased me sges of endorsement from various, public figures. In cluding Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. Mark Clark, and W. Averell Harriman, former mbassador to Russia. .- . HOMESTEADS OFFERED SACRAMENTO. March -(AV The V&. bureau of reclamation regional office said today that 14,500 acres of public lands in the Tule lake division of the Klamath reclamation project will be opened for homestead settle ment m the next two years. PHONE S4I7 CONTINUOUS DAILY FROM 1 P. M. T0II0RR0W! ..Ktt, ma lovcMt story ivtr penned U floods the screen with sptctsdt, Isugfiter, edventart end song ... so glorious that it will lighten your heart for months! 4 v ,r til SHOWS AT: 1:50 PlusI Uproarious Comedy I THE THREE STOOGES LATEST FOX NEWS FLASHES! Train Strike TVotice Posted In Portland PORTLAND, On., March 5-(;p Strike notices have been posted in railroad union offices of en gineers and trainmen in the northwest for the general nation wide strike set for March 11, C. W. Stevens, deputy president of the Brothe r h o o d of Railway Trainmen announced today. Elevens said the Southern Pa cific and Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul would be affected Monday; the Northern Pacific, Great Nor thern and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Tuesday; the Union Paci fic on Wednesday and the Spo kane International on Thursday The union official, who is also chairman of the general commit tee here, said 98.5 per cent of the workers had voted approval of the strike if necessary to force demands for a daily wage boost of 25 per cent, with a $2.50 a day minimum increase. fTnTirl - OPENS :S r. M. - NOW PLAYING! m I rovTAiaTi it coaaoTAi Ce-Hit! Gail Russell Diana Lynn "OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAT - OPENS :4J P. M, - NOWI Music! And Romance! 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