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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1948)
$ Th Statesman, gqlem, Oregon Saturday. Pambet 25. 1943 GOP National m Committee to Review Errors Br D. Harold Oliver WASHINGTON, Dec. 2i-(JF-Republicans took their first step today toward finding out why their party has been defeated five times in a row for the presidency and how to win the next time Chairman Hugh D. Scott, jr., call ed the GOP national committee to meet in Omaha, Neb., Jan. 26-27. He said he will ask the committee to act on a proposal to call a party policy conference during 1949. And, as if to warn in advance those who have been demanding that he resign so the party can get way to a fresh start, Scott called attention hat he had been unani mously eleced chairman as recent ly as last June. Scott, a Philadelphia member of the house, was picked for the com mittee post by Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York at the con clusion of the Philadelphia conven tion that nominated Dewey for the presidency. Asked Scott to Resign Only yesterday, Senator Cooper (R-Ky), who was defeated for re election, called on Scott to resign. He said he had nothing against Scott personally, but feels the par ty ought to "make afresh, clean start" under new leadership. Another move to place new faces in high party councils will come next week when senate insurgent republicans meet with a view to forming a slate to oppose what they term the senate's "old guard leadership. A member of the dissatisfied! group told a reporter he believe the self-styled liberals will try to; nam a candidate for GOP floor leader, a post that has been filled! by Senator Wherry of Nebraska since Senator White of Maine re tired because of ill health. Vote of No-Confidence As for the national committee. there exists no way to depose chairman except by indirection by a vote of no-conudence. Scott has served notice he will not re-j sign and will demand a vote of? confidence if the question of his resignation comes up at the Omaha meeting. He also is ready to demand, iff the need arises, that other menvl bers of the committee ask for vote of confidence from their state organizations- To bolster his posi tion he has the argument that not one committeemen sought a change In campaign methods when asked for suggestions before the election. He also comes from a state which gave Dewey his largest plurality in the nation. In calling the national committee to meet in Omaha, Scott pointed up the party's effort to regain ground lost in the midwest during the November elections. Headquarters of the committee will be in the Fontenelle hotel in Omaha. Old Icelandic, spoken in Iceland and Greenland, is closely akin to Norwegian. TThr Reason's (Breetinjgs Ileedham's Book Store Elks Provide Santa for 950 Salem Children M MB 4 ..jmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrmmmmmmmmm j f - :. : .A ' - L-J i , - t x . 'l- ': i, i, """" ' ., . :. -ttt,m f mini- u- , ., ir .y. .1 - - f ' 4 4 f ' . .. , z Nl Kt) 'f The Salem Elks' club carried on an extensive Chrlstmas-soason prorram. General chairman of the Christ mas charity activities was Joe Kraoger. District chairmen were active In many communities. The group included (left to right) Clyde Cutsforth. Gervais; D. P. MacCarthj. Independence; Kraug er; Grant Mur phy, Stayton; Lloyd Thomas, Salem; John Gilmer. Salem; William Kloft, ML Angel; Adolph Heater Sublimity; Sam Ramp. Brooks; E. E. Ball. Turner. All have served 10 years or more- Other chairmen not in the photo included B. N. Speer. Aumsvilie: A. J. Cleveland, Dallas; Richard Saucier, Mill City; Lee Haskins. Silverton; E. J. Allen. Woodburn, and Walter Gerth. West Salem. Top photo shows the Elk's Santa watchimj one of the more than 950 children as she receives a beautiful doll and a bag of candy and fruit (Statesman photos.) 46S Stat Streot China to Sink Night Traffic on Yangtze River By Harold K. Milks NANKING, Dec. 24--Fearing a communist crossing, the Chinese navy announced today it would sink any vessel operating at night on the Yangtze river, last import ant barrier north of this glum capital-Snow, rain and fog reinforced the continuing lull on the battle fields stretching more than 100 miles north and northwest of Nan king. Pengpu, former anchor of the Hwai river line 108 miles north west of Nanking, remained in gov ernment hands, but lay idle under 18 inches of snow. Communists have edged past it to within 50 miles of Nanking, but they, too, were inactive today. In Critical Plight Farther northwest, near Suchow, Gen. Tu Li-Ming's communist trapped army groups were in a critical plight. The defense minis try was maintaining radio contact, but it appeared that Tu and his force of less than 100,000 men would have no choice but surren der soon. The thousands of well-fed gov ernments, troops penned in Peip ing, Tientsin and a few other northern cities continued to sit in side their siege lines. Active par ticipation in the civil war has end ed for then In fact, all of China north of the Yangtze can be written off by the government as in the Big for the communists, who have only to f lean out those isolated govern ment positions. Kalgan Eliminated One such. Kalg.-m, has been newly eliminated, the communist radio reported. It gave no details except to say that the city 100 miles northwest of Peiping fell Thursday night and all resistance ended Friday afternoon. There was no confirmation, but there was no reason for doubting that the long-cut-off city had fal len. Recurrent reports in Peiping said that the communist siege forces in the north were moving men south to attack the Yangtze and thus were not prepared to assault Peip ing and Tientsin. Woman Shot In Auto Court Seven Cases Continued in Circuit Court GRANTS PASS, Dec. 24 -JP-1 r t r 1 o V ! .WI S. J u a UlLa iv, o, wai anui to death in an auto court bedroom Seven men appeared on various yesterday in what witnesses said charges before Marion County Cir was an accident. cot Judge George Duncan Friday Cleo James Sims, S5, and Mar- and wera continued for garet May Baumgartner, 29, were held In Jail as material witnesses. State Police Sgt. C. R. Borgman said Sims told him he saw Mrs. Coyle holding his rifle, pointed toward her, and that when he tried to wrest it from her, it discharged. Borgman quoted Sims as say ing that ha and Mrs. Coyle had been living at the auto court for the past month, but that she was going to leave. He said she had gone into the bedroom to pack her things, and ho opened the door to see her with the gun. A very Merry Christmas to many friends." Mode O'Day Shop out ok H, ring eot owe YuUtide wUhet to on ood oN. May the joy and el Holiday t owe frieod always. Geo. V7. Hnbbs Co. 1853 No, Capitol plea ortentencing until next week. James Little, jr., 40, of 1120 Chemawa rd., charged with four counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, pleaded guilty to one of the charges and pleaded innocent to the other three. All four indictments against Llt tla are similar. They charge him with illegally collecting a total of over $2,000 from four local estab lishments to whom he allegedly delivered dairy products. Little's case was continued for parole board investigation. Also continued to December SI tor entry of plea were Nick Yas chuk, Broadacres, charged with as sault with a dangerous weapon by stabbing Elmer E. Wolfe last Aug ust; Harold Joseph Johns, Salem route 3, charged with rape, and William Harvey Haskins, Salem route 4, charged with larceny of lumber. Slated to appear December 27 for sentencing were Ralph O'Niel Young, charged with passing a bad $225 check at a local automobile company earlier this month and Robert Norman Forgue, Salem route 5, charged with receiving and possessing stolen property con sisting of riding equipment. Both men pleaded guilty. LaVerne Buren, Salem, pleaded guilty to a charge of non-support. He was continued to December 31 for further investigation of the complaint on order of Judge Duncan. ENSOR To Mr. and Mrs. How ard Ensor, 1650 C st., a son, Friday, December 24 at Salem Memorial hospital- ber 24 at Salem General hospital. SCHMIDT To Mr. and Mrs. William Schmidt, Mehama, a daughter, Thursday, December 23 at Salem General hospital. BAKER To Mr. and Mrs. Mur ray Baker, 1585 Norway st., a daughter, Thursday, December 23 at Salem General hospital. ISRAEL WINS BECOGMT10.V j OTTAWA. Ont, Doe. 14 -;P)-Canada today gave provisional recognition to Israel and Its pro visional government In t Christ mas eve message to Moshe Sher tok, foreign secretary of the new Jewish state in the Holy Land. I a, :,z :ii j Greetings and best wishes II I 1 1 our 'rlends and patrons fl . ... ,. , f Happy New Year! KW 1 Balph Jokuon Wii m tr Appliance C?, 1 III 1 ' AfrllBF HK m ' ' VM 1 7' I STRATTON To Mr. and Mrs. lZmtt ' I Clarence Stratton, 720 N. Commer- -0vt'iZti9 cial st, a daughter, Friday, Decern- in - rj?-m La Ureetmds f jy, 'Tw To ereryone wnem w er --'""VA y prnrWeoedloconrendortof fS f'S X -X. Vvir. fiahbor- go cur heorffelf if Watch! Walt ! . . For Our Big After-Christmas Announcement in Sunday's Statesman Important Savings! . m- I I well a a ncrx no um umum vwwunaa jS7 1 1 time to wish all of our friend Kr Ii Good Cheer. Good Health stvi Peace. n. 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