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I mm .Salem Curfew Won't rn rn Pino Sat II wwMi mm L' Curfew shall not rina to- ' night" for persons more than 18 yean of age ind Saturday And on Friday nights every youngster in Salem may stay out until 12 o'clock, no far as city police are concerned, i For, although the formal ordi nance amendment has not been Jessed, the council Monday night unanimously accepted a recommendation; of its police .and traffic committee that the .curfew ordinance be relaxed .from its present requirement 'that no one less than 18 years '.old may be on the streets alone -'after 10:30 p.m. Formal action will be taken later. No one swung on the bell rope, as in the old poem, to guarantee that "curfew shall not ring to night," but boys and girls of Salem high school, who have at "', Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse Is a .born crusader, eager for the jousting, and seems to prefer the role of lone knight rescuing the ft ft ' - T-1 A . A Awnltl. jaay lair, xnav kkcj u caiohi his "declaration of war" against Senator Taft for his "radio ti rade" of last Friday night in reply in President Truman's SDeech. Morse, who had endorsed such new deal - vagaries as "full em ployment" legislation, etc., said that Taffs speech "demonstrated in , frightening manner why the common men and women of America cannot look to the re actionary republicans who are seeking control of-the republican party to protect and improve their standard of living." Since Morse himself had previously criticized Truman be seems to find all the world out of step which is not In the least discon certing to Oregon's junior sena tor. It is further reported that Morse had a piece running in the LaFollette "Progressive" maga- t ma n i i 1 sm n1r T - tK MmiKIUan old guard. Perhaps Morse aspires to the mantle of ,Bob LaFollette, pere, and seeks to reorganize the group once described by Senator Moses as "sons of the wild jack- ni jiKing, xor Morse seems u thrive on-gore and publicity. The label "progressive," however, is a bit dated; and even the Wiscon sin LaFollettes are wondering whether if it will pay off in the coming elections. Senator Taft was extreme in trying to pin communist on Tru man's legislation. Much of it is leftw-ing, but hardly communist. That epithet is often a sign of poverty of language in condemna tion. The full (Continued on edi torial page) Congress Has Final Say on Atomic Bomb WASHINGTON, Jan. IMJPy Secretary of State Byrnes gave detailed assurances tonight that congress will have the final say on any move to turn over U. S. , atomic energy knowledge to the projected United Nations atomic commission. I The statement was issued at the state department just after Byrnes and top aides who will assist him at the United Nations assembly meeting opening in London Thursday left from National air port The party took off in the face of rainy weather. Before boarding the, plane, Byrnes told' newsmen he intends to stay in London until Uie Unit ed Nations atomic commission is established; The plan for the commission was drafted at the Mokow meeting of bid three for eign ministers from which Byrnes t turned only nine days ago. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH n$nappy this mornutfa OTP mo oops 331 tempted to argue it out with police on a number of occasions, started the movement which led to last night's action. With the approval of the school administration, they di rected letter to the city coun cil. It explained that under the present ordinance many boys would be drafted into the service before they ever had an oppor tunity to take a home-town girl home from a moving picture show. Curfew also put a quietus on school social and athletic events, they declared. Established a number of years ago, the curfew had practically been forgotten until the influx of servicemen and the shortage of police force members caused the council .to order strict enforce ment of its regulations so that closer surveillance of night-time streets could be effected. ! City Acts To Use i Barracks i " State Loses Out In Airport Deal; Zones Changed Salem moved to develop prof fered army air base properties and barracks for veterans' hous ing Monday night when the city council authorized Mayor I. M. Doughton to appoint a city hous ing, authority of five commission ers with terms ranging from one to five years. At the same time the council passed the necessary resolution to seek a permit for use of the bar racks and the 550 acres the fed eral government added to the city's 450-acre airport while It was used as an army base. The state may not be so for tunate, Oregon Budget Director George Aiken, who has worked on the unofficial dtywide hous ing committee, told the council. Federal surplus property officials who Saturday notified him that 29 buildings at the base would be set aside for the state, to be moved to state hospital grounds for use of employes, Monday apologetically withdrew the offer with the explanation that they apparently had not the authority to make the deal. City Deal Still Stands The promise to the city still stood Monday night, however, Aiken declared. Only ordinance passed at Mon day night's council session sets new fees for billboard concerns. doubling the minimum license to a new $100 high, with the provi sion that outdoor advertising con cerns shall pay one-half of one per cent of annual gross receipts for each new year' license. Origi nally written one-fifth of one per cent, the ordinance was amended last night. Transfer of the initial $5000 to go into the firemen's pension fund from the general fund was ap proved and another series of transfers was directed to bring the pension fund to $10,000 by the end of the current fiscal year. Tentative approval was voted a new city bus schedule to go into operation when new Oregon Mo tor Stages equipment arrives or at least by Februaury 3. The po lice and traffic committee will give the schedule further study and probably recommend some changes, Chairman Kenneth Perry said. Zone Will Be Changed On recommendation of the city planning and zoning commission, first steps were taken to change the north end of Condit's add! lion (the Keith Brown industrial development) from class II rest dential to class- IV industrial zone. A request from Commercial Sand & Gravel for a lease of river bank property running 100 feet north from Court street, on which it proposes to establish a ready mix plant and office, was referred to the property committee. The recorder was instructed to buy i new car for the police depart ment, and repairs for bridges at 24th and Mission streets and 19th and Chemckela streets were ap proved. (Council story also on page 2.) Mayor Urges Speed inlDevelopment of Gty Sewage Disposal Plans; Traffic Study Asked Immediate preparation of plans for the city's sewage disposal sys tem "so that construction may proceed whenj materials are avail able" was urged by Mayor I. M. Doughton in his annual message to the city council last night "Too long Salem has polluted the Willamette river, destroyed its fish life, rendered it unfit for rec reational use, and made it a men ace to the health of our people. This is the year to clean up," Doughton declared, calling atten tion to the fact that financing of the system already has been ar- mm ? ' ' ii . NINETY-FIFTH YEAR! 12 PAGES Aooft i Paw ISsiSfls It'll Be HomeyNo Matter What Shape It's In BATTLE CKEEX, Mich, Jam. 7-German prisoners of wax spend their last few mlautes Inside prison eompoond at Fort Caster yesterday before starting homeward joaraey. They are first of S00 rOWs at the fort to start; the tris back to Germany. Aaether will leave Colorado eamps thiagh the yort of Los Angeles this saeata. (AT Wlrepaoto to The SUteaxaaa) Goering Snarls at Witness , Who Testifies Nazis Sought h To Slay 30,000,000 Slaves Holdup Nets $102 But Girrs Pluck! Cuts Down Loss Police were on the lookout! for a man with $102 and a sore scalp today. i' j P . The man got both the money and the soreness at the State the atre on Sunday night, when; he opened the rear door of the cash ier's booth and commanded Miss Patricia Jones to "stick 'em tip." Miss Jones was startled enough to ask "are ou kidding,''; just bed fore she caught tight or the man's gun, but she wasn't too startled to swing into action. When he threat ened to hit her with the gun, she grabbed the man's hat. gave this hair a few healthy jerks, knocked the gun out of his hand, and while she didn't manage to bold him in the booth she threw him far enough off stride so that not f all the available cash was taken.? - Miss Jones said she believed there was . another person in a car to which the man fled. ' Oregon Deposits; Greatly Exceed j National Average PORTLAND, Ore, Jan.! 7H?V Deposits by Individuals, partner ships and corporations in 1 Oregon banks during the five war years were two and a half times more than the national average, a fed eral deposit p insurance corpora tion report revealed today. Oregon was fourth highest of states in the nation, reporting a 238 per ceiit increase compared to the. 91 per cent national aver age. SMELT BACK ON MAKKET I PORTLAND, Jan. 7 - (Af - Co lumbia river smelt were! on the market today at around 40 cents a pound. Some: 1400 pounds arrived from Clatskanie where the run appeared. The mayor also urged a study of traffic problems; . expressing hia belief that parking meters would not be a solution; improvement f of the city's parks to make them ' of greater use to the public; secur ing of additional finances for the dty without added general taxes; preparation of plans for person nel retirement and for placing re turning veterans, and vigilance by health and police departments In proportion of the city's residents. Doughton expressed his hope that the council would adhere to its present policy of denying city services to persons who hay "for Solom, Sftrf Set mm V) "Vs.- Defendants Perturbed Br Charges; Mocking ' Smile Fades Away NUERNBERG, Jan. 7-4ip)-Her-man Goering growled curses to day at a prosecution witness who told the international military tri bunal that the German purpose in attacking the Soviet Union was to exterminate 30,000,000 Slavs. "Dirty dog! Damned traitor!" Goering snarled as Waffen S. S. Gen. Erich von Dem Bach-Zelew-ski stepped from the stand. Goering and others of the 21 high nazi defendants facing the court were visibly perturbed by the testimony of the 46-year-old former ardent nazi who was said by allied authorities to have wit nessed personally or participated in more atrocities than any other German witness yet summoned and who has "found my con science." Jail officials said they would "call Goering on the carpet" to be rebuked for his behavior in court, regardless of whether the tribunal chose to take notice of this first incident of its kind in the trial. Goering lost the mocking smile and the iron control which has marked his demeanor thus far. A German-speaking court attend ant said the former reichsmarshal turned to his fellow defendants and growled: -Why that has more blood on his hands than all the rest of us put together and I will testify to that under oath!" Marine Corps Cuts Discharge Points ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -vP) The marine corps announced to day its critical discharge score for all officers and men would be cut from 50 to 45, effective Febr uary 1. About 28,000 additional persons will be made eligible for release. the most part, settled in suburban areas to void paying for such conveniences." The plea that has been part of his every message during two terms as mayor that earnest con sideration be given to change from "our archial system" of city government was marked this year by reference to "one or two Incidents", not . otherwise de scribed, which he declared "again demonstrate the need of definite responsibility for. the performance of the administrative functions of the city." Council story also on page 2) A X -Softs Yf V 1 WUNDIO 1651 Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 8. 1946 v.- 1 1: Democracy at Work, Manila Editor Says c .WASHINGTON, - Jan. 7-C-A GI demonstration against alleged inequities in demobilization was staged at nearby Andrews Field, Md., today. MANILA, Tuesday, Jan. 8 -JF) American enlisted soldiers vocif erously protested the new demo bilization slowdown at a mass meeting last night and demanded a congressional investigation but military police said they spent the remainder of the night in relative quiet. . , MANILA, Jan. 7 -VP)- A Chin ese editor expressed amazement tonight at the freedom of com ments and profanely critical re marks directed at generals and other officers by GI speakers at a mass meeting protesting a slow down in demobilization. "You can smell democracy! exclaimed Ken Lift, editor of the Shinese Commercial Bulletin "This is democracy working. It isn't Just a word." Fifty Veterans Seek Houses Registration of more than 50 veterans for quarters in the re cently-projected housing program at the City airport was announced Monday by H. C. "Hub" Saalfeld, Marion county service officer. By telephone, mail and in per son, the bids came from recently discharged veterans critically in need of living space, Saalfeld said. Most of the applicants were Salem veterans. A few were from nearby towns such as Independence and rails City. Congestion Being Cleared at Motor License Counter TheOlrtate automobile division is fast clearing away the conges tion of motor vehicle license ap plications for 1846 plates received up to January 1, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., said Monday, and state police and oth er peace officers soon will start arresting delinqucunt motorists. More than 225,000 applications had been processed up to last Saturday night Officials estimat ed that 435,000 motor vehicle li censes would be Issued. Aged (104) Father of Cheniawa Coach Dies SILETZ, Jan. 7.-jtP-Death of Coquille Thompson, Indian who at 104 could recall skirmishes be tween whites and Indians around 1850, was reported here today. Survivors include a son, Coquille Jr., coach at Chemawa Indian school. item Kaiser, Union In Accord Wage Scale Will Be Suggested For All Industry By the Associated Press A contract with the new Kaiser- Frazer corporation calling for an "unprecedented" wage rate was announced last night and the union leader signatory said he would recommend it as a basis for settlement of disputes in the en tire automotive industry. The company and the CIO United Auto Workers jointly termed the agreement "most sat isfactory." Disclosure of the new contract, calling for a new wage rata of 11.18 at the outset, was made by R. J. Thomas, CIO-UAW presi dent, Henry J. Kaiser, chairman of the new company, and Joseph W. Frazer, president of the firm. In addition to the $1.18 base, the company has agreed to meet any Increase that comes out of the UAW-CIO strike against General Motors and to form a pool of $5 per car produced, the money to 'be distributed among produc tion workers on an hours-worked basis. , Estimated at 1 Per Cent Thomas said the production bonus would amount to a 10 per cent additional wage for workers covered by the contract Frazer estimated that approximately 8000 employes will share in the bonus pool. On another labor front the president jof the CIO Oil Workers was on record today as declaring his union was willing to whittle its wage increase demands from 30 down to 18 per cent as a pattern for settling the industry's current wage disputes. The statement, made to the oil industry fact-finding board in Washington by O. A. Knight .un ion president, marked the first in stance of a sharp CIO wage in crease demand reduction in a major industry since the war. Efforts at Peace Fail Knight said agreemnets had been reached on the 18 per cent basis with several companies. His statement capped a day which brought these other developments on the labor front: 1 Mayor William Dwyer of New York City announced failure of 11th hour efforts to avert a strike of 7000 Western Union em ployes in New York and New Jersey scheduled for 11 ajn. today and union locals in eight inter national cable and radio message companies decided not to handle messages from Western Union company offices throughout the country during the tieup. A.O.A. officials estimated that 40 to 50 per cent of transatlantic messages originating in the U.S. would be affected by the sympathy move. t The CIO United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America announced in. Chicago that Monday, Jan. 21, had been set for a btrike of an estimated 30,000 members in 11 plants of the International Harvester com pany, in! the midwest and east. Frowns on Price Boost J OPA Administrator Chester Bowles was reported to have in formed President Truman that full price increase demands of the steel industry to compensate for current losses and any wage increase granted in efforts to off set a strike, of 800,000 steel work ers Jan, 14 could not be granted under present wage-price poli cies. 4 Coast-to-coast telephone paralysis by Wednesday was threatened from two sources. Ern est Weaver, president of the Com munications Equipment union, said a strike was scheduled for Wednesday that would mean "100 per cent breakdown of toll tele phone service. He said dial sys tems would break down "in ' a week or 10 days." The other dis ruption hinged on a nationwide poll of the National Federation of Telephone .Workers. Price 5c No. 246 Yes, He Was Not A Stowaway and No Buck Passing OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 7.h;F) Capt. Charles A. Berndtson, mas ter of the Matson liner Lurline, said .today that he had sailed from Nagoya, Japan, fully aware that a 10-year-old Filipino boy was a stowaway aboard. Berndtson talk ed to Chronicle reporters.- Capt Berndtson also said he knew -the boy's presence aboard might cost the Matson company a $10000 fine for bringing an alien to this country without a passport "What the h - - - !" boomed Berndtson. "I wasn't going to put the kid ashore in Japan. Besides, I thought it would be good for the morale of the 4000 troops aboard. River at Crest Early Today; Damage Heavy The Willamette river was run ning fairly high between 16 and 17 feet - - through Salem ear ly today but it was believed the crest of current high water had been reached and that colder wea ther which halted the river's rise at Eugene had snuffed but a new flood threat ' This morning's crest was around three feet below flood stag and 10 feet or more below the mark of a week ago. The Associated Press quoted Walter Larsen, county engineer of Linn county, as saying it would cost $50,000 to repair Linn coun ty roads damaged in the flood. Even more will be needed to pre vent erosion along river banks and correct a depression three miles above Lebanon which threatens to steer the Santiam into a new channel through the town, Lar sen declared. HEALTH WARNING ISSUED . FOR RESIDENTS OF LANE EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 7.-)-The Lane county health department today warned residents of the flood zone near here to burn pro duce in vegetable gardens which were Inundated and avoid using water of uncertain purity because of the danger of typhoid fever. The department announced open wells in Glenwood and Chase garden areas and have been proved contaminated. Pappy Doesn't Know About His Marriage RENO, Nev., Jan. 7.-P)-Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson. who announced that she and Lt. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boy ing ton were to wed tomorrow, declared she was "stun ned" by a statement credited to him today that he had no plans for marriage. The SO-year-olrf brunette had told reporters that immediately after her divorce tomorrow she and famed "Pappy" would marry. But at the San Diego base today Boyington declared by telephone "no wedding plans are in the mak ing." Weather Max. .. 47 ..4 .. 48 ...40 S3 Mln. 14 41 39 n as Rain Salem Eugene Portland .Seattle San Franc co M Si .7? .62 03 Willamette river 1S3 ft FORECAST ( from U.S. weather bu reau. MrNary field, Salem ) : Partly cloudy today with a few scattered showers. Maximum today 49 decreet. Sale of Warehouse Sites Gets Okeh of West Salem's Council By Marfuerite Gleeson Statesman Valley Editor WFJ5T SALEM, Jan. 7-(Spe-cial)-Sale of warehouse building fites to the Oregon Farmers Un ion Cooperative association and J. A. Sholseth, of the Marion Feed and Seed Co. were authorized by the West Salem dty council to night. The Oregon Textile company, which previously purchased a site, was given assurhce by the council that the company would be reimbursed by the dty when extension of the sewer Is neces sary. West Salen Is proportionately the largest industrial dty in Ore gon, Mayor Guy Newgent said after the council meeting, citing its population of 2000 and Its In Sevvers Solve Mystery Four Persons in Custody After Gruesome Finds CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-,Vfhe dis membered body of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan. tvho was kid naped from her bed early today, was found m sewers tonight with in one block of her home. The child's head was found first early in the evening in a catch basin sewer between two part ment buildings a half block from the home, and by midnight police had found all the other parts of the body except the two arms. Chief of detectives Walter Storms said four persons three of them janitors In the neighborhood, were being held for questioning. Parents Are Notified Father George Carney of St. Gertrude's parish notified the hor rified and heartbroken parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Degnan, that their daughter was dead with out disclosing to the mother the manner of death. Both parents uttered a broken praer that their daughter had not offered. Father' Carney placed an arm around Degnan's shoulders. Mrs. Degnan, who was lying on a divan in her living room, rose to a sit ting position. "Do you have strong faith?" asked the priest "I have faith," sobbef the mo ther. Degnan nodded, his eyes filling with tears. Mrs. Degnan looked at the priest and asked hesitatingly, "was she disfigured, Father?" fsamanUy Frosajsed The kidnapper had warned that harm would come to the pretty golden haired girl If police were notified of the abduction, but po lice captain Sullivan said he was reasonably convinced a "sadistic fool motivated by both lust and money," was the kldnap-slayer. Degnan, 36-year-old OPA execu tive, had appealed to the kidnap per by radio for his daughter's safe return, promising him immunity from prosecution and saying "Til give you the money ni do any thing to get my child back." Suzanne, blue-eyed, curly-haired and blonde, was whisked undetect ed from her bedroom in her par ents' northside home early today in a manner reminiscent of the famous Lindbergh baby kidnap ping of 1932. A seven foot ladder, down which she apparently was carried in her white pajamas, was found in the bacje-yard. Thought Degnaa Wealthy Police expressed the belief 'the kidnapper had mistaken Degnan, who earns approximately $7500 a year, for a wealthy man. The Degans resided at the imposing home of a lawyer friend who fur nished them quarters when they were unable to find an apartment. The city news bureau said a man telephoned the Degnans about 10 a. m. today reiterating his demand for $20,000 ramson in $3 bills and warning to harm the child if police or newspapers were notified. Mt. Angel Creamery Membership Meeting Scheduled for Jan. 28 MT. ANGEL, Jan. 7 -(Special) The annual membership meeting of the Mt. Angel Cooperative creamery will be held Monday, January 28, in the auditorium at 10 ajn. Luncheon will be served in the basement dining hall at noon. Directors whose terms expire are Charles Bochsler, George Kruse and Alois Kirsch. The di rectors will choose their own of ficers following the election. A resume of last year's business will be given and plans for the coming year will be discussed. dustrial payrolls of 2500 persons. Newgent was authorized by the council to thank the Southern Pa cific railroad company for its service to residents during the high waU-r when a shuttle train was operated. The ordinance granting a fran chise to Wesley Jones for a taxi service was adopted. "The water department was granted 100 square feet for well No. 4, and 75 square- feet for well No. 3. A request to have the piano la the city hall tuned was denied be cause it belongs to the community club, council men said. A bill of $50.50 for damage re sulting from an overflowing sew er was presented by Loren W. Miller, 1361 Elm, and was refer red to the dty attorney.-