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Chinese Reds
Would Curtail
Chiang Power
CHCNGKING, Jan. 15. -(JT)-Tbe
elder statesman of Chinese
communism laid before the un
ity conference today a plan for
curtailing rirnstically the powers
of C hina' pi eniriput - - now Chi
ang Kai-ih-k.
Aged Tung PiWu presented the
rommuniirt reply to. the national
delegation program for reorgan
ising a peace-time government aa
both' sides renewed charges of
violating the truce.
Chou En-Lai, the communist
truce negotiator, also met with
Cen. George C. Marshall, special
U. S envoy.
Tung proposed to the- political
consultation (unity) conference
that all orders of the president be
subject to the approval of the re
organized state council.
CIO Modifies'
Wage Demand
In Shipyards
WASHINGTON. Jn. lS-tfV
A modified CIO wage demanH of
S cents an hour increase fr the
nation's 473.000 shipyard workers
was laid before the working com
mittee to the shipbuilding wage
stabilization conference today.
The demand compared with the
original request of the Industrial
Union of Marrne and Shipbuild
ing Workers for a hike of 174
rent an hour "aero the board"
plus a ; general 30 per cent in
crease. !
'J R. Redjtrom, chairman of
'the conference prens committee,
culled the proposal the first real
break since negotiations began.
The committee recewted until
Thursday.
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LOR ANGELES, Jan. IS. Eleven-year-eld Alice fluff comforts her
brother and two sinters whom she rescued whest fire swept their
home yesterdoy. She carried Charllne (left), S, and Richard
(right), I, to safety, then returned for baby Joanne (center). Sho
then 'called J the fire department The children's mother, Mrs.
Dorothy Huff, was seriously bnrned fighting the blase. (AP Wire-
photo to The Statesman)
Lillic Gilliam
Funeral Set
For Thursday
Funeral services will be held.
Thursday at 1:30 p. m. from the
Howell-Edwards chapel for Mrs.
Lillie M. Gilham, resident of Sa
lem since 1903, who died Monday
in Portland at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. Lei a Gilbertson.
Mrs. Gilham, who was 76 last
July, came to Salem in 1913 with
two children, traveling from Wal
lace, Neb., on the train, while her
husband, George Gilham, to whom
she had been married since 1803,
drove horses west, traveling for
two months to get here. He died
in 1932.
The family lived near Crabtree
in Linn county for two years and
since that time had resided on a
farm in the WaJdo Hills, route 9,
Salem. Mrs. Gilham was a mem
ber of, the First Christian church
of Salem, and that church's pastor,
the Rev. Dudley Strain, will con
duct the funeral services. She had
been ill since last spring but bed
fast for only a week.
Survivors include two sons.
James Gilham, Salem, and George
Gilbam, Portland; six daughters,
Mrs. Alta Keuscher and Mrs. Dor
othy Hashey, Salem; Mrs. Mar
tha Means, Oregon City; Mrs. Gil
bertson; Mrs. Ila Jasmer, LaCen-
ter, Wash.; brothers H. E. Par ton
of Salem and Frank Parton of
Grant, Neb.
Airport Properly
Still Being Kept
By Government
McNary field, has not yet been
listed with the surplus property
dministration, i although It has
been released by the army, Sen,
Wayne Morse notified Alderman
bm Armstrong by wire Tuesday,
Such listing may be expected
shortly and the city has priority
in applying for any property de
clared surplus at the airport.
Morse s message declared. Arm
strong, chairman of the city coun
cil's committee on airport and avi
ation, said Salem had applied for
transfer of all property, at the
field.
Stock Market
Urges Caution
CHICAGO. Jan. 15-()-Prel
dent Emit Schram o the New
York stock exchange said today
the exchange was utilizing a news
paper advertising campaign to
prevent a recurrence of the ex
cesses of the 20's."
Schram said the exchange had
undertaken a campaign among
400 United States newspapenuur
ging the public to:
Hold on to government bonds;
exercise the utmost caution in the
purchase and sale of other secur
ities; rely upon facta in making
Investments; beware of tips and
rumors and "get rich quick
schemes of all kinds.
Hot Clue Collapae In
Degnan Murder Cae
CHICAGO, Jan. 15H4V Anoth
er temporarily hot clue collapsed
today, leaving police investigat
ors still without a definite lead on
the kidnaper who killed and dis
membered six-year-old Suzanne
Degnan Jan. 7.
Capt. John Sullivan said that
a man and woman wno naa Deen
questioned following discovery of
their blood-stained automobile,
had been released.
Salem Rose Society
To See Color Slides
Caiored slides nrovided br the
Seattle Rose society will bo shown
at the meeting of the new Salem
Rose Society Thursday night at
tne "MCA. The business meeting
is called for 7:30 p.m., the program
or 8.
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LATEST NEWS!
Bid Call Starts
State Postwar
Building Plan
Bids for a new $32S,00Q patients'
cottage at the state hospital farm
east of Salem will be' opened here
ebruary 19 by the state board
of control, the board decided
Tuesday. If a bid is accepted,
work cm the first project1 of the
state's $10,000,000 postwar build-
ng program will be expected to
start this spring.
Plans for the two-story, con
crete brick-faced structure, pre
pared by Sutton, Whitney and
Wand a hi, Portland architects,
have been approved by the board
and by Dr. John Evans, who de-
clares such a building would
serve the state for many -years.
The board instructed its secre
tary. Roy H. Mills, to inspect the
plant of Hillcrest school for girls
with a view to recommending
how additional temporary facili
ties may be provided there. Mrs.
Katharyn Loaiza, superintendent,
told the board Tuesday every bed
in the institution is occupied. Six
ty-seven girls are housed there.
ossibility of securing a building
from the army surplus properties
at the Salem airport to be moved
onto the school property was dis
cussed. Additional beds could be
placed in the school attic or base
ment. It was suggested.
Itev, Adams to Lead
Discussion at YMCA
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The Rev. J. M. Adams will lead
the discussion at Thursday noon's
meeting of the Churchmen forum
at the YMCA. Charles A. Spraguo
is chairman for the meeting, theme
of which is to be "The Working
Tools of a Christian."
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Quotations
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Tearilof Death-
New Sherlock Holmes Mystery
with Basil Rathbone
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"Man Alive" Is the story of a widow (Ellen Drew, center), who la not
a widow, and of a ghost (Pat O'Brien), who la not a ghost It Is
all a part of a hilarious sequence of mishaps and misunderstandings,
many phony, as Minna Gombel' (right) disgustedly registers. Pat
O'Brien. Ellen Drew and Adolphe Men Jon are co-starred, with
Rudy Vallee as trouble-maker In an Important featured role at
the Grand today.
Missing Men's
Coats Found
Near Albai
W. H. (Bill) Sirayer, Veteran
Legislator, Turns 80; Home
Town Attends an Open House
Cline Indieted
On 9 Counts
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1-
(Wednesday)-(P)-A 1 f red Leo
nard Cline was Indicted last
night on nine counts of forgery
and one of grand theft in con
nection with the estates of elder
ly women.
Assistant District Attorney
Norman Elking ton announced
that eight of the forgery counts
nvolved stock certificates origin
ally issued to Mrs. Eva Delora
Krebs Cline,. wealthy Chicago
widow, whose death police have
been investigating for several
Weeks.
The other count, Elkington said.
nvolved a property deed of the
ate Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, Oak
land widow, whose name had
been linked with CHne's.
Cline has been held hero since
December during a nation-wide
hvestigation of deaths and cre
mations of several elderly women.
Housing Plans
Are Attacked
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-P)-
Tne administration' national
bousing plan today faced a con
gressional inquiry as one adminis
tration supporter declared:, "It
won't get the job done." J
The house .banking committee
decided to investigate the price
and priority program set up by
reconversion officials.
f Rep. Patman (D-Tex) told news
papermen:
The housing situation is be
coming a national scandal. The
program the administration has
worked out is insufficient it
won't get the job done. It must
bo strengthened."
William H. (Bill) Strayer, dean
of the Oregon state senate, be
came an octogenarian last Thurs
day and his home city of Baker
paid its respects at an open houpe
for which his daughter, Nadie
Strayer, and her aunt, Mrs. I. M.
Sanders, were hostesses at his
home. !
Bom Jan. 10. 1866. at Freeport,
la., he has variously been em
ployed at farm work, school
teaching, publishing and, since
1903, the practice of law;
For 32 years he has served in
the state legislature, representing
Baker county through 15 regular
sessions and all special sessions
since 1914. Senator Strayer is
dean of the senate ways and
means committee, and for many
years has served on committees
on revision of laws, mining, ir
rigation and drainage. A regular
member of the rules committee,
he is recognized as the senate's
chief parliamentarian, presiding
while the upper house is in pro
cess of organization and usually
when it goes into a committee of
the whole.
He supervises the senate's tech
nical work as chairman of the
engrossed and enrolled bills com
mittee, serves on the senate in
terim committees on education
and mining and haa been 'chair
man of the governing board of
the state department of geology
and mineral industries since U
was established.
With Mrs. Strayer, he publish
ed the Eagle Valley News at
Richland before going to Baker
to practice law. He was graduated
from Northern Indiana university
in 1889 and received his law de
gree there in 1896. A son. Capt
Manley B. Strayer, is assistant
head of the judge advocate gen
eral war contracts office at
Washington, D.C. . !
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ALBANY, Jan. 15. - (yP - State
police found the coats of Ernest
Bowman and Frank Anderson,
missing Kelso, Wash., men, hang
ing on bushes in the Iuckiamutr
river today.
Officer Clark Johnson said the
discovery of one coat substantia
ted a story told by J?. D. McClain.
67, and Jack Mann, 27, who said
Bowman's body was dumped in
one stream Dec. 18 and clothing in
another. McClain has signed a
confession admitting he shot
Bowman on a "ride." "
Bowman's leather coat and
blanket were caught on the bush
es, state police said, along with an
overcoat belonging to Anderson,
a logging camp rook who disap
pearM Nov. 19. Authorities have
found no trut-e of" Bowman's body
in the nearby St. Mary's river.
McClain and' Mann are held
here on burglary charges.
Chcrrians Hold
(yoroiialion. Take
hi 10 Members i f
Salem Cherrians conducted cor
oi tat i or i ceremonies for King Ring
W W. Chadwick and his coui t
Tuesday night at the Marion hotel
and initiated into their order 10
new members.
Joining the whitegarbed capital
city booster organization were
Dent B Reed. I) ft. S(firn.
G. W. Lan antcr. Don Simmon.
W. E S t e w a r t. jr., Elmer J.
Church. T. M Medford, L. E.
(Bud) Hobb. Dr. E. E. Boring
and Douglas Yeater.
Music and informal entertain
ment featured the pre-dinner and
post-ceremony hours.
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BROOKS. Jan. lS.-(Special) -Bill
La Fountain broke two ribs in
a fall from the loading platform
of the United Brokerage onion
warehouse here Tuesday. He was
taken to Salem General hospital,
and expects to be able to return
to work in 10 days.
Try out Camp Slated
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.-(p)
The Son Francisco Seals announc
ed today that "in cooperation with
the New York Giants and Salt
Lake City of the Pioneer league"
a two jweek baseball tryout camp
will be held in Seals stadium be
ginning March 11.
Priest Beats Zivic
BOSTON, Jan. lM-Ambi-
tious AJ (Red) Priest, 155, of
Cambridge, picked up some valu
able pointers on in-fighting while
gaining a unanimous decision
over Fritrie Zivic, J51, the
Pittsburgh veteran, in the Good
win A.C.'s 10-round feature box
ing bout tonight at Boston Gar
den.
Athenia Sunk
By Nazi Sub,
Doenitz Admits
NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan
15.-(?Pl-The mystery of the sink
ing of the British liner Athenia
with the loss of 30l Americans at
the start of the war was solved
publicly today before the inter
national military tribunal by nazi
admissions that a German sub
marine torpedoed the ship.
The story of the Athenia came
from two sources a pre-trial af
fidavit by Grand Adxn. Karl Doe
nitz, one of 22 ranking nazis on
trial before the tribunal, and the
official German naval, diary. The
affidavit and portions of the diary
were placed in the tribunal record
On Nov. 17, l945Doenitz swore
that the Athenia was sunk by the
German submarine U-30on the
day that Britain entered th war,
Of the 1500 passengers on the lin
er, 113 died.
The nazis charged immediately
after the sinking that the Athenia
was destroyed by the British them
selves in a plot to pturti the United
States Into the war on Britain's
side.
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. . . the friendly pause adds to gay times
A pause is mighty welcome when you've been burning up a load of
calories on the ice or anywhere! And at that moment when you
pause, you naturally turn to the pause that refreshes with ke-cold
Coca-Cola. That's the moment when everybody jumps at the friendly
invitation Have a Coe.
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