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Tho OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, January 30. 1948
Degnans Sent
Human Ear,
Boys Queried
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CHICAGO. Jan. W--State's
Attorney William Tuohy said to
night two young men questioned
about telephone calls in the Deg-
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Chief of Detectives Walter
Storms sad the pair told him they
had telephoned the Degnan home
after 9 a.m. the morning of Jan
uary 7, after 6-year-old Suzanne
Degnan had been abducted, but
that the youths made no state-1
ments connecting them with the
crime itself. j
Storms identified the you tins as
Vincent Costello, 18, and Thejxiore
Campbell, 22. and said no charges
Jiad been made against thqm at
any time during the questioning.
Questioned Many
Police have questioned many
persons in their so far unsuccess
ful quest for information which
might solve the slaying of the girl,
whose body was dismembered aft
er taken from the north side home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
E. Degnan.
Human Ear Sent
During the day another grue
aome phase of the case developed
when a human ear believed by
police to be that of an adult man
was received by mail at the par
ents home.
Lt. Philip Breitzke. head of the
police homicide ' squad, said the
head of little Suzanne, which with
other parts of the body was found
In newer catch basins, had both
ears arid therefore the police were
ditmissing today's weird exhibit
from the investigation and turn
ing it over to post office inspectors.
Teen-Agcrs
Picket Movie :
In Vernonia
VERNONIA. Ore.. Jan. 19.-VP)-The
or.ly theatre in this small
lumber community was still
closed today after 180 high school
pupils locked arm's in a solid pick
et line around the box-office pro
tecting a 50-ient admission price.
Adults have refused to patron
ire the Joy theatre, operated by
Mrs. Zelma Dow, since the pupils
peuueroed for a special 35-cent
price last Thursday.
O. J. Miller, Portland, secre
tary of the Oregon Independent
Theater Owners association, said
the students "wouldn't listen"
when told its would take several
weeks to adjust Mrs. Dww's con
tract with motion picture com
panies. "If thoe youngftterg are per
mitted to get away with this," he
declared, "F.ery teen-atfer who
wants t pay 10 cents UtUead of
15 for an ice cream soda will fig
ure he's entitled to follow their
example" '
Jean McDonald, a spokesman
for the students, said they'd "ra
ther not have a movie at all" than
pay 50 cents. "Weviidn't feel like
waiting, and everybody in town
is behind us 100 per cent."
Lebanon Asks
Erosion Aid
ALBANY, Jan. '29 -(jr) -An ap
peal from a delegation of Lebanon
residents for emergency erosion
control measure had the backing
of the Linn county court today.
Spokwroen for the group said a
auction abrve Lebwnon was so bad
ly eroded in the recent flood that
another deluge may cut a new
channel for the South Santiam riv
er. This would take the river
through the town, they asserted.
County Engineer Waiter Larsen
estimated $400,000 wotttd be need
ed to kep the river within bounds
and urged officials to seek federal
aid.
19 Nation Entered
MELBOURNE, Australia. Jan.
29 .-(VWth two days remaining
before the deadline, the surpris
ing total of 19 nations had filed
entries tonight for the first post
war Davis cup tennis competition,
which will be climaxed by a chal
lenge round against the holding
Australian team probably late
next December.
LA I)uiiih Vancouver
VANCOUVER, Jan 29-(CP)-The
Los Angeles Monarchs de
feated the Vancouver Canucks
4-3 in an inter-dlvisioh Pacifi''
coast hockey league game here
tonight. It was the first win by a
team from the southern division
over a northern club in 19 games.
OPEN 6:45
Humphrey Bogart,
Alexis -Smith.
Sidney Grernstreet. In
"CONFLICT"
And
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With Lon Chaney. Jean Parker
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army air forces sapply depot. (AP Wlrephoto) j
21,949 Troops
Due to Arrive
In Port Today
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By Uva Associated Press
More than 21,949 servicemen
from Pacific and! European the
atres of operation were due to ar
rive today on 30f vessels at five
major U.S. porta.;
Four west coast points await ar
rival of 15,671 personnel from Pa
cific areas on 19 vessels while on
the east coast New York expects
to receive 6,278 veterans on 11
ships.
West coast arrivals include: San
Francisco, 5014 personnel, seven
ships: San Diego, at least 2942, six;
Los Angeles, 2910 men, five ves
sels: Seattle, Wash., 4805, one.
Ships and units arriving include:
At Sun Franctsoo
Miscellaneous on following: Bel
leau Wood from Guam, 1620 navy;
Kota Baroe from Manila, 132S ar
my; U.S. Grant from Pearl Har
bor, 1172 army: Tranquillity from
Pearl Harbor, 711 navy; Baretta
from Pearl Harbor, 20 navy; LST
887 from Pearl Harbor, 136 navy;
Stagbush, 30 navy.
At Los Angeles
Miscellaneous on following ves
sels: Hollandia from Saipan, 1100;
Steamer Bay from Saipan, ,1173;
Troiles from Pearl Harbor, 451;
Napier from Honolulu, 30; LST
1148 from Pearl Harbor, 156.
At San Diego
Miscellaneous on following: Es
cort carrier Shipley Bay, 1128
navy and coast guard; assault
transport Fond Du Lac, 1814 navy
and marines; LCI's 25. 26, 27 and
62, no passenger information.
(Above vessels all from Pearl
Harbor.)
At Seattle i
USS General Callan from Ka
rachi, 4805 miscellaneous troops.
Wyatt Urges
Housing Price
Control Plan
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29-UP)-Broad
expansion of housing price
controls was advocated today by
Wil.son Wyatt. national housing
expediter, to bring living space
within the range of veterans'
pocketbooks.
Wyatt told the house banking
committee that the price of
houses mut be brought into line
with the ability of veterans to buy
or rent them. He related that a
survey indicated that 84 per cent
of veterans can pay no more than
$50 a month on purchase price or
rent, while only 17.5 per cent of
recent applications for building
priorities indicated the' construc
tion of houses in that price range,
The-expediter said be expects
the housing crisis will reach its
peak next summer, and that by
the end of this year there will
be 2,500,000 more famines than
dwelling units available.
Portland Expects
Colder Weather;
PORTLAND, Jan. 29.-P)kuld
er weather was expected in this
area tonight, after three inches
of snow blanketed the west bills
last night and early today,
The weather bureau reported a
six-inch snowfall at Sandy; two
at Forest Grove. Light rain' or
snow was forecast for tomorrow
afternoon.
The snow was spotty and slushy
between Portland and Gresham
but drier east of there.J; deputy
sheriffs said.
Benefit
Tonight
Jan. 30. 1916
for
Polio Fund
Sponsored by
V.F.W.
At Hood and Church Sts.
Adam Kerber's Orchestra
Everybody Welcome
Admission 75e, IncL Tax
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Cameras to Film Atom Tests
By Howard W. BUkoslee
Associated Press Science Editor
NEW YORK, Jan. 29--Cameras
on top of 100-foot steel tow
ers, arranged in, a ring around
the warships in Bikini atollj will
photograph the navy's ; atomic
bomb tests this summer.
; The cameras will be automatic,
operated by remote control, by
radio on a distant ship. Other
cameras will: take pictures from
airplanes flying at safe distances.
In addition, several planes oper
ated by remote control, piloileas,
will carry cameras closer than
the manned planes.
The arrangements were an
nounced today, with approval of
the navy security office, Wash
ington, by the Fairchild Camera
and Instrument corporation.
Tribute Paid
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Harry Hopkins
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LONDON. Jan. 29. - (yp - Brit
ain's Foreign i Secretary Ernest
Bevin. in tribute to Harry Hop
kins who died in New York to
day, said the one-time confiden
tial adviser to the late President
Roosevelt "cheered us in our
darkest days" and "spent himself
in achieving the victory of right
over wrong." ! j !
"The death of Harry is a great
blow," he said, in a message to
Mrs. Hopkins, "and we feel that
dear friend has passed from
us." ii i
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt -who
was Hopkins' hostess during the
time he spent at the White House,
went to her room at the Claridge
hotel immediately. Efforts to
reach her were met with the re
ply: "She left: word she could not
speak to the press." ' ;,
Edward R.i Stettinius, Ameri
can permanent delegate to UNO,
said: "I have today lost one of my
dearest friends, Harry Hopkins."
Lung Infection
Kills 6i Game
NEHALEM,! Jan. 29.-fl-Death
of deer and elk in the coastal sec
tor near hert was attributed to
day by state field biologists to a
lung infection similar to tuber
culosis. Field Biologist Wesley
Batterson reported only a smal'
percentage of the total deerjpop-
nlalnn ViaVI hn ttmrtmA hilt Aim
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agnosia of lungs of several! am
ma Is Indicated it was communica
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"Silver Skis" Slated
SEATTLE. ; Jan. 29. - (4) -The
"silver skis.! a racing event which
drew international figures 1o the
steep slopes of Mount Rainier be
fore the warj will be revived In
1948. The Washington Ski club
announced tonight the event
would be staged April 20 over the
3.16 miles between 10,000 -feet
high Camp Muir to Edith creek.
UNDSTKOM WINS POST
SAN FRANCISCO, Jam 29-0")
J. Orville Lindstrom, of tha Uni
versity of Oregon, today; was
elected president of the Western
Association of College and Uni
versity Business Officers. K. B
Sauls, of Brigham Young univer
sity was chosen as secretary-
treasurer, iij 1 I I
Erty Saturday j
Silvcrton Aracry
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Orchestra
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Entertainers
Admission lit :
Pins Fed. Tax 14
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which will supply cameras, radio
and electronic equipment for the
crossroads photography.
The tower cameras will be in
batteries set over several islands
surrounding 'the enclosure of
atoll waters. The instruments
will be housed in small rooms,
each shielded against x-rays and
other radioactive hazards of an
atomic bomb explosion.
Special pains will be taken
to prevent the heat of the ex
plosive flash from burning the
film. This heat will be millions
of degrees Fahrenheit. Although
the cameras on the ring of tow
ers willj be from five to ten
miles distant from the exploding
bomb, tee sensitive film might
be damaged by the hot flash.
May Put Moon
Radar to Work
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 - & -Pos
sibility of putting radar signals,
bounced off the moon, to work
in long distance radio telegraph
communication was forseen to
night by Henri Busignies, director
of the laboratories of the federal
telephone! and radio corporation
In ordinary' transmission along
the earth's surface long range
radio communications tend to dis
appear at distances a hundred
miles or so from the sending sta
Uon. f
But with radar signals pointed
at the moon and reflected back
was done; by army engineers in
their Belmar, N. J., experiments.
Busignies said they could be made
to carry messages between New
York and? Paris or between other
points. !
Aged Rancher
Chokes Wildcat
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 29-iJP)-
Details of a battle for life waged
by a 73-year-old rancher named
Jim Rollins against a rabies-in
fested wildcat of unusual size.
with the man choking the animal
into unconsciousness and then kill
ing it with a club, were revealed
tonight by a Tucson physician who
asked that his name be withheld
The physician said the man
came to him for treatment, bring
ing the animal's body. Tests re
veeled the rabies infection and
the rancher was treated accord
ingly. J
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PORTLAND, Jan. 29.-0P)-The
University of Portland has added
Leonard Younce, 1939-40 Oregon
State grid sUr, to its football
staff. Younce, former . pro with
the Newf York Giants, will assist
Line Coach Carl Jorgensen.
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Republicans
W.SW. McKinney, Salem attor
ney, was elected president of the
Marion county republican club at
its meeting in the chamber of
commerce rooms last night. Mc
Kinney succeeds Joseph B. Fel
ton, now president of the state or
ganization. Other new officers are: Harry
Humphreys, Stayton, vice-president;!
Robert Fischer, secretary;
Rosa) Coppock, treasurer; Chris
Kowttz, sergeant-at-arms; board
of directors for one year term;
Doris Woodburn. Fred Schwab,
Mt Angel, J. T. Jones, Jefferson;
for the two year term, Irl Mc-
Sherfy, Charles H. Heltzel, Ernest
Denny, Sublimity.
Due to sudden illness Judge
John I J. Quillin of the Portland
municipal court, who was -scheduled
to address the meeting, was
unable to attend.
Announcement was made by
President Felton that plans are
being perfected for a Lincoln day
program at Marion hotel Febru
ary 12, with all Marion county re
publican organizations participat
ing.
The committee on by-laws' rec
ommendation for changes in the
present club charter to conform
with by-laws of the state commit
tee was adopted.
A resolution on the death of the
late Congressman James W. Mott,
read; by Chairman Charles Helt
zel of the committee on memori
als, was approved and copies or
dered sent to the family and to Dr.
William Mott, a brother of the de
ceased. Gbuin Points
Bleak Picture
PARIS. Jan. 29-4-lnterim
President Felix Gouin laid before
the people of France today a
bleak domestic picture of impov
erished soil, dwindling food re
sources and public debt, and in
foreign affairs urged a "broad
tripartite agreement among Rus
jsia. Great Britain, and France.'
In this inaugural address to the
constituent assembly, Gouin
jcalled for energetic remedial
measures to prevent an inflation
ary spiral which he said could
Idrive, small-income people to the
wall 'and "make all economic re
construction and moral recovery
of the land impossible."
Gouin outlined a drastic pro
gram) of reductions in civil and
military expenditures, further
nationalization of industry and
commerce, salary freezing, price
control measures and general ov
erhauling of production.
Lcjtter Urges
Rules Revision
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. Proposed revision of state legis
lative' rules and procedures re
ceived new impetus yesterday
whep F. H. Young, manager of
Oregon Business and Tax Re
search. Inch., Portland, presented
to Governor Earl Snell a letter
urging appointment of a commit
tee of legislators and other citi
zeni to draft a program for revi
sion.) The letter was signed by lead
ers of several business, trade, pro
fessional, labor and agriculture
organizations.
Also requested in the letter was
a committee examination of the
situation created by a recent state
supreme court decision which held
the so-called short state Income
tax form law constitutional.
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The money is here, the field is ripe, the need is growing.
and if the Salem YWCA wants
which to raise the funds. Douglas McKay, state senator, former
mayor and member of the city planning commission, declared
as he spoke briefly at Tuesday night's annual meeting of the
association.
McKay's presentation of the
YWCA service was keynote for a
panel of three-minute speakers
at the close of the dimier meeting.
held in the dining hall of the First i
Presbyterian church.
Dr. Laurence Riggs, head of the
education department of Willam
ette university, discussed the
place of the Young Women's
Christian association among other
social agencies of the area, urg
ing that it fill a niche of its own
and cooperate also with other
agencies.
Issues Challenge
Laura Ault, national business
and professional secretary for the
YW, spoke of the varied needs of
the young adults. Margaret Nor
ton, staff member of the Nation
al Council of Student YMCA
YWCA's, issued the challenge for
younger members of the. associa
tion, and Mrs. C. A. Barnes,
president of the Eugene YWCA
and member of the national
board, discussed the service of
volunteers. Isabel Childs, chair
man of the Salem association's
committee on public affairs, was
chairman of the panel.
Mrs. Zella James, president of
the board of directors, presided
and announced the election of the
entire slate presented by ithe no
minating committee: Mrs. O. I.
Paulson, Mrs. B. F. Williams, and
Mrs. Wallace Carson, re-elected;
Mrs. Robert M. Fischer, jr, Mrs.
Robert Fitzmaurice, Mrs.' Homer
Smith, jr., and Mrs. Bruce Spaul
ding, elected as new members of
the directorate; on the 1946 no
minating committee Mrs. Guy
Hickok, Isabel Childs. Mrs. Roy
Harland, Mrs. Carl McLeod and
Dorothy Pearce.
Music Provided
Music for last night's meeting
was presented by Mrs. Vance
MacDowell. staff member and
violinist, and Mrs. Bruce Spaul
ding, accompanied by Mrs. A. A.
Schramm; by the Tri-Y choir, di
rected by Virginia Ward Elliott
and accompanied by Jewell
Gueffroy, and by the diners, led
by Mrs. Spaulding.
Recommending a gradual up
building of the budget toward oc
cupancy of the new building, the
finance committee's report was
presented by Helen Yockey. Mrs.
B. F. Williams, treasurer, cli
maxed her treasurer's report with
the smiling assurance "You see,
we are not in the red." Reports
of other committees and officers
were presented.
The Rev. John L. Knight, re
ligious counselor on the Willam
ette university campus, suggested
the development of new horizons
in religion, as he dicused tite
YWCA's purpose. The Rev. Ches
ter W. Hamblin made the closing
prayer.
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SEATTLE, Jan- 29. -P)- The
coast guard said tonight "largo
icebergs" have been noted in tho
Stephens passage area between
Point Hugh and Midway islands
on the Alaska route.
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