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Cremate Bodies Scatter Ashes Of Nazi Chiefs Army Board Still Seeking to Learn How Goering Got Poison Vial Nuernberg, Oct. 17 (IP) The bodies of Hermann Goering and the 10 hanged nazi war crimi nals have been cremated and the ashes "dispersed secretly," it was officially announced today. The announcement of the dispo sition of the bodies was made at 5:35 p.m. by Col. B. C. An drus, prison commandant. He spoko in the name of the allied control council, which was in charge of all details of the hangings and burial. A six -line communique cleared up the major mystery in the wake of the hangings. The bodies were removed from the prison at 5:34 a.m. Wednesday (8:34 p.m. Tuesday, Pacific time) in two sealed trucks, guarded by jeeps. Disposal a Secret t Where cremation took place was not disclosed. The disper sal details were wrapped in equal secrecy. Prison authorities disclosed that Field Marshal Wilhelm Kei tel had planned, like Goering, to evade the gallows with sui cide, but was foiled by a watch ful guard. As a special board of three U. S. army officers combed ev ery possibility to determine how Goering managed to poison him self. Colonel Andrus revealed the Keitel story for the first time. Keitel had returned to prison after a court appearance one day recently and was changing to old clothing, as was custom ary. As he shifted his wallet he pushed something down in a fold. Keitel nad Knife ' An alert guard noticed it and grabbed the wallet. In a corner he found a long, sharp piece of metal easily capable of slashing the wristc or the.throat. Keitel shot the guard a dirty look, but said nothing. He refused to ex plain how he got it. Col, Andrus and Maj. Fred Teich, his assistant, both exon erated Mrs. Emmy Goering, wid ow of the second ranking nazi who swallowed potassium cyan- ide in an unexplained manner two hours before he was to die on the gallows. Teich said it, was impossible ?!r her to have given Goering anything during all their visits, because a glass screen always separated them. Mrs. Goering learned of the suicide from her maid in nearby Nauhaus and burst into tears. Neighbors said she apparently had no prior knowledge of her husband s in tent. (Concluded on Pate 15, Column 8) Truman Praises Nuernberg Trial Washington, Oct. 17 VP) President Truman said today that the Nuernberg verdicts "will stand in history as a bea con to warn international bri gands of the fate that awaits them." The president's comment was expressed in a letter to Asso ciate Justice Robert H. Jackson accepting his resignation as chief U.S. counsel of the inter national military tribunal which tried the major nazi war crim inals. Ten of the defendants were hanged yesterday and Hermann Goering, No. 2 nazi, committed suicide shortly before he was to have been led to the gallows. i Mr. Truman said for his part had no hesitancy in declaring that the historic precedent at Nuernberg "abundantly justi fies the expenditure of effort, prodigious though it was." He added: "This precedent becomes basic in the international law of the future. The principles estab lished and the results achieved place international law on the side of peace as against aggres sive warfare." The president did not commit himself on Jackson's recom mendations for dealing with German militarists, industrial ists, politicians, diplomats and police officials, asserting only that they "will be given careful consideration." The Weather (Released by the United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and vicin ity: Partly cloudy tonight, be coming cloudy with light rains late Friday. Little change in temperature. Lowest tempera ture tonight 46. Local valley fogs In morning. Conditions will be unfavorable for most harvest ing activities Friday. Max. yes terday 59. Mln. today 45. Mean temperature yesterday 42, which was 12 below normal. Total 24 hour precipitation to 11:30 ajn. today .12. Total precipitation for the month .52, which Is .73 inch below normal. Willamette river height -3.7 ft. Capital 58th Year, No. 246 ZSfflfiJSr&S? Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 13 Die in Crash Of Nats Air Liner Near Laramie Laramie Wyo., Oct. 17 (IP) The crash of a chartered east bound passenger plane killed 10 passengers and the crew of three during a heavy snowstorm on the level plains three miles west of here early today. The plane, identified by a civil aeronautics administration spokesman as a two-engine craft operated by the Nats Air Trans port Service, a private concern operated by former naval fliers, was en route from Oakland, Calif., to Chicago, and was to have stopped at Cheyenne for refueling and a change of crew, the CAA said. No stop was scheduled here. Plane Demolished Acting Coroner E. L. Knight of Albany county said the twin engined craft was demolished when it plummeted to earth on a level field just north of the airport about 1 a.m. Bodies and wreckage were strewn over on area of 300 square yards. Knight said there were eight men and three women aboard in addition to the pilot and co-pilot. Knight and county sheriff's of ficers and police searched the area and wreckage with flash lights and removed 11 bodies. Two or the victims died later in the Laramie hospital. The acting coroner said one of the bodies was hurled from the Areckage and into a barbed wire fence. Some of the bodies were found 75 yards from the plane, and others beneath bits of the debris. (Concluded on Page 15, Column 6) Airlines Plan Higher Fares Portland, Ore., Oct. 17 u.R Airplane passengers can expect an increase in fares soon and they probably won't get as good service, W. A. Patterson, presi dent of United Air Lines, pre dicted : today. Patterson, on an inspection tour of United operations, said that all commercial airlines in the United States probably would lose money in the last quarter of 1946. "The air travel peak is be ginning to subside," he said. "Our load was four percent off in the past three weeks. Tran sients have either spent their money or are settling down." Wages are up 40 percent, he said. "Before the war, United could break even on a 65 per cent capacity, but now it takes 80 percent to break ev.cn." Patterson said that travel schedules this winter would be the "poorest in years" because United will cancel flights 200 miles ahead of any planes going to airfields where there are more than 10 planes "stacked" for landing. He explained that United would delay flights to prevent overcrowding over and at land ing fields. Truman to Address UN Assembly Washington, Oct. 17'P) The White House announced today that President Truman will ad dress the opening session of the United Nations assembly in New York October 23. The president will address the opening session of the United Nations assembly next Wednesday at an hour yet to be arranged. Whether the president will go to New York by train or plane will depend on the time of his speech. 56 Strikes Slowly Strangling Economy of New York City New York, Oct. 17 (IP) Fifty six industrial disputes, now sub ject to labor-management deliberations, are slowly strangling the economy of the nation's first city, effecting a loss of incal culable millions of dollars. Docks, warehouses and rail road sidings in the city which normally does a $10,000,000,000 annual business in exports and imports alone are piled high with -thousands of tons of freight unmoved because of the mari time and truck strikes. Several hundred stores of two large food chains are closed be cause of the trucking dispute. The U S. Maritime commis sion says 357 American flag ships are bottled up in New York harbor. The city's com merce and industry association estimates 5000 traders in for eign goods are unable to move shipments valued at approxi mately $200,000,000. Cat Thief Steals Windsor Gems At London Home London, Oct. 17 (IP) Scotland Yard loosed its most brilliant crime hunters today on a burg glar who crept expertly into the Georgian manor of the Earl of Dudley and stole a "consider able amount" of the Duchess of Windsor's $1,000,000 collection of jewelry. The worried duke, one time monarch who forsook the Brit ish throne 10 years ago to wed the American-bom divorcee, left any statement to be made to the detectives, who remain ed as usual in a major case as mum as the mansion's gate posts. The duchess' collection of jewelry has included a diamond studded platinum tiara, a gift from the duke which she wore on her wedding day, and sets of blue sapphires, diamonds, ru bies, emeralds and other gems. The press association said persons at Dudley's Ednam lodge put the loss at "under "25,000 pounds" ($100,000) and said it was covered by insur ance. A friend of the duke and duchess said both the ex-king and his wife were away at the time of the robbery and that the duchess' maid discovered the gems were missing. This friend was quoted by the press association as saying: "The servants were at tea and no one heard anything. The duke's dog, which was in the house, did not bark." The duke and duchess, the friend said, had been on a visit to London, where the duke was received by his brother, King George, at Buckingham palace yesterday. Inspector J. R. Capslick, ace undercover detective for the criminal investigation division, sped to the robbery scene at dawn to put his minute knowl edge of London's uppercrust thieves into the task of narrow ing the field of suspects. The thief dodged observation of special Scotland yard branch men stationed on round-the-clock guard at Dudley's Ednam lodge since the ex-king and his wife moved into it last week end. London newspapers advanced two theories. One was that the burglar climbed into the duchess' second floor room by catlike ascent of a drain pipe and the traditional ivy on the wall. The other was that he just walked through the unlocked front door. They speculated that he en tered the guarded grounds by creeping through a 15-foot box hedge under cover of darkness which, in October, descends on Britain by 5 p.m. 25 Injured in Crash of Bus Klamath Falls, Ore., Oct. 17 (U.R) Twenty-five persons were injured seriously enough to re quire hospital treatment today when a Greyhound bus skidded off the highway on snow-covered Sun mountain. None of the passengers was believed critically injured, it was reported. The bus went off highway 99 during a snow storm. Hillside hospital reported none was killed and that most of the persons admitted were "shaken up." X-rays were be ing taken of others to deter mine extent of injury. The bus was northbound from Klamath Falls and the passen gers reported there was snow and ice on the highway, which runs through mountainous coun try. A spokesman for New York's department stores, now caught between two drivers' strikes, re ports sales volumes sinking week by week. A milk short age is attributed by dealers in part to the trucking strike. Dr. Charles A. Pierce, who heads the division of research and statistics of the New York state department of labor, esti mates the city's current strikes at 56, directly involving 55,000 workers. Chief among ' them are the trucking and maritime strikes. The former, involving AFL teamsters, is in its second month. -tT h law -x. m i maritime Workers Stage Demonstration (IP) CIO maritime workers and Committee for Maritime Unity members gather in front of the Pacific American Steamship association in San Fran cisco, singing union songs in a demonstration against ship owners. FDR Gave Right-of-Way To Lend-Lease to Russia Washington, Oct. 17 (IP) President Roosevelt's insistence in 1942 that Russian lend-lease promises be fulfilled "regardless of the effect on any other part, of our. war program" prompted offi cial war production board concern. WPB members accordingly instructed Chairman Donald M. Nelson to tell Mr. Roosevelt of the "drastic effect" his stand was having on the entire Ameri can production schedule. This became known today with publication by the civilian production administration of the minutes of I he war production board and its predecessor agen cies a five-volume report on top-level production problems from June, 1940, to October, 1945. Mr. Roosevelt wrote WPB on March 17, 1942, noting that shipments to Russia were far behind schedule and, the pub lished minutes related, that "many shipments have been placed in a position subordinate to other requirements." "The president stated his wish," the document went on, "that all materiel promised un der the Moscow protocol be re leased for shipment at the ear liest possiole dale, regardless of the effect on any other part of our program." The president's letter was dis cussed at a March 24, 1942 meet ing of the board, and the sub ject came up again on June 16, 1942, when "the chairman re ported that questions regarding the effect on our production program of the requirements of the Moscow protocol had been discussed with the president who, subsequently, had written as the commander-in-chief to the chairman directing that the terms of the protocol must be fulfilled regardless of the effect on any other part of our war program." Goering Refused Final Communion Nuernberg, Oct. 17 (IP) Her mann Goering went to his death without communion, though he had requested it from prison chaplain the day before, prison officials said today. Capt. H. F. Gerccke of St. Louis, Protestant chaplain of the jail, refused to give Goering communion because the arro gant ex-reichsmarshal was not repentant. Such a ceremony with Goering, in view of his at titude over many months, would have been sacrilegious, the chaplain told Goering. Japs Repeatedly Violated Russian Pact Tokyo, Oct. 17 (IP) The Jap anese repeatedly violated their non-aggression pact with Rus sia by searching and attacking soviet ships during the war, Russian Prosecutor S. A. Go lunsky told the international war crimes tribunal today. He presented documents re porting also that Russian crews were mistreated. He said the Japanese went beyond their rights under international law in searching ships, many of them plying between the United States west coast and Vladivos tok with food and clothing. Golunsky said he expected to conclude Russia's prosecution Monday. He has yet to present Japanese army officers captured when the Red army overran Manchuria and northern Korea. Stilwell's Ashes Scattered Carmel, Calif., Oct. 17 (IPi General Joseph W. Stilwell's ashes were scattered yesterday in the Pacific ocean in accord ance with the soldier-hero's wishes. Journal 17, 1946 ie City Traffic Much Heavier Portland, Oct. 17 VP) New long range municipal planning programs were urged in a talk here las, night by Ross Miller, city manager of Santa Rosa, Calif. He told delegates to the con vention of the League of Oregon Cities and the conference of Oregon Finance Officers' asso ciation that "democracy really lives, moves and has its being in towns and cities. Discussions last night indicat cd the question of zoning and planning of urban-rural fringe areas will take top importance in sessions tomorrow when a panel of experts open a forum on the subject. R. H. Baldock, Oregon stale highway engineer, reported that traffic counts indicate city traffic has increased 50 to 70 percent over 1941 and that one way streets must be recognized as the answer to many of the traffic problems. Sawyer Wants Study Published Bend, Ore., Oct. 17 (U.BNot ing that J. A. Krug, secretary of the interior announced in a press conference that studies of the northwest area have indicat ed that a regional authority "would greatly speed up the development of that area," Rob ert W. Sawyer of Bend, presi dent of the National Reclama tion association, has telegraph ed Krug requesting that the northwest study be made pub lic. "News reports are that at a press conference you said that your department had been mak ing studies of all the great river basin systems to determine the desirability of setting up re gional authorities and that studies of the northwest area, now completed, indicate an au thority would greatly speed up the development of the area," Sawyer telegraphed to Krug. "In order that the subject may have the fullest examination and discussion, I request that the northwest study be made public. This, I urge, would be in keeping with proposals be fore the public lands committee at the hearing on your confir mation." Campaign Gifts to GOP Candidates Washington, Oct. 17 (IP) Re publican congressional commit tees have contributed varying amounts to the campaigns of house nominees. In Oregon the republican congressional committee gave $500 each to the campaign ex expenses o f Representatives Stockman, Ellsworth and Nor blad and $1,000 to the campaign of Rep. Angcll of Portland, all seeking re-election against dem ocratic opponents. The democratic congressional committee did not list any help to its party's nominees in the state. - k Price Five Cents ..,r,Y3.4i wale progress At Paris Parley Washington, Oct. 17 (A't Sec retary of State Byrnes returned today from the Paris peace con ference and received President Truman's .congratulations for doing a "most excellent job" at the 21-nation conclave. Byrnes reported to Mr. Tru man immediately aflcr arriving home. The 50-minutc confer ence was the first meeting of the nation's top foreign policy mak ers since Henry Wallace was ousted from . the cabinet for criticizing Byrnes' handling of relations with Russia. Although the state depart ment chief told reporters he could say nothing about his con versations at the White House, Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross reported that Mr. Truman had congratulated Byrnes on his work. On Radio Friday Byrnes hurried from the White House to his office to begin drafting a radio report to the nation tomorrow. Earlier at the airport, he had told newsmen the peace con ference "made progress" toward writing the peace for Europe. It was not, he said, a failure. Byrnes flew to Washington in the president's personal plane, "The Sacred Cow." He was in good spirits and "happy" to be back after a three-month absence. Sen. Vandcnbcrg (R., Mich.), who accompanied Byrnes, said there were both "peace credit and peace debit at Paris but on the whole the balance shows a net advantage for peace." Relations with Russia Byrnes' return from the con ferencc, where he was in almost constant conflict with Russia's Foreign Minister Molotov, coin cided with new Indications that American relations with Russian bloc countries arc worsening. The latest development was the stale department's disclos ure last night that the United Stales, apparently angered by charges of "dollar diplomacy had chocked off deals to give Czechoslovakia financial help. Despite this and indications that differences between Rus sia and the United States in creased at Paris, Byrnes was op timistic over prospects for agreements on peace in Europe. ."The task of making peace is a tedious one requiring great pressure," he told newsmen. "We feel wo have made prog ress and I certainly hope that when the council of foreign min isters meets in New York No vember 4 we will complete the five peace treaties wo have been working on." Vandcnbcrg said he would amplify his views on the Paris session in a speech Saturday night. Byrnes' speech tomorrow is expected to cover the whole field of issues between Russia and the United States differ ences given new emphasis by the action against Czechoslo vakia. More Beer Assured By Grain Allotment Washington, Oct. 17 (U.R)-Thc agriculture department has cleared the way for increased beer production ot about 10,000 barrels a month. The department has earmark ed 10,000 more bushels of grain a month for beer, with all the increase going to smaller breweries. Under normal brew ing practices, this should pro vide on additional barrel for each bushel of grain. US Cancels $90 Million Loans to Czechoslovakia Washington, Oct. 17 (IP) Officials said the United States had canceled a $40,000,000 surplus properly credit to Czechoslovakia and in addition had suspended indefinitely pending $r0,000,000 rchaoilitation loan to the Czechs by the export-import bank. The primary reason behind this $90,000,000 slap at one of the countries in the Russian bloc was said to be the Czech backing of Soviet charges at Paris that the United States is rcsor'.ing to "dollar diplomacy" in eastern Europe in an effort to advance "American imperi alism." There was no official state ment to this effect, but the evi dence appears to be that at some critical moment in the long Paris struggle Byrnes himself ordered or approved the eco nomic crackdown on Czechoslo vakia. An even more drastic action than the temporary suspension last summer of a $90,000,000 loan and credit to Poland, the OPA Removes Price Lids From Coffee as White House Hastens Scrapping of Wage Controls Abolition of Stabilization Hastens Ditching of Price Ceilings No Subsidy Payments on Coffee Since September Washington, Oct. 17 OPA today removed price lids from coffee as it speeded up the decontrol drive. The price agency said it has approved decontrol petition on both green and roasted coffee at all levels of distribution. As the White House prepared to hasten the scrapping of wage controls along with food price ceilings, OPA freed all vegetable tuts and oils margarine, mayonnaise and salad dressing freed federal restraints. The agency said it agreed to lift its price ceilings on eolfee be cause "data presented by the industry and obtained by OPA" indicated that "supply and demand were approximately in bal ance." The action represented the first formal approval oi a petition for removal of ceilings on requests uf one ot OPA's industrial advisory committees. The petitioner was the coffee industry advisory committee. OPA must- act on such petitions within 13 days and it pointed out that to day's action camt 10 days after the decontrol petition was ac cepted. As contrasted with meals, on which federal subsidies were paid until two days ago, no sub sidy payments have been made on coffee since September. Dur ing that month, OPA allowed a price increase which matched previous subsidy payments that generally had held the price of coffee down about 5 cents a pound. LaGuardia Denounces Even as the decontrol pace quickened, UNRRA Director Fi orello H. LaGuardia denounced the decision which led to the speed-up removal of meat con trols and declared the new policy will result in "industrial confusion, financial dislocation, social disturbance and political dictatorship." A high government official. here predicted that "in a day or so" President Truman will clarify the status of the wage stabilization board. This is the tri-way public, industry, labor panel whose industry member recently submitted resignations to Mr. Truman. Some labor and busi ness leaders have demanded that it be abolished. (Concluded nn Page 15, Column 7) Controls Off Feed Grains Washington, Oct. 17 Ml The agriculture department today took controls off the use of feed grains, protein meals and soybeans by livestock feed man ufacturers, feeders, food man ufacturers and processors. The action followed last night's order from the office of price administration in freeing soy beans from price control along with flax seed. OPA at the same time took the price lid off edible vegetable fats and oils in general, and a long list of food and animal feed items in which vegetable oils are an ingredient, generally in mix tures with grains. Today's action, the agricul ture department said, was taken in accordance with its over-all program to discontinue controls on farm products at the earliest possible date. The department reported that supplies of grains, rctlccting this year's record corn crop and large outturn of other grains, now are sufficient to permit re stricted use in food and feed. The controls on feeders and manufacturers was instituted last April to conserve supplies and help meet the needs of shortage areas overseas, and to obtain more equitable distribu tion in this country. The price decontrol order, ef fective today, applies only to food and feed items made from the vegetable oils. It docs not lake in industrial uses, such as the great share of linseed oil used in paints or the plastics and other products from soy beans. rap at ihc Czechs also was in sharp contrast to this country's traditional friendship toward Prague. The cancellation of the Czech surplus property credit and the suspension of the loan nego tiations were explained for a va riety of reasons, but officials agreed that except for t h c Czech-Russian situation these might readily have been smooth ed out. Aside from the Czechs' sup port of Ihc Rusian position at Paris, thi- United States objected to two other factors: (DA Czech deal to resell $10,000,000 worth of surplus property to Roma nia at a profit and (2) to the failure of the Czechs to agree formally to the rights of Ameri can citizens with respect to property and commercial opera tions in that country. Board Looms as OPA Livestock Prices Start to Slide (By the Associated Press) Prices for livestock, dairy products, cotton and grains started to slide in markets across the nation today as Wash, ington threw the decontrol pro gram into high gear. Record prices paid Wednes day for hogs, cattle and sheep were punctured by the impact of arrival of tens of thousands of animals at principal mar kets. At Chicago hogs dropped $2 to $7 a hundredweight and at St. Louis nearly as much. In Omaha, livestock trucks lined up for 2 la miles to un load. At Kansas City, where an all night stream of animals glutted the market, and elsewhere the trend was downward. Cattle and sheep quotations also wavered from the Wednes day peaks. At New York wholesale but ter prices cracked 7 to 8 cents a pound. The sharp break was attrib uted to strong consumer resist ance to retail levels of $1 a pound and more. Cotton futures in New York broke. 10 a bale. New York cheese declined 1 to 6 cents a pound. Eggs declined 1 lb 3 cents a dozen in New York. At the grain futures markets in Chicago wheat lost the limit of 5 cents a bushel. At New York cottonseed oil futures trading resumed after a four-month suspension and all quotations immediately jumped the 1-cent a pound daily limit. Chinese Reds Besiege Paotinq Pciping, Oct. 17 (IP) Gen. Chen Cheng, chief of staff, sid today the government's next military move depends upon the communists and that the nation als would attack the Chinese Reds' Yenan headquarters only if the communists attack gov ernment armies. Ho told a press conference China's civil war was not as serious a threat to international peace as the communists hav asserted, but that it there art complications "we will rely upon the good will of other powers for us." Of the civil war. he elabor ated: "If the communists don't attack the nationalists, certainly the government won't attack the communists, but if the commu nists make a move anywhere against the government, then the nationals have a right to defend themselves." The communists answered the government's counter-offensive on the Peiping-Hankow rail line by lightening their siege of Paoting. surrounding another city and capturing a third. A large force of reds was reported moving against Pao ting, beleaguered capital of Ho peh province, where they have trapped a government garrison more than two weeks. The com munists failed in their initial effort to capture the city early this month but have kept it isolated. Currrent Flows Over Toledo Power Line Portland. Oct. 17 (IPi Bonne ville administration said that a flow of current which should end the blackout troublbs of the central Oregon coast was turned on today. Bonneville said the new power line from Albany to the substation near Toledo began operating at 10 a.m., sending Bonneville power to the Central Lincoln People's Utility District distribution lines. The coastal counties served by the PUD. Oregon's largest, have been struggling under a power shortage which has blacked out communities for days at a time. The new line, planned before the war, was delayed by shortages.
