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Newspaper Page Textmm Four Others Sentenced to Prison Terms The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; fog in morning, with continued cold. S Mm CflfflP BITS BOTffiD TO. ytv JC V CIA a Established 1873 No Peace Sign Seen in Auto Strike Status Truman's Intervention Gives Hope of Agreement Between Union, Big Three CLEVELAND, Dec. 13. P General Motors Corp., today petitioned Common Pleas Court for an injunction to restrain pickets of the CIO Unled Auto Workers from blockading en trances to the corporation's Fisher Body plant here. The UAW's Cleveland local and 30 officers and members were named as defendants. A hearinQ will be held tomorrow. 'By the Associated Press) The lon and bitter wage dis pute between the CIO United Auto Workers Union and the automotive industry's "Big Three" continued today without any in dication of immediate settlement. There was more hope, how ever, that intervention of Presi dent Truman in the 23-dav old strike at General Motors might hasten efforts of the union and the company to reach an agree ment. Union officials have exDressed the belief a settlement with either General Motors, Ford Motor Company or Chrysler Corpora tion would set a pattern which would aid in solving disputes with the others. Today's negotiations by the union were with General Motors. Other union officials, their de mand for a 30 per cent wage rate increase rejected by Ford yes terday, mapped further plans for discussions at tomorrow's con ference. Picketing at Issue Today's union-GM session was to be confined largely to discus sion of the company's charge of "illegal picketing" at some of the more than 70 strike-bound plants where 23,000 workers have been Idle since Nov. 21. President Truman's appoint- (Continued on page 8.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE are two moderately in teresting developments In the world news. 1. The (Chungking) Chinese Central News Agency reports that an agreement has been reached with Russia to permit Chinese government troops to fly Into Manchuria (in U. S. planes, presumably) to TAKE OVER Manchuria's most strate gic cities. 2. Indonesian (native) leaders threaten to use both POISON and arms to resist military restora tion of Dutch sovereignty In Java. THE Chinese announcement indi cates, if true, a deal by which Russia will back Chungking as the unifier of China. We must be in on the deal although, of course, nobody will tell us any thing. Naturally (assuming that It has happened) it Is a TRADE. What Chungking may have given In return for Russian backing is undisclosed. Russia is normally (Continued on page 2) 1945 CHAMPIONS OF NATION'S 4-H For leadership in their respective 4-H qroupi during the year, Donald McKnight, 21, of Street, MH., end Mary Arlene Nelson, 20, of Humboldt, Kan., today hold thoie qold cupi shown with them in picture, at well at $200 colleqe scholarships. They are among the many winners (elected in various contests durinq the 24th National 4-H Club .Congress it Chicago, House Approves -Bill Aimed at . Labor Rackets WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 OP) The House yesterday passed and sent to the Senate legislation ap plying the 1934 anti-racketeering act to labor unions. The measure, biterly opposed by organized la bor, was sent to the Senate, which once previously refused to pass a similar House-approved bill. Labor supporters said they were confident they could win in the Senate. Their optimism was summed up by Rep. Marcantonio who told reporters: "There isn't any question that we can stop it in the Senate." Direct outgrowth of a 1942 Su preme Court decision setting aside the .conviction of a local New York Teamsters union on charges of conspiracy to violate the 1934 law. the bill would bring union activities within the scope of that act if they constituted "robbery or extortion." Conviction would be punishable by as much as 20 years imprison ment and a $10,000 fine. It strikes from the 1934 law a ban against its application to labor organization "lawfully car rying out the legitimate objec tives" of unions, and removes a section exempting wages paid by a bona fide employer- to a bona fide employee, from the defini tion of "property" or "money." Jap Sub Commander Witness Against McVay WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 UP) Iko Hashimoto, a Japanese sub marine commander, flown here from Tokyo, told a Navy court martial today his ship fired three torpedoes into a "dark object" which it sighted 290 miles from Palau on the night of July 29-30. Hashimoto was admitted as a witness despite vigorous objection by defense counsel for Cant. Charles B. McVay, III, being tried on charges of negligence and In elficiency in the loss of his cruiser, the Indianapolis, that night en route from Guam to Leyte. The court admitted the Japa nese officer as a witness after ruling It was proper to subject him to a double oath. He was given both the standard oath pre scribed by U. S. Naval proce dure, as well as that used in Japanese court-martial. Ship Magnate Gives One Division to 3 Employes NEW 5RLEANS, Dec. 13 (JPl Andrew J. Higgins, Sr., presi dent of Higgins Industries, Inc., announced today the company's appliance division had been given to three employes "to show that management appreciates loyalty and efficiency." Higgins said he gave the appli ance division to J. 4. Crary, L. V. Busenlener and W. H. Bramblett, present operating heads of the division. Crary said no cash changed hands in the deal. The new company will distrib ute appliances formerly handled by the organization while It was a Higgins unit. Continuance of Price Controls Advocated SALEM, Ore., Dec. 13 UPy Price controls should be continued until the supply of consumer goods and service more closely approaches the demand, even if the controls have to be extended beyond next June 30, E. L. Peter son, state director of agriculture, said today. He said falure to extend the price controls would be a "nation al calamity," with agriculture being hurt the worst. ROSEBURG, Pearl Harbor Raid Preceded By an Alert Definite Order Sent to Gen. Short, Gen. Marshall Angrily Tells Probers WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. P Gen. George C. Marshall, flush ing with anger, asserted today the Army commander in Hawaii was given a definite alert order before the Japanese attack De cember 7, 1941, and that he felt he could expect it would be car ried out. Marshall testified before the Senate-House Committee investi gating the attack. Previously the Investigators had learned that Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Hawaiian commander, estab lished only an anti-sabotage alert In response to a warning mes sage November 27 from Washing ton. The former Army chief of staff flared up under persistent ques tioning about information given to overseas commanders in the last few days before the Pearl Harbor attack plunged this na tion into war. "General Short was given defi nite direction," Marshall said, "lie was given an alert order. I still feel that when you give a command to a high officer you expect it to be carried out." Assumes Responsibility This assertion followed up Mar shall's statement yesterday that he Marshall was responsible for actions of the General Staff and that he had "full responsi bility" for any failure in Wash ington to see that Short went on a full war alert. Replying to a series of ques tions from Senator Lucas, Mar shall also told the committee: As chief of staff, r had no knowledge of any information prior to December 7 deinitely pointing to an attack on Pearl Harbor. That President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Stimson knew all he knew about important mat- Continued on Page 6 More Operators Boost CIO Wages to Parity PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13-f.f) CIO lumber workers In the Western Washington and Colum bia Basin district were granted an additional 2i-cent-an-hour pay increase in renegotiations com pleted last night by Big Fir op erators and agents for the CIO- IWA locals. The increase raises the previ ous 21-cent raise to 15 cents and puts the CIO-manned mills In the area on parity with AFL opera tions. The agreement establishes a five-day week, two weeks' vaca tion with oav and a voluntary check-off of dues and assessments. The pay boost is retroactive to Nov. 1 and must be formally in dorsed by the operators and the CIO locals before effective. $50,000 Cash Stolen From Portland Home PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13 UP A $50,000 theft from a Portland residence largest cash loot on record here was reported today after the owner and an acquaint ance had determined extent of their losses. Police said a safe weighing 175 pounds had been removed from behind a hidden panel In a closet at the home of Ruth Barnett, Portland naturologlst, Dec. 6 while the woman was away. Dr. Barnett said she lost $10,000 in cash, and a friend, tan Busn, Coos Bav ninball game operator, $40,000. Police said floor markings indicated the sale was taKen oui the front door of the home. Two Army Fliers Die in Crash in Eastern Oregon SPOKANE, Dec. 13 P Golfer Field authorities an nounced today that the wreckage of a plane found yesterday near Moro, Ore., was that of an Army trainer which had been missing since Tuesday evening on a flight from Lcmoore, Calif., Army air field. Dead in the crash were two men from Geiger Field. Lt. Ches ter W. Claflln.' of Worcester, Mas'., and Sgt. Ralph E. Balser of Chicago. 1 Meeting Dated to Set Up Milk, Cream Standards SALEM, Ore., Dec. 12 (XI The State Department of Agri culture will hold a hearing here December 21 to consider sugges tions lor establishing state grailes and standards for fluid milk and cream. The grades and standards will be established under a 1945 state law. Four grades will be established. OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1945 Douglas County Still Far Short Of E Bond Goal Douglas County still Is short of its Series E bond quota in the Victory Loan campaign by $66, 318.75, it was announced todav. Sales to date amount to $308, 681.25. as compared with a quota of $375,004. The county is well oversubscribed in every other de partment of the campaign. All series except E bonds were closed Dec. 8, but all E bond purchases through the month of December will be credited to the county's quota. Four names were added today to the county's "One Grand" Club and one name to the "Limit" Club. New members of the "One Grand" Club, purchasers of bonds in denominations of $1,000 or more, were James H. Bossard and Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, Roseburg; Jug Vejst and E. T. Stenseth, Yon calla. Dr. Lester M. Lehrhach became a member of the "Limit" Club, composed of purchasers of the $5,000 maximum amount of E bonds to any one Individual. Change in Timber Program Offered EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 13-P Small lumber operators here are proposing a revision of the sus tained yield program outlined at a government public hearing here Dec. 3. The program, suggested by the O. & C. Revested Lands Admin istration, would give lumber owners who agree to balance cutting with timber growth prior rights on government timoer. Eight million acres of intermin gled private and public lands are involved. A group of 60 to 70 small op, erators, who object to allowing only timber owners in the area to buy the government timber, proposed these changes: 1. A government buivau should be set up to classify the conserva tion practices of every operator, and operators with the best con servation record be given priority in buying government timber. 2. Anyone cutting small second growth would be Ineligible to buy government timber for five years. 3. Overripe timber should be cut first. 4. Government timber should not be restricted until the war emergency ends and all veterans have homes. British, French Troops to Quit Syria and Lebanon LONDON, Dec. 13 (fl) For eign Minister Bevin told Com mons today that Britain and France have agreed to Joint with drawal of their troops from Syria and l-ebanon. The agreement provides for close alignment of polity in the Near East with the object of settling unrest marked seven months ago by armed clashes in a Syrian demand for independ ence from France. "The two governments," said an official announcement, "have recognized that it was in their joint interest to encourage, with in the framework of interna tional collaboration, the economic well being and security of the peoples of the Middle East." All Manchuria Soon to Be In Hands of Chiang TIENTSIN. China. Dec. 13 (JP Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek appeared in Peiping today for the first time in many years. while his troops, last reported 40 miles beyond Mukden, were reported rolling swiftly toward Harbin, a leading Manchurian industrial center. Other national government forces were moving to Chang chun, Manchurian capital, by air. Observers here viewed these rapid-fire developments as a strongn Indnlcation that all Man churia, rich in Industry, will be in the hands of Chiang's govern ment forces wltrln a few weeks and probably with a minimum of bloodshed. Jap Mother of Slain Tot Committed to Hospital KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 13 lT)- Mrs. Shageno Fudetanl, 28 year-old Japanese whose child was found slain at the Tulelake WRA center a week ago, was Tuesday committed from Alturas to the slate hospital at Stockton as an Incompetent person. The order was not Involved with a murder charge, Modoc au thorities said. WRA officials re imrted the woman had not been normal since last Wednesdav. u. h.n H tL-na fliuYiwniH In the 0,1 her 3 year-old daughter, Violet, who had been killed with a hammer. A coroner's Jury failed to name the suspected slayer of the child. House Price Ceiling Plan Facing Fight Truman's Proposal Not Workable, Real Estate Men, Builders Declare WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 ! Administration - endorsed legisla tion to fix price ceilings on new and existing houses ran into stiff opposition today. The most outspoken criticism of the prooosed control nrogram approved by President Truman came from real estate circles. On CaDitol Hill, a snot check of the House Banking Committee considering the price-fixing leg islation disclosed that a number of members believe Mr. .Truman already has sufficient authority to deal with the housing problem. This sentiment was echoed by the National Association of Home Builders, which said the imminent restoration of building materials to a priorities system made price ceilings unnecessary. Plan Held 'Unworkable' Frank W. Cortwright, execu tive vice-president of the associa tion, said his organization would continue to oopose ceilings "as unrealistic and unworkable, and as a stumbling block to solving the housing problem." He told a Reporter Mr. Tru man's program for channeling 50 per cent of all huilding materials to residential dwellings costing $10,000 or less would help keep Continued on Page 6 Whipping of Boys to Be Probed by Legislators PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 13 UP) State Senator Frank Hilton nf3 ISftay he wtmM eor.vrne the State Legislatures interim com mittee on state Institutions to conduct an investigation of whip ping of Woodburn State Training School inmates. The Portland legislator said he and State Representative Jack Bain, Multnomah-Clackamas dis trict, were not satisfied with a state board of control secretary's report in which whipping of two bovs was deelared Justified. Hilton said the committee would interview the two boys In volved and also W. H. Runyan, 70, who complained of the se vere whippings given the boys while he was working at the school. Roy Mills, control hoard secre tary, reported he believed the whippings Justified under the cir cumstances and that the two boys had stated they considered their treatment was not harsh. Give M'Arthur Free Hand, Investigator's Advice SPOKANE, Dec. 13 (P) Gen eral Douglas Miit-Arthur should he given "a chance to work out his present difficult problems with full support and without any interference," Dr. Karl Comn ton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said here Inst night. Reviewing his trip to Tokyo a? head of an investigating team ef scientists. Dr. Compton said General MacArthur's program In Japan "has thus far succeeded beyond the most optimistic ex pectation. "I should hope that he may be given a free hand, because the situation is too complicated to be safely handled at this critical stage hv divided management or conflicting policies. "If we rin this I do not believe that we will one day wake up to find we have 'lost the peace' In Japan." Two Victory Queens of Oregon Are Selected PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13-lP) -Two nrctty and talented Ore con ciils, named Victory CJueens nl Eastern And Western Oregon from candidates in a statewide bond selling campaign, leave here tomorrow for Hollywood and a chance at a screen career. Miss Hcttv Snlllns. Portland dancer, and Miss Mary Ann Smith. La Grande, were chosen I Ins nst night as Miss Western Ore gon and Miss Eastern Oregon. At the filmland capital they will mi-et screen stars and be guesti with seven other girls Irom four Western stales at a round of entertainment planned in their honor. All of the Victory Queens will be given screen tests and one awarded a year's con tract with a major Hollywood siunio. Early Shopper TVT.SA. Okl Dec. 13(l fltv FinAnr. rnmmit.lnnir Tnhn ! Hall has his Christmas shopping pmnipm tnorougniy iirKefl. Nearly all his friends have dogs, so he lust sends them 1946 (VB tags along with certificates that the tax has been paid. J jl I ' ' - ;' . DETERMINED VET STOPPED BY PICKETS Picket is led away by a policeman following a flareup of violence when Kenneth Simon, Oakland, Calif., recently discharged 8th Air Force gunner, tried to cross a picket line to report for work at the strike-bound Bethlehem shipyard in Alameda, Calif. Simon (arrow), reporting for his first day on the job, had his jacket ripped off and his luifch thrown on the ground before police rescued him. Turkey Pickers Vie at Show Mrs. B. Shrum Is Top Winner, Seven Minutes, 29 Seconds; Election Deferred by Assn. Six turkeys, with wings wildly flapping, were bled and, picked clean in a content that was part of yesterday afternoon's program att'he Northwestern Turkey Show, fnc-winner w'aT"1rs. Bertha Shrum who finished in seven minutes, 29 seconds. She received the $10 award. Revival of Turlock Turkey Show Plan In Friendly Rivalry Comix-tition between the re vived Northwestern Turkey Show and a soon-to-be-revived turkey show at Turlock, Calif., mav be stimulated by the visit to Rose burg of two Turlock Chamber of Commerce representatives. The men are Harry F. Nystrom and E. Glenn Drake, who have sug gested to Jay Conn, president of the Northwestern Turkey Breed ers Association, that the two shows start a friendly rivalry. The show at Turlock, the Far West Turkey Show, was forced Into inactivity at the start of the war, because the local fair grounds were taken over as a relocation center for Japanese. Last year, when restrictions against Japanese were lifted, the Army s Ninth bcrvlce command used the fair grounds as a re habilitation center for soldiers. Now that the war is over, the Far West Turkey Show Is to be revived In l!Mti. Nystrom and Drake have sug gested that turkey growers In the Northwest and California ex hibit and compete for prizes in both shows, thus seeking Im provement In breeding by com parison of methods in both places. Perspective In staging a turkey show is being gained here by the two luriiKK men. as well as hy the local association which hox-s to put on an even belter show next year. Meacham, 12 Under Zero, Oregon's Coldest Spot SAf.EM, fire.. Dee. 13 I.T -Oregon thermometers took n fur ther downward tilunee today as the cold wave extended Into Its second day. with hlchwav re ported Icy In many sections of the state. The State Hlihwav Commission snld the 12 degrees below 7ero at Mear-ham. on the old Oregon Trail In the Blue Mountains, was the coldest temperature reported In the state, while temperatures in the mountains were hovering around zero. The Oregon coast's sub-frec7lng temiwratures were unusual, while temperatures nt other Wes'-rn Oregon points were well below freezing. Jobless Pay Doubles SA1.FM, Ore.. Dee. 13 P -Oregon's unemployment load has doubled each month since the end of the war, the State Unemplov ment Comensation Commfcion said today. The commission said It expects more than iMt.tnn claims for com pensatlon to be filed each month until late spring. 45290 Other winners were Mrs. Mary Oakley, who finished In seven minutes, 34 seconds, $5 award; Mrs. Stella Hill, nine minutes. 10 seconds, $2 award; and Mrs. Ethel Johnson, 10 minutes, 38 sec onds, $1 award. Mrs. Lora Kester, 10 minutes, 35 seconds, and Mrs. Hannah Roach, 11 minutes, five seconds. failed to nlace. Although Mrs. Kester finished three seconds be Grand Champion Named Earl Strong, Oakland grower, won the Grand Championship for standard classes In the live division, this morning. Grand championships In the utility classes and dressed division, and of the whole show, will be chosen thla afternoon. fore Mrs. Johnson, the letter's bird was considered more skill fully picked th,an Mrs. Kester's. Judges in the contest were Rav Convent, Turlock, Calif.; Roy Medley, Oakland; Lawrence Michaels, Canyonville, and Homer Grow, Roseburg. The rubber aproned women were splatcred with blood soon after the Initial shower of feath ers and down. The women are employed In a local poultry house, and their skill indicated they had picked many a bird in their time. Continued on Page 6 U. S. Invites 14 Nations To World Trade Confab WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. tP) -The United States has invited 14 of the world's kev trading na tions to a "roundtable" discussion designed to cut down tariff bar riers and begin the task of ex panding world trade. Countries accepting the Invita tion will be those prepared to be gin detailed negotiations on steps to promote world trade as agreed to hv the British and American governments last week in con neiil'in wi'h a projected $1,100, 000,000 credit to England. Jap Woman "Lectures" Yankees, Jap Maidens HOKKAIDO, Jpan, IVc. 13 Two American women and six U. S. soldiers, Invited to attend a session of the Mitsui Social Club, were told by one Japanese wo man today: "Present fralernlzallon Is not so good. A purer and nobler re lationship between American sol dier and Japanese maidens is to be hoM-d for. Such fraternization should be suix-rvlsed by moth ers." Good Chance for Patton HEinELIlKRG, Germany, Dec. 13 (.11 The commanding offi cer of the U. S. Army hospital, where Gen. George S. Tatton is under treatment for paralysis, said tonight there was "a good chance" that the American com- !mandcr might be on his feet again. 5 Doctors, 3 Prisoners ' Who Aided Them Among Atrocity Perpetrators DACHAU, Dec. 13 A U. S. military court today sentenced 3b officials and guards at the no torious Dachau concentration camp to death by hanging for the murder, torture and starva tion of thousands of the camp's inmates. Another defendant was sen tenced to life imprisonment and three others were sentenced to terms of 10 years each. The 40 defendants were con victed yesterday by the military tribunal, which debated only 90 minutes before bringing in Its verdict. Among those convicted were five camp doctors and three prisoners who had collaborated with the S.S. Witnesses at the trial said that 5.000 Jews were killed at Dachau, that Inmates were brutally beat en, that naked men were im mersed In ice water for experi ments and that some men were sent to the crematory while still -alive. The camp was the most no torious and most feared of the concentration camns set up by the Nazis for political prisoners. The men who operated the hor ror camp received their sentences calmly for the most part, only a few showing any change of ex pression. Spared From Gallows The life sentence went to Peter Betz, a guard, against whom there was little evidence of per sonal cruelty. Ten-year terms were given Hugo Laustcrer, who was said by witnesses to have been kind to prisoners; Albin Gretsch, who was drafted into the S.S. and against whom no per sonal accusations of cruelty were made; and Johann Schoepp, who was drafted from the Romanian Continued From Page 1 Two Die in Crash Near Camp Adair ..CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 13. -WiJ-The death toll of a two-car head-on collision last night near Camp Adair rose to two today . with the death of Mrs. Kenneth . Dalil of La Grande several hours after the crash. ' Killed almost Instantly in the crash was Mary Louise Reeves . of Salem, civilian office worker at Camp Adair. Some "of the seven others In jured were reported in serious condition at the Navy hospital but no details were released. Mrs. Dahl was visiting her par-. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Parke Eck man of Corvallls. She is sur vived by her widower and two small children. Mrs. Don Eckman of Corvallls and her six-year-old son, Mar tin were reported by Navy hos pital officers to be In critical con dition. Signalman First Class Harold E. White, driver of one of the cars, was said to be ser iously hurt. The others Injured were not In Immediate danger but suffered lacerations and broken bones. They were Delta Peterson of Al bany, Denna Hart, Juanlta Bar ton and Martha Baker, all of Salem. The four were civilian employes at the Navy hospital. MacArthur Orders Japs to Launch Relief Program TOKYO, Dec. 13 i!PY Election rt-Iurm legislation revolutionary In Japanese history is expectea to be passed by the house of peers probably tomorrow as a first step toward proportionate representation. While the diet wrestiea wun political reform, General Mac Arthur attacked on the economic front, directing the Japanese gov ernment to inaugurate a broad relief program to provide food, clothing, housing, medical care, financial aid and welfare serv ices for unemployed this winter. The election reform bill would douIHe the electorate, to about 4i),000,000 voters, hy granting wo men suirrage and reducing the balloting age to 20 years. J. B. McKenna Heads CIO Industrial Council PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13. OP John B. McKenna, president of the Portland Newspan-r Guild, todav was named as head of the Oregon State Industrial Union Council (CIO) by the council's Balloting Committee. Others elected Include Edwin Starr, Eugene, as a member of the executive board representing the Intel national Woodworkers of AiavHca. Lvltyfactnnt By L. W. iUKenatala Highlighted by 84 murders line Japan's surrender, a wholesale crime wave It sweep ing Tokyo, a dispatch reports. This should remove all doubts at to whether democracy b working In the land of the Rising Sun.