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British Troops
Unload Food as
Strikers Watch
LONDON, Oct 11 -(ff)- British
troop unloaded food ships today
in port crippled by the -walkout
of about 50,000 dockers, and union
leaders j asserted ; the ," wildcat
strike was - being encouraged by
political croups including com
munists. Spokesmen for-the unauthoriz
ed strikes stood firm, despite mili
tary intervention -anV criticism
.that food supplies were imperiled.
They reaffirmed their determina
tion to hold out until their de
mands arc met The strikers seek
a daily ! wage of $5, from present
pay of ; mo to $4.89.
More: than 400 ships were tied
up, along with cargoes of 160,000
tons of meat and ether food for
this import-dependent island.
, Officials of the transport and
general workers union declared
they had "definite evidence' of
political ) encouragement behind
the strike, which burgeoned from
S walkout by 60 - Liverpool men
It days ego. I
U. S. Strike
Thumbnail
Labor disputes keep 453,000
workers out of production; strike
settlements offset gains in new
and expanding old stoppages.
Major industries affected:
Ceal aad Steel Deadlocked
six-state walkout of 200.000 soft
aol miners forces new -steel
production cuts;; 'Washington
peace conferees end week of
fruitiest argument but agree to
continue talks.
- -Motiea Pictures Federal con
ciliator ordered into AFL Juris
dictional dispute when result of
; NLRB election fails to halt
studio picketing.
' Shippinr One independent
and two . CIO seamen's unions
Indicate support of AFL long-
: ahoremenV strike tying up New
York port; 35,000 to 60,000 dock
. workers out.
Tracking AFL drivers for
3190 trucking concerns in 12
middle western states ask NLRB
to conduct strike vote.-
) Transportation Conciliators
try to halt strike called for to
day among 2000 AFL bus driv
ers and other employes serving
about 1,000,000 daily riders in
71 Massachusetts communities;
' conferee! continue attempt to
isettle week -old .strike of 2700
Pacific Greyhound drivers and
station operators.
Shlpeaildinx 6000 AFL ship
repairmen in 14 Los Angeles
area yards strike for wage dif-
; ferential simial to that paid in
northern Pacific ports. ..
Lumber Leaders of 60,000
: striking -"AFL workers, predict
other Montana firms will follow
I lead of - two" concerns which
; granted higher pay demands;
40,000 CIO lumber mill , hands
- ask more money but stay on
Job. I
Halt Inductions
'Til Strikes End
WASHINGTON, Ohio, Oct 12
PK The Fayette county draft
board, standing firm ia its deci
sion not to supply additional men
; for the armed forces until the fed-
: eral government acts to end major
Strikes, has sent home nine 18-year-old
youths who had been
called up for induction.
"Well, boys," Board Chairman
Howard D. Fogle told them, you
rlxave fulfilled your duty by re
porting here. As you- probably
know, we have refused to induct
any more men Until these strikes
are taken care of." ; v "
Sherwood Man Jailed
On Assault Charge J
OREGON I CITY, Oot ll-(P)
Vernald . Moore,. J5, Sherwood,
was, jailed today on a charge of
assault with intent te kill, after
his wife filed a complaiat against
him. ""',,..'
District Attorney Stanley Mit
chell said the wife. Veaita. ac
cused, him of beating her Wed?
nesday zugnt
Too Late to Classify
FOR SALK: J'i kp, '41 Johnaoa
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Negro's Dates
Come by Plane
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct
Lonely negro soldiers at Mountain
Home, Ida,, wont have to worry
about dates at tonight's dance.
Transport planes will bring In
60 negro hostesses, from a Port
land USO. The women will be
housed at the Idaho airfield over
night, then flown back tomorrow.
Air : transportation for USO
hostesses, something new f for
Portland, reportedly ha been very
successful in ptber parts of the
country,
U; S., British to
Swap Planes
JTRANKFURT, Germany, - Oct
12 -OP)- The first small step to
ward an interna tionaL. police air
force has been taken by -American
and Royal Air Forces in Germany.
Through an informal agreement.
Lt Gen. John K. Cannon, head
of the American occupation air
force, and Air Marshal Sholto
Douglas, British air chief, will
exchange squadrons of planes to
work with each -other. ,
A squadron of Americans will
fly on regular .schedule with a
group of RAF planes aada squad
ron of RAF planes will operate
with , and in an American group.
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Eisenhower Claims SOlYears
Needed to Re-Educate Nazis
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By Nolaad
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct
belief today it would "take 50 years
Germany in democratic ideals, and said that a far as he was con
cerned "the ban on Nazis will be permanent'! 1
If anyone believes we re going
to prosecute another war, he's
crazy, that's all," Eisenhower as
serted, adding that the denazifi
cation orders of the Potsdam con
ference were "right down my al
ley.". ; -
The American commander ex
pressed irritation with press' crit
icism, "mostly by implication," of
U. S. policies and administration
in occupied Germany. He said the
criticism to which he referred
was mostly inferences that "we
are not going to carry out the
Potsdam agreement in detail.
" "We got our orders from Pots-
National Guard
To Come Home
WASHINGTON, Oct 12.-(if)-
The? war department is planning
to return" all national guard divis
ions to the states witnm a year.
A circular letter from the na
tional guard bureau to state ad
jutant generals, disclosed today
that the intention if to deactivate
all divisions now overseas within
a short time after their return to
the United States, retaining them
under federal control while 'a
troop basis plan is prepared for
a postwar national guard..
The circular, taken in combina
tion with recent announcements
from the theaters, shows this stat
us for the 41st (Oregon-Washing
ton-Idaho-Montana), .Pacific, Jan
uary. .
Withdraw Gas in
Protest to OPA Price
Sale of aviation gasoline at
Union oil company service sta
tions will be discontinued Mon
day, officials announced today.; -
The companx stated that a new
OPA amendment prohibited the
sale of any gasoline at a higher
price . than Ethyl and that the
company could afford . to sell
this fuel at Ethyl prices. The
product will be put on the market
again when the OPA .amendment
is adjusted or withdrawn, . they
said. x;,. '
CRUSHED BT GRAVEL '
DALLAS, Oct 12 -(P- Pete
Westbrook, 41, Falls City, was
crushed to death today by a bunk
er full of graveL Westbrook,
truck driver, had just backed his
truck under the bunker and step
ped but when the) timbers col
lapsed. LOOK! Il's
Ccafcj Thnrxday
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AUSTIN, .Tex, Oct 12
Fleet Adiniral Chester W. Nimtti
was introduced to a central Texas
audience of 4,000 persons tonight
by Rep. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex)
a the officer slated next to be
come the commander-in-chief of
the United States navy. '; f
We are prdud of him for whit
he did in thePacific, but we are
going to be prouder still when we
make him the next chief of naval
operations, the commander In
chief of the United States navy
Said Rep. Johnson, a member of
the house. naval affairs commit
tee, j! ; .- .
Nimitz departed twice from the
prepared .' text of his speech' to
praise General Douglas MacAr
thur. Giving credit for victory in
the Pacific to the combined ' Ef
forts of the services, Nimitz said:
"Between General MacArthur
and me. there' was always a spirit
of co-operation.
"The-navy's principal task in
the Pacific now is to support the
occupation forces in Japan. The
occupation is-progressing smooth
ly, and it will be effective If we
will all be patient"
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Nergaard
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12. - ;p) - Gen. Eisenhower expressed
of hard work" to reeducate Nad
to leave anything for Germany
dam, and they are right down my
alley. I say let Germany find out
what it 1 means : tb start a war
(In Berlin J Eisenhower's deputy,
Lt Gen. Lucius D. Clay, said Ger
many would:! have to be occupied
"for at least a generation if we
stay to do he job we have set
out to da") I
Speaking ft a news conference.
Eisenhower 'also announced that
Nazis would not be allowed to
vote in forthcoming elections, . as
serting that "a Nazi is a Nazi un-
m ne proves mmseir, otnerwise
and the burden .of proof, will fall
upon the individual." : f -
At the same time, Ma J. Gen. C.
L. Adcock, head of the G-5 (mili
tary government) section of the
United States forces in the Euro
pean theater, explained plans to
withdraw , riiost military govern
ment personnel from the lower
levels, of German administration
during the next few months. -
The Ultimate objective. Adcock
said, is to give the Germans ad
ministrative control . up to .' the
land" (state) levels with top ad
ministrative heads responsible to
the allied military authorities for
carrying-odt their -policies.
He expressed hope that "this
could be achieved by June. ?
HIE ENGINE LOANED
PORTLAND. Oct 12-UPV-The
city counci is loaning a fire en
gine to the; city of Tillamook for
60 days. All fire equipment in
the coasiaUtown is out of order..
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OHEGON STATESMAN. Solon.
Rosebiirg Hotel
WinsOverOPA
ROSEBURG, Oct 12-0P)-Hold-
ing a court order requiring the
OPA to cease interfering with ho
tel rates, Manager C D. Albright
today re-opened the Grand ho-
tet :i.f
Albright closed the building's
doors Sept 27 ! in protest against
ceiling price on rooms, which he
charged made it impossible to op
erate at a -profit I " : "5
The temporary! injunction was
granted by Circuit Judge Carl E.
Wimberly, on the ground that the
OPA was authorized to operate
during the war ( emergency and
that tha- emergency period1 has
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Russell Named
To State Post
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WASHINGTON, Oct 12-jP)-
Secretary of Stat Byrnes an
nounced today that Donald S.
Russell, would become assistant
secretary of state for administra
tion, to replace Frank McCarthy,
Whose resignation was accepted
yesterday by President Truman.
Russell, a native of Mississippi,
became an assistant secretary of
state September 24, but it was
announced at (that time that his
specific duties would be -assigned
later. " . r -
During the! war, he served as
special - assistant to Byrnes until
1944,; when he -was commissioned
a major and served with the VS.
army in France. , '' .
Fenix to "jTalk
At Dallas Luneh
Speaking before the Dallas
Chamber of Commerce at its noon
luncheon Friday on the subject
of "Personnel' Management," Rob
ert W. FeniX, business manager
and professor of business adminis
tration at WUlamettej university,
emphasized 'that during the pres
ent period of reconstruction there
is a greater -need than ever be
fore for a closer understanding
of the employer-employe relation
ship, j I
Professor Fenix, graduate of the
Harvard university school of bus
iness and the Stanford graduate
business school, will teach a spe
cial course in industrial relations
during the fall semester at Wil
lamette which begins October 25.
Mother Ends
Life in 'Frisco I
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 12-(vP)
Mrs. Stella Kramer of Edmonds,
Wash., was found dead in a booth
in a Market street restaurant late
today and police said a small emp
ty bottle and a note on the table
indicated she had taken her own
life. " ' ' If'
Officers said the note read:
"Goodbye my children. This that
people are trying to do to moth
er is so unjust Goodbye with
love Mother,"
Attempts are being made by
police to notify , her family. She
was in her late fifties.
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Negro Soldiers
Rob Portland 1
Cafe Patrons i
PORTLAND, Ore, Oct 12 P)
Witnesses of an early morning
holdup fracas in a Portland negro
quarter viewed several hundred
soldiers at Vancouver Barracks,
Wash., tonight ' in an attempt : to
locate participants. - ;
The fray, which ended in a police-riot
cmll, broke out in the
Acme cafe today when a group
of negro soldiers entered - brand
ishing revolvers." I ; i
Five negro soldiers who enter-!
ed the army from New York City
and daim to be Okinawa veter
ans, were jailed here after three
negro civilians identified them as
participants.
The civilians, robbed during the
holdup, watched several hundred
negroes file into mess, trying to
recognize another 10 soldiers be
lieved to have escaped, r
Patrons of the Acme cafe re
ported that the .soldiers appeared
there about 4 ajn. While police
moved into the club, several of
the soldiers appeared at the Key j
stone cafe across the street anal
ordered five customers to hold up
their hands.
Floyd ' Mack, negro ' civilian,
told police one soldier knocked
a man to the ground. When Mack
protested, he said, the soldier
struck him, and robbed him of a
diamond ring. A checkroom girl
reported aer cash box emptied
at gun point '
, Both civilian police and mili
tary intelligence officers were in
vestigating. -
The negro witnesses failed to
recognize any other participants
during the mess "lineup,'' Sgt
Dan Mi tola -aid later. He added
that the five negroes now under
arrest . returned from Okinawa
only ay few days ago but had mA
served there in combat They had
been in the Pacific, he- said, two
months.1 .
De Gaulle Asks
Part in Pacts
PARIS, Oct 12-JP-Francer will
consider herself bound only by
agreements she helps to make,
Gen. De Gaulle declared today in
asserting that France should! par
ticipate in writing peace agree-
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menus, including wose wua: oai
kan nations. '
De Gaulle said he was confident
that difficulties involved in
reaching peace settlements would
be solved, but that he did not be
lieve that solution of them by the
Big Three nations was "the best
solution."
Arguing for a role by France in
such discussions, the French lead
er said "France is - looking, after
her interests with the greatest
good will toward all other pow
ers.'
SHIP LINE TO START '
PORTLAND, Ore Oct I2-(JP)-McCormick
Steamship lines will
begin service between Portland
and the Atlantic ' coast next
month, officials said today.
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Allied Flier rNow Awaits Trial
? . By Dmaae
TOKYO, Saturday, Oct 1J. -
who boasted in his diary he "magnificently' beheaded an allied pris
oner of war, is an Australian
disclosed today. . ', 1
He is Kennetir Yunone, captured
April 23, 18444 Yunone, a civilian
with the assumed rank: of navy
lieutenant, wrote of the execu
tion: . 'h 1: c- - yi 1 ''- '
"I really, believe I was mignifl-
cent" v-.::' i. .' - j, l V .Vf.
CTha diary contained this pass-
Accident Toll
4t Home Tops
War Casualties
CHICAGO, Oct 12-tflVTbtal
war -casualties for 'the United
States, including killed, wound J,
mi.ssing and prisoners, were 1,-
070,324 but the home front acci
dent toll during the war read: ed
3(5,355,000, the National Safety
Council reported today.
The figures cover the period
from Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941,
to V-J day, Aug. 14, 1945.
Of the total war casualties the
council listed 261,608 killed, 651,
911 wounded, 32,811. missing and
124,194 prisoners; On the- home
front 355,000! were killed in acci
dents and 3fl,000,000 injured, in
cluding: 1,250,000 permanently
disabled. I - -
The traffic toll alone was 94,-
000 killed and 2,200,000 injured.
Of the injured 270,000 cases in
volved permanent disability.
Army j Asks End
Of Dock Strike
WASHINGTON, Oct. W.P)-
The army and war shipping admin
istration ealled upon striking long
shoremen in New York. harbor to
return to work to prevent further
delay in the return of veterans
from overseas.
Secretary of War Patterson and
Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, war
Shipping administrator, telegraph
ed Joseph P. Ryan, president of
the international longshoreman's
association, an urgent request to
Use his influence to get the men
back to work.
- The situation in New York har
bor has "materially retarded the
return of American troops from
Europe," they told Ryan.
Medford Black Tornado
Rolls to Another Win
, MEDFORD, Oct 12 (Special)
Medford s Black Tornado, seem
ingly invincible against Oregon
high school competition, took car
of Eureka I high, considered a
Northern California powerhouse,
here tonight. 38 to 0 From the
time the Tornado scored thrice in
the first period, the outcome was
never in doubt Medford led 25 to
0 at half time. Eureka, with almost
the same lineup, gave Medford its
toughest game (6-0) last year. -
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Dnmoil
Sunday
of mcitw tevtas o hs scan
XLO:DS 1LYUT
Beheaded
Heaneasy, -'
(JP) - A Japanese naval interpreter.
prison camp awaiting trial, it was
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at Hollaed ia, Dutch New Guinea,
agei.M j,,,, .!.;;, .';'
"24 October the affair of the
prisoner of Malol airport This
afternoon 1 mrself with, my own
Japanese . sword beheaded an
enemy soldier prisoner. This1 was
new experience for me. But I
screwed myself , to it Anything
can be done if one resolves to do
it to the best of one's ability.
"And I am convinced that given
complete confidence I can carry
out any task successfully. I really
believe I was magnificent
Among the Japanese onlookers
there were- many who - declared
their admiration for my skill in
making such an excellent stroke.1
Yunone was trapped by the
Japanese custom of baring inner
thoughts in a diary.
The Japanese was identified by
six - repatriated ' misskmari es who
knew him at the time of the be
heading. I .
An exhaustive check by allied
authorrUes had disclosed he for
merly studied at St -John's col
lege, - Winnipeg, Canada. Royal
Canadian mounted police obtained
the photograph which the mis
sionaries recognized.
Allied authorities said he ad
mitted other killings. He was con
fronted with a- mass of atrocity
evidence In secret military files
which only now- are being made
public.
The existence of the allied or
ganization. ! which 'probed every
captured document such as Yu
none's diary never before has
been disclosed.
(The dispatch did not specify
the -nationality of the beheaded
flier.)
CIO CONCLAVE AT EUGENE
EUGENE, Oct 12 -P)- Annual
convention of the International
Woodworkers of America (CIO)
will open here Nov. 13 with more
than 400 delegates expected from
IS states,1 British Columbia and
Alberta, Canada.
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Groups Asks
Rehearing of
runiuvnu, vcu i.-vtkp
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resentatives of several Portland
(roups dissatisfied with a corner's
jury verdict that .the tailing ; of
Eryin Jones by a policeman was
justifiable homicide,' today peti
tioned " Governor Snell to direct
an investigation by : the attorney
"geneTal.t '(
; Detective Bard Pureell testified
at the trial that he shot the Negro
in self -defense.
I Jones widow testified her hus
band thought the policemen were
robbers and said the officers did
not identify themselves before)
breaking in. n
. Asserting "the-' verdict constb
bates an invitation to. lawlessness,
a ; serious threat to the security
of all persons in their own homes,
and a grave miscarriage of - jus
tice," the protesting .group said it
believed an immediate investiga-.
tion of the case should, be made
by a Multnomah i county grand
jury.
British Take
2 Transports
f WASHINGTON, OctH li-vV
Britain's withdrawal of the big
liners Queen Elizabeth and Aqui
tania as American troop trans
ports today .distressed congress
members who have been pressing
for the speediest possible demo
bilization of the army.
f "It is a great disappointment,
acting . chairman Johnson ( D
Colo) of the senate military com
mittee told reporters. .
! There was no disposition, how-
tion so long as the ships are used
to transport empire troops,
f "We can't ask that our boys
be given any preference over
Canadian boys," Johnson com
mented. Tuscaloosa, Ala., was named for
a Choctaw Indian chief whose
name Tusca-Lusa meant "Black
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