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i Us The MaU Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Remit! At Small Coit Weather Tribune MEDFORD KORECAST: Sunday, continued cloudy, with little change la temperature. Ttrap. Hlshfit yesterday .. Lowest this morning 48 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Fi " (ted WU Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1945. NO. 150. BESET LAND; GET New Tactics To Gain De mands Due President Studies Serious Situation By United Press Unions and management spar red for position Saturday night as workers, dissatisfied with re conversion, prepared to use revo lutionary tactics to gain their demands. Labor disputes threw almost 200.000 employes into idleness in plants from coast to coast and more than a million others were ready to walk out if neces sary to press their cause. The seriousness of the nation's labor-management disputes was accentuated by an announce ment that President Truman would begin study of causes when he returned to the White House from a short visit to his Independence, Rio., home. Government officials were 7 fearful that a serious nation wide labor crisis might develop. In Washington, Secretary of La bor Lewis B. Schwellenbach went into a lengthy conference to discuss the Detroit situation. It was explained that the labor department feared the crisis would develop in late autumn from grievances accumulated during wartime. Management heard ultimatum from one of the nation's biggest unions, the United Automobile Workers. The executive board of the powerful CIO affiliate which claims 1,250,000 members revealed it would call a system-wide strike of a single com pany to force a 30 per cent wage boost. DETROIT STORM CENTER It was certain that Detroit, already the testing ground of . many reconversion plans, would f be the center of the new tactics. A UAW official said that either General Motors Corp., Ford Mo tor Co., or Chrysler Corp. would be picked up as victim of the ex periment. It was suggested that all three might be subjected to the squeeze at the same time. The United Steel Workers of America, another powerful CIO union, served notice that it would ask for similar wage in creases. Immediately the United States Steel Corp. retorted that the re quest of a $2 a day hike in pay was impossible without higher steel prices. Already Detroit was reeling from spreading labor disputes. The rest of the nation was watch ing the arsenal city as a key to the future in the country's in dustrial system. .GEN. MlLDSAYS PRESS VITAL KEY 10 ASSURE PEACE Eugene. Ore., Sept. 15 (U.R) Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the U. S. army air forces, said today that this nation command:s all the resources to hold the peace but "wo need to know the truth about the world in which we are living" to assure a permanent peace. "If its up to the press now to carry on the job of giving the people of the United States and the rest of the world a realistic understanding of what the prcb lcms of peace involve we of the armed forces have done our job." Gen. Arnold said, v "It is not possible for me now to discuss details of the situa tion, but I will say that we must not waste or squander or barter away cheaply the prestige and the power which we have at tained at such great cost." Gum Machine Fails, Boys Stab Grocer Sau Francisco. Sept. 15 'UP Two boys aged 12 and 14 irk-e-i because a penny gvim ma chine in a store wouldn't work late t-irlay stabbed Grocer Theo dore Vrlies. 60. in the abdomen with a shiny new pocket knife. Velles was rushed to an emer gency hospital where his condi t.on was described as "not too serious " The boys were turn ed over to juvenile authorities Mail Tribune's Annual Bargain Subscription Offer Ends Forty Miles Per (Acme ieicp:iowj Maria Montez, Hollywood, Calif., tries out new post-war car featuring three wheels, aircrali engine, p.nMic body and pushbutton to jack up car if tire blows. Ihe 53-horj.cpowcr engine, capable ot running the car 100 miles per hour, will run 40 miles on one gallon ot gas; brakes and acceleration are on one loot pedal. Maker! promise the unusual car will be ou Uic market In 90 days. AT WARJPARLEY State Papers Show Now High New Dealers Feared German Terms Too Hard Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) Japan's attitude toward China at the Paris peace conference in 1919 was so uncompromising and disquieting that at least one very high American official believed it was time then "to have it out once and for all" with Japan. That official was Secretary of State Robert Lansing. Two years earlier he had negotiated the Lanslng-Ishii agreement later repudiated by the U. S under which the United States recog nized Japan's special interest in China, especially those parts con tiguous to Japan. The Lansing statement was re vealed tonight in publication of another volume in the series of state department papers relating to the Paris peace conference. This volume contains documents pertaining to the American dele gation. The documents reveal how the U. S. delegation's attitude changed during the months of negotiation from optimism at the beginning of 1919 to the frustration and uncertainty that prevailed after Woodrow Wil son's illness and the senate's re jection of the treaty before Ger many had signed. Throughout the volume also runs a theme of fear among the delegates that at the last minute the Germans would not sign the treaty. Gen. Tasker Bliss, one of the peace commissioners, feared that if "we pressed Germany too hard, there would be grave dan ger of having hostilities resumed . , . and that if hostilities were renewed the entire burden would fall on us." In the spring of 1919, after the German treaty was drafted, six of the younger experts on the American delegation were so disgusted with it that they re signed. In contrast to some later beliefs, their concern was that the terms were to harsh for Ger many. Some of those young experts since have become well known. One was Adolf A. Berlc, Jr., lat er assistant secretary of state and currently ambassador to Brazil; William C. Bullitt, later ambassa dor to Russia. Poland and France; and Samuel Eliot Mori son, noted Harvard historian who has been in charge of the navy's historical work in this war. Big 5 Airs Italy Peace Pact Monday London, Sept. 15 (U.PJ The Big Five Foreign Ministers' Council announced tonight that Poland and two of the Soviet Union's federated republics, White Russia and the Ukraine, had been invited to express their view on the Italian peace treaty u-hich be considered at i Monday's council session. j The council, disclosing it had spent the past two sessions main- ; ly on discussing Italian colonies. ! said the three newcomers had been added to the list of coun tries "invited to submit tneii views in writing, if they wish to do so, on the Italian peace settle- I ment." Gallon Is Feature of BULLETIN NIGHT GAMES Pacific Coast League San Dieyo 11 12 2 Portland 4 12 1 Nelson and Grigg. Pulford. Gunnarson, Cohen, Tising and Sotiza, Younker. Los Angeles 3 10 5 Oakland 4 12 2 Cuellar and Kreitner, Chetko vich and Kearse. San Francisco 2 5 2 Hollywood 4 6 3 Barthelson, Piercey (8) and Ogrodowski, Smith and Hill. Seattle-Sacramento, rain, no game. (By United Press) . The St. Louis Cardinals stayed within three games of Chicago by defeating Philadelphia, 1 to 1, in a night game. Ray Sanders made four hits to pace the Card attack on Charley Schanz end Anton Karl. Harry Brechcen won his 13th game against three losses. Philadelphia 15 2 St. Louis 3 9 1 Schanz, Karl (8) and Semi nick; Brecheen and Rice. TRUMAN RELAXES, LABOR PROBLEMS, APPOINTEES EYED Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 15 (U.R)With a presidential study of the Detroit labor situation prom ised and major changes in gov ernment in prospect for next week. President Truman tonight relaxed with his family in the old home place in Independence. He gave those pressing mat ters little thought tonight. He was home and relaxing in the rambling summer White House for a few hours was good. The chief executive met with reporters at an impromptu press conference during the morning in his federal building office here. He said he would go into the troubled automotive industry labor situation, localized around Detroit when he gets back to the White House but thus far has given the matter no thought. Asited about possible changes in the supreme court, the post of secretary of war and the fed eral security agency, the presi dent replied merely that he would hold a news conference at 4 p.m. (EWT) Tuesday in Washington. DELAYS BUILDING Washington. Sept. 15 OJ.R) Government delay in releasing building materials is hampering home-building, Chairman James E. Murray, D., Mont., of the sen ate small business committee said tonight in releasing a pre liminary committee report on p.oblems of the construction in- i dustry. ' Murray said that an inter agency committee for construc tion was established almost two ' months ago in the office of war i mobilization and reconversion, but had not recommended any ' changes in the war production ! board order limiting civilian con I struction. New Plastic Car OF PEARL HARBOR Suzuki, Palace Confidante, Now Fugitive Hiding From Militarists San Francisco, Sept. 15 (U.R) Emperor Hirohito did not know Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor until Japanese militarists told him. Baron Adm. Kantaro Suzuki, last Japanese war pre mier, said tonight in an inter view with Mutual Correspondent Jack Mahon. Mahon, broadcasting from Tokyo, reported that the 79-year-old Suzuki, one of the emperor's closest confidants, was now a fugitive, hiding out from the vc.igcful militarists who blame him for bringing about Japan's surrender. Suzuki resigned as premier on Aug. 15, the day the war ended. Suzuki is "virtually a modern man without a country ... he has few clothes ... no official position and he moves about from place to place day by day," Mahon reported. He said Suzuki twice had escaped assassination by a matter of minutes and both his official residence, near the Japanese diet, and his private residence in another part of Tokyo, were burned to the ground by vengeance-seeking sol diers the morning of Aug. 15. "Suzuki fled in a kimona up a back alley," Mahon said. The correspondent met Suzuki at a secret rendezvous and talked with him for two and one-half hours. Mahon also said that from an other source "so close to the imperial household that I feel it is virtually unimpeachable, I learned that militarists who fear ed peace was coming even had a plot to kidnap the emperor ready, to liquidate Suzuki and his associates and carry pn the war." Mahon said that was to be a last-ditch measure, with the mili tarists putting a puppet emperor on the throne, but that the plan failed when the imperial house hold heard of it, and Suzuki re signed. Suzuki said that after he be came premier in April, 1945, he had many discussions with the emperor on the possibility of ne gotiating a peace. "He made his opinions on end ing the war public at a secret session of the Japanese imperial diet in Juno," Mahon reported. "There was a great difference of opinion at that time. A small patriotic group . . was the most demonstrative exponent of the war to the death., ana u contain ed about 30 members of the diet. Dr. Robertson, Head State Health, Dead The Dalles Ore.. Sept. 15 (U.R) Dr. Thomas D. Robertson. 42. president of the state board of health, died today after suf- ferini an acute heart attack at his home Thursday. Associated with The Dalles hospital clinic previous to his death Robertson had also been a county health officer and a member of numerous medical societ.es. He is survived by a wife, Virginia, and three daughters. TO BE BIG ISSUE IN MOTION House GOPs Move For End Of Draft, And Speedier Discharges Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) House republicans were report ed to be nearly unanimous to night behind a move to force the administration to end the draft and speed demobilization. Dissatisfied with the army pro gram and the administration's policy, republicans have agreed to force the issue into the open. Some democrats admitted that the demobilization policy was so hot that the republican move probably would result in a ma jority of that party In both houses of congress next year un less the democrats take action and quickly. If the administration fails to act soon, democrats in the house may fall in line with the repub lican drive. Most members say they arc being swamped with mail demanding elimination of the draft and speedup of dis charges. To force a showdown, house republicans are prepared to back a petition to force legisla tion offered by Rep. A. L. Mil ler. R., Neb., out of the Military Affairs committee. Miller introduced two meas ures this week one to stop the draft and the othor to discharge within 30 days, upon application, any man who has been In the service two years or who has been a prisoner of war. ( Chairman Andrew J. May. D., Ky., of the Military Affairs' com mittee, said he had scheduled no hearings on demobilization legis lation, but indicated that he might have a change of mind. Miller predicted that demo bilization would be one of the major issues of the 1046 elec tions. He added that with re publicans pressing for action. It would not surprise him "If the administration takes the bnll and gets behind legislation or if Pres ident Truman doesn't come out soon and stop the draft by pro clamation." Some members of the House Military Affairs commtitee said it would make no difference what congress did to expedite de mobilization. LOS ANGELES HAS SMOKE IN CIVIC EYES, DIRTY AIR Los Angeles, Sept. 15 (U.R) Los Angelnos, once so proud of their sunshine and air, were in vited to spend this week-end sending postcards to their air polution control director, detail ing "smog" conditions outside their windows. The request, from APC Direc tor I. A. Deutch, was regarded by most residents as the latest In a series of mice brought forth by mountainous labor as the city's Industrial plans play nob with the "vacation-land" of the travel folders. Deutch asked for the time, location and elevation of smoke and fumes, steadily on the up grade since 19J9 and blamed by everybody but the Chamber of Commerce on the city's war-born industry. Residents, who had hoped for abatement with the end of the war were thrown another mouse last week when Deutch asked them not to shake out their dust mops, beat their rugs, or drive automobiles that used too much ' oil. During the period of the cri tical rubber shortage, when women complained of holes sud denly appearing in their stock- ings and motorists parked near a butadiene plant had to have their cars repainted, they were ioici ay secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes that rubber came first. SEEK NAZI PRISONER San rraneisco. Sent. 15 U.R) FrriYral Bureau of Investiga tion dgentj in cooperation with military and civilian police to flight hunted for Paul Gora. a German prisoner of war who escaped from the Silverado la bor camp at Napa, Cal., last night. FLORIDA HIT ' GREAT hlRICAu, NAVY BASE AFIRE Wind Attains 150 MPH. As Blimps Burn Bars Do Big Business Richmond Nt1 Air Sta tion. Fla. (Via Navy Radio) Sept. 16 (U.R) Three huge wooden hangars, 366 airplanes and 25 navy blimps went up in hurricane swept flamei here early today, and the casualty total among the personnel still li unknown. Miami, Fla., Sept. 15 (U.R) A great 130-mile-an-hour tropi cal hurricane roared over the southern tip of Florida tonight. 50 miles southwest of Miami, and at the height of the storm a rag ing fire broke out lit the Rich mond naval air base enveloping three giant blimp hangars. As the "big blow" perhaps the greatest in Florida's hurri cane history led to posting of warnings of an "extreme emer gency," on both Florida coasts, the navy announced that Ihe naval air station, 25 miles south of Miami, was afire and that emergency calls had been sent out for every available fireman. The hurricane winds, raging at 100 miles per hour in Miami and undoubtedly faster to the south gave impetus to the blaze and sent the flames soaring hun dreds of feet into the air. Based at the station arc a num ber of blimps which had pat rolled the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico during the war. The exact number there present ly was not known. There also were a number of private planes hangnred there to get away from the storm. Miami radio stations were ask ed to transmit a request for all firemen who could be spared by 'their municipalities. v The "extreme emergency" warnings were posted from Fer nandina, on the Atlantic, to St. Marks, on the Gulf. , Miami, Fla.. Sept. 1 5 (U.R) Inside the boarded up bars and night spots of Miami, some of them lighted by candles, there was a party-like atmosphere to night, with Yankees and natives bending elbows together. At the Five o'clock club, drinks were on the house as usual at 5 o'clock and a bigger crowd than usual jammed the bar. Club owners said business was better today than in a long time. Vacationers driven from the beaches were spending their time at the bars. OPA PLANS HIKE IN SILVER PRICE Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) Although there are 2,000,000.000 ounces of silver in the U. S. treasury, the Office of Price Ad ministration must raise the price of imported silver to encourage heavier shipments of the metal into the country, it was learned tonight. The OPA is working on an amendment to its silver price re gulation to raise the price of the imported metal above the pre sent fixed level of 45 cents a fine ounce. This amendment may be issued some time next week. Just how much of an increase will be granted has not finnlly been decided but it may be five or 10 cents an ounce. Mustangs Fail To Break Speed Mark Newark, N. J., Sept. 15 U.R) One of two Mustang fighter planes which took off from Bur bank, Calif., today In an effort to set a new transcontinental speed record landed at Akron, O., while the other plane has not yet been heard from, the op erations officer at the Newark flying field reported tonight. The planes, piloted by Lieut. Price E. Henry, of Eagle Rock, Calif., and Lieut. William J. Reilly, of San Francisco, took off from Burbank at 8:52 a. m. PWT (11.52 a. m. EWT). The air men had planned to fly non stop to Newark In about six hours to break the transcontinental record. $1.50 Saving For Readers Who Pay Year in Advance Tomorrow, Monday, is final day of the annual Mail Trib une "Bargain Days" subscrip tion drive, and all new orders or renewals must be received In the Tribune office or bear postmarks of Sept, 17 In order to get the reduced rate of fered during the period. The Tribune office will be open until 10 p. m. Monday for convenience of persons who work during the daytime oifice hours. No orders can be taken by telephone. Prices on the paper are $7.50 for a year's subscription where delivered by carrier, and $6 for mail deliveries in Jackson. Jose phine and Siskiyou counties. Regular prices which go back into effect after Monday are $9 and $7.50. Circulation Manager Gerald T. Latham stated Saturday that more subscribers than usual are taking advantage of the bargain offer, saving them selves $1.50 on either carrier or mail orders and also elimi nating the trouble to them selves and carriers of 11 extra monthly collection calls. 20 VETS PERISH IN FIERY CRASH Flight From Europe To West Coast Ends Near Kansas City Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 15 (U.R) The bodies of 20 battle- scarred veterans of action against the Germans and those of three crewmen were recovered today from the splintered and smoking wreckage of a C-47 ATC plane which crashed as it carried them on the last lap ot their long flight home from Europe to the west coast. The plane took off from the Fairfax airport in Kansas CUy, Kan., at 12:15 a. m. (CWT) to day and within minutes was a furiously blazing funeral pyre for all but three of the 24 men aboard it. Two of them died at the General hospital and the sole remaining survivor was m critical condition. First Lt. Warren E. Derrick son, Broken Bow, Neb., was the pilot. First Lt. James E. Wucst, Hamilton, O., was the co-pilot and Pfc. Elbert P. Kczlah, York town, Va., was flight clerk. All were killed Instantly. It was reported one of the vet erans killed was a major. Two others were lieutenants, the other 18 enlisted men. Doctors at the General hos pital held little hope for Sgt. Ora D. Dclong, whose papers in dicated relatives at Fort Scott and Winficld, in Kansas, and at San Bernardino, Calif. Delong was unconscious and in critical condition. Dcrrickson, Wuest and Keziah took over the plane at the Fair fax base from the crew which had brought it In from Newark, N. J., on one of about 40 regu larly scheduled flights returning servicemen to their homes. After taking on 600 gallons of gasoline, Derrickson gunned tne new transport northward from the field. It cleared the Mis souri river levee but one of the engines began to sputter, wit nesses reported. The plane limped over the river but it lost altitude and one wing dipped against the Burling ton railroad embankment. There was a flash of flame, visible for 20 miles. The plane broke into pieces and slivered across the track and into a field beyond, scattering personal ef fects and the bodies of the men. Wake Hero Wants Bases in Pacific Aboard USS Panamint off Omlnnto. Sept. 15 (U.R) MaJ. James P. s. Devcrcau, 44, whose small Wake Island marine force wrote an epic chapter In Ameri can h'story, today urged that the U. S maintain strong Pacific bases in the future as he told of the heroic but hopeless fight to hold the little island. "I hope America retains stron? Pacific bases," he said as he prepared to leave for Tokyo "I wouldn't call this Imperial ism, merely non-isolationism." TOGO NO. 2 JAP CRIMINAL, THREE PUPPETSGIVE UP Filipino 'Quislings' Taken Also Panay Attack Chief Arrested Tokyo. Sept. 15 (U.R) Shige norl Togo, foreign minister at the time of Pearl Harbor and No. 2 on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's list of Japanese war criminals, surrendered today to the U. S. Eighth army. Eleven other war criminal also surrendered or had been, taken into custody in the past 24 hours, bringing to 25 the number accounted for of MacArthur's two lists totaling 47. The haul included the two top Filipino Quislings arrested by Eighth army men Jose P. Laurel, president of the Japanese-sponsored Philippines re public, and Benigo S. Aquino, president of the Japanese-sponsored Philippines national as sembly. Surrendering with Togo were Vice Admiral Yoshltake Ueda, former chief of naval aviation and No. 24 on the list, and CoL. Kingoro Hashimoto, nationalist leader of the pre-war "Young Officers" clique which had de manded war with the U. S. for a decade before they got lt. Hashimoto, who ordered the. attack on the gunboat U. S. S. Panay in China, in 1937, was not on the original list of 40. Ho was among seven leaden of the terroristic Black Dragon society who were ordered arrested later. Togo notified U. S. Eighth army headquarters he wanted to surrender and Japanese police. under an agreement with the Americans, placed him under house arrest at his home. Arrested with Laurel was hi son, Jose P. Laurel III, com-., mander of the Presidential guard, and aide de camp to his father. The three Quislings were taken into custody in a summer resort hotel at Nara, 300 mile southwest of Tokyo, by an Eighth army arrest team. The party was brought to Yokohama by air and placed In Jail. All three were airsick. Laurel declined to talk on hi arrival In Yokohama, although, earlier he had told newsmen: "I am prepared to answer charge against me." Seven other war criminal were taken into custody by the Eleventh corps provost marshal Saturday. WALLGREN TESTY, UPHOLDS BAN ON REPUBLICAN GI'S Seattle. Sept. 15 (U.R) A luncheon meeting of 800 Kin county democrats today heard Gov. Mon. C. Wallgren defend his veto of the teacher's retire ment bill, call for' a single agency to control the sale ot state-jwned timber and ask for a Washington game commission responsible only to the gover nor. In upholding his veto of an earlier bill, Wallgren told the gathering that the Olympia ad ministration would pass a satis factory teacher's retirement bill at the next session. The governor also defended an earlier statement in which he said the state administration would not appoint veterans to state jobs who were active in the it-publican administration. "W.j need men we can trust," he said Acknowledging receipt of scores of protests from eastern Washington about the unified dates set by the game commis sion last July for deer-hunting. Wallgren said "until I control the commission I am accepting no protests about the deer hunt ing dtites this fall." At present a four man commission, con tains two officials appointed by the nrevious administration. ARTIST ON TOUR Los Angeles, Sept. 15 (U.R) Mary Burger, young Los An geles artist, will leave here Mon day to paint oil portraits of the presidents of the 20 Latin-American countries. Monday
