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Allies Move To Stamp Out German Military Tradition a Weather FORECAST: Cleir to partly cloudy tonight and Wednei day, Sllfibtly warmer Wed nesday. Temp. Highest Yesterday ,.7 lowest UllS Mnrnini 4? Fortieth Year Second Group of Jfc . eetting root tor nrst tune on homeland of their husbands, group of 550 Australian war bilcles ot oldiers, accompanied by 201 children, arrive In San Francisco, Cal., aboard former luxury liner 0. Lurline to make their homes In scattered cities of United States. Hirohito Predicts Eventual Democracy; Immediate Worry Is Food, Clothing, Fuel By Hugh Baillie (President of the United Press) (World Copyright, 1945, by United Press) Tokyo, Sept. 25 (U.R) Japan is now on an entirely new foot ing and will prove itself equal to membership in the family of nations, Emperor Hirohito told the United Press in an interview today. The emperor said that a demo cratic Japanese form of govern ment which will evolve in time may not necessarily follow the exact pattern of democracy in the United States and Britain, but it is his desire and intention that his people be made to ap preciate the value ot democratic government. Food Need Urgent Hirohito said that Japan was In urgent need of food. He is much exercised about the pros pects for winter when millions of Japanese will be without clothing, shelter and fuel. According to court procedure, TITO GOVERNMENT TO REJECT PLAN London, Sept. 25 (UP.) A Yugoslav spokesman said today that the government of Marshall Tito had decided to reject a pro posal before the Council of For eign Ministers to intcrnationalire the Adriatic port of Trieste. Yucoslavia probably will sug gest that the citizens of Trieste be given an opportunity to de cide the city's future status by a plebiscite. The decision against interna tionalizing Trieste was reported reached in Belgrade yesterday. A spokesman said it followed de monstrations in the Trieste area indicating "popular support" for earlier Yugoslav counter pro posals to make Trieste an auto nomous city-state under Bel grade sovereignty. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mrs. J. M. telling about a quiet day in the country: "I did my washing in the morning; some colored pieces faded onto the white goods and I had to come to town and get some washing fluid and do it all over. Then we went after a cow and calf we had bought. When we got home we decided to dehorn the cow while she was still tied in the trailer. She got awful mad and threw her head around like crazy and spattered blood all over the car. trailer and 'is. When we got her, into the barn yard she charged us and we had to climb up on the fence to keep from being maybe killed. Then at 9 o'clock last night we found we had to get the boy's liynb to the 4-H show before 10 o clock or it would be too late to enter it. So had to eaten the lamb, load it in the trailer and come to town again. What a Uc: United Press Australian War Brides Arrive in U. S. J M ft mWPxP? 2 & M my questions were submitted in writing several days before the audience and as I left the im perial household departmental building the questions and writ ten answers were handed to me. However, my conversation with the emperor lasted 25 min utes during which tea was served. During this conversa tion, the emperor said that he expected to have a visit with Genera Douglas MacArthur very soon. In written answers regarding the democratic future of Japan, the emperor said that he believes that an immediate revolutionary change of the form of govern ment of Japan is neither possible nor desirable. Japan on New Road The emperor said that he would like to ask people of the United Nations to observe the future trend of Japan closely now that the nation has started on what he described as a new road of peace in furtherance to reach the desired goal. The audience started promptly at 4 p. m. and ended at 4:25 p. m. Exactly at 4 o'clock the double doors of his chamber opened and Hirohito entered. He was attired in a frock coat, striped trousers, stiff batwing collar with curved rather than pointed edges and a four-in-hand tie. Hirohito impressed me as be ing rather taller than I had ex pected. He wore stecl-rimmcd glasses and" his hair was not as closely cropped as I had antici pated. Prefeitorial Air He had a rather scholarly air reminiscent of a traditional col lege professor. The emperor was accompanied by the minister of imperial households, S. Ishiwata; the grand chamberlain of the im perial household, Admiral H. Fujita, and the grandmastei of ceremonies, Baron M. Takei. 1 entered the grounds by the gate called Sakashita Mon, ac companied by Foreign Office of ficial, T. Urabe. This gate now is used as the principal entrance to the palace grounds since de struction within the walls around the former official gate way renders it impracticable. Since previous arrangements had been made, there was no hitch in the procedure' except for a slight delay at the gate. American sentries there exam ined my pass, issued by the U. S. provost marshal, and called their officer of the day to scrutinize it and question mc re garding the purpose of my mis sion. Emperor For Peace Several limes during the con versation the emperor empha sized his desire for everlasting peace and spoke of his desire o do everything he could to effec tuate peace. Regarding freedom of news, Hirohito said in his written re plies that this is a highly desir able objective. He also said that free interchange of news among nations would be the grea'cst safeguard against international misunderstandings. After tea, cigarettes were Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESD f Acme Telcphotot Yank S. S. passed, but Hirohito didn't smoke any. I did. Finally expressing the wish that my stay in Japan would be enjoyable, the emperor indicated that my audience was finished, we all rose. He left through the same wide doors he had entered the room as all the Japanese bowed lowly. The emperor re sponded with a bow. About halfway back down the long corridors, I was ushered briefly into another room where the text of the questions and answers were handed to me. Then I stedped into a waiting car and drove down the gravelled roadway through the great gates, past saluting Japa nese guards and American sen tries. We were outside the pal ace grounds and driving into the luins oi lOKyo. BILL SHELVED Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) inc House Ways and Means com. miltee today shelved the admin istration s unemployment com pensation bill, handing President iruman his first major legisla tive defeat. By a vote of 14 to 10. the com. mittee adopted a motion to post pone me measure indefinitely mi me committee can receive more concrete information as to what the unemployment situa tion is to be during the reconver sion period. Rep. Harold Knutson. R Minn., ranking minority member of the committee, said that be cause of the current wave of strikes "and the hundreds of thousands of jobs crying for workers, the committee felt it should wait until the situation had jelled." He said the increase in strikes was "the deciding factor" in the committee's action. BRITISH INTERVENE IN INDO-CHINA ROW Saigon, Indo-China, Sept. 25 iU.RI British army forces inter viewed in the dispute between nationalist Annamites and French authorities today after two days and nights of street fighting. The British commander of al lied forces in southern Indo China ordered Gurka troops un der his command to disarm in surgent Annamites. The French alleged the Annamites had been armed by Japanese. HOLLYWOOD DEFENDED Washington Sept. 25 U.P Chairman Samuel Dickstein, D.. N. Y. of the house immigration comm'ttee defended Hollywood today against charges of alien influtnce and said the movie in dustry was ' almost 100 per cent American." Earthquakes in 1811 in the Mississippi river region, south of the mouth of the Ohio, de stroyed small towns and created Rcetloot lake, 14 miles long. JPTEMBER 25, 1945. JAPrdEVER E.v x Ambassador to U. Most Expected S. Says in War Was Draw; Stories Differ. Tokyo, Sept. 25 (U.R) Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura. Japan's last ambassador to the United States, said today that the most Japan ever expected from war with the United States was a draw and that some Nipponese naval officers had opposed go ing to war in 194L Nomura In an interview pub lished in Tokyo's Yomiuri Hochi said Japan "never had a chance" against the United States. During the war he had told the Japanese people in the same newspaper that the United States war effort would not in the end be able to withstand heavy manpower losses inflicted by the Japanese. Nomura, who with Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu was con ferring with U.S. state depart ment representatives virtually up to the hour of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor said he had hesitated to take the post of ambassador but had finally ac cepted after pressure from the Japanese navy, "When I went to Washington as ambassador, relations be tween the United States and Japan were near the breaking point.' he said. $28 BID! COT IN WAR OUTLAY IS T Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R! President Truman today recom mended that congress repeal War department appropriations total ing $28,692,772,000. An additional $500,000,000 will be returned to the treasury by the War department from funds still available in special replacing accounts. The White House announce ment of the president's recom mendation explained that the re duction was due to the decrease' in the strength of the army and reduced requirements for sup plies and equipment made pos sible by the surrender of Japan. The White House said that it now was contemplated that the army would be reduced to 1, 950,000 by next June 30. , Eighty Liberees Receive Homage In Frisco Parade San Francisco. Sept. 25 (U.R) More than 150,000 San Fran ciscans watched in eloquent sileme today as 80 servicemen, tepresenting all American pris oners of war paraded slowly up Marktt street to receive the homa;;e of a grateful nation. Tht.ie was a marked absence of the cheers and horn-honking usually accompanying a parade as the liberated prisoners, per sonally selected by Gen. Dou glas MacArthur and Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, rode past in Jeeps, accompanied by members of their families. Most of the men were' surviv ors of the Bntaan death march. Others were captured on Guam or Wake Island. They were accompanied by a battalion of the 104th (Timber wolf) division as a guard of honor. Store clerks and office work ers prured confetti out of upper story windows. At 'he city hall, the men and their families mounted the re viewing stand to watch the rest of the parade and hear the tri butes of Gen. Jonathan Wain wright and the war and navy departments BASEBALL National Brooklyn 7 9 1 New York 4 11 0 V. Lombard! and Sandlock: Field nan. Voiselle (7; Lee (8) and F. Lombardi. Cardinals 5 14 3 Cubs , 6 8 2 Teamster Union Threatens To Cross Lumber Workers' Picket Lines Before Mills By John W. Dunlap (United Press Staff Correspondent) Portland, Ore., Sept. 25 (U.R) An industry-wide wage strike today paralyzed AFL lumber operations in the Pacific northwest but an internecine dispute between AFL teamsters and lumber workers promised more excitement than the strike itself. Officials of the Northwest Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers claimed 60,000 strikers had shut down 494 plants in a peaceful walkout in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and parts of northern California. OF The lumber strike situation In Jackson county is virtually un changed today, according to spokesmen from various mills affected by the AFL demand for increased wages. Union demands call for a mini mum wage increase to $1.10 per hour with a corresponding wage increase in all brackets. ' Large Southern Oregon Sugar Pine operations at Central Point were ciosed down at noon yester day. The tie-up also shut down logging operations. Truckers Idle B. L. Nutting, manager of Medford corporation mill, said about 40 independent truckers hauling to Mcdco were idle be cause of the strike. Woods operations were going on as usual this morning, Nutting said. About 50 men are idle today at Rogue River mill, it was learned. No violence has been reported at any of the mills, spokesmen said. The secretary of the local labor union had no statement to make on the strike situation this morning. E According to word received today by the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce plan? are complete for resumption of film. lng at Diamond Lake. Univer sal Pictures officials expressed hope that weather conditions would permit use of local people signed to take part in the "Can yon Passage" cabin raising scenes, Henry Spitz, In charge of pro duction at Diamond Lake, issued a request for those who recently signed at the Chamber of Com merce for participation in the picture to appear at Diamond Lake, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30, providing weather is favorable. Livestock should be at the lake Friday, Spitz said. Weather Is clear at Diamond Lake today and work on "Can yon Passage" is now underway. CAPT. FRITZ WIEDEMANN ON WAY TO LEARN FATE Manila. Sept 23 (Delayed) w.r.i capt. rntz Wiedemann, iormer personal adjutant to Adolph Hitler and German con sul general In San Fancisco, ar rived In Manila by plane In ' protective custody" today after being arrested In Tientsin China. An accompanying naval offi cer s?id Wiedemann would be taken to Washington for final determination of his status. He probaoly will leave Wednesday morning for the United States. BALKY FURNACE CLOSES SCHOOL FOR TWO DAYS Roosevelt school was closed today and is to remain closed tomorrow due to the inability to heat the building, E. 11 Hedrick, city school superintendent, said toaay. Classes are to resume Thursday morning, he said. MEXICANS COMPLAIN Mexico City, Sept. 25 (U.R) The Price Control commission said today that it has received complaints that some federal dis trict stores have set up two price standards one for copper and paper currency, and another for silver 50 centavo and one peso coins. Tribune Ontted Press Full Contract Cited But of more concern to the strikers was whether AFL tca:n stcrs would cross picket linos to haul lumber. In Seattle, Inter national Vice President Dave Beck of the - Teamsters union said: "We'll go through the picket lines. We can't afford not to because we have a contract with employers that must be cur ried out. This brought a retort In Seat tle from President John M. Christenson of the Northwest Council that "nobody is going to move any lumber as long as this strike is going on teamsters are union men and they can best de monstrate what kind of union men they are when they come to our picket lines, and it would be very unfair to organized labor if they should happen to cross our lines." No violence on picket lines was reported, and most plants had only a token picket force of one or two men. There was more importance placed on the lines in Portland than in the Seattle area. No break was anticipated un til the strike policy committee meets Thursday In Portland. The union is demanding a minimum ot $1.10 an hour on an industry wide basis, while the operators contend wages and working con ditions should be determined on a geographicul basis because of varying factors, Union Secretary Kenneth Davis said current wages ranged from 70 to 90 cents an hour, with some receiving up to $1.25. The CIO International Wood workers of America are threat ening a northwest strike of 40,- 000 members for a demand of 25 cents per hour wage increase, with action awaiting a commit tee session tomorrow. 1WA of ficers said they would support no strike but their own. PEACE POW-WOW By United Preu Officials representing 25,000 striking oil workers meet with company and government re presentatives In Chicago today for a conciliation conference which Secretary of Labor Lewis B, Schwellcnbach warned "must not bn permitted to fail." Schwellenbach said "some agreement must be reached through which the workers re- turn io work Immediately." He said the nation's oil and gaso line reserves would be depleted 'In a verv few days" if the strike continued. The strike threatened to spread momentarily to a fourth refinh'g area as a strike vote was conducted in Seminole, Okla., one of the world's richest oil fields. Antelope Girl Champ Dairy Showman As 4-H Fair Opens Clara Mae Bigham of Ante lope 4-H club was Judged cham pion dairy showman at the ninth annual Jackson county 4-H club fair which opened this morning with nearly 500 exhibits on dis play. Other winners in the showmanship contest are as fol lows: Junior showmanship (all breeds): 1, Barbara McCune, Eagle Point; 2, Darlcnc Hale, Bellvicw; 3, Bcrnire Biul'.am, Antelope; 4, Joyce Paul, Valley view; 5, Richard Pcrvorse, Cen tral Point; 6, Ann PadBham, Roxy Ann. Jersey showmanship: 1, Helen Harnish, Eagle Point; 2, Emma Ricks, Bellvicw; 3, Wayne Rus sell, Eagle Point; 4, Ruth Powell, Eagle Point; 5, Barbara Powell, Eagle Point; 6, Bill Ferns, Fern Valley. Guernsey showmanship: 1, Clara Mac Bigham, Antelope; 2, Carol Smith, V.'citsidc: 3, Al'ene Owens, Yallcyview; 4, Nuiline Leased Wire NO. 158. PEARL HARBOR TOJSIT SPOT Special Ten-Man Committee Flying to Hawaii Soon Ponder Counsel Selection. Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) Congress' Pearl Harbor investi gating committee decided today it will visit the Hawaiian out post as soon as possible. Sen. Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., chairman of the special Io nian joint committee, said the committee will fly to Pearl Harbor as soon as It has famil iarized Itself with other testi mony regarding the physical layout of defenses at the time of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. The committee decision to make the trip came during a two-hour closed meeting. Ponder Coumel Selection of a counsel for the Investigation also was discussed at the meeting but no decision was icached. Barkley said the committee exchanged views with Roger J. Whiteford, 59. Washington at torney and Barkley's personal choice for the Job. Barkley said the time for the trln to Pearl Harbor will be de cided after the committee and council have familiarized them selves with all the testimony and rcnorts that already have been given In other investlga tions of the Pearl harbor attack. E Buenos Aires, Sept. 25 (U.R) An attempted revolution against the Farrell-Peron government of Argentina was reported crushed today with the arrest of ex-president Gen. Arturo Rawson and a co-leader of the army's anti-government faction, A government communique said Rawson and Gen. Oswaldo Martin had been arrested by loy al army units In Cordoba, 400 miles Inland from the capital, "for inciting rebellion." Government spokesmen said the rebellion had been sup pressed "and that the situation everywhere was completely nor mal and tranquil." The arrests came less than 48 hours after U. S. Ambassador Spruillo Braden left Buenos Aires for Washington with the expressed hope that the Argen tine people themselves would "find a solution" for their politi cal difficulties with the United Nations. STANDARD TIME BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) Presinent Truman today signed into law legislation abolishing wartime and putting the nation's clocks back to standard time ef fective 2 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 30. Clocks go back to standard time when they reach 2 a.m. In each time zone. Davles, Antelope; 5, Dale Big ham, Antelope; 6, Jan Freeman, Antelope, Senior showmanship (all breeds): 1, Margaret Reed, Table Rock; 2, Phyllis Wheeler, Fern Valley; 3, Dick Biles, Sams 'al ley: 4, Bill Ferns, Fern Valley. Club members from every community in Jackson county are vicing for nearly $1,500 In premium money and many valu able special prizes. Showman ship contests in beef, swine and sheep also were to be held today. Wednesday morning beel, swine and sheep will be judged and the home economics style revue will take place at 3 p. m. Friday morning program in cludes judging of dairy cattle. Special awards will be made at 1 p. m. with the auction sale of fat stock starting at 1:30. The fair grounds will be open until 10 p. m. Tuesday and Wed nesday so everyone will have n opportunity to see the fair. !L COUNCIL GIVES GRIM RULES IN All German Land, Air, Naval Forces Abolished; Gestapo and Other Groups Banned. Frankfurt, Sept. 25 (U.R) , A U. S. army controversy over retaining Naiis in civic and industrial posts broke into the . open today when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower forbade it and Gen. George S. Patton advo cated retention of "certain insignificant Nasis" in office. Eisenhower's order followed by a few hours the publication in Stars and Stripes of a story saying that Gen. George S. Patton was refusing to de naiify Bavaria. Berlin, Sept. 25 (U.R) The allies clamped an unlimited oc cupation grip on Germany and virtually all forms of German activity today with the an nounced intention of stamping out completely and forever the German military tradition. The allied control council laid down the law for a defeated na tion In a 4,000-word codification of rules, responsibilities and re quirements for Germany. The proclamation laid the groundwork for the grimmest kind of a potential peace settle ment with Germany, and for a stern and thorough-going rule in the meantime. Wide Authority To all Intents and purposes this proclamation No. 2 established the authority of allied represent atives over just about everything in Germany and all German in terests everywhere. In every sense the future of Germany now is dependent on the decisions of the control coun cil with the sweeping power it assumed in the proclamation. The proclamation announced that all military, quasi-military and other organizations "which serve to keep alive the military tradition In Germany" should be abolished finally and completely. The abolition applied to all Ger man land, air and naval forces, -SS and SA units, the Gestapo, the General Staff Officers Corps, Reserve Corps, military schools, veterans organisations, and all clubs and associations. Military Under Ban All forms of military training, military propaganda and mili tary activity on the part of the German people were prohibited, as were all organizations politi cal, educational, religious, social, athletic or recreational which might keep alive the military tradition. The proclamation ordered Ger man officials in all territories outside the Reich boundaries as of Dec. 21, 1937, or any areas within those boundaries that might be designated by allied representatives, to prepare to withdraw on receipt of further orders. Allied representatives assumed full charge of all Germany's for eign relations and all treaties. German Nationals were for bidden to leave German territory without permission. ' Allied representatives will take over full control of all Ger man communications. 17 BREAK JAIL; E STILL OUT Portland, Ore., Sept. 25 U.R) Nine of 17 prisoners who last night excaped from the Multno mah county jail atop the seven story court house here were hunted throughout the state to day, three having been captured this morning near Silver Creek Falls, five being nabbed at Port land immediately after the break. Robert Brockman, 32, a life term convict and leader of the break, was recaptured after he tunneled from a cell block Into a narrow ventilator shaft, sliding the seven floors to tho basement. The three captured this morn ing had taken the automobile of R. D. Matheny, who gave chase in another car, stopped them and brought them to state police headquarters at Salem. It was the second such out break at the jail in the past three weeks. Five of the men in last night's escape took part in the first break three weeks ago. 6 SCARLET FEVER CASES IN PROSPECT TERRITORY Six coses of scarlet fever were reported from the Prospect area during the week ending Sept. 21 according to Dr. A. Erin Mcrkel, Jackson county health officer. Also reported during the week were two cases of measles, one in Trail and one in Ashland, three cases of whooping cough in Med ford and two of chickenpox in Rogue River.
