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S. P. To Resume Passenger Service South When Sleepers Available if Weather FORECAST: Clear tonltht and Thursday. Slightly warmer. x Temp. Illgnett i esirraay.. Loweit this Mornlnf.., Fortieth Year Dash for Freedom Foiled at Portland Jail Five of 17 prisoners who escaped from Multonomah County Jail atop seven-story Portland, Ore., courthouse through ventilating shaft were caught before they were able to leave building. Shown (left to rightiire life termer Robert Brockman, 32, who engineered the daring escape by tunneling from cell block into shaft with knife and razor blade: Charles Camp, Joseph Dekosta, Martin Benson and George Lechmeir. Browder Defends 1939 German-Russian Pact As Move Which Saved From Nazi Conquest Washington, Sept. Earl Browder, deposed leader of the American communist party, today denied that the commun ists want to destroy the Ameri can system and defended the 1939 German-Russian non-aggression pact as a move which saved Russia and the United States from Nazi conquest. He gave these views as the house committee on un-American activities began its explora tion ot the class war philosophy of American communists. Browder, who identified him- IN HOTEL BLAZE AT FORT Fort Bragg, Cal., Sept. 28 U.R) Six persons were burned to death and eight injured criti cally today when a fire destroy ed the two-storied, wooden-frame Oaks hotel. One of the hotel's 32 occu pants was unaccounted for as firemen battled to put out the last of the flames still burning in some sections of the building. The known dead included a child, two women, and three men who were trapped on the second .floor and burned beyond recog i nition. The victims were identi fied tentatively as: Ben Daveto, Fort Bragg fish ing industry employe. Mrs. Chester Sargent, 49, Eureka, and her 16-year-old daughter, Wanda. Lester Marsh, San Francisco telephone company lineman Mr. and Mrs. Brighton, Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Sarjent and her daughter had been visiting her husband, an employe at a redwood tie plant. Marsh and a crew of three men were working on Fort Bragg telephone lines. There was no information on the Brightons other than that they were an elderly couple who planned to buy a home in the Fort Bragg area. The fire was believed to have started in the east end of the hotel lobby or in the adjoining bar. Cause of the blaze and ex tent of damages have not been determined. CHORINES PROTEST Mexico City. Sept. 26 IU.R1 --A group of American actresses protested to the American em bassy today that a Mexico thea ter owner was trying to force them to play at a disreputable night club. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Torn Wil!iam. wondering if the Archduke Felix could be coaxed into helping harvest his pear crop. Ruth Meeker promising an ex tra Mar for the reportorial "crovn" in return for some needed publicity. Carlos Morris gazing after a ' woman pushing an empty wheel ' chair and wondering U she an ticipated aa accident. Medfgrd United Press self as now "unemployed," put the committee on notice that he would not answer questions about his political opinions. Browder's testimony opened with committee counsel Ernie Adamson questioning him about documents relating to dissolu tion of the American commun ist party in May, 1944, and its reconstruction last July, when Browder was ousted as party head. Asked if the new party was the same as the one dissolved, Browcicr replied: "That's the record." Browder also observed that it might be better if no one were called to testify about those activities- "unless this is an in vestigation of merit and not a smear campaign." Chairman John S. Wood. D., Ga., rapped the gavel and said the committee would permit no "insinuations." Adnmson asked Browder about his past connection with the party and his attendance at the communist international convention at Moscow in 1935. When Browder said the con vention dealt with the threat of Nazism and another world war, Rep. J Parnf ll Thomas. R., N.J., asked if American communists had not first called World War II an ' imperialist" war and sup ported the German-Russian non aggression pact of 1939. Browder replied that he did not t'link ludgment could be passea on "that very important period in such an off-hand man ner." Many American leaders, he sa'd, had revised their opin ions about that pact." Browder said the pact was in the Interest ofthe United States KLAMATH TO GET FEDERAL COURT Washington, Sept. 26 (U.R) The House Judiciary committee yesterday approved an amended bill to fix a term of the U. S. district court at Klamath Falls. Ore. The bill, introduced by Rep. Lowell Stockman, R., Ore., was amended to provide that district court shall be held 8t Klamath Falls if no additional courtroom facilities are provided by the gov ernment. Stockman said a coun ty courtroom could be used. The measure, now ready for consideration of the full house, provided that the court be held in Klamath Falls the first Tues day in June. Another amend ment specified that the deputy court clerk from Medford would serve during the new term. A deputy marshal would be sta tioned at Klamath Falls. Paul Hanlin, deputy marshal here, will serve as deputy court clerk for the Klamath Falls fed eral court. The deputy mamial to be stationed at Klamath Falls will serve under the Medlord marshal s office, Hanlin said. DOUBLE TROUBLE Los Angeles. Sept. 26 (U.R Two persons were killed and sev en injured today when a car driven by Mrs. Bcrnice Wilson. 30. crashed into a crowd of 30 people drawn to the scene cf a f revioui u&Uic accident. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNT SEPTEMBER 26, 1945. C 4rma 7 elrrthntnl because it enabled Russia to prepare for war. Without that respite, he said, 'Hitler might h a v conquered the Soviet union, which would have quar anteed his conquering Amer ica." Rep. Gerald W. Landis, R., Ind., asked if the United States did not have the highest stand ard of living in the world. Browder agreed. Landis then asked why the communist want ed to destroy the American sys tem. Browder replied "We do not want to." .o; IN PEARL PROBE Washington, Sept. 26 U R1 The Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating committee today chose William Dewitt Mitchell, 71, 'New York, former attorney general, as chief counsel for its inquiry into the Japanese at tack of Dec. 7, 1941. The selection was made dur ing a closed meeting between Mitchell and the committee. Mitchell, a democrat, who served in the cabinet of former President Herbert Hoover, ac cepted the job without a deci sion on what his fee will be. Sen. Alben W. Barklcy, D., Ky., said Mitchell's choice was unanimous. Mitchell, a native of Winona, Minn., has been in private law practice in New York since he served as attorney general from 1929 to 1933. Barkley indicated that the committee will not hold public hearings until after a trio to Pearl Harbor. IDLE IN STRIKES By United Press Oil workers and New York building service employes made new strike threats today as the number of workers idled by la bor disputes climbed toward a million throughout the nation. In Chicago, O. A. Knight in ternational president of the Oil Workers Union (CIO), denied that he had issued orders for an immediate nationwide strike of 250.000 oil workers. While union, company, and government conferees attempted to settle the strike in the Chicago meetings, an official source at Washington revealed that the federal government may exercise its seizure powers to get the closed refineries operating again if the dispute is not settled by Saturday. In New York the regional War Labor Board intervened in an effort to halt a union threat of a general strike of all building service employes and elevator operators in four of five New York buroughs. The terms of President James Monroe, beginning in 1816, were called ' Tbe tin ul sood Icellag. GEr ATTON CALLED ON CARPET; MUST EXPLAIN NAZI PREFERENCE IKE WOULD HEAR OFFICER'S SIDE IN CONTROVERSY Subordinate's Advocacy of Nazi Retention in Bavari . an Offices Brings Call. Frankfurt. Sept. 26 U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called Gen. George S. Patton on the c.-rpet today to give an ac count of his stewardship in Bavaria, where he favored the retention of Nazis in certain minor administrative posts. Patton was ordered to appear personally at American occupa tion headquarters within a week to present his side of the contro- ' Washington, Sept. 26 (U.PJ President Truman said today he had never received any offi cial notice that any of the In terested allied powers were dissatisfied with the occupa tion control of Japan under a single supreme commander. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. vers;' and to report on any Nazis who may be holding office in the Bavarian province of which he is military governor. Watch Bavaria Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff, an nounced the summons to Patton at a press conference here today Smith said that If Patton is unable to give a satisfactory re port on "his stewardship", it was not known what disciplin ary Action Eisenhower would take. He asked correspondents to watch closelj for the next week to see if any marked changes for the hotter are made to improve U. S. political control in Ba varia. Eisenhower yesterday ordered the removal of all Nazis throughout the American occu pation zone from any adminis trative positions, civil or indus trial. The order was effective today. Patton, at a press conference at his Bavarian headquarters, advocated the use of Nazi offic ials in some secondary posts, at the same time insisting he was carrying out Eisenhowers direc tives to the letter and would continue to do so. TO BE SCRAPPED Tokyo, Sept. 26 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today or dered virtually all Japanese weapons reduced to scrap for use in Japanese civilian relief. He also directed the Japanese government to turn over all army and navy food, clothing, transportation and supplies to the Japanese home ministry for civilian relief with strict account ing to his headquarters. The first veterans of the Euro pean war to join in the occupa tion of Japan landed at Yoko hama today. They were members of the 97th division, which fought in the German Ruhr, and will re lieve Pacific veterans of the 43rd division. Men of the 43rd will return to the United States aboard the same ships which de barked the 97th division. Low-point men in the 43rd will be combed out and attached to the newly-arrived unit. ROOSEVELT SCHOOL IS CLOSED REST OF WEEK No school will be held at the Roosevelt school for the remain der of the week due to more ex tensive boiler repaid needs than first expected, E. H. Hedrick, city school superintendent, an nounced today. Classes are to resume Monday, he said. Today's announcement was In correction of an earlier an nouncement that the school would be clored on Tuesday and Wednesday poiyt ON JAP CONTROL Russian Proposal for Com mission to Rule Japan Meets Big Five Opposition London, Sept. 26 (U.R) Brit ain and China were reported to day to have joined the United States in opposing consideration at the current Big Five confer ence of a Soviet proposal for establishment of an Allied con trol commission for Japan. A Soviet source confirmed that Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov had presented a memorandum to the Foreign Ministers' conference urging establishment of the Pacific council on grounds that the time had arrived for a "joint effort to secure the peace." Molotov Critical Molotov appeared inclined to criticize American handling of the occupation of Japan and de sirous of gaining a voice in the matter. He suggested that Brit ain and China also join the pro posed control council. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes refused to discuss the Soviet memorandum on grounds that Pacific affairs were not on the agenda for the present Uig Five meeting. He said the procedure for the occupatidn of Japan already had been established by the terms of the Potsdam declaration and of Japan's surrender. Therefore, he said, the United States had not come to London prepared to discuss Japan. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln and Chinese For eign Minister Wang Shih-Chieh subsequently supported the American position, informants said. Due Next Meeting Though the United States ap peared to have headed off con sideration of Japan at the pre sent meeting, Informed sources said it was logical to assume that the next meeting of the Foreign Ministers' council would be de voted to the Pacific enemy. United States was considered a likely site for the next meet ing. The Soviet memorandum erally was regarded as a unilat eral Russian move perhaps aim ed at strengthening Russia's diplomatic bargaining position in ine racmc. Though Australia also has been anxious to lnm rn,.;,i.., tion of Japan at the present meeting, a source close to Aus tralian Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt said h hurl n .a knowledge of the Soviet move. FIOV L. Pork in. . 1 - , .-u u plea of eiiiltv yesterday to a charge of uttering i-iiii-K ana was sentenced to not less than lhrAA rtate prison by Circuit Judge ncrnnrt is.. Manna. Sentence was susnended and Pxririn. granted a parole to the district Biiurney, witn orders to report nionii.iy io me official. LaBcrn F Keller 51 rhir. with contrihutincr t th delin quency of a minor girl; Eugene Bellows. 20 Clfnron Pnn,i Kn and Vean Robertson. 21," all charged with uttering false checks, entered pleas of guilty to a district attorney's Informs tion nd had their sentences continued, pending further in- vestigition by authorities. Keller is nllp0iri in k.,-. brought a 15-yoarold girl here irom cugene ten cays ago. TRUMAN REGRETS Washington, Sept. 26 U.fi: President Truman said today he probably would be unable to keep dates for two public appear ances next month a cott-in picking contest at Blytheville, Ark., on Oct. 5 and an Amer ican Legion fair at Carruthera yUle, Hg, tUe ncjtt day. Tribune United Press Full Church Women Will Meet to Organize Community Program To plan a combined leader ship institute and world com munity day program, members of the education and projects committees of the Medford Council of Church Women will meet Friday at 1:45 p.m. in the ladies' parlors of the Presbyter ian church. The institute and comrv.mity day program will be held in the near future. Mi.s Edith Bilker heads the projects committee, and other members are the Mcsdames D. W. Bower. J W. Watkins. Guy Cox, Arthur Newton, Arnold Kornsiad and John Larwood. Head of the education commit tee is Mrs. Bert R. Elliott and other members of the committee are the Mcsdames Paul Rynning, W. M Votaw C. W. Monia, Mar garet Fabrick and Clarence A. Meeker. Mrs. L. C. Kirby is president of the council. GIRLS WALK OFF WITH PRIZES AT ' 4-H CLUB FAIR Marilyn B o h n e r t, Central Point, won grand champion and champion award with her Here ford baby beef, and Carol Lee Wright, Antelope, won champion and reserve champion with her Angus baby beef at the Jackson County 4-H Club fair being held at the fairgrounds. These cham pions will be offered in the auc tion sale to be held Thursday, starting at 1:30 p. m. It was er roneously stated yesterday that the sale would be on Friday. Following arc the prize win ners in each class of baby beef: Hereford (heavy) 1st Allcne Owens, Valley view. 2nd Clara Mac Bigham, An telope. 3rd Elva Carlton, Upper Rogue. 4th Beth McCurlcy, West side. 5th Henry Padgham, Roxy Ann. 6th Pete Flufy, Antelope. - - Angus Baby Beef 1 1st Carol Lee Wyatt, Ante lope (champion and reserve champion.) , 2nd Jan Freeman, Antelope. 3rd Walter Cahail, Antelope. 4th Walter Byrd, Bellview. 5th Robert Byrd, Bellview. Hereford (heavy light) 1st Fay Ash, Upper Rogue. 2nd Louise Thames, Roxy Ann. 3rd Tom Carlton, Upper Rogue. 4th Lorcna Millard, Reese Creek. 5th Betty Bradshaw, Lake Creek. 6th Charles Ashpole, Roxy Ann. Hereford (light heavy) 1st Marilyn Bohnert, Central Point (Chap, and Gr. Champ.) 2nd Lois Field, Antelope. 3rd Don Nichols, Bellview, 1th Dale Bigham, Antelope. 5th Phyllis Cahail, Antelope. 6th Peggy McCurlcy, West side. Hereford (light) 1st Selda Carlton, Upper Rogue. 2nd Dalton Lcmley, Valley view. 3rd Jim Damon, Lake Creek. 4th Wayne Lcmley, Valley view. Sth Dick Bradshaw, Lake Creek. 6th Rodney Twcdcll, Valley view. Tomorrow morning at 9 a. m., ail dairy breeds will be judged by Walter Leth, county agent from Polk Co. Beef, hogs and sheep are being judged by Harry Lindgrcn, livestock fieldman of the Oregon Extension service. Special awards in all classes will be presented before the auc tion sale at 1 p. m. Thursday. PAY EXPLOSION DAMAGE Washington, Sept. 26 t'JR: Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal revealed today that $463,000 has already been paid out in damages resulting from explosion of two ammunition ships at Port Chicago, Cdlif ., July 17, 1944, and asked con gress to pay an additional $1; 4.05,000. . Leased Wlr NO. 159. L MAY JOIN AFL IN Complete Shutdown of All Production Looms; House holders Fear Fuel Shortage Los Angeles. Sept. 26 (U.R) The lumber strike in Klam ath Falls, Ore., may result in halt of California's record crop being lost because of lack of boxes, Arthur Clarke, manager of Independent Cit rus Growers and Shippers As sociation, warned today. Portland, Ore., Sept. 26 (U.R) Complete shutdown of all the lumber production in the Pacific north west hinged today on a meeting of the Internationl Two more sawmills in Jack son county were listed today as closed down because of the AF1 west coast lumber strike demanding an increase in wages. The two operations added io the list are Seggesen man Lumber company at Shady Cove and the O. S. Elder mill at Trail. Eight mills in the county are now reported closed as a direct result of the strike. Others are Rogue River Lum ber company. Rogue Riven Southern Oregon Planing mill and Southern Oregon Sugar Pine, both of Central Point) and Medford Corpora tion. McMurray and Martin Planing mill and Tiller Mill and Lumber company, all of Medtord. Negolinting committee of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO). The union committee met to act on ballols filed by locals, over whelmingly authorizing leaders to call a strike if de mands for a 25 cent an hour wage increase were not met. With 60,000 AFL members already on strike, a similar walkout by the CIO would Idle another 40,000 sawmill, logging and timber workers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and northern California. Fear Fuel Shortage Throughout the strike area, homeowners made frantic calls to fuel dealers, hoping to stock up before the advrnt of one of the worst wood fuel shortages in recent years. t AM signs pointed to an ex tension of the lumber crisis to the entire pacific coast area, as organizations promised sym nalhy measures to aid AF'L lum bermen, striking in support of demands for industry-wide min imum wage of $1.10 an hour. A declaration by Dave Beck, international vice-president of the AFL teamsters union that his men would Ignore picket lines t.f striking sawmill work ers was answered today by Phil Bradv, president of the Oregon ioint council of drivers and of the Portland central council who declared the teamsters would not puss the picket lines. American canneries report that two of the latest products are canned sandwiches, meat between two slices of bread, and combination moat and fruit, such as pork and applesauce. Beast of Belsen Indentified As One Who Picked Victims For Gas Roo Lucncburg, Sept. 26 (U.R) Josef Kramer, the "Beast of Bel sen," was identified in court to day as one of the nazis who pick ed out victims for the gas cham bers at Oswicclm, where he for merly was a guard. A grim game of identification was played in the Lueneburg courtroom where Kramer and 44 other nazi men and women are on trial charged with the atroci ties at the Belsen and Oswicclm concentration camps. Ilona Scln. a Hungarian girl who was at Oswicclm, identified eight of the defendants by sight, thwarting a defense effort to mix them up in the prisoners' dock and confuse the witness. Identi fication numbers were removed from the breasts of the defend ants. Miss Stein pointed out eight, some of whom she said she saw selecting victims for the execu tion chambers at Oswiecim. Ajuqus Uicm wcxe ftramcr ad EVENING TRAIN TO SAN FRANCISCO IS EARLY OBJECTIVE Baggage-Mail Car, Day Coach, Standard Pullman, Diner-Lounge in Train. Southern Pacific today an nounced plans for restoration of through passenger service be tween San Francisco and Grants Pass, Oregon, via the Siskiyou Lines, to be put into effect as soon as ODT restrictions are lift ed on the use of sleeping cars in runs of 450 miles or less. ( All stations between Dunsmuir ' and Grants Pass, including Ash land and Medford, will be served, according to the an nouncement. The San Francisco-Grants Pass through service was discontinued January 12, 1942, the Southern v Pacific announcing the action in discontinuing 27 passenger trains over its system was taken to make equipment and crews avail able for pressing war needs. Bus service was substituted on the run between Grants Pass and Dunsmuir. First Restoration "Although Southern Pacific is still hard pressed for passenger cars and locomotives because of the heavy homecoming troop traffic, we are arranging to re establish Southern Oregon serv ice at the earliest possible date," said Claude E. Peterson, vice president in charge of system passenger traffic. "This is our first move to restore passenger service curtailed by the war." Re-establishment of through passenger service between San Francisco and Grants Pass will be accomplished, Peterson said, by putting back trains No. 7 and No. 8, the "Shasta," on the run between Dunsmuir and Grants Pass. The cars for these train will be handled from San Fran cisco to Dunsmuir in the "Ore gonian," and from Dunsmuir to San Francisco in the "Klamath." Tentative Schedule Equipment will consist of a baggagc-mail car, day coach, ' standard puliman sleeper and. diner-lounge car, it was stated,. As tentatively set up, the northbound schedule calls for departure from San Francisco at 6:40 p. m., and arrival in Grants Pass at 11:30 a. m. Southbound, the departure from Grants Pass will be at 4:30 p. m., with arrival in San Francisco at 10:50 a. m. Although the time of arrival and departure has not yet been fixed for Medford, local railroad men pointed out that running time between here and Grants Pass is approximately one hour. The Jackson county Chamber of Commerce and other civic groups and individuals in the southern Oregon and northern California area affected have long been working for resump tion of the service. It has been particularly stressed that han dling of soldiers in and out of Camp White and- patients and staff of the Navy hospital at tha camp require more adequate facilities. BASEBALL National Pittsburgh 2 4 S Cincinnati 5 6 0 Bcjk, Gables (7) and Salkeld, Hctki and Lakeman. Brooklyn 8 13 2 New York 1 4 3 Branca and Sandlock; Brewer, Zabala, R. Fischer, Adams and Kluttz. American Cleveland 0 7 1 Detroit 11 13 0 Reynolds, Center and Hayes; Ncwhouser and Richards. Stanislawa Starroska, one ef the defendants who had changed pLiccs before tlio witness en tered. Speaking In Hungarian, Miss Stein retraced accounts by pre vious witnesses of how young; women were separated and se lected for the gas chambers. 'Sometimes the women were told to raise their skirts above the waist to see if their legs were strong, but usually they were completely naked," she said. She said Kramer and Irma, Grcse, another defendant, took part in the selections. Once when some tried to escape by hiding in the kitchen, Irma Grese searched them out and brought guards who shot them, the wit ness said. She said she also saw Irma, Grcse beating inmates with a rid ing whip. Another defendant, Peter Wcingartner, beat with blood-covered rubber truncheon some inmates who tried to steal potato teeiicg Uota ()) kjtf'.g-
