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Mac Orders Arrest of Japanese Who Carried Out Palawan Mas sacre Weather FORECAST: Clftr to partly rloudy tonight and Saturday. Slijhtly warmer. Temp. Hlfhest Yesterday SO Lowest Uils Mornlnc - 31 Fortieth Year NAVY HOSPITAL AT CAMP WHITE GETS PATIENTS 168 Mostly Ambulatory Are Checked In; Branch P. 0., Phone Service Installed. Arrival of 168 patients Wed nesday for the naval hospital at Camp White was announced this morning by Captain H. B. LaFavre, medical officer in command of the hospital. Most of the patients are ambulatory and "find this pretty nice the captain said. Patients will be arriving "more or less regularly' from now on. the officer said, and added that the men are held for 48 hours for checking and are then permitted to ask for liber ty, which most do at once. The men do not arrive directly from overseas, but are screened at other hospitals first, Capt. La Favre said, those Wednesday having come to Camp White from Oakland, Calif. Some will remain here for treatment and others will be sent to hospitals nearer their homes, he said. Branch P.O. Establishment of a branch postoffice unit and of an ap pended public pay telephone ser vice and Western Union ser vice are underway at the hospi tal. Frank DeSouza, Mcdford post master, states that the hospital postal unit would open Monday in quarters in the hospital build ing provided by the navy. Clerk for the present will be Mrs. Edith H. Whillock of Medford. The army postal unit Is still in j operation, he said. T The appended telephone ser vice will be ready for use in shout two weeks according to D. O. Hood of the Columbia Utilities comDany. which oper fctes the Camp White telephone system. He stated that the pay station and Western Union ser vice would be set up in the old medical library room directly nhnve the "ship's service" room nf the naw There will be. a switchboard, booths and counter service, he said, and a staff of five onerators and attendants will he necessarv for the various shifts Nine booths are already; in operation at the hospital in various parts of the building, Hood stated. Two similar appended service units were installed at Camp White earlier, and one on the west side of the camp is still in operation. Hood added. DEATH OF CHILD Suit for ' $10,000 damages against Anthony Boitano and Charles W. Bottjcr, doing busi ness at the City Sanitary com pany, was filed in circuit court yesterday by H. R. Sutton, ad minstrator of the estate of his son, Victor Ray . Sutton, 18-month-old, killed last August 20. by the wheel of a truck owned by the defendants. Negligence on the part of Phil B. Griggs, driver, and William N. Bailey, helper on the truck, is alleged in the complaint. The complaint sets forth that the child was standing in an alley on the day of the tragedy when the defendants' truck was back ed up, striking the boy and caus- ing his death. It is alleged due : caution was not exercised by the ' defendants' agents. It is also cited the boy was a healthy child, with a long life ex pectancy, with the probability he would have an estate of $10,000, the damages sought. Pig Crop Redution May be Requested Washington. Sept. 28 (U.R) The agriculture department may ask farmers to produce 8" 000. 000 pigs in 1946 or about the same number produced this year, it was learned today. This level of production would make available in the latter part of next year and 1947 the same amount of pork marketed this year Th. ti. mmittre of thecontanne a coded message pin- t department has recommended a v 1946 spring goal of 52.000.ouu f;s and a fall crop of 35,000,000 MEDFORD United Press Jobs-For-All Bill Compromise Voted On Spending Phase Washington. Sept. 28 (U.R), The senate today adopted by voice vote a compromise amend ment to the administration's jobs-for-all bill, directing that federal spending to defeat de pressions be "consistent with otner government obligations." The amendment, offered by aen. tan A. Hatch, D., N. M., changed the wording of the most controversial provision of ine Dill. The compromise swept away wnHi, naa Deen the biggest ob stacle to passaee of the meaenro designed to set up machinery for government planning against de pressions and unemployment and listed as a must by President iruman. ESALE Nuevo Laredo, Mex., Sept. 28 (U.R) Twenty persons were held in the Nuevo Laredo jail today, charged with ihe whole sale slaughter of Mexican work ers in cities along the Texas Mexican border. The heavy toll of victims, be lieved slain for their money as they crossed the Rio Grande en route back to Mexico after work ing in the United States, stood at 38 known dead, but Federal Prosecutor E m i 1 1 o Villalobos said there may be others. Villalobos said American and Mexican federal officials had been working on the cases for several-months sincethe bodies found In the Rio Grande showed violence as the cause of death. He said all of the hundred persons,, including one woman had crossed into Texas from Mexico illegally and on their re turn had been waylaid and mur dered for their money. Nineteen bodies have been tak en from the river near Browns ville, Tex., 13 near Hidalgo, Tex., and six near Mission; Tex. Jimmy Stewart Civilian Tonight Washington, Sept. 28 (U.R) It will be Civilian Jimmy Stew art, 37, veteran, destination Hol lywood, by nightfall. During the afternoon the for mer motion picture star was scheduled to take his final phy sical examination, pick up his pay and discharge papers and don civilian clothes for the first time In four and a half years. Stewart accumulated 126 points to qualify for discharge. Deadlock Holds Big Five Confab London, Sept. 28 (U.R) The Big Five foreign ministers met today for what promised to be their final sessions, still dead locked over Balkan peace treaties. American delegation sources said they hoped for a full, final communique on the three-week conference tomorrow. Murderer Treasure Chest Yields Ancient Goid, Silver Chatham. Mass., Sept. 28 (U.R) Experts today checked the rare coin value of about $2,000 worth of ancient gold and silver coins found in a murderers treasure cnest unearthed from the sands 0f fjaUset Beach after nearly 100 years. tk. knnvprv climaxed a hunt combining all the ingredients ol j a ianiaSllL SlUIJlUUVJA "to-u,t search a coded message hidden in the musty pages of an old Italian volume, the mysterious slaying of a peg-legged seaman, an abandoned house and the wreck of a family fortune. The small copper chest was un earthed on the w ind-blown beach yesterday by Boston Harbor His torian Edward Rowe Snow. It contained nearly 400 coins of seven nations dated from 1694 to 1854. Snow hunted for the treasure for 18 months after running arrnce an ancient Italian DOok pricked on a page. He had the j secret oicipnerca ana me nuni was on. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRI COAL INDUSTRY LATEST TO FACE STRIKEJHREAT President Lewis of UMW Serves Notice of Drive to Organize Mining Bosses. By United Steles A threat of new strikes in the nation's coal mines was rais ed today by President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers as oil workers and re finers took their wage dispute to Washington for further negotia tions. At Washington, Lewis notified the soft coal industry that he was out to organize supervisory employes in the nation's mines. He asked the negotiating com mittea of the mine operators to meet with UMW representatives next Monday "to settle" the question And he Implied that the UMW would support cur rent strikes by supervisory workers" with sympathy walk outs, if necessary Third Party Move Labor sources, in Washington believed the organizing drive was the start of a campaign by Lewis to form a third major la bor movement in competition with the American Federation of Labor and the congress of in dustrial organizations. . Meanwhile, top government officials moved into the dead locked negotiations in the strike of 26.000 oil workers, whlcn Petroleum Administrator Har old L Ickes said "jeopardized the security of every American citizen. Acrass the nation, work stop pages from labor disputes left about 680,000 workers Idle. Other uncounted thousands were being kept away from their jobs by a strike of elevator operators in New York city. Clerks Threaten Another serious strike threat was issued by the united retail wholesale, and department store pmnlnves of America (t-iu) which announced at Atlantic City that a strike might be call ri ojainst Montgomery Ward and Company's wholesale and rotai! stores. A strike would affect 75.000 workers. 0CT0BERTIRE SUPPLY SAME AS SEPTEMBER Washington, Sept. 28 XU.R) The Office of Price Administra tion announced today that 2.500, 000 rjassenger car tires would be rationed in October, the same quota as for September. OPA said that the quotas, which are now at "rock bottom," are not large enough to meet the unprecedented demands that have followed the lifting of gaso line rationing. San Francisco, Sept. 28 U.R) Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure to day sentenced the Goldficld American Development Co., Ltd., to pay a $7,500 fine after the firm's attorneys entered a plea of nolo contendre to an In dictment charging participation in a borax cartel in restraint of trade. Snow originally heard rumors of the buried treasure from two Chatham natives in 1943. One of them was one-legged John Nuskey, who went about his duties as island caretaker on a wooden leg. Six months after Nuskey disclosed the secret, his body was found under a dory on the beach a tow-line tight tlTs' ii V j c .- j'01 Kras and brush fire which Undeterred, Snow continued i ,",, v, ,,, Am . the search. He learned that the chest was hidden by a light house keeper known as "King of Calf Island'' sometime be tween 1854 and 1882. The king came to Boston in 1854 to escape Canadian authori ties seeking him for a barrel-1 stave murder. He became keeper of bug-light in Boston harbor and sometime after that buried the money and kept its location secret until he died in 1882. The king's brother in Canada somehow learned of the chest "" "-" fanny ior u ror 11 fa. spending a considerable 'less. - 'v..w tiuuir JEPTEMBER 28, 1945. Wtt'Ti pS"l .Vt V Frankfurt, Sept. 28 0J.R) Gen. George S Patton reported to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today on the denazification of Bavaria, where army invcstiga tors were said to have found 20 known Nazis holding high posi tions in the provincial govern ment Patton, military governor of Bavaria, arrived at Eisenhower s headquarters at 4:30 p.m. to ex plain personally the stand he had taken that certain Nazis should be kept in administra tive positions. Eisenhower had ordered all Nazis ousted, and his chief of staff had rebuked Pat ton fur his statements on the subject. More than two hours later the conference still was going on. While it was in progress, re liable sources reported that an official army Investigation in Bavaria had established that a rmre of Nazis were in import ant Drovincial government posi tions. San Francisco, Sept. 28 (U.R) The San Francisco bay area to day prepared to receive approxi mately 10,000 military personnel returning from the Pacific tnis week-end aboard 11 warships and merchant craft. Due today were the escort car rier Shamrock Bay and six un identified freighters and other small vessels ' carrying a com bined total of 928 men back for discharge or reassignment. The battleship Indiana, vanguard of the Third fleet, was due Satur day with 855 passengers. On Sunday the large carriers Sara toga, with 3.745 passengers and the Hornet with 2,201, and the battleship Maryland, carrying 2,119 returnees, were to arrive. 1,500 Acres Swept In Bolinas Blaze (By United Preti) Fire officials in northern Cali fornia communities today were on the alert for fresh outbreaks widespread area in a low-humidity heat wave. Marin county fire department crews were attempting to con trol a blaze that swept the Bol inas Ridge region from Lagunl tas Canyon to Ihe junction of the Stimson Beach and Bo'.inos roads. The fire started yester day afternoon and early today had burned over 1,500 acres. OSMENA ARRIVES Hamilton Field, Cal., Sept. 28 (U.R) President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines arrived here today from Manila abo;d a Sky master. Osmena was expected to leave tomorrow afternoon for Waibingloa. c '"ft v vt j - , sr. Marilyn Bohnert here exhibits her grand champion steer, Beau, who won top honors at the Jackson county 4-H club fair held this week. Yesterday during the annual stock sale Beau was sold to Valentine's Cafe for 47 cents a pound. Marilyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bohnert of Central Point, bought the Hereford steer from the Blue Moon ranch last January. Marilyn Bohnert's Hereford Steer Beau Grand Champion County Beau, Grand Champion Steer of the 1945 Jackson county 4H club fair was sold yesterday to Valei. line's Cafe for 47 cents a pound. Beau was fed by Marilyn Bohnert, Central Point, and was her first attempt to feed a steer In 4H club work, Marilyn bought Beau from the Blue Moon Ranch, last January. The 4H fair closed last night. Reserve Champion steer sold for 3d cents a pound to Frank lin's Cafe. The steer was fed by Carol Lee Wyatt, Antelope, and she bought from the Ousterhout ranch of that community. Grand Champion lamb was sold by Don Nichols of Bellvlew for 35 cents a pound to Kerr Market, Ashland. Grand Champion barrow was bought by Crater Meat Co., of Medford at 30 cents a pound. This barrow was fed by Mar garet Reed of Table Rock and came from the Lindow ranch at Hillsboro. Average price paid for steers was 23 cents a pound, for lambs 18.5 cents and for barrows 32 cents a pound Following Is a complete sales list of stock sold at the auction yesterday with place breed, weight, price per pound, exhibitor and buyer: First, light Hereford, 820, 36c, "Jug" Duplicates Yesterday's 69 Portland, Ore.. Sept. 28 (U.R) Harold McSpaden of-Sanford, Me., today duplicated his 60 score of yesterday in the Port land Open golf tournament to take a second-round lead of 138 strokes, 6 under par. His-33 on the first nine was followed by a 36 coming In, with missed putts robbing him of a record breaking score. Other scores: Jimmy Hines, Chicago, 71-70 141. Fred Wood, Vancouver, B. C, 74-72146. Jack Gage. San Bernardino, Cal.. 74-76150. Eddie Hogan, Portland, 79-74 153. Gordon Richards, Seattle, 79-, 79164. Elliott Roosevelts Use Mansion Frte Los Angeles. Sept. 28 (U.R) Elliott Roosevelt and his actress wife. Faye Emerson live In Sportsman Grenville Wl Strat- ton's Beverly Hills home rent- free. Stratton revealed in a de position filed in superior court today. Stratton, 60. owner of the Cir cle S S racing stable, made an affidavit in answer to a $1500 monthly separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs. Cora Stratton. who mentioned the free rent matter as an example of wasting community assets. "The Roosevelts have bwn my zueMs iinc May 1," Stratton Mid, 1RIBUNE United Press Full Iff Tit MM MM !t n t I ' vv,L ! I , ' I ' L v J its 1 M A5 j - Selda Carlton, Upper Rogue, Owl Club. First, heavy light Hereford, 975, 30c, Fay Ash, Upper Rogue, Kampfcr's. , First, heavy Hereford, 1190 35c, Allcne Owens, Valley View Gates Groceteria. Second, light Hereford, 900, 30c, Dalton Lcmley, Valley View, Elks Club. Second, heavy light, Hereford, 950, 30c, Louise Thames, Roxy Ann, Monarch Feed. Second, light heavy, Here ford, 1025, 27c, Lois Field, An telope, Gates Groceteria. Second, heavy, Angus, 1086, 26c, Jan Freeman, Antelope, Raymond Retcr. Second, heavy, Hereford, 1130, 28c, Chira Mae Bigham, Gates Groceteria. Third, light, Hereford, 855, 26c, Jim Damon, Lake Creek, River side Market. Third, heavy light, Hereford, 975, 32e,' Tom Carlton, Upper Rogue, Gates Groceteria. Third, light heavy, Hereford, 1020,29c, Don Nichols, Bellview, Kerr Market. Third, heavy, Angus, 1050, 26c, Walter Cahall, Antelope, Piggly Wiggly. Third, heavy, Hereford, 1120, 27c, Elva Carlton, Upper Rogue, Luman. Fourth, light, Hereford, 905, 20c, Wayne Lcmley, Valley View, Kampfcr's. Fourth, heavy light, Hereford, 974, 25c, Lorcna Millard, Reese Creek, Safeway. Fourth, heavy light, Hereford, 950, 26c, Dale Bigham, Bellview, Goldy. Fourth, light heavy, Angus, 1040, 23c. Waller Byrd, Ante lope, Kerr. Fourth, heavy Hereford, 1200, 25c, Beth McCurlcy, West Side, Mann's. Fifth, light, Hereford. 800, 30c, Dick Bradshaw, Lake Creek, Ho tel Medford. Fifth, heavy light, Hereford, 010, 29c, Betty Bradshnw, Lake Creek, Riverside Market. Fifth, heavy light, Hereford, 910, 29c. Betty Bradshaw, Lake Creek, Riverside Market. Fifth, light heavy, Hereford, 085, 25c. Phyllis Cahail, Ante lope, Hubbard Wray. Fifth, heavy, Hereford, 1190, 23c, Henry Padgham, Roxy Ann, Kampfcr's. Fifth, heavy, Angus, 1075, 22c, Robert Byrd, Bellview, U. S. Bank. Sixth, light, Hereford, 6R5, 21c, Rodney Tweclell, Valley View, Union Club. Sixth, light heavy, Hereford, 910, 22c, Charles Asl.polc, Roxy Ann, Timber Products. Sixth, light heavy, Hereford, 980, 21c, Peggy McCurlcy, West Side, First National Bank. Sixth, heavy, Hereford, 1085, 21c, Pete Flury, Antelope, Gro ceteria. Light. Hereford. 510, 25c, Har old Walch, Antelope, Auction company. Light, Hereford, 730, 20c, Leased Wire NO. 161. U 41 M M t tl - i fiv-W- .... i 4-H Club Show Craig Canfleld, Elk Creek, Tal ent Sawmill. Light, Horcford, 840, 2Se. Wil liam Padgham, Roxy Ann, Med- lord Co-op. Light, Hereford, 875, 18c, Shirley Damon, Lake Creek, Safeway. Light, Hereford, 890, 20c Glenn Williams, Valley View, Talent Sawmill. Light, Hereford, 900, 18c, Joe ronton. Talent, Safeway. Light, Hereford, 900, 18e, Ed die Picle, Shady Cove, Safeway. Light, Hereford, 905, 20c, Bob Willoughby, Bellview, Brian Donlevy, Heavy light, Hereford, 946, 20c, Joan Conner, Reese Creek, First State Bank, Eagle Point. Heavy light, Hereford, 950, 19c, Joyce Conner, Reese Creek, Kampfcr's. Heavy light, Hereford, 950, 20c, Mnry Estramado, Gold Hill, Knmpfer's. Heavy light, Hereford, 950, 18c, Bill Davis, Applcgatc, Safe way. Heavy light, Hereford, 955, 26c Richard Wilcox, Bellview, Harper Meats. Henvy light, Hereford, 960. 19c, Romona Estramado, Gold Hill. Kampfcr's. Heavy light, Hereford, 970, 23c, Ted Willoughby, Bellview, Elks Club, Ashland. (To be continued) Earth Good Fot Many Years Yet Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 28 (UR Tal(, n from Geologist Kirtley F. Mather of Harvard University, the earth will keep going for billions of years de spite the forecast of a California clergyman who looks forward to meeting the Lord Sunday. "From the physical point of view, there Is nothing in the off ing that would destroy the earth," the professor said reas suringly In an Interview. "The lurid pictures of a sudden de bacle such as that painted by the Rev. Charles Long are products of a vivid imagination and are wholly without foundation in scientific fact or theory." GLOBE GIRDLERS START SIX-DAY AERIAL JAUNT Washington, Sept. 28 (U.R) The four -motored army air transport command plane "Glob ster" took off at 4:58 p. m. (EWT) today on the first leg of a 23. 147-mile flight around the world in six and a quarter days. The flight Inaugurates a regu lar world-girdling service by the ATC. The plane, which is sched uled to return here next Thurs day at midnight, headed east ward for Bermuda after the take off. The route will take the plane to Casablanca, Cairo, In dia and then across Asia to Manila and home via the Pacific. In 1853 Commodore Perry opened up Japan to American trade. ;- mm f 9 Ad 34 OFFICERS, MEN Tokyo Newspaper with Hiro hito-MacArthur Picture Is Suppressed by Japanese, Tokyo, Sept. 28 U.PJ Gen. Douglas MacArthur today ord ered the arrest of 34 Japanese) officers and men for the mas sacre of more than 100 Allied war prisoners in the Philippines last Dec. 14. The Japanese were accused of herding the prisoners into an air raid shelter on Palawan, west ernmost of the Philippines, drenching it with gasoline and. setting it afire. Tokyo. Sept. 28 (U.R) Gen. Douglae MacArthur to day announced that three veteran Pacific combat di visions would embark for the United States within ihe next seven weeks. Quoting war - department estimates, MacArthur said shipping space will be avail able for the return of 1.490, 000 men from the P a e 1 1 e theater during the next seven months. Units to be. returned following the 43rd which Is already loading at Yokohama are: The 31st division. Oct. 31t 38th division. Nov. It and the 37th. Nov. IS. Prisoners who escaped were, machinegunned and bayoneted. 8th To Make Arrest The arresting order went out to the American Eighth army, but it was not clear immediately whether the wanted men were) In Japan or still in the Philip pines. Some units of the Eighth have just moved from the Philip pines into southern Japan. Named for complicity in th massacre were the ranking of. fleer, Lt. Col. Oie Satoshi, four captains, 13 first lieutenants, nine eecond lieutenants, a pro bationary officer, two warrant officers and four non-commissioned officers. In Tokyo, Japanese police to day halted the sale of a Tokyo newspaper carrying a large photograph of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur and Emperor Hirohito standing together In the Amer ican embassy. The MacArthur-Hlrohlto pic ture appeared the only possible material In the newspaper the Tokyo Shlmbun which the, Japanese government might have considered objectionahle. Emperor Dwarfed The two-column cut showed the emperor in formal morning attire standing beside but a full head shorter than MacArthur In regulation khakis with open necked shirt. The Japanese Home Office's Censorship department later ex plained the edition was banned because the photograph was an "unclear print." Early editions of tomorrow's Mainichi destined for outlying districts will carry the same photograph, taken by the U. S. Army Signal corps, as a five-column cut. The Japanese traditionally be lieve that no mortal should look down on their emperor, whom they regard as a god, and this may have played a part In the ban. Upper stories of houses normally are shuttered when the emperor passes in formal pro cession. MacArthur, meantime, author ized full Japanese production of all textiles except silk and silk mixtures. The latter require specific approval from Allied headquarters. Ho also approved the release of 10,000 metric tons of leather and 6,000 tons of raw rubber for use in making shoes. The order apparently was designed to get the Japanese clothed and shod before winter. Motor truck pro duction also will be resumed, but the manufacture of pas senger vehicles has not been ap proved. Wiedemann Arrives Under Silent Order Wsshington, Sept. 28 (U.R) Fritz Wiedemann, former Hitler confident and consul general in San Francisco, was flown into Washington shortly after 1 p.m. EWT, today for cross examina tion ny the army. The C-54 skymastcr in which Wiedemann arrived under army guard carried 31 other passen gers, but all were given strict instructions not to discuss the. Nazi with the press under a war department "no talking" order. San Diego, Sept. 28 (U.R) Four contracts totaling $3,600.- 000 for navy construction will be halted in two weeks if the lumber yard workers continue their strikes, the M. H. Golden Construction Co., announced to day as the fifth jard closed 85- terdajr, -
