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Newspaper Page TextWeather Ui The Mall Tribune Want Ad Way Oulck Results At Small Coit Tribune FORECAST: CIr ta partly cloudy Sunday. Tfmp. Huh"' ytrdy 90 lowest this morning J7 United Press Full Leased Wlra Fortieth Year )FORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1945. NO. 162. Pnlted Press Full Leased Wire r- feiS V ' " - BBB " ' 1 ikt3 a !ft-li aaiiaCal WE .MOTHER'S EFFORTS HT RESCUE FAIL ! BLAZING HOI Tragedy Comes To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wells Satur day Morning Two infant sons of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wells, Butte Falls, were burned to death about 9 a. m. yesterday when their nonie was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Wells was brought to the Sacred Heart hospital by Mrs. R. E. and Ben Edmondson and is in a seri ous but not critical condition. According to Deputy Coroner . Carlos Morris, who investigated 'X ht iir11- I. .A ji Ine trageuy, jyhs. hcus iuu of Mrs. Roberta Hemple and as the stepped out of the Hemple home she heard her other four children in the yard screaming and saw flames shooting out of windows in the house. With Robert Hemple, 16, Mrs. Wells rushed to the house and was unable to gain entrance through the front door, Morris said. She broke out glass in a bedroom window with her hand and attempted to remove Kent, one month old, from the bed but was unable to do so. Ward, 18 months, was in a crib in the bed room but his mother was also unable to remove him. The father had gone deer hunting at 5:30 a. m. -yesterday and did not return until 1 p. m. A new drag saw was all that was saved as the house was com t pletely gutted. A volunteer fire f fighting crew was unable to check the conflagration. According to Morris, a son, Jack, came down stairs and found the fire in a front room stove had gone out. He took what he thought was kerosene to put on the blaze. The liquid was a highly inflammable clean ing fluid and quickly ignited, spreading throughout the room. The boy attempted to extinKuish the blaze but fled when he was unable to do so. The place was known as the Heckerthorn house and had been purchased by the Wells' about two years ago. A half-sister, Gale Robertson, resides at 322 North Oakdale avenue and is employed at the What-Not cafe. A grandmother, Mrs. Mary Ellis of Medford, also survives. Funeral services will be held .Tuesday at 2:30 p. m at the "J Conger-Morris chapel with inter ment in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Silverton. Ore., Sept. 29-(U.R) Mrs Eleanor Elmore and her three children burned to death rarly today in a fire of un known origin that destroyed their home. Mrs. Elmor's hus band. D. Elmore, is in. the arm ed services but his address was rot known here. Tillamook. Ore., Sept. 29 U.R) One-year-old Neil Joseph Fteiner droivned Friday when he feil into an open water tank near the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Steiner. Soldiers Trapped At Icy Camp Freed Narsarssuak, Greenland, Sept. 29 (U.R) Eleven American sol diers headed for this army base command headquarters tonight after being trapped in Green- land's icy mountains for almost year. The men were volunteer;, a ho staffed the lonely outpost weath er station at Skjoldungen. Green land, in the fall of 1944. Last January 8, a snowslide buried their food and their powerhouse. Since then they had been "on the land." Details 'of their rescue were disclosed by the army's eavtern defense command who prescrib ed the men's outpost as "a prison." MILL STRIKE ENDS Astoria, Ore., Sept. 29 L?J CIO mill workers at the Wanna Lumber company plant went back to work today after accjpt ing a federal conciliation otie for settlement of the dispute that started Sept. 14 over a local is tue. Ninety per cent of the church rnembers in L'tah are Mormons. Philippine President Arrives in U. S. IT F ii Wn k its Jt "" ' t-r,i- V f 1 .13 Lii3 C Msf$ &&r (Acme Telcphnto) Sergio Osema, president of the Philippines, Is welcomed at Hamilton Field, Calif., by group of admiring Filipino delegates including Miss Fran ces Begley (right), San Francisco girl, who presented the 67-year-old ex ecutive with a bouquet. Osmena waa en route to Washington, D. O. Sig nal Corps photo. OF JEWS SAME AS NAZIS IS CHARGE Washington, Sept. 29 (U.R) f President Truman tonight made public a report on the condition of Jews in Germany and Austria which charged that American military government forces ' ap pear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them." Simultaneously, he released a letter to Gen. Dwight Eisen hower ordering him to "clean up" the reported conditions and to turn Germans out of their homes, if necessary, to get the i Jewish survivors of Nazism out of filthy concentration camps. The Harrison report was a re cital of horrid conditions under which Germany's Jews have been subjected ever since "lib eration." They are still confined to con ucj ic u... uouu ...,.Ho . .v.u-..., . notorious Berger Bcisen camp-. and according to Harrison still are treated much as they were under the Germans. Harrison said that the Ger mans, by comparison, are better fed, better clothed and better housed than the Jews who pre sumably were "liberated." ALLIED CONTROL, OF JAVA STARTS Batavia. Java. Sept. 29 (U.R) Adrn. Lord Louis Mountbat- ten's southeast Asia command forces began the Allied reoccu-patio-i of Java today, putting 1 250 infantrymen and marines ashore in the Batavla area as the first step in bringing allied con trol to all parts of the island until the Dutch take over. The Stars and Stripes, the Ur:on Jack and thc Dutch Tri color were hoisted over former ,'apaii'sr-oceupied buildincs by the British troons soon after hey came ashore. Singapore reports had faid British troops speeded to Java because of reports of recent dis turbances here among Indone sian nationalists, but the landing action proceeded ."noothly with out demonstrations- by the na-tionaM:-ts or extremeists. Rear Adm. W R. Patterson, comminder of the fifth British eriiUor iniiadron said in a pro- nn that the tTOODS naa i.rrivM to accept thc surrender of Jicanese force', to protect he 'people and "to maintain 'aw pnd order until the time iv..f th lawful eovernment of the Netherlanrts Last inaics once gain functioning." IE JAP BEHEADINGS -OF YANK FLIERS -Pearl Harbor, Sept. 29 W.R) The body of Capt. M a s a f o r i Shiga, Japanese commander of Mili atoll in the Marshalls, was found in a tent on Majuro island Friday along with a note saying he assumed responsibility for the torture and decapitation of five captured American fliers in Jan uary, 1944, the navy announced today. He apparently killed him self by taking poison. Shiga was being held on Ma- juro pending outcome of an in- vestigation to fix responsibility for the deaths of the fliers. The text of the note he left was not revealed. As atoll commander, Shiga was accused of issuing the order that sent the fliers to their deaths. The navy, said 11 other Jap- anese officers, including two who iactuallv swune the swordsiPeai. advocates of such action st- bared necks of thc ... .... w hpin held on Majuro pending outcome of the investigation. Actual details of the torture and decapitation of the fliers was not revealed in the terse navy announcement the first revela tion of this act of Japanese treachery. . Names of the slain fliers were not revealed in the three-paragraph announcement but a navy spokesman promised they would be released as soon as possible. Mystery Shot Kills La Grande Matron La Grande. Ore., Sept. 29 !U.R) Mrs. Frank Lovely, young La Giande matron, was killed near here last night when an unidentified person shot into a group around a campfire. Mr. and Mrs. Lovely and Mr. and Mrs. Ncal Evans had gone to Fox Hill above La Grande Fridnv afternoon to await open ing el thc hunting season this morning. According to a state police report, an automobile ap proached and the shot was fired. Mrs. Lovely is survived by her husband, a small child and her parents. State Waltons Ask Change Cordon Bill Salem, Ore., Sept. 29 UR) Launching of a broad program designed to further the develop- ment of state lisn ana game re sources was announced today by Lloyd Reinhold, Salem, president of the Oregon division of thc Izaak Walton league. The organization went on rec ord as endorsing Sen. Guy Cor- don s bill authorizing protection of biological interests in water projects by the fish and wildlife i service but asking an amendment i to assure state control of fish and is game so that management prac- I tices wotild not be upset. ITPOSI WAR TAXDETAIL Four Billion Cut Business And Individuals Hinted In Unison Washington, Sept. 29 ill.R) The administration sends to con gress on Monday a postwar transition tax program expected to call for about $4,000,000,000 in tax relief for business and individuals. Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson will lay the ad ministration's recommendations before the House Ways and Means committee, which initi ates tax legislation. Both President Truman and Vinson have warned that sub stantial tax reductions connot be expected now. Congress Is expected to share that view, at though there may be some con flict over the amount and method of effecting reductions Anticipating a budget of about $25,000,000,000 for the 1947 fis cal year, Ways and Means com mittee members doubt that Vin son will propose tax cuts in ex cess of $4,000,000,000. The committee expects Vin son's proposals to deal primarily with the three per cent normal tax on individuals and the 95 per cent excess profits tax on business both wartime levies. Members believe the adminis tration cither will call for repeal of the normal tax or Increased exemptions. The tax imposes a three per cent levy on each tax payers' income in excess of S500 and allows no additional exemp tion for dependents. Repeal, which has been advo cated by Rep. A. Willis Robert son, D., Va., would cost the treasury an estimated $2,000, 000,000. Both the administra tion and Ways and Means com mittee democrats will be aligned against the republican proposal to cut personal taxes 20 per cent in all brackets. The committee has been wond ering whether Vinson would favor complete repeal of the ex cess profits tax. Some demo crats have indicated preference for a sharp cut rather than out right repeal. However, if Vin son shoul son should not recommend re- of will confront him with his July h renort as war m,lhili7a)i. I rector. Vinson said then that ! ,he excess profits tax should be repealed after V-J day. 000LITTLE TRIO SHOT Shanghai, Sept. 29 (U.R) The three American fliers sen tenced to death after MaJ. Gen. James H. Doolittle's 1942 raid on Tokyo were tied to low wooden crosses and shot in a field some five miles from down town Shanghai. The field already was bathed with the blood of more than 1,000 Chinese who were behead ed or .ihot in a Confucion temple some 100 yards from the spot where the Americans were killed. The three executed fliers were 2nd Lt. Dean Hallmark. Dallas. Tex.; 2nd Lt. William Glovei Farrow, Washington and Darlington, S C, and Sgt. Har old A Spatz, Lebo, Kan. Some 10 Chinese families liv ing beside the road near the field were a'ways driven to covpr oy the Japanese when ex- ecut.;&n took place to prevent '.heir The callv witnessing the killings, -.-aid the did not specifi remember the Americans shot. Japanese murder being rauai. arrived at the field three or four times a month, they said. SEEKS FORTUNE Panton, Lincolnshire, Sept. 29 (U.R) Cyril Wilcman, 47, a fac tory worker, will leave shortly for the United States to claim a $15,000,000 fortune left by a California gold miner. JAP CENSORSHIP, BY MACS ORDER Army Demobilized Free Press and Speech Invoked By Directives Tokyo, Sept. 29 U.R Japan ' reported today that four-fifths of the two and one-half million men of its crack home army, which a month ago stood fanatic ally ready to resist invasion to the death, had laid down their arms and returned to civilian life. With this end of Japanese mill t a r i s m, dictatorial oppression was ending too as Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered the abolition of Japan's traditional censorship of newspapers, radio, motion pic tures, mail and communications. The order gave Japan a free press for the first time and took effect immediately. Three Tokyo newspapers resumed selling edi tions which the home ministry had banned because they carried interviews with Hirohito by two American newspapermen. The government reported that demobilization had been complet ed In northern Honshu, the area occupied by the U. S. 11th army. In the central sector of this larg est of the home islands, nearly all troops have been discharged, me report said. The demobilization of troops remaining on southern Honshu and Kyushu was delayed by the bept. 17 typhoon. The govern ment requested MacArthur to permit temporary resumption of air travel between Fukuoka and Osaka to speed demobilization. MacArthur's directive ordered the elimination of censorship of all kinds and the repeal of all laws designed to control the writ ten and spoken word. It ordered the Japanese government to re port on the 1st and 16th days of each month on the steps It had taken toward fulfilling his or ders. The order, supplementing Mac Arthur's freedom of the press directive of Sept. 24, was said to have been drafted several days ago but was announced now because the home ministry had forbidden the sale of the Tokyo newspapers, Mainichl, Asahl and Yomiuri. Those papers had printed In terviews with the emperor by Hugh Baillie, president of United Press, and Frank L. Kluckhohn of thc New York Times. Malnichi also had published a picture showing MacArthur towering over thc emperor as they posed during Hirohito's call on thc allied supreme commander at thc U. S. embassy. PACFUR00PS San Francisco, Sept. 29 U.R) The carrier Saratoga, making her second trip as a "passenger liner," will dock tomorrow at 8:30 a. m. at Alameda with 3,745 returning soldiers, thc navy an nounced tonight. Also docking in San Francisco bay ports tomorrow will be the mighty battleship Maryland with 1.519 returning servicemen, and the carriers Hornet with 2,200 passengers and Bunker Hill with 294. OF RATIONING TOLD Seattle, Sept. 29 (U.R) No immediate change in liquor ra tioning in Washington state Is contemplated. Chairman Luther E. Gregory of the State Liquor Control board said tonight, after announcement that rationing wrill end in Oregon Monday. Gregory declined to comment further on the possibility of i elimination of rationing here. Tokyo, Sunday, Sept. 30 01 R) City officials announced a drive today from Oct. 1 through Oct. 10 to clean up thc city's bomb damaged area. CIO PICKET LINE Whiting Mayor Asks Help As Refinery Strike Flares Menacingly Whiting, Ind., Sept. 29 (U.R) CIO pickets were withdrawn suddenly tonight from thc Whit ing refinery of the Standard Oil company of Indiana. A spokesman for Standard Oil said the pickets dispersed within five minutes after announce ments were made that "thc troops are coming." Whiting, Ind., Sept. 29 (UP.) Mayor James McNamara to night told Indiana Gov. Ralph Gates that "law and order" was breaking down in Whiting and Lake county where the CIO had clamped a tight ring of 2,000 pickets around the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Refinery. Several small battles broke out ai the pickets, armed with clubs and using their fists, rout ed rtfinery workers trying to enter the massive plant. Mayor McNamara again ap pealed to Governor Gates for units of the state guard or thc state police. The city official talked by long distance to Gov ernor Gates who was in French Lick, Ind., to address a state republican meeting. McNamara and Lake County Sherlft Fred Stults ''decided to ask the governor "fSr "immedi ate assistance' 'after a 12-hour conference. Meanwhile, the OWIU acted to forestall a w,ter shortage for the city of Whiting when lt announced lt would permit workers to man the pumps in the refinery which furnish wa ter to the community, A unit of thc Indiana state guard already had been mobiliz ed as Mayor McNr.mara declar ed a 3tate of emergency existed in Whiting. Mayor McNamara declared the state of emergency and said his police force could not man age the mass of humanity that was Jammed around and In the neighborhood of the plant, last rcfim.ry operating In the Calu met River industrial area which supplies Chicago with most of its oil products. OF HUN VICTIMS AT HORROR CAMP Lueneburg, Sept. 29 (U.R) New mass graves of nazi victims were found today within a mile of Lueneburg, where 45 prison camp guards and commanders accused of atrocities are on trial for their lives. The discovery In a clearing of pine woods near a railroad was not directly connected with the trial. But it was a former trial witness, Harold Ledruillenec from the Channel Island of Jer scy, who located the graves. He had been present at the ruth less burials. Ledruillenec, a former British schoolmaster, told how last April bombers had blasted four cars loaded with nazi captives headed for the Bcisen camp. Half of those in the cars were killed. Some of the survivors were sent on to Belsen. Nazi guards then forced the remaining prisoners to dig the graves for the dead. As fast as the graves were filled, the diggers themselves were shot and dumped in. Around the graves today for mer Belsen inmates tried vainly to identify relatives among thc bones and fragments of bodies. Meanwhile, before a British military court at Lueneburg a string of witnesses continued a recital of horrors. Wenatchce, Wash., Sept. 29 (U.R) Twelve-year-old Glen Mu guerz of Seattle was killed to day when a .22 rifle accidentally discharged. WAR BULLETINS Roma, Sept. 29 (U.R) Lt. Can. Joiaph T. McNarnay of Emporium, Pa commander of U. S. f orcai in the Mediterran ean theater of operations, hat been named supreme allied commander In the MTO to re place Field Marshal Sir Harold R. Alexander, allied headquar ters announced today. Alexan der will become governor gen eral of Canada. London, Sept. 29 (U.R) The partial evacuation of S o v 1 e t troops from Manchuria began several days ago. Radio Mos cow announced tonight. The main eracuatton will begin during the last half of October' and will be completed by the end of November, the broad cast said. BIG FOUR PLANS COMMISSION FOR GOVERNING JAPS Russia, China, Britain and America to Meet Tokyo, Washington Soon London. Sept. 29 (U.R) Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes announced tonight that the United States. Great Britain Russia and China had agreed to fnrmutlim of a commission to formulate a nolicv for Japan and that meetings would be neio in Washington and Tokyo. First meeting of tho commis sion will be held in Washington soon. Byrnes said. H an nounccd that the commission would be asked to consider whether an Allied control coun cil should be set up in Japan, as requested by the Soviet Union. Soviet Foreign Commissar V, M. Molotov had introduced the Question of an Allied control council for Japan earlier this week. Byrnes' announcement indicated he had attempted compromise with Russia on the question of Japan. A reliable source reported to night that Byrnes also had at tempted to break the deadlock over treaties with former enemy countries In the Balkans by pro-1 posing a conference of "all in terested belligerents" to be fol lowed by a meeting among the United States, Great Britain and Russia, Russia had insisted the Balkan treaties were a question concerning only the Big Three. However, it was reported later that Russia had rejected this new compromise attempt and that the United States and the Soviet Union still were hopelessly dead locked on the Balkan situation. Formation of the Japan com mission was assured when Brit ain agreed to join. Byrnes' an nouncement said seven other powers France, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands and India, would be Invited to become members. SEXY AXIS SALLY GETS FOUR YEARS Rome, Sept. 29 U.R) Sexy voiced Axis Sally, whose nazi propaganda broadcasts from Rome radio were known to every GI who fought from North Af rica to Florence, was found guil ty by an Italian military court of intelligence with the enemy today and sentenced to four years and five months In prison. Born Rita Zucca, daughter of a New York restauranteur, and once an American citizen, Axis Sally was tried before seven Ital ian army officers in a tiny white washed room. Prosecution 'wit nesses included three American soldiers and two Germans who had appeared on Sally's pro gram. The"f?'latively light sentence was handed down after a one hour and 40 minute oration by Defense Attorney Ovlatto Llbct to. Under Italian law, Sally's nine-months old son may go to Jail with her until he is two years old. OVER 1LLINI 70 TOP GRID UPSET Northwestern Ties Indiana In Another Surprise Other Scores New York, Sept. 29 U.R) Notre Dame's Irish, supposedly just a pale green imitation of the school's great color beurera of the past, served a "Mickey Finn" to a hopeful Illinois eleven today, winning 7 to 0 for iti ninth straight victory over tin Big Ten rivals. The Irish, playing an uniqtn role as underdogs, didn't like it and came through for one of Ilia day's top upsets. A newcomer to the Irish ranks. Phil Colella, playing his first collegiate game, ran 76 yards to) the touchdown in the first min ute of play. The Notre Dam victory only slightly overshadowed another surprising midwest performance) by the Northwestern wildcast, who held highly favored Indiana to a 7-all tie. The Hoosicrs, con. sidered Big Ten title timber after their victory last week over Michigan, outplayed NorthwesU ern but couldn't get the margin necessary to win. In tho east, Army had touch, downs to spare in a 32 to 0 vic tory over the Louisville, Ky.f AAF eleven. Navy defeated ViU lanova, 49 to 0. Yale topped Tufts 27 to 0 and Pennsylvania) was a 50 to 0 victor over Brown. Colgate defeated Rochester 40 to 0, Cornell laced Bucknell 10 to 8, Holy Cross beat Dartmouth 13 to 6, Fenn State was a 47 to 7 victor over Muhlenberg, Pitts, burgh defeated West Virginia, 20 to 0, Boston College larruped Squantum Naval Base, 13 to 0. Michigan bounced back from the Indiana defeat to beat MlchU gan State 40 to 0. Purdue) topped Great Lakes Naval, 20 to 6,; Iowa drubbed Jowa Teachers- 48 u, Wisconsin defeated Marquette 40 to 13, and Iowa was a 14 to 13 victor over Berg. Strom, Tex., AAF. Duke rolled over Bogue Field. 76 to 0. Georgia Tech defeated a North Carolina eleven, 20 ta i, While Georgia won 20 to n from Clemson. Florida beat Mississippi 26 to 13, South Caro. Iina defeated Presbyterian, 40 ta 0, Tennessee topped Wake For. est, 7 to 0, Vandcrbilt beat Ten. ncssee Poly, 12 to 0, Virginia, defeated North Carolina State 23 to 6, William and Mary won, 19 to 6 from Catawba and Ala. bama topped Kcssler Field, 21 to 0. In the southwest, Oklahoma A. ic M.'s topped Arkansas 19 to 14. Texas Christian edged Baylor, 7 to 6, and Texas de. feated Southwestern, 46 to 0. Oklahoma won 20 to 0 over Nczraska, while Kansas Stat beat Wichita, 13 to 6. L L Washington, Sept. 29 'U.R' President John L. Lewis of the) United Mine Workers warned bituminous operators tonight that they were inviting troublo in thc soft coal fields. . He made the warning In re newing his request that repre sentatives of the operators meet with the UMW Monday to dis cuss unionization of mine supr. visors. The dispute alfVady has closed 80 mines. Lumber Strikers At Lebanon Aid Plant Lebanon, Ore., Sept. 29 (U.R) Full crews, made up of strik ing AFL lumber workers, today manned all shifts at the Spencer Packing Company plant at Lebanon for the first time In two years. Cat.nery officials said the re. maindcr of the prune and toma. to crop can be saved if the men continue working Several thousand .dollars worth of crops have been lost in the area be cause of the manpower short, age.