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Newspaper Page TextCIO Claims Detroit Settlements Mark First Break In Oil Strike Weather MEDFyRD (FORECAST: Clear tonljht ind Tuesday. Little chance In temperature. Temp. Highest Testerdar 90 Lowest this Morning .41 AGREE TO MEET United Press Fr Wire United Press Full Leased Wirft Fortieth Year DFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1945. NO. 163. Settlement Expected to Ease TAX REDUCTIONS Libereea on K. P. Through Error Is Pickets Block Off Indiana Oil Refinery in Strike 'S Gasoline Shortage Soon G. E. Workers Halteo) Duv Commander's Alibi -n rr RIBUNE Administration Program Urges Repeal 3 Per Cent Normal Tax On Incomes Washington, Oct. 1 (U.R) The administration asked con gress today to repeal the three per cent normal tax on indi vidual incomes and thus remove an estimated 10,000,000 persons from the federal tax rolls. It also called for repeal of the 95 per cent wartime excess pro fits tax on business, effective next January 1, and asked con gress to fix a definite date when wartime excise taxes would re vert to 1942 levels. The first glimpse of the ad ministration's postwar transition tax program, which would cut government's income upwards of $4,000,000,000 a year, was given in Reconversion Director John W. Snyder's quarterly re port to congress. It was made public while Secretary of Treas ury Fred M. Vinson was closeted with tax-writing house ways and means committee, presumably outlining the same recommenda tions. The committee hopes to have congress complete action on the emergency tax relief by ov. 1 so that the lower rates on both Individuals and business can go into effect Jan. 1. Broader re visions of the federal tax struc ture are expected to follow. Snyder noted in his report that increased taxes had been adopted as an emergency meas ure to siphon off some of the inflationary spending powei of both business and individuals during the war. "Correspondingly," he said, "reduction of taxes during the immediate transition period can be a potent influence against de flation." He said that repeal of the nor mal tax "would restore purchas nig power to every person who pays an income tax and is par ticularly important in the low income groups." liquorTreed of rationing rules All rationing on liquor In Ore gon has been removed, accord ing to an announcement by the Oregon Liquor Control commis sion store here today. The announcement said It will no longer be necessary to stamp ration book four nor to prove out-of-state residence to receive a liquor permit. Servicemen will not be required to show fur lough papers or dog tags to make a purchase, it was stated. Each person will be limited to one bottle of whiskey of any type at each purchase; Scotch, bonded, Irish, Cana dian and straight whiskies will be placed on sale once each day, starting next Monday, the an nouncement stated. Sales hours begin at 5:30 p. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Daily stock will be divided in to six equal parts and one-sixth of the weekly stock will be sold each day. Blended and other types, including wine, rum and brandy, will be on sale at all times. Chinese Democratic League Seeks New Set of Constitution Framers Chungking, Oct. 1 (U.R) The Chinese democratic" league open ed a special congress here today and announced it will "stand on the people's point of view" and demand that a new slale of members be elected to frame China's constitution at the scheduled political council. Spokesmen of the league, which will have equal represen tation with the Kuomintang and communists in the council, said "it is a joke" to have delegates elected to the national assembly (congress) in 1937 draft the constitution. The democratic league intends to inrist upon a new slate of! jncmbers. even if Ihp commun-! j'ts do not, party leaden (aid. I Santa Ana,, Calif., Oct. 1 (U.R) Soldiers lib'erated from enemy war prisoner camps were placed on K. P. duty at Santa Ana army air base through "an adminis trative error," Brig. Gen. Arthur E. Eastcrbrook, base commander, said today. He made the statement in answer to protests that some 40 former prisoners were assigned to mess hall duty at the base separation center while awaiting discharge. Among them was SSgt. Jacob D. DeShazer, a bombardier on the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, just returned from 40 months in a Japanese prison camp in China. "It is not the policy of the base for liberated prisoners of war to do K. P.," Easterbrook de clared. "It is our policy to afford them every facility a grateful na tion can bestow. The fact that some were on K. P. was an ad ministrative error which I have corrected." ES Three robberies were reported to city police over the week-end. Three juveniles, 8, 6V4 and 16 years old, are accused of break ing into Tubby Dean's service station some time early Satur day night and taking about $50 in cash. The younger boys were found in a bus station about 1 a. m. Sunday. The 16-yenr-old was apprehended later Sunday. He had been put on prebation for car theft in Dunsmuir last week. The robbery was discover ed about 9. p. m. Saturday by Byron Dean, brother of the own er. Entrance was made through a window in a rest room and the boys left by the front door. An attempted burglary of Cooley's Grocery, 11th and Ham ilton streets, was reported Sat urday night by R. M. Cooley, owner. A door and window had been forced but the burglars failed to gain entry. John Peterson, Shady Cove, reported to city police that he was struck by an unidentified man behind a local cafe about 3:15 a. m. Sunday and a leather jacket and wallet containing about $12 was reported stolen. salemhunter IS FiRSHATALITY Salem, Ore., Oct. 1 (U.R) State police today were investi gating the death of Harry James Waite, 65, Salem, who was killed in a hunting accident. Waite was shot Sunday by John J. Schmitz, who told police he had mistaken Waite for a deer while hunting on the Schmitz ranch five miles east of Schotts Mills in Marion county. Police said Schmitz appar ently fired into a clump of brush 57 feet away when his bullet struck Waite in the abdomen. No charges have been filed. GRASS FIRE City firemen were called to the corner of Fourth and Fir streets at 1:32 p. m. today to extinguish a grass fire reportedly started by small children who were playing with matches on the lot. No dam age was reported. Leaders of the league, which observers consider politically "middle of the road" or "slight ly left of center", have negotiat ed unofficially with the com rminisisand Kuomintang dur ing the past few weeks. If the political council materializes as presently planned, the league may come to hold the balance of pownr between the two major parties in discussions. Announcement of plans for establishment of the all-party political council of 37 gave new hope for resolving China' in ternal conflicts. The decision to set up the council was announc ed vesterdav as Kuomintang comii.unist talks bogged down in a virtual stalemate after four weeks. T Schedules To Salt Lake and Spokane Disrupted In Walkout Over Pay Cut Portland, Ore., Oct. 1. (U.R) Overland Greyhound bus drivers on the Salt Lake City-Portland and the Spokane-Portland runs went on strike at 12:01 a. m., today in protest against wage cuts from wartime to peacetime basis. Pacific Trailways buses also were affected by the strike. The line operates between Portland and Bend, Ore., and as far east as Boise, Ida. Representatives of the Amalga mated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America, AFL, (local 1055) said their drivers would not accept the pro posed reductions. Instead, they asked that pay rates be retained until a new contract can be nego tiated. Pay to Decline The company contended that higher wages were paid on a WLB order because of extra time required to make runs during the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit. This compensatory payment expires with lifting of speed restrictions and return to normal schedules, the company said. The drivers were paid 4.74 cents a mile before the war and 5.5 cents under the WLB order. Present union demands would raise milage rates to 6.5 cents a mile. The company announced that provision would be made for pas sengers caught en route during the strike to continue their jour neys. It has been estimated that about 1000 travelers leave and enter Portland on the struck schedules. APPLE CEILINGS UP FOUR CENTS Washington, Oct. 1 CU R) In creased OPA ceiling prices of four cents a bushel for fresh apples grown in California, Ore gon, Washington, Montana and Idaho went into effect today. Ceilings for apples grown in other states were advanced sev en cents a bushel at the same time. OPA said that as a result of the increase the retail ceiling price for apples grown in the five western states will be about three-tenths of one cent per five pound lot higher than the pre vious maximums. The retail ceil ings in the other states will rise about one-half cent per five pounds. The Increase was necessary, OPA said, because the recent crop report showed decreased crop yields. PEAR HARVEST SUFFERS FROM LACK OF HANDS The pear harvest of the valley is proceeding with a shortage of help in both packing plants and orchards, but should be well in hand in a week or 10 days, ac cording to Assistant County Agent Clifford B. Cordy. The Boscs and D'Anjous should all be in by that time, leaving the Winter Nellis to gather. Picking of the Delicious and Newtown apple crop, estimated at between 40 and 50 cars will start next week. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Return to standard time Satur day night did this: 1 Caused three stately ladies to parade down the church aisles, an hour before time for morning service, casting accusing glances the while at the empty pews. 2 Got Harry Napier up and down town at 6 a. m. to stoke his furnace an hour ahead of re quired time. 3 Caused passengers on the plane due here at 12:12 a. m. to arrive an hour before they should. 4 Caused Steve and Eve Nyc to gt themselves all mixed up on Sunday morning plant. Records of 21 Major Finan cial Institutions Seized 160,000 Troops . Landed Tokyo, Oct. 1 (U.R) Ameri can economic experts sought clues to Emperor Hirohito's vast fortune and the fate of stolen Philippines and Chinese golfl to day in the seized records of 21 major Japanese financial insti tutions worth $1,300,000,000. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops occupied and closed 29 offices of the 21 banks and de velopment companies in seven cities last night in a lightning move that smashed the financial and economic spearhead of Ja pan's overseas imperialism. 160,000 Troops Landed Other developments as the oc cupation entered its second month included: The eighth army announced that 160,000 troops have landed in central and northern Japan during the first month of occu pation. The sixth army m o v o d Its command post for the occupa tion of southern Japan from the U. S. S. Auburn to Kyoto, an cient capital of Japan. The 98th division landed at Wakayama beach and set up its command post at Tslsho airdrome. The Domel News Agency said all Japanese home army forces will be demobilized by the Oct. 15 deadline set by MacArthur with the possible exception of troops on Kyushu, where ty phoons and flood damaged rail way lines. TCnnln Vntn .Innsnnca lnl-.nl- j. .... t leader, denounced the death in prison of anti-militarist KiyoshI Miki, and urged the Japanese government to release immedi ately all persons detained on anti-war charges. The newspaper Tokyo Shim bun editorially called for the ouster of Japanese home minis try officials who suppressed American interviews with Em peror Hirohito and photographs of Hirohito standing beside Mac Arthur. A spokesman for Prince Naru hikl Higashl-Kuni revealed that the premier was receiving 1,000 letters a day from the Japanese people in response to his request for suggestions for a new Japan. The letters will be discussed at a cabinet meeting tomorrow. Minor food riots have broken out among the rural populatin of northern Honshu, where form ers have been reported hoarding food against the possibility of winter shortages. Samson Company Is Picketed by Union; No Strike Reported A union picket has been hold ing forth in front of the F. E. Samson.Co., Fourth and Front streets, since Friday afternoon, a spokesman for the company said today. Co npany officials empha sized that there is no strike of any sort at the store and the full crew is at work. According to the spokesman, union representatives have been making an effort to get Samson employes to join the union but the employes refused. An effort was also made to secure Sam son's signature on a contract but he likewise refused, it was stat ed. Store officials were unable to give a reason for the picket in front of the store. Globe Girdlers Reach Calcutta Calcutta, Oct. 1 (U.R) The globe-circling army transport Globster, arrived in Calcutta at 7:40 p.m. this evening (8:40 a.m. EST) and took off 45 minutes later for Kunming China. 49 DIVORCE DEGREES ON SEPTEMBER RECORD Divorce decrees entered in Jackson county during Septem ber totaled 49. with 27 new di vorce suits tiled during the month, according to the records of the county clerk. During September 38 marriage licenses were granted, about the normal number, and two more than dur ing August. California's delta country nor mally produces $30,000,000 worth of crops annually. f Acme Telenhoto) Cars straddle railroad tracks entering plant grounds of Stnndnrd Oil refinery. Whiting, Ind., as auto blockade Is thrown around grounds by pickets ot International Oil Workers Union, CIO, who sought to keep workers ' from Independent union from reporting to jobs. Labor-Management Peace Urged To Help Speed Reconversion Job Washington, Oct. 1 U.R Reconversion Director John W. Snyder called on labor and man agement today lo adjust their differences peacefully and speed ily to prevent a "serious block" to reconversion. The nation generally faces an optimistic outlook in reconver sion, Snyder said, and labor and rnanagement together with the government share the responsi bility to see that the outlooks is fulfilled. For its part, Snyder said in his fourth quarterly report to the president and congress, the government has two important jobs a pairing down of taxes T Washington, Oct. 1 ftl.R) President Truman today paid an unprecedented visit to the open ing session of the supreme court, and saw his first nominee to the high bench, Harold H. Burton of Ohio, sworn in as an asso ciate justice. Court attaches said the visit was the first made by a presi dent In the 155-year history of the high tribunal. Mr. Truman, attired in a gray business suit, slipped quietly into the courtroom from a side entrance seven minutes before the session opened at noon. Mr. Truman spoke to those around him. Shook hands with Attorney General Tom C. Clark, and took a seat at a counsel table. Oyeil Oyeil When the black-robed Justices filed Into the chamber the presi dent arose with the rest of the audience to hear Court Crier John A. Kenning, intone the tra ditional "Oyezl Oyez!", officially inauguarat.ing the 1945-46 term. Court Clerk Charles Elmore Croplcy administered the judi cial oath to Burton. Burton was escorted to his chair at the ex treme right end of the bench. Associate Justice William O. Douglas reached over and shook hands with Burton, saying, "wel come." After Clark was Introduced to the court, the justices arose as Mr. Truman left the chamber. His visit lasted 13 minutes. Would Compel Elliott Roosevelt To Pay Tax On Unpaid Portion of Loan Washington, Oct. 1 (U.R) Re publican members of the House Ways and Means committee de manded today that Elliott Roose velt and his former wife, Mrs. Ruth G. Roosevelt, be compelled to pay a tax on the unpaid por tion of his much-publicized $200, 000 loan. The unpaid portion was $196, 000. The man who made the loan, President John A. Hurt ford of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., received only $4,000 in settlement and was allowed to deduct the $196,000 as a "bad debt" In his 1942 in come tax return. The republicans quoted Hait ford as saying that he made the loan to Elliott only because his father (the late president) prac tically asked mo to." They ?aid Hartford did not. pre for a larger settlement because be did on both business and individuals and a continuation of price con trols to guard against inflation and deflation. Ho recommended repeal of the three per cent nor mal tax on individuals and of the excess profits tax on busi ness. "Business and 1 a b o r," he said, "have an especially heavy responsibility. With progressive removal of limitations on collec tive bargaining, It is to bo ex pected that there will be differ ences. "These need not, and must not, be allowed to develop Into a serious block to rapid reem ployment. Both management and labor have the same long-run interest more production, more sales and more jobs." Surveying the reconversion scene in general, Snyder said. "There is much reason for optimism, none for complacency And our optimism must be on a rugged variety, capable of look ing at unpleasant as well as pleasant facts. He said the nation was begin ning the task of reconversion with many things in its lacior. There is hugh demand for hous ing, automobiles, washing ma chines and all of the so-called consumer durable goods. And AFL AND CIO IN LEGAL SKIRMISH Portland, Ore., Oct. 1 U.R) A legal battle between AFL and CIO lumber workers took shape today in the strike of 60,000 men in the Pacific northwest as a su perior court judge in Washing ton granted an injunction re straining the AFL from picketing plants in Grays Harbor county, where CIO members are em ployed. AFL picket lines around 19 CIO lumber operations In the county were withdrawn after the injunction was issued, and about 4 000 members of the Interna tional Woodworkers of America (CIO) prepared to resume work. Kenneth Major, president of AFL local 3009, Sawmill and Timber Workers, on whom the injunction was served, said that counter action would be taken. "An attorney will be here soon from San Francisco to be gin counter legal proceedings," Major said. not want "to embarrass" the president. "Clearly, as the case now rests, the federal treasury stands to lose the tax on $106,000." the republicans "said. 'That must not be permitted. If Hartford is entitled to a deduction of $196, 000 on his gross income, positive steps should be taken to collect the tax on $11)6,000 from Elliott and his former wife (Mrs. Kuth G. Roosevelt.)" The republicans made their demund in a minority report to congress on the House Ways and Means committee's investigation of the loan transaction. Their views were made public shortly before democratic members filed their majority report. The de mocrats voted to report Hint they "did not feel Justified" in chal lenging the treasury's action in allowing Hartford a $196,000 deduction. the people have the cash for these things. Snyder said cash, bank de posits and government bonds in the hands of Individuals arc esti mated at more than $140,000, 000,000, or three times the high est pre-war figure. Business also needs millions In new plants and improvements and. in the main, has the necessary funds for these projects, he added. Despite the withdrawal of the government from the market Snyder said, inflationary pres sures still persist in certain parts of the economy. "To release all controls might easily lead to a repetition of the 1919-20 boom and collapse," he declared. "Our objective, for the longer run, is a steady advance in production and employment we do not want it followed by a sharp deflation and depression We must keep price controls to prevent an Inflationary rise In Dr ces which would be tne in evitable forerunner of collapse." IS Ashland, Oct. 1 Ellis Lln inger, 38, died about 7 a. m. yes terday in a Yreka hospital from a fractured skull suffered In an accident at Gazelle, Calif., Sat urday afternoon. According to reports, Llnln ger was working with a rock crusher when a rock rolled down a hill, striking him in the head. Fellow employes saw the rock coming, the report stated, but noisy machinery prevented Lln inger from hearing their cries of warning. He is survived by his wife and son, 161 Harrison street; his mother, Mrs. Mary Llninger; three brothers, Bruce, Earl and Raymond; and a sister, Mrs. Gladys Wright, La Grande. Funeral services will be hold at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Litwlller Funeral chapel, with interment in Mountain View cemetery. Lininger was a mem ber of the Masonic and Elks lodges. Services will be in charge of the Masonic order. crate to INUE Crater Lake park continues to be open to travel and will be as long as the weather continues fair, it was reported this morn ing from the office of the park here. Office staff members re turned to Medord the latter part of last week but the superintend ent, E. P. Lcavltt, the assistant superintendent, Thomas Parker, and one ranger are remaining at park headquarters near the lake. It was pointed out that no meals, lodging or supplies, such as gasoline, are available at the park. Tax Researchers Like Long Term Salem, Ore.. Oct. 1 (U.R) Frederick Young, secretary-manager of Oregon Business and Tax Research, Inc., said today that on behalf of the tax organiza tion, he would file a complaint in Marlon county circuit court to enjoin the state tax commis sion from enforcing chapter 411 of the Oregon law which calls for the use of a short state In come tax form for filing 1945 returns. By United Press The CIO International oil workers claimed todav settle ment of walkouts at two Detroit refining plants was the first 'break in the nations crippling; oil strike. It was the first sign that goi eminent conciliation meetings. which have been going on in Washington for three days, were getting results. Meet Pay Demands Union officials said the. Aurora and Keystone Oil Com panies both small Detroit inde pendents, had acceded to the oil workers' demand for a 35 cent an hour wage increase when the work week is reduced to 40 hours. For Detroit the settlement meant that the city's gasolinet shortage might be eased soon. The Detroit police department promised to protect the deliver- es of two companies not affect ed by the strike. Elsewhere, 12,000 General Motois workers failed to cross picket lines thrown around three Frigidalre plants at Day ton, O., by striking united elec trical and machine worker! (CIO). The Toledo, Peoria and West ern Railroad, Peoria, 111., wa returned to private manage ment by the federal government and promptly struck by the) brotherhood of railroad train. men, locomotive firemen and engineers. The road was the first business seized under the government's wartime seizure powers. . 430,151 Idle The new strikes brought te 430,151 the number of worker! Idled across the nation. Motor car manufacturers, still beset by a strike spearheading the CIO's nationwide drive for? 52 hours' wartime pay In ex change for a peacetime 40-hour week, considered a charge by R. J. Thomas. International presi dent of the united automobile workers (CIO) that they them selves were striking. Thomas, addressing a meeting of 150 UAW regional represen tatives yesterday In Chicago, said: "The automotive Industry and not the union is on strike. The cutting of wages and provoking of grievances is aimed at getting the union to strike at this time." Fomenting Charged Thomas, who accused aute makers of fomenting labor trouble because they were not ready for reconversion, said that if his union's demand of 30 per cent industrywide wage Increase was not justified now, "then no increase anywhere, any time, was Justified." Seriousness of the U. S. labor situation, critical because of re conversion needs, was reflected In statement from a manufac turer's spokesman who urged immediate convening of a na tional labor-management conference- before the nation's "whole economy Is collapsing because ol strikes." At Cleveland. Chairman Ezra Van Horn of the bituminous coal operators negotiating com mute?, declined for a second time to meet with the United mine workers of America until 36.000 striking Pennsylvania and West Virginia miners re turn to pits. Continuation of a strike or 60,000 AFL workers In the Pa cific northwest lumber Industry added to fuel losses already un derscored by petroleum produc ers, who said the current cold weather made resumption of oil output imperative. Mill Strike Holds Wc.l coast union leaders charged operators with efforts to destroy lumber unions and raise prices as the Pacific north, west lumber strike went Into Its eighth day. The stoppage, which has closed 500 mills In five states, followed AFL union de mands for wage Increase nego tiations on an industrywide basis A back-to-work vote appeared today to have ended a three week strike of 10,350 white col lar employes of the Westing house Electric Corp. over an In centive pay grievance. They vot ed, at Pittsburgh, to resume their Jobs this morning. Oprations of five newspap ers and all commercial printers in Butte, Mont., were suspended for the third day by a strike of international typographical union members over a contract dispute. A plastics adhesive has been developed that makes it possible for cardboard cartons to resist submersion and rough handling.