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DFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1945.
NO. 163.
Settlement Expected to Ease
TAX REDUCTIONS
Libereea on K. P.
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Pickets Block Off Indiana Oil Refinery in Strike
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.