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Nation's Oil Strikes Spread To Pacific Coast Refineries NATION'S FUEL SUPPLY PERILED Weather RIBUNE FORECAST: PartlT cloudy to night with Increasing cloudi ntsf Wednetday afternoon. Llt U change In temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 93 Lowest this morninf 44 United Pn. J j&sd Wire United Proii Full Leased Wir Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1945. NO. 164. Strikes In Coal Mines and Oil Refineries Grow More Serious Hourly in Nation. Takes Oath J irk K jCE H 5 (By United Press) The nation's oil strikes spread to the Pacific coast today as 2,000 workers of the Wilming ton and Oleum, Cal., plants of the Union Oil Co. walked out after failure of a last-minute union management conference on demands for 52 hours pay for 40 hours work. C. R.' Frederick, secretary treasurer of local 128 said tne walkout was called because the company refused to cooperate. Picket lines formed immediately. Plant Picketed Workers at the Oleum re finery immediately began picket ing ttje plant. At Wilmington, company of ficials said a walkout would halt all operations within e few days and affect 8 ,0 0 0 employes eventually. It also would cut off 24,000 barrels of civilian mid military oil in five western Mates, they asserted. A double blow curtailed the nation's fuel supply today as '' il r ikes in coal mines and oil refineries grew more serious hourly. Nearly 90,000 soft coal miners were away from the pits in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky as mine foremen struck to gain recogni tion for their United Mine Workers-affiliated union. Estimates pn the daily produc tion loss ranged up to 500,000 tons. The shutdown hit neatly every major field In West Vir ginia, where 100 mines were down and about 25,000 miners idle. Pennsylvania had 104 nines closed. Five Ohio pits already were down and a state wide shutdown was threatened. Production stopped in seven Kentucky counties. Wait CIO Reply Meanwhile Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schweilenbach await ed a reply from the CIO Inter national Oil Workers on his pro posal for ending their nation wide strike. He asked them to accept a 15 per cent wage boost for a 40-hour week, pending ar bitration of their demand for a 80 per cent pay hike. CIO officials and representa tives of 11 major oil companies were given until 4 p. m. (EST) today to file formal replies. Meanwhile, California plants ef the Shell Oil Co. faced a Strike ultimatum, expiring at 10 a. m. tomorrow. A minor back-to-work move ment was underway at the strike bound Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit, which might clear the way for resumption of supplies to the Ford Motor Co., where 50.000 have been laid off. About 100 of a normal shift of 2,500 reported yesterday in the first break in the 39-day-old Kelsey Hayes walkout. Power Cut Off A strike of 100 lower Color ado River Authority employes, eoeking recognition of their AFL-affiliated union, yesterday cut off electric power to 23 cen tral Texas towns, 50 smaller communities and some 25,000 rural users. In New York, Joseph Bierne, president of the National Fed eration of Telephone Workers, faid the union's executive board was withholding action on a threatened nation-wide strike of 200,000 telephone emplovcs. Bierne added, however, that the possibility of spontaneous work stoppages was "very much in the picture." New Jersey bread supplies were seriously curtailed by a Strike of 85 deliverymen. WACS "HIT SILK" Wilkes-Barre. Pa., Oct. 2 01 R) Army authorities today investi gated the crash of a B-25 plane from which ten soldiers and two "ACs parachuted 6.000 feet to safety. The plane crashed yes terday on Bald Mountain, six miles east of here and about one mile from where the army per sonnel reached the ground. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Farmers Walter Leverette and "Flash'' Fidlcr proving them selves livestock experts and set ting a mere scribe right on the matter of Hereford hogs. Gladys York deciding that she wasn't too old to learn something new. Royal Bebb wondering if he I had set his clock back a whole day after vainly trying to get in-1 formation today about the world tern winci! j'.iuls tomuuu. i (Acme lelephoto) Senator Harold H. Burtou, Ohio, poses briefly in judicial robes shortly before he was sworn in as- associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, beside statue of John Hay, first jus tice sworn into Supreme Court, who held office 1790 to 179. COASTWiDE TIEUP OF BUS TRAVEL Portland, Ore., Oct. 2 'U.R A coastwide bus strike, threat ening transportation in Califor nia, Oregon Nevada, Utah, Ari zona New Mexico and Texas, loomed today. A Joint council of Pacific Greyhound union employes an nounced in San Francisco that it had been authorized to call a walkout to back up demands for wage adjustments. Bit. service to eastern Oregon points and Idaho from Portland already was paralyzed by a walkout Sunday. Botn the Pacific Trallways and Overland Greyhound em ployes refused to work at pay rates in effect early in the war, pending negotiation for new wage schedules. Wages were paid on a mileage basis. When in October, 1942, the office of defense transporta tion slowed busses to 35 miles ap-rrrur, the bus drivers were compensated for the extra run ning time under a war labor board order. The drivers gflt 4.74 cents a mile before the war and 5.5 cents under the WLB order. Present union demands would raise mileage rates to 6.5 cents a mile. T Washington. Oct. 2 (U.R) The House Ways and Means committee today rejected two republican proposals to reduce, rather than eliminate, the three per cent "normal" tax on indi vidual income. The republican proposals were preliminary to a demand for a horizontal cut in all tax rates, surtaxes as well as normal taxes. Secretary of the Treasuiy Fred M. Vinson recommended yesterday a three point reconver sion tax program calling for elimination of the three per cent normal tax on individuals and repeal of the excess profits tax on industry starting Jan. 1 and reduction of luxury taxes start ing July 1. He opposed a hori zontal cut in all individual tax rates. Drunken Driver Sets Cot Afire Orlin G. Park, Grants Pass, was fined S100 and costs in Jus tice court this morning following conviction of driving while in toxicated and paid S12 for a mat Irrss destroyed in county jail last night when he fell asleep while smoking, state police reported to day. Park reportedly suffered slight burns. Also taken to the county jail this week were Preston H. Kim bol, William M. MacCarty and James N. Clark who were taken into custody by state police Sun day night for hitch-hiking and were to appear in Justice court ui i p. to. luaay. J E AT .1 Employees Notified of End of Local Facility; About 60 Civilians Now Employed. The ordnance service com mand shop and storage facilities of the United States army, locat ed on and adjacent to the fair grounds on the South Pacific highway, will be closed out by Nov. 1, according to Capt. Leon ard R. Appleton, officer in charge of the facility. Apple ton stated that the employes had been notified some time past that the shop would be closed in the near future. In operation since April 12, 1942, the shop has repaired auto motive vehicles for the army and furnished automotive parts and supplies to other army sta tions, Capt. Appleton stated. Vehicles repaired were for both overseas shipment and use in this country, he said. Civilians Employed The shop has been staffed en tirely with civilians with the ex ception of four or five officers in charge, and at one time em ployed 230 persons, the officer stated., At present about b'O ci vilians are working at. the shop. It was pointed out that the shop, originally used by the Civilian Conservation corps, is now handled by the United States Forest service and at the office of the Rogue River forest here it was stated that future use of the shop would be deter mined by the regional forester in Portland. Judge J. B. Cole man stated that the lease for use of the fairground land, own ed by the county, had not yet been terminated and the m.-ntnr of its future use had not been discussed as yet by county of ficials. Nimitz Greeted At Alameda Port Alameda. Cal rct jiidi Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the victorious Pa cific navy, stepped from a navy transport plane at the Alameda naval air station Into the arms of his wife. High-rankine navn! nrrinisie and civil authorities greeted the tan, smiling admiral at the air port. JAVANESE STARVE . Batavia. Java.. Oct. 1 (11 Pi Dr. Charles O. Van Der Plas, lieutenant envnmnp - nanni t the Netherlands Indies said to day that between 7,000,000 and JU.UUU.UOO ncop c had died nf starvation in Java during the Japanese occupation. Beetle-Browed Denies All Atrocity Charges Lueneburg, Oct. 2 (U.R)--Josef Kramer, beetle-browed "beast of Belscn," denied every atrocity charge against him in a statement read today before a British military court hearing the trial of Kramer and 45 other Nazis. Kramer sat with downcast eyes as the statement denying his guilt in the wholesale atroci ties at Belsen, where he was com mandant, was read into the record. The statement signed bv Kra mer wa produced by Capt Ste phen Malcolm Stewart. Biitish army legal staff officer, who took it from the nazi concentra tion camp boss. Kramer denied that he had ever turned prisoners over to doctors for experimentation. Just before producing the Kra mer statement, Stewart testified that there were only 1.B75 death certificates found at Be!s-n. a majority nf which carri'd the notation thai tie victim died STRIFEJUTILITY Weeks Meeting Breaks Down Without Reaching Decision On Protocols. London, Oct. 2 (U.P.) The five-power council of foreign ministers ended a 22-day confer ence tonight, and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes said its work must be delayed until an agreement is reached on the pro cedure to be followed In drafting peace treaties. The conference broke down without reaching a decision on protocols for the guidance of the deputies and the future sessions of the council. Unable To Agree The ministers of the United States, Great Britain, Russia, France, and China were not able even to agree on a communique sketching the v proceedings of their first meeting as provided for at Potsdam. Soon after the ministers went their separate ways from the council chamber at Lancaster House, Byrnes issued a statement through the American embassy sketching the proceedings. '.'There emerged differences pf views which had not appeared so long as the first imperative was to preserve the fighting unity (of the allies)," Byrnes' said. 15 SET FOR RE Columbus, O., Oct. 2 (U.R Fifteen survivors of the once great Grand Army of the Repub lic brushed up their blue uni forms and adjusted medals today in preparation for a reception tonight for delegates to the 70th annual GAR encampment. A handfull insisted they were ready to march tomorrow in the parade climaxing the meeting, but it was expected that less than a half dozen would attemut it. Only eight were feeling fit enough last night to attend the inaugural banquet. Meanwhile, hundreds of dele gates to the National Women's Relief corps, the Daughters of Union Veterans, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Union Veterans and the auxiliary of the S. U. A. met in separate conventions. Memorial services were held by all the auxiliary organiza tions. Bv a law nassed in 1034 ivm Turkish citizen was obliged to aaopi a family name. 'Belsen Beast5 from "weakness." He said they included 15 British and 403 French. Marcel Duchman, a student at Przymsl before being sent to Oswiccim, told a British military court that captives were lined up in the camp and hand picked by SS officers and engineers for work In mines and factories. "The workers returned to camp like skeletons, ripe for cre matoriums." Duchman said at the trial of 45 men and women guards charged with atrocities at the Oswiccim and Belsen prison camps. "The survivors finally were liquidated in January. 1945." Another witness, Stella Woll goch. a 23 year-old Polish Jew ess from Warsaw, pointed to de fendant Johanna Bormann and cried: ' That was the beastess of Os wiecim!" She testified that Bormann once set a huge dog on a woman prisoner and watched the Least till her. Returning Pacific Veterans of Pacific war. who Just landed from aircraft carrier Saratoga (In background), watch from Ala meda. Calif., Naval Air Statlorras another carrier, the Hornet, noses into tho docks. These men are part of 9,000 men lauded in San Francisco by battleship Maryland and carriers Saratoga, Hornet and Bunker Hill. Tho "Sara" brought In large group early In September. OF SHERIFF'S POSSE A check, for, $"50 for the building fund of the Jackson county Sheriff's Posse was pre sented to the posse by Universal Studios at a Chamber of Com merce luncheon yesterday noon at the Hotel Holland. The check, given in appreciation for tho aid the posse has rendered during the filming of "Canyon Passage" at Diamond Lake, was presented by President Herb Grey of Ihe chamber and accepted by Walter Leverette, captain of the posse. In accepting the gift Leverette declared that much favorable publicity for southern Oregon would result from filming of the picture in this locality, where the story's plot is laid. A number of posse members were guests at the luncheon. Present were Leverette and C. Lyall Fidler, especially com mended for their aid to the film company. Sheriff Howard Gnult, honorary president of the posse; S. M. Tuttle, first lieutenant; A. J. Boitano, second lieutenant; C. C. Leonard and W. E. Thomas, directors; F. J. Cullen, platoon sergeant; Harry Furch, quarter master sergeant; William Meysl, Jr. and O. H. Bengtson. In addition to the speaker, Harvey Stowcrs, assistant to the president of the Aircraft Indus tries association of America, others introduced were H. S. Deuel and Richard Alley, chair men respectively of the aviation committees of the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce and the Medford Junior Cham ber of Commerce; Capt. II. B. LaFavre and Com. Paul Weeks of the Camp White hospital. blazedesTroys portland plant Portland, Ore.. Oct. 2 ,'U.R) Fire, believed to have started In the glue department, left noth ing but charred piles of lumber today at the plant of Timber Structures, Inc., Portland, manu facturers of a wide variety of prefabricated timber products. Loss was estimated at $500,000. Starting around 7:30 p. m. Monday the blaze lighted uti the entire Portland industry district, attracting thousands of persons. Spreading rapidly to adjoin ing buildings, the fire ale at piles of dry lumber awaiting fab rication into ready-made luild ing units, adding to Intensity of the heat hampering firemen. Timber Structures, Inc.. is the largest northwest manufacturing company of its type and has had a yearly production of more than 80,000.000 board feet of prefabricated lumber. Approximately 150 persons were employed ja Uie yluuU Vets Watch Carrier Gen. MacArthur Cracks Down On Offending Jap Magazine Tokyo, Oct. 2 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today de manded a full accounting of Japaneie war production inco 1941 and a complete in ventory of remaining weapons and aquipment. Tokyo, Oct. 2 (U.P) Gon. Douglas MaeArthui cracked d o tv n on a wide'y - circulated Japanese magazine today and or dered confiscation of its entire September issue on grounds it contained an article "inimical to the interests of the occupation forces." The order came as Japanese criticism of tho Higashi-Kuni surrender government mounted and one influential newspnper editorially demanded the imme diate resignation of the cabinet. MacArthur's confiscation or der was directed against the Tokyo Kcizai Shimpo, a Japanese-English language maga bind The September Issue con tained an offensive anonymous 132 FOREST FIRES NOTED IN SEASON A total of 132 fires have oc curred this season on the Rogue River National forest, far above the yearly average of 84. accord ing to a report of M. L. Tcdrow, fire chief for the forest. How ever, most of the fires have been small, Tedrow said. The number of man-caused fires is also about twice the normal number for a season, Tedrow declared, the number being 15 Of these, six wero de termined to have been set by smol-.ers, three were set by campers who were hunting or fishing two were logger-caused, one was set by children, one started from the burning of a building, one spread from burn ing debris and one was started by forest pilot who dropped a smoke bomb to mark the loca tion of a wrecked airplane for a searching party. Elks to Observe Old Timers' Night Medford lodge of Elks will hold its annual Old Timers' night next Thursday, starting at tV'JO o'clock, followed by a dinner, a lodge session, and vaudeville en tertainment. The lodge is hon oring members of tho order who are observing their 25lh, .'!0th. 35th and 40lh anniversaries in Blkdom. Arrangements have been made for a large attend ance. Globester Lands On Guam Airfield Guam, Oct. 2 U.R) The world-circling DS 54 transport Globe.iter III landed here at 10:10 a. m. EST today after a five Imur and 25 minute flight trout Manila. Hornet Dock (Acme Tetephoio) article dealing with Japanese re action to the Ameiican occupa tion of Japan, headquarters said. Japanese police already have recovered 15,000 copies. The im perial government was ordered to pick up the remaining 6,000 still In circulation immediately. Although the magazine was not suspended, It must submit all material In the future to Amer ican civil censorship. Occupation headquarters an nounced that headquarters of Ihe Japanese air force has been demobilized completely. CAiPWHEAD TAKESJEW POST Camp White, Oct. 2 Carnp White lost its second post com mander In three weeks when Lt. Col. Lou J. Farbcr was assigned today to new duties placing him in command of Service Com mand Unit 1!)84 at Pomona, Cal. Previously at the helm of the prisoner-of-war camp since August, 1944, he succeeded Col. John R. Young on Sept. 11 as commanding officer of Camp White and 1913 SCU whllo still retaining his position as PW camp head. Col. Farbcr will be the guest of honor this evening at a fare well party tendered him by of ficers of Camp White. He will leave for Pomona tomorrow to assume his new post. No announcement was made of a successor to Lt. Col. Farbcr. Local Union Head Gives Version Of Samson Picketing In regard to the union picket stationed at the F. E. Samson Co Fourth and Front streets, Don Stanscll, secretary of the Team sters Union Local 902, today said the union holds membership an plication cards signed by seven of the 10 Samson employes. Stansell said union officials met with Samson two weeks ago and asked the company owner to ap prove a government mediation but was refused. Samson also refused to meet with Conciliator Louis Ziman of Eugene, who is at the Jackson Hotel, Stansell said. Samson then raised the wage scale to union levels, according to Stansell. A check by officials of the National Labor Relations Board was also refused by Samson, Stanscll de clared. All employes of the Samson company come under jurisdiction of the Teamsters Union, Stanscll added. U. S. COURT HELD Federal court was opened this morning with Judge Claude Mc Colloch of Portland presiding and was immediately adjourned until December 3, according to Paul Hanlin, U. S. deputy mar- FIERY GENERAL SENT TO L Eisenhower Shifts Officer From Bavaria Command to Small, 15th Army Force Frankfurt, Oct. 2 (U.R) Gen. George S. Patton has been re lieved of his U. S. Third army command and the concurrent military governorship of Ba varia, where he advocated keep ing nazis In some administrative posts, it was announced today. Patton Is being shifted from Bavaria to the command of the U. S. 15th army a virtually non existent force, consisting of lit tle more than a headquarters de tachment which Is writing re port of U. S. participation in the European war. . Sever Punishment Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower lato today announced his deci sion in the Patton case. It was a severe punishment for the hot headed, loose-tongued Patton, who appeared before Eisenhow er last Friday to explain his de fiance of headquarters orders to purge Bavaria of nazis. Lt. Gen. Luclan K. Truscott, former commander of the U. S. Fifth army in Italy, was named commander of the U. S. Third army and of the eastern military district In the American occupa tion zone of Germany, succeed ing Patton. The transfer of Patton meant that he had been banished from the American occupation zona and removed from any position of authority over the Germans. Heads Handful The handful of headquarters troops which he will head as 15th army commander are stationed west of the Rhine at Bad Neuen ahr, near the Remagen bridge in the middle of the French occupa tion zone. The 15th army's headquarteri remained there when all of Its troops were discharged or rede ployed In July. Until early July the 15th, formerly commanded by Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gcrow, occupied the Rhlncland. Eisenhower's punishment of Patton was regarded by head quarters observers as exteremely severe perhaps even more so than if he had been sent home. It removed him from the com mand of the army which he led from the hedgerows of Nor mandy in the blitz-sweep across France and on beyond the Rhine Into the heart of Germany. Talked Too Much The storm clouds began gather ing over Patton 10 days ago when he was quoted in Interviews as saying that the political issues of Bavaria were like those of a republican - democrat contest at home, and that certain nazis had to be kept in office if death and hunger were to be kept to a mini mum in Bavaria this winter. Last week Elsenhower crack ed down. He issued an order for the summary dismissal of all nazis, regardless of rank or posi tion, from administrative posts, civil or industrial, in the Ameri can occupation zone. Then he called Patton on the carpet. Headquarters made it plain that unless Patton had a good explanation, he would be out of the military governorship of Bavaria. On the basis of Eis enhower's decision, it appeared that Patton's explanation was not good enough. Jenkins to Speak At Kiwanis Meet Iu observance of National Newspaper Week, Frank Jen kins. Klamath Falls editor and publisher, will address the wccl.ly meeting of the Medford Kiwanis club tomorrow noon at the Hotel Holland. Jenkins re cently returned home from a trip to European war zones and will ell of his travels. It is stated that club members may bring guests to the lunch-DUO.
