Nation's Oil Strikes Spread To Pacific Coast Refineries
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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
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(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
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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.
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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.