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IU1 ji Oregon Telephone Employes Stay On Job; Others Join Walkout COAST TO COAST ; SERVICE HALTED FOR STRIKE VOTE I Estimated 250,000 Leave ! Posts for Four Hours to S Decide Strike Question. Portland, Ore., Oct. 5 (U.R The United Telephone Employes ' ? of Oregon, Inc., have decided not : to join with 200.000 other tele i phone workers in a four-hour work stoppage, President Ed T. i Healey o the executive board ; stating that such a meeting ' without a 30-day notice would ' constitute a strike, in the meet i ing of federal law, Healey said j the 3,000 members in Oregon were in full sympathy with the . other groups over the country : who are meeting for the purpose I of considering a national strike, I Long distance calls within Ore 4 gon were possible without inter- ruption during the four-hour period, but calls to and from j other states were interrupted during the national period of non-work. By United Press Normal telephone service was cut off from coast to coast today by a walkout of operators and maintenance workers. An estimated 250,000 tele phone workers left their jobs to take a strike vote. The work stoppage was scheduled to last four hours from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. EST. During that period only dial phones were working in most areas. At almost the same moment the telephone employes began leaving their posts, the CIO oil workers union at Washington or dered its members back to work in all refineries. The union asked the men to return to the 52 oil plants seized- by the navy and to all other plants where they have been on strike. Elsewhere, 469,000 workers were idle as a result of strikes. Reconversion of the automobile industry in Detroit was speeded by the ending of a strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel company. The resumption of production by the wheel company will permit the Ford Motor Company to start building cars again. Ford was forcei to shut down because of a shortage of parts made by Kel-aey-Hayes. At Washington the telephone walkout began shortly after noon, two hours before the 2 p.m. deadline. Long distance callers heard a recording which said "operators have left the switch boards in a work stoppage." Service ceased shortly after 2 p. m. in New York City. San Fran Silent Skeleton crews handled emer gency long distance .calls at Se attle, but San Franciscans who dialed long distance got no an swer. FREAK ACCIDENT FRACTURES ARM N. M. Kerr, Ashland, execu tive employee of the Standard Oil company at Medford, suffer ed a fractured left arm in a freak accident which occurred last night as Kerr was driving from Medford to his home in Ashland. Kerr, driving with his lef elbow extended over the side of the door, was struck by an empty pear lug box which fell from a truck proceeding i north as the vehicle met Kerr's ' car. a company official reported this i.iternoon. The injured man was taken to Sacrfl Heart hospital where (he arm was treated by a Med ford physician. It is thought he wiil have to remain in the hospital for six or seven days. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS LcP.oy Williams plcasi'd at making a good guess on a World Series gsme. One of Jerry Jerome s friends reporting gleefully how Jerry failed to bring down a deer even after the animal obligingly wand ered into the Jerome s own back yard. Frances Bulkin declaring that words failed her when it came to describing a dinner which the cast and company of "Can on Passage'' gave. n mi MEDFORD United Press Fortieth Year 1NESE TEST ICS TEMPER N POLICE EDICT Home Office Orders Chiefs to Keep Posts for Whiie;Hi-gashi-Kuni Cabinet Quits. Tokyo, Oct. 5 (Ufil The Jap anese home office today ordered provincial police chiefs to hold on for the time being to posts from which Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur had ordered them ousted by Oct. 10. The home office's hint at po tential defiance of Mac Arthur came as Japanese diplomats scurried about in an effort to form a government to replace that of Prince Naruhiko Higaslu Kunl, which was overthrown by the supreme commander's sweeping reforms. Yoshida Likely Shigerus Yoshida, foreign minister in the fallen cabinet and leader of b peace movement tor wmch he was arrested as early as last June, looked to be the most likely candidate for the leadership of the new govern ment. Amidst the government shakeup the home office in structed Japan's provincial po lice chiefs to disregard MacAr thur's removal orders "pending decisions on future steps." The home office directive told the p-lice chiefs to stay on the job. It added that immediate dissolution of the police chief setup would have "a consider able bearing upon the domestic situation. May B TMt Lacking a time element to compare with MacArthur's ouster date of Oct. 10, the true significance of the home office order was uncertain. If It was desigi.ed as a feeler to test the temper of MacArthur's order, it left the way open for 8 full re treat it necessary.. Yoshida conferred with Mac Arthur's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland. He sought an audience with Mac Arthur but was referred to Sutherland. They talked for an hour, and Yoshida emerged showing evidence of emotional strain Yoshida also conferred with Emperor Hirohito and with Prince Fumimaro Konoye, four time Premier before the war. 5 Warships Bring Pacific Veterans San Francisco, Oct. 5 0J.R) Five warships and six other ves sels arrived here today, return ing nearly 5,000 more Pacific veterans. Among the vessels are the car rier Ticonderoga. with 2240 serv ice personnel, the cruisers Balti more. 1404 passengers, and Tuc son, 252 passengers, the destroyer Blue with 114 returnees and the hospital ship Solace with 456 service men and women. Admission Of Torture, Starvation Is Bombshell In Trial Of Germans Lueneburg, Oct. 5 U.R) The prosecution exploded a bomb shell Into the trial of 45 nazi prison guards today with a series of signed confessions by the number-two defendant. Blonde Irma Grese, in which she admitted that thousands of prisoners were killed at Belscn and Oswiecim camps by gas, torture and starva tion. The statuesque, icy-calm Irma bowed her head to avoid the eyes of her feilow-defendants as the prosecution began reading her confessions over vigorous objec tions from defense lawyers. The confessions, many of them contradictory but ail tending to brand Irma and the 44 guards on trial with her as mass murderers, were obtained by allied intelli gence agents at various intervals since the 21-year-old nazi SS girl Full Leased Wire Byrnes to Report On Conference In 6:30 Broadcast Washington, Oct. 5 fU.fi) Secretary of State James F. Byrnes begins his report to Pres ident Truman today on the fail ure of the first peace conference of World War II. Tonight, at 6:30 p. m PST, Byrnes will report to the Ameri can people in a (CBS) radio address. Byrnes arrived at the Washing ton National airport last night at 10 p. m., a few minutes after the "globester," making the first scheduled around -1 h e - world flight, ended its inaugural trip. Byrnes and his party arrived al most unnoticed by the crowds who had come to see the end of the globester's flight. He and his party slipped off quietly after posing for a few pictures. LAVAL INSISTS HE TRIED TO PROTECT FRENCH INTERESTS Paris, Oct. 5 U.fi Pierre Laval, fighting craftily for his life, belabored a French high court jury today with an impas sioned insistance that he never agreed to make France a vassal of Germany. Laval, seizing the first oppor tunity in his treason trial to launch into a full dress defense, declared that he had tried to pro tect France from nazi demands. He charged that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain himself con victed of treason and serving a life term to which his death sen tence was commuted put France under the Vichy dictator ship. Saturday Session The second day of the trial ended at 6:15 p. m. Court will re convene Saturday. The drawn and haggard Laval plunged into his own defense aft er Judge Pierre Mongibeaux overruled urgent request both by Laval and his counsel for an in definite postponement of the trial. They pleaded for more time to prepare their case. Laval was permitted to return to court with a stern warning from Mongibeaux, who last night ordered him out for good because of his "insulting" be havior throughout the first hec tic day of the trial. Two Juvenile Boys Go to Reformatory Tw.i juvenile boys, aged 18 and 17, of Medford and Pros pect, were given sentences to the state reformatory at Wood burn. Ore., yesterday following conviction in juvenile court, city volice reported today. The 16-year-old youth of Med ford was arrested for robbery Saturday night of the Tubby Dean service station and the 17-year-old youth from Prospect was taken into custody follow ing a car theft in San Jose, Calif. was arrested last spring. She admitted knowing that thousands of h elpiess inmates were murdered in the lethal gas chambers at the Oswiecim Con centration camp and that the SS guards at Belsen were commit ting even worse atrocities. Then the prosecutor read slow ly the words in which Irma Grese condemned herself and her fellow-defendants. "H i m m 1 e r GcMapo Chief Hcinrich Himmlerj, was respon sible for all that happened, but I suppose 1 have as much guilt as the others above me ... every one in the SS is as guilty as any body else." In the first of her confessions, the girl guard denied beating or otherwise maltreating any pris oners, but subsequently she ad mitted whipping men and wom en inmates. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, PASSEAU TRIMS TIGERS' CLAWS TO TUNE OF 3-0 Shutout With But 1 Hit by Veteran Cub Hurler Gives Team 2 to 1 Edge in Series Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Oct. 5 UH) Veteran Claude Pas scau turned in a pitching mas terpiece today when he shut out the Detroit Tigers on one hit to give the Chicago Cubs a 3 to 0 victor in tiie third game of the world series. The triumph gave the Cubs a 2 to 1 game edge. The pitching wizardry with which Passcau set back the Tigers matched the best hurling performance in world scries history a one hitter with which Ed Rnelbach turned back the Chicago White Sox in 1906. And he did it for the Cubs, just as Passeau. Two See First So Invincible was the gangl ing right hander that the Tigers got orly two men on base Rudy York who singled with two out in the second, and Bob Swift, who walked to lead off the sixth. He faced only 28 men, for Swift later was erased in a doubla play. Yord's hit was a dean one, a line arive to left field. As Pa, seau, with his assortment of curve balls, fast balls and change of face, was baffling the Tigers, the Cubs got to little Stubby Overmire, the Tiger left; handt-f in the fouith inning for: nil the runs Passeau needed.: They did not rest with the two; they scored then, however, go ing tut to get Big Claude I another tally in the seventh off j Al Bcntcn. ! Chicago (N AB R H O A E Hack 3b 5 0 2 110 Johnson 2b 5 0 0 1 1 0: Lowrey If 4 1 2 4 0 0 Cavarretta lb 2 0 1 10 1 0 Pafko cf 2 1 0 3 0 0 Nicholson rf 4 0 1 3 0 0 Livingston c 4 1 1 3 0 0 Hughes ss 3 0 114 0 Passeau p 4 0 0 1 2 0: Tol3ls 33 3 8 27 9 0. Detroit A) AB H H O A E; Webb ss 3 0 0 2 3 1: Mayo 2b 3 0 0 2 1 1 j Cramer cf S 0 0 4 0 0! Greerberg If 3 0 0 1 0 0: Cullenbine rf 3 0 0 1 0 Oi York lb 3 0 1 12 0 0i Outlew 3b 3 0 0 0 3 0: Swift c 1 0 0 2 0 0; Richards 1 0 0 3 0 0 Overmire p 1 0 0 0 1 0 Benton p 0 0 0 0 3 0. Z Boroin 0 0 0 0 0 Oj A Walker 1 0 0 0 0 0: B Hnstetler 1 0 0 0 0 0 C McHale 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 27 f) 1 27 11 2 A Batter for Overmire in 6th B B&ttcd for Benfon in Bth. C Batted for Webb in 9th. Z Ran for Swift in 6th. Score by Innings: Chicago 000 200 1003 Detroit 000 000 000 0 Runs batted In: Nicholson. Hughes, Passcau. Two base hits: Lowrey, Liv ingston, Hack. Sacrifices: Cavarretta, Hughes, Pafko. Left on bases: Chicago 3, De troit 1. Bases on balls off: Passcau 1, Overmire 2. Struck out by: Passeau 1, Overmire 2, Benton 3. Hits off: Overmire 4 In . Benton 4 in 3. Double piay: Johnson-Cavar-retta. Winning pitcher: Passcau; los ing pitcher: Overmire. Umpires: Passareiia fA) plate, Conlan (N) first, Summers (A) second, Jorda Nj third. Time: 1:55. Attendance: 55.500. Army Cargo Plane Crashes Mountain San Bernardino. Cai., Oct. 5 U.Rj A C-46 army cargo plane from Reno, Nev. crashed and burnd on the north slope of Mt. Baldy today. There were hr- men and an army nurse aboard. OCTOBER 5, 1945, Nimitz, 'Boss fj MX , n." f',..;.! ue.etfW'K .iii.Wff . . n , if 4 Arm Tlfpkatl FIt Adm. NimiU, bow of be Psrif it Flft, b vteinrrd with his wife snd GermUif Wwi-en el Aiemnie Naval Air Slniton, vrhrre he Isndnl today, rradr to motor to Sen Franrtsco flu Bsii, whrre he will re wive tribute for bii Pirific victories ajcaint the Japi. Aiked it he was joint; to settle down, Mrs, Mmlts TeolltiS i "We're waifs." Capital Welcomes Officer Urges Full Washington, Oct. 5 0J,fi) Amid thunderous cheers of ac claim for a job well done, Ad miral Chester W, Nimitz came home to a hero's welcome today, and solemnly called on his coun trymen to make certain that "no future war may ever again find us unprepared." The white-haired man whose naval genius led America's mighty fleet in it victorious sweep across the Pacific stood before an applauding joint ses sion of congress to urge that we eternally exercise "eomnr.on sense and keep our fighting forces ready." "If we fail in this," he said, "We will have betrayed those Hollywood, Oct. 5 WW Vio lence flared today in the 29-weck old movie strike as an estimated 1,000 pickets, lined up on one side of the street prevented workers from entering Warner Bros, studio. Permitting only studio police and a first aid worker to enter, the pickets halted movie making at Warners. Three cars carrying workers to the studio were overturned by the demonstrators, who prevent ed police from righting the autos. Officers from Burbank and Glenriiile and Los Angeles deputy sheriffs and 30 auxiliary police patrolled the studio as strikers lined one side of the street and employes who wanted to go to work lined the other. Both groups refused to dis perse. Strike Leader Herb Sor reil said the pickets would re main until ail studio workers went home. The workers said thry would stick, "These are our jobs and we're not going to stand by and see a lot of finks come in and take them," Sorreii declared. Minor outbursts had occurred earlier during the strike which was railed March 12 by the AFL painters union when the AFL International Association of The atrical Stage Employe claimed the right to represent 78 set dec orators. Shoes Off Ration By Nov. 1 is Claim Cincinnati Oct. 5 JU.PJ. Shoes will be off the ration list 'By Nov. 1 " an OPA spokes man, ho refused rxrmisMnn to use his name, said hers today. VIOLENCE FLARES I MOVIE STRIKE United Pies Full of Pacific, Arrives Admiral Nimitz; Preparedness brave men who died to give us the privilege .of living in friend ship and decency with other en lightened nations for the present and the foreseeable' future." Out future forces, the admiral said, must include s strong navy, 'because it was sea power that brought Japan to her knees without. a Woody and costly .in vasion of her main Wands. It was sea power, he added, that forced Japan to sue for peace before the atomic bomb and Rus sian entry into the war. Nimitz, accompanied by his wife, returned to Washington by plane and was welcomed first at Anacostia . naval -air. station Joy high ranking naval and military leaders.. .After .the. brief cere mony there he proceeded lo Capitol Hill to address congress and then rode through the streets of Washington at the head of a colorful' military parade. It was by far the greatest, most speetacuiar weicoma home ever staged here, surpassing even those for Gens, Dwight D Eisen hower and Jonathan M. Wam-wright. Pioneers Of Jackson County Elect Miss McCall President Jacksonville, Oct. 5 Nearly 200 sorts and daughters of Jack son County pioneers gathered at the. old courthouse- in . Jackson ville yesterday for the annual meeting of the Pioneer associa tion, an event looked forward to each year by dependents of the county's oldest families. Speak ers of tha day were State Sena tor Earl Newbry, Ashland, and Prof. 1. E. Vining, also of Ash land. At the election which closed the meeting Miss Lydia McCall of Ashland was named president to succeed Mrs, Hattie Rcaincs White, Medford. H, H. Gik-ttc, Ashland, succeeds Mrs. Rose Buckley, Appiegate, as vice president; Miss Claire Hanley, Jacksonville, was rc-eipclrd sec retary and Mrs. Eida Anderson, Ashiand, was n;med treasurer to succeed Miss Mollis Britt, Jack, sonvilie. Rtr. Belknap Oidest Mrs. White opened the annual meeting at 11 a. m. and Mrs. Elsie Carleton Strang, Medford, led community singing. Mrs. E. M. Wilson of Medford gave the address of welcome, and the Rev. ( L. T. Belknap, Medford, offered j prayer. The Rev, Belknap, 83, ; was judged the oldest pioneer j pretest at the gathering. Leesed Wiri NO. 167. in California GLOBE Mi BEGOMESROUTINE Washington, Oct. 5 ! Flying around the world is now routine. That became an established fact last night when a C-54 trans port plane arrived at National airport here, completing the last leg of the first weekly round-the-world flight scheduled by the Army's Air Transport command. The second flight takes off on schedule at 5 p. m. EST tod3y, one week to the hour after the first epoch-making flight com menced Sept. 28. Flash bulbs were popping and cameras whirring as the ATC's big four-motored "Globester" ended its historic journey al 9:42 p. m. last night. Actually five planes were used for the long haul, the passengers shift ing from one to another st relay points across the world. The average annual rainfall In Texas, ranges from 51 to 55 inches on the Gulf Coast to 9.18 inches in the El Paso area. "Progress of Oregon Since Pioneer Days" was the subject of Senator Newbry's talk. He read excerpts from the journal of Col. Uaker, who organized the first army cavalry unit for this dis trict, the 85 officers and men having been stationed at old Ft. Baker in the Phoenix district. Following the senator's talk Mrs. Atlanta Parker Kaffitifier, Medford, read two poems of her composition on pioneer themes and Harry Young of Medford sang a requested song, "Trough the Years" by Vincent Youmans. Following a chicken dinner at noon, served by the Jacksonville Grange members. Prof, Vining talked on "The Sunshine of Hu mnmfy" and closed his address with the poem by that title. - - Museum Talked During ths business session the group discussed lite proposal for conversion of the historic court house in Jacksonville into a per manent reuseum housing reiics associated with Southern Oregon pioneer times and it was voted to have a committee meet with Mayor C. A. Meeker of Medford to hear his plans and to deter mine how the association might cooperate it! furthering the pro posal. 25 PASSENGERS aSdihi Greyhound Emptayes !n 7j Western States Quit to En force Pay Hike Demands, About 25 Greyhosnd bus lin passengers were stranded in Medford when drivers of lh firm went on strike at nsidnlghi last night, a spokesman at th dispatcher's office stated this morning. Many of these were) military personnel who imme diately set oat to hjlrhhike their way, it was said, while civilian are ether securing transporta tion through private channels t are boarding trains. Almost no passengers have so peared at the depot this morn ing for tlkets, it was reported, everyone apparently having heard news of the strike. The spokesman said that local staff members "have been given no information whatever," and added, "ail we know is that th busses ceased to operate at mid night." v San Francisco, Oct. S SiB Pacific Greyhound employes In seven western states were on strike today In a demand iot higher wages. Approximately 2,700 bus driv ers, baggage room workers and other employes left their Jala at midnight last sight after nego tiations far wage increases broka down. The workers are members of the ATI, Amalgamated Aus. ciation of Street. Electric flail, way and Motor Coach Employes, Affected were Greyhound operations to California, Oregon Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Krii Mexico and Texas. F. W. Afker. man, Grfyhonnd -vice president, said Pacific Greyhound carries more than 14S,SfiS passengers a day, Ko Pickstins The union said it did nat pn to picket depots and bus term nals unless the company attempt ed to operate busses. Both the 5th street and 7th street depots in San Francisco closed down within a few mirw utea after the strike started. In Portland, the bus terminal wa open only to accommodate Ore gon Motor Stages. No Greyhound fusses were operating from to Angeles, San Francisco or Port" land, major west coast terminus points for the system. Drivers operating iusse on the road at the midnight dead line proceeded to the nearest to! minal and left the husses. Strand ed passengers about 4(W in Los Angeles and more than 50 in San Francisco were forced to seeit accommodations on already over crowded trains. Greyhound earlier hs4 can celled schedules of ail bussea leaving terminals after midnight. The union seeks art Increase nf from 5.13 cents a mile to t'i cents a mile for drivers and ott ee increases tor baggage room snd station employes. T0PUCATEW1VES Chicago. Oct. 5 The Vetcr. ans r-f Foresin Wars refused to let the WAVES and the WACS join their organization, bu they hope ihe girls won't ba angry about it. "We ought to let them In. t guess, but the fellows just had to vote against it Otherwise their wives would raise heU when hry got home " explained a World War I veteran. "Yoa see. we don't get chance to grt away from hom very often. Our wives don't mind Setting us go to these vet erans' conventions, because It ia just a bunch of men. You lei ihese WACS and WAVES and curses in, and probably nobody woulJ get to go to a convention withm.it taking his wife along." he said. Joseph M Stack, Pittsburgh, was elected commander-in-chief oy animous vote yesterda in the last order ef business ol the encampment. Named to succeed Siack as senior vice-commander was Louis E Starr, Portland, Ore. Say H, Brannaroan, Denver, Colo., was elected junior vice commander and Lyail T. Beggs, Madison, Wis., judja sdvocatsj amexil. VFW BARS GIELS -,
