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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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