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Weather U The Mail Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Result! At Small Cost .Tribune FORECAST: Sunday, continued fair ivith little chine In temperature. Tf mperaturf : Highest yesterday 91 Lowest this Morning ....... 39 United Presi Full Letted Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFOKD. !GON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1945. NO. 168. mxivx v&Ufx0! mmwha M'ARTHUR SAYS NIP DEATH RAY ILEHABBITS Only Made Humans Tired And Dizzy Million Yen Spent To Perfect Device Tokyo, Sunday, Oct. 7 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su preme Allied commander, an nounced today the Japanese scientists had perfected a death ray which killed rabbits at about 40 yards but left humans only dizzied and fatigued for 12 to 24 hours. American research officers, who discovered the fabled death ray said it killed rabbits who bathed in its light for 10 min utes. The Japs, they said, tried the ray on humans for brief periods with the result that the human guinea pigs became "dizzy and fatigued." The effects lasted for from 12 to 24 hours depending upon the length of the bath, they said. ' The Japanese worked on the ray for five and one-half years with results so promising that the government appropriated 1. 000,000 yen in 1945 to continue its development. The ray works on the principle that very short radio waves nan be focused in a beam of power which will cause physiological effects in mammals resulting in death. The apparatus includes an an tenna placed at the focus of a reflector. The deadly waves are focused by the reflector at the subject. Rabbits, groundhogs and mon keys were used in experiments, the ray causing hemorrhage of the lungs and destruction of the brain cells. The Japs also found the rays would stop combustion engines by pre-igniting th.e combustion chamber great advantage against enemy planes but only when the range was extremely short and when the engine was unshielded. American scientific investiga tors were extremely skeptical of the ray's possibilities and said "a tremendous advance in tech niques would have to be made before the death ray would be come of any value as a military weapon." At the end of the war, J 16 Japanese scientists were work ing to perfect the ray, the re search on which began in N'o borito in the Ninth miliiary technical laboratories. The tube supplying the power to the death ray was described by the American investigators as "more powerful" than any known in present operation. It used a wave length of 80 centi meters. Chicago. Oct. 6 (U.R) The 1945 World Series, regardless of the number of games, was prac tically certain tonight to set a new all-time record In player receipts. The players' share at the end of today's game was 8445,714.50, while the all-time record is S488.005.74, set during the five game scries in 1941 between the Dodgers and Yankees. Although the players do not receive any cut from the remain ing games, they do receive part of the radio receipts. The radio is expected to add about $100. 000 to the scries jackpot and the players receive four-sixths of the 1 total if the series goes six games i and-our-sevenths of the total if the series goes seven. The individual player cuts al- j so probably will surpass all pre vious records since it has ba;n reported that both the Tigers and Cubs voted between 30 and I 35 full shares. The winning team receives 60 per cent of the j total player share and the !is ing team, 40 per cent. j LUCK RUNS OUT j San Diego, Oct. 6 (U.R) En-j sign Richard D. Burk of Mir,ne- apolis. Minn., who survived an emergency landing at sea twoj weeks ago, was killed yesterday! when his parachute failed to; open alter he bailed out of hi; disabled plane six miles at sea,: the ncvy repealed tonigh J No Numbers, Please, for Four Hours SRI tew' - pe?eMW!!! Will I 1 feH.U mh iiir:rr n -Ami i (Acme Tclephoto) Telephone operators of a San Francisco telephone company exchange leave their switchboards during four-hour Interruption of service in walk out which tied up service across the country for four hours. Group shows are leaving their building (arrow) to take strike vote. authorizes rotg collegeprogram 129 Schools Listed For In terim Courses Vets Get Preference Washington, Oct. 6-U.R) The war department tonight author ized resumption of advance ROTC courses in 129 colleges and universities as part of a new "interim" ROTC program. . The interim program will con tinue until the postwar size of the army is determined and a permanent ROTC program can be installed. Colleges and universities which had advance course units on March 1, 1943, except those schools which had only medical corps units, may re-establish their advance courses at the be ginning of any semester or term after arrangements are made with the commanding general of their respective service com mand. During the present school year most of the enrollment in the advance courses will be veterans, since selective service is taking 18-year-olds. Qualified veterans will re ceive approximately $370 during the two-year course, based on the present daily cash value of the garrison ration, and will re ceive between $70 and $75 while attending a six-week ROTC sum mer camp between the first and second years. These inducements are in ad dition to those received by ,et erans attending college under the G. I. bill of rights. Upon graduation from the ad vance course, students will be appointed second lieutenants in the reserve. Enrollees in the ad vance course must be between 19 and 26. VISIT RED PORT San Francisco, Oct. 6 (U.R) In one of the rare official allied visits to a Chinese communist area, five United States cruisers under command of Adm. Daniel Ed Barbey steamed into the Chinese port of Chefoo to survey what NBC and Newsweek Cor respondent Robert Shaplcn term ed a "very ticklish situation." In a broadcast heard tonight in San Francisco by United Press, Shaplen reported from aboard one of the vessels that the landing party is "ready for anything." Chefoo, the only communist held port in China, is "one which Chiang Kai-Shek would very much like to hold," Shaplcn said, but he deemed it unlikely that the communists would surrender the city to Chiang's forces. WAR PILOT KILLED Lincoln. Neb.. Oct. 6 (U.R) Flight Officer Jack Fry, 20, of Tujunga, Calif., was killed here today when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a car driv en by Capt. Taylor Hale, a stu dent at the University of Nebraska. L Senate Committee Report Shows They Made Possi ble Hitler's Rise Washington, Oct. 6 (U.R) A senate subcommittee recom mended tonight at 42 German industrialists be punished as war criminals for helping produce instruments for aggression. The military affairs subcom mittee headed by Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, D., W. Va., based its recommendation on reports sub mitted by the treasury depart ment after a study of Germany's financial and industrial prepara tions for war. "The facts clearly implicate these industrialists in the crimes committed against the peonies of many nations by the nazis in their quest for world domina tion." Kilgore said as he made public the subcommittee hear ings. "They show further that these industrialists, far from joining the nazi bandwagon in the last days in order to safeguard their persons and properties, were from the very inception of the nazi party its enthusiastic sup porters. Their assistance made possible the nazi seizure of pow er, they directed the conversion of the economy to war, and in governmental or semi-official in dustrial posts they managed Ger many's production of the instru ments for aggression. Kilgore noted that the treas ury submitted reports on 43 in dustrialists but one Gustav Krupp von Bohlen already was listed as a war criminal. "I trust that the others will be included in subsequent lists since their activities, though perhaps in some instances less spectacu lar than those of Krupp place them definitely in the same cate gory." Kilgore said. "They are by no means the 'neutral' busi nessmen they would have the al lies believe." Among those named by the treasury was 80-year-old Dr. Al fred Hugenberg, sometimes call ed "the giant shadow over Hit ler," and chairman of the board of the Krupp works during the first world war. Washington, Oct. 6 (U.R) The army will release surplus enlisted men in the continental United States now if they meet certain qualifications ;ven though they fall short of critical scores under the point system, it was learned tonight. Those eligible for release must meet these qualifications: Be surplus to the requirements of the major force to which they are assigned; be unqualified for foreign duty and have two years of active service since Septem ber. 1940; have no scarce, skill? needed by 'he army; r.ot be cn- liiWi ifl the ivu& army. CIO CHIEFS AND OPERATORS PLOT TO Carpenters' Union Head Charges Collusion Sai lors Support A F of L Portland, Ore.. Oct. 6 (U.R) CIO officials and lumber opera tors were charged today with col lusion to break a five-state AFL lumber strike in a joint declara tion by Frank Chapman, general representative of the Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners and John Christenson, strike pol icy committee chairman. Warning that the ClO-operator combine may come out with a phony wage settlement that will "jeopardize our fight for decent wage conditions for all workers, whether AFL or CIO, Chapman and Christenson said they had "just begun to fight and the lum ber industry is going to remain down tight." The strike leaders declared that 'even though the CIO opera tor combine has resorted to in junctions in an effort to keep the mills open, our imaginary picket line still remains and our allies in the AFL will consider all lumber so produced as unfair to organized labor." Already assurances have been given to the Northwestern Coun cil of Lumber and Sawmill Workers by the Sailors union of the Pacific that its members will no longer sail ships into any har bor to pick up lumber. The sai lors, it was added, will continue to observe AFL picket lines, real and imaginary. Meanwhile it was disclosed that injunction writs banning AFL picket lines from the big St. Paul and Tacoma lumber mill at Tacoma and the White River Lumber company at Enumclaw, Wash., had been issued. It was also announced that ne gotiations between the Interna tional Woodworkers ot America and operators b e f o r e George Brewer, United Slates concilia tor, the last two days, had bi'cn recessed until Thursday. The IWA is asking a wage raise of 25 cents hourly "across the board," while some 61,000 AFL lumbers workers arc requesting a $1.10 an hour minimum wage. FIRST TAX SLASH IN YEARS BUOYS NATIONAL TRADE New York, Oct. 6 (U.R) The nation's first tax-reduction bill in almost 15 years moved a step nearer the statute books this week and the promise of tax re lief in 1946 helped the stock market rise more than a half bil lion dollars to a new high since March, 17, 1937. Agreement by the house ways and means committee on a com promise tax bill cutting the cor poration excess profits tax on Jan. 1 and reducing taxes on in dividuals by at least 10 per cent outweighed concern over the un settled labor situation. Uncertainty over the Indus trial outlook was allayed by as sertion of the National City Bank of New York that industry's out standing current problem not un employment, but a shortage of workers in front-rank industries. The bank said that pessimistic predictions of 8,000,000 to 10, 000,000 unemployed six to eight weeks after V-J day "enormous ly overshot the mark." Billings, Mont., Oct. 6 'U.R) The city of Billings was placed under quarantine tonight be cause of an epidemic of infantile paralysis which had struck 38; persons, proving fatal to seven. The city board of health sairl a "public health emergency had j arisen" and ordered all schools closed and the cessation of public meetings. "It is. hereby ordered." the board's announcement said, "that until further notice all youths under 18 years of age are quar antined and required to stay upon their own premises and are forbidden to go upon the streets or on any prer.r. -.'S except those upon which they reside." Baby Foils Thief Portland, Ore., Oct. 6 (U.R) Howling babies at the mid night hour do come in handy at times sometimes. When a thief attempted to rob the home of Clement D. Johnson of Portland Friday night. Johnson was awakened by the sound of his baby cry ing. He then discovered that t h e intruder had poured chloroform over the foot of his bed in an attempt to guarantee quiet while he worked. The howling baby spoiled the quiet sequence and the would-be thief fled. ESPEE ANNOUNCES RESTORATION OE TRAINS TO Immediate Service From Grants Pass To San Fran cisco Opened To speed up the handling of mail and express by as much as 18 hours to and from certain communities in southern Oregon and San Francisco bay area, Southern Pacific announces the immediate restoration of through passenger train service between San Francisco and Grants Pass, Ore. This move re-establishes trains 7 and 8, the Shasta, on the run between Dunsmuir and Grants Pass, which service was discon tinued Jan. 12, 194Z, when South ern Pacific suspended many trains over its system to make equipment and crews available for pressing war needs, accord ing to Claude E. Peterson, vice president in charge of system passenger traffic. Pending the lifting of ODT re strictions on the use of sleeping cars In runs of 450 miles or less, equipment of trains 7 and 8 will consist of a through mail-express-bagg.igo car and Coach between San Francisco and Grants Pass and n cafe-loungo car between Dunsmuir and Grants Pass. Pointing out that this is the first restoration of train service curtailed by the war, Peterson said that the standard Pullman sleeper would be added as soon as ODT regulations permit. "Pending restoration of the sleeper, we feel that our friends in southern Oregon will be bet ter served by making the con- nection northbound at Dunsmuir with the Klamath instead of the Oregonian as previously an nounced on Sept. 26," Peterson said. LAVAL WALKS OUT OF OWN TRIAL IN RIOTOUS SESSION Paris, Oct. 6 (U.R) With a riotous session In which Judge, prosecutor, defendant, attorneys and even the jurors screamed in anger, Pierre Laval tonay walked out of his own treason trial, saying it was a "judicinl crime" which wag denying him the right to present a defense. The infuriated former Vichy premier, who had been cursed by jurors and ejected for a sec ond time, refused to return to the courtroom and Court Pres ident Pierre Mongibcaux ord ered the trial continued without cither he or his attorneys pre sent. With the defense refusing to participate, it appeared that the trial would be concluded in a few days and seemed certain that the hostile jury would .send before a firing squad the crafty politician accused of selling out his country to the Germans and helping them In their war lor world dominance. Laval had maneuvered him self into an excellent moral posi tion, however, for hi nlir,m..,.. one the president of the French car association and both mem bers of the Patriotic Resistance, backed their client's accusation that he hod not been alvnn .if- ficieilt time to nrrnaro hi. and that the court lacked "re judicial stature." BUY CEMETERY SITE Portland. Ore., Oct. 6 :U.R) Purchase of 200 acres of land east of Lncoln Memorial Park for use as a cemetery for war veterans has virtually been com plete! by the state board of con trol, Roy Mi'.ls a member of the board, announced today. B-ENGINED SUPER LUXURY AIRLINER NOW BEING BUILTi XC-9 Will Carry 204 Pas sengers Is 186 Feet Long, Travel 340 MPH San Diego, Cal., Oct. 6 (U.R) A six-engine aerial colossus that dwarfs any plane ever built was publicly presented today for the first time by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. as one ol its new reconversion products. This huge plane, which will carry 204 passengers as a luxury air-liner or 400 soldiers ns a troop transport, is not just an engineer's dream or a blueprint ship. The first model is now be ing built. Consolidated. officials, with the permission of the army, permit ted 18 newspaper correspondents to view the military version of the plane now under construc tion. The military version, the XC 99, is being built in two parts the forward section and the rear section set up side by side on big welded jigs. The fuselage, which will have two decks, is well along toward completion. When finally assembled, the plane will be 186 feet long and have a wing span of 230 feet. It will have six engines of 3,000 horsepower each installed In the trailing edge of the wing to "push." rather than pull, the overall load capacity of 265,000 pounds. Some airways already have or dered several of the new type super-luxury airliners. But the company, which pro duced more than 30,000 plnnes during the war, isn't placing all its reconversion eggs in one bas ket. The newsmen who are making a rouud-the-nation tour of major Industries, were shown a full scale wooden mock-up of a new 30-passenger plane for regular domestic airline service; a four engincd Liberator plane equip ped with a jet propulsion engine for extra speed; and other ex perimental projects which can not yet be disclosed. The gross weight of the super luxury airliner will be 320,000 pounds and it will carry a use ful load of 155,900 pounds. A flight crew of six will man the plane, capable of traveling at a cruising speed of 340 miles per hour, faster than the fastest commercial planes now in serv ice. It will have a maximum range of 4200 miles. Bulletin Medford Junior High school's football team invaded Klamath Falls Saturday to defeat the Klamath freshmen 13 to 0. The first half was scoreless, the Mcd forditcs getting their first mark er near the end of the ihird quarter. The second touchdown came in the last quarter on a 50-yard run by Dick Riggs. The Juniors' next game will be played hero Wednesday after noon with Grants Pass freshmen furnishing the opposition. Pearl Harbor, Oct. 6 (U.R; The National league All-Stars to day won the Little World Series championship when they defeat ed the American league aggrega tion of former big time players, 4 to 3. The victory guve the winners the series, four games to two. The National league team made nine hits and the losers eight. Night games. San Francisco 4 12 1 Seattle 2 5 2 Joyce and Sprinz; Turpin and Fin ley. In a night game, Alabama bid for southern supremacy with a convincing 26 to 7 conquest of Louisiana State. Harry Gilmer led the winners. Portland Dealers Sell 'Junk' Tires Portland, Ore., Oct. 6 (U.R) A spot check has disclosed that many "Junk" tires are being sold to Portland dealers as re capped or repaired tires, OPA enforcement attorney Sol Stern jaid t iriay. Stern said the "junk" had been traced to southern Calif ornia ources Notches made by California inspectors on tires Indicated many of them had been con demned previously. Stern said. San Francisco, Oct. 6 (U.R) The dairy market was unchanged today. - ' j V A1'.' v (Acme 7 rhphoto) Mrs. Annie Irene Mimsfclrit. 4(1, wife of Snn frrnncisco, Cniif., society doc tor, who (aces charge of murdering Mrs. Wnda Mnrlin, special nurse, whnm she suspected of having an Affair with her husband. Too lnte, Mrs. Mnnr.Mitt told police she Is convinced of her victim's Innocence. San Francisco, Oct. 6 (U.R) District Attorney Edmund G. Brown tonight ordered a state wide police search for Dr. John Mansfeldt, bespectacled, quiet- spoken society physician who dis appeared immediately after his wife shot and killed the attract ive nurse she thought was her rival. Meanwhile, worn and hag gard, Mrs. Annie Irene Mans feldt, 46, was transferred back to her city prison cell from the hospital where she spent the night under sedative to calm her hysteria. "Find John, find John." sob bed the red-haired society ma tron. "He's done away with him self or he'd be here beside me The 47-year-old balding doctor had been missing from his home and nracticc for mora than 48 hours since one hour after he identified his wife at the hos pital where she brought the body of Mrs. Vnda Mnrtin, brunette nurse she had accused of an il licit romance with her husbund. Brown emphasized the doctor was wanted only for "question ing about the background" of the affair. Mrs. Mansfeldt, 1913 Fresno, Cal., raisin festival queen, al ready had admitted shooting the nurse friend of her husband with a .32 caliber revolver. She was held under charges of murder. ON 5-DAY JAUNT, BY MOTOR, PLANE Washington, Oct. 6 (U.R) President Truman set out on a five-day flying visit to Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky today after acting as best man for an old friend in an Episcopal wed ding ceremony in nearby Vir ginia. The president's party left the National airport at 3:02 p. m. In three C-54 transport planes after bad weather had disrupted plans for a takeoff at Martinsburg, W. Va., earlier today. The planes were scheduled to land at Blythc ville, Ark., this evening. Mr. Truman planned to motor from Blythcville to Caruthcrs ville, Mo., for a two-day stay and a visit to the county fair, which he has not missed for 12 years. Early next week ho will spend two dnys resting and fishing at Reel Foot lake In Tennessee be fore he dedicates the Kentucky dam at Gilbertsville, Ky., Wed nesday in what may be a major address. The president left the White House shortly after 9 a. m. and motored with Mrs. Truman and their daughter, Margaret, 62 miles to Berryville, Va., for the wedding of Judge Bennett C. Clark, his former senate col league, and Miss Violet Hem ming, British-born actress. Suit Would Enjoin Short Income Form Salem, Ore.. Oct. 6 (U.R' F H. Young, secretary-manager i.f Oienon business ANF tax research, Inc filed a complaint today on benair ot ms corpora tion with the Marion county court to enjoin the state tax comm'sslon from administrating the short income tax return law lor 1343 returns. E SCORE WINS OVER PRIDES OF DIXIE Duke and Georgia Tech Loso Ohio State Plasters Iowa Other Scores New York, Oct. (U.R) Southern football prestige suffer ed a little today when Navy and Notre Dame invaded Dixie and emerged with decisive victories over Duke and Georgia Tech, teams expected to rate with the best in the nation. Notre Dame ran up a 40 to 7 score against Georgia Tech, beat ing a team that had been rated its equal in pre-game calcula tions. Navy was expected to win from Duke, but not by as wida a margin as the 21 to 0 score. Army, toying with a Waka Forest team, ran up a 54 to O score. Holy Cross ended Yale's reign as New England champion by upsetting the Eli, 21 to 0. Pennsylvania was given a tussle before winning, 12 to 0, from Dartmouth, and Columbia defeat ed Syracuse, 32 to 0. Cornell re mained with the perfect record elite by defeating New London Submarine Base, 39 to 0. In other eastern games Wes Virginia topped Drcxel, 42 to 0, Penn State defeated Colgate, 27 to 7; Pittsburgh blanked Buck, ncll, 38 to 0; Princeton and La fayette fought to a 7 to 7 stand off; Brooklyn college won from City College of New York, 38 to 0; Swarthmore beat Rutgers. 13 to 6; Connecticut won from Middlebury, 28 to 6, and Little Tufts upset Harvard, 7 to 6. Ohio State's blazing Buckeyes beat Iowa, 42 0. Minnesota de feated Nebraska by a 61 to 7 margin. Michigan gained a 2lt to 7 victory over Northwestern, and Indiana used a late despera tion pass to top Illinois, 6 to 0. Purdue had troublo standing oil a late Wisconsin threat but won, 13 to 7. In other mid-western games, Michigan State won over Kentucky, 7 to 8, and Western Michigan beat Ohio, 21 to 20. The Fort Benning, Ga., Infantry team won from Great Lakes 21 to 12. Kansas and Iowa State played to a 13 to 13 tie, while Olatha Naval trimmed Kansas State, 32 to 14. Missouri upset Southern Metlu odlst, 10 to 7. Elsewhere in the cow country, Texas defeated Texas Tech, 33 to 0; Texas A St M won from Oklahoma 33 to 0, and Arkansas margined Texas Christian 27 to 14. In other southern games, North Carolina State toppled Blucfield, 23 to 0; Virginia won from Vlr ginia Military, 40 to 7; Missis sippi State blanked Auburn, 20 to 0; Tennessee beat William and Mary, 48 to 13; Mississippi de cisioned Vandcrbilt, 14 to 7; Tu lane and Florida tied at 6 to 6, and South Carolina bested Camp Blandlng, 26 to 6. 15 SURVIVORS OF B 29 CRASH SAFE Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 6 (U.RI Navy and coast guard patrol vessels tonight rescued 15 sur vivors of the B-29 Superfortress bomber which crashed Into the Pacific ocean 465 miles off the California coast. The bodies of three crew mem bers were found in the sea and on life rafts. Search was continu. Ing by navy planes and ships in murky weather and choppy seas for the remaining two men of the 20-man crew. The plane was enroutc to Ma ther field from Hawaii. Field of ficials released the names of the 15 survivors but withheld names of the three dead pending notifi cation of next of kin. Warner Bros. Studio Strike Calms Doivrt Hollywood, Oct. 6 U.R) An other mob scene was enacted to day before the besieged Warner Bros, studio as 1.000 film pickets massed effectively to prevent 400 non-strikers from going to work. Several hundred police stood guard and the studio threw up) portable barricades, mindful of yesterday's fierce rioting which was quelled by police with tear gas and fire hoses. But the tense pickets and non strikers, facing each other on op posite sides of the street, wera peaceful today except for mino incidents. "-