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Major Construction Tieup Predicted In Lumber Strike .7 Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night nd Wednesday with icat trd thunder showers. LlUie change in temperature. Temp. Higheit yesterday 7 Lowest this morning 35 Precipitation Fortieth Year VAST JAP HOARD OF STOLEN GOLD SEIZEDBYYANKS $251 ,000,000 Worth of Precious Metals Found in Past 36 Hours; Hunt More. Tokyo, Oct 9 U.R Ameri can occupation forces have seiz ed $2-M .800.000 worth of Jap anese, gold, silver and platinum soma of it probably stolen from other lands in the past 36 hours. Gen. Douglas MacArthur annou-iced today. More than S12.n00.000 in gold and silver reserves alone were confiscated by the sixth and eighth armies in one hour today et Japanese army head quarters and the navy ministry. Other rich hoards were found In military arsenals in Tokyo and Osaka, the precious metal companies and in scattered warehouses. Cabinet Sworn The American occ u p a 1 1 o n forces struck swiftly while Pre mier Baron Kijuro Shidehara and his new government were being sworn in and were an nouncing their program for re storation of Japan. Th!i government promised to combat, food clothing and hous ing shortages, reform the im perial diet system, purge inef ficient officials, seek speedy repatriation of Japanese' troops end civilians abroad, and restore free speech and assembly. A spokesman for MacArthur said American authorities were "astounded" to learn that the Japanese army and navy had rot reported any expenditures to the government since 1937. "The finance ministry told us they had no reports of army and navy fund s," the spokesman said. "The finance ministry didn't know either whether the army or navy had n single ounce of the precious metals. The two rervices drew theii money from a master account with the Bank of Japan and only they knew what became of it." SOLICITORS FOR Names of volunteers aiding with the down-town solicitanon for the current Community Chest drive were announced to day by A. R. (Tony) Manno, chairman for that division of the campaign. Ralph Cook and other members of the Y.M.C.A. board will have charge of that section west of the railroad tracks, it was stated, while cast of the tracks Junior Chamber of Commerce members, headed by George Davis, will have charge of solicitations. G. W. Kellington will handle the campaign in the courthouse, Manno states. Blind War Veteran Is Short-Changed Miami, Fla., Oct. 9 (U.R) A blind war veteran from Tennes see who went out to celebrate his armv discharge "like all the oth er fellows" was $320 poorer to day. Former Sgt. Charles W. Yates, of Ripley, told police that he had about $400 when he want out last night. But somewhere along the line someone shortchanged me Deno boned veteran who lost his sight at Dusseldorf, Germany, leaving him only S80. SIDE GLANCES Bf TRIBUNE REPORTERS Esther Hammond refusing to believe the total which the add ing machine gave on a list of figures and deciding to add them by hand after all. Francis Jarquemin and Floyd Scott struggling along without the help of a stenographer and hoping that the "veteran" which they want to hire would bo a good looking blonde. Rollie Beach sniffing the morning air and wishing he was back vacationing on the coast. Dick McElhosc telling hDW g''d the fishing is in Canada and exhibiting pictures to prove it. . 1 AT Me United Press Murders Japs 4 Ws V (PiEA Telepholo) Sgt. Ray L. O'Roark, Los Angeles, Calif., one of three GIs sentenced to 10 years hard labor and dishonor able discharge from Army after courtmartial found them guilty of slaying two Japanese civilians Id Tokyo. BEAST OF BELSEN ADMITS KILLING Lueneburg, Oct. 9 (U.R) Joseph Kramer, burly overseer of the nazi death camp at Bel sen, broke down under cross-examination today and confessed In tlio nlroritv mnrrlpr of ronnt- less concentration camp inmates. Kramer went on the witness stand for the second straight day to testify in defense of him self and 44 other accused nazi prison guards, and he practic ally sealed his own death war rant. In a voice so excited that he slurred over entire sentences, the st:,r defendant confessed he had forced helpless prisoners into the gas chambers at Bclsen and personally turned on the lethal gas jets On Berlin Orders The" aware that he was talk ing his life away the fat-faced nazi prison boss tried to cover his damaging admissions by shouting he had acted only on orders from Berlin. . Gestapo Chief Heinrich Him mler ordered the executions and they had to be carried out with out question, Kramer told the court. ' "So your preferred mass mur der to arrest." the British mili tary prosecutor snapped. "Nein," Kramer yelled. Twi.-ting uncertainly under the prosecutor s reientlcss cross examination Kramer denied he had watched the death agonies of the condemned prisoners ihrougn special peepholes in the gas chambers Dirty Jobs Denied He denied that he personally had handled the "dirtiest" jobs at Belsen, but a moment later admitted turning over corpses to nazi dissectionists and presiding at the building of o special leth al gas chamber. Kramer began his testimony calm'y enough and seemed al most to enjoy his early ex changes with the prosecutor. But j l-e became higmy excuuu i mid-af.ernoon and returned con- 1 Mantly to his theme that he was ! .,nlv a captain in me . i , ordor from Berlin. nan iu vuw The.i came his damning con fession to the gas murders at Belsen. GOVERNMENT OF GREECE RESIGNS OVER PROTEST Athens, Oct. 9 (U.Ri The gov ernment of Premier Pctros Voul garis resigned today after the EAM protested against its deci sion to hold elections in Greece. Leaders of the leftist EAM re vealcd they had cabled a protest acainst the election decision to President Truman, Prime Minis ter Attlee and Gen. Charles Dc Gaulle. JEFFERS RECOVERING Los Angeles. Oct. 9 (U.R) William M. Jcffers, president of the Union Pacific Railroad and former national rubber director who is recovering from a major operation, was expected to be w-ll enough today to leave Good Samaritan tospiuL Vj ' j DFOB Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, ( U Failure of Foreign Ministers Council Due to Russian Stand on Balkan Treaties. London, Oct. S OI.R1 British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin joined American spokesmen to day in blaming Russia for the failure of the foreign ministers council and revealed that the conference was called off only after a vain attempt to reach agreement through the big five government heads. London. Oct. 9 (U.R) The British labor government was challenged io a general debate on the Foreign Ministers' council today after Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin dis closed that the conference floundered on a sudden re versal of Russia's stand on the Balkan peace treatiei. Bevin told a packed house of commons what U S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes al ready had informed the Ameri can people that the conference split over Russia's insistence that discussion of the Balkan peace treaties be limited to the big three powers Ordere From Moscow Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov told the council. Bevin added, that his adamant stand against French and Chin ese participation In the Balkan treaties was taken on direct or ders from Moscow When Molotov refused to ac cept any compromise on that po- sition. Bevin said, the foreign ministers referred the issue to their government heads in Lon- don, Washington, Moscow. Paris and Chungking. The big five leaders also "fail ed to agree." he said. The dynamic labo'rite minis ter, who was reported to have had several sharp verbal clashes with Mo.otov during the confer ence, expressed regret at the wide divergence of views dem onstrated at that meeting. Resumption Hoped But he said he was hopeful the discussions could be resum ed and that a satisfactory solu tion could be worked out. "Perhaps it is a little too close to the two great victories to be oble io reach immediate agree ment," he said. 365-Page Letter Posts Lawmaker Washington. Oct. 9 (U.R) Rep. John E. Rankin, D., Miss., had his work cut out for him today. He has just received a 365-prge, 350 000-word letter on "The State of the Union" from a man in Hot Springs. Ark. Rankin claims with confi dence 'hat the letter is the long est ever received by a congress man. It was written in long-hand and by pencil The author start ed it on June 12 and finally signed his name with a flourish on Sept. 26. Adm. Nimitz, Hero of Pacific, Given Big New York Welcome New York, Oct. 9 (U.R) Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ar rived in New York today to re ceive a thunderous greeting the first official reception given a naval hero here since 1899. Cloudy and rain-filled skies cleared and the sun shone as Nimitz' plane landed at LaGuar dia airport. The white-haired admiral. whose warships swept the Japa - nese from the Pacific, was "piped t over the side" of the navy plane t by a chief boatswain's ma"te. As Nimitz stepped from the plane to the boatswain's whistle, i a 17-gun salute began roaring a welcome. I Following quickly behind the ' . . l D aamirai w.r ;i:5 vme nu nrai Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, his chief of staff. Nimitz passed through naval honor guard to be greeted by Mayor F. H. LaGuardia and Grover A. Whalen, chairman of i the mayor's welcoming commit tee. 1 Five minutes after Nimitz' plane landd a second plane tcuciied dawn t the irport. It )N, TUESDAY, OCTOBER Strike Picture (By United Press) About 475.000 American workere were away from their jobs in strikes and shutdowns today. The major disputes: Coal United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and representatives of biiuminouc coal operators met again with government officials in an ef fort to send 162,000 miners back to the pits. Lumber 61.000 AFL lum ber and sawmill workers re newed their efforts to "com pletely strangle" the north west lumber industry. Autos Production wan re sumed at the Ford Motor Co. and Hudson Motor Car Co., as the Detroit industrial area was without its first major strike in months. Strike votes were pending, however, in the na tionwide plants of Ford, Gen eral Motors and Chrysler. Steel An estimated 17,000 CIO steelworkers were idle in scattered eastern mills in vari ous disputes. Transportation A strike of 2,700 Greyhound employes continued to upset bus service in seven western states. HOG CEILINGS UP EFFECTIVE TODAY Washington. Oct. 9 (U.R) The office of price administra tion today revised ceiling prices on hos at numerous terminals, interior markets and country buying stations to halt a diver sion o live animals from cus tomary trade channels. - The OPA order, effective -today, will have no effect on re tail pork prices. OPA said "widespread and growing practices of country buying" had by-passed terminal markets and brought hardships on both stockyard companies and slaughterers using these fa cilities. At the following terminal markets, ceiling prices were in creased five cents per 100 pounds: North Portland, Ore.; South San Francisco. Midget $500 Auto Is Promised Soon San Diego. Calif . Oct. 9 4U.R) A midget-size auto retailing for about S500 will be on the market within a few months, Maurice Howard, secretary treasurer of the newly-formed Bobbi Motor Car Co., revealed today. "Motorists can expect to get 50 miles per gallon from this light weight metal car, which will travel as fast as any car on the market," Howard said. HOME NOT SO SAFE Canon City, Colo., Oct. 9 (U.R) Pvt. Martin J. Pendergast of Butte. Mont., fought through 39 months of the European war but his closest brush with death came last night when he was thrown under the wheels of a train tak ing him to Salt Lake City for dis charge. carried most of the 14 navy and marine corps heroes who receiv ed medals of honor from Presi dent Truman Friday. LaGuardia clutched the admir al's hand, shook it vigorously and said: "Hello, welcome to New York. We're glad to have you here." Then the admiral, his wife and his party walked to the 19- car 1 motorcade which began the trip through New York. The start of the motorcade signalled the be-; ginning of a roaring welcome from millions of New Yorkers as a naval hero hadn't received since the official reception in 18Dfi for Admiral George Dewey of Manila Bay fame. The motorcade moved from LaGuardia airport to the East River Drive down to the battery at the tip of Manhattan where a parade formed. Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the naval hero assassination might have been cn as the parade and the motorcade j gineercd by reactionary Kuom moved to city hall where Nimitz ingtang elements In an attempt addrrM a jam packed crowd ia its Farh, 9, 1945. LAVAL CONVICTED, SENTENCED TO DIE PLANS JAPPEAL Jury Returns Verdict After Hour's Deliberation; Ac cused Sulks in Jail Cell. Faris. Oct. 9 (UP.) Pierre Laval. France's arch-collaborator with the Nazis in World War II. was convicted of treason in the high court of justice today and sentenced to death. The jury which heard Laval's fivedav trial received the case at 4.05 p. m. (10:05 a. m. EST) and deliberated exactly an hour before returning its verdict. Laval, who refused to atlend the last two sessions of his trial, was found guilty on both counts of the indictment plotting against the security of the state and intelligence with the enemy. Plans No Appeal Laval took the news stolidly in his jail cell and announced that he would not ask Gen. Charles De Gaulle for clemency. The conviction had not been left in doubt since the early ses sions of his trial in the paneled courtroom of the Palace of Jus tice. There two months ago Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was convicted and sentenced to death, only to receive a commu tation to life imprisonment. When the jury trooped back to the courtroom after an horn's absence, Judge Pierre Mongi beaux read the verdict and the sentence in brusque formalities lasting only four minutes. The courtroom was deathly still, in contrast with its earlier clamor. Confiscate Property Laval also was sentenced to national indignity and confisca tion of all his properly, Now Laval's only hope lay in an appeal to Gen. Charles De Gaulle. If that fails and by all signs it will Laval will be exe cuted by a firing squad, probably at tne Montrouge fortress just outside Paris and possibly by the end of this week. LI T Santa Ana, Cal.. Oct. 9 (U.R) Pfc Clarence "Whity" Craft, 23, received a cheering home town sendoff today as he board ed an American Airlines plane for Washington to receive the congressional medal of honor from President Truman. Craft, in a "once-in-a-war per formance." wiped out an entire pockr-t of Japanese resistance along the Shuri line on Okinawa una was instrumental in snap ping tne line which held for 10 days. Virtually alone on an exposed bill crest while others of his group were pinned down by ma chine gun fire. Craft tossed gre nados into trenches and fox holes, then Jumped Into a trench cs Japs came at him. When reinforcement arrived they counted 58 Jap bodies three knee mortars, three ma chine guns, 80 rifles and ammu nition. Craft's executive officer said "That darn fool is determined to get out of the army, cither via the meddl of honor or dead! Mott Recovering From Operation Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R) Rep. James W. Mott, R., Ore was reported to be "recovering nicely" yesterday from an opera tion at Bethesda Naval hospital. A hospital attendant said the Oregon congressman was "feel- j jng much belter today The of ficer of the day at Bethesda said Mott was not in a serious condi tion. CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER ASSASSINATED Chungking. Oct. 9 (U.R) LI Hsao-Shih, prominent Chinese leader, was assassinated last night while riding through the streets of Chungking in an au tomobile. Communist sources said the i to sabotage Kumi!n6' tang Coin J quaint peace taUu. RIBUNE United Press Full y Ik? 4 vr w f Ft i . -A Hollywood, Calif., pickets take shelter behind overturned automobile as police resort to tear-gas and fire to break up the worst mass violence in the 29-week-old movie strike at Warner Brothers studio. Clubs, bottles end bricks were used by the battlers. Picket at right is about to toss a bottle. Hollywood Pickets Beat Up Non-Strikers Seeking Entry Hollywood. Oct. 9 (U.R) A thousand determined pickets, massed around Warner Bros, studio to prevent a recurrence of a break-through of workers, effectively repulsed with fists today a test made by three non strikers to pierce the double line of strikers. Throe AFL International Al liance of Theatrical Stage em- CAPTAIN B.N.AHL E Capt. B. N. Ahl, of the Navy Medical corps, has arrived in Mcdford to assume duties of executive officer at Camp White Naval hospital, under command of Capt. 11. B. LaFavre. The new executive officer was transferred here after a long tour of duty aboard the USS Missouri which mighty ship served as the place for formal capitulation of the Japanese. One of the offi cer's prized possessions is a sou venir card bearing the signatures of MacArthur, Nimitz, liulsey and Murray, the American army and navy officers who accepted the Nips' surrender. Each of ficer and man aboard the Mis souri received one of the cards. Capt. Ahl is not a newcomer to this area, he having been a medical officer in the CCC sc-v-ice in northern California some years ago. The officer was accompanied by Mrs. Ahl and their daughter, Judy, 10, and son John, six, and the family is searching for a resi dence in or near Mcdford. JILTED VETERAN KILLS GIRL, SELF Modesto, Cal., Oct. 9 (U.R) A discharged war veteran today walked calmly Into the bedroom of the 18-year-old girl who Jilted him, shot her through the tem ple with a .22-calibcr rifle and then killed himself. The girl, Dorothy Wills, a for mer Modesto Junior College stu dent, was killed Instantly, police reported. Her rejected itiitor, Robert Ball. 25, McGill, Nev., died three hours later. Mr. and Mrs. John Wills, grief- stricken parents of the dead girl, said Ball, a former army ser geant, was a house guest at their 20 acre farm in the San Joaquin Valley, despite the fact that Dor othy had broken off with him. JUDGE AUTHORIZED Washington. Oct. 9 (U.R) The senate today parsed and vrnl to the House a bill directing the president to appoint an addition al district Judge for the district of Kansas. INMATE STABBED Morrison, Colo., Oct. 9 (U.R) An 18-ycar-old Mill Valley, Cal., youth was under questioning to day in the knife-slaying list night of Wesley E. Wilson. 19, of Eugene. Ore., a fellow inmate at the Federal reformatory near i Morrison. Leased Wiri NO. 170. ploycs replacement workers were Injured slightly as they sought to enter the studio, be sieged since Friday morning by pickets In the 29-week-old AFL jurisdictional movie walkout. The flaretip early this morn ing lasted briefly as about 200 non-srikers collected across the street from the pickets, did not follow the first three who nought entrance. About 70 were injured In rioting cn other days. with 50 treated yesterday after the worst outbreak. Some of the 600 non-strikers who stormed the pickets early yesterday remained In the studio overnight, sleeping In property department beds that were set up in makeshift dormitories. wifeMrTason TO HATE San Francisco, Oct. 9 (U.R) A coroner's Jury today charged Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt with the murder of Mrs. Vada Mar tin, the nurse she suspected of having an affair with her hus band. Dr. John Mansfeldt. "The deceased came to her death at the hands of Annie Irene Mansfeldt," the verdict said. "We the jury charge Mrs. Mansfeldt with the crime of murder." The coroner's Jury verdict was returned shortly after District Attorney Edmund Brown said he had witnesses who asserted they had seen Dr. Mansfeldt and Mrs. Martin "kissing and embracing" on several occasions before the doctor's widow shot and killed the attractive nurse and the pro minent physician committed sui cide. une or tne witnesses, a nurse at the hospital where Dr. Mans feldt worked, signed a statement saying she had seen the doctor and the attractive nurse in a "fond embrace." Woman Promises Return to Skirts Los Angeles, Oct. 9 U R Frauces Orlando, whose dress and manners weie so mascu line they allowed her to pass as a man for 18 of her 36 years today promised Super ior Judge A. A. Scott she would return to skirts and feminine mannerisms. Judge Scott dismissed charges that Miss Orlando contributed to the delinquen cy of 16-year-old Robert Ed win Yarringlon of Waterloo, la., after she promised "to dress like a woman from here out." When told that his fellow fruit-picker and roommate was u woman. Yarrington said "Gee. what a sticker I was." ARGENTINESTRONG MAN QUITS FEDERAL POST Buenos Aires, Oct. 9 (U.R) Col. Juan Peron, strong man of the Argentine military regime resigned as vice-president and minister of war and labor to night, presumably to clear the way fur his presidential tandi d4C ueaI April. IISE TO HELPAFL MEN "Hot" Lumber Won't Ba Loaded; 'Strikers Ready to Go to Town' Says Leader, By John W. Dunlap United Press Correspondent Portland, Ore., Oct. 9 (U.R) A national tieup on major con struction projects was predicted today by AFL lumber union strikers in the Pacific northwest unless the two-weeks-old work stoppage is settled. John Christensen, chairman of the strike policy committee of the lumber and sawmill workers, pointed out that lumber Inven tories were at a critical low point when the war ended and the; strike is further draining avail able supplies. Sailors To Help Even though some operations are continuing with CIO labor, Christensen said the AFL had as surances from the Sailors Union of the Pacific that no "hot" lum ber would be loaded on ship, and pledge of cooperation from ths 130,000 AFL building craftsmen in the state of Washington. He said construction throughout the nation would be cripplod without lumber supplies. After yesterday's clashes in Portland between AFL pickets and CIO non-strikers, there was quiet today and CIO mills re sumed operations. Christensen warned that "we have been very tame and have been trying to carry on this strike In a peaceful fashion but we're ready to go to town if we have to do so." Strength Shown The AFL struck for a mini mum of $1.10 throughout the in dustry while the CIO is negotiat ing separately for a 25 cent an hour Increase' for all crafts. Christenson declared the clos ing of CIO mills, including the clash at the Multomah Box and Lumber Company sawmill in Portland and mauling of 200 AFL pickets, "demonstrated to the operators what we can do, and are going to keep on doin( so long as they conduct 'lockout' against us and refuse to negoti ate." It is strange," Christenson added, "that the operators who lways talk of the importance ot the post war world, now sit tight while lumber supplies dwindle, refuse to negotiate with us, and allow the entire reconversion program of, the nation to be threatened. . . Our fight is not with the rank and file CIO and we do not want violence. Instead the CIO should be out on the picket line, with us . . . what happened in Portland is going to occur in other parts of Oregon ..." FREED BY ARMY Washington. Oct. 9 (U.R) Eighty million pounds of butter, declared surplus by the Army, are being turned over to the Dl partmcnt of Agriculture for dis posal to civilian agencies, tne War department announced to day. The butter will greatly in crease civilian supplies during the next few months during the normal short season In produc tion. The butter will be released as soon as possible. The sudden cessation of hostilities radically reduced requirements. BUS SETTLEMENT BE SOUGHT San Francisco, Oct. 9 (U.R) Pacific Greyhound officials and representatives of striking driv ers who have tied up bus opera tions in seven western states for five days agreed to resume nego tiations at 10 a. m. tomorrow in an attempt to settle the strike. TROOPS WILL UNLOAD BRITAIN FOOD SHIPS London, Oct. 9 (U.R) The government announced tonight that troops will be called out to unload Britain's strike -bound food ships. The announcement was made after i.OOO London dock workers walked out In support of north ern dock strike which had spread to more than 30,000 longshore men in 11 ports. The strikers had ignored ap peals of the government to re- t
