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Strong Man" Arrested As Argentina Moves Toward Democracy
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Weather
FORECAST: Partly rloudy to
night and Saturday. Little
change in temperature.
Temp.
HUheit Yesterday 77
Lowest thif Morntnj .4I
Fortieth Year
Slain
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(Acme Tclephoto)
Dorothy Wills, 18-year-old Modesto
girl, shot to death by Robert Ball, 25-year-old
discharged Army sergeant,
' McGill, Nev., and then killed him
self. Friends say young couple had
been informally engaged but that
murdered girl had been going with
sailor recently
DESTROYED HUTS
Pearl Harbor, Oct. 13 U.R)
Okinawa's violent typhoon tore
whole Quonset huts off their
foundations, hurled them around
like matchboxes and left the
fee
.
' navy airbase at Yonabaru a
scene of sickening destruction.
eyewitnesses reported today.
AOM 1c Lawrence Roberts,
Azusa, Cal., who arrived aboard
the first plane from the stricken
Al island, said he took oft just as
M the wind subsided. Wednesday
r night,
"The storm started brewing
about midnight Sunday, blew
through Monday and then be
came violent Monday night,"
Roberts said. "It was pretly
swful. The wind destroyed the
riavy air transport service ter
minal, which was a large quon
set. The sheet metal was ripped
off and then the girders col
lapsed. All nearby warehouses
were destroyed..
'Assistants' Corps
To Meet Saturday
The Red Cross Assistants'
Corps will meet a', the home of
Mrs. Ralph Morris on Old Stage
Road, Saturday, October 13.
.Mrs. iorris will oe nosiess ui
p lunriicon for the present corps
and several new recruits at one
o'clock
Mrs. John Day, chairman,
will conduct the meeting follow
ing li:ncheon
MISS HUMPHREY OPENS
JUNIOR RED CROSS SHOP
Mrs. Vera Humphrey return
ed this morning to re-open the
Junior Red Cross shop after a
Fhort visit in Salem. This after
noon she spoke at the Jack-on
school P.-T.A. Saturday noon
she will preside at the 1 first
J.R.C. luncheon of the season,
when the teacher-sponsors of
Jackson county, elementary and
Junior high schools meet at the
Holland hotel to plan the fall
program in Junior Red Crosr.
WHISKY PRODUCTION
REDUCED IN AUGUST
New York, Oct. 12 (U.R)
A August whisky production
dropped 17,500,000 gallons under
July, Allied Liquor Industries,
Inc., reported today.
Estimated not whisky inven
tories at tnc end ot August stood
at 265.500.000 tax gallons against
235,000.000 a month earlier.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Mavor C!arence Meeker sur
reptitously doing a little art
work on the table mats in the
Blue rloom while listening to
commi'tec reports.
Mxre Hjmilton unsuccess
fully snoppinp for a shirt
Joe Earlev hopefully (?) ask
ing fi liow C. of C board mem
bers :o help him find houses for
a lot of new residents.
Edpi Tenwald explaining a
lechnal pt.rao in insurance
nliC!CS.
MEDFORD
Unittd Prwi Full Leased Wira
Eisenhower Cb' es Critics at Home;
Avers Potsdam Directives Observed
GOING AHEAD IS
German Civilians to Be Run
ning Government at Lower
Levels by June, Says Ike.
Frankfurt. Oct. 12 (U.PJ
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to
day denounced as "just plain
stupid" what he called implica
tions back home that the Ameri
can occupation forces were fall
ing down on the job of denazify
ing and demilitarizing Germany.
Berlin. Oct. 12 (U.R) Ger
many's billion-d o 1 1 a r I, G.
Farbenindustrie, Uigtil
chemical and munitions or
ganization in the world, was
ordered confiscated today for
reparations, destruction or
any other purpose decided
upon. by . the allied powers.
Eisenhower said at a press con
ference that he expected disturb
ances among the Germans this
winter as a result of food short
ages. "Shrunk stomachs" are
bound to create some unrest and
uprisings, he said, although no
major trouble was anticipated.
To Uproot Nazism
The American occupation com
mander at a 90-minute press con
ference declared "we are direct
ed to uproot nazism in every
shape and form, and God willing
we are going to do it."
"Implications at home that we
are not trying to carry out the
Potsdam agreements that we
can train the Germans in democ
racy in five months are just
plain stupid," Eisenhower said.
Already, he said, the new Ba
varian military government,
from which Gen. George S. Pat
ton recently was removed, is
showing excellent progress in
denazifying the German prov
ince. He Insisted that the hulitary
will maintain "constant inspec
tion and ruthless elimination of
all Germans failing to comply
with American policy."
Worse Than Combat
He said the occupation and
governing of Germany was even
more difficult than running an
army in combat. Expressing a
hope that German civilians soon
would be able to take over much
of their own governing, but un
der American supervision, he
added:
"We don't ' care how poorly
they operate their government.
That is their own worry. We are
interested in protecting our se
curity." The army never was cut out
for the job of military govern
ment, he said, and the faster it
turned over the task to German
or American civilians, the better
it would be. . He said the army
should be used only as a patrol
to exert force if and when nec
essary. Eisenhower revealed present
expectations that German civili
ans would be running the gov
ernment at the lower levels
those equivalent to districts or
states in the American zone by
June. The military will super
vise the police.
Hunters Shoot Each Other In Freak
Accident While Taking Aim At Deer
Gunnison, Colo., Oct. 12
(U.R) Harry I. Smith, Jr.. of
Manitou Springs, Colo.. 29-year-old
hunter who was shot
by his companion when each
fired at the same buck deer,
died today.
Gunnison. CrAo., Oct. 12 (U.R)
A delicate brain operation was
i scheduled to be performed today
1 on Harry I. Smith, one of two
! Colorado big game hunters who
j were wounded in a freak hunting
accident.
! Smith and Karl SuYiderman,
both of Manitou Springs, wound
ed each other in the head with a
fifth bullet fired from their re
spective guns while aiming at a
larffe buck deer which raced
through the rugged terrain be -
MEDFORD, OREGON, FP
Rudolf Hess Undergoes Sanity Test
In Bid to Dodge Allied Punishment
Nuernberg, Oct. 12 (U.R) Rudolf Hess, one-time Nazi deputy
fuehrer, submitted to an exhaustive lunacy test today in an ap
parent bid to escape punishment as a war criminal on a plea of
insanity.
American officials on the United Nations War Crimes com
mission revealed that Hess was being examined by Maj. Douglas
Kelly, a U. S. army psychiatrist from San Francisco, Calif.
Kelly, who recently treated Reichsmarshal Hermann Gocring
for a "narcotics ailment," was understood to be preparing a formal
report. It will be submitted to the United Nations War Crime
tribunal when Hess goes on trial with a group of other top-flight
Nazi leaders now in the Nuernberg jail.
Meanwhile, it was learned that another prominent defendant
scheduled for trial as a war criminal might not be on hand for the
opening of the Nuernberg hearings.
Informed sources said the defendant, Gustav Krupp Von
Bohlen, head of the Krupp works, was seriously ill in an American
military hospital.
M'KEOUGH CHOICE
Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R)
The senate has voted a former
political agent of the congress
of industrial organizations into
office as a member of the Unit
ed Stales maritime commission
over protests of other labor
groups and of conservative
legislators.
Raymond' S.' McKeough of
Illinois was confirmed by the
senat? yesterday by a vote of
42 to 34. He was confirmed
despite an unfavorable report
by t the commerce committee
which recommended that the
senate reject his nomination.
Nine democrats bolted Presi
dent Truman on the McKeough
nomination and voted to reject.
Only two republicans voted to
confirm" him: Lariger of North
Dakotr and Morse of Oregon.
ASK PROSECUTION
STUDIO PICKETS
Hollywood, Oct. 12 (U.R)
Motion picture producers today
asked Dist. Atty. Fred Howser
for wholesale prosecution of
pickets on felony conspiracy
charges.
The film executives offered
more than 100 photographs
taken of picket activities at War
ner Bros, studios to back up their
demands.
. Howsor turned the demands,
the first made by the producers
for complaints, over to his bu
reau of investigation. If suffic
ient evidence exists, he said, he
will issue complaints.
Dance-Hall Dandy
In Bigamy Hearing
Los Angeles, Oct. 1 2 (U.R)
David Hardy. 47 -year -old
"dance-hall dandy" who married
seven times in his search for
"a little home with a fireplace,"
faces a probationary hearing to
day on his plea of guilty to
charges of bigamy.
Hardy, a boiler inspector, who
allegedly escaped with an eighth
bride-to-be's living room furni
ture and $350. also faces a grand
theft charge entered by Luira
A. Haley, the prospective num
ber eight.
tween the two men.
Unaware of each others prox
imity, the two men fired simul
taneously at the deer four times.
Although wounded, the deer con
tinued to run between them and
the two each fired a fifth shot
at the animal.
Both men pitched to the
ground, wounded in the head by
the others bullet.
Authorities said Smith was
shot in the temple, and was in
critical condition. A Denver sur
geon will attempt to remove the
bullet which lodged in the brain
tissue, after penetrating the left
temple.
Sunderman received a wrist
wound and part of his jaw was
' shot away by Smith's bullet.
OCTOBER
STEEL OUTPUT HIT
BY STRIKE WAVE
By United Press
One independent and three
CIO unions backed up striking
AFL longshoremen in New York
Harbor today, and the coal strike
was beginning to cut the nation's
steel output.
A United Press survey showed
that 453,000 workers were idle
because of strikes across the
nation.
Movie production was halted for
the second day at the Universal
and Warner Brothers studios in
Hollywood as striking AFL
painters continued picketing.
Meanwhile-the labor department
appointed Earl J. Ruddy of its
conciliation service to seek an
agreement between strikers and
the industry.
U.S. MEAT GOING
TO ALLIED LANDS
Washington, Oct. 12 U.R
The government still hopes to
relax meat rationing further in
November despite a new pro
gram for requisitioning more
than 500 000.000 pounds of meat
for export, it was learned today.
After next Sunday, federally
inspected packers must reserve
a large share of their production
of beef, veal, and mutton for gov
ernment purchase. The meat ob
tained under the requisition pro
gram will be shipped to Great
Britain, France, Holland and Bel
gium to fulfill U. S. commit
ments. The European nations
will pay for the meat.
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San Francisco, Oct. 12 (U.P)
San Francisco was chosen for
the 1046 convention of the
Shrincrs of North America which
will be attended by President
Harry Truman, it was announced
today.
William B. Poyncr. potentate
of Islam Temple, said the pres
ident, who is a Shrincr, already
had accepted his invitation. Ap
proximately 140 temples will
participate in the -three-day con
vention which will open on
June 18.
CREWLESS AIRPLANE
IN SUCCESSFUL TRIAL
Dayton, O., Oct. 12 (U.R A
small crewless airplane "pilot
ed" by a larger craft win a
human pilot at the latter's con
trols arrived at Patterson Field
today after an uneventful flight
from the Lockbourne army air
base near Columbus. The plane
circled nearby Wright Field be
fore landing at Patterson.
BANKS AND OFFICES
MARK COLUMBUS DAYithe
In observance of Columbus
day the county courthouse a-id
banks and some of the city hnll j
offices were closed today, it is
a state legal holiday. There was
no formal observance here. All
stores, barber shops and oth?r
I businesses were open.
12, 1945.
FREE SPEECH AND
T
E
New Cabinet Complies With
American Directives; Navy
Headquarters Abolished.
Tokyo, Oct. 12 (U.R) The
new Japanese cabinet abolished
all restrictions on freedom of
speech and assembly today and
completed the dissolution of
home naval and air fleet head
quarters in compliance with
American directives.
Free speech and free assembly
were restored to the. Japanese
people through repeal of the so
called peace preservation laws.
The cabinet also abolished laws
setting up fortified zones within
the home Islands.-
MacArihur.'s Order
Restoration of the rights of
speech and assembly were among
the orders issued by Gen. Doug
las MacArthur to the Higushi
Kuni cabinet last month and re
iterated by him to the new pre
mier. Baron Kijuro Shidchara,
nt a personal conference yester
day The newspaper Asahl said seri
ous food shortages also were con
fronting the government. It esti
mated, that. the. Japanese .nee
crop . might fall to 10,000,000
bushels compared with the all
time previous low of 10,200,000
bushels last year.
Rains also damaged the sweet
potato crop, on which the gov
ernment had been depending as
a substitute for rice. The Na
tional Agricultural society euti
mated that (he Japanese people
will be forced to exist on a daily
diet of only 050 to 1,200 calories
per capita. It said laborers
normally require 3,000 calories
a clay and other persons should
have 2,400.
Leftists Tortured
Kan Eguchi, well-known nov
elist, in a letter to Asahi reveal
ed that Taiji Kobayashi, leftist
writer, was tortured to death in
the Tsukiji police station during
the war in Tokyo when he re
fused to confess membership In
the communist party.
He estimated that more thnn
500 other leftists similarly were
murdered throughout Japan.
A public program in the In
terest of the recruiting drive by
the Oregon State Guard will be
held in the Chamber of Com
merce building. Saturday from
8 to 0 p. m. "Flash" Fidlcr will
act as master of ceremonies and
Mcdford post 15, American Le
gion, Jackson county chapter
DAV, Order of the Purple Heart,
Central Point post VFW, Ash
land American Legion Kiltie
band, Eve Prentice Accordiana
girls and Boy Scout troop 2 drum
and bugle corps will participate.
Ashland kiltie band will form
at the armory and march tip
Bartlett street to Main street
and west on Main to the Cham
ber of Commerce building. The
Scouts drum and bugle corps
will form at Riverside and Main
strep'.; and follow the Kilty
band to the chamber building.
Speakers representing veter
ans posts will appear on the pro
gram in order established by
the drawing of lots.
GLORIA SWANS0NSUED
BY ESTRANGED HUBBY
New York. Oct. 12 flJ.R)
William M. Davey, millionaire
yachtsman and financier, filed
suit in supreme court today for
recovery of two platinum
and diamond-mounted star ruby
rings, valued at $35,000, from
his wife, the former silent screen
star Gloria Swanson.
Miss Swanson's separation suit
and her husband's counter-suit
for n iru!r:Tt of the marriage
both are awaiting trial.
Tribune
Onit.d Press Full
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WIN PAY HIKE IN
AFL Wins First Victory in
Three-Week Walkout; CIO
Crashes AFL Lines, Seattle
Portland, Oregon, Oct. 12
(U.R) Striking AFL lumber and
sawmill workers held their first
victory in a three-week long
strike today when two Montana
lumber mills announced agree
ment to the $1.10 an hour mini
mum wage demand.
John M. Christenson, AFL
strike policy committee head,
disclosed that the Western Tic Sc
Lumber Co., Hot Springs, and
the Margaret and Minnet Lum
ber Co., Kalispcll had given into
union demands and were re
opening for the first time since
Sept. 24.
CIO Crashes Lints
But in Seattle the AFL cause
was slightly reversed when CIO
workers fulfilled an earlier
pledge to return to work after
crashing AFL picket lines at the
United States Plywood company
mill.
AFL forces indicated that
while CIO workers might pro
duce wood products at the Se
attle plant of tho U. S. Plywood
company, the operators might
have trouble selling their goods.
Leaders said that every carload
of lumber produced at tho plant
would be watched and traced.
They added that any truck load
ing it would be stopped by AFL
teamsters; AFL seamen would
refuse to handle any of the lum
ber shipped by rail.
In Oregon another mill was
closed and - one was running
again after pickets were with
drawn. The Port Orford Cedar
company at Millington, Ore.,
was reported to be down with a
line of AFL pickets at the en
trance, while the Wcstport Lun
bcr company plant at Wcstport
was back in operation with its
CIO forces.
Truman Takes No
Steps in Ban Of
Negroes by DAR
Washington Oct. 12 (U.R)
President Truman said today he
could do nothing about the ban
imposed by the Daughters of
American Revolution on ap
pearances of negro artists In its
Constitution Hall here, but
commented:
"Oi:f of the marks of demo?
rracy Is ita willingness to re
spect and reward talent without
regard to race or origin."
Washington Oct 12 (U.R)
The Daughters of the American
Revolution today defended its
"right" to bar negro artists from
their huge auditorium, Consti
tution Hall, as a matter of "in
dividual liberty."
Its position was challenged
recently when Hazel Scott, not
ed negro pianist, said she had
been denied the use of the hall
for a concert.
Nurse's Slayer Saved From Suicide
On Three Occasions, Attorney Says
San Francisco, Oct. 12 (U.R)
Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfcldt was
saved from suicide by her now
dead husband on at least three
separate occasions In the past 11
years when she attempted to
hang herself, turned on a kitchen
gas range and deliberately took
an overdose of sleeping tablets,
her attorney said today.
Vincent Hallinan, close per
sonal friend of the late Dr. Jjhn
H. Mansfcldt who died by nis
own hand eight days ago shnrl'y
after his wife killed a nurse snc
feared was a rival for his aflec-
lions, said Mansfcldt each time
had been able to revive ner
without the aid of police or pub -
lie health authorities.
The alleged incidents wen not
reported to police, Hallinan said,
to avoid "possible publicity."
One occurred, he said, at the
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Brutally Beaten
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Mncklin Hall Jr., plnver ot '"Pcirgy,"
the tough boy of the old "Our GniiK"
comrdica, is pictured m he churned
the Warner Bros. Hollywood studio
picket Une nnd was brutnlly beaten
on the head and body. He Li now In
& Los Angeles hospital suffering from
brain cnnnusfilon.
BLAZE DESTROYS
GARAGE, 2 AUTOS
Fire of undetermined origin
last evening destroyed a largo
garage and two cars at the home
of Mrs, J. Arthur Cunningham,
Orchard Home Prive, shortly be
fore 10 o'clock. The Cunning
ham home was saved through
the efforts of neighborhood men
and a chemical truck sent by the
state forest patrol, coupled with
the fact that the evening was
calm and that a large tree stood
between the garage and the
home.
Mrs. Cunningham stated today
that she and her daughter were
unaware of the fire until the
horn of one of the cars began to
blow and that when they inves
tigated the building was well
ablaze. Men who gathered used
garden hoses and water from the
irrigation ditch to keep the fire
from spreading.
The loss was covered by insur
ance, according to Mrs. Cunning
ham. The cars destroyed were a
Ford coupe and a Chevrolet se
dan, and in addition to the cars, a
number of farm and garden tools
were also lost.
SADDLE STOLEN IN G. P.
SOLD TO MEDFORD FIRM
Grants Pass, Oct. 12 A sad
dle stolen here some time earlier
this month by Edward V. Wirtz
was sold to a dealer in Mcdford,
according to Loyd Lewis, county
sheriff. Wirtz is serving 80 days
in the Josephine County Jail on
a larceny charge in connection
with theft of a revolver. A bri
dle, which was recovered in
Wirtz' car, was stolen from the
Ira D. Hobson premises here at
the same time the saddle disap
peared, Sheriff Lewis said.
. NOT iNTERESTED
Wic.ibaden. Oct. 12 U.R
Gen. George S. Pitton, Jr., told
reporters today that he was "not
interested" in running for con
gress. Mansfcldt's fashionable summer
home at Atherton. Cal., when
Mrs. Mansfcldt locked and bolt
ed the doors, shut the windows,
turned on the gas and lay down
on the kitchen floor, first send
ing her three children outside
"The children ran to call Dr.
Mansfcldt." Hallinan said. "He
broke Into the house and found
his wife unconscious. . He used
his medical skill to revive her."
Four years later, Hallinan slid,
Mansfieldt on whom an inquest
has not yet been held pending
further pathological examination
of his internal organs, useo a
stomach pump to revive her
! after she "intentionally" took in
overdose of sleeping pills at
! their comfortable San Fran-.isco
jhome.
Hallinan did not elaborate on
the asserted hanging attempt.
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FREE ELECTIONS
OF
MIUTARYHEADS
Nobel Prize Winner, Noted
Diplomat to Be Foreign
Minister in New Cabinet.
Buenos Aires, Oct. 12 (U.R) .
Col. Juan D. Pcron, ex-strong
man of Argentina, was reported
arrested today and the Argen
tine government was subjected
to a full reorganization apparent
ly designed to orient it along
democratic lines.
The arrest of Peron was an
nounced to a crowd of citizens
outside the Circulo Militar, tha
military club, where news of the
shake-up was given out by mili
tary and naval officers.
The announcement regarding
Peron was made by a naval offi
cer. Cabinet Reformed
It was given out immediately
after a full reorganization of the
government was announced. It
was understood that Carlos Saa
vedra Lamas, Nobel prize winner
and one of Argentina's most not
ed diplomats, would become for
eign minister in the new cabinet.
Admiral Vernengo Lima, a
strong opponent of Peron, waa
named navy minister, succeeding;
Vice Admiral Alberto Teisaire
and it was known that other cab
inet ministers turned in their
resignations in response to the
strong pressure of youthful army
and navy leaders.
The appointment was made at
two powerful groups represent
ing 1,000 or more Argentine
army and navy officers met with
members of the new government.
Free Elections Aim
The young officers are demand
ing free elections to pave th
way for democratic government.
Dr. J. Hortensio Quijano, min
ister of interior, reiterated to th
officers the pledge given by th
ministry of interior last night
that there would be no "official"
candidate for the presidency and
that free elections would be held.
The officers fear that desplta
Pcron's resignation he will at
tempt to utilize the government
apparatus in backing his election
drive. . -
LAVAL REFUSED
ANOTHER TRIAL
Paris, Oct. 12 (U.R) Pierra
Laval's last hope of escaping
traitor's death faded today when
Gen. Charles De Gaulle an
nounced there would be no sec
ond trial for the condemned
Vichy premier.
De Gaulle's announcement
was made at a press conference
Immediately after his return
from a visit to Belgium.
Pressed for a definite state
ment as to whether he would
commute Laval's death sentence,
as he did in the case of Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain, th
French president answered
cryptically:
"You will read all about that
in the newspapers."
"Two Bits" Goes
Into Retirement
After Close Call
"Two Bits," the fox terrier
dog belonging to William' H.
Zeigler, forest service worker,
which survived a 600-foot fall
off a Butte Falls area cliff and
a few weeks later tumbled off a
200-foot cliff In the Applegata
district. Is now In semi-retirement
on the place of his master
in tho Applegatc.
Karl Janouch, Rogue River
National forest supervisor, re
ports "Two Bits" is beginning to
feel his years and is not as frisky
as he used to be, though his
sensational tumbles left no ill
effects. In the fall off the Butte Fa'ls
section precipice, "Two Bits,"
while taking an early morning
run on ice-crusted snow, turned
too sharply and skidded over the
brink. Two days later his
master went on a hunt for him
and met the dog wearily wend
ing his way up the trail to the
lookout station. The same thing
happened in the Applegate epi
sode. In both cases, the dog a
fall was broken by landing m
! soft snow at the foot of the clifls.
I Zeigler is still In the forest
! service. He is married and tha
father of a boy. "Two Bits" waa
i his solo companion at the lock
I out posts. .
"HOWLING" TO QUIT
' San Diego, Oct. 12 (U.R) Lt.
Gen. Holland M. (Howling Mad)
Smith, former commander of
Marines in the Pacific and now
in charge of the San Diego area,
will request retirement about
May 1, he disclosed today.