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Newspaper Page TextUse The Mall Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Results At Smell Cost FORECAST: Sunday, fair and clear, with slightly higher temperature Temp. Highest Teiterdar M Lowest this Morning ..-...57 ft Unit.d Press Full Leased Wire United Pr.n Full Leased Wlr Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, O t- NO. 174. 1 Misdirected Relatives Leave for Seattle to Meet Vets This Happiness Ended STATER FULLBACK, ONLY LETTERMAN. DEFEATS OREGON T Weather MEDFORDJrRIBUNE REPORT ON SILI , SUPPLYOF JAPS Means More Stockings For America Dissolve Trust, Votes Granted TO END SUES Secy. Wallace Gives Hint of Increase New Walkouts Hit Nation Chicago, Oct. 13--(U.R The government was reported to night leaning toward a pay boost up to 20 per cent as an antidote for the labor strife that has thrown a monkey-wrench into reconversion and made more than 453.000 American workets idle. It was only a hinj. but Wash ington observers believed the administration would be ready t to announce its support of the pay boosts some time after the national labor-management con ference which opens Nov 5. The hint came from Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace . who S3 id the government should ; help labor to get 15 to 20 per jf cent ot its 30-per-cent pay in ' crease demand That the government fas giv ing considerable thought to this manner of halting the hun dreds of strikes which have flamed like a prairie fire since V-J day failed to halt new . walkouts, however. The latest labor developments included: 1. A back-to-work movement among AFL longshoremen at n York's harbor was threat ened with curtailment by the . national maritime union (CIO) as the 13-day dock workers strike continued to paralyze shipping and interfere with troop deployment. 2. The CIO denounced critics of its demand for a 30 per cent ' pay rate boost to offset loss of weekb wartime take-home pay. i The weekly CIO news said cor , porations were "deluging news paper readers and radio listen ers with propaganda to per suade them that CIO's wage de mands are unreasonable ana in ilationary." 3. The soft coal labor dispute, with almost 200 000 miners idle in eastern fields, continued deadlocked. 4. The national labor rela tions board said it received 200 petitions for strike votes during 'he fivst 10 days of this month. Last month a record number of petitions 307 was filed. More than 70 per cent ot the compan ies named in Septembers peti tions were in Chicago, Kansas City, New York, Detroit and Baltimore. 5. Deliveries of milk in New York may be stopped unless an ?greerncnt can be reached in a dispu'e involving milk compan- ies and two unions. Strike News Fails To Dampen Wall St. New York, Oct. 13 U.R The stock market rose nearly half a billion dollars this week to a new high since March 10, 1937, le spite unsettlemcnt in Thursday's pre-holiday session. Although strike news con tinued to hold much of the at tention of investors, it was off set by bright forecasts of future high employment and a predic tion that annual notional pro duction will reach a record peace time level. CORN WHISKEY KILLS Ha-eyville Ala. Oct. 13 ;U.R An elderly farmer was held witho't bond tonight for the "Toba.co Road" murder of a six-year-old hired boy who died j ;n a cotton field from drinking too much corn whiskey. SEEK AXE SLAYER j 4 Pontiac, Mich., Oct. 13 (U.R) ' Police tonight were hunting the f brutal ax-murderer of an uniden j tificd woman, about 35, whose slashed and beaten body was found in a wooded section off a country road near here. County's Quota $1,395,000 For Bond Campaign Jackson county's quota in the Victory Loan drive, set to start Oct. 29. will be $1,395. 000 of which $525,000 will be I E bonds, Henry Zacharisen, county chairman hat announc ed. The quota on other sales to individuals will be $250,000 with sales to corporations quot ed at $620,000. l 4 According to Zacharisen the ' Medford and Ashland Elks j lodges will sponsor the entire drive and that the quota should be easily reached in that the gor.l it leu than half : , that let lor the lut drive. .. , . v ..... . . ' . " -v I (Acme Tclcphotol Group of relatives of returning Pacific veterans board Army transport plane at Hamilton Field, Calif., bound for Seattle. Wash., where the ves are actually scheduled to dock. Misdirected to San Francisco by War De partment telegrams, these anxious relatives, who have came from scattered parts of the United States, are fur nlshed transportationto Seattle by the Army. WARSHIPS USE TO SPEED SOLDIERS Washington, Oct. 13 (U.R Sen. William F. Knowland, R Calif., today suggested that the government inaugurate a regular "warship shuttle service" to bring U, S. troops overseas back home. Knowland said that, under his proposal, the warships would head back overseas again as soon as they unloaded troops. He said that every spare transport plane and warship should be used to return combat-weary veterans from the European and Asiatic theaters of operations. The California senator, a form er army major, made his sugges tion as Great Britain announced that her two great ocean liners the Queen Elizabeth and the Aquitania no longer could be used to transport A m.e r I c a n troops from Europe to America. Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., said the loss of the two liners "might upset the whole point system" and he endorsed Knowland's proposal to use war ships in their place. EVADED JAP SOBS IN CLOSING DAYS Washington, Oct. 13 (U.R) The Japanese were unable to sink a single U. S. merchant ves sel in the final three months of war, it was disclosed tonignt. The War Shipping administia tion, reviewing the role of the merchant marine in Pacific vic tory, also revealed that merchant seamen survivors of earlier sink ings were strafed, beaten and left to drown by the crews of Japanese submarines that sank their ships. The review disclosed that 44 merchant vessels, most of them Liberty ships, were sunk in the Pacific war. But, WSA said, more effective protection by their own guns and by naval units as the push on Tokyo nearcd its climax 're sulted in not one merchant n.a rine vessel being sunk between V-E day and Japan's surrender." "Many were attacked and dam aged but all these managed to remain afloat . . . although there were many casualties in some instances." WSA said. Grandmother Kills Self, Invalid Child Oak'and, Cal., Oct. 13 (U.R A 47-year-old grandmother kill ed herself ar.d her spastic grand daughter today after prepaying for tht funeral buying a burial dress for herself s,nd the little girl snd turning in their ration books. Police reported that Mrs. Kathciine Hamilton, who had cared for the child since the ! parent' were divorced shortly ,-ftcr its birth put the seven-vear-old invalid into her auto mobile ran a hose into the 'ightly closed vehicle and lock ed hersell in. The child wrs the daughter of the former Florence Hamilton, repor-.tdly of Corvallis, Ore., and I.onald K. Weidncr, U. S. army. Candy King Dead Hershey, Pa., Oct. 13 U.R) Milton Spavely Hershey, 88 who made his name a house hold word by inventing the Hershey bar, which was Am erica's first candy bar. died in the Hershey hospital today. He was taken ill Thursday night. A teen-age pushcart peddler of caramels, Hershey became a candy maker when a street car demolished his stock. He established his factory in a cornfield shack. Less than 25 years later he was producing 625.000 pounds of chocolate in all forms daily, and had accrued enough millions to build this Hershey "a dream town." FEDERAL POLICE Election Machine Collapses 'Strong Man' Now Held Aboard Gunboat Buonos Aires, Oct. 13 U.R) The federal electoral court set up b" Col Juan D. Peron. Argentine strong man now un der arrest resigned today, virtu ally collapsing electoral machin ery which Peron had tried to set i'p before his fall from power. Pet on, who was taken into custody by federal polic e a 4:30 i.m. today, had given the court full powers, beyond ap peal, over all matters connected with elections and reorganiza tion of political parties which he des'red to bring about. It had failed in its efforts to reoreonize the three traditional parties the radical, socialist and conservative It attempted to set up 15-man or reorganization committees, but party leaders rejected their appointments as committeemen. This latest change In Argen tina's political set up came as efforts of a section of the arm id forces to oust President Gen. EbelT.iro Fnrrcll and to turn 'he eovernment over to the su preme court appeared to have enched a stalemate. G"n. Ednardo Avalos had been sworn in previously as war minister so the cabinet at pres ent cr.nsists of only three min isters. The arrest of Col. Juan D Peron. fallen strong man, was confirmed bv his protege, radio actress Ev'ta (Little Eve) Duar' who said police entered his apartment at 4 30 this morn ing trd took him away. He was said to be held aboard the "--.nboat Indepcndencia an chored in the new section of the Buen s Aires port known as Puerto Nuevo. The- area is surrounded by a strong police cordon and not even '.he busses which normally run there were allowed to enter. NELSON TO ATTEND Sacramento. Oct. 13 'U.R) Donald Nelson, former WPB chief and now president of the Independent Producers soc'fty. has accepted Gov. Earl Warre.-.'s invitation to attend meetings of the State Reconstruction and Re-employment commission here Tuesday and Wednesday. Thc Azores arc considered an in'.cs.-al part of. rortugal, , LOYAL JAPANESE BELIEVED SLAIN, BOY, 18, SUSPECT La Grande. Ore., Oct. 13 (U.R) N. Jurisu, loyal American of Japanese ancestry, today was be lieved to have been murdered, Sheriff Jesse Brcshears of Union county said. Kurisu, father of two boys in army service, left the Mt. Emily lumber camp, where he was em ployed on October 5 for Weiser, Idaho, and has not been seen there but his car, war bonds, wallet and watch have turned up in the possession of an 18-year-old boy in Dalhart, Texas. Tho boy has told conflicting stories about hnw he. acquired Kurisu's possessions, Breshears said. Floyd Pousson, the youth in volved, was arrested in Dalhart. He told officers that the car, 34 war bonds, wallet and watoh had been given to him in Salt Lake City by a sailor. Pousson later said he had left La Grande with Kurisu but had left the 61-ycar-old section hand in Ontario where there were oth er Japanese. He did not explain how he happened to have Kuri su's belongings. The watch worn by Pousson had the number of the watch sold to Kurisu here. Sheriff Breshears believed the Japanese-American's body is in the Snake river or on the desert, The boy was being held on a car theft charge. DRAFT STUDENTS Woodland. Cal., Oct. 13 (U.R) Woodland High school will ciore afternoons, starting Monday, to allow students to pick tomatoes for growers who report thous ands of acres of the crop arc rotting because of a labor short age. J. A. Fortna, farm labor man ager, said that 1,500 volunteers arc needed at once if the S5, 000,000 Yolo county crop is to be saved. Migrants left the Woodland area three weeks ago because the harvest was late. Gen. Wainwright T o Make Northwest Tour Walla Walla Wash., Oct. 14 'U.R) Major Pacific northwest cities oreparcd to welcome Gen. Jonathan Wainwright. hero of Corref'idor, back to his native state early next month on a tour f supDort of the next vic tory kan drive. Wainwright s schedule to which he arreed after asking his vi:t to the northwest be tied in witn the loan drive, will be carrio.i out in a car to. be pre sentec" to him by ritizens of this city. The "Jeneral Portland Nov. 18. will be in NO GABLE ROMANCE Hollywood, Oct. 3 (U.R) Film Star Clark Gable was squir ing his old friend. Mrs. J. J. O Brien. New York socialite, around Hollywood this week-end. but a spokesman for M-G-M studio denied that the friendship had blossomed into romance. Prague University, where the Germans wiped out the entire I stud'-M body during the occupa- tion, was founded in 1348 by King Clwrlct ol IJobtroi. Tokyo. Oct. 13 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today moved in on Japanese silk stocks while the cabinet approved universal suffrage and gave Japanese wom en the opportunity to swing next January's general elections after centuries of unquestioning bond age to their men. In what may result in a flood of silk for the legs of American women, MacArthur ordered the Japanese to report on both pre sent and future silk stocks in order to ascertain how much may be exported to pay for the im portation of food and other sup plies for Japanese civilians fac ing a disastrous winter. The cabinet acted on election reforms only 48 hours after Mac Arthur ordered universal suf frage and other basic constitu tional reforms. The cabinet also lowered the general voting jge from 25 to 20, and the minimum age for office holders from 30 to 20. MacArthur ordered the gov ernment to dissolve three or ganizations controlling the silk industry and to revoke previous orders which would have re duced the production of silk. It appeared he was acting to pro vide the Japanese with a means of obtaining funds for essential imports. The Allied Nations have announced they were not prepared to feed or clothe Ihe Japanese. Dissolved were the Japan Silk Controlling Co., tho Japan Raw Silk Manufacturing Co., and Ihe mutually Prosperous Silk Reel ing Co. It was estimated that existing stocks of low quality silks were worth some $18,500, 000 and production next year would total between 13,000 000 and 18,500,000 pounds. The electorai changes were made by the cabinet in its sec ond extraordinary meeting in as many- days to discuss MacAr thur's five-point "democratiza tion" order of Thursday. It had directed Premier Baron Kijuro Shidehara to write a bill of rights into tho Japanese corsti tution providing universal suf frage it did not ask for a lower ing of the voting age permit ting unionization of labor, demo cratizing Japan's economic in stitutions, liberalizing education,, and substituting justice for the tools of inquisition. PEACE MOVES IN Hollywood. Oct t3 (UP) Film strikers, amidst new flare up of fighting flung mass picket lines around two additional studio today to 'i.rm a back ground for initial federal con ciliation efforts seeking a peace formula in the 30-week-old AFL jurisdictional walkout. Cameras slopped grinding at Columbia Pictures in Hollywood and at RKO-Pathe studios In Culver City as strikers deployed their mass picket lines from the besieged Warner Bros, and Uni versal studios Federal Counciliator Earl J. Ruddy instructed yesterday by his Washington chiefs to nego tiate the drawn out dispute, brought representatives of the three parties in the dispute to gether in a 45-minutc confer ence.. Map Oriental Moth Campaign in State Salem, Ore.. Sept. 13 U.R) A program designed to combat the oriental fruit moth was announc ed today by a fruit advisory com mittee which met here this week with state department of agri culture and state college experi- ! ment station officials. ; Extended research on methods of combatting the pest in cooperation- with other coast states wat recommended. WAR BULLETINS Bettvie, Oct. 13 (U.Ri A proclamation calling for all out guerrilla warfare in hte Batavia area wat issued today by the commander of the Indo nesian people'! army" and clashes between native forces end Dutch end Japanese troopt threatened to flare into full werftie throughout ill Jivt. fi' V-- iff .. mm fArme Itlrphntoi Mrs. Annie Irene Mnnsfoldt (left) liuiphs Rally with licr husbnnd. Dr. John H. Munsfcld (right) In this picture tnken aboard a yncht In Snn Frimcisco Bay, one ot the couple's fnvorite pleasures of pnst years, before tragedy entered their lives causing Mrs. Mansfeldt to shoot and kill Mrs. Vada Martin, attractive San Francisco uur.se and alleged rival for her husband's affection . . . and Dr. Mansfeldt to end his own life. Inset la earlier photo of the socially prominent and talented matron who now faces murder charge. War Mars Love Sun Francisco Oct. 13 (U.RiKour "Enoch Ardcn" mar ital mixups awai'ed untangl ing todav in the San Francisco area while the wives involved wondered what to do about four "dead" husbands return ed from war In only ono case were Ihe principals even close to a solution. CONFER TUESDAY Portland, Ore., Oct. 13 ;U.R) Peace feelers on the part of Willamette Valley lumber opera tors in tho strike of 61,000 AFL northwest lumber and sawmill workers were revealed todny with announcement by the opera tors that they would reopen ne gotiations with the union Tues day. In return, the union said any such negotiations would have to be taken up Willi the Union Strike Policy committee. Meanwhile, three more small Washington mills agreed to union demands of $1.10 an hour minimum wage. The five-day parley between CIO workers, fir operators and federal labor conciliators wan be lieved nearing an end with pos sibility of winding up this week end. The CIO is asking a 25-cent-an-hour increase In wages. Operations had returned to al most normal today at the U S. Plywood company plant in Scat tie after CIO workers went through reinforced AFL picket lines for the third day to return to work. 98 Dead, 423 Hurt In Okinawa Storm Pearl Harbor, Oct. 13 iU.R' Nincty-ciglit American naval per sonnel were killed or counted missing and 423 were injured liy the typhoon which swept Okin awa Wednesday the navy report ed tonight. The navy said the reports were incomplete since all ships in the Okinawa area had not Ibtcd their casualties. Navy work gangs and Scabces were creeling temporary shelt ers for 250.000 military person nel and 350,000 native civilians left without shelter by the storm. 45,000 Heroes From Pacific Due Monday San Francisco Oct. 13 'U.R) Approximately 45.000 army navy, marine and coast guard personnel, including crewmen of Ihe tlvrd fleet dischargees and returning ex-prisoners of war. are scheduled to arrive Monday. The arrivals, returning from he Pacific fo their first glimpse of home in months in tome case3 years will swamp ser vice and civilian housing facili ties ir. the San Francisco Bay area jnd set an all-time high for .liserrbarkalions at the Golden Gate in a single day. SEEK WORK FUND Sacramento, Oct. 13 (U.R) The League of California Cities tonight planned to renew its re quest that the $1)0.000.000 tar marked for postwar construction by the recent session of the leg islature be appropriated to cities and counties for public winks projects. BAY CITY PASTOR TO GIVE SERMON San Francisco, Oct , 13 (U.R) Former presidential Jason Noble Pierce pastor Dr. announced tonight he would preach Sun day sermon about confessed mur deress Mrs. Annio Irene Mans field, who shot and killed the nurse she believed was conduct ing a clandestine romance with her doctor-husband. Mrs. Mansfeldt, 40-year-old so ciety matron whose husband, Dr. John Mansfeldt, committed sui cide two hours after tho shooting, was a regular attendant at Dr. Pierce's First Congregational church. The Reverend Pierce, who was pastor to the lute Calvin Cool idge, said the public had taken such an interest In tho tragedy of the one-time California beauty queen and her three children that the church had a right to sermon ize it. It was the ninth straight day Ihe San Francisco gazettes had bannered the tragedy a head line run unprecedented in Jour nalistic history in the Golden Gate city. IKE FOR TOP JOB Washington, Oct. 13 U.P.) Some United Nations diplomats tonight agreed with the Army and Navy Journal that Gen. Dwight D. F.isenhower is a likciy candidate to be secretary general of (he United Nations Organiza tion. American officials were more skeptical. Some believed his greatest value could be as chief of staff of the U. S. army to re place Gen. George C. Marshall. Others thought that he should he the U. S. representative on the United Nations Military Stuff committee. 'I'lie Army and Navy Journal said in today's issue that there was "considerable likelihood" that Eisenhower would be se lected as secretary general. It was learned simultaneously that many United Nations diplo mats have given serious con sideration to Eisenhower. "lie already has the barking of the British and French," the Army and Navy Journal -.aid, "while the Russians, with whom he has maintained excellent of ficial and personal relations, also would be likely to approve his selection." CORPORAL FREED London, Oct 13 lU.Rl Cpl. Leonard D. Robertson of Tipton, Mo., was acquitted today by a U. S. court martial of charges of murd-'r in connection with the mysterious "bubble" death of a 17-yejr-old pregr ant English girl with whorl he had been having "dates." FOR RENT CONTROL San Francisco, Oct. 13 (U.R) The San Francisco CIO council today called upon "50,000 mem bers of affiliated unions" to op pose elimination of rent contiol, Bob Stevens Tallies Twice, After Gray Ties Count In Upset Victory Corvallis, Ore., Oct. 13 (U.R) . Fullback Bob Stevens, the only varsity letter man Oregon State) college could muster after a war time lapse, today gave the Beav ers a 19-6 upset victory over favored Oregon University be fore 20,000 fans. Oregon State took an early lead, was tied briefly in the third period, then roared back for two touchdowns in the last period the last one by Stevens in the last second of play. Quarterback Jake Lcicht, the sensational air forces star just back on the Oregon campus, scored the Webfoots' only touch down and was a constant threat with his breakaway runs and long passes. Stevens almost got a third touchdown in the tumultous final minutes but fumbled on the 3 yard line, Oregon State made 15 first downs to seven for Oregon and piled up 229 yards from rushing and 91 from passes to Oregon's 113 and 14. Stevens scored first with only 1 1 seconds remaining in the first period on a 15 yard end run. McGuirc's kick was blocked. Aft er a seesaw second period, Ore gon began rolling in the third behind Lcicht's tricky ball car- Stevens' fumble gave Oregon the ball on the OSC 41, from, where Lcicht picked up 12, al most passed to a touchdown on the goal, then went for .17, to the 12, and roared over from the 15 standing up. Bob Abbey's con version was blocked. H was only five minutei after the final period opened that the Beavers recovered fumble on the Oregon 48 and scored, withi Dick Gray passing 27 yards to Dick Lorenz, and then Garth Rouso passing to Gray 19 yards; for a touchdown. The Beavers soon pounded near the goal again, but Steveni fumbled and Oregon recovered on the 3. Lcight almost connected with a touchdown pass; but the Staters took over on the 38, and Stevens led a drive to the 9, from where he bolted into the clear and scored just inside the corner flag a moment before the game was to end. McGuire's con version was wide, leaving the score 19 to 6. Oregon had won 25 games ta 15 for the Beavers before today'! upset and was favored after roll ing over Idaho last week, while Oregon State was being steam rollcred by Washington State. Oregon State's line play was) outstanding, while the Webfoots forwards were letting Stevens, Rouse, Gray and company slip through to the secondaries. The lineup: Oregon State Oregon Lorenz le Hathaway Pudy It Gillis Rineaison Ig Kaufman Krell c Bill Anderson A. Anderson rg Rciton Austin rt Newman Gibbs re Bob Anderson llamblin q Lcicht Stevens ' lh Reynolds Hclman rh Donovan Rouse fb Byers Score by periods: Oregon State 6 0 0 13 19 Oregon 0 0 6 0 8 I T London, Oct. 13 (U R) The Luxembourg radio said tonight that Gen. George Patton, crm mander of the U. S. 15th arrry, was injured today In a motor car accident. Noted Dead Dublin, Oct. 13 (U.R) Joseph Cardinal Macrory, 84, archbishop of Armagh, (and primate of all Ireland) died suddenly today at his home at Armagh, one month after celebrating his 50th year in the priesthood. Macrory, created cardinal in 1920, was one of the most color ful priests of the Catholic church. A man of great personal charm, he received widespread publicity for his vigorous denouncements and criticisms through his long career.