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Japanese Urge Gen. MacArthur to Oust Hirohito; Permit Food Import , ' " : " : i Weather FORECAST: Partly dourly to cloud with scattered ihoweri tonight and Wednesday, Slight ly cooler. Ttmp. Hlihfit Tfiterday l Lowest Uiii morninf 49 Fortieth Year VICTORY PARADE I San Francisco Gives Sailors and Marines Great Wel come; 'Bull' In Jovial Mood San Francisco, Oct. 16 (U.R) Admiral William F. Halsey, re iponding with a leathery smile to the crowd's greeting of "Hello Bull", led a Third fleet victory parade down Market Street to day before a throng of approxi nia'toly 200,000. Serried ranks of sailors and marines walking with the roll ing gait of men many weeks at sea marched from the embarca dero to the city hall under a shower of torn paper cascading 'Irom office windows. naisey, m lesuvc muuu, waved and laughed at the cheer ing crowd. On either side, scat tered shouts of "Hello, Bull," fol lowed his limousine through the densely-packed street. Greeted By Governor The parade moved to the city hall, where Halsey and his men from the battleships Alabama, South Dakota, Colorado, Wiscon sin and Indiana, and the cruiser Vicksburg were greeted formally by Gov. Earl Warren and Mayor Roger Lapham, "Moving up Market Street," said Halsey in a brief speech to the City Hall crowd, "was like parading up all the main streets in the country. It was really coming home. "Those of us who have just re turned from Japan can tell you solemnly and honestly that the sight of un-bombed buildings . and smiling people gives us all (assurance we need that our ef ' forts haven't been wasted." SIT DOWN STAGED BY 500 PICKETS ! AT STUDIO GATE Hollywood. Oct. 16 (UP.) Five hundred pickets staged a "sit down" in front of Warner Eros, studio when police, using clubs, tried to clear the entrance to the besieged movie studio. Two pickets were arrested im .rnediately and the gate entrance ii as cleared of "sit - downers" within a few minutes. Just the legal number of four pickets at the main gate remained. A half dozen pickets sitting near the gate were clubbed, and at least one was beaten unconscious and hauled away in an ambulance. After the skirmish, strikers were still seated on each side of tin: entrance, bat were surround ed by officers. Johnston Confers The new violence occurred as film czar Eric Johnston sched uled conferences with union loaders in an effort to end the seven-month AFL jurisdictional dispute in the movie industry. When Andy Lawless, repre senting the strikers, refused the request of Inspector Jack Htnry of the sheriff's office, to open up the lines to permit non-strikers to enter the studio. 30 deputy sheriffs and 15 Burbank police marched in a flying wedge on the strikers. The pickets immediately sat f"wn in the street, and those in front of the gate were clubbed. Father Arriving Home Gives Hope To Stricken Girl Los Angeles Oct. 16 U.R) The t.iasical appearance of her snldier father gave 2'i-ycar old Joan Brubaker. believed dying rf inflammation of the brain, a fight, ng chance for life today. A month 820, Sat. G. Y. Bru baker was with Gen. George S. 1'aitnp s 4th armored division in Ooc'-oslnvaXia He left t.e Havi Oct fi reached New York last Saturday and was assigned to Camp Ki'mer. N J., when he received a Red Cross telegram Inf lin.i Jni.nhla. n'Of Hv. ne Authorise, at Camp Ki'mer whisked Brubaker in a plane to the bedside of the little brown eved jirl u-r-o had not seen him fnr he left for Europe when j U-e wi 13 j&oulhi old. Med United Prn ' ATI (Acme Teltpholat Applause for movie star Jennifer Jones comes from Culver City, Calif., movie workers picketing RKO Patlie studio as the popular leading lady of "Love Letters" leaves Uie studio, closed by strikes, u 30 week AFL Jurisdictional strike of craftsmen In the movie Industry continues. Housing Shortage Growing All Returning Veterans Unable To By United Presi A soldier in Chicago spread a newspaper on the sidewalk and l.iy down to sleep. An ex-so'dier pleaded In a Boston newspaper's want-ad columns- "Couid some kind person have a heart? Veteran and wife urgently need apartment." A couple with two children In Miami begged for space to park their trailer. A housing official In Atlanta said "There's not a dog house for rent." Cities Growing Two months after the end of the v;ar America's cities still suffer from growing pains. A United Press survev found today that the housing shortage from toast to coast is worse than it was six months ago. And the returning veteran suffers most. Soldiers, railors ar.d marines come back to find the 'no va cancy" sign up all over town. In" New York. Detroit Chi cago. Denver, and San Francisco TO BE RELEASED WocV,initnn Oct. 16 (U.R! Selecive service headquarters announced today that conscien tious obiert.irs aevd 38 or over will be released from the civil ian niblie service camns within 60 davs regardless of lennth of service. Men between 35 and 3D who ave two vears' service will be out bv Jan. 1. Thi3 does not apply to men who were imprisoned for fail ure to abide b the draft, selec tive service said. Under the rel"i?e plan an nounced today 400 of the 8.500 conscientious nbjo.-tors assicned to uch "work of national im oortance" as state hospitals and dairv farms will be out of the service by the first of the year Selective service said it could rot determine vet .vhen men un der 3S. would be icleased. DAR Lauded, Flayed For Barring N egro Washington. Oct. 16 U.R The Daughters of the American Revolution were cfiticiied and defended on the house floor to day for refusing to rent tl cir Constitution Hall here for a con cert by Negro pianist Hazel Scott. She is" the wife of Rep Adam Clayton Powell, D , N Y. Rep. John E. Rankin. D . Miss., praised the D A R. as one of the greatest institutions in the coun try and said. "I resent these com munist attacks made on them." Rop. Jnhn M. Coffee. D. Wash., and Emanuel CHIrr D . N. Y.. told the house they de plored the D A R. action. H ELD INSLAYIN G Manti, Utah, Oct. 16 u.Rj Police were holding Hyrum Beebc, 45. in Sanpete county jail here today for the fatal shooting last night of Mt. Pleasant Town Marshal Alonzo T. Larsen, 40. Officers said Larsen was shot after he had ejected Beebe from a Main treet tavern about 6.30 FORD Full Leased Wis MEDFORD, ORT Strike Doesn't End Applai' v it's the same story more people than there are living accommo dations. Housing officials estimate that it will be next rpring before there will be enough new build ing to improve the situation. The jam has grown worse since V-J day because the vet erans are moving into communi ties already filled with war workers who like the big city so well they have decided to stay. i . At Philadelphia for example, only nine per cent of the war workers plan to leave this year. Many cities are trying to help veterans find a home, but only a few are having success. NaTy Asks "Break" At New York the navy offi cers housing committee has a list of 5.000 waiting for apart ments. Veterans get priorities on housing units listed with the city renting agency. Rear Ad miral Monroe Kelly, command ant of the third naval district, asked the public to "give the navy a break" and stay out of New York hotels during the last two weeks of October. He said that If the hotel situation Is not relieved "thousands of bluejack ets who have been on the front iine in the Pacific will be de prived of the opportunity for re unions with their loved ones." At Philadelphia there were 1.157 families on the waiting list and no vacancies Seventy-five per cent of the housing appli cants were discharged service men. Atlanta met par of the prob lem by housing veterans In 400 houses that had been used by workers In a war plant, now closed. The Unitvd Press survey showed this was the situation in brief. Boston Almost no houses or apartments availab'e. Hotels Hereford Champs Bring New High Chicago, Oct. 16 (U.R) The grand champion carload of Here ford calves brought $27.25 a hun dredweight today, an all time high for the Chicago market, as the Chicago feeder cattle show closed its two-day session. The Hansted Meat company. Lindsey, O., paid $19 a hundred weight for the reserve grand champion load of Aberdeen An gus calves, shown by O. J. Had ley, Brady, Neb. Brother of Local ir:n,A rr uiiiuii to i . ii ik v Mrs. Mary Carrara. 828 West 13th street, was notified by the war department today that her I brother, Sgt. Henry Rusnak. had I been accidentally killed on the island of Saipan Sept. 25. Sgt. ' Rusnak. a mechanic in the air force, had been in the service four years. NEW WLB HEAD i Washington, Oct. 16 (U.R) Lloyd K. Garrison was sworn in today as chairman of the Nation al War Labor Board by Supreme i Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. ! Garrison's appointment as chair- man of the board was announced i by the White House, He succeeds (ja-rc W. Taylor. J '. - . TUESDAY, OCTOBER Jennifer Over Country; Find Homes booked solic" for weeks In ad vance. Nev York hotel, apartment and house rental snortage worse than six months ago, when it was critical. Hotels booked solid through Nov. 15. Miami Booked Up Miami best-known hotels al ready booked solid for winter season. Some apartment build ings und hotels being sold as many as four times a year each time at a -prom, Chicago city hnusing center Cets 100 applicants a day but has rothfhg to offer for immediate occupancy. Hotels jammed, and convention bureau roports city .averaffes 15 conventions a week. Sat. Francisco hotel, apart ment, house rental situation "de finitely worse" since V-J day. Shortage Increased by families of veterans moving to the Pa cific coast and by persons arriv ing to meet returning service men. .s. Washington, Oct. 16 (U.R) Not even Great Britain, which shares our scientific and Indus trial secrets about the atomic bomb, could manufacture a bomb at this time, a naval expert on the new weapon asserted today. Rear Adm. William R. Pur- nell told a joint senate commit tee on commerce and military af fairs that no nation other than the United States is now indus trially equipped to make atomic bombs. Purnell also told the commit tee, which is studying proposals for a national foundation of scientific research, that he knew of no defense against the devas tating new engine of destruction. His testimony was counter to a recent suggestion by the House Naval Affairs committee that atomic bombs might be deton ated before reaching their tarret. 1, Washington. Oct 16 OI.R) The supreme council of the Scot tish Pite of Free Masonry, south ern jurisdiction, today elected 1.300 candicates to be knights commander or 33rd degree Ma sons. Knight commander is a rank and decoration given to 32nd de cree Masons for outstanding work. Among the 318 knights com mander elev.rted to the 33rd de gree were Gen Douglas MacAr thur. Gen Ben Lear. Gen. Hen ry H. Arnold, Lt. Gen. James H. D mlittle. and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Ander son. BIOLOGIST DIES Portland, Ore.. Oct. 16 'U.R) Dr John Mfred Elson. biology professor at Gustavus Adolphus college, St. Peter Minn., died here yesterday. Funeral services vtcre L'ji fi.iay ai'.uijyutL ill Vv J h' 16, 1945. STEEL PRODUCTION BEING CURTAILED BY COALSTRIKES Blast Furnaces Shut Down; Conferences Postponed Indefinitely in Deadlock. By United Pres. Steel production, at the low est level since the depression era of the 1930 s, sagged still lower today as conferences were "postponed indefinitely" in a deadlocked dispute that has crip pled soft coal production for 25 days. Blast furnaces shut down and production In the Pittsburgh smelting area drdpped to 47 per cent of capacity as a result of the coal shortage. Trams Resume Sarvice was restored on the strflce-bound Eastern Massachu setts street railway today. The strikers returned on orders of acting A. F. L. union president A. L. Spradling, who threatened them with sanctions, including revocation of their union charter. In other major disputes, some striking longshoremen returned to their jobs along the New York waterfront and a new move was made to settle Hollywood's 30-week-old film strike. Mayor F. H. LaGuardla met today with representatives of engineers and firemen employed by 21 New York city milk com panies In an effort to forestall a tleup of the metropolitan area milk supply. Estimates Conflict Conflicting estimates were given regarding the success of a back-to-work movement of New York dock workers, as CIO maritime groups lent support to rebellious AFL workers. President Joseph P. Ryan, seeking to retain control of his 30.000 International Longshore men Association (AFL) members, said more than 6.000 had return ed to their Jobs yesterday. Wil liam E. Warren, leader of on ILA insurgent group, countered with a claim that only a "hand ful" of Ryan's followers had re turned. Police placed the num ber at approximately 4,500. legisLaITiy Washington, Oct. 16 (U.R) Attempts may be made In con gress to write legislative le slraints on organized labor Into the administration's full employ ment bill, it was learned today. The proposal, aimed at curb ing "irresponsible" resort to strikes, has been discussed In formally among some members of the house executive expendi tures committee, which has been holding hearings on the bill. Rep. Ed Gossett, D., Tex., In dicated he may inject the issue of "union responsibility" iio the debate over the bill. He predicted the measure would never emerge from committee unless amended. "Privileges and responsibili ties should "go hand in hand," Gossett told a reporter. "If lab or is given further rights they should have responding duties imposed on them. The present wave of strikes going on across the country is not helping labor. Gates Brothers In Guam Reunion Wo-d has Just been received by Mr. and Mrs. George Gates that their sons Phillip Gates, a member of the crew of the USS Fillmore and Geoigc Gates. Jr., awaiting transportation back to this country, held a reunion at Guam on Sunday October 7. The two Mcdford boys were for tunnt" in making contact at the Pacific outpust the day that the USS Fillmore arrived at Guam. BRITAIN TO RETAIN WAR-TIME CONTROLS London, Oct. 18 (U.R) War time controls probably will con tinue for another five years in Britain. Commons voted- 258-139 last night to continue government regulations on labor, food, cloth ing, housing and other essential Tribune Unlt.d Pr.ti Full Eugene Air Ace Missing During Hop to Honshu Tokyo, Oct. 16 (U.R) Col. Gerald R. Johnson, 25, of Eugene. Ore., credited with shooting down 24 Japanese planes during the war, has been missing for more than a week on a flight from Ie Island to Atsugi airfield near Tokyo, it was announced today. Lt. James B. Noland, Houston, Tex., co-pilot of the B-25 bomber which Johnson was flying, also is missing. Johnson had only 25 minutes o fuel lef when last contacted Oct. 7. His radio compass had failed whe he ran into rain and poor visibility approaching Hon shu, the Fifth Air force reported. "SLICK CHICK" OF TORTURE CLIQUE Lueneburg, Oct. 16 (U.R) Blond Irma Grese, looking more like a society fashion model than an accused murderer and to, turer, testified In her own de fense at the Belsen-Oswiecim atrocity trial today. Fraulein Grese stepped smart ly to the stand, a striking figure in a well tailored gray suit, pale blue blouse and sheer silk stock ings. Two hours earlier her composure had broken for the first time during the trial and a fit of weeping left her red-eyed and shaken. She is he No. 1 woman de fendant of 45 Nazi guards and commanders on trial before a British military court for the atrocities at the Belscn and Os wiecim concentration camps. She denied under questioning or Maj. L. s. w. Cranfield, her attorney, that she ever carried a stick or other weapon at BeJscn, where she was charged with countless cruelties against the inmates. But she admitted that she had carried a "walking stick" at Os wiccim, and at other times in the same camp she carried a whip of plaited plastics. "If you hit anyone would It hurt?" Cranfield asked. "Oh yes." she affirmed, npd ding her blond curls for em phasis. ANTISEPTIC DRINKER TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Frnnk R. Eslinger, 26, of Ot tumwa, Iowti was taken to Sac red Heart hospital last night for treatment after swallowing a bottle of antiseptic, city police reported. Eslinger' told officers he drank the antiseptic follow ing a dare from two sailors and was picked up at Main and Front streets He was reported recovering satisfactorily this morning Task of Converting Germany Into Democratic Nation Will Take 25 to 50 Years, Belief By Virgil Pinkley United Press Correspondent Beilin. Oct. 18 (U.R) The task uf converting Germany into a democratic nation determined to kep the peace is likely to require occupation troops in cluding Americans for at least 25 and perhaps 50 years. Thil is thi- concljsion reached by m'iny lop-ranking American and British officials with whom 'his e rresporident has discussed the question In recent days. Eisenhower Concurs Gen. Dwight D Elsenhower, Lt. d-'n. Lurius Clay. Maj. Gen. Walti r Bed 'II Smith and Am bassrfdor R- hert Murphy arc amons the Americans who be lieve ( show of strength will be n;i.e.sarv for many years to rome if Gormarv is to be hrou-tiit back Intij the Interna tiona' family. Thrwe men know Germany ,ind the Germans. They feel that, while the government must be transferred to civilian authori ties as soor. as nosslblc. there must be a sizeable occupation army io implemen" the program of remaking Germany from Its prcs-vit mcklv s'ate into a healthv nation. American military and civil- Jiifl auUWt'Utf cUvg'.U with, Uie Leased Wlr NO. 176. WILL CRASH AFL Leaders Plan Direct Action At Three Mills Account Delay in Legal Proceedings Portland. Ore., Oct. 16 (U.R) Officials of the CIO Lumber Workers union at Coos Bay, Ore., today announced they would "remove" AFL picket lines from three Coos Bay mills in combat ting the four-wcck-old strike of 61,000 western AFL lumber workers. Marvin Bergc, CIO business agent at Coos Bay, said CIO workers would crash AFL picket lines around the Coos Bay Lum ber compony, the Coos Bay Log ging company and the Port Or ford Cedar company mills, so that the CIO could "carry out its contract with the mills by continuing to work as long as negotiations for a wage increase are in progress." Legal Action Long Decision to penetrate AFL picket lines was made after it was found legal action would re quire too much time. Meanwhile, AFL spokesmen announced they would intensify attempts to boycott "hot" lumber from CIO operations throughout the northwest. Some 150 men were returning to work today at four small mills in Washington and Mon tana after operators yielded to AFL lumber and sawmill work ers .demands for a $1.10 mini mum. In Portland, negotiationa re opened today between th Wit. lamette Valley Operators as sociation and AFL union leaders, closed four weeks aco when con. ciliation efforts failed and the strike was called. LACK OF TRAINS HOLD UP FLEET DISCHARGES San Francisco, Oct. 16 (U.R) Trains scheduled to carry third fleet dischargees home were held up several hours to day due to a shortage of rail road equipment and labor, navy headquarters here announced. The new train schedules were radioed to the third fleet ships in San Francisco Bay so the dis chargees could be fed and hous ed on board until train depart ure time Cflnt fl W nra.hair. assistant chief of staff In charge or personnel for the 12th naval district, said. BllSHEH SCRATCHED Inglewood, Cal , Oct. 16 U.PJ Louis B. Mayer's Busher, top money-winning filly of all time was removed today as an entry in Saturday's $75 000 Hollywood Park Gold Cup because she went lame after a training work out. occupation and running of Ger many are kenly aware that the Germans, at least the ruling classes plus a large share of the popu'ues, apprcclite only the langu-ige of power Power Impresses This they measure in terms of guns, tanks, airplanes and sol diers Unless the Germans see physical evidence 'tich as these, they nre little impressed by al lied military government and it is felt they are less likely to change their warlike turn of mind Into constructive peace time ways. Eisenhower's entire program has been to substitute military government or sta'e department control for regular army admin istration. He believes the army shou'd serve in a strictly occu pational role, and leave the run ning of Geneany to skilled al lied civilian bodies with a share of the responsibility also placed on the Germans themselves. Bu Eisenhower, like his de puty, Clay, does not want to re move (he means whereby the oe- cupa'i'in forces could control German nu'hnritic.i fully at all times if the Germans should fail to follow the basic directives iead'r g to a peaceful restoration til lit'if cuunu-y, , IS L DemonstratlonOutslda Headquarters Seeks Res ignation of High Officials. Tokyo, Oct. 16 (U.PJ Thre hundred Japanese demonstrated outside Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's headquarters today for ab dication of Emperor Hirohito and permission to import food to avert mass starvation. War Minister Gen. Sadamu Shimomura, meantime, reported to the Japanese cabinet that both the war and navy ministries will be abolished Dec. 1 and replaced by demobilization ministries. The demonstrators at Mac- Arthur's headquarters, claiming to represent 2,500 members of a democratic mass labor party, sent a delegation inside with a declaration of their aims. Want Boy Emperor They sought: 1. Replacement of Hirohito with 11-year-old Crown Price Akihito. 2, Resignation of all high Jap anese civil and military officiali and suspension of their pension!. 3, Abolition of the peerage and resignation of the entire low er house on the diet. 4. Publication of war truths and an explanation of the reason for the present military budget. 5. Distribution of food now held by the military. The declaration was delivered to an Interpreter. Though writ ten in English longhand, it was not turned over immediately to MacArthur. The delegation was especially concerned over food shortages. No Disturbance Armed sentries stood outside the headquarters during the dem onstration, but there was no dis turbance. The demonstratori carried banners proclaiming: "We are starved. We need food." A spokesman for the group said the new Japanese premier. Baron Kljuro Shldehara, earlier had refused to receive a delega tion from the party. The demonstration clearly showed that the Japanese have, taken a long stride toward free speech. Only a few months ago, a cry for Hirohito's abdication would have landed demonstrat ors in Jail, if not on the execution block. MacArthur - said In a radio speech to the world only a few hours before the demonstration that a revolution "or more prop erly an evolution" which will re store the "dignity and freedom of the common man" already has begun In Japan. CLOSING OCT: 26 Closing of the Medford schoot nursery at 22 Geneva street will take place Oct. 28, E. H. Hed rick, city school superintendent, announced today. The school, formed three years ago under the Lanham act, has been spon sored by the school system with Mrs. Ethel Tennant as principal, and has taken care of children from two to six years of age with average daily attendance of 45. "According to orders from the federal bureau, the school must be closed and the property re leased to the owner by Oct. 31," Hcdrick said. "This means that the last day on which we will be able to accepj children for day care will be Friday, Oct. 26. "Unless funds can be secured from private sources to carry on," he said, "this will mean the end of the school." Army Cargoes Held By Steward Strike Seattle, Wash., Oct. 16 (U.R Fourteen fully loaded ships, scheduled to sail for Japan, Oki nawa and the Marianas with, army cargoes, were tied up to day, owing to refusal of CIO Ma rine Cooks and Stewards' asso ciation members to sign aboard. The stewards declined to work after the War Shipping Adminis tration recently reduced 'he si of ship's stewards departments. GOVERNMENT HUNTER TO HUNT DOWN BIG COUGAR A government hunter will be dispati hed soon lo the Steam boat district of the Upper Ap plegaie, where tracks of a large cougar have been noted by stockmen The varmint is a men ace to deer and stock. The gov ernment hunter has been busy in tho Myrtle Creek district and is du.5 to. return here tomorrow. Report of the cougr was receiv ed by the county agent's office lajj yjiek i
