Japanese Urge Gen. MacArthur to Oust Hirohito; Permit Food Import
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Fortieth Year
VICTORY PARADE
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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
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(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, ,
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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
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