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Newspaper Page TextJapanese Cabinet Balks At Industrial Monopoly Breakup FAMILY TRUSTS HELD FOUNDATION OF PROSPERITY MacArthur's Demand Stirs Debate; Some Trusts Lost Coin in War, Is Claim. Weather FORECAST: Parti Hotidr to nlRht and Saturday with rattcrrd llcht ihoweri. Slightly warmer. Temp. Highest Ysterdar 6 Lowest this Morning. ..33 MEDFORD RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire United Prest Full Leased Wlra Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945. NO. 179. Pickets Versus Police at Sitdown Strike Tax Easing Favored For Enlisted Men Iff yff Acme 1 fllepholot Police, sheriff's deputies and firm strikers at Warner Bros. Studio. Hollywood, Calif., mix it up when polict had to use clubs to break up a "sit-down" at workers' entrance to the studio. The new violence occurred as film czan Eric Johnston scheduled conference with uni on leaders in effort to end the seven-month-old AFL Jurisdictional dispute. TOFAGE TRIALS Four-Power Military Tribu nal to Open in Nuernbtirg; Indictments Are Served. Nuernburg, Oct. 19 (U.R) The trial of nazism's foremost surviving war criminals will open Nov. 20 in this one-time shrine city of the party which started the second world war, jt was announced officially to day. The four-power allied military tribunal which will conduct the Nuernberg trial announced that the date o its opening had been set for four weeks and four days from today. Indictments Served The trial date was set shortly nfter the allied war crimes in dictment was served on the bulk of the defendants a who's who of the remainder of the nazi hier archy in the Nuernberg prison. The proceedings cleared the way for the trial save for the grace period given Rcichmarshal Hermann Gocring and his co horts to arrange for their defense Against the historic indictment. Today's service of the indict ment here and elsewhere in the American occupation zone com pleted notification nf the 24 de fendants save for Marl in Bor niann, former nazi parly deputy whose whereabouts are - un known. Rfisrhsma rshal Hermann finering and 18 other nazi lead ers were handed the indictment in Nuernberg prison. A special clerk of the inter national tribunal which will try the nazis, Maj. Anthony Neave, made the rounds of the cells in Nuernberg prison and slipped copies of the bulky indictment through the doors. FRENCH TROOPS LAND TO BATTLE ANNAMITES Hanoi, French Indo-China. Oct. 19 (U.R) Hochi Minn, premier of the provisional Annamite gov ernment, said today French troops had landed on the north east Indo-China coast and were battling Annamites at Hon Gai, 35 miles east of Haiphong. He charged the French opened the attack. Skirmishes also were reported along the Mekong river border between Indo-China and Siam. SIDE GLANCES ' By TRIBUNE REPORTERS ' Al Piche consistently winning' in a coin-matching game, only to find that his coin had two tails, i much to iiis embarrassment. i Hattie Gore telling a friend how marvelous she looked in her new fur coat. on!y to find out that the friend didn't own one. Mary Kelly fretting over the rion arrival of letters from over sea j. Lumber Strike In 26tli Day With No Settlement Sighted t Portland, Ore., Oct. 19 (U.R) The five-state AFL lumber and sawmill strike, affecting some 500 mills and 61,000 lum ber hands, goes into its 26th day today with no settlement yet in sight. Biggest news op. the strike front were court. Injunctions in Washington state against AFL picketing and the AFL's rebut tal in a statement branding all lumber produced in Pacific PUPPET'S WIDOW TO STAND TRIAL Chungking, Oct. 19 (U.R) The newspaper Takunpao said today that Chen Pi Chun, widow of the puppet Japanese premier Wang Ching Wei, will be flown here from Canton for an early trial on war criminal charges. The newspaper said that 80 per cent of the charges against her were concerned with trade in opium and illegal manipula tion of the gold market. Known as the "Traitorous Widow," Mrs. Wang will be tried under her maiden name, the newspaper said. She was reported lo be in Can ton. Takungpao did not specify whether she was al laree. No de tails of her arrest were given. Five Flown In Meanwhile five leading war criminals including Chen Kiang Po. acting president of the Nan king puppet regime, were flown to China from Kyoto, .Japan. China's legislative Yuan yes terday passed a law under which it is expected some 200 war crim inals will soon be tried. . . . Another accused traitor jailed here Chow Fu Sai. former pup pet mayor of Shanghai report edly has been pleading with his captors for opium, which he was liberally supplied during the past eight years by the Japanese. CIO Would Speed Loans to Russia Moscow, Oct. 19 (U.R) An American CIO delegation an nounced here last night it would oppose any further delsy in mak ing "loans or grants to the Soviet Union." Russia has asked the United States for a $6,000,000,000 cred it. The declaration was made by James H. Carey, chairman of the 11 -man delegation, on the eve of the group's departure for the United States after an eight day visit in Moscow and Leningrad. Dubinsky Elected To Council of AFL' Ciin.innati O.. Oct. 19 (U.R) Da.'id Dubinsky. president of the international ladies garment workers unu'n was elected late j oday to fill the vacancy on the : Amer'can Federation of Labor! executive council. j 4 .Kl northwest ClO-affiliated mills as "hot", regardless of whether a picket lino actually exists. AFL Strike Chief, John Chris tenson accused lumber operators of wanting to use lumber pro duced at CIO mills to broek the strike, but he voiced confidence in the rank and file of CIO workers, . who, he said, "know that our wage demands are just." He reiterated earlier statements that the lumber dis pute was not between labor, but concerned the refusal of opera tors to negotiate wage demands for an industry-wide minimum $1.10 wage. In Taconia, Wash., the CIO re buffed the AFL lumber cause by obtaining a permanent in junction from superior court Judge E. M. Card forbidding the AFL from f irming picket lines around the CIO-operated plants of the St. Paul Lumber Yards at Tacoma ana the White River Lumber Yards at Enumclaw. ULCERS YIELD TO T New York, Oct. 19 (U.R) The New York University Collnge of Medicine has announced, alter a year of research the discovery of a treatment for stomach ul cers which relieves pain within 24 hours. The. treatment involves the feeding of "amigen," a predigest ed protein. Dr. Co Tui. Chinrst scientist, who was credited with the dis covery of the treatment, said it may prove successful in the most severe ulcer cases without hos pitalizing the patient. The "amigen" feeding has caused ulcers to disappear in X-ray examinations within two or three weeks in most cases the university's experimental surgery laboratory said. The treatment was developed .when four patients showed strik ing results from "high feeding" when being prepared for opera tions for stomach ulcers, the uni versity said. Ex-Governor West Has Heart Attack Portland, Ore., Oct. 18 (U.R) Oswald West, 77. former gov ernot of Oregon, is seriously 111 from a heart attack in St Vin. j cents hospital, it was learned to day. i Ho suffcr-.'d the attack Tues j day afternoon at his home in j Portland. He has regained con- sciousness but is in critical con dition. He served as Oregon's gover nor fiom 1911 to 1915 and has practiced lav in Portland since that time. He is a democrat. Radio Highlights The Mediord-K'amath foot ball game w;!l be broadcast to night by station KMED starting ct 8 15 p.m. EXEMPTING ALL Officers Would Be Granted 3 Years to Pay Accrued Taxes on Service Pay. Washington, Oct. 19 (U.R) The senate finance committee voted today to relieve enlisted personnel of the army and navy on all tax on service pay during the war period. All service personnel now have a special, exemption of $1500, in addition to their reg ular $500 personal exemption. Today's proposal by the commit tee thus benefits only the com parative few enlisted men whose service pay exceeds $2,000. These are largely top rank non commissioned officers. Relief for Officers The committee also voted re lief, in the form of extension of time for payment, of the tax on officer pay and civilian income earned prior to entry into the ser vice. The special relief for enlisted personnel would excuse them from even filing a tax return on service pay. Final details were not worked out, but it may be extended to cover all the years from start of the draft In 1940 to the formal declaration of the war's end. Committee members were un able to give any estimate how many members of the armed forces would benefit from the provision. Tim Granted For officers of all rank the committee voted to allow three years after discharge to pay ac crued taxes on service pay. Pay ments would be arranged in 12 quarterly installments, without interest or penalty. Present law allows all service personnel six months to make up back taxes without interest charges. ddi tional time may be allowed at the discretion of the collector of internal revenue. . The senate committee was ex pected to make a decision soon on proposals to reduce excise taxes. SHADY COVE BOYS TO GET HEARINGS Hearings wlil he held Mon day for two 15-ycar-old boys, residents of Ihe Shady Cove area, who are charged with ma licious destruction of property, according to the sheriffs office. The youngsters broke hII win dows out nf a cabin in the area, shot holes in a water lank with rifle ami generally destroyed e premises. in Sheriff's officers. In calling attention to the wave of pro perty destruction which has swept the county during the summer, pointed out that in every case the culprits have been apprehended and were made to pay for the damage be sides being placed on a proba tionary period. Penalties will be more severe if the vandalism docs not come to a halt, a sher iff's office spokesman said. DISABLED VETS WOULD HELP WAR CRIPPLED Chicago, Oct. 19 (U.R) The Disabled American Veterans opened their 24th annual con vention today with leaders de termined to prove the employ ability of men crippled in com bat. Taking for its five-day conven tion theme "Disabled Are Valu able," the convention hopes to focus the attention of employers on the qualifications of men and women who incurred disabilities while in the service, National Commander Milton D. Cohn said. $20,000 HOLDUP Boston. Oct. 19 (U.R) Two gunmen held up a New York gem salesman and a Chicago electrician in their 12th floor room at Hotel Statler late last night, bound and blindfolded them, and escaped with cash and jewels totaling more than 520,000. Atom Explosions Urged to Convert World to Peace Santa Fe, N. M., Oct. 19 flJ.R) A top British military leader proposed today that the United States set off atomic bomb ex plosions in every nation of the world "to demonstrate to all peo ples the full horror of this ter rible new weapon." Lt. Gen. Sir George Holmes, former commander of the British Ninth army and a hero of Dun kirk, told United Press in an ex clusive interview that he is con vinced another war can be avoid ed only if all peoples of all na tions are given an eye-witness view of what the atomic bomb can do. The general said that unless something spectacular is done and unless all peoples of the world are shown directly the terrible power of the atom, an other war is inevitable. 19 San Francisco, Oct. 29 U.R) Nineteen ships bringing home a combined total of 22,840 Pa cific veterans and released war prisoners dock in the bay area today, the navy announced. Three aircraft carriers, the Kalinin. Manila Bay and K.itkun Bay will land approximately 2660 passengers at the Alameda air station. The remaining 16 ships will dock here. Largest servicemen loads will be carried by the Monterey, 4271, and the Sea Perch, 2310. '.The Catron will return 318 service men and 558 former prisoners of the Japanese among 939 on board. Other ships arriving today and their passenger loads are: Dash ing Wave, 1524; Cape Hemelo- pen, 1150; Burlaigh, 1404; Grun dy, 1552; Magoffin, 1662; Wil liam P. Biddle, 1085; Mnskcll, 1796; Cape Neddick, 1225; Dar nell, 1233; Maunalel, 27; Charles A. McGroarty, 5; Ablel- Foster, 3; and Charles M. Russell, 24. IN HUNT MISHAP Kalispcll, Mont, Oct. 19 XU.R) John William Redlingshafcr, 32, father of three children, was ac cidentally shot and killed by his father last night while hunting seven miles northwest of here, Flathead County Coroner Harry Campbell reported today. The young father was the sec ond hunter killed this week as the result, of an accidental shoot ing. The father had taken a .32 spe clal Winchester from Hie car and was loading It when Ihe gun dis charged sending three bullets in to his son's body killing him in stantly, Campbell reported. 3-YEARlTBOY KILLED BY DOG Chippewa Falls, Wis., Oct. 19 (U.R) A Doberman plnschcr dog was condemned to death by his masters today for killing their three-year-old son. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ehrhard said they would have the dog killed. Their son, Charles, Jr., died last night soon after the Ehrhards brought him to a hos pital here from their farm home. The parents told police they found the child in the yard, one ear chewed off and his head and body badly bitten. The boy had been playing with the dog a few minutes earlier. TROOPSHIPS DOCK Boston Oct 19 (U.R) Two troopships carrying 2,519 war veterans dock here today. Aboard the SS Milford Victory which sailed from Marseilles were 1,963 veterans, including members of the 21st tank bat talion with medics, 718th air material squadron Hq. dctach ricnt, 172nd medical battalion. Aboard the SS Henry W. Bccch i r were 556 miscellaneous troops. VENEZUELA ARMY OUSTS PRESIDENT IN BRIEFjEVOLT 300 Casualties Counted in 24-Hour Battle; Counter Revolution Said Shaping. Caracas, Venezuela. Oct. 19 (U.R) Rebellious army leaders overthrew the Venezuelan gov ernment today and President Isaias Medina was reported to rally his forces for a counter revolution. The government headquarters at Caracas were firmly in the hands of the insurgents lale to day after a 24-hour battle in which 300 casualties were re ported on both sides. Presidont Fleet Medina himself fled from the capital and the rebels, led by a junta of young army officers, took contrpl of Ihe government. Ex-prcsldent F, 1 e z a r Lopez Contrcras, Interior Minister Ar turo Uslar Pictri and Gen. Chal baud Cardona, inspector general of the loyal army, were seized by the rebels. The Insurgents, reportedly sup ported by tanks and the rank and file of the Venezuelan army, also won control of Maracny, 30 miles from the capital, and La Guaira, Venezuela's main seaport. FIND ASHES OF 14 Shanghai, Oct. 19 (U.R) Small, while tags attached to a row of plain wooden boxes In a funeral parlor revealed today the names of 14 American air men executed by the Japanese on Formosa last June after a perfunctory military trial. Inside the boxes were urns containing the ashes of the nir men and records of their execu tion. They showed that the men were killed by a firing squad al Taihoku, Formosa, June 19. at a time when Japan was making peace feelers to the Allies. A 15th box contained the ashes of an American Marine, Joseph Francis Florence, who was killed when the Japanese plane In which he was being brought to Formosa for execu tion crashed. Florence, whose home address and rank were not known here, was captured by Ihe Japanese on Mlyako island. Meat Rationing Another Month Washington, Oct. I p Secre tary of Agriculture fUiutmi P. Anderson said today lhat ration ing of meat, butter and fats anil oils will definitely ' continue through November. He said there may be some ad justments in red point values next month but pointed out that the amounts of reductions, if any, rest with the Office of Price Administration. Los Angeles Landlords Strike For Higher Rents Or Control Removal Los Angeles, Oct. 19 (U.R)- One thousand Los Angeles land lords went on strike today and said they would refuse to rent their properties until rents are raised or Office of Price Admin istration rent controls arc abol ished. If the landlords, most of them apartment house owners, carry rout their threat, Los Angeles' al ready critical housing shortage might become impossible. Under OPA rules the landlords could not evict present tenants except by occupying their prop erties themselves but could re fuse to re-rent apartments or houses as they became vacant. ' Landlords have more reason for striking than anyone striking today,' said one property owner at the mass meeting who pledged her support to the "won't rent'' plan. Fred I. Richman, attorney and Nip Prime Minister l.icme I elcphoto) Boron Kljuro, 73-ycar-old newly ap pointed prime minister of Jnptin la pictured tit his desk In Tokyo. Kljuro waa Jnp ambnssntior to Washington in 1010-1022. HEAT CUT OFF BY UTILITY WALKOUT By Unltod Press Heat was i:ut off in downtown Battle Creek, Mich., todny by a spreading strike of Michigan utilities workers, but elsewhere Ihe fuel shortage was eased as coal miners began returning to th pits in Pennsylvania. Elsewhere labor tension eas ed, although 429.000 workers still were Idle as the result of strikes. Thirty-two Pennsylvania coal mines have been reopened and 3,200 mlner.i have returned. Steel mills, which curtailed their output during the coal strike began stepping up pro duction aRain and recalled some of the 30,0011 steel workers who were laid off because of the coal shortage. BERLIN LABOR UNIONS GIVEN GREEN LIGHT Berlin, Oct. 19. (U.R) The four allied occupation com mands gave Berlin's newborn la bor unions a go ahead to organ ize today after ironing out dif ferences in views. Two weeks ago the records of Ihe labor unions were on the koininiuidaluia's black hook? ne cause Ihe organizations sought to riinh .their plans without al lied supervision. Today the way was clear for development of Vii'lUnlly'tlie entire trade union program. Garden, Ca1 Ortjn flJ.P Twenty-six persons were injur ed, and a motorman was pinned in the debris for an hour when a Pacific Electric work train, with 200 passengers, collided with a freight locomotive near here today. property owner, urged the land lords to remove their properties from rental lists but added that returning veterans should be al lowed to live in them, if only as guests of the house." John E. Owen, president of the state apartment conference, de fended OPA Administrator Ches ter Bowles, whose name was roundly booed by the meeting, saying Bowles was "taking or ders from somebody behind the scenes, and it isn't the Presi dent." Another "strike vote was taken by property owners In ex clusive Brentwood, who voted to refuse to submit any further in formation to the OPA until "we receive Justice or the rent con trol office is abolished. Members of the Santa Monica Bay Realty Board called on the OPA to grant a 25 per cent in crease over rent ceilings fixed for the area in 1942. ha i n ivA:iitv4 ft j&Mvl s vt , ' fc s Tokyo, Oct. 19 (U.R) The Japanese cabinet today balked at immediate action on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's demand that industrial monopolies be broken up. A Japanese source said the cabinet discussed the demand for some time at today's meet ing, but failed to reach a deci sion. "The Issue concerns the very foundation of the Japanese in dustrial system and has imme diate, far-reaching effects on the people's livelihood", the Inform ant said in explaining the gov ernment's apparent reluctance to take Immediate action. Benefit Doubted . Even before the cabinet meet ing, Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida told a press conference he doubted that dissolution of the old "Aibatsu" such family industrial trusts as Mitsui, Mit subishi and Sumitowo would benefit Japan in the long run. He contended lt was mainly through the efforts of these established monopolies that Japan's trade originally was built up to a point where the nntlori prospered. "The old Zalbatsu built up their enterprises In times of peace and they were the first to rejoice In the ending of the war," Yoshida said. Operated at Lots He argued that some large Japanese Industries operated at a "great loss" during the war. A number were forced to build ships and aircraft at a loss, he said. Mac-Arthur submitted his de mand for dissolution of Japan ese Industrial monopolies to Prime Minister Baron Kijuro Shldchara during a personal conference at the supreme com mander's headquarters Oct. 11. Soldiers Demonstrate Elsewhere In Tokyo, 8.000 demonstrators, mostly discharg ed soldiers, defended the em peror system and demanded immciate jobs at a noisy organi zational meeting of the "All Japan Toilers Federation." The meeting was believed the first In which former soldiers have played a leading role. Speakers contended amid cheers that negligent war-time politi cians and not the soldiers were to blame for the loss of the war. S EXHIBIT IS An exhibit of chrysanthemums is planned by the Medford Gar den club for Sunday, Oct. 21, it was annbunccd today, Tha show will be held at the Riverside USO auditorium and will be open In the public between the hours of 12 noon and 9 p. m. ' Garden club members are asked to bring arrangement In, their own containers ready for placing In the auditorium and USO lobby. Containers will 'on furnished for specimens brought for exhibit and these should be correctly labeled and prepared for exhibit, It Is stated. The show Is non-competltlve. Soviet's Claims Not Recognized Beriin, Oct. 19 (U.R) The United States signed the war crimes Indictment only after stipulating that she does not recognize Soviet claims to the Baltic states and "certain other territories," it was revealed to day. The stipulption was made by U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief Ameri can prosecutor. In a letter ad dressed to the Soviet, French and British prosecutors and fil ed with the secretary of the military trial court. Wife Beater Gets Ten Whip Lashes Upper Marlboro, Md., Oct. 19 (U.R) Lloyd O. Busching, 175 pound gas company employe, si lently received 10 lashes on his bare flesh today for beating his 98-pound wife. Sheriff R. Earle Sheriff, a 200 pounder, laid on the whip under a 64-year-old Maryland law be fore only a few witnesses. He said Busching, stripped naked and handcuffed, flinched with each lash but "never muttered a sound." Busching was convicted of beating his wife last June 30 in a domestic quarrel.