Japanese 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.