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Newspaper Page TextUse The Mali Tribune Want Ad Way Weather FORECAST: Sunday Clear with slightly higher tempera ture In afternoon. Temp. Highest yesterday Lowest this morninc Quick Results United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1945. NO. 180. United Press Full Leased Wir MASS SHE By CIO MO UNI Economic Peace Periled By Vote Call Both Sides Firm Detroit. Oct. 20 (U.R) C. E. Wilson, president of General Mo tors Corp.. tonight advocated a 45 or 48 hour work week as a national economic remedy and aid it would offset labor's 30 per cent pay boost demand. He revealed also that General Motors was planning to spend $600,000,000 on reconversion and expansion to satisfy the great pent-up demand for industrial products. Wilson made the work-week proposal which he doubted would be acceptable to labor at an extraordinary press confer ence following a dinner attended by special correspondents mak ing a nationwide reconversion survey and members of the De troit press. Detroit, Oct. 20 (U.R) Peril of the greatest mass strike in history hovered over the Ameri can economic scene tonight as the powerful CIO moved to ward ballot-box authority to call out 500 000 automobile workers in a fight for wage gain: Government supervised strike lections were scheduled for Wednesday nnd Thursday, re spectively, in the General Mo tors nnd Chrysler systems two of the giant automotive Indus try's big three. Both labor and management said the ballots would have far reaching influence on the wage and nrice policies of peacetime America. Neither side doubted that the voting members of the United A 'itnn,nbiie Workers union (CIO) would do anvthlng but ap prove the strike call. Tn kindred statements tonight union and in dustry snokesmen said a strike of nme kind seemed inevitable. "There appears to be no will ingness to negotiate our request ed 30 oer cent wage increase," Mid UAW vice president Walter V Reuther. "W certainly in tend to strike if necessary to rompi'l consideration of our fair demand;;." But General Motors president C. E. Wilson said "our answer is no and that is final." And K. T Keller, president of Chrysler Corn, told report ers that in his view labor rela tions were worsening and he feared there had been no pro gress in wage negotiations up to this time The national labor relations board drafted more than 200 temporaiy specialists from ranks of college facultv. lawyers find accountants to aid regular staff members in handling the largesl labor election since the provision was written into law. Hollywood Oct 20 Union leaders reported "progress" to night as film czar F.ric Johnston confeired to break stalemated negot'ations in the 32-wcek-old movie industrv str'ke, highlight ed to-lav by 1500 pickets, includ ing e ,llece students, parading peacefully at Warner Bros, studio. Johnston. recently elected president of the motion picture producers association, conferred mot of today and tonight with union leader and Donald Nel son, president of the society of independent motion picture producers FLOOR FIGHT Of) TAX RELIEF DUE Washington, Oct. 20 (U.R) Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., of the Senate Finance com mittee tonight predicted a f'oor fight over the S5.629.000.000 tax relief bill when it comes up for senate debate Wednesday or Thursday. George said that while he op posed some sections of the bill as approved by his finance commit tee, he personally would not ol fer floor amendments. He :udd he felt the senate bill was "s. me better'' than the house veisicn because it would repeal al: ex cess profits taxes on Jan. 1 ASK FEDERAL RULE Sacramento, Oct. 2U U R) The Central Valley project con ference tonight unanimously en dorsey continued federal control of water development programs ca tuiU4 Valley w atsiilici. Posed as Major r a (Acme Telephoto) Wounded South Pacific veteran. Pvt. William F. Barrs. who posed success fully as a bc-medaled major, went AWOL from Hamilton Field Hos pital, Calif., married an Army nurse, was finally trapped by trail of bad checks, In San Francisco, Calif. His bride of six weeks, Lt. Hclene E. Perkins. 21, Oakland Regional Army Hospital, also AWOL during her honeymoon, declares she will stick by her husband. He claims memory lapses. F Lying unconscious in a canyon for several days, Orval G. Chris tenson, 31, of Ada, Minn., was found yesterday afternoon on the Buckhorn Mineral Springs road, about five miles from the Klam ath Falls junction south of Ash land. A car which Christenson was driving had left the road, landing upside down in a creek 87 feet from the roadbed. Parts of the car and Christenson's per sonal effects were strewn down the side of the canyon wall. Deputy Coroner C. M. Ljtwil ler of Ashland, who was called to the scene, took the injured man to the Camp White hospital where it was found he was bad ly bruised about the head and chest and possibly injured inter nally. Christenson was discharg ed from the army about three weeks ago and had been visiting his cousin, George Christenson, at Buckhorn springs. The injured man had borrowed his cousin's car to go to Klamath Falls where he was to work. He was to have returned a week ago yesterday and late last week Dr. Herman Wexler of Buckhorn Springs went to Klamath Falls to seek information on Christen sen's whereabouts. C. W. McGrew, an employee j at the springs, was picking rocks from the roadway yesterday when he saw the car in the can-1 I yon ami louna unsieiisou ly ing some distance from the ; wreck. Coroner Litwillor said, be cause of the cold nights and ex posure, it was a miracle that Christenson survived. ALLIES APPROVE IF London, Oct. 20 (U.R) The ; four-power allied control council ; for Austria tonight announced recognition of the government 1 of Dr. Karl Renner and author : ized nationwide election before i the end of the year. I Austria's first post-war elec ! tion was scheduled for Nov. 25. Recognition was recommended i two weefis ago in a report by the ! control council to the big four powers. Academy Explosion Takes One, 13 Hurt Portland. Ore.. Oct. 20 'UP.) Charles Auth. 50. baker at he Hill Military Academy, died in a Portland hospital today from hums suffered when a hot-water i tank exploded in the academy's ; mess hall, injuring 1J otner pcr ' sons. j A little later Cadet J. Pat ilay den. 12, of Portland, was add,.-d to the list of those critically in ! jured. The other two, laying ! near deth. were Cadet James F. j Knight, 14. of Spokane, and Mrs. Benjamin Hill, sister-in-law oi Uit ai'iid'.'ir.s headmaster. FARBINJARTELS Army Recommends End of Huge German War Breed ing Plant Washington, Oct. 20 (U.P.I The U. S. military government in Germany urged tonight that all I.G. Farbenindustrie canels everywhere In the world be wiped out with a single Allied stroke as a step toward "de stroying forever" the huge war breeding chemical and industrial combine. The recommendation was con tained in a report to the War de partment made by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as head of the military government of action taken so far in the American zone of occupation against the I. G. Farben Corp. The report said I.G. was of incalculable im portance to the German war ef fort and accused it of plundering the industry of other nations in the wake of the Wehrmacht. Estimating that there are more than 2,000 I.G. cartels, the re port said it was "impracticable to destroy these interests by the interminable process of analyz ing each such arrangement and taking special action in each case." Instead, the American of ficials have decided to seek over all legislative action on the part of the Allied control council outlawing cartels. This legisla tion is now under study. Other four-power actions re commended: 1. Making I.G. plants and as sets available as reparations to Allied nations. 2. Destruction of plants used exclusively for war purposes. 3. Elimination of the monop oly by dispersion of ownership of remaining plants. 4. Strict control of I.G. re search. All these policies are now be-, ing carried out in the American zone, the report said. However, it warned that U. S. action alone cannot be effective because only 9.75 per cent of I.G. holdings are in the U. S. occupational area. This amount, consisting of 84 properties, has been seized. France has taken over the II. 5 per cent of I.G. holdings in French-occupied territory, but Great Britain had not yet follow ed suit by the end of September. I.G. holdings in the British zone amount to 20.25 per cent of the total. FRENCH 10 VOIE Paris, Oct. 20 (U.R) An esti mated 24.000.000 French men and women will vote in national elections tomorrow for the fust time since 1936 to determine whether they want a new con stitution to replace the docu ment of 1875 which governed the third republic. At the same time, the French vote for the men who cither be come the country's representa tives under the old constitution, or drafters of a new constitution. That vote will be quite apart from the one affecting the fuiuro type of government. For the first time in the his tory of France women will be allowed to vote. 'DILUTED' DRAFT Washington, Oct. 20 (U.R) i President Truman may ask for a j "diluted form" of universal mili : tary training on a voluntary ; basis as the backbone of the nation's defense program when he addresses a joint session of congress Tuesday. Congressional sources said to i night they do not expect him to I endorse a "compulsory" training ! program, but agreed that the , fate of universal training li.-ted as a must by the army and navy hinges on Mr. Truman's spcc.al message. SUSPECTS HELD i Portland, Ore., Oct. 20 U R i Two suspects were in custody to ' day and a third identified as I Portland police investigated the ! slugging of a Portland drugstore Fulfills Promise Portland, Ore., Oct. 20 (U.R) A promise made 12 years ago paid off today for Mrs. Nichjlas Lisac of Portland. When the doctor said he would deliver her 13th baby for "free" he meant it. Today Mrs. Lisac had her 13th child and the doctor delivered it gratis. Coinctdcntally all 13 chil dren have been brought into the world by the same doctor, or his physician wife, who died this year on Mrs. Lisac's own birthday. ED BY REBEL FORCE, REVOLTSPR E A D S National Guards, Commu nists Seek Return of Ven zuela President Caracas. Venezuela, Oct. 20 !U.R) Rebel war pianos bombed Caracas late today and heavy fighting broke out in the city between revolutionary troops and national guard units loyal to deposed President Isaias Me dina. Casualties of the 36-hour-old rtvolution were estimated at 300 dead and more than 1,000 wounded. The national guard units, supported bv armed commun ists, were trying to recapture the Caracas military school where. Medina and high mili tary officer were reported to be held. Counter-revolutionary forces were reported massing in the Andean areas of western Venezuela. The Revolutionary troops, using tanks and nrtillery were resisting the counlcr-a 1 1 a c k. Communists were reported to have obtained arms and uni forms by assaulting a local bar racks. The revolutionary govern ment later announced the at tack against the military school had been repelled by their forc es, using two airplanes and half a do-en armored cars. (The pro-Medina radio Tach '.ra in western Venezuela broadcast nn urgent bulletin late this sifternnon claiming Medina, at the head of loyal 'roop;' hod entered Miraflorcs. presidential palace in Caracas, offer heavy fighting in adjacent streets.) Earlier. Maj. Mario Vargas, member of the revolutionary Juntii. announced that Gen. Lo pez llenriquez commander of the hll-important Los Andes mil itary zone, had pledged himself to the revolution, along with Gen Leon Jurario. governor of Falcon Stats, also in western Venezuela. 1 WAR HITS HAWAII Honolulu, Oct. 20 'U.R) American civilian and military authorities are trying to find the source of rumors spread among some 14,000 alien Japanese on the main Hawaiian island of Oahu that Japan won the war and that news of the allied vic tory was only propaganda, it was learned today. According to one source, 300 j such Japanese recently gathered in the hills overlooking Pearl Harbor to watch for the arrival of the victorious Japanese. Bulletin Seoul. Korea. Oct. 20 (U.R) Dr. Syngman Rhee. long exiled head of the Korean in dependent movement, made his first opcv bid for leader ship at home today with a fiery speech denouncing the parti tion of Korea by American and Russia occupation armies. Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 20 'U.R) The three-day strike of CTO utility workers which had threatened to cut off gas and electric service to 2.000.000 Michigan consumers ended to night. Hamburg. Oct. 20 iU-R' A German U-boat skipper and two of his crew were condemned to death by a British military c urt today for murdering helD'css survivors of a torpedoed deck steamer early in the war. Another crewman was doomed to life imprisonment and '.he fifth defendant was sentenced to j 15 years in priton fur his pait in TRUMAN TO GIVE WAGE-PRICE CUT Administration Fears Defla tion Most Expects To Urge Higher Wages Washington, Oct. 2 (U.R) The administration appeared to night to believe that deflation caused by loss of worker buying power would damage the eco nomy more than a moderate in flation caused by substantial wage increases. The depressing effect of waie cuts resulting from peacetime loss of overtime pay, obscvi-rs suggested, would produce im mediate political as well as eco nomic repercussions. Of the two dangers, the ad ministration was said to fear de flation more than inflation. President Truman was report ed to have given considerable weight to the advice of cabinet members who feel that the most urgent step now is to restore worker purchasing power. The president is preparing a wage-price policy announcement for next week, probably Mon day. He conferred for more than an hour -today with Price Adminis trator Chester Bowles and Re conversion Director John W. Snyder. Mr. Truman's statement ni:iy outline a method or designate an agency to decide when and how much price relief is necessary to cover a wage boost. He is ex pected to appeal to labor and in dustry to resolve disputes over this issue by orderly processes rattier than by strike or lockout. flis statement also is expected to lay stress on the necessity for higher wages for all workers in order to maintain purchasing power. COLUMBIA VALLEY AUTHORITY HELD IKE Seattle, Oct. 20 4U.R) Repre sentatives from five states voiced continued opposition to the pro posed Columbia River Authority at a meeting of the Pacific North west Development association to fiay and were told the develop ment of the northwest would be retarded from three to five yours under the program. "Until our people right here at home realize that the develop ment of the Pacific northwest would be retarded by from three to five years under a CVA and. I cm staler importance, mat j the very fundamental basis on . which our government has been established by the authority idea, true democracy, as wo be lieve in it, is endangered," said I Slate Senator Don Miller, Wen atchce publisher. Miller charged the non-democratic elements "intend to use the river authorit;.' idea" to de velop a program of "totalitarian control over our people" find were "hiding under the banner of liberalism while doing it " REBELIITAVA THREATEN MARCH Batavia, Oct. 20 (U.R) Rebel lious Indonesian natio n a 1 i s t 8 challenged British military inter vention in Java today and threat ened to march on R.-it.ivin ni the Dutch grant their independ ence demands. Batavia itself was quiet, with British regulars patrolling the streets, but the interior was re ported alive with bands nf n. live Insurgents looting and ter ! rorizing the countryside. j The nationalist radio at Soer I abaja now apparently entirely in rebel hands broadcast a de fiant proclamation to the native population of Batavia calling for an armed uprising within the is land capital. j MURDER CHARGED Vale, Ore., Oct. 20 U RJ Dis I trict Attorney E. Otis Smith to i day said he had filed a murder charge against 18-year-old Floyd Pousson, of Lake Charles, La., j for the death of N. Kuruj, 61- ye::r ol I La Cr..,ule, Ore , Jap jiinesc Ainvrivaa. Sharp Sitting, Soldier! AT x bis r Pic. Vincent smith, Dncly, Fin., perches atop pile of Jap Samurai swoidi nnd cautiously 'tests razur slinrpncss of one ulnde, at northern Honshu, where dcmubillznUun of Jap niilllnry machine is maintained on schedult by speclul units from 'Mil Ordnance Coiiipiiny, U. S. Eighth Army, IL Tokyo, Sunday, Oct. 21 (U.R) Emperor Ilirohito and mem bers of the Japanese imperial household arc not Immune to war criminal prosecution and will be tried before the war crimes commission if evidence warrants, Col. Alva C. Carpen ter, chief of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's war crimes branch said today. The trials of Japanese war criminals numbering possibly in the thousands will begin within the next month, he said, predicting the prosecution may extend over two years. He told a press conference that there was "no reason why Japan should be immune to war criminal prosecutions." Not even the emperor himself or members of the imperial household such as advisors could evade trial, he said, if the evidence against them is sufficient. He cautiously, but definitely, stated the emperor was not be ing Investigated as an individual. He said Ilirohito was involved only as he enters the picture through the study of Japanese state papers. However, he emphasized, the Japanese surrender terms con tained no clause to prevent try ing the emperor if the evidence indicates he is a war criminal. 0 o ruiuii FRETS CHURCHILL London, Oct. 20 (U.R) For mer Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, in his first clear state ment of regret for having lost last summer's parliamentary election, expressed anxiety for Britain's future today because of partisan political differences which he said were greater than at any time since before World War I. "I share with many people the deep anxiety about the future and it seems to me that these I next few years may well decide ; our own place in the world," he said. "It is a place which if once lost might never be regain i ed. The break up of the famous j coalition has led inevitably to a ! division of our people into op ! posing parties such as we have not seen since the days before the first great world war." Plenty of Low Wage Jobs in State, Word Salem, Ore.. Oct. 20 (U.R) The Oregon Postwar Develop ment and Readjustment commis sion reported today there arc still thousands of job openings in Oregon, but mostly in the I lower wago brackets. ' In a report to Gov Earl Snell. the commission said in many leases indutsries were restricting j their new employes to a 45-year-I age limit and women were not j even being considered. The color l'ne was also being drawn J in many casta. .A' h, . i !'- 1 4 tt:-J M 4. I i 1 I1 0 I Armn 1 pUnlinttt) M'ARTHUR PUTS FOOT DOWN UPON JAP BLACK MART Tokyo, Oct. 20 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur, cracking down on black market profiteer ing, today prohibited American civilians and servicemen sending abroad any funds, except legiti mate pay allowances. A black market has sprung up in Tokyo which deals in Amer ican food, candy, blankets and other scarce items obtained from American sources. For a time in Europe, 'when' Similar biCck markets operated, some Amer ican soldiers sent more money back home in a week than Ihcy received in pay from the arm in a year. The order provided that any American wishing to send money out of the ' country, must ex change yen for U. S. money ord ers, which must be accompanied by a certificate from a respons ible personnel officer saying he has "personal knowledge that the funds transmitted were legiti mately obtained as pay allow ances from a finance officer of the U. S. army and were not ob tained from black market opera tions sale of property or other illicit sources." HOUSING RELIEF FOR CAIf I SEEN Salem, Ore., Oct. 20 (U.R) Gov. Karl Sucll's attempt to cut federal red tape and secure emer gency housing for overcrowded slate colleges today brought the possibility defense housing units may be available for "demonstra tion purposes." John II. Tolan, Jr., special assistant lo J. W. Snyder, direc tor of war mobilization wired Snell the "demonstration" might be made to show what can be done with ll facilities. State authorities are trying to get 100 of the units from Rich land, Wash., recently transferred from the war department to the surplus property division. Portland Shipyard To Lay French Keels Portland, Ore., Oct. 20 (U.R) Edgar F. Kaiser, general man ager of Swan Island shipyards in Portland, promised his em ployes today that the yard "will build more ships, despite launch ing of the next to last vessel. "More keels will be laid at Swan Island," Kaiser declared. He reviewed the bidding for a contract for building French ships and disclosed that his yard had entered the lowest of sevf.n bids received but that the French had negotiated with the Cana dian government and had decid ed to buy used ships. FORM PERON CABINET Buenos Aires, Oct. 20 (U.R, A cabinet acceptable to strong man Col. Juan D. Peron was completed today with appoint ment of Gen. Juan Pestarini as vice president and the naming oi three other cabinet ministers LEICHT, REYNOLDS Cougars Conquered 26-13, Washington Wins 13-0 From Injured State Eugene, Ore., Oct. 20 (U.R) . An undcrsizo University of Ore gon eleven sparked ' by the brown and white combination of wegro Bobby Reynolds and feet Jake Toicht i favored Washington State Cou gars o-ij in a Pacific Coast conference football game before Dim fans here today. The heavier Cnncm- only by Washington this year, were held scoreless through the iirst tnree periods while Oregon romped to four touchdowns, two nf them through the air. Wa.?hineton Rfnto vnnmA ti nair of last period tallies with Reynolds and Leicht An bench. 1 OreBon st.nhheil fn tlio nDl within three minutes of the onening kickoff with right half Walt Donavan breaking through 'is rient tackle for 25 yards. A recovered ftimhl V,,, Pau. nolds on the Washington State 24 after eight minutes of the second period set up a drive cntmxcd bv Leicht s end run from the one. A 25-vnrd run bv T.nipK .4. vance:) Oregon to the Washing ton State 17 and from thpr Reynolds pitched a high pass to ine vailing arms or right end Anderson In the end zone. MiHwnv In th thlrH rHni Reynolds shot another end zone pass to Doey Tor me weDioou fourth touchdown. The lineups: Oregon pos Wash. Stale Hathaway le Bacoka Gillir . lt Giskc Kaufman lg Nieme Bill Anderson c Lazor Rciton rg Bullcrl Deskins rt Claymore Bob Anderson re Brown Reynolds q Perrault Leight Ih Lippincott Donovan rh Rush Bond f Walter Score by periods: Oregon 8-13-7-0 28 Wash State 0-0-0-1313 Portland. Ore., Oct. 20 (U.R) Washington Huskies battered down a stubborn Oregon State Collece football team today 13 to 0 In thrll'-packed game right up to the final gun., Washington packed too much power for the Beavers whose offense was stymied by injuries md the line outcharged by the relentless. Huskies. Even so, the younger and lighters Staters gamely stopped the victors short of two additional scores in the closing minutes. No-m Sansregret polished off the first Washington scoring drive with a seven-yard plunge in the second period and Wash ington was knocking on the door again as the period closed. A blocked place kick gave Kararianos a recovery on the 10 and he rambled more than 60 yards as the gun sounded only to be tackled from behind. Washington smacked final scoring punch on to rallies in I he fourth period but Gordon Hungur, unsung before the game but a hero today slambanged ever from the 12 with only 20 seconds left in the ball game. Wasnington's 15 first downs to seven for the Beavers repre sented the difference in the two squads Fullback Stevens was ! too su k to .eave Corvallis and j halfback Rciman was hurt on i the first play to Impair the Beaver's attack. Washington defeated only by California this year, gained 270 ! yards from rushing to 198 for Oregon State. The lineups: Washington pos Oregon State Hein lo Lorenz Rice lt Puddy Oster'iout lg Rinearson McG'ivern c Krcll Hem-i'ad rg Anderson Vlckeiy rt Austin Bruce re Gibbs Stone q Hamblin Given Ih Gray Stacy rh Rciman Trask fb Rouse Se.ne by periods: Washington Orcg.m State 0-6-0-7 IS . 0-0 0-00 HOTEL STRIKE ENDS Chicago, Oct. 20 (U.R) Eleva tor and bellhop service was re sumed late today in the fashion able Palmer House, Chicago Loop hotel, after a daylong strike of service employes which forced the natrons of the big hotel to j handle their own lufigase.