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Fortieth Year
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FAMILY TRUSTS IN
IE
Gen. MacArthur's Desire For
Democratization of Finan
cial Life to Be Followed.
Tokyo. Oct. 22 U.R The
Japanese Government today
prcp-ired to dissolve the Zaibat-
Su family trusts with estimated
prewar holdings of more than
cb nnn nnn nnr which a Tokyo
newspaper charged with trying
to evide war responsiouuy.
A spokesman announced the
government was taking appro
priate measures" to carry into
ffn.t (-.on riniitrlas Mac Arthur's
desires for democratization of
Japanese economic and financial
life.
He declined to identify the
affected trusts but Implied they
Included Mitsui. Mitsubishi. Su
mitomo and Yasuda the so
called "Old Zaibatsu" who pre
viously heln moncipolistic con
trol over much of Japan's trade
nnd industry
Emperor To Be Curbed
At the same time. Prince Fu
mimaro Konoye revealed that
.he r.cw Japanese constitution
will strip Emperor Hirohito of
many powers which will be
lodged in the Japanese parliament.-
Konoye, who heads the con
stitutional revision group, said
the new document "will restrict
to a considerable extent" the
all-cmbracipg powers of the
emperor.
It pvobably will include a de
claration similar to the Ameri
can bill of rights, but this point
has not yet been taken up with
the emperor, hesnid.
OF
BURIED IN FOREST
WILL BE REMOVED
Carlos Morris, deputy county
i coroner, will leave at 4:30 a. m.
Thursday for Butte Fork, ust
' south of the Oregon-California
border in the wilds of the Upper
Applcgate region, to exhume the
boriv of Robert L. Armstrong,
killed in a plane crash there July
21 and buried at the scene July
31.
Mrs. ' Robert Armstrong of
Lindsay, Calif., widow of Arm
; strong, requested the body of the
i pilot be disinterred and shipped
to Lindsay for services and
burial.
Four Killed
Armstrong was killed when
his Stinson cabin plane crashed
while cn route from San Fran
' cisco to Portland. Also killed in
the crash were Slyvan L. Gos
liner, his wife, and her sister,
Mrs. Alma Finley Pratt, all of
; Portland. The plane was ie
; ported missing July 21 and the
wreckage was not located until
; July 28. On July 31, simp'e
burial services were held at the
scene for the four victims.
; stalematFgrips
San Francisco, Oct. 22 'U.P
The seven-state strike of 2,700
Pacific Greyhound bus deivers
entered its 18th day today as U.
S. Labor Conciliator Omar Hcs
kins admitted for the first time
that negotiations were "s'a'e-;
mated." j
lloskins previously had main-i
tamed that the Greyhound coin-1
pany and the AFL Amalgamated
Association of Streetcar, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Em
ployes "will soon agree to peace
ful negotiation."
Although company and union
representatives have not met for
a week, Hoskins said he wojld
continue daily meetings with
each other.
MEDFORE
United Press
Freed of Charges
(Acme Telephotot
Imogene Stevens, 24-year-old wife of
wealthy MaJ. G. R. Stevens, New
Canaan, Conn., who was freed from
manslaughter charges when cast
against her was dismissed "because
evidence Indicated that she shot Al
bert Kovacs, 19-year-old sailor, Id
self defense."
SERVICEMEN GET
JUNIOR CHAMBER
DINNER MEET BID
All servicemen between the
ages of 21 and 35 are invited to
be guests of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce dinner meeting to
be held tomorrow at 6:30 p. in.
in the west dining room of the
Holland hotel. Servicemen plan
ning to attend are asked to tele
phone Jerry Latham, 2141, for
reservations.
Robert Rucker, president, asks
a good turnout of local members
to wind up plans for the con
vention of state board of direc
tors to be held here Saturday
and Sunday.
Register Guesli
Ray Ish will be in charge of
registering out-of-town guests at
the Chamber of Commerce, be
ginning Friday. William Most,
Jr., has arranged a well-rounded
program that will be of interest
to all members and their wives.
Paul Selby and Don Foote are
in charge of the Saturday night
dance and Robert Schenck is
banquet chairman.
Snow on Pine Tree
Nip Poetry Subject
Tokyo, Oct. 22 (U.R) Emper
or Hirohito announced today
that "Snow on Pine Tree" will
be the subject of the'annual New
Year's imperial poetry contest.
The public was invited to cub
mit short poems, composed of 31
syllables, to the contest, L'ach
individual will be limited to one
entry. Prize winning poems will
be read by the emperor Dec. 10.
America Strictly Madhouse
Say Aussie Brides of G. I.s
Sydney, Australia, Oct. 22
(U.R) America may be the prom
ised land to some folk, but it's
strictly a madhouse to one group
of Australian girls who went
tbrre to join their GI husbands
and then couldn't wait to get
home.
' They can have it," four of the
girls said when reporters, Inter
viewing them on their return
from the United States today,
asked for an opinion on America
and Americans.
Then they got down to specific
cases with a few pointed com
ments that they suggested be!
passed on to the United States!
for consideration and rebuttal, j
Mrs. Betty Schultz, of Sydney,
who said she was speaking for j
all the Australian" girls who re- j
turned on the ship with her: j
"I felt like an outcast all the
time I was in America. The
women resented us and were al
ways making remarks about how
we pinched their men.
"We're ready enough to admit
we made a mistake and we want
to forget it," Mrs. Schultz added
Full Leased Wit
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER
REDS, DE GAULLE
SHARE VICTORY IN
First Vote in Years Show
142 Commies Win Assem
bly Seats; Paris All Red.
Paris, Oct. 22 (U.R) Com
munists and Gen. Charles De
Gaulle shared victory today in
France's first general election in
nine years.
Final semi-official returns
from yesterday's election gave
communist candidates 142 na
tional assembly seats, a plural
ity of two over De Gaulle's sec
ond-place Socialist-Catholic pop
ular Republican party and of
nine over Leon Blum's third
place socialists.
Parle All Red
The Paris area voted almost
solidly communist to give the
party a plurality in the assem
bly for the first time In French
history.
De Gaulle's moderate party
not only showed surprising
strength in the assembly race,
but the majority of his cabinet
members won easily and he scor
ed a landslide victory on his
referendum demands for a new
French constitution and for
emergency powers until it has
been written.
De Gaulle himself was not a
candidate, but his beliefs, poli
cies and cabinet were on trial.
The resultant vote of confidence
vindicated his conduct since
France's liberation and clearly
strengthened his hand as never
before for the tasks ahead.
Herrlot Returns
Among leading political fig
ures swept back into the assem
bly were former Premier Ed
ouard Herriot, whose once-powerful
radical-socialist party drop
ped to fifth place with only 19
seats; Foreign Minister George
Bidault, nominal leader of the
popular Republican party, and
Communist party secretary Mau
rice Thorez.
The final standing by parties
in the assembly race was:
Communists 142.
Popular Republicans 140.
Socialist 133.
Union of Democratic Republl
cans 26.
Radical Socialists 19.
MAN RETURNED HERE
TO FACE PROSECUTION
Frederick C. Courll, arrested
in Portland at request of the
Jackson County Sheriff's office,
was returned here over the
weekend and lodged in the coun
ty jail.
Courll, who Is said to have a
dishonorable discharge from the
marines, is charged with larceny
by bailee of a motor vehicle and
is also involved in theft of a $74
check, which was reportedly
cashed by him.
when asked why she went to the
United States in the first place.
Mrs. Margaret MacDonald, al
so of Sydney, lived In America
for two years and said she found
the country likeable, but the peo
ple "dreadful."
Everyone in America rushes
about like lightning, all trying to
get to the top of something. Aft
er the quiet, easy life in Aus
tralia, America is an absolute
bedlam."
Mrs. MacDonald divorced her
GI husband a year ago and said
she spent the rest of her time
in the United States saving up
her passage back to Australia
$3 1 5.
Mrs. John Balboni, of Marrick
ville. spent four months in Amer
ica before she got homesick.
"Everything in America is fast
and everyone is selfish," she
commented. "Children of 13 and
14 were allowed to smoke and
drink. Housing is a teiTlfic
problem. Decent meals cost
more than a new summer dress,
and the whole pace of living and
playing just gets on a normal
Aussie's nerves."
TRUMAN DELAYS
STATEMENT ON
WAG& PRICES
President Announces Walter
Stacy to Be Labor-Management
Conference Head
Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R)
President Truman today an
nounced that Chief Justice Wal
ter P. Stacy of the North Caro
lina State Supreme court has ac
cepted chairmanship of the Na
tional Labor-Management con
ference scheduled to open here
Nov. 5.
Meanwhile, the president post
poned an announcement, previ
ously expected today, on the ad
ministration's wage-price policy.
Mr. Truman met with his cabinet
on Friday to discuss machinery
for handling mounting w no
price problems which threaten
to hamper reconversion of indus
try to peacetime production.
Eben Ayres, a White House
secretary, said he did not know
when the announcement would
be ready.
"The matter is still being con
sidered," Ayres said, adding that
he did not know what questions
were delaying issuance of the
statement.
Ayres said Mr. Truman would
see many of the persons who
will participate in the labor
management conference at the
While House during the next
two weeks. He added, however,
that a list of the participants and
the agenda were not yet rerdy
for publication although invita
tions have gone out.
Judge Stacy, who has been on
the North Carolina Suprem
court since 1925, has served fre
quently as a mediator In labor
disputes since the administration
of the late President Calvin Cool
idge. Mr. Truman's wage price pol
icy may come later this week.
11 DIElfASH
OF ALEUT PLANE
Anchorage Alaska, Oct. 22
(U.R) Bodies of 17 enlisted men
and five officers were removed
from the snowidr'ited wreckage
of a C-47 transport plane which
crashed and burned 500 yards
from Eimendorf field last night
while attempting to land during
a blizard.
Buffeted hy storms over the
lagged Culgach mountains en
route here from the Aleutian
chain, the transport plane
ploughed Into the tops of a
grove of Cottonwood trees bor
dering the airfield and burst in
to flames.
Authorities believed that the
aircralt's pilot misjudged his
approach to the field because of
driving snow.
Names of the 22 dead recov
ered from the wreckage were
not Immediately disclosed pend
ing notification of next-of-kin.
F
KILLSJEE, SELE
San Francisco, Oct. 22 'U.R)
Dr. Leo E. Link, 45, prominent
San Francisco dentist, sent a bul
let through his brain a few sec
onds after shooting his wife three
times as they lay side by side in
thjir bedroom, police said today.
The bodies of Link and his at
tractive 43-year-old wife, Doro
thy, were found by their daugh
ter, Virginia, 13, as she prepared
to bring them a Sunday break
fast in bed. The tragedy appar
ently occurred about 12:30 a. m.
Sunday, the time Virginia told
police she thought she heard "a
noise like two books being
thrown against a wall."
Radio Highlights
An address to Congress by
President Harry Truman on
"Universal Military Training"
will be broadcast over the Ameri
can Broadcasting chain tomor
row at 9:30 I. m according to a
network news release.
22, 1945.
Bon Homme Richard Joins 3rd Fleet
s N . , s ' - . X . 'If ,
' - x - N s . . , ; I
Aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard approaches Golden Gate Bridge entering San l-Yunclscu Bay rj
last contingent of Third Fleet reaches home shores. Hills of Marin County can be seen In background, with
Navy planes flying overhead. Major portion of Atlm. Halsey's victorious fleet now has docked at San Fran
cisco Bay upon return ol the armadn from the Pacific. Bonne Homme Richard carried 1642 Navy veteran
scheduled lor reassignment and discharua.
CLOSE RIM AREA
OF CRATER PARK
Light snow and freezing tem
peratures in Crater Lake Na
tional park last night resultc3
irv eloping of the rim area to
visitors according to E. P. Lca-
vitt, park superintendent, who
stales that barricades have been
erected at the north, east and
Annie Spring entrances. The
west and south road across the
park is still open for through
traffic, but is icy in spots, mak
ing careful driving necessary, it
was imported.
Leavilt communicated this
morning, by radio with Thomas
Parker, , assistant superintend
ent, who is still at park hcad
quartors, and learned from Par
ker that weather in the park
had mide the rouds hazardous
and ir. some places impassable.
May Cloi Soon
Sln: the weather is still un
settled, with indications of
more storms, the park may be
closed in the near future, the
superintendent stating that if
additional snow falls, the park
will be closed for tnc winter.
As far as could be learned,
the Diamond Lake road was
open this morning. From
Union Cree'i the forest service
learned that travelers had made
the trin successfully last night,
and also no snow fell during the
night, it was said.
E
VIrtnr Milnes. Medford. was
nimprl foreman of the grand jury
drawn today at opening session
of the October term ot the cir
cuit court.
Other members are:
Adina Benson. Medford; James
M. Cummings, Central Point,
Blanche Blumenstcin, Central
Point, R. C. Cuinmings, Jackson
ville; Thomas L. Edsall, Med
ford, and Rollin E. Jordan, Ash
land. District Attorney George Neil
son said only two or three crim
inal matters were scheduled to
come before the grand jury, and
that the session now underway
would be short.
SEATTLE WATERFRONT
SCRAMBLED BY SQUALL
Seattle. Oct. 22 (U.R) Seat
tic's waterfront was tidying up
today after squalling 52-mile-an-hour
gusts of wind yesterday
tore a destroyer, three house
boats, a lumber barge and many
pleasure craft loose from their
moorings, disrupted communica
tion and powerlines and forced
the weather bureau to work by
candlelight for three hours.
There were no reports of in
juries during the storm.
Tribune
United Press Full
12 Ships Bringing 12,689
From Pacific War Fronts
San Francisco, Oct. 22 (U.R) Twelve ships carrying 12,689
Pacific returnees, including 678 WACS from New Guinea and the
Philippines, wsrc due to arrive today.
Revising its figures upward from an original estimate of 5,700
for the day, the navy reported the largest of the transports due is
the Sea Ray with 2,141 army personnel.
The WACS are aboard the Evangeline, among 1,318 pas
sengers. The hospital ship Sanctuary is bringing 1,192, among them
127 former members of the American liner, President Harrison,
captured when the vessel was seized by the Japanese at Shanghai
in 1941.
Other ships due, as reported by the navy: Hornet, 1,113; Car
lisle, 900; Christopher Greenup, 1,432; Fillmore, 1,057; George W.
Julian, 981; Kwajalcin, 804; Maui, 1,713; R. C. Stoner, 35, and
Augustana Victory, three.
Tl
OF
YET TO COME IN
CHEST CAMPAIGN
About one-third of the $40,000
quota of the Community Chest
and victory fund campaign is
still to be reached Otto Frohn-
maycr, general chairman, stated
this morning. Frohnmayer said
that a scarcity of solicitors Is
slowing the campaign somewhat,
and he urged persons who have
not been contacted by mail to
bring their contributions to chest
headquarters at the Chamber of
Commerce building.
An effort is being made to
have each firm contribute 100
per cent, Frohnmayer said, and
each employee is urged to con
tribute one day's pay to the com
munity fund.
The chairman and workers
were cheered this morning by re
ceipt of a $30 check from a for
mer resident temporarily living
in the sotitch, this unsolicited do
nation adding considerably to
the morning's check-up.
AUTO HITS REAR
OF LOG CARRIER
Ashland. Oct. 22 A Ford
sedan operated by Albert L.
Mitchell, Medford, crashed Into
the rear of a loaded logging
truck being driven by Lyle M.
Paull, Central Point, near the
underpass north of here Friday
about 7:30 p. m. Mitchell and
his brother, a passenger In the
car, were taken to the Ashlcnd
Community ho.'pital suffering
from minor cuts and bruises.
Although clearance lights were
working, the tail light of the
truck was out, city police said
A third car crashed into the
rear of the Mitchell vehicle but
none of the occupants wero in
jured, police reported.
Paufl did not realize his truck
had been struck until he was
stopped some distance south of
the accident and informed of the
crash, police said.
Leased Wire
NO. 181.
at San Francisco
(Acma Teteuhotoi
Stalin May Shed
Some of Duties
'I h Official View
Washington, Oct. 22 Offi
cials here would not be surpris
ed if Generalissimo Josef Stalin
gave up in the near future some
of the extra burdens he assumed
during the war.
They long have felt It would
be natural for the hard-working
Soviet leader, who will be 68 on
Dec. 21, to turn over to other
hands responsibilities which he
has corried on his own should
ers In the period of his country's
greatest danger.
Till speculation has been ac
companied by "considerable
worry lest the men who take
over Stalin's labors In the ii?VT
nalional field should prove less
cooperative than he has been.
OF
Orval G. Christianson, who
was found in an auto wreck on
Buckhorn Mineral Springs road
on Grcensprings Mountain Satur
day, passed away Bt the U. S.
Noval hospital at Camp White
early Sunday. He was a World
War II veteran.
Christianson's car had gone
over an 87-foot embankment and
he had lain there for probably
a week when found unconscious
and brought to the hospital.
His father, Bennle Christian
son, Ada, Minn., will arrive by
plane Tuesday to make funeral
arrangements. The remains arc
at the Conger-Morris chapel.
FISHING BOAT HIT
Boston, Oct. 22 (U.R) Coast
guardsmen searched the Atlantic
122 miles northeast of Nan
tucket lightship today for six
fishermen reported missing alter
the army transport Thomas H.
Barry sank the Boston trawler
Medford in a Sunday fog.
ARRIVE IN TOKYO
Tokyo, Oct. 22 (U.R) Assist
ant Secretary of War John J.
McCloy, accompanied by a group
of civilian military advisors, ar
rived In Tokyo tonight on his
'round the world survey of occu
pation and demobilization prob
lems. -
WANTiRE PAY
Mass Picketing Extended tot
Two More Studios in 32
Week-Old Film Strike.
(By United Press)
The Pacific coast area was
threatened today with the strike
of 22.000 shipyard workers and
possibly 30.000 longshoremen as
other jurisdictional or wage dis
putes tied up the Hollywood
movie industry, northwest lum
bering and Greyhound bus opera
tions. The situation in the varioue
strikes or threatened walkouti
was:
Shipyards 7,000 AFL ship
wrights, asking a 40 per cent
WflCe increase nprfifvl tn Hnin
both AFL and CIO machinists in
a threat to strike against Bay
area shipyards on Oct. 29. The
machinists groups, now negotiat
ing with the California Metal
Trades Association nclrnri u srk
per cent pay increase.
5,000 Go Back
In Los Anaplna mnr Ih.H
5,000 striking ship repair work
ers were summoned back ta
work after an all-day conference
between members of the AFL
Metals Trades Council and Har
bor managers. A ctriltA hurl Koar.
called when the National War
Labor board denied a 11.6 per
cent wage increase fnr wnrlr.r.
employed on new vessels.
Longshoremen 30,000 west
coast lnncshnrnmn it-iflnHlti..
7,000 In San Francisco, demand
ed a 25 cents an hour "interim
increase pending settlement of
current contract negotiations.
The Waterfront Employers' As
sociation said, however, that tha
demands had not been received.
Film Pickets Spread
Movies Mass picketing wu
extended to two more studios.
Paramount and RKO as new vio
lence broke nut in II. o
I old movio industry strike. Thirty
uun-siriKors cnarged the Para
mount picket line and three
pickets were arrested. Only
token picketing was in forco at
the other studios.
Lumber AFT. li.mk.. ..
sawmill workers, who called the
nve-siate tie-up for a $1.10 hour
ly minimum watr nran.uj ...
take their battle against a CIO-
oDiainca injunction to the Wash
ington Stn
Negotiations In the lumber dis
pute were scheduled to resume)
at Eugene, Ore., and Portland.
,14,
OIES IN J'VILLE
HUNTING TRAGEDY
Rolph Foster, 14. of Phoenix,
was dead upon arrival at a lm-al
hospital yesterday afternoon, the
victim of an accidental gunshot
wound received while hunting
with a friend, Harold Kinney,
also 14, near Jacksonville.
According to state police who
investigated the tragedy, the
boys had been to Sunday school,
after which they decided to hunt
birds. They obtained a 22 calibre
single load rifle and a 16 guage
shotgun and were hunting in a
field near the Jacksonville high
school.
One of the boys had shot a
bird, breaking Its leg. state police
said they learned. After catching
the bird and killing It, Kinney
held the rifle while Foster used
the forward sight of the gun as a
saw in an attempt to remove the
bird's leg, police said. It wai
while in the process that the gun
was accidentally d I s c h a r g cd,
mortally wounding Foster.
He was rushed to Community
hospital by his mother and step
father, Mr, and Mrs. Frank
Strickland and Oscar Lewis, with,
whom the family was visiting.
Young Foster was born lr
Jacksonville, Texas, June 22,
1930, and came to Jackson coun
ty about two years ago. Besides
his mother and step-father, he is
survived by a sister Ramona
Foster. Funeral arrangements
arc in charge of the Perl Funeral
Home and will be announced
later.
MAYNARD BUSH DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Maynard Bush, of 815 West
Main street, passed away at a
local hospital shortly after noon
today after a brief illness. Obitu
ary nnd funeral details will be
given later by the Perl Funeral
Home. "'