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Americans Find New Treasure Cache In Honshu Vaults H Weather FORECAST: Occasional rtls tonight and Saturday. Warm er tonight and cooler Saturday- . Temp. Highest Yesterday S Lowest this Morning,., .31 Fortieth Year Chrysler Workers Vote For Strike Action 4 M JOIN GI HANDS IN EFFORT :; FOR PAY INCREASE 800 White Collar Workers ! Strike in New England I Oknomnlope ht nltiM if By United Press f. Chrysler Corporation employ I ses joired General Motors work F ers today in voting overwhelm f ingly for strike action to back f pay demandr. i Approximately 193,000 work rfjj in other U S industries jhiyed awav from their jobs be f (ause of strikes ai.d shutdowns. I 1 Early returns from a national f Jsbo,- relations board poll con s' (lueted in Chrysler plants yester ! clay showed the workers 20 to 1 f Jn favor of a strike. The vote j was requested by the united S Butotnobile workers (CIO). I i White Collar Strike I i Meanwhlie, New England's I fciggest "white collar" strike in 1 years began in Providence, R. I., ' When 900 clerical employees of 'l the Eiown & Shape Manufac f luring Co., walked out. The strikers set up picket lines I which 6.100 members of the ! effice employees international S tmion, (AFL) refused to cross. ' 'i The walkout threatened com j jilete shutdown of the company, i largest manufacturing plant in the state. !- 1 At Brockton, Mass., 800 last- irs in the ?hoe -district continu ed. iTvir wildcat strike. Mem inters of the Brotherhood of Shoe l'& Allied Craftsmen (Ind.l walk F d out yesterday in an effort to I fict a 25 per cent wage boost. j A 36-day strike in four Penn I fvlvania mines operated by the Jones and Laughlip Steel Co., , e-nded when 3,100 miners return 1 ed to the pits The dispute had f Involved the discharge of one p employe. To Tell Poller President Truman said he wou'd make public on Tuesday his long awaited reconversion wage-price policy, expected to call fsi substantial wage hikes with some compensatory price As government officials at tempted to stave off system wide strike against the automo bile manufacturers work stora ges threatened uui.- ... !nes. . . Eastern Greyhound bus cm- ! fploves preoared for a walkout f r.ext Wednesday, four CIO mart- f time unions protested the assign Hment of merchant vessels to r i -pleasure cruising ' and union ! i cadcrs were authorized to take 'faction -at an opoortune time i 1 oai-ist the natioi wide proper- f tics f Montgomer Ward & Co. I strike continued ti upset Ameri can Airline, mgpi m-h-. and walkouts remained in et foct against 12 L.bbey-Owens-Ford and PittFburrth Plate Glass Th'overan strike situation for fe most part was un changed NOBLE AWARD Stockholm. Oct. 26 IU.B The Nobel prize committee announc ed tonight that its, 1945 award in the field of fcsysiology and medicine will go jointly to Sir . WUexander Fleming, ur. f "Thame and Sir Howard Walter Florey for their discovery penicillin. Guerrilla Army Threatens Stability Of Philippine Government-Truman Washington, Oct. 26 (U.B President Truman said today the S stability of the Philippine rov J ernnicut is threatened bv a J Philippine guerrilla army which j has not disbanded. J Mr. Truman sent loiters to 1 several government agency hcids j concerning the Philippines. j He ordered High Commission j er Paul V. McN'utt to undertake an immediate investigation of 2 ' agrarian unrest'" in the island. i y He called on Attorney Genf ral Tom Clark to send expert per sonnel to the islands to recom mend action that will rid the commonwealth government of; numerous Quislings who. the 'yrefiucnt said, still hold import-J MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Win SMOKE APPEARS AGAIN OVER CRATER WATERS For the fourth time since Sept. ; 15 a cloud of smoke or gas has been seen hovering over the sur face of Crater Lake E. P. Lea vitt, park superintendent, report ed this morning. The fourth man ifestation was seen by Mrs. Alice Thomas of Fort Klamath, store keeper at the park, and lier sis ter, Mrs. Bricco, Thursday about 9:30 a. m. while the two women were on the lake rim. The women report that they sighted a funnel-shaped bluish grey smoke or gas cioud on the lake about three-fourths of a mile toward Wizard island from Cloudcap, which was approxi mately the same spot at which the smoke or gas was sighted on Sept. 30, Leavitt states. ' -Wind Blowing A hard wind was blowing at the time and the formation was visible only for a few minutes before it disappeared. Both Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Bricco were positive that it was not dust. They hurried to park head quarters to report the sight, and Ranger Kenneth Hulburt and others of the park staff rushed to the rim with cameras, but when they arrived the cloud had disappeared, carried away by the ELKS LODGE HERE COIfLlENTED BY DISTRICT LEADER Malcolm Epley of Klamath Falls, district deputy exalted rul er of the Elks lodge, paid an of ficial visit to the Medford lodge last night, and in brief remarks at a lodge session, complimented the order upon its general con dition and fraternal activity. He stated he had inspected the tem ple and its records and found them in excellent condition. He spoke htghly'of the management and spirit shown. The district deputy also prais ed Medford lodge for financial support it had given the National Foundation fund. The fund is the channel through which Elks of the nation assist worthy young people in securing an education through scholarships, care for underprivileged children, and maintains a tuberculosis hospital in Arizona, and conducts other charities. Last year the Elks dis tributed 250 scho 1 a r s h i p s to young people. Commendation was also extended for the local lodge's participation in war bond drive campaigns. Three candidates Lt. Frank A. Prine, SSgt. Don K. Safford, stationed at Camp White for many months, and Robert A. Schenck of the Medford branch of the United States National bank were initiated. The district deputy congratulated the officers on the manner in which they handled the ritualistic work. Before the lodge session. Dis trict Deputy Epley was honor guest at a dinner attended by of ficers of the local lodge. He left for Klamath Falls this morning. FORD TO HIRE MORE Detroit, Oct. 26 U.R Ford Motor company officials an nounced today that reconversion plans of the company call for an increase of 86.000 workers during the next 18 months. ant posts. The oresident told MeNutt that in the provinces near Manila thousands of share-crop pers organized years ago to de mand a more equitable division of their products and for several years there was no effective solution. "During the war. the pres ident's letter said, "the teiants organized a guerrilla army which reportedly did good woik ugainst the enemy. "After the enemy was defeat ed in their localities, they did not dUband and today they con stitute a spec's! problem which threatens the stability of gov crnment." MEDFORD, OREGON, FRID . OCTOBER wind. "This fourth report of smoke or gas rising from the lake would seem to confirm previous reports and also to confirm activity of some kind in the old crater of Mount Mazama," Leavitt stated. It is thought that the smoke or gas possibly rises from a vent in the lake floor and makes its way to the surface of the water. First Seen Sept. IS First report of the formation was on Sept. 15 and was made by Mrs. Linda Newhail, lookout on Watchman peak, who stated that the day was calm and clear and the surface of the lake "smooth. Second of the reports was made by Dale Vincent on Sept. 17. Vincent, photographer, naturalist and writer, also said he saw the cloud on a clear, quiet day, and he could see not other clouds or formations of any sort from where he stood oil Garfield peak east of the lodge. On Sept. 30 Ranger Hulburt saw a similar gas or smoke cloud from a spot on the west side of the lake and he continued to ob serve it as he moved along the rim road. It disappeared about the time Hulburt reached the lodge, he said. Fire Ration End Seen by Dec. 31 Akron, Ohio, Oct. 26 (U.B- Two of the tire industry's top men h3d some good news for American notorlsts today. E. J Thomas, president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., told a group of 16 reporters making a national reconversion survey that "Washington sourc es" he wouldn't identify, had Informed htm tjre rationing would be ended by Dec. 31 PAIR JAILED ON DYER AC! COUNT William O Davis, 21, of Mou.it Vernon Wash., and a 15-ycar-oid boy have been lodged in the county jail by sheriff's of ficers, charged with violation of the Dye' Act. According to the sheriff's office they admit tedly stole a 1941 Chevrolet iedan oelonging to W. D. Jack son from in front of a service statio.i in Ashland and were apprehended at the California checking station. Davis is wanted In Colfax. Wash, on kidnaping charges in volving the youth arrested with him. sheriff's officers said they learned. H? also is wanted in Washington for auestioning on bad check charges Roth have signed waiver of -vtradition uaoers to face the Washington charges in the event they are released from the chaige here, the sheriff's of fice stated. The sheriff at Col- fa w-mts both youths, it was '.earned. Average American Will Live Longer T.n. Aneeles. Oct. 26 U.K The average American today will live to be 15 years older than his or her grandfather. Dr. Samuel M. Levine of Harvard medical school told delegates to the 15th annual Symposium of Heart Disease today. "With the life-age now at B5 years, an increase of 15 years In the past 50 years," he said, "the medical profession is forced to fight against society's new No. 1 killer heart disease." ATOM POWER HARNESS FAR OFF SAYS SAVANT Portland. Ore., Oct. 26 iURS Talk that industry will harness atomic power in the near future was belittled today by Dr. Ko W. Carlson, one of the engineers who helped perfect the atomic bomb. "1 see no horrendous wnrld future in the atomic bomb." Carlson declared. "With reason able control, it will only serve to prevent wars. With a secret store of bombs no country would dare attack us. The bombs can not be destroyed in storage be cause they can be stored in a afe manner in which they vati uot bt set off." An Apology and An Appreciation To the Medford Senloi High School: Please accept our ilncure re grets for the unfortunate de monstration ijilmt your school when parties unknown to u defaced your building with paint. Our assurance that such an act positively does not repre sent the leelmg of our student body, athletic department ot faculty. Our deep appreciation to you si body and individually for your ipiendid sportsman ship and understanding in re fusing ts make an issue ot ibis affair. Your assistance In our mutu al effort to ascertain the iden tity of those responsible ts alio appreciated, (Signed! Associated Student Body. Granta Pass High School. TRUMAN SLATES MPORTANT TALK Washington, Oct. 26 (U.RS The White House aaid today PresMent Truman s Navy Day Central Park speech tomorrow m New York will be "probably the most Important" he has made since he beenme president. Assistant Press Secretary Ebert Aver said the Central Park sneech will deal with for eign policy The address, beginning at 10:30 a.m. PST, will be 25 min utes U.ng and wifkbe broadcast on all networks. . Tomorrow morning, Mr Tru man will make a speech at the eomtpittsiontag of the super carrier, the USS Franklin D, Roosevelt, at the Brooklyn navy yard. This speech will not be broadcast. Mr. Truman leaves Washing ion tcnight with large official party. Aged, Decrepit Man Destroys Himself Los Angeles, Oct. 26 U.R Edward Eckle, 88 was buried according to his own instruc tions today Bfter he drew a map to show morticians where they would find hfs body. Eckla ha! plnnea a note to nis clothing before he took noisrn and rhot himself in the head. The note read: "Eig'ity-stx years old, half blind, half deaf, nervous with shaky nand and unable to do any useful work, I think it my dut to go where I am not a burden to others and especially to myself, Price Controls Off Wednesday Washington, Oct. 26 (U.B Price controls will be lifted next Wednesday on 52 miscellaneous food items, Including various spices, a few dried and frozen fruits and some bakery products, the OPA announced today. In addition, ceilings will be suspended for 90 days on vege table seeds, canned carrots tin eluding canned carrot juice) and fresh, frozen and canned crab meat. Canned carrots sold as "baby" or "junior" foods, how ever, continued under price con trol. Tokyo, Oct. 26 iU.Rl The Japanese army at the end of the war had virtually completed elaborate underground quarters in which it was planned to house Emperor Hirohito if he had been forced to leave the Imperial palace, the newspaper Mainichi said today. Los Angeles, Oct. 28 (U.R) R. G, Foilis today became presi dent of the Standard Oil Co. of California, succeeding H. D. Col lier, who resigned to head the board of dirrctors. Collier, who has served as president the last five years, said his resignation was delayed by the war. JAP SUICIDES San Francisco, Oct. 28 0I.B A Japanese naval officer under special arrest in connection with brutalities at prison camps in Borneo has committed suicide, Melbourne radio said today, """he officer identified as a Comman der Aito was one of a large group under "special arrest, 26, 1945. NAZI LABOR BOSS SUICIDES IN CELL ON EVEOF TRIAL Robert Ley Leaves Disjoint ed Note Conceding Errors Of Nazism, Anti-Semitism Nuernberg, Oct. 26 fti.RJ Robert Ley, former Nazi tabor boss who killed himself last night, left a rambling "political testament" mouthing of being forsaken by God and recanting his erstwhile rabid anti-Semit ism, it was learned today. Ley's body was burned un ceremoniously today in a potter's field on the outskirts of this war- torn city where he was sched uled to go on trial as a war criminal next month. His grave was unmarked and the site kept secret. Derangement Seen American authorities revealed later in the day that before he hanged himself In his prison cell. Ley composed a strange docu ment conceding the errors of Nazism and indicating that his downfall had deranged him to some extent. Ley's document, labeled "My Political Testament, was ad dressed to "My German people." In it he wrote: "We have forsaken God, and therefore we were forsaken by God.' The Nazi who was chief of all labor in Germany had been one of Adolf Hitler's most enthusias tic persecutors of the Jews now appealed to the German people and to the Jews themselves to find a way of living together In peace. He proposed a three- point yrogram: 1. Creation of a joint board of Jews and Gentiles "honestly prepared to find conditions under which the Jews and Germans could live together." 2. A similar joint executive committee to implement the de cisions of the board. 3. Thorough-going organiza tion for education and propagan da to spread the board s idea to every corner of Germany, Responsibility Told While death waited for him in hi prison cell where he haneed himself to the plumbing. Ley wrote of the Nazi misdeeds: "1 have been one of those re sponsible. I was with Hitter in the good old days, and I want to be with him now In the black days. God led me in whatever 1 did, he lifted me up and now he lets me fall. "I have tortured myself to find a reason for the downfall, and this is my conclusion; we have forsaken God and therefore we were forsaken by God. "Anti-Semitism distorted onr outlook, and we made great er rors. It is hard to admit mis takes, but the whole existence of our people is at stake. "We Nazis must have the cour age to rid ourselves of anti Semitism. We must teli our youth that it was a mistake. The youth will never believe our enemies. Men may fall, parties and systems may disappear, but the people must remain and live." Kahut Gets Shot At Championship Portland Ore, Oct. 28 8JJ9 Promoter Joe rtaterman to- nay wired from New York City that final papers had been sign ed for a worlds iightheavy weight title bout in Portland be tween Champion Gus Lesnevich of Pcf York and Sailor Joe Jvahuf. the Oregon farmer boy watermar said the fight was fiated tor Jan. 24 and was se cured after Lesnevich was guar anteed $30,000. GOLD HILL UNIT TO MEET NOVEMBER 5 Gold Hill. Oct. 26 Gold Hill Health unit will meet at the! horn day. if Mrs. R Miller on Mon Nov 5. Tie program , chairman. Mrs. Norman Gail , states that members should come t the meeting prepared to work on the Christmas seal sale. THE BABE INJUBED Daihart Tex., Get. 2 Mrs. BabT OidriVk-am Zahanas win ner of the 1S45 Texas women's epen golf title Suiday in Fort Worth, wa injured last night when the car dr.ven by her wrestler husband. George Ka harip.i, collided with a bore on Onifad Press Full President Asks for Speaklttg tes a isint session of Congress. President of the Ursed Scat? Harry Truman afaove asks that plan be adopted whereby every yonf mart, starting fit 13 or upon graduation from hlxh school, would be girts ene year &f miM&tf training as distinguished from military aervtes "cojisenpti&n, Seated en the rostrum behiad the Protest Is Speak?? of the Kouae, Sam Rayburn ot Texas. ELKS PLAN FOR KICKOFF MONDAY N VICTORY LOAN As date tor the opening of the Victory Loan approaches, the Elks of Jackson Coanty ore com pleting plans to mak th-inal loan drive, a iniRe success in this county according to an an nouncement by Henry Zaehari sen, county loan chairman. The Elks Lodges of Ashland and Medford have assumed the rest onsiblflty of tiie drive and Meivln R PiaeH, exalted ruter of Hertford lri(te, and Ivor Erwfn, exa'ter ruler of Ash land lortRe have aopointed their committees, George T. Frey. mftn.-ugf-r of the ). S. National Barid, Medfiird Branch, is the general chulrman, and Herbert L fftrfton vwretanf of ilie Ash land Elks, h the chairman from Ashland Lodpe. Other appoint ees on the yenei! committee are William A. Gates, Walter Leverslfe, Eugene Thorndike, A. S. Ronenhaum, 1 E. Daniels Herb Grey, Ernest L. Scott. O. H Benntsws, Victor Milnes. and William Mevsl Jr. More names j will to adsM to t!n list as rom-t mittee chftsrsnen select tneir various committees tl,4e008 Quota The ouola for Jn-kson County on this drivv is $1 400,u0 divid ed b fellows- E Bi.nds, $325,000; individuals $250,000: corpora tions, SaaS ftCMJ Ti.c drive starts Mw.toy tnrr.lng. October 29. anil runs to December 8, inclu sive. been A sneeial meeting has called by the S'ate Victory Loan drive cimm.ttee for Satur day at 12:30 p.m. the Holland Htilel when all members of the general committee will be pres ent. Genera! Chaitman Frey mnottnies s nv detailed in formation will be given the local commft'ee by the group from state headquarter, and he urge? all a enihers of the general com mittee to be presvnt. identify Victims Of Alaska Crash Washington. Oct. 26 AI-tB The was department today iden tified the 19 army men killed when their plane crashed last Sunday near Anchorage, Alaska. The victims and next of kin Included Pfe. Earnest E Davis; Mrs. Ellen Davn. mother, KFD 2, ShensSan, Qrr f.HIP.XFN TliRKFY PRiHFS TO BE AIDED BY ARMY Washington, Oct. 28 m? to put the Soldiers are going poultry market on an even keel by eating chicken twice a week instead of once, am later will take up lite same project on tne turkey situation. A htMJse argicullure sub-com- mittee found out that the chicken market went to pot because growers greatly increased pro- duetion for army orders that sud denly collapsed following VJ- IBUNE Leased Wit NO. 185, Year's Training 4 v Jewish Treasure Preserved Through Unwitting Efforts Nuernberg. Oct. 26 WJ9 Some of the most vatoaota Jewish literary treasures in his tory have been preserved to posterity through the unwitting efforts of Na Germany's fore most Jew-baiter, Julius Stretch er, it was learned today. Streicher, the ex-school teach: er who directed some ol -.Germany's bloodiest antl - Semite crusades, largely - was respons ible for the nationwide purge ot Jewish books and manuscripts during the Nbm regime. Entire libraries were stripped from the German synagogues and from Jewish schools and cultural centers, and the books were burned publicly. But Allied investigator who have been questioning Stretcher in his prison ceil here revealed! that some of the rarest books and manuscripts were preserved at his orders. NORTHERN RIVERS nundatetown: Seattle, Oct. 2d fli,BSwol len northwest mountain rivers in Washington and British Co lumbia poured icy waters through the streets of four towns today, isolating 8.2U0 residents and inundating rail, road and wire communk-iftions. Residents of the towns of Everson, Marietta, Lynden and Mount Vernon, Wash., waded throuRh a foot of flood water to- i da5r a emergency repair crews sougm io restore communications between Seattle and Vancouver, B. C , center of the storm area. Week-iong storms from the southwest and freak gales driv- ! ing southeast across Alaska and British Columbia from the Aleu tians were responsible for et least three deaths, including an unidentified crewman washed1 overlward from the submarine liaya, now berthed at Port Town- send, Wash. The American people have invested roughly 15 billion dol lars in approximately 8.800 mer chant ships during the war, ac cording to Ships raBRaisne, . ... Hunger and Privation Threaten To Devastate Large Parts Of Europe London, Oct, 28 9IM Eu- fah to cutting their own supplies. rope is hounded by hunger ami I "The h ? ' can feed privation that threaten, to prove Europpef,Jf i,for lJ . era and middle parts, which are muter iti-veuttti)g l3S atomic bomb," Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevins toid commons to- f ,jBV- Bevin, Intervening In commons , dibate on conditions in Europe, aric quantities of wheat j ,m,,t be sped to the continent to avoid "disaster" within the year, i Britain is doing everything , " ' ' - - ..... ; ate conditions in the British oc cupation zone, Bevin said. But the assistance had io be balanced ii,tot restsgte o tfcs iBfr STOLEN RADIUM CONFISCATED BY MITiR'SMEN General Orders Japs to Turn Over AH Weapons Food Import Permission Asked Tokyo, Oct. 28 flJ B Gen. Douglas MacArthur tonight or oered the Immediate confiscation of all weapons from the Jap anese, and American troops seis ed another $5,500,000 in bullion a ral other looted treasure from Honshu vaults and warehouses. Ths toot Included $2,500,000 worth of radium stolen by the rails from Czechoslovakia. It we discovered by sixth army CGunter-fntelltgence troops to the vaults of the German consulate at Osaka, -.- i i , , . artese government to collect all 1 firearms, knives, swords and er p.ostves (rom the people by De- i cemoer 1, after which strict c- sssMsrtsijg mi monthly reports to the occupation forces would be required. Under the supreme command s' s directive the Japanese would be permitted to keep only fire arms and knives used by hunters. jeguBsaje art objects and mu seum pieces ami bona fide indus trial explosives. Holders of "le gitimate" weapons would be re quired to obtain licenses! from the Japanese government. Supreme headquarters was asked by the Japanese for per- mission to import 4,350,000-ton of food next year to supplement increased domestic production of potatoes and fish. A spokesman said that the Japanese would be required to submit complete de tails of new they proposed to pay tor the requested Imports. The- seized radium, sent from Crechostovakf to Japan durinf rae f situs lor hospital its bad bees confiscated by the Germans after their country occupied the Czechoslovak homeland. - The remaining $3,000,808 worth ot silver bullion and val uables was seized by troops of the tCTth Infantry division In rsM on a . Japanese storehouse isear Ilda en.a tip, Japs Kid Fine Plane A Japanese airplane designer, meatttlrae, told a press confer' enes that the Tayhikawa plant tallt a long-range KM? plana which broke the world's distance record with 10,309-mOe non stop flight last July, The designer, MoriyukI Kaka gawit. who .worked for four months in 193M838 In Lock heed aircraft plant, said only two ot the huge planes were built. One was shot down while et route from Singapore to Ger many Jn JM4 and the other will be sent to the United States for study by American engineers. Gen, Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters announced that it had received no otfletat com meakstloB from the Japanese government on any phase of the Zalbatsu question. Lumber Operators Blamed by Union Portland, Ore., Oct. 26 VB AFL spokesmen today blamed northwest lumber operators for continuing c month-old dead lock In the five-state lumber strike and efcarged the operators were "threatenine the post-war rectj-wersieJB program." Strike Chairman John Chris tenson said "We have been in forart from govensment sourc es that various officials are fiewhw wi h alarm the dead tock in the lumber strike. VEBOMICA MOTHER Hollywood, Oct. 26 tUJ9 Veronica Lake, the movie star who gave the world the one eyed hairdo, and her husband. Director Andre De Toth, puzzled today over what to name their new born son. The baby, the couple's first, was born late last night at Good Samaritan hospi tal, It weighed five pounds, 14 ounces. Attendants said both mother and child were welt surplus areas, to feed the indus trial areas," Bovin said. Between 14,000,000 and 15, 000,000 persons are en the mova to eastern Europe, Bevirt said, 1 more than 10,000,000 of them displaced persons, former slave laborers and prisoners of war trying to get back to Italy, France and elsewhere, He said some 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 persons were being eared for, and added: "No one f knows how many Germans bava M to k Ml Rusa,"
