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Newspaper Page TextUse The Mill Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Weather Tribune FORECAST: Partly cloudy with, light shower Sunday, Utile temperature chance. Temp. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest this Morning 44 r United Press Full Leased Wlra Fortieth Year BEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1945. NO. 186. fa i!3 Ul United Pres Full Leased Wire u - s o) A ()(("? HULUTAO AFFAIR VTERMED 'MISTAKF, BRINGS AP0L0GY Surprise Attack of Commun ist Troops Due To Ignor ance Situation Mixed Aboard Adm. Barbey's Flag ship Off Hulutao, Manchuria, Sunday, Oct. 28 U.R) Lt. Gen. Lau Shok Hai, commander of the Chinese Communist Fourth Route army garrison at Hulutao, personally apologized to Vice ! Adm. Daniel E. Barbey today tor Saturday's shooting incident in - which Communist troops opened fire on the admiral s barge flying the United States flag. Gen. Lau, accompanied by Col. Jang Jang, went aboard the flagship USS Catoctin several hours after the barge was driven away from the barricaded Hulu tao pier by a fusillade of rifle bullets fro m grey-uniformed Communist troops. Gen. Lau termed the firint; a "big mistake," but at the same time qualified the apology by saying the Communists should have been notified of the Amer icans intention to visit Hulutao. Adm. Barbey replied with a stern answer. He said the U. S. forces had formally arranged to notify Soviet authorities, who ac cording to our understanding had been designated to occupy Manchuria. He added that it had come as a complete surprise to find Hulutao under control of elements of the new Fourth lioute army, whose central com mand was more than a thousand miles away in an area west of Shanghai. ' Gen. Lau insisted that the 'vol ley resulted from the inability of "poor, common soldiers" to identify either of our two ships or the barge, despite the fact that all prominently displayed the Stars arid Stripes. The troops opened fire from the shore when the barge reach ed a point about 60 yards from the pier. There were no casual lies, although one shot pierced the hull. Others splashed in the water about the boat. Lau said he had been ordered to open fire on anyone attempt ing to land at Hulutao without Communist permission. He said -he feared invasion by puppet i trooDS. whom he said had made a previous, unsuccessful foray on llulutan. The apology eased somewhat the tense situation wnicn per sisted for some time as a result of the inability of Lau's garri son to read international sU'i.ils and otherwise make contact with us. This problem finally was solved when a Communist sol dier, picked up at a point of land near our ship, conducted the bnrge to shore for a parley. The parley led to Gen. Lau's visit and subsequent apology aboard the flagship. The surprise attack on the barge was hardly more astound ing than discovery that elements of the Fourth Route army was stationed in this area, and ap parently in considerable force. According to disclosures at the time of the original Japanese surrender the signing of the .Moscow-Chungking pact, Na tionalist troops were destined eventually to take over Man churia with withdrawal of S j.'iet forces. There appeared to be an ex plosive impasse developing be cause Communists have indicat ed they will not permit unop posed central government land ings at the port cities of Chcfoo and Wei Hai Wei unless specifi cally ordered by Communist headquarters. And there was little reason to believe Chinese Communists in Manchuria would be more hospitably inclined The fact L'. S. forces did !iot return the fire and permitted Gen. Lau to board our ship to f rofer an apology seems to have convinced the Hulutao forces that we do not hostile inten j tions. As far as United States is concerned, Adm. Barbey ap peared to have extrimated our forces from a difficult situation bore, as he did at Chefno. Tin C S. has gained, rather than lost face, here. Treasure Hunting in Jap Mint Nice Work it - ." - ' , ., V - -0 ' V t - I (.Icma 7 clcptiatoi Not piece of eiRht but silver coins, 152 tons of it, must be shoveled Into bags by Japanese laborers, who wuik here under watchful eye of Lt. Joseph E. Bcrgin, Strudford, Conn. The treasure, part ol the S-o0,000,0jC found by U. S. forces, was uncovered when flooded vaults ot the Imperial mint were pumped dry. Photo by Tom I Shaler, Acme photographer. DIRECTORS MEET HEARS BENGSTON i ' O. H. Ben?tson. state rerc- sentative. told members of the! don Sunday newspapers today Oregon Junior Chamber of ; welcomed President Truman's Commerce board of directors i Navy Day foreign policy state convention "to become more , mcnt as a pledge that the United nublic conscious, to develop bet- States will fulfill its obligations tcr r: en through action for pub lic office ai.d to accept leader ship in youth development pro grams" whrn he addressed the state, convention binquet at the KP hall last night. Nearly 150 delegates from 10 chapters throughout the state were represented. It was an nounced by Lee Stidd. Jr., state president that Oregon had won '.he extension award from na tional iiea-; uarters for organiz ing n-w clubs in 1A44. Warren WhitK'k expansion chairman in 1944. was oresented the award and n turn presented it to J l.n Sandmire president of the Klamath Falls club. Whit- Inrk was a membe' ot tne Mam .ith chapter when he won the i awa.d Executive committee of tne board of directors discussed problem'- and programs for JayCce vork in the state at the Satur day riorning meeting at the armory Radio talks were made by stnte officers during the afternoon. Ses-'ons Ai'.l begin at 10 a.m. today in the Hotel Holland. BAY AREA STRIKE VIOLENCE LOOMS (By United Press) A major shutdown of Son i Francisco bay area shipyards affecting some 75.000 workers ; was threatened tonight as ArU and CIO machinists laid plans for a Monday walkout and picketing. Approximately 5.000 machinist-; of the Oakland. Cal.. CIO local 1304 Saturday heard un -on, officials order picketing and j threaten that the strike would be "no pink tea." 1 Another 10.000 machinist.' of lodge 68, AFL, San Franci x'O, will meet Sunday in Civic Audi torium to map strategy for picketing the San Francisco side of the bay. But five maritime unions o:id the International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union jointly agreed to brek picket lines where necessary to maintain movement of sor ice men and hospital ships. J LCNT WAIT NEAR END ! Sarr-.ncnt.,. Oct 27 (UP) ; Gov. E. Warren today announc- j rd he. will not stay the execution i en Nm". 2 of vViUiam Leva! :iou;h Loi.g BfMCh shipyard wekl'-r unoei r-'cam s- Mivnte " more than Iflice JvarJ, HELD PLEDGE TO UNITED NATIONS London. Oct. 27 (U.R) L'on- as a member of the United Na tions. The Sunday Dispatch said statesmen will find "much that is hopeful" in the president's dec laration and that it was assur ance that the United States will fulfill its United Nations organ ization duties to support a last ing peace by force if necessary. "On the question of the atom bomb. President Truman pledges the altruism of the United States in noble phrases." The Dispatch said. "But it will inevitably be noted in this country and else where that the president's words make it clear that even Britain and Canada arc regarded as min or participants in the creation of this new force of illimitable po- tential Both the Sunday Times and Sunday Dispatch emphasized the president's statement that the secrets of the atomic bomb would not be shared by the United States. Political sources here felt that the president's expressed deter mination to recognize democratic regimes in former enemy states. ! and to work for the freedom of navigable waterways, reaffirmed the stand taken by the -United States and Britain at the foreign ; ministers' council in London. These quarters were somewhat ' disappointed at failure to men- tion whether the Big Three had been able to arrive at some con-1 elusions which would get the I foreign ministers' council back on its feet. ; LAST BOND DRIVE APPEAL SOUNDED i Washington, Oct. 27 (U.R) Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson asked the American peo 1 pie tonight to buy $11,000,000. I 000 in bonds during the victory loan drive opening Monday to keep the lid on inflation and meet the huge costs of war s aft ermath. 'The victory loan drive is the last organized bond selling ef fort now planned by the govern ment. Individuals will be asked . to subscribe at least $4,000,000. j 000, including half that amount ! in series E securities, and corpor ations and other non-banking j groups will be asked to buy the : other $7,000,000,000. ! Vinson will open the drive with a five-network broadcast at 7:55 p. m. F.ST tomorrow. The j drive closes Dec. 8. ONE DEPARTMENT ' Iloiio'ulu, T. H . Oct. 27 (U.R) Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the vic torious U. S. Pacmc fleet, said today in a navy day address that he was ipposeo to establish ment of a single department of natijnal defense. He warned the nation to stop, look a d listen "before making any changes which may pos sibly weaken any one branch of our armed forces ' Nimitz acknowledged that he had crang"d his mind about the proposed merger of the war and navy departments within the las'. 12 months. "About a year ago, a special committee, appointed by the joint cliief of slafi to study our post-war organization for nation al dolcnse, visiter; Hawaii and discussed with me various as pects of the- present war and navy departments' organization as compared with a single de pa rtme.'.t. "At that time the advantages claimed appeared to bo attain able, and. without opportunity for adequate stud.t. 1 expressed to the committee mv approval of a singl; department. "To-lay I am opposed to a ingle department of national defensv. W ith tht passage of time and the experience gained in the last year f the war, I ; have changed my opinion. TOP nazTnabbed ES OFF! ! members of the 15 executive i councils composing the North Nuernberg. Oct. 27 flj R) A wt.stcrn Council of Lumber and 24-hour guard has been placed i sawmill Workers, AFL, will over top nazi war criminals in the Nuernberg jail to prevent further suicides, it was disclosed today as reports from Heidelberg announced the capture of SS Lt. Gen. Count Georg Heniung Von Bassewitz Bchr. trouble-shooter. for Hcinrich Himmlcr. late ges- tapo chief. 1 Bassewitz-Behr was captured i at Bremen, where he was attend ing a celebration of his 25th wed ding anniversary at his daugh ter's home. The general was surprised in an easy chair, without his shoes. A' poison vial was in his pockets. GERALD SMITH BOOED Oakland, Oct. 27 'U.R ' CIO union members and Jewish and Negro delegations turned out 5, 000 strong tonight in a raucous cat-calling picketing of the Oak land Technical high school where Gerald L. K. Smith spoke fav orn'K' cf a "ha-.t r : eggs" pen sion amendment to California 'law. RELIEF CD! PLAN VOTE THIS WEEK House and Senate Agree To Congress Gets Reminder Give Business. Individuals ; Reclamation, National 1946 Aid I Washington. Oct 27 (U.R) House and senate conferees com promised a dispute over corpor ate tax reliff todav and agreed on legislation to give S5.i)20 000. 000 in individual and busi ness tax ruU next year. Both houses, arc- expected to approve the confvience recom mendations early next week, although w bill proposed tax rcdi ctions nearly $1 000 000, 000 above the limit suggested by the administration. The conferees agreed on a bill wh'ch wutild out individual income taxc:. by S2 644.000,000 in 1940 an;! corporate tax lia bilities by S'l. 130 000.000. House conferees acceded to senate de mand that the corporation ex cess profits lay be repealed Jan. 1. The $5 automobile use tax also would be rcpi-aled at a cast of $140,000,000 to the treasury, but txjise tax rates would re main at present levels. For individuals the conferees adopted this plan, which had been a iproved by the senate: 1. Twelve mlil.c-ri taxpayers would be relieved by all liabil ity through applying the surtax exemptions of 5500 for the tax payer and each dependent to the three per cent normal tax Un der the present law. normal tax payers word allowed an ex-.-niption of only S-OO with no exemptions for dependents. 2. Surtax rates would be re duced three percentage points with a new graduated scale ranging from 17 to 88 per cent replacing tre present scale of 20 to 91. 3. After tne tax was niput ed by that formula, the sum would be cut by five per cent to determine the amount due STRIKE Portland, Ore., Oct. 27 (U.R) Northwest CIO negotiations with fir operators and federal concilia tors marked time today awaiting President Truman's announce-' ment of his wage-price formula to be aired Tuesday night. The 11-day parley will bo re sumed Thursday with George Brewer, federal labor commis sioner. Although agreeing that the president s answer to widespread labor unrest throughout the United States may help '.he northwest lumber picture, lead ers of the striking AFL lumncr workers have called a special session here Monday. John Christenson, AFL strike leader, announced more than 250 meet with the avowed intention of "enlarging the strike pro- gram. i Peace talks in the Grays Har ; bor area were reported taking ! shape today as Willis Hazer, nK.mb(.r f ((; AFL strike policy c(jrnmi,toc, revealed his union was r,.aciy to meet with operaVrs 0f eight ttrike bound mills there. SNOW CLOSES ALL CRATER LK. ROADS It was snowing hard at Crater Lake Saturday night and Bar riers were being erected at the west and south entrances, E. P. Leavitt, park superintendent, re ported. All staff members are being moved out to the Medlord office, Leavitt added. SECY. 1GKES SAYS PROJECTS READY, F S Parks Work Listed Washington, Oct. 27 (U.R) Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes gently reminded congress tonight that his department is ready to go ahead with millions of dollars worth of "long-delayed and war-stopped" conserva tion programs as soon as it gets the necessary money. Ickes said in a statement that plans for hundreds of peacetime projects have been completed during the past two years by the various bureaus and agencies of the interior department. Some of the projects will re quire up to 10 years to complete, lekcs said. He said the program would provide the equivalent of "one year's work for at least 1,500.000 veterans." Ickes said new undertakings and work expansion up for con sideration or already started in clude the huge Columbia basin irrigation project in Washington state, where 1,000,000 acres will be irrigated and 15,000 home steads provided. Construction already has been resumed on $:i(JH,000,000 Central Valley project in California. The program includes: Bureau of reclamation nearly 250 projects to expand agricul tural and industrial activities in Oregon and 1(1 other states. Ickes did not announce the individual projects. Geological survey A three year program to provide "a com plete survey of our national as sets." Bureau of mines A 10-ycar survey of "every existing reserve of oil, coal, minerals and metals." Bonneville Power Administra tionA $184,000,000 project to bring low-cost power to farms, homes and industries throughout the northwest. National park service Addi tional roads and housing for the 1G8 national park areas. Fish and wildlife service A $115,000,000 program of con struction work on wildlife refuge areas and fish hatcheries. STATE TO ELECT BOND SALE QUEEN Portland, Ore., Oct. 27 (U.R) Oregon will elect a victory bond queen as part of the campaign to reach its $6U,500,000 quota in the coming bond drive, it was announced today. City winners, based on votes from bond purchasers, will com pete in county semi-finals and state finals to be held in Port land. Oregon's victory bond queen will receive a free trip to Holly wood, a screen test with the chance of receiving a one year film contract and a crack at the title of western bond queen. E RATIONI END DEEP SECRET Washington, Oct. 27 (U.R) Reliable sources said tonight that the exact date for the end of the shoe rationing will be determin ed early next week by officials of the office of price administra tion and the war production board. Both agenices have Insisted that the date will be announced suddenly at the end of a business day so that rationing will be en forced right up to the end. ROBS EXPRESS CAR Winchester, Va., Oct. 27 U.R) J A passenger robbed the express car of a Washington and Old Do minion railway train tonight, and Winchester police said he escap ed In the night with nine brief cases containing $350, BULLETIN Eaigon, Indo China, Oct, 27 (U.R) Britiih Indian and French troopt striking to clear revolting Annamese f o r c a from the approachei of Saigon have captured a strategic xivrr town to the south and prob ably exploded an Annamese ammunition dump to the north, ii was announced today. Batavia. Oct. 27 (U.R) British roinforcements arrived in Jara today as unrest was reported increasing at Ban doeng and Soerabaja, strong holds of Indonesian National ists fighting against the return of Dutch rule. T WITH M WEEK Auto Union Asked To Urge Wage-Hour Act Change By Congress Detroit, Oct. 27 (UP) Gen eral Motors tonight for the first time asked 'ho CIO united auto workers to accept a 45-hour work week during the reconver sion period. The company of fered an inducement of a six per cent wajc raise for straight time work. GM President C. E. Wilson asked the union to join in pe titioning congress for a change in the wage hour ret. . K He nud made the uronosui earlier to a press conference, but this ws the first time he had asked thu union directly to nccept u longer work week at higl.ei pay in lieu of thu 30 per cent wage boost asked by the union tor a -10-houi week. It was expected that the UAW would reject the offer f lutly, : nice it has stated its vigorous opposition to any upward modi ticuuou of the 40 licur week for which labor fought so long. Wilson took note of this view by SHying, Your first impres sion of this proposal probably will be that it is a reactionary idea, irid not in the interest of labut." However, he adued, "it is not reaetioiary any more than working longer hours in the war emergency was." SPEEDY SCRAMBLE TO DEMOBILIZE RKS FORRESTAL New York. Oct. 27 (U.R) Secretary of Navy James V Forreslal, warning against a re notition of the "disarmament follies" of 1D22, pleaded tonight that the United States retain suf ficient military might to prevent another "formidable combination of lawless nations" from launch ing a third World war. Revealing that demobilization already has reduced American fighting strength to a fraction of what it was two months ago. Forrestal called for realization that moral principles must be backed by force and said that a hasty scramble to rid ourse'ves of all memories of war would be an invitation to new aggression. In a speech climaxing observ ance of Navy day, Forrestal also: 1. Endorsed President Tru man's plan for universal mili tary training. 2. Opposed a merger of the Army and Navy departments and called instead for a national se curity council welding together all agencies of defense. 3. Announced that 1.100,000 navy personnel will have been released by Christmas. 4. Asserted that World war II could have been avoided by swift, concrete action against the first aggressive acts of Japan. Italy and Germany. 5. Disclosed that Japan had planned and set the date for its entry into World war II a month before Pearl Harbor, FOREIGN POLICY; PEACE SOLE AIM Millions Cheer President's Speech Twelve Funda mental Points Told New York, Oct. 27 OI.R) President Truman today outlined an American foreign policy of righteousness and justice and said this nation would use its military might the biggest navy in the world and powerful land and air forces to help all the United Nations attain a lasting world peace. The president, heading the na tion's observanco of Navy Day, spoke to an estimated 1,000,000 persons in Central Park. Mil lions more cheered him as he was driven through the streets on his way to review the fleet anchored in the Hudson river. Ho told the world in his most Important speech as president that the United States Intends to keep its navy at great strength, but America's military might will be used solely for the pre servation of peace. In plain language, Mr. Truman restated the fundamentals of American foreign policy. They were: "1. We seek no territorial ex pansion or selfish advantage . . . 2. We believe in the eventual return of sovereign rights and self government to all peoples who have been deprived of them . by force. "3. We shall approve no terri torial changes in any friendly part of the world unless they accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned. "4. We believe that all peoples who are prepared for self-government should be permitted to choose their own form of govern ment by their own freely ex pressed choice, without interfer ence from any foreign source . . . "5. By the combined and co operative action of our war al lies, we shall help the defeated enemy states establish peaceful democratic governments of their own free choice. We shall try to attain a world In which nazism, fascism and military aggression cannot exist. "6. We shall refuse to recog nize any government imposed upon any nation by the force of any foreign power. In some cases It may be impossible to prevent forceful Imposition of such a gov ernment. But the United States will not recognize any such gov ernment. "7. We believe that all nations should have the freedom of the seas and equal rights to the navi gation of boundary rivers and waterways and of rivers and wa terways which pass through more than one country. "8. We believe that all states which arc accepted in the society of nations should have access on equal terms to the trade and the raw materials of the world. "9. We believe that the sov ereign states of the western hemisphere, without interference from outside the western hemi sphere, must work together as good neighbors in the solution of their common problems. "10. We believe that full eco nomic collaboration between all nations ... is essential to the improvement of living conditions all over the world . . . "11. We shall continue to strive to promote freedoms of ex pression and freedom of religion thruughout the peace-loving areas of the world. "12. We arc convinced that the) preservation of peace between nations requires a United Na tions organization composed of all the peace-loving nations ot the world who are willing joint ly to use force if necessary to insure peace." California Deaths On Highway Soar Sacramento, Oct. 27 (U.R) Automobile accident deaths in California already have increas ed almost 30 per cent in the first nine months of this year over the same period in 1944 and even higher fatality records are ex pected in the coming three month, the state motor vehicle department reported today.