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Use The 'Sii Mail Trlbun "7 Weather Tribune EDFORD FORECAST C loudy tonight and Wednesday with scatter ed showers. Temp. Highest Yesterday ..... .....6 6 Lowest this Mtrnlnif.... 46 rrec. to a.m. Today....58 In. Want Ad Way , Quick Result! "r At Small Coit Unlttd Pr Full Leased Wii United Press Full Leased Wli Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1945. NO. 188. -jj Goes orf Trial for War Crimes Tax Reduction Bill At proved By House; Further Cuts Talkeu For Coming Year 'Vil-.- i -V.. M 4 A I ; f " - V-Ki" i If Mi )Xf f l 1 (Acmt Telephoto) Escorted by Ma. A. S. Kenworthy, MP officer In charge. Lt. Gen. Tomo yukl Yamashita. first Japanese to be tried aa a war criminal, enters Ma nila residence of the Philippine High Commissioner to await trial's open Ing. Yamashita Is charged with responsibility, as supreme Japanese com mander in the Philippines in 1944 and 1945, for the deaths of 57.000 Amer icans, Filipinos and others through torture, execution, starvation and neglect. Yamashita's Horror Campaign Told By Filipino Army Leader Manila, Oct. 33 U.R MaJ. Gen. Basilio J. Valdes, chief o staff of the Philippines army, testifier! today thav he found the mutiliated bodies of his brother and nephew in a "pile of corpses" last Feb 10 during the Japanese rape of Manila. Every skull in the grisly pile had been crushed and the hands of every victim were roped mute evidence of their brutal murdeis by the Japanese, Valdes rMrMrF (By United Press) A machinists" strike in the San Francisco bay area idled 50.000 workers today as the nation awaited President Truman's long-promised statement on his wage-price policy. Thirteen thousand AFL and CIO machinists at San Francirco began the second day of their strike for a 30 per cent wage increase. Late today a spokesman for AFL machinists lodge No. 68 said he expected a "break" in the strike tomorrow. He did not amplify his statement. The bay area faced a milk shortage as the machinists' strike closed down the American Can Co., which supplies paper car tons to dairies. The number of strike-idle workers across the nation rose to 258,000, highest in nine days, as the president put the finishing touches on his wage-price speech to be broadcast tonight. First Payment On 1945-46 Taxes Due First payments on the 1M5 1D46 taxes were made last week, the tax collection department of the sheriff's office reports. Final I date for payments to receive the ihrce per cent rebate is Thurs day, Nov. 15. After that date the rebate is off. Most of the payments to date have been for the full year. Taxpayers are urged to make payments early and avoid the usual final days ru?h of past years. Headless Chicken Gaining in Weight Pan tBrrn.irdino. Cal.. Oct. 30 'Uff Sst. R. E. Yrlton's head ings 'in tn'l.'.y tipped the scales nt e;c'it ounces more than she vri?'nrrl 1 1 dys ao, before her rirr-r-.ii'ntion. Y"!ion .iced off the Ply mouth Race's head when he selecl'.d her for dinner, but she lan away to a nearby orange grove when' Yeltoti found her. very much a'ive. He feeds her' mush and milk with an eye drnpi ir thr-i'.ii'h an opening in Ihe ricrk The original name of Alameda was Encmal. . rab ! i V. . Ss&,tos3UtiS told the military tribunal trying Japanese Gon. Tomoyuke Yama shita for 123 war crimes in the Philippines. Valdes' slain brother was Lt. Col. Alrjo Valdes of the Philip pine army. Yamashita Is on trial for his life charged with responsibility for the deaths of R7.000 Ameri cans, Filipinos nnd others through murder, torture, starva tion and neglect while he was Japp.nese i.-pmmander in the Phi'ippines in 1944 and 1945. Mrs. Angela Lopez Valdes, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Valdes, told the tribunal how 40 to 50 Japanese armed with bayonet-tipped rifles searched her home and kidnaped her hus band, son and brother-in-law. All subsequently were found slain. A lone Japanese soldier re turned late at night and at tempted to rspe her 15-year-old daughter, she said. She said she threw herself between her daughter and the Japanese, who was stsrdin" with drawn pistol "Go ahead and kill, be!" she told the Japanese The Japanese turned and ran from the house. Mrs. Justa Guldo testified that so-ne 20 to 30 Japanese sol- dieri search her home Feb. 6 After getting drunk on stolen liau-r. eating the family food supplies and stealing precious iewels nnd 5.000 pesos, tne Jap anese Mt with her husband and three sons. The hand of all four were tied behind their backs, she said. Their bodies were found later, also, Skunk Locks Craze Hits Bobby -Soxers Of Salt Lake High Salt Lake City Oct. 30 U.B "Skunk locks to the fore" Is the la'est ?ry and action of the Salt Lake City bobby-sox brigade In its-battle to be dif ferent. It's done with peroxide on a neatly separated patch of fore lock to give a definite "polecat" apneprance. The crazes termed zany by conservative bobby-soxers and the hiah school college Joes was inaugurated by Darlene Bucklev and Ruth Chambers, high school roeds. vho said they picked up the idea on the coast. Ai.d not to be outdone by their i dark-h;iired schoolmates, the hlonl bnbbv-soxcr; have enthu j s iat'cally adopted the idea of ; blcacn.ng a rtrip of their brond ! tres-e a.n even '-ghter shade. Oth's sav they are seriously considering an even more startl ing combination red strips on blach nair. BUS STRIKE LOOMS Salt Lake City, Oct. 30 (U.R) Possibility of a strike by drivers ! for Salt Lake City lines loomed ; today in an announcement by j union officials that they are con ducting a poll of bus drivers on whether to swk a strike vote ' under the Smith-Connally act. BRAZIL DICTATOR E DECEMBER 2 VOTE Chief Justice Linhares Sop plants Iron Man Vargas With Help of Army - Flo Da Janairo. Oct. 30 (U.R) Brasilian troops raided commun ist party headquarters in Rio Da Janeiro today and placed the communist leader under house arrest in a swift follow-up to the bloodless rerolution that unseat ed "iron man" Getulio Vargas. Rio de Janiero. Oct. 30 (U.R) Chief Justice Jose Linhares of the supreme court took over the presidency of Brazil from deposed "iron man" Getulio Vargas today In a bloodless revolution. Linmares announced that presidential elections would be held as scheduled Dec. 2 to re turn . Brazil to constitutional government. Indications that Vargas intended to postpone the elections led to his ouster last night. Vargas Held Vargas, for the past 15 years virtual dictator of Brazil, was under guard In the presidential palace preparing u proclamation to the people announcing his resignation. He agreed to step down after the army occupied key points in the capital with tanks, arm ored cars, anti-tank guns and Infantry and threatened civil war if he remained In office. But not a shot was fired any whe:e in Brazil as Vargas' reign came to an abrupt end. Neverbefore has a president of Brazil been overthrown with less popular excitement and such complete absence of vio lence. War Minister Gen. Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro, lead er of the couo. already had in formed the people of Vargas' impending announcement with a proclamation of his own It said: Iron Man Weeps "The president will . . . con tribute his resignation In high patriotism so that public order will continue and Brazil's pres tige may remain unaltered." Witnesses said Vargas wept when he finnl'.y consented to the armed forces' demand for his resisnation. illASlBY CYCLONIC GALES Nome, Alaska, Oct. 30 (UP) Cyclonic gales, roaring In from the Bering Sea, sent 50-foot-high surf crashing into thoroughfares, hurled ice floes and drift logs through dwellings and caused an estimated $750,000 damage, of ficials said today. Battered by winds and seas that tore out waterfront bulk heads like matchsticks, Nome was placed under marital law b-estcrday at the height of the storm as homeless Eskimos and whites fled their dwellings to seek safety in the Federal build ing. There was no reported loss of life as emergency crews sought to restore full communications with the outside world. Tele phone and power lines were ripped out by the gale. Smashed in two by jagged Ice cakes, one of the town's main hotels, the Lincoln, was wrecked and the rear half swept into the sea. EIGHT CHINA CITIES TAKEN FROM COMMIES Chungking, Oct. 30 (U.R) The communist organ New China Daily reported today that a cen tral government army of 200,000 has wrested eight cities on the north bank of the Yellow river from communist forces in China's undeclared civil war. In North China, American transports poured thousands of additional central government troops into the communist-dominated tone Just south of the Manchunan border. 71-Year Old Twins And Twin Sisters Married SO Years Shandon, Cal., Oct. 30 (U.R) Hillis and Willis Truesdale, 71-year-old twins, today were re ceiving congratulations on over 50 years of marriage to twin sisters. Hillis married Nora Grainger and Willis married her twin sis ter, Zora, in a double ceremony, Oct. 25, 1895. The brides were 21 at the time. Hillis and Nora have four children and Willis and Zora have six. More than 1000 friends and relatives helped the Truesdales celebrate their golden anniver sary last Wednesday, at which time they went through their vows all over again. "The preacher who married us here was so nervous that. day because it was his first wedding and a double one at that, that he forgot to have the girls make any promises," the brothers said. "We thought it was time to do things right and besides the li cense has probably run out after 50 years." Y Washington, Oct. 30 (U.R) Congress was told today that a special committee of the Joint chiefs of staff has strongly re commended reorganization of the army and navy into a single department of armed forces. Lt. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army ground forces chief of staff, made the disclosure in outlining to the Senate Military Affairs committee the War department's plans for such a unified depart ment. Urging the plan to "Insure maximum military security of the United States, Collins said there was no basis to navy fears that it would be "swallowed up" in any consolidation. Actually, he said, the three component branches, air, army and navy would be guaranteed "maximum autonomy consistent with mili tary efficiency and necessary economy." AMERICAL DIVISION COMING HOME SOON Yokohama, Oct. 30 (U.R) The vetera'i Americal Division, which fought its way across the Pacific from Guadalcanal, will embark for the United States between no and Nov. 17, it was announced today. Advance elements of the di vision started home four days ahead of schedule Aboard the U.S.S. General Hershey were 2,511 officers and men, mostly members of the 164 infantry re giment. The 164ih went into action on Guadalcanal on Oct. 13, 1942. ' Double Springs was the first county seat of Calaveras county, Calif., established Feb. 18, 1850. Jap Planes Visited Brookings On Futile Incendiary Mission, San Francisco, Oct. 30 OI.R) Japanese submarines, prowling the Oregon coast in 1942, twice launched small planes which dropped incendiary bombs in northwestern forests but caused no damage, the fourth air force reported today. The Oregon bombing was an other chapter in the fourth air forces "war memoirs," hereto fore secret military information. Fire Soon Out The small bombs fell Sept. 9 on Mt. Emily near Brookings and Sept. 29 on Cape Blanco. A fire broke out on Mt. Emily but It was quickly extinguished. The fourth air force reported that a forest ranger witnessed the first "bombing," which oc curred in daylight 12 miles south of Brookings. The ranger extin guished the blaze, gathered ap proximately 50 pounds of bomb fragments and delivered them to authorities. The bomb was esti mated to have weighed 150 pounds. The plane was described ai E WORDFROM OPA Bowles Says Prospects For Increased Production En able' Removal of Control Washington, Oct. 30 (U,R) Shoe rationing will end at mid night tonight, the Office of Price Administration announced. The end of rationing will be effective at midnight local time in each of the four time zones In the country. Casual shoes, house slippers and moccasins will be released from rationing along with all regular types of shoes. Big Production OPA Chief Chester Bowles stated that 28,000,000 pairs of shoes were produced this month. He said prospects for increased production in Nqvember and December are so good that out put is expected to equal normal pre-war demand about 30,000, 000 pairs a month. In addition, Bowles stated, production of the most essential types of shoes, such as men's work shoes and children's shoes, has increased substantially dur ing the past few months be cause of military cutbacks of leather. Bowles cautioned that con sumers will not always be able to buy the styles of shoes they want in the immediate future. TULE INTERNEES TO Klamath Falls, Ore., Oct. 30 (U.R) Japanese internees who have renounced allegiance to the United States and disloyal aliens will begin moving out of the Tule Lake segregation cen ter en route to Japan shortly, lt was announced today, Ivan Williams, officer in charge of the immigration and naturalization service of the De partment of Justice said that re patriation may begin by Nov. 15. He said a survey was begun to day at the Tule Lake center, which is operated by the War Relocation Authoritv. of "invol untary and" voluntary repatri ates. The survey, Williams said, was to include internees who have applied for renunciation of their U. S. citizenship and whose Bp plications have been approved by the attorney general; mem bers of their families "who may desire to accompany them; und aliens under deportation orders or segregated parolees under alien enemy proceedings." The survey will be completed within two weeks, Williams said. small, slow, 17-43-winged, single float and single-engined craft. Later the same day an Ameri can army patrol plane reported sighting an unidentified subma rine about 30 miles off Cape Blanco, bombing it with unde termined results. Second Visit A second Japanese plane drop ped incendiaries on Cape Blanco shortly before daylight Sept. 29. Flashes were seen, explosions heard, but investigators were un able to locate the Incendiaries, despite a heavy smoke pall that hung over the area for several hours. Dampness prevented for est fires. "Thirteen persons in different areas heard the motor of the plane, although none saw it," the fourth air force related. The air force said that "appar ently accurate enemy espionage reports" enabled the bombings to be conducted, because "this one small section" was the only area along the entire Pacific coast not protected by radar.' Some Basic Wage Increases Expected To Be Favored By Truman in Address Tonight Washington, Oct. SO (U.R) President Truman is exDected to recommend some increases in basic wage rates but to empha size the "hold the line" on prices in his wage-price speech to the nation tonight. The president speaks at 7 p. m. PST, over the four major net works. His address win run about 30 minutes. Mr. Truman was expected to appeal to both labor and Indus try to make the fullest use of collective bargaining to settle problems that have disrupted re conversion with strikes and strife. Labor Asks More Tnfnrmnd sources predicted that the president would rccom- IN CAMP WHITE Encouraging news for groups and individuals interested in the project to have land along the Rogue river now within Camp White turned over to the state of Oregon for a state park is the fact that engineers from the State Highway commission have arrived in the county to make surveys of the tract. The move to have several miles of Rogue river frontage now a part of the camp set aside as a state park was started more than a year ago and has been vigorously promot ed by the Jackson county Cham ber of Commerce and other groups of Mcdford and JacKson county. Frank Hull, chamber man ager, stated this morning that the head of the real estate, divi sion of the federal surplus prop erties department had contacted the chamber concerning the land stating that It would be classi fied for sale and asking ques tions regarding its acquisition by the state as public lands. Hull pointed out that this land is the last Rogue river frontage avail able for public use and stated that Sam Boardman, park super visor under the State Highway commission, has taken a keen interest in the project from its Inception. Original incomplete surveys and drawings of the proposed park were made by Paul Rynn- Ing, county engineer, with the cooperation of the county court. The land lies along both sides of the river both above and be low Bybce bridge. It adjoins land owned by Judge F. L. Tou Vclle, and It is understood that the highway commission has been negotiating with the judge with the idea of securing add! tional land and river frontage for the proposed park, Area in 1942 Army Reveals "Ample proof" of enemy sub marines operating along the Ore gon coast in 1942 was cited. Tankers Torpedoed Two tankers were torpedoed off the southeastern coast of Ore gon Oct. 4 and 5. The air force indicated that this was probably the submarine that launched a plane which flew over Cape Blanco. In June, 1942, four months be fore the two minor bombings, the fourth air force reported "many submarines were sight ed." On June 19, the SS Fort Corn sum was torpedoed off Cape Blanco and the Vancouver Island radio station on Estavan Point was shelled for 40 minutes the next day. unidentified vessel shelled the coast south of Ft. Stevens, Ore., June 21 and two days later the SS Camden was fired on with torpedoes off Cape Blanco, Ihe air force reported in further substantiating its claims of sub marine activity. mend baste wage raises to com pensate workers for all or part of their loss in wartime take home pay a loss which the ad ministration estimates at 23 per cent. Labor is generally asking for 30 per cent boosts. At the same time, however, the president was expected to oppose any general increases in price levels. Mr. Truman, it was said, may ask that wage raises be met out of industrial savings through lowered taxes and oper ating costs, and recommended that price increases be allowed only where producers are "squeezed by pay boosts. Producers would have to prove need for the price relief through existing stabilization ma chinery the wage stabilization branch of the war labor board, the OPA and the office of eco nomic stabilization. FIGHTING CEASES IN JAVA SEA BASE Batavla, Oct. 30 (U.R) Fight ing ceased under a sort of armed truce in the big naval base city of Soerabaja today after Indo nesian extremists killed 20 Brit ish soldiers and wounded 59 others. The situation remained tense, however. Indonesians were man ning barricades throughout the city and were refusing to per mit anyone to" pass without a permit signed by Dr. I. R, Su karno, president of the unrecog nized Indonesian republic. Political observers feared that the fighting in Soerabaja may touch off terrorist activities else where in Java. Desultory firing broke out in Batavla yesterday afternoon and late in the eve ning. Scaforth Highlanders were called out during the night to halt looting in Batavla. Seven looters were shot and killed. U. S. RECOGNIZES Washineton. Oct. SO (IIP) ine United States today extend ed "full recognition" to the re volutionary government of Vene zuela. Secretary of Sfote James F. Byrnes made the announcement. It is expected to result in recog nition Of the new VpnA7imlan regime by the other Americin rcpurjiics. "Before making Its decision to recognize the new government of Venezuela," the State depart ment said, "the government of the United States of America lias exchanged views and consulted with the governments of the other American republics." The United States vh thB eighth American republic to re cognize the new Venezuelan gov ernment. Previous recognlt'.cns were made by Guatemala, Para guay, Cuba, Uruguay, Ecuador, nouvia ana Mexico. Chickenpox Tods List of Diseases Eleven cases of chickenpox top the list of communicable dis eases reported to the Jackson county health officer for the week ending Oct. 28. Ten of the cases are In Medford and one In Sams Valley. Also reported were two cares of measles, one in Ashland and one in Phoenix; one case of pneumonia in Ashland and two cases of trench mouth, both In Medford. AUTO VIOLATORS FACE CHARGES OF CONTEMPT Warrants charging a 'dozen citizens with contempt of court for failure to answer citations to appear in Justice court on auto violation charges were placed In the hands of the sheriff's office for service today. Under Ore gon law, when citations are Ignored the justice of the pence may issue contempt warrant. INDIVIDUALS AND ;to REALIZESAVINGS $500 Exemption For Tax payer and Each Depend entSurtax Cut Washington. Oct. SnfurA The house today approved th iinBi versioi of the $5.920,000,. 000 tux 'eduction bill after hearing preliminary talk of further cute next year. The senate exoect to FniH the measure Thursday. The bill ' would reduce individual in come taxes $2,844,000,000 next year: reduce 1946 corporate tan liabilities by $3,136,000,000; and ' repeal the $5 automobile use tax at a cost of $140,000,000 in revenue. Existing excise taxei would remain in force. 297 to 33 Vote The action taken br thm' house was approval, by 297 tei 33, of a senate-house conference! ,cii vh ihp Din. inis aajust ed differences in the bills pre. viously passed by both houses. Chairman Clarence Cannon. D., Mo , of the house appropria tions committee was the only speaker against the bill. He told the huuse that "you can't oaiance the budget If you re duco national revenues." Rep. Harold Knutson of Min. ncsota, ranking republican ' on the ways and means committee. toia tne house the committee hoped to begin work on mor permanent tax revisions in Jan uary and to pas another bill by June. "We can't look forward to anv substantial teductlcn In corpor. nte rates In the long term bill," he said "I hope we can do mora for individuals." Industry Urges Cut Both Knutson and ways and means Chairman Robert L. rintl0htnn fl M n rnnmA-A the possibility that wartime ex cess taxes might be cut back to 1942 levels by next July 1 in the 194R tax bill Doushton said Industry had insisted that tax concessions were needed to encourage pro duction and that If Industry now fnlled to expand, "the re sponsibility Is on them." At the same time, he expressed doubt that the treasury would suffer serious revenue losses if industry's nopes were fulfilled. Ki.utson called tax reduction "our 'est investment and our best Insurance against unem ployment." Aids 12 Million The bill would make three changes In Individual Income taxes: 1. Exemptions from th threo per cent normal tax would be Increased to allow a $500 ex emption for the taxpayer and each dependent. The present law allows no credit for depen dents. Th change would re move 12 000,000 persons from the tax rolls. 2. Surtax rates would be re duce.! three percentage points. 3. The sum In money com puted by the first two stepe wou'd be reduced five per cent to determine the tax due. Corporations would sav S2 555.000.000 through repeal of the wartime excess profita tax. beginning next Jan. 1; $347,000,000 through reductions In corporate surtax rates, and $234,000,000 through repeal of the capital stock and declared valut excess profits tax. MATERNALJNFANT Washington. Oct. 30 (U.R) The census bureau reported to day that maternal and infant death rates dropped to an all time low in 1944. The maternal death rate wai eight per cent below 1943. The Infant death was 1.5 per cent lower than the year before. During 1944, the bureau said, maternal deaths totaled 6,369 or 2.3 deaths per 1.000 live births. Deaths of Infants under one year numbered 11 1,127. or 39.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. CORPORATIONS
