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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
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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
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(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."
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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
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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