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SEVERSKY CLAIMS
Tokyo, Nov. 2 U.R) Claim
ing that the value of the atomic
bomb had been exaggerated, Al
exander P. De Seversky urged
today that the United States
maintain a separate air force.
r "He told a press conference
that he believed 200 B-29 Su
perfortresses could have caused
as much or more damage as the
atomic bombs did at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
Talked To Hirohito
Seversky talked with report
ers following a tour of Japan.
Just before meeting them he had
a 15-minute audience with Em
peror Hirohito. He said he told
the emperor he "displayed cour
age in calling off the war."
Seversky said he felt develop
ment of the atomic bomb had
been a great step in the science
of demolition but that the bombs
had fired the world imagination
more than the cities on which
they were dropped.
"The cities were knocked
down by the terrific blast and
then caught fire," he said.
"Against the Japanese target it
was more effective than an in
cendiary bomb but I am not so
sure we can suspend making
high explosive and fire bombs
such as we used on Germany.
"It's an application of the
right force, at the right time and
the right place.
Planes Necesary
"Of course, we cannot judge
what the future will bring.
There may come a time when
we can deliver atomic bombs
without the use of planes. But
under the present set-up we
must have control of the lir."
Seversky said he believed that
against a modern European or
American target, the atomic
bomb would be no more effec
tive than a 20,000 pound high
explosive bomb.
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London. Nov. 2 U.P The
Moscow radio, in extensive com
ment on the atom bomb and
President Truman's NavyDa
speech, said tonight that "onl
frank cooperation among the
peace-loving nations can save
the world from unprecedented
disaster."
Observing that the "Ameri
can public is getting alarmed
that obstacles arp being put in
the way of world cooperation,
the Russian radio said:
"On the prctpxt of national
defense, some elements are out
for a monopoly of the new wea
pon (the atomic bomb). F.very
one knows Hint it is a purely of
tensive weapon which cannot be
used for defense purposes. The
bomb is of advantage only to an
ncgressor state. Where Hipp
does national defense come in?
Four Nine Draw
Fatal For Player
San Diego, Nov. 2 AJ.P.)
David Herschovitch. 65, a visi
tor from Ogden. Utah, drew four
nines in a draw-poker game and
suffered a heart attack which
proved fatal, the coroner's of
fice reported.
Deputy Coroner Lloyd Jones
said Herschovitch was rushed to
a nearby private home where
he died three hours before his
wife was due to arrive from
Ogden.
Victory Loan Drive
"E" Quota $525,000
"E" Sales to Date
S29.S0S.25
Remainder to sell $495,093.75
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MEDFORD
United Praia
Fortieth Year
EAST RIOTS
LEAVE TEN DEAD
Demonstrations Spread
Jewish Synagogues and
Shops Smashed By Bands
Cairo, Nov. 2-U.R) Ten per
sons were reported killed and
200 injured at Alexandria to
day as rioting and demonstra
tions spread swiftly through
Egypt and Palestine, where the
Arabs rigidly enforced a gen
eral strike.
Alexandria and Cairo appear
ed hardest hit by the violence,
with rioters and restless bands
roving the streets, smashing up
Jewish synagogues and shops,
and clashing repeatedly with
steel-helmeted police struggling
to keep down the disorders.
British Hold Aloof
- At least three persons were
reported killed and several
wounded in rioting in the Jew
ish quarters of Cairo. British
military police cars generally
held aloof from the disturbances
in Cairo.
Smoldering unrest throughout
the middle east came to a head
in the rioting. The Arabs had
called the general strike in pro
test against the British Balfour
declaration 28 years ago today
promising the Jews a national
home in.Palestine. . . .
(Field Marshal Viscount Gort
has resigned as governor general
of . Palestine . because of "ill
health," Colonial Secretary
George Hall announced in the
London house of commons to
day.) A late dispatch from Alexan
dria said the trouble was spread
ing.' Mobs were reported "tin
ning amok," indiscriminately
smashing up property in the
commercial and shopping dis
tricts. Police Fire On Mob
Heavv casualties were caused.
a United Press correspondent at
Alexandria reported, when po
lice fired on the rioters as a last
resort to protect themselves.
Rioters smashed windows in
the United States army port
command at Alexandria, over
which the Stars and Stripes
flew prominently.
American troops were re-,
stricted to their quarters, and
army establishments were put
under strong military guard.
British forces likewise were
kept in barracks.
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(Acm Tleithoto)
Meet "the girl the Iletrt cajne.homc
to." Miss U S. S Alabama, Betty
Hockinr. San Francisco, Calif.,
chosen w:nner in a beauty parade
held at San Francisco as part of
Navy Dav proernm. In back .-r.und
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Woman Is Third
Bridge Suicide
In Twenty Hours
San Francisco, Nov. 2 (U.R)
A woman tentatively identified
as Mrs. Leola Meyers, 42, San
Francisco, who took a taxi to
the middle of the Golden Gate
bridge, jumped to her death to
day the third suicide from the
world's 'longest single span in 20
hours.
Mrs. Meyers was the 57th re
ported suicide from the bridge.
Two men horrified motorists and
pedestrians yesterday by leaping
250 feet into the San Francisco
bay within five minutes of one
another.
A note in her purse, left with
her hat and coat near the rail
ing, was addressed to Mrs. Joyce
Beattie, Los Angeles, believed to
be the woman's daughter. Mrs.
Meyers' body was recovered by
the coast guard.
FIRST TO FINISH
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Reporting contributions of
$16,338.45 from 89 firms nd
employees, the Community
Chest and victory fund commit
tee headed by A. S. Cummins
has made its report to Otto
Frohnmayer, drive chairman.
This is the first major commit
tee to complete its solicitation
and present its final report.
Frohnmayer reported this
morning that the final days of
the campaign are lagging and
that unless a final effort of con
siderable proportion is made,
the quota will not be reached.
Figures compiled this morning
show that $30,078.48 had been
turned in as of Nov. 1, which
leaves about $9,000 left to be
contributed if the quota is to be
reached.
Personal- solicitation has par
ticularly lagged, the chairman
said, and he urged those who
have not yet been contacted to
call at the headquarters in the
Chamber of Commerce building
with their, donations.
FOUND IN FIELD
George Rosh, 64, was found
In a semi-conscious condition in
a field near his home about four
miles up Sardine Creek from
highway 99 by state police and
sheriff's officers this morning.
He had evidently suffered a
paralytic stroke and had at
tempted to crawl to his cabin.
Rosh was brought to Sacred
Heart hospital in the Conger
Morris ambulance and is in a
serious condition, the sheriff's
office reported. Investigation
is being continued.
Japanese Attack On West Coast Expected
Momentarily During Early Part Of 1942
San Francisco, Nov. 2 OJ.R)
Air defenses of the Pacific coast
were in an almost continual state
of alert for more than three
months early in 1942 following
official warnings that a "coord
inated Japanese offensive" might
be directed against "American
areas," the Fourth Air Force re
ported today.
It was also disclosed that an
undisclosed number of fighter
planes and three lumbering B
18 s were sent to attack a Japa
nese submarine which shelled an
oil refinery near Santa Baibara.
Full power of the coast's defense
was not sent against the sub
marine because Maj. Gen. Jacob
E. Fickel, commanding general
of the Fourth believed the at
tack was "a diversion meant to
attract attention from something
else that might happen."
Attack Report Numerous
Releasing further details of its
wartime history, the Fourth Air
Force said that "reports of t
tacks, sabotage and enemy plcns
were numerous in (itsi various
units'' during the period.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY,
PEARL INQUIRERS
ASK MODIFICATION
OFT
Congress Committee Sees
Stumbling . Block in Re
striction on Aides
Washington, Nov. 2 (U.R
Congress' Pearl Harbor investi
gating committee today asked
President Truman to modify an
executive order which some
members believed might hamper
their inquiry.
The committee also decided to
start public hearings Nov. 15 on
its investigation into all events
which led to and followed the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
which launched the Pacific war.
The request to Mr. Truman
involves an executive ordering
restricting disclosure by govern
ment personnel of information
by breaking codes.
Amendment Asked
The committee asked for an
amendment which will permit
army and navy personnel not
only to testify openly on the sub
ject but to volunteer any other
information they may have re
garding the attack and associat
ed events.
Sen. Alben W. Barklcy, D.,
Ky., said all government records
pertinent to the investigation
also will be made available to
the committee.
He said individual members,
however, must have the approval
of the full committee in demand
ing records from government de
partments. The committee rejected by a
party-line vote of five to three
a motion to ask Mr. Truman to
issue an order that would per
mit single members to demand
access to records as an individ
ual. Rules Drawn
The committee adopted a lib
eral set of. procedural rules
drawn up by committee counsel
William D. Mitchell.
They provide:
1. All testimony will be taken
in public and under oath.
2. Witnesses may be question
ed by committee counsel and
committee members.
3. Witnesses may be represent
ed by counsel of their own choos
ing. The counsel may examine
witnesses after committee ques
tions are completed, but may not
object to committee questions or
interrupt such examinations.
4. Prepared written statements
from witnessest will not be re
ceived except with permission of
the committee nor unless sub
mitted to counsel a reasonable
time prior to presentation. How
ever, persons in service of the
United States whose conduct has
been under scrutiny will have
an opportunity prior to closing
of testimony to present such a
statement at a public session.
Milton was 57 years old when
he wrote "Paradise Lost."
"These reports chiefly concern
ed unidentified ships, submarines
and planes but also enumerated
wire cutting, flares and minor
enemy operations on or near the
coast," an announcement said.
Officials said they had been
informed "early in 1942" that
Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
had warned naval units that
there were "signs which appear
to be definite of a widespread
and coordinated Japanese offen
sive in American, British, Dutch.
Australian and New Zealand
areas."
Station! Alerted
The Fourth Air Force immedi
ately alerted all stations and
units "against sabotage and sur
prise attacks." the announcement
said. It pointed out that the
warning "was the prelude" to
shelling of an oil refinery at El
wood, Cal., by a Japanese sub
marine "and the appearance of
mysterious, still unidentified
planes over Los Angeles during
the early morning hours of Nov.
25."
The announcement also dis
NOVEMBER 2, 1945.
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Political Situation More
Tense As U. S. Forces An
nounce Early Withdrawal
Hanoi, Indo-China, Nov. 2
(U.R) Hochi Minn, premier of
the provisional government of
Viet Namese, reiterated today
that Indo-Chinese were deter
mined to "fight to the last" if
the French attempt to enter the
country by force.
After nearly a month of quiet,
the political situation here grew
tense following the announce
ment that all U. S. forces will
evacuate Indo-China in the near
future.
Viet Namese refused to serve
food to any foreigners, including
Chinese. It was impossible for
foreigners to buy food in local
markets, and hotels and res
taurants were forced to close
their doors because the servants
had left.
Today, foreign residents
weren't sure where their next
meal was coming from.
Chungking, Nov. 2 (U.R) The
newspaper Ta Kung Pao today
reported an "anti-Chinese" move
ment in northern Burma.
Quoting returning government
officials, the newspaper said
many Chinese residents of Bur
ma wore robbed, beaten up and
"chased back 19 China." (
DUE IN FEW DAYS
1 Washington, Nov. 2 (U.R)
Ybu're going to know within
thVee or four days how much
that new car will cost.
Chances are the retail prices
will be higher than most people
have expected.
Price Chief Chester Bowles
announced last night that the
new car ceilings have been fixed
but said they would not be made
public for another three or four
days. Manufacturers can pub
lish their selling prices a day
earlier if they wish.
He gave no hint of how speci
fic prices would run, but other
OPA sources said they probably
would be "considerably higher"
than was originally hoped.
WREN ARRESTED
San Diego, Cat, Nov. 2 (U.R)
Mary Thompson, 23, former Brit
ish Wren, who gave her home
address as an exclusive district
in London, today was arrested
on suspicion of defrauding an
innkeeper after she assertedly
ran out on several southern Cali
fornia hotel bills, police report
ed. closed that rpports of the pres
ence of Japanese planes during
the week after Dec. 7, 1941,
"were of such a nature as to
convince the highest military
authorities that they actually
were in the vicinity of the west
coast."
IB Blackouta
Between the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor and Dec. 31,
1941 there were 18 blackouts, 30
radio silences and 25 alerts, none
of which were attributed to
enemy action. However, four
alerts, six radio silences and 10
blackouts were laid to "uniden
tified causes," the report said.
(In Tokyo the Japanese naval
air department denied that Japa
nese planes were over Los An
geles in February, 1942, or at
any other time).
High point of the alerts came
in June, 1942, when the Japa
nese launched attacks on Mid
way and the Aleutians. On May
26 the Fourth Air Force fas
given advance warning "of an
expected attack on the Aleutians
or on the west coast."
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Unittd Praia Ful'
Will Start New
"We've been through hell, but we still love each other,' snys Lt. Claude
Chipman, war veteran acquitted on murder charge In Madera, Calif.,
court a month after he shot and killed Herman Blood, lover of his wife
during the lieutenant's absence. Couple arc shown here upon reconcilia
tion, with their son, Michael. X
B-29's Make Tokyo-Washington Hop;
Will Shoot At British Record Next
Washington, Nov. 2 U.R
Four B-29's completed the first
non-stop flight from Japan to
Washington last night, and today
the air forces already are plan
ning a new test for the super
bomber an assault on the British-held
nonstop distance record.
The flight completed last
night, from Japan's northern
most island of Hokkaido, cover
ed fl,544 miles. The current rec
ord is 7,158 miles, set in 1938 by
two British planes which -flew
from lsmella, Egypt, to Port Dar
win, Australia.
The next Superfortress under
taking, for which no specific
date has been set, will be an at
tempt to fly from Hokkaido to
Puerto Rico, a distance of 8,088
miles, or Batista, Cuba, 7,693
miles.
One of the big bombers which
SOXERS COLD TO
Gary, Ind., Nov. 2 (U.R)
Crooner Frank Sinatra's singing
sent Gary's bobby soxcrs into
squeals of delight, but his ora
tory didn't send them back to
school.
Eight hundred white students
at Frocbel high school continued
their strike in protest against en
rollment of negroes at the school,
in spite of Sinatra's venture as a
conciliator. At a mass meeting
yesterday, the swoon crooner
asked Gary's'students to return
to their classes at once.
But, today the strike situation
was unchanged.
Richard A. Nuzum, principal
of Froebel high school, said there
was no indication of when the
students would end their most
recent strike which began Oct.
26.
"Evidently Sinatra's appear
ance' did' not do any good,"
Nuzum said. "It confused the
issue."
Nuzum was critical of Sin
atra's cliHigrs that two Gary
politicians were back of the
strike.
"That part made me sick." he
said. "He came to preach Iter
ance and became intolerant him
self." 367 DISCHARGES FILED
LAST MONTH IN COUNTY
During October 367 Jackron
county persons in the military
service filed their honorable dis
charges with the county clcik,
the records reveal. A large ma
jority of discharges show action
all over the world in France,
Germany, Italy, Africa, India.
Kgypt, Burma, China, Japan and
the islands of the Pacific.
Deputy clerks in the records
department also report a record
number of deeds and other
papers were filed last month.
VULTEE TO CONVERT
San Diego, Nov. 2 (U.R) Con
solidated Vultee Aircraft corpor
ation's plant at Nashville, Tenn.,
will be converted immediately to
the manufacture of gas and elec
tric ranges, llrrry V.'oodhcad,
president, announced today.
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NO. 191.
Life Together
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landed here last night had plan
ned to fly on to Puerto Rico but
was prevented by fuel-consuming
headwinds over the Pacific.
Air forces officials said all
they need to bent the British
record Is "an even break" from
the weather over the north Pa
cific. North Pacific weather, they
added, is about the worst and
most unpredictable in the world.
Chungking, Nov. 2 U.R The
official Central News Agency
said today that Chinese com-
mulst armies were storming
Kwcisui, capital of Suiyuan pro
vince,- and Tatung, railway Junc
tion in northern Shansl.
Communist forces of more
than 100,000 are massed along
the Suiyuan-Shansi front, the
news agency said. They were re
ported pressing a widespread of
fensive vigorously.
Fighting was reported Inside
the ancient city of Kwcisui while
communist artillery roared at its
gates. At least three additional
communist spearheads were con
verging on Kwcisui from the
cast, northeast and northwest to
reinforce the siege army.
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12.5 CENT BOOST
EFFECTIVE NOV. 1
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Settlement Has No Immedi
ate Effect on AFL Pine
and Some Fir Areas
Portland Nnv 9 nim nm
International Woodworkers of
America, CIO, and big fir op
erators of the Pacific northwest
today compromised union wag
demands for a 25 cent per hour
increase and annntmno 1914
cent boost will be in effect from
xvov. 1.
The settlement had nn Imme
diate effect on the AFL lumber
strike which the AFL has claim
ed kept 60,000, workmen Idle
more man live weeks. The AFL
has demanded an industry-wide
minimum of $1.10 an hour.
13-Day Negotiation
The CIO industry-wide nego
tiation result
Federal Conciliation Commis-
misioner George Brewer in
Portland.
The CIO settlement came aft
er 13 days of negotiations and
covers nearly 80 per cent of all
douglas fir log and lumber oper
ations In western Washington
and the Columbia river area in
Oregon. Several of the largest
operators In the United States
are included among the oper
ators. "
The agreement does not af
fect pine and a few fir areas.
Brewer said. Negotiations cov
ering the Spokane territory
were scheduled to begin today
In Spokane and the Klamath
basin area will be discussed next
Tuesday in that city.
Stayed On Job
. The CIO never took Its men
off the Job and fought through
the courts to prevent AFL pick
ets from halting work at CIO
operations.
The break in the northwest'i
troubled lumber picture came
as the AFL lumber and sawmill
workers announced that nego tiations
would start later today
with t he Plywood and Door
Manufacturers Industrial Dela
tions committee, representing
employers of about 20,000 strik
ers on 50 operations, chiefly in
Oregon and Washington.
The operators involved in the
AFL strike have refused to ne
gotiate on an industry-wide ba
sis heretofore, contending the
geographical areas previously
used were the only equitable
basis for handling wage and
working conditions. The em
ployers cover more than 500
operations in Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho, Montana and north
ern California.
Stockpiles Low
The AFL strike has reduced
lumber stockpiles in the north
west almost to the vanishing
point, as teamsters, carpenters,
and other affiliated groups re
fused to touch "hot" lumber.
Both factions acknowledged ex
tension of the strike many more
days will drastically affect re
conversion and post-war build
ing programs throughout the
nation. One unofficial estimate
was that the halt in lumber pro
duction was enough to build 2,
000 houses per day.
TELEGRAPH STRIKE
(By United Praia)
A strike of Western Union
telegraphers cut off service In
three eastern cities today as tney
staged a five-hour work stop
page protesting a difference In
hourly wage awards to AFL and
CIO workers.
Approximately 2,0 0 0 tele
graphers at Philadelphia, Detroit
and Hartford, Conn., left their
Jobs from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. de
fying orders of the Commercial
Telegraphers union (AFL) Inter
national Officers, as America'!
total idle went up to 254,000.
Production at New England's
busy mills was threatened aa
walkouts of CIO Textile union
spread after workers In nine
Maine mills quit at midnight
Bus schedules throughout
eastern states were stalled and
approximately 1,000 buses re
mained idle as union spokesmen
threatened that the strike of
drivers and mechanics would
spread across the country if
wage issues were not settled
promptly.
D.U.V. TO MEET
Past President of Daughters
of Union Veterans will be en.
tertained by Mrs. Walter E.
Rowley at 1 p.m. Saturday,