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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1945)
fpnr ILpui IMl MP I I EES) Weather FORECAST: Partly cloud v to cloudy with scattered show ers tonight and Tuesday. Snow In mountains. Cooler. Temp. 64 Highest Yesterday Lowest this Morning Prec. to & a.m.' Today.. Fortieth Year Yamashita Hears Jaifrmiafciif'miserf i General Yamashita listens to accusations of Indescribable rnuratT carni vals." perpetrated by his men during last days ot Manila, as war criminal trial lor uie Japanese commander continues at residence of high :om Biissioner. Manila, Philippine Islands. Yamashita is charged with si crimes of war and responsibility of torture deaths for thousands. Filipino Quislings Unshaken In Accusing Gen. Yamashita Pg 1 FILIPINO 2 col hed ... Manila, Nov. 5 A lengthy cross-examination failed today to shame the testimony of two Filipino collaborators that Gen. Yomoyuki Yamashita personally ordered the sack of Manila and slaughters of its inhabitants. The defense questioned Nar- ciso Xapuz, former personal .anpalamr (n iha nrn.Jgnanoen Filipino " revolutionary, Gen. Artemio Ricarte, for an hour and a half without getting him to retract any of his damaging accusations against Yamashita. Yamashita Named Lapuz on Saturday had named Yamashita as the author of the notorious order under which Japanese forces murdered, rap ed and otherwise tortured thous ands of civilians in Manila last February. Yamashita is on trial for his life before a military tribunal. He is charged with responsibil- RIFLE SHOOTING Numerous complaints have been received the past week by the sheriff's office from subur ban area residents against in discriminate shooting by small boys with .22 rifles. Sheriff Howard Gault said" today unless there was a cessation of firing by juveniles, warrants would be issued against their parents. Sheriff Gault explains that Oregon law prohibits b o ys under 14 years of age hunting, except with their parents or guardians present." There has been one fatality in the county in which small boys with wea pons figured and there is apt to be others unless more caution is shown", the sheriff warned. Saturday three boys, ranging in age from 10 to 15 years, were rounded up in southwest Med ford. Residents complained the boys were shooting wildly with bullets hitting roofs. Similar reports have been received from areas south of the city, and other sections of the county. According to the sheriff the boys carry .22 rifles, and some of the guns can shoot a mile with a high powered shell that kills at three quarters of a mile. 180 MEXICANS REMAIN FOR ORCHARD LABORS Mexican Nationals employed in the pear harvest the past sea son have left for home, with the exception of 180 who will work in the orchards this winter. County Agent Robert G. Fowler stated the length of time they will stay here is indefinite. It is expected to be until the first of the year, when a new labor aereemcnt with Mexico will be drawn. The San Francisco Bay area is the world s largest naval baje. M Unlttd Press Testimony at Trial lAcma lelenhotot ity for the Manila massacre and other war crimes throughout the Philippines during his com. mand of the archipelago from October 1944 to last September Lapuz testified that the Jap anese brought Recarte, who fought the Americans at the turn of the century, out of exile and sent him to the Philippines with the ultimate aim of estab lishing a dictatorship once the islands had been "liberated by Japan. The prosecution called Joa quin Galang, another Filipino collaborator, to corroborate La puz's testimony. Filipinos Entmiei Galong said he was present at an interview between Ricarte and Yamashita in December, 1944, when the Japanese general announced that henceforth he considered a 1 1 Filipinos as enemies. "Let's not talk about it any more," Galong quoted Yama shita. "I know what's really happening." Galang said Ricarte interrupt ed to ask Yamashita to revoke his order "to kill all Filipinos and destroy Manila." Yamashita frowned and clenched his hands, Galang said, then told Ricarte: "An order's an order. It's my order. Because of that, it ought not to be disobeyed and it will be carried out." Y WILL CLOSE DEWiTT HOSPITAL Washington, Nov. S (U.R) Rep. Clair Engle, D., Calif., said today that Dewitt General hos pital, a S6.000.000 army installa tion at Auburn, Calif., will be declared surplus and closed by Dec. 31. Engle said he was informed that the veterans' administration "was interested" in Dewitt, but that veterans officials doubted they would be able to' take it over by Dec. 31 should they de cide it is necessary to their op erations. A survey of veterans hospital needs is being conducted, Engle said, but the administration will not announce its decision regard ing Dewitt for a week or 10 days. New Bus Service Out of Medford To Start Tonight West Coast Trailways will ! run its-first northbound sche-j dule out of Medford at 9:37 p.m.' today on the inauguration of a I new transcontinental route into! Oregon. At present there will be but one schedule each way daily with the southbound car to leave here at 8:50 a.m. More schedules are to be added as new equipment arrives with four ex pected to be in effect by Jan. 1. The Medford ticket office will be located at the Rogue Valley Transit depot, 121 North Bart Ictt street. ED0RD Full Leased Wira MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1945. Truman Tells Labor-Management Conferees Employers and Workers Must Get Together, End Strife in Traditional American Manner Impartial Machinery Needed For Reaching Decisions in Bargaining, Is Word Washington, Nov. 5 (U.R) President Truman, opening the important labor - management conference, declared today that industry and the working people must get together and end cur rent industrial strife. "The time has come for labor and management to hancjle their own affairs in the traditional, American, democratic way," the president said. Controls End Soon The government's wartime controls over industrial relations soon will be ended. He warned both sides that tne country had not expected the widespread industrial strife which followed the end of the war. "And I know that the Amer ican people do not like it," he said, "especially after the solemn promise by representatives of both management and labor tnat they would cooperate with their government through the recon version period." The president advocated first, as the answer to labor-management problems, the right and "the duty" to bargain collective ly. The bargaining should be undertaken "with the firm re solve to reach an agreement fairly," he said. "If that fails; if bargaining produces.no results, then there must be a willingness to use some impartial machinery for reaching decisions on the basis of proven facts and realities; in stead of rumor or propaganda or partisan statements." Substitute Needed The president said some sub stitute must be found for juris dictional strikes. "We shall have to find meth ods not only of peaceful negotia tion of labor contracts but also of. insuring industrial peace tor the lifetime of such contracts," he said. Mr. Truman declared bluntly that there could be "no moral or economic justification for stop ping production while rival or ganizations contend with each other." "Labor has a particular in terest in this matter," he added, for nothing is so destructive of public confidence in the motives Orient Filled With San Francisco, Nov. 5 (U.R) The Orient is filled with peril to world tranquility, Hugh Bail lie, president of the United Press, said today in an address to pub lishers of northern California. Baillie's appearance before the publishers came only a few hours after his return from a 20,000 mile trip through the Pa cific area during which he inter viewed General MacArthur, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Emperor Hirohito. Potential Resistance He reported that he had de tected potential resistance be hind the veneer of "bowing and smiling" in Japan and that the strife in China was far from end ed. He predicted that deaths from starvation, exposure and disease in Japan would be wide spread this wjnter, Victory Loan Drive "Z" Quota $525,000 "E" Sales to Data $40,731.25 Remainder to sell $484,268.75 of trade unionism as a jurisdic tional strike. ' Then the president turned to management with a charge that too often it has looked upon labor relations as "a stepchild . . . to be disregarded until the con troversy has reached a point where real collective bargaining becomes very difficult if not al most impossible." Mr. Truman accused manage ment of all too frequently using "delaying tactics" in the actual process of collective bargaining. He said "there can be no justifi cation for such tactics at the present time, or in the future." He noted that postwar indus trial troubles started as soon as the first wartime government controls were taken off. He said he was certain that while the American public had expected some sort of difficult readjustment, "they never ex pected anything like the amount of strife which has been threat ened." "Our country is worried about our industrial relations," the chief executive said. "It has a right to be. That worry is re flected in the halls of the con gress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. No Pressure The president reminded the delegates that the government had no hand in the direction of the conference. Therefore, laoor and management have an oppor tunity to prove that they can reach an understanding and agreement "without political or governmental pressure." The president warned that this country's unparallelel op portunity in world trade would not remain open long. "With the world waiting for the produce of our mills and fac tories, "we must have produc tion vast production we must have it soon." Mr. Truman's address was not broadcast. , Industrial delegates almost un animously approved the speech afterward. Eric Johnston, presi dent of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, thought it "an excel lent talk." Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corp., said it was "a fair pre sentation." But R. J. Tl'omas, president of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), said "It was the same speech as his last one." And Wil liam Hutchcson, president of the Carpenters union (AFL), remark ed that "He used too many words." At a press conference with representatives of San Francisco and Oakland newspapers which preceded his appearance before the publishers, Baillie paid trib ute to the correspondents cover ing the war-beaten orient where limited supplies and facilities make life rugged. "Even routine items like trans portation, food and shelter which we take for granted here," he said, "often loom as major prob lems for the men who have to get out into the hinterland in a hurry, wherever the news is breaking." Recovery Slow In his address before the pub lishers. Baillie explained some of the problems that are facing American occupation forces and told why any semblance of eco nomic revovcry in Japan and China would be extremely slow. "General MacArthur, who has the tremendous responsibility of MACHINISTS LACK S. P. I Organized Labor May With draw Support Bakery Drivers Authorize Strike (By United Press) The war shipping admini stration reported today that 10 ships returning veterans home from the South Pacific were diverted from San Francisco, Cal.. because of the AFL-CIO machinists' strike in the bay area. Possibility of organized labor's withdrawal of support to 13,000 striking San Francisco Bay area CIO and AFL machinists and re sumption of negotiations in a strike of 60,000 Pacific north west AFL- lumbermen today highlighted the west coast Hbcu scene. A hint that AFL unions might oppose continuation of the strike which has idled some 50,000 workers in the Bay area came when the AFL Bay Cities Metal Trades council scheduled a meet ing tonight "to consider the is sue." The Ran Francisco AFL Bak ery Wagon Drivers union author ized a strike committee to cal) a walkout in event of failure of npentiations for a 30 per cent, $10 weekly wage increase. Wen rioll Phillins union president. said if the strike is called no bread shortage would result be cause all comnanies would not be struck simultaneously. Although John Chnstonson, spokesman for 60,000 striking AFL lumbermen in five north western states, opposed negotia tions for separate districts and reiterated his demand for an in- dustry-wide wage of $1.10 an hour, resumption of meetings on a district basis was scheduifd. Union renrcsentati ves and spokesmen for plywood and door plants employing zu.uuo men were tn moot Tupsriav. aftoi a four-day recess. In Coos Bay, Ore., a conference between nnpratnrs anH the Cons Rhv Dis trict Council of the AFL was scheduled to continue this week after adjourning Saturday. (By United Pren) Twenty thousand workers struck against 25 automotive plants in Windsor, Ont. Meanwhile, a Greyhound bus lines strike spread to southwest ern states, idling a total of 5,500 Greyhound workers. Peril to World Peace Says U. P. Chief enforcing the Potsdam declara tion to the letter and seeing to it that Japan's reform is genuine, must cope with the overwhelm ing fact that the civilian army wants to go home, the folks' in the states want the boys home and they are going home," he said. "At the same time MacArthur is building up an army of occu pation to police Japan so that the various measures he is im posing upon that conquered country will be inflexibly driven through. He has a tough winter ahead, with Japan rapidly assuming the condition of a con centration camp run by the in mates. Deaths by starvation, ex posure and disease arc sure to mount, even if they don't reach the of ten million which Jap propagandists predict. Militarists May Revive "General MacArthur told me that in hjj opinion the Japanese United Press Full BOY HELD FOR RANSOM COPS TOLD ON PHONE San Francisco, Nov. 5 (U.R) A man who said he was tele phoning from Long Beach, Cal., told Chief of Police Charles Dul lca's office today that he was holding "the kid" presumably referring to missing three-year-old Dickie Turn Sudcn and threatened to kill the child un less he received money. Police characterized the caller as a "probable crank," but asked Long Beach authorities to take him into custody for questioning if he can be found. The caller offered no identity. He talked to Patrolman Thomas Fogarty: "I am phoning from a public phone booth in Long Beach. "I've got the kid, and unless you send some dough, I'll chop his logs and arms off." Patrolman Fogarty tried to hold the man in conversation, but he hung up abruptly. Downicville, Cal., Nov. 5 (U.R) A party of 130 soldiers widened their search today for little Dickie Turn Suden, three- year-old member of a prominent California family who has been missing since Thursday, while bloodhounds attempted to pick up his scent In the immediate vicinity of the family's mountain home. The army men were sent Into B. F. HATCHERY TO STATE OWNERSHIP Washington, Nov. 5 (U.R) The house today passed a bill to convey to the slate of Oregon a federal fish hatchery at Butte Falls, Ore. Passage was recommended by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. kkes. He said that the federal Installation could easily be op erated as a part of a nearby state hatchery. The bill, passed by the senate, was introduced in the house by Hep. Harris Ellsworth, R., Ore. Kenneth Denman of Medford, member of the state game com mission, said today Ihe'commis- sio-i plans to make extensive im provements at the Butte Falls hatchery as soon as the bill be comes official. Denman said the present hatchery had belonged half to the state and half to the federal government for consi d c r a b I c time. Several years ago, Denman said, the government consented to the stale operating the hatch ery under condition they propo gate some salmon each year. people never would bet again on militarism, their favorite horse, which had just run last in the race. But It would be sur prising to me if some die-hards in Japan did not sec in that country's present misery and chaos an opportunity to start something. "Despite all the surface bow ing and smiling, it will be aston ishing if under this veneer there arc not a great many Jap irrc concilables trying to figure a way out. ' In fact, a member of the present Japanese cabinet told me there was danger of the com muists and the militarists shak ing hands underground. "This is the same member of the cabinet who also warned me that the entire bloodless occupa tion was only 'by virtue of the imperial will' and that If any thing were to happen to the em peror it might cause a great Leased Wira NO. 193. new areas in order not to dis turb the two dogs which were brought in last night from Og den, Utah, by an army plane. Authorities said they still had nothing to indicate that the child might have been kidnapped from his parents' home at Goodyears Bar, four miles from here. Two agents from the federal bureau of investigation remained on the scene but apparently in an un official capacity. The father, Joseph Turn Sudcn. told the group he was satisfied that the "little fellow" was not in the three square mile area sur rounding the house which has been most intensively combed. Hope of finding the child's body in the north fork of the Yuba river also apparently was abandoned after an intensive search yesterday. HUNT FORM'S Portland, Ore., Nov. 8 (U.R) Army authorities were waiting for favorable weather today to continue a search for two miss ing B-24 Liberator bombers, un heard from since Thursday on a flight from McChord Field, Cal., to Portland. Anxiety for the safety of the two planes Increased when army officials disclosed the planes had only 10-hour fuel supplies. Rain and fog along the coast over the week-end hindered the search for the missing bombers. part of a squadron of four that left McChord Field at 3:30 p. r.i. Thursday on a routine one-hour flight to Portland. Reports of bad flying weather over Port land prompted dispatchers to order the planes to head south and look for safer landing fields. TWO YOUTHS CHARGED WITH TAKING 4 AUTOS Two local 16-year-old boys are held in the Juvenile ward of the county jail awaiting court action on their case, which was con tinued for a few days In juvenile court today. State police said the boys Sat urday night stole four automo biles, belonging to Mrs. Louise McClnllan, route 1; II. R. Sutton, 203 North Peach street; Orval Caster, West 14th street, and a wrecker belonging to Roguo Riv er Chevrolet. All cars were re covered, police said. The McClal- lan and Sutton cars had been wrecked. change within Japan which would be unfortunate for the 'invader'. "I have reason to believe that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek views the danger of possible communistic troubles in Japan with considerable concern. Work Not Finished "Japan is still the scene of one of the greatest military exploits in history, but General MacAr thur's work is far from finished. "To what extent our army might have to go into action in Japan if riots and civil war break out there or if an attempt were made to overthrow the emperor without going through the orderly proceeding of having the people express their will at the ballot box, remains' to be seen." With regard to China, Baillie said, "Whether or not we are militarily involved In supporting Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's YANKEES HELPED CAPTURE OF TWO TOWNS IS CLAIM Chungking Denies Charges; American Marines Help ing Coal Supply Chungking, Nov. 5 JfU.R) . Communist sources charged to day that American forces wer fighting In China's undeclared civil war on the side of the ccn. tral government, but a govern ment spokesman said the accu sation was groundless. The communist newspaper New China Daily, which joined radio Yenan in making tha charge, said that American troops helped the Central gov ernment's armies capture twa communist-held villages in northeast China near the Man. churlan border. Charge Denied Information mi n I s t e r K. C. Wu of the Chungking govern ment categorically denied tha charges and said the commurn isls had made them only in an effort to alienate the American people and lead them to ask for1 the withdrawal of United Statej forces from China. Communications Minister Yu Fcl-Peng, however, revealed that U. S. marines were accom panying each coal train travel ling from north China's largest coal mine at Kailan southwest to Tientsin. Marines also gar rison the mine, he said. North China's second largest mine, at Tsaochang in southern Shantung, has been surrounded for 85 days by communists, ha said. Railways Paralysed Yu charged that communist have destroyed 848 miles ot railways in north China, para lyzing all lines. The govern ment has put 30,000 Japanesa railway engineering troops t work repairing the lines, ha said, t In charging American lnter vention in north China, the New China Dally said that American forces and Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist troops swept Pehtaiho, 10 milei southwest of the Manchurian border fortress of Shanhaikwan with heavy machine gun fira last Wednesday, "After suffering crushing loss es," the communist organ said, "we eyacuated Pehtaiho." Similarly, the newspaper add ed, Americans and the 94th nationalist army attacked and. occupied Haiyang village, also. In the Shanhaikwan area. Eight een communist guerillas wera said to have been disarmed in Haiyang. The Americans are using American trucks to move cen tral government forces forward for the offensive against Shan haikwan Itself, one of the prin cipal gates through China' great wall into Manchuria, tha newspaper said. The dispatch was carried under a five-column banner: American Armed Intervention in China's Internal Politics." SLASH FIRE PERMITS NO LONGER NECESSARY Permits for burning of slash or for other fires are no longer required in forested areas ac cording to an announcement re ceived by local forest officiali from state forest officials at Sa lem. The order went into effect Oct. 31, and terminates the 1945 fire season for Oregon. troops against the communist in northern China and Man churia is controversial. Certainly Chiang's troops would not be in contact with the communists at many points if our ships and planes, manned by our men, had not transported them to tha scene. Yet General Stratemeycr told me in Shanghai that if any real trouble developed between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces and other Chinese armies, we would pull out. He said wa were only moving the generalis simo's troops to various strategis points for the purpose of disarm ing the Japs." Regarding the atomic bomb, Baillie, who flew over Nagasaki, said that from the air the town looked like a real estate develop ment which never got out of tha blueprint stage. "The streets w?re all there." he said, "but where the buildings formerly stood were gust vacant loti"
