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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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"