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Molotov Charges "Western Policies" Directed Against Other Powers Weather FORECAST: MoiUt cloud t to ntfht and Wednesday with oc casional ihoweri and mow flur ries. Continued cold. Temp. tit theft yesterday SI Lowest this morning ...... ' Pro. To I a,, m. today...-.-... Fortieth Year Lewis Crosses . Ll " "I"" i- ctiA'1wiii lull nj (Acm Telcphoto) John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, Is forced to pass through a picket line In order to attend the labor-management conference opening at the Labor Department in Wnshlncton, D. C. Pickets are mem bers of independent unions who charee that they were given "brush off" in their attempts to participate in conference. Lewis Wins First Conference Test After Verbal Clash With CIO President Murray Washington, Nov. 6 (U.R) John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, won nis first test in the National Labor Management conference today when he succeeded in sending back to the conference's rules committee a proposal concern ing the composition of an execu tive committee. Lewis objected to a provision on the conference agenda on the grounds that it did not specify Lirom . what . organizations the eight executive committee mem bers would be drawn. He was upheld by the conference after he and CIO President Philip Murray clashed over Murray's reference to a "reported blitz" to place Lewis on the executive committee. Lewis Take Floor William Green, president of JAP CODE BREAK GAVE 0. S. 3 DAYS !E i Washincton. Nov. 8 (U.R) Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart, R., Calif., asserted in the house to day that a broken Japanese code message told top officials here three days before Pearl Harbor that Japan had decided to fight the United States. The ominous words were "east wind rain," and Gearhart said their meaning was fully un derstood in Washington. The Japanese government, he asserted, sent the message to its envoys throughout the world on Dec. 4 and 5, 1941. The Pearl Harbor attack took place on Dec. 7. Gearhart and Rep. Frank R. Keefe, R., Wis., both members of the congressional Pearl Har bor investigating committee, ac cused the army and navy of sending emissaries throughout the world to break down the testimony of witnesses before service boards studying into the Pearl Harbor defeat. They also declared that the 4 navy was keeping a "Capt. Kra mer." described as an essential Pearl Harbor witness, in a psychopathic ward at Berthesda naval hospital and that commit tee members were not permitted to see him. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Friends make fun of Neva Samuels' street address, which i reads one, two. three Tripp, j "Orb" Cooksey and George! FipHs burgling John Day's carl in the course of a practical joke. I "Janitor" Ed. Canoose being served coffee and doughnuts in bed by fellow firemen as a sub tle hint that he mend his early morning habits. Minnie Bryant planning heri school census itinerary so the, noon hour coincides with the ; home of a friend. Medford United Press Full Leased Win Picket Line to Attend Conference the AFL, had moved the adop tion of the rules committee s en tire report. Then Lewis took the floor. The mine leader first asked whether adoption of rules on public relations prevented any member from making a pub lic statement on his own. He was assured by Eric Johnston of the U. S. Chamber of Com merce that no gag rule was in tended. Then Lewis pointed out that there was no indication as to the complexion of the groups to be represented on the executive committee. "I ask that this provision be held in abeyance until the con ference has had some knowledge of the committee's personnel," he said. Murray replied that he under stood the executive committee would be composed of two dele gates each from the National As sociation of Manufacturers, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL and CIO "I would like to engage in further discussions regarding personnel of the committee," Murray added. Lewis Blitx Seen "I would like to say this. There have been rumors circu lating here and newspapermen have come up to me about it, that a veritable blitz was under way to make Mr. Lewis and Mr. Cashen (T. C. Cashen, of the Railroad Brotherhoods) members of executive committee. Whether that is true or not I carts say." Lewis held his seat while Green and George Meany, secretary-treasurer of the AFL, de fended the position that the UMW, as well as the railway brotherhoods should have repre sentation on the executive com mittee. Then Lewis arose again. "I would like to touch on Mr. Murray's remarks concerning the 'veritable blitz' to place me on the executive committee," he said. ''Mr. Lewis does not give Budapest, Nov. 6 (U.P.) The essentially anti-communist small holders' party appeared today to have won control of the new Hungarian national assembly in Soviet-dominated eastern Eur ope's first free election since its liberation. Early returns indicated that the left - wing social democrats ran second with 25 to 30 per cent and the communists third with 15 to 20 per cent. The peasant jry polled only seven to right per cent of the lo'.al vote and the democratic citizens' party, appealing mostly to city intellectuals, not more than two per cent. BIGAMIST DENIED RETRIAL Los Angeles, Nov. 6 (U.R) Cuban Textile Millionaire Abra ham S. Rediker, 48, found guilty of bigamy by a jury two wi-vks ago, today was denied a motion for new trial and ordered to ap pear for probation hearing and sentence Dec. S, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMP a tinker's malediction whether he is on any committee. But it does make a difference whether the United Mine Workers are to have representation. "But it does make a differ ence whether this conference wants the cooperation of the United Mine Workers, Terminology RanklM "And I don't like Mr. Mur ray's unique and despicable Ger man terminology applied to me." . Murray replied that "I regret the extremely unfortunate trend of thinking that appears to be occupying Mr. Lewis." "When he states that Mr. Mur ray is applying to the use of German terminology, the absur dity of that statement is appar ent," the CIO chairman said. The conference had gone to work today amid speculation that Lewis might "take a walk." PLANE FALL CLUE Portland, Ore., Nov. 6 (U.R A report by an army pilot of see ing clipped fir tree tops in the rugged mountains east of Eu gene, Ore., today turned the three-state search by army and civilian forces for the crews of two missing B-24 bombers in the direction of the Willamette Val ley. Bad weather conditions have been hindering efforts of more than 100 military planes to spot the missing bombers, but late yesterday a pilot reported to the Portland army air base tower of seeing the scarred trees through a hole in the clouds, which closed in before he could get a better glimpse. Greyhound Strike Far From Solved Portland, Ore., Nov. 6 (U.R) R. J. Walsh, president of the struck Overland Greyhound Lines in regards to the five-week drivers strike on his company's lines today termed the walkout "no nearer solution than when it first arose." "Union officers, representing striking bus drivers of Overland Greyhound Lines, northwest, di vision, Portland to Salt Lake City, now refuse to enter into any negotiations for a new agree ment unless the company first agrees to pay bus drivers for the time lost by them while on strike," Walsh declared. ZAIBATSU DISSOLUTION DECREED BY JAPANESE Tokyo, Nov. 6 (UP) The Japanese government decreed today the dissolution of Japan's four biggest Zaibatsu the multi-billionaire Mitsui, Mitsubi shi, Yasuda and Sumitomo fam ily holding companies in com pliance with a directive from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Together, the four companies controlled 40 per cent of Japan's economy. Most companies vol untarily asked guidance in breaking up their vast combines, some of which had investment and patent links with American coutsxnj. CAPITAL TRANSIT STRIKE ADDED TO' Thirty Per Cent Hourly Wage Boost Demanded 264,000 Workers Idle. (By United Press) A strike of 4,000 transit work ers tied up Washington s public transportation system today. The work stoppage created the worst automobile traffic congestion in the capital's history. The strike stopped all street cars and buses of the Capital Transit company, which norm ally carry approximately 1,250,- 000 riders daily. ' The workers were ordered to report for a "continuous" meet ing until demands for a 30-cent hourly wage increase were met. The walkout brought a record number of automobiles, taxicabs and bicycles on to the streets. Police said the congestion was worse than any during the pre vious peak months of November and December, 1941. 264,000 Now Idle A total of 264,000 American workers were away from their jobs because of strikes and shut downs. They were faced with a stern warning issued by Pres ident Truman yesterday that the government would be forced to act on its own accord if the na tional labor-management confer ence was unable to find a form ula for ending strikes. At Windsor, Ont., government officials met with leaders of 20, 000 striking CIO United Auto Workers and sympathizers, and union spokesmen promised to re turn private vehicles comman deered for a barricade against Ford of Canada plants. The union said it would return the vehicles to their owners af ter the Windsor city council warned the strikers that "mili tary force" would be used to re move the barricade of automo biles, busses and trucks that had been thrown around the plants. Elsewhere, nearly 6,000 Grey hound bus employes were Idle in a wage dispute and ships bring ing home Pacific war veterans were diverted to other west coast ports because of a strike of AFL and CIO machinists in the ban Francisco Bay area. Thousands of bus travelers were stranded over an eight state area of the southwest yes terday. Union officials said Greyhound operations had been at a '.'complete standstill" since midnight Sunday. Greyhound The walkout, affecting south western Greyhound schedules in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico, was called to protest the rescinding of a 15 per cent wage increase granted when the national 35 miles per hour wartime speed limit was put into effect. A strike of other Greyhound employes already had tied up service in 18 states east of the Mississippi. Meantime, Salt Lake City grocery stores reopened after a five-day strike affecting 400 workers, and 30,000 CIO electri cal workers in Boston voted to walk out unless they received a $2 a day pay boost. Rep. Melvin Price, (D., Id.) proposed in congress yesterday that employers be forced out of business for one year for violat ing agreements with unions. The Illinois congressman of fered the suggestion after a house military affairs committee approved an amendment to the Smith-Connally act, depriving a union of its bargaining rights for one year if it violated a no-strike contract pledge. Tule Camp Closing Slated For Feb. 1 San Francisco, Nov. 6 U.Rt The War Relocation Authority's Tule Lake, Calif., ramp will be closed Feb. 1, Charles F. Miller, northern California area super visor, announced today. All Japanese at the camp, ex cept those detained by the Fed eral Department of Justice, may return home, or go elsewhere to make new homes, Miller said. The army lifted its ban against Japanese in northern California last Jan. 2, but less than 50 per cent have returned to their former homes, the nuoervioor de- claied.. .iCAGO GAME BLACKTORNADO Klamath Falls Writer Says Medford Team Should Play For Unofficial Title. Klamath Falls, Ore., Nov. 6 (U.RI The high-scoring Medford, Ore., high school football team should be sent to Chicago to play the champion of the tough Chi cago Interscholastic league for an unofficial title game. That was today's suggestion and of all places, it came from Medford's traditional athletic ri val, Klamath Falls. The Black Tornado from Med ford has won J 8 consecutive games and so far this season has scored 400 points in seven games and only one opposing team even scored seven points by Eugene. Sports Editor Hale Scarbrough of the Klamath Falls Herald and News suggested western football would be honored with such a game, and the Klamath Falls Quarterback club approved the idea. Medford just warmed up on Klamath Falls with a 51 to 0 score. Later it trounced Grants Pass 73 to 0 and last week it was Bend, 78 to 0. Medford is the defending state champion and topheavy favorites to repeat this year. Medford team officials said to day they had not considered such a game but indicated ar rangements might be made to take the team to Chicago if fi nancial arrangements could be worked out and if approval could be secured from the Ore gon High School Activities As sociation. AEL LUMBERMEN OFFERED PAY HIKE Portland, Ore., Nov. 6 (U.R) Striking AFL lumber and saw mill workers in the Portland area received an invitation to return to work today when Port land lumber mills offered the men a 12V4 cents an hour pay increase. Less than a week be fore, CIO International Wood workers of America won a simi lar pay boost from northwest lumber operators. Operators said the offer was good until 10 a. m., Saturday, declaring the 12V4 cents would raise the Jan, 1, 1041 minimum from 67V4 cents to $1.02'i, an increase of 58.85 per cent in tnat time. They added that "this is the scale established by our com petition in the local area and the scale on which we shall at tempt to operate." The increase would be effec tive the date the men return to work. TRAFFIC HALTED TO DIAMOND LAKE Snow storms last night have closed the Diamond Lake road according to information receiv ed from the Rogue River Na tional forest service this morn ing. Forest rangers reported four inches of snow at Union Creek, and since the road beyond Un ion Creek is considerably higher in altitude, snow always is much deeper further along the high way, it was said. Earlier brief snows which fell in the region did not halt traf fic over the road. Find Nazi Wealth Cached in Japan Tokyo. Nov. B 'J.R More than $500,000 worth of silver and other nazi wealth were dis covered today by American counter-intelligence agents in vestigating a German spy ring in Japan. The cache included 290 silver ingots valued at $119,616. It was understood the Germans planned to send them to Berlin via Si beria but the German invasion vl Rmtii Ul 1010 yrevenUd Tribune United Press Full Long-Secret Terms In Italy's Surrender Finally Made Public Washington, Nov. 6 iU.R) The allies today made public the long-suppressed Italian armistice terms under which Marshal Pictro Badoglio surrendered un conditionally in the fall of 1943 and turned over Italy lock, stock and barrel to the allies. But documents accompanying the armistice text revealed that the terms never were complete ly invoked and, for all major practical purposes, were abro gated last February. Terms Obsolete Italy's early assumption of the role of co-belligerent on the al lied side after quitting the axis made many of the armistice terms obsolete before they could be put into effect. Under the original terms, Italy surrendered her political, mili tary, economic and financial sovereignty to the allies. The al lies never found it necessary to take advantage of their broad au thority and under an "aide memoire" of last February 24, virtually restored sovereignty to the Italian government in those fields even before negotiation of a peace treaty. The armistice documents made no reference to territorial set tlement or reparations, leaving both for the final peace treaty. But they called for Italy to pay all occupation costs an imprac tical step which had to be modi fied and followed by extension of U. S. credits to the Italian government instead. Simultaneous Release The armistice terms subject of much debate and speculation during their more than two years of secrecy were released simultaneously today by the American, British and Italian governments. M e a n w h 1 1 e, authoritative sources revealed that Italy has made a third recent request for revision of the document under which Italy technically, but not actually, is functioning. The United States has not answered the Italian request and is still hoping to revive big power ma chinery for negotiating an early Italian peace treaty. Slate department officials in sisted that they have been pe riodically seeking publication of the terms bit that American military people objected. Here is a digest of the Import ant aspects of the original Ital ian armistice terms and how they were modified, revoked or ignored in practice: Military Provided surrender of all land, sea and air forces and transfer of Italian fleet and aircraft to allied commander in chief with directions for disarm ament to follow. Subsequent agreements to the armistice left open the possibility over vigor ous Italian objection of divi sion of the Italian navy among the allies at the final peace table. NEW YORK VOTE SPURRED BY SUN New York, Nov. 6 (U.R) Voting in New York's three-cornered mayoralty election picked up by mid-afternoon today after an extremely light start. Fair full weather brought out more of the anticipated 2,000,000 total vote as the day advanced. Campaign managers for for mer district attorney William O'Dwyer sent out an urgent call to Democratic and American labor party workers not to re lax their efforts because of over confidence. O'Dwyer was ex pected to be elected by a land slide over general sessions judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican-liberal-f u s i o n candidate, and Ncwbold Morris, no deal party candidate. GALES LOOSE MINES IN PACIFIC WATERS Tcarl Harbor, Nov. 6 'U.R: All shipping in the Pacific from! Japan to California, Oregon and! Washington was alerted today against floating mines, appar ently blown adrift by recent typhoons in and around Jnpiin. Pacific fleet hcadquartem is sued warnings yesterday after two U. S, ships had been dam aged and at least 80 Japanese vessels had been damaged or sunk by mines In recent weeks Mines were reported encount ered as far eat as the west tua.il oi Iht V.U'tvd SUlUk Leased Wir NO. 194. Merchant marine Placed completely at the disposal of the United Nations, including all in land transport and port equip ment. Communication All physical as well as administrative as pects, including censorship, placed under allied control. Occupation gave the allies the right to occupy any area, administer It and use all facili ties, equipment and supplies needed. Finances The financial clauses were designed to make Italy pay the total cost of occu pation, including the pay of al lied troops. This proved impos sible in practice. In the end the U. S. had to redeem about $125, 000,000 worth of lira issued troops by granting Italy that amount of dollar exchange. Foreign Relations All finan cial, commercial and diplomatic relations were prohibited unless authorized by the allied com mander in chief. Travel by Italians Prohibited from leaving Italian territory unless authorized by the allies. War Criminals The Italians themselves have apprehended and punished many of the lead ing criminals, notably Benito Mussolini. The United Nations War Crimes commission it ex pected to ask for others still in Italian custody. Eradication of Fascism These clauses called for abolition of all fascist organizations and all laws involving discrimination. FILIPINO GIRL, 11, TELLS Tt Manila, Nov. U.R) Wit nesses ranging from an 11-year-old girl to an army major told today how the Japanese burned alive, decapitated, bayonetted and otherwise tortured to death 4,000 civilians in the Intramuros Manila's ancient walled city last February. Gen. TomoyukI Yamashita, on trial for his life for responsibil ity for these and other mass mur ders totalling in the tens of thousands, doodled with a pencil and avoided the eyes of wit nesse as the recital of his forces' unparalleled savagery went through its eighth day. A Spanish Catholic priest tes tified that the Japanese also im prisoned 6,000 men, women and children in St. Augustine's church, then raped the women in the priests' rooms and slew hundreds of the men. Parents Killed Eleven-year-old Rosalinda An doy, pretty in her freshly-pressed pink dress, took the witness stand and told between sobs how she was orphaned in the Intra muros massacre. "My father was killed by the Japs," she said, barely able to hold back the tears. "My mother is no more. She was bayonetted to death beside me. I was bay onetted 38 times." At the request of the prose cutor, she showed a horribly scarred arm. 'The Japs Jabbed me 10 times there," she said. The crowded courtroom was silent. Yamashita looked the other way. Free News Flow Is Postwar Need Declares Attlee London, Nov. 6 (U.R) Prime Minister Clement Attlee today declared that "a free flow of news about the world" is an es sential to postwar international cooperation. Addressing a meeting of the newspaper society, Attiee paid tribute to the role of a free press during the war. "We in this country," he said, "have long been committed to a belief in the freedom of the press and the liberty of com ment. Let us hope it will ever j remain so." ' He declared that In the : achievement of rehabilitation and reconstruction "nothing is, ! I am convinced, more essential I than that there shall be a free j Vuw of JW1 oboyj U 9 ' Soviet Also to Have Atom Secret Soon Boast in Rev olution Anniversary Talk. London, Nov. 6 U.R) Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov today charged that policies being advocated in the west on such matters as large military establishments and atomic ener gy are "directed against other powers and have nothing in common" with keeping the peace. Speaking at an anniversary celebration on the Bolshevik revolution, Molotov declared that there were no technical secrets involved In the atom bomb which could long be held by any one country or small group of countries. Atom Secrets Too Molotov promised his listeners that Russia, too, "shall have atom energy and much other energy." He said the soviet would ereate highly skilled groups of workers to develop this and other great discoveries. Policies, he charged, have been pursued In the west which are directed against other pow ers." "The Interests of keeping the peace have nothing in common with the policy of arming the main powers which are being urged In some countries," he said. "This can also be stated of the discovery of atomic en ergy." Fascism Not Dead He declared that all the forces of fascism have not been fully destroyed. "Atomic energy," he said, "has not yet been tried out eith er for the prevention of aggres sion or for the safeguarding of peace. But In the present time no major technical secrets are possible which can remain In the possession of a sole country or a narrow group of countries. "The discovery of atomic energy must not lead to' Irre sponsibility so far as the safe guarding of the peace is con cerned." Molotov noted that social re forms, including distribution of land had been carried out in some countries but that "a great deal must be done to ensure the correct applications of the Cri mean Declaration" and destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism. The new United Nations or ganization, he said, "must not be similar to the League of Na tions which was helpless in the faces of aggression and must not by the tool of any one great power." Only the cooperation of the great powers which bore the brunt of the war, he said, would make it work and "here good wishes alone are not enough." HELD NONSENSE Washington, Nov. 8 flJ.PJ Spokesmen for organized labor described as "nonsense" today Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach's suggestion that unions appoint their own "czar" to settle jurisdictional disputes. Schwcllenbach offered the proposal In a speech to yester day's opening session of the na tional labor-management confer ence. He protested that present machinery was Inadequate to solve the jurisdictional problem and suggested that the answer might be a "czar" as there is in the motion picture Industry and field of professional base ball." EIGHT PLANE SURVIVORS RETURNED TO HONOLULU Honolulu, Nov. 6 (U.R) Eight survivors of a transport plane crash at sea Saturday were ques tioned by an Inquiry board to day while a search continued for 11 others still missing. The survivors arrived at Pearl Harbor last night aboard the escort carrier Casablanca which also bought the bodies of seven others aboard the plane who had been killed. Mure than 40 rodeos are held annunlly In Wyoming. Victory Loan Drive "E" Quota $525,000 "E" Sales to Date $50,706 Rtmaind.r to sell $474,294
