Molotov Charges "Western Policies" Directed Against Other Powers
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Fortieth Year
Lewis Crosses
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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