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I I mi ,, 1 . it J Detroit Voters Rebuff CIO; t Democrats Return to Power In New York City Election . By Unittd Press Labor's attempt to take the leadership of Detroit's city gov ernment was rebuffed and the democratic party of New York City was returned to power to day after 12 years in the nation's feature election contests. Throughout the nation hun dreds of elections were held. Two new representatives to con gress were chosen and one gov ernor was elected. Several maior and dozens of minor mayorality elections were decid ed. Detroit Focus National Interest was focused ' on Detroit where Richard T. Frankensteen, 38-year-old vice president of the United Auto mobile Workers union (CIO), went down to defeat before Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., who was re-elected to his fourth term. The Detroit campaign was a bitter one and the election itself was undecided until almost 3 a. m. today when the union lead er conceded defeat. Frankensteen had led through the early part of the night's counting of the ballots, but at midnight Jeffries forged ahead and swept to victory by more than 50,000 votes. At New York, the lean years under Mayor F. H. LaGuardia ended for the democrats with the election of William D'Dwy er. former Kings county (Brook- lvrO district attorney who , smashed Murder, Inc. k O'Dwyer Far Ahead T n'riurvpr swpnt to a record smashing victory over his two major opponents, General Ses sions Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, renublican-liberal-fusion candi date, and City Council President Newbold Morris, independent. O'Dwyer, who also had the back ing nf the American labor oorty, had a 685,175 vote plurality over Goldstein wno ran secuuu. i was the largest any mayor had Democrats and republicans Alike, however, saw indications favoring their tickets In the 1946 New York state elections. O'Dwyer's victory was hailed as "the beginning of the end of Governor Dewey as a political figure in New York state." But republicans took comfort from their victories in mayorality races in Buffalo, Rochester and Cvri.tp Tn Rnffnln the repub licans elected a mayor for the first time in 12 years. Other Contests In other major mayoralty contests: At Cleveland. democratic Mavor Thomas Burke was re elected, defeating Ray C. Miller, republican candidate, by an overwhelming margin. At Pittsburgh, democratic State Chairman David L. Law rence defeated republican Rob ert N. WaddeU, former Carnegie Tech football coach, for mayor. The democrats preserved their unbroken rule of the city for the past 12 years. At Boston, U. S. Rep. James M. Curley, D., Mass., was elected to a fourth term as mayor. The 70-year-old congressman who first was elected mayor In 1913, won again in 1921 and 1929, CIO WOULD KEEP Detroit, Nov. 7 (U.R) The CIO United Auto Workers to day warned President Truman that the union was determined that the price line on automo biles must "be strictly held" and asked the president to prevent OPA approval of increases on 1948 car prices. Walter P. Reuther, in a tele gram to the president, said he had been advised that the 01' A intended to increase prices and that he considered the increases as "seriously out of line with the facts of the industry." The union chief, now n the middle of a campaign to obtain an industry-wide 30 per cent ? pay boost for some 600,000 UAW , V members, asked that the pro posed increase be postponed until labor and management could be heard on the issue. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mary Phipps feeling duty bound to explain her extensive knowledge on a certain subject was because she had just finish ed reading a book. . Karl Janouch getting a lit of information but refusing to hand out any in exchange. Dale Stephenson arriving late at a JC meeting and mollifying fellow members by passing out cigars in celebration of the birth of a son. "Chris" Renken, telephone company night owl. getting the M-T telegraph editor out of bed at 1 a.m. to activate the tele- polled almost as many voles as his five opponents combined. Demo Wins In Virginia Virginia had a new democra tic governor when William Tuck defeated republican Floyd S. Landreth by an overwhelming margin. The republicans also retained their seat from New Jersey's fourth congressional district. Frank A. Mathews, Jr., republi can, defeated George Pelletteri who ran a poor third as an in dependent democrat. In Connecticut, republicans were triumphant in New Haven and Hartford, the state's two largest cities. Missing (Acme Telephoto) Thora Chamberlain, 15, last seen en tering 1932 sedan of strange young man after telling friends not to save her seat on school bus. Frank E. Chamberlain, contractor, the girl's lather, expresses fears Thora was kidnaped. MISSING GIRL San Jose, Cal., Nov. 7 (U.R) Mystery surrounding the disap pearance Friday of Thora Cham berlain, attractive 15-year-old brunette bobby-soxer, was still unsolved today after her socially-prominent parents waited throughout the night for a tele phone call they expected would bring information regarding the girl. Thora, who was a Christian Endeavor leader at the West minster Presbyterian church and sang in the Youth for Christ movement choir, was last seen climbing into the battered auto of an unidentified man near the Campbell, Cal., high school, where she was a student. Schoolmates said the man with whom Thora was last seen had been loitering around the school for several days, "asking girls if they wanted to take care pf children." CHANGES IN ZONE Zone changes approved at the regular city council meeting last night were the removal of blocks 1 and 2, Palm's second addition, and lot 8, block 1, Cottage addi tion, from residence zone 1-B to industrial zone V. In addition to routine business the following sales of city lots were approved: Lot 5, block 7, Queen Anne addition, to Charles H. Hollis, $200; lots 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, block 3, Euclid Park ad dition, Medford Lumber com pany, S2.100; lots 3 and 4, block 2, Tuttlc's Third addition, Wal ter W. Hahncr, S900; lot 2, block 2, Tuttles Third addition, Paul G. Blinka. $450; lot 6, block 2, Siskiyou Heights addition, R B. Gardner, $200; lot 6, block 7, Queen Anne addition, Robert Oatman, $200; lot 2. block 1, Gray's addition, E. E. Hoover, $250; lot 2, block 14, Imperial addition, D. F. Newton, $175; lots 8, 10, 12 and 14, Imperial addition, Franklin A. Jones. $525. Lot 12, block 1, Oakgrove ad dition, Clayton B. Goodnight. $175; lot 3, block 1, Oak Grove sub-division, John P. Hartsook. $500; lot 5. block 2, Wildwood addition, Ray Barrett, $250; and land at Jackson and Bartlett streets, Joe J. Jones, $450. SEARCH FOR BOMBERS IN KLAMATH SECTION Portland. Ore., Nov. 7 U.R) Search for two missing B-2-. bombers and the nine member? of their crews continued today with new clues still pointing to the Eugene area. Latest civilian report came from a woman who telephoned the Portland army air ba.se re porting she had seen a plane of the bomber's description (lying in the vicinity of Klamath Falls Thursday night. Later she saw a big fire in the woods to her left as she drove toward Eugene. t r Us-. ! Medford United Press Full Leased Win Fortieth Year WINNIE AGAINST ATOMICJECRET Hopes Britain Won't Pres sure U. S. to Reveal the Bomb Production Methods London, Nov. 7 (U.R) Win ston Churchill expressed hope in the house of commons today that Britain would not bring pressure on the United States to reveal all the atom bomb secrets to Russia. Churchill said that if the United States was going to make this knowledge available it would require a visit by soviet specialists, engineers and scien tists to the American atom arsenals. Washington, Nov. 7 (U.R) The White House today dis . closed that President Truman will open atomic bomb dis cussions with Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Prim Minister W. L. Mackemie King aboard the presidential yacht Potomac on Sunday afternoon. The White House disclaim ed any knowledge of reports that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was en route to this country. Asked about rumors that Ja.ef Stalin has been in this country recently. Assistant Press Secretary Eben Ayers said, "if it's so, we have no knowledge of it here the president has no knowledge of It." "I trust we are not going to put pressure on the United States to adopt such a course," Churchill said. "I hope that we shall adhere to the policy de clared by President Truman to keep the knowledge and pro cesses as a sacred trust as a de terrent to aggressive war." U. S. Unwilling Churchill said that what the United States did not want to disclose was the practical pro duction methods developed for producing atom bombs at enor mous expense and on a gigantic scale. Churchill said that such a de claration as Mr. Truman's Navy Day speech would have prevent ed both the first and second world wars. Whatever is decided about the atom secrets. Churchill em phasized, "should be decided by parliaments and responsible governments and not by scien tists however eminent or ardent they might be." "It is the profound desire of the house." Churchill said, "that those feelings of comradeship and friendship which have been developed between the British and the Russian peoples should not only be preserved but rapid ly expanded." Admires Slalin He added that he had nothing but "great admiration for this truly great man, Marshal Stalin." "Even," Churchill said, "as is not impossible, if we should de velop strong differences on many aspects of policy, political or social or even as we think moral, with the soviet govern ment no state of mind must be allowed to occur in this country which ruptures or withers those great associations between two peoples which were our glory and safety in the late frightful convulsions." Anti-Jewish Riots Spread Westward Cairo, Nov. 7 (U.R) Anti- Jewish rioting spread westward to Tripolitania today and the British ministry of information announced that 74 Jews had been killed in a "serious" out break in Tripoli. There was no immediate am plification of reports of the riot ing, the first major Arab- Jewish clashes outside the middle east since the present crisis began. Haw Haw's Appeal Rejected By Court London, Nov. 7 'U.R) The British court of criminal appeals rejected today an appeal by Wil liam (Lord Haw Haw) Joyce from his conviction and death sentence for high treason. Lord Chief Justice Lord Cal decote read the court's decision. Joyce listened with no show of emotion, smiled when the judge finished, nodded to a friend and walked out of the dock. LABOR-PvWJAGEIf TT CONFERENCE HEADS TOWAHO WAGE EXPLOSION MacArthur Anxious Jo Start Trials Of Jap War Criminals Washington, Nov. 7 lU.R) The far eastern advisory com mission met today again without a Russian representa tive and was told that Gen. Douglas MacArthur is anxious to get started on war criminal trials. It also was told that he regards the retention of the em peror as "a great bqon to the occupation." The group met for two hours and heard addresses by Assist ant Secretary of War John J. McCloy and Maj. Gen. J. H. Hildring. McCloy said that MacArthur had advised him that between 1.500 and 2.000 Japanese had already been arrested in the home islands and trial prepara tions for bringing them to trial were "moving fast. RETURN TO JOBS IN CAPITAL CITY By United Press Striking transit workers re turned to their jobs in Washing ton today as General Motors Corporation made a counter proposal to the demands of the United Automobile Workers un ion (CIO) for a 30 per cent wage boost. In resuming wage negotia tions with the UAW at Detroit, General Motors offered limited pay increases for some workers to match increases In the cost of living. 1941 Standard The General Motors' position was presented to the union by H. W. Anderson, a G-M vice president. He said the effect of the offer would be to give the corporation's workers a pay basis which would maintain their 1941 standard of living. Anderson said the offer was based on President Truman's or der of Oct. 30, permitting wage Increases since Jan. 1, 1941, equal to the increase in the cost of living between that date and September of this year. At Washington, Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellcnbach predicted that there will be from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 unemploy ed in the nation by next spring. He said that by next fall the number would drop to about 4, 000,000 to 6,000,000. Peace Hope Held Hope for settlement of the dispute between the UAW and Ford of Canada rose as com pany officials for the first time entered the negotiations for end ing the strike. After the first meeting with the company rep resentatives present, Humphrey Mitchell, Dominion minister of labor, announced that "things look much better." There were other smaller strikes called across the nation today which swelled the num ber of strike-idle American workers to 294,500. BRITlTTTIE OPS SPEED MARK Heme Bay, Eng., Nov. 7 'U.R) A Royal Air force jet-propelled plane, piloted by Eric Green wood, chief lest pilot for the Gloster Aviation company, set a new world's speed record of 60b miles an hour today, shortly after another pilot had raised the mark to 602 miles an hour. Greenwood made the 606-mile average in his "Yellow Meteor" in four official runs over the Heme Bay course, hitting a high of 612 miles an hour on one. He broke- the record within an hour after his friend Group Captain Hugh Wilson had streak ed anothrr jet-propelled ship "Britannia" over the same course for a record of 602 miles an hour. TO CONSIDER DEMANDS Washington, Nov. 7 (U.R) A national labor-management conference has been set for Dec. 4 to consider union demands for a 30 per cent wage increase in the shipbiuldirg industry. TV LA XT MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, EMBER 7, 1945. Over 100,000 Central Gov ernment Troops Defeated, Is Word; Peace Stymied. Chungking, Nov. 7 (U.R) Chinese communists claimed to day their armies have won a victory over 100.000 central gov ernment troops along the Htpei-Shansi-Honan provincial border area of north China, west of communist-dominated Shantung peninsula. "Unit y" negotiations in Chungking between government and communist representatives were reported to have reached a dead stop, with each side issu ing recriminations against the other. Observers feared there may be no way out of the poli tical impasse beyond continued fighting. Land At Yingkow The pro - government news paper Ta Kung Pao reported in a Nanking dispatch that advance elements of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 52nd army have begun landing at communist-held Yingkow, port of entry to Manchuria. (A dispatch from United Prvss Correspondent Richard W. John ston, however, said the troops of the 52nd army, originally scheduled to land at Yingkow, had been transferred in U. S. vessels to the western shore of the Gulf of Chihli and began landing instead at Chinwangtao nine miles southwest of the Manchurian border). The communists claim to have captured Tzehsien, 105 miles east of Kaifcng, in northern Honan province. They said the victory netted military trophies, including bazookas and anti-aircraft guns. The 36th communist regiment, besieging Kweisui, capital of Suiyuan province of inner Mon golia, tightened its grip on the city while red vanguards ad vanced on Paotow, 85 miles to the west. Kweisui is 250 miles west of Peiping. Dikes Broken A ' government spokesman charged today that communists "repeatedly" have broken the dikes of the Yellow river, in' eastern Honan province, with the purpose of making farr. crs destitute and thus "getting a following." A hurried meeting of top American military commanders in Peiping heightened specula tion that the United States may be about to withdraw Its 50,000 marines from north China to avoid involvement in the civil Navy Issues Denial Inquiry Witness Is Held Incommunicado Washington, Nov. 7 (U.R) The navy today denied Repub lican charges that a potential withness in the Pearl Harbor in quiry had been "broken In mind and body and was Being neia incommunicado inahospital psychopathic ward. The charges were made in the house yesterday by Reps. Bert rand W. Gearhart, R., Calif., and Frank B. Kcefe, R., Wis., mem bers of the congressional Pearl Harbor investigating committee. They said that a navy officer who handled important messages during delicate diplomatic ne gotiations late in 1941 now was confined to the psychopathic ward of Bcthesdan, Md., naval hospital. They said committee members had been denied per mission to interview him, and cited it as an example of what they called an army and navy plot "to breBk down" testimony of witnesses. Klamath U. S. Court Sessions Approved Washington, Nov. 7 U R President Truman today approv ed legislation providing for regular terms of the U. S. dis trict court at Klamath Falls, Ore., on the first Tuesday in June. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Lowell Stockman, ft., Ore., and endorsed by Klamath Falls attorneys. Child Accuses ft (Acme lelephoto) During testimony that brought shudders to spectators at the War Crimea trial of Gen. Yamashita, held In Manila, Rosnllnda Andny. 11, displays some of the 38 bnyonct wounds Inflicted by Jnpnnrse soldiers. She told how her entire family ns murdered and how a baby thrown into the air was impaled ou naked buyonets. Signal Corps photo by ACME-NEA. Internee Starving Added To List Of Yamashita Crimes Manila, Nov. 7 (U.R) The systematic starvation of 4.000 American and allied internees at tlie Santo Tpmas camp was add ed today to the long list of mur der, rape and mutilation charges against Gen. Tomoyuki Yama shita and the Japanese forces he commanded in the final bat tle for Manila. ' The erstwhile "Tiger of Ma laya" listened impassively as two survivors of the Santo Tomas camp testified that their meager rations were cut to the starvation level after he arrived to take command of the city in October, 1944. Starvation Cause The witnesses said most of A complete new building to house showrooms for Studcbak cr cars and trucks and a com plete service department is now under construction, J. Orbin Cookscy, owner of the Cookscy Motor Co., has announced. The building is expected to be ready for occupancy by Dec. 15. A five car repair stall with a complete lubrication unit will be among features of the new build ing, Cookscy said. All repair equipment will be new and the latest devices for analyzing en gines and making repairs will be installed. The building, located at South Riverside, Bartlett and East Ninth streets, will have a 47 foot service entrance on South Riverside, according to Cookscy. The wide entrance has been de signed to do away with double parking or unnecessary delay in entering the garage. Latest in heating equipment and ideal working conditions for employes has been incorporated in the plans, the owner slated. Concrete floors throughout the building will be heated. An ultramodern showroom will be constructed with plate glajs windows to be 10 feet high and slanting in six inches at the bottom to facilitate easier vision from the outside. A large and complete stock of new parts will also be carried, Cookscy said. H. O. Purucker III, Stricken In Night H. O. Purucker, 13 Glen Ook court, is a patient in Community hospital, having entered this morning after being stricken ill at his home during the night. The nature of his Illness has not yet been diagnosed, Mrs. Puruck er stated tliis afternoon. The Puruckers are owner of Puruckcr's Piano House. TRIBUNE United Press Full Yamashita the deaths recorded among the internees after that time were traceable to starvation, although the Japanese permitted that entry on only eight death cer tificates. The ninth day of Yamashita'a war crimes trial opened With further testimony by a group of eyewitnesses to-the bloodletting that accompanied the Japanese last stand in the Intramuros Manila's old walled city In February, 1945. Search For Girls A Catholic nun who escaped the massacre in St. Augustine's church in the Intramuros, where hundreds of men were slaughter ed and their women raped, said she saw Japanese troops using flashlights to search the ruins for more girls. She testified that one gang of Japanese hurled grenades at the church altar and laughed at the desecration. Others poured gaso line on the adjoining convent and set fire to it. Laurentino De Pablos, a Span iard, said he was one of 2,000 men dragged from the chu.-ch grounds and removed to Fort Santiago. Three days later, only 140 of the men were returned to St. Augustine's. :e OUTSIDE CHURCH Los Angeles. Nov. 7 (U.R) Arthur L. Bell, head of the Church of the Golden Rule and former "voice" of Mankind United, doesn't belong to his own church, it was charged to day in an amended complaint of the attorney general's office asking that the organization be dissolved on grounds of fraud. Bell wnd his associates were charged by Warren O 1 n e y. special assistant to the attorney general, with fraudulent In corporation as the group Is neither nonprofit nor charit able. The original complaint assumed the church was a bona fide religious organization. Bell, whose followers shrank from 250,000 to 800 after he was convicted of sedition, last week filed a federal-court bank ruptcy petition seeking to liqui date unsecured Indebtedness. In cluding $300,000 allegedly owed to Mrs. Ruby V. Chapman, Bell's wife. KINGMERE DAIRY SOLD TO PREVIOUS OWNER Sale of the Kingmere Dairy on the Phoenix Jacksonville highway has been announced by Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Slate, who sold the dairy to the former owner, Bennie B. King. King has already taken possession it was stated. The Slates, who came to Med ford last January from Colfax, Wash., will remain here but were unable to announce exact plans- Leased Wira NO. 195. LI OF E Murray Says Union Wants Conference On Record As Saying Room For Raise Washington, Nov. 7 (U.R) The labor-management confer ence headed toward a possiole explosion today over wages. The Congress of Industrial Or ganizations accepted a challenge from other labor forces which were prepared to battle against inclusion of the wage issue on the conference agenda. As the conference executive committee met for its initial ses sion, CIO President Philip Mur ray told reporters the CIO would ask that the agenda be broaden ed to include wages. AFL Opposed He said the CIO wanted the conference to go on record as saying "that there is now room" in the wage-price structure for higher pay. At the same time, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor reiterated AFL opposition to the proposal. He insisted that wage questioni must be settled In plant-or-ln-dustry bargaining. He told re porters the function of the con ference was to set up procedure for handling wage questions on those levels. Murray, however, said he be lieved, current industrial unrest would end "if employer! would meet with representatives of or ganized labor and proceed forth with to negotiate, in good faith, settlements affecting wages." Issue Raised Monday Murray had raised the wage issue at the opening public ses sion Monday, only to meet op position from management dele gates as well as from the AFL. The CIO point of view was supported, however, in a first day address by Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace who said industry could raise wages substantially without boosting prices. Wallace's support will not di rectly help the CIO in the fight it is now undertaking, however, because he has no vote in the conference proceedings. Murray reiterated his belief that the delegates cannot avoid coming to grips with wages. "The shadow of wages is con stantly hanging over this con ference," he said. Asked how management dele gates would react to the ClO'f efforts, Eric A. Johnston, presi dent of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, said he would "cross that bridge when I come to it." Other management spokesmen, however, have sided with Green. Standing alone in the labor camp on the wage issue, the CIO was staking its prestige at the conference on the battle to force discussion of the whole wage price situation. PULP AND PAPER STRIKEISTHREAT Portland, Ore., Nov. fl (U.R) A tieup of 20,000 pulp and paper mill employes In Oregon, WashliiRtnn and California was threatened today by union heads after rejection by the 12th regional war labor board of pay increases and other requests de manded by the unions. Major request was a 20 per cent wage increase. . The WLB action was initiated last Mav. . The 12th WLB decision is the first to be announced under the new WLB termination policy of only recommending appropriate terms of settlement instead of by directive. Victory Loan Driv "E" Quota $525,000 "E" Sales to Date $52,994 Remainder to sell $472,006
