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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.
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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.
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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
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(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.
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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-
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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