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i t t Chiang Hurls Huge Force Against North China Reds Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy with ihowprs tonight and Saturday. Little chant In temperature. Temp. 47 Richest Yesterday Loweit thli Morninc Prec, to i A. M. Today.. .3B ..13 Fortieth Year Relatives Await Menu Tehpholo) Relatives of Dickie turn Suden, 3-year-old child missing from his home near Downleville, Calif., since Thurs day, discuss plans for continuing the search. They are (left to right) : Alfred M e r r i 1 1, grandfather of the little fellow; Mrs. Richard turn Suden, grandmother; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph turn Suden, missing child's parents; Richard turn Suden, grandfather, and Capt. Alfred Merrit Jr., uncle. Labor-Management Conferees Steer Through Dangerous Shoals of Collective Bargaining Washington, Nov. 9 OJ.R) The labor - management confer ence today successfully navigat ed collective bargaining shoals which wrecked a similar parley after World War I. Conference Secretary George W. Taylor announced that all of the six working committees, now exploring bases for industrial peace, have fully endorsed the principles of collective bargain ing. .... Taylor recalled that manage ment's refusal to accept a labor proposed collective bargaining resolution wrecked a labor-management conference in 1919. Progress Reported Taylor also told a news con- TRUMAN SIGNS TAX REDUCTION NEXT YEAR 1 Washington, Nov. 9 (U.R) i The White House announced to day that President Truman last night signed the 1946 income tax bill, giving the nation a $5, 920,000.000 tax cut, the first in 18 years. The new measure becomes ef fective Jan. 1 and applies to 1946 Income. It is not retroac tive. It provides savings next year for both individual income tax payers and corporations. It was rushed through with the inten tion of easing the financial bur den of reconversion from war to a peace economy. Individuals, -particularly low priced workers, can expect to have a little more take-home pay. President Truman wants corporations to spread their tax savings between raises for pres ent employes and expansion to create more jobs. TO GHEST FUND A check for $216.85 has been contributed to the Medford Com munity Chest and victory fund campaign by the Medford Lions' club, the money having resulted from the club's annual Com munity Chest auction. The auc tion was held in connection with one of the club's weekly meet ings, with members donating articles for the sale. Otto Frohnmayer. chairman of the Community Chest, also re-; ported today that the Adler j Construction company of Seattle ! and local employees had con tributed 100 per cent to the chest fund. The Seattle firm contribut ed $50 and each employee added a substantial amount, Frohn mayer stated. The firm is con structing a new reservoir for the Medford water system. 1 F MEDFORD - United Preit Word of Missing Dickie turn Suden I III 1 HI II. I. II ference that most .of the com mittees have reported progress in their work and that some of them are getting down to bed rock . in dealing . with their specific problems. He said the committee on existing collective agreements "appears to - be- an agreement" that there must be some improv ed way to handle grievances if no strike, no lockout clauses are to be written into collective bar gaining contracts. He said the objective is to minimize wildcat strikes arising from individual grfevances. "What they are trying to do is to explore general principles rather than specific formulae," Taylor said. The committee on representa tion and jurisdictional Questions, he reported, is analyzing na tional labor relations board pro cedure to determine what changes, if any, might minimize s'trikes. Explore Settlement "The committee members agreed," he said, "to explore the possibilities of establishment and improvement of machinery for the settlement of jurisdictional disputes within the unions them selves." Taylor's report on the work of other committees: Collective bargaining no specific report except that it is "analyzing problems." Management's right to man age Decided on procedure seeking to define areas in which there is likely to be conflict. Conciliation services decid ed to call witnesses. It has al ready heard Edward Warren of the labor department's concilia tion service, and will hear John Steelman, member of the presi dent's advisory committee on conciliation, as well as some field men of the conciliation service. Procedure Discussed Initial collective agreements It has been discussing and has "made considerable progress" to ward developing procedural rules by which to make strikes and lockouts a last resort in cases where a union and com pany are bargaining for the first time. Taylor also announced that FEAR 21 KILLED IN AIR COLLISION Corpus Christ!. Tex., Nov 9 aj.R) Navy officials announced today that two marines (long range patrol sea planes) collided in mid air at 8:06 p. m. last night near Spoil Island in 'Corpus Christi bay with 21 officers and men presumed killed. The planes were about ?00 feet off the water, one landing and the other in the process of taking off, when they crashed. One attempted a landing, but the pilot was evidently unable to maintain control, and crashed into the sea. The other crashed immediately, Eotii tajik. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, 7 the public hearings committee, which is to provide a forum for groups not represented at the conference, has already received more than 150 communications. Of these, he said, 10 per cent suggested arbitration plans. About 50 per cent were com plaints about representation at the conference; 10 per cent con cern annual wage plans and 20 per cent other wage plans, and 10 per cent deal with fair em ployment practices. Meanwhile, labor leaders hint ed cautiously at the possibility of a united labor front at the conference. DUE NEXT WEEK Washington. Nov. 9 (U.R) The public will have to wait un til next week to learn how much new cars will cost as result of auto dealer protests against an alleged OPA plan to halve deal ers' profits. , The charge was made by rep resentatives of the National Automobile Dealers association during hearings before the house small business committee. The dealers were slated to wind up their case today and the OPA will give its views next Tuesday. Some 325 senators and repre sentatives urged Price Cnief Chester Bowles to hold up action on dealers' profits after dealers charged that the OPA plan would drive them out of busi ness. Bowles agreed and said he was also postponing until next week the announcement of new auto mobile prices. They were sched uled to be made public this week. s Portland, Ore., Nov. 9 U.R) Grave doubts were held today for survival of nine airmen, missing on two B-24 from Mc Chord Field, Tacoma, since last Thursday. Army officials said that bliz zards raging in the mountains made it very doubtful the men were still alive. Continued snow and rain storms, which have all but obscured mountain peaks and valleys, have grounded 100 army, navy and coast guard planes searching for the flier?. Numerous reports have been received by army authorities on the supposed whereabouts of the planes, but to-date no direct con tact has been had with either of the two missing planes or their crews since they took off from Tacoma for Portland last week. With the clearing of weather, some army officers said it was doubtful if any wreckage could be seen due to heavy suqw. NOVEMBER RL.i j Gl BILL . VOTED IN SENATE, New Educational Provisions Makes Vet Training Avail able Regardless of Age The United States Senate yesterday afternoon passed the revised GI Bill of Rights, HR 3749, according to a telegram received from Oregon Senator Wayne Morse (R) by the Mail Tribune today. In debate on the bill Senator Johnson of Colorado, in charge of the bill, in answering ques tions informed the senate that new educational provisions of the bill incorporated Morse's bill, S 580, which Morse intro duced April 9. The Morse bill provided education and training for veterans should be made available on an equal basis with' out regard to age. Johnson reported to the sen ate that the finance committee approved the Morse bill and de cided to Incorporate Its princi pals into a new GI bill. This means that any veteran can take advantage of educational pro visions of the new GI bill irre spective of whether ho was at tending school at the time he entered the service and Irrespec tive of his age, Morse explained. Tuition Not Deducted The new bill also incorporat ed another bill which Senator Guy Cordon and Morse jointly Introduced. S 1562. The bill provides for repeal of section 1505 of the serviceman's read justment act of 1944 to the ex tent that allowances paid ' to veterans for tuition, school sub sistance and other allowances, save and except commercial loans, shall not be deducted from any future adjusted com pensation which may be award ed veterans, the message stated. Johnson informed the senate that the finance committee had given consideration to the bill of this subject offered by the senators from Oregon and had decided to incorporate its prin cipals In the provisions of the new GI bill. The bill will aUi be of great benefit to Institu tions of higher learning In Ore gon because it will enable them to charge a fee in excess of the regular resident tuition fee, up to 500 per year per veteran stu dent, Morse said. It will there by enable state Institutions to receive the same financial bene fits from the new Gl bill as private institutions receive. Unfairness Prevented Incorporation of the Morse Cordon bill in the new GI bill will mean much to slate educa tional institutions and will pre vent unfair discrimination against those Institutions on the issue and also will protect vet erans from having tuition fees deducted from any future ad justed compensation award. Morse explained. Cordon and Morse were un successful in having their veter an housing bill, S 977, incor porated Into the new GI bill but the debate over the matter clearly Indicated that the sen ate finance committee failed to give S 977 adequate considera tion. Both Cordon and Morse made speeches in protest of the senate finance committee's handling of S 977 and served notice to Senator George of Georgia, chairman of the fi nance committee, that unless he scheduled the bill for public hearing immediately they would move to discharge the commit tee and have the bill sent to the committee on banking and currency. Housing Needed Now Johnson informed the senate that the new GI bill does Incor porate title 3 of S 977 increas ing subsistance allowance for veterans at schools where quar ters are not available. The Ore gon senators pointed out to the senate that that was not enough. Veterans must be provided with housing now if they are to take advantage of educational pro visions of the new GI bill. Thry were to have introduced a sub stitute to senate bill 977 today and asked that it be referred to the banking and currency com mittee unless George gives the bill immediate hearings. Your Victory Bond savings begin earning profits at the end vl tilt lUi JCiil, S, 9, 1945. BRITISH FORCES Strong Units Occupy Perl meter at Soerabaja Ignore Attack Threat Batavla, Nov. 9 U.P.) Strong British forces moved into the naval base city of Soerabaja to day to back up a British ulti matum threatening a full-scale attack unless Indonesian extrem ists surrender unconditionally. The ultimatum expires at 6 p. m. (believedly 4 a. m. EST). At 1 p. m., neither Surio, self styled Indonesian governor in eastern Java, nor any other In donesian authority had replied to the ultimatum. British Reinforced Strongly reinforced British troops occupied the perimeter of Soerabaja. the port area, the seaplane base and the airfield on the western outskirts. Indonesians armed with ma chine guns attempted to infil trate British Dositions along the perimeter, but were driven off by the British without a shot be Inc fired. The Indonesians re tired to new positions. They ap peared to be well led and organ ized. Maj. Gen. E. C. Masergh, Brit ish commander In eastern Java, issued the ultimatum to Surlo last night. It called for the re turn of all hostages, the surren der of all arms and the arrest nf the leader of the Indonesian youth movement, the police chief and administrative heads. Must Sign Surrender The arrested leaders and ad ministrative heads will be re nnireH tn slen a document of unconditional surrender, the ul timatum said. Uniformed po lice will be permitted to keep their arms to maintain order. "After these Instructions are complied with," the ultimatum said, "allied forces will conduct a search of the entire cny. Civilians such as women and children will be permitted to leave the city if they wish. CIO STRIKERS EYE Windsor, Ont., Nov. 9 U.R Ford of Canada today offered to submit its two-months old dis pute with the CIO United Auto Workers to an impartial arm trator "in order to avoid blood shed." and union leaders began immediate conferences on the proposal. (By United Press) Wage negotiations between the Automobile Workers (CIO) and General Motors Corp. headed to ward a climax today, as dom inion government officials ex pressed renewed hope of settling a long-standing UAW strike against the Ford Motor Co. of Canada. 'In the UAW's Detroit strong hold, across the river from Wind sor, union officials resumed ne gotiations for a 30 per cent blan ket wage increase and awaited government action on a com plaint of unfair labor practices against General Motors. Similar labor demands for higher wages accounted for strikes involving most of the na tion's 274,000 idle workers. Last Man's Club Banquet Saturday The annual banquet of the Last Man's club of World War I veterans will be held Nov. 10 at 7 p. m. at the Holland Hotel Blue Room it was announced today. This traditional affair is held each year as part of the Armistice Day celebration. Etha W. Wall today urged all men to attend the affair and to bring guests if they desire. Those members not having made reser vations with Mr. Wall are asked to do so at once. Victory Loan Driva "E" Quota : $525,000 "E" Sales to Date $73,881 Remainder to sell $451,119 Tribune United Prut Full 138 U. S. Vessels Turned Over To Reds in Alaska San Francisco, Nov. 9 (U.R) The San Francisco News today published a dispatch from Kod iak, Alaska, quoting Adm. Ralph Wood as saying the U. S. navy delivered 138 lend-lease Ameri can ships to the Soviet red navy at Cold Bay, Alaska, between March and September, 1945. Adm. Wood, commandant of the 17th naval district, told the news correspondent, Robert C. Elliott, that more than 13.000 U. S. naval personnel were assigned to the task of sailing invasion craft, mine sweepers, frigates and patrol vessels from San Francisco and other Pacific coast ports to Cold Bay. F AMERICAN FLIERS EXECUTED BY NIPS Tokyo, Nov. 9 (U.R) The graves of 14 American filers, apparently executed without trial only two days before Jap an's first offer to surrender to the allies, have been found in a Japanese military cemetery at Osaka, the Sixth army an nounced today. The fate of the airmen, all of whom were captured after balling out over Osaka last June. was pieced together from crude ly marked wooden planks mark ing the graves and from evi dence found In seven tiny, ce ment cells, Investigators said. Internees in the same prison unidentified by the Sixth army said the fliers had been tortured by the Japanese secret police daily for nearly two months before they left their cells blindfolded on Aug. 8 nev er to return. Tortured Dally The filers were kept In cement-walled cells where they were forced to kneel for long periods with a bamboo polo be tween their knees. They were marched daily to secret police headquarters several blocks away. On their return they showed evidence of mistreat ment, fellow prisoners said. The weed-covered graves were found after a Korean In former told headquarters of the shooting down of 18 B-29 crew men, who were brought in to prison the following day. MISSING BOY'S FAMILY REMAINS IN SECLUSION Oakland, Cal., Nov. 9 (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Turn Suden, whose three-year-old son, Dickie, has been missing for eight days, were In seclusion here today, still hoping their only child might be found alive. Relatives of the Turn Sudens said no ransom notes had been received since the boy disap peared from the yard of his Downieville, Calif., home and numerous "tips" investigated by police throughout the state proved to be without founda tion. AJTLEE TAKES OFF FOR UNITED STATES London, Nov. 9 (U.R) Prime Minister Clement Attlee took off In a C-54 Skymaster at 6:35 p.m. today for the United States, No. 10 Downing Street announc ed. He is due In Washington at 9 a.m. (EST) tomorrow. Public Must Pay At Grocery Store Washington, Nov. 9 (U.R) The government told the public today Uiat after next June 30, lt must pay Its entire food bill at the grocery store Instead of part ly in taxes. Stabilization Director John C. Collet announced that by June 30, the government will have withdrawn virtually all subsi dies lo food producers. These payments, which help keep down prices to consumers, are costing the federal treasury $1,798,000, , 000 this year. Collet said prices of some foods will be allowed to go up i to compensate producers tor the loss of revenue. But the over I all cost of living, he said, is not J expected to rise because subsidy j withdrawals will be timed with expected detUue. ia giiw ol Leased WU NO. 197. LARGE AIR FORCE T Doolittle Tells Committee 5,000 Planes, Strong Na . tional Guard Aim Washington, Nov. 9 (U.R) Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle dis closed today that army air forces want a postwar fleet of 5,000 combat planes ready for instant use, 400,000 officers and men, plus an air national guard "as large as the states can stand." The air national guard would provide a million-man reserve. Doolittle told the senate military affairs committee. He was testi fying in support of an independ ent air force within a single de partment of national defense. Navy Plans Known Doolittle said the air force had not been able to put these recommendations before con gress formally because it does not have independent status. He noted that the navy already has its postwar plans before con gress. Under the present system the army force plans presum ably would be submitted later as part of the over-all army pro gram for all branches of the army. Doolittle disclosed air force suggestions at the request of Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, D., S. C, a committee member. Doolittle pleaded for an In dependent ' air - force under a single department of defense. U. S. Vulnerable He warned that the United States is vulnerable to attaok through the polar regions and that it is no longer safe tor Americans to study maps by the mercator projection, which shows polar areas much larger than they really are. He said the U. S. is now build ing a plana with twice. the range of the B-29 but that we have "no monopoly on aircraft" of that range. ' . BROKEN BY THIEF Taken from a display window at M and M department store, 218-22 East Main street, last night was an olive gray man's cravenctte coat, valued at $49.90, City police reported today. The coat was removed from the window after the large plate glass window had been broken by a beer or liquor bottle, thrown from some distance, po lice said. Father of German Army Dies Aged 96 London. Nov. 9 U.R) An ex change telegraph dispatch from Lueneberg said today thnt Field Marshal August A. L. F. Von Mackcnsen, 96. "father of the German army," died last night at the town of Cclle In the Brit ish occupation zone. He was commiindor-in-chicf of the German 9th and 11th armies In 1914 and 1915 during the first world war, of the ar mies of the central powers In the Balkans from 1915 to 1918 and of occupation forces In Ro mania in 1918. He retired in 1920. Entire Food Bill After June 30 non-subsidized foods. Other government sources re vealed that removal of subsidies may result In these average re tall price increases: Milk, 1.3 cents a quart; bread, one cent a loaf; two top grades of beef, one cent a pound; pork, 4.4 cents a pound; lamb, 6 cents a pound; cheese, 4.8 cenla a pound; flour, 8.8 cents for 10 pounds; grapefruit juice, . 2.6 cents for a No. two can; prunes, 4.2 cents a pound, and raisins, 6.2 cents a pound. Butter prices recently were in creased five and six cents a pound when the federal subsidy was cancelled. The only subsidies for which the government did not set a termination date were on sugar, oil seeds and to non-pi'uccising U. S. EQUIPMENT T 1,600,000 Men In Action Against Communists Yankee Plane Use Feared Chinwangtao, North China, Not. 9 (U.R) Skirmishing be tween Generalissimo Chiang Kat-thek't government troops and communist forces Intensi fied tonight near the Manchur lan border city ol Shanhaik. wan, eight miles northwest of here. A number of U. S. mar ines have been wounded ia railroad guard duty. At the same time jubilation swept the U. S. marine camp in this city tonight when a press flash was received from Washington, saying the mar ines will be withdrawn from China. Chungking, Nov. 9 (U.R) Chinese communists said tonight that the Central government hod thrown 1,600,000 men, Including 40 divisions wholly or partially outfitted with American equip ment, into the North China cam paign against fewer than 1,200,- 000 communist troops. Communist sources reported that Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek had 49 armies in actiun along the North China front, comprising 127 divisions, as well as 350,000 former puppet troops reorganized and Incorporated in to the government forces. At War Since Oct. 13 The communists were said to have had 1,200,000 men under arms at the outset of hostilities, but not all of them were engaged so far. A communist spokesman claim ed that the civil war broke out on Oct. 13, when Chiang issued orders to his forces to suppress -Danaus" in worth China. The resident committee of tha People' Political Council adopt ed a resolution asking the gov ernment to halt the internal war fare at once and take atepi to insure peace and unification. . 30 Ships Ordered Communications Minister Yu Peng Feing said T. V. Soong had ordered 30 Liberty ships from me united states and Canada, IS from each country. ' He IH Soong also was planning to oider ouu.uuu crossties from Canada for railway repair. The communists charged tha the government was DreDarinir to .use American P-40 fighter planes to attack the communists. A new appeal was made to Pres ident Truman to halt American "armed . intervention" in tha civil war. (By United Press) The season's first cold wave, accompanied by blustery winds, moved across the northern plain states and into the Great Lake region today. Freezing temperatures were) reported as far south as the Texas Panhandle and the mer cury tumbled to 13 below zero at Glasgow, Mont., coldest spot in lha nation. Dickinson, N. D., shivered in a low of nine below zero, and other sub-zero readings were recorded throughout North Dakota, Minnesota and northern Colorado. Chilling blasts and wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour wrecked sign boards and toppled trees aa the frigid wave sped south and east from western Canada, head ed for the New England states. Pembina, N. D., was blanketed with nine inches of snow, and other North Dakota and Mon tana towns reported snow two) to eight Inches deep. Sixteen inches were piled up in the mountain passes of Montana and Idaho. Portland, Ore., Nov. 9 (U.R). Determination to carry on the) seven-wcek-old northwest. AFLt lumber strike was still predomi. nant today in the AFL union camp. Voicing the AFL battle cry "no settlement of the strike until demands for an industry wida $1.10 an hour minimum wage ia met by operators," Strike Chair man John Christenson declared that the strike "will never be settled" unless plywood opera tors slop playing labor against labor,
