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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1945.
NO. 198.
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Batavia, Java, Nov. 10 (U.R)
British Indian troops, supported
by warships and planes, today
opened an all-out assault against
Indonesian nationalists barricad
ed in the streets of Soerabaja
who refused a surrender ulti
matum and summoned rein
forcements from central Java.
Despite fierce resistance in
bloody street fighting, the Brit
ish were reported gaining
ground. Indonesian sources said
the situation was "most critical
at 8 p. m. (7:30 a. m. EWT) or
14 hours after the offensive
started.
one third of Soerabaja and are
I welL established, although Indo
t nesians are resisting and re
grouping in other parts of the
city, the Sunday Times of Lon
don said in a special dispatch.
Promptly at 6 a. m. when
the ultimatum expired British
warships in the harbor opened
fire on Indonesian strong pointsJ
in the city. Indian troops occu
pying positions around the city,
began moving into its streets.
Shortly before noon British
warplanes bombed and strafed
the government quarter, center
of the nationalist resistance.
The Soerabaja radio, still In
nationalist hands, said strong
reinforcements were leaving
central Java Sunday for Soera
baja. The broadcast said relig
ious leaders had been called
upon to assist the nationalist
fighting forces.
The British said they had
been forced to attack by stead
ily mounting Indonesian aggres
siveness which caused some 300
British casualties, despite a
truce in effect since late October
after the killing of British Brig
adier Aubertin Mallaby.
The Indonesians charged the
British started the battle despite
their pleas for time to deal with
radical nationalist factions who
favor an armed revolt to pre
vent a return of Dutch rule to
the East Indies.
Dr. Soekarno, president of the
Indonesian republic, was report
ed to have told Surio, extremist
leader of eastern Java, to use
his own judgment on whether
or not to accept the British ulti
matum which warned of a full
scale attack if Surio did not sur
render all hostages, lay down
arms and surrender uncondition
ally. nrATH MMR Til
ULnii! UUITILU IU
Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Sen. John Thomas, R., Ida., a
former Kansas farm youth who
became a western banker and
cattleman and was twice ap
pointed and three times elected
to the senate, died here today
after an illness of several
months. He was 71.
An isolationist and a strict
party Republican, Thomas was
prominently identified in con
gress wtih the irrigation, farm
ing and livestock interests of
his state. He was a member of
the senate banking, finance ir
rigation and public lands com
mittees. Thomas entered George Wash
ington hospital here a week
ago. Cause of his death and fu
k neral plans were not announc
ed immediately.
He first was appointed to the
senate in 1928 when Sen. Frank
R. Gooding died. Later in the
same year he was elected to
serve out the unexpired term.
In 1932 he was defeated by Sen.
James P. Pope.
He was again appointed sena
tor Jan. 27, 1940, to succeed the
late Sen. William E. Borah. He
later was elected to fill Borah's
unexpired term and in 1942 was
elected to a full six-year term
of his own.
San Francisco, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Dairy market unchanged.
Victory Loan Drive
"E" Quota $525,000
"E" Sales to Date
$33,556
Remainder to sell $441,444
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In British ultimatum lor unconditional surrender of rebels. Strong British forces have moved in for full-scale
attack if ultimatum is rejected.
WEDEMEYER SAYS
YANKS INVOLVED
IN CHINA CLASH
Chungking, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
commander of U. S. army forces
in China, admitted today that
Americans had been involved in
little isolated clashes" growing
out of the civil war between
Chungking government and
Chinese communist troops.
I regret these clashes, but I
can assure you the Americans
did not take the initiative," he
told a press conference at wh.ch
he outlined United States policy
in the China theater and the Far
East.
Wedemeyer, who conferred
with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
bhek shortly after his arrival
here last night, said American
forces would continue to help
the Chinese repatriate the Japa
nese, but that Americans did
not come to China to get in
volved in fratricidal warfare.
'I am directed by the War de
partment to use all means avail
able to protect American life
and property," he said. He
added that every incident in
volving an American was under
investigation.
Wedemeyer said that in his
conference with Chiang they dis
cussed the current situation.
Chinese communist quartars
have demanded that American
troops withdraw from China on
the grounds that' they are inter
fering in China's internal affairs.
Wedemeyer said Chinese
forces still were being transport
ed northward by American ves
sels and more will be thus car
ried. Vessels of Vice Adm.
Daniel E. Barbey's 7th amphibi
ous force have been carrying
Nationalist troops toward Man
churia, where Chinese commun
ist forces are deployed to oppose
their entry.
T TO
JOB QUESTIONED
Salem, Ore., Nov. 10 (U.R)
Sheldon F. Sackett, publisher of
the Coos Bay Times, today filed
a petition in Marion county cir
cuit court contesting the right
of State Senator Merle E. Chess
man, Astoria newspaperman, to
hold the office of highway com
missioner while still retaining
his seat in the senate.
Sackett contended in the peti
tion that a state senator cannot
legally perform the duties and
secure reimbursement out of
public funds for expenses in
curred while acting as state
hiChwav rnmmkcinnn.
The petition 'also questioned '
inc rights of act ns Stat ,.
tor William H. Straycr of Baker
county, a member of the govern
ing board of the state department
of gellogy and mineral indus
tries, and State Representative
Earl H. Hill of Lane county, on
the State Fish commission.
Yugoslav Republic
Vote Staged Today
London, Nov. 10 (U.R) Brit
ain and the United States recog
nized the regime of Col. Gen.
Enver Hoxka as a provisional
government of Albania today as
the people of Yugoslavia pre
pared to vote Sunday for na
tional assembly rxpoctcd to le
'ilt in a YngnOnv republic head
ad bv Marshal Tito.
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I CITY TO OBSERVE
ARMISTICE WITH
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Medford banks, post office,
city hall and court house offices
and many of the city's business
establishments will close Mon
day in the observance of Armis
tice day. The Mail Tribune
will bo to Dress at noon and
I there will be no rural or city
mail delivery.
The day's program will in
clude the annual American Le
gion breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at
the Medford hotel at which all
veterans are welcome; a parade,
starting at ll a.m., and the all
veterans lunch in the Elks
temple basement at noon. The
American Legion dance in Mer
rick's ballroom, with dancing
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. will wind
up the day.
The parade will start at the
city park on Main street, going
east to Riverside avenue, north
on Riverside to Sixth street,
west to Bartlctt street, south to
Main and west to the point of
starting.
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San Francisco, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Richard Worswick, 23, Oakland,
tonight was held incommunicado
in city jail after questioning in
connection with the disappear
ance of three-year-old Dickie
Turn Suden scion of a gold min
ing family who vanished Nov. 1
near his home at Goodyear Bar,
Calif.
Chief of Police Charles Dullea
announced he and Federal
Burea of Investigation agents
had questioned Worswick, adopt
ed son of a Masonic Employment
Service employee, and had de
cided the youth "knew nothing
about the boy's disappearance."
Worswick, who police said has
a bad check record in both Oak
land and San Francisco, was
taken into custody at his Oak
land rooming house early today
after he allegedly telephoned
Mrs. Frances Gardinier, aunt of
the missing child and demanded
S2.500 for information about
Dickie's whereabouts.
Captain of Inspectors John
Engler admitted authorities had
trailed Worswick for three or
four days but would not reveal
whe'er 'he,, yu,h was s,0UKhi
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by San Francisco and Oakland
department stores or in connec-1
tion with the Turn Suden case.
San Francisco police brought
Worswick from Oakland at 1 p.
m. today. He was then spirited
out of the city jail and was gore
several hours. After he was re
turned. Dulcau announced he
believed Worswick waj a j
"phoney."
BOMBER HITS HILL
Middlesboro, Ky., Nov. 10
(UP.) Five members of a B-25
Mitchell bomber crew were kill
ed late today when their ship
hit the top of a Cumberland
mountain peak in fog. Th ac
cident occurred six miles kouth
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IN A.F.L. STRIKE
Portland. Ore., Nov. 10 (U.R)
New offers of 12Vi cent
increases were made today by
northwest lumber employers to
striking AFL workers, while
additional non-striking CIO lum
ber workers added their appro
val to the union's acceptance of
the compromise wage raise.
The Evans Products Company
in Coos Bay, which has the larg
est payroll in southwestern Ore
gon, made the.newcst 12'6
cent offer to its striking AFL
employes. A special meeting
will be called for the veneer and
plywood workers, local 2621, to
vote on the proposal.
Three new CIO locals have
voted approval of the compro
mise 12'2 cent raise reached by
CIO union leaders and fir 'oper
ators in Portland last week,
thev were the Reedsport and
Coos Ba,v. Oregon, and Aber
deen, Wash., locals.
Meanwhile 55.000 Oregon and
southern Washington AFL team
sters have joined their fellow
carpenters in all-out support of
the seven-wcek-old AFL walk
out. Charging the CIO with "un
scrupulous raiding tactics," the
joint council of drivers. No. 37,
announced It would refuse to
handle any lumber or timber
"manufactured or delivered by
firms or operators who may
have labor contracts with CIO
unions or their affiliates.
In Salem, the district coun
cil of lumber and sawmill work
ers, AFL, demanded that the
council office in Eugene move
to settle the strike by compro
mising on the 12V4 raise.
E
TO CAPTTOL QUIZ
Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Field Marshal Albert Kessclring,
former chief of staff of the Ger
man army, was in Washington
late this week undergoing ques
tioning by American intelligence
authorities, usually reliable
sources said tonight.
Kessclring and other captured
German officers whose identities
could not be learned were re
moved from the capital by plane
early today. At that time they
were spotted at a distance by te
porters gathered to cover the ar
rival of Prime Minister Clement
Attlee.
ALLIED CONTROL
Berlin, Nov. 10 (U.R) The
four-power allied control coun
cil for Germany, in the first
final disagreement since its for
mation, announced todav that
France had blocked a proposal I
for inter-zone amalgamation of j
German trade unions.
The breakdown was announc-j
ed by an American spokesman j
as "final," and he implied that;
either the French must change !
their minds or agreements by
the individual Russian, Amcri-1
can and British zonal command
ers micht well follow, leaving
ilae iituli out ia the told. i
FULL FACTS WILL
BE GIVEN PUBLIC
ON PEARLHARBOR
Barkley Gives Assurance of
No Cover-up Governor
Dewey To Testify
Washington, Nov. 10 U.R)
Chairman Alben W. Barkley of
the Pearl Harbor investigating
committee said tonight the
committee would lay all facts
before the public "no matter
whom they may hurt in high or
low places."
He disclosed that many top
urnrtimp lenders and others, in
cluding Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York, will be among
early witnesses betore tne com
mittee.
One of the witnesses will be
Grace Tully, confidential secre
tary of the late President Roose
velt now employed at the
Archives building where she is
in rharee of Mr. Roosevelt's
collection of private papers.
Barkley's statement climaxed
a week of intra-committee
ffiinu rinrine which republi
can members accused the demo
cratic majority and President
Truman of blocking their indi
vidual efforts to get at the
facts.
The chairman issued a formal
.(.lament 'ln order" he said.
"that there may be no misunder
standing resulting from discus
sions in congress."
Un!ihnr T as chairman nor
the committee as a whole will
countenance any effort to keep
from the public any facts ma
terial to the inquiry," Barkley
said.
Barkley listed 48 persons who
will be among the early witness
es. They included:
Dewey, Maj. Gen. Walter C.
Short, army commander at
Pearl Hurbor at the time of the
Japanese attack; Rear ' Adm.
it. .i .. v vimmpl. the navy
Iiuauotn, " -
commander; former Secretary of
State Cordull Hull; former sec
retary of War Henry L. Stim
son Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
chief of the army air. forces;
Gen. George C. Marshall, army
chief of staff; Capt. Alvin D
Kramer, navy off leer, who car
ried messages from the navy to
the white house on the eve of
Pearl Harbor; Adm. J. O. Rich
ardson; Adm. Harold Stark, for
mer Chief of Naval Operations.
Adm. William F. Halsey, Jr.,
former Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles, and Joseph C.
Grew, former undersecretary of
state and former U. S. ambassa
dor to Japan.
F0REIGNT0L1CY
Washington. Nov. 10 (U.R)
President Truman said tonight
that he hopes this country can
formulate "a foreign policy
which will be the policy of the
people of the United States and
not the policy of any political
party."
In a short speech at the state
dinner in honor of Prime Min
isters Clement Attlee of Britain
and W. L. MacKenzie King of
Canada, the president declared:
"One of the great things
about the British empire is that
whe nthcy have a foreign pol
icy and they always have one
the British people are behind
that foreign policy no matter
which government is in power."
Mr. Truman said his state
ment was "amply illustrated" by
the Potsdam "Big Three" con
ference which began with Win
ston Churchill as the British
prime minister but concluded
with Attlee at the reins of a
new British labor government.
The British prime minister
told the gathering that he be
lieved the United States and
Great Britain needed most a
"foreign policy that is directed
not to any immediate aim of any
particular country, but a foreign
policy that is conceived in the
Interest of all the people of the
world."
"This does not mean that we
don't take into account our par
ticular differences," he added,
"but it seems to me today that
our over-riding interests of
world civilization come first."
Victory I.oan "E" Bonds
mature for 33 1-3 percent more
PRESir ..KING
AND 1 , LEE OPEN
AToT..
British and Canada Meads
Arrive To Discuss Mo
mentous Problem
Washington. Nov. 10 U.R
President Truman and the
prime ministers of Great Bri
tain and Canada today began
discussion of the world's most
portentous question h o w to
make atomic energy the servant
rather than the destroyer of
mankind.
Clement Attlee, Britain's new
socialist premier, arrived from
London by air this morning, and
the Canadian prime minister,
W. L. MacKenzie King, came in
about the same time from
Canada.
The talks began at lunch to
day on what the white house
described an "informal basis".
And a spokesman for the presi
dent emphasized that the discus
sions would continue through
tomorrow on the same "informal
basis." There was no informa
tion as to when "formal" busi
ness would begin.
The three men began their
momentous work against back
ground of spreading political
strife ip many parts of the
world and domestic crises in
volving labor and management
in their own countries.
The hope of statesmen now is
that the requirements of -national
security tis conceived by
leaders of the bomb-sharing
nations and the necessity for
international cooperation to pre
serve peace may be meshed
without conflict.
Difficulties which the Anglo-American-Canadian
leadors face
in this respect were underscored
this week by. Soviet Foreign
Commisar V. M. Molotov, who
expressed his country's frank
disapproval of. U. S. determina
tion to keep technical secrete of
atomic bomb production.
Incident to the . conferences
the i white house made .these
other points:
1. No technical experts are
expected to take part in the dis
cussions. 2. The three-way talks will
deal with policy, not technical
details. After the throe primary
partners In the atomic, bomb
have decided on a policy, their
decisions will be taken up at
later dates with other members
of the united nations.
There was, however, well
founded reason to believe that
Mr. Truman and Attlee would
find occasion to discuss other
matters such as the proposed
$4,000,000,000 loan to Britain
and solution of the knotty Pales
tine problem. The president
has said that although the pro
gram calls only for atomic con
trol discussions, he will discuss
any subject brought up by
Attlee.
CITY THIRD FOR
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Salem, Ore.. Nov. 10 (U.R)
Medford placed third in Its di
vision of the 1945 Oregon cities
traffic safety contest at the end
of September, Secretary of
State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., an
nounced today.
First place In the division
representing cities with over
10,000 population went to Eu
gene and second to Klamath
Falls. The cities were graded ac
cording to their current accident
experience compared to their
own previous three-year aver
age. Nazis Hanged For
Murder Six Fliers
Brucsahl, Germany, Nov. 10
(U.R) Five Germans, shivering in
a chill rain and pleading for
mercy, were hanged by the
United States army today for
the murder of six American
fliers.
The five were found guilty by
an American military court at
Darmstadt of murdering six
American filers who parachuted
Into Russclshelm 15 months ago
after their planes were shot
down.
CHILDREN MISSING
Mexico City, Nov. 10 U.R
An epidemic of missing children
between the ages of two and
13 continued to spread through
the capital tonight. By some ac
counts, the number of missing
ciiiloitiu wai moie Hum 32.
BULLETIN
Baton Rouge, L Nov. 10
(U.R) The lead changed hands
six times tonight, end when
the game ended Mississippi
State had outlasted Louisiana
State. 27 to 20. before 35.000
in thrilling touchdown der
by. Mississippi took lead in
the opening period, After that,
the game was see-saw affair
until the final chapter when
End Billy Howard raced 31
yards with In an intercepted
pass to clinch the contest.
LEWIS AND GREEN
OPPOSE CIO CZAR
IN WAGEJISPUTE
Show-down Due This Week
Murray Backs Truman
Pay Stand
Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R)
The labor-management confer
ence to promote industrial peace
tonight faced a show-down bat
tle among labor delegates over
the wage issue.
The personal prestige of two
fouling labor leaders CIO
President Philip Murray and
mine union chief John L. Lewis
was at stake. Murray wants
the conference to discuss wages.
Lewis doesn't.
The conferenco has survived
its first week of bickering be
tween Murray and Lewis. The
coming week is almost certain
to see them in a knock-down
and drag-out fight. Murray In
tends to force consideration of
the wage question when the con
ference executive com m 1 1 1 e e
meets on Tuesday.
Except for meetings on Sun
day and Monday of one of its
six working committees, - the
conference was In recess until
next Tuesday.
Strategists of the CIO and
Lewis united mine workers
were using the recess period to
draw their battle plans. AFL
President William Green, who
has endorsed every utterance of
Lewis in the past week, has
promised to continue to support
the mine chief's position next
week.
Management representatives
also were united in opposition
to Murray but they preferred to
let Lewis and Green carry the
ball. -
Many labor observers and
some government officials for
merly idontiifed with the new
deal believe that Lewis and
Green have set up an Informal
coalition aimed at reducing
Murray's prestige. Murray's sup
porters contend that Green's
position on the wage issue is not
representative of all AFL un
ions. Murray's resolution, seeking
confcrcnc cendorsement of Pres
ident Truman's recent statement
that wages could be increased
without price raises, was attack
ed by Lewis as 'namby-pamby"
and too conservative.
UMW spokesman said today
that Lewis would "stand pat on
what he has said about Mur
ray's proposal and he Is not go
iug to introduce any substitute.
As things stand now, the op
position to Murray's resolution
could muster more than enough
votes to kill It In the executive
committee. It takes a vote of
three-fourths of the committee
to bring a report to the floor.
The only votes Murray Is cer
tain of are those of the three
CIO members. Arrayed against
him are the three AFL, one
UMW, one railway brother
hoods and eight management
delegates.
COMMITTEE BALKS
Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Some members of the House
Military Affairs committee re
belled tonight at "being put on
the spot" by the rest of congress
and predicted the committee as
a result would shelve pending
universal training legislation.
The committee is scheduled to
vote Tuesday on a motion to de
fer until next year legislation re
quested by President Truman 'or
one year of compulsory training
for all 18-year-old males.
FILM TYCOON PASSES
New York, Nov. 10 (U.R)
David Bernstein, vice president
and treasurer of the motion pic
ture company, Locw's, Inc., died
today of a heart attack at his
I 'ilk, avenue burnt, lit was 63. i
OVER IRISH 48-0;
Indiana, Big Ten Leader,
Routs Minnesota Co
lumbia, Temple Beaten
New York, Nov. 10 (U.R)
Army's Sons of Mars and Thund
er made a frolic of what was
supposed to be the acid test of
their gridiron greatness todax
when they shook a previously
unbeaten Notre Dame team to
pieces with a 48 to 0 football
victory.
Columbia's Lions and Temple's
Owls, previously unbeaten east
ern teams, saw their hopes for
Bow) games go glimmering as
both suffered decisive defeats.
Pennsylvania toppled Columbia,
32 to 7 while Perm State was a
27 to 0 victor over Temple.
Navy's dormant power assert
ed itself at last against a Michi
gan team rated the best in the
Big Ten and the Middies came
off with a 33 to 7 victory.
In other eastern games, Brown
upset Yale 20 to 7; Ohio Stale
topped Pittsburgh, 14 to 0; Cor
nell defeated Colgate, 20 to 6,
and Rutgers drubbed Lafayette,
32 to 14. Princeton rose to gain
an unexpected 13 to 13 tie with
Dartmouth; Harvard topped
King's Point Merchant Marine,
27 to 7; New York University
won from Lehigh, 19 to 0, and
Connecticut paraded past Maine,
53 to 0.
In Dixie, Gcorgie Tech poured
it on Tulanc, 41 to 7; Tennessee
blanked Mississippi, 34 to 0; Vir
ginia won from Richmond1, 46 to
0; Duke defeated North Caro
lina State, 26 to 13; Auburn
drubbed Southwest Louisiana, 52
to 0; North Carolina edged Wil
liam and Mary, 6 to 0; Georgia
defeated Florida, 34 to 0; Clem
son won from Virginia Polytech
nic, 35 to 0; Kentucky beat West
Virginia, 10 to 6; Chattanooga
upset Vandcrbilt, 13 to 6, and
Maryland drubbed Virginia Mili
tary Institute, 38 to 0.
Indiana's Hoosicrs, still ahead
in the Big Ten race, handed
Minnesota its worst defeat of all
time, 49 to 0. Purdue defeated
Miami, 21 to 7, Northwestern,
won from Wisconsin, 28 to 14,
Great Lakes defeated Michigan
State, 27 to 7, Detroit won from
Cincinnati, 20 to 0, and Drake
overpowered Iowa State Teach
ers, 53 to 6.
In the Big Six, Oklahoma con
tinued to set the pace with a 14
to 7 win over Iowa State whila
Nebraska trimmed Kansas State,
24 to 0. Kansas lost an outside
game to Marquette, 26 to 0.
Oklahoma A. & M. won from
Tulsa, 12 to 6 to remain unde
feated. In the southwest, Texas A. tc
M. used a field goal to defeat
Southern Methodist, 3 to 0,
Texas Tech topped Texas Chris
tian 12 to 0, Texas edged Baylor,
21 to 14 and Rice outclassed
Arkansas, 26 to 7.
Utah defeated New Mexico in,
a Rocky Mountain feature, 21 to
20, Denver won from the Coior
ado Aggies, 35 tc 12, Colorado
defeated Utah State, 14 to 7 and
Colorado College was a 47 to 13
victor over Greeley, Colo., State.
SNOWS
CLOSES M'KENZIE
By United Press
Snow storms closed the Tim
berline highway and the
McKcnzie Pass today and state
motor association officials urged
drivers to carry chains for any
trips to eastern and southern
Oregon or to the coast.
Officials in Bend said they
were unable to get in touch
with the Eugene side of the
McKcnzie Pass to warn them the
pass was closed so the gate
could be closed there. Drifts
following a blizzard glutted the
road with stalled cars.
The early snow storms caught
highway and forest officials in
the Mount Hood area by sur
prise and It is possible the
Timberllnc highway will not be
cleared until after this week
end.
However, the road of Govern
ment Camp was still open today
and the Loop and Wapinitia .
highways were passable.
San Francisco, Nov. 10 'U.R)
Eight ships carrying 3,728 re
turning servicemen and civilians
docked tier today,