Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 13, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextChiang Gains Permission From Russia To Fly Troops Into Manchuria Weather FORECAST: Cloudy to prtly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Occasional light rain Wednes, day. Little chanfe In tempera ture. Temp. Highest yesterday T S3 Lowest this morning SI Fortieth Year E IS WITHE BY ' LARGE T High School Band Leads Marching Units in Annual Armistice Day Pageant. Disregarding grey skies and rain, several hundred Jackson county people gathered down' town yesterday for the tradi tional Armistice Day parade staged by veterans organiza tions of Medford. The parade formed on West Main street near the park and proceeded east to riverside avenue and returned by way of Sixth street. Medford high school's uniform ed band led the marching units . and was followed by 60 hospital corpsmen from the Camp White navy hospital and men of Com pany A, First Regiment, Oregon State Guard, and of Headquar ters' Detachment, the guard. The two guard units are headed by Major Carl Tengwald, Capt. O. E. Sabin and Capt. Moore Hamilton. Kilties Parade Also in the line of march were members of the Ashland Ameri can Legion Kiltie Band, members of the Medford Disabled Ameri can Veterans, Veterans of For eign Wars and American Legion and their auxiliaries. Daughters of Union Veterans, Gold Star Mothers, United Spanish War Veterans auxiliary, Medford Navy Mothers' club. Red Cross. Y. M. C. A. groups, Salvation Army groups, Mrs. Eve Prentice and her accordion band, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Medford Garden club. Eagles and auxil iary, Redmen and Pocahontas, the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, the Jackson County Humane society and the 4-H club. Considerable comment was caused by the entry of the Jack sonville Chamber of Commerce, a small burro loaded with a prospector's equipment and led by a man attired in frontiers man's clothing. Unusually large numbers of veterans, including many vete rans of the present war, attend ed the American Legion break fast at the Medford Hotel, and the veterans' luncheon at the Elks club, it being reported that more than 250 were present for the luncheon. Speaker at the breakfast was Niel Morfitt, Astoria, command er of the Oregon department, American Legion. , DEGAUlLETOTED CHIEFJOF STATE Paris, Nov. 13 U.R) The new French chamber of deputies to day elected Gen. Charles De Gaulle chief of the French stale. DeGaulle's election by the new assembly had been a foregone conclusion. Before his election leaders of all the major French parties rose in the chamber and announced they had agreed to vote for De Gaulle. The vote was 555 for DeGaulle with no opposition votes and one abstention. The deputy who withheld his vote was Louis Dumat, a right ist who said he would not vote for a candidate who received the vote of the communists. FBI Knew War Near k Before Japs Struck Washington, Nov. 13 (U.Rl Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart, R., Calif., said that Director J. Ed gar Hoover of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation, told him today that he "had information Nov. 26, 1941, that war was im minent" and that as a result alerted his men in the Pacific Islands. "If the army and navy had done this there never would have been a Pearl Harbor." Gearhart told reporters. Stimson Recovering From Heart Attack West Hills, N Y., Nov. 13 (U.R) Former Secretary of War ! Henry L. Stimson was reported 4 recovering from a heart attack which forced him to bed several days ago. Stimson, 77, came to "High- hr.r hi '.one Island estate shortly after he resigned bit cab inet post Sept. i. MEDFORD Unittd Press Full L.asad Wlra Canadian Strikers Reinforce Line; Bus Strike To Spread By United Press Striking United Automobile Workers Union (CIO) members reinforced their picket lines around the Ford Motor Com pany plant in Windsor, Ont., to day in anticipation of possible early intervention of provincial police in the Ford strike. Meanwhile, employes of Northland Greyhound Lines, Inc., voted to strike in seven midwestern states. An official of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Street Electric Railways and Motor Coach Employes of America (AFL) said the union members had voted 784 to 68 to join striking Greyhound em ployes in 27 eastern and south western states. Eighteen thou sand Southern Pacific railroad workers in Texas and Louisiana were reported by union offi cials to be voting overwhelm ingly in favor of a strike to pro test the administration of the railroad's hospital at Houston. TORNADO TO PLAY IS BY Medford's Black Tornado ver sus the Bulldogs of North Bend at North Bend. The game will be played either next Friday or Saturday, the date not yet being settled. Med ford school officials are endea voring to have the contest set for Friday afternoon. That's the ticket for the Dis trict 3 championship playoff, ar rived at only after long delibera tion on the part of North Bend officials and finally settled when Tom Piggott,-secretary of the Oregon State High School Activi ties association, flipped a coin in Portland today tc decide the site of the title game. North Bend had refused to send its unbeaten eleven to Med ford until given an ultimatum by the committee of principals that it would have to abide by the coin toss or forfeit its play off right. They finally agreed and then won the toss. , Hood River's powerhouse de feated The Dalles, 14-0. Satur day to earn the right to repre sent District 1. embracing north eastern Oregon, in the state semi finals. San Francisco, Nov. 13 (U.R) The Navy Department reported from Okinawa today that 90 of the 226 vessels beached or sunk during the typhoon Oct. 10, have been refloated. They ranged from small LCI's to 10,-000-ton ships. Boy Casanova Sulks In Cell; Woman Companion Is Brazen Oroville, Calif., Nov. 13 (U.R) Ellsworth (Sonny Boy) Wise carver sulked in a juvenile de tention cell today as the sheriff's office detained an army wife who said she ran off with him be cause he was "more of a man at 16 than a lot of men at 35." For his part, Wisecarver said he really "didn't give a hoot" for attractive Mrs. Eleanor De veny, 25-year-old mother of two children, who said she had eloped with the boy from Long Beach. Mrs. Deveny said yesterday she planned to divorce her hus band, Cpl. John Deveny, now in Japan, to marry Wisecarver "that is, if Sonny still wants to." Dream Boy "He's the kind of a guy every girl dreams about," she told re porters solemnly. Deputies said Wisecarver steadfastly had denied making the 500-mile trip with Mrs. De veny but "told four or five dif ferent stories" explaining how he reached Oroville. But Mrs. Deveny, who was taken into custody yesterday, told frankly and in detail of her two-week romance with Wise carver. "I knew how old he was. but it didn't make any difference," she said. "I thought I was ss happy with my husband as any one could be. Then I met Sonny, and it was the first time in my life I was completely happy." Second Escapade It was the second time that Wiictaivex tad become involved MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1945. GROCERY STAPLES F Bread, Butter, Milk and Eggs Disappear Account Strikes, Seasonal Lull. San Francisco, Nov. 13 (U.R) With lowered dairy production along the west coast and strikes in the San Francisco bay area cleaning grocers' shelves of bread, butter, milk and eggs the four major grocery staples housewives today were asking: "The war is over, but where is the food?" The dairy division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture dis closed that shortages of eggs and butter were general throughout the Pacific coast. The almost complete absence of bread and the shortage of milk was pecul iar to San Francisco, however, where strikes have tied up bak eries and plants producing paper milk cartons. There wasn't a grocery store in the Golden Gate city with enough of the four items to go around. With bread deliveries halted, storekeepers were using their bread counters for display ing other commodities. Butter was doled out one-fourth of a pound at a time to regular cus tomers through an under-the- counter rationing system. The American Can Co., major producer of paper milk cartons here, was closed as a result of the AFL machinists' strike. The shortage of paper cartons prompted dairies to deliver milk in two-quart jars and regular one-quart bottles, including thosel turned in by . the public In response to a plea that gar ages and cellars be searched for strays. The egg shortage was due to a seasonal production lull, ex plained H. E. Berman, sales manager of Nye Si Nissen Co., a large wholesaler. Portland To Have Pro Golf Classic Portland. Nov. 13 (U.R) Robert A. Hudson, sponsor of the campaign to secure the 1946 Pro fessional Golfers' Association championship for Portland, to day announced he had been in formed from Chicago that Port land had been selected. Hudson put up $25,000 to get the PGA meet and said it would be held at the wooded Portland Golf club, where he promoted the first and second annual Port land open tournaments last No vember and this September. fAcmt Telephoto) MRS. ELEANOR DEVENY with the law because of his at traction for older women. Two years ago, at the age of 14. he eloped with Mrs. Elaine Mon fredi, 22, to Denver, Colo., with a stop at Yuma, Ariz., for a wed ding ceremony. The marriage later was an nulled, and Mrs. Monfredi plead ed guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Meanwhile, authorities were uncertain just what to do with the 'ten-aged lover and the woman who claimed to be his Kill lacui I jl 'M Attlee Warns Si Under Atom' Recoi? Washington, Nov. 13 U.P.) Prime Minister Clement Attlee told congress today that civiliza tion can survive the atomic bomb only if the nations accept the Christian principle of man's brotherhood. The new socialist leader of the British government, addressing a joint session of the house and senate, declared that "man's material discoveries have out paced his moral progress." "The greatest task that faces us today," he said," is to bring home to all people before it is too late that our civilization can can only survive by the accept ance and practice in international relations and in our national life of the Christian principle (that) we are members one of another." Should Forget War In this country to discuss with President Truman and Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King means of making the world safe for atomic energy, Attlee as serted: "It is a great mistake to think constantly of -war and the pre vention of war. "We have to think rather of the best means of building up peace. Speaking last week in London, I said that the founda tion of peace lay in the hearts of "TIGER" SUMMONS DEFENSE WITNESS Manila, Nov. 13 (U.R) Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita called (the grandson of a former Filipino revolutionary leader as his first defense witness today to refute charges that he refused to halt the massacre of civilians in Ma nila. Yamashita, who had been lis tening impassively to a damning recital of evidence linking him to the rape of Manila, smiled broadly when his lawyers inter rupted the prosecution testimony to put 14-year-old Vislumino Romero on the stand. The boy denied flatly one of the main prosecution charges, that his grandfather, the former insurrectionist Gen. A r t e m I o Ricarte who worked for the Jap anese as a liaison officer, had conferred with Yamashita on the Manila atrocities last December. Japs Make Plea For Citizenship San Francisco, Nov. 13 (U.R) More than 1,000 Japanese at the Tule Lake segregation center asked restoration of their U. S. citizenship today, charging they were "victims of duress by the government and seditious groups" when they swore allegi ance to Japan during the war. In mass petitions filed in the federal district court, they asked writs of habeas corpus to release them from detention and re quested that their renunciation of citizenship be cancelled. The court also was asked to declare them U. S. citizens and grant an injunction to restrain the justice department from deporting them to Japan as aliens. PEACE MEETING SET IN BAKERY WALKOUT By United Preis San Francisco bakers and rep resentatives of the AFL bakery wagon drivers' union were to meet again today in an effort to settle a strike of 110 workers at Langcndorf united bakery plants here which has caused nearly all of the city's baking plants to close In protest. The dispute threatened to spread to other Pacific coast cities. COMPULSORY TRAINING CONSIDERATION VOTED Washington. Nov. 13 (U.R) The house military affairs com mittee voted to'ay to continue with immediate consideration of President Truman's request for a compulsory military training program. Thecommiltce defeated. 15 to 12, a motion by Rep. Dewey Short, R., Mo., to defer consid eration until next year or until the senate military affairs com mittee approved a bill. Nicaragua is about thrcc c;utUi tlie jUs of Cai4ufLUft. - al Of Civilization mb Threat Depends On m Of Brotherhood Of Man .... and I hold it true that the more the citizens of the world can get to know each other the less likely are we to have the emotional condition in which war is possible." ror that reason, Attlee con tinued, "our United Nations, in which I profoundly believe, must be something more than an agreement between govern ments; it must be an expression of the will of the common people in every country." Prosperity Bails Attlee, whose speech was broadcast over all networks, said the labor government of Great Britain believes that "the foun dations of peace must be world prosperity and good neighborli ness." And it is determined, he said, to fight for this objective "with courage and a determina tion to win through." "We have not stood up to our enemies for six years," he said, "to be beaten by economics." Attlee sought to reassure his audience about the so-called socialist government of Britain. Some persons, he said, believe the socialists are "out to destroy freedom, freedom of the indivi dual, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press." "They are wrong," he said. Attlee pointed out that the labor party consists not only of wage earners but also of profes sional and business men, clcrgy m e n , journalists, Protestants, Catholics and Jews. "The old school tie can still be seen on the government benches," he said. Safeguard Freedom But though the party is not out -to destroy any of the demo cratic freedoms, it does Intend to safeguard the freedoms of the individual. "When big business gets too powerful so that it becomes monopolistic," he said, "we hold that it is not safe to leave it In private hands." Attlee said he looked to an era of increasing cooperation be tween his country and the United States "not as being an ex clusive friendship but as a con tribution to the knitting together with all peoples through the United Nations Organization in the bonds of peace." Internal policies need not jeo pardize this cooperation, he said. "We shall be working out a planned economy," he continued. "You, it may be, will con'mue in your more individualistic methods. "It is essential if we are to build up a peaceful world tnat we should have the widest toleration recognizing that our aim is not uniformity but unity in diversity. "It would be a dull world if we were all alike." Trust U. S. Attlee expressed full trust In the good purposes of the United States. "Today," he said, "the United States stands out as the mightiest power on earth. "And yet America is a threat to no one. All know that she SAILORS BATTLE L Honolulu, Nov. 13 (U.R) One thousand sailors of the Honolulu air station armed with bayonvts. clubs, rocks and hammers rioted through a nearby residential sec tion for two hours last night in what the sailors called retalia tion for "unprovoked attacks" by local islanders. The outbreak followed a period of increasing tension be tween military forces in Hono lulu and local residents in wh'ch soldiers and sailors charged that they had repeatedly been attack ed by "gooks" local residents. At least one soldier, TSgt. Milton P. Kahn, was so aroused by the "gook" attacks that he wrote letters to the mid-Pacific edition of the Stars and Stripes and to the Honolulu Advertiser. "Honolulu seems to have over looked the most rotten, mafcgnt infested rubbish that stupid, shoeless, dirty lower strata of Honolulu 'citizen' whom service men know decisively as the 'gook'," KfOw ctajied. Tribune Unittd Pr.it Full will never use her power for sel fish aims or territorial aggran dizement in the future any more than she done in the past. "We look upon her forces and our own forces and those of other nations as instruments that must never be employed save in the interests of world security and for the repression of the aggres sor." Attlee said this country had been spared the ravages of wai. "But," he added, "I know that you are fully conscious of the tragic folly of war." There are now no natural de fensive barriers behind which nations may hide in security, he said. FEAR OWN CHILD; Pasadena, Cal., Nov. 13 U.R) Fearful nf the renlta nf ihnlr own creation, physicists who neipcd conceive the atomic bomb today joined nearly 200 scient ists at Califnrnin TnnfifiitA nf Technology in an appeal to Proa- mem iruman ana congress lor international control of atomic energy. "We believe that scientific facts cannot be kept secret lor long, and that other nations will discover how to make atomic bombs within a few years," tlicy said in an onen letter. "Unless that short time is used to establish international control, an armament race may ensue wiin results even more disastrous than they have been in the past." J. R. Oppenheimer, professor of theoretical nhvsicn nnH r. search head of the New Mexico experiments on the bomb; Prof. Carl D. Anderson, the nnt..H atom smasher and Nobel prize winner; uiarics C. Lauritson, professor of physics who helped conceive the bomb; and the dis tinguished physicist, Dr. Robert A. Milllkan, Nobel prize winner, were among those who attached their names to the nriri.,ni appeal. The scientists, who just com pleted a study of atomic-energy legislation now before congress believed that, while the current Johnson-May bill may require substantial modification, this should not be allowed to pre vent prompt and decisive action britisTbattle Batavia, Nov. 13 (U.R) Brit ish troops fouffht their the center of Soerabaja behind a rolling aerial and artillery bar rage today and official sources predicted that nationalist resist ance in tne city would bo crush ed before the week-end. British headquarters spokes men said Infantrymen of the 5th Indian division penetrated Into the modern hncini.es er.t;nn nf Soerabaja, in the heart of the Java naval oasc. The bulk of the Indonesian extremists were hellpunri- .rtn. ccntratcd in the central area and dispatches from the city said thev were heincr hlnetnrt f their barricades by point-blank artillery fire and aerial bom bardment. Lack of Lumber Grows on Coast Portland, Ore., Nov. 13 (U.R) Striking AFL lumber workers today reported a growing short age of structural timber throughout the nation as a re sult of the Pacific northwest walkout, now in its eighth week. Northwest timbers, a vital part of major contribution, have almost vanished from stockpiles and AFL spokesmen said the situation would grow worse be cause AFL teamsters and the Sailors Unio n of the Pacific were refusing to handle any "hot" lumber from CIO mills, which havp been operating dur ing Uie ATL strike. L.as.d Wiii NO. 200. REP. JAMES MOTT SALEM FUNERAL PLAN FOR MOTT Washington, Nov. 13 (U.R) Funeral arrangements were be ing made today for Republican Congressman James Mott, dean of the Oregon delegation, who died of a heart attack yesterday on his 62nd birthday. Rep. Homer Angell, R., Ore., who succeeds Mott as senior member of the Oregon delega tion, said he believed services would be- held at Salem, Ore., where Mott established law of fices four years before coming to congress in 1933. Angell and Reps. Lowell Stockman and Har ris Ellsworth, all of Oregon, are expected to represent the house of representatives at the serv ices. Molt's death followed three weeks of encouraging reports from Bcthesda Naval hospital on his convalescence from an abdominal operation. At 2:15 p. m. yesterday, however, he suffored a heart attack and 45 minutes later suffered a second and fatal attack. House members from both parties mourned his death. Al most without exception tneir comments included mention of Mott's "keen mind." He was the ranking minority member of the House Naval Af fairs committee and served on yie roads and postwar military policy committees. Past Masters Of J'Ville Masons Will be Honored Jacksonville, Nov. 13 War ren Lodge No. 10 of Jacksonville will observe past masters' night with a dinner and meeting at the hall in Jacksonville Wednes day at 6:30 p. m. Speakers will be Dr. B. N. Ahl, captain in the navy medical corps and stationed at Camp White, and Capt. Harold Hart zell, pilot in the marine corps. Dinner will be served by the Eastern Star club. FLEE VOLCANO San Francisco, Nov. 13 (U.R) Volcanic ash from erupting Mount Ruahepu in New Zealand has forced removal of more tnan 700 American lend-lease vehicles 100 miles to the south, Mel bourne radio said today. The Australian broadcast recorded by United Press said in a dispatch from Wellington, N. Z., that ihc machines were damaged by vol canic ash from the mountain's crater. They were moved from the New Zealand army'a Wai- ouru military camp. :" tf - V - -i jf''.t '.? Largest Crop of Turkeys on Record Awaiting U.S. Thanksgiving Dinner Chicago, Nov. 13 (U.R) More than 44,000,000 turkeys are eating their heads off to provide the makings for the na tion's Thanksgiving dinner. The Institute of American Poultry Industries reported to day that since last spring the biggest crop of gobblers on rec ord has been stuffing on choice grain. The 1945 crop is 22 per cent larger than last year's and the institute predicted that there will be more than enough meat both white and dark to go around. Making the turkey outlook even brighter, the army filled its requirements early and lift ed its freeze order. Poultrymcn said all the turkeys now being fattened are destined for civil ian dinner tables. Heavy turkeys, weighing more Uiau 16 pounds, ai more L LANDSEADOORS 30 American Air Transports Manned by Chinese Crews Ready to Move 1500 Daily; Chungking, Nov. 13 (U.R) Well-informed sources said to day the central government ob tained permission from Russia to fly occupation troops into Manchuria, where hostile China ese communists have blocked in coming land and sea routes. Thirty American air trans- ports, manned by Chinese crews, were reported standing by at Peiping to move 1,500 of Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek a troops into Manchuria daily. R.plac Russians They will replace Soviet Red Banner army forces, which wera reported today to have begun a mass withdrawal from Man churia. More than 2,000,000 Chinese communists and nation alist troops were locked in un declared civil war along tha southern approaches to Man churia. The Chungking government appealed to the Soviets for per mission to occupy Manchuria by air after defending communist had denied nationalist ground and amphibious troops access to the normal avenues of entry. Scattered fighting flared I the-"battle of the border." It was reported persistently that government troops captured Shanhaikwan, communist strong. hold at the eastern terminus of the Great Wall. Shanhaikwan lies eight miles north of Chin wangtao, headquarters of Gen. Tu Li-Ming, commander o China's northeastern armies. Naar Shanhaikwan Communist sources previously acknowledged that elements ot the Nationalist 52nd army reach ed a point only a mile from tha gates of Shanhaikwan. Heaviest fighting broke out at Paotow, an important rail Junc tion in Suiyuan province which has been under seige by com munist Fourth Route army troops since early this month. Paotow is 90 miles west of Kweisul, the provincial capital, and 350 east of Peiping. Central (Chungking) Newa Agency said communists occu pied eight major cities of Shan tung province during the past four weeks. Additionally, Cen tral said communists captured Saratsi, in Suiyuan province, and occupied and burned Minchuan in eastern Honan province. Roscoe. Calif., Nov. 13 (U.R) . John Honeycutt, 32, told polica today he killed his wife and rio ped her body tc pieces with hia hands while her mother watched paralyzed with horror. Honeycutt had dismembered his wife's body and was wash ing the blood from his hand when police officers arrived, summoned by Mrs. Florenca Honeycutt's father, Frank A. Harris. "I'm a murderer. I killed my wife and It's no business of youra why I did It," Honeycutt calmly greeted officers, they said. Police said Honeycutt told them he went to the Harris home, where his wife was living and demanded that she come bark to live with him. When she re fused, they said, Honeycutt kick ed her mother aside end attacked his wife with a butcher knife. plentiful than the smaller birds, poultrymen said. They sug gested that small families elim inate the turkey hash problem by buying half a bird. Despite the bumper crop, prices will stick pretty close to the ceiling 63 cents a pound for lightweight birds and 59 or 60 cents for turkeys 16' 4 pounds or over. "Prices haven't fallen off a much as we expected with a bumper crop coming," an offi cial of the institute said. 'Peo pie are hungry for turkey and they are buying them as they reach the market for immediate consumption." But the American cranberry exchange took a pessimistic view of the 1945 prospects for another Thanksgiving dinner favorite. The cranberry supply will ba very moderate this year," an of ficial Mid.