Chiang 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.