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t 'Dream Boy Weather FORECAST; Cloudy With occa sional light rain to night and Thursday. Warmer tonight. Temp, Hlgheit Yesterday 59 LOWCIt thlS Mniniiij ,, 3f Medford Tribune '0 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire .f r?k Fortieth Year MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1945. NO. 201. i i mam mm - i 4 f Mcme Telephoto) Ellsworth "Sonny" Wlsecarver, 16-year-old lad who eloped with a 25-year-old service wile and mother of two children, is indignant at author , Hies holding them in Oroville, Calif., pending arrival of their families. "Sonny's" runaway wife says he's the kind of a man every girl dreams about but seldom finds. FAILS 10 SOFTEN SAWill TIE-UP Medford representatives of the employers negotiating com mittee. Pine Industrial Relations committee, and of the Klamath Basin District Council, A. F. of L., negotiating committee today termed a meeting held Monday and Tuesday in Klamath Falls to discuss the union demand for wage increases as a failure, union representatives having re " fused to accept counter pro posal!, made by employers' rep resentatives of a 12 and one-half cents per hour increase. The meeting was called and presided over by Oliver Good win, department of labor con ciliator, called in when the striking employees and manage ment representatives failed to reach settlements at previous meetings. Klamath Basin A. F. of L. lumber workers, along with hundreds of other north west lumber workers, struck several weeks ago o.n a demand for a minimum wage of $1.10 an hour, with corresponding in creases in all brackets, and a union shop. Original demand for the increase was made about the middle of the year; Attending from here were B. L. Nutting, manager of the Medford corporation and Antone Lausman, owner and manager of the Tiller Mill and Lumber company, employer representa tive, and Leon Jones of Lumber and Sawmill Workers Local No. 2715, A. F. of L., and John Wolfe, national official of the Carpenters and Joiners of America, A. F. of L., Indiana polis, Ind., representatives for the union. Thomas Grey, president of Local 2715, stated this morning that he was calling a special meeting of the local for Friday at 7:30 p. m. to bring workers up-to-date generally on the strike situation. teamsterTtrike threat averted A threatened strike of team sters of the A. F. of L. union employed by the Pacific Fruit company in Oregon and five Washington counties was avert ed last night when the company offered to negotiate, according to Don Stancell, secretary of Teamsters' Union No. 962. The secretary stated that ma chinery for calling a strike was set in operation yesterday when the company's director of labor relations. Alfred P. Blair, declar ed the firm would not abide by a War Labor Board order grant ing a five-cent an hour increase in wages, retroactive to May 1, 1944. Stancell pointed out that the union had made negotiation overtures first in April and May of 1944 and that when the com pany refused to cooperate, the matter was put in the hands of ho i?th district of the WLB Cases already in the process ofj settlement were to be continued I by the WLB after the war. Stan-j cell said. During the present ncgotia-1 tions, the union will petition the NLB for a strike vote. Stancell said. He added that other Ore gon and Washington firms af-f-ctcd by the WLB board de cision to increase wages had complied with the order. An electronic device that '.ells by varying sounds the size of objects is making possible the employment of blind workers in precision industries. Chiang's POWERFUL UNITS COVERED BY GUNS OF U. S. Full Scale Drive to Clear Communists from Shan tung Peninsula Starts. Chungking, Nov. 14 (U.R) The Chungking government said today that the battles of Kweisui and Paotow, chief citadels of Suiyuan province, had reached the 'white-hot" stage hinting that they might not be able to hold out much longer against communist siege armies. The official central news agency said Chinese commun ist shock troops stormed into Kweisui, capital of Suiyuan, and violent fighting raged in the streets for 11 hours until they were driven out. Chungking, Nov. 14 U.R ! Powerful Chinese government forces landed in the northern port of Tsingtao under the covering guns o American marines and naval units today in a full-scale drive to clear the communists from Shantung peninsula. The invasion of Shantung car ried Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's nationalist troops into the main stronghold of the fam ed communist eighth route army and threatened to touch off the first major battle of China's un declared civil war. The communists, who already controlled all the peninsula ports except Tsingtao, were massed in great strength outside the city under orders to fight any advance by the nationalists. United Press Staff Corres pondent Richard W. Jrhnston reported that the first elements of Chiang's eighth "sponsored" army landed unopposed from American naval transports at daybreak. They moved out swiftly through a protective cordon of 12.000 U. S. sixth division marines, apparently under or ders from American naval and marine commanders to get clear of the port immediately. The opposing armies included some of the best fighting divi sions in the communist and nationalist line-ups, although at least part of the eighth route army was reported to have been pulled out some time ago to reinforce the communist de fenses of Manchuria. Lumber Strike And Employer Portland. Ore., Nov. 14 (U.R) The Pacific northwest lumber strike remained deadlocked to day, with Gov. Sam Ford of Montana attempting to com promise warring factions and rival union and management leaders trading a barrage of verbal accusations. Governor Ford's conference in Helena today was attended by representatives of striking AFL locals and operators. He an nounced the meeting was called to find "a reasonable solution to the paralyzing tie-up" which has crippled lumber production for eight weeks. Labor Hindered In Eugene. Ore.. Harvey Nel son of Eugene, president of the Columbia river district of the International Woodworkers of America. CIO. told the national IWA convention that the AFL strikers were hindering labor's standing in the northwest. He called on the delegates "to find ways and means to eliminate forever the possibility of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers and the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners becom ing a threat to the ftanda'ds of labor we (CIO) have set." Friction between the unioiTj followed refusal of CIO groups to strike while negotiating for a 25 cent wage increase and Forces Eleven More Years For Chronic I nmate Of Penitentiaries Oakland. Calif., Nov. 14 (U.R) John K. Giles, 50, who has spent the last 30 years of his life in jail, today had 11 more years added to the 25 he currently is serving in Alcatraz federal peni tentiary and the life sentence awaiting him in Oregon. Giles, who almost succeeded in escaping from Alcatraz :n a sergeants' uniform last July, was found guilty of the attempted escape by a jury of nine men and three women. Federal Judge Michael Roche sentenced him to three years and ordered eight years good behavior time due him forfeited. Giles is in Alcatraz for rob bing a Utah mail train in 1935. He will go to Oregon on com pletion of his sentence to serve a life term for murder and face trial on escaping from the state prison. E 5 WEST STATES United Press The AFL bakers' union, pro testing that workers had been locked out of 27 major plants which closed down when AFL bakery wagon drivers went on strike, announced today that they would picket three large concerns in support of its own wage demands and threatened work stoppages in five western states. William Burke, international representative of the union, ac cused bakery officials of refus ing to meet or arbitrate de mands, and said strike action in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada was a possi bility. Meanwhile, San Francisco grocery shelves were bare of bread, 90 per cent of which was supplied by the five major firms and the 22 independent compan ies which closed their doors last weekend. Machinists! Negotiations be tween AFL machinists lodge 68 in San Francisco and machine shops were stalled after the machinists rejected an employer wage increase proposal. The strike of 13,000 AFL and CIO machinists in the San Fran cisco Bay area entered its 17th day today. Approximately 55, 000 persons have been idle In the walkout. Deadlock Holds as Unions Leaders Trade Accusations eventually winning a 12'4 cent boost from operators. The AFL strikers attempted to picket CIO operations but generally were restrained by court action ini tiated by the CIO. CIO Claim Challenged The claim of Nelson that IWA efforts had raised lumber wages more than 60 cents and improv ed working conditions brought caustic rebuttal from AFL Strike Chairman John Christen son in Portland. He said: "A survey of the record will show the AFL Lumber and Saw mill Workers have lead the pace since 1935 to improve working conditions in the lumber indus try. The lumber workers were unorganized until 1935 when the first major strike occurred in the industry, led by the AFL. At that time, there was no CIO in the lumber industry and it was not until 1937 that the CIO had jurisdiction over any locals." Christenson asserted the only reason CIO officials were able to make "even a poor settlement was because the AFL lumber workers were out on strike." "It was the pressure generat ed from the AFL strike that led to the ClO-operator compromise offer," he said. In Portland. J. B. Fitzgerald, secretary manager of the lum Land at PEARL WITNESS, SOLONJSISTS Efforts To Get Officer To Change Testimony Cause of Breakdown Says Keefe Washington, Nov. 14 flJ.R) Rep. Frank B. Keefe, R., wis., stood pat today on his charge that a key Pearl Harbor witness was in the neuro-psychiatric ward of a naval hospital because of worry over efforts to persuade him to change testimony. Keefe is a member of the con gressional Pearl Harbor investi gating committee, which will be gin open hearings tomorrow. Charge Repeated He reiterated the charge in reporting to the house on his investigation of Navy Cnpt. Al vin D .Kramer, who has been in the Bethesda, (Md.,) naval hos pital. Kramer was a naval intelli gence officer on duty at Wash ington at the time of the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor. He reportedly delivered a vital message to the White House shortly before the attack. "I am convinced that the vy department and the higher-ups in Washington fully realized the importance to be attached to the testimony of Captain Kramer," Keefe said. "I am fully convinc ed that efforts were made to get Captain Kramer to modify and change portions of the testimony that he had given before the navy board of inquiry. Keefe said he also was con vinced that "the basic cause of Captain Kramer's worry arises from the efforts which have been made to have him change certain vital and important parts of his testimony." "It is too much to expect to obtain any admission of tins fict from Captain Kramer himself," he said. "Even the psychiatrists at the hospital have been un able to get from him the real cause of his worry." Victory Loan Drive "E" Quota $525,000 "E" Sales to Date $91,531 Remainder to sell $433,469 bermen's industrial relations committee, replied to an earlier statement by Christenson, in which the labor leader contend ed many of the strikers were undecided whether they would ever return to the lumber indus try "where they are subjected to hazardous conditions, low pay and unsatisfactory living conditions. Fitzgerald declared straight time earnings of lumber work ers averaged $1.37 per hour in August, 1944, when a special canvass of wage rates and earn ings in the lumber industry was made. He added that in the Douglas fir area of western Washington and Oregon loggers averaged a straight-time rate of $1.45 an hour, with only a few employes receiving the mini mum common labor rate of 90 cents an hour. "The AFL closed the mills in Its jurisdiction, not because of low pay. but in order to make one bargaining unit of some 300 logging camps, sawmills, ply wood, door, veneer and other factories." Fitzgerald charged. He said the 1 2 1 2 cents an hour offered by come operators, ac cepted by many CIO unions, was the largest pay rise in the in dustry ovei a period of 25 years. "The operators really can't afford Uiat much," be laid. Tsingtao U.S. STEEL AND CIO BALK EFFORT FOR E Both Sides Absent From Meet Called by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach By United Press Government attempts to get the CIO steelworkers and the U. S. Steel Corp. together for bargaining on the union's de mand for a $2 a day wage in crease collapsed today as the automotive industry faced a new production crisis. Representatives of neither the United Steelworkers nor the U. S. Steel Corp. attended a conference at Washington called by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schellenbach to settle the dis pute peacefully. Lonely Conciliator Arthur S. Meyer, special con ciliator appointed to hear both sides of the case, was the only one to show up for the confer ence. . . An Industry spokesman said further conciliation efforts would be useless unless the OPA guaranteed a price -in crease. Union representatives said then1 "delegates would not attend in view of U. S. Steers position. Violence was averted at Stam ford, Conn,, where police threat ened to use tear gas to break up a crowd of strikers who -re pulsed a police flying wedge which tried to rush 70 company executives into the struck Yale & Towne Manufacturing Com pany. Executives Enter The executives were permit ted to enter the plant after the International Association of Ma chinists (AFL) had been assured that all the company wanted was free access for non-production officials. More than 3,000 Yale & Towne workers walked out a week ago in a dispute over in creased pay and a closed shop. As tension grew in the Ford Motor Co., Windsor, Ont., strike, the Buick company began a progressive layoff of 4,000 as sembly workers at noon be cause of a shutdown of the Fisher Body plant at Flint, Mich., a Buick supplier. Fisher shut down last night for lack of steel frames supplied by the Midland Steel Company at Cleveland, O. Strike Ended A six-day strike at the Inter national Harvester plant at Fort Wayne, Ind., ended with the re turn of the plant s 5,500 work ers to their jobs. PROWLERS ENTER BUSINESS PLACES State and city police are in vestigating three small robber ies in city business houses which took place some time last night. Reported to city police was the theft of approximately 90 mechanical pencils with the words "Ken Teeter, wholesale distributor, phone 2710, Med ford. Ore., written on them, from the Texas company plant, 1024 South Riverside avenue. En trance was made by climbing over a back fence and entering a small back door, officers re ported. The Jackson street gas station at Jackson street and Central avenue was broken into last night and two boxes of spark plugs and a fog light were re ported missing. Also entered last night, police said, was the Riverside market, 313 North Riverside avenue, where a glass in the front door was bioken. Nothing wax reported taken from the store. Four bicycle thefts were alto reported to city officers. I Attlee Addresses Congress i tr 1- ?V I Acme i cippnutoj Brltnlns prime minister. Clement Attlec. spentts to Congress outMnlng future prosperity pence-key between united States and Great Britain. He told Congress that the foundations of peace must be "world prosper ity and good neighbor linens," and there was "no reason" for economto rivalry between the two countries. Speaker Sam Rnyburn is seated behind the prime minister. National Grange Master for Bi-Partisan Surplus Control ' Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 14 (U.R) Albert S. Goss, master of the National Grange, today rec ommended creation of a bl-par-tlsari ' surplus commodity com mission empowered to stabilize the market for any commodity at or near parity. Goss included the recommen dation in his lengthy address to the opening session of the 7IMh annual meeting of the Grange. The convention will continue 10 days and will have before it 108 resolutions. "The commission should have power to make a multiple-price system effective through the use of international commodity wgreements, Goss said, "and through price supports or slop loss floors, announced sufficient ly in advance to permit farmers to modify production. "It should have authority to use price guarantee or commod ity loans, within definitely pre scribed limitations. It should also have available equalization fees, an export debenture pro gram, the certificate of export for import clearance, marketing quotas of such other practical means as may be devised to meet specific problems." Goss recommended that the HEMILA TAKES F THEATER - CHAIN Elno Hcmmlla has been made managing director of the Lever ette Interstate Theaters of Med ford, Ashland, Yrcka and Weed according to an announcement today by Walter Lcverette. Hcmmlla formerly was manager of the Hunt Theaters here and for the past several months has been supervisor of the theaters in Grants Pass. Hemmila Is retaining his In terest In three Roscburg thea ters, it was stated. Mrs. Hemmila and their two children, Mike and Georgia, are currently in Fresno, Calif., due to the health of the Hcmmila's son, but will return to Medford for the sum mer months. Lee B. Ryan, who has been assistant manager of the Lcver ette rhain, will now be publicity director for the circuit, Lcver ette states. The theater manager Is to be loaned to the Victory bond drive committee to conduct the local Victory Queen contest, details of which will be announced soon, Lcverclle declared. "W lln I lllilHI .11 I1H.1I w - t 4 members of such a commission be appointed by the president. on a bi-partisan basis and con firmed by the senate. Referring to the nation's labor picture, Goss said "both labor and industry are shortsighted Indeed when they fail to invite agriculture to sit In their coun cils, for agriculture has a very direct interest in labor relations and the peculiar position It oc cupies often enables it to be a sound balance wheel In an un settled economy." MOTTlTJlRAL 2 P.M. SATURDAY Salem, Ore., Nov. 14 (U.R) Funeral services for U. S. Rep. James w. Mott will be held in the Oregon house of represen tatives chamber Saturday at 2 p. m. The body of the Oregon con gressman was en route here from Washington today, accom panied by Mrs. Mott, Mrs. Doro thy Woodring, congressman's secretary, and a delegation from the house of representatives in eluding Homer Angell, Lowell Stockman and Harris Ellsworth all of Oregon, and Mike Mans field of Montana. U. S. Sen. Guy Cordon of Oregon said he expects to at tend, but Wayne Morse, the other Oregon U. S. senator, said that he has been unable to break engagements. The steam turbine Is the source of two-thirds of the e'ec- tric power In the United States Victory Bond To Get Under At a meeting Tuesday at the Elks Club, plans were laid for the Victory Queen contest to be held In conjunction with the Victory Loan drive, extending through December 8. It Is ex pected that various clubs and organizations will select candi dates to sponsor in the contest. The winner here will compete in the finals in Portland at a date to be announced later. Win ners of the various Oregon dis tricts will be selected on the basis of 75 credit for "E" bond sold and 25 credit for queenly qualities. All districts, therefore, will have an equal chance for their contestant to win, since district quotas only will be used in each locality, MATIflMANQT DACC it w f V III II IWIII 1-IWI I IV la IS SHATTERED BY New Premier of Java Group Reported Ready to Bar gain With British, Dutch. Batavla. Nov. 14 (U.R) Brfc tish warships, planes and artil lery focused a shattering bom bardment on the heart of Soer abaja today in a concerted at tempt to blast out Indonesian nationalists making a determin ed stand in the east Java naval base. Unconfirmed reports circulate ed that Sutan Sjahrir, nev premier of the nationalist gov ernment, was ready to deal with the British and Dutch In an ef fort to end the bloody strife in Java. Adviier Disappears (The Dutch Aneta newt agency reported from Batavia that Dr. W. M. F. Mansvelt, political adviser to the acting governor general of the Nether lands Indies, had "disappeared" In Batavia, and Dutch authorU ' ties believed he was kidnaped by Indonesian extremists), Sjahrlr, who In effect succeed ed Dr. Sukarno as nationalist leader In a cabinet shakeup, was reported to be willing to study the Issues between the natives and Dutch authorities. He was reported eager to cooperate with the British and Dutch, but there was no Immediate sign how fat he was willing to go. Javanese Fight Back The heaviest battle In Java since the Japanese overran the island raged unabated at Soer abaja. The Indonesian garrison bounced back with unexpected strength and ferocity Just when the British thought victory wa within their grasp. Seizing the initiative in ont sector of the battle-torn city on the shore of eastern Java, the natives launched a heavy attack. Official British reports from Soerabaja acknowledged that the resistance was "stiff and de termined," but claimed the In donesian attack was broken tin by an artillery barrage after some Infiltration into the fore most British positions. Part of a Madras regiment arrived in Soerabaja to reiiv force the British assault force. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Irean Grlsby forgetting he Saturday morning duties in the excitement of a football game. Art W 1 n t r o u t deserting a friend at the door of one hotel dining room to dash off to ?n other eatery after suddenly re membering that he had tw dates for luncheon. Jimmle Bolton reminding a navy officer of the time he met the captain and his wife and very embarrassed to find that the captain's wife is in Washing ton, D. C. A Mrs. F. still wondering who called and asked her to come down and help "H" pick out a fur coat for "B". Queen Contest Way Here Soon To eliminate any feeling that the Portland winner would also be selected as state winner, the state bond committee decided to have two Oregon winners one from Multnomah county, the second from the other Oregon counties. The two state winners will be given a free, all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood, a screen test with a screen con tract opportunity and a gala time In the film capital with Hollywood luminaries. Victory Queen contest head quarters are being set up In the Chamber of Commerce on West Main street. Application blanks and instructions may be secured there or at the Craterian Theatre.
