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MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1945.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.