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RESERVED SEATS -J ALL SOLD EARLY Crowd Gathers at 5:30 a.m. General Admission Tickets on Sale Tomorrow A crowd that began gathering t the Medford high school ticket ofifce at 5:30 a. m. today bought out the supply of tickets for the reserved section for the Medford high school-Grant high football game Thursday after noon within 35 minutes after the ducats went on sale, Lester Har liis, principal, said this morning. f The crowd had started to gather when Guy Davis, supervisor of maintenance, arrived for work at 5:30, Some fans even brought thermos bottles of coffee in an attempt to keep warm during the long, chilly wait. Long Line The line extended from the steps of the high school build ing, across the lawn and about a block down Oakdale avenue and was nearly as long when the tickets were sold out. Those holding season reserved teat tickets have until 4 p. m. Wednesday to exchange them for reserved seats for the semi finals of the state championship race, Harris said. The exchange will be made at window B at the high school. AH tickets which are not exchanged by 4 p. m. Wednesday will be placed on day at booth 3, Medford high stadium. General admission tickets for grade and high school students and adults will be on sale at the ! high school office from 7:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. tomorrow. Bostwlck To Stari Al Simpson, Medford mentor, said this morning that Glenn Bostwick, the sensational left halfback who has been on the shelf for two weeks with a shoulder separation, definitely will be ready to go as will Jerry Clark, right half who suffered a minor shoulder separation in the North Bend game last week. The entire squad will be at full strength for the game, the coach added. Grant, Portland city cham pions and winners of district 4. will arrive in Medford this eve j ning by special bus and will jl worK out on ine meoxora inn some time weanesaay. ine squad is reported In good shape with the exception of Fullback T, ; 1 1 i : l i i i i om UHunei, wnu lias ueen hi bed with the flu the past week. Simpson said officials for the game will be Frank Bashor, Portland, referee; Phil McGoran. Portland, umpire: Al Lightner. Salem, field judge; and Paul Warren, Portland, head lines man. T. L. Goodwin has resigned as ' manager of the Southern Oregon Dairymen's Cooperative associa tion and will be replaced Dec. 1 by S. O. White, now plant super intendent, according to an an nouncement today by C. A. Smith, president of the co-operative. Goodwin will engage in the dairy business in Klamath Falls: Smith stated that Goodwin had been planning on the dairy busi ners venture for some time and had been made manager of the cooperative with the knowledge that he would leave as soon as the business was well organized and operating smoothly. White has been superintendent of the plant for a considerable time, having held that position when it was operated by the Lost River Dairy, Smith said. No other changes in personnel are contem plated, according to Smith. TELEPHONE STRIKE SPREAD THREATENED Chicago, Nov. 20 (U.R) Main tenance workers and repairmen threatened today to join the strike of 8,700 telephone opera tors which has disrupted tele phone service throughout Illi nois. The maintenance and repair men In Chicago were called to a meeting late today to decide on whether to join the strike. RECESS DELAYED Washington. Nov. 20 fU.PH House Speaker Sam Rayburn. D.. Tex., said today that it might be Dec. 23 before congress can start its Christmas recess. Victory Loan Driva "E" Quota J52S.OO0 "E Sales to Date $146,049 Remainder to sell $378,951 Medford Pnlted Press Fortieth Year ' Shabby, Fear -Haunted Nazi Leaders on Trial Hear 42 age Recital of Criminal Charges Probes Into Pearl i . 4 l- J TPS T ill fJRAt 0r - isj' "( 1 (Acme Telephoto) Representative Frank B. Keefe, Wisconsin, taps with pointer on an Army map of the radar pick-up times as the Jap planes approaches Oahu Is land on the fateful Dec. 7. Incident occurred during Keefe's viRorouj questioning of Col. Bernard Thielen, member of Army General staff. Fleet Was Based at Pearl Harbor Account Roosevelt's Insistence, Testimony of Admiral Richardson Washington, Nov. 20 U.R) Adm. J. O. Richardson said to day that Adm. Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, agreed with his arguments against bas ing the fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1940 but that the late President Roosevelt overruled them. Richardson was commander of the U. S. fleet from January, 1940, until he was relieved on Feb. 1, 1941, by Rear Adm. Hus band E. Kimmel. He told the congressional Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee he strong ly opposed keeping the fleet in Hawaiian waters because it MILLMEN ACCEPT 12.5 CENT HIKE Portland, Ore., Nov. 20 (U.R) The lenethv five -state AFL strike was catch and go today as word was received that some dis tricts had accepted a 12',4 cent operators' offer and others nad reaffirmed pledges to stand by original strike demands. Reports from Klamath Falls disclosed the Pine ludustrtal Ke lations committee headquarters had announced AFL negotiators had accepted the 12 14 cent hourly increase for 14 operations in the northern California dis trict. The area embraces mills in the vicinity of Westwood and Susanville and the Feather River canyon, where workers have not been on strike. The acceptance was virtually on the same basis as that recently ac cepted by the CIO. Klamath Rejects AFL negotiators rejected the offer on behalf of the Klamath basin district in preference for their original demands of 11.10 an hour industry-wide minii.ium. Meanwhile the central Oregon district council of the AB'L unions announced they also had rejected a 1214 cent offer. Operators in the Willamette valley district, however, hoping to seize an opportunity on the northern California break, of fered for the second time a boost of 1214 cents an hour to lumber workers in that district. DANES AGAINST GIRLS DANCING WITH YANKEES Copenhagen, Nov. 20 (U.R) Reports reached here from So enderborg today that angry in habitants attacked and destroy ed a bus in which Danish girls. ,. .ij,.. . Jl from 16 to 20. were riding to dance arranged by United States soldiers at a country Inn outside it. More than 1.500 inhabitants demonstrated in protest to what they claimed was ."against com mon decency." Danish police, attempting to protect the girls, were attacked. Victory Loan Bonds are like j cash in the bank it is there when jou need u most Full Leased Wire Harbor D: could not be effectively defend ed or supplied there. Attack Expected He also testified that he never heard until today of a letter sent in January, 1941, by the late Secretary of Navy Frank Knox to former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in which Knox said it was "easily possi ble" that Japan might start hos tilities with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The Knox letter was made public last August when results of the army and navy investiga tions were released by President Truman. Richardson told the Pearl Harbor Investigating committee that he made two trips to Wash ington in 1940 to talk -with Pres ident Roosevelt. He said the President: 1. Rejected his protests against keeping the Pacific fleet at .Pearl Harbor, asserting that Its presence there was a deter rent to Japanese aggression. (Former Secretary of State Cor dell Hull also favored keeping tne fleet at Pearl Harbor.) 2. Overruled his plea for ad ditional personnel on the grounds that the needed men could be quickly inducted later. Defenses Inadequate Richardson said Stark agreed with his fears about keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor where, the witness said, army defense ar rangements were wholly inade quate. Asked by Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D., 111., if he based his opposi tion to keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor on the danger of air at tack, he replied: "I had not considered that it was likely that the fleet would be attacked by carrier raid and I so stated repeatedly in security orders to the fleet." Richardson testified that he did not think any "responsible power'; would attack the island but that he assumed there al ways was the prospect that "some fanatical, ill-advised Jap anese officer in charge of a ship or sub might attack." SUPERFORT SETS TANCE R Washington, Nov. 20 (U.R) A U. S. Superfortress arrived here from Guam today, setting a new world's nonstop distance flight record of an estimated 8,198 miles. The flying time was 35 hours and five minutes. The plane landed at National P'. r- , , ,n i-JJ left Guam at 2:30 a. m. EST J! ,m A K fanned by ar,d stripped of m i double crew excess equip- ment, the B-29 came on to Wash ington after exceeding the old record for nonstop distance flight as it passed over La crosse, Wis., at 9:30 a. m. EST. The former record was held by British fliers who flew 7.158 miles from Egypt to Australia in 1938. At Lacrosse, the B 29 1 had Xiowa 7,368 miles, i MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1945. CHIANG APPEALS MANCHURIA FIGHT Ask Cooperation in Restor ing Soviet-Occupied Area To Central Government. Chungking, Nov. 20 U.R) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has appealed again to Russia for cooperation in restoring Soviet occupied Manchuria to the Chi nese central government, it was disclosed today. The official central army newspaper Ta Kung Pao said Chiang's new representations were made by the Chinese am bassador in Moscow and that similar conferences had been held with the Sqviet envoy in Chungking. The newspaper intimated strongly that the negotiations had worked out satisfactorily for the central government, which had been sharply critical of Moscow's alleged "passive in tervention" on the side of the Chinese communists in Man churia. Complete Turnabout There was no further elabora tion of the reported Sino-Russian conferences, but the army organ said they had resulted in a "com plete turnabout" of the Man churian situation. But that account of improved Russian-Chinese relations dif fered sharply with a dispatch published by the central Kuom intang's official newspaper, Chung Yang Jih Pao. The Kuomintang paper, in an obvious reference to Russia, said "a certain country" had made 20 demands on the Chinese govern mcnt in relation to Manchuria, including one for Russian pos session of all important mines in the northeastern part of the ter ritory. FLYNN CHAIRMAN NIT OF Diamond Flynn has been named chairman of the Jackson county unit of the National Fed eration of Small Business, Inc., having been selected by L. A. Pifcr and D. G. Gilford, organ izers, with the advice of Cham ber of Commerce officials and local members. Pifer and Gif ford, both district managers for the group from Portland, have been in Medford since the middle of last week organizing a unit for this area. Medford has been outstanding in that the local organization is proving to be one of the largest in the state on the basis of popu lation, the organizers state. The federation, which brings independent business men to gether in what is said to be the largest group of such men in the country, publishes "The Man date," bulletin which informs members on national legislation. Members then ballot on the pro posed measures and the results are forwarded to congress. WESTERN AUTO STORE AT ASHLAND ROBBED Ashland, Nov. 20 J. G. Mackie, proprietor of Western Auto Supply company here, re ported to city police that a burg lar had taken some $35, a set of wrenches valued at $15. three fog lights and possibly other ar ticles some time Sunday night. The thief gained entry through an alloy window. Police also reported a thief had entered the basement of the Dandy Lunch through an alley window but was unable to gain entrance to the eating place. PIANIST DIES Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 20 OI.Pi Madane Helen Hopekirk Wilson, about 80, internationally-known pianist, composer and teacher, died at her home today of pneumonia contracted about two weeks iS'i. JAP WAR LORD HARI-KARIS AS ARRESUOOMS Mai. Honjo Does "Excellent Job"; Was One of 11 Or dered Arrested Yesterday Tokyo, Nov. 20 (U.R) MaJ. Gen. Shigeru Honjo, 69, one of Japan's top war lords, commit ted hari-kari in his office today within 24 hours after he had been ordered arrested as a war criminal. Honjo, former commander of the Japanese Kwantung army, disembowelled himself with a dagger shortly after arriving at his office in the former army staff college where he was di recting work of the Society for the Relief of Demobilized Sol diers. "Excellent Job" Maj. Gen. Masatoshl Miyano, in charge of the general section of the society, said Honjo did "an excellent Job" of hari-kari. Honjo, who wore the national suit, similar to an army uniform, sat cross-legged on a carpet facing the Imperial Palace and then slashed his abdomen from left to right, Miyano said. The jugular vein on the right side was severed and Honjo col lapsed face down in a large pool of blood, Miyano added. The body was left on the floor pending the arrival of investi gators from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters. ' Miyano said he last Saw Honjo about 9 a. m. "I told him 'I am sorry you will be arrested as I war crim inal," " Miyano said. Honjo was among 11 Japanese empire war leaders whose arrests had been ordered yesterday. Public Offices, Business Houses To Take Holiday All public offices and almost all business houses of Medford and the valley will be closed Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving day. All offices and departments of the county, the city and the federal build ing will be closed, as will both banks, since it is a legal holiday. Event of the day will be the football game between Grant high school of Portland and the Medford Tornado Thursday at the Medford field at 2 p. m. There will be no issue of the Mail-Tribune. "IKE" DECORATED AT LEGION CONVENTION Chicago. Nov. 20 (U.R) Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower received the Ameri can Legion's distinguished serv ice medal today as more than 9.000 Legionnaires cheered wild ly. The rousing reception follow ed a parade through Chicago during which the general was hailed by thousands of specta tors. Chicago, Nov. 20 'U.R) Ottis E. Mercer, Nashua, N. H., yes terday was elected president of the 40 and 8, American Legion fun organization. Mercer suc ceeded Spencer S. Eccles of Utah. BRITISH PLANES BOMB IND0ESIA STRONGHOLD Batavia. Nov. 20 (U.R) Brit ish Thunderbolt fighter-bombers today bombed Indonesian strong holds in the Javanese port of Semarang to clear a path for Indian troops seeking to capture the city.' Leaflets warning civilians to take shelter were showered on the city by an RAF plane. A few minutes later six Thunder bolts, each carrying a 500 pound bomb, zoomed down on the strongpoints. FICHTNERTO SPEAK AT JAYCEE MEET TONIGHT City Traffic Officer Clyde Fichtner will address tonight's meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce to be held at 8 p. m. In the Chamber of Commerce building. A speaker from the Mobile X-ray unit will also make a Uorl talk. j Tribune United Press Full Jackie Allworth Elks' Candidate For Bond Queen Sponsor of the Victory Loan Bond Drive, the Medford Elks Club has also nominated its own candidate for the Victory Queen contest stately, red haired Mrs. Jackie Allworth, known to her many friends throughout the valley as the former Jackie Flynn, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Diamond Flynn of 1324 Queen Anne avenue. A graduate of Medford High in 1940, Mrs. Allworth at tended Oregon State College for two years where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and met her future husband, Edward All worth, now a captain with the 101st Airborne Division, whose many valiant exploits during World War II partlc larly their rescue of the de fenders of Bastogne have made history. Mrs. Allworth and the oth er Victory Queen candidates will be introduced to the au dience from the stage of the Holly Theatre this evening during the Victory Bond Pre miere which starts at 8 p. m. Doors will open at 7:30. Jack Dempsey headlines the show which also features several headliners from Camp White and "Over 21" on the screen. HERE FOR BONO Lt. Com. Jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight box ing champion, arrived in Med ford shortly before noon today for his part in the big Victory Loan Bond Show to be held at the Holly theater tonight, be ginning at 8 o'clock. Dempsey is touring the state with the Ore gon War Finance committee and will go from Medford to Port land where he will referee a wrestling show Wednesday In connection with the sale of bonds. Dempsey was met at the Med ford hotel by a group of men representing various civic or ganizations, Including Mel Plas kett, who represented the Elks club, sponsors of the Victory Bond Drive in Jackson county; George Frcy, chairman of the Elks bond committee; Henry Zacharisen, Jackson county chairman of the bond drive; Don Footc, Junior Chamber of Com merce; Jimmie Bolton, represent ing the Kiwanis club; Dian.ond Flynn of the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce; Ernest Scott, secretary of the Elks club; Dick Baize, commander of Med ford Post 15, American Legion, sponsors of the Victory Queen contest; Walter Leverette, repre senting the Leverette Interstate theaters and Eino Hemmlla. chairman of the Victory Queen contest. Queens Photographed The group was photographed in front of the hotel and later Dempsey posed for photographs with the Victory Bond queens, Jackie Allworth, sponsored by the Elks; Margaret Ruth Bolton, Kiwanis club; Nina Tuttle. Rot ary club, and Vivian Llndquist, Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dempsey told a reporter that he felt the post-war boom in boxing would be slow to develop since it takes so long to whip fighters Into shape. There wasn't much boxing in overseas branches of the service because troops were moving too fast, Dempsey said. The old Man assa Mauler saw service in both the European and Pacific theat ers of operations where he was in charge of physical education programs. He took part in one invasion, Okinawa. The going was tough there, Dempsey said, with Japanese suicide planes causing our troops a lot of trouble. It is hard to tell whether Joe Louis or Billy Conn will win the forthcoming world's heavy weight championship corl-M, the ex-heavy king said. Both have been out of the ring for the same length of time and it all depends on which man has lost the uioit, Dempsey added. Leased Wti NO. 206. GRIM LEGALITY AT Defendants Follow Reading of Charges Closely; Goer ing Writhes in Chair. Nuernberg, Nov. 20 (U.R) Twenty fallen leaders of the nazi regime went on trial before a United Nations tribunal today and listened uneasily to a shock ing indictment holding them di rectly responsible for the death and misery of World War II. The portentous trial that for the first time in history sought to prove aggressive warfare a crime against all mankind open ed In an atmosphere of grim, cold legality in Nuernberg's an cient palace of justice. Two Absent Twenty-two men were on trial, all top figures in the nazi hierarchy that overawed Europe for a decade, but two were being judged in absentia the ailing Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the missing Martin Bormann. Sidney S. Alderman, Washing ton, D.C., of the American prose cuting staff, began the reading of the 43-page indictment short ly after the hearings opened at 10:03 a. m. (4:03 a. m. EST.) He spoke slowly and deliber ately as he read off the first of the four principal accounts In the indictment that charging the accused men of plunging the world into war. Allies Read Passages He was followed to the dais by members of the British, French and Russian prosecution staffs, who intoned the succeed ing passages of the indictment for the benefit of the four pre siding Justices and the Jittery de fendants. After the reading of the lengthy Indictment and three ap pendices detailing the charges, the court adjourned at 5:04 p. m. The defendants themselves ap peared to be the most Interested men In the courtroom. They fol lowd the reading of the indict ment with rapt attention over their earphones attached to their bench. Hermann Goering, the num ber-one defendant, twisted un easily In his front row seat. From time to time he leaned over to whisper something to his benchmate. Rudolf Hess, and oc casionally an inane grin twitch ed across his fat face. Ignored By Reds The Russian prosecutors sat almost within arms' reach of Goering. but they ignored him studiously. The yellow-faced Hess beside him was more Impassive throughout, clinging stubbornly to his claim that he remembered nothing of the Hitler era In which he played so large a part. He spoke occasionally to Goer ing and Joachim Von Ribb'cn trop, but for the most part he maintained an air of cold aloof ness from his fellow-nazls and his Judges alike. Hess stared grimly at the wall when the Indictment enumerat ed the mass murders carried out by the nazis in their bid for mastery of Europe. Goering's eyes dropped to the floor, and Franz Von Papen merely cupped his chin in his hand In an acade mic manner as If he personally were not Involved. GOSS REELECTED Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 20 (U.R) Albert S. Goss, Washing ton, D. C, today was reelected master of the national grange. Henry D. Sherwood. Pine Plains, N. Y., master of the New York State Grange, was elected overseer, filling a vacancy cre-j ated by the death of David H.' Aguns, Three Bridge, N. J. James C. Farmer, Keene, N. H was reelected lecturer, C.i Shride. Emden, Mo., was elected steward and Maurice DoaneJ Lander, Wyo.. was reelected as-; mtant secretary, 1 SNOW MAY DELAY SEISMOGRAPH Fl. GRATERLAKE RIM Plan To Record Possible Deep Volcanic Disturbance Faces Winter Problem. Winter conditions at Crater Lake National park complicate the matter of planning for plac ing of a portable seismograph at the lake rim to determine if any volccnic quakes are taking place on the lake floor according to E. P. Leavitt, superintendent of the park, who has suggested to the national park director that the project either be delayed or that the Instrument be placed at some point where It would be readily available by car. Decision to place the Instru ment at the lake was made by the national park service after observers reported four times, during late summer and early fall, that a cloud of smoke or gas had been seen hovering over the surface of the lake, and Leavitt was Informed of the plan by wire a few days ago. Conditions Unknown Superintendent Leavitt stated this morning that the national director's wire Indicated he had made the decision without com plete knowledge of conditions at the iake. In a return wire Lea vitt pointed out that the park is closed, roads are snowbound and that all supplies for men and all equipment would have to be carried to the lake rim over the snow. The park service has on order a sno-cat, but its delivery Is uncertain the super intendent said. He suggested that the project either be delayed or that the In strument be set up at Ft. Klam ath or the east road junction, where It could be reached easily by car, and taken to the lake rim later, and Is now awaiting a reply from the national direc tor. Geologist Seen Superintendent Leavitt re cently made a trip north where he conferred with Dr. Howel Williams, chairman of the de partment of geological sciences at the University of California, who has been In Portland, and Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the department of geology at the University of Oregon. At that time Dr. Williams agreed with the theory that the formations over the lake surface might be a recurrence of volcanic action, the superintendent states, but the scientist is quoted In a Port land news story as having de clared that "Crater Lake must do better than show a little smoke above the water" before he would call it a resumption of volcanic activity. "It Is hard to Imagine steam or other gas coming to the sur face through nearly 2000 feet of Icy water without a violence that would result In discernible wave action," Williams is quoted as having said. The volcanolo gist, who has written a book on Crater Lake, advanced a theory that submarine volcanic activity might heat water sufficiently to form convection currents, ana that warm water rising to the surface might result in meteoro logical phenomenon, the article quotes the doctor. Suoerlntcndent Leavitt atatea this morning that opinion, both scientific and from the layman's viewpoint, seems to be that the most plausible explanation of the clouds la volcanic activity, the second is that they resulted from some meteorological phe nomenon, and the third, consid ered the least likely, is that the clouds were dust from the crater walls. British Laborites Would Nationalize Rails, Electricity T nnHnn Nnv. 20 (U.R) The British labor government pro posed today to nationalize me nniinn'i milwnv. canal, long distance highway transport, gas and electricity industries. Herbert Morrison, lord pres ident of the council, announced In commons the government's in lAniinn. nf nvnnndine consider ably the nationalization program. "It is not the government I Intention to nronose the nation alization of the shipping indus try, Morrison told commons. MRS. EISENHOWER BETTER Boone, la., Nov. 20 (U.R) Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, hos pitalized with bronchial pneu monia, is on the "road to recov ery." her doctors said today. The army chief's wife was taken to the Boone county hospital Sat urday night less than two hours after she and her husband arriv ed here for a family reunion. NO PAPER THURSDAY In accordance with long ilabllshtd custom, and in order to permit employes to enjoys the holiday at home, the Mail-Tribune will not pub lish Thursday, Thanksgiving day.
