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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1945)
m TrrnlNlflfPRfif 1 N L J Weather FORECAST: ParUy cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday with occasional rain. Uttlt change In tcmpcraturt. Temp. Highest Yesterday 65 Lowest this Morninr .43 Prec. TO S A. Ml Todiy........T Fortieth Year. I OF Black Tornado Gains 300 Yards to Grant 97; Loses by One-Point Margin. A crowd of more than 8,000 football fans braved a stiff south east wind to watch a surprising ly strong Grant high school team of Portland squeeze out a 7 to 6 win over previously unbeaten Medford high in the semi-finals of the Oregon prep grid cham pionship here yesterday. It was the first defeat for Medford in two years after rolling almost at will through 19 opponents. . The Tornado dressing room after the game was a sad picture as the players sat visibly stunned and shaken at the sudden turn of events against them. Tears filled some eyes, while, others kept their feelings pent up be hind grim expressions Lady Luck DeserU Coach Al Simpson said this morning that Lady Luck just wasn't with the Tornado when they got down into scoring posi , tion and they lacked the punch to score against a great Grant line. "We've been a lucky ball club for two years, but that luck ran out In the closing minutes oi the game, Simpson said. Grant crossed into Medford territory only twice in the en tire game; once just as the fir's! quarter ended and again in the fourth period when Stamm re covered Bob Watson's fumble on the Medford 34. A pass from Shaw to Curtis moved the ball to the Medford 5 from ' where' Wasch went over to knot the score at 6-6 with four 'minutes left. Darrell Davis, placekicking expert for the Generals, made his only appearance in the Portland lineup to boot the pigskin square ly between the goal , posts and provide his team with the point that was to mean the ball game. Tornado Gaim 300 Yards . Medford rolled up a total of 300 yards to the Generals'. 97 and made 11 first downs to two for the Portland champs,- but bogged down when the gains were most desperately needed. Medford blocked a Grant punt on the General 25-yard line early in the third period which start ed a drive that saw Watson smash through left tacl.le and cross Into the end' zone three minutes and 40 seconds after the quarter started. He missed the kick from placement which later was to prove the undoing of the Tornado championship hopes. Watson will undoubtedly go down in local gridiron history as one of Medford's immortals because of his great play yester day. With about two minutes left to play Jerry Ross started a siz zling aerial attack with an 18 vard pass to Darrell Riggs and shot a 40-yard heave t. Glenn Bostwick on the next play o move the ball to .the Grant. 13. Another pass to Bostwick moved the leather to the five-yard stripe where Medford drew five yards for too much time out. Another toss from Ross to Bostwick went to the four where the final gun sounded with the Tornado knock-. ing hard on the Grant door. Lineups: Grant Curtis Couch Pcirano Snrinkling Withers Hickman Stamm Shaw Duff Smith Milter Pos. LE LT LG C RG KT RE QB I.H BH Medtord Riggs Whillock TinKley Cave Greene Bessonette Kircher Rons Bostwick Clark Watson FB score Dy perioos: Grant 0 0 0 77 Medford - 0 0 6 06 Sconnit: Touchdowns for Grant. Wasch; for Medford, Watson. Point after touchdown for Grant, Davis. Substitutions: For Grant Trom. blev. Farella. Wasch. Walton. Arm strong. Murphy. For Medford Stelle. Mottern. Flieael. Officials: Frank Bashor. referee: Al I.iRhtncr. field ludge; Paul Warren, umpire, Vere Magaurn. head lines man. Statistics: Med Grant Y'is. from scrimmage .1M 40 Yds from pascs 138 Total vdg gained 3no First downs 1 1 Passes tried .. M Passes completed 7 Opp. passes Intercepted I Ydg. lost penalties 25 Fumbles made ., 4 Opp. fumbles recovered 3 Avg. length punu M During the halftime intermis sion Frank Perl presented a MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Santa to Answer Calls From Kids December 21-22 Medford children will be able to "telephone Santa Claus" again this year, ac cording to an announcement today by the Junior Cham ber of Commerce. Arrange ments are being made for old St. Nick to answer chil dren's calls Friday and Sat urday, Dee. 21 and 22 and even better, the old fellow will visit Medford Saturday night. He will arrive by train, with loads of candy and other goodies, and will be taken to the park to meet Medford small fry. The Junior Chamber of Commerce speakers' club met Tuesday at the Chamber of Commerce building. Bill Meist spoke on "Music Against Juvenile Delinquen cy," Bob Rucker on "Return of Our War Dead." Others at the meeting were Victor Milnes,- Dale Stevenson and Paul Hcrsey. DEATH COMES TO IS. ERNIE PYLE Albuquerque, N. M., Nov. 23 (U.P.) Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, "that girl" of Ernie Pyle's, died today, seven months after her famous war correspondent husband was killed in the Pacific. Mrs. Pyle, who was 45,, died in St. Joseph's hospital at 7:30 a. m. The- hospital is not far from the little white clapboard cot tage where she and Ernie- lived when they had not wandered to gether over 150,000 miles of the western hemisphere before the war.' . Although Mrs. Pyle had suf fered from a prolonged illness, she had lived alone since hqr husband's death. Only a nurse attended her at the cottage. She entered the hospital Wednesday when she was stricken with acute uremic poisoning. Mrs. Pyle, the former Gera'd ine Siebolds of Stillwater, Minn., met Pyle in Washington, D. C, when he was managing editor of the Washington News. They were-married July 7, 1925. Millions of readers came to know her as well as they did Ernie through his columns. He always referred to her as "that girl who rides besides me." THREE AT CAMP WHITE RECEIVE PROMOTIONS Camp White, Nov. 23 Four officers stationed at Camp White have been promoted from first lieutenant to captain, effective Nov. J 6, according to orders re ceived from the War department. Promoted- are- F.. J.. Johnston, post adjutant; John L. Nice, transportation officer for the post; Robert- C. Duke, quarter master property officer and De los B. Bishop, salvage officer for the post. sweater to E. C. Jerry Jerome with 25' stripes on the sleeve de noting 25 years' continuous ser vice as timekeeper. Park Lodge May House Scientists Watching for Volcanic Activities . While awaiting further word from Washington, D. C, regard ing the plan to place instruments at Crater Lake to record earth tremors which might result from volvanic quakes. Park Superin tendent' E. P. Leavitt reported today that he was undertaking what little preliminary planning could be done at this time. Letters have been written to the Crater Lake Park company at Portland asking permission of R. W. Price to use the lodge as headquarters for the men install ing and caring for instruments, and to the manufacturer of the sno-cat asking him to spcrd up delivery of the machine, if pos sible. Leavitt has also asked Dr Howel Williams, chairman of the department of geological sciences at the University of California for an opinion on the matter of placing a seismograph and other instruments at some point near the lake, rather than 8t the lake; rim, for the time being, Eincci MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1945 HITLER AIDED If) RISE TO POWER BY War Crime Trial Evidence Shows Dr. Schacht, Krupp Interests Raised Funds. Nuernberg, Nov. 23 (U.R) Evidence was placed before the war crimes tribunal today that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the Krupp interests and other German in dustrialists raised a 3,000.000 mark slush fund to help put Adolf Hitler into power. Schacht, the evidence dis closed, was ringleader in the fund-raising campaign and act ed as host to an assembly of Ruhr industrialists who were called together at Hitler's be hest. . . . Fund Proposed After Hitler spoke to the in dustrial group in February, 1933, about a month after he be came chancellor Schacht pro posed that they raise 3,000.000 marks to back the nazi cam paign. The industrialists, the evi dence disclosed, agreed to raise the fund. The share of the great I. G. Farbenindustrie Chemical Combine in the fund was to be 10 per cent. The evidence, in the form of affidavits, letters and. other rec ords, was placed before the court as it was announced that Russia is sending foreign affairs Vice-Commissar A. Y. Vishin sky, famous -prosecutor ' 'of the Moscow purge trials, to Nuern berg. It was believed Vishinsky might take over the Socict pros ecution of the case. He is ac companied by Soviet Judge Ad vocate Gorshenin. They were scheduled to arrive later today. Krupp Letter Read Among evidence placed be fore the court was a letter to Hitler from Gustav , Krupp, head of the great Krupp Arms firm who originally was named in the war crimes indictment but is too ill to be brought to trial. Krupp wrote Hitler that the nazi victory was in line with the hopes which he and his di rectors had long cherished. Schacht appeared cmbarassed at the testimony and his face frequently reddened as the rec ords were read to the court showing his close association with Hermann Goering in re construction and expansion of the German armaments indus try. The evidence was presented after nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop asked permission through his counsel to call six prominent British figures and "General Wood of the U. S. army as witnesses. KOISO SURRENDERS Tokyo, Nov. 23 (U.R) For mer Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koi so, high on the list of Japanese war criminals, surrendered to allied authorities at Sugamo prison today. His arrest had been ordered by Gen. Douglas MacArthur Nov. 19. the roads into the park are snow bound and all park buildings arc closed for the winter. It is understood that if the in struments ar taken to the lake, they will be in charge of a repre sentative from the National Geo logical Survey of the Department of the Interior. A news release from Washing ton earlier this week stated that Sen. Guy Cordon had informed park officials that the national director of geological survey was arranging to install instruments at the lake for "recording changes of temperature and movements of water in the lake' and that a geologist would be sent to Hie area to investigate "the lake's mvsterinus smoking over past weeks." I J. Carlisle Crouch, former chief ranger for the park re cently discharged from the army and now in the cast, is expected to return here about Dec. 1 to aid with the project, if it is car ried out. Hull Version of Pre-Pearl Harbor Negotiations Denies His Counter Proposal Touched Off War B STATEMENT BY . EX-SECRETARY Army Board Report Strong ly Refuted; U. S. Attitude Stiffened Before Japs. Hit Washington. Nov. 23 (U.R The United States stiffened its diplomatic attitude toward Japan 1 1 days before Pearl Harbor at a time when its military high com mand was fighting' for time in which to get ready for war. This and the fact that the late President Roosevelt had con sidered a message to congress warning of danger in the east were disclosed today in docu ments presented to the congres sional committee investigating the Pearl Harbor disaster which plunged the United States into war on Dec. 7, 1941. Statement Read Former Secretary of State Cor dcll Hull, now aged and ailing, told his side of pre-Pearl Harbor diplomatic negotiations in a 22,-000-word statement. The state ment was read to the investiga tors for him by Assistant Com mittee Counsel Gerhard Gcspll. The white-haired 74-ycar-old Nobel peace prize winner strong ly denied an army board report that a counter-proposal which he made to Japanese diplomats on Nov. 26, 1941, was the document "that touched the button that started the war." If there was any ultimatum, he said, it was a Japanese note to which his pro posals were a reply. At the time Hull's Nov. 28 note was delivered, the Japanese force which hit Pearl Hurbor( had been at sea one day. It was, however,- under instructions to return to harbor if the United States gave in to Japanese de mands. China Protest Heeded Hull's statement and docu ments obtained from the State department that the secretary had planned to include in the Nov. 26 note a proposed modus Vivendi or temporary agreement relaxing somewhat the economic pressure against Japan. He and President Roosevelt were per suaded at the last minute, how ever, to withhold the modus vivendi, largely because of Chinese protests against "ap peasement." Other documents presented to the committee showed that: Gen. George C. Marshall and Adm. Harold R. Stark, army and navy staff chiefs, urged upon Mr. Roosevelt in a memorandum on Nov. 27, 1941, the necessity for gaining time in which to pre pare the Philippines as a mili tary base. They recommended military action only if Japan at tacked or threatened territory of the United States, British commonwealth or the Dutcli F.ast Indies. This message from the military leaders, as previously brought out in the army Pearl Harbor report, did not reach the president until a day after Hull had sent his note to the Japanese. Message Propoied The secretaries of state, war and navy presented Mr. Ruose velt on Nov, 29, 1941, with the draft of a proposed message to congress warning of "serious danger which is threatening this country and its interests in the Far East." Hull recommended, however, that the message be postponed until it could be determined whether a note which the pres ident was sending to Emperor llirohito would have any effect on the situation. The nole to llirohito was sent Dec. 6, the Japanese struck the next aay, and this message to congress was never delivered. The United States (as revealed in the never-delivered message to congress) was in constant consul tation with Great Britain, Aus tralia and the Netherlands who had "given assurance of thoir material and military support if there comes resort to force." M 1 (ft f$ Mccns I'f v5(W?- , KM Dr. A. E. Merkel, Jackson county public health officer, bought the first sheet of Christmas seals Monday from Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, president of the Jackson County Public Health association. Looking on from the left was Mrs. Glenn A. Gibbons, Jackson county chairman of the annual cam paign, and on the light Mrs. John S. Day, Mndford chairman. The Christmas seal finances all work in this county to eradicate tuberculosis, including the mass X-ray program, which opens next week. (Photo by Shang'.c). EXPECT G By United Press A source close to the General Motors negotiating committee predicted today that the com pany would " reject the CIO United Auto Workers' arbitra tion proposal, and a walkout of Illinois operators threatened to spread into. a. nationwide teler phone tie-up. The prediction dimmed hope for early settlement of the Gen eral Motors strike, which affect ed 175,000 of the nation's 430, 000 idle workers. Meanwhile, James A. Beirne, president of the National Fed eration of Telephone Workers, was reported en route from New York to take over leadership in a strike of 8,700 toll operators which has tied up service throughout Illinois. More May Strike Beirne's decision to come to Chicago followed an announce ment by J. H. Moran, president of the federation of long lines telephone workers, an N.F.T.W. affiliate, that 22,000 long-distance operators in 42 states might walk out in sympathy. San Francisco housewives to day faced the possibility of a city-wide shutdown of grocery stores as the San Francisco Re tail Grocers' association sched uled a meeting to discuss closing SOUGHT IN BILL Washington. Nov. 23 U.R Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, D., Calif., introduced a resolu tion today calling on President Truman to Invite Britain and Russia immediately to a confer ence on the "common danger" created by atomic weapons. The recent British-Canadian-American atomic bomb declara tion, she said, is "disappointing because it places the main em phasis on the atomic bomb and not on gelling along." The dec laration called for establishment of a .commission under the United Nations organization to study methods of international control of atomic weapons. Atomic power, Mrs. Douglas said, is not an isolated case, but "just another factor which has to be handled on a basis of po litical mutual understanding." "If it is the atomic bomb to day, why isn't it hncleriologic jl warfare tomorrow?" ARBITRATION PROPOSAL RIBUNE United Press Full r stores in a "sympathy" lockout. Alben Peterson, head of the local U. S. conciliation office, offered to help in negotiations looking toward settlement of a printers' strike which has forced three S e a 1 1 1 e newspapers to close. Peterson said he would tiy to arrange a conference to day. CIO AlPfPAY E IWA-CIO has accepted an In crease of 12'i per hour "across the board" which will affect all CIO operations in the Klamath Basin area, it was announced to day. The increase went Into af fect as of Nov. 1, and was de cided at a meeting of mill rep resentatives at Klamath Falls last month. Mills in this area affected arc the Medford Corporation woods operations. Pacific Wood Prod ucts and Rogue River Box com pany at Grants Pass and the Sugar Pine Lumber company at Ashland. Among the larger mills affected by the Increase arc McCloud River Lumber company at McCloud, Calif., Weyerhaeuser Timber company at Klamath Falls and the Brooks Scanlon Lumber com pany and Shevlin-f lixon com pany, both of Bend. By United Press The nation's first peacetime Thanksgiving day observance since, 1941 was marred by the death of more than 100 persons in holiday accidents, a United Press survey disclosed today. Seventy-three persons died as the result of automobile mishaps and 40 died in fires, falls and other accidents. The national safety council had predicted that 100 persons would be killed in traffic acci dents during the holiday. Ohio reported the largest num ber of deaths with 14. Michigan and Pennsylvania each had 11 New York reported 10, and Cali fornia, nine . Fl TO REJECT Leaied Wiri NO. 208. - to I ....... .i, ti. V..". 1. ,'.. j1 ' BEV1N ASKS U.S. F, London,' Nov.' '23 (U.R) -For eign Minister Ernest Beviu to day invited Russia and the United Stales to state exactly whnl demands, if any, they have for territory and bases so the problems can be threshed out publicly. "If the great powers say ex actly what they want, cither In territory or bases or any other form, it can be examined and there is no need for action which will cause reflection on the action of one another," he said. Bevin, speaking In the com mons foreign policy debate, said that Britain refuses to base her foreign policy entirely upon the decisions of the Big Three. He said the big powers had better talk to each other with utter frankness and remove groundless suspicions about c?ch other's intentions. Britain, he said, is willing to submit anything it docs or de sires to discussion in open as sembly of the United Nations. The blunt - speaking foreign minister promised that Britain will not commit any unfrinilly act toward any other nation, great or small. BODY OF PATCH COMING BY AIR West Point, N. Y Nov. 23 (U.Rl The body of Lt. Gen. Alex ander M. Patch, famed war com mander who would have been 56 today, was on its way here by air for burial at the U. S. mili tary academy cemetery. Patch, who died Wednesday night at Brooke General Hos pital, San Antonio. Tex., of pneu monia, led the troops -vho took ! over from the marines on Guad alciinal. In 1944 he led the 7th army on a bOO-milc drive through southern France to join the final assault on Germany Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 23 (U.R) Chief of the New Mexico state police, Frank Young, today had been relieved of his duties fol lowing the confession of a 45 year-old Negro convict that he had committed the brutal hath room slaying of Mrs. Eloisc Ken nedy while in the police chief's I charge s I It i"f, ST SUGAR ONLY FOOD TO REMAIN UNDER L OF OPA Meat Supplies 'Permit 165 Pounds Per Capita Con sumption for Civilians. Waihington. Nov. 23(U.R) Housewives still will be asked to turn in waste kitchen fats at the butcher counter, although the red point bonus is no more. Agriculture de partment officials said today the present fee of four cents a pound still will be paid for all fats turned in. Washington. Nov. 23 U.R All rationing of meats, butter. fats and oils will end at midnight tonight. The announcement was mada today by Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton P. Anderson, Only sugar will remain on the list of rationed foods. Anderson told a press confer ence that consumers no longer will be required to turn In ration stamps for beef, pork, veal, mutton, canned fish, butter. lard, shortening, margarine or related oils. He said that In view of the serious world wide shortage of sugar, however, there is "no im mediate prospect" of lifting sugar rationing. 16S Pounds Per Capita Anderson reported that the meat supply during December should allow civilians to eat at the annual rate of 165 pounds per capita. This amount will be left after meeting military needs and setting aside of 30,000,000 pounds weekly for shipment to Allied and liberated countries, and 4,000,000 pounds for com mercial export. Anderson said that "Ideally" It would have been desirable to continue rationing of fats and oils for quite awhile because the supply is still short. "But to continue rationing of fats and oils after cessation of meat rationing," he said, "would require a completely new ration ing system, involving the re registration of more than 500,000 industrial and institutional users and the possible issurance of new ration books to all civilians in this country." "IKE" IN HOSPITAL WITH SEVERE COLD Washington, Nov. 23 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, suf fering from a respiratory ail ment, has entered Ashford Gen eral hospital at White Sulpnur Springs, W. Va., the War depart ment announced todajv The general will be obliged to cancel plans to return to Europe for the time being, the depart ment said. The War department .iid Eisenhower entered the hospital as a precautionary measure to prevent complications from de veloping as a result of his malady. Mrs. Eisenhower, stricken with pneumonia while visiting rela tives at Boone, Ia last week, ii recovering in a Boone hospit.il. Washington, Nov. 23 (U.R) The senate military affairs com mittee today approved the nomi nation of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower to be army chief of staff. W aid port Conchies To Continue Fast Against Retention Waldport, Ore., Nov. 23 (U,R) Twelve men at the Waldport camp for conscientious objectors continued their fast into the fourth day today in protest against continuance of wartime conscription during peacetime. The fasters said they would continue without food until there is indication the Brethren Serv ice committee, which administ ers their camp, changes its policy and that demobilization of con scientious objects is speeded up.. They contended that other de nominations operating similar camps for the government are planning to stop in a tew months. Men at the Waldport ramp, one of many set up for conscien tious objectors assigned to do civilian work without pay be cause of scruples against war, have been working mainly on forestry and road-building pro jects. Peace and security are worth every cent you can put Into Victory Loan Bonds. i
