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Fortieth Year.
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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BEV1N ASKS U.S.
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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
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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.
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