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Victory Queen Candidates Medford United Prett Full Leased Wire Tribune United Pre. Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 19-15. NO. 210. INTO S -? "easw" Jiirrt q"! "aaBlaa' SCHOOL LAKE , .. ... y. .- : . Posed with Commander Jack Dempsey during hit visit here last week in the intesests of the Victory bond sale drive are tour candidates in the American Legion-sponsored contest for victory queen. First row: Margaret Ruth Bolton, Kiwanis club candidate; Vivian Lindquist, Junior Chamber of Commerce. Back row: Nina Tuttle. Rotary clubt Jackie Flynn Allworth, Elks club. (Shangle photo). AFL L URGED TO ACCEPT E End of Crippling Strike Fore seen 15 Cent Hike Ac cepted By Committee .sy United Press An end to the crippling strike of 00,000 AFL lumber workers in the northwest was foreseen today following a compromise settlement reached by 25 Taco rr.a AFL locals and operators. , i an announcement that labor leaders were urging other locals to accept the wage rates agreed upon. These were developments on the Pacific coast labor scene: Lumbe r Chairman John Christenson announced the northwest strike policy commit tee of the AFL had accepted a 15-cent increase offered by Tacoma operators. He urged other locals whose strike in five northwestern states has hamper ed production to agree to similar terms. 5 Cents Under Goal The compromise rate is 5 cents under the $1.10 industry wide minimum asked by the union, and 3V4 cents above the CIO settlement of 12 Ms cents an hour reached several weeks ago. Food The San Francisco re tail grocer's association was ex pected to discuss at a meeting tonight a proposal that all the city's grocery stores close in support of 78 Safeway stores which cannot open because striking bakery wagon drivers are picketing them. Newspapers Local 202 of the AFL typographical union an nounced it would ijjand by its original demand for a $2.95 daily increase, as Seattle's news paper strike entered its second week. Conciliation efforts have failed to bridge the gap between demands of the ITU and pub lishers of the Post-Intellingenc-er. Star and Times. The pub lishers have offered $1.65. 17 FAlLIES" GET Seventeen families living In 11 apartments and homes on South Riverside and South Central ave nues recently purchased by Sears Roebuck and company have been given the required 90-day vaca tion notice according to Mark Goldy, realtor, and bids on the sale and removal of the building have been advertised. The firm has announced erection of a store building on the site. Successful bidders on the buildings may either remove them from the site or tear them down, the realtor states, and this is to be done between March 1 and April 1, the contracts to state that the ground must be cleared by the latter date. Auto Buyer Held On Larceny Count Kenneth Walker, route 2, -as confined to county jail Saturday under $500 bail following pre liminary hearing in Justice court charged with larccnv by bailee. Walker, who is to appear later in Circuit court, was charged by L. W. Collingwood with leaving the state in a car Walker was reportedly buying from Colling wood. NOVIKOFF OUT Wichita Falls. Tex., Nov. 26 0J.R) Lou Novikoff. the "mad Russian'' of baseball, is on his way out of the army air forces under a dependency discharje clause, according to the Ship yard Field Tublic Ruia'.iuiis office. i ft V CIO ASKS HELP OF - GOVERNMENT IN G.JJTRIKE 457,000 Idle In Labor Tur moil Ward Employes Plan Strike Resumption By United Press The CIO United Auto Work ers today awaited a reply to their bid for government inter vention in the General Motors strike, and another CIO union began a one-week "demonstra tion" work stoppage against Montgomery Ward and Com pany. Across the nation 467,000 workers were idle as the result of strikes. The General Motors strike alone accounted for 175, 000. Union leaders claimed the Montgomery Ward walkout al ready had affected at least 9,500 workers and predicted that it would spread to 75.000. UAW Vice President Walter Reuther asked General Motors representatives to meet with un ion spokesmen and the U. S. Conciliation service to reopen negotiations on the UAW's de mand for a 30 per cent wage in crease. Reply Today The company promised a re ply "sometime today." The United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes (CIO) began picketing Montgom ery Ward units in Chicago, Den ver, Albany, N. Y., and Barre, Vt, this morning. Other Wards units scheduled to be struck today are located at Amsterdam and Jamaica, N. Y., Trenton, N, J and Kansas City. Union leaders in Detroit, Dearborn and Royal Oak, Mich., said workers in those cities would join the walkout tomor row. The demonstration was called after Sewell Avery, militant board chairman of the big mail order house, refused to agree to arbitrate contract differences, union executive vice president teonard Levy said. Ford Motor company an nounced that strikes at 15 firms making automotive supplies would force it to close its huge River Rouge plant and some subsidiary plants tomorrow night. BRITISH BATTLE Jerusalem, Nov. 26 U.R) British Airborne soldiers with fixed bayonets forced their way into a Jewish village against re sistance today while thousands of angered Jews milled and shouted In the dusty streets. A number of villagers were injured in a tussle with soldiers in the communal dining room of the village named Shefayim. With virtually the entire Palestine coast under curfew, the British were trying to smash a new outbreak of violence started by the bombing of two police stations near Telaviv yes terday by Jewish extremists. They also sought to break the illegal immigration of Jews who were coming ashore from small blockade-running boats. Yesterday's attack was believed to be in revenge for British seizure of a boat. ESTHER WILLIAMS WEDS iiouywooa, iov. j mm Acircss tsiner imams, 24. and Ben Gage, 27, radio an nouncer just out of the army, were preparing today to honey moon to Mexico. Miss Williams and Gage were married yester day at the Westwood Hils Con gregational church. Thcro are 9.335 radio stations m the United Slalu, L OF T Notes To London and Mos cow Urge Recall By Jan. 1 Russian Actions Cited Washington, Nov. 26 (U.R) The United States has proposed to Russia and Great Britain that all troops of the three nations be withdrawn from Iran by Jan. 1, the state department an nounced today. The proposal was made by means of notes sent to London and Moscowt- The United States notes re called the Tehran agreement of Dec. 1, 1943, between Premier Josef Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the late President Roosevelt, on the maintenance of independence, sovereignty and territorial integ rity of Iran. Non-Inierferenca Aim The note said that "The ful fillment of these assurances re quires that the government of Iran should have full freedom, without interference from So viet, British or American mili tary or civil authorities, to move its armed forces through Iran in such a manner as it may con sider necessary in order to pre serve its authority and to main tain internal security." This country suggested that Soviet commanders in northern Iran may have been acting with out the sanction Of the Soviet government in preventing the free movement of Iranian forces. If that is the explanation of Iranian charges that recent up risings there were Soviet-inspired, the rote said, this govern ment is assuming that the So viet government is issuing new instructions in keeping with the Tehran declaration. POET REINDICTED Washington, Nov. 26 (U.R) Ezra Pound, 60-year-old Amer ican poet, was re-indicted today on charges of committing 19 acts of treason as an expatriate in Rome when this country was at war with Italy. Pound was first indicted on treason charges in July, 1943. The new indictment, returned by a federal grand jury here, con tains more details than the old one. The treason charges are based on broadcasts Pound made in Italy during the war. Pound is a native of HahVy, Ida., where he was born Oct. 30, 1885. He recently was flown here from Italy. The Justice de partment said his trial, in U. S. district court here, would ' be held as soon as possible. Japs Hit Pearl Harbor At Very Time Grew Trying To Deliver Last Minute Peace Plea Washington, Nov. 26 (U.PJ Joseph Clark Grew, last U. S. ambassador to Japan, said today that Japan broke off diplomatic relations and attacked Pearl Harbor at the very time he was trying to deliver a last-minute appeal for peace from the late President Roosevelt to Emperor Hirohito. Grew described in detail for the Pearl Harbor investigaiing committee those last hours in Tokyo before the sneak attack on Dec. 7, 1941, which started the Pacific war. He said he still was trying to get an audience with the em peror to deliver the president's note, dispatched the day before Pearl Harbor, when he was told that the Washington negotiations were ended. The attack had oc curred four hours earlier. Hc learned about it later in the! newspapers, Grew said. Grew was preceded before the i committee by former Secretaiyl of State Hull who testified that: 1. Basing the U. S. fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1940 and 1941 1 was "thoroughly iustilicd." (Jh.c' ASK SUMMONING OFV.WLOTOV Certain Russian General Also May Be Sought For Testimony in Nazi's Trial Nuernberg, Nov. 26 (U.R) Counsel for Joachim Von Rib bentrop said today that they were considering asking the war crimes tribunal to call Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov and "a certain Russian general" to testify in Ribbentrop's defense. Ribbentrop's attorneys said that the request had not.yct been submitted to the court but was under consideration. They said they wanted Molotov to testify concerning Russo-German rela tions in the period between the signing of the non-aggression pact in August, 1939 and the German attack on Russia, June 22, 1941. Ruling To Come The French and British prose cution staffs take a postion that the court can not require the presence of witnesses who are outside of Germany. However, the American and Russian pro secutors hold that witnesses any where may be subpenaed on a showing that their testimony is relevant to the defense. The court itself has not yet ruled on such witnesses. Sidney Alderman, assistant U. S. prosecutor, charged before the court today that Germany and her leaders were responsible for Pearl Harbor. He based his charge on the minutes of Adolf Hitler's con ference with Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka in April, j.940, at which Hitler promised Japan full German support in event of a Japanese U. S. war. Japs Encouraged Alderman said that Hitler's promise to declare war on the United States the moment hos tilities opened in the Pacific had encouraged Japan to make the Pearl Harbor attack. Alderman's charge was made after the tribunal had granted the defendants permission to call various witnesses, including witnesses desired by Dr. Hjal mar Schacht in an attempt to prove that he tried to overthrow Hitler in 1938 and participated in the abortive plot on Hitler's life in July, 1944. Lesnevich Crown Not To Be Up In Fight With Kahut Portland, Ore., Nov. 26 (U.R) Joe Kahut's nine and three quarter pounds overweight today reduced the forthcoming Kahut Gus Lesnevich fight here to a 10-round affair without the Lesnevich light heavyweight title at stake. Matchmaker Joe Waterman announced it woild not be fair to either Kahut or the fight fans to have Kahut make the requited 175 pounds for a title match. fleet commander had opposed it.) 2. By Nov. 26. 1941, when this country replied to Japanese demands made in a note on Nov. 20, it was too late to stop a Japan which was already "hell bent on an aggressive policy " 3. Nevertheless, the 10-point U. S. reply "contained at least five points that the Japs would have found to their benefit" if they had chosen peace instead of war. 4. But "they could not have abandoned that military policy at that stage when they had their guns drawn and their fleets afloat for Pearl Harbor waters." 5. The Japanese note of Nov. 20 constituted an ultimatum to the United States they "wanted us to furnish all the oil they needed to attack us" and this government rejected it ' with some reason." 6. All the Japanese "savages" needed to do to avoid war was to "announce that they were throenh with conquest and ag-glCSiivU," . A I" f WW' V fttinf(b iin liixniit - Signing up for a free chest X-ray, when the mobile unit arrives this week are: Left to right Don Stansell, president ot tne Southern Oregon Central Labor Council; Mrs. Kenneih Denman. committee worker; Mrs. O. A. Eden, Jackson county chamber of commerce secretary; Mayor C. A. Meeker of Medford, V. W. Kengla of Timber Products Co.. A. G. Thompson. Henry Feller and Robert Pcebler of the Labor council; Mrs. Jacque Lenox, president Professional Women; seated Fitihugh L. Brower of the California Oregon Power company and Mrs. Dwight Findley, county chairman of the drive. (Photo courtesy J. Verne Shangle). SPRUANCE TAKES Pearl Harbor, Nov. 26 (U.R) Fleet Adm, Chester W. Nimitz, new U. S. chief of naval opera tions, hauled his five-star flag down the stubby mast of a sub marine Saturday and relinquish ed command of the Pncific fleet with a pledge to maintain the greatest fighting force in the history of naval warfare. In a strictly formal 10 minute ceremony, Nimitz turned over command of the Pacific fleet to Adm. Raymond Ames Spruance, one of the fleet's ablest subordi nate commanders and known to fellow officers as a "cold blood ed fighting fool." The whitcclad be - ribboned admirals were piped aboard the USS Menhaden which Nimitz selected for the occasion because "I'm a submarine sailor." On Dec. 31, 1941, he had hoisted his flag aboard the submarine USS Grayling in Pearl Harbor and then carried it victoriously across the Pacific. With Spruance taking com mand of the world's greatest fleet, Nimitz declared that as chief of naval operations lie would maintain the efficiency and striking power of the mightiest naval armada ever to enter combat. Jacksonville Grange Jacksonville Grange will meet Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 8 p. m. at the hall. Those attending are asked to bring a sack lunch. The message from Mr. Roose velt to the emperor, never de livered because of Jap delays, was an appeal to avert the "tragic possibilities" of a tense situation, Grew said. Grew was questioned about a dispatch to the State department on Jan. 27, 1941, in which he said the Peruvian minister In Tokyo had told him of "many rumors" that the Japanese planned to attack Pearl Harbor. Grew said that was the last definite rumor he heard that the Japanese might strike at Hawaii. But there was plenty of evidence, he said, that the Japanese were likely to attack somewhere sooner or later. Under questioning by Assist ant Committee Counsel Gerhard Gescl! Grew said he ' guessed" after a Japanese cabinet meeting on Dec. 1, 1941, that one of the matters discussed was an attack on Pearl Harbor. But "that was all gucsswo'k," Grew said, and his report to the State department on the cabinet meeting made no reference to a puiiibli: blow at Hawaii, i tmiTMn Federal Agency Fund Slash Also Hits At Strike Ballots Washington, Nov. 28 (U.R) A congressional committee vot ed today to end the right of labor unions to hold strike elec tions under the Smith-Connally act. The action was taken by the house appropriations committee in recommending a $1,131,552,- 312 deficiency appropriation for T Washington, Nov. 26 (U.R) There will be no restrictions this year on Christmas messages to or from members of the armed services overseas. The War and Navy depart ments said today all arrange ments have been matlo tor prompt delivery of holiday mes sages In all countries where the U. S. forces still are stationed. For messages leaving this country, more than 100 fixed text phrases are available, such as "All Well," "Merry Christ mas" and "Many Happy Re turns." Any combination of three such phrases may be group ed to compose a message to i sol sailor, marine or guardsman anywhere in the world for 60 cents, the announcement said. But 'complete, accurate ad dresses" will be necessary. AUSTRIAN VOTERS Vienna, Nov. 28 (U.R) Par tial returns from Austria's first free election in 14 years showed that the communists had suffer ed a dcefat so severe they may not win a single seat in the new parliament. The conservative people's par ty appeared to have won a small plurality over the socialist par ty, but reports were lacking from many rural districts. There was no question that the voters, who turned out in exceptional strength, had dealt the communists a stunning blow. PRISONERS OF JAPS WELL FED IS CLAIM Manila, Nov. 26 (U.R) l.t. Gen. Shiyoku Kou, who had charge of prisoner of war and interment camps on Luzon, testi fied today that he personally visited all camps and "found everything good." He said the inmates had bet ter food than the Japanese sol diers in Manila. Kou had been ordered by the five-man military commiision trying Gen, Tomoyuki Ynma.hita for war crimes to appear for (jiicatiuiuuS, of the Medford Business and i federal agencies during the fis cal year ending next June 30 a slash of $576,142,136 from the original budget bureau request. The committee attached to the appropriation legislation a rid er prohibiting the national labor relations board from using any of its funds to conduct the strike elections authorized by the Smith-Connally act. Legislation for outright re peal of the Smith-Connally act has been approved by the house rules committee and' is now awaiting house action. The committee rejected the entire budget bureau requests of $158,320,000 for expansion of veterans' hospital facilities, $128,475,000 for flood control and rivers and harbori projects, and $24,500,000 for temporary veterans' housing. All of these requests should have further study, the commit tee reported. To take care of the hospital situation, it inserted a provision authorizing the veter ans' administration to take over army and navy hospitals not needed by those services. In knocking out the flood con trol" and rivers and harbors pro jects prcviousjy recommended by army engineers, the commit tee said they would be recon sidered when the regular ap propriation bill is brought up in January, Major appropriation! recom mended by the committee in cluded: Federal Security Agency, $25, 042,000; NLRB, $648,000; Veter ans' administration for national service life insurance, $928,000, 000; Agriculture department, $18,000,000; Bureau of Reclama tion, $77,206,000, and State de partment, $10,840,000. Funds totalling $14,000,000 were ap proved to continue the impoita tion of foreign farm labor. A. S. Rosenhaum, Ace Bond Seller, Is Congratulated A. S. Roscnbaum, star bond salesman for Medford, has re ceived a letter of congratulation from William M. Carl, director of the Oregon War Finance com mittee, on Rosenbaum's election to the "Million Dollar club." Roscnbaum was taken into the I club during a special bond pro gram on a Portland radio station recently, but due to illness was unable to be presint. Rosenbaum, who has devoted many hours to the bond sel'ing program during every drive since the start of the war, has sold about $2,000,000 in bonds. EDNA SKELTON WEDS Hollywood, Nov. 26 (U.R) Edna Skelton, former wife of Comedian Red Skelton, was back in Hollywood with Motion Picture Director Frank Borzage today following their marriage in Las Vegas, Ncv. They will have to postpone their honey moon, they said, until after Borzage completes his current piclure. 15 OR 20 PUPILS CARRIED TO DEATH IN DEEMVATERS Machine Hurtles Into Lake Chelan After Striking Dis . lodged Rock On Highway First Creek, Wash., Nov. 26 (U.R) The Washington state pat. rol reported today that between "15 and 20" school children lost their lives when the bus in which they were riding plunged into Lake Chelan one mile from here. The reduced death toll at first feared to reach as high as 50 was announced by Assistant Patrol Chief Jack Whittall at Olympic state headquarters. He made the announcement after talking with Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley, who assumed charge in the accident cene pending the arrival of Captain F. H. Morgan from Spokane, area supervisor. In Deep Water "The bus." Whillill .-M rests in between 150 nnH 'jnn feet of water. A fnr n w fan ascertain now, between 15 and 20 school children are still aboard the bus. Seven students and one adult Mm. Tod nmum escaped through a window. "Mcuauley told me," Whittall said, "that Mrs. Brown, who lives along the bun rnnt mi riding the bus today. When the accident occurred, she piuhed seven children through a bus window and then escaped her self." "The children are of all ages," Whittall said. "They range from grade school to high school students. In some families, th death toll will reach as high as three persons,. , , "Patrolmen on the scene atlll have not located the school bus. But they are trying to locate it With iniDrovised irrannlinn . .--if .."b ma terial." McCaulev tnM WMii.n kt the bus was driven by Jack Randall of Chelan. "His body is still in the bus," Whittall said. Bus Hit Rock "Mrs. Brown hoi tnA ... u. said, "that the bus did not skid. it sirucK a rock which had been aisioogcd by a heavy snowfall. Immediately after striking the rock it plummeted from the road into the lake." State Patrolman Bill Sugden, phoning over an emergency line from the crash scene placed the death toll at "between 15 or 20" children but said that the com plete death list would not be available for some time. Chelan high school secretary Ruth O'Keefe said school offici als had hopes that the bus which normally carried a heavy load of children, had been lightly loaded at the time of the crash "because it was near the start of its run." Support the Victory Bond campaign and you will aid in the peace. To the People of this Community Everybody h'u a personal post- rar plan. You talk about It al most as much as you (Usciua the weather. . Mark Twain once said everybody Vs I the weather J'" but nobody lZmi-Z t v seems to do t It. Twain 3.BS lh"d In an era when Tom Baw yer and Huckleberry Finn could go Ashing; without worrying If an atom bomb was loose in the vicinity. When you talk about your post war plan you can do something about It. For one thing, you can buy Victory Bonds which pack as much future In them as the stars above you tonight. Whether you plan to buy new machinery for the farm, open a little business, end junior to college, go off on a trip to the tropics or the north lands, or whether you Just want to go Ashing some day, the Victory Bonds you store up today supply the power. Every $3 you put away today in Victory Bonds will come back to you In 1955 grown f. 4. which you then can cowert Into the thing you most desire for your self ani your family. For your own good, buy as many extra Vic tory Bonds as your pocketbook can stand. . . r THE EDITOR
