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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 19-15.
NO. 210.
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. 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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,"
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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,
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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
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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