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Newspaper Page TextLumber Strike Settlement Seen Just Around the Corner Weather FORECAST: Continued cloud v with rain tonight and Wednes day. Snow In mountains. Little chance in temperature. Temp. Hlfheit TMterday ,5g Lowest this morning ...... .45 Prec. To 5 a, m. today ,,,,,, , Fortieth Year Where Warfare Continues MlttS Nationahu Red f'oihei tonfmue 'n rieifiin arM u 5 Moik. 1 ! - T.'rfee National,,! f ' l' ,tkIJ jf coumns advance vF '' ''' jjJ a' on Communiitl A-V-i if -.4 s, PipingSuichungJS".'.:rVl I M ,SlC KOREA j JAPAN CHINA) C J TO.. - Mcme Telpphoto) Map shows where forces of Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Com munists engage in wild tangle of warfare In northern China and Man churia, where U. S. Marines are reported involved in fighting on Peiping Chingwangtao railroad. It is at Chingwangtao that American ships re cently landed Chiang's soldiers, preparing for showdown with Chlnes Reds. Yanks Wounded in China War Is Declaration of Commies Chungking, Nov. 27 4U.R) Chinese communists today charg ed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek's government planned to maintain an army of 4,500, 000 men and renewed assertions that U. S. troops had been wounded in a battle of China's civil war. ...... .t .. Chungking, Not. 27 (U.R) An authoritative diplomatic source said today that Moscow and Chungking had reached an agreement which will per mit Nationalist troops to be flown into Mukden and Chang chun and under which Kuom intang officials may return to Manchuria at once. A communist press release issued here said an "undeter mined" number of American personnel attached to national ist battalions had been wounded during the battle of Yi Yuan Kow some 10 days ago. Yi Yuan Kow is north of China's great wall, about 30 miles northwest of Shanhaikwan. At the same time the com-r-munists asserted that the central military government budget for next year amounted to $200. 000.000,000 and that steamers of the Minseng Steamship Co., larg est concern operating on rivers of interior China, had been seiz ed for military purposes. Min seng owns approximately 90 steamers. The newspaper Takungpao said Marshal Rodion Malinov sky, soviet far eastern command er, had offered to delay the withdrawal of Rusisan troops from Manchuria until Jan. 1. Malinovsky was said to have of fered assistance to airborne na tionalist troops to be brought to Mukden and Changchun. The newspaper also reported that all communist troops had disappear ed from the latter city, and AT 300 FOOT LEVEL First Creek, Wash., Nov. 27 (U P.) Deep sea divers today told state patrolmen they thought a submerged school bus in Lake Chelan had been located at the 300 foot level, too deep for them to go in search of the 14 persons believed trapped inside. A second body was recovered when searching was renewed today, that of Ronnie Avers. 13. The lad had broke out of the careening bus as it tippled from a snow covered highway into j the lake yesterday. The body of 16-year-old Hen rv Davis was found last night by divers as frantic parents and relatives waited on the snow covered rocky shore. Six others survived the ordeal of being pitched into the frigid water but Bus Driver Jack Randall, 26, and 13 students were believed s'.ul i Ui jclivvv bus. M United Prut China ktdi eltimt in Menchurh Noy UndeiiKretory Gofei in Tune-too OS danger of U S mrojyement prowl Chang Kai-Ngau, chairman of Chaing's economic mission to Manchuria, said a large number of government officials were preparing to leave for Man churia very soon. Other reports, however, said that Malinovsky had offered to assist Chungking in a peaceful occupation of all zones in Man churia still under Russian occu pation. The offer, however, did not include areas now under communist domination, these re ports said. TRANSPORT PLANE Florence, Ore., Nov. 27 (U.R) Six men, members of the crew of an army transport plane that crashed into the sea 16 miles off the Oregon coast near here, were still missing today as Coast Guard vessels combed coastal waters for sight of survivors. Last radio contact with the plane, a twin-engined C-45 en route on a routine flight from Sedalia, Mo., to McChord Field near Tacoma, by way of Oak land, Cal., was made at 3:15 p. m. yesterday. Plane crewmen reported their gasoline was al most gone and that they were go ing to bail out. Besause of bad weather condi tions, no landing could be made at McChord Field, so the pilot was ordered to fly to the army air base at Pendleton, where skies were clear. Authorities said they believed the plane's equipment became faulty as no reason could be seen why the craft headed back down the Oregon coast. Ashland Chamber Names Secretary Ashland, Nov. 27 Robert L. Mullin, formerly a resident of Gold Hill, has been named as secretary of the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce, replacing Mrs. Marchial Stansbury, who has been temporarily filling the va cancy. Mullin was recently dis charged after three and a half years in the navy. He and his wife, the former Irene Steadman, are residing at the home of her parents in Phoe nix until a permanent residence here can be obtained. Father Kills 3 Children, Self Ada. Okla.. Nov. 27 U.R Robert W. Pierre. 40. took his thrrr small children for a Sun day automobile ride, shot them to death one by one, then turn ed the gun on himself, police said today. Mrs. Pierce, distraught over the tragedy, said her husband had been a railroad dispatcher until last week when illness had forced him to resign. She said he had not appeared disconsol ate, however, EDFORP Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, Hurley Resigns as Ambassador to China; Says US Foreign Policy Being Sabotaged TAKES HARD RAP AT Being Sucked Into Power Block On Side of Colonial Imperialism Is Declaration Washington. Nov. 27 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall, who retired last week as army chief of staff, will replace Am bassador Patrick J. Hurley in China, the While House an nounced today. Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R) Patrick J. Hurley resigned to day as U. S. ambassador to China with a charge that pro fessional diplomats in the state department are sabotaging the basic principles of American foreign policy. Hurley said in a blistering critique- of the U. S. foreign service that "in diplomacy today we are permitting ourselves to be sucked into a power bloc on tho side of colonial imperialism against communist imperialism. Third War Looms "There is a third world war in the making," Hurley said. "The astonishing feature of our foreign policy is the wide discrepancy between our an nounced policies and our con duct of International relations,' he said. "For instance, we began the war with the principles ot the Atlantic Charter and democracy as our goal. Our associates in the war at that time gave elo quent lip service to the princi ples of democracy. "We finished the war in the far east' furnishing lend-lease supplies and using all our repu tation to undermine democracy and bolster imperialism and communism." Hurley said that in the "high er echelon of our policy-making officials" American foreign policy is nearly always clearly defined. Career Men Hit But he said, "it is no secret that the American policy in China did not have the" support of all the career men in the state department." "The professional foreign service men sided with the Chinese communist armed party and the imperialist bloc of na tions whose policy it was to keep China divided against her self," he said. He said the professional dip lomats also advised the Chinese communists not to accept uni fication with the Chinese na tional army unless the com munists were given control. "Backed Into War" Hurley said the weakness of American foreign policy "has backed us into two world wars." "There is a third world war in the making," he said. "In diplomacy today we are per mitting ourselves to be sucked into a power bloc on tue side of colonial imperialism against communist imperialism. I am opposed to both. I still favor democracy and free enterprise." He said this country "won both wars" but failed in both in stances "to establish the prin ciples for which we were fight ing" because our foreign policy officials have always been divid ed against themselves. "Consequently we have al ways been a prey to the na tions that give lip service to our ic'eals and principles in order to obtain our material support." The answer, Hurley said, lies in two directions. First, he said, the "secrecy which has shroud ed the actions of the state de partment" must be eliminated in order to give the American people correct basic information on which to form judgments. Secondly, there must be "a complete reorganization of our policy making machinery be ginning at the lower official levels" to coordinate the na tion's economic and diplomatic policies and give "loyal and in telligcnt implementation" to the nation's international po icy as laid down, by its top leaders. , ,N, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1945. Tried Peace Move (Acme Telcphoto) Joseph Clark Grew, last U. S. am bassador to Japan, testifies at Pearl Harbor inquiry. Washington, D. C that Japan broke off diplomatic re lations with U. S. at time he was try ing to deliver last-minute appeal for peace from late President Roosevelt L Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R) u. S. failure to oppose Japanese aggression in the critical days before Pearl Harbor would have been cowardly, former secretary of state Cordcll Hull declared today in a vigorous defense of his policies. The white-haired and tremu lous Hull, 74 and ill, strongly defended his prewar no-compromise policy before the house-senate committee investigating the Pearl Harbor defeat which plunged this country into the conflict. In two previous appearances before the committee, Hull had testified in a faltering, barely audible voice about his efforts to preserve peace in the Pacific. He had denied repeatedly that a 10-point statement of U. S. prin ciples he gave the Japanese on Nov. 26. 1941. 'touched the but ton" that started the war. Today he was questioned again about the charge, formally made last August in an army board report on the Pearl Har bor disaster. Hull vigorousry rejected the charge and hurled at his accusers the declaration that they did not know what they were talking about. Allied Occupation of Germany May Be For Next 10 Years Frankfurt, Nov. 27 (U.R) Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, newly designated commander of Amer ican forces in Europe, predicted today that the Allied occupation of Germany would continue for at least 10 years. McNarney held his first press conference since he was named to succeed Gen. Dwight D. F'sen hower as commander-in-chic: of U. S. occupation forces in Ger many, commanding general of U. S. forces in Europe, and Amer ican representative on the Allied control council. CIRCUIT COURT JURY CALLED FOR DEC. 19 The circuit court jury is sched uled to be called Wcdnevdiy, Dec. 19, to hear evidence in n auto accident suit, Circuit J'irltic Herbert K. Manna reports Two actions have been merged No immediate session of the grand jury is contemplated by the district attorney's office as no criminal matters arc now pending. ACCEPT SUN BOWL BID El Paso, Tex., Nov. 27 lU.0) DAiver university today accept ed an invitation to play the Uni versity of New Mexico in the bun Cuwl iu 1 r;u ua Jaa. i. ' k lit HIROHITO URGES Little Emperor Blinks in Floodlight; Reads Imper ial Rescript as Diet Opens Tokyo, Nov. 27 (U.R) Em peror Hirohito, opening the ex traordinary session of the Japa nese diet, today urged passage of a law giving votes to women and other legislation to make Japan more democratic. For one minute the emperor, surrounded by American and Al lied officers, stood blinking in the floodlight chamber and read an imperial rescript. He wore his new style blue court uniform with a single flower in his lapel. The government legislative pro gram, designed to cany out Gun. Douglas MacArthur's orders for a more democratic government, includes a bill to triple the num ber of Japanese permitted to vote. For the first time, under this bill, Japanese women would be permitted to go to the poles. The woman suffrage bill, assured of passage, will be a great step in the emancipation of Japanese women from their socially in ferior position. Union Labor Law Also on the government's pro gram was a labor union law, the first in Japanese history. The proposed bill will follow Mac Arthur's directive demanding that the government give rights to labor. Under existing l')38 legislation strikes are banned. The diet will meet for 18 days, then be dissolved to make way for the new house of ippie sentatives soon to be ejected, probably in January. The proposed election reforms would give voting rights to all persons above 20 years, regard less of sex. Men or women could become candidates for office at 25. This law would, based on the 1944 census, mean an elec torate of 42,910,000. Eligible voters in the 1937 election totaled 14,479,554. BLAST INDONESIA Batavia, Nov. 27 (U.R) British Thunderbolt fighters and Mosquitoes carrying 500 pound bombs struck twice at Indonesian strong points and troop concentrations "today and also attacked the Jogjakarta radio station. British destroyers shelled the town of Ungaran, between Scm arang and Ambarawa. Hard-pressed Indian troops were reported battling new at tacks around Ambarawa where extremists have been besieging 8,000 to 10,000 civilians in an internment camp. A-Bombs That Hit Hiroshima Not Attached to Parachutes By Charles B. Degges United Press Correspondent Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R) The atomic bombs that blasted Hiroshima and Nagasaki were free-falling and were not at tached to parachutes it was learned today. This information confirmed by army atomic bomb experts, reversed a contrary impression created by Japanese claims that the Hiroshima bomb was seen floating above the city from a parachute just before the blast. Actually, it was revealed, the Japs did see a parachute but it was not carrying the bomb. In stead, it was bearing sensitive Instruments which recorded and ra lio-broadcast exactly what was going on Inside the bomb. The crew of the bomb-dropping li-23 was thereby kept advised Tribune Onited Press Full Eight-Foot Cougar Caught in Trap in Butte Falls Area Daid Thompson, U. S. Forest Service employee at Butte Falls, trapped a large cougar in the mountain country behind Butte Falls, he said today. The cat measured about eight feet from tip to tip and weighed over 100 pounds, according to Thompson. Thompson said he found where the cougar had been kill ing deer in the area since re cent heavy snows. The trap was baited with a patented scent and caught the cougar by one front paw. A regular number four coyote trap was used, Thompson stated. It is unusunl to trap cou gars since the animals will rare ly take bait that Is not warm, according to the forest service man. APPLEGATE MINER IS REPORTED ILL IN LONELY CABIN Residents of the Upper Apple gate district were making ar rangements today to go to the cabin of Andrew Jeldness, tour miles west of Big Squaw lake, and bring out the Veteran pros pector, who is reported ill. Bert Harr, stockman of tho district and Hunger Lee Port of the Star ranger stution are organizing the party. Four miles of the way is over a mountain trail, A parly of Copper residents recently made a journey to the Jeldness cabin and found him III and attempting to doctor him self. He was able to get about some. Jeldness is 85 years old and his wife who is with him is 80. They have lived in the Blue Ledge district for nearly 40 years. A son, Otto Jeldness, lives on Rogue river and efforts were made this morning to con tact him. Jeldness, who is well known in this city, has mined and pros pected in tho Upper Applogatc hills for many years. He has been mining in the Squaw Lake area the past three years' where he has a c'aim. Ranger Port reported today he did not believe there was any snow in the Jeldness cabin rea, but thought stormy weather would be encountered. SLIDE NEAR EUREKA HALTS RAIL TRAFFIC Eureka, Cal., Nov. 27 (U.R) A landslide which covered Ap proximately 500 feet of North western Pacific track 35 miles south of here probably will close the line for 10 days, railroad en gineers estimated today. Until the tracks arc cleared, passengers will be carried around the slide area to and from Eureka by Greyhound bus. Lcss-than-carload freight will be han dled between South Fork and Eureka by Pacific Motor Truck ing Co., a Southern Pacific sub sidiary. until the split second of the ex plosion. This correspondent was led to raue the question of the bomb's luunching because of two facts previously made public: (1) That the B-29 swung around and al most completely reversed its course after dropping the bomb and (2) that the plane was al most 1 1 miles away when the detonation nine. A free falling bomb follows the forward course of tho launching plane and also its ap proximate speed. Thus, when the plane turns around, the gap between plane and bomb is wid ened by both the plane's speed and that of the falling weapon. A parachute on a bomb, how ever, would greatly arrest its forward and downward speed, and the "safety" gap wuuld be smaller. Leased Wlri NO. 211. OF Manufacture Started More Than Year Before War Outbreak Shown at Trial. Nuernberg, Nov. 27 (U.R) Germany began manufacture of poison gas on a mass basis more than a year before the outbreak of war, evidence at the war crimes trial revealed today. Orders to start turning out poison gas on a massive scale were issued by Hermann Goer ing on July 12, 1938, the evi dence disclosed. ' Memo In Evidence Production was to be rtartcd at a rato of 4.000 tons a month and to rise to a rate of 8.000 tons a month by Oct. 1, 1940. Tho evidence was In the form of a memoranda on basic facts about the German war effort written by Gen. George Thomas, former chief of the nazi military economy staff. The poison gas project was turned over to the huge I. G. Farben-Industrie chemical trust to be carried out. The notes did not explain why Germany failed to use poison gas during the war. The evidence was placed be fore the war trials court by Sid ney Aldermun, assistant U. S. prosecutor. Alderman also read Into the record a speech by Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl made in late 1943 which revealed that Adolf Hit ler was then refusing a growing demand by many influential Germans that he try to negotiate peace with the United States, Russia and Britain, Defeatism Fought Jodl was speaking to a special meeting of Munich party leaders in an attempt to combat the wave of defeatism in Germany. "Up and down the country the devil of subversion strides," he said. "All cowards are seeking a way out. They say we must negotiate while there is still something in hand. In this war there can only bo a fight to the end. "Capitulation is the end of the nation and of Germany. Italy suffered not only a mild defeat but a moral defeat. She broke down Internally." Jodl revealed that Hitler had hoped to attack in the west in 1039 after the end of the Polish campaign but bad weather and shortage of armaments delayed the attack. "Meantime," he said, "we were confronted by yet another problem which had to be settled promptly: The occupation of Norway and Denmark. First, there was danger that Britain would seize Scandinavia which besides effecting strategic en circlement from the north would stop the import of iron and nickel. "Second, there was the reali zation of our own maritime necessities which made it im perative for us to secure free access to the Atlantic. "The question now arose whether or not we should carry the war Into Britain by landing on a grand scale. Furthermore, in view of the possible event uality of the U. S. A. entering the war it was necessary to take Into consideration the occupa tion of a number of advanced support points in the Atlantic, for instance Iceland anJ the Azores." Jodl said the attack on Bri tain and occupation of the Atlantic islands was rejected be cause the Germans lacked naval j and air strength. KOREA GETS NEWS Seoul, Korea. Nov. 27 (U.R) The first Independent wot Id news report to reach the Korenn press In many years was started today under an arrangement be tween the Korea Press associa tion and the United Press. Our ing and before the' war. this country got Its foreign iws through Doniei, Japanese news ageut, i UNION CHIEFTAIN PREDICTS PEACE ON COMPROMISE Employes in Strike-Involved Area Ask Resumption of Negotiations on Wages. Portland, Ore.. Nov. 27 U.R) Peace was seen just around the corner in the Pacific northwest lumber strike today as report flooded AFL headquarters here of negotiation meetings reopen ing throughout Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and northern Cal ifornia. Strike Chairman John M. Christenson flatly predicted the tie-up would be history within a week. He said that as a result of the settlement over the week-end of the wage issue at 25 Tacoma mills on a compromise 15 cents an hour pay increase, employes in other districts had asked for resumption of negotiations. Less Than Asked The Tacoma settlement was 5 cents an hour less than the $1.10 an hour minimum origi nally demanded by the union. It was accepted in the effort to get the men back to work and lumber rolling from the mills again. After relating that negotia tions were under way at Aber deen, Wash., where the Grays Harbor district council met with employers and at Portland where the co-operage division of the sawmill workers, represent ing Seattle, Tacoma and Marys villc, Wash., and Portland, Christenson disclosed that other calls to open negotiations had been received from operators throughout the strike involved area. To date the lumber strike has cost workmen, on the basis of union figures that 60,000 men are involved, almost $3,000,000 a week in lost pay for the more than eight weeks they have been out, according to employer estimates. CIO PREPARES FOR LONG BATTLE WITH By United Press The CIO United Auto Work ers prepared for a long, bitter picket line scigc against General Motors, and Ford Motor Co. workers faced lay-offs by night fall in today's darkening labor picture. An ever-widening gap separat ed General Motors and the un ion following the company's re fusal last night to reopen talks over demands for a 30 per cent wage increase, which last week prompted 175,000 UAW workers to leave their jobs. Closure of Ford's giant River Rogue plant outside Detroit and the contemplated shutdown of a number of subsidiary plants to night was expected to add some 40,000 to the 517,000 already idled by strikes across the na tion. Parts Lacking Ford officials emphasized that the layoffs were necessitated by a shortage of parts resulting from strikes in 15 supplier plants and in no way connected with the General Motors strike. A wceklong "demonstration" walkout against Montgomery Ward Sc Co. went into its sec ond day, with union and mail order officials in sharp disagree ment over its effectiveness. Meanwhile, 650,000 CIO Unit ed steelworkers will ballot to morrow on whether they wish to strike for a $2-a-day pay boost. The national labor relations board has set up polling places in 766 plants in 27 states for the greatest strike vote in its his tory. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ruth Freed curious as to what her friends did to rate space in this "colyum." Olive Hull having trouble get ting her teeth into a one-meat-ball sandwich. Gene Peterson phoning all the way from Rosebtirg to have relatives search the football grandstand for his wrist watch and then apologetically finding it under the bed at home. Newcomer Lester Downing complaining that when he asks regarding a house to rent or buy "people Just look at me luuiiy like."