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Weather fORlCAST: Partly cloudy with scattered liflst showers to night and Friday. Snow In mountains, Littlo changt la temperstur. Terns. BltrbMt Teiterday . 50 Loweit this Morning 31 Prec. To P. M. Today .42 Ws Tb Mail Txibntui Want Ad Way Quick Remit! At Small Cod Medford RIBUNE 4 United Press Full Ltntd Wire Unittd Press Full L.u.d Wir Fortieth Year M iD OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945 NO. 213. Scene of Chelan School Bus Accident AW Strikers Ask Intervention 1 EiM fTisB V' - T Tsrrm T $4 'm : . .V - v., r . hiss- -TTnrf . , . ym&mJZ. Rescue workers examine embankment at scene ol tragic school of IS children and the bus driver in the Icy waters of Lake Chelan, glass and other evidence at a depth of 144 feet but expressed fear ever an unaer-water ledge into FRIGID WATERS HANDICAP DIVERS First Creek, Wash,, Nov. 29 U.R) Special deep sea diving equipment was used today to probe the frigid waters of Lake Chelan, whose dark depths hid all trace of s submerged school bus and its 14 occupants. ' A crew of experts set up a barge about 400 feet off shore last night in an attempt to salv age the bus which plunged from a mountain road Monday, bring ing death to 15 school children and their driver. Only five children and a wom an passenger escaped. , Lt. jg L. P- Rosa .directing the diving operations;- said that the water was so cold and the pressure so great the divers could stay under only 15 or 20 minutes at a time. CORVALLIS BOY, 4 DROWNS IN DITCH Portland, Ore., Nov. 29 U.R The storm death toll in the Pa cific northwest stood at 17 to day with the Lake Chelan bus tragedy accounting for 16 of the dead. Roger Gray, four-year-old Cor vallis, Ore, youth, drowned in - a rainfilled ditch late yesterday, f- Efforts of a fire department res cue squad to revive him were unsuccessful. The Coos Bay reservoir was temporarily mended today and residents of Coos Bay and the neighboring community of North Bend were again drawing water v- from the reservoir. Most rivers previously report ed approaching flood stages were leveling off to normal and highways earlier blocked by rising waters were again open to traffic. Engineers were repair ing minor land slides through out the stricken area. Interstate Theft Charges Dropped Against Waiters Chicago, Nov. 29 OI.R) Fed eral Judge Walter J. Labuy to day dismissed the government's case against 18 dining car em ployees of the Erie Railroad who were charged with operating a $90,000 a year meal check rack et. Labuy said he was compelled to conclude "that the govern ment had failed lb prove its charges that the men had con spired to commit interstate theft." After Labuy announced his decision, Robert H a r i s t o n. Cleveland, waiter, changed his plea from guilty to not guilty in order to be included in the findings. The suggestion that Hariston change his plea was made by Assistant District At torney George G. Kelly. MCARTHY TO STAY New York, Nov. 29 -iU.R) i President Larry MacPhail of the New York Yankees today fla'ly r denied a report that Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane would suc ceed Manager Joe McCarthy, as serting "no change in the man-j eement is or has been contem -j water 1,400 feet deep. Sales Tax Is Needed To Pay For-Wanted Items, Is Claim Salem, Ore., Nov. 29 U.PJ That sales tax is here again. This time it has the backing of the Oregon Taxpayers' Fed eration, the Oregon Business and Tax Research, Inc., the Ore gon Association of Real Estate Boards and a lot of other groups and individuals who do not wish to be connected publicly with the retail sales tax plan. However, the Taxpayers' Fed eration and the other organiza tions mentioned openly have proposed the sales tax as a "source of cevenue' heretofore untouched" in Oregon, and they advocate such a tax to put a ceiling on property levies which they say already are out of proportion. They also advo cate the sales tax to "provide a revenue when the income taxes dry up." Problem Touchy One This tax probleirr-is a touchy one. Before Coe A. McKenna was appointed to the State Tax commission, he received consid erable notoriety as a proponent of a state sales tax and conse quently, came under much crit- RUSSIA CALLS ON NATIONS TO TELL MANDATE PLANS London, Nov. 29 U.R) Rus sia today indirectly called on the nations holding old League of Nations mandates to say now whether they intend to put them under the trusteeship system of the new United Nations organi zation. A statement on the subject of mandates by the Soviet dele gate, Andrei A. Gromyko, in committee debate at the UNO preparatory commission con ference went unanswered by any of the six mandatory pow ers represented. The problem was considera tion of a plan to establish a tem porary trusteeship committee to function until some territories are placed under the trusteeship system when a permanent trus teeship council is formed. The problem cannot be solved until some trusteeships are cre ated, since it is to be composed of half trust and half non-trust nations. Turn Sudens Ready To Meet Demands Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 29 OI.fi Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Turn Suden, parents of 3-year-old Dickie Turn Suden, who disap peared Nov. 1 from his moun tain cabin home near Downte ville, Cal., announced today they were "standing by ready and willing to meet any and all reasonable demands and instruc tions of the persons holding our son." As FBI agents continued to maintain an active interest in the child's disappearance, the socially prominent and wealthy parents said they had moved to Berkeley "for the sole purpose of facilitating contact between the person or prr.ons we believe to avt taken our ion.'' bus accident which cost the lives Wash. Divers found bits of broken thai Ihe wreckage might have gone ieism, even after he stated he would not use the influence of his commission post in further ing the sales tax proposal. When the matter came to a vote of the people, it was over whelmingly opposed. But now the federation and other groups favoring the proposal believe that the voters can be made to realize that "things they de mand must be paid for" and that the .sales tax is the most logical way of paying for such things as increased veterans' aid, construction and Improved highways, The sales tax in Oregon, has a .backer, judging from the sup port offered by the Taxpayers Federation and others. Now all it needs is a public official who is willing to act as a martyr. EIGHT DEAD IN CRASH OF C-47 Auburn, Cal., Nov. 29 ftl.B Army authorities today counted eight dead, including three air force men and five Japanese American veterans of service in Italy, as the result of the crash of a C-47 transport plane near here last night. , Sixteen more "Nisei," who were to have left the mainland today for their homes in the Hawaiian Islands, were Injured. Officers at DcWitt General Hos pital, where they were treated, said all apparently would sur vive, although most of them suffered broken bones and severe burns. There still . was confuison over the exact number of men aboard the plane. McCIellan field, the plane's destination, listed 23. A search was continued In the crash area, about three miles east of here, for additional dead or injured. Quakes Center In North Africa Area Bombay, Nov. 29 U.fi Two new earthquakes, apparently centering in the North Arabian sea, were recorded at the Rom- bay observatory early today. Both tremors were slight and were believed to be the after math of the two severe shocks that hit northwestern India yesterday. The bodies of nine persons who were swept out to sea by the tidal wave that washed over the Bombav waterfront after yesterday's earthquake were re covered today. Dog Fight Places Fala In Hospital Rhinebeck, N. Y., Nov. 29 URi Fala. the late President Roosevelt's Scottie, was confined! to the Sheldon canine liojpitaij today for wounds suffered in a dog fight Saturday at Hyde Park. His antagonist reportedly was Blaze. Elliott Roosevelt's Bull Mastiff. Fala reportedly was set upon by Blaze, the 125-pounder which created a congressional furore when he was flown from Eng land to Mr. Roo.scveit's ?on. then a brigadier-general in the army NO. 2 MAN IN NAZ SECRET SERVICE WILL BEJTNESS Mai. Lahouser's Testimony Expected to Be Most Sen sational Yet Heard in Trial Nuernberg, Nov, 29 U.R) The No. 2 man. in the nazi sec ret service, Maj. Gen. Erwin Lahouser, has been summoned as the first witness in the war crimes trial, presumably to give the inside picture of nazi plots and secret dealings, it was learn ed today. Lahouser's testimony, it was reported, may be the most sen sational yet presented in the trial of the 20 top nazi leaders. Canaris Assistant Lahouser was the chief assist ant of Admiral Wilhclm Cana ris, chief of nazi intelligence services. Canaris is believed to have been executed by the ges tapo last April a few days be fore the nazi collapse when Adolf Hitler received informa tion indicating Canaris was plot ting against him. Lahouser held the No. 2 post in the intelligence setup from 1938 to 1943 and was hospitaliz ed in 1944 after the July 20th attempt to assassinate Hitler. He was one of those who was in the room when the plotters' bomb exploded. Prepared In 1937 Testimony submitted today disclosed that Germany was pre paring a two-front war in Europe as early as 1937 and that the nazi high command thought Rus sia was poorly prepared for such a conflict. The nazi war criminal were interested spectators today at a courtroom showing of horror films taken by American army photographers in Germany's vorst concentration camps. It was the first time the cap tured nazi leaders had been brought face to face w:th the pictorial evidence of the atroci ties carried on under their re gime, and they watched with rapt attention throughout the 52 minute showing. Von Papea Bows When the film turned to the mass burial of nazi victims at the H a d a m a r concentration camp, Franz Von Papen bowed his head and put a handkerchief across his eyes. But Rudolf Hess sat bolt up right and craned his neck to catch every shot. The picture opened with shots of charred bodies sprawled around a concentration camp where the prisoners had been machine-gunned while trying to fiee from a row of burning huts. Herman Goerlng leaned for ward in his seat and exchanged whispered comment with Hess and Joachim Von Ribbentrop. valleYcrops up in gross value Gross value of agricultural and horticultural crops of the Rogue River Valley is figured at $20,000,000 in preliminary esti mates of the county agent's of fice, now engaged in making out its annual report. The total is approximately a fourth more than last year. Gross value of the pear crop is placed at between 10 and 11 million dollars, representing a fourth more than last year. It is attributed to a record-breaking crop and high prices. Both farm and orchard crops were handicapped more or less by a labor shortage during the har vest seasons. LEGION HEAD NAMED Washington, Nov. 29 Ufi) Lynn U. Slambaugh of North Dakota, former national com mander of the American Legion was nominated by President Truman today to be a member of the board of directors of the export-imfjort bank. SENATOR SWORN Washington, Nov, 29 'U.PJ Charles C. Gossett, former demo cratic governor of Idaho, was sworn in today as senator from) Idaho. He succeeds the late Sen. John Thomas, a republican. Gos sett icigned his governorship! to revive Ute sfiwtoeaS, j Traffic Deaths Up 53 Per Cent Over Last Year Figures Chicago, Nov. 29 (U.R) The National Safety Council, citing a raaidly increasing traffic death toll, warned today that this country "Is paying an in flationary price in human life for the privilege of indulging in a postwar traffic spree." Traffic accidents are "getting out of control," it said. The council reported that traffic deaths throughout the nation went up 53 per cent in October over the same month a year ago and said that the toll for the first 10 months of the year was 14 per cent higher than in 1944. MARSHALL GOING TO SURVEY CHINA WAR SITUATION Chungking, Nov. 29 (U.R) Lt. Gen, Albert O. Wedemeyer, U. S. commander in China, said today that Gen, George Mar shall is coming to China to sur vey the military situation and make recommendations to Pres ident Truman on future mili tary aid to China. "Few men in the United States," Wedemeyer said, "are better equipped to evaluate the situation than Marshall." Wedemeyer disclosed that he has opened discussions with the Chinese regarding sale of sur plus U. S. army property in China, Hump Fltflh Told He confirmed that American fighter planes are being flown from India to China and said that reports that 11 P-51 fight ers have been lost en route to Shanghai are correct. (Unofficial reports from Cal cutta had placed losses at 13 and pilots charged the planes were not in good shape for the treacherous flight over the "hump.") Wedemeyer denied that 700 American planes had been turned over to China. He said the planes will be assembled at Shanghai where, If the Chinese desire, they can buy them. Oth erwise they wilt be returned to the United States. Mediation End Seen Meanwhile, dispatches from Peiping said Marshall's new ap pointment had created a sensa tion among Chinese political ob servers there. Peiping observers foresaw the possible end of American efforts to mediate between the Chinese central government and the communists and of the Unit ed States "neutral" attitude In North China and Manchuria. BRITISH OCCUPY ALL SOERABAJA Batavia, Nov. 29 flJ.Rl The British announced officially to day that Soerabaja has been oc cupied completely and thM fighting in Java appeared to be jonfined to interior regions and the western part of the island. At the same time, Indonesian Premier Sutan Sjahrir said he now was prepared to resume talks with the Dutch and Brit ish but that the date had not been fixed yet. A BBC broadcast last night said the Netherlands minister for overseas possession told an interviewer In The Hague that the Dutch are hopeful but "in creasingly doubtful of reaching a peaceful settlement in Java." He was quoted as adding that the "Dutch are prepared to use force of arms to keep Java in side the Dutch kingdom.") Lone Bandit Robs Two Kansas Banks Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 29 (U.R( A lone bandit, armed with a revolver, robbed two Kansas banks during Ihe noon hour to day, the FBI announced here. The FBI said, that the bandit entered a hank at Hepler, in southeast Kansas, at 11:10 a. m. and escaped with between $700 and $800, Forty minutes later the same man held up a bank at Stark, Kan , 12 miles west of llnpler ui vacated witb about INDUSTRY MAKING FAST CONVERSION TRUMANASSERTS Total Employment Rising After Initial Post-war Lay offs; Now at V-J Day Level Washington, Nov. 29 0J9 President Truman said today that reconversion of U. S. indus try from war to peace produc tion was well on its way toward completion. In a news conference review of the first 100 days of recon version, Mr. Truman said total employment was rising after the initial postwar layoffs and was now back at the level of V-J day. He added that employment is expected to continue to rise. Mr. Truman said the disrup tion of our economy by the re turn of peace was much less se vere than had been anticipated and reiterated that reconversion was almost completed. Ahead of Schedule The president said frankly that he made his reconversion recapitulation at this time to show that the administration Is not asleep on the Job and that, actually, the reconversion pro gram i far ahead of schedule. He warned that inflationary pressures are still great, and he saw "danger signals" building up through the winter and spring, particularly In risi-g real estate, wholesale and raw ma terials prices, "We must continue to hold the line," he said. "We cannot permit Inflation." Strikes Explained The president attributed the upsurge of strikes since V-J day to the fact that parties now tn dispute held their grievances in check during the war. New strikes since August, he said totaled about 1,500, involving about l.SOO.000 workers. He said that time lost through work stoppages since August was estimated at ,78 of one per cent of the total working time avail able. The Inhor department report ed yesterday that the working time loss attributable to strikes in progress last month was the highest on record, amounting to 7,800.000 man days of idleness or 1.27 per cent of all available working time. Paris Flight Will Start Next Monday Washington, Nov. 29 U.RJ A preview passenger flight to Paris next Monday, marking the debut of the 300-mile an hour Lockheed constellation as a luxury liner of the skyways, was announced today by Trans continental and Western Air. The constellation, will take off from Washington at 2:30 p. m. A schedule of less than 17 hours elapsed time for the 3.840 miles to Paris has been set, with brief stops at Gander, Nfld and Shannon Airport, Eire. Honolulu, T. H., Nov. 29 0J.O Vice Admiral S. A. Taffinder, commandant of the 14 th naval district, announced today that civilian travel to the mainland will be Impossible until all mil itary requirements have been met. Washington, Nov. 29 J.R Retail prices of cider vinegar will be increased four to ten cents a gallon on Dec. 4, the OPA announced today. The In crease is necessary, OPA said, because of the short crop of fresh apples, Lindbergh Downed Jap Zero During Visit To Balikpapan, Is Revelation By William B. Dickinson United Press Correspondent New York, Nov. 29 mm Charles A. Lindbergh sent a Japanese Zero fighter plane down in flames with one short burst from the guns of his army Lightning during a far east air forces raid on oil installations at Balikpapan, Borneo, on Octo ber 10, 1844. The high miUtary authority from whom I first obtained this story more than 13 months ago has just released me frem uiej pledge of secrecy I gave him at! that time, and I am now able loj give tull details, . ( Reason for secrecy at least) until the end of the Juiiam-; war w tbvioui. Liadbergh Roosevelt Pledge Injects Acrimony In Pearl Hearing Washington. Nov. 29 flJB Members of the Pearl Harbor investigating committee clashtiJ today over a 1940 campaign pledge by the late President Hoosevelt that American boys "will not be sent into a foreign war." Sen. Owen Brewster, R Me., quoted the now-famous para graph tn which Mr, Roosevelt said he would make that state ment "again and again and again. Brewster asked formsr Am bassador Joseph C. Grew wheth er Mr. Roosevelt's statement was published in Japanese news papers at the time. Grew, who had testified that the Japanese papers to 1940 were giving prominence to Isola tionist or pacifist statements by American leaders, could not re call whether they published that statement. RESCUERS COMB COOS WILDS FOR. DOljDJIRIN Coos Bay, Nov. 29 flUS Civilian volunteers and rescue teams from the Portland army air base combed the heavily wooded southern Oregon wil derness today in search of seven airmen, missing since their C-46 plane crashed Monday, Five of 12 men aboard the giant army transport were known to be safe. Two already hai been taken to the Coos Bay City hospital for a physical checkup. Two other survivors were be ing brought in over washed-out roads and hastily-constructed mountain trails from a logging camp some 40 miles from here. They stumbled upon the camp after two days of wandering through the dense forest. One Lands In Trii A third, Flight Officer Dave Reed, Sedalia, Mo,, dangled In his parachute harness from a giant evergreen fir tree for 36 hours before he was freed. Dr. Donald Long of Coos Bay, first to reaoh the scene, admin istered emergency treatment and sedatives to the Injured air man while awaiting the arrival of stretcher crews. Maj. Frank Gaunt said the plane exploded in mid-air after he jumped. Gaunt said 10 men had parachuted before him, and he feared the pilot, Capt. Hugh B. McMullen, of Kansas City, Kan,, had been trapped In the plane. Blocked By Weather The transport, en route from Sedalia to McChord Field, Ta coma, Wash., was forced to turn back from McChord when bad weather conditions prevented a lamling. Gaunt said that for rome rea son all the flight instruments except the altimeter suddenly went out and icing conditions on the antenna out off radio communications. Japs Plead Lack Of Law Knowledge Kwajalcin, Nov. 29 0J.IS Ten Japanese officers on trial for the murder of five American airmen admitted today that the fliers had been beheaded and staked their lives on pleas they were Ignorant of international law and only followed orders. One accused officer id he paid his "respects" to an Ameri can flier before swinging the broad-edge execution sword. was a civilian, and as such was suppo s e d 1 y a non-combatant. And after his one combat flight to Balikpapan. he was ordered by Gen. George C. Kenney FEAR commander, to make no more fighting missions, The story was given me by high officer as I sailed aboard; the cruiser Nashville with Gen.) Douglas MacArthur to land at1 Lryte, the Philippines, on Oct. 20, 1844. Lindbergh, then 4J years old, had come to the southwest Pa cific area some weeks before, as a civilian attached to the army air forces, to train American fighter pilots, most of them lit-: tie more than half his age, in tog range ilying, i ASK TRUMAN TO FORCE GJ. CO. TO NEGOTIATE President's Hands Off Polisj Will Only Result In Fur ther Prolongation, Word. (By United P:ul Striking CIO auto workers ap pealed directly to President Tru man today for intervention in the General Motors shutdown aa CIO steelworkers voted over whelmingly in favor of a strike, to back demands for S2 daily wage increase. Workers in 820 steel and alum inum plants, iron ore pits nd , bauxite mines voted 370,084 to 73,362 in favor of a strike. The United Automobile Work ers union at the Temstedi pUnt of GM's Fisher body division, Detroit, asked Mr. Truman Jo "use the power and forces at your command" ta bring com pany officials Into immediate ne gotiations over the union's de mand for a 30 per cent wage in crease. Truman Urges Meeting "Your hands-oil oohev will only result in further stalling by General Motors and prolongation of the strike," the union said ta a telegram to the White, House. At the same time, Mr. Truman told a press conference It would, be a good Idea for representa tives of GM and the strikes to get together and discuss their differences. Secretary of Labor Schwellen baeh has been trying to bring the two sides together but thus far has failed to persuade GM Pev ident C. E. Wilson even to meet U. S. conciliators. Mr. Truman entered the strike, at the Great Lakes Towing Co, Cleveland. O, He ordered thai Office of Defense Transportation to seize and operate the struck company. 831,000 Idle The number of workers Idle) because of strikes and shutdowns across the nation rose to 031,000, highest figure In several weeks. End of the bitter, 10-week UAW strike against the Ford Motor company of Canada. Wind sor, Ont., was in sight, however. A policy committee representing 10,000 strikers recommended im mediate adoption of a settlement formula providing for appoint ment of a government arbitrator, previously opposed by the onion. The plan was presented to the strikers, who were to take a sec ret ballot on Ms acceptance. YAMASMTA RESTS DEFENSE! TRIAL Manila. Nov, 29 OiB Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, on trial for war crimes, rested his de fense today after denvins that he ordered or even knew of atro cities committed by Japanese) uuups in me rnuippmn. In answer to Question hv I i Col. Harry F. Clarke of Altootia, Pa., defense staff chief, Yama shita denied telling Gen. Acte- mio Kicarte (puppet guerilla leader) he had issued orders to kill all Filipinos, He admitted knowing Ricarte. however. "To kill 30,000,000 people is an unthinkable matter," Yama shita said. World May Dwelt In A-Bomb Fear Washington, Nov. SB U(5 A leading atom-bomb expert told congress today that failure to control atomic weapons would lead to a world In which "every ripple on the Interna tional scene will make us won der whether the atomic bombs may not arrive before morning.'" Dr. Harold C. Urey, Univer sity of Chicago professor who played a malor part In atom bomb work, painted the grim picture of a world ruled by fear in testimony before the special senate atomic energy committee. Victory Loan Omm "E" Quota WISJIOO "E" Sales to Ds'.e $2n5i6 Remainder to slt.t31J,444
