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iD OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945
NO. 213.
Scene of Chelan School Bus Accident
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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.
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