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Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with rain Sunday and Monday. Little change In temperature. Temp. HUheit yesterday 4? Lowest this mo mine 41 Prec. To I p. m. yesterday Trace Uie The Mail Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Reiulti At Small Coit Tribune DFORD United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1945. NO. 215, Me TESTIFY MONDAY IN PtmPROBE Rep. Gearhart Says Full Facts Not Told. Yet Eye Message Delay Washington, Dec. 1 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall may go before the Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee Monday to give his version of why we were whipped in the wars opening battle. Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga., said tonight that the form er chief of staff who will be leaving for China soon as diplo matic successor to Patrick J Hurley may go on the stand Monday afternoon. One of the republican com mittee members, Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart of California, said he would ask the five-star gen eral: "Where were you on the niirkf nf Finn A lOilfl" Gearhart said he didn't know where the staff chief was on the eve of Pearl Harbor and would like to find out. Meanwhile, the running poli tical fight between republicans and democrats which has ac companied the committee's in vestigations broke out anew with a charge by Gearhart that the committee is being given "spoon-fed evidence". "This will not be the last Pearl Harbor investigation," Gearhart predicted, "because all we are being given is-spoonfed evidence. We aren't getting all the facts." Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D., 111. praised committee counsels Wil liam D. Mitchell and Gerhard A. Gesell for their handling of the case. He said they are do ing "a magnificent job". Lucus said the committee will lay before the public "every possible shred of evidence on Pearl Harbor" before it con cludes its investigation. George said the state depart ment is "very anxious" to have Marshall testify as soon as pos sible on his version of the events leading up to the sneak attack of Dec. 7, 1941. ' He said the committee plans to abandon its regular order of testimony to accommodate Marshall so that he may leave at the earliest possible moment for Chungking. Marshall, who held top re sponsibility in Washington for the army's preparedness to meet any onslaught, was criticized in a special army investigating board report for his part in the Pearl Harbor tragedy. He was defended by President Truman and former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, both of whom denounced the army board report for its criticism of the chief of staff. George said he expected the committee would want to ask Marshall "very thorough ques tions, running back well before Pearl Harbor and on up to the nrespnt time." He said he thought Marshall would probab ly be on the witness stand lc;st three or four days". Committee members are ex pected to question Marshall closely on his decision to with hold from Maj. Gen. Walter C Short, army commander in Hawaii, intercepted Japanese code messages revealing espion age against Pearl Harbor. Mai. Gen Sherman Miles, head of army intelligence at the time of the attack, testified Thursday that general staff pol W was to .vithhold the mes sages from overseas commanders lest the Japs find out that the United States was breaking their code. Miles told the committee Mar shall wanted the messages with held because the fact that the code was being broken was the "top secret" of the war. Committee members want to find out from Miles, who will return to the stand Monday morning, why there was so much delay in translating the messages in Washington. Some messages containing vital infor mation were delayed in transla tion as much as 22 days. Miles said this was due to lack of personnel and equipment in the signal corps interrigence division, but members indicat ed dissatisfaction with this' reply- , 1 Lucas said that "the whole storv" of army interrigence hasn't come out yet, and other members were equally critical. They promised extensive cross- examination of the former G-2 ; head lU ''h' J A Coulee Dam diver prepares to submerge into the cold search for the wreckage of the ill-fated school bus that plunged snow storm to carry 16 persons to their death. VOTES TO REJECT MILL IRK HIKE The Klamath Basin District Council, in its meeting here Fri day and Saturday, voted unani mously to reject the. 1214c per hour wage increase offered by the Pine Industrial Relations Committee, Thomas Grey, presi dent of Lumber and Sawmill Workers Local No. 2715, said yesterday. Delegates of the affiliated locals are opposed to inclusion of any "strings" or conditions on any settlement which might be made, Grey said. The council went on record as favoring the type of settlement made in the fir area which establishes a minimum rate of $1.05 per hour with corresponding increases for all jobs "straight across the board." Operators failed to include any mention of a union shop in their offer, it was stated. In their Saturday meeting sawmill workers voted to sup port their local unions making demands for union shop con tracts with operators. These de mands in conjunction with wage demands were the direct cause of the strike vote which led to the district council AFL's par ticipation in the industry-wide strike, Grey said. The meeting had been called for the Klamath Basin area, which includes the region east to Lakeview, north to Bend, south to McCloud, Calif., and west to Mcdford, in the hopes of reaching a settlement in the nine-weeks-old lumber strike which is paralyzing the industry throughout the northwest. Portland, Ore., Dec. 1 (U.R) AFL strike policy leaders will meet here Monday to map out a campaign for pine areas in the five northwest states, represent ing almost 50 per cent of the industry still shut down in the two-month-old Pacific northwest lumber strike. John Christenson, strike policy chairman, reported only a few pine plants have agreed to the compromise providing a 15-cent-an-hour raise. The pine operations are located in Mon tana, Idaho, central Washington, central Oregon, southeastern Oregon and part of northern California. Meanwhile, strike headquart ers disclosed that all AFL fir workers and employers have reached a settlement, with the exception of 2.100 men in the Tacoma area, where the first 15 cent compromise was reached. FORMATION ITALY T Rome, Sunday, Dec. 2 (U.R) Prince Humbert announced early today that Alcide de Gasperi has reported he hopes to complete lormation of a new Italian cabi net before tonight. De Gasperi reported to Hum bert on the results of his first day's efforts to break the poli tical crisis. It was believed that optimism over his chances of forming a new cabinet was in creased by strong support grant ec hjm at the e)cventh nour by I socialists and communists. E E PATRON Manila,,. Dec. 1 (U.R) The prosecution questioned Col. Hideo Ishiharu, adjutant general for Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, today m an effort to prove Yamashita knew about the pro secution and execution of Fili pino guerillas, but the witness proved more of a help for the defense than the prosecution. zYamashila, charged with per sonal responsibility for atroci ties committed by his forces, had testified Friday that he was so busy with military affairs he knew nothing about the slaying of prisoners and civilians. Ishiharu said that when Yam ashita left Fort McKlnley for the mountains when it become apparent Manila could not be held, there were so many guer rilla prisoners in the stockades that it was ipmossible to carry out the usual trials. - "So I suggested to Yamashita that we carry out mere investi gations by military police," the witness said. "Yamashita did not make any suggestions, he did not even talk, he just nodded . . . there were 1,000 guerrillas tried but only 600 were execut ed .. . Yamashita did not sign any sentences because there was not enough time." The military commission try ing the case ordered that both rebuttals be finished quickly. It was expected a verdict would be rendered by next Saturday. F E Washington, Dec. 1 (U.R) Patrick J. Hurley, resigned am bassador to China, assembled a mass of documents tonight to support his charges that pro communists in the U. S. foreign service undermined state depart ment policies in China. The documents will be submit ted to the senate foreign rela tions committee when he appears before it on Wednesday, .probab ly in an open session. The exact nature of the docu ments will be kept secret until they are presented to the com mittee, Hurley's associates .aid but it was assumed they would include correspondence between the American embassy in Chung king and the state department. Hurley's aides predicted fire works at the hearing when he cites specific cases of what he considered deliberate violations of the official American policy" in China. Mexico Makes Ready t or Workers' Return Mexico City, Dec. 1 (U.R) The labor ministry today sent a commission of inspectors to the U. S.-Mcxico frontier to assist returning Mexican nationals who went to work in the United States during the war to re-enter Mexico. San Francisco. Dec. 1 (UR) The dairy market was unchang ed today waters of Lake Chelan. Wash., to from the icy road during a heavy T ANY HASTY LAWS L Washington, Dec. 1 (U.R) President Eric A. Johnston of the U. S. chamber of commerce conceded tonight that the labor management conference fell short of its goal but warned against "hasty or ill-conceived" legislation to compel industrial peace. He issued the warning in a radio address as congress ap. peared ready to speed action on labor legislation as a result of the conference's failure to pro duce a specific formula for pre venting strikes. : "We must not allow the pres sures of this diffiphlt moment to stampede us into national poli cies which we shall have cause to regret ' and bewail later," Johnston said. "In our anxiety for some short cut answer to an immediate question, we must not lose sight of the long-range goal, which is the preservation and improvement of the American system of life. The temptation is strong, at a time like this, to evade the responsibility of vol untary action by resorting to official coercion. "I do not want to be under stood as saying that perhaps no legislation is necessary. Maybe it is. What I am saying is that whatever we do should not be hasty or ill-conceived. It should bejWell thought out." FOR PEACE ARMY San Francisco, Dec. 1 (U.R) Compulsory peacetime military training today received the en dorsement of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, commander of American forces during the days of retreat on Bataan. He stated that "a large re serve ol trainees would, more than any other one thing, keep us out of war." The general, ending a speak ing tour for the Victory Loan drive, said ho favored unifica tion of the armed forces to "in sure permanent and complete coopeartion, economy and great efficiency in ordering supplies " BETTY HONEYMOONS San Francisco, Dec. 1 (U.R) Screen Actress Bette Davis and her husband, William G. Slier r, arrived here tonight at the St. Francis hotel to spend one week of their honeymoon fol lowing their marriage ' yester day in Los Angeles. Victory Loan Drive "E". Quota S52S.000 "E" Sales to Date $230,562 Remainder to tell $294,438 Washington, Dec. 1 (U.R) E bond sales in the Victory Loan today passed the halfway mark toward the $2,000,000,000 goal the treasury's war finance divi sion announced tonight. Total sales to individuals through today were $3,692,000. 000 of which $1,006,000,000 was in E bond LAKE CHELAN BUS ;5 Divers Pry Open Jammed Door and Make Lines Fast to Vehicle First Creek, Wash., Dec. 1 (U.R) The body of Jack Randle, 24, driver of the school bus that Monday carried him and 15 stu dents to their death in a plunge into Lake Chelan, ' was among five recovered from the school bus tonight by a diver. Walter MeCray was the diver who brought up the bodies after the bus had been hauled into shallower water so that it was within 20 feet of the surface, where a barge was in operation. An earlier plan of towing the bus underwater to Lakeside. Wash., nine miles toward the outlet end of the lake, was changed when it was found pos sible to pry open the jammed door of the bus. The bodies were being broueht by boat to the Lake Chelan Boat Co. Dock at Lakeside, from where they will be taken to the city hall at neighboring Chelan, wasii., for identification. The bus was found under 210 feet of water earlier today by a navy diver, C. E. Meyer. He telephoned his discovery from the depths of the lake, stating he had found the bus lying on its back, headed toward shore on a 65-degree slope. It was virtually like groping in (he dark to discover the bus, as Meyer's light illuminated only four feet in front of him. Bo cause of the Intense pressure, Meyer was forced to ascend al most immediately and to go into a decompression chamber. The five navy and one commercial drivers worked in relays in mak ing lines fast to the bus. The bus, from Twenty Five Mile Creek, slipped over a 20 foot embankment Monday morn ing en route to the Chelan school. A woman and five stu dents broke windows and escap ed from the bus as it lay in shal low water before plunging again to its resting place. SEEK MEDIATION IN CIVIL STRIFE Chungking, Dec. 1 (U.R) A group of Chinese dcm6cratic leaders today appealed to the Big Three powers to mediate China's civil strife. They urged that both nation alist and communist troops be withdrawn from Manchuria. Members of the group, dele gates to the forthcoming con sultative council meeting here said they favored International mediation of internal disputes but objected to foreign troops of any country being stationed in Chinese territory, particularly during civil war. American ma rines are in North China. They proposed that police torces under a coalition local government keep order in Man churia after soviet troops with draw. As the proposal was made pub lic, an official announcement said that a delay of one month in the withdrawal of soviet troops from Manchuria will per mit Chungking government per sonnel to "carry out the mission with which they are charged" before the Russians leave. Salem Felons Flee In Laundry Truck Salem, Ore., Dec. 1 (U.R) Prison guards and state police today were searching for two convicts believed to have escap ed from the state penitentiary here around noon in a Portland laundry truck. Warden George Alexander said the two men may be on the prison grounds and guards were searching the area, while state police attempted to find the truck. The two escaped con victs are Roy L. Wagner, 24, imprisoned for assault and rob bery, and Elmer Riley Lane, 32, convicted of bank rubbery. "Fears win Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 1 U.R) University of California's bas ketball team won its first game of the 1945 schedule tonight with a 51-38 win over St. Mary's Pre-Flight. 76 o British Round Up Leaders' in Luxury Where Million Germans Starve Iserlohn, Germany, Dec. 1 (U.R) British military police swept the Rhur and Rhineland during the night, roundiiu! up 76 nazi tycoons whose wealth and industrial power helped build the German war machine. For nine hours the raiding shuttled through wrecked cities and flame-scarred countryside to pluck a virtual "who's who" of German industry from pnluces and mansions crammed with vast stocks of food, wines and coal in poverty-stricken areas where millions of starving German civilians live in cellars and huts. One man was arrested in bed with his blonde mistress; anoth er was asleep with his wife, to whom he introduced the raiders before climbing from bed; a third was seized in the midst of a champagne party and n fourth insisted on playing a lullaby on his violin for his little son "for the last time." The British net dragged In the designer of the Tiger tank; the man who built the guns for the mighty battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz, both sunk by the Brit ish; and the second richest man in the Ruhr. It was stated that the action was part of the policy of the Allied control commission, in carrying out terms of the Pots dam declaration, that German militarism and nazism must be wiped out. It was the biggest single blow yet aimed at the in dustrial brains of the shattered German war machine. Orders were issued for the ar rest of 84 industrial leaders in Ruhr and Rhineland cities from Cologne to Dortmund. The still was on for the rest, who were expected to be arrested wunin 4 hours. A thorough Investigation of innusiriai magnates who oper ate under the British military government had been in progress for some time. At II p. m. day orders went out to stage the raids. Security police, under uirccuon ot high allied intelli gence officers and aided by Ger man police, struck in the Essen, Cologne, Dortmund, Dusscldorf and Bochum areas. The last ar rest was made at 7 a. m. today. T TRAVEL San Francisco, Dec. 1 (U.R) ino navy appealed today for drastic" curtailment of civilian railroad travel in order to break the log-jam of home-bound serv icemen on the west coast. Declaring that unless more trains are provided the "armv and navy might as well stop bringing home men from the racmc, a report to the head quarters of Adm. Rovnl E soil, western scafront command er demanded immediate govern ment acuon to halt all non-csscn- nai civilian travel so that serv icemen could get home for Christmas. Lack of railroad equipment wouia make it impossible to move men for long periods of time, the report said, and facili ties for feeding and housing the increasing back-log of men here arc insufficient. E Los Angeles, Dec. 1 (U.R) The OPA today accused four Los Angeles wholesale bakeries of violating ceiling prices In supplying bread to army camps in southern California. The suit asks triple damages totaling $87,033. The OPA com plaint claimed the companies overcharged the army in bread sales from Dec. 2, 1944 to Oct. 2, 1945. State '' Bond Sale Over Halfway Mark Portland, Ore., Dee. 1 (U.R) State E bond victory purchases passed the half way mark today with total sales reaching $11. 990.000, or 53.3 per cent of the Oregon goa' Bulletin Los Angeles, Dec. 1 (U.R) The University of Southern Cali fornia, which in eight starts has never lost a Rose Bowl football game, was tonight chosen to rep resent the west against unde feated Alabama in the Rose Bowl New Year's day. Victor O. Schmidt, Pacific coast conference commissioner, said USC had been chosen by a telegraphic poll of the member schools of the conference. The choice was made almost inevitable by Southern Califor nia's convincing 26 to 15 win over the University of California at Los Angeles before 103.000 fans here today. USC lost one game on Its conference schedule, to Wash ington early in the season. It lost a later game to non-confer ence St. Mary's but that defeat did not count In the polling. It will be the third trip to the Rose Bowl in three years for the Trojans, and the game will be against a team which stands second in the nation in Rose Bowl appearances. Alabama has made the trip five times, but lost one game, in 1038, 13 to 0 to California, and tied one, with oianiord, 7 to 7 in 1927. TO E 4 FLYERS Trapped in Brush with Rescue Difficult Food, Clothing Dropped Coos Bay, Ore., Dec. 1 (U.R) ' Voices out of the sky today were directing four wandering airmen, prisoners In a moun tainous jungle, in how to keep auve and warm through the rigors of winter In a southwest ern Oregon wilderness. The airmen were among 12 aboard an army transport that Iced up and crashed 50 miles northeast of here Monday, 11 parachuting to earth and the twelfth, the pilot, remaining with the plane when last seen. Only the pilot, Capt. Hugh "). McMullcn of Kansas City, Kan., and two oihir airmen remained unreported. Five have reached safety, but four others, spotted from the air, are trapped in the mountains, beyond reach of res cue parties because of im penetrable terrain. A second lost plane, a navy Ventura PV-1 with six aboard remained unreported after lcav Ing Portland Thursday noon during a heavy rainstorm for an instrument flight to Red Bluff, Calif. Contact with the four airmen on the ground was maintained by a coast guard PBY bomber, In which radio was used to di rect the men, to whom walkic talkies had been parachuted The men were told that if any needed Immediate medical at tention, a physician would be parachuted to the scene, but no such plea was immediately forthcoming from the men on the ground. So dense la the growth on these humid mountains that the rescue party has Issued a radio appeal for loggers to cut a trail through the wilderness to the stranded men. Soldiers and coast guardsmen have establish cd an advance search base, itself now cut off from the rear by roads Impassable for vehicles. Food and clothing have been dropped to the grounded men, who were on a flight from Se dalia to McChord Field, Tacoma, Wash., when the C-46 crashed. HUN CHIEF DIES BY Aversa, Italy, Dec. 1 (U.R) Gen. Anton Dostlcr, 54-year-old German corps commander who was convicted of ordering the execution without trial of 15 American office of strategic services men, died by the bullets of an American firing squad here today. Dostlcr was the first German general officer to be executed by the western allies a war criminal. A small group of official wit nesses, a platoon of soldiers and few correspondents watched as the bullets from 11 of the 12 Springfield rigles one was loaded with a blank charge ac cording to the custom of military executions ripped into the four-Inch square white card over Dostlcr's heart. He was pro nounced dead two minutes after he fell. HESS HELD SANE TO STAND TRIAL NAZI JMT TOLD Ex-Spy Chief Reveals Ger man War Plots Good Word for Von Papen Nuernberg, Dec. 1 (U.R) Rudolf Hess' own story of his fantastic flight to Britain in May, 1941, reveals that he hoped to bring King George VI back with him to Germany for a se cret peace conference with Adolf Hitler, the United Press learned today. The former deputy Nail fuehrer, in a statement volun teered to his allied interrogators at Nuernberg, confirmed much of the information already giv en out by the British govern, ment and added a few hitherto unknown details about his mys terious mission. Hess revealed that Hitler knew nothing of his plans until he discovered a letter which Hess left for his fuehrer just before he took off from the Munich airfield for Britain. Before leaving, Hess also wrote a similar letter in Ger man to the Duke of, Hamilton, the Scottish peer of whose country estate tho Number-Two Naz' later landed. ' The Hamilton letter he had translated into English by Ern e;l Bohle, a secretary In the for eign affairs ministry, for deliv ery to the duke. Nuernberg, Dec. 1 U.PJ Rudolf Hess, smirking at the success of an amnexia hoax that tricked the world for more than four years, today won his strange fight to be adjudged sane and to stand trial for the war crimes of Nazi Germany. Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge of the United Nations war crimes tri bunal, ruled Hcsg sane at the opening of today's session, to the obvious satisaf ction of the former number two nazi and the amazement of his 19 fellow-defendants. Hess put himself voluntarily In the shadow of the gallows by confessing, over the objections of the defense and prosecution alike, that he had been faking insanity since the day he para chuted into Scotland on a "peace mission" in May, 1941. His surprise move came on the blackest day of the trial for the accused nazi ringleaders, who heard themselves branded by an ex-German spy chief as the men responsible for World War II. Their accuser, Maj. Gen. Er wln Lahousen, was called back to the witness stand today to face a bitter defense cross-examination on his testimony of yes terday. He refused to be shaken from his damning story that the men in the prisoners' dock were di rectly responsible for the mass killing of Russian captives, had ordered the murder of French generals Henri Glraud and Max ime Wcygand, and had faked border "incidents" to provoke war with Poland. Lahousen, former second in command to the slain Adm. Wil helm Canaris of the German counter-intelligence service, showed his hatred of the defend ant as he told the inside story of their wartime and pre-war plots. They glared viciously back at him and muttered angrily when the court refused to let them cross-examine him personally. Lawrence ruled, however, that the defendants could ask Dermis. sion to take the stand themselves ana mat they would be allowed to make individual statements at the end of the trial. Hess, dropping the mask of careful disinterest he had worn through the early days of the trial, followed every move. Re peatedly he glanced around the courtroom with a self-satisfied air, obviously enjoying the sen- sauun created by hs surnrisn confession. Dr. Egon Kubosehnk for Franz Von Panen. wna tltn only man to score for his client. ue asuea wnether the witness was aware that his sunorinr Canaris, knew that PaDen opposed to the more violent nazi policies. "According to my memory of the Canaris-Papen conversation held at Berlin," Lahouson re plied, "Papen reproved Hitler's violent methods." PLANE THIEF Montebello, Cal., Dec. 1 flJ.R) An airplane thief cracked up to day in the ship he attempted to steal at Vail Blrport, but he man aged to flee on foot.
