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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1945.
NO. 215,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.