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Standing alone In prisoners' box, Rudolf Hess gestures as he tells International War Crimes Tribunal at
Nuernberg, Germany, that he had faked amnesia, fooling both doctors and his own attorney, but that he la
now prepared to stand trial and "bear full responsibility."
HITLER DOOMED
Nuernberg, Dec. 3 (U.P.)
Adolf Hitler had decided four
months before Munich that
Czechoslovakia must be destroy
ed, and he was pressing last
minute military preparations to
strike while negotiating with
Neville Chamberlain, the war
crimes court was told today.
Hitler signed a directive for
the ultimate attack on Czecho
slovakia on May 30, 1938, and
had a plan ready in such detail
that a whole list of "propaganda
incidents" had been drawn up
for possible use in connection
with the attack.
Planned Gas Use
The plans disclosed lhat the
Germans were prepared to use
gas against the Czechs and to
justify their action with a claim
that the Czechs had used it first.
The Nazi high command, ac
cording to documents introduced
before the war crimes tribunal,
had drafted a list of 13 types of
possible violations of interna
tional law which might be ex
pected in the. action ag3inst
Czechoslovakia.
American Prosecutor Sidney
Alderman announced that the
British would open their case
against the 20 Nazi leaders to
morrow. Thereafter the British
and American prosecutors will
alternate in presenting evidence.
The French will follow with de
tails of crimes against humouity
in the west, and the Russians will
cover the east.
Chaplin Expects
Stork In March
Hollywood. Dec. 3 (U.R)
Charles Chaplin, 54-ycar-old
comedian, expects to become a
father in March, he disclosed
today.
The child will be the second
born to Oona O'Neill Chaplin
his 20-year-old fourth wife,
debutante daughter of Play
wright Eugene O'Neill. Their
first child, a girl, was born in
August. 1944.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Jimmie Bolton scheming deep
schemes to make sure the Ki
wanis club candidate for victory
queen. Margaret Ruth Bolton,
wins the race, even though she
isn't a relative.
Ella Lister deciding that
she's just a fluff-brain, but not
vpry disheartened over the dis
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MEDFORD
Unittd Press
Nazi Admits False Amnesia
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PILOTS FOUND DEAD
COOS BAY PLANE WRECK
Coos Bay, Ore., Dec. 3 U.R)
The ;pilot and co-pilot of a
wrecked C-46 army transport
plane were found dead In the
wreckage today, searching par
ties announced.
The men were identified as
Capt. Hugh B. McMullen, Kan
sas City, Kan., the pilot, and
Capt. Harlow A." Marsh, Jr., of
Syracuse, N. Y., co-pilot.
The plane rammed a hillside
in "the coastal area, of western
Oregon last Monday in a terrific
storm. Nine other airmen have
been found safe in the same
ea. They parachuted as the
plane nosed down seeking a land
ing field and one of them hung
suspended by his parachute tor
36 hours in a tall fir tree.
Portland air base officials said
there is still one more man be-1
CHILDREN TESTIFY
IZE
San Francisco, Dec. 3 (U.R)
The three young children of Mrs.
Annie Irene Mansfeldt testified
in firm tones in superior court
today lhat their mother appear
ed dazed and sleepy and stag
gered as she walked on the
morning she killed nurse Vada
Martin whom she believed was
having an affair with her hus
band. Terry, 12, one of the two girls,
said her mother screamed and
fell to the floor in her bedroom
several hours before the slaying
occurred.
When the children Terry.
Irene, 15, and John, 14 appear
ed in court, it was the first time
Mrs. Mansfeldt had seen them
since the morning she shot and
killed Mrs. Martin whose death
was followed a few hours later
by Dr. John Mansfeldt s suicide.
Mrs. Mansfeldt wept softly as
her children testified in her de
fense. BEATS DEPORTATION
Helena, Mont., Dec. 3 (U.R)
William Reihsle, 42 -year -old
German alien who eluded immi
gration authorities for 10 years
died in the Lewis and Clark
county jail yesterday apparently
as the result of suicide in a final
and desperate effort to escape
deportation.
WEATHER
Northern California: Occa
sional rain north portion today,
spreading slowly southward to
night; showers Tuesday: little
temperature change; strong j
southerly wind Point Arena i
northward and moderate to fresh!
southerly wind along southern'
Full Leased Wire
Claims
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ilieved missing, since there were
reportedly 12 men aboard when
the plane took off from Oakland,
Cal., for McChord Field, Wash.
Incomplete flight plans prevent
ed definite identification of the
12th passenger, apparently one
of several "hitch hikers" who
boarded the transport.
At the same time, rescue par
ties were setting out from the
Portland army air' base for the
remote community of Cougar, in
western Washington, to learn
the fate of six airmen in a
downed navy Ventura plane,
spotted late yesterday.
The navy Ventura had been
the object of a three-day search
ever since it radioed the Portland
army air base it was "in trouble"
after leaving Portland for Red
Bluff, Calif., in a rainstorm.
Double Skating
Accident Sends
Two To Hospital
Mrs. Frank Thome of Baker,
who came here to visit her
father, in the hospital as the re
sult of an ice skating accident,
ended up in the Community hos
pital here Saturday night suffer
ing a badly sprained left knee
received in a fall at the Mcdford
roller skating rink. She was
released from the hospital Sun
day. Failing to take warning
from her father's experience.
Mrs. Thorne had been ice skat
ing earlier in the evening but
went to the roller rink after
numerous falls on the blades, ac
cording to Deputy Coroner Car
los Morris who took the injured
woman to the hospital.
Her father, Charles England
Prospect, was hurt in a fall at
the ice arena Nov. 24 and taken
from his home to the Ashland
Community hospital the follow
ing day when his condition be
came worse.
JEWISH GOODS
Jerusalem, Dec. 3 (U.R) The
powerful Arab league ordered a
general boycott today of all
Palestine in protest against the
Jewish goods originating in
proposed establishment of a
Zionist state in the Holy Land.
Announcement of the boycott
was made in Cairo by the
league's general secretary, Abdel
Rahman Azzam. He said that
the boycott would become effec
tive Jan. 1, 1946.
The surprise move threatened
to upset the uneasy truce exist-
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY MEMBER 3, 1945.
UAW Hurle?
Maritime 7
TIE-UP OF SHIPS
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One-Day CIO Demonstration
Aimed At Forcing More
Use of Ships for G.l.s
By United Press
The CIO United Auto Work
ers asked the government today
to investigate General Motors
Corporation for violation of anti
monopoly laws.
The new development came
as a one-day maritime union
strike to force the use of more
ships for returning service men
sent the total number of Ameri
can strike-idle workers to near
ly 745,000.
R. J. Thomas, UAW president,
asked Attorney General Tom
Clark to "initiate an investiga
tion immediately with a view to
prosecution of General Motors
Corporation under the anti-trust
laws of the United States.
Own Claim Cited
Thomas charged that General
Motors own claim that it must
resume partial production to
supply critical items to other
car manufacturers provides
"strong corrobn'tory evidence for
our belief that this corporation
holds a monopoly position in the
automotive business."
Meanwhile, the Westinghotise
Electric Corp. countered a union
demand for a $2-a-day wage in
crease with a proposal that all
plants, where . practicable, in
crease their work week from
five to five and one-half days
with time and one-half paid for
all work more than 40 hours.
The tentative decision to re
open some General Motors
plants for the production of
parts essential to other auto
manufacturers brought rumb
lings of disagreement among
UAW officers.
Thomas and G-M President C.
E. Wilson had tentatively agreed
to allow reopening of certain
plants making parts for other
automobile manufacturers. But
vehement protests came from R.
Carter, head of the UAW lo
cal at the G-M AC Spark Plug
plant at Flint, Mich.
WSA Policy Explained
National maritime union of
ficials called the shipping work
stoppage "a demo nstration
against the war shipping admin
istration and commercial ship
ping lines' policy of putting com
mercial interest before bringing
the GIs home."
The WSA had explained that
ships were being operated be
tween the U. S. and South Amer
ica and other foreign ports to
keep "foreign flags" from get
ting "a break in competition."
At Philadelphia, Louis Wald
man, legal representative of two
unions which recently struck in
New York harbor, called the 24
hour strike a labor-injuring po
litical move, which was "socially
dangerous."
Ford Meeting Slated
A meeting was scheduled for
today between UAW and Ford
Co. spokesmen to discuss the
company's demand that the un
ion pay the firm $5 daily for
every wildcat striker. The union
was expected to present a coun
ter proposal, undisclosed.
Montgomery Ward & Co. prop
erties returned to normal over
the nation today with the end
of a week-long demonstration
strike against the big mail order
house by the CIO United Retail
Wholesale and Department Store
Employes union.
35,000 VETERANS IN
FRISCO BOUND HOME
San Francisco, Dec. 3 (U.R)
The backlog of Pacific veterans
in the San Francisco Bay area
awaiting transportation to their
homes was expected to approach
or exceed 35,000 today as 13.500
servicemen were due in 19 ships.
A total of 16 082 returnees !
wi're due today at Pacific coast
nopoly Charge at General Motors;
on Stages One-Day National Strike
Rotary Candidate
Nina Tuttle, Rotary CluE can
didate, ii leading the race in
the Victory Queen contest with
1350 votes. Margaret Ruth Bol
ton is second with 1257 votes;
Jackie Flynn Allsworth is third
with 902 votes; and Vivian Llnd
quist is fourth with 640 votes.
All purchasers of "E' bonds may
vote for their favorite contest
ant with each $25 "E" bond pur
chase. SOCIETY. SLATES
MEETDEC. 6, 1
Members of the Oregon State
Horticultural society will hold
the 60th annual meeting at the
Holly Theater here Dec. 6 and 7
it was announced today. Ses
sions will start promptly at 0:30
a. m. and a cordial invitation is
extended to nil interested in
horticultural discussions to at
tend. An unusually interesting pro
gram has been arranged, offic
ers declare. It is thought that
the talks of William A. Schoen
feld, dean and director of the
Oregon Experiment Station and
Oregon Extension service and of
Dr. A. L. Strand, president of
Oregon State college, will be of
special interest. Dean Schoen
feld Is to speak on "Will We
Continue to Feed the World," at
11:15 a. m. Thursday and Dr.
Strand is to speak Thursday at
2 p. m.
C. C. Clemens, of Medford is
president of the society, and
Leonard Carpenter, also of Med
ford, is third vicc-presidenl.
Other officers are Wendell
Bartholomew, Eugene. first
vice-president; A. P. Mohr.
Hood River, second vice-presi
dent; the late O. T. McWhorter.
Corvallis, had been serving as
secretary and treasurer and C.
B. Cordy, Mcdford, is assistant
secretary.
The sessions are being held at
the Holly theater through the
courtesy of Walter Levcrctte.
APPLEGATE MAN
Trial of the claim of Edwin
H. Taylor, Applegate district
farmer, against the Southern
Oregon Mining company, Ltd.,
for alleged non fulfillment of a
contract for replacement of top
soil removed during dredging
operation on the Taylor farm.
started today in circuit court
with Judge Dal M. King of Coos
county on the bench. Judge "King
was assigned here when Judge
Ilanna disqualified himself.
laylor seeks approximately
$9,000 on two counts of his com
plaint for soil replacement. The
dredging operations occurred in
1940 1041.
The dredging concern Is rep
resented by Attorney Ralph E.
Moody of Salem and Ililding
Bengtson, and the plaintiff by
Attorney George M. Roberts.
A number of Applegate resi
dents have been called as wit-
RIBUNE
Unit.d Press Full
CODE BURNING BY
JAPS IN HONOLULU
GAVE ATTACK TIP
Investigators Told Hawaii
Army Men Knew 'Some
thing Serious' To Happen
Washington, Dec. 3 (U.R)
The Pearl Harbor Investigating
committee was told today that
army officers in Hawaii knew
before the sneak attack of Dec.
7, 1941, that Japanese diplomats
were destroying codes, "indicat
ing that something serious was
about to happen."
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles,
former head of military intelli
gence, said the information was
in the hands of the intelligence
officer of the Hawaiian defense
command about Dec. 3, 1941, and
was called to the attention of a
staff council on Dec. 6, the
morning before the attack.
Marshall Due Thunder
Miles said the Hawaiian In
telligence officer, a Colonel Bick
nell, learned of the code-burning
through the nuvy and Robert
Shivers, chief of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation at Hono
lulu.
- M i 1 o ; continued testimony
started last week about Japanese
code messages that were inter
cepted before Pearl Harbor.
The committee announced,
meanwhile, that Gen. George C.
Marshall, former army chief of
staff, will appear before it at 10
a. m. Thursday.
Marshall, who was sharply
criticized by an army board that
investigated the Pearl Harbor
defeat, will be given a chance to
tell his side of the storv before
he leaves for Chungking as diplo
matic successor to Patrick J.
Hurley, resigned.
High Wind Chases
Fog Out of Valley
Maximum wind velocity re
corded at the weather bureau
this morning was 44 miles it
was stated this noon, this figure
having been set about 6:30 a.m.
However, it was pointed out
that sudden quick gusts often
ranged up to ten miles higher
than the average velocity.
The southwest wind sprang
up Sunday afternoon, bringing
higher temperatures and relief
from h-;avy fog which had cov
ered the valley for the past few
days, and continued with vary
ing violence throughout the
night. Light rain fell this
morning.
Disappointment Waits Many Vets
Who Would Try Farming Career
Washington, Dec. 3 (U.R) A
large number of the million or
more veterans who want to be
farmers may be in for a disap
pointment. These were the straws in the
wind:
1. With close to 5,000,000 men
already out of service, only 700
veterans have gotten farm loans
through the veterans admini
stration under the GI Bill of
rights.
2. The farm security admini
stration, a better bet for the
farm-minded veteran but strict
ly limited on funds, has helped
3,500 veterans with all types of
loans, hopes to set up 4,000 as
farmers this fiscal year.
3. The National Planning asso
ciation estimated that only 750,
000 farms will become available
in the next five years, against a
demand for 1.100,000. It indicat
ed that many will be overpriced.
The planning a.-sociation, in a
recent publication, warned not
only that demand for farms will
outrun supply but that fe.er
farmers, not more, may be need
ed to run them. The reason: pro
ductivity per farmer is steadily
increasing.
(juvtiuiucct aicuuefc ut be
Lasted Wir
NO. 216.
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Gen. MacArthur Tells Gov
ernment to Present New
Batch for War Crimes
Tokyo, Dec. 3 (U.R) Gen.
Douglas MacArthur ordered the
Japanese government today to
arrest 59 more war criminal sus
pects, including for the first time
a prince of imperial blood, two
former premiers and many top
flight militarists. Industrialists
and propagandists.
The imperial suspect was Field
Mnrshal Prince Morimasa Nashl
moto, 71, who was a supreme
war councillor and lord custo
dian of national shrines.
Japi Protest
(After a series of conferences
with Imperial Household Mini
ster Sotaro Ishiwata, the Japa
nese government reportedly ask
ed MacArthur to rescind the
order for Nashimoto's arrest.
The request was presented su
preme Allied headquarters by
Foreign Minister Yoshldn, acting
for the government. No reason
waj given for the request,)
The former premiers were
Baron Kilchlro Hiranuma, who
served In 1939 when Japan was
paving the way for Axis alliance,
and Koki Ilirota, who served as
premier in 1938 and was a mem
ber of the advisory council In
1040,
Arrests of four of the coun
try's leading publishers were
ordered. They were Yoshio
Kodama, former publisher of the
Yamato Shimbu; Hiroshl Shlmo
mura, former vice president of
Asahi; Insuke Furuno, former
head of the now defunct Domei
News Agency, and Mutsularo
Shoriki, president of Yomluri
Hochl.
Kid Outlaw of '2&S
Run Down By Truck
Little Rock Ark., Dec. 3 (U.R)
Matt Kimes, notorious "kid
outlaw" of the 1920's, was held
by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation today after he was
run down by a truck on a North
Little Rock street corner.
Kimes, on "leave of absence"
from the Oklahoma slate pris
on, had been hunted throughout
the southwest for the past three
weeks in connection with a $17,
000 Morton, Tex., bank robbery
Sept. 5.
ing careful to point out to ap
plicants for credit or informa
tion that many a dream farm
lias proved a land mine.
Current warnings by the agri
culture department include
these: that hazards in farming
arc. great: work is hard, and the
work week is seven days; cash
returns are usually small (more
than half of all farmers in 1940
had gross income of less than
$1,000.)
The agriculture department
advises would-be farmers who
have not lived on a farm to give
it a try as a hired hand before
making a decision. It suggests
also renting or sharecropping as
a starter.
GI guarantees have been little
used luigely because economic
factors combined with legal pro
visions make the law tough to
comply with.
FSA lends money directly to
veterans who are good farm
risks, and can't get adequate
credit elsewhere. It has helped
38,000 farm families become
farm owners and has lent money ,
to nearly a million farmers, in
eluding 35.000 veterans of World 1
War I. It has $25,000,000 to lend
Wuia W U veU Uiia jcar. '
FACT FINDING BY
FEDERAL BOARDS
President Asks Congress for
Power to Set Up System
For Coping With Disputes
Washington, Dec. 3 (U.R) .
President Truman today asked
congress for authority to estab
lish a system of fact-finding
boards to cope with labor dis
putes. Expressing his disappointment
that the labor-management con
ference had not produced an
agreement on machinery to set
tle existing strikes, the presi
dent said it was now the duty
of the government "to act on
its own."
Like Railway Act
The president recommended
establishment of a fact-finding
systenf with boards to operate
along the general lines of the
emergency board provided for
under the railway labor act.
The president, without wait
ing for congress to act, said he
would set up immediately a fact
finding board in the dispute be
tween the United Automobila
Workers and General Motors
Corp.
"While this board will not
have the statutory powers which
I hope the congress will soon
authorize," the president said in
a special message, "I am sure
that the American people will
expect the employer and the em
ployes to cooperate with th
board as fully as if appropriate
legislation had already been
passed."
Patriotic Appeal
Then the president appealed
to the patriotism of both partiei
in the General Motors dispute
and asked "all the workers to
return to work Immediately."
He also requested General Mo
tors "to proceed energetically
with full production."
After describing the General
Motors strike as tha "major ob
stacle holding up our reconver
sion program," the president
said he was appointing a similar
board to deal with the threaten
ed strike involving the United
States Steel Corp. and the United
Steel Workers (CIO). Ho asked
the employes to remain at work
pending the report of the board
of findings and recommenda
tions. Under the proposed new law,
the disputants would not be leg
ally bound to accept the find
ings or follow the recommenda
tions of the board, but the presi
dent said ' "the general publio
would know all the facts."
T
ON VETS HOUSING
Kansas City, Mo., Dee. 3 (U.R)
National officers of the Veter
ans of Foreign Wars opened a
five-day meeting here today with
the first order of business a re
solution urging the president to
declare a national emergency in
order to meet the nation's hous
ing shortage.
Louis E. Starr, Portland, Ore.,
said the meeting would pass a
resolution later today calling for
a state of emergency so materi
als could be obtained to provide
housing for veterans.
"Conditions on the Pacifie
coast are deplorable," Starr
added.
Dr. Clarence It. Rungee, New
Haven, Conn., surgeon general
of the VFW, said Connecticut
was facing a very serious hous
ing shortage. He pointed out
that the state's population was
up 150,000 as a result of war
production.
The national council of admin
istration of the VFW today set
Aug. 25-30 at the dates tor the
47th annual encampment at Bos
ton. NO. 8 COMING UP
New Rochelle, N. Y., Dec. 3
(U.rJ Tommy Manville. the as
bestos heir, confirmed today that
he will make Georgina Camp
bell, 27, beautiful English-born
columnist, his eighth wife. Miss
Campbell was en route here
from Hollywood aboard the Gol
den State Limited. "This is It,"
Miinvlllc said.
Victory Loan Drive
"E" Quota $525,000
"E" Sales to Date
$234,181
Remainder to sell $290,819