urley Names Atcheson Leading Effort To Aid Chinese Communists
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Fortieth Year
Service Men Bring
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Ex-servicemen, members of Uhited Auto Workers C. I. 0.) Union, on strike against General Motors, enter
picket line at Montgomery Ward picket line in Chicago, wearing uniforms and carrying flags.
UAW-Chrysler
CIO Girds For
By United Press
General Motors and CIO
United Auto Workers represen
tatives cancelled a meeting by
mutual agreement" today, and
the UAW announced that nego
tiations with Chrysler corpora
tion, another big auto manufac
turing firm had broken down
Walter P. Reuthcr, UAW vice
president, revealed that his
scheduled meeting with General
ft.Vtnrs Vice President Harry W
Anderson had been called off.
Reuther said he was leaving by
GEN. TU'S FORCES
NE
Chungking, Dec. 5 U.P.
Nationalist military officials
said today that Gen. Tu Li
Ming's nationalist vanguards
have by-passed Sinmin and are
"within one day's walk" of
Mukden, .principal cily and rail
terminus of Manchuria.
Sinmin is about 50 miles
northeast of Mukden on the
railroad from Chinhsien along
which Tu's troops have been
moving. The nationalist report
indicated that Tu may have left
the railroad now, cutting across
country directly toward Muk
den. Recent dispatches from Tu s
headquarters at Chinhsien re
ported that the Chinese com
munists have been falling back
under Russian orders to let the
nationalists through.
Meanwhile, tht central Chin
ese news agency reported that
Gen Peng Tch-Huai. deputy
commander of the 8th route
army, now is in the Lincheng
area in south Shantung province
directing a Chinese communist
offensive there.
Only One Conchie
Continuing Fast
Waldport, Ore., Dec. 5 iU.P.)
Onlv one of the original U
hunger fastcrs at the Waldport
conscientious objectors camp con
tinned without food today, in
protest against peacetime con
scription and continued admin
istration of the camps by the
Brethren service committee.
The remaining faster was
Lloyd Danzeisen of Ohio. Two
others who held out 15 days iin
til today said they had attained
their objective of calling atten
4inM fl-,ni HomanHc for flis
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continuance of the conscientious
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KIWANIS BOND RALLY
SELLS $1 1 .000 WORTH ,
A bond rally at today s noon
m?eting of the Kiwanis Club in
the Holland Hotel sold about
SI 1,000 worth of Victory bonds,
according to a club spokesman.
V 'es will go to Margaret Ruth
Bolton in the Victory queen con
test.
Charles Rosnick spoke on
tra els in Hawaii and showed
mution picturrs r.f the island of j
Maui in the Hawaiian group. I
EDFORD
Full Leased Wire
Uniform, Flags Into
Negotiations Break Down;
Fight on Truman Program
plane for an unannounced des
tination. Reuther's announcement came
at a meeting of the "impartial
committee" of 14 prominent
citizens the UAW has invited
to hear its side of the General
Motors dispute.
Meanwhile the CIO marshall
ed its membership to combat
President Truman's program for
ending the reconversion labor
disputes which have, idled 565,-
000 American workers. ' -,
In the first outright split with
the administration" since 1932,
CIO President Philip Murray
last night charged that the pro
posal had but one single pur
pose "to weaken and ultimate
ly destroy labor union organiza
tions." The CIO leader denounced
the federal government for
yielding in "abject cowardice"
to industrial "arrogance" and
served notice that his union
would rise to defeat the measure
with every means at its com
mand. Despite violent opposition
from every major union, the
house labor committee went
ahead with plans to approve
the program, calling for the ap
pointment of fact-finding bodies
to deal with labor disputes
threatening the national econ
omy. Acting Chairman Robert Ram
speck, B., G., said the commit-
Yamashita's Fate
Rests With Jury
Manila, Dec. 5 (U.R) The
fate of Gen. Tomoyuki Yuma
shita rested today with a five
man U. S. military commission
after a final demand by Chief
Prosecutor Maj. Robert M. Keer
of Portland, Ore., that he be sen
tenced to death for war crimes
in the Philippines.
A verdict was scheduled to be
returned at 2 p. m. Friday, Ma
nila time (1 a. m. EST).
NOBEL WINNER DIES
Pasadena, Calif., Dec. 5 (U.R)
Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Thomas
Hunt Morgan, 79, noted auth
ority on heredity and genetics,
died yesterday at Huntington
memorial hospital after a
illness.
brief
I
ANTI-NAZIS
Nuernberg, Dec. 5 (U.R) Rec
ords in allied hands revealed to
day that three separate conspir
acies were launched by anti-nazi
German officers in an attempt
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The plots culminated in
the
abortive July 20, 1944, assassi
nation attempt which touched
off one of the greatest blood
purses jn hy.
First July 13. 1943
Tnc t jrst ef(ort to kjii Hitler.
it was revealed, was made July
13, 1943, and was planned care
fully by a group which attempt
ed to eliminate Hitler about the
time of the German disaster at
Stalingrad.
It was undertaken by Ober
lieutcnant Von Schlabrendorf
who placed a time bomb under
Hitler s scat
n the plane the
using to inspect
fuehrer was
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1945.
Picket Lines
(Acme Telephotoi
tee was prepared to give Mr
Truman "exactly what he asked
for" and said a bill would be
ready for introduction today or
tomorrow.
Congressmen, on the while,
appeared to feel that some type
of legislation was needed in a
hurry, in view of the recent
labor-management conference's
failure to agree on a voluntary
program.
CHRISTMATfURK
Shipment of valley turkeys to
eastern and coast markets for the
Christmas trade has started. Ac
cording to representatives of
Swift and Company and the Half
Moon company, the ceiling price
is 38 cents for hens, and 33 cents
per pound for toms. It is estimat
ed close to 60,000 birds remain
from the Thanksgiving sales,
and toms predominate. The
smaller hens are preferred by
housewives. The toms were rais
ed largely for army sale.
It is also expected between
10,000 and 15.000 birds will be
available for the January and
February trade, which were late
in maturing.
' County Agent Robert G. Fow
ler and shippers report most of
the growers "made some mony,
but did not get rich," on turkey
sales so far.
GOLDSTAR MOTHERS
URGED TO LIST NAMES
Gold star mothers of Medford
were urged today by the Veter
ans of Foreign Wars to submit
their names to the Medford post
for inclusion in a list which is
being compiled for national
headquarters of the group. The
mothers are asked to submit
their names, along with the
names of sons or daughters who
died during either World War I
or II to A. D. Vosika, 322 South
Central avenue. The list must
be completed this week and
names should be sent to Mr.
Vosika by Dec. 6, it is stated.
TRIED THREE
headquarters on the eastern
front.
Among the leading partici
pants in the plots were Admiral
Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the
German intelligence service. Dr.
Karl Goerdolcr, mayor of Leip-
zig, General Ostler, Canaris' ly supplied explosives for the
fhinf nf claff ITinlrl KT.pcl.nl trn'r.. U... J I I ...I 111.
chief of staff, Field Marshal Von
Klugc who committed suicide to
avoid execution, Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel, Field Marshal
Alexander Falkenhausen, Ger
man governor of Belgium and
northern France, and Gen. F.rnst
Stuelpnagel, Paris commandant.
Fuse Failed To Work
The initial attempt to kill Hit
ler failed when the fuse of the
bomb failed to work.
The second attempt on Hitler quarters and the headquarters of j plosion of the bomb in the con
was made July 11, 1944. Hitler the German replacement army fined underiiround quarters, it
wis planning to review a group
of soldiers wearing a new type'
BUSINESS AND AFL
CIO Director Sees "Wide
Scale Attack Upon Na
tional Economy, People."
San FrancUco, Dec. 5 (U.R)
Harry Bridges, regional director
of the CIO, charged today that
"big business" is "deliberately
engaged in a vide-scale attack
upon the national economy and
the people" and accused AFL
leadership and John L. Lewis
of joining business in "an unholy
alliance."
Addressing more than 600
delegates repreienting nearly
140,000 members at the eighth
annual convention of the Cali
fornia CIO council, Bridges de
clared, "the prime struggle of
labor today is for full employ
ment." Says Strikes Forced
He said "big business" is forc
ing strikes in an attack on the
nation's economy and people
which "even includes imperial
istic moves to lay the basis for
a third. world war. He did not
amplify this statement, but con
tinued to say:
"Part of their (big business)
plot is to make the people foot
the largest part of the bill for
plants deliberately shut down in
order to bring a-out a state of
confusion and unemployment.
This they have accomplished
through tricky tax legislation
which insures them against loss
of profit."
Bridges asserted that in the
Washington .labor-management
conference called by President
Truman in an unsuccessful at
tempt to map a formula for na
tional labor stability, big busl
ness representatives formed "an
unholy alliance with AFL lead
ership and John L. Lewis, who
joined them in a demand that
wages and prices be allowed to
find their own levels through
the machinery of 'free enter
prise'." Istanbul, Dec. 4 (Delayed)
(U.R A crowd of 27.000 waving
Turkish flags and shouting
"down with the communists"
today wrecked the plants of the
pro-Russian newspapers Tan and
La Turquie.
The mob including 7.000 uni
versity students smashed the
plant of Tan, th-n marched to
the modern part of the city and
destroyed a Russian bookstore.
They swung past the United
States consulate shouting "long
live free America." Next they
tried to reach the Soviet con
sulate but were blocked by
police and automobiles.
Still bent upon destruction,
the mob surged around behind
the Soviet embassy and wreck
ed the installations of La Tur
quie. All stores were closed during
the demonstration. No casual
ties were reported.
SENATE VOTES RELIEF
Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R)
The senate by voice vote today
approved a $550,000,000 supple
mentary appropriation for the
United Nations relief ar.d re
habilitation administration.
TIMES TO
of uniform.
The plotters planned to put
timebombs in the packs carried
by the soldiers. The bombs
would be timed to go off as the
troops marched' past Hitler.
Ostler, it was learned, actual
attempt but it failed when Hit
ler suddenly decided he
wouldn't bother with the re
view, A third plan was then set
afoot for an attempt to be car
ried out later in the summer of
1944.
The plotters picked Col. Count
Klaus Von Stauffenberg, a one
armed officer who was liaison
officer between Hitler's head-1
to make the attempt. I
Details of the plot, it was I
Tribune
United Press Full
Hap Arnold Says
A-Bombs Outmode
Aerial Armadas
Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R)
Gen. H. H. Arnold said today
that the atomic bomb made the
great aerial armadas of World
War II "as outmoded as the Ma
cedonian phalanx."
Writing In the Army and
Navy Journal, the army air
forces chief said new weapons
are being developed at such
speed that present U. S. air su
premacy "may prove to be as
hollow as the legend of the Mag-
inot line" if Americans become
complacent.
To avoid "another, infinitely
more terrible and perhaps alto
gether paralyzing Pearl Harbor
disaster, Arnold said, we must
maintain:
1. An up-to-the-minute air
force. i
2. A nucleus of trainei'. men
to man the air force and "sup
ply the experience needed for
rapid expansion."
3. Research and development
adequate to make our fighting
equipment "the best in the
world."
4. Strong "industry capable of
rapid expansion for war produc
tion. 5. Strategic bases.
These, Arnold said, are the
"minimum basic requirements.
UT UNCOMMITTED
BEFORE JAPS HIT
AT PEARL HARBOR
Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow said
today this country's military
planners made no prc-Pcarl Har
bor commitments to go to war
with Japan.
He told the Pearl HBrhor in
vestigating committee that U. S.
British, Canadian, and Dutch
staffs discussed plans that might
be used in the event of war. But
these plans. Gerow said, includ
ed "no political commitments."
He added in response to i
question that he never saw or
heard of any agreement by any
one, including the late President
Roosevelt, which "assumed to
bind the United States to engage
in war against Japan before
Japan attacked the United
States."
Gerow, now commandant of
the general staff school at Ft
Leavenworth, Kan., was chief
of the army's war plans division
from November, 1940, to febru
ary, 1942.
He was called before the com
mittee to answer questions as
to whether this country agreed
with other Pacific powers to go
to war if Japan pursued her
aggressions beyond a certain
point.
Gerow's testimony was de
signed to lay the ground work
for testimony tomorrow by Gen.
George C. Marshall, former
army chief of staff.
JAMES LILES, 25, HELD
ON BAD CHECK CHARGE
James Leonard Liles, 25, Ear
hart street, was arrested today
by sheriff's deputies on a war
rant charging obtaining money
under false pretenses. Liles is
accused of issuing worthless
checks, deputies said. He is be
ing held in the Jackson county
jail awaiting court action.
GOLD HILL GRANGE
Gold Hill II. E. C. bazaar and
turkey dinner will be held from
5:30 to 8 p. m., Dec. 10, not Dec
8 as was previously announced.
KILL HITLER
learned, began to be bruited
about in some army circles and
on July 15, 1944. one of the con
spirators, Captain Sidney lies
sen, a naval officer, was told by
a junior officer at a Potsdam
tea party that a plot against Hit
ler was underway.
Alarmed at the leak, Hesscn
reported the news to Von Stauf
fenberg who decided to act iin
mediately. He went to Hitler's
headquarters, taking a bomb
with him.
Hitler ordinarily held his staff
meetings in a concrete air raid
shelter but the July 20 meeting,
by chance, was in a wooden
structure. This was believed to
have saved Hitler's life since ex
was thought, would certainly
have killed him.
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23 SELECTED FOR
Jl
James Alger Fee to Preside
Over Court Sessions
Trial Jurors Will Report
Twenty-three southern Ore
gon men were selected for fed
eral grand jury service this
morning and began deliberations
at 11:15 a. m. Nine cases are to
be considered and it is expected
the session will continue through
the next two days. Trial Jurors
are to report Dee. 7.
Selected for the grand jury
were Claude V. . Hoover, Med
ford farmer, who was named
foreman: Archie E. Abbott,
Butte Falls: William J. Albert
Ashland orchardist: John Caro
lan. Grants Pass farmer; Arthur
Davies. Jacksonville farmer; A.
O. Edwards, farmer from Will
iams; Charles A. Finch, Klamath
Falls pressman; Harold R. Gris-
wold, Rogue River rancher;
George W. Hiles, Medford, fruit
company flcldman; I. R. Kline
Eagle Point farmer; Herman L
Lofdahl, Klamath Falls electri
cal contractor; Wilbur L. Mar
tin, Klamath Falls mechanic;
Joseph A. Mason, Ashland, re
tired: Ray Pence, Medford mil
ler; W. J. Phillips. Eagle Point
farmer; Henry H.'Pringle, Med
ford, contractors supply com
pany; Dewey Sackett, Ashland
laborer: H. M. Shutt. Ashland
printer; Fitch M. Snyder. Sams
valley rancher; Albert P. Ter
williger. Klamath Falls, chief
clerk: Ross J. Thurman. Med
ford plumber: J. F.. Weaver
Gold Hill farmer; William R
Yoiinn. Medford.
But 24 of the original list
drawn renorted for duty,' the
one remaining man not selected
being Charles Williams, Rogue
River farmer.
JudBc James Alger Fee ar
rived in Medford Tuesday night
to preside over the court ses
sions here. Also here for the
session arc J. Mason Dillard
chief assistant United States at
torney: Edward Twining and
Victor E. Iliiir, assistant United
states attorneys: their secretary
Miss Marilyn Sheldon, and
.Turlife Fee's secretary, Miss
Esther Davis.
Other court officials here for
thn term are Jack R. Caufield.
United States marshal; Walter
H. Hadlork, chief deputy; Leo
Mi-Lain. Frank L. Meyer and
Miss Dorothy Adler, deputy
marshals; James R. DcMott
deputy court clerk; Fred H
Norman, bailiff; Cloyd D. Ranch
court renortcr: Loren C Coch
ran, chief probation officer for
Oregon and John Mctanana,
assistant probation officer.
GET
London, Dec. 5 (U.R) Great
Britain and the other colonial
powers were handed a sharp set
back today when a United Na
tions committee voted over
whelmingly to eliminate a pro
posed restriction on the types of
petitions dependent peoples can
submit to the UNO trusteeship
council.
Britain, Belgium and the Un
ion of South Africa led the op
position in the UNO technical
committee, but they were snow
ed under by a voting bloc led by
the Soviet Union.
The United States abstained
from voting on the question.
Printers Reject
Seattle Proffer
By United Press
A strike against three Seattle
newspapers went Into its 1 7th
dav today after printers rejected
another publishers' compromise
offer of a $1.65 daily wage in
crease. SALE OF LOTS GIVEN
APPROVAL BY COUNCIL
Besides routine business con
ducted at the meeting of the city
council last night sale of the lol
lowing city lots were approved:
lots 1 and 2, block 5, Euclid Park
addition, to Frank Fairweather.
$500; lot 5, block 1, Euclid Hirk
addition, Harvey J. Field. $100:
and lot 5, block 3, West Walnut
addition, N. D. Ncathcrmcr.
$300.
Ex-Ambassador Charges
Aide Sought Destruction
Of Central Government
Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R) Patrick J. Hurley, resigned am
bassador to China, charged today that career diplomats in Chin
wanted to give lend-lease arms to Chinese communists with the
deliberate purpose of destroying the central government of Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
Hurley told the senate foreign relations committee that the
man who led this policy was George Atcheson, Jr., then serving
as counselor at the American embassy in Chungking. Atcheson
later returned to this country and then was assigned as adviser
to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo.
CHUNGKING GOVERNMENT BACKING FAVORED .
Hurley recounted that about last Jan. 20 or 21 he called In
the heads of all American agencies in China and explained to them
what he considered the American policy there strong support
of the Chungking government with the object of keeping its armies
in the war against Japan.
He said nobody dissented from these views at that time.
When he later returned to Washington for conferences, Hurley
said, he was "confronted" by a letter from Atcheson, who had
been left in Chungking as charge d'affaires.
Hurley said Atcheson confirmed most of his policies, but re
commended that lend-lease arms be supplied to the communists.
According to Hurley, Atcheson said he had the "support and
acqulcsence of every official of the embassy."
Hurley emphasized that the communists actually never did re
ceive lend-lease arms.
"Did he (Atcheson) point out that the objective was to get
both -sides in China to fight side-by-side?" asked committee chair
man Tom Connally, D., Tex.
"I see you've read the letter," Hurley replied sharply.
Connally denied he had seen the letter, and asked why, in fact,
Atcheson did want to help arm the communists.
DESTRUCTION OF REPUBLIC CLAIMED AIM
"His reasons were that this would destroy the government of
the republic of China," Hurley shouted. He shook his head so -vigorously
that his glasses vibrated on his nose.
"Did he say those were his reasons," asked Connally.
"No I say those were his reasons," replied Hurley.
Hurley said he informed the state department that if this were
to become the official policy, the department should leave Atche
son in charge of the embassy.
"What was the result of this?" asked Sen. Robert M. LaFol
lette, Prog., Wis.
"Atcheson was recalled and made my supervisor In the state
department here," Hurley answered.
Hurley also charged that a report by John S. Service, state
department aide, was circulated among Chinese communists. He
said it detailed "how to let fall the government I was sent over
to China to sustain."
Connally asked if Service was "under you in China."
Hurley banged the table in front of him.
"Not under me, no sir," he shouted. "If he had been, I would
have taken him out immediately. I couldn't control him. He said
he was serving under the commanding general."
ATCHESON SERVING UNDER GEN. STILLWELL
"Who was the general? asked Connally.
"Gen (Joseph W.) Stillwell."
Stillwell later was removed from his China command becauee
of differences with Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek.
Sen. Styles Bridges, R N. H., interrupted to ask:
"Was this Service thn same Mr. Service involved in a scandal
at the state department?"
"I read about It in the papers but would not like to testify
on that subject," Hurley said.
(Service and two other state department employes were amonf
six persons arrested last spring on charges of obtaining illegally
certain secret state department documents. A federal grand Jury
however, exonerated Service and two of the other five )
Hurley told the committee that if U. S. foreign policy had
been publicly clarified while he was in China, as it was recent'v
by Secretary of State James F. Brynes. he would not have resigned
Rep. Jack Z. Anderson, R., Calif., yesterday made public a
letter from Byrnes outlining this government's foreign policy
NO STATE DEPARTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Hurley complained that ho had received no specific Instruc
tions from the state department while he was in China
"I had Instructions from Franklin D. Roosevelt I could not
get statements from the state department," Hurley said
He recalled that about Dec. 22 or 23, 1944 he sent tlie state
department a detailed program which he intended to follow He
said the then secretary of state Edward R. Stettiniu, telegraphed
his commendations, but nothing was made public
uT.C"" t"Pm' ' tills as not an endorsement of my
policies," Hurley said.
report'srlpublicd """ SUl! d,PBr,mcnt to make his
3 DEATHS LISTED
IN COAST STORM
By United Press
Near hurricane winds along
the west coast eased off Wednes
day liter leveling their heaviest
blows at the Oregon and Wash
ington sector while snuffing out
the lives of three persons and
damaging property valued at
thousands of dollars.
Theodore Dukes, 40, negro,
who was killed Tuesday after
noon at Vancouver barracks
staging area when a tree fell on
the bulldozer he was operating
At Seattle, John Muzzy. 89.
was electrocuted when a power
line blew down on his home,
setting it afire.
Clifford Mather of Eugene.
Ore., was killed when a tree
was blown upon a logging truck
he was driving.
Power, telegraph and tele
phone services In Portland,
western Oregon and southwest
Washington were hardest hit by
the sudden wind. It was derlar
ed the most extensive alorm
damage caused in recent years.
100 SHIPS BRINGING
TROOPS FROM PACIFIC
Pearl Harbor, Dec. 5 (U.Rj
Nearly 100 vessels were sail
ing toward the Pacific coast to
day from Japan, China, Korea
Okinawa, the Philippines, the
Marianas, and the Marshall, in
the largest ship movement
since V-J day, the navy re
ported. The navy said that 150,000
veterans aboard the ships were
assured of spending Christmas
the United States, although!
all of them might not be able to
I reach their home by Dec. 25. 1
TRIO SUFFER INJURIES
IN AUTO-TRAIN TANGLE
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Cox,
336 Mao street, and Mrs. Doro
thea Tillman, 331 Marie street,
were treated at Community hos
pital Monday night for injuries
suffered when a southbound
freight train struck an automo
bile driven by Cox at the Main
street crossing, it was learned
today.
Cox was treated for a smashed
nose and bruised knee and his
wife was treated for a bruised
knee and shock. Mrs. Tillman
suffered a cut mouth, bruised
knee and bruised pelvis, accord
ing to the attending physician.
They were rushed to the Com
munity Hospital in the Conger
Morris ambulance.
WIFE'S MIND BLANK
ON SHOOTING NURSE
San Francisco. Dec. 9 (U.R)
Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfcldt in
sisted today that she had no
recollection of fatally shooting
Mrs. Vada Martin and shouted
at the prosecuting attorney who
cross-examined her that she
"told anything" at the time of
the Oct. 4 Jealousy slaying be
cause "I don't want to be in
sane." "I was trying to seem sane
and coherent." she said when
asked why her testimony con
tradicted earlier statements. "I
didn't want any insanity plea
. . . I fought tooth and nail . . .
I told anything to prevent that."
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