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Weather FORECAST: Bundav, partly cloudy with little ctunse in temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday .. . 44 Lowest this Moriitnc - .. 31 Use Th Mail Tribune . Want Ad Way Quick Reiulta At Small Cost Tribune UnlUd Press Full Leased Wlrs Fortieth Year ORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1945. NO. 221. ' ' UniUd Press Full Lad Wlrs - AUTO UNION HEAD STAND ONLABOR President Accused of Seek ing Abrogating Right to Strike in Peace Appeal Detroit, Dec. 8 (U.R) In sharp rejection of a White House appeal for end of the General Motors shutdown, the United Automobile Workers union (CIO) tonight accused President Truman of using a "policeman's club" to abrogate labor's right to strike. UAW President R. J. Thomas sternly warned the president that he was "striking at the heart" of the program which led to a democratic election victory In 1944. As the powerful union mobil ized its 650,000 members for a fight against the administration's labor legislation proposals, the wage dispute paralyzing General Motors appeared no nearer set tlement than when 175,000 workers struck 93 GM plants 18 days ago. A conference of 200 delegates representing GM local unions bitterly spurned the company's repeated offer to increase wages by 1314 cents an hour, or ap proximately 10 per cent. The conference said the strike would not end until its 30 per cent wage gain demands had been "fully satisfied." Then the delegates angrily de fied Mr. Truman's appeal for an immediate return to work in a "display of patriotism" to main tain reconversion production at wartime levels. A resolution adopted by unani mous vote of the conference re iterated the charge of CIO President Philip Murray that "the federal administration yields in abject cowardice" to the "arrogance of industry." "We are asked to retreat from economic democracy as further ed under the courageous lead ership of Franklin D. Roosevelt," the resolution said. In another resolution, the con ference asked 25,000 members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union (CIO) at five GM plants to join tbe strike "if the company per sists to negotiate in bad faith." Walter P. Reuther, UAW vice president directing the union's strike strategy, said the actions will be reported back to local units immediately and unani mous approval of the conference resolutions is expected by Tues day night. Thomas kcynoted the union altitude in condemning admin istration requests for compulsory fact-finding boards and a man datory 30-day "cooling off" ban on strikes. Thomas virtually charged the president with a strike breaking movement when he cited the difference between the railway labor act signed by President Coolidge and the new adminis tration proposal. "President Coolidge broke no strike when he signed the rail way labor act in 1926," he said. "There was no major railroad strike at that time. The proposal of President Truman is com pletely and utterly different . ." The labor chieftain emphasiz ed that under the railway act there is no compulsory cooling off period during which a strike is banned. Also, he said, the act provides no penalties on labor unions. Under provisions of the ad ministration's proposal, how ever, strikes called during the 30-day cooling-off interim would be illegal and strikers involved, "would be subject to penalties" of other federal labor acts, Thomas said. "There is no question that enactment of the bill will result in the breakdown of proper col lective bargaining," he declared. "The corporations will refuse to bargain honestly, relying on the restrictive effects of President Truman's plan to injure our bargaining position." Charging that a comparison of the Truman proposal with the railway act is "deliberately mis leading." Thomas said: "The railway labor act uses persua sion; President Truman's bill uses the policeman's club." Victory Loan Drive "E" Quota S52S.O0O 'E" Sales to D6t $363,516 Rtmainder to nil S161.484 Gen. Marshall Testifies at Inquir '. ; -A . , Jv s . y y , ,v - v X" ' v "lit V t t 11- qsry. , afctfL ifij I; , u i v til (Acme Tclpphoto) Gen. George Marshall, newly-appointed ambassador to China, tells Pearl Hnrbor Investigating Committee, Washington. D. C, that he ordered a full-time alert of the Army command at Hawaii June 17, 1940, because certain "magic" intercepted messnges indicated possible threat to the Island. SAYS 2 Portland, Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R) The story of an hour-long beat ing administered to two teen aged boys at the Oregon State training school for boys in Woodburn was told today by a guard who resigned in protest against the beating. 1 The guard, who asked to re main anonymous . until comple tion of a proposed investiga tion, said the boys were whip ped for running away frtm the institution on Thanksgiving day. "They used a leather strap about three feet long," the for mer guard said. "Four big men whipped those boys from 7 until 8:15 and when they finished, blood dripped off both boy's hands and one left red puddles wherever he step ped." After resigning his position, the Albany guard brought the beating to the attention of Al bany residents who requested the governor to make full in quiry into (he affair, he said. E E UNDER ADOPTION Sacramnto. Dec. 8 (U.R) A Serviceman's wife who bears an illegitimate child while her husband is overseas may place the child for adoption without his knowledge, Attorney Gen eral Robert W. Kenny ruled to- dav. I The ruling settled an issue brought up in the recent legis lative session with the introduc tion of a bill lo permit such adoptive proceedings. The bill was defeated following a flare up of protest by California ser vicemen that received nation wide publicity. The adoption may be com pleted under present state laws which provide the mother of an illegitimate child has sole custody over the child, Kenny said. If the child can be proved illegitimate by the fact that her , husband was out of the country i when the child was conceived. ; the courts may accept the cori : sent to the adoption of the ; mother alone. The ruling answered a ques tion bv Charles M. Wollenbere. state director of social welfare.; The director reported that1 adoption agencies are faced! I with a "growing problem" of obtaining necessary consents lu; the adoption of a child born to a married woman by a man! other than her husband. j SOUTH OVER TOP j Los Angeles. Dec. 8 'U.R! j Southern California's victory: loan total tonight stood 16 per cent above its overall quota al- j though individual sales still lag-( jed. r ETO Batavia, Java, Dec. 8 (U.R) The British have received sweep ing new authority to restore or der in Java, it was reported to day; as British troops opened a new offensive in the summer capital of Bandoeng. The powers' were granted to British Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Chnstison, allied commander in the Netherlands Indies, at a con ference Thursday at the Singa pore headquarters of Adm. Lord Louis Mouirtoatten, allied com mander for southeast Asia. The report came after reliable sources had said that another British division, and 30,000 Dutch troops, might be diverted to Java to crush Indonesian ex tremists fighting against a re turn of Netherlands rule to the East Indies. The British have two divisions in Java. Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, acting governor general of the Indies who headed the Nether lands delegation at the Singa pore meeting, asserted that the door was still open to discus sions with Indonesian leaders. He said that he saw a much greater possibility than in recent days for a resumption of meet ings with the Indonesians. The British spokesman said Christison would take all neces sary action to carry out his man date because he believed the Dutch and "all moderate and enlightened Indonesian leaders will welcome the action about to be undertaken." Word no that effect has been communicated to Premier Sutan Sjahrir of the self-proclaimed Indonesian re public. 12, HEART OPERATION Baltimore. Md., Dec. 8 (U.R) I'rctty two-year old Judy Hackman of Buckley, Wash, underwent a delicate heart oper ation at Johns Hopkins hospital here today which doctors hoped soon would permit her to run and play like any normal young ster. The operation required two hours, and the hospital reported that, although Judy was "doing nicely," it would be at lea:-! three days before results can be fully evaluated. Doctors diverted an artery from another part of Judy's body and attached it to her lungs to step up the blood sup ply from her heart. The tiny girl has been suffering from a rare condition which made it impossible ' for her heart to pump enough blood. PULP WAGE PARLEY Portland, Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R) Representatives of 14,000 pulp and paper .workers on the Paci fic coast reopened negotiations today. with manufacturers for 20 per cent wage increase demand. MARSHALL TAKES SHARE OF BLAME FOR NOIARNING Gen. Short Not Properly Alerted for Surprise At tackNazis Tapped Note Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall dis closed today that the Germans intercepted prewar telephone conversations between the late President Roosevelt and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He told the Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee that knowledge of the German inter ceptions may have been one rea son why he did not telephone a war warning message to Ha waii on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. The message was dispatched instead by Western Union and Commercial cable and did not reach Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, Hawaiian army, until hours aft er the Japanese sneak attack. Under questioning by commit tee members, Marshall took on his own shoulders a share in war department responsibility for not realizing in late Novem ber that Short's command was not properly alerted for a sur prise attack. In response to a warning from Washington of possible hostilities, Short sent a reply indicating his command was alerted for sabotage only. Last week Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, former chief of the army's war plans division, told the committee he would take whatever blame there was for not noting that Short's reply was inadequate. Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., asked Marshall if he agreed that it was Gcrow's "full responsibility." "I would not say that was his full responsibility," Marshall re plied. "It was his direct respon sibility. But I had a responsibil ity as chief of staff, too." Marshall's first war warning the one to which Short replied, was sent Nov. 27, 1941. The sec ond, which arrived too late, was: sent a short time before the Dec. 7 attack. Asked why he did not call Short by telephone to deliver the second warning, Marshall alluded to the Roosevelt-Church ill talks. "I'm not sure, looking buck on it now, whether that was the reason I didn't use the telephone at that time," Marshall said. "I do recall, however, thai Mr. Roosevelt frequently taiked to Mr. Churchill on the tele phone and that their conversa tions were intercepted by the Germans." Marshall explained security was a consideration. He knew the message, as it was sent, would be in code. He was not sure, however, whether that was the reason he did not use the telephone. He teld the commit tee that every effort was being made not to give the Japanese a chance to claim that this coun try took the first overt action. Ferguson wanted to know how using the telephone could have been called an overt act. "I think the Japanese would have grasped at any straw to prove to such sections of our public as doubted our integrity that we had committed an overt act." Marshall said. He added that the Japanese might have intercepted the mes sage if it had been telephoned. In this connection he added: "Mr. Roosevelt was in the fre quent habit of talking to the prime minister on the telephone. He also talked to Mr. Bullitt (William C. Bullitt, then an am-bassador-at-large in London). I recollect that those talks wire intercepted by the Germans." WELCOME FOR Gl'i San Diego, Dec. 8 (U.R) San Diego's waterfAnt will be decorated with Christmas tinsel, lights and trees to welcome re turning servicemen, Joe Bren nan, pot director, told the mayor's committee on veterans welcomes tonight. EYE IMMIGRATION Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) The justice department announc ed tonight that 4.) new field of fices of the immigration and naturalization service will be opened about Jan. 1. The serv ice now has 27 field offices. Hollywood, Dec. 8 (U.R) Orson Welles remained in se elusion tonight while the mov:e colony awaited a promised Joint statement from him and his actress wife, Rita Hayworth, on Ihnii1 eni-io ru t inn nflni liun tinfifv of marriage. 2 BEDFORD-MEN LISTED DEAD IN Maj. Roy Craft, Former Well Known Resident, Lt. . Anthony Alansky Killed Great. Falls, Mont., Dec. 8 (U.R) Capt. Harry Decker, pub lic relations officer of the Great Falls army air base, tonight an nounced the names of all but seven of the 17 veterans of World War II killed in the crash of a C-47 army transport early today one mile south of the Billings airport. Dead: Maj. Roy K. Craft, Raymond, Wash. First Lt. Anthony W. Alansky, Medford, Ore. Staff Sgt. Thomas A. Thom son, Walla Walla, Wash. Sgt. Charles E. Ennen, Man chester, Wash. T4 Virgin E. Kinne, Coeur D' Alone, Ida. T)'4 Fred Chapman, Vancouv er, Wash. Tech. Sgt. ' Glenn C. Marr, Wenatchee, Wash. Cpl. Lowell L. Cassell, Forks, Wash. Pfc. Macco M. Hobbs, Los Angeles. T5 John M. Marshall, Port land, Ore. Maj. Craft was a former CCC officer here and well-known locally. His wife lives in Car mel, Cal. Lt. Alansky's mother works in a local restaurant, it was report ed. Billings, Mont., Dec. 8 (U.R) The second of six surviving serv icemen from a C-47 army trans port which crashed and burned one mile south of Billings air port early today during a blind ing snow storm, died tonight in St. Vincent's hospital bringing the death toll to 19. , Seventeen were killed out right in the crash while the lBth victim died at St. Vincent's this afternoon. Hospital attendants reported that both of the latest victims died of severe burns. Many of the bodies, scattered over a wide area with the wreck age of the plane, were charred beyond recognition. .They were recovered after local firemen ex tinguished the flames while hun. dreds of spectators, who heard the crash watched the grisly pro cess. Spectators said some of the injured were found stumbling around in the blinding glare of the blazing wreckage as help ar rived. They were taken to St. Vincent hospital, where they were reported In "very favor able condition. The plane was on a routine flight from Newark, N. J., and was carrying the servicemen, all overseas veterans, to west coast distribution centers for dis charge or reassignment. Names of the soldiers were withheld pending notification of the next of kin. ES E East Helena. Mont., Dec. 8 (U.R) Over 200 employes of FH American Smelter and Refining riant here tonight voted a gen oral walkout in sympathy with a union member who reported ly was not paid union scale wages for a pipe fitting jon. William Mason, international representative of the mine, mill and smcltermen's union (CIO) announced. The decision was reached at a mass meeting of the member ship of local No. 72. R. J. Gra ham, financial eccretary of the local. aid the mass meeting was called after the company alleg edly violated the union scale when it offered a pipefitter $8.00 a clay for a job that re quired $8.50. POLICE DROP QUIZ San Francisco, Dec. 8 (U.R) Police tonight di.scnntir.uer' an investigation into an alleged tip-off of a raid on a million dollar abortion "mill" Mn.. Inez Burns has been charged with operating. CRANK'S CAUSE ANGUISH Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 8 (U.R) Two more telephone calls, both believed made by cranks, were received tonight by the dis traught parents of six-month old Ronald Carlan who was kid naped nine dayt ago. VETERAN, PICKED FOR MOTTS POST First District Committee Makes Selection sembly to Nominate As- Salem, Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R) Walter Norhlad, Astoria attorney and World War II veteran, today was nominated by the first Ore gon Republican congressional committee to run on the GOP ticket in the January 11th spec ial election for U. S. representa tive. . ! In an open ballot, taken among members of the committee, Nor blad won the party nomination over Eugene Marsh, McMinnviUe attorney, Dan Harmon of New berg and Captain Ernie Conn, Forest Grove war veteran. The name of Lt. Warren Min nimee, former district attorney of Tillamook county now serv ing in the navy, was withdrawn after being suggested to the com mittee. Speaking before the commit tee and observers prior to the balloting, three of the candidates said they would withdraw from the race if not chosen by the committee. Harmon did not de finitely commit himself. The group agreed that an as sembly should be set up to nom inate Norblad and Marsh offer ed his assembly already called for December 14 In McMinnviUe. Marsh had called the assembly for the purpose of having him self nominated. . This double-barreled nomina tion method would assure the candidate a place on the ballot even if legal com plications should arise out of an official party nomination. According to a ruling from the attorney general's office, candi dates nominated will be classed as independents on the ballot, evep though running under a party banner. OF BIG THREE TO PACIFY RUSSIA London, Dec. 8 (U.R) Bri tish observers today viewed the Big Three foreign ministers con ference opening in Moscow next Saturday as an all-out bid by Britain and America to clear up their misunderstandings with Russia before releasing the atomic bomb secret. There appeared little likeli hood that the atomic weapon would he given outright to Rus sia at the forthcoming meeting, or that a binding agreement to that effect would bo made. But well-informed sources looked for a determined effort by the three powers to dissipate sus picions as the first big step in that direction. The official announcement of the meeting made it clear that the discussions would be Inform al and exDloratorv. thnrohv avoiding direct offense to France ana Linna, who would not be bound without prior consulta tion by any major policy deci sions emerging from the con ference. It was understood that both British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bcvins and U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes intended to limit themselves to a discus sion of general principles and would not commit themselves on anything In which China and France had direct interest. LABOR BILL DUE Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) Administration leaders predicted tonight that some pro-labor con gressmen would stage a "fili buster" within the house labor committee to delay action on the administrations' bill to set up fact-finding boards in major la bor disputes. Acting Chairman Robert Ramspcck, D., Ga., of the labor committee said that some com mittec opponents of the bill "would try to hold off action on it as long as possible." Rams peck had intended to conclude iicarings on the measure next week and bring the bill to the floor early the week following. Nice Trip for Ike Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) Comdr. Ike Hashimoto, Japa nese submarine captain who boasted he sank the U. S. cruiser Indianapolis, will testify at the court martial trial of Captain Charles B. McVay, III, the navy announced today. The navy is flying Hashimoto from Japan to testify against McVay, Indianapolis captain who is charged with incompe tence and neglect of duty. The cruiser sank in the Philippines sea last July 30 with the loss of 880 officers and men. Hashimoto left Tokyo yester day by naval air transport plane and is expected to arrive in Washington Monday or Tuesday. FREAK ACCIDENTS OVER LAND THIS Chicago, Dec. 8 (U.R) Freak accidents across the nation this year were wackier than ever. Scores of freak accidents which amazed the 1945 public were reported today by the na tional saccly council s magazine, Public Safety. In one of the most unusual accidents, Stanley J. Bonner, Houston, Tex,, was shot in a fracas with a duck. He took his pistol into the back yard to shoot a couple of domestic ducks and knocked one off with the first shot. But the second duck leaped at him, jarred his arm enough to discharge the gun and sent a bullet Into his knee. In Baltimore, a soldier Frank Chlan was so glad to see his Mom when he returned from overseas that his greeting hug snapped several of her ribs. Another unusual accident oc curred while Mrs-. Edward Com fort, Broklyn, and her 15-month old baby were driving through Virginia. The baby, resting in a basket in the front seat, sud denly stopped drinking milk from a nursing bottle and slam med the bottle over its mother's head, The blow dazed her and the car overturned in a ditch neither was injured. The indestructible man of 1945 was Charles Anderson, Los Angeles. While ho was repair ing a wall, a concrete block fell from a fourth-story scaffold and cracked him on the head. That sent him reeling into the street just In time to be struck down by a motorcycle. He recovered satisfactorily from both acci dents. Mrs. Axel Soder, Maklnen, Minn., ran Into trouble trying to replace a pin that broke off her washing machine. She found what appeared to be a good sub stitute and was hammering it ihto the machine until the "pin" blew up and knocked her across the room She had selected a stick of dynamite. 194 WAR PLANTS E Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) The war department announced tonight list of 194 more government-owned war plants valued at $1,781,000,000 which havebe come surplus. This brought to more thun 70 per cent the number of government-owned plants which the army has released for sale, lease or other disposal. The list was in addition to 252 other plants, valued at $1,484, 352,337, listed Aug. 23 as being shortly available for disposal. Of these 252, all except 15 have now become surplus. Of the re maining 15, six are scheduled to be declared surplus early next year. Disposition of nine other plants on the original list still remains indefinite. TROOPSHIPS ARRIVE San Diego, Dec. 8 (U.R) The Eleventh Naval District tonight announced the arrival of the Ei- cort Carrier Roi, carrying 138H marines, the destroyer tender Whitney, with 279 naval person nel aboard, and 16 LCI's, return ing a total of 164 naval and marine personnel. RELIEF SHIP Hamilton, Bermuda, Dec. 8 (U PJ The U. S. navy relief trans port Saturnia dropped ancaor in Murray's anchorage Just out side St. George Harbor today waiting to take more than 1,000 homeward-bound soldiers from two disabled transports. In 1930 only 0.5 per cent of San Francisco births were to Negro mothers; by 1944 the rate has risen to 3.2 per cent. 'SETS NEW SPEEO MARK Flies Non-Stop from Long Beach to Washington in 5 Hours, 34 Minutes Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) An odd-looking airplane with two engines in its belly and twin propellers in its tail, the Army s Douglas XB-42 "Mixmaster," flew here nonstop from Lone Beach, Calif., in five hours, 17 minutes, and 34 seconds today for a new cross-continent speed record. The Mixmaster, a medium bomber in wartime and a 40 passenger transport in peace, left Long Beach at 1:22 p. m. EST and buzzed the army's Boiling field here at 6:39.34 af ter a 2,295-mile flight on which, it averaged 432 miles an hour. In so doing it broke the un official record of six hours and three minutes set by a Boe ing C-97 traasport In a recent flight from Seattle to Washing ton. The new record, too, Is unof ficial, inasmuch as the Mixmas ter's route was not plotted by the national aeronautical as sociation. Pushed most of the way by tail wind provided by nature in addition to that generated by its own counter-rotating propel lers, the Mixmaster made the cross-country dash two minutes faster than its pilots expected it to. The plane was piloted by Lt. Col. H. E. Warden, chief of th air transport command's bom bardment branch, his co-pilot and the only other occupant of the craft was Capt. Glen W. Ed wards. As a medium bomber the XB-12 would carry thrc crew members. After buzzing the field and being clocked in, the Mixmaster landed . . . and Immediately de velopcd mechanical trouble, lis was supposed to taxi to where a large group of photographers, army officials, and Douglas Alr craft Corp. officials were wait, ing to greet the pilots. The plane, which took Army and Douglas two years to develop and has been a closc'y watched military secret up to now, made the flight at an average altitude of about 25,000 feet. Warden, a native of McKen ncy, Tex., said it was a "darn good flight, smooth as silk, but we got a little cold." He said the average cockpit temperature was 13 degrees below zero. The two men "split the trio In two." Warden said, each do ing half the piloting. ADM.KINGTLAYS IN LAST REPORT Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R) Adm. Ernest J. King declared flatly tonight that U. S. sea power whipped Japan ar.d that the war's No. 1 leson was that attempts to unify the armed forces at the top would be "ill advised and impracticable." The five-star fleet Edmlral who directed this country's war at sea made these declarations In his third and last report as chief of naval operations to the secretary of navy. His succes sor In the navy's top post is Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz. King said "unity of command at the highest military level" never was seriously considered during the war. It is a matter of record, he added, that the sys tem which was used the joint chief of staff "proved his worth." This war, King said, produced no one man qualified to be "military commander ot all the armed forces." Three Boards Hit By California CIO San Francisco. Dec. 8 (U.R) Delegates to the 8th annual California CIO convention here charged today that four govern ment agencies U. S. employ ment service, civil service com mission, federal housing author ity and social security board are hamstrung by legislation or incompetent personnel. San Francisco, Dec. 8 (U.R) The dairy market was unchang ed today, "
