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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonlfht and Tuesday with occasional light showeri and mow showeri in moun tain. Little chants In tem perature. Temp. Highest Yesterday 41 Lowest this Morning ... 37 Prec. To 5 A. M. Today .16 Use The Mall Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Remit! MEDFORD RIBUNE At Small Cost United Frm Full Leased Wire UniUd Press Full Leased Wlr Fortieth Year M' D, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1945. NO. 222. J Japs on Saipan Come Out of Hiding Lausm in Mill Crew Returns to Work "T Ft 1 (Acme Telephoto) Japanese Imperial Army Capt. Sake Oba surrenders his Samurai sword to Lt. Col. Howard C. Kurgis. USMC, of Cawker City. Kans., on Saipan. Oba and 46 other Japanese soldiers and sailors finally gave up after hiding out in the Jungles and coral caves of Saipan for almost 17 months. They were last of once-mighty force of 30,000 Japanese military personnel either killed or captured since our forces Invaded Saipan June 15, 1944. U. & Navy photo. British Used Lend -Lease Supplies To Build Own Prestige Says Hurley Washington, Dec. 10 (U.R) Patrick J. Hurley, resigned am bassador to China, charged to day that the British distributed American lend-lease supplies in Iran and 17 other countries In a manner Intended to build up a British trade monopoly and exclude American businessmen. He told the senate foreign re lations committee that he tried to get this practice ended. He said he had the support of the late President Roosevelt but was thwarted by Dean Ache son, then assistant secretary of state in charge of economic affairs. "I contended," he said, "that the United Kingdom commer cial corporation a profit mak ing organization should not be allowed to handle lend-lease G. M. TO CANCEL By United Press General Motors announced today that it was cancelling its contract with the United Auto Workers (CIO) whose members have been on strike for 20 days, .and the UAW proposed that r workers be fined for unauthor ized strikes against the Ford Motor Co. GM's present contract with the UAW was not due to expire un til April 25. But the company said the agreement provides that it may cancel at any time after the 10th day of a strike. Under the plan presented to the company by Richard T. Leonard, UAW director of the Ford division, a worker partici pating in an unauthorized work stoppage would pay $3 for each day on strike during the first .offense and $5 a day for the second offense. Leonard said his proposal was the first case in labor his tory in which a union had agreed to accept financial re sponsibility for work stoppages. The plan came in response to Ford's demand for a guarantee against wildcat strikes. The company had proposed that the , penalty be levied against the union "rather than the worker. UAW representatives and General Motors official recess ed their negotiating session un til tomorrow. The meeting last ed only two hours and the criti cal wage Issue was not taken up. VET 106 DIES San Francisco, Dec. 10 (U.R) David Davidson Franklin, 106-year-old Civil War veteran, died today of bronchial pneumonia. A native of Staten Island, N. Y., Franklin served four years In the Union army and was present at Appomattox court house when Gen. Robert E. Lee signed the surrender ending the Civil War. Victory Loan Drive "E" Quota $525,000 "E" Sales to Date $387,572 Remainder to tell $137,428 supplies In, Iran and 17 other countries to build up trade monopolies and exclude the United States from the terri tory." Acheson. now undersecretary of state, had flatly denied to the committee charges by Hur ley to the effect that he had "dynamited" U. S. policy in Iran. He attributed Hurley's charges to pique engendered In a conversation here last year. Hurley, former U. S. ambas sador to China, made his charg es about Acheson before the committee last week after de tailing previous charges that state department career men had sabotaged American policy in China. ' Hurley told the commfttee that detailed proof of his charge that Acheson opposed American policy. In Iran was contained in a letter he sent to Mr. Roosevelt Sept. 17. 1944. He added, how ever, that this document still is secret. Acheson returned to the stand to say Hurley's charges that the U. S. had allowed the British to build up a trade mon opoly in Iran through lend-lease were "fantastic." Acheson said he criticized vigorously the first part of Hur ley's recommendation, which was on general policy, because he believed it would get the U. S. into "commitments." Heidelberg, Dec. 10 (U.R) A U. S. army medical bulletin an nounced today that Gen. George S. Patton has been partially para lyzed by the automobile acci dent Sunday in which his car was struck by an American army truck. The announcement, timed at 11a. m., said the swashbuckling hero of the Western Front has paralysis "below the level of the third cervical." Diagnosis of partial paralysis was made at 5 p. m. yesterday, some six hours after the crash occurred outside Mannheim, but was not released until today. The general also suffered head wounds, which now .have been stitched up. He was lying today in a hospital room guarded by white-helmeted military police while his wife and a famous nerve surgeon rushed to his bed side by plane from the United States. Dakotas Gripped By Cold Weather (By United Press) Cold gripped the nation from the Rockies to the Appalachian mountains today, and sent tem peratures below zero through the Dakotas and Montana. U. S. Weather Bureau fore casts called for the cold wave to continue through Wednesday, with continued moderate winds. From one to three inches of snow fell in upper Michigan, the weather bureau reported, with snow flurries lighter in Minne sota. Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Minot, N. D., reported 15 be low. ' During the ice age. giant sloths, some as big as elephants, roamed through North and South America. RE-ELECT SCHADE. BOY SCOUT HEAD FOR CfER AREA Annual Council Meeting Hears Stevenson, President-Elect of S0CE Scouters from southern Ore gon and northern California gathered in Medford yesterday for the annual planning council, business meeting and banquet, with election of officers, annual awards and appointment of standing committees. Featured speaker for the banquet was Dr Elmo N. Stevenson, president elect of the Southern Oregon College of Education, Speaking on the problems of youth. Dr. Stevenson stated that the purpose of education and of youth organizations was to help young people attain their fullest potentialities and he reminded his listeners that the youth of a nation, its greatest asset, be come exactly what parents, teachers, youth leaders and adults of the nation make them He urged adult leaders not to proceed haphazardly, but to study the needs of youth and at tempt to form a pattern which would meet those needs. Phases Outlined Dr. Stevenson outlined phases through which a growing child passes and added that while these might be only temporary, they should be recognized by parents and teachers and the various "urges" of youth guided into proper channels. The speaker closed by declaring that the basic needs of young people are a proper balance between de pendence and independence, ap propriate and adequate associa tioli witti the opposite sex and a satisfactory philosophy of life. . Dr. Stevenson Was introduced by Seth. Bullis, master of cere monies, and the Rev. George R. Turney gave the invocation. Music during the dinner hour was provided by Mrs. George Maddox and Sydney Bouck. Officers Elected Larry Schade of Medford was re-elected council chairman dur ing the afternoon session, nd Schade and George Schrader, Mt. Shasta, Calif., will be na tional council representatives. Vice presidents elected were Schrader, Howard Hicks, Yreka: James Martin, Grants Pass, and Richard Trites, Ashland. Serving "as district chairmen will be Seth Bullis, Medford; Dewey Probst, Grants Pass: Trites, Ashland; Al Crebbin, Yreka, and Schrader, Mt. Shasta. Don Newbury, Medford, will serve as legal representative; J. A. McDougall, Medford, council commissioner; Eugene Thorn dike, Medford, treasurer, and Col. W. H. Paine, council his torian. Named to the operating committee are camping and acti vities, Frank Rogers; health and safety,. C. C. Haggard; finance. M. N. Hogan; leadership train ing, Lester Harris; organization and extension, Cole Holmes; ad vancement, Don Newbury, all of Medford. Members At Large Southern Siskiyou district members-at-largc selected are V. L. Richardson and John Lachen myer, Dunsmuir; Julian White and William Runyan, Weed, and Hubert Hamilton, McCloud, California; while northern Siski you members-at-large named are Jerald A. Morrison, Al. Bryant, J. E. Hurley, John Janson and Harrison Howell, all of Yreka, Calif. Members-at-large for the Ash land district will be Henry Enders, Hugh McKeever, Jacob Weitzel and Dr. Stevenson and for Grants Pass K. M. C. Neill. Don McGregor and Roland Stearns and for the Medford dis trict Tony Boitano, Ed. Borg, the Rev. George R. Turney, Victor Kengla and H. D. Christcnson. Please turn to page three for list of awards made. WIRING INSTALLED IN C. P. LEGION BUILDING Central Point, Dec. 1 0 An other step in the completion of the American Legion hall at Central Point was made yester day when a dozen volunteer lab orers from Trowbri dge and Flynn Electric company and Flynn Electric Service installed conduits and wiring throughout the building. Ivan Waddell wai in charge of I the group Nina Tuttle Wins I Medford Contest For Bond Queen Nina Tuttle, sponsored by the Rotary Club, was winner of the Victory Queen bond contest. Eino Hemmila, Victory Queen chairman, said today. Selection of the county queen was unde termined this afternoon at Ash land bond official! had not sub mitter the winner of their con test at press time. MILITARY FUNERAL TO BE HELD HERE FOR LT. ALANSKY Full military funeral services for 1st Lt. Anthony W. Alansky, killed in a crash of an army transport plane at Billings, Mont., Saturday, will be held here. The body is expected to arrive in Medford Wednesday morning with funeral arrange ments to be announced later, care of the Conger-Morris Fun eral Parlors. Lt. Alansky was stationed at Camp White in 1942-43, during which time he was company commander of Co. C, 353rd En gineers corps. He was later transferred to Camp Kochler, Calif. He served with the 26th Regu lation Station as assistant post engineer overseas, where he spent 14 months, returning Nov. 29. On March 20, 1943, he was married to Carolyn Hall, daught er of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hall, 324 South Orange street, where Mrs. Alansky has been making her home while her husband was overseas. A son, 14 months old, also survives. Lt, Alansky's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Alansky, reside in Bloomsburg, Pa. Two brothers also survive. It was erronously stated in an article in Sunday's paper that Lt. Alansky's mother resided in Medford. E CRASH OF BILLINGS PLANE Billings, Mont., Dec. 10 (U.R) An army air corps board of inquiry today attempted to de termine cause of the crash here Saturday of a C-47 transport which plunged to earth and burned in a blinding snowstorm killing 19 and injuring four others. According to information received here today, it was Major Ray K. Craft, who was killed in the Billings plane crash, and not his twin brother Roy. as first believed. Major Craft was returning home from service to join a family reunion with six brothers and two sis ters at the home of his father, Dale Craft, in McCleary, Wash. Roy Craft, a former major in the army was stationed in Medford during much of the operation of the CCC headquar ters here, acting as public re lations officer. He Is now on the staff of Life Magazine. Mrs. Mansfeldt Is Reassured On Insanity Point San Francisco, Dec. 10 (U.R) Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan in superior court to day loudly reassured his pale and nervous client. Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt, that she was not necessarily Insane, even though she had pleaded "not guilty by reason of insanity" to a charge of murdering Nurse Vada Martin. Temporarily ignoring the Jury of six men and six women. Hallinan interrupted his ques tioning of Dr. Joseph Catton. alienist, to talk to Mrs. Mans feldt. "You can have psycho-neurotic symptoms, such as amnesia, obsession, split personality, and still be only psychoneurotic and not over the border into in sanity, can't you?" the attorney asked. "Yes," Dr. Catton replied. He was testifing for the defense. Hallinan wheeled and faced Mrs. Mansfeldt, who sat tense ly at the defense counsel table. "Do you hear that, Mrs. Mans Xcldt?" Hallinan shouted. G. M. DISHONEST. L United Mine Workers Head Before House Labor Com mittee Denounces Plan Washington, Dec. 10 (U.R) President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers said today that in the General Motors strike "the dishonesty of the company on one side is equaled only by the stupidity of the un ion on the other. Lewis went before the house labor committee to denounce President Truman's proposed fact-finding solution for major labor disputes as "an evil, sour smelling mess." Price Rise Needed He said the General Motors strike, the dispute which called forth the president's proposal, could be settled in 10 days if the government would permit automobile companies to raise prices. Lewis went on to chide the CIO automobile workers union for striking now. He said that because of tax readjustments due the first of the year, the company can make more money now by remaining idle than it could by producing cars. "But the poor blundering lead ers of the auto union," he said, "picked this time to close up the General Motors plants." Lewis said the bill incorporat ing Mr, Truman's proposals was a poor reward for labor's war time production record. Truman Going Ahead Lewis Testified before the house labor committee which is considering the bill. The legisla tion was requested by President Truman in a recent message to congress. Meanwhile, Mr. Truman Is going ahead with the selection of a fact-finding board to in vestigate the General Motors strike despite the fact that his requested legislation has not yet been passed. Asked what the president's next step would be following the refusal of the United Auto Workers to return to work, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr. Truman is choosing the fact-finding board. He said mem bership would be announced soon. The labor bill would authorize the president to set up fact-finding boards whenever a labor dis pute threatened to disrupt the national economy. These boards would investigate the dispute for 20 days and make specific rec ommendations on how to solve it. Labor objects to the bill be cause t would prevent labor from striking for 30 days while the board is organizing, Investi gating and making Its report. IN T Three young men were injur ed in an automobile accident about 11 p. m. Saturday when an automobile driven by Mar lon Thomas. 21, route 4, Med ford, left the road about four and a half miles east of Gold Hill and rolled over. Coroner H. W. Conger reported. The car rolled over three times. Con ger said. Thomas was found lying unconscious in the middle of the road and suffered a cut scalp and bruised hip. Donald Hanscom, 18. mer chant mariner from Central Point, was cut about the shoul ders and face. Wayne Malkow- ski, 17, Gold Hill, suffered two cuts on his left leg. William Centers, 17, Gold Hill, was the other occupant of the car. The ir.jtircd were taken to a Med ford hospital in the Conger Morris ambulance. STENOGRAPHER FOUND SLAIN IN APARTMENT Chicago, Dec. 10 'U.R) Petite Frances Brown, 33-year-old stenographer, was found beaten and dead today, a bread knife driven through her skull by a killer who scrawled on a blood-spattrred wall: "Catch me before 1 kill mora." T PUT NEW STRAIN E Bureau Reopened at Bus Terminal For Registration Of Accommodations With troops of the 1154th En gineers unit scheduled to ar rive at Camp White beginning today, and with establishment of a search and rescue unit of the army air corps at the Med ford air base, the housing short age has again reached the criti cal stage in Medford and near-by valley towns, it was said today. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce officials stated that the housing bureau at the bus terminal had been re-opened, with Neil McDonald, Camp White civilian employee, and Mrs. Minnie Bryant in charge. A telephone connection will be in operation by Thursday morn ing, and in the meantime an urgent appeal was made to resi dents to list houses, apartments and rooms by calling Mrs. H, D. Powell, 4127. Appeals Made The situation is further com plicated by the fact that the holiday season is at hand when families wish to be together and free of care, it was pointed out, nd the fact that the cold, win ter weather makes apartment and house-hunting a discourag ing task. Desperate appeals are being made not only in person but by long-distance telephone and telegram, the chamber re ported. Appeals have come In from Col. Walter Krucgcr and Col. Guy H. Goddard of the engi neer's unit, and from Capt. Sam H. Bledsoe of the search and rescue unit, it was reported. New Approach In a new approach to the hous ing situation, President Herb Groy of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce today wired Sen. Guy Cordon's office as follows: "Kindly determine status of present effort to permit utiliza tion of existing excess military housing for civilians and wire us. Camp White barracks might solve critical situation here or pre-fabricated houses secured. The problem here is urgent." SEEN IN HOUSING Ran Francisco, Dec. 10 U.R) Gov. Earl Warren told a con ference of state and federal housing today that the recon version program has bogged down and the GI bill of rights has been "practically nullified" by a shortage of housing for veterans and civilians. The governor appealed for Immediate federal aid to help solve what he termed a desper ate housing problem. The short age of dwellings Is a federal problem, he said, "because it is a product of war." "We are so desperate." the governor said, "that we want to know what can be done to use emergency housing put up dur ing the war. Personally I don't care for the use of emergency housing or to keep it In our cities any longer than absolute ly necessary, "But we are willing to use war housing or anything else available to end the spectacle of veterans sleeping in parks for lack of adequate, real housing." Hope Dims For 27 Airmen Lost At Sea Miami, Fla., Dec. 10 (U.R) Hope dimmed today for 27 naval airmen who disappeared last week. The navy said last night that a previous report that life rafts with two men on them had been sighted was false. Maj. Chandler Estes, of Athens, Ga., based at Elgin Field, Fla.. circled his B-24 bomber low over the reported rafts and found them to be pack ing cases. STRIKE SKIRTED Cleveland, Dec. 10 (U.R) A strike threat at Cleveland newspapers was cancelled today by a one-year agreement with printers and mailers providing lor substantial wage, increases. 'Blue Baby' Making Good Recovery From Operation On Heart Baltimore. Dec. 10 (U.R) Two-year-old Judy Hickman, the Buckley, Wash., "blue baby", is recovering "nicely" from her delicate heart operation. Dr. Helen Taussig, who help ed develop the famous "Blalock" heart operation, said the pretty little blonde-headed youngster now has an excellent chance of recovery. She added that Judy s chances of resuming the normal life of a two-year-old should improve every day." T Washington, Dec. 10 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall said to day he believed late in 1941 that hostilities between Japan and Great Britain in the Pacific would Involve the United States, too. Marshall, then army chief of staff, told the Pearl Harbor In vestigating committee that this belief was behind military pro posals for joint British and American action if Japan went Into Thailand west of 100 de grees east longitude or south of 10 degrees north latitude, or threatened to occupy the Kra peninsula or the east coast of Malaya. In Bad Position "Unless we resisted that, we would be In a catastrophic posi tion soon thereafter as regards the British at Singapore and the United States in the Philip pines," Marshall explained. "Our government would be forced to accept a condition of hostilities. Whether our govern ment would do it is another mat ter." Marshall said a Japanese movement in the direction indi cated would have put Japan in the gulf of Siam "at the back door of Singapore and could have been in our opinion a direct hostile movement." He said Adm. Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations at the time, agreed with him. Tie-Up Probed Marshall, soon to leave on a special diplomatic mission to China, was questioned by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich. Fer guson was seeking evidence as to whether there was any U. S. British agreement, prior to Pearl Harbor, on going to war with Japan, Marshall and other witnesses have testified there were no agreements committing this country to fight Japan unless at tacked. BRITISH REVENGE Batavla, Dec. 10 (U.R) Brit ish warplanes smashed three small Indonesian villages, 50 miles southeast of Batavla, to day in reprisal for the ambush ing of a 70-vehlclo convoy in the area Sunday. The British convoy, enroute from Batavia over the mountain road to Bandoeng, was attacked suddenly by more than 1,000 In donesian extremists who sprang from holes and began throwing grenades. Others fired from trees. In the ensuing battle the British suffered 50 casualties while the Indonesians lost 40 killed and a large number wounded. The air raids, heaviest yet made in Java, lasted an hour and left six fires burning in Tjiba dak, one of the villages attacked Plane Peppered By Duck Hunters Oregon City, Ore., Dec. 10 (U.R) Duck hunters, possibly near-sighted, filled a civilian plane full of holes, the Clacka mas county sheriff! office re ported today. Flier William R. Waldrcn said that duck hunters in boats on the Pudding river peppered both wings of hjs plane with shotgun pellets Sunday. Returning to the scene of the alleged shooting, Waldren said, he obtained the names of six hunters who had been in the vicinity during the time of the shooting. WORKERS ACCEPT 12 1-2 CENT BOOST IN HOURLY WAGE Action By Men Without Un ion Sanction Is Word Pickets Continue At Mill Workers returned to work en masse at the Lausmann Lumber company mill, operated by Mc Murray and Mr-tin, opposite the Jackson count;' fairgrounds on highway 99 south of here this morning. A. A. Lausmann, owner of the mill, said the men came to his office Saturday and accepted an offer of a 12 Vic per hour in crease and said they wanted to return to work Monday morn ing. The men signed papers ac cepting the hike and indicating their desire to return to their jobs, according to Lausmann. A committee from the sawmill and logging operators union was ask ed to meet with the workers and operator Saturday but fail ed to do so, Lausmann told a reporter. A meeting was held Sunday night but the union would not confirm the group ac ceptance. The mill operator stated. Loggers and sawmill men went to work this morning and the management expects produc tion of lumber with a few days, as soon as the mill can be put in shape to operate. The return to work is the first major break in the 11-weeks-old strike in the immediate area. Lausmann said he was told by union officials that they would not meet with Lausmann and his men. The meeting between Lausmann and his crew was tabbed illegal by union officials, according to Lausmann, who said no negotiations had been made with the union. The mill has been closed down by the AFL strike which has gripped the Pacific Northwest lumber Industry for the past 11 weeks. Only four or five union pick ets were on duty at the mill this morning, Lausmann stated, and no trouble occurred. One work er tore down a union strike pla card before going to work. Officials of the lumber and sawmill Workers had no com ment to make on the situation this morning. HITLER PLANNED Nuernberg, Dec. 10 (U.R) Adolf Hitler fixed June 22, 1941, as D-day for his attack on Rus sia on April 30, evidence at the war crimes trial disclosed today. The nazl timetable for the at tack, disclosing that the German high command actively began preparations for the assault in December, 1940, was placed in the trial record by Sidney J. Al derman, assistant U. S. prosecu tor. German plans provided for dismemberment of Russia. These were drafted by Alfred Rosen berg, nazi ideologist and special ist on Russia. His program called for "the total destruction of the Jewish Bolshevik state administration without helping to establish a new and comprehensive state system.' He intended to colonize the Baltic states with large numbers of Germans. Hints of the forthcoming at tack were given u, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia as early as June 1 at which time the high command noted that Finland had already been assign ed its tasks. LUMBER EXPORT BAN IS LOS ANGELES AIM Los Angeles, Dec. 10 (U.R) A resolution protesting the ex portation of lumber from the United States while a nationwide housing shortage exists will be given the Los Angeles county board of supervisors tomorrow. The protests, which will be sent to President Truman ask ing an embargo on lumber ex portation, will be given the coun cil by Supervisor Leonard J. Roach.