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HI , Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to. nlcht nd tomorrow with occas ional rain or snow flurries in mountains. Little change in temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 42 Lowest this morning Ji Fortieth Year His Background, Her Death Questioned j 3 r--.1 . ?r ,1, i " (:' : f "J .',' "J Huttered background of ex-Folsom he suspicious similarity of deaths of I cormretea are ocing investigated Dy ponce ot three cities: San Francisco, teallf, where he was arrested on forgery charges; Portland. Ore., where hls wife of one-year (right), died 10 davs ago, was cremated and buried land Chicago, 111., where he married, Mrs. Cline, the wealthy widow of a Chicago manufacturer, and from where her attorney requested Cline's arrest. Ashes Examined As Evidence In Ex-Convict's Activities San Francisco, Dec. 11 ttJ.R) The chemical composition of a small mound of ashes was under examination today to determine whether they were the remains of Alfred L. Clinc's latest wife or those of an elderly San Fran cisco widow. Although Cline stoutly main tained from his city jail cell that the ashes were his wife's, early findings supported police theories that they were those of 7 Mrs. Isabelle Van Natta, 73, who disappeared Nov. 17. Cline, a 55-year-old ex-convict held formally on a charge of suspicion of forgery, has insist ed that the dead woman was his last wife, Mrs. Delora Krebs Cline, widow of a wealthy Chi cago manufacturer.. Where It Other One? With the new developments, police were faced with this per plexing question it the dead woman was not Mrs. Cline, then where was the woman who Cline faid died and was cremated last month in Portland, Ore.? Following Clinc's arrest, a sketch of a tombstone was found In his pocket. Notations indi cated that Mrs. Cline had been buried in Fallon, Nev., near Reno. However, no trace of her J body was found in Fallon, and (here was no record there of her death. The ashes, exhumed yesterday from a cemetery near San Fran cisco, apparently were those of one of nine persons, including seven women, known to have died of heart attacks or cerebral ' ARABS BALK PLAN FOR SEPIENT Jerusalem, Dec. 11 (U.R) The Supreme Arab Palestinian Council issued a surprise an nouncement today rejecting the British plan for settlement of the Holy Land controversy by a joint Anglo-American inquiry commission. Speaking for all major Arab factions in Palestine, the council repudiated in advance any deci- ,4 sions wnicn migni ue iaiv--" j .u. a a Relish inves - tlgalon: The Zionist executive commit-j tee in Jerusalem, meanwhile. conferred secretlv on the over - all situation and informed quart-1 pre tairf th nrnnn was consider-1 lng a civil disobedience paign if Britain refused to per mit unrestricted immigration in to the Holy Land. Renegade Japanese Kill Guam Marines Guam, Dec. 1 1 U.R' Rene gade Japanese troops hiding in the jungle killed three U. S.j marines and wound-'d one in an ambush on Guam Dec. 8, the Navy announced today. I The marines were investigat ing reports of gunfire and dis turbances created by Japanese soldiers when attacked. The three bodies were discovered lying in a gully, robbed of weapons and partially stripped of clothing. M United Preis ( T-I..,.-I con1ct, Alfred L. CUne (left) and five Dersons with tt'hnm hi hn, Ivan hemorrhages during their asso ciation with Cline. Left $301,000 In all, these persons left Cline a total of 5301.000 in bequests, investigators said. A police theory that the dead woman was Mrs. Van Natta was bolstered by a description of the body given by Portland mortu ary attendants, as well as find ings of San Francisco toxicologist Joseph Swim. ; -- Mortuary attendants recalled that the dead woman had her own teeth, whereas Mrs. Cline was known to have false teeth. In addition, Swim's examination of the ashes uncovered a gold filling. Mrs. Van Natta had not been heard from since she disappeared Nov. 17, after telling friends she planned to marry Cline. Hotel records in Calistoga, Calif., show ed she and Cline stayed there for five days until Nov. 22. On Nov. 24, Cline registered in a Portland hotel with a woman he introduced as his wife. Two days later, a doctor treated the woman for heart pains and hy pertension. She died Nov. 29 of "cerebral hemorrhage" and was cremated the next day under the name of Mrs. Delora Krebs Cline. Clothing Found A week after Cline's arrest in San Francisco on suspicion of forgery, police found some of Mrs. Van Natta's clothing on the back seat of his car. Meanwhile, an investigation was continued into names found in a notebook in Cline's posses sion. Police referred to this as his "sucker list." It contained the names of hundreds of elderly women throughout the United States. Cline, who once served a term in a Colorado prison for forgery, was convicted and sentenced in 1933 to from 5 to 15 years' im prisonment for robbing and drug ging an elderly Los Angeles busi nessman. ' County Choice For Leaves For State Miss Nina Tuttle. Medford. i ludced winner of the county j Victory Queen contest last night, was to leave by plane at 1 3 p. m. today for Portland to ; compete in the state finals. She was accompanied by her motner, Mrs. S. M Tuttle. Miss Tuttle. entered in the contest by the Medford Rotary club, won over three other Med ford entries and the Ashland finalist. Miss Marjorie Kidney. On bond sales Miss Tuttle aver aged 78.9 per cent as against Miss Kidney s 75.9, the Victory Queen committee reports, and on points Miss Tuttle amassed 59.333 and Miss Kidney. 59,000. It was further stated that in the Medford contest. Miss Tuttle de feated Miss Margaret Ruth Bol ton, Kiwanis club entry, by less than 100 votes. From Portland it was an nounced that the young women will be judged by a committee (mm thp board of governors of the Advertising club. Final judg-! ins and presentation ol Uic win- EDFOEJ Full Leased Wire JURY SELECTED TO TRY TICE Indian Pleads Guilty to For gery Attempt; Jail Escapee To Wait Examination. Jurors were selected in fed eral court here this morning for the trial of Ralph William Tice. Klamath county Indian charged with manslaughter, and taking of evidence was started before Judge James AlTer Fee. Tice was indicted by the grand Jury last week in connection with the death of Eugene Mecum. also an Indian, reportedly killed during an altercation with the defend ant Aug. 13 at Chiloquin. Selected for the jury were George B. Brown, Brownsboro: Richard C. Joy, Ashland; James E. Merritt, Ashland; Victor Met calf. Phoenix; Carl J. Brommer, Medford; M. J. Stockman. Grants Pass; Harold A. Merrill, Ashland; Clifford Ownby, Grants Pass: W. C. Degerness. Medford; Guy T. Applewhite. Ashland; Harold Axland, Med ford, and Harold B. Joran, Ash land. Witnesses this morning were Joseph O. Taylor and Henry Johnston, the latter a police of ficer from Chiloquin, who testi fied as to finding Mecum's body. J. C. O'Neill. Klamath Falls. Is attorney for Tice and the case is being prosecuted by Ed. B. Twining, and J. Mason Dillard. Preceding the Tice trial two other men appeared before the judge. Percy Ball, Indian, plead ed guilty to attempting to cash two forged checks and his case was referred to the probation officer for pre-sentence investi gation. Robert Patrick Morgan, indicted for escaping from the Multnomah county jail while in federal custody and for two thefts of mail from mailboxes, appeared and upon motion of his attorney. O. H. Bengtson, ap pointed last week by Judge Fee to represent Morgan, was re turned to custody to await ex amination by a psychiatrist. Find Five Bodies In Wrecked Plane Portland, Ore., Dec. 11 (U.R) Five bodies were removed today from a wrecked army bomber in southwestern Washington which Portland air base officials identified as a B-24 missing since Nov. 1. The second of two missing Liberators was found only a mile and a half from the new wreckage. The planes were in a group of four being ferried from McChord Field, Wash., to the Portland army air base. London, Dec. 11 (U.R) For eign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia proposed today that if the United Nations organ ization, settles in the United States, a permanent branch be set up in Europe, and vice versa. Queen Candidate Final Competition Nina Tuttle ners, one from Multnomah coun ty and one from the rest of the 'state, will take place at 8:30 p m. Wednesday on the stage of the Mayfair Uicatcr. v S ' -- ..' M v .n? MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1945. THREE SAWMILLS IN LOCAL REGION SIGNEDMH AFL Kerby, Grants Pass, Central Pt. Plants Agree to Wage Increases Says Union. Three sawmills In this area have signed agreements with the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union to resume operations, J. G. Wolf, union official, said to- dav. The mills are Cabax Mills at Kerby which entered into an agreement with the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, local 2512, for a I5c hourly wage in crease "across the board;" Moore Lumber company of Grants Pass, a I5c per hour wage increase in all job classifications; and the Southern Oregon Planing Mill company, Central Point, where the common base was increased to $1.05 per hour and a union shop was put in force. Rogue River Lumber company at Rogue River is now operat ing on a basis of 15c per hour wage increase in all job classi fications, but has not yet signed an agreement with the union, Wolf said. To Increase Presiure Wolf said the controversy In volving the Lausmann Lumber company, operated by McMurray and Martin on highway 99 oppo site the fairgrounds south of Medford, was company inspired. A. A. Lausmann, owner of the mill, did not deal with union representatives as his agreement with the union says he must do, according to Wolf. Wolf added that no men in good standing with the union are working at the Lausmann mill. The Lausmann plant Is now picketed and increased pressure will be put on mill operators to force them to live up to agree ments with the union, Wolf stated. The 12' ic per hour wage increase with Lausmann's crew accepted in an agreement with the operator Is equal to five cents less than Is paid In the rest of the fir territory, according to Wolf. Lausmann said this morning his plant is operating full blast with more than two carloads ot lumber being shipped yesterday. Practically a full crew are work ing in woods operations. Sayt Men Not Told Lausmann told a reporter this morning that he had made sev eral proposals to the union ne gotiating committee in an effort to get the strike settled, but his employes complained to him that he had made no effort to nego tiate. Union officials had prom ised to contact the employes for a meeting but had not done so, resulting in the employes' com plaints, Lausmann said. To counter-act this, Lausmann said he sent a letter to the president of the union, reiterating proposals made In several negotiating at tempts, and sent copies to each of his employes, which he be lieved resulted in the men's vol untary move. Reedy to Negotiate B. L. Nutting, manager of Medford Corporation, said he re ceived a letter from Hugh R. Haddock, business agent for the Klamath Basin District Council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union negotiating com mittee, saying the committee stands ready to meet with the company officials to settle the lebor dispute at the Medco plant. Nutting said he replied that his company is ready and willing to meet at any agreeable time with the plant committee of the local union employes for the purpose of settling on the basis of a 12'3C per hour Increase. The commit tee authorized to meet with the Klamath Basin District Council is ready and willing to negotiate with the council committee at anv time. Nutting added. The strike involving the lum ber plants in this area Is a part of the U-weeks'-old AFL lumber strike which has crippled the In dustry in the entire Pacific northwest. Griffin Creek Grange Griffin Creek Grange H.E.C will meet at the home of Carrie Cooper. Phoenix-Jacksonville highway, Thursday at 1:30 p. m. for dessert luncheon. Briiig gift for Christmas gift exchange. Verdict of Lt. Oen. Tomoyukl Yamashita hears reading of his sentence to die by hanging for his guilt of condoning artocltles by his troops during horror days ot Manila. S landing during tense scene are (left to right) Col. Harry Clarke, chief defense attorney; M. Hammamoto, Interpreter for Yamashita: Oen. Yamashita. and MnJ. Harry D. Pratt, court Interpreter. Seated (lower left) reading the sentence Is MaJ. Gea Uullel B. Reynolds. Signal Corps Hudlo-photo. Marshall Says Intercepted Jap Messages Not Seen By Him Until Day Hawaii Bombed Washington, Dec. 1 1 (U.R) Gen. George C, Marshall said to day he never saw until the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Japa nese messages intercepted dur ing the preceding two days which might have Indicated that war was imminent. Washington, Dec. 11 U.R) The "top eecret" of an army board which investigated the Pearl Harbor attack a year ago wai offered but not admitted as evidence in congress' Pearl Harbor investigation to day. The former army chief of staff referred to a so-called "pilot" message intercepted and decoded Dec. 5, 1941, and the first 13 parts of a 14-point message in which Japan formally ended diplomatic talks. Records show the first 13 HESS STRUTS AS MOVIE DEPICTS NAZIDOM'S RISE Nuernberg. Dec. 11 (U.R) Rudolf Hess threw out his chest and strutted while other nazi leaders wept today during the showing In the war crimes court room of a four-hour film deplet ing the nazi rise to power. The film was pieced together from propaganda films which the nazis themselves took to record the high spots of Adolf Hitler's regime in Germany. The 21 defendants seemed to be stimulated by the scenes of past glory. Hess for the first time regained some of his old swagger. During a recess in the film he stood with his arms crossed in swaggering manner and arro gantly surveyed the audience. As his picture was shown on the screen he leaned over to Her mann Goering and whispered eagerly, apparently about his for mer triumphs. Goering was almost equally stimulated at seeing himself on the screen once again be-medal led and gorgeously uniformed. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Wilhclm Keitel both wept at the pictures of en thusiastic nazi crowds. HJalmar Schacht, nazi finan clal wizard, who had turned his back when the films of nazi atrocities were shown, watched today's movie and asked: "Do you see anything wrong with that." NURSE ASSOCIATION MEETING WEDNESDAY Women of the Oregon Nurses' association, district four, will meet at the Girls' Community club at 8 p, m. Wednesday f:r the annual Christmas party and gift exchange. Public health nurses will be hostesses for the meeting. Tribune United Press Full Death Is Read to Yamashita 4 4, s w, parts were Intercepted and de- coded the night of Dec. 6. The crucial 14th part, and the in structions to deliver it to the State department at 1 p. m., were Intercepted the morning of Dec. 7 not long before bombs rained on Pearl Harbor. Asked About Interests Appearing before the Pearl Harbor Investigating committee for the fifth successive day, Marshall was asked about the secret intercepts by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich. Marshall said he did not re call ever seeing the so-called "pilot" message in which Tokyo notified its Washington embassy that a long statement to the U. S. government was coming. The message instructed the embassy that instructions for actual de livery would come later. Marshall said he did not see the long message and accom panying instructions for 1 p. m. delivery until he arrived at his office in the War department the morning of Dec. 7. He added, however, that they were primarily diplomatic mes sages and the important thing was to get them to Secretary of State Cordcll Hull rather than to the chief of staff. Warned Nov. i7 Marshall also testified: 1. The late President Roose velt personally ordered that war warnings to Pacific outposts Nov. 27 Include a caution that U. S. forces avoid committing the first overt act. 2. The only significance he read Into a Nov. 5 Japanese In tercept setting Nov. 25 as the deadline for ending diplomatic talks was that it was the date for termination of the German Japanese antl-comintern pact. 3. He knew about a Japan ese code destruction order In late November and early December SEEN ON CRUISER Washington, Dec. 1 1 (U.R) The cruiser Indianapolis was proceeding in dangerous waters with light streaming through a porthold an hour before she was sunk with the ultimate loss of 880 lives, a survivor said today. Metalsmith John M. Anunti of Duluth, Minn., told a navy court trying Capt. Charles B McVay, III, for loss of the crui ser that he was patroling the deck of the ship at 11 p. m. July 29. The cruiser was sunk, presumably by Japanese tor pedoes, shortly after midnight. The disaster occurred July 30 in the Philippine sea. Anunti said that the room in which the porthole was open was on - the cruiser's starboard side forward of the No. 1 gun turret. Witnesses had previously testified that the explosions which sank the cruiser occurred on that side. Leased Wire NO. 223. -.V 4 "rJ?"' r f Art, (Acme Telrphoto) but felt It did "not necessarily" mean war. Queried In Detail Ferguson questioned Marshall in detail about the night of Dec. 6 and the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Ferguson wanted to know whether he was notified at his home on the night of the fith about the first 13 parts of the Japanese message, "Up to the time I arrived at the War department on the morn ing of the 7th I knew nothing about that message," Marshall replied. $2-A-DAY BOOST OR STRIKE JAN. 14 STEEL ULTIMATUM Washington, Dee. 1 1 U.R) Pro-labor lorcei in the house won a temporary victory to day when the house voted not to take up immediately bill to impose heavy penalties on labor unions which violated no-strike contract. Pittsburgh, Dec. 11 (U.R) CIO President Philip Mu-ray an nounced today that the United Steel Workers will strike the na tion's steel, aluminum and iron ore industries at 12:01 a. m. Jan uary 14 unless demands for a $2 a-day wage increase are met. Murray reported a resolution by the union's wage policy com mittee and executive board flat ly rejecting President Truman's proposal for a 30 day truco to permit examination of the dis pute by a fact-finding board. The resolution branded the president's proposal as "vicious ly anti-labor and an attack upon our basic democratic liberties." Board Unnecessary "A fact-finding board Is un necessary," the strike resolution stated. It declared the proposal "a false trail of fruitless delays which can only serve to under mine labor." The strike call directly affects more than 700,000 workers in the bulk of the nation's basic steel plants, steel fabricating mills, aluminum factories and bauxite and iron ore pits. The total would swell the country's CIO strike roll to nearly 900, 000 with 250,000 more preparing to ballot on walkouts under the Smith-Connally act. PAULINE ASHPOLE HURT WHEN AUTOMOBILES HIT Miss Pauline Ashpole. daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ash pole, McAndrcws road, is con fined in the Community hospital as result of minor head Injuries suffered in on autu collision at the Crater Lake highway and Spring street Intersection, Mon day evening. Her coupe and a car driven by Truitt Cantrell, Route 4, struck head-on. INVESTIGATION OF E Action Tantamount to Reject tion of Plaint that Career Diplomats Crossed Him, Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R). The senate foreign relations com. mittee today dropped its Investi gation of charges by ex-Ambas sador Patrick J. Hurley that state department career diplo mats undermined U. S. foreign policy throughout the world. For three hours today the com mittee examined secret state de partment records. Then Chair man Tom Connallv, D., Tex., an nounced that no further hearingj or closed sessions on the matter were planned. This was tantamount to re jecting Hurley's complaints. Hur. ley. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Undersecretary of State) Dean Acheson and other wit nesses testified at the committee hearings during the past week. Acheson Present Acheson, who was accused by Hurley of dynamiting American policies in Iran, attended part ot today's meeting to answer ques tions about the documents, which. Hurley had designated to sub stantiate his charges. Connally said he had refused a request by Hurley that he ba permitted to testify at another open session of the committee. Principal documents examined today were reports from John S. Service and George A. Atcheson, Jr., foreign service men former ly stationed in China. Hurley ac cused Service of plotting to overthrow the central Chinese government of Chiang Kai-Shek: and accused Atcheson of recom mending that lend-lease arms be given to Chinese communists for tho purpose of upsetting the Chi ang government. No More Action Hurley made his original charges when he resigned sud denly two weeks ago as ambas sador to China. Connally said no action wai contemplated on a resolution by Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb., calling for a special five man committee to investigate the entire state department. "It is lying calmly on my desk," Connally said of the reso lution. "It shows no sign of life, although we have not put a pull motor on it." Hurley had told the committee, the secret documents would prove his charges of duplicity in the foreign service. AT HUSBAND'S SIDE Frankfurt, Dec. 11 (U.R) Mrs. George S. Patton landed to day at Mannheim in her race by plane to the bedside of Gen. George S. Patton who is in the hospital at Heidelberg, suffering from paralysis and a broken neck. Patton was slightly Improved today but physicians refused to forecast his chances for recov ery. Mrs. Patton landed at Mann helm because of more of the bad weather with which her flight has been plagued. Original plans were for a landing at Paris and a direct flight here. Mrs. Patton was accom panied by Lieut. Gen. John C. H. Lee and the flight was mads in his plane. FREAK ACCIDENT An Oregon-Nevada-Californla, fast freight truck, operated by John Lozier, Eugene, which was en route to Medford, hung pre cariously over the overhead pass at Tolo early this morning after sideswiping an army vehicle towing a trailer and operated by James Bell of Ashland, a civil ian employee at Camp White. The freight truck and army ve hicle met on the Tolo overpass and sideswiped, plunging tlm freight truck through the guard rail, state pol'ec said. Traffics was blocked and all trains were advised to proceed at their own risk until a wrecker could re move the truck. Lozlcr received a slightly sprained left wrist and a bruised right knee, police said. Bell was uninjured. i 4
