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Fortieth Year
His Background, Her Death Questioned
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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