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Legal Staff Resigns Account Time-Wasting In Pearl Harbor Probe Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) The Pearl Harbor committee's legal staif resigned today with a charge of time-wasting and Chair man Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., threatened to resign. Chief Counsel William D. Mitchell told the House-Senate In vestigating committee that he and his three colleagues would quit as soon as they could be replaced. He said the hearings were dragging on much longer than he had expected them to and that he and his staff had not yet been permitted to present new data hitherto never made public. BARKLEY MAY ALSO QUIT COMMITTEE Barkley expressed regret at the legal staffs decision. He added, however, that the time also had come when he must deter mine whether his duties on the committee outweigh his responsi bilities as democratic leader of the senate. "If I must conclude that my duties in the senate outweig'h my duties here I shall thereupon resign from the committee," Barkley announced. Mitchell notified the committee at the start of today's session i that the hearings have reached a point where "a complete replace iment of the committee's legal staff is necessary." He said the legal staff has worked day and night and Sundays for two and a half months preparing pertinent evidence that has never been produced at any previous inquiry about Pearl Harbor. NOT ABLE TO PRESENT EVIDENCE GATHERED "We are all depressed," he said, "that because of the course of the proceedings we have not been able to present it." The decision climaxed a running battle between the legal staff and republican members of the committee which began even be fore public hearings were opened a month ago. "Since the start of the hearings it has become increasingly apparent that some members of the committee have a different view than that entertained by counsel, either as to the scope of the inquiry or as to what is pertinent evidence," Mitchell said. "This has been reflected in the extensive examination by some members of the committee far beyond what the legal staff anticipated." REPUBLICAN MEMBERS PROLONG EXAMINATION Mitchell mentioned no names. But there was no doubt that his remarks were addressed at three of the four republican mem bers of the 10-man committee. Members of the legal staff and some democratic members of the committee had made no attempt to hide their irritation at the , lengthy questioning conducted by Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., I Mich., and Reps. Frank B. Keefe, R., Wis., and Bertrande W. Gear ' hart, R., Calif. Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine, fourth republican on the "com mittee, has been absent recently because of the death of his father. During the early stages of the investigation, however, he frequently criticized the legal staff's methods. Mitchell said that a month of public hearings has convinced the legal staff that the inquiry cannot be completed by early Janu ary as all of them had contemplated it would. He said that at least 60 witnesses remain to be examined. REPORT BACK TO CONGRESS DUE Mitchell said the resolution setting up the congressional In vestigation requires a report back to congress on Jan. 3. The legal staff's resignation came as new doubts were rai.-ed before the committee that Japan ever sent a mysterious "winds" broadcast before the Pearl Harbor attack. Naval evidence submitted to the committee piled more con fusion on confusion already existing in connection with the mes sage. One witness at a naval inquiry, the data disclosed, gave hear say testimony that Gen. George C. Marshall, former army' chief of staff, ordered destruction of evidence that the vital message was intercepted before Pearl Harbor. Others said they had no infor mation that the broadcast ever was made. The message, if actually sent' and intercepted,' would' have been a tip-off that Japan meant war. , BELSEN "BEASTS" FILE TO GALLOWS British Headquarters, Ger many, Dec. 14 (U.R) Josef Kramer, beetle-browed czar of the. Belsen concentration camp, and 10 other Belsen officials in cluding three women were hang ed in the red brick prison of Hamelin yesterday, it was dis closed officially today. For more than six hours the 11 marched in turn to the gal lows and were executed for com mitting mass murders and atroci ties in the camp where thousands of Jews, Poles and other in mates died in the months before British troops reached it. Kramer and Dr. Fritz Klein, SS doctor who picked the vic tims for the Oswiecim gas cham bers, swung to their deaths simultaneously at 12:11 p. m., the announcement said. Ted Gamble Earns Club's Gold Medal Philadelphia, Dec. 14 (U.R) Ted R. Gamble, national director of the war finance division, U. S. treasury, will be presented the Poor Richard club's gold medal of achieven-ent for 1945 at the organizations annual j banquet Jan. IV. Club President Roger W. Clippi announced last night that( Gamble would be honored fori his work in directing sale of government securities ii the! people during the war loan drives. Britain and Canada Filibuster UNO Votei London, Dec. 14 U.R Bri-j tain and Canada today led a filibuster aimed at preventing, an immediate vote on whether j permanent headquarters of the United Nations should be in the United States or Europe. i Nations opposing the location i of the UNO in the United States j maneuvered and stalled as at preparatory commission group worked toward a vote of Amer-! ica vs. Europe. They wore led hv the British and Canadians. ; Victory Loan Drive E" Quota $525,000 'E' Sales to Dhte $445,026 Remainder to sell $79,974 Television Sets to Be Ready By Summer RCA Announcement Princeton, N. J., Dec. 14 (U.R) By- next summer television re ceivers co ting from less than S200 to $300 will be on the mar ket, Radio Corporation of Amer ica1, has announced RCA demonstrated table type receivers at its laboratories yes terday. The black and white pictures were reflected on screens ranging in size from 4V4 by 6 inches to 6 by 8 inches. Company engineers also demonstrated high - frequency color television, but termed it obsolete. Practical color televi sion with an all-electronic sys tem and no moving parts will take about five years to put on the market, engineers said. EARTH SLIDES ADD Croydon, Eng., Dec. 14 (U.R) Earth slides in a 43-foot crater added new perils today to the task of two young engineers toiling at the bottom of the dank hole to neutralize a giant nazi bomb. The soggy earth shifted mena cingly when the engineers hoist ed the bomb into a vertical position preparatory to opening it with surgical precision and tapping its 3,000 pounds of TNT. Legal Verbiage Confuses Solon Washington. Dec. 14 (U.R Sen. Harry Flood Byrd, D Va said today there ought to be a law that laws must be written simply. He riffled through a fat bill on disposal of surplus cargo ships. He took a deep breath. He began to read, starting with line 4. He came to the end of the sentence 13 lines later. "It's all very clear when you begin, but you need a half-dozen Philadelphia lawyers to tell where you are when you finish," Byrd said. "THE BODY" SEPARATED Hollywood. Dec. 14 U.R Manu McDonald, whose luscious curves earned her the nickname "The Body" and motion picture agent Victor Orsatti have sep arated and will "probably" be divorced, Orsatti said today. The parting wa apparently an amic able one. t.ie separation was dup to a "difference in temperi ment." Orsatti said. They were married Jan. 10, 1943. tv nr IVfcskTv Fortieth Year C. I. J. SENATE DEFEATS E Amendment to Add $3,300 Defeated 45-23; Senator's Expense Is Also Defeated. Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) The senate today defeated, 45 tc 23, a proposal to raise con gressional salaries. The vote was on an amend ment to the first deficiency appropriations bill by Sen. John H. Bankhead, D., Ala. The amendment would have raised congressional salaries from S10.000 -to $13,300, but it was modified on the floor to apply only on the six months from Jan. 1 to next June 30. Ihe measure also would have boost ed the salaries of the vice presi dent and speSkcr of the house to $19,950. Exoense Defeated Earlier, by a. vote of 47 to 24, it had struck Irom the first deficiency bill a proposal to give each senator an extra $2,500 for expenses. House members now receive an expense allowance of that amount. In ihe vote on the Bankhead pay raise amendment, three re publicans and 20 democrats vot ed for the raises, and 24 republi cans, 20 democrats and one progressive voted against them. The vote was preceded by an appeal by Sen. Glenn H. Taylor, D Ida., for passage of the amendment. Taylor cited the treasury reports that Louts B Mayer, motion picture executive sot $900,000 last year. "That's -more than the whole senate got," Taylor said, adding, ''of course, maybe he's worth more. WIVES OF GI'S IN Los Angeles, Dec. 14 (U.P) Two wives of servicemen In Germany were jailed today with male companions on parole from San Quentin, and charged with 25 robberies. Mrs. Dorothy Hester, 23, mother of two; Mrs. Carolyn Kaylor, 24; John Stewart, 23, and Charles Thorn, 31, were ar rested after a nightwatchman grappled with Stewart during an attempted hold-up. Police said the men confessed to holding up liquor stores to gain the $200 a day they "need ed" to keep the quartette in liquor and the women in clothes. Both Stewart and Thorn are on parole from robbery sen tences and Thorn is wanted for car theft and forgery charges in Eureka, police said. Tule Lake Japs May Change Mind ' Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) The justice department is con sidering a plan to hold rchear ings in the case of many Tule Lake Japanese who previously renounced American citizen ship, a spokesman said today. The spokesman said the at torney general has the plan "under consideration" but that there Is "no comment at this time." It was said that some of the Japanese have relatives and families in this country and that certain other mitigating facts may make it advisable to hold rehcarings. Four Missing as Fire Razes Hotel ' Glenwood Springs, Colo.. Dec 14 'UP! Four persons were re ported missing today after an early-moning fire which de stroyed, the Hotel Glenwood. At least eicht others were injured. C. H. .McCarthy, owner of the hotel, said he had been unable to account for three persons list ! ed on the register, and snothxr ! whom he was sure was in the building at the time of the fire but whose name he did not know. JOE CRONW TO ACT Hollywood. Dec. 14 (U.R) Joe Cionin, manager of the Bos ton Red Sox, has been signed 'or a role In "Play Ball, Son." movie version of the book by Bert V. Dunne. Producer Herb Lamb announced, today. Vn -rull Leased Wire . , , Pickets Let G. M. SAYS CIO CHIEF Worse Economic Disaster Than 1929 Warns Murray in Opposing Strike Control Washington, Dec. 14 (UP.) The senate labor committee today postponed until after the holidays consideration of labor dispute fact - finding legislation which President Truman wanted passed by Christmas. Washington, Dec."l4 (U.R) CIO President Philip Murray de clared today that the nation is rushing toward an economic dis aster more catastrophic than the crash of 1929. He said that a decline in workers' take-home pay com bined with corporate profit hoarding could lead only to a depression far more severe than "the havoc which followed the crash of 1928." Opposes Control Murray appeared before the house labor committee in op position to President Truman's proposal for a 30-day cooling off period before strike action to permit study of labor disputes by fact-finding committees. He called the president's pro posal futile, deceptive and aim less. He charged that the pres ident had backed down from his original program of maintainine. high wages and regretted what he termed Mr. Truman's lack of "fortright and courageous ac tion." As Murray spoke members prepared to go into executive session to consider two alto na tive proposals. They are (1) shelving of the president's re quest for enactment of his anti strike program, and (2) limita tion of committee hearings in an effort to comply with adminis tration requests for passage of the measure before the Christ mas recess. Allies to Leave All of Italy But Northeast Corner Rome, Dec. 14 (U.R) The scheduled allied withdrawal from Italy, except from a small northeastern corner, added fur ther confusion today to the na tion's actual status. Italy still has no peace treaty. The allied commission, how ever, announced today that all remaining Italian territory un der allied government, except Veneziaciulia and Udine prov inces, would be returned to Italian administration about Dec. 31. MRS. MANSFELDT SOBS AS PENALTY IS ASKED San Francisco, Dec. 14 (U.R) Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt wept today as Prosecutor Nor man Elkington asked a Jury of six men and six women to find her guilty of first degree mur der in the jealous shooting of Mrs. Vada Martin, a conviction which carries a mandatory pen alty of death or life imprisonment. Bigger, Easier G. I. Loans Assured As Congress Agrees on Amendments Washington, Dec. 14 UR) Bigger and easior-to-get loans and more liberal education ben efits virtually were assured vet erans today as house-senate con ferees agreed on amendments to the G.I. bill of rights. Mii-miMi. iu-.. i '"k'k iiom widespread niMmiMdciiun wnn some oi me provisions oi tne oru-inal bill, now go to tnc respective houses for approval, The changes In the bill would: 1. Permit the government to guarantee veteran real e state loans up to $4 000 instead nf the present maximum of $2 000. Loans also would be granted for a wider range of purposes. In addition they would be easier to get, through making "reason able value" of property the basis for the' loan instead of the "normal reasonable value." The latter provision has made it dif ficult to obtain approval of loans since it does not allow for present high price lcvclj, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945. s (Aemt TeUphoto) Fnct-flnding board appointed by President Trumsn to Investigate Oeneral Motors auto strike are (lett to right). Milton Eisenhower, president of Knnsns Stale College; Judge Walter P. Stacy, chairman of recent labor-management conference, and Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of WLB. Stacy Is chief Justice of North Caro lina Supreme Court and Eisenhower Is brother to U. S. chief of stuff. "Trail of Tragedy" Evidence Is Assembled in Cline Case San Francisco. Dec. 14 (U.R) r.VlULIlLC LUIlt-l-HlMIS I I I I C U Leonard Cline's transcontinen tal "trail of tragedy" was assem bled at a conference of San Francisco and Portland, Ore., police here today in a prelimin ary attempt to establish a basis for a possible murder charge. Cline, 55-year-old ex-convict held in the city prison on sus picion of forgery, challenged in vestigators to try to prove that he had murdered any of the eight persons who died or disap peared after associating with him. Investigators accepted the challenge. Police Inspector Gene Fergu son and Detective C. H. Robert son of the Portland police de partment conferred with Dis- PAITON TO LIVE K Heidelberg, Dec. 14 (U.R) Gen. George S. Patton today was pronounced by his physi cians out of danger "barring un foreseen complications." Col. R. G. Shurley, Louisville, Ky.. Patton's physician, added. however, that Patton still faced the possibility of partial paraly sis for the remainder of his life. "Barring unforeseen compli cations." he said, "Patton Is out of danger at this moment. But the general Is not out of danger of partial paralysis for the rest of his life." Patton is net yet able to move either his hands or his legs but has regained control of his right shoulder. U. S. Airlines Face Low British Quota Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) United States Airlines will be permitted to fly only 500 passen gers a week into Great Britain under a "temporary" quota set up by the British government. This policy Is strongly oppos ed in principle by the United States. It refused to accept a similar stipulation at the Chi cago aviation conference. 2. Raise subsistence allow ances for veterans taking educa tional or training courses from the present $50 a month for sin gle veterans and $75 for mar- I rled veterans to $65 and $90 a , month. Disabled veterans would get $105 month instead nf the j present s:2, with extra allow- anees for dependents. The age i l m it would be lifted on veterans j wanting to go to school and they j would be permitted to take correspondence courses and j vhort -period, high-cost technical courses. One major Ciiriiitfe, accepted by the -conferees after a bitter debate, is expected to cause thousands of additional ex-servicemen to apply for G. I. bill benefits. The amendments elim inates the provision of the G. I. bill .deducting from any future ..onus and payments made un der the bill. Many veterans re frained from takim; advantage of benefits for fear tluy. would i lo:e future giants. Office trict Attorney Edmund Brown of San Francisco and other in vestigating authorities. Nationwide Trail "Although It looks as though we may have a murder case, we'll have to go back to Port land and talk to the district at torney before we take any ac tion," Ferguson said. The inquiry Into the deaths and cremation of Cline's elder ly, well-to-do women compan ions, now extended throughout the nation. Various aspects were under investigation in Califor nia, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. At Macon, Gs., It was disclos ed that the ashes of a woman believed to be the "missing link" in the chain of deaths had been found at a mortuary under the name of "Mrs. Alma Car ter." Police believed "Mrs. Car ter," cremated at the request of an "F. A. Klein," actually may have been Alice W. Carpenter, Bloomington, Ind., missing wi dow of Cline. Jesse B. Hart. Macon morti cian, reported thnt "Mrs. Car ter" died in her hotel room Feb. 19, 1944, shortly after arriving here with "Klein." who was listed as her nephew. To Exhume Ashes In Bloomington, relatives of Mrs. Carpenter said that ashes sent there for burial as those of Mrs. Carpenter would be ex humed in an effort to establish Identity. The ashes arrived few days after a long-distance telephone call, purported to be from "A. L. Cline at Chicago, which informed the relatives that Mrs. Carpenter died In Dallas, Texas, on Oct. 17, 1944. Authorities here believe the woman who died in Dallas ac tually was Mrs. Delora Krcbs Cline, Cline's last wife. In Columbus, O., Frank H. Ward, attorney for Mrs. Delora Cline, said she had willed her entire estate to her husband. Ward filed the list of the con tents of Mrs. Cline's safety de posit box, revealing 32 Items including securities and cash to tailing $200,000. In addition there were two diamond rings, sent from Dallas Nov. 4, 1944, 17 days after the death at Dallas of "Mrs. Alice W. Carpenter," now believed to be Mrs. Cline. District Attorney Edmund Brown said he expected to file a forgery complaint against Cline as a stalling action pend ing further Investigation of the deaths and disappearances. Okinawa Veteran Goes To Pen For Drunken Driving Los Angeles, Dee. 15 (U.R) C'pl. John C. Pearson. 22-year- I nlri vpti-mn nf Cllt i naufO Inrlnv began a one to 10 year prison ! sentence for manslaughter grow- ing out of traffic death, posed as I drivers. example to other ! Pearson pleaded guilty to striking 78-year old William I Pover 4n a crosswalk last Nov. 2 and driving more than a mile with the body on his bumper be : fore officers stopped him. Pearson said he "blacked out" Deer. "It Is hard to send this fine boy away, but his plight should serve as an example that drink ing and driving will not mix," Superior Judge William R. Mc Kay commented in passing sentence. .TRIBUNE United Press Full Workers !nt vw?iww.'?ww ft - E MARCHING EAST By United Press A new cold wave is close on the heels of the nation's first general snow, which blanketed most of the northern half of the country from coast to coast, the weather bureau predicted today. . Thermometers were expected to drop below zero in many areas of the midwest and east during the weekend as cold winds moved south and east from Canada. Snow flurries, almost over In the midwest, continued in east ern states. . Eric, Pa., registered seven Inches of snow today. Cleveland, O., had six Inches and Chicago's fall measured four Inches. ' At least 27 persons were dead and scores Injured as slippery roads and sidewalks made traffic hazardous. The coldest city was Big Piney, Wyo., where thermomet ers plunged to 27 below zero But Miami crowds basked under a warm sun as the temperature remained in the middle 70s. MERCURY SLIDES TO YEAR'S LOWEST Valley residents continued shivering in below freezing tem peratures today when the ther mometer dropped another three degrees early this morning, bringing the year's lowest tem perature of 16 degrees, accord ing to the local weather bureau. Camp White reported 18 de grees there. Warmer weather beginning Saturday night or Sunday morn ing was forecast, with Increas Inn cloudiness tomorrow over the state. Wholesale Fraud Charged Against Insurance Firm Denver. Dec. 1 4 (U.R) A "wholesale conspiracy" to de fraud the United Slates govern ment and the veterans' admin Istration. under the soldiers and sailors relief act, was charged today against a national frater nal benefit Insurance company of Kansas and four of its agents In Colorado. The Ancient Order of United Workmen of Kansas was Indict ed by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud both the government and the veterans' administration. More than 300 insurance pol icies were alleged by the gov ernment to have been sold to newly-Inducted members of the armed services under the pre text that the premiums would be homo by the federal govern ment, through the veterans' ad ministration. CALIFORNIA CROWDED Los Angeles. Dec. 14 (U.R) California hound veterans can count on neither a home nor a joh here if they continue to ar rive here at the present rate, the United Stales employment serv ice warned today. "For the present," Assistant Veterans' Employment Representative Hoy Stockton said, "we must advise residents of other states who consider moving to California to make sure first that they have both a home and a job waiting lor them." Leased Wire NO. 226. Through L VOTES TO STRIKE FOR $2 JAY BOOST Walkout Would Affect 200, 000 Workers in G. E. and Westinghouse Plants. By United Press CIO United Auto Workers pickets let non-striking office workers enter five General Motors plants today. Picket lines were relaxed for the first time since the start of the strike at Flint and Pontiac, Mich., Janesville, Wis., Linden, N. J., and La Grange, 111. At Cleveland, O., Common Pleas Judge Frank S. Day ruled that strikers must limit their picketing at the GM Fisher body plant, allowing some plant en trances to remain open. The CIO United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers union announced that Its work ers had voted overwhelmingly t. strike If necessary to enforce demands for a $2 a day wage boost. The strike would affect some 200,000 workers in plants of the General Electric Co.. Westinghouse Electric Corp., and the electric division of General Motors in 16 states. Late unofficial returns show ed that 111,860 voters favored the strike and 23,817 opposed it. 472.000 Idle Meantime, labor's demands for more take-home pay to cush ion the loss of high wartime, earnings kept 472,000 U. S. workers away from their Jobi and complicated the reconver sion program. At Chicago, contract demands of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers and the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen had stalled the biggest labor agree ment negotiations In history. Intervention of the national railway mediation board was asked by representatives of the nation's major rail systems, act ing under authority of the rail way labor act. Railroads spokesmen said tha three-week negotiations were stalemated, by demands of en gineers and trainmen for "a half hundred rule changes." "The rules opposed by th brotherhoods," the carriers said, "range from demands for two-' hours' pay for the employes' time In having their watches in spected, to limiting the length, of freight (rains to 70 cars and passenger trains to 13 cars." GM To Aid Board On other labor fronts, the acid test was to be applied to Presi dent Truman's plan of naming fact-finders to probe trouble, spots. The General Motors Corp. announced it would aid a board appointed Wednesday to investigate the strike of CIO automobile workers throughout the GM system. In this way, the president could try out the key tool In his labor program without wait ing for legislative sanction. Mr. Truman has admitted, however, that without congressional pow er the board could not examine General Motors books. The union has contended that CM officials should allow study of its financial records to show whether or not the corporation could pay the 30-pcr-ccnt wage increase asked without raising prices. There appeared little hope for settlement of the Greyhound bus line strike, crippling transpor tation in 19 northwestern states and expected to continue through the holiday rush sea son. International Typographical union demands that its members be paid In full during a current 26-day strike-closure of three Seattle newspapers A'ere termed unreasonable by publishers, who repeated offers to resume nego tiations of wage demands. FAR EAST RELATIONS MAIN BIG THREE ITEM Moscow, Dec. 14 (U.R) A settlement of far eastern rela tions among Soviet Russia, Unit ed States and Britain, particu larly the control of Japan, stood forth today as one of the great est issues facing the Big Three foreign ministers meeting tomor row. It ranks second only to tha knotty problem of utomlo energy control on the highly elastic agenda, observers believed.
