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Too weary to worry about comforts, the family of Corp. Edward H. Gibson
sleep on the floor of Los Angeles. Calif., Union Station as they and thou
sands of servicemen wait vainly for trains that will carry them home for
the Christmas holidays. Many C. I.'s just back from overseas are among
throng who have waited 24 hours or mora.
Thousands of Returning Vets
Jam Los Angeles Facilities
Los Angeles, Dec. 18 (U.R)
Fourteen thousand more Pacific
war veterans, eager for Christ
mas furloughs, arrive at Los An-;
geles harbor today to join the
15,000 already "marooned" on
board ships because of the trans
portation jam.
Twenty ships which docked in
the last few days have held
their men aboard because pack
ed redistribution centers cannot
get transportation for the men
to separation centers across the
country.
23 Mors Ships Today
Another 23 ships loaded with
servicemen are due today.
Military and railroad spokes
men said "there simply isn't
REACHES PEAK IN
MEDFORD OFFICE
Yesterday was probably the
peak of the Christmas package
mailing for Medford according
to Frank DeSouza, postmaster,
who stated that while he had not
compiled exact figures, the day's
business would probably be
close to a record. Mailing slack
ed off somewhat today, he said.
Yesterday 48.000 pieces of
mail went through the cancella-j
tlon machines, the postmaster !
reported. While a high figure j
for normal years, this is much
under the peak of 110,000 pieces
which went through the ma
chines in one 24-hour period
when Camp White was at peak
operation, DeSouza added.
The postmaster snid that the
mailing windows would be open
Saturday afternoon for the con
venience of customers.
LITTLE GLASS EYE
Yokohama, Dec. 18 fU.P.)
The first war crime trial to be
held in Japan proper opened
here today, the first defendant.
Tatsuo Tuchiya, former prison
camp guard known as "Little
Glass Eye," pleaded not guilty
to charges that he beat one
American prisoner to death and
beat and tortured others.
Major Louis Geffen, Atlanta,
Ga., head of the prosecution
staff, announced that he would
a.-.k the death penalty for
Tsuchiya and said he will show
how "Little Glass Eye" was
"fiendish and sadistic" in his
treatment of Allied prisoneis of
war.
Tsuchiya was arrigned in the
small, cold Yokohama court
house early this afternoon and
the trial began immediately. He
pleaded not guilty to charges
that he used ropes, clubs, boards,
rubber hose and shoe to beat Al
lied prisoners at the Mitsushima
can-.p.
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enough railroad equipment" to
break the jam until after the
holidays.
One official of the Los Ange
les port of embarkation suggest
ed that the government ban all
civilian travel by public carrier
until the troop tangle is cleared.
Soldiers on the decks of the
ships booed, hooted and held
their noses at the news they
could not come ashore.
"We'll land like we did at
Manila if they don't let us off,"
some threatened.
"Come aboard for a jam sand
wich luncheon," they yelled to
reporters on the dock. "Our
beans for breakfast are the best
there are."
20,000 Out Dally
Ashore, desperate servicemen
filled the highways hitchhiking
rides home for Christmas. Rail
roads, airline and bus company
officials said they were dispatch
ing nearly 20,000 servicemen a
day from southern California.
After waiting 48 hours to get
down the gangplank, 3200 mem
bers of Onio's famed 37th (Buck
eye) division disembarked last
night and boarded trains for sep
aration centers.
2 MORE DEATHS .
E PROBE
San Francisco. Dec. 18 'U.R)
The possible linking of choir
singer Alfred Leonard Cline
with the mysterious deaths of
two more Colorado women to
day raised to 10 the number
of persons who have died or
disappeared in association with
the ex-convict.
At Denver, Colo., Henrv S.
Sherman, chairman of the Colo
rado Public Utilities commis
sion, told of the death in 1925
of Cline's first wife, Mrs. Bessie
Hannah Lentz Cline. at Fort
Collins, Colo., under "suspicious
circumstances."
Sherman said the woman died
of "lobar pneumonia," and her
body later was exhumed and
moved to Denver at Cline's di
rection. Sherman also was Investigat
ing the 1933 death at Los An
geles of Mrs. Elizabeth Van
Sickle Cline, also of Fort Col
lins. Mrs. Deveny Denies
Sonny's Seduction
Los Angeles Dec. 18 (U.R)
Mrs. Eleanor Deveny who said
she knew 16-year-old Ellsworth
(Sonny) Wisecarver was the man
for her "the minute she saw
him" today pleaded not guilty
at her arraignment to charges
of contributing to his delin
quency. Superior Judce A. A. Scott
asMg.ird the case to Judge Wil
liam R. McKay who on Dec. 24
will set a trial date for the at
tractive 25-year-old mother of
two.
Mrs. Deveny. who eloped to
Oruville, i.'al., last month with
Sonny, was accompanied to the
routine court appearance by her
fnrciving husband, Cpl. John De
veny. i
DENIES CHARGES
OF INEFFICIENCY
Capt. McVay Tells Court
Didn't Believe Zig-Zag-ging
Necessary for Safety
Washington, Dec. 18 (U.R)
Capt. Charles B. McVay, III,
denied today at his court martial
trial that he was guilty of neg
ligence and inefficiency in con
nection with the sinking of the
cruiser Indianapolis.
The cruiser sank with loss of
880 officers and men a few min
utes after it was struck by tor
pedoes fired by a Jap submarine
in the Philippines sea last July
30.
McVay told the navy court
hearing the charges that he did
not believe it was necessary for
the cruiser to follow a zig-zag
course. He added that he ord
ered his crew to abandon ship
approximately eight to 10 min
utes before the cruiser sank.
McVay is charged by the navy
with failing to direct the cruiser
to follow a zig-zag rather than
a straight course. He also Is
charged with failing to give
"timely abandon ship" orders.
McVay was asked by his de
fense counsel, Capt. John P.
Cady, if he gave any instructions
regarding zig-zagging.
"I did not," McVay repiicd.
"Conditions were such that I did
not believe zig-zagging was
necessary. The visibility was
very poor and there was no
moon."
JANUARY 10 SET
London, Dec. 18 (U.R) The
United Nations pre paratory
commission today formally ap
proved Jan. 10 as the opening
date of the first meeting of the
UNO assembly.
The date for the inaugural
session of the full United Na
tions organization was approved
by the preparatory commission
meeting in plenary session.
The commission was nearing
the end of its work preliminary
to the full dress meeting of the
UNO, in London. Only a few
details remained to be disposed
of before the commission ad
journs. Pullman Proffer
Has Court Okeh
Philadelphia, Dec. 18 (U.R)
A special federal court today ap
proved the sale of the Pullman
Sleeping car service to a group
of railroads representing 95 per
cent of the nation's railways.
Armed Forces
Is 0SP Reply
By Sandor S. Klein
United Press Correspondent
Washington, Dec. 18 OI.R)
Veterans, small businessmen
and other segments of the public
are heaving bricubats at the
government's surplus property
disposal program.
They're writing in by the hun
dreds to complain they can't lay
their hands on any of the stuff
that the armed forces don't need
any longer. The surplus proper
ty administration still has a
backlog of unanswered letters
from better than 2.000 veterans
asking what's the trouble.
Unanimous In Blame
This correspondent sought to
find the answer from officials
now or formerly connected with
the chief consumer goods dis
posal agency, the consumer
goods division of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation's
office of surplus property.
They are unanimous in blam
ing the armed forces, particu
larly the army. They contended
the army was slow in declaring
surpluses and that it caused con
fusion by withdrawing goods
after declaring it surplus and
providing inadequate, inaccura
ate data on quantity and type of
materials it does release. Last
week the army promised imme
diate release of S403.721.370
worth surplus civilian itcmi In-
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Thomas M. McMonigle
PLAN INDICTMENT
IN GIRL'S DEATH
Santa Cruz, Cal., Dec. 18
(U.R) District Attorney Steve
Wyckoff said today he will ask
the Santa Cruz county grand
jury tomorrow to indict Thomas
H. McMonigle, 35, on a charge
of murder in connection with
the kidnaping and purported
slaying of 15-ycar-old Thora
Chamberlain, San Jose.
Wyckoff at the same time said
FBI agents disclosed that Mc
Monigle, in an apparent suicide
attempt, had taken an overdos
of a sedative while traveling by,
bus from Reno to San Francisco.
When he arrived in San Fran
cisco, Wyckoff said, McMonigle
was removed unconscious from
the bus by waiting FBI agents
and taken to a hospital for emer
gency treatment before ques
tioned concerning the Chamber
lain case.
Trailed From East
McMonigle had been trailed
here from Illinois.
The FBI said McMonigle con
fessed that he kidnaped and shot
to death Miss Chamberlain, and
threw her body into the Pacific
ocean about at Devil's Slide,
less than a mile inside the Santa
Cruz-San Mateo county line.
Divers were unable to find a
body in the turbulent surf. But
Wyckoff said he believed he had
sufficient evidence to ask for a
murder indictment, despite the
absence of a corpus delicti.
RICE LOAN APPROVED
Tokyo, Dec. 18 (U.R) Su
preme allied headquarters an
nounced today that Gen. Doug
las MacArthur has granted the
Japanese government permission
to borrow 1.500,000.000 yen for
the purchase of rice in December.
Mess Up Surplus Disposal
To Wholesale Complaints
eluding trucks, shoes, socks and
radio equipment.
William S. Bradley, who re
signed as head of the consumers
division just before it was trans
ferred from the commerce de
partment to the RFC early last
month, told the United Press
that 40 out of 60 sales programs
scheduled for September were
help up because of inaccurate
data supplied by the army.
Examples Cited
Here are some examples of
the difficulties cited by Bradley
and other officials in connection
with the disposal program:
On Aug. 18, the army declared
as surplus 3,150,000 yards of
parachute silk. Garment manu
facturers descended in a pack
on the consumers goods division,
each hopeful of getting some of
the silk. To insure orderly dis
tribution, the divisions met with
an industry advisory committee
to work out allocations. This
was done. Then the Office of
Price Administration was called
on to set ceiling prices. With
everything set for distribution,
the army stepped in on Nov. '8
and withdrew the cloth. It said
it needed the silk for gunpowder
bags.
The navy declared surplus
about 500,000 short coats, or
pea-jackets. As preparations
were being made to sell them,
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TUESDAY, T j iBER 18,
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IN PEERS HOUSE
Only 98 of 600 Vote on
Agreement After 2-Day
Debate; 8 Vote Against.
London, Dec. 18 (U.R) The
House of Lords passed the Bret
ton Woods agreement and the
$4,400,000,000 American loan
bill today after a perfunctory
challenge to both measures by
the conservative opposition.
Only 98 of the 600-odd peers
voted on the loan agreement at
the close of a two-day debate in
which the opposition, led by
Lord Beaverbrook, virtually
washed his hands of responsibil
ity for the American deal.
The final vote was 90 for the
loan and eight against it.
The Bretton Woods agreement
was approved unanimously.
Beaverbrook wound up the
conservative argument with a
cautiously-worded address urg
ing rejection of the loan on the
grounds that it was "entirely
unnecessary" at this time.
FINALLY DEFUSED
Croydon, Eng., Dec. 18 (U.R)
"Operation groundhog" was
completed today and Herman,
the two-ton German bomb which
had imperiled South Croydon
for noaHy five years, at last was
a harmless dud.
Shortly before S a, m., tired
but grinning bomb hospital crew
emerged from a 43-foot hole tri
umphantly carrying the fuse
which might have set off Her
man's 3,000 pounds of TNT with
disaster to the district.
They had worked 21 straight
hours rendering the explosive
impotent in a secret "Turkish
bath" so that the sensitive fuse
pocket could be cut out,
Stalin Returns
As Big 3 Work
On Bomb Policy
Moscow, Dec. 18 (U.R) Gen
eralissimo Stalin returned to the
Kremlin from a nine-weeks va
cation today while the Big Three
foreign ministers, working in
deep secrecy, tried to thrc'sh out
an atomic bomb policy.
The announcement of Stalin's
return to work carried promi
nently In all Moscow newspa
pers. It appeared to dispose of
rumors that he is ill. Stalin
went to Sochi, a Black Sea spa,
on Oct. 9 for the first vacation
since 1041.
the navy advised It could not de
liver them until it had removed
; the buttons from the Jackets,
i The buttons happened to have
the navy anchor on them and it
didn't think civilians ought to
wear them. This caused a delay
of several months in their dis
posal. Meanwhile, however, a
large New York department
store had the same type of jack
et on sale buttons and all. It
had acquired them from a man
ufacturer who had bought them
from the navy as part of a con
tract termination settlement.
Sheets Withdrawn
The army also declared sur
plus 800,000 sheets, which are
in great demand by the public.
The navy stepped in, exercising
its top priority as a federal gov
ernment agency, and demanded
the sheets. An official of the
consumer goods division asked
the navy why it needed the
sheets and was told they were
for separation centers.
The official contended that
from lioot camp on the navy
never provided its enlisted men
with sheets and could see no
reason why it was necessary to
provide this luxury In the last
few days of service. The up
shot of the whole thing was that
the army kept the sheets for its
medical corps, which really
needed them.
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Tragedy Takes New Turn
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Horrflcd and shaken with grief. James J. Carlnn, machinist's mate 2c,
ho was flown home from Oakland, Calif., to Chelsea, Mass., on high
priority ratiiiK to aid authorities in search for supposedly kidnapped son,
Itonald, 3 months, is questioned by police alter the discovery of the child's
body beneath a bureau in the family home. Mrs. Hose Carlan, 33 (right),
arraigned on charge of murder, claims she invented story of kidnaping to
prevent gossip of "neglect'' when she found th child dead In his bed
while she attended a party In an apartment above,
Desire To Get Husband Home
May Have Prompted Hoax
Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 18 (U.R)
Her desire to get her husband
out of the navy may have driven
Mrs. Rose Carlan to hide her
6-month-old baby alive to pro
mole a bizarre kidnap hoax
which ended with discovery of
the infant's body in a makeshift
crypt, police said today.
The baby's father, MM2c
James J. Carlan who was given
emergency leave from his Pacific
station to help in the search,
was reported recovering after
collapsing when he was reunited
with his wife yesterday at a Bos
ton psychopathic hospital.
Carlan told police that he had
telephoned his wife from his
west coast station Nov. 27 the
day before the "kidnaping" was
reported to tell her that he
was to be shipped to Japan with
in a few days.
The possibility has not been
eliminated, police said, that the
infant died accidentally while it
TALENT SCHOOLS
CLOSED BY FLU
Talent, Dec. 18 Schools here
have closed as result of a severe
influenza epidemic according to
a statement from Roy Parr, prin
cipal, this morning.
Classes will resume following
the Christmas holidays. School
was held yesterday.
The epidemic struck the
school during the middle of last
week. Parr said that 40 per cent
of the students were absent yes
terday. Fifty per cent of the
high school pupils were out Fri
day. All basketball games prior to
the first of the year had previ
ously been cancelled.
Phonelx, Dec. 18 Current flu
epidemic has resulted in the ab
sence of about one-third of the
high school student body here,
says L. L. Lindley, principal.
The epidemic has not serious
ly touched the grade school.
Lindley reports one case of
Infantile paralysis and several
of chicken pox.
He believes that current sick
ness will not curtail Christmas
program plans this week-end be
cause most of the students in
volved arc from the grades.
Santa Claus Will
Greet Kiddies At
Park On Saturday
Medford kiddies should pre
pare their Christmas lists this
week, for Santa Claus will
visit the city Saturday. Under
plans arranged by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, San'a
Claus will be at the park Sat
urday night and each young
ster calling on Santa will re
ceive a gift from him. Com
plete details of Santa's visit
will be announced later.
Plans are also underway to
provide telephone connection
direct to Santa's house so
children can talk to him, as
they did last year. The com
mittee states that snow condi
tions have troubled them a
little, but it is hoped the tele
phone will be connected by
thu week end
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was hidden In the bottom of a
built-in china closet In the Car
lan home.
The theory that the child was
alive when he was first reported
kidnaped was strengthened by
the story of a Chelsea high school
girl who told police she saw the
baby In his carriage three days
after the date on which Mrs. Car
lan says she hid the dead body
in the cupboard.
haw huses
last life hope
London, Dec. 18 (U.R) Wil
liam Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw" of
the German radio, lost his last
chance for life today when the
House of Lords dismissed his ap
peal, and he will be hanged for
treason.
A panel of peers chosen to
consider Joyce's appeal return
ed a four to one decision reject
ing It. Joyce had sought to prove
that he was an American citizen
and not subject to British Jus
tice. When the decision was an
nounced In the House of Lords,
a man In the public gallery
cried, "This man is innocent. I
prophesied the death of Hitler
and his return." The man, un
identified, was permitted to re
main In the gallery until the
chamber was cleared.
Joyce, a sallow, broken man,
was not present to hear the de
cision. U. S. Broadcast
Gave Japanese
Word On Fleet
Washington. Dec. 18 U.R
An American broadcast gave Ja
pan information on United States
warships In Pearl Harbor two
days before the Dec. 7, 1941,
attack, it was disclosed today.
Gen. Douglas MacArthui s
headquarters in Tokyo found
this out in questioning of Jap
anese leaders after the surrender
of Japan. The report from Mac
Arthur was laid before congress'
Pearl Harbor Investigating com
mittee to supplement earlier tes
timony regarding Japanese plans
for the attack.
The report showed that Japan
ese naval intelligence had for
years been compiling material on
the Hawaiian naval base. In
formation was obtained through
newspapers and magazines, radio
broadcasts. Interviews with pas
sengers and crews of ships that
stopped at Honolulu and the con
sul general at Hawaii.
Continued Cold Is
Two-Day Prospect
By United Press
Continued bitter cold for the
next two days was is prospect
today fur most of the U. S. with
heavy snow anticipated in the
Ohio Valley states and north
into Illinois and Indiana.
The weatherman prcd I c t e d
slight and short-lived relief for
shivering residents in the east
ern half of the nation, where
temperatures were due to rise
slowly to between 10 and 20
degrees today before dropping
again in the wake of a second
cold wave.
UNION HOLDS OUT
FOR 30 PER CENT
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U.A.W. Pickets Bar Office
Workers from Flint Plant;
Fact-Finding Sub Drawn
By United Press
The Ford Motor Co. offered s
15-cent an hour wage Increase,
today, and the CIO United Auto
Workers promptly rejected the
proposal, holding fast to their
original demand for a 30 ner
cent boost.
Meanwhile UAW picket!
barred non-striking office work
ers from a General Motors nlant
at Flint, Mich.
Richard T. Leonard, UAW di
rector, for the Ford division, said
the offer, highest made by any
auto company so far, was "com
pletely unacceptable."
John S. Bugas, Ford industrial
relations director, said the In
crease would amount to 12.4 per
cent. The union seeks a 30 per
cent pay hike.
Top CM. Proposal
Ford's offer topped General
Motors proposal of a 13V4 cent
an hour raise about 10 per
cent. But the Ford boost would
become effective only when car
and truck production reaches or
exceeds 80,000 units monthly.
The GM raise would take effect
as soon as the 28-day old strike
ends.
General Motors continued its
campaign to get non-striking of
fice workers through UAW
picket lines and back to work.
But at Flint about 600 pickets
stood fast at the gates of GM's
AC sparkplug division. Several
hundred office workers made no
effort to enter the building.
There was no violence, although
police patrolled the area.
13,000 In Offices
The company claimed that
about 13.000 nfflm
turned to their Jobs In a dozen
plants yesterday.
The General Motors strike ac
counted for mnr than nnA-M
of the nation's 455,000 strike Idle
workers.
At Washington, the controver
sial question of whether a com
pany's profits and prices should
be considered In settling union
pay demands was taken under
advisement by a three-man fact,
finding panel for the oil indus
try. The ISXIIC W ntcaJ 1 4L.
Oil Workers International union
(uiu, which Insisted that tha
panel obtain and publish records
Of COmDanv Mrnlnna h.fA
drafting Its recommendations for
a settlement. It also demanded
that the companies be prohibited
from increasing prices to com
pensate for any wage Increases
recommended by the panel.
In other labor developments,
congressional foes of the admin
istration's fact-finding proposal
reportedly were preparing a
standby" substitute designed to
be more acceptable to labor. It
will not be introduced, however,
unless action seems certain on
the administration bill or some
thing more drastic.
POST QUARTERS
Crater Lake Post No. 1833.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, has
purchased the building on North
Front street near Sixth street
formerly occupied by the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles and will
convert it for the use of the post
and auxiliary it was announced
today by Victor Robb, post com
mander. The lower floor of the build
ing will be remodeled and
equipped as a locker and club
room for the use of all veterans
of Jackson county, Robb stated,
and proceeds will be used In
veteran relief work. The upper
floor will be made into meeting
rooms for the post and auxiliary
and will also be available for
the use of other veteran organi
zations, Robb said.
Six Bodies Found
In Bomber Crash
Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 18
(U.R) A navy PBY patrol bomber
crashed in a field and burned
near Haslet, Tex., 15 miles north
of here this afternoon. Six bodies
have been removed from the
wreckage.
No further details were im
mediately available.
Tokyo, Dec. 18. (U.R) Shinto
rites will be held at the funeral
of Prince Fumimaro Konoye Fri
day, it was revealed today. Tha
funeral will be headed by Prince
Talashige Shlmazu who will ba
assisted by Kakichi Kawarada,
Konoye committed suicide Sun
day shortly before he was to
have been arrested by America .
authorities.