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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST: Snndiy, Intermit tent rain, colder with showers on Monday. Temp. Highest yesterday 67 Lowest this morning 43 Fortieth Year Widow Selects Third Army , Cemetery At Hamm Funeral Rites Monday Heidelberg, Dec. 22 (U.PJ Gen. George S. Patton's sorrow ing old comrades in arms muster ed in this holiday-decked Ger man town today to escort him on Christmas eve to his last bivouac Luxembourg, the great burial ground of his beloved Third army. Patton's body lay in state from six until 10 p. m. tonight in the picturesque Ville Reiner adjoining U. S. army headquart ers on a hilltop overlooking Heidelberg and the Neckar river. White-helmeted veterans of his old outfit, the 15th cavalry, formed a guard of honor around his coffin, and throughout the ' evening a steady procession of high-ranking officers and hum ' ble doughboys filed by for a final glimpse of the fallen lead er. Military funeral services will be held in Heidelberg's Episco pal Church of Christ tomorrow at 3 p. m. (9 a. m., EST) after which two trains will carry the body and the burial party across the frontier to the tiny Luxem bourg village of Hamm, five miles southwest of Luxembourg city. Heidelberg, Dec. 22 -i-OJ.R) Gen. George S. Patton's death has not changed the army's decision not to prosecute eith er of the two military chauf feurs involved in the accident. Col. C. H. Bard, judge advo cate for the U. S. Seventh army, said tonight. The official accident reports said that both drivers were guilty of carelessness but that neither had been shown to have been negligent! to a de gree that would warrant prose cution. Waiting at the border will be a picKca Daiiauon oi ouu soiuieis i sccretarv. who fought under Patton in the I whccie'r rcccived from Toich Third army's blazing armored lrn Arnki t-.... DPtition ,,n -.-.m tlio Caar tr turn 1 "" "h - . asKing mercy ior uen. joio-uec. ai, me rest of the inquiry the tide of battle in the Ardennes . yuki Yamashita, former Japa- j can be speeded up. bulge almost a year ago to the nese COmmander in the Philip- Present deadline is Feb. 15. day- ! pines. Yamashita was sentcne- Chairman Albcn W. Barkley D., Mrs. Patton herself selected , ed lo dcaUl bya Mania military Ky., asked for the extension'aft Hamm as his resting place, rath- tribunal for responsibility for : er it became apparent that the er than the traditional cemetery atrocities in the Philippines. The i original Jan. 3 rinnrtlinn nnulrl of American heroes in Arlington Va., or a nearer burial ground on enemy German soil. Many thousands of Third army men are buried In the U. S. military cemetery at Hamm, located on a towering bluff look ing out over the beautiful hills r and valleys of southern Luxem bourg, and his widow felt Patton would have wanted to remain with the soldiers he led to vic tory. Mrs. Patton and her brother, Frederich Ayer, who flew here from Boston to join her, will ride alone in the first funeral train with the body. The mourners and 12 honorary pallbearers will follow in a second train. Immediately after the funeral, Mrs. Patton was scheduled to go to Paris to board a plane for the United States. LONELYYULE FOR DE Paris. Dec. 22 U.R An esti- mated 1.000 American deserters , , and soldiers who are AWOL in; Paris will spend a lonely Christ-1 was dodging the military police. j While G. I. s stationed ncre . are enjoying turkey dinners. ; special shows and a three-day ; Christmas vacation, deserters livine in dinav hotels and lone- i r,,),.he hoi'n littlp to look lOTWara lO. Military police promised no letup in theii drive to capture deserters even on Christmas day. RADIO POST OPENS Portland. Ore.. Dec. 22 (U.R) tu i .. rct lictoninf? . ,'r.roi,.n broadcasts : will be reopened Dec. 30 by llie war department, the Oregon ' Journal said today. : policies oi me p..-.m ,uh.-.- lan government. R. F. C. BACKS FISHERIES ! Shortly before the V. S. an Washington. Dec. 22 'U.R. nounccment. Great Britain had The Reconstruction F i I a n c c extended recognition to Marshal rn .nnnn tinitiht it had Tito's reeime. Previously, both ar.rl tn r-nntimie fmancma an American operating fishing enterprise in the Pacific MedfordJk Unitd Prtti Greetings From (Acme Telephnto) Yule tide greetings from the President and Mrs. Truman will be expressed to government officials and friends of the nation's First Family by the above Christmas card. AIM THREATS AT Tokyo, Dec. 22 (U.R) Threats against the life of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the first re ported since he assumed his du ties in Japan, have been made by what a Japanese source called "bitter, hot-blooded Japanese," an allied headquarters spones man said today. Brig. Gen. Elliott Thorpe, Westerly, R. I., head of the army counter-intelligence corps in Japan, said the reports were be ing investigated. No additional information will be issued until the authors of the threats are in custody. First reports on the threats were given to Col. Herbert B. Wtioolpr Mnr- A Hhtir's inilitarv . . . , n. , ! petition asking that his life be spared bore 86,000 signatures. Araki said that twice while he was soliciting signatures he was approached by "bitter, hot-blooded Japanese" who urged him to break tt the campaign. He quoted the men as saying that "for what MacArthur is doing in Japan they better assassinate him." Araki said the undercover movement helps to keep the Japanese reminded that an esti mated 408,000 Japanese were killed by American bombs dur ing the war. MIDNIGHT REVOLT Panama City. Dec. 22 'U.R) Former Pp-sident Arnulfo Arias was arrested in a nauon-wiae round-up of political leaders be- liAi'o,) rr.cr,rtnsirilp for an un- un.j ! successful' midnight revolution i in which six persons were killed and seven wounded. Ayie cniH h. haH had no COn- nection with the attempted re-i"'"s ne expects to arrive voit which police said they; about Jan. 15. nipped in the bud by killing! . four and arresting 13 members, UOe OSSea Mines of a band that tried to seize me police station at the pori cny oi Colon. TITO i I Washington, Dec. 22 'U.ft- j The state department tonight , announced U. S. recognition of the new republic of Yugoslavia u anicu. uu .... . ... tion does not Imp.y PProv , the Lulled states ana Britain i had considered Tito's admiimtra-1 tion a purciy provii.ondi um;. Full Lid Wira the Trumans GIVE TESTIMONY IN PEARL PROBE Washington, Dec. 22 (U.R) The Pearl Harbor committee, hoping to speed its inquiry into the nation's greatest naval dis aster, may bring to the witness stand soon after its Christmas recess the 1941 army and navy commanders at Hawaii. Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short and Adm. Husband E. Kimmel the men on whose commands felt the devastating blow of Doc. 7. 1941 originally were booked to testify after all other witnesses had told their stories to the com mittee. But in five weeks the committee has heard fewer than a dozen witnesses and there are 60 more still -unheard. Most committee members feel that if Short and Kimmel are allowed to testify shortly after the committee resumed hearings n . . .. not be met. Turner told the committee bluntly that if Kimmel had car ried out the orders sent to him by Washington the Japanese at tack could have been disrupted and possibly severe blows could have been inflicted on the enemy carrier striking force. New York, Dec. 22 (U.R) Pamela Churchill, recently di vorced wife of Randolph Church ill, son of Britain's wartime prime minister, was one of 17 passengers who arrived by Pan American plane tonight from Hum, England. Mrs. Churchill, who was grant ed a divorce last Tuesday in Lon- i don, will stay in the United States, a month, visiting her sis- ,er- Mrs. Charles A Moore of New York. She confirmed re ports that Winston Churchill was coming to the United States, ad- ppr:i Trnnr. op OIIDS London, Dec. 22 (U.R) Hun dreds of mines torn loose by gales bobbed in the English channel today, endangering two ....... . UuF.nnHa laujuiK 6,000 men l Mines drifting ashore else-1 where along the southeast coast I tore holes in sea walls asJargcj as 100 yards wide and damaged I shore property. The Kentish! ,own of Hythc was evacuated i temDoral.jy whiIe na . ! neutralized a mine. The Kent coa,, ccn0ed with explosions hi warships shelled floating miner PHOENIX BUILDING Phoenix. Dec. 22 Building permits for ten houses. 11 addi tions to homes, five garages and nine miscellaneous structures were issued here during the pa. - t year according to a report I from the recorder s office. MEDFORD, OREGON, E 10 THINK ABOUT ITS Sen. George Says Home Problems First Can't Finance World Atlanta. Ga., Dec. 22 (U.R) The time has come for the gov ernment to exercise discretion ary power in applying existing laws. Sen. Walter F. George. D., Ga., chairman of the senate's finance committee, said tonight in commenting on President's Truman's immigration directive. "We must keep in mind." George said, "in using the existing legal powers, that we must consider our own future." Queried on the subject of President Truman's order to ad mit to this country, 3,900 refu gees and displaced persons monthly, George said he assum ed the president was acting under the existing immigration act and its amendments. "If he's, not," the senator said, "he's making a big mis lake." However, George slressed that "it is time the administra tion began placing its primary emphasis on problems at home, and holding its humanitarian impulses up to the light of the future of America." "We just can't admit all the world into the United States and keep on sending all this money and supplies abroad," he said. "We must think of our future the America of tomorrow when we go into the subject of all these loans, gifts, and dona tions to foreign powers. And, it should be our primary consid eration when we think of relax ing any laws that will admit refugees and more immigrants to this country." George was reached at his Vienna, Ga., home, where he is spending the Christmas holiday recess of congress. T BY POLICE San Francisco. Dec. 22 (U.R) University of California hosi- tal officials late today listed the condition of Wakefield Baker, 52-year-old socialite and prom inent business executive, "as still critical." Baker, president of the exclu sive Pacific Union club, was shot in the head as the result of gun fired by Police Officer Wil liam Williams. Williams fired four shots two into the air and two into the vehicle of the in jured man when Baker at tempted to "run down" the of ficer. Williams was attempting to investigate a complaint that a man in an auto was whistling at two women when Baker started his car and drove directly at him. HIGHWAY CLOSED Portland, Ore., Dec. 22 (U.R) Both the Columbia river and Evergreen highways through the Columbia Gorge were closed by ice today, but weather pre dictions indicated rising temper atures would break ice-clogged highways throughout western Oregon and Washington. Storm warnings were to be continued at 7:30 p. m. today from Cape Blanco northward to Tatoosh Island and through the Straits of Juan de Fuca and over inland waters of Washing ton. The warnings were for 24 hours strong to gale force southerly winds shifting to southwesterly. Boston or New York Lead for UNO Site London, Dec. 22 U.Rl The United Nations preparatory com mission voted today to recom mend that the permanent UNO home be located in the eastern United States, and many dele gates agreed that the final choice probably would be in the Boston or New York areas. The vote, made after two hours of bitter debate in which advocates of San Francisco op posed the move, was in two sec tions. The site committee first voted, 22 to 6, against locating in the wetsern United State? It then voted, 25 to 5, to locate in the cast. SUNDAY, DECEMBER Noted Dead New York, Dec. 22 (U.R) Arthur C. Train, the lawyer author who created the fabulous fiction character of Ephrnim Tutt, died here today after a long illness. He was 70 years old. Train, a writer since he served as a young man as assist ant district attorney of New York county, was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He wrote more than 100 short stories and sev eral books about Tutt, most noted of which was "Yankee Lawyer, the Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt," published In 1943. STATE VETERANS ASK PERMANENT ITE Gov. Snell Urged to ct Camp Adair Favored For Industry Portland. Ore., Dec. 22 (U.R) Gov. Earl Sncll was urged to day by the state veterans' advis ory committee to investigate possibilities of maintaining the federal veterans' administration facilities of Camp White at Med ford on a permanent basis. The committee pointed out th-j hospi.al and other facilities at the camp would bo a definite advantage to the veterans. Camp Adair. Ore., Dec. 22 (U.R) Camp Adair, the 56,000 acre army post recently declar ed surplus, will be described to eastern industrialists as a site "natural for industry," Chester H. Spiering, industrial field re presentative of the Portland chamber of commerce, said to day. Spiering will point out that the camp has a water supply adequate for 50.000 persons, a 240,000 square-foot storage plant, a huge laundry capable of being reconverted into a food processing plant, and complete power and communications in stallations. It is hoped that these facili ties will lure industry to the gigantic army post which once housed 40,000 soldiers. T San Francisco. Dec. 22 (U.R) An estimated 150,000 Pacific veterans faced Christmas away from home tonight as the "opera tion Santa Clans" fleet continued to pour men into the Pacific coast where lack of railroad equipment and bad weather has bogged down outgoing transpor tation. Coast cities from the Canadian to the Mexican borders were jammed with stranded service men despite frantic efforts of army and navy officials to ob tain rail, bus and plane space. T TO Hong Kong, Dec. 22 'U.R) Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser an nounced today that 18,000 Brit ish empire troops will be land ed at Kura, Japan, to partici pate in the occupation. lie dis closed also that he is moving British Pacific fleet headquar ters from Singapore to Hong Kong. Kura has been assigned to; Britain as her port in Japan, I Fraser said. Fraser said he favored Hong, Kong as shore headquarters be cause it would be closer to Japan and the American fleet and has a belter climate than Singapore. ;t late, LADY JVERSLEPT r.r.nr1r.n fW 9? fllPl A national program of the British broadcasting corporation was1 late on the air this morning for' the first time in history. When the program began j seven minutes late, a woman j announcer said: "Good morning I The time is 23 minutes to seven. I'm sorry, but I overslept." i Tribune United Prtss Full 23, e 5. I ANGELES HIT MM SLIDES Streets Flooded, Power Cut, Trees Uprooted Citrus Growers Rejoice Los Angeles, Dec. 22 (U.R) Southern California's first big rainstorm of the season tonight left in its wake earth slides, up rooted trees, flooded streets and broken, power lines. In Los Angeles, 3.50 Inches had fallen since the storm start ed. At 5 p. m the total for the past 24 hours was 2.88 inches. Total rainfall for the season was 4.51 inches, well above lust year's total of 4.16 inches for the same date and a normal precipitation of 3.80 inches. No let-up was seen for the week-end but the weather man promised a clear Christmas. California citrus growers of ficials said the storm was of "inestimable value" to agricul ture, particularly citrus. "The rain is being well absorb ed in the ground and there is very little run-off," they said. The state highway department reported the Roosevelt highway was covered partially by four major slides north of Malibu Beach. The slides, resulting from drenching rains, were between Malibu and the Ventura county line to the north. Twelve smaller slides were reported between Malibu and Santa Monica. Several secondary highways were closed to traffic by water which was reported two feet deep in one spot south of Ana heim. Between Lancaster and Gor man, highway 138 was reopened to traffic after floodwaters and minor slides blocked it for sev eral hours. Traffic over the ridge route was characterized as "extremely dangerous" due lo blinding rains. Mud slides threatened houses in the mountains between exclu sive Bel-Air district and the San Fernando valley. Slides already had blocked some roads in that area. Only one death was attributed to the storm. R. M. Sullivan, 43, Huntington Beach fisherman, was drowned when a mountain ous wave swept him from the deck of the fishing boat rjcrtha L. at the entrance to Los Angolcs harbor. Traffic officers reported Occi dents doubled during the storm Hospitals handled a larg.i num ber of traffic injury cases. Telephone service Interrup tions were reported but in the main messages were going through. A total of 2500 tele phones were rained out from Ventura to San Diego and two circuits were out to Big Bear. EL Buenos Aires, Dec. 22 (U.R) The Argentine industrial union, and employers group, voted al most unanimously today to ignore a government decree or dering private employers to raise wages 10 to 25 per cent and to give all employes a Christmas bonus of one month's pay. The decision not to comply with the decree was made at a meeting attended by more thanj 100 members Only three dis-l scnting votes were cast. BILL WOULD TAX HITO 66 MILLION Tokyo, Dec. 22 (U,R Emper or Ilirohilo, formerly exempt from all Japanese taxes except the land levy, will be forced to pay more than $66,000,000 on imperial property and wartime profits if proposed legislation becomes law at the next diet session, Jimi news agency re vealed today. Jimi said the bill would probably be introduced at the coming diet session. SEMINARY SHELLED ' liatavla, Dec. 22 U.Pj Brit-j ish warships and Held artillery have shelled Semarang on the north central coast of Java in support of troops clearing the town of Indonesian revolution ists, it was disdoocd today. Ltai.d Wira BULLETIN Grants Pass, Dec. 22 (Special) Klamath Falls defeated Grants Pass 50 to 21 to win the "A" school championship in the Grants Pass basketball meet, Los Angeles, Dec. 22 W.R) The Santa Ana Army Air Base quintet tonight handed the Uni versity of California Troians their first setback in seven starts to the score of 57-55. Havana, Dec. 22 (U.R! Phil Terranova, 124, former world featherweight champion, and Miguel Acevcdo, Cuban feather weight champion, drew in a fast 10 round bout before 14,000 fans at the Sports Palace tonight. BUYER OF E BONDS Portland, Ore.. Dec. 22 (U.R) Oregon, champion E-bond buyer of the nation, today went over the top in the present drive With a state quota of $22,500,- 000 In E-bonds, today's figure was $22,858,651) or 101.6 per cent of the quota. E. C. Summons, state chair man of the war finance com mittee, wired Ted R. Gamble national director of the bond selling program, that Oregon offered as a Christmas present its over-thc-top E-bond report and would drive on to retain its national championship. TO FREE MATINEE Southern Oregon kiddles arc Invited to attend the annual free Christmas matinee Monday at the Holly Theater, as guests of the Leverette Interstate Thea ters and the Medford Mail Tri bune. A grand fun test is prom ised with two of the screen's funniest men, Laurel and Hardy in "Jitterbugs," as the main fea ture and spiced with a generous helping of Walt Disney Kar toons. The free matinee will start nt 10 a. m. and as In previous years, every child in the com munity has a special invitation, Those loo small to come by themselves may be attended by their, parents or other adults. ON COAST GIVEN San Francisco, Dec. 22 (U.R) Additional storm warnings for Washington were ordered to night by the weather bureau, as they continued in effect warn ings, previously issued, for the Washington and Oregon coasts and part of the California coast. A southeast storm warning for Washington and Oregon coast from Cape Blanco, Ore., to Tatoosh and through the Straits of Juan de Fuca remains effective tonight. A southeast storm warning for California from Pt. Concep tion, Cal., to Pt. Blanco, Ore., remains effective until 10:30 a. m. tomorrow. IN STATEJOUNT Salem, Ore., Dec. 22 (U.R) Unemployment in Oregon reach ed a new high this week as 24, 067 payments were made to those without Jobs, the state un employment compensation com mission said today. More than $400,000 was paid In compensation checks this week. Nearly $80,000 of the total went to 4,077 veterans as provided under the GI bill of rights. New veterans' claims were being filed at the rate of 2,000 a week, the commission reported. GETSJCQUITTAL Paris Dee. 22 'U.R) The high court of Algeria has clear ed Fcrnaud Bonnier de la Cha pellc of guilt in the slaying of Adm. Jean Francois Darlan, Vichyitc leader, almost three years to the day after de la Cha pelle was executed for assassin ating him. 1 Us Th Mail Trlbun Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost NO. 233. TO BE ADMITTED .S, President Issues Order Un der Immigration Laws No Public Cost Washington, Dec. 22 U.R) President Truman tonight or. dered the admission of displaced persons and refugees into this country at a maximum rate of 3,900 a month under existing immigration laws. With specific orders to th head of each, the president di rected the state, war and jus tice departments, the war ship ping administration, the public hcHlth service, and the United nations relief and rehabilitation administration to cooperate in the program. Explaining that he hoped the majority of those admitted would be orphaned children. President Truman uaid that the United States shares responsi bility for relieving the suffer, ing of displaced persons and refugees in Europe. The president said that whila he had no intention of exclud ing the issuance of immigration visas in other parts of the world, a decision had been made to concentrate the program In the immediate future in the Ameri can zones of occupation in Europe. In these zones, he said, ara citizens jf every major Euro pean country. Visas issued to these persons, he said, will bo charged to the countries oC their origin. The visas, the President added, will be distri buted fairly among all faiths, creeds and nationalities. The president said he hoped the program would be under way by early spring, "so that immigration can begin imme diately upon the availability ot ships." Howevuc he emphasiz ed, "nothing in this directive, will deprive a single American soldier or his wife or children of a berth on a vessel homeward bound, or delay their return". Tho president specified also that transportation provisions will be made which will insure that the movement of immi grants across the Atlantic will be without cost lo tho American, public. OF EUROPE TOO MUCH Washington, Dec. 22 (U.R) The United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration warned tonight that it will not be able to meet the minimum re lief needs of the world's liberat ed peoples this winter and that millions of them face months of hunger, cold and privation. Director General Herbert H. Lehman of UNRHA said de mands now being placed on UN RHA by members of the United Nations "are far beyond the re sources of the administration. Tortland, Ore., Dec. 22 (U.R) A department of justice order to deport Walter Baer, civil en gineer and father of an Oregon born family, has been protested by Sen. Wayne Morse, R., Ore., Bacr's attorney here disclosed today. Meanwhile, attorneys and other Oregon citizens have urg ed Gov. Earl Sncll to pardon Baer, so that his two terms, in the Oregon state penitentiary on check charges 25 years ago can no longer be used as a basis for deportation proceedings. QUAKE ROCKS OLHAO Lisbon, Dec. 22 (U.R) An earthquake caused heavy dam age to the town of Olhao in southern Portugal on Thursday, it was revealed today when communications were restored after a storm which swept Lisbon. NO PAPER TUESDAY In accordance with long established custom and in order to permit employees to enjoy the day at home,' The Mail Tribune will not publish Christmas dav.