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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
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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
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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
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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.