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Weather FORECAST: Continued cloudy with orraslomt rain tonight and Friday. Little chance In temperature. Temp. Highest Vesterdar 4 Lowest this Morning 43 Prec. to 5 A. M. Today w .22 MEDFORP United Press Full Leased Wire Use The Mill Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Reiulti At Small Coit Tribune United Press Full Leased Wlr Fortieth Year ' MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1945. NO. 236. L T Resumption of Unity Meet ings Brings Proposal Observers Hopeful Chungking, Dec. 27 (U.R) Chinese Communist leaders sub mitted a formal proposal for the "immediate and unconditional cessation" of civil war as unity meetings were resumed today after a 40-day deadlock. The meeting was the first be tween Nationalist and Commun ist negotiators since last Nov 17. The Communists were streng thened by the addition of Gen Yeh Chien-Ying, chief of staff to the original three members Chou En-Lai, Communist vice- chairman, Tung Pi-Wu and Wang Ko-rei. Guest of Marshall Chou had been a luncheon guest earlier of Gen. George C. Marshall, special American en voy who recently arrived to help the Chinese achieve unity. Political observers were hope ful the conferees would approve the proposal in principle and leave details for consideration by the consultative council early in January. Meanwhile, military head quarters said Gen. Tu Li-Ming's Nationalist troops, advancing rapidly across snow-covered southern Manchuria, had occu pied the railroad station at Tang"-Chiawe, 65 miles west of Mukden. Gen. Marshall spent the day gathering information from vari ous officials. LITTLE GLASS EYE MUST SERVE LIFE Yokohama, Dec. 27 (U.R) Tatsuo (Little Glass Eye) Tsuchi ya, first Japanese war criminal to be tried in Japan, was sen tenced today to life imprison ment for beating to death an American prisoner of war. An eight-man U. S. military commission convicted Tsuchiya on three charges of "cruel, in human and brutal atrocities and other offenses against certain prisoners" at Mitsushima camp where he served as a guard. Chief Prosecutor Maj. Louis Offen of Atlanta, Ga., had de manded the death penalty. He charged in closing arguments that Tsuchiya "enjoyed seeing American prisoners suffer." The verdict was announced at T 10:15 a. m. and the commission adjourned until 1:30 p. m. when the trial of Kei Yuri, commander of war camp 17-B, began. MANffTPLAN Los Angeles, Dec. 27 (U.R) Many of the 10,000 American servicemen who married Aus tralian girls during the war will go back to Australia to take advantage of business opportuni ties there, Mrs. Eva Hayes, Red Cross worker known as the "American mother of Austral ia," predicted today. Mrs. Hayes, who arrived here yesterday from Brisbane, Aus tralia, said most of her three years' work there was in ar ranging weddings for American men and Australian girls. She estimated that 6000 of the brides have already come to the U. S. and that the other 4000 are eagerly awaiting the trip, but she said she thought many of them w,ould take their fami lies back to Australia. "Australia is a land of oppor tunity and is looking forward to many Americans returning to enter business and help its de-i velopment," she said. Man Nabbed In G. P. Faces Charges Here ; James E. Wall, who was ar-l rested Monday in a Grants Passj hotel by state police on a charge of larceny from a cabin, appear ed in Justice court yesterday for preliminary hearing. He is being held in county jail to re-1 appear at 2 p. m. tomoarow. Wall reportedly took a radio1 belonging io E. C. Asbury fronv the Homestead auto court on I the Ro4 liver. J Big 3 Agree On Atomic Commission; Four -Power Council to Control Japan AT Details To Be Made Known Friday Many Problems Settled During Meeting Moscow, Dec. 27 U.R Secretary of State James F. Byrnes revealed today that the foreign ministers of the united States. Great Britain and Russia had agreed to set up a commis sion on atomic energy. The news that the Big Three had reached an agreement on atomic energy was given by Bvrnes at a press conference which wound up the 12-day meeting of the foreign ministers here. Detaili Friday A long and detailed communi que on the three-power confer ence will be released at 6 a. m. Friday (10 p. m. Thursday EST) in Moscow, Washington and London. Byrnes, unkempt and weary after a sleepless night and 24 hours of virtually uninterrupted work, dropped a verbal atomic bomb of his own at a press con ference he held before depart ing by plane for Washington by way of Berlin and Paris. "When you read about atomic energy in the communique pro viding for the establishment of a commission, you will see that no other phase of the subject was discussed," he said. Thus came the first official word that Russia, the United States and Britain had come to a meeting of the minds on the atomic problem, one of the gravest confronting the troubled post-war world and apparently the biggest single bone of con tention anions the Big Three. While Byrnes disclosed the establishment proposed or actual of a commission on atomic energy, he veered away from the subject without a clue as to its nature or scope. (The London Evening Stand ard reported that the foreign ministers had agreed to turn over to the 11-nation UNO security council, plus Canada, the problem of studying and making recommendations for exchanging basic scientific in formation for controlling atomic energy and eliminating atomic i weapons). Byrnes said that in addition to the atomic commission mat ter, "many problems" were set tled at the conference of himself, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Britain and Foreign Commis sar V. M. Molotov of the Soviet Union. He termed it a "very con structive conference" at which cordial relations were establish ed among the Big Three, "giving hope of settlement of other prob lems in the same spirit." Frankfurt, Dec. 27 (U.R) Gen. Joseph McNarney reported to Washington today that France's holdout on allied plans for governing occupied Germany as a single unit was creating an increasingly difficult problem. The French refusal to cooper ate in the economic policies in the government of Germany is holding German economy below the minimum level of tolerabil ity, McNarney said in his month ly report on November activity in the U. S. occupation zone. McNarney reported that crime is increasing among the Ger mans, but so far was not regard ed as alarmingly high. The prin cipal crimes cited were cutting of wire fences by rftving Ger mans, threatening of girls who fraternized with allied soldiers, and stealing. HOLY LAND EXPLOSIONS SHATTER HOLIDAY PEACE Jerusalem, Dec. 27 (U.R) Mysterious explosions shattered! th Christmas peace in the holy I land tonight. Jerusalem and the Jewish coastal settlement of Tell Aviv were rocked by blasts thati siscd titi ia both tHic. 1 Russian-Occupied From Broken (The Runian occupation lone in Germany wai opened to American correspondent! for the firit time last week. The following uncensored dis patch reveals what has hap pened in the zone in the eight months since the end of the war). By Charles Arnot United Press Staff Correspondent Berlin, Dec. 27 (U.R) In the eight months since the fall of the reich, the red army has converted northeastern Germany from a broken war machine into a oing peacetime concern. The Russians are working in close liaison with a hand-picked corps of carefully tutored Ger man civilians, many of them communists. What they have accomplished was disclosed during a closely supervised eight-day tour cover ing 750 miles in two of the six states and provinces occupied by the red army. Touring the province of Sax ony and the separate state of Saxony in party of five news papermen, this writer gathered the general impression that the Russians have tackled their BUREAU'S PLAN Washington, Dec. 27 (U.R) The veterans administration is going to mobilize facilities of civilian, army and navy hospi tals to care for an unprecedented number of discharged service men in need of immediate medi cal care. Faced with a shortage of at least 40,000 hospital beds and many hundreds of doctors, Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, VA acting surgeon general, announced plans for placing 20,000 ex servicemen in various civilian hospitals. An additional 20,000 will be quartered in army and navy institutions. 44.000 Beds Aim Hawley said these additional facilities should meet the needs of the veterans administration pending construction of hospital facilities for 44,000 beds within the next two years. Already the veterans bureau is caring for a record load of 87.000 patients. The navy has agreed to make available by Sept. 1, some 9,375 beds in hospitals located in 16 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Similar arrangements are being made with the army. New Facilities Listed Navy facilities to be made available immediately include Santa Margaret Ranch, Ocean side, Calif., 100 beds; Corona, Calif., 100 beds, and Astoria, Ore., 100 beds. Other beds, to be provided not later than Sept. 1, include: Puget Sound, Wash., 300; Seattle, Wash., 300; Long Beach, Calif., 700; San Diego, Calif., 400; Mare Island, Calif., 400; Oakland. Calif., 1.100; Puerto Rico, 100, and Hawaii, 500. Newspaper Wrapper Helps To Identify Butter Addressee This morning Postmaster Frank DeSouza delivered to J. S. Aldredge, 517 Beatty street, a pound of butter "lost" in the Christmas mail. Reading in yes terday's Tribune that a pound of butter - remained undeliverable at the Mcdford postoffice, Al dredge called and convinced the postmaster that the package was his. Aldredge explained that since; butter has been hard to obtain.' his daughter. Mrs. Nancy Hub-j bard of Roseburg. had been in1 the habit of mailing a ,xund or so each week to her family here. She usually wrapped th- butter in a bread wrapper from a cer tain Roseourg bakery and then in an old copy X the Roscburg News Review before adding the! final outside wrapper. Checking! th package. DeSouza found the! wrappings to be as Aldredgej described and delivered the but-1 tcx tg Portion of Germany Converted War Machine To Peacetime Concern occupation problems with real istic efficiency. No Jobless The main problems, as in the western zone, are food, fuel, transport i.nd refugees. But there is no unemploy ment. The Russians have wiped out all old bank credits and the Germans must work to eat There appears to be less infla tion than in the western zone. Most of the non-war factories are running again. The war plants either are under guard or are being removed as repara tions. German provincial officials scoff at rumors that the Russian zone has been stripped of in dustry. Thoy asserted that 2,600 or 83 per cent of all non-war plants in Saxony province are producing consumers goods. Nazis Purged ArHv nayis hnvp hnnn nursed and nominal party members are being replaced slowly. The Rus sian attitude, however, seems more lenient than the American attitude in the cases of those who were not active nazis. Russian officials said they were not permitting metal mines to operate but all coal mines are operating and some are nearing pre-war production. German officials said there was not enough food to main tain the health of the popula tion over a long period. There are six categories of ration cards in the Russian zone, permitting a daily average of a little more than 1,600 calories All food is under strict Russian control, with fixed prices, ex cept for 30 per cent of agricul tural products which farmers are permitted to sell on the free market. The Russians estimate that the average German worker earning 170 marks or more month can supplement his 1,600 calory ration with eight pounds of meat and four pounds' of but ter monthly by buying in the unrationed "free market. Germans Whine The average German is not suffering. He even receives a coal ration to heat his home but TO ENTER PRIMARY Floyd K. Dover, prominent democrat from this district, has been asked to run for governor of the state by a group of local party members, it was revealed today. Lester Mathes of Central Point, spokesman for the group, said Dover told them "this is a complete surprise to me. I had no thought of running for office this year. You know, it takes quite a bit of money to campaign for this office and I am not con sidered a wealthy man. While I have received numerous letters from all parts of the slate urging me to run for various offices, I have not given them much thought to date. However, 1 will give this serious considera tion and give you a definite statement within the week.'' Dover, president of the Jack son county Mining association and member of the state com mission of Veteran Affairs, was a candidate for Congress from the fourth congressional district at the last election. Foul Play Charge Latest For Cline San Francisco, Dec. 27 (U.R) Alfred L. Cline, Bible-quoting former convict involved in the mysterious deaths or disappear ances of nine former associates, today was accused of "foul play" in connection with the deaths of his brother-in-law and his son, Norman. j Mrs. Helen E. Fisher, Men-! tone. Cal., sister of Mrs. Bfr-sie; Van Sickle Cline. who died in! Glendale, Cal., wrote to District Attompy Edmund Brown that Cline was a "fiend." DEATH AT CROSSING unwyii, in., ut:u, w Ki.r.i .kits. Muurea cnocnoia, zo. a soldier's widow, was pinned in the wreckage of an automobile struck by a train at a crossing today and burned to death as rescuers were driven away when lire iwtui Uic car. like Germans everywhere In the occupied reich he is whining and complaining. As in the rest of Germany, there is an acute housing short age aggravated by a great influx of refugees who have boosted the population in some places as much as 35 per cent in the last four months. Eighty-five per cent of all schools arc operating and the Russians say there is complete religious freedom. The Russian and American occupation policies differ radi cally. The Americans believe the Germans should work out their problems and issue orders tell ing German officials only what not to do. The Russians have put hand picked officials in many key positions and Russian military governors have issued detailed orders to German officials for what must be done. LEGION PROTESTS Denver, Dec. 27 (U.R) The Denver American Legion Post sent a sharp protest to Washing ton today against the scheduled drafting into the army of three Denver youths who for more than three years were Jap pris oners n the Philippines. The protests were sent in the form of strongly-worded tele grams to Colorado's congres sional delegation, urging Imme diate action in Washington to prevent such inductions. Officials of the American Legion post said the boys all of them college students had been called up for induction by Denver draft boards. One Injured One of the youths. Henry B. Parfet. Jr., 20, a, freshman en gineering student at the Color ado School of Mines, was said to have suffered a broken ear drum at the hands of a Japan ese prison guard at Baguio. in the Philippines. Legionnaires said Parfet had been ordered to report for induction Jan. 30. The other two ex-servicemen were Roger D. Schadc, a sopho more at Denver University, and Benjamin Goodier. 21, a fresh man at the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology In Cam bridge, Mass. The protests stated It was un derstood that about 50 other American boys, restored to civil ian life after serving In enemy prison camps, soon faced induc tion into the army. "State headquarters of selec tive service advises it Is sympa thetic but has no authority due to existing regulations," the telegrams stated. T T Ashland, Dec. 27 A Myrtle Creek motorist is in the Ashland Community hospital suffering from shock and possible internal j inturies as the result of an auto! accident a quarter-mile north of the city limits on highway 93. about 5:40 p. m. yesterday. A car driven by Norville Lewis, Yakima, Wash., started to pass another vehicle, headed south, and crashed into a car driven by Mr. Zchrung, Myrtle Creek, Ashland city police .e portcd. A third vehicle, operat ed by J. F. Rude, 142 B street, Ashland, sideswiped the Zch rung machine, police said. Zchrung, taken to the hospi tal in the Litwiller ambulance, was the only one injured, the report stated. ' HUGE SUM ASKED New York, Dec. 27 'U.R) Two San Francisco residents filed suit today in U. S. district court against four corporations and seven individuals to recover $5,500,000 damages in connec tion with the use of patents for the manufacture of stainless 4.ccl. EQUAL AUTHORITY TO BE EXERCISED OVER NIPPONESE U. S., Britain, Russia and China To Share Rule MacArthur Commander Washington, Dec. 27 (U.R) The Moscow foreign ministers conference agreed to create a four-power control council for Japan patterned in general after the present control council for Germany, It was learned to day. The United States, the British Empire, Russia and China would share authority equally In the control council. Each would have a veto power. MacArthur Remains Gen. Douglas MacArthur would remain as supreme allied commander for Japan to carry out the directives of the council, it was learned. Indications were, however, that MacArthur might not be completely subservient to the control council but would retain some authority to act in dependently. The allied supreme command er's role was by no means en tirely clear on the basis of pre liminary information. Full de lineation of his powers awaited tonight's formal announcement of the foreign ministers' agree ment. Russia has agreed to sit both on the four-power control coun cil and on the Far Eastern com mission, which has been sitting in Washington. The commission now is expected to assume a sec ondary role in Japanese affairs. Major Results The major accomplishments of the Moscow conference may be summarized in three points: 1. Atomic bomb control. An atomic energy commission is to be established within the United Nations organization. This com mission will endeavor to bring about arrangements so that atomic energy will be used only for peaceful ends. It would seek to eliminate atomic weapons from all military use by severe control of its secret and its pro duction. 2. Japan. A four-power control over Japan composed of four members representing the United States, Soviet Russia, China and the combined British Empire. The council will have the power of control of enforcement of the directives and recommendations of the Far Eastern commission, sitting in Washington. Russia would join that Far Eastern ad visory commission, on which she has until now declined member ship. MacArthur would remain as the enforcement authority and supreme commander under the control of the four-power council. Russia and Britain would share in the military oc cupation of Japan with "token strength." The big four would retain veto rights over recom mendations by the Far Eastern commission. 3. Korea. The United States, Britain, Russia and r.'hina will assume a joint four-power trus teeship over Korea for five years. After that Korea-is ex pected to achieve the full inde pendence promised two years ago in the Cairo communique. In the meantime the U. S. and Russian military commanders in the two occupation , zones of Korea are to co..fer In an effort to eliminate difficulties of ad ministration and communica tions. Duncan Sisters' Father Succumbs Roscmcad, Calif., Dec. 27 (U.R) Samuel Duncan, father of the Duncan sisters of "Topsy and Eva" fame, died last night at a sanitarium here. He was 84. Vivian and Rosetta Duncan, the stage and scrern sister team, had arrived here from Portland, Ore., just before Christinas to spend the holidays with their father. He had been in the care of the sanitarium for two years. San Francisco, Dec. 27 (U.R) California In general, and the city of San Francisco in parti cular, had not given up hope to day of becoming the permanent headquarter:) of the United Na tions orfcauuiiUuQ Rose Queen ' ' f ' I (.! F (Arm lelophato) Patricia Auman. 17-yoar-old prren eyed brunet, has been chosen Queen of the Pasadena Tournament of Rosen and will rule over the cele brated Xloral fete January 1st. 2,500 FEET OF Tl Plneville, Ky Dec. 27 U.R) A wearied rescue crew fighting its way through smoke and crumbled rock in the Kentucky Straight Crock mine sent back word late this afternoon that they were within 2,500 feet of the place where the explosion occurred yesterday morning. A crewman, his face streaked with smoke and dirt, told wait ing relatives that the men might tunnel through to the place where 31 or more coal miners are trapped by 11 o'clock to night. But he warned that the crew might not break through until "sometime tomorrow aft ernoon." Earlier an emergency call for more volunteers was sent out as nearly exhausted rescue work ers drove doggedly forward In the coal mine. BRIDE-TO-BE SAYS SUITOR BEAT HER Grants Pass, Ore., Dec. 27 (U.R)IIelen Howell, 40, Los An geles, was in a hospital here to day after having been beaten by a man she came here to wed. Police said she arrived here about a week ago to marry Wil liam D. Corey, whom she said she had known for five years. She told police Corey beat her while en route from Grants Pass to his home at Grave Creek. State police found her at a farm house near Grants Pass early Christmas morning. They said Corey corroborated the story of the beating, lie was sentenced to jail for ten days on a guilty plea to driving a car without a license and hav ing a voided foreign license plate. Juvenile Boys Had Supply Of Liquor Two juvenile boys were given a 30-day jail sentence in justice court yesterday following their arrest by state police charged with possession of Intoxicating t liquor. One of the youths also was re-1 manded to the juvenile court to answer to a charge of violation of the basic rule. Truman Calls on Newspaper Staff Hometown Independence Examiner Independence, Mo., Dec. 27 (U.R) President Truman called on the staff of his hometown newspaper, The Independence Examiner, today and then went to his Federal building office in Kansas City to spend two hours shaking hands with old friends before lunching with correspond ents who were covering his holi day (rip. It was the second and last full day of his Christmas holiday at home. The president emerged late from the "Little White House" in Independence, appealing Iirst POLICE SCATTER PICKETS BEFORE STAMFORD PLANT Six Arrested On Charges of Peace Breach Electrical Workers Strike Looms By United Press Police broke up picket llnei at the Yale and Towne Manu facturing Co., Stamford, Conn., today and a nationwide strike of 200,000 electrical workers threatened. Six pickets were arrested on technical charges of breach of peace. The pickets were accused of resisting the efforts of com pany officials to enter the strike bound plant. It was the second time in two days that police had acted against pickets. The police labor detail in Chicago arrested 31 pickets at the Illinois Gear and Machine Co. yesterday. Officials of the United Elec trical Workers announced that the general executive board would authorize a strike early next month in 78 plants of the General Electric Co., Westing house Electric and Manufactur ing Co., and in General Motors' electrical appliance division. $2 Day Boost Wanted UE members are waging a campaign for a $2-a-day pay boost, roughly the equivalent of the CIO United Auto Workers' 30 per cent demand. Negotiations between General Motors and representatives of some 175,000 striking auto work era were at a standstill until to morrow's scheduled meeting with President Truman's fact finding committee. Meanwhile, labor disputes kept a total of 408,000 workers away from their jobs across the country, a United Press survey disclosed. ELKS GIVE $100 TO The Grants Pass Elks started the Meclford American Legion building fund rolling with a check for $100, it was announced at the post meeting at the arm ory Wednesday night. Building finance chairman, O. L. Over myer, reported that the building fund Is making a rapid growth. Many organizations have signi fied their intention of aiding tha veterans' project. , Preliminary plans have been drawn and the complete pro gram will be presented for final approval at the next meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 9, according to building chairman, Merle Jar min. Commander Richard Baize an nounced that several offers of labor assistance have already been received and that as soon as plans are completed the as sembly and club rooms will be rushed to completion. Girl Admits Story Of Baby Kidnaping 'Dreamed Up' Hoax Helena, Mont., Dec. 27 (U.R) Marian King, 24, Willlston, N. D., alius Loretta Anderson, ad mitted to authorities today that she "dreamed up" a story that an unidentified man pushed her from his car on the highway three miles north of here Christ mas day and drove off with her four-wcek-old baby girl. Sheriff E. R. (Chub) Mungcr reported that after further questioning the woman con fessed "there was no baby or husband." He said she carried a bundle in her arms to get "sympathy and rides." at 8:50 a. m. (CST). Ten min utes later he emerged, carrying a briefcase, and Informed aecret service men he wanted to visit the Examiner office as the first order of business. Mr. Truman greeted each member of the staff, visited a few minutes with Col. William Southern, Jr., 81, founder of the paper back in 1898 and still its publisher, and then thanked Frank Rucker, business manager, for an editorial which Rucker had written concerning the pres ident's devotion to his aged . mother.
