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MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1945.
NO. 236.
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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
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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
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(.! 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.