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Weather FORECAST: Punday, c load j with occasional showers In afternoon, little change In temperature. Temp. Highest Yesterday 60 Lowest this Morning 42 Prec. to 5 p.m. Yesterday, trace. Use The Mall Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Result At Small Cost Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEfl 30, 1945 NO. 238. pji ji 5 m Ml f JV-G MA A RED CROSS, STATE GUARDS CARE FOR FL00DREFUGEES Eugene Armory, High School Utilized Damage Heavy All Travel By Boat Worst Since 1881 Portland, Ore., Dec. 29 (U.R) The Oregon state guard and civilian defense detachments were alerted tonight by Gover nor Earl Snell as the turbulent flood waters of the Willamette river turned 1000 families near f Eugene, Ore., out of their homes. Red Cross spokesmen said they were caring for a majority of the flood refugees in the Eugene armory and high school. Facilities of the University of Oregon at Eugene also were put at the disposal of Red Cross of ficials. A key official from Red Cross headquarters in San Francisco was due at the flood scene to night to make recommendations for rescue operations. Residents in the stricken area declared the rising waters were the worst since 1881 after the flood reached a crest of 18.5 feet. Sudden torrential down pours were imperiling the situa tion. Coast guardsmen aided Red Cross workers by supplying power boats to bring in supplies and to evacuate families strand ed by the swiftly-rising waters. Warnings Given 4 Repeated warnings were broadcast by radio stations in the area for "families to leave their homes at once in fear of sudden rise during the night." Millions of dollars of property and stock damage was reported by owners in the flood vicinity. All communications and travel in Eugene and its surrounding suburbs was by boat. There were no deaths reported or serious in juries, although city health offi cials disclosed a few serious cases of flu in the city's armory, which is housing 800 refugees. Already crowded to capacity by college students, the city of Eugene was bursting at its seams in housing the flood victims. Eugene's mayor asked all resi dents to take in as many persons as possible and hotel lobbies and w mcaicrs opened meir aoors iu T B . allow temporary residence until me enu oi uiu eiiiuigciu-v. Prineville Isolated East of the Cascade mountains the tiny community of Prine ville was marooned with all roads leading to it blocked by rising waters. Traffic throughout the west ern part of the state was para lyzed as state police warned all motorists to stay off the roads unless travel was urgent. Slides were numerous and rising waters covered many high ways. Bus and rail schedules were seriously hampered and it was believed bus travel south from Portland on the coast route would be halted if the water continued to rise. New York, Dec. 29 fU .") Capt. Eugene Dale. 27, sumved the Death March of Bataan but i died alone today, unattended and ; unconsoled by the beautiful ! model whose love for him im-l pelled her husband to shoot. While the dashing hero of the : Philippines died in a hospital of bullet wounds inflicted by Capt. Archie Miller, Fay Hnn cock Miller stayed in hiding, tin-. able to face him or her jailed ' hti5band. j Miller, held without bail.; heard the news of Dale's death I without comment. Booked car-, lier on assault charges, he will j be charged with murder Mon day. PERSHING AIDE PASSES Los Angeles. Dec. 29 UP. Dr. Abraham L. Hitwcll. rirr.tnl aide to Gen. John J. Perhing in World War I. died in his sleep here today. He was 70. Rescue Workers Enter Mine OA r. p; Xf "4j vMa h'i :.s ( M (Acme Telephota) Rescue squad of nine veteran miners march into Straight Creek Mine near Pineville, Ky., to search for some 30 to 50 miners trapped by early morning explosion. These men, some of whom have relatives trapped inside mine, had little hope of finding any victims alive. Pineville, Ky., Dec. 20 CU.R) Loved ones and relatives of at least 22 men entombed some where in the shattered and blaz ing depths of the Kentucky Straight Crock coal mine near here heard the disheartening news tonight that it might take 12 more hours to reach them. Rescue crews, said Foreman Ted Creech leading a new gang into tho shaft, have a good night's work ahead of .them in HIGH WATER EBBS HERE; OVER ROAO AT SAVAGE While leaving no serious or costly damage to public road ways according to reports, over flowing streams and ditches flooded roads in northern, west ern and eastern sections of the county, Friday. The water was subsiding yesterday. Principally traveled route ef fected was the Pacific highway near Savage dam and just in side the Jackson county line. State police stated that section was blocked from 5 p. m. Friday until 10:30 a. m. yesterday. Water covered the road surface to a depth of about three feet. The Bybce bridge route was the chief county-maintained road blocked, Paul B. Rynning, coun ty engineer, said. It was closed early Friday evening and judged passable about noon yesterday although warning signs were still up. An area north of the bridge was flooded to a three foot depth. Also blocked were the Elk creek road at Fiat creek, the Kirtland road where the fill in at one end of a bridge near the Camp White boundary was washed out, the Ramsey canyon route between Evans creek and Sams Valley and the road near the Watkins' school in the Upper Applegate region. A slide cov ered the Ramsey canyon road. King's highway was reported under water in many places Fri day evening. Clocged ditches and culverts resulted in numerous small floods throughout the valley ac cording to Rynning. These would take time to clear out, he said. Motorists en route between Mcdford and Grants Pass were forced to detour via the Ruch route or by the back road be tween Grants Pass and Rogue River. Portland. Ore. Dre. 29 UP Operators and drivers of Overland Greyhound Lines will meet here Jan. 5 to resume negotiations of the wage dispute! which has tir-d up the company buses sinre Oct. 1. it was dis closed today. ; Washington. Dec. 29 TJ P. j Vice Adm. Howard L. Vickery' has rsizn.'d as vice chairman of tho ma'time corr.mi-ion and deputy administrator of the war , shipping dmiisWr:itifin. the White House announced today. 1 1 clearing away tons of rock slate, coat and fallen timbers clogging the main slope between them and the side shaft called "6-Left" where the men are be lieved to be. Miners said tho great mass of wreckage and rubble still burn ing but not as fiercely as a few hours before probably lay at the point where the mammoth underground explosion went off Wednesday morning. NEXT WITNESS IN IRY Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R) Adm. Harold R. Stark, who was barred from any navy position requiring superior judgment be cause of "faults of omission" in connection with the Dec. 7, 1H41. disaster, goes before the con gressional Pearl Harbor inquiry Monday. Stark will be the first witness as the committee resumes ncar ings following a one-week Christ mas recess. He was chief of naval operations when the Jap anese attacked the U. S. fleet at its Pacific outpost. Secretary of Navy James For restal, on basis of a navy court of inquiry on Pearl Harbor, found that Stark and Adm. Hus band E. Kimmel. commander of the Pacific fleet, failed from Nov. 27 to Dec. 7, 1941, "to dem onstrate the superior judgment necessary for exercising com mand commensurate with their rank and their assigned duties." Ho directed that they should be barred henceforth from navy posts requiring such judgment. Stark's appearance before the congressional inquiry will be his first chance to give publicly his version of events prior to the Japanese attack. Committee members and coun sel were expected to question Stark closely about the decision to base the fleet at Pearl Harbor as a deterrent to Japanese gression in the Far East. Stark may be asked whether he agreed with the late Presi dent Roosevelt that the presence of the fleet at Pearl Harbor actually was a deterrent to the Japanese, or with Adm. J. O Richardson, former fleet com mander. that it would have been more effective in that role if it had been returned to the Pacific coast and readied for action. DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECT Los Angeles. Dec. 29 'U.Ri Police today arrested Thomas Pidgron, 40. on suspicion of a double murdnr they at first thought was the result of a murder-suicide pact. SOVIET NAMES WOMAN London. Dec. 29 fU.R The Soviet Union has named a worn an, Yiikova Zakharovicha Sunt sa, to be Ru.-ian ambasvadoi to Brazil. Radio Moscow reported tonight. I Broadcast Set for 10 0'Clock Secretary of State Con fers with Truman Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, who returned here today from the foreign ministers con ference, will make a radio ad dress to the nation tomorrow night at 10 p. m. on the agree ments reached at Moscow. Byrnes tonight joined Presi dent Truman aboard the yacht Williamsburg on the Potomac river to give the chief executive a first hand report on the Big Three meeting of foreign secre taries. The secretary's broadcast will be carried over the National Broadcasting system, the state department announced. Byrnes is expected to discuss the decisions he reached with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Russian Foreign Com missar V. M. Molotov for inter national control of atomic power and for a Russian voice in the rule of Japan. A few hours nflcr Byrnes landed at National airport here, he boarded another plane for a hop to an airport near where the Willitfmsburg was riding at anchor. Byrnes arrived aboard tlie yacht at 5 p. m. .The president and small group of advisers were in seclusion aboard the yacht mapping out the president's Jan. 3 radio ad dress and his later state of the union message to congress. Byrnes faced many questions about the ) 2-day meeting, in Moscow and the agreements reached questions which mem bers of the senate foreign rela tions committee and others felt were unanswered by the com munique issued at close of the conference. Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., foreign relations chairman, talk ed briefly with Byrnes and ar ranged to talk with hiin again tomorrow before leaving with other members of the U. S. dele gation for the opening session of the United Nations organization in London next mopth. KLAMATH TRAINS PASS THRU CITY All trains normally routed by way of Klamath Falls were to pass through Medford last night, a Southern Pacific repre sentative said yesterday. High water in the Eugene and Spring field areas was given as the rea son. The morning train from the north failed to arrive yesterday because of high water between Eugene and Roseburg. Upon ar rival in Eugene it turned back and returned to Portland. Since it carircd Portland newspapers for distribution in this area, de livery in Mcdford yesterday was delayed. According to the spokesman, the southbound morning train was expected to be in on sched ule today. Some of the trains will be extras routed through to take care of the backlog in traffic. Portland Boy Dies In Heroic Rescue Portland. Ore.. Dec. 29 'UP) A nine-year old Portland boy was burned to death early to day while attempting to rescue his younger brothers from their flaming home. The lad Gary Odrll Hutching son of Mr and Mrs. Edgar D. Hutchins. died after aiding two of his brothers to escape the flames and returning to the second floor of the house in un effort to rescue his seven-year old brother Larry. The dead boy and his injured i br ither were asleep in an up j stairs room when the blaze i broke ou L Corporation Battles Threat Of "Regimented Economy' Sloan Statement Says Detroit, Dec. 29 (U.RI Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of Gen eral Motors, said tonight in his first public statement on the 31) day GM strike that the corpora tion was battling the threat of a regimented economy" in its stand against President Tru man's fact-finding board. Sloan, in a joint statement with President C. E. Wilson, sought to define the corpora tion's fight as one in behalf of all American businessmen, rath er than for its own interests alone. Sloan's no-compromise chal lenge, amplifying the stand tak en by GM when it rejected in tervention by the fact-finding panel Friday, came as strike set tlement efforts ground to a halt. The panel carried on its hear ings at Washington minus GM participation, discussing with CIO United Auto Workers lead ers whether a lengthy strike would impair GM's ability to meet the union's 30 per cent pay demands. Elsewhere in the GM strike picture, there was a lull. The corporation, continuing its cam paign to open its 93 strikebound pit. its to its 5J.000 nun-striking office workers, failed to obtain an anti-pickcting injunction in Detroit. Sloan's statement made it plain that GM intended to ne gotiate its wage dispute with the UAW on a straight colclctive bargaining basis or not at all UAW headquarters in Detroit said there was no comment on Sloan's entry in the dispute, pointing out that any responses would have to come from top UAW leaders who are in Wash ington for the presidential panel hearings. Agreement by the union and the panel that the corporation s ability to pay was a factor in the wage dispute was sharply criticized by the GM chairman as involving a "surrender of the responsibility of management." "Is American business in the future, as in the past, to be con ducted as a competitive system?" Sloan asked. "Or is the determination of the csesnlial economic factors such as costs, prices, profits, etc., upon which business success and progress depend, to be made po litically by some governmental agency?" E Washington, Dec. 29 OJ.R) Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace tonight called for establishment of a permanent fair employment practices com mittee so that "every man who wants a job can get a Job." 'Job-seeking negroes have been and are being, denied Jobs because they arc negroes," he told the national convention of Omega Psi Phi a negro frater nity. "There cannot be full em ployment without fair employ ment, the fight against planners of World War III is on. The battle against bigotry, oppres sion and greed is our battle." Noted Dead Hollywood, Dec. 29 .U.R. Funeral services for novelist ' Theodore Dreiser, whose words i pictured a materialistic America, I will be held Thursday afternoon j at Forest Lawn cemetery, it was ! announced tonight. j Dreiser, 74, died Friday of a heart attack, the second within i the space of 24 hours. Born in Tcrre Haute, Ind. Aug. 27, 1871, Dreiser worked! as a newspaper reporter until 1912, served as editor of two magazines, and achieved fame with "An American Tragedy" in 1925. AE OF L BALKS AT PINE PACT MADE Policy Committee Frowns Upon Wage Clause for Coming Year Portland, Ore.. Dec. 29 (U.RI Settlement of the pine lumber industry ,-trike in the Klamath Falls basin area today may run into a snag according to an nouncement by the northwest policy committee. AFL lumber and sawmill workers. The AFI. strike committee declares the contract signed by Klumatli basin union officials and pine industry relations as sociation will not be used as a basis for a settlement of the re maining pine strike. Negotiations in the Klamath area, which involve 19 operators. 14 companies and approximately 2500 employees, were completed after a three months strike In which the union asked a straight 15 cent an hour raise in basic wages. The Klamath basin area negotiated on a separate basis and the agree ment there does not affect the more than 200 pine operations still on strike, union officials announced. Objection of the policy now in session at Spokane, Wash., to the settlement was over a clause in the contract that "this wage increase shall solve the general wige problems for 1940 and un less there is a substantial change in the marketing conditions or operating conditions of the em ployer, any increase In price coiling granted by the OPA to compensate employers for this wage Increase shall not be con sidered as e reason for Institut ing wage discussions." The com mittee claimed the clause froze wages for 1948 when the entire trend of wages was upward. T COOS BAY 55-39 Rolling easily but raggedly at times the Medford high basket ball five drubbed a less in ex perienced Marshfield high of Coos Bay, 55-39, on the local court last night. The Tigers went in front eBily In the first canto and were never seriously challenged. Medford led 15-4 at the quarter and 27-17 at the half. Reserves of the Simp son crew saw much action. Jerry Ross canned 18 points for the winners to head the scor ers while Ken Johnson of the losers was second high with 13 Derrell Kiggs, back in tho lineup for the home team after a seige of the flu, was In long enough to ring the bell for nine maik crs. Mcdford high junior varsity beat Medford junior high, 35 13, in the prelim. Lineups: Mcdford (55) (39) Marshfield Stcllc, 4 f 8, O'Neal Itoss, 18 f 2, M'tgomery Watson, 9 c Aveline Bostwick, 10 g 2, Hunt Reich, 4 g 13, Johnson Subs: Medford Riggs 9, Singler 2; Marshfield Miller 2, Duncan 8, Bruce 4. Referees: Norm Worthley and Leonard. Warren. PRINTERS TO VOTE Seattle, Dee. 29 (U.R) A half million newspaper readers here waited results of tomorrow's voting by striking printers on a new publishers' proposal, accept ed by union officials, to end the 42 day strike over wage Increase demands. NICE TRIP San Francisco, Dec. 29 (U.R) Members of the senate Mead investigating committee arrived here tonight from Washington, en route to Honolulu on a world wide inspection tour. SOLDIER MURDERED Rome, Dec. 2ft URi U. S authorities searched tonight for two Yugoslav soldiers, they blamed for the slaying of I'fc. William J. Shinn of Philadelphia Christmas Eva- Nazi Brute Hanged London. Dec. 29 (U.R) Outside the crematorium where countless bodies of the estimated 2,000,000 victims of the Maidanek concentration camp were consumed. Paul Hoffman, German chief exe cutioner of the death camp was hanged Friday before an audience of 15.000 Poles. Bri tish pross dispatches said to day. Hoffman, the "mad man of Maidanek," and one of the top-ranking names on the Polish list of German war criminals, was forced to go to the gallows In his German SS uniform, a News Chronicle Wor6nw dispatch said. CEILING PRICES T, CHEESE BOOSTED Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R) Ceiling prices on used passenger cars will be reduced four per cent on Jan. 1, the office of prke administration announced today. It applied to used cars sold by dealers or private owners. An OPA price regulation for used cars provides that ceiling prices be reduced four per cent every six months to cover de preciation. A four per cent re duction in ceiling prices prev iously became effective July 1. Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R) The government announced to night that consumer celling prices on American cheese will go up about five cents a pound Feb. 1. The office of price adminis tration said the increase will be allowed to compensate manufac turers for the loss of the 3:!i cent a pound cheese subsidy which the agriculture depart ment has been paying them since December, 1942. The agriculture department said this subsidy will end Feb. 1. T E LOW COST CLOTHING RULES Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R) The civilian production admin istration today cracked down on 100 garment manufacturers manufacturers who have acquir ed more material than they were entitled to under their priority ratings. OPA has sent telegrams to these manufacturers, located from coast to coast, ordering them suspended from all prior ity ratings until a full investiga tion can be made. If Investigations show there have been willful violations of the OPA priorities program, they will be referred to the de partment of justice for criminal action," OPA reported. Some cases are already In preparation, according to the agency. Under the OPA low-cost clothing program manufactur ers who agreed to sell clothing In the low-priced ranges were granted priority ratings for the purchase of textiles. The OPA compliance division has made Investigations which disclose that more than 100 clothing manufacturers have doctored their rating slips from 50 per cent to as much as 400 per rent. This practice may have fed the black market and upset the OPA program to chan nel fabrics into the production of much needed low-cost cloth ing, tho agency said. 30 Days Sentence For Theft of 15c San Diego, Dec. 29 (U.R) Leslie LcRoy Norris, 36, today faced the next 30 days in jail after he assertcdly had stolen 15 cents from the cup of a news paper vendor, police reported. Municipal Judge Stanley Howe passed the sentence after charg ing Norris with disorderly con duct. The money was stolen, Nor ris said, while the news vendor was absent from his stand and "I i wanted the money to buy a bot- j tie of wine." i HITLER DREAMED HIS WILLSHOWS Secret Testament Found in Bavaria Swore Ven geance on World Jewry Nuernberg, Dec. 29 (U R) T Secret nazi documents disclosed today that Adolf Hitler left a political testament pledging tha German nation to an unending fight against "international Jewry." They also revealed tha macabre details of his marriaga to his blonde mistress, Eva Braun, only 24 hours before they committed suicide in the flamin'tf reichschanccllory. The political testament, a per sonal will, and the marriaga license to which he and Eva scrawled their signatures, wero among documents seized by American and British tntelli. gence agents in a raid on a nazl hideout in a Bavarian village. The testament unfolded Hit. ler's hopes for World War Ilf. It and the others were discovered in a battered old suitcase whera they had been hidden by a nazl underling who escaped from Berlin after the fuehrer's suicide. They also seized a two-paga typewritten personal will die taled by Hitler which directed; that the bodies of "myself and my wife" were to be burned. The fuehrer signed it and his) eight-page political testament in a scrawled but legible hand, and his signature was identified posi. lively after a minute comparison with samples of his handwriting. American investigators said all the documents apparently had been stored for months in a damp place. Many of the pages were water-smeared, but all wera legible. His testament ordered the war to go on after his death at any cost and prophesied that tho German people would rise from the ruins of their cities to wreak vengeance on "world Jewry." With the marriage licensa which he and the 35-ycar-old Efa took out on the eve of their deaths, was a description of tho wedding ceremony held in the chancellory's underground shelt er to the thunder of Russian guns overhead. Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, American Third army command er, said the secret nazi docu ments had been found on a tip received by a British ptclligcnce officer the day after Christmas. The British agent was inform ed that Martin Bormann's adju tant had escaped from Berlin after Hitler's death and was hiding in the Bavarian village of Tcrgensec. The adjutant, Wilhelm Paus tin, slipped out of the chancel lory Just before tho Russians captured it, carrying the secret documents which he had been ordered to deliver personally to Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz, whom Hitler had named president of the rcich. A quick search of the house produced the bag, which had been battered and scratched for camouflage purposes. Hitler's political testament named a war cabinet, with Goeb bels as chancellor and Doenitz as president, to carry on the war after his death. "Continue the war with all means," Hitler told the band of nazl chieftains huddled about him In the flaming chancellory. Then he launched Into his diatribe against Jewry and wash ed his hands of the blood of millions killed In World War II. He swore again that Germany was forced into the conflict by pro-Jewish allied statesmen and pledged an international war against the Jewish race. GEN. BRANN KILLED Vienna. Sunday, Dee. 30 (U.R Maj. Gen. Donald W. Brann, deputy commander of U. S. forces in Austria, was killed yesterday while hunting In the Tyrol, Gen. Mark W. Clark an nounced today. NO PAPER TUESDAY In accordance with past custom the Mail Tribune will not publish on January 1, New Year's d.iv.
