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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEfl
30, 1945
NO. 238.
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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
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(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
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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.
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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
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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?"
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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.
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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.