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J. C. PENNEY CO. Sale by Porter J. Neff An nounced; Building in Klam ath Falls Part Payment. Sale of the building at 100 North Ceniral avenue now occu pied by Groceteria No. 1 to the J. C. Penney company has been announced by Porter J. Neff, Medford, former owner. Court records show the consideration to have been $85,000. The three story building in Klamath Falls now occupied by the Penney company was obtained by Mr Neff in the deal. The Groceteria building has a 200-foot frontage on Central avenue and extends 100 feet on Sixth street. It was erected in 1923. Ray F. Baker, manager of the Penney company here, said this morning that he could make no statements at this time concern ing the firm's plans for remodel ing the newly acquired building. William A. Gates, Groceteria owner and manager, stated that he was considering available sites for a new store but that no definite plans had been made. He added that it would probably be late summer before the busi ness could be moved to a new location. HIT By AUTO ON William Rolland Crosby, 58, Talent, severely injured at 1:20 a. m. Tuesday when struck by a car on the highway a mile and a half south of Phoenix, was reported today by his physician to be "holding his own." Crosby Is in Community Hospital here suffering from a 10-inch scalp wound which tore a large por tion of his scalp from his head. Thomas Lawrence Madden, 24, discharged army veteran, driving from Ventura, Calif., to his home at 3723 S. E. Mill street, Portland, operated the car which struck Crosby accord ing to state police and Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris, who in vestigated the accident. Madden told officers that the lights of his car, traveling on a curve at the time of the accident, failed to reveal Crosby, walking on the highway. Madden, who claimed he was driving at a moderate speed, was told to remain in the city pending further investiga tion. Witness to the accident was Johnny Sutton, Gold Hill, whose southbound car approached the scene as the accident occurred. Morris reported that two boys were known to have picked up Crosby and driven him to the Talent Junction. Crosby ap parently became confused, the deputy coroner said, and con tinued south on the highway. Papers in the man's clothing issued by Selective Service Board No. 2 gave his address as Box 47, Talent, and the names of Gladys Seward and L. D. Crosby, Gracagle, Calif., as relatives. Two Die in Smashup Of Luxury Limited BlBney, S. C, Jan. 2 (U.R) The Silver Meteor, luxury 'reamliner of the Seaboard rail d, was derailed four miles i. '.h of here at 5:15 a. m. to c wo persons were killed 3nd 20 injured. The dead were Mrs. Helen E. Wilson, wife of a Negro soldier of New York city, and her infant daughter, Beverly. Her soldier husband. Alonza H Wilson, was among the injured. M0YER WINS T.K.O. IN FIRST PROFESSIONAL GO Portland, Ore.. Jan. 2 (U.R) Portland's ex-amateur boxing star, Tommy Mover, made his professional ring debut here last night by the technical knock out of Tuncrio Lopez of Mexico City in the seventh round of a scheduled 10-round main event. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frank Humphrey insisting upon absolute realism when set ting up his unique holiday decor ations at the Humphrey home. A crowd of poker devotees growing pale upon discovering their fabulous hands resulted from the fact that a pinochle deck had been broken out by mistake. Happy New Year to: R. H. (Just Call Me Nijinsky) , Holmes and Al (Just Call Me F-ads) Tiche. J L Jl2 LTu . 1 LFZ jlQ Jz3 -111 3 b! Jz. m jl MAXL 200,oooTo QUIT MedfordTribune United Press Full Leased Wire V UnlUd Press Full Luted Wire ffl I DUUul UllLll Fortieth Year In Triangle Killing .if .... 5 j Captain Archie B. Miller, 25, of 79 a sr t mJL Win in ..Tin - ' "sCU"' 1 charges of felonious assault after shooting and seriously wounding Cap tain Eugene Dale, 27, of Enid, Okla., In the apartment of Mrs. Pay Han cock, 24, attractive ex-Powers model (right). Miller broke Into his wife's apartment where Mrs. Miller and her sister were talking with Dale and Arthur Gormley. Miller shot three times before he was disarmed. Truman To Urge In Talk to Nation Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) President Truman returned to the capital today from a holiday cruise on the Ptomac, prepared to address the nation by a radio tomorrow night (time not given) in behalf of his legislative pro gram. The Presidential yacht Wil liamsburg arrived here shortly before 8 a. m. EST after an overnight trip from Quantico, Va. The President had break- ENTIRE FAMILY PERISH III FLOOD Eugene, Ore., Jan. 2 (U.R) How a sailor watched helplessly while the swirling waters of Salt Creek near here one by one snatched a family of four to their deaths was related today by John C. Bartlctt of Oakridgc, Ore. The sailor, who was not Iden tified, said he was standing on the opposite bank of the canyon during the flood last Saturday, helpless to give aid, when the car bearing Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mitchell and their two chil dren, of Portland, plunged into the swirling creek where it had cut a huge hole in the highway. The sailor said Mitchell and the two children climbed to the top of the car while Mrs. Mitchell clung to a fender when the vehicle came to a temporary halt a few hundred yards down stream. As Mitchell attempted to reach his wife, one of the children slipped into the stream and vanished. A moment later the other child disappeared. The mother, apparently losing grip on the fender, then was washed away, and then Mitchell plunged into the water. The car was found about a half mile downstream, crushed and mangled. Cultists Escape Kidnaping Charge Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) The supreme court today set aside kidnaping convictions against three members of a Utah religious cult believing in plural marriage. Justice Frank Murphy wrote the 8 to 0 opinion. Justice Robert H. Jackson did not participate COUNTY ROADS SOFT AFTER RECENT RAIN County Engineer Paul B. Kyn ning reported today all roads in the county are in a soggy cun dition with minor damage wnere gravel was washed out in the recent rains. A bridge is out on the Evans Valley road and the Ramsey Road has a slide. Main tenancc crews will make repairs as soon as wea.her conditions will permit. ( Acm Telephoto) Bellevue, Tex. (left) was arrested on Legislative Plan Tomorrow Night fast aboard before leaving for the White House. Mr. Truman had been aboard the Wililamsburg since Friday but it was far from being a com plete holiday from his official duties. He met twice with Sec retary of State James F, Byrnes on state matters and also with his reconversion and labor ad visers in preparation for his ra dio address. No Callers Today The President schedueld no callers for today, concentrating instead on completion of his speech. Because of work on the speech and on his state of the union message to congress later this month, Mr. Truman will not hold a news conference this week. He plans tentatively to meet reporters next Tuesday at 10:30 a. m. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross reminded re porters today that it was "by no means certain" that the Presi dent would go to Capitol Hill to deliver his state of the union message in person, probably on Jan. 15. May Send Message There were other indications that Mr. Truman would send the message to congress, rather than present it personally. The reminder from Ross was prompted by announcement in New York that Mr. Truman would be televised on Capitol Hill as he delivered the message. Ross said that if the President does decide to appear personal ly, television will be permitted. IN FINAL SPURT Building permits issued by the city during December totaled SI 16.055 for 58 permits, records at the city hall show. This in cluded $93,800 for new resi dences and $4,500 for business houses. Community Hospital applied Monday at the city superintend ent's office for permit to remodel the first floor of the building at a cost of $500 and Vcrn E. Rose applied for permit to move a residence from 358 South Oak dale avenue to 520 West Main street at a cost of $1,000. Driver Cuts Groove In Courthouse Lawn County authorities are look ing for a New Year's celebrant who drove his auto across the south lawn of the courthouse! leaving a deep rut, and in mak- ing sharp turns threw three i large clods of sod. A complete! circle of the lawn was made, ap ! parcntly at high speed and the ca.- miraculously missed half a dozen trees. The driver lost his bearings at the Oakdale avenue and King ?.treet intersection and struck out across the lawn. The same thing happened on the Main street side a few days before MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1946 Worst Flood in Years Leaves 5 Dead; Damage Is Estimated Over $5,000,000 PORTLAND CREST FALLS SHORT OF IftW STAGE REA Lineman Drowns in Trying Run Electric Line Across Swollen McKenzie Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 (U.R) Oregon's worst flood in years swept on today, leaving five known dead, five others missing and damage estimated to exceed the $5,000,000 flood of 1943. The crest of the Willamette river flood reached Portland late Tuesday, falling short of the 18 foot flood stage before passing on to join the Columbia. Charles S. Pounds, rural elec trification administration line man, was listed as the fifth known victim of the flood when he drowned after falling Into the swollen McKenzie river Tuesday as he tried to run an electric line across the stream. His body was not found. Bodies of four other flood vistims have been recovered from other swol len streams throughout Oregon. Seek Missing Search was still progressing for five other persons reported missing. In the lower Willamette val ley, where the flood wrought the worst havoc, evacuated fam ilies were returning to their home and business was return ing to normal. The weather bureau reported the river rapidly falling at all flood points in the Willamette valley. Virtually all roads in the state were open to traffic with the ex ception of the South Santiam highway which was closed by a slide. TO ON JAPAN POLICY London, Jan. 2 (O.R) Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet ambassador to Washington, will be the Rus sian reprcsetnative on the Far Eastern commission to formulate Japanese occupation policies for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Tass agency announced today. The council of people's com missars selected Gromyko for the important role. He will be the first Russian to have a direct voice In the control of Japan, since the Russians had abstained from membership in the Far Eastern advisory commission be fore a new arrangement was made at the Big Three foreign ministers conference. A United Press dispatch from Moscow reported that Soviet newspapers yesterday gave two paragraphs to the Far Eastern section of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' radio address. They made no mention whatso ever of MacArthur. The Russians have consistent ly denied foreign reports that they objected to MacArthur. Lyn Charlene Krier Eight-Pound Girl, Is First 1946 Babe Lyn Charlene Krier, born to Mr. and Mrs. William Krier, 229 S. Front street, at 10:07 a. m., yesterday, was Medford's lone New Year's day baby according to reports so far received. The girl, weighing 8 po'inds, was born at the Commuity hos pital. She is the couple's first child. Judy and Evelyn May Cla-no. twin daughters of Mr. and Mis. John Clarno, 1468 Prune street, missed 1948 birthdays by a few hours. They were born at d:55 p. m. and 7:03 p. m.. Monday, at the Osteopathic clinic. The twins are the third and fourth children of the Clarno's who have a girl, aged 6, and boy, ... ... - - 1 Ban Discrimination In Race Or Color For Return Trip Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) Secretary of Navy James For rcstal has taken special steps to end any discrimination because of "race or color" in the return of overseas troops by the navy, it was learned today. In a directive to all ships and stations, Forrestal ordered naval personnel to "adhere rigidly" to regulations aimed at preventing discrimination. His order followed a recent re port that Negro troops had been left at Le Havre, France, by the escort carirer Croatan because it lacked "suitable accommoda tions." The army said the navy was responsible for the decision not to ship the Negro troops aboard the Croatan. STARK BELIEVED FLEET AT PEARL ALERT TO PERIL Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) Adm. Harold R. Stark, former chief of naval operations, said today he did not expect the Jap anese air attack on Pearl Har bor but he thought the fleet there had been properly warned of such a possibility. Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) The Pearl Harbor investigat ing committee today selected Seth W. Richardson, former assistant attorney general In the Hoover administration, as its new chief counsel. Stark told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee that na val authorities in Washington were aware of the possibility of an air assault such as Japan de livered. "It was our intention to put them on guard against such an attack and we thought we had done so," Stark testified. Stark pointed out that direc tives sent to Pacific command ers Nov. 24 and Nov. 27 warned them of the possibility of a Jap anese drive "from any direc tion." He said the navy had nothing to Indicate that an attack on Pearl Harbor was likely. In stead, all the positive informa tion available pointed to the pos sibility of hostilities in the Far East. It was for this reason that the war warning mentioned the pos sibility of an attack on the Phil ippines, Thailand, and Kra Pen insula and possibly Borneo, Stark said. But, he added, the mention of those possibilities "did not rule out the chances that Japan would strike in other directions loo. Kitchen Sink Taken By Busy Burglars Pucnte. Cal., Jan. 2 'UR) Police today were hunting burglars who reached the ulti mate they took the kitchen sink along with other loot. Movie Cameraman H. L. Underwood told officers he had placed a "For Sale" sign on a vacant house, discovered too late that someone had broken in to take the kitchen sink, water heater, and all the plumbing pipe from the house. HEADLESS, HANDLESS BODY OF WOMAN FOUND San Bernardino. Cal., Jan. 2l (U.Ri The headless and handles nude body of a white woman was found today on High Gear road nearly a mile above Arrow-, head Springs hotel, Sheriff Em molt L. Shay announced. Wrapped in an old blue and! white cotton blanket, the body was discovered by passing motorists in a roadside ditch, Shay said. Investigators found automo bile tracks at the side of the highway indicating the body was dumped from a car HITLER ORDERED War Crimes Tribunal Told Edict Issued in 1942; S.S. Mass Slaughter Described Nuernberg, Jan. 2 (U.R) Adolf Hitler issued nn order in October, 1942, -that all American and other allied commandos be "slaughtered" to the last man upon capture, the war crimes tribunal was told today. The order applied to all com mandoes, whether they were dropped on German-held terri tory in Europe and Africa by parachute, or whether they were landed by ship or airplane. All To Die "From now on all enemies on so-called commando missions In Europe or Africa challenged by German troops, even If they are to nil appearances uniformed soldiers, or demolition troops armed or unarmed in battle or in flight are to be slaughtered to the last man," the order read. Hitler's order was Issued few weeks' after the British and Canadian commando raid on Dieppe, in which a few Ameri can Rangers participated. It was dated shortly before the Anglo American Invasion of North Africa. The order was aimed in part at wiping out allied agents and saboteurs who . were harassing th German rear areas, "Even if when found they ap pear prepared to surrender no quarter is to be granted on that principle," the order said. Earlier the tribunal heard evidence that S.S. men, lazily puffing clgarets, lined up hun dreds of naked Ukrainian Jewish men, women and children in a ginnt open grave and slaughter ed them with tommyguns. The prosecution prepared to bring witnesses to testify against Ernst Kiiltonbrunner, oiling nazi security police head. This phase of the case if bring handled by U. S. Navy Lieut. Whitney Harris, Los Angeles. Jobless Increase Noted in Country Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) Unemployed persons in the U. S. numbered 1,710,000 in the week ended Nov. 10, an Increase of 160,000 from the correspond ing week in October, the census bureau said today. A rise of 250,000 In the num ber of unemployed men was partially offset by an increase In women's employment. Total employment in November stood at 51.730.000, an Increase of 170,000 from the month prev ious. The civilian labor force totaled 53.440.000, a rise of 330,000 over October. South Bend, Ind., Jan. 2 UR) Studcbuker Corporation officials nnuounccd today that produc tion and shipment of new auto mobiles, delayed 13 weeks by a labor dispute affecting a major parts supplier, was underway. Resumption of .shipments to dealers involved output of the first passenger cars produced by Studcbaker since January 1942, when production was suspended for output of military goods. Central Point Building Permits Represent $130,200 Value in '45 Central Point, Jan. 2 Thirty, seven permits for building struc tures valued at over $1,000 each, representing a total valuation of $130,200 were issued by '.his city in 1945, according to City Recorder Guy Tex. The figure is unprecedented In Central Point history. Ten of the permits were issued for commercial structuies amounting to $'8.000 and 27 were for new homes totalling NO. 240. UNRRA Chief in Germany Says Project Camouflaged Atrocity Claims Fake. Jerusalem, Jan. 2 (U.R) Palestine government officials announced today that all further Jewish Immigration has been suspended until Great Britain decides what to do with the thousands of Jewish refugees clamoring lor admission to the holy land. Frankfurt, Jan. 2 (UR) Lt Gen. Sir Frerinrlrk E. Mnrcrnn UNRRA chiet In Germany, said today that the Jews in Europe apparently had formulated an organized nlnn for n mna nvnHnc from the continent to Palestine. New York, Jan. 3 (U.R) Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American World Jewish Congress, said today that the statement of en UNRRA of ficial charging European Jews with mast exodus plan "savors of Naiism at Its worst." He said he would bring the "Incredible" statement of Lt. Gen. Sir Fredorick E. Morgan, UNRRA chief in Germany, to the attention of a special meet ing of the congress. Morgan said at a press con- lerencc that he was unablo to put a finger on the purported organization around which such a Jewish movement revolved He soid he believed thot the organization was camouflaged cieariy. Morgan said he was becom lng more and more convinced that reports of pogroms and atrocities against the Jews in Poland were based less and less on fact. He charged that such stories were by-products of an organiz ed Jewish plan to force the United Nations to take some action giving the Jews a perma nent home. Tralnloads of Jews were ar riving in Berlin almost dally from Poland, Morgan said. He added that the pockets of most of the Jews were well lined with money, and they were well fed and well clothed. Their stories of persecution of Jews in Poland he said, were notable for their similarity. Morgan's representatives hove been unable to find any concrete examples of pogroms inside Po land, he said. The stories invar iably were that the atrocities "occurred In the next town," Morgan said. Morgan said at a press con ference that he was unable to put a finger on the purported organization around which such a Jewish movement revolved. WEST COAST POPULATION UP 3 MILLION SINCE '41 San Francisco, Jan. 2 (U.R) K. W. Hunter, regional U. S. employment service director, predicted today that the West coast's 1948 population will show an Increase of more than 3,000,000 over the pre-Pcarl Har bor figure. $72,200. These statistics do not Include permits issued for the Howard Cooper building and for the Sonoma Valley Cheese Factory addition, valuations of which are not yet determined. Permits given for smaller scale construction were 42 and represented a valuation of ap proximately $18,000. Total building in 1944 tvas estimated at $22,000. Butchers' Shelves Empty In Two Weeks If Walkout Comes, Says Union Head. By United Press Leaders of the United Pack inghouse Workers of America (CIO) today called on 200,000 workers to strike Jan. 18 against the nation's meat packers to en force demands for a 25 cent hourly wage increase. Lewis J. Clark, international president of the union, said that 95 per cent of the workers in the meat packing industry would join the walkout, which will af fect Swift, Armour, Wilson, and Cudahy, the big four of the meat packing industry, and a number of independents. Two Weeks Supply "Within two weeks after the start of the strike the butchers' shelves will be bare of meat all the way across the country," Clark said. Negotiations toward reaching a wage agreement will be con tinued despite the strike call, Clark said, but he added that he was not hopeful of a settlement. He said Armour and Company had made the best offer by a major packer, an increase of 714 cents an hour. He said the union was willing to settle with all the packers for an immediate 17 i cents an hour, with the provision that ne gotiations would continue for the remainder of the wage de mand. Bus Strike Looms In Seattle, another strike was threatened when 1,100 bus driv ers issued an ultimatum calling for a city-wide tie-up of bus service beginning Jan. 11, un less agreement is reached by that date with the Seattle Transit commission over union wage hour demands. Meanwhile, President Tru man's fact-finding panel In the steel industry's wage dispute an nounced in Washington that it would begin work Saturday. "The first order of business will be to urge the parties to resume collective bargaining" and avoid a nation-wide steel strike scheduled for Jan. 14, the panel said. Administration labor officials worked overtime to head off threatened strikes by 1,500,000 workers in the next two weeks. TOTAL OVER 401 By United Press At least 401 persons met vio lent deaths over the three-day New Year's holiday week-end, a United Press survey showed to day. Automobile accidents caused 188 of the deaths. The highest accident casualty list was in New York State where 54 persons were killed, 15 in traffic mishaps. California was- second with 41, Illinois third, with 30, Texas fourth, with 29, and Pennsylvania fifth, with 28. California had 25 deaths at tributed to motoring accidents. This was the highest number of traffic facilities reported by any state. Pennsylvania recorded 15 traffic deaths out of a total of 28 dead, while Michigan and Texas each had 12 traffic deaths although only 18 holiday fatali ties of all nature were reported. Only 13 of New York's deaths were blamed on traffic. Wood Alky Party Fatal For Three Dugway, Utah, Jan. 2 (U.R) Wood alcohol drunk during a Nc.v Year' party at the Dugway proving grounds here today had claimed the lives of three serv icemen and left three others hospitalized. Dead of alcohol poisoning were Pvt. James P. Folan, Morse Bluffs, Neb., T4 George H. Johas, Boonevillc. Ark., and T5 John J. Smulck, Bairdford, Pa. Haw Haw Hanging Slated Tomorrow London, Jan. 2 (U.R) William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw" of the German radio, will be hanged tomorrow at Wandsworth pri son. His last hope to escape execution was erased by the de cision of James Chuter Ede, home secretary, not to exercise clemency.
