Town's Industry Tied Up By Mass Union Demonstration
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Fortieth Year
SHAMEFUL ABUSE
OF MARTIAL LAW
IS LAIOTO ARMY
Sen. MacCarran Wants In
quiry Into Actions In Ha
waii; Army Courts Also Hit
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R)
Sen. Pat MacCarran, D., Nov.,
today accused the army of
shameful abuses in administra
tion of martial law and prom
ised a congressional investiga
tion. MacCarran, chairman of the
Senate Judiciary committee,
said the inquiry should also cov
er the army's court-martial sys
tem. He said particularly objec
tionable practices occurred
while military law was in force
in Hawaii where, he declared,
innocent persons suffered pun
ishment "worse than just being
locked up."
Private Inquiry
"If Hawaii typifies military
law as administered by the
army, then somebody should let
the army know it is not the gov
' emment of the United States,
and that the constitution of the
United States still prevails,"
MacCarran said in an interview,
x Disclosing that he had been
carrying on a private investiga
tion, MacCarran said that "if one
half of what I have heard is true,
then there are some people
wearing chevrons who should be
wearing stripes.'"
MacCarran said his informa
tion came from "many sources."
He said he had not asked the
army for an official report "be
cause if I did, I knew that it
would be smothered up and
I'm not going to let anything be
smothered up."
Backs Morse
MacCarran said he might use
as a vehicle for the inquiry a
resolution introduced by Sen.
Wayne Morse, R., Ore. It calls
for an investigation of army and
navy courts martial by a special
committee composed of three
members from each of the judi
ciary, military and naval com
mittees. Morse also has complained of
injustices which he says were
committed and still are being
committed by courts martial.
He said today that he also had
received a particularly large
number of complaints from Ha
waii. T
AT 7 TONIGHT IN
Washington, Jan. 3 (UR)
President Truman goes on the
air tonight to seek strong public
support in his fight to overcome
congressional indifference to his
legislative program.
He will deliver a 30-minutc
nationwide radio address from
the White House at 7 p. m. (PST )
It will be broadcast by all net
works. He will list for the nation the
basic provisions of his program
and explain the status of the
many individual proposals to
which congress thus far has
given little support.
Mr. Truman was not expected
to ask for anything new, but
merely to restate and stress the
need for White House proposals
already pending before the
house and senate.
After nearly 10 months in of
fice, Mr. Truman finds most of
his major requests of congress
unanswered.
Myrna Loy Late
For Ceremonies
San Pedro, Cal.. Jan. 3 (U.R)
Actress Myrna Loy, 38. whose
next picture will be "I Married
A Sailor." was ten minutes late
today for the ceremony in which
she was married to Commodore
Gono Markov, 51 year-old movie
producer.
Adm. William F. (Bull) Hal
sey was best man.
Twenty close friends "heard
Capt. M. M. Leonard, navy chap
lain, read the marriage vows.
This was the third time each had
been married.
El Salvador is one of the (
principal producers of indigo.
Medford
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UNO Delegates Leave for London
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United Nations Organization delegates embark for London, England, aboard Queen Elizabeth at New York
City They are (left to right) Sen. Tom Connally, D, Texas; Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg R, Michigan; for
mer Secretary of State Edward B. Steltinius, Jr., and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FIRS! NATIONAL
GETS CENTRAL PL
Central Point, Jan. 3 All
bonds on the city water project
here have been sold to the First
National Bank of Portland, the
only bidder, Guy Tex, city re
corder, and Harry C. Skyrman,
city attorney, stated this morn
ing. The bond issue is $114,500
and the interest will be two and
one-half per cent.
Sale was made at the regular
meeting of the council last night.
The bonds will be? payable over
a period of approximately 22
years, Skyrman said. An amount
of 98 cents on the dollar was
offered by the bank.
Bonds are in two issues, one
of $34,500 for installation and
tieing in to the Medford water
system and the other of $80,000
for repair, installation and ex
tension of mains in Central
Point.
Skyrman declared that the
city would advertise for bids on
the work within a couple of
weeks and that construction
should begin with the coming
of good weather. Eight inch pipe
will be laid from Central Point
out to the junction of the old Pa
cific highway and the airport
road where the pipe will be join
ed to an eight inch Medford
main.
Central Point will maintain
its present water storage facili
ties for emergency purposes, the
attorney stated.
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Washington, Jan. 3 (U.P)
The Agriculture department re
vised earlier estimates today and
predicted that farm prices would
stay at present high levels for
the next few months.
Its economists now believe
that 1945 farm income will sur
pass earlier predictions by more
than $300,000,000 to reach an
all-time high of $21,500,000,000.
In October, the department
said demand for farm products
ir-nnM remain hieh in 1946. but,
even so that income was likely
to slip 10 or la per cent. How
ever, consumers have been de
manding farm goods at an un
preccdentedly high rate and the
department now believes prices
will remain close to wartime
peaks at least for the first ttv
months of the New Year.
Slim Summerville
Has Second Stroke
Laguna Beach, Calif., Jan. 3
iU.R) Slim Summerville, the
screens leading portrayer of
"hick" parts, was seriously ill
at his home here today with his
second stroke in recent weeks.
"Mr. Summerville is a very
sick man, his physician. Dr. Ar
thus Harris, said.
The 54-year-old veteran movie
comedian, one of the original
Keystone cops, was confined to
his bed and was not permitted
visitors.
Full Leased Wire
UNO Committee Leaves To Select
Permanent Headquarters Location
London, Jan. 3 (U.R) A six
man United Nations committee
will arrive in New York city
Saturday to select a permanent
headquarters site for the UNO
in the Boston or New York area,
it was announced today.
The site delegation, which
ARMY FLYING GUT
TO
Portland, Ore., Jan. 3 (U.R)
A program to limit all cross
country flights to the "more ex
perienced pilots" and keep a
closer check on wintertime fly
ing in the Pacific northwest was
announced today by the 4th air
force through the Portland army
air base.
The regulations were set In an
attempt to reduce the growing
number of accidents involving
air force planes which the 4th
air force blamed on "adverse
weather conditions and lack of
sufficient maintenance person
nel." Apply To All
Thry apply to all flights under
the jurisdiction of the 4th air
force which includes all western
states.
During the winter cross-country
flying will be limited to
pilots with the following train
ing: Command pilots with 15
years' experience, senior pilots
with five years and more than
1.500 hours, other pilots with
1.500 hours and a green instru
ment card (earned after 100
flying hours on actual instru
ments In addition to passing
flight and written tests).
"Pilots with less than 1.500
hours will not be cleared if in
strument conditions prevail."
Unofficial tabulations show 43
army, navy and marine plane
crashes in Oregon and Washing
ton during 1945 with a total of
118 persons killed and three in
jured, RETURN TONIGHT
Washington. Jan. 3 0J.R)
Price Chief Chester Bowles has
promised that price controls will
be lifted in the future only when
it is certain that "prices arc not
going to advance sharply."
Bowles' promise came as OPA
announced that ceiling prices- on
fresh citrus fruits would be re
stored one minute after midnight
tonight.
OPA said it was necessary to
restore price ceilings because
prices in many instances have
more than doubled since controls
were lifted Nov. 19.
UTAH TO CELEBRATE
Salt Lake City, Jan. 3 U.R
Fifty years of statehood will be
celebrated by Utah tomorrow
in a series of statewide observances.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
Conference
tAcma Telenholol
originally was scheduled to leave
for the United States today, will
board a Pan American Airways
Clipper tomorrow and i3 expect
ed to start its real sstate searcn
early next week.
Temporary headquarters of
the group will be in New York s
Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Its mis
sion is to find 40 or 50 square
miles of 'beautiful land" near
but not too near Boston or New
York where the proposed inter
national city of the UNO can be
erected.
The delegation is headed by
Dr. Stoyau Gavrilovic of Yugo
slavia and Its secretary is Hun
tingdon Gilchrist of the United
States, who already Is in Amer
ica. ,
J.J.
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R)
The federal communications
commission has granted author
ity for operation of six FM
broadcast stations In Oregon.
Five of the six stations are
planned for Portland. In addi
tion, applications are pending
for three more Oregon stations.
Applications granted and loca
tions include:
Mrs. W. J. Virgin, Medford:
KXL Broadcasters, Portland;
Broadcasters Oregon Ltd., Port
land: Pacific Radio Advertising
Service, Portland; Oregonian
Publishing Co., Portland; and
KOIN, Inc., Portland.
Pending applications are:
Medford Printing Co., publish
er of the Medford Mail Tribune,
for a Medford station: KALE,
Inc.. Portland, for a station east
of Portland, and Westinghousc
Radio Stations Inc., Portland.
Mrs. Virgin plans to begin
construction of the new station
as soon as materials are avail
able according to Arthur Adler,
manager of station KMED. Adler
stated that Mrs. Virgin's permit,
one of the first 64 granted in the
United States, was issued four
months ago. that a site had been
secured and plans completed for
the new station, but that at the
present materials arc unavail
able. Two-Headed Baby
Given Oxygen As
Strength Drops
Birmingham, Eng., Jan. 3
(U.R) A two-headed baby girl
born Tuesday to the wife of an
American soldier was reported
"feeble and under oxygen" to
day. The nurse in charge of the
maternity ward at Selly Oak
hospital, where the child was
born, said it was too early to tell
whether the girl would live,
"since babies frequently turn
feeble and then have a turn for
the better and improve."
The mother, whose name was
not disclosed, was reported
"well." She was permitted to
I understand that she had given
I birth to twins.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3,
MINUTE ZONE
Parking from Riverside Ave
nue to Bear Creek Bridge
Reduced by Council Rule.
In action taken to eliminate
a bottleneck In traffic, city coun
cilmcn last night designated East
Main street 011 both sides of the
thoroughfare between Riverside
avenue and the Bear creek
bridge a 15 minute parking zone.
Councilmen, In their opening
session of the year, emphasized
the strain of long and double
parking in this area of heavy
business and traffic. The move
was taken In an effort to make
traffic flow more freely.
In other action the council
safety committee was appoint
ed to work with a citizen com
mittee to view the matter of ob
taining better equipment and
providing improved methods of
caring for victims of accidents
and disasters in the city. A dele
gation headed by the Reverend
Elvln S. Hansen and by Larry
Neely brought the matter to the
council's attention.
Lots Sold
The following lots were sold:
Lot 8, block 3, Medford Heights
addition, to Robert C. Cuffel for
$175; lot 9, block 7, Medford
Heights addition, to Everett E.
Cuffel for $175; lot 7, block 3,
Narregan addition, to John Per
kins for $300; lots 7 and 8, block
4, Medford Heights addition, to
Winston K. Marks for $350; lot
7, block 4, Mary Place addition,
to H. F. Girard for $400; lot 10
and part of lot 11. block 7, Med
ford Heights addition, to John A.
Hunter for $350.
Lots 12 and 13, block 7, less
section east side, Medford
Heights dddition, to Mallus L.
Robinson for $350; lot 15 and lot
14 less part of cast side, Med
ford Height addition, to Gerald
Hcmpel for $175; lot 9, block 3,
West Walnut Park addition, to
Richard I. Simmins for $100;
lots 9 and 10, block 4, Medford
Heights addition, to Robert E.
Young for $350; lots 11 and 12,
block 4, Medford Heights addi
tion, to Harry F. Nordwick for
$875; lot 6, block 2, Summit Ave
nue Heights addition, to Philip
G. Humphreys for $275; lot 5,
block 2, Columbus avenue
Heights addition, to George Lu
ther and Maude M. Robinson for
$400; a 50 foot lot on West 4th
street, to Ray E. Robinson for
$400.
FLOODlClS
TO
Portland, Ore., Jan. 3 (U.R)
More than 1,000 families were
returning to their homes in the
lowlands of the Willamette river
valley tod'iy after western Ore
gon's worst flood in 50 years.
Many of the dwellings were
destroyed or badly damaged by
the rampaging waters of the Wil
lamette river, however, and red
Cross worl-.crs prepared to give
relief and rehabilitation to an
estimated 1,000 families.
Springfield, just south of Eu
gene, was hardest hit by the
flood and the Red Cross set up
an emergency relief office there.
Nine persons lost their lives
In the flood. An estimate of the
tola! damage has not been made,
but State Highway Engineer R.
H. Baldock said damage to the
state's highways alone would
probably approached $175,000.
Seattle 47 Days
Sans Newspapers
Seattle, Jan. 3 (U.R) With
Seattle In Its 47th newspaperlcss
day. publishers and a sub-committee
representing striking un
ion printers were scheduled to
meet today In a new attempt to
settle the wage dispute that
halted publication of the Star,
Times and Post-Intelligencer
Nov. 19.
The conferees will renew con
sideration of a demand by mcm
be.s of the AFL International
Typographical union for a daily
wage increase of $2.95. Some 200
printers employed by Seattle's
three major dailies already have
turned down three contracts ne
gotiated by union officials and
publishers. 1
TRIBUNE
United Press Full
1946
F.D.R. SURPRISED
BY JAP ATTACK IS
Stark Says No Official Had
Advance Information of
Definite Attack Plan.
Washington, Jan. 3t-(U.R)
The Pearl Harbor committee
heard today that the late Presi
dent Roosevelt said as recently
as the summer of 1944 that he
was surprised when the Jap
anese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Adm. Harold L. Stark, former
chief of naval operations, told
the committee there was no ad
vance information among any
Washington officials prior to
Dec. 7, 1941, that Japan definite
ly Intended to attack the United
States at Pearl Harbor or; else
where. Surprise Mentioned
Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D., 111.,
questioned Stark specifically
about posible advance informa
tion and about whether Mr.
Roosevelt had reason to believe
the Hawaiian defense were prop
erly alerted.
Stark said he thought Mr.
Roosevelt felt Pearl Harbor was
properly alerted.
"I specifically recall his state
ment to me that he was sur
prised by the attack on Pearl
Harbor. He said that to me as
late as last summer."
Stark obviously meant the
summer of 1944, since Mr. Roose
velt died April 12, 1945.
Stark Gratified
He said he was "gratified" to
hear the president's remark at
the time because he (Stark) had
testified to the same effect be
fore a na-y court of inquiry a
day or two earlier.
Under examination by Lucas,
the former chief of naval opera
tions denied what Lucas called
"rumors" that Washington offic
ials had advance knowledge as
t- the preciso hour and site of
the Japanese attack, or that Ja
pan was trapped into the attack
"so it would be easier to get
congress to declare war."
JEW OESTRUCTION
POLICY OF NAZIS
Nuernberg, Jan. 3 (U.R)
Dciter Wisliceny, Jewish affairs
specialist of the notorious Nari
SS, testified at the war crimiruls
trial today that the SS policy
from 1942 onward was "the
planned destruction of all Jews."
Wisliceny was the second Nazi
to testify today on the planned
policy under which the Nazi
police organizations systemati
cally carried out thousands of
executions.
The first witness was Maj.
Gen. Otto Ohlcndorf, one of
Heinrich Himmlcr's chief hench
men, who told how he person
ally directed execution of 1)0,000
Jews and Russians in 1941 and
1942 "to relieve a housing shortage."
Traitor Haw Haw Hanged;
Farewell Note Defends Stand
London,' Jan. 3 (U.R) Wil
liam (Lord Haw Haw) Joyce of
nazi radio notoriety died on the
gallows at Wandsworth prison
for high treason today after
writing, according to unconfirm
ed reports, a ranting defense of
the llitlerian Ideology which
brought his downfall.
The Brooklyn-born Joyce was
reported by the Evening Stand
ard to have handed to his broth
er during a farewell visit a state
ment In which he said:
"In death as in this life I
defy the Jews who caused this
war, and I defy the power of
da.kness which they represent.
I warn the British people against
the crushing imperialism of the
Soviet Union. I am proud to die
for my ideals, and I am sorry
for the sons of Britain who have
died without knnwning why."
The traitor who once taunted
Britain by radio trembled as he
walked across the prison yard
to the gallows, but he refused
assistance. Dressed in a blue suit,
he stood quietly on the trap
door while Executioner Albert
Pierrcpont put the hangman's
noose around his neck- 1
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Adm. Harold R. Stark, former chief
of Naval Operations, defends himself
before the Pearl Hnrbor Investigat
ing Committee against charges of
"faults of omission" In connection
with the Pearl Harbor disaster,
Stark insisted that he sent "ade
quate" watnlngs to Pacific Command
before Pearl Harbor to alert them
against a Jap attack.
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Grants Pass, Jan. 3 Grunts
Pass council members last night
tabled the matter of signing a
contract for installation of park
ing meters in the city's business
section after a petition opposing
the meters had been presented.
The petition bore 1200 names
according to Mayor Joe Whar
ton, who said that the meter
problem might be again consid
ered at the next meeting.
The petitions and ballots,
printed in Issues of the Grants
Pass Courier, were circulated
last month after the council had
voted to enter Into a contract
with a parking meter company.
A large percentage of signatures
were from residents living in
areas adjacent to Grants Pass.
Callmed Unsound
Business men of the city cir
culated the petitions which stal
ed the meters were believed to
be "economically unsound and
an actual detriment to the fu
ture development and welfare
of the community." Many ac
companied their ballots with
comments to the effect that cus
tomers did not feel they should
be made to pay for the privilege
of trading in Grants Pass stores,
that Grants Pass was too small
for such a move, that it would
discourage trade and tourists.
Out of 207 ballots returned to
the Courier, but three favored
installation of the meters.
At least four of his fascist
sympathizers stood in the shiv
ering crowd of 300 outside the
stone walls of the southwest
London prison. Reinforced police
guards and a group of British
soldiers on leave were at the
prison gate, ready for trouble,
but there was no demonstration
when the execution notice was
posted at 9:08 a. m.
One of the little traitor's sup
porters bared his head and stood
at attention as the crowd jam
med against the big green gate
to read the words, "The judg
ment of death was this day exe
cuted on William Joyce."
Three other young men step
ped behind a clump of trees and
removed their hats when the 9
a. m. execution hour passed.
A small woman standing near
them, a shawl protecting her
head from the frost, said, "Good
riddance."
Born an American, Joyce
came under British Jurisdiction
because he held a British pass
port when the war began. He
broadcast from Germany while
still a subject of the British
crown.
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YALE AND TOWNE
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Stamford Industry Halted
While Workers Assembla
In Town Square.
Stamford, Jan. S U.R) A
mass union demonstration tied
tip Stamford Industry today.
Thousands of workers left their
jobs to protest jon-settlement o
Yale & Towne's 57-day-old labor
dispute. Most of the Industry
In the city of 65,000 was halted
but bases continued to run and
stores remained open.
More than 25,000 persona
assembled in the town square,
shouting and cheering. Many oj
them were industrial workers
who quit their jobs to demand
settlement of the strike of tha
International Association of Ma
chinists union (AFL) against
Yale & Towne, the largest loclc
plant in the world.
Adam Yockel, leader of the)
IAM strikers, told the United
Press that, "All Industry is
down."
Yockel said that more than 20
plants were closed down and
that the figure included every
major Industrial plant in Stam
ford. Earlier In the rfnv nt a nnhiin
meeting Yale & Towne's indus
trial relations counsel wnrfii
P. Monson flatly turned down
me ciosea snop demand or any
part of it" and offered a new
wage proposal.
WESTERNELEC. CO.
WORKERS STRIKE
IN 21 FACTORIES
New York, Jan. S U,R) .
Western Electric company em
ployees In the New York and
New Jersey area struck prompt
ly at 11 a. m. (EST) today In sup
port of their demand for 30 pcf
cent wage Increases.
About 17,400 Western Elec
tric employes were Involved Im
mediately In the strike, but it
was feared that nationwide sym
pathy strikes by tdlephone work
ers would result.
It was regarded as almost cer
tain that the strike would spread
throughout the nation to affect
eventually about 68,000 Western
Electric employees.
The company has 21 plants In
the New York and New Jersey
area, all of which were subject
to the 11 a. m. strike call. The)
largest is nt Kearny, N. J., where,
12,000 to 14,000 persons are em
ployed. Not all are production
workers.
At Kearny, production work
ers, members of the Western
Electric Employees union (Ind.),
left their jobs promptly at 11
a. m. They streamed by hun
dreds through the main gate of:
the plant. A picket line began
moving around the plant Imme
diately. HEAVY DECEMBER
Cases tried by the city police
court in December totaled 148
and fines amounting to $542.50
were assessed, J, R. Woodford,
city court judge, tolo the city
council last night. '
This compares with 108 viola
tions in November wilh fines to
taling $434.
Forty-nine overtime parking
infractions were marked on the
books last month. There were
only 17 in November.
Cases for December were sub
divided as follows: 32 drunk,
two disorderly conduct, 30 dou
ble parking, 16 parking In alley,
three failures to stop at stop
sign, four reckless driving,
three basic rule, two driving
without license, one parking in
driveway, three Improper park
ing, three for two riding on bl-.
cycle, 49 overtime parking.
MacPhail Guilty,
Fined for Uproar
Bel Air, Md., Jan. 3 (U.R)
Larry MacPhail, New York Yan
kees' president, was found guilty
of disorderly conduct by a Har
ford county circuit court today.
The court acquitted MacPhail
on two charges of assault. He
was fined $50 on the disorderly
conduct charge.
The three charges stemmed
from a bitter argument between
MacPhail and Bel Air telepnone
employes on Oct. 5 day of a
nation-wide telephone itrika.