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Weather Ui Th Mall Trlbun Want Ad Way Quick Result At Small Cost rnTT.TTTVT-n FORECAST: Sunday Increasing clondinesi followed by rain. IKltfUJNli United Prest Full Lwnd Wit Highest yesterday Lowest this morning MH . 46 . 37 United Prsis Full Ltased Wira Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1946 NO. 243. MEDCO PLANT TO STRIKESETTLED Wage Increase 15c Per Hour Granted Mill Closed Since Sept. 24 Medford Corporation sawmill will resume operations Wednes day as a result o a wage agree ment reached Friday night with the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers Union, AFL Local 2715, ac cording to B. L. Nutting, corpor ation manager. The mill has been idle since Sept. 24 when the AFL strike sewed up the lumber industry in the entire northwest. Under terms of the settlement a wage increase of 15 cents per hour is granted all employees. According to the agreement drawn up, it is the intention of both parties that the wage in crease shall solve general wage problems for 1946, "unless there is a substantial change in the marketing or operating condi tions during the year." Any in crease in price ceilings granted by the OPA to compensate for the wage increase shall not be considered as a reason for ir.iat ing wage discussions, the agree ment stated. Time To Report The agreement further stated that a fair-latitude of time will be allowed for certain em ployees to return to work after the date that production is again resumed, the latitude being al lowed only in cases of sickness, accident or lack of transporta tion for anyone away from home and for other reasons only in extenuating circumstances. It is anticipated that the work week for the day shift will be Monday through Friday and for the night shift. Monday night through Friday night, the document stated. The agreement was signed by Thomas M. Gray, president of AFL Local 2715, Ivan Gay, re cording secretary, and B. L. Nut ting, Mcdco manager. Plenty of Logs Nutting said it was proposed to start the sawmill day shift at 8 a. m. Wednesday with the night shift to report at 6 p. m. It is hoped to return to full pro duction as soon as possible al though it will take some time to get all the machinery back in shape. The company's logging opera tions, under jurisdiction of the CIO, were not affected by the strike. Nutting said, and opera tions have gone ahead. Enough logs are now on hand for inde finite operations at the mill it was stated. Nutting said the mill will have to shut down for about a month at a later date to make mill repairs but it is planned to get a supply of lumber in local yards before closing. The mill cuts 350,000 feet daily when operating at full capacity. The manger said the mill turned out 90.000.000 feet in 1944 and 70, 000,000 feet in 1945, up to the time operations were halted by the strike. Shipping and dry kiln stack ing crews are to report for work at 8 a. m. Wednesday with the dry kiln unstacking and planing mill crews to report at 8 a. m. Jan. 10. Night crews will re port at 6 p. m., it was stated. The mill employs about 380 men. LAZYOlLLIS Ada, Okla., Jan. 5 (U.R) George Rodanz of Toronto, Can ada, today paid $51,000 for a Hereford bull Del Zento. the pride of the Lazy D ranch. It was highest price ever paid for a bull of any breed. The offering of Del Zento was a surprise which highlighted the annual auction sale at the Lazy D, owned by W. A. (Gus) Delaney, Ada oil man. . SNELL FLIES AST FOR SPEECH Salem. Ore.. Jan. 5 (U.R) Gov. Earl Sncll left by plane to day for New York where he will be principal speaker at a dinner Monday night honoring Ted Gamble. Portland, who has re i(jiied tti vsar financa chairman. Two Millionth Returnee Two millionth serviceman to return from the Pacific. S-Sgt. Irving Feld man, Worchester, Mass., of 775th Tnnk Battalion, is carried on shoulders of celebrating Yanks, T-4 Jake G. Millbauer, Baribou, Wis., and Cpl. Adam C. Korgen, Rochester, N. Y., at San Francisco, Calif., pier as Navy trans port Garrard docks. . CHIEF WORRY OF JEALOUS SLAYER San Francisco, Jan. 5 (U.R) Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt. widowed socialite mother of three children, tonight prepared for her transfer Monday from the county jail to the state in stitution for women at Tchachapi where she begins serving a one to ten year sentence for shooting and killing Nurse Vada Martin. She was found sane yesterday on her secondary plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The verdict automatically sustained the conviction of manslaughter voted earlier by the same jury of six men and six women who found her sane after eight hours and 30 minutes of deliberation and four ballots. The exact Icnglh of Mrs. Mansfeldt's sentence will be set by the California adult authority after she has served a year. Hallinan said the twin verdicts would not be appealed because the legal technicalities involved would take at least a year. "Mrs. Mansfeldt, who maintain ed a remarkable composure during the verdict and subse quent sentencing, broke down and sobbed as she was returned to her cell yesterday. Today she said: "The uncer tainty is terrible. I wish I knew exactly how many years I'm go ing to be separated from my children. Uncertainty is the thing I cannot stand." E L Portland, Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R) Multnomah county commission ers have sent a letter to President Truman protesting the ceiling price on lumber sold in the United States while there is none on exports. The letter claims that home builders are unable to get lum ber for new construction be cause of the ceiling price on domestic use while there is no ceiling on export lumber. The commissioners suggest in the letter that President Truman use his influence to bring about necessary changes to provide an adequate supply of lumber to home builders. 'S SEES LESS HELP Portland. Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R) Curtailment of rationing has re sulted in an appreciable cut in personnel of war price and rationing uoards in the Portland district. McDannel! Brown, dist rict OPA chief, said today. Boards have been cut from 84 to 25 and number of paid employes from 439 to 103, ac cording to Brown. Salem, Ore., Jan. 5 iU.R) Gov. Earl Snell today re-appointed Hugh Kirkpatrick, Leb anon, to the state- lkiuor com luiiiion ior a a.x vear term, (Acme J clenliolot FOUR BREAK JAIL A police dragnet is out in northern California for Calvin Leach Burtis, 19, and Bobby John Nelson, 19, two of four men who escaped from the Jackson county jail about 1:30 a. m. Saturday. The other escapees, Tloger Clair Chapman. 19, and Edward D. Mackey. 17, both Negroes, were captured yesterday morn ing. According to the sheriff's of fice, Burtis and Nelson, sawed through a bar of the jail bull pen window and utilized the flagpole rope to lower them selves from the courthouse roof. The two men wore awaiting shipment to the Oregon state penilentary to serve 18 month sentences for err theft here. It is thought that the saw was slipped into the'jail by a visitor. Two men, answering the des cription of Burtis and Nelson, accompanied by a woman, were said by California authorities to have crossed the state line in a 1937 black Ford coach, yester day morning. Harold Sutton. Oregonian agent. 203 N. Peach St., reported yesterday that his car matching the Ford's descrip tion had been stolen from in front of his residence early in the morning. The two Negroes made their way from the building shortly after the other men had escap ed. Chapman, discovered prowl ing around the courthouse about 1:45 a. m., was picked up and jailed by city police. He was identified by sheriff's officers later in the morning, as one of the escapees. Mackey was ap prehended five miles south of Ashland about 10:30 a. m. yes terday by state police. The Negroes were serving 15-day vagrancy sentences. Jail inmates discovered the break between 6 and 6:30 a. m. and aroused County Jailer Tony Slover. STATE BLANKS IN MAIL THIS WEEK Salem. Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R) State income tax forms will be in the mail by the middle of next week, State Tax Commissioner Earl Fisher, announced today. Printing of tax blanks was delayed pending court action de termining status of the so-called short form income tax blank law. The law was declared void by the state supreme court two weeks ago. SYRACUSE GETS MUNN Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 5 I (U.R) Clarence (Biggie) Munn. j line coach at the University of Michigan, tonight accepted a I contract to become head foot ! ball coach at Syracuse univer- sity, Syracuse, N. Y. I NOT INTERESTED ! Cleveland, Jan. 5 (U.P) j The Cleveland Indians arc not interested in either Pitcher Paul I Derringer or Outfielder Bob j Johnson, Vice President Roger ' Pcck.iipuUoh liiicloscd today. T TO END RULE OF Premier III, Cabinet Due to Resign As Result of Directive Tokyo, Sunday, Jan. 6 (U.R) The Japanese cabinet met in extraordinary session today to consider Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's political purge order, but Premier Kujuro Shidchara was unable to attend because of ill ness. The cabinet considered im perial ordinances necessary to carry out MacArthur's purge directive, but apparently it did not discuss the matter of cabi net resignations which were ex pected to result from the su preme commander's sweeping order. A spokesman said that "no important decision" was reach ed at the morning session. He indicated that the matter of resignations might be consider ed when the cabinet met again in the afternoon. The ordinances discussed con cerned dismissals from the gov ernment, replacements, mem bership in the house of peers, pensions and elections. Home Minister Zenjiro Hiro kiri, arriving for the meeting, was asked if the cabinet would resign. He replied smilingly: !'I don't know." New York, Jan. 5 (U.R) General Douglas MacArthur's occupation of Japan Is resulting in one of the greatest and speed iest changes in the way of life of a whole people in modern his tory. Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, said today. Addressing a meeting of the University club, Bailiie said that MacArthur's plan for dis mantling the Japanese govern ment, separating church and state, reorienting Its system of education all were making ter rific strides. Baillie described conditions in the orient as he found them on a recent trip in the course of which he interviewed Gen eral MacArthur, Emperor Hiro hito and Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-Shek. "When I was there," he said, "Japan was like a vast concen tration camp run by its in mates. At that time, MacArthur had no plans for seeing that the Japanese got any food other than that which theyould pro duce themselves. His recent re port on the occupation, how ever, indicates that we are go ing to have to give some thought to sending them food in order to prevent a catastrophe which would make the military-policing job even more difficult. "MacArthur is moving in more strongly on the Japanese all the time. When the occupa tion began he declined, even when asked, to indicate wheth er or not he would approve cer tain leaders for cabinet posts. Now he has ordered the cabinet purged of all those who In the past had anything to do with Japanese militarism." No 'Hamstringing' of G.I. Bill Legion Aim Washington, Jan. 6 (U.R) Commander John Steele of the American Legion today appoint ed a three-man "watch dog committee to prevent any gov ernment agency from ham stringing the new, streamlined G.I. Bill of Rights. "In the past there has been a tendency to hamstring legisla tion by tying it up with a lot of red tape in the form of rules and regulations," he said. He said that "things were done which prevented the original G. I. bill from being satisfactory. NEW COAST STORM San Francisco, Jan. 'U.R) Small craft storm warnings flew today along the Pacific coast from Pt. Conception, Cal., to Tatoosh, Wash., and Into the Columbia river as the weather bureau reported fresh to strong northwest winds in the area. R. F. C. BUSY Washington, Jan. 5 (U.R) The Reconstruction Finance Corp. is working with private industry in its efforts to con vert surplus airplane and tank engines to peacetime use. PAPAL APPEAL Vatican City, Jan. 5 (U.R) Pope Pius XII, in an encyclical letter to all bishops throughout the world, called upon them to-' day to increase aid to war stricken children. CHINA CIVIL WAR CEASES; MARSHALL Guns Silenced for First Time In Ten Years As Factions Agree Chungking, Jan. 5 (U.R) Chinese nationalist and com munist leaders have agreed to a cease-fire order halting Chi na's civil war and Gen. George C. Marshall has agreed to arbi trate their differences, it was announced today. The agreement established a three-man commission, with Marshall, the American ambas sador and former U. S. chief of staff, as director, to issue the orders which will silence the guns in north China for the first time in 10 years. Gen. Chang Chun, nationalist governor of Szechwan province, will be the central government member of the committee. Gen. Chou En-Lai, ranking commun ist delegate to the peoples con sultative council, will represent the communists. The swift success of Marshall's special mission to China as Pres ident Truman's personal envoy raised high hopes in American circles that the agreement may permit Chinese troops to take over the duties of the American marine garrisons in north China. Gen. Chou told Chinese re porters that the agreement on restoring communications in cluded lh"i opening of railways, highways, waterways, airways, and postal service. Meanwhile, these other dc velopmen s marked the situa tion: 1. Central News Agency said the first units of airborne nationalist troops left Peiping and landed in the Manchurian capital of Changchun today. 2. Lt Gen. Albert C. Wede m'ayef announced in Shanghai that 20.000 nationalist troops of the Chinese 6th army will be moved in American ships from Shanghai to southern Manchur ia, starting within 10 days. 3. The nationalist army news paper, Peace Daily, said nation alist troops in southern Man churia have captured three more railway 'owns in eastern Jehol province Chaoyang, Pehpiao and Koupeiyingtsc in a drive from Fusin to the provincial capital of Chengteh. Bulletin Corvallis, Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R) For a second time in as many starts the Oregon State Beavers polished off a hard fighting Idaho Vandal quint here tonight, the home forces sweeping their first set of the season in northern division play In the Pacific coast conference by dint of a 49 to 45 conquest. The two teams put on a titanic tussle in the first half, the lead changing hands 16 times before the Beavers got In sufficient licks to pack a 26-20 buldge at halftime. Eugene. Ore., Jan. 5 Jake Leicht, University of Oregon halfback, was enroute back to college tonight from California despite flattering offers to play professional ball. The grid star's brothers, George Leight, confirmed by telephone from Stockton, Calif., that Jake had been sought by various professional scouts after his outstanding work in the East-West Shrine game New Year's Day in San Francisco, but he was certain he had not signed. Seattle, Jan. 5 !U.R With a last-second howitzer shot by for ward Jack Pomfret, Washington Huskies took the second game of tehir northern divisional bas ketball series with Washington State college 46 to 44 beforr 9,500 fans here tonight. The Huskies won last night's game 35-32. A determined Washing ton State five led all the way until the final two minuteF when the Huskies forged ahead 42-40. Los Angeles, Jan. 5 (U.R) The University of Southern Cali fornia swept its two-game basket ball series with Stanford univer sity here tonight 43-32. RUSSIA STALLS Washington, Jan. 5 (U.R) The Soviet Union tonight ap peared, to be waiting for clarifi cation of some major world eco nomic and political situations before determining Its own eco nomic path and signing the Brctton Woods monetary agree meat. GOVERNMENT ACTS TO END PACKERS, STEEL Fact Finding Board Moves To Find Wage-Price Formulas Washington, Jan. 5 (U.R) The government's steel fact-finding board tonight called on the U. S. Steel' Corp. and the United Steelworkers (CIO) to resume collective bargaining on the union's demand for a $2-a-day wage increase. Meanwhile, federal Labor Con ciliator Edgar L. Warren said he hoped current discussions here would clarify the government wage-price formula for the meat packing industry sufficiently to aid a quick settlement of that dispute at Chicago mediation conferences next week. These developments came as the labor department revealed that prices resumed their upward trend at the end of the war but that the average wage earner finds himself with $4.43 less a week to meet this rising cost of living. In both the nleat packing and steel industries, government agencies worked against strike deadlines. The steel union walk out is scheduled for Jan. 14, In volving 700,000 workers and the 300,000 meat packing union workers plan to strike two days later. Nathan P. Feinsinger, chair man of the steel panel, said he had telegraphed company and union heads asking them to re sume the steel negotiations and report to the panel. No date for resumption of collective bar gaining was set. The labor department's wage- price report came from the bureau of labor statistics as the OPA and the agriculture depart ment began studies to determine how much producer prices for meat and steel can be raised without increasing retail prices of the commodities further. STUDY OF ATOMIC Los Alamos. N. M., Jan. 5 (U.R) The study of atomic energy "and its military applica tions" will continue indefinitely at the Los Alamas atom bomb project, Maj. Leslie R. Groves, head of the project, said tonight. "The work at the Los Alamos laboratories is still just as im portant as ever," General Groves said at a conference of project officers. Groves is head of the Manhattan atomic bomb project. "The laboratory forms a key parlof the whole Manhattan pro ject which is devoted to the study of atomic energy and Its military applications," he said. NO FLOOD FEARED Portland, Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R) The Willamette river was rising again today after heavy rains In the upper valley and mountains over a 24 hour period spilled 1.07 inches of rain in the Eugene area. Although the river at Eugene was up five feet, officials do not look for another serious flood. While the river was up all along the way, it took a 1.8 foot drop at Portland. R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, reported traffic open on all but the McKcnzie high way although heavy snows fell in the Cascades overnight. ARMY THEFT CHARGED Shanghai, Jan. 5 (U.R) Army authorities announced to day that about 25 United States military personnel, Including several officers, had been arrest ed on charges of stealing and selling more than $50,000 In government property. TROOPSHIP UNDER TOW San Francisco, Jan. 5 (U.R) The USS St. Mary's navy troop ship carrying 1,806 returning veterans, will stand off the Golden Gate under tow by the cruiser Nashville until dawn tomorrow because of extremely heavy seas. 12th naval district headquarters mid. tonight. Local Fault: Parking Salem, Ore, Jan. 5 (U.R) Twenty per cent of Medford traffic accidents are caused by parking maneuvers, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., disclosed today. Farrell said a study of urban accidents for first half of 1945 disclosed other percentages In the six largest Oregon cities excluding Portland: Klamath Falls, 20 per cent; Eugene, 21 per cent: Bend, 28 per cent; Salem, 24 per cent, and Astor ia, 16 per cent. L HE METIN INDIA Ceremony Coming Week At Reno After Bride Gets Final Divorce Reno, Nev., Jan. 5 (U.R) Culminating a romance that be gan in a Bombay canteen in 1042, Mrs. Lucy Malcomson, 34, of New York city said tonight she plans to marry Lt. Col Gregory (Pappy) Boylngton of U. S. marine war flying fame when she obtains a divorce here early next week from her Gen eral Motors executive husband The tall, attractive brunette said she met Boylngton when he tripped over a rug in a Bom bay canteen. The marriage, Mrs. Malcom son said, will take place In Reno Tuesday or Wednesday of next week when she expects to on tain a divorce from Stewart Malcolmson, who she said was production manager for General Motors In Australia. Mrs. Malcolmson said at the time she and Boyington met he had just resigned from -Maj. Gen. Claire Chcnault's "Flying Tigers" and was on his way back to the United States to join the marine corps. She was with the St. John's ambulance serv ice moving wounded men aboard ships. "I was in the canteen when I heard what, sounded like a wolf call," she laughed. "Boy lngton came toward mo and tripped on a rug. He grabbed mo by the knees to break his fall and after that no Introduc tion was necessary." They became good friends, she said, were evacuated to this country aboard the same ship by accicfent and later met again on the same train en route to his home In Washing ton. Again It was an accident, she said. Marine Air Depot, Miramar. Cal., Jan. 5 (U.R) Marine fly ing ace Lt. Col. Gregory (Pap py) Boylngton, here awaiting re sults of a medical survey, said tonight he will leave by plane for Reno, Monday, to marry Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson, 34, of New York city, "when her di vorce is final." Col. Boylngton arrived here yesterday from the Long Beach naval hospital where he has been recuperating after 20 months a prisoner of the Jap anese. ARGENTINA HELD DEMOCRACY EVIL Washington, Jan. 5 (U.R) Assistant Secretary of State Sprullle Braden said tonight "powerful and dangerous axis elements" In Argentina still menace democracy in the Amer icas. "All through the war, the axis forces in this hemisphere used Argentina as a base of operations; these axis forces still constitute a danger to the Americas," he said. "Nothing has been done against the most powerful and therefore the most dangerous axis elements." Georgia Will Keep Little White House Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 5 (U.R) Basil O'Connor, president of the national foundation for infantile paralysis, assured Gov, Ellis Arnall here today that the little white houje at Warm Springs would be turned over to the state of Georgia as a national shrine honoring the late Frank lin D. Roosevelt. ' Any though of moving the little while house from the state of Georgia is ridiculous," O'Con nor, who Is also president of the Georgia Warm Springs Founda tion, said. T STUMP IN EVENT Middle of Road Strategy Urged President to Lean to New Dea' Washington, Jan. 5 U.R) President Truman will continue his aggressive pressure on con gress to enact his domestic leg. islation program and may tako the stump in mid-session if de lays persist. The president's advisers are convinced such over-all strategy would pay off in results and prestige for the administration. They feel, also, that Mr. Tru man has found a satisfactory middle-of-the road course to. ward democratic political suc cess in next November's con gressional elections provided the democratic house and sen ate will travel the same path. Telegraphic response to Mr. Truman's Friday night appear to (ho public to goad congress to action has been good, white house secretary Charles G. Ross said today. He estimated that favorable messages were In a ratio of about five, to one which was unfavorable. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., In a broadcast reply to Mr. Tru man described some of his pro gram as "communistic" and "left wing." The communist newspaper "Daily Worker." published In New York, how ever, complained that Mr. Tru man had failed to "denounce" what the publication regards as the refusal of business to "ne gotiate with labor or quit it sit-down against reconversion." Instead, the "Worker1! lament ed, the president had "called for congress to pass his anti lnbor coollng-off bill banning; strikes for 30 days In labor dis. putes." After 48-hours study, (lis Washington concensus is that Mr. Truman Is following close ly the New Deal pattern of tho late Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, but with somewhat more sympathy for the moder ately conservative wing of tho Democratic party than the latn president possessed. That, in any event, is sub s t a n 1 1 a 1 1 y tho course Mr. Truman's advisers are urging him to chart and ti follow. There is , considerable evi. deuce that any Important de vlation from that course toward the more conservative point of view would put unbearable! strains on the New Deal-Demo-cralic coalition. Maintenance of that coalition Is essential to democratic control of the fed eral government. Mr. Truman will keep it Intact If he can. If ho goes too far to tho right, the, loast penalty he can expect will be a chilling of the enthusiasm with which organized labor and the loft wing would support him In 1948. If organized labor gives him only half-hearted sup port, his political future short ly will be behind him. If th Truman administration and tho left wing of the coalition for mally parted there might be a third party movement in 1948 which would make election of a Democratic president next to impossible. Such factors importantly bear on the shaping of administra tion policies. It is not surpris ing under such circumstances that some of Mr. Truman's ad visors believe the president should take the stump to tell his" story to the people If con gress remains balky. No travel plans have, been made since White House strategy will de pend largely on congressional performance In the next two or three months. ALL COUNTIES IN STATE OVER TOP Portland, Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R) Oregon went over the top by nearly $5,000,000 in its final E bond total with every county In the state going over its quota, It was announced today. Total sales were $27,472,478 while the state's goal was $22, 500,000. EGYPT PREMIER SLAIN Cairo, Jan. 3 (U.R) Former Finance Minister Amin Osman, pro-British Egyptian political leader, died here tonight a few hours after he was shot twica by an unidentified assassin.
