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Senate To Investigate Demobilization Controversy Weather FORECAST: Pirtly cloudy to night and Friday except fof Friday morning. Slightly cooler tonight. Ttnp. Hlrheit Yeiterday ...... 34 Lowest this Morning 31 Free. To. 4:30 A. M. Today .01 Fortieth Year TWO MIL1 BE IDLE SOON IF OFFEMORNED Phone Offices to Be Picketed Friday Communication Tieup Would Hit 44 States By United Pren finvpnimunt lnhnr officials made last ditch stands today to stave off a paralyzing nation wide telephone strike and to avert walkouts In other major industries. Conciliators received a set back when Swift & Company re jected an undisclosed govern ment price renei oner wnitu federal labor officials hoped would prevent a nationwide strike in the meat packing in dustry. A Swift statement said the of fer was "Inadequate and Imprac tical." The terms were not dis closed but the Swift statement said the offer to increase prices on government purchases of meat and lard on a basis of Jan uary rates would afford only one and one-half cents an hour of the 25 cents per hour sought by a CIO packing industry un ion. In New York a new union pro posal was submitted to me Western Electric Company and William D. Bairy, president of the New York local of the Asso c i a t i o n of Communications Equipment Workers (Ind.) un ion, indicated that acceptance might halt the strike. The pro posal was that the union, which had held out for a contract to be effective only until April, 1946, agreed to sign one to be in force until April. 1947. Length of the contract is one of the issues at stake. 2,000.000 May Almost 400.000 workers al ready were idle and various strike threats, if carried out, would add 2,000,000 others to the list. Major developments in the labor situation shaped up as fol lows: 1. Striking installation work ers said they would set up pick et lines tomorrow around 775 telephone exchanges from coast to coast. Members of the Na tional Federation of Telephone Workers union have pledged to respect the lines. 2 CIO and U. S. Steel Corp. officials were to resume negotia tions today after the government reportedly agreed to price in creases of $4 to $5 a ton to help the corporation meet union wage demands. About 700,000 steel workers are slated to strike Monday. 3. An unannounced price re lief offer was made to two of the big meat packers which gov ernment officials hope will pre vent a strike of 335.000 AFL and CIO meat workers, sched uled for Wednesday. 4. Members of the General Motors fact-finding panel ex ,.i,i t .nhmit their recom mendations to President Truman indav for settling a strike of 175 .000 CIO auto workers. Federal conciliators worked feverishly in last-minute at tempts to end a strike of nearly 8.000 Western Eletcric Co. em ployes and stave off a communi cations tieup affecting all but four of the 48 states. The strikers, members of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers, who install and maintain switchboards ana other technical equipment, quit work yesterday in a wage dts- r'wcstern Electric acknowl edged that the strike was ef fectively complete- in 44 states and predicted a virtual commun ications paralysis it picket lines were set up around exchanges in key cities of the national tele phone svstem The walkout followed by Z ho irs a strike of Western Union employes tnat crippled telegra phic communications in New Vnrk city and two adjacent New Jersey counties. LAST DITCH EFFORT i Medford . United Press Full Leased Wire G. Af. Fact Finders Recommend 191-2c Increase Per Hour Washington, Jan. 10 (U.R) President Truman'i fact-finding board in the General Motors dispute to day recommended a wage increase of 19'. i cents an hour. The president issued a t a t e ment summarizing five basic recommendations of the board. Obviously mindful that the board's recommenda tions have no authority of law, Mr. Truman said he thought the repwt com mended itself to "the good judgment of the American public." The five recommenda tions of the board briefly consisted of the wage in crease, reinstatement of the 1945 contract between the company and the union, re sumption of collective bar gaining, cancellation of the strike and speedy resump tion of production. E LATEST SUSPECT IN DEGNAN CASE Chicago. Jan. 10 (U.R) Police released three of the principal suspects in the kid-nap-slaying of six-year-old Susanna Degnan for lack of evidence today. Those freed from custody were Hector Verburgh, 65, hit wife. Mary, 64, and Desere Smet, 35. Chicago, Jan. 10 (U.R) Squads of police, working against a deadline of 4 p. m. (CST) to build a case against their chief suspects, searched for an insane dentist today in their quest for the kidnap-slayer of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan. The man being sought was a former inmate of the Illinois State - hospital for the insane, who once had worked as a han dyman at a nursery school near Suzanne's home. He was dis missed from the job because of his strange behavior. Search For Armt Detectives drained catch basins, cesspools, and sewers in the vicinity of the crime today in another effort to find the child's arms. Other portions of her body were found earlier in four cesspools. Police picked up another man for questioning early today. He was Frank Holland, 46, a dish washer, who police found in an alley near the Degnan home on the north side. Investigators had until 4 p. m. to place charges against two Jan itors and the wife of one of the men. If not charged by that time they will be released by court order. State's Attorney William J. Touhy said he did not have enough evidence "at this time" to seek an indictment of anyone for the crime the most brutal murder in Chicago's history. Jail Population In Sudden Spurt County Jail population has taken a sudden spurt since the first of the year, with 21 now incarcerated. This Is an increase of about a dozen over December when the avrrage was eight. Present inmates are held on a variety of eharecs including vagrancy, threatening to com mit a felony, juvenile delin quency, auto theft, larceny and obtaining money under false pre tenses. Since the Jailbreak last Sat urday, riles for visitors have been tightened. They are allow ed only on visitors day and must talk through a meshed door, in the presence of an officer. The rule does not apply to lawyers, and ministers of the gospel. The salmon. salt water fish always spawns in Iresh water. E IN OREGON TO BE PICKETED FRIDAY Equipment Workers Hope Other Employees Will Re spect Their Lines. Portland, Ore., Jan. 10 (U.R) The Oregon branch of the As sociation of Communication Equipment Workers announced today that picket lines would be established Friday morning around Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company plants through out Oregon. E. T. Healy, president of the United Telephone Employes of Oregon, said the test as to the effect of the strike on operations of the company would come then. He disclosed that his union, numbering 1,000 mem bers in Portland, would respect the picket line. However, in a statement to telephone employes, F. D. Tcll wright, vice president and gen eral manager of the company in Oregon, urged workers to go through the lines, stating "our company urgently requests all employes to do their full duties in meeting our responsibility to the public." May Halt Service Should long distance opera tions fall in line with the union program, Portland will be sev ered from most of the outside world by long distance tele phone. A mass meeting to out line developments in the strike and steps to be taken by United Telephone employes in regard to picket lines is scheduled for to night. Branches other than Portland hampered by the strike are Grants Pass, Eugene, Dallas, Klamath Falls and The Dalles. CHARTER IN CITY Veterans of World War II are asked to attend a meeting at the USO auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock at which time plans will be formed and a charter drawn up for a new American Legion post in Medford. The new post will be exclusively for World War II members and will conflict In no way with Post 15, the other Medford chapter, according to James J. Peters, who is handling arrangements for the meeting. Peters is acting in behalf of Attorney Hugh Collins, who is one of the men behind the original plans. Col lins was called out of town yes terday. Tonight's meeting will be de voted to completion of charter plans, election of officers and discussion of future plans. It will be followed by a social gathering. All World War 11 veterans are invited, Peters said. Lumber Magnate Dies In Klamath Klamath Falls. Ore., Jan. 10 (U.R' Frank H. Ransom of Port land, leader in the Oregon lum ber industry nearly half a cen tury, died today in Klamath Falls after suffering a heart at tack several days ago on a train. Ransom, 75, recently re signed as president of the East ern & Western Lumber company and became chairman of the board of directors. LEW AYRES SIGNS Hollywood, Jan. 10 (U.R) Lew Ayres signed today to solve : a movie murder mystery and : said it was the part he had been i looking for since his discharge 'from the army as a no'-.combat-ianl conscientious objector. jjjj MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, Left at Hotel I V J nKnfiMieKMaitlMSBWMMA (Acmrt Tflf photo) Bellboy In a Chicago, 111., hotel hud a new task on his hands when Mn. Dorothy Campbell of Palm Springs, Cal., left her 2'j -year-old daughter Pauline (abovel with him and hopped off to Marinette. Wis., to visit her fiance, a sailor. (EL ON SALE FRIDAY BY CITY POLICE Sale of 1946 bicycle licenses opens tomorrow Police Chief Clatous McCredie and Traffic Officer Clyde Fichtner announc ed today, the cost to be 25 cents as in the past. All persons own ing bicycles that will be operat ed on streets, alleys or highways in the city of Medford must have licenses, it was stated, and they may be obtained at the police department In the city hall base ment. If bicycles are sold or trans ferred to another owner, the name and address of the per sons to whom the bicycle was transferred must be furnished the police and the registration card returned, Fichtner states. This should be done within five days and the new owner then applies for a registration card. Rules Cited Bicycles for rent must be li censed, the officials state. Rules for rfders were empha sized by Fichtner, who warned that not more than one person may ride a machine except In the case of tandem bicycles or those equipped for two or more riders, and that in no case may anyone else ride in front of the operator, the person using the handlebars. It is unlawful to ride without using at least one hand on the handlebars at all times, he said, and it is also un lawful to hold on to another vehicle while riding a bicycle. Fichtner plans to call at each school in the near future to speak concerning bicycles and their use. AFL CHIEF DENOUNCES KAISER-UAW DOCUMENT Portland, Ore., Jan. 10 (U.R) The agreement between the CIO United Automobile Workers and the Kaiser- Frazcr corporation under which a bonus will be paid employes was denounced today by J. T. Marr, executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, AFL. Marr said the agreement was "a step backward toward the sweat shop which labor has com batted for more than a century." Nazi Plan To Wipe Out All Poles Related At War Crimes Hearing Nuernberg Jan. 10 (U.R) Hans Frank, nazi governor of I Poland, carried out a calculated j policy designed to wipe out the: whole Polish people, the warj crimes tribunal was told today j Lieut -Col. William H. Bald-j . win. Detroit. Mich., assistant I prosecutor, presented the case ' against Frank. Me read extracts ' from Frank's diary in which the nazi declared "oncp we have won the war then for all I care mincemeat can be made of the! Poles and Ukrainians and all others who run around here." An entry from Frank's diary in October, 1939. disclosed that at a conference of Frank, Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal Wil helm Keitel it was decided that "it is not the task of the admin istration to make foland a model FINALLY AGREE CEASE-FI ORDER Immediate Establishment of Headquarters at Peiping To Carry Out Pacts. Chungking. Jan. 10 (U.R) The long awaited cease-fire or der in China's civil war was issued officially today shortly before Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek convened the political consultative council and outlin ed a program for political free dom and democracy. The order to cease hostilities was announced by government representative Gen. Chang Chun and communist representative Gen. Chou En-Lai after a series of meetings with Gen. George C. Marshall, President Truman's special envoy to China. It had been approved by Chiang and Mao Tse-Tung, head of the com munist party. The order provided for im mediate establishment of execu tive headquarters at Peiping to carry out the agreements for ending hostilities. Announced By Chiang Chiang announced the truce at the opening of the consulta tive council called to prepare for a national assembly and drafting of a constitutional gov ernment. The generalissimo outlined a four point program: "1. People's freedom for all people to enjoy all the freedoms, all anti-freedom laws and regu lations will be abolished or re vised. "2. AH political parties shall be equal and may conduct open activities within the limit of the law. "3. Self-government shall be promoted from the bottom up. "4. All political prisoners, ex cept criminals, shall be releas ed." Chiang promised Immediate government action on the pro gram and urged the delegates to work hard toward the goal of achieving national unity. Ashland Radio Firm Selects Officers, FM Permit Awaited Ashland, Jan. 10 G. M. Green was named president and general manager of the Siskiyou Broadcasting company at the first organization meeting Tues day after receiving a charter from the state corporation com missloner. The corporation has made application for construc tion of an FM radio station in Ashland. Harry Morris was named vice president, Elmer Biegel secre tary. Mrs. Marian N. Green, treasurer, and William Briggs attorney. The five officers are directors of the corporation. A consultant radio engineer has been employed but it is un derstood it may be several months before the necessary construction permit is procured and operation of the station ef fected. Indianapolis, Jan. 10 (U.R) W. F. O'Connor, Seattle, Wash., today headed the newly-organized Laymen's League of the Christian church. He was named chairman of the executive board Other board members include A. C. Ragsdale, Columbia, Mo., and C. D. Pantle, St. Louis. province or to put it on a sound economic and financial basis. "The standard of living is to remain low. We only want to draw labor forces from there. The accomplishment of this task will Involve a hard racial strug gle which will not permit legal restriction The government general will give to the Polish nation only hare living condi tion and maintain a basis of military security." In a pep talk to his staff in January, 1943, Frank said: "We are now In duty bound to hold together. We must re member we who are gathered here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honor of being No. 1. We have, so to speak, become accomplices in the world historic jcasc," R BUNE Unl it Full 1946 Attlee Calls On UNO To Dominate Foreign Policy Throughout Globe That Atomic Ruin London, Jan. 10 (U.R) Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called upon the United Nations organization at its formal inaug ural session today to become the "overriding factor in the foreign policy" of all the states of the world. London, Jan. 10 (U.R) Paul Henri-Spaak of Belgium wat elected president of the United Nations assembly to day. The election of the Belgian was a defeat for Russia and the bloc of eastern Europe. Attlee delivered the welcom ing address at the first meeting of the UNO assembly in Central Hall. He said the UNO must dominate global policy because of the advent of a new atomic 28 Jackson county citizens pur chased approximately $28,000, 000 in war and victory bonds during World War II according to final figures released by the county war finance committee this week following close of the last drive early this month. This covered all issues during the years 1941 through 1945 ac cording to N. H. Zachariscn, chairman of the war finance committee. The county topped the "E" bond quota in closing days of the last bond drive it was an nounced, final figures from the Oregon War Finance committee showing "E" sales at 118.7 per cent of the quota. Sales totaled $023,420 for the "E" bonds. To tal sales for the drive were 203.2 per cent of the quota and amounted to $2,834,322. The last, or Victory bond drive, was sponsored by the Med ford and Ashland Elks' club, with George Frey serving as chairman for the Medford club and Herb Huston chairman for the Ashland group. Ernest L. Scott of Medford was publicity chairman, and serving with him 'were W. A. Gates, Walter Lever ettc, Herb Grey, Moore Hamil ton and Art Adler. Eugene Thorndike was chair man of the special names com mittee, assisted by A. S. Rosen baum and O. H. Bengtson and T. E. Daniels was in charge of sales for rural areas and mills. Victor Milnes and Bill Meyst were in charge of the Victory Queen contest and Chaplain Carl S. Ohman conducted the drive for Camp White. Assisting Huston of the Ash land Elks were Roland Parks I and Joe Fader. IN FREE-FOR-ALL Paris, Jan. 10 (U.R) The French Press Agency reported today that 80 French and Amer ican soldii rs battled with knives and fists at Marseille last night. The French dispatch said the battle started when a group of American soldiers leaving a cafe attacked a civilian. The French soldiers defended ' the civilian, and a free-for-all developed. Several Frenchmen were wounded by knives and daggers before police intervened, the dis patch said. It did not state whether any Americans were wounded. FIND THE SUITS San Diego. Cal.. Jan. 10 'U.P San Diego merchants told the government it would suit thetn fine to show servicemen preference in selling suits, if the government would find the suits. "We'd gladly set up priority system for veterans if we had any clothing to supply, but all the suits are off our racks," a spokesman said in answers to unofficial request that they set up a system giving ex-GIs first crack at civilian clothes, Leased Wire NO. 247. May Be Averted age which has "destroyed the illusion of isolationism." Hall Packed Edouard Zuleta Angel of Col ombia, temporary president of the convocation, formally called to order the first assembly meet ing of the 51 nations which have pledged their collective effort to a-vert future wars. The Blue and Gold assembly hall was jam packed with delegates, their ad visers, the press and radio, and the public. Attlee welcomed a decision to remit the atomic control prob lem to the UNO but warned the assembly that the atom bomb in vention was fraught with dan ger. "It Is for the peoples of the world, through their represent atives, to make their choice be tween life or death," he said. Aim Outlined He outlined what he consider ed should be the "ultimate aim" of the UNO. "It is not just a negation of war," he said, "but the creation of a world of purity and free dom, of a world which is gov erned by justice and moral law. We desire to assert the pre eminence of right over might, and general good against selfish and sectional alms." Attlee ecalled the famous phrase of Maxim Litvinov, for mer Soviet foreign commissar, in the dying days of the League of Nations "Peace is Indivisi ble." Must Come to Senses He said other nations of the world ignored Litvlnov's warn ing, and the series of aggressions leading to the second world war followed. Litvlnov's statement now has become one of the un dcrlylng principles of the new world organization. Attlee emphasized that the atomic age must bring mankind to its senses and devise ways of stopping future wars. He said the atom bomb was only the lat est of a series of warnings to mankind that "unless the pow ers of destruction could be con trolled, immense ruin and al most annihilation" will be their lot. TO BE CRITICAL IF PRICE HELD DOWN Pittsburgh, Jan. 10 (U.R) The next four months will see the nation faced by a critical shortage of butter if Price Ad ministrator Chester Bowles per sists In his opposition to a price Increase, leaders of the butter and milk Industry said today. Speaking before the annual meeting of the National Dairy Council here, Charles W. Hol man, secretary of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation, told delegates "in equitable and frozen price rela tionships," virtually had forced butter off the market. Russell Flfer, executive secre tary of the American Butter In stitute, recommended immediate action on a four-point program to avert continued shortage. 1. Immediate restoration of war food orders, lifted Sept. 1, limiting use of butter fat In cream and Ice cream, preventing the sale of whipping cream and curtailing cheese production, 2. A raise In the ceiling price of butter that will restore it to Its proper relationship with other dairy products. (The six cents per pound increase, sug gested by Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton P. Anderson is still too low, Kifer said). 3. Suspension of ceilings on dairy products about May 15. 4 Immediate consideration of a price ceiling on cream, compar able to that on butter. ASHLAND MAN IS HELD ON DISORDERLY CHARGE Floyd S. Williams, 25, was ex pected to be arraigned In Jus tice court today to face a charge of disorderly conduct, the sher iff's office reported. Williams broke glassware and kicked in a lavatory door at the Zero Club on highway 99 at the north city limits last night, according to I the report. CALL ARMY IAD ABOUJJIICIES Hope to Stabilize Situation and Clean Up Trouble Early Action Is Objective. Washington, Jan. 10 (U.R) The Senate Military Affairs com mittee today appointed a sub committee to conduct a publia investigation of the demobiliza tion controversy. The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo.. Immediately summoned acting Secretary of War Ken neth C. Royall and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower to appear at their earliest convenience. Sens. Frank R. Briggs, D., mo., and Chapman Revercomb, R., W. Va.t were appointed to serve with Johnson on the sub committee. "Our hope is that we can stabilize the situation and clean up the controversy," Johnson said. "We want to do it as soon as we can. Congress must de termine the military policy of this country." By United Press Enlisted men on two Pacific editions of the army newspaper Stars and Stripes complained to day that they were being muz zled In their coverage of the world-wide soldier protest against demobilization policies. A formal statement by the en listed personnel of the Tokyo Stars and Stripes claimed that open pressure against them by officers had changed the paper Into a "house organ for the War department." No Criticism Order The Honolulu Stars and Stripes staff said they had re ceived orders not to print let ters or stories which criticized "anyone In authority." Protest meetings were report ed from all quarters of the globe. A proposal waj made by de monstrators In Hawaii that American occupation forces be restricted to former enemy ter ritory. High officers of the European headquarters In Frankfurt call ed a meeting of G.I. spokesmen and newspaper men to record the grievances aired by a crowd of more than 5,000 troops which tried to storm Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's headquarters last night. Newa Angled, Claim The Tokyo Stars and Strlpea stalement claimed that the paper had been forced "to delete, dis tort and play down news to serve personal and professional In terests of the army hierarchy, and In many Instances officers In general." Everywhere the protesting troops demanded quicker trip home, clarification of nollev and explanation why American sol- i.k-.s were oeing Kept in friend ly territories. The soldiers said thev wanted t get out of China, the Philip pines, France and Hawaii. They demanded replacements In Japan and Germany so combat veter ans could be demobilized. New Agitation Mass meetings continued In the Pacific and Europe. New agitation and protests were re ported despite efforts by mili tary and political leaders In Washington to reassure the men. More than 1.500 soldiers at Fort Shafter. in the Hawaiian Islands, demanded that the army publish a definite schedule of demobilization and asked that occupation forces be limited to hostile territories. The Hawaiian demonstrator adopted a resolution for relay to Elsenhower and Gen. Douglas MncArthur stating, "we believe that far greater numbers of men are hel dovcrseas than are actu ally needed for accomplishment of duties as prescribed by the War department." INSURANCE MEASURE UP IN CALIFORNIA SENATE Sacramento, Jan. 10 (U.R) A disability insurance measure to pay benefits to persons out of work because of illness or In jury was to be Introduced In the state senate today with the back ing of Gov. Earl Warren. Sen. John F. Shellev. D . Ran ! f raneiseo, who sponsored a sim ilar bill last year, was to intro duce the measure. It would psy up to $20 a week for 23 weeks to III or injured persons covered in the present unemployment insurance system. JAPS BACK HOME Tokyo, Jan. 10 (U.R) More than 30,000 Japanese nationals were repatriated to Japan in the first week of January and 16. 201 other nationals were re moved from Japan during the same period,, allied headquar ters announced today.
