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Weather FORECAST: SundiT, partly rloudy, little change In tem perature. Temp. Hlfheit yesterday 49 Lowest yesterday , ,..,.. 22 Medford United Pru Full Leased Wira Ui Tb Mall Tiibun Want Ad Way Ouick ReiulU At Small Cost Tribune Unit.d Pits Full Laisad Wlr. Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SU 1 Y, JANUARY 13, 1946. NO. 249. IT WINS WEEK'S DELAY IN White House Sees Agree ment Hope To Avert Meat Strike Wednesday Washington, Jan. 12 (UP.) The National Federation of Telephone Workers tonight postponed scheduled discus sion of a nationwide strike of all telephone employes to await further federal efforts to end a coast-to-coast tieup of long distance service. The NFTW earlier had scheduled a meeting of its ex ecutive board to consider a national walkout of its 250, 000 members, many of whom already were idle because they refused to cross picket lines at exchanges throughout the country. Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R President Truman obtained a one-week postponement of a scheduled nationwide steel strike tonight and predicted the dis pute would be settled without a walkout. The president's intervention averted, at least for the time being, a strike of 700,000 United Steel Workers (CIO) which had been scheduled for midnight to morrow. He had summoned the con tending parties to the White House in an 11th hour attempt to seek a settlement which, ad ministration leaders hoped, might provide the key to set tlement of half a dozen other major industrial disputes threat ening to paralyze the nation's basic industries. CIO President Philip Murray, head of the steel workers union, agreed to the seven-day strike postponement after a four-hour conference with Benjamin Fair less, president of the U. S. Steel Corp., and top government of ficials. Murray Acts Mr. Truman announced that Fairless made an offer for set tlement of the wage dispute and that Murray offered a counter proposal. , "Mr. Fairless asked for more time to present the proposition of Mr. Murray to the steel com panies," Mr. Truman said. "At the request of the presi dent, Mr. Murray agreed to post pone calling of the strike for one week during which time col lective bargaining will proceed under the auspices of the presi dent. "It is my belief that an agree ment will be reached." The White House talks will be resumed at 2 p. m. next Wednes day. When negotiations became deadlocked in New York yester day, and Mr. Truman intervened, the union had reduced its orig inal demand of a 25 cent an hour wage increase to 20 cents, and the company had offered a 15 cent increase. Chicago, Jan. 11 (U.R) Gloomy government representa tives tonight searched desperate ly for a solution to avert a na tionwide strike of CIO packing house workers which industry spokesmen said would leave the nation without any meat within a week. More than 335,000 workers will quit their jobs unless a com promise basis satisfactory to packers and unions can be found. Some 200,000 members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (CIO) had announced they will strike Jan. 16. The Amalgamated Meat Cut ters and Butcher Workmen (AFL) will also walk out, they said, but a date has not been set. Detroit. Jan. 12 lU.R) Failure of presidential efforts to settle the costly Gcenral Motors walk out tonight forced the CIO auto workers union to a renewed hunt for a way out of the impassed of a deadlocked strike. Interest Free RFC Mine Loans Urged Washington. Jan. 12 ,UR) Sen. Pat McCarran, D, Nev., said tonight that he will intro duce a bill to authorize the Re construction Finance Corp. to make interest-free loans for re habilitation of precious metal mines. The loans would be repaid in the form of a five per cent royalty on future production. Mexico City. Jan. 12 ''U.R! Mexico will invest S30.000.000 in the sugar industry within the coming two years, the paper Elj N'acional said today. Telephone Strikes Hit Capitol N : "fS -4 ....... ,.s (Acme Tclcpholo) District telephone operators begin deserting their Jobs nt the Telephone Building, Washington, D. C, to attend mass meeting in protest ngninst what their spokesmen allege to be "sweatshop" conditions at the Chesa peake 4s Potomac Telephone company. SUSPECTS FREED, ALL CLUES FADE IN E Chicago. Jan. 12 (U.R) Chi cago police tonight released four suspects and found them selves without any promising leads in the brutal kidnap-slay-ing last Monday of Suzanne Degman, six, whose dismember ed body was found in cesspools less than a block from her home. A former janitor of the build ing where Suzanne was dirrect ed was released after a lie de tector test showed him innocent. The former janitor, a handyman arrested today in Wilmette, a north shore suburb, was Wilbur Phillips, 45. Meanwhile, three other sus pects were cleared of suspicion in the fiendish crime. They, were Warren G. Dawes, 22: William Anthony Grant, 66. and Edward King, 39. Earlier, Robert Groet zinger, 45. and Francis Perry, 22, were freed after questioning had cleared them. Phillips had been arrested on information furnished by frank Cace, Miami, Fla., owner of the apartment building where Suz anne had been butchered in a laundry room. AGED BRIDEGROOM ADMITS SLAYING Kalispell, Mont., Jan. 12 (U.R) Frank Ross, 81-year-old former stage-coarh driver and bride groom of less than three months. pleaded guilty before District Judge Dean King today to the first degree murder of Vinccl Stibal. 55. fellow resident of the State Soldier's home at Colum bia Falls. Judge King said he would sen-i tence Ross Monday. I The aged man. who yesterday j signed a confession Jie fatally wounded Mr. and Mrs. Slibal! Wednesday, showed no regret in ! making his plea. I "Yes, I shot him," he told the court. "I'm pleading guilty. Hej was making my life miserable j and I'd do it again." London Want To Go Home Meet Fizzles London. Jan. 12 'UP) A GI mass meeting to protest demobil ization delays, the third in as many days, fizzled out today. Only six GI's appeared along with 10 reporters and seven military policemen. Earlier today, a deputation of eight soldiers was told by Sen. Tom Connally of Texas that "the boys in the Pacific have a bigger gripe than you" in their redeployment program. Today's demonstration wa. scheduled for the lunch hour in Grosvenor Square, near London Brea army headquarters and scene of a larger demonstration last night. Tif -si -' ''- a i 1 I it i LABOR LEADER OF BRITAIN ASSAILS YANKEE BUSINESS Lewes, England, Jan. 12 (U.R) Prof. Harold Laski, chairman of Britain's Labor party, assailed American big business today as a "reactionary" factor in the in ternational field. Laski, who also warned against ''"development of atomic energy findings for private pro fit, spoke before the Sussex Federation of Labor. His refer ence to United States business men was made while he was re viewing international affairs. Then he added that "the America of big business is no less reactionary in international relations that it is toward every progressive measure which was sought to benefit the workers f the United States." Laski attacked any policy to secrecy on atomic energy as "in defensible, since its result is quite obviously to sow distrust and suspicion." E Tokyo, Jan. 12 (U.R) Six men, five of them cabinet min isters, were dropped from Pre mier Baron Kijuro Shidchara's government today in the first practical application of Gen. Douglas MaeArtluir's directives against militaristic and ultra nationalist figures holding pub lic office. In a major reorganization fol lowing eight days of discussion and speculation on the cabinet's course. Shidehara ousted Home Minister Zcnjiro Horikiri, Agri culture and Forestry Minister K e n z o Matsumura, Transport Minister Takeo Tanaka, Educa tion Minister Tamon Maeda. minister without portfolio and Chief Cabinet Secretary Daisa buro Tsugita, and Deputy Cab inet Secretary Shigco Miyoshi. CLlTIlEASE L San Francisco, Jan. 12 'UP) Police and Defense Council J. W. Ehr!i(!i tonight began bick ering over whether Alfred Leon ard Cline, ex-choir singer whose nation-wide wooing of widows coincided with the mysfcrious deaths and disappearances of some, should be released from jail on bond. Superior Judge Herbert C. Kaufman today sot bail on Clinc's grand theft charge at $50,000 and on his two forgery counts at $25,000 each and Er lich immediately announced he thought it "possible" the money could be raised and his client freed. HANNEGAN HOOTS MORSE'S PLAN TO LIBERALIZE GOP Democratic Chief Opens 1946 Campaign; Assails Taft's Speech Boston. Jan. 12 (U.R) Dem ocratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan fired his party's opening salvo in the 1946 election campaign tonight by asserting that "reaction" is firm ly in the saddle in the republi can party. A recent speech by Sen. Ro bert A. Taft, R., O., proves that "the old guard controls the party", he told the Massachu setts state democratic commit tee at a dinner. "Senator Taft and his asso ciates have dropped the pose of liberalism," Hannegan declared. "They control the party, and so long as they continue to do so there can be no more claims to liberalism ur.dcr that party's banner." Hannegan discounted at tempts by Sen. Wayne R. Morse, R., Ore., to liberalize the party. "There can be no such thing as an accredited republican liberal," Hannegan said. "Hence forth, by the party's own decree, republican candidates for office cannot stand on liberal prin ciples." Hannegan said the democrats "Go along with Senator Taft 100 per cent in his clarification of the issue. "We accept this challenge," Hannegan added. "We are ready to lay the case before the voters of America. We shall do every thing in our power to make Senator Taft's meaning perfect ly clear to them to all Ameri cans. rcDublicans included. Taft in his speech said parts of President Truman's legisla tive program were "communis. tic" or dictated by the CIO poli tical action committee. He said the majority of American peo ple did not support the presl dent's program and "philoso phy '. "I would recommend to the senator a re-reading of the democratic party's platform of 1944 and of the election returns of Nov. 7 of the same year," Hannegan said. He said Morse made a radio speech recently "in which he endorsed the Trumun program". BLAST, ROB TRAIN Jerusalem. Jan. 12 (U.R) A group of 70 Jewish men and women terrorists armed with machine guns, rifles and land mines held up a train near Hedcra in northern Palestine today and escaped with a $140, 000 railroad payroll after wound ing two guards. The terrorists, officially de scribed as members of the mili tant Jewish organization, Irgun Sva Leumi, derailed the locomo tive with land mines. A British constable and one Arab police man of the train's six-man escort were wounded. Thousands of British troops were rushed into the territory, a section of North Palestine which had been comparatively free of disturbances for the past several months. NEW YORK TURNS OUT FOR HEROES New York, Jan. 1 1 (U.R) Johnny came marching home today in a shiny, new pair of jump boots and with a cocky grin across his face. He marched up Fifth Avenue, pas 3.500.000 persons who couldn't cheer him loud or long enough. He was 13.000 strong. He was Johnny and Joe and Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin. Interspersed among the marching doughfeet were 34 tanks, medium and heavy, 12 truck-drawn tank deMryous, 18 truck-drawn and 12 self-pro-pcled howitzers and two mam moth tank transports. This was the first such military pageant New York had seen since 1919. Butte, Mont., Jan. 12 (U.R) The annual convention of the Pacific Northwest Tourist asso ciation will be held here Mon day and Tuesday. jlletin Li (eles, Jan. 12 (U.R) The j rsity of Southern Cal- ifor in its fourth straight Pac jast conference baskct- bal i tonight, fighting back a nined bid from the Un , y of California at Los Ar ft ;o win 45 to 40. Columbus, O., Jan. 1 2 lU.PJ Ohio Sta e, sparked by Guard Paul Houston and Captain Ray Snyder, strengthened its lead in the Big Ton basketball race to night by defeating Illinois for the second time this season, 41 to 35. The Illini tied the score 10 times in the game, but faded at the close to lose their fourth conference game. It was Ohio State's fourth straight Big Ten victory. BRITISH INSIST IKE BE 'DRAFTED' London, Jan. 12 (U.R) Au thoritative British sources insist ed today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower still might be "draft ed" as secretary-general of the United Nations organization, de spite an official American state ment that he would not accept the post. These informants said infor mal British-American discussions on the matter had continued up to last night when Sectetary of State James F. Byrnes announc ed that the American chief of staff was i.ot interested in the UNO job. The London Daily Mail said British officials do not regard it as . closed issue and have asked President Truman to persuade Eisenhower to reconsider. The Mail said Truman was expected to reply to that request over the week-end. British spokesmen felt that if there is a strong enough de mand for Eisenhower, among all the United Nations the general would be unable to refuse. With Eisenhower's position still ...icertnin, the choice of a top world figure for the secretary-generalship, which will pay an estimated $36,000 tax-free dollars annually and which is regarded as the most important single post in the UNO, appeared to be a toss-up among a half dozen or more men. CIVILIANS FACE HALF CENT RISE E Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R) Civilians face an immediate in crease in the price of sugar or a curtailment of imports from Caribbean areas, it was learn ed tonight. Stabilization Administ r a t o r John C. Collet is expected to act early next week on a recom mendation from the office of price administration and the ag riculture department that sugar prices be increased one-half cent a pound. Further Increases In sugar prices may be necessary unless congress acts almost immediate ly to extend government author ity to pay subsidies on 1046 sugar crops in Puerto Rico and Hawaii and on domestically produced cane and beets. An immediate price Increase of one-half cent a pound would make it possible for the United States to buy 1946 Cuban sugar production and sell It to this country without a loss. Author ity to sell at a loss to the gov ernment any sugar produced this year has now been expired. HOSPITAL HORROR TOLD Manila, Jan. 12 'U.R) Wil liam P. Cain, Columbia, S. C, former prisoner of the Japan ese in the Philippines, testified today at the trial of Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma that among American prisoners the Japan ese . camp hospitals became known as the "place where a man goes to die." PRISON CAMP ROMANCE Long Beach, Cal., Jan. 12 (U.Ri A romance that began be hind the walls of the Jap's Santo Tomas prison camp in Manila tonight resulted in the marriage of Lillian in Work man, 22, and Maj. Eugene Carl Smith, 23, army pilot. Cleveland, Jan. 12 (U.R) Im mediate prospects of ending Cleveland's week-old newspaper strike were gloomy tonight. CONGRESS MEETS ANEW TOMORROW; Fact Finding Bill, Threat To 0PA and Army Discharges In Forefront Washington, Jan. 12 (U.P.) Still smarting from President Truman's public spanking for delaying major legislation, con gress reconvenes on Monday af ter a 23-day recess. Administration leaders In con gress are determined to speed action on legislation which the president wants, particularly measures for creation of fact finding boards in major labor disputes. Meeting as the second session of the 79th congress, the house and senate are not expected to act .on any lgeislation until nf tcr receiving the president's state of the union message and the new budget. The president's message, which will not be de livered in person, will go to congress next Thursday. The budget message is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 21. Congress is confronted with a long list of unfinished business. And there's a lot more to come in the way of appropriation bills, tax legislation and meas ures to extend price control and the president's war time powers. A threat to price control was voiced by Sen. John Bauwhcad, D., Ala, He said seven democrat ic senators and one representa tive from cotton growing states had warned" OPA they would try to abolish the agency if it car ries out a proposal to put price ceilings on raw cotton. Meanwhile, the rising storm over demobilization of the army and navy, high-lighted by GI demonstrations In many parts of the world, may lead to one of the bitterest debates in congres sional history. Geir. Dwight D.. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations, will attempt to justify their demobilization poli cies to congressmen in an infor mal meeting scheduled for Tues day. Some administration leaders feared the demobilization storm might jeooardize legislation for compulsory military training and extension of selective ser vice. TELEPHONE TIE-UP ON COAST GROWS San Francsico, Jan. 12 (U.R) Approximately 30,000 west coast telephone workers paralyz ed most long distance communi cations today along the coast by refusing to cross picket lines of striking Western Electric em ployes as an independent tele phone union's threat to tie-up San Francisco dial exchanges failed to materialize. The united brotherhood of telephone workers voted to re spect picket lines of the asso ciation of communication equip ment workers with the predic tion that dial service in San Francisco would break down "within hours" after their mem bers failed to report for repair work in the dial exchanges of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Co. ARMYWANTS KIN SENT TO EUROPE Frankfurt, Jan. 12 (U.R) The United States army would bring more than 77,000 dependents of soldiers in the occupation forces to Europe if a survey conducted among representative officers and enlisted men proves correct. U. S. European theater head quarters announced. Result of the survey, an nounced yesterday, was sent to major command areas in order that housing, schooling and other necessary facilities may be pre pared for, lt was announced The survey was made through questionnaires. Totals include 35,000 wives, 33,000 children, 4,500 fiances and 5,000 others. Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R) President Truman today accept ed the resignation of undersecre tary of Interior Abe Fortas Excuse, Please! Tokyo, Jan. 12 (U.R) A group of Japanese women who wouldn't wait for Satur day night to take their baths landed a public bath house proprietor in hot water today. Tokyo police arrested him because he permitted men and women to share the same hot water last night. The officers said it was illegal and also unprecedented. The proprietor said the wom en patrons, fearful that the fuel shortage might deprive them of hot water, came charging in, completely ignor ing a sign which read: "Gentlemen only tonight, women tomorrow." T DISTRI BY 2-T0-1 VOTE Portland, Ore., Jan. 12 lU.R: Elected to represent the first Oregon district, Walter A. Nor blad, 37-year-old Astoria attor ney and World War 11 veteran, tonight prepared to leave for the national capital and a new cam paign to succeed himself at the May primaries. Norblad was chosen to suc ceed the late James W. Mot!, who died Nov. 12. His election maintained the state's ull-GOP delegation in Washington and continued a 52-year-old prece dent of sending only republi cans to congress from the first district. Norblad, the son of former Gov. Al W. Norblad, defeated his democratic opponent, Bruce Spaulding, a Salem attorney, by a two-to-one margin in Friday's special election. In Washington, D. C, Herbert Browneli, Jr., republican nation al committee chairman, describ ed Norblad's victory as addi tional evidence of the "republi can march toward control of con gress." VETS PLANS FOR TAYLOR ASSERTS Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R) The American Legion tonight accused many real estate men of sabotaging GI home loans In order to make inflated commis sions. "The first question they ask the veteran is whether he ts de pending 3n th eGI bill," John Thomas Taylor, Legion legisla tive director, said. "If he says yes they begin to cool off. oater they find ways ol getting rid of him altogether. Apparently they are more inter ested in the inflated commission paid on inflated prices then they are in the veteran." Taylor pointed out that recent amendments loosened restric tions on the government guaran teed loans and raised the maxi mum guarantee from $2,000 to $4,000. Maximum interest rates, however, remain at four per cent. Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R) Government officials pledged every effort today to getting vet erans set up in temporary hous ing. But they warned that the only real solution to the housing shortage is construction of plenty of good, permanent homes at the "right prices." HEIRESS ELOPES, Fl Beverly Hills, Cal.. Jan 12 (U.R) Marilyn Garland, 18-year-old heiress to a $2,000,000 real estate fortune, eloped to Yuma, Ariz., and married the. man another woman has accused of taking $400 from her, her fam ily said .onight. Miss Garland married Albert Dcverich, 28, in Yuma yester day, her family said. They refused to comment further, except to asy that the new Mrs. Dcverick was now at the home of her mother, Mrs. Alzoa Garland Virgllio, who put private detectives on the girl's trail when she disappeared several d'lvs ago. (See story Page 3) Highway Closed, Trees Blown Down, Traffiq Stalled In South Los Angeles, Jan. 12 (U.R) A high wind swept over this area of southern California today, blocking highways, uprooting trees and doing heavy damagg to orange crops. Both highway 99 and 66 werej closed between Colton and On tario, and Rialto and Upland, by swirling sand which also stalled automobiles. At Riverside the citrus pack ers estimated that from 20 to 25 per cent of the naval orange crop on the trees would never rcacti the eastern market. Tons of oranges were on tho ground, and scarring and punct uring had ruined as high as 50 per cent of the remainder of tha crop in some Riverside areas. Trees blown down in the city of Riverside caused damage esti mated at $100,000. Tho wind reached 60 miles an hour at Riverside, the stiffest gale in 40 years. It had been ' blowing for three days and was still blowing tonight. In Los Angeles the same wine a overturned an automobile In which Mrs. Marjorle Spencer and her three children were rid ing, but they emerged unhurt. The weather bureau forecast winds up to 40 miles an hour from Ventura to the Mexican border tonight and tomorrow morning, and warned small crafj on the high seas. At Newport Beach the bay was churned to a froth as sev eral small craft went adrift. Numerous trees ,toppled over In Los Angeles and Hollywood and a few power circuits wera disrupted by falling trees. Tho wind was also responsible foe the setting off of dozens of bur glar alarms. At Upland, Justice of thu Peace Fred H. Jacobs, confined to a wheel chair, was trapped between two fallen trees outside) his home. A street maintenance! crew had to saw him out. At Cal-Aero airfield, where hundreds of planes are stored by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, at least a half, dozen of the planes were dam aged when blown together by the wind. At Monrovia our private) planes and a hangar valued at $10,000 were wrecked. DEMOCRATS PLAN TO SPEED PEARL ii Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R) Democrats on the Pearl Harbor Investigating committee Indicat ed tonight that they plan a speed up program designed to wind up the inquiry not later than Feb. 15, present termination date set by congress. Members rejected Republican suggestions that the committee extend its present recess until Wednesday in order to hear Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval opera tions, explain the demobilization crisis to congress on Tuesday. Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, Pearl Harbor commander In De cember, 1941, is scheduled to begin his testimony on Tuesday. Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D III., said he Intends to insist that the committee hear Kimmel as schedhed.. Ho criticized a sug gestion by Sen. Owen Brewster, R., Me., that the demobilization talk be given precedence over the investigation. Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga.( said he believed the committee could complete its work within "possibly two weeks and cer tainly not more than three" after Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, Pearl Harbor army com mander in 1941, have completed their testimony. George estimated that the two former commanders will be on the stand about one week each. Seoul, Korea, Jan. 12 (U.R) U. S. soldiers in Korea today raised a fund of $2,100 to buy advertisements in the Washing ton Post protesting the slowness of demobilization. I
