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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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