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AT fk i Mm in Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday. Little chance In temperature. Temp. Hlcheit yeiterday 47 Lowest thli morning . 23 Fortieth Year Demobilization Exceeds Previous Schedule Gen. Eisenhower Informs Joint Congress THOSE ELIGIBLE TO BE RELEASED BY JULY 1 , WORD Eight Million Will Be Out by July; Average of 1,200, 000 Going Home Monthly Washington, Jan. 15 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announced today that by April 30, all army enlisted men with 45 points or 30 months' serv ice will be sepafated from the army or aboard ship returning home. By June 30 all enlisted men with 40 points or 24 months' service will be separated or n route home. At present 50 points are re quired for discharge. The point values will con tinue to be calculated as of Sept. 2. 1945, V-J Day. Length of service, however, will be counted up to the April 30 and June 30 dates. Washington, Jan. 15 (UP.) Army Chief of Staff Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today that by July 1 every man will be dis charged from the army who has a right to expect release at that time. Speaking before members of the senate and nouse in me aum torium of the library of congress. Eisenhower said he would give members of congress a "com plete explanation" of the army's demobilization program. He noted that at a similar meeting last September former Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall told congress discharges would average 750.000 men a month for last October, Novem ber and December. Actually, he said, they aver aged 1,200,000 a month, and "the result was that 1,650,000 men have gone to their homes who had no right to expect it." If discharges had continued at that rate, the chief of staff said, "the army would have been out of men by March." For that reason demobilization was slowed to some extent, Eisen hower said. But, he added, it is still ahead of the rate Marshall expected last September. 8 Million Out July 1 At the present rate 8.000,000 men will have been discharged by July 1, whereas previous plans called for release of slight ly less than 7,000,000 men by that time, Eisenhower paid WearinB his famous field jacki et, Eisenhower bluntly told ne members of congress that tne armv has three big Jobs. "It has the job of reconvert ing Germany, of reconverting Japan, and of reconverting it self." he said. The array must occupy former enemy territories and it must take care of billions of dollars of surplus property until it can be taken over by the proper civilian agency. Eisenhower said. He hit back at those who charged that the army sought to slow up demobilization in order to get congressional action on a peacetime military training pro gram and at those who declared high ranking officers wanted to maintain a big army to keep th ?ir temporary high ratings. Eisenhower said charges that the army sought to relate de mobilisation to military training were "utterly fale." A military training program would not supply one man for service, he said, and "our prob lem would be only more acute " He said there is no point in trying to get a military training program until the army has com pleted its reconversion. He also pointed out that of the 1.500 general officers in the armv on V-E day. 789 have been separated, reduced in rating, on scheduled for reduction in 60 1 days. I MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Questioned ! . 1 5 - J S i I Sv s. i d r I. , s 'Acme Ttlephoto) Hector Verburgh, 65, (left), Chicago apartment building jani tor, and Desere Smet, 35, Chicago janitor, were freed after ques tioning in the kidnap-slaying of Suzanne Degnan, six. PAIR SURRENDER FOR QUIZ IN KIDNAP SLAYING CASE Chicago, Jan. 15 (U.R). A man and woman wanted for questioning about the kidnap slaying of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan surrendered to police to day. Mrs. Louise Johnson, 32, and Harry Weil, 36, walked Into a milk store operated by Weil and waited there for police to ar- E POLITICAL SET-UP Chinese Nationalist Hq., Manchuria. Jan. 15 (U.P.) An official nationalist state ment said tonight that 10.000 Chinese communist troops at tacked the port of Yingkow three hours after the cease fire order in China's civil war was to be effective throughout Manchuria. Chungking, Jan. 15 (U.R) The Chinese Communists have accepted in principle a Nation qii.t fnr mnreaii i7.a t ion , .. ,,rr.m,,t under fhr j e a d e r s h i p of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuom- intang, the Central News Agency said today. Central indicated that a final settlement of the years-old poli tical split between the Nation alists and Communists was im minent as a result of the leftist's decision. The agency said the other minority parties represented at the unity meeting in Chungking also had accepted the Nationalist proposals, although technical details of the reorganization still were being worked out. The main features of the pro gram were that the Kuomintang would retain its status as China's leading political party, with Chiang as president occupying a position about midway between that of the United States pres ident and the British king. The Kuomintang would be empowered to appoint an in terim government pending a na tional election, but all minority parties would share in the policy-making powers of the new state council. CENSOR MEDALED Washington, Jan. 15 (U.R) Byron Price, wartime censorship director, was awarded the medal for merit today by President Truman or his management of voluntary censorship in Kidnap 4 ma,. rive. Detectives wanted to ques tion them about blood stains found in Mrs. Johnson's automo bile which she left in a garage the night of the kidnaping. Mrs. Johnson and Weil were taken to the Summerdale police station for questioning. They had been sought since discovery by police that Mrs. Johnson's blood-stained automo bile had been left in a public garage not long after the kid naping eight days ago. Police Lt. William Hanrahan said that a piece of grease-soaked paper found in the automobile was being checked to determine if it bore resemblance to the pa per on which the kidnaper wrote his $20,000 ransom demand. $24,000 MOTEL TO BE BUILT ON Construction of a $24,000 motel at 1225 N. Riverside Ave. will be under way as soon as surveying is accomplished ac cording to Clarence B. Partch who applied at the city superin tendent's office Saturday for permission to erect the structure. Partch hopes to have the mote! open for business early next summer and expects to start con struction within the next few days. The "U"-shaped building will be stuccoed and will house 11 one-room units for guests in ad dition to living quarters for Mr. and Mrs. Partch. Length of the rear section will be 92 feet while the south wing will be 179 feet long and the north one 135. Di mensions of guest rooms will be 14 by 21 feet. The site is across the street from Henry's drive-In. The business will cater to overnight trade and the motel will be known as Motor Haven. No cafe will be included In the building, Partch states.. The couple came to Medford last November from Banning, Calif., where they had previous ly operated a motel. They are residing at the Sunrise auto court. STRIKE ENDS Chicago, Jan. 15 (U.R The Central States Driving Council said today that the trucking di vision of the Burlington Trans portation company and the Chicago-Denver Trucking company had signed contracts, ending a strike of over-lheroad drivers that started ?ov. 15, MEDFORD, OREGON, T APPEAL TO UNO Differences with Russia May Touch Off Discussion of Other Controversies. London, Jan. 15 (U.R) Iran threatened today to appeal to the United Nations general assembly for protection of Iranian rights if Russian-Irania'n differences are not settled soon. Iran's chief delegate, Seyed Hassan Taquizadeh, announced his country's intentions of ap pealing to the UNO at the eighth full session of the assembly. The Iran-Soviet situation was the first of the urgent world po litical controversies mentioned in the general debate which started late yesterday. The pos sibility was seen that it might touch off discussion of other con troversial issues. Russia Unnamed Taquizadeh did not mention the Soviet Union by name during- his speech. But he said "certain great difficulties" in Iran were of a nature to threaten world re lations. He referred to the au tonomous movement in Azerbai jan province on the Russian bor der, which the Iranians charge was provoked by the Soviets. He said Iran refrained "rather reluctantly at the last moment" before the UNO opened from re questing that the Iranian-Soviet dispute be placed formally on the assembly agenda. He said that Iran restrained herself while "still hoping then that all the ways and means of reaching a satisfactory settle ment were not yet exhausted." Taquizadeh warned the assem bly that If the Iranian dispute came before it, it would consti tute "a test case of the most clear and explicit kind for the organization to manifest its fair spirit in dealing with it and in protectng the vital rights of its members." Britain Ready Coincidmt with the exposition of the Iranian case, British po litical correspondents obviously with official inspiration said For eign Secretary Ernest B e v i n would tell the UNO that Britain waj ready to turn over all her mandated territories except Pal estine and Transjordania to a UNO council. E. T. ALLEN SELLS HOTEL BUILDING Sale of the Allen hotel build ing at the corner of Main and Front streets was announced to day by E. T. Allen of Portland, who stated that the purchaser could not be disclosed at this time. Firms in the building. In cluding the Star Cleaners. West ern Union office, The Pit, the Allen Hotel barber shop and shoe shine shop will continue to occupy their present quar ters for the time being. Allen said L. M. Hamilton will also continue to operate the hotel. Allen has owned the building for the past 19 years and dur ing that time also operated the hotel for a few years In 1937 he leased the hotel business and since then has resided In Port land. He declared that even though living in Portland, he continues to be interested in southern Oregon and "boosts Medford" whenever possible. It is understood that the pur chaser of the building, which is 100 by 100 feet, contemplates major improvements and repairs TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, SPEED AGREED IN CONSIDERATION OF L Senate Committee Plans Re port Shortly After Feb. 1 ; Taft Protests Dilly-Dally. Washington, Jan. 15 (U.R) The Senate Labor committee agreed today, as the nation's strike picture became increas ingly critical, to speed hearings on labor legislation with a view to presenting it to the senate shortly after Feb. 1. The agreement came as the second session of the 79th con gress awaited Mr. Truman's mes sage on the state of the union and possible clarification of the national labor situation. Taft Protests The tentative day for comple tion of the senate rominittcc's work was set after Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., protested against what he called the leisurely way in which the hearings were be ing conducted. Mr. Truman's message is scheduled to be read in each house by clerks day after to morrow. KIMMEL BEFORE PEARL QUIZZERS Washington, Jan. 15 (U.R) Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, who was removed as Pacific fleet commander nfter the Pearl Har bor disaster, tolls his story in public for the first time today. Kimmel was the first witness as congress' Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee resumed public hearings after a 10-day recess. He was expected to tell the committee that the attack could have been averted if the navy department in Washington had given him all the information it had about Japanese plans prior to Dec. 7, 1941. A preview of Kimmel's posi tion, as revealed In testimony before three previous investiga tions, already has been released by the congressional committee. It included his testimony before the Roberts commission in 1942 and the army Pearl Harbor board and the navy court of in quiry In 1944. That testimony was taken in closed session. Few Bomb-Carrying Balloons Reached American Continent Tokyo, Jan. 15 (U.R) The Japanese launched 9,000 bomb carrying balloons against the United States during the war un til the supply ran out in March 1945, six months before she sur rendered, it was revealed offi cially today. Allied headquarters intelli gence section said about 200 bal loons were released in February and March of 1944, but that from Nov. 3, 1944 until March 1945 they loosed about 150 into the substratosphere daily. American intelligence reports revealed that the Japanese esti mated that 10 pe. cent of the balloon-bombs about 900 made the trip "effectively" but U. S. Intelligence officers said this was an "optimistic" guess. Latest figures available in San Francisco showed that 225 of the bomb-laden balloons are known to have reached the American continent. Three land ed in southern Oregon, one on the Oliver Titc larw un Soutuitiau and auutlm m Texas, United Press Full 1916. CIO pickets who marched In Co.'s Lackawanna, N. Y., plant as later withdrawn as the strike call ism.iwiiiniuisei,iji i pi ii n miii i in Mi' ww LJiiMWymww ,v a 'v H h v v A v -1 4 ' , Hi fix l' I Churchill Arrives For Vacation; Denies Quitting Conservative Lead New York, Jan. 15 (U.R) Winston Churchill, Britain's war-time prime minister, was en route to Florida for a vacation today after quelling rumors that he would resign the leadership of the conservative party. Churchill and his wife arrived here last night aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth for a nine T DEVELOPS CRACK IN HEAVY WAVES Boston, Jan. 15 (UP.) The army transport Henry Baldwin carrying 589 troops to New York radioed today that a crack had developed in her afterdeck and that she was being pounded by heavy seas about IIUO miles southeast of Cape Race. Rescue operations were turned over by the eastern sea frontier in New York to task force 24 at Argcntia, Newfoundland. The cutter Modock was dispatched under full steam for the scene. The navy said the navy tug Paiutc, on duty with the North Atlantic Fleet, also was dis patched to the Baldwin. A spokesman at the first na val district here said that the message picked up by the naval radio station at Marshfield, Mass., was a regular dispatch and not an SOS. He believed that the transport was in no immediate danger. The Baldwin's troops included the a31st and 3884th Quarter master Truck Companies, and the 28!iQth Engineering Petrole um Distributing company. Some were negro troops. Peach street, Medford. The Japanese launched the first balloon bombs shortly after i Jimmy Doolittle's carrier planes j raided Tokyo April 18, 1942, though they had been experi-1 menting with them for soniel time previous to that dale, the ; report said. The Japanese originally planned to release the balloons from submarines off the United States west coast, the report said, but by the time they found a practical use for the balloons I hey did not have (he scapower to penetrate continental waters. As a result, they were launch ed from bases in the home islands and reached Ihe United States in from 30 to 100 hours, depeuding on weather condi lions. . Most of the balloons- landed harmlessly on the Pacific coast in British Columbia, Washing ton, Oregon, Montana and Cali forma, although at least one is known to have lauded in Michi- Leased Wire NO. 251. (Acmt TeUphoto) front of the Bethlehem Steel the strike got under way, were was deferred for one weok. weeks' vacation. "I have no intention whatever of ceasing to lead the conserva tive party until I am satisfied that they can see their way clear ahead and make a better ar rangement, which I earnestly trust they may be able to do," the former war leader said in a statement broadcast over a world wide hookup. Questioned on reports that he would accept the post of secre tary general of the United Na tions Organization, he said he had "never addressed my mind to such a subject." When asked to comment on the program of the socialist gov ernment that unseated him as premier, he brought laughter from his questioners by com menting drily: "I never criticize the govern ment of my county abroad. I very rarely leave off criticizing it at home." Churchill said he favored a joint Anglo-American inquiry committee for Palestine. "I am sure far greater results can be obtained through the ef forts of both nations," he said. He also spoke out In favor of the U. S., Britain and Canada keeping the secret of the atom bomb "until there have been ar rangements made for the control of such a dread agency." Asked what the turning point of the war was, he responded without hesitation: "Pearl Har bor. Up to that, all was doubt ful; after that, nothing could pre vent the victory of the great al lies." PATH CLEARED TO S Welch, W. Va., Jan. 15 (U.R) Spokesmen for the New River and Pocahontas Coal Co. here announced at 2 p. m. that the way has been cleared for res cuing all of the miners who were trapped in an explosion which killed at least five men in the No. 0 mine, one-half mile southeast of Welch today. The company's office at the nearby Berwin mine said that of the 2f men who were in Ihe mine at the lime of the explo sion, more than 200 already have been rescued. Bodies of five workers have been found and 12 to 15 other men have been taken to hos pitals In Welch. The men are being taken out of the second level throuch on air shaft. The tipple at the en tranee of the mine wns destroy ed bv the heavy blast at 10 o'clock this morning, complete ly blocking the main portal. COTTON FOR JAPAN Tokyo, Jan. 15 (U.RI Repre sentative W. R. Poage, D., Texas, and Anton Johnson, R., III., said today 800.000 bales of cotton will be shipped from the United States to Japan soon for manufacUiring cloth in Japanese mill ACTION WILL CUT OF FRjffl MEATS CIO Electrical Workers Lat est to Walkout; 616,000 Idle in Strike Epidemic. By United Press Another 200,000 workers Joined the nation's strikers to day as AFL and CIO packing house workers prepared for the opening tomorrow of a strika which will cut off supplies of meat to most American dinner tables. More than 616.000 workers were idle across the nation In , labor disputes. The latest walk- ' out was conducted by 200,000 CIO electrical workers against three big companies in 16 states. 200.000 To Quit The greatest strike threat came from the workers in the packing plants who were sched uled to go out at 12:01 a. m. (lo cal time) In support of their wage demands. The CIO estimated that 200. 000 members of Its packing house workers union would Join the strike. The AFL meat cutters and butchers union pre dicted that 70,000 packinghouse workers belonging to their un ion would refuse to report for work In 500 packing plants. The AfL, union also said that an other 55,000 affiliated meat workers probably would be af fected. Others Eclipsed All other developments In the labor-management field todav were overshadowed by the giant controversies Involving the elec trical workers and packinghouse employes. The electrical workers walk out had an Immediate effect on production of such war-scarce items as radios, washing ma chines, toasters, and light bulbs. But principal administration at tention focused on Chicago where a corps of government of flclala worked to head off a na tionwide meat strike. Officials of the U. S. concilia tion service reportedly contact ed the companies and union yesterday to ask If there was "anything" they could do. The answer of each side was that It knew of no aid conciliators could give. Despite somewhat philosophi cal acceptance of the electrical strike, obvious administration alarm was expressed over de velopments In the threatening meat strike. Federal seizure was discussed to Insure the contin ued flow of meat to consumers. Union, company and govern ment officials adjourned a day long conference . shortly before midnight last night, acknowledg ing that no agreement had been reached. On the surface, It appeared that government hopes for gen eral labor peace were closely allied with the steel wage dis pute. Next move In the threatened steel walkout was scheduled for tomorrow when the Industry's answer to CIO demands for 19'4-cent hourly increase is to be presented. CIO President Murray came down on the union's original $2-a-day demand last week and ordered 200,000 steelworkers to postpone for one week a strike scheduled to begin yesterday. Congressmen, returning from a 23-day Christmas-New Year's recess, reflected growing public apprehension over strikes. Re publicans and southern Demo crats took occasion to denounce administration labor policies and offer remedies of their own. Officer's Luggage Found on Road by Medford Couple United Airlines today made plans for sending to Vancouver, B. p., a piece of luggage belong ing to Lt. (jg) W. A. Rosene of that city after Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Reeder, 306 Willam ette avenue, turned the bag in to the office of the Yellow Cab company. The Reeders, who found the bag on the road Sun day night after it had fallen from a cab which was taking the officer to Medford learned from Monday's Tribune how to for ward the luggage to the owner who was considerably upset at the loss of his passport, birth certificate, other valuable papers and war trophies. . Lt. Rosene, grounded at the airport Sunday night, came to town to a hotel. Mr. and Mrs. -Reeder, who had been in the country to visit friends, found the bag on the road as they re lumed liuiue ubout 10 p. m. ,
