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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
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Questioned
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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-
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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,
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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
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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,
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CIO pickets who marched In
Co.'s Lackawanna, N. Y., plant as
later withdrawn as the strike call
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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-
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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
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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. ,