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J TAUB I Weather FORECAST: Partly cloud? to cloudy with ihowers tonight and Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 43 Lowest this morninj 39 Frtrc. To 4:30 a. m. today..-...-.- .02 Fortieth Year MAY BE USED AS VERFACIUIV Hope For Eventual Accept ance Based on Fact Big Building Not Rejected. The Camp White hospital, now being used by the navy, is not listed among 34 surplus army hospitals definitely re jected for use by the Veterans' Administration according to a United Press announcement re ceived today from Washington. The dispatch added that 11 serv ice hospitals, two of them yet to be built, have been approved for use by the administration and six others have been requested. Lists were revealed in the testimony of Gen. Omar N. Bradley before the House Appro priations committee, it was said. Heretofore the Veterans' Ad ministration has declined to say what hospitals have been re jected, except in isolated cases. May Add Hospitals According to the release, Bradley told the committee ad ditional surplus hospital:; might eventually be added to the ap proved list. He said most army hospitals are cither of temporary construction or are too far from population centers. Hospitals listed as rejected in cluded Barnes, Vancouver, Wash.; Baxter, Spokane, Wash.; Hoff, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Hammond, Modesto, Calif.; De Witt, Auburn, Calif.; McCaw, Walla Walla, Wash.; Torney, Palm Springs, Calif.; Breens, Santa Fe, N. M.; Carson, Color ado Springs, Colo.; Bushuell, Brigham, Utah, and Dibble, Men lo Park, Calif. Birmingham hos pital, Van Nuys, Calif., has been requested by the administration but not finally approved. To Inspect Here Jackson county Chamber of Commerce officials have worked for months past to have the Camp White hospital approved for use as a veterans' facility and recently received the infor mation that an inspection of the building and equipment would be made in the near future by representatives of the adminis tration. It is understood that the inspecting group would come here from Klamath Falls where citizens are working to have a veterans' hospital constructed, or the present marine Installa tion taken over by the adminis tration. From Klamath Falls it has been announced that the com manding officer of the marine barracks there has been inform ed the barracks will not be needed after March 1. The post has been used as a conditioning center and separation center for the marine corps recently and its personnel has declined to about 1,200 marines, navy medi cal corpsmcn and officers, a Klamath Falls release states. Marine personnel with tropical diseases were treated at the post. LUMBERMEN TO MEET . Portland, Jan. 22 (U.R) Every major lumber producing region in the United States will be represented when lumbermen gather in Portland this week for a series of lumber meetings. The sessions will be of national importance to the lumber indus try, President Jean Johnson of the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation says. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Carlo:; (don't quote me Jones) Morris maintaining that the bul let hole in his hat has nothing to do with the life he leads. Shirlev Croby Krausc neg lecting her old haunts and friends now that Hubby Bob is home from the army. Ed Russell preparing to move into a good neighborhood. Lcs Mathes telephoning word of a big news break comuig up in Central Point. Medford Unit.d Pits Russian Charges Against British Policy In Greece and Indonesia Touch Off UNO Conference Series London, Jan. 22 (U.R) Rus sian charges that British policy in Greece and Indonesia threat ened world peace today touched off a series of high level confer ences on how to handle a con current Soviet request for an in vestigation by the United Na tions Security council. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet vice foreign commissar and foreign policy expert, arrived a few AT CONFERENCE Hamilton. Bermuda, Jan. 22 (U.R) The Anglo-American civil aviation conference threatened today to break up in discord as a result of the insistence of United States delegates on com plete freedom of the world's skyways for all commercial air traffic. Informed sources said the British were cpnsidering aban doning the negotiations unless the Americans offered some concessions on their "free enter prise" demands. If the conference breaks up without a settlement, these in formants said, Britain and the other nations of Europe may band together against American airline competition and drastic ally curtail American operations across the Atlantic. Concessions Wanted They said the British wanted the United States delegates to make concessions either on the passenger rate issue,, the num ber of scheduled trans-Atlantic flights or the right to continue from England to other Euro pean capitals. These sources said Britain and the other European airlines very well might band together in a commercial air traffic bloc on the grounds that the Ameri can lines were trying to under charge them and take over all European business. If such a bloc were formed, the United States lines would be permitted to touch only the "perimeter" of Europe, which would probably prove unsatis factory from a money stand point. FEDERATOFRCES Washington, Jan. 22 (U,R) The House Appropriations com mittee today voted $5,594,146, 286 for independent government offices and agencies in the next fiscal year a cut of $46,730, 216 from President Truman's original request. The total, however, was $1, 329,3150,216 higher than appro priations to the same agencies in the current fiscal year, end ing June 30. The overall in crease was accounted for pri marily by greatly increased obli gations and activities of the Vet erans' administration. The committee allotcd $4,931, 142.41a or 87H per cent of the proposed appropriations. This was $3,481,085 less than the Budget bureau had asked for VA but $1,182,174,413 more than the agency's appropriations for this year. JUDGE HANNA TO HEAR KLAMATH COUNTY CASE Salem. Jan. 22 (u R) Chief Justice Harry H. Belt of the State Supreme court has issued the following assignments to cir cuit court judges: Judge Combs to Klamath county to hear a case involving the estate of Vera L. Cristler, deceased, in place of Judge D. R. Vandc;iberg. Judge H. K. Hanna of Med ford assigned to Klamath county to hear a suit involving the will of Alma Grennon. deceased, in ', place of Judge Vandenberg. dis- qualified. Full Liuid Wire hours after the Soviets injected the situations in Greece and Java into the UNO proceedings. Many high quarters regarded the move as aimed at counteracting Iran's formal charge that Russia inter fered with Iranian internal af fairs. Ernest Bevin, British foreign secretary, discussed the Russian charge at a morning cabinet meeting before Commons recon vened after the holiday recess. In Commons Prime Minister Attlee indicated Bevin would make a statement on British pol icy in Greece and Indonesia, but did not hint when. Russia and the Soviet Ukraine last night asked the UNO Secur ity council to investigate and act on what they described as threats to the peace arising from the presence of British troops in Greece and Indonesia. Russia specifically accused the British of interfering in Greek internal affairs the identical charge made against the Soviet union before the UNO by Iran last week. s AT JAP HIGHS Tokyo, Jan. 22 (U.R) In a new move designed to shatter the farflung Zaibatsu financial and business Interests, Gen. MacArthur today ordered the Japanese government to provide a comprehensive inventory cov ering the personal background and wartime activities of high erups in 19 cartels and 14 Zai batsu families under American investigation. It was reported that Informa tion obtained will be used to bar "undesirables" from future responsible posts in business, thus effecting a "house clean ing" similar to the political purge directives of Jan. 4. The questionnaire handed to the government deals with all major officers of companies in office as of Jan, 1 as well 'as holders of over one per cent of their stock. Questions concern ing connections between holding companies and their affiliates or subsidiaries were also includ ed. NORTH CENTRAL AREA NUMBED BY COLD WAVE By United Press Extreme cold numbed resi dents of the north central states today as New England and the upper Atlantic region lay blan keted under heavy snow.- The coldest point in the na tion, the U. S. weather bureau at Chicago reported, was Be midji, Minn., where the mer cury fell to 20 degrees bciow zero. Gift Fruit Shipments Grow; 858,887 Sent Out Last Year Southern Oregon's growing fruit gift box industry reached its highest peak in 1945 with 858,887 packages being shipped through the Medford office of the Railway Express Agency ac cording to statistics from F. P. Franck, local agent. The num ber is almost double that of 1943 when 430,170 s:. laments were made and 24.2 per cent over the 1944 total of 691,759. Dearth of merchandise for Christmas presents last year helped to swell the fruit gift package demand, It was pointed out by some shippers. However, they expressed doubt that the high volume could be main tained with return of more nor mal supply of other gift items. About 1.000 persons were em ployed In the Industry In 1945 by eight firms compared to -800 in 1944, according to unofficial estimates from another source. Firms involved are Bear Creek Orchards, American Fruit Grow ers, Retcr Fruit company, Pin nacle Packing company. Crystal Springs Packing company, My ron Root and company. Rogue River Orchards and Southern Oregon Sales MEDFORD, OREGON, OP FACT FINDING GIVEN APPROVAL House Labor Committee Fa vors Bill Without Power to Scan Books, Forbid Strikes Washington, Jan. 22 (U.R) The House Labor committee to day approved a watered-down version of the bill to authorize President Truman to set up fact finding boards in serious labor disputes. As approved by the commit tee, the bill would not authorize fact-finding boards to subpoena company records and would not forbid strikes while the board is making its hives' igation. Truman Bill Stronger The bill requested by Mr. Tru man would have given the boards subpoena power and would have provided a manda tory 30-day cooling off period before a strike could be called. As approved by the commit tee, however, the measure mere ly would give congressional au thority for appointment of fact finding boards. Mr. Truman al ready has appointed such boards In the General Motors and steel disputes. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellcnbach has ap pointed similar boards in other cases. The vote to approve the dilut ed measure was 10 to 8. The committee approved It after re jecting a motion by Rep. Frank Hook, D., Mich., that committee hearings on the motion be re sumed. $12,d00 ANNUAL WAGE FAVORED FOR PILOTS New York, Jan. 22 (U.R) The Airlines Negotiating committee, representing 13 major airlines, went on record today as favoring an approximately $12,000 yearly salary for four-cngined plane pilots, as opposed to the approxi mate $15,000 the American Pilots association (AFL) is ask ing. The committee, formed last month by the airlines to negoti ate the lengthy dispute over four engine pay, smd at a press con ference that a salary of $12,000 would represent about a 30 per cent pay increase. MEDIATORS NAMED IN ELECTRICAL WALKOUT Washington, Jan. 22 (U.R) Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellcnbach today named William H. Davis, former War Labor board chnirman, and Ar thur S. Meyer, New York State Mediation board chairman, as mediators in the strike of 200, 000 electrical workers. The world's largest known de posits of uranium are in Canada. Nearly all the shipments were made by rail refrigerator car. Only 40 to 50 parcels were rout ed by air, Mr. Franck states. About 250 gift packages were processed by the local post of fice, Postmaster Frank DcSouza estimates. Several shipments were air expressed to Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica, Mr. Franck says. He expects that air transports will be utilized to a greater extent next fall as com mercial lines expand throughout the world. Canada is providing a growing market for gift fruit and over 1,200 parcels were shipped to points there in 1945. Railway Express Agency's revenue from Medford's gift fruit shipments was $594,528 92 last year compared to $466,500 in 1944 showing a 27.5 per cent increase. The eompanys aver age charge per shipment was 69.2 cents in 1945 and 67.4 cents In 1944. Refrigerator cars required for the Industry here numbered ?98 In December 1945 while 179 and 98 were needed for the same month in 1944 and 1943,. respec tively. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, Meat Delivery Trucks Cross Picket Lines trirn. el '"""' ,.... mi i t nur t r - First of seven Swift Company, meat packers, delivery trucks, escorted by police squad cars (rear) crosses O. I. O. picket line at Kansas City, Kans., to make deliveries as the nation's meat supply drops to 35 per cent of nor mal in many areas und Government sclsurc is Uireutvncd. Gen. Short Says War Department Would Hide Own Guilt By Making Him Scapegoat Wnshiniton. Jan. 22 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Wnltcr C. Short today accused the War Department of trying to hide its own guilt by making him "the scapegoat" for the Pearl Harbor disaster. Not he, Short asserted, but rion r.pnrirn C Marshall and the War Department were to blame for the fact that the army was caught napping by the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. The deposed commander of the army's Hawaiian department hrnkp a four-vear silence to de clare before the Pearl Harbor in vestigating committee that the War Department should long since have confessed its own failures ; ; -" ' .,' ' ' Waited Opportunity "TnstpiiH." Short said, "they 'passed the buck' to me, and I have kept my silence until the opportunity of this public forum was presented to me." Short was relieved of his com mand 10 days after Pearl Har hnr Ho retired soon afterward with the rank of major general. Short s statement was similar in purport to that of Adm. Hus- 3 WILL BE TAKEN TO STATE PRISON Deputy sheriffs will leave soon with James M. Totter, Ash land, Paul F-. Morris, Ashland, and Leonard Lyons, Medford. for Oregon state penitentiary. Potter is under four years sen tence each for two counts of larceny, the sentences to run concurrently, Morris Is under 18 months sentence for auto theft, Bnd Lyons will serve one year for threatening to commit a felony. All were sentenced by Judge II. K. Hanna in circuit court. Clarence L. Blair, to serve four years for larceny in a hotel room, will be transferred to the penitentiary later, sheriff's de puties said. Judge Hanna asked for a pre sentence parole report on Lee O. Plympton, charged with burglary not In a dwelling at Gold Hill. Ethner II. Bocn, con vlntcd on the same count, was given a three year suspended sentence in Oregon state prison. H is to report each month to the district attorney. CALL SOCIALIST Paris, Jan. 22 (U.R) Felix Gouin, socialist president of the constituent assemoly, was re ported reliably today to have re ceived and accepted a ma Dy France's three main parties to head a new government succeed ing that of Gen. Charles Do Gaulle. Unofficial but responsible sources said the communists, socialists and popular republi cans had agreed to nominate Gouin. They had been whirling through an unbroken scries of conferences all day in an at tempt to find a compromise can didate acceptable to the big three oaruc Tribune Unit.d Press Full 1946. band E. Klmmel, former com mander of the U. S. Pacific fleet, who preceded him before the committee. Like Klmmel, he blamed his Washington superiors for the crushing defeat at Pearl Harbor. Klmmel had charged that the Navy Department, by withhold ing vital information, deprived his fleet of "a fighting chance to avert the disaster." Critical of Marshall Short was outspokenly critical of Marshall, former army chief of staff. Marshall had told the congressional committee that Hie Hawaiian command had all the advance warning lt should have needed to be properly alert ed against a Japanese attack. The deposed general vigorous ly rejected this view. He de clared that although the War De partment had prior knowledge that war was at hand, it did not pass it along to him, He put the finger on Marshall as the man to blame for keeping Information out of his hands. Ho also asserted that Marshall had given him reason to believe, iong before Pearl Harbor, that the staff chief personally would dictate the kind of alert to be es tablished at Hawaii in the event of a hostile threat. Failed To Act This, when the chips were down, Marshall did not do, Short said. Short did what lie thought best in the light of the Informa tion he had, he told the commit tee. The result was that when the Japanese aerial striking force hit Hawaii, Short's com mand was alerted only against sabotage. But, he testified, the War De partment had known for nine days since his reply to a "war warning" of Nov. 27, 1941 the kind of alert he had ordered and had ample opportunity to order it changed. Its failure to do so, indicated to him that the War Department "approved fully the steps he had taken. The plain truth, Short said, is that though the War Department expected war, 11 had no Idea thot the Japanese would hit Pearl Harbor. He admitted he did not prop erly apprulse the situation as It subsequently unfolded. Hut the War Department, he suld, had deprived him of the information essential to a correct appraisal Long Silence Not until the present Inquiry FEPC FILIBUSTER Washington, Jan. 22 (U.R) Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga told the Senate today that the majority of Americans oppose a permanent fair employment practice commission. Continuing the southern demo cratic filibuster against the FEPC bill. Russell cited a public opinion poll which he said show cd 44 per cent against the bill and 43 per cent for it. Earlier, a five-man republican strategy committee decided to Insist upon keeping tho senate in session until 6 p. m. tonight, but took no further steps toward 24 hour meetings, as suggested by Mime FLI't proponent. Leased Wir NO. 257. (Arm Tlflhnto) started, Short noted, did Mar shall and Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, former chief of army war plans, admit publicly that they shared responsibility lor the Pearl Harbor defeat. 'I do not believe that I have been treated fairly or with jus tice by tho War Department, Short said. 'I was singled out as an ex amble, as the scapegoat for the disaster. My relatively small part In the transaction was not explained to the American peo ple until this joint congressional committee forced the revelation of the facts. "I am sure lhat an honest con fession by tho War Department general stuff of their failure to anticipate the surprise raid would have been understood by the public, In the long run and at the time." T SETS RECORD IN Communicable diseases reach ed a record for the winter last week, with a totol of 79 new cases being reported to the county health officer. Dr. A. Erin Mirkcl, during the week ending Jan. 19. Topping the list was chicken pox, with 29 new cases reported, 22 of which were reported from Prospect, and the remainder from Medford, Talent, Ashland and Eagle Point. Measles rank ed second with 17 new cases, six from Gold Hill, five from Med ford, three from Central Point and the remainder from Lone Pine and Antelope, Influenza and scarlet fever re mained at high levels, with 15 new cases of the former and 10 of the latter. Tho influenza was reported from Lone Pine, where there were eight cases, Eagle Point, Medford and Gold Hill. Scarlet fever was listed from Medford, West Side district, Eagle Point, Lake Creek and Prospect, Also liHlcd were seven cases of mumps, five in Shady Cove and one each In Medford and West Side, and one case of pneu monia In Medford. Slattery Appointed District Forester At Roseburg Office James E. Slattery has been appointed district forester of the Hoscburg district of the O and C Lands Administration, re placing E. K. Peterson, accord ing to an announcement by W. H. Horning, chief forester. Pe terson has received a transfer to the Medford office of the O and C, where ho served prior to a shift of personnel In June, 1944. Slattery received discharge from the navy In January after approximately two years serv Ice, Peterson, who has arrived In Medford to make his home. Is replacing Floyd C Scott as dis trict forester In Medford, offic ial transfer to take, place Feb, 15. TRUMAN PONDERS TO KEEP Administration Seeks Means to Break Jam Over Wages in Worst Strike Wave. Chicago, Jan. 22 (U.R) Lewis J. Clark, president of the CIO packing house work ers union, charged today that federal seiiure of the strike bound meat packing industry would be "playing into the packers' hands." Clark's statement came as representatives of his union appeared with packing house officials before a government fact-finding panel investigat ing the seven-day-old meat . strike, By United Press The worst wave of strikes In the nation's history crippled American industry today as the administration sought means of breaking the deadlock over wages. The White House announced that President Truman is con sidering seizing the meat indus try. The action may take place today. Strikes from coast to coast made 1,786,000 workers Idle and cost them $13,500,000 in lost wages every day. Wage Loss Heavy A United Press survey show ed more than $100,0GO,000 in wages already have been lost In the steel, auto, packinghouse and electrical strikes. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellcnbach appointed Wil liam H. Davis, former chairman of the war labor board, and Arthur S. Meyer, chairman of the New York State mediation board, as mediators in the strike of 200,000 CIO electrical work ers. Schwellcnbach and hie newly-appointed mediators met with officials of General Eloctric and Wcstlnghouse and CIO Elec trical Workers' Union members, who struck week ago for a $2 a day wugo Increase. IndtMtrles Hurt The steel strike, now In its second day, wus beginning to be felt in allied industries. The strike already has forced the layoff of 100,000 non-striking of fice workers and about 50,000 railroad, river barge and coal mine workers. At Now York Benjamin F. Falrless said the responsibility for the steel strike rests upon the CIO United Steel Workers Union. He did not comment upon the CIO charge that big business wus seeking "uncondi tional surrender" from the gov ernment and public. Meanwhile, at Washington the House labor committee approv ed a watered-down version of the bill to authorize the Presi dent to create fact-finding boards In labor disputes. The bill, as approved by the committee, would not authorize the boards to subpoena company records, nor would it forbid strikes while the board is making Its investi gation. T Washington, Jan. 22 (U,R) Reconversion Director John W. Snyder today urged that an ex isting federal agency be given power to control housing prices. Testifying before the House Banking committee on the Pat ma: bill to set up a housing ad ministrator with price control and priority powers, Snyder ad vocated price controls on the purchase and sale of finished houses 'to guard against Infla tion." Ho also said "we must provide for priorities In the use of a substantial portion of the available building materials," to Insure "construction of moder ately priced homes." 16-Year-Old Bride Loses Hubby, Pup Scuttle, Jan. 22-- (U.R) Six-tccn-ycar-old Juno Phyllis Wil son was en route back to her home In Somervillc, Mass., sep arated from her young husband by police, and from her six-week-old puppy dog by officials of the railway. Asked by parents to break-up her runaway marriage, police picked up the girl whin she ar rived hero from Chicago with the 18-ycor-old coast guardsman, S 1 'c George McGowan, whom she married after a two-year romance. t
