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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.
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