Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 24, 1946, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti CIO Longshoremen Threaten Tieup of Coast Shipping 4 - A T T Weather FORECAST: Parti? cloudy tonight and Friday with snow showers In mountains Friday. Cooler tonight. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 47 Lowest this Mornlnc SB Prec, 4:10 a.m. Today, Tract Fortieth Year SOUND DEVICE IS AT CRATER LAKE Instrument, Thousand Feet of Cable Lowered Without Mishap, Crew Reports. The dangerous task of install ing a sound recording instru ment in the water of Crater Lake to determine if there is a recurrence of volcanic activity has been partially completed without mishap, Chief Ranger J. Carlisle Crouch of the park service reported by radio to Park Superintendent E. P. Lea vitt early this morning The four men assigned to the task succeeded in lowering the in strument and more than a thousand feet of cable down the steep crater wall to the lakes edge yesterday, and today the mnrV will be comoleted if weather permits, Ranger Crouch reported. Geologist F. W. Cater of the United States geological survey first set up the drum recorder in the park lodge, Crouch re ported, and it was connected to the cable and found to work after the instrument intended for the lake was placed at the rim. Today the men will build a small raft from which the sounding device will be sus pended in an effort to keep it from rolling In the lake water. Leavitt said. It will be sus pended 10 feet below the water's surface, according to the plan. The rubber covered cable can be used by the men to aid their. trips up and down the Crater wall for the work today, Leavitt said. "Cat" Performs Well Crouch talked from park headquarters, to which he and Daryl Painter, equipment oper ator for the park service, trav eled by sno-cat last night. The ranger reported to Leavitt that the sno-cat had performed very well all during the trip to the lake and on trips around the park, in spite of stormy weath er. He reported but one mishap with the machine, stating that when they attempted to climb over a tree en route to head quarters last night that one track turned over. In attempt ing to right it, the track came off, disclosing a broken cotter pin. Crouch and Palmer replac ed the pin and track and pro ceeded to headquarters, using the sno-cat headligh's. The men then remained overnight at the headquarters, having been too late for the five o'clock broadcast to Medford, and re layed their report this morning. Snow Falling Heavy. wct snow was falling at headquarters this morning according to the ranger. Crouch, Palmer and Paul Herron will return to Medford tomorrow if the installation is completed, with Cater remain ing. Cater plans to stay at the lake until after the first week in February, leaving about Feb. 7 for Washington D. C. to re port to his superiors on the lake experiment. He will travel to headquarters daily to report to Leavitt by radio. Geologist Cater has had much experience in crater observa tions, having spent considerable time in recent years at the new crater. Taracutin. forming in Mexico. The decision to send Cater to the park and to install the sound recording device was made after park employees and visitors three times last summer reported seeing a strange cloud of gas or smoke hovering over the lake. KOREANS DENY RIFT Seoul, Korea, Jan. 24 (U.R) Leaders of the "provisional gov ernment" charged today that lo cal press reports of a split In its top ranks were "communist in spired'' and designed to prevent Korean unity. 11 HURT IN BUS SKID Truckee. Cal., Jan. 24 (U.R) Eleven persons suffered slight injuries when the Greyhound bti in which they were riding kidded ind overturned on an icy highway five miles west of here, the California highway pa trol repotted today. About 5.000 of the 18.000 qualified voters in Wyoming were women when the ?l:,te was admitted to the uuton in 1890. , Medfolj United Press Tells His Side ( Arme Telephotoi Lit. Den. Walter C. Short, commander of the Army forces in Hawaii at time of Pearl Harbor, appears before Pearl Harbor Investigating Commit tee at Washington, D. C, to tell for the first time his story of the Japa nese attack. Although Short is re covering from pneumonia, he told committee he felt fit to read his pre pared statement. ADM. SHORT CITES Washington, Jan. 24 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short said today that as a result of the Pearl Harbor disaster the war department adopted new regula tions of keeping field command ers fully informed. The former commander of army defenses in Hawaii said an entire new section on that subject was inserted in the war department's field manual in 1942. Short insisted that with the information available to him prior to Dec. 7, 1941, he did "all a prudent commander could'do." He blamed the war department at Washington for withholding certain information pointing to the possibility of a Japanese at tack on Hawaii. He pointed to the new sec tion added to the field manual since the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Earlier the committee was told radar equipment ordered by the army's Hawaiian defense com mand lay idle on Oakland, Calif., docks at '.he time of the Pearl Harbor disaster. Short had told the committee of his fight to get radar equipment. SPAATZ SOON TO Washington. Jan. 24 'U.R) President Truman announced today that Gen. Call A. Spaatz soon will succeed Gen. H. H. Arnold as commander of the army air forces. Spaatz. like Arnold, was one of the army's pioneer airmen. In the recent war Spaatz com manded the U. S. strategic bombing forces in Ftirope, and later in the Pacific. In response to news confer ence questions, the president said Arnold had planned to re tire upon completion of a tour of South America. G. P. MAN SUICIDES Gratits Pass. Jan. 24 "Bud dy" Oden, elderly 'local man, committed Suicide In the wood shed at the family home here Wednesday, according to County Coroner V. E. Hull. Hull said Oden had placed the barrel of a 30-30 calibre rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. SHIDEHARA CALLS Tokyo, Jan. 24 (U.R Pre mier Baron Kijuro Shidehara called today on Gen. Douglas MacArthur. presumably to dis cmss his recent reorganisation of th" cabinet. The visit lasted half an hour. 1 Full Leased Wire FIRST ATOM TEST SLATED AGAINST GUINEAPIG FLEET 100 American, German and Jap Ships To Be Used in Experiments in Pacific. Washington, Jan. 24 U.PJ The first of three historic tests of atomic bomb blasts on naval vessels will take place early in May in a tiny ring of mid-Pacific islands, the navy disclosed today. The experiments, which will determine the future of navies in an age of atomic weapons, will be conducted with a "guinea pig" fleet if 100 American, Ger man and Japanese ships and sub marines. They include four old U. S. battleships and the carriers Saratoga and Independence. Two More Later Besides the May test, to be held in the Marshall islands, an other will take place July 1 and a third sometime thereafter, probably in 1947. Americau correspondents will be on hand to report to the pub lic on the long-awaited experi ment with the world's most awesome secret weapon. No rep resentative of any foreign nation will be allowed to attend, under present plans, but this is still under discussion. Details of the joint army-navy operation known by the code name "Crossroads" were re vealed today by Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy in testimony be fore the senate's special commit tee on atomic, energy. Blandy will command "Joint task force one" the armada of ships and planes that will carry out the tests. ! Near Bikini The test scheduled for "early in May," Blandy told the com mittee, will be held near Bikini atoll which is composed of a circular group of more than 20 islands in the Marshall! area. He said ships to be used as atomic bomb targets In the first trial include th old battleships New York, Arkansas, Pennsyl vania and Nevada; the aircraft carriers Saratoga and Independ ence; the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City and Pensacola; 16 de stroyers and eight submarines. In addition, 15 unidentified U. S. transports, landing craft and auxiliary vessels will be test targets. Foreign ships to be included in the first test are the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which arrived at Boston only yesterday, the Japanese battle ship Nagato and the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. The atomic bomb in the May test will be dropped by an army air forces bomber and will be timed to explode several hundred feet above the target ships, Blandy said. Find Baby's Body In Bus Terminal Cincinnati, O., Jan. 24 U.R) A badly decomposed body of a baby was found in a suitcase here late today in the storage room of the Greyhound Bus Ter minal, police reported. Charles Wimmer, manager of the terminal storage room, said the suitcase had been there since Dec. 10 when it was moved from the waiting room lockers. 1.198.032 JAPS RETURN Tokyo, Jan. 24 (U.R) A total of 1.198.032 of the 6.500. 000 Japanese to be repatriated from all Asia have been return ed to Japan, it was announced today. Die -Hards of Crossroads Village Vote to Reunite With 'Dam Yank Town" Line, N. Y'., Jan. 24 The nation became fully united today. Residents of this tiny cross roads village voted today to re join the union after holding out as the last Confederate strong hold in the United States for 84 years. Only 23 die-hard residents voted to keep the Confederacy's Stars and Bars flying over the villas. But 89 residents buried old animosities and voted to ten MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. Truman For Government Intervention In Labor and Management Battle For Power Washington, Jan. 24 (U.R) President Truman today describ ed the nations' bij, labor disputes as battles for power between management and labor. He told reporters he thought there was too much power on each side and that the govern ment should assert the power of the people. Asked what would be done to assert this power, the presi dent said that he personally had done as much as he could. Conference Rejected He rejected the suggestion of Benjamin F. Fairless, president TEEN-AGE LOVERS SUICIDE TOGETHER Long Beach, Cal., Jan. 24 (U.R) Two high school sweet hearts, "heart-broken" over par ental objections to their mar riage, carried out a carefully planned suicide pact, it was dis closed today and died clasped in each others arms. The bodies of the 'teen-age lovers, Aubrey Wayne Matthews, 17, and bobby-soxer Shirjey Johnson. 15, were found late yesterday in Matthews' mother's car in the family garage. In the boy's pocket was a vial of poi son crystals. Long Planned Letters In her purse indicated the lovelorn pair had planned the. act for some time, met after school, ate, went to a show, and then sat down to die in their last embrace. Friend.-! of the two teen-agers told officers that they were "heartbroken" over the objec tions of their parents to their marriage after a six months' romance. The girl's mother is dead, but her father, John John son, a mechanic, objected to the two marrying because of their youth. Wayne's mother, Mrs. Anna Matthews, also Had told her son she thought the two were too young. County Court Draws Jury List For Year The county court has com pleted its work of drawing the Jackson county jury list for the coming year. It includes be tween 400 and 500 names, drawn from the poll books of the county, with all precincts represented. Thp firot inrv drawn from new list will be for the Febru ary term of circuit court, start ing February 24. A new grand jury will be drawn at the same time. No Flood Peril Despite Deluge Portland. Jan. 24 (U.R) Weather bureau officials say there is little danger of a second seasonal flood along the Willa mette river, despite a downpour during the night. A stage of 13 5 feet at Harrls burg is expected to cause a slight flood condition tomorrow morning but otherwise no trou blc is anticipated. MAIL CARRIER RETIRING Grants Pass, Jan. 24 Herbert C. Lawton, employe of the Pos tal Service here for the past 39 years, will retire Feb. 1. The veteran mail carrier was eligible for retirement three years ago but remained on the Job during a shortage of employes. join the union. It was dark, damp and gloomy as the residents voted. A little dog. with a sign attached to its back reading. "Beat the Damned Yankees," darted among the voters. After the vote was announced the Stars and Stripes were raised over the weatherbeaten black smith shop, where in days gone by the town's forefathers had signed the articles o( secession. The banner replaced the Con- federate ting. of U. S. Steel Corp., that the chief executive call a conference of the executives of. major in dustries now involved in strikes. Fairless made his suggestion in a broadcast last night. The president said that he did not make his engagements over the radio or through the press. The president pointed out that he had held conferences with management executives before, and that he was perfectly will ing to have other meetings. But, he said, the best thing Fairless could do was send him word that he would accept the presi dent's proposal for settlement of the steel strike. Seizure Impractical The president said he thought it would not be practical to seize the steel mills at the present time. He added quickly, how ever, that this was not to be construed as a statement that he would not seize them even tually. Mr. Truman talked slowly and thoughtfully in a news confer ence as he answered number of questions bearing on the na tion's labor disputes. Reporters repeatedly tried to draw from the chief executive details of any plans for the gov ernment to assert the power of the people In the steel case. Mr. Truman said he thought he had done everything possible and he repeated his belief that he thought the biggest factor preventing settlement was the desire on each side to see who is most powerful. The president recalled his re quest to congress for fact-find- ing and cooling-off legislation. He said he had asked congress to make certain Improvements In machinery to cope with such situations, but the congress had not seen fit to give it to him Nothing Planned Asked sgaln whether he plan ned anything beyond fact-finding legislation, the president said no. A reporter wanted to know about the government's owner ship of about $1,000,000,000 worth of steel plants and what plans there were for operation of these units. Mr. Truman explained that most of the government units wire integrated into other WILL BE DELAYED BY STEEL STRIKE Washington, Jan. 24 (U.R) If you've been looking forwara to delivery soon of a new radio, vacuum cleaner or some other scarce household item requiring steel in its manufacture, maybe you'd better pocket that dream for a time, Mrs. Housewife. The vast steel strike if it continues for any considerable period is likely to postpone the date when you can expect to get many of these household goods. Many Items Hit You may feel the strike's ef fects eventually in shopping for such common steel products as razor blades or nails or needles and pins. Radios, electric refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, washing ma chines, ranges, clocks, irons and fans are some of the household commodities which are turned out by the combined work of these strike bound industries. The CPA recently announced it expected that by next June 30 manufacturers would be ship ping , these items at the 1941 monthly rate. Now the strikes have caused them to cancel these forecasts. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Helen Drummond relating an interesting story which hinted at a slight case of blackmail. Carma Chipman sallying forth to the village to buy loaf of bread and returning with $15 worth of assorted merchandise. Cap. Fred Johnston yawning Into the telephone today as the result of a night out with the boys. Tribune United Press Full 1946. plants. He said there was one exception, at Provo, Utah, and that the government was con sidering federal operation of this plant. Told that the steel strike had affected non-basic steel produc ers with the result that their plants wore shut down although they had no dispute with then workers, the president said these workers should return to their jobs. Everybody that can ought to go to work, he sqid. Mr. Tru man add?d that this was neces sary to assure the success of the reconversion program. BYRNES' APPEAL IN UNO ADDRESS London. Jan. 24 (U.R) The United Nations assembly voted unanimously today to estab lish an atomic energy commis sion after hearing an appeal by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes for quick Withdraw al of occupation armies from all countries except Germany and Japan. London, Jan. 24 (U.R) Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes today called for early withdraw al of armies of occupation from all countries except Germany and Japan. Byrnes proposed withdrawal of occupation armies in a speech to the UNO general assembly, which had been called into spec ial plenary session to adopt the Moscow resolution for establisn ment of an atomic energy com mission. Peace Periled The world cannot return to peace as long as It remains an "armed camp," Byrnes said. 'There will be a need for the continuation for some time to come of armies of occupation in Germany and Japan, but It will not make for a peaceful world to have armies of occupa tion remain in countries which wo hope will soon join us in the United Nations. This was a direct appeal to the big powers . to withdraw troops not only from such places as Greece and Iran, wnicn al ready are UNO members, but also from eastern European countries which were former enemies. Withdrawal of troops would solve the three situations facing the UNO security council. Soviet Russia and the Soviet Ukraine have complained about the pres ence of British troops In Greece and Indonesia, and Iran has filed a complaint against the activity of Russian troops in Iran. To Eye Complaints The security council scheduled a public meeting for Friday aft ernoon to discuss methods of dealing with the complaints fac ing It. After outlining the develop ment of the atomic bomb, Byrnes warned the assembly to consider the atomic and other common problems in a spirit of peace and reconciliation. "We must get back to the conditions of peace, he said Elks to Entertain State Head Tonight Louis G. Slldham. president of the Oregon State Elks associa tlon, will be entertained at the regular session of the local Elks lodge tonight. A class of candi dates will be Initiated in honor of the president. Those to be initiated are R. K. Rlans. J. C. Staley, John A Thompson, Ben Stafford and William B. Clegg. C. A. wine trout will be admitted from the Grants Pass lodge. Refresh ments will be served later In the evening. EAGLES TO MEET Grants Pass. Jan. 24 Fratcr nil Order of Eagles of Southern Oregon will hold their first dis trict convention since 1941 at Roseburg this week-end. Dele gates from all counties In the district will open the program Sunday. Visitors from other sections of the state are ex pected to attend. Leased Wire NO. 259. Suspicioned (Acme TrJpphato) Virginia McElhinney, 2B-year-old wife of Everett McElhinney, looks rather (rim as she is arrested in Los Angeles, Cnllf.. on suspicion of mur dering her husband, when authori ties believe there Is a possibility that McElhinncy died of arsenic poison ing rather than burns as originally believed. ' MORSE IN EEFORT TO HALT TALKFEST AGAINST FEPC BILL Washington, Jan. 24 (U.R) Senate Republicans today began signing a petition to limit senate debate and thus break a south ern filibuster against a perman ent fair employment practices commission. Even if the senate considers the petition, its chances of pas sage appeared negligible. It re quires a two-thirds vote. Cloture has been Invoked only four times since 1D17. Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, D S. C was scheduled to resume his talk today as the southern fight against the FEPC went into its second week. Meanwhile, Son. Wayne Morse, R.. Ore., offered to pro ceed in "good faith" to work out amendments to the bill if the southerners would give up their filibuster. Amendment Needed Morse, an FEPC supporter, said an amendment was needed to "guarantee certain Judical processes to American citizens whose cases would be heard. Morse said if the southerners would abandon their current maneuvers, he would try to pre vent cloture on the merits of the FEPC bill. Technically the filibusters are now debating amendments to Ihe Semite Jour nal rather than the bill itself. Sen. John II. Bankhead, D. Ala., a leader of the filibuster rejected Morse's offer. The Orcgonian then repeated a hope, expressed last week, that "4 senators (a malo.ritv) will ioin me in keeping the senate in session for as many weeks as it takes to break tills filibuster. VET HOSPITAL AT Klan-.ath Fidls, Jan. 24 Con gress has been asked for funds to build a new general hospital for veterans here, it has been learned here. The institution would have 200 heels and cost $3,002,347. The Veterans' administration, In making the request of Congress, requested a similar hospital at Spokane, Wash., and also asked for a 10 per cent Increase In hos pital beds and nearly $20,000 for alterations and service addi tions to existing hospitals. Truman Regrets Rosenman Leaving Washington. Jan. 24 OJ R) President Truman today an nounced with "deep regret" the official departure from the White House of Judge Samuel I. Rosen man, who served him and the late President Roosevelt as spec ial counsel. Rosenman will return to pri vate law practice in New York. - U' 3 J f . WAGE DISPUTES ARE BROKEN OFF Union Wires Request For President Truman to Inter vene in Latest Argument. Washington. Jan. 24 (U.R) President Truman late today directed Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton P. Anderson ts seise 134 meat packing plants operated by 17 companies at 12:01 a. m. Saturday. Snn Frnnnisnn Ann 91 rtlPI The International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union (CIO) todny threatened a Pncific coast waterfront shipping tie-un as a result, nf twn nor. ate wage disputes. The union announced that ne gotiations have been broken off with the Waterfront Employers association of the Pacific coast for a 1946 coastwise contract. A spokesman said Frank P. Folsle, president of the Employ ers' organization, had been in formed by Harry Bridges, pres ident of the ILWU, that his "leaves the union no reennrea other than to protect its mem- Ders in any way it sees fit." Additionally the union sent a telegram to President Truman, requesting that he intervene im mediately In a dispute over re troactive wage Increases, which the ILWU said had been ordered in a War Labor- directive of August, 1945. "Without immediate presiden tial intervention and action, coast-wise tie-up of shipping la Inevitable," the union telegram read. 1,800,000 IDLE IN GREATEST U.S. By United Press Upwards of 1.800,000 Ameri can workers were Idle today In the nation's greatest Industrial crisis as high government offi cials prepared to seize strike bound meat plants in an effort to end a strike of nearly 300,000 packinghouse workers, A presidential order, officially authorizing the department of agriculture to take over plants of the major meat packers, was expected todny or tomorrow. The seizures goes Into effect at 12:01 a. m. Saturday. More Industries Hit In other reconversion threats to the national economy. 1. More Industries wera forced to curtail operations as a result of the walkout of 750,000 CIO stcelworkers, now in Its fourth day. 2. Company and union offi cials were scheduled to meet to dny in New York in an attempt to settle the ten-day strike of 200,000 members of the United Electrical Workers (CIO) against General hloctrlc, Wcstinghouse and General Motors. 3. Last-m I n u te negotiations averted scheduled strikes on the Indiana Harbor Belt and Chica go Junction Railroads, vital links in the cross-country movement of freight. 4. Workers In two electrical plnnts threatened to strike Mon day forcing coal mine? in Ken tucky and Virginia to close and throw 150,000 miners out of work if a new contract has not been signed by then Hope Held High administration leaders leaders '.ti Washington were con fident that striking CIO pack inghouse workers would return to work under government op eration of the meat plants de spite opposition to seizure. Delegates from the meat workers' union locals meet in Chicago tomorrow to decide up on a course of action. Officials of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher work men (AFL), also participating in the strike, already have Instruct ed members to resume work when the government takes over. The seizure order, it was learned, will authorize the agri culture department to accept tha wage recommendations of tha government fact-finding panel now hearing testimony in Chica go in tho meat dispute. PEN POPULATION GROWS Sacramento, Jan. 24 (U.R) Prison populations in Califor nia made the biggest Increase in history last year, with a net gain of 918 Inmates, Richard A. McGee, director of corrections, reported today. And the depart ment expects at least a 1.000 prisoner gain during 1946, McGee said.