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MEDFpRD, OREGON. SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1946
NO. 261.
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EARLY END AUTO
STRIKE DUE; FORD
CIO Reverses Defiant Stand
General Motors Expect
ed To Grant Pay Boost
Chicago, Jan. 26 (U.R) The
CIO Packinghouse Workers un
ion today ordered its approxi
mately 200,000 striking mem
bers to go back to their jobs in
meat packing plants Monday.
The CIO union will thus join
with 65,000 to 70,000 AFL meat
cutters in obeying the govern
ment's order seizing the 133
strikebound packing plants.
Companies immediately began
preparations for resuming
slaughtering operations. Esti
mates as to when packing could
begin again ranged from Mon
day morning to "several days."
The big companies would not
estimate when they could get
their strikebound plants under
way again.
However, Gayle G. Armstrong,
government representative in
charge of operating the seized
plants, said "with the coopera
tion of labor and management
now assured, we can get meat
back into the markets within a
matter of days."
Washington, Jan. 26 (U.R)
Government officials tonight
jubilantly hailed a crop of
good labor news reporting
what Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach called "the
most important occurrences
since the close of the war."
The six-day-old steel strike
and the 67-day-old General
Motors walkout were still on.
But there was enough other
good news to convince many
officials that the country's pro
duction machinery will soon
be in high gear for the first
)ime since V-J day.
The decision to send the CIO
workers back to their jobs was
voted by thewage policy com
mittee made up of 300 represen
tatives of the packinghouse
workers locals. The committee
had met here yesterday, when
it had voted unanimously to defy
the government's seizure.
The CIO union reversed its
stand of last night in which it
had refused to go back to work
under federal seizure. The re
versal came after Secretary of
Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson
had sent similar telegrams to
both unions, promising ho would
seek wage benefits recommend
ed by a fact finding board which
ends its hearings today.
Lewis J. Clark, president of
the CIO Packinghouse Workers,
who had charged President Tru
man's order to seize the plants
constitute strike-breaking, em
phasized his organization was
not calling off its walkout
against the packers In the bid
for higher wages.
Instead, Clark said, the CIO
union was attempting to cooper
ate with the government in re
plenishing the nation's depleted
meat larder.
Detroit, Jan. 26 (U.R) Ford
Motor company and Chrysler
Corporation, two of the big three
nuto makers, led the way today
toward settlement of organized
labor's wage demands, granting
pay increases of 18',i cents an
hour, respectively, to a total of
151,000 workers.
Sudden termination of the
Ford and Chrysler disputes
pointed the way for an end to
the 67-day-old strike of 175.000
UAW members against the big
gest of the big three General
Motors corporation.
Talk within the industry for
weeks has been that General
Motors would not be able to de
lay an agreement with the UAW
very long after Ford and Chrys
ler signed because of the tre
mendous postwar auto market at
stake.
General Motors officia.s were
unavailable for immediate com
ment. CM President C. E. Wil
son was reported aboard a plane,
cn route from Washington to De
troit. N e w b e r g. Jan. 26 Ben
Mosher of Willamette University
has won the after dinner pcak
irz contest it Pacific College.)
Atom Bomb Targets Will Be Here
i vTOKYO
P0Clf
Ocean
I.
(Acme Telephoto)
Testifying before the Senate's special committee on atomic energy. Vice
Admiral W. H. P. Blandy illustrates with the use of a map the ring of
mid-Pacific islands where the first of three tests of atomic bomb blasts on
Naval vessels will take place early in May. Map shows location of Bikini
atoll, part of Marshall group, where tests will be held. The Naval "guinea
pigs" will consist of German, Japanese and U. S. warships now out of
commission.
Washington, Jan. 26 (U.R)
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, winner
of the Nobel prize for physics,
tonight urged all nations to sur.
render their right to make war
by putting the atomic bomb and
every other weapon of mass de
struction exclusively In the
hands of an international police
force.
"The release of atomic energy
means that wars must ceaae,"
Compton said. "We must work
toward placing all major war-
IN CRATER LAKE
E
In spite of deep snow and con
tinued storms, the sound record
ing instrument sent to Medford
by the United States Geological
Survey was successfully in
stalled in Crater Lake last week,
J. Carlisle Crouch, chief ranger
of the Crater Lake National
Park service reported Saturday
morning after returning from
the lake Friday night. Crouch
had previously reported to Park
Superintendent E. P. Leavitt by
radio that the task was partially
completed. It is hoped the in
strument will help in determin
ing whether or not there is a re
currence of volcanic activity in
the lake floor.
The ranger reported that
Thursday he and Geologist F. W
Cater, with Daryl Palmer and
Paul Herron, built a small raft,
to which they fastened floaters,
and that the recording instru
ment was suspended from this.
The raft is about 15 feet from
the lake shore ,and the instru
ment hangs in about 15 feet of
water, he stated.
Attached to the other end of
1,500 feet of cable is the rec
ording drum which Cater set up
on the third floof of the lodge.
This device marks a straight line
on recording paper unless
sounds emanate from the lake
which will then record in un
even markings. This will also
set off a huzzer which will serve
to warn the watching geologist.
Leavitt reported that Ranger
Crouch will return to the lodge
once a week to take supplies to
Cater, and that the latter will
report to park headquarters by
radio any unusual events.
DOCK PLUNGE AT
ASTORIA KILLS 3
Astoria, Ore., Jan. 26 (U.R)
One sailor was safe but another
man and two girl companions
were feared drowned after the
automobile in which they were
riding plunged off the end of a
dork into the Columbia river
hpre tonight.
Navyman Mark P. Banjovich.
21. off the LST 840, wriggled to
safety through a car window!
and swam to safety. The coast
guard immediately began drag
King the 40-foot-d.-cp water at
the scene of the accident but
held no hope that the other un
denlified occupants would be
found alive.
Banjovich said a civilian was
driving and that he knew only
one of the girls whose name he
faid was "Dorothy."
HAWAIIAN IS.
making power, including in par
ticular the use of atomic weap
ons, in the hands of a world or
ganization that will serve as
police to prevent wars between
nations.
"This must be made effective
by eliminatiing the veto in the
present actions of the UNO se
curity council and by resigning
the right of every nation in
cluding our own to possess
weapons capable of mass de
struction." TO BETTER
RADIO RECEPTION
Washington, Jan. 26 (U.R)
The first practical result of the
army's radar contact with the
moon is likely to be improve
ment of radio communications,
signal corps scientists said to
night.
When the radar impulses re
flected from the moon were rec
orded at the army's New Jersey
experiment station on Jan. 10,
it proved what scientists have
long suspected that ultra-hosrt
radio waves will penetrate the
ionosphere, the multi-layered,
electrically-charged upper atmos
phere. With this fact definitely estab
lished, scientists will be able to
use radar to chart much more
precisely the effects of the
ionosphere on radio waves of
varying lengths.
When the ionosphere is fully
charged, vast improvements In
many forms of radio communica
tions will be possible, particu
larly in elimination of the so
called "skip zone." Ths is an
area in which the radio signals
of a particular transmitter are
not heard, either because they
strike the ionosphere at a too
oblique angle and penetrate It
or because they are reflected at
an angle that sends them past
the skip zone.
With a full knowledge of the
characteristics of the Ionosphere,
scientists say they should be able
to adjust radio waves to avoid
the skip zone entirely.
MITlRl 66
Tokyo, Jan. 26 (U.R) Gen.
Douglas MaeArthur and Lt. Gen.
Walter Krucger, commander of
the inactivated 6th army, cele
brated their birthdays with an
eight-star luncheon In the su
preme commander's Tokyo
home today, Just before Krueger
boarded a ship for the United
States.
It was MacArlhur's 66th birth
day and Krucgcr's 65th. and Mac
Arthur took the occasion to pin
the distinguished service cross
and an oak leaf cluster in lieu
of a second distinguished service
medal on the 6th army com
mander. PRESS FREEDOM DRIVE
Washington. Jan. 26 (U.R)
Federal Communications Com
mission chairman Paul Porter
said tonight worldwide accep
tance of the principle of free
dom of information wilt' be
sought at an International com
munication conference to be
I held sometime In 1046,
2m C
DEFEATS
HUSKIES, 52 TO 50;
STATERS BEATEN
Hays Rebound Shot Gives
Webfeet Win 0SC Drops
To Third Place
Seattle, Jan. 26 (U.R) Wash
ington Huskies dropped an
overtime Coast conference bas
ketball game to Oregon 54 to
52 tonight but retained their
lead in the Northern division.
Oregon held a slight edge
during the first half in which
the lead changed hands 12
times. Washington's scoring was
mainly taken care of by forward
Jack Pomfret, who tallied 12
of his 18 points diuing the first
canto.
After Oregon held a three
point lead with five minutes to
go, Washington railed to take
a half-time edge of 25 to 22.
Pomfret opened the second
half with a one-handed push
shot that gave Huskies a 27-22
lead, widest margin of the game.
Two quick baskets by Captain
Bob Hamilton and Stan William
son closed the gap and the score
see-sawed throughout the sec
ond half with no more than
four points separating the two
clubs.
With one minute and 42 sec
onds left Washington's Norm
Dalthorp and Bob Jorgcnson
sank two baskets to tie the score
48-48.
In the overtime period, two
one-handed push shots by Wil
liamson countered a pair of bas
kets by Pomfret and Dalthrop
of Washington. Kenny Hays re
bound shot gave the Webfoots
the victory.
Moscow. Ida., Jan. 26 (U.R)
Idaho Vandals came from be
hind tonight to triumph 43 to
38 over Oregon State college to
gain second spot In the North
division of the coast basketball
conference.
The Idaho squad with five
wins and four losses spilled
Oregon State into third place
with four wins and three losses.
Idaho played an Iron-man
team, using only one substitute
who played for little more than
three minutes.
Idaho trailed through most of
the first half due largely to a
13-point scoring streak by Redi
Iiocha of Oregon State.
The halftime score was Ore
gon State 27, Idaho 23.
In the second half field goals
bv Jack Phoenix and Fred
Quinn, and free throws by
Grant Mortensen and Phoenix
gave Idaho a tie with six min
utes gone. The lead changed
hands seven times in the last
half with Idaho finally pushing
to the fore with two and a half
minutes to go.
SHERIMRK
Los Angeles, Jan. 26 (U.R)
Arthur Eggcrs, 52-year-old sher
iff's clerk, tonight confessed that
he murdered his wife, cut off
her head and hands, and threw
her mutilated corpse into a
grave on Rlm-ofthe-World high
way In San Bernardino county.
EKgers had been questioned
steadily since his arrest last week
when police noticed a discrep
ancy between a missing-persons
report he made on his wife and
her actual description.
Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz said
tonight that Eggcrs, who had sur
vived a lie-detector test with
perfect composure, had finally
broken down under the constant
barrage of questions and con
fessed. LADDER SAVES 8IX
Oakland, Cal.. Jan. 20 'U.R)
Prompt action of neighbor! in
securing a ladder today wan
credited with saving the lives of
six persons, including a 15-months-old
baby, who were
trapped on the second floor of
a burning residence,
Cute Trick Item
San Francisco, Jan. 26
(U.R) Manipulatoin of a but
ter cutting machine to turn
out short-weight pounds was
charged today at the trial of
Nye and Nissen, produce firm
accused of a million dollar
fraud in war food contracts.
Henry Pineda, a - iinpany
employe, testified that he
was instructed by his super
iors to set the machine to cut
15 ounce pounds, and to reset
it to cut 16 aunces when
government inspect ors approached.
'PEARL' BLAME ON
FOUR TOP CHIEFS
Stimson, Gens. Marshall.
Gerow and Miles Made
Him 'Goat' for Disaster
Washington. Jan. 26 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, 1941
army commander in Hawaii
said today Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson and three top
high command generals made
him the scapegoat of the suc
cessful Japanese surprise attack
on Pearl Harbor.
Short ended his testimony be
fore congress' Pearl Harbor in
vestigating committee with the
accusation. The officers he nam
ed were Gen, George C. Mar
shall, 1941 army chief of staff;
C n. LeoArd - T4 - Gerow, then
chief of army war plans; and
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles, then
chief of army intelligence.
He told the. committee he
hoped this would be the last in
vestigation of the Pearl Harbor
disaster.
Stimson and the three gener
als already have appeared as
witnesses before the congres
sional Pearl Harbor committee.
Short testified for the fifth day
today.
Marshall and Gerow in their
testimony accepted a share of
responsibility for the fact that
army defenses were not ade
quately alerted on Dec. 7, 1941
Miles denied any responsibility
Sen. Homer Ferguson, R.,
Mich., asked Short to name the
men who made him the scape
goat of the disaster. When he
did. Ferguson said:
"Then, as I sec It, someone
had to lake the blame for Pearl
Harbor. Thoso you named were
to blame they shifted the blame
to you and n.ade you the scape
goat?"
"That is exactly what I want
to convey, Short replied.
When Short finished, the com
mittee decided in an executive
session to call Supreme Court
Justice Owen J. Roberts to the
stand at 2 p. hi. Monday for
questioning about possible de
letions or changes In the report
of his investigation of Pearl Har
bor before the report was made
public.
On Monday morning the com
mittee will hear Navy Capt. E.
M. Zacharias, expert on Japan
esc affairs and commander of
the cruiser
SOLDIER LATEST
Chicago, Jan. 26 (U.R) Inves
tigation of the kidnap-slaying of
Suzanne Dcgnan tonight await
ed completion of an army In
vestigation to determine the
whereabouts of a soldier whose
name and serial -number corre
spond to those on a handkerchief
found near the child's home.
As the investigation nearcd
the end of the third week, the
police department's principal re
maining clues had dwindled to
the handkerchief, bearing the
laundry mark, "3168, S. Sher
man," and fingerprints found on
the ransom note for $.20,000
found in Suzanne's bedroom.
The six-year-old child was kid
naped three weeks ago tomor
row from the bedroom of her
northsidc home, then strangled
and dismembered.
ALL BUT 2 RAIL
THERHOODS
J
Engineers, Trainmen Plan
Strike Vote Stalemate
In Steel Strike
Chicago, Jan. 26 (U.R)
Eighteen railroad brotherhoods
agreed today to arbitrate their
differences with 134 American
railroads, but two key operating
brotherhoods refused to partici
pate and prepared to take strike
votes.
The 18 brotherhoods, in the
first mass agreement to arbitration-
in history of American
labor, represent 85 per cent of
the nation's rail workers, a
national railway mediation
board spokesman said.
However, the two dissenting
brotherhoods the brotherhood
of railway trainmen and bro
therhood of locomotive engin
eers representing the other 15
per cent, could halt all rail
operations if they walked out.
Pittsburgh, Jan. 20 (U.R) '
Hope for an early settlement of
the great steel strike faded tto
night after Philip Murray, pres
ident of the CIO united steel
workers, said he had no idea
what the next development
might be.
The strike of 750,000 union
members approached its seventh
clay as Washington observers ex
pected new government pres
sure on the steel Industry to ac
cept President Truman's wage
formula of an 18', I cents an
hour Increase.
The rejection of Mr. Truman's
proposal by U. S. Steel Corp.
was the switch that threw the
strike machinery into action
one minute after midnight Sun
day.
Murray prepared to leave for
Washington Sunday night,
where he will testify Tuesday
before tho senate education and
labor committee.
At a news conference todHy,
the union leader said, "I have
no plans to see the president.
MlOUlDPUT
IN HALL OF FAME
Portland, Jan. 26 W.R) The
Oregon historical figures of Dr
John McLaughlin nnd Jason Lcc
have been selected by a gover
nor's committee to represent;
Oregon in the national capital's
statuary hall of fame.
The committee was named to
select two Oregon figures for
the hall of fame In accordance
with a stale legislature rosolu
tlon.
BULLETIN
Palo Alio, Cal., Jan. 26 (U.R)
The league-leading USC Tro
jans handed the hapless Stan
ford cage team its eight straight
conference defeat by scoring a
55-40 victory here tonight in the
second game of their scries.
Minneapolis, Jan. 26 (UP)
Mighty Minnesota rolled over an
outmanned Purdue team tonight
by tho score of 56 to 43, giving
the Golden Gophers their fourth
straight Big Ten victory, and
keeping them firmly entrenched
on top of the conference stand-
Berkeley, Cal., Jan. 26 AIR)
University of California's
basketball varsity loafed to an
easy 56-42 victory over Univer
sity of Santa Clara tonight in
a non-conference game played
on the Berkeley campus.
Lake Park, Minn., Jan. 28
(U.R) Eleven coaches of the
second section of the West Coast
limited, crack Northern Pacific
passenger train, were reported
derailed at Manitoba Junction
between Lake Park and Haw
ley, Minn., about 5:30 this even
ing. First reports, from a
Northern Pacific official at
Lake Park, said no one was In
jured. The report did not state
the cause of the derailment.
Its Different Now
Hollywood, Jan. 26 (U.R)
A 22-year-old navy ensign who
blushingty admitted he was
unmarried and had no girl
friends, tonight won a two
year supply of nylon hosiery,
a fur coat, an automobile, a
diamond ring and a dozen
proposals of marriage.
Ensign Richard Bartholo
mew of Fayetsvillc, Ark., wan
dered into the Truth-or-Conse-quonces
radio show by acci
dent, and was asked if he could
identify the voice of "Mr.
Hush."
"Why, that's Jack Demp
scy," Bartholomew, an over
seas veteran, said.
He was right. For five weeks
the gifts have been piling up
because nobody could guess
the voice of the former world
boxing champion.
HUNGRY, NETTLES
Australia, Canada, Argen
tine Told To Give Share
Of Wheat
Washington, Jan. 26 U.R)
President Truman's demand that
other major wheat-producing
nations do their share In feed
ing the world's hungry appeared
likely tonight to cause some In
ternalionnl heart-burn.
Australian sources here took
the view that the" president's
statement issued yesterday, was
uncalled for. Canadians and
Argentinians were represented
as feeling the same way.
Mr. Truman said he was
alarmed by "what now appears
to be a world-wide shortage of
wheat." He estimated that ship
ments to destitute peoples in
tho first six months of 1046
would fall $5,000,000 tons short
of minlmu.n needs.
Addressing himself to Can
ada, Australia, and Argentina j
which with the Untied States
produced about 1,731,843,000
bushels of wheat in 1045 the
president said the grain needs of
iiberated nations were urgent.
"In view of this situation this
government Is recommending
that each of the supplying coun
tries accept its proportionate
share of the responsibility in
meeting the urgent require
ments of the liberated peoples
on an equitable basis."
Australian sources here were
surprised ,md a.littlc hurt. They
told the United Press Australia
already Is doing precisely what
the president recommended.
New York, Jan. 26 (U.R)
Harold Slassnn, former governor
of Minnesota, urged today that
President Truman refrain from
making 'snap decisions" and
bring together all the economic
gpnips Involved In the present
strikes to "develop agreement
on a basic policy."
Stasscn, announcing his re
entry into active republican
party affairs after almost three
years in the nuvy, said these
groups should Include leading
economists and leaders in both
political parties.
He told the women's national
republican club that the "all-time-
high" of workers on strike
"presents an example in a brief
period of months of the failure
of governmental administra
tion." Mountain Highways
Reported Slippery
State police said last night
that the Siskiyou and Green
springs highways were slick
and chains wero advised. An
earlier report from the Oregon
State Highway Commission said
fog was freezing on the Siskiyou
highway hut was being sanded
by highway crews,
PLANE WHISTLES
4H0UMIN.
'Shooting Star' Averages
584 MPH in Record Non
stop Flight
New York, Jan. 25 (U.R)
Whistling across the nation
from California at 584 miles an
hour, a jet-propelled "Shooting
Star" fighter plane streaked In
to La Guardia field today to set
an official non-stop transcontin
ental speed record of four
hours 13 minutes and 26 sec
onds. Behind the first fighter by
a matter of minutes were two
other Jets, which, with re-fueling
stops in Topcka, Kans., also
made tho 2,470 official miles
from Long Beach, Calif., In un
der five hours.
The previous non-stop record
was held ny the Super-Fortress
Drcamboat at five hours, 27
minutes.
Col. W. H. Council), Ingomar,
Pa., pilot of the record-smashing
plane said that between
Akron nnd New York he averag
ed 630 miles per hour, flying at
one time nearly 700 miles per
hour, approaching the speed of
sound, lie flew from Akron to
Now York In 39 minutes.
The third plane to arrive,
piloted by Capt. John S. Babel,
established a single stop record
for the coast-to-coast flight ot
four hours, 23 minutes, and 54
seconds. He crossed the finish
line at 5:22 p.m. -
Second to arrive but third In
elnpscd time, was the plana
piloted by Capt. Martin L.
Smith which crossed the line at
5:07 p. m., four hours, 33 min
utes, nnd 25 seconds after the
take-off.
Both Babel and Smith stopped
at Topcka to refuel.
Counclll had fairly good
weather and was believed to
have benefitted by a slight tall
wind. Said the flight was "Just
about pc-icci." When he reached
La GiiPidia field, he said he was
flying at 015 miles per hour. He
swooped down over the field
from an altitude of 28,000 cross
ing the timing "line" at 2,000
feel.
All limes were approved by
the chief timer of the national
acronnutical association, John
P. V. Hclnmuller.
The three planes left Long
Beach this morning with Smith
in the lead.
BY FROSH, 42-36
University of Oregon's Frosh
hoopmen flipped in seven tallies
after the fourth quarter auto
matic time-out to trounce Med
ford high 42-36 on the Medford
maploboards last night.
The quintets entered the final
four minutes deadlocked at 35
35. John Neoley accounted for
two Duckling field goals in the
final moments while Art Milne
dropped In the other and George
Huijgin netted a foul toss. Le
Hoy llouso' free throw was the
only Tornado score after the au
tomatic breather.
Neeley was the thorn In Med
ford flesh as he looped In 16
points lor tho Frosh. The Tor
nado, though apparently tired
and listless after Friday's Ash
hind clash, gave the collegians a
close battle most of the way.
Medford led 12-9 at the first
period mark, 19-18 at half time
and 32-20 at the third period's
close.
Medford Junior high's eighth
grade club won 43-15 over the
Ashland eighth graders.
Lineups:
Frosh (42) (30) Medford
Johnson 6 f 3 Watson
Milne 8 f 7 Koso
Mold 2 c 5 Rlggs
Hugglus9 g 8 Cave
Neeley 18 g 5 Bostwlck
Substitutions: Frosh Albright
(1); Medford House (2), Sing
ler (4), Steele (2).
Rnfiret: Rawer man and
I Scroauiiii.