Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 28, 1946, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextASKS UNO help against fiUS tt - $ i I 4 i A Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy wiUi mixed rain and now flurrlei tonight and Tuesday. Continued cool. Temp. Highest Yesterday 34 Lowest this Morning 21 Fortieth Year Packinghouse Crews Back to Work; Auto Wage Agreements Raise Hope For Settlements in Other Industries STRIKERS EXPECT FACT FINDERS TO RE Number of Strike-Idle Cut to 1,600,000 General Mo tors and Union Far Apart By United Press The n a 1 1 o n's packinghouse workers returned to work today as wage agreements of two auto makers raised hope, of settling pay disputes in other fields. Government-seized meat plants resumed production In a truce which sent nearly 270,000 CIO and AFL workers back to their jobs in anticipation of raises ex pected to be recommended by a presidential fact-finding commit tee. 1.600,000 Idle The return of the packing house employes, who called off an 11-day strike last Saturday, cut the total of strike-idled Americans to 1,600,000. In the major labor develop ments: 1. Livestock experts predicted that meat output would return to normal by Thursday or Fri day as CIO and AFL packing house workers went, back to work for the government. 2. Government officials pre dictad that the wage agreements reached between CIO United Auto workers and the Ford and Chrysler companies might bring early settlements in other indus tries. Chrysler settled with the UAW .or an 18'4 cent an hour wage boost and Ford granted 18 cents. Power Strike Averted S. Two unions called off strikes which would have shut off power from nearly 3,500,000 users in Ohio, Virginia and Ken tucky. . 4. The week-old steel strike remained deadlocked, but labor sources believed the industry's case against an 18Vi cent an hour pay increase was weakened by the Ford and Chrysler settle ments. 5. Eighteen railroad brother hoods and 134 carriers agreed to submit their wage differences to arbitration. The agreement af fects about 85 per cent of the nation's railroad workers. 6. The Radio Corporation of America and the United Llec trical workers, signed a contract calling for a 17'.i cents an hour wage increase for 8,000 RCA workers at Camden, N. J. CIO leaders hoped the agreement could be used as a fomula for ending the strike in 79 plants of General Electric, Westing house and the electrical division of General Motors. Expect Raise A 12-day tie-up in the mca,t industry was called off Saturday when representatives of nearly 200.000 CIO packinghouse work ers voted for a truce in their fight for higher wages. AFL strikers previously had been in structed to return to work when the government seized the plants. Officials of the CIO union ad mitted frankly that they were going back to work only on Sec retary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's assurances that he would support any wage in creases recommended by a fact finding board in the dispute. They warned they would strike again if the raises wercnt forth coming. Despite the Ford and Chrysler wage settlements, the union ana strikebound General Mo'ors Corp. were as far apart as ev,?r. CIO officials said that GM wouli have to do better than the 18's ronts offered by Chrysler to corn s' r nte 175,000 for losses incur i j i.ur:ng their 69-day walkout. The California-Arizona citrus Industry set a record by ship ping 140.544 cars of fresh fruit during the 1944-45 season. M United Prtu Churchill Paints, Too ' . ( Acme I etcptwtal Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill' of England, in Florida for a rest, poses beside his painting of Oilido Island, off San Marino Island, where the amateur artiat found inspiration. MEDFDRD FAMILY T Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bran son and son Keith, 7, of 30B Chestnut street, were injured about 3:25 p.m. yesterday when their car, driven by Branson, skidded on slippery pavement and crashed into a state high way truck which was operated by E. E. Streamer, Star Route. Ashland, at the intersection of Moon Prairie Road and Green springs highway, about 25 miles east of Ashland. According to a report on file with Ashland city police, ap proximately $500 damage was caused to the Branson- auto, which skidded as it was about to nvet the truck. The car slip ped in under the heavy truck bed. Sacred Heart hospital attend ants said the boy was released this morning and the parents, only slightly injured, were showing satisfactory improve ment. County Grangers At Annu,al Meet Central Point, Jan. 28 Earl W. Weaver and Arnold Bohnert, Central point, G. E. Ousterhout, Eagle Point, and Charles Elmore, Applegate were representatives of the Grange Cooperative Sup ply association at the annual meeting of the Oregon Grange Wholesale in Portland Saturday. Reading of annual reports and transaction of routine business made up the agendum according to Weaver, manager of the as sociation which serves Jackson county. Eagl e Point Vets Will Discuss Post World War veterans of Eagle Point and vicinity will meet in the hall over Brown's Grocery there at 8 p. m.. tomorrow to talk plans for forming an Amer ican Legion post. Bob Bryant of Grants Pass, fourth district commander, will be present to assist in the orga nization and will be assisted by L,ster Mathes who was instru mental In organizing the Myers- Holland post at Central Point All veterans of the oistrict are urgently' afked to at'.end the meeting. ' EDF jKD Full Leased Wire aba H Demolition Expert Probes For Fuse On Huge London Bomb London, Jan. 28 (U.R) A young RAF demolition expert flirted with death at the bottom of a 30-foot slime pit in Lon don's St. James park today, prob ing for the fuse of a live, 1,100 pound German bomb that threat ens Buckingham palace and the UNO meeting place in Central Hall. Emergency squads cleared the approaches to the Royal Palace nd t - UNO hall in fear of a premature blast that might show er the crowded area with flying rock and debris. The big bomb was dropped during a night raid in 1940, when the luftwaffe apparently was trying to smash the main British government buildings in the heart of London. It missed Buckingham palace and Central Hall by a few hundred yards and buried itself deep in the St. James park duck pond. BACK TO NORMAL Palo Alto, Calif., Jan. 28 (U.R) Things were back to nor mal at Stanford University to day with the announcement that men students out-number women for the first time since the war threw the ratio into reverse. There were 2,638 men enrolled and 1,819 women. French Blonde Tells Lurid Story of Torture; Slavery, Death in Camps Nuernberg. Jan. 28 (U.R) A pretty French blonde told the war crimes court in lurid detail today that the nazis turned wom en's concentration camps into ex perimental sterilization centers and slave markets. The witness was Madame Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturicr, communist member of the French assembly and a survivor of the Auschwitz and Ravens burck camp. She said -Jewish women par ticularly were used in steriliza tion experiments with x-rays and operations. "The Germans said they were looking for the best method of sterilization so they could re populate all the western Euro pean countries with Germans (within one generation after the war." she testified J She said prtgnant Jewish MEDFORD, OREGON, STAFFJE1ERS Mrs. Ruth Sether, English Instructor for 18 Years, Resigns High School Post Medford schools opened to day for the second semester after a short mid-semester va cation mid three new instruct ors have been placed on the city's school faculty. Resignation of Mrs. Ruth Sether, English instructor at the high school for many years was made known today by city superintendent, E. H. Hedrick. together with the announce ment of the addition to the high school staff of Mrs. Edna Hop son Stewart of Denver, Colo., who is to replace Mrs. Sether. Long on Faculty "Except for two years spent In California, Mrs. Sether has served as English Instructor' in the high school hero for over 20 yeam,", the -superintendent: said. "She is one of the outstanding English teachers of the state and has been recognized as such for many years." Mrs. Sether is retiring from teaching be cause of the pressure of private business, according to Mr. Hed rick, and will be greatly missed by the school. Replacing Miss Ruth Woods, who has resigned her position as English, Spanish and Latin instructor at the junior high school, Is Mrs. Olive A. Oliver of Salem. Mrs. Delia Webber, instructor of music, art and pen manship of Jackson school, re turned to the school today after a leave of absence during the first semester. Mrs. Webber's position has been filled by Mrs. Fred Carr. The third snowfall of the sea son covered the valley this morn ing with .8 inch reported at 10:30 a. m. by the local United States weather bureau. Two Inches of snow wero reported from Siskiyou and Sexton sum mlts. Other snowfalls recorded for the season were .4 Inch on Dec. 15 and' a trace on Dec. 6 and 7. Average snowfall for the val ley in January is 3.2 inches, bureau officials stated. Greatest amount to fall in any 24-hour period in the past 33 years was 11 inches recorded Dec. 11, 1919. women were forced to undergo operations and Jewish babies born alive were drowned in buckets. She began her testimony tim idly but her voice grew strong and angry as she recounted the camp horrors. Some of the de fendants appeared to wince un der accusations. She said women at the camps constantly were forced to answer roll call in the nude. "The SS recruited servants and prostitutes at will among the inmates of Auschwitz," she said. She said the gas chamber exe cution scenes at Auschwitz were reminiscent of Dante's Inforno "One night we were awakened by horrible cries. We learned the next day the nazis had run out of gas and children had been hurled alive into the furnaces.1 MONDAY, JANUARY 28, ATTACK ON PEARL FORECAST IS Y Intelligence Specialist Testi fies He Warned Kimmel 9 Months Before Dec. 7 Washington, Jan. 28 (U.R) Capt. E. M. Zacharias, a special ist in naval intelligence, testified today that he forecast the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor nine months before Dec. 7, 1941. Znchnrins told the Pearl Hal bor Investigating committee he warned Adm. Husband E. Kim mel in March, 1941, that if Japan started a war with the United States it likely would begin with a Sunday morning air attack on the fleet in Pearl Harbor. He said he didn't try to pre dict the exact date that the at tack would occur. Talk Recalled Kimmel recently told the com mittee he remembered talking to Zacharias in March, 1941, but he didn't recall the prediction. Zacharias was called as a wit ness because vie commiuee found an affidavit by him in navy department files, written three months after the attack, concerning the prediction. Zacharias told the committee he could understand that Kim mel didn't recall details of the conversation because as comman der in chief of the Pacific fleet he was "a very busy man." He said he was sure, however, that the details were remember ed by Vice Adm. W. W. Smith who was then a captain and Ki,mmcl chief of staff. Smith is expected to be Called to cor roborate Zacharias' testimony, s Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 28 (U.R) The Center Christian dem ocrats held a 9 to 2 majority over the leftist social democrats today in early returns from Ba varia's Sunday elections. The count in 1,330 townships of Bavaria, heaviest voting pro vince in elections held through out the American occupation zone, gave the Christian social union (Bavarian counterpart of the Christian democrats) 112,852 votes against 24,926 for the soc ial democrats. The liberal democrats polled 3,074 votes and the communists 2,637. More than 40 per cent of the Bavarian vote, however, appear ed to be going to independents or "splinter" parties with a total of 100,700 ballots. South Highways Said Dangerous State police officers said this morning that the Siskiyou high way was exceptionally danger ous to auto travel. Snow and lee were freezing on the. pave ment and temperotures were below freezing. Snow also was falling, the report said. Conditions on the Green springs highway to Klamath Falls were slippery, the report stated, although there was no snow. Scotchless Days Gotham Prospect New York, Jan. 28 (U.R) New Yorkers, who endured meat less days before the war, were faced today with the prospect of "Scotchless Saturdays and Sundays. Paul Henkel, president of the Society of Restaurantcurs, said the managers of 240 of Manhat tan's leading cafes were consid ering the "Scotchless" days to conserve dwindling stocks on the imported whiskey. BRIAN AHERNE WEDS New York, Jan. 28 (U.R) Mnvie Star Brian Aherrie and Mrs. Eleanor Labrout were mar ried yesterday at the home of the bride's parents. It was the second marriage for both. Aherne was divorced from Ac tress Joan Fontaine in June, 1944, and his bride was divorced from William Labruut six years ago. Tribune Unltid Press Full 1946. 23 DEAD COUNTED IN FIRE EPIDEMIC By United Press At least 23 persons were dead today as a result of major fires which swept through tenements and apartment houses in New Speaks Tonight ..t HI 2 v (. I JW-V w,l ilk , . , Jl Speaking in Medford tonight is Dr. Will Uurani, generally admitted to be one of the world's greatest historians. Dr. Durant will lecture at the high school auditorium at 8 p. m. for the Rogue River Valley Knife and Fork club on "What Are the Lesions of History", the lec ture to be open lo members of the club and their invited guests. TO Detroit, Jan. 28 (U.R) Frank Lobaido, 29, a neighborhood grocer previously convicted on a sex charge, was held today In connection with the rape and attempted murder of seven-year- old Rosalie Gigantl. The child Identified Lobaido as the man who attacked her, slashed her throat and then draped her unconscious over a low gate near the rear of his East Side grocery todoy. Police said charges of rope and attempted murder would bo filed against Lobaido today. They also said he would be questioned about the kidnaping and murder of six - year old Suzanne Degnun in Chicago earlier this month. Found By Neighbor Rosalie was seen by Miss Georgia Asterion, 20, as she was climbing the stairs to the apart ment above the Lobaido store, She look the child Into the apart ment and called police. Police arrested Lobaido and took him three hours later to Rosalie's hospital bed. Inspector Charles Searle, head of the homicide bureau, said Lobaido had been arrested four times previously and in Moy, 1943, was sentenced to two years probation for assault with intent to rape. Police said the similarity of the attack on Horn lie and the sloying of the Degnan child prompted them to question Lo baido as a suspect In the Chicago crime. Ex-Police Chief On Trial In K. F. Klamath Falls, Jan. 2B Trial of Earl llcuvcl, former Klamath Falls police chief, on a chargo of sodomy, started in circuit court here today. Hetivel was Indicted on the count last Feb ruary and posted $5,000 cash bail. Heuvel left town shortly after he was .Indicted and was returned from Kensclt, Ark., by the rW in August. Virginia Rose Gibson, a resl dent of The DHlles, against whom the offense was allegedly committed, was a prisoner in the county Jail at the time. She was the witness who foiled to appear to testify in the trial of Heuvel for sodomy against Her- nico Huff last November. Heu vel was unanimously acquitted of that charge. Mi I- ii a nr Leased Wit NO. 262. York, Kansas City, ChlcBgo, St. Louis and Skowhcgan, Me. Greatest loss of life was re ported at Kansas City, Mo., where 10 persons died in a blaze that swept through a ramshackle, three-story rooming house. Five of the victims were children. Worst In 20 Years The fire, which injured 20 persons and made an additional 50 homeless, started in a clothes closet and quickly spread through the building, trapping 10 of the victims on the third floor. It was Kansas City's worst fire disaster in 20 years. Two women were burned to death in Chicago and a third, a 66-year-old grandmother wos In jured when she Jumped Into a firemen's net to escape a fire that swept through their apart ment building. Two middle-aged women and a man were burned to death when fire broke out in a tene ment on the lower east side of New York City. 325 Escape Some 325 other persons escap ed down fire ladders when the blaze spread to other buildings. The fire was started by a three-year-old boy, playing with matches, police said. A four-month-old negro baby was burned to death when an oil stove exploded in a Harlem apartment, bringing the death toll from fires in New York City to four persons. Four other persons died and five others were believed miss ing in a $45,000 fire that swept through the Alpine hotel in downtown St. Louis. One of the dead was Fire Cap tain Erwin Schllesstein, who Biiccumbed to a heart attack while fighting the blaze. Three men were suffocated when a fire, believed to have started from a burning cigarette swept through a one-room cabin on the outskirts of Skowhegan, Me. Ranch Partnership Dissolution Suit Is Filed In Court T. G. Zinn has filed suit against Wilbur C. Badger and Ward S. Badger, for dissolution of a farm-stock ranch partner ship and accounting of money from sales of milk, cream and stock. Tho property, consisting of 4,335 acres of grazing and farm land is located In south eastern Jackson county near the Klamath county line. The action was filed in circuit court last Saturday. Zinn, in his complaint sets forth that with defendants he entered Into an oral agreement July 9, 1042, to operate the prop erty on a 80-50 bosis for three years. Its value was placed at $7,000 including stock and equipment. The defendants were to apply their payments to a half-interest purchase until $3, 500 was paid. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants hove failed to com ply with the terms and condl tions of the partnership and he asks that the place be returned to him and the partnership end ed. Attorney Frank P. Forrcll and E. T. Yaden represent Zinn, M'ARTHUR FLOODED BY" HICSWA APPEALS Tokyo, .Inn. 28 (U.R) Gen. Douglos MocArthur's statement that he. had nothing to do with the case of Pfc. Joseph Hicswa was Issued because the allied commander doily receives an avalanche of letters and radio grams from the United States on behalf of the boy sentenced to die for slaying two Japanese civilians, it was learned today. Hicswa 's case now is being re viewed by Mn). Gen. Arthur Har per, commanding general of the 8th division. AMPUTEE RECEIVES FILM ROLE CONTRACT Hollywood, Jan. 28 (U.R) Thirty-two-year-old Ex-Sergeant Harold Russell whose fight to re gain usefulness despite loss of both hands was recorded In signal corps picture, today held a contract for a leading role In the film, "Glory For Me." The veteran of 37 parachute jumps with the 13th airborne di vision was signed by Goldwyn Studios to appear in the picture with Frederic March and Dana Andrews. QUICK CHALLENGE IS HURLED BY RED REPRESENTATIVE Iran's Appeal Presented By Representative of Defunct Government, Is Claim London, Jan. 28 (U.R) Iran's chief delegate to the UNO ap- pealed to the security council to day for help against Russian "interference" in Iranian affairs, only to be challenged immediate ly by the soviet delegate. Iran's appeal no sooner wai before the UNO security council than Russia charged that it was presented by a representative of a now defunct government. New Government A new Ironian government took office Saturday, and the premier said he would seek to negotiate bi-latcrnlly with the Russians on their dispute a pro posal advanced earlier before tho UNO by the Soviets. Seyed Hassan Taqlzadeh, Iran ian delegate, acting without in structions from the new govern ment in Tehran, made a verbal presentation to the council of the charges against Russia, then submitted a four-point appeal for security council help. Andrei Vishlnsky, soviet vice commissar of foreign afloirs and chief delegate to the UNO, fol lowed Taqizadeh immediately. Vishlnsky pointed out that for mal charges against Russia were) raised by "a government no longer in power." Thus, he add ed, the charges no longer were valid. Freedom Asked Taqlzadeh asked the security council to recommend that tha Russians cease interfering in Iran's affairs, that Iranian forces be allowed to go to Azerbaijan, the country a northern province) which recently declared itself autonomous, and that the Rus sians evacuate Iran by March 2. Vishinsky spoke rapidly in Russian and endlessly thumbed his way through a huge sheaf of documents. He denied the Iran ian charges of soviet interfer ence, and reiterated hit govern ment's willingness to enter di rect negotiations with Iran. Taqlzadeh had contended ear lier that the Iranians sought many times to negotiate directly with Russia. The Soviets, he said, "did not reply" and an offer of Iranian officials to go to Moscow was Ignored. T AUTO ACCIDENT Mrs. William W. Cole, 3, was Injured about 5:30 p. m. yes terday when a Bulck coupe she) was driving left the road and rolled down a 25-foot embank ment on the Crater Lake high way near . Shady Cove, Mrs. Cole was first believed to be dead when found in the wreck but was found to be alive by Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris who brought the Injured wo man to Community hospital. The auto was so badly dam aged it was necessary to remove) several pieces of the auto body before workers were able to ex tricate the woman. Her attend ing physician said this morning extent of her injuries would not be determined until x-ray pictures were completed. Morris said ho learned the woman was en route from her home in Posoclcna to Seattle to meet her husband who is due to docl: there Saturday aboard the USS Stewart. Barnes Hospital Cut To 100 Beds Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 28 (U.R) Army officials announce that Barnes General hospital has been redesignated a 100-bcd sta tion hospital, and facilities will be reduced to the needs of tha new assignment. Former Commanding Officer Colonel Charles K. Bcrla has been transferred to O'Reilly Gen eral hospital at Springfield, Mo. Major Frank Pcrlman of Port land has been assigned at com manding officer at Barnes, under transfer from Madlgan General hospital at Fort Lewis. Church Council To Meet Feb. 20 to 24 London, Jan. 28 (U.R) The first postwar meeting of the pro visional committee of the World Council of Churches will be held at Geneva Feb. 20 to 24, It was announced today. The committee will discuss plans for establishing a world wide training center toward which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bat contributed $500,000.