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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.
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Churchill Paints, Too
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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
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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. '
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.