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nil Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Friday. Slightly warmer tonight. Temp. Highest Vesterday 44 Lowest this Mornlnf 22 Fortieth Year Strike Control Bill To Be Considered mm m m EARLY EASING IN LAB ORJURMOIL GM Refuses to Hike Wages Over 13Vi Cents Per Hour; Labor Leader Stands Firm By United Press The steel strike was tossed back to the White House to day by CIO President Philip Murray who said at Washing ton that "we have done all we can" to settle the dispute and "it's now up to the president." Murray made the statement as pressure for relaxation of price controls increased, with industrialists warning that higher wages could not be paid without government ap proval of price rises. By United Press Hopes for early easing of the national labor crisis dimmed to day at automotive and steel ne gotiations bogged down over the wage issue. L Demands for higher pay have prompted hundreds of strikes and shut-downs, Idling nearly 1 ,500.000 . workers across the country. 13V4 Cent Limit At the first General Motors- CIO auto workers negotiating session since Dec. 26, the com pany yesterday refused to hike the wages of its 175,000 workers more than 13V4 cents an hour. Harry W. Anderson, GM vice president, indicated however, that the company might raise its bid if certain objectionable fea tures of its old contract, includ ing a maintenance of member ship clause, were removed. UAW President R. J. Thomas warned that the 72-day strike would continue until the com pany receded from its stand. In other labor developments: l.The Wheeling Steel Corp. followed the lead of U. S. Steel In refusing to grant wage in creases "until the OPA price sit uation is clarified." U. S. Steel said a price increase "greatly in excess of $6.25 a ton" would be necessary for the company to grant ISV2 cent hourly wage boost proposed by. President Truman. 2. The Ford Motor Co. said it would have to shut down com pletely this week unless the steel strike ends. Ford already has laid off 15,000 workers because of the steel shortage. 3. The CIO United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers union rejected International Harvester's offer of a 17 cent an hour wage increase for 30,000 striking workers. 4. The national shipbuilding wage conference was deadlocked after management representa tives rejected a proposal for an 18-cent hourly pay hike for 450, 000 shipyard workers. Meanwhile, government offi cials worked to avert three striitos which would cut off pow er from consumers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Virginia. ELLSWORTH SUCCEEDS M0TT ON NAVY AFFAIRS Washington. Jan. 31 (U.R) Rep. Walter Norblad, republican congressman from Oregon, was nppointed today to the house committees on public lands, elec tions and patents. Norblad, successor to the late James Mott, was sworn in Tues dav. Rep. Harris Ellsworth. R-. Ore., was named to fill the va cancy on the House Naval Af fairs committee created by Motfs death. Boston. Jan. 31 (U.R) Fires in the United States and Canada last year caused 10.000 deaths and cost $445,000,000 in proper ty damage, the National Fire Protection Association reported today. TV rr United Press Nominated (Acnim Telepholo) Trygve Lie. Norweglnu foreign min ister, who has accepted nomination as secretary general of the U. N. O. Mr. Lie returned to London, Eng land, to be present when the U. N O. assembly formally acts on the' nomi nation, probably Friday. GAULT WILL SEEK Sheriff Howard Gault an- nounced today that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff in the May primary, and will formally file in a few days. Sheriff Gault was appointed to the office June 22, last, to fill the vacancy caused by the passing of Syd I. Brown. Sheriff Gault first entered the office as chief office deputy under Sheriff Walter Olmschied in 1933, and save for a couple of years in the provost marshal's office at Camp White, has been connected with sheriff's jffice ever since. Sheriff Gault is a Medford native son, has lived here all his life. He is a graduate of the Medford high school and for sev eral years studied law in local offices. He is married and has four children and is well known throughout the county. County Commissioner William Perry of Kaglc Point also re ported he would seek renomina- tion on thi Republican ticket, in the May primary. He is now serving his third term. He said he would formally file within a short time. Commissioner Perry is a farmer of the Eagle Point district and is highly conversant with county road and land af fairs and has long been active in county Grange circles. FIND LIVE BOMBS London, Jan. 31 (U.PJ The threat of triple explosion that might wreck Buckingham palace sent pnsserbv scuttling away from the royal residence today when two more live German bombs were discovered close by a 1 ,000-po'inrier which RAF "X petrs had been trying to neu tralize for more than a week. All three bombs were cluster ed in a narrow comer of St. ,'ames park opposite the palace, two of them in the duck pond and the third in the center of a lovers lane familiar to London couples since the time of Henry the Eighth. Bomb disposal experts discov ered the lovers lane bomb acci dentally while working on the 1 OOOpoundcr buried some 30 feet below the muddy bottom of the duck pond. Birds are more closely related to alligators and crocodiles than to any other animals. ft : 't fX - f tS"'V Full Lekitv SENTIENT FOR STRONG MEASURE SEEN IN HOUSE Rep. Case Is Permitted to Introduce Substitute For Diluted Truman Version. Washington, Jan. 31 (U.PJ The House agreed today to con sider a sweeping strike control bill. It approved the action of its rules committee in permitting Rep. Francis Case, R., S. D to offer a substitute for the House Labor committee's diluted ver sion of President Truman's fact finding bill. The vote on the procedural question was 258 to 114 in favor of giving Case a chance to bring up his bill. Debate Fact Bill Debate on the fact-finding bill began today. Friends and foes of stronger labor legislation agreed that approval of the rules committee action indicated con siderable sentiment for strong strike-control legislation. The, Case bill, backed by a group bf republicans and south ern democrats, would make lab or unions liable in the courts for damages resulting from viola tions of their contracts. It also would 'ban violence by pickets and would provide an automatic 30-day cooling off period in seri ous labor disputes. Proponents of the Case bill de clared in debate that its win. sideralion would at least insure the House of a chance "to work its will on labor legislation.' Opponents of the Case bill as sailed the rules committee for sending it to the floor. They nam me measure would in effect, repeal ine IMOrns-LoGuardia nn, ti-injunction act and the national laDor relations act, Supporting his measure ro said it Is our resDonslhllitv do something about the present sirme situation; let us not run away jrom it." Case denounced the labor com. mittee s bill as a "kind gesture toward settlement of labor dis putes. Me said that considera tion of his more drastic mens,, would at least allow the House wui us win on labor leg. lslation. The Case bill, Introduced only iew aays ago, would make "or unions liable In the courts 'T vltauons of their contracts. Yvmiiu ai0 Dan violence by labor pickets and would provide a 30-day "cooling-off" period in which strikes would banned. SMITH QUITS AS DEPUTY SHERIFF Vern Smith, for the past five years a deputy of the Jackson county sheriff s office, today an nounced his resignation, effec tive March 1. He gave no reason for leaving his post, which he has held for the past five years. Smith was hired by the late Sheriff Syd I. Brown as chief of criminal investigations and has handled ail criminal complaints received by the sheriff's office during that time. He is the oldest man from point of continuous service In the county office. Six-Day Hiccoughs Danger Man's Life Coeur d' Alene, Ida., Jan. 31 UP.) B. A. Bushey, 75, was In serious condition today after hopltal attendants failed to stop a six-day attack of hic coughs. Bushey has been In the hospital since May when he suffered a stroke and the hircoughing was aggravating I his condition. MEDFORD, OREGON, BRITISH TO JOIN IN OCCUPATION OF DEFEATED JAPAN Arrival Within a Week Will Hasten Return of Many GIs Welcome Extended. Washington, Jan. 31 (U.R) A British commonwealth force of land, sea and air units will start moving into Japan within a week to share occupation duties and hasten repatriation of "many" American troops, the State department announced to day. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in a statement from his headquarters in Tokyo, extended the "hear tiest possible welcome" to the men from Australia, New Zea land, India and United Kingdom who are about to share the "ar duous and difficult duties" of occupation. Benefit Seen "Their presence." said the supreme allied commander, "will materially broaden the base along international lines of a burden which up to this time has, of necessity, been carried to a large extent unilaterally by the United States forces and can not fail to be of overall bene ficial effect. "It will enable a diminution In our own strength and will there by bring welcome relief to many individuals." The State department said MacArthur would readjust the schedule for withdrawing Amer ican troops as soon as possible. Although Russia is sending no occupation troops, she is partici pating In the military rule of Japan. A State department spokesman said Russia had noti fied the U. S. that its delegates to the Allied Council under Mac Arthur were en route to Tokyo. SCRAPTPAPER EYED FOR CLUE studied a scrap of greasy paper and a cardboard box today, hop ing to learn if the fiend who butchered six-year-old Suzanne Dcgnan and the sadist who sent a human ear through the mail were the same person. A small home-made box con taining an adult human ear was mailed to Mrs. James Degnan, mother of the slain child scrawled on the inside cover was the threat: "Will cut your ear next." Chief of Detectives Walter Slorms said investigators were comparing the handwriting on the box with that of the $20,000 ransom note which the slayer left in Suzanne's bedroom when he kidnaped her Jan. 7. He said the writing on the box apparently had been dis guised as was that on the ran som note. ON HIGH ROADS Salem, Jan. 31 (U Pi The Oregon State Highway commis sion has issued the following road report: Wapinltla Pass: Snowing; packed. Santiam Pass: Snowing; chains advised. Willamette Pass: Snowing; total snow 136 inches: packed, partly sanded, but chains ad vised; one-way traffic near Oak ridge. Slsklyous Summit: Packed snow, very slick; chains neces sary. Astoria: Slush and packed snow in mountain areas, sanded; Columbia highway closed at east city limits of Astoria; detouring through Tongue Point naval base: one-way traffic near Man zanita on Oregon coast highway. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, Dimes Poster Boy Leaving For Home With Souvenirs New York, Jan. 31 4U.R) Donald Anderson, five-year-old March of Dimes poster boy watched his mother pack away the souvenirs of their three- week New York visit today for their return journey to Prine- ville, Ore. Mrs. Edward Anderson and Donald will leave New York at 5:30 p. m. today. From Ogden next week, they will start the last lap of the journey to the little lumber town where Donald fought and won his own battle with Infan tile paralysis and from which he came as a symbol of hope for the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis' 1946 fund campaign. FILIBUSTER ON TO Washington, Jan. 31 4U.PJ Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., currently filibustering against fair employment legis lation, said today he hopes to use the same tactics against the British loan. "I am willing to filibuster (against the loan) if I can get some help," he said with a long look at the press gallery. "I am willing to be a cousin to the British, a friend, but I am tired of being Santa Claus." . Bilbo said his filibusters In the past had saved tins federal treasury $500,000,000 in appro priations. But now, he said, he hopes to save the country $4,- 400,000,000 the overall amount of the projected loan. "If we give the English this,' he continued, "we will have to give Russia $6,000,000,000, and then France will want some, and then Belgium will want some, and so on." Sen. Morse Derided Bilbo derided Sen. Wayne C. Morse, R., Ore., who has helped to lead a move to limit debate and break the anli-FEPC fili buster. He said that In 1843 there was a two-month filibuster against the bills affecting Oregon. He reminded the senate that Morse was from Oregon and added: "Huh! And now the FEPC boys start a cloture petition while we have been talking only a few nays. Northern democrats and most senate republicans favor estab lishment of a permanent fair em ployment practice commission. Together they form a senate ma jority. But that did not impress Bilbo. "The majority is not always right," he asserted. "A mob is a majority. They're not right, WILL HEAR TOOZE LaMarr Tooze, Portland, will speak at the annual meeting of the Jackson County Lincoln club It was announced today by George Carter, county clerk and president of the club. Carter stated that the meeting, tradi tionally a banquet, will be held Feb. 12 at the Elks' club in Ash land, beginning at 6:45 p. m. A complete program has not yet been planned. Carter said. Tickets will go on sale through out the county in the near future. Tooze has been Identified with state and national activities of tl e Republican party for many years. LONG DISTANCE CALLS CHEAPER TOMORROW Washington, Jan. 31 (U.PJ Reductions in long-distance tele phone rates expected to save users an estimated $20,000,000 year become effective tomor row, the federal communications commission announced ioday. The largest savings, estimated at $16,000,000 annually, will go to users making calls over dis tance between 340 to 2,140 miles. Tribune United Press Full 1946. CHINESE AGREE ON COALITION TO ENDIO STRIFE Interim Government to Rule Until New Democratic Constitution Is Adopted Chungking, Jan. 31 (U.R) China's 18 years of civil strife ended tonight when leaders of the nation's major parties agreed unanimously on forma tion of a coalition government to rule until the new democrat ic constitution is adopted next spring. The interim government plan was approved without a dissent ing vote at an extraordinary session of the people's consul tative assembly which has been meeting almost continuously for the past month to work out a national unification program. Flve-PIanlc Platform The delegates, representing all of China s leading political factions, adopted five resolu Hons on which the broad plat form of national unity wili be erected. The resolutions fixed the size and political makeup of the nationalist and communist arm ies, reorganization of the gov ernment set-up. and outlined s program of national reconstruc tions. The military resolution call ed for reduction of the national ist armies to 00 divisions and the communist forces to 20 dl visions, both to merge and re organize along western lines under supervision of a joint committee, with U. S. Ambas sador Gen. George C. Marshall as special adviser. Communist leader Chou En- Lai pledged his party's support to the new unity program "for the establishment of a new and peaceful China." COLD BLANKETS OF By United Press Cold blanketed most of the nation today, with the excep tion of the extreme southeastern states, where temperatures rang ed in the low eighties and high seventies. Sub-zero readings, accompa nied by winds of near-gale force, swept the north central region. The national low was 19 degrees below :ero at Jamestown, N. D., and Ashley, N. D., and Aber deen, S. D., both reported tem peratures of 17 below at mid night. The federal forecaster at Chi cago said that the cold wave was centered over the Dakotas, w -stern Minnesota. Nebraska and Iowa, out would move east ward as the day progressed. Heavy snow was reported throughout Michigan's lower peninsula, and in Iowa, where blizzard conditions were record ed late yesterday. Pastor's Confession Starts Probe Into Family Affairs Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 31 (U.P) The swiftly -widening probe into the family affairs of a Grand Rapids, Mich., pastor who has confessed he poisoned his daughter, extended Into Dix on. Ill,, today where his first wife died in 1020, Rev. Frank Siplc, 53-year old pastor of the Southlawn Church of God, confessed this morning that he had poisoned his daugh ter, Dorothy, 17, in 1939. He made the confession In his Jail cell where he is held on a charge of attempted murder of Lyle Doan, an ildcr of his church. With the confession, made to Kent County Prosecutor Merino R. Bolt, the examination into Siple's family affairs moved to ward Dixon where Siple was pastor for a time. I Leased Wirt NO. 265. Telephone 4956 If Mail Tribune Delivery Fails A new complaint service for Mall Tribune subscribers was announced today by Gerald T. Latham, circulation manager. Beginning t 0 m o r r o w, -the Hinkle Parcel Delivery Serv ice will accept telephone calls between 6 p. m, and 7:30 p. m. from persons who have not received their papers. The par cel delivery service will de liver all papers missed which are reported during those hours. Calls may be made from 9 a. m. to 12:30 p, m. Sundays. The telephone num ber is 4956. Last Sunday the Mall Trib une reached 10,004 net paid circulation, first time In his tory the figure has been over lo.ooo. Dale Erlckson. recently dis charged from the army, has been added to the circulate n staff and will aid in supervis ion of the 31 city earrlors. Washington, Jan. SI (U.R) Vice Adm. Patrick N. L. Bellln gcr, former commander of naval air defenses in Hawaii, said to day there was no long-range re connaissance prior to the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor because he had no information Indicating a need for It. ' Bellinger told the Pearl Har bor Investigating committee he saw none of the warning mes sages sent from Washington to Hawaii until several days after the Dec. 7, 1041, attack, Papers Only Warning The only Information he had regarding the tense relations be tween the United States and Ja pan came from reading Honolulu newspnpers, Bellinger testified "The information available to me limited and unofficial as it was did not indicate that I should recommend to the com- mandcr-ln-chlcf of the Pacific fleet that distant patrol plane search for the security of Pearl Harbor be undertaken at that time," he said. In the absence of such Infor mation, he added, "the patrol planes available were carrying out their regularly assigned schedules when the Japanese struck." Sufferer Dies As Night Aid Refused Los Angeles, Jan. 31 (U.R) Herbert G. Scwell, 74, past mas ter of tlio Garvcy American Le gion Post and member of a fa mous Canadian family, died of a heart attack today at his Mon tercy Park, Cal., home after un successfully seeking medical as sistance. His sisters, Lcta and Aimce Scwell, said the dying man tele phoned them at their home and told them that four doctors had refilled to make a night call at his residence. "I don't know what you'll find If you dig my first wife's body up," Siple told Bolt. "But I swear I didn't kill her." Bolt said he would seek a murder warrant against Siple In his daughters death and ask Dixon authorities to exhume the body of the pastor's first wife, Bertie, who died there in De cember, 1B29. Siple told Bolt that he poison ed his daughter because she was mentally Incompetent and he did not want her to go to an asylum. Siple originally was accused of attempting to kill Doan by beating him with a 14-Inch lead pipe. The alleged attack and attempt to poison Doan was the result of a long and bitter feud be tween the two churchmen over religious administration mailers. ON FOREST PEAK Wyoming Wilds Hold Fate of Eastbound Liner Crew Members From Portland. Rawlins, Wyo., Jan. 31 U.R) Searching parties left Rawlins today for a burned-out area la the forest on Elk mountain where a United Air Lines plana was beliccd to have crashed with 18 passengers and a crew of three. The burned-out area was about 150 or 200 feet below the top of the rugged 11.000-foot moun tain, some 50 miles cast of Raw lins. Fire Seen Early The fire on the mountain was reported about 3 o'clock this morning Just a few minutes aft er the United Mainlincr, en route east from Portland, Ore., and Boise, Ida., reported that it was passing Sinclair, Wyo., on its course. . The burned-out area was ex plored from the air a few hours later by Capt. Frank Crlsmon, assistant superintendent of flight operations for United Air Lines from Denver, and he reported that he was certain that it was the site of the crash. Clouds closed in on the moun tain before he could make a close investigation, however, and he said he did not see any wreckage, and he did not see any sign of life. Crew From Portland The missing plane was carry ing 12 military personnel and six civilian passengers, In addi tion to Its crew of three, it was said at the air line office In Denver. The war department said that the names of the military, per sonnel aboard would not be dis closed until after next of kin had been notified. The crew members were all from Portland, Ore. They were Identified as Walter P. Brlggs, pilot: Harry M. Atlas, co-pilot. and Miss Dorothy Jean Carter, stewardess. The civilians were listed as H. R. Glover, 2315 East 13th St., Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. Ed ward H. Blake. Richland, Wanh.j R. S. Plrle, 53 East 67th St.. New York: Mr. and Mrs. G. A, Bender. Sheffield, III., and W. Petraoek of New York, street address unknown. The lint report of the t'lre on Elk mountain was made to Mrs. Boyd Hammond, wife of a re gional grazier at Rawlins. Some one who did not give his name called her about 3 a. m. to re port a forest fire. That was about 20 minutes after the Malnllner gave Its posi tion as over Sinclair. Sinclair, an oil refinery town formerly known as Parco, la six miles east of Rawlins. Those familiar with the moun tain said it would be late today, and posshlly sometime tomor row, before the ground parties could climb to the fire area. TALL GERANIUMS Los Angeles, Jan. 31 (U.PJ The All-Year club searched to day for a geranium "as toll as a house" to substantiate Mrs. Lillian P. Budd's enthusiastic boast of California's floral won ders to skeptical Illinois friends. In a letter to the club, Mrs. Budd said that Geneve, III., neighbors had doubted her ve racity when she told tl.ein that geraniums grow "as tall as a house" in southern California, her former home. Mrs. Budd osked that the long est stemmed of the species be cut and sent to her as proof. 'You might write a letter say ing you had to cut It off 10 feet from the ground so It would fit in a railroad car," she added. Army Wives Plan To Join Husbands Washington, Jan. 31 (U.R) Thousands of army wives and children begun laying plans to day to Join their GI husbands and fathers overseas this spring. Rome congressmen noted, however, that the plan anounced yesterday, does not apply to the average enlisted man. For the time being at least only the de pendents of officers, three grades of sergeant and certain civilians will be eligible. 1 4
