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FORECAST: Partly cloudy to
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Fortieth Year
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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.
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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
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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.
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