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Weather Subscribers If ynu do not receive your paper telephone Z141 or 49St before 7:30 p.m. On Sunday call 1141 or 43t before p.m. EDFORD FORECAST: Partly clou dr. ahoweri. Temp. Hlchrst YriterdaT 41 Lowcft Yesterday 32 Prec. To 9 P. M. Yeiterday .07 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY it 1946. NO. 267. M PLEDGES TO BE SERVANTJO ALL Norwegian Advocates Build ing Foundation For Future Peace Of Entire World London, Feb. 2 (U.R) Trygve Lie, Norway's wartime foreign minister, was sworn into office today as first United Nations Nations secretary general and pledged himself to act as a truly international officer "The ser vant of you all." He warned the delegates of 51 United Nations that in their hands lay the future of the world. "Those who gave their lives in order that we may be free, those who lost their homes .those who suffered and still suffer from the consequences of war, have given us a sacred mandate, he said "That is to build a firm founda tion for the peace of the world." To Clote Saturday Delegates who listened to his words were preparing to wind up their session by next Satur day. But while they worked to that end, they were talking more about the security council than the assembly, and how or whether the council could re solve the Soviet and British controversies now before it. Assembly President Paul Henri Spaak, in administering the oath to Lie, set out for him a three-point policy: To me firm without being intransigeant; to be conciliatory without being weak; to be impartial without exception. "Never lost contact with reality; there, and not in theore tical idealism, will you seek the force and power of your influ ence." Spaak told Lie. Soviet Complaint Eyad Delegates meanwhile specu lated on the security council's next step in the Soviet Union's complaint against the presence of British troops in Greece, Argued before the council yes terday by Andrei Vishinskl for Russia and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin for Britain. Some questioned the advisa bility of two permanent mem bers of the council criticizing and cross-examining one another in open forum. They said the Greek case was a far bigger test than was the one on Iran, where the possibility of direct nego tiations between the Soviet Union and Iran always furnsh ed a way out. In the Greek case, Vishinski and Bevin seemed to have taken positions far apart, and some council members admitted they saw no immediate prospect for joining the two nations' extreme positions. It was believed that the only obstacle to winding up the assembly's first session next Saturday would be prolonged debate on the recommendation of the UNO special inspection group for locating the perma nent UNO headquarters in the north Greenwich-Stanford area of western Connecticut. ARABS BALK AI T Jerusalem, Feb. 2 (U.R) Pale stine was like a land of the dead today as 1.000.000 Arabs struck for 12 hours against British im migration policies and Jews, ob serving the Sabbath, stayed in doors to avoid the rain which drenched the silent streets. Throughout the Holy Land all communications, bu s i n e s s e s, theaters, shops and restaurants both Jewish and Arab-owned were at a standstill. Special pre cautionary measures were taken by military police, but no inci dents were reported anywhere in Palestine. The Arab strike was directed against a British decision, an nounced Wednesday, to resume limited Jewish immigration into Palestine at a rate of 1,500 a month pending a report from the Anglo-American Palestine in quiry committee, now in London. TO TRY JAPS Tokyo. Sunday. Feb. 3 U.R) Chief Justice John P. Higgins, of the Massachusetts supreme court, has been appointed the American judge on the interna tional military tribunal which will begin trials of Japanese war criminals on or about March 1 allied headquarters announced today. Honeymoon r ' ' f i ... r1 ft (Acme Telephoto) Mr. and Mrs. George Bender, Idaho honeymoon couple, who United Air lines officials said were aboard the UAL transport which crashed 65 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Mrs. Bender is former Betty Ann Thometz of Twin Falls, Idaho, and Mr. Bender is resident of Sheffield, 111. SCENE OF E Elk Mountain, Wyo., Feb. 2 (U.R) Four bodies were brought down from the 11,000-foot mountain-top graveyard of an airliner crash tonight by relays of moun taineers, a dog sled team and an army ambulance. The four crash victims could not be identified immediately. Their bodies were brought here by an army ambulance which was to continue with its tragic cargo to Cheyenne. Members of the rescue crew which spent the entire day on the snow-covered slopes of. Elk mountain said they believed it possible to retrieve only four bodies daily from the site of the United Air Lines passenger plane crash which carried 21 persons to their death. Bodies Frozen The bodies, showing evidence of serious injury, were frozen solid in grotesque positions, ap pearing like marble statues. The arms of one man were raised, with his fingers joined behind his head as if he were sleeping when the plane hit the moun tain. Only singed eyebrows and slightly singed skin gave evi dence that there had been a fire with the crash. Rescuers said seven of nine bodies had been brought as far as the dog-sled base, but the sled was capable of carrying only four at a time. Leaders of the party said they would climb the mountain again tomorrow, probably bringing four more bodies back with them. The San Francisco Presidio contains 1,542 acres. Conspiracy to "Wind Code" Washington, Feb. 2 (U.R) A navy captain charged today that all evidence of an intercepted message giving advance warn ing of Japan's decision to go to war against the United Slates has disappeared and that "there is appearance" of a conspiracy in the war and navy depart ments to destroy it. Capt. L. F Safford. 1941 chief of the naval communications ..itclligencc section, made the itatement to the congressional committee investigating the Dec. 7. 1941, disaster to 'the U. S. fleet at Hawaii. Sticks To Story He insisted, despite denial by other witnesses, that a message executing Japan's so-called "winds code" was intercepted by the navy on Dec. 4. 1941. and circulated within the war and navy departments. Safford said vast quantities of material are now missing from amy and navy files for th.it period, including "not only the Cut Short TWELVE DIE AS FIRE DESTROYS Cleveland, O., Feb. 2 U.R Fire, believed to have started from an explosion, swept the Jennings Hall home for the aged in Garfield Heights today, kill ing 12 residents and injuring at least 11. Dr. Samuel R. Gcrber, Cuya hoga county coroner, said 12 persons are known to have died in the blaze. All of the other residents of the home are pre sumed to be alive. Five persons have'not been accounted for but are believed to be in private homes or in hospitals." The Hall was run by the sis terss of the Holy Ghost. Father Of English Quads To Be Given Freedom By Mate ' Pittsburgh. Feb. 2 (U.R) Mrs. Eleanor J. Thompson, 26, has decided to free her husband, Ex-Sgt. William "Red" Thomp son, 27, so he can marry the English barmaid whose quadrup lets he fathered. ' The attractive beauty parlor operator filed suit for divorce, after two years of refusing to consider legal separation. Now, according to her attorney, she decided "she d give Thompson a chance to live up to his claim he wanted to marry Nora ' Mrs. Thompson's suit charged indignities. The international publicity that resulted from the quadruple birth to unmarried Nora Carpenter, 24, in Hcanor, Eng., February, 1944, brought her humilation, she charged, Green peppers arc a good source of Vitamin C. Destroy Jap Message Told winds message itself but every thing in connection with the winds message." He charged also that 11 war department and 13 navy offic ers knew about the message at the time but that last year the navy tried to get him to change his testimony about it before a special navy Pearl Harbor in vestigation. Started In 1943 The Winds code was set up in a Japanese broadcast in Novem bcr, 1941. It told Japanese dip lomats abroad that transnwsion of the words "east wind rain" in a subsequent weather broad cast would mean rupture of U. S. -Japanese relations. Similar code words were adopted for Great Britain and with Russia Satford said he started in 1943 to check up on the "winds execute" message in anticipation of an investigation of court mar tial connected with the Pearl Harbor disaster. He could find no file copies on the subject of the winds message, he said. COAST SHIPYARD WALKOUT LOOMS I'i PAYJSPUTE Truman, Snyder Confer With Bowles In Preparation for Unexpected Action San Francisco, Feb. 2 (U.R) Approximately 365,000 west coast shipyard workers may strike "soon" in protest against employers refusal to grant wage increases and because of the "failure" of the Washington shipbuilding stabilization confer ence to reach agreement on a proposed nationwide 15 per cent pay boost, union officials said today. The 65,000 members of the AFL Boilermakers union and an estimated 300,000 workers in Allied Crafts are "ready to strike soon if some agreement is not reached," said Ed Rainbow, busi ness agent of Boilermakers' Lo cal 6. The San Francisco labor council heard Rainbow predict last night that his local might "walk out at any minute." Rainbow was backed by Charles Foehn. business agent for shipyard electricians, who said walkout sentiment was growing up and down the coast and predicted a complete tie-up of all Pacific coast shipyards. Rainbow said his union and 16 other allied unions were "tired of being pushed around. They (the stabilization confer ence) have been in session back there for a month and haven't done anything. The employers have refused to have a quorum present at the meetings. They just don't want to make the wage adjustments.' Meanwhile, negotiations be tween AFL and CIO machinists and operators of uptown ma chine shops remained at a stand still today. Newly resumed ne gotiations between AFL lodge 68 and 11 "fringe shops" in San Francisco broke down yesterday after a half hour discussion. Washington, Feb. 2 (U.R) Japan outfitted three huge sub marines with 10 bomb-carrying planes and planned to use them in an attack on the Panama canal, the navy disclosed to night. ' Information about the plan foiled by the war's end was uncovered in Japan by naval in tclligence agents after V-J dav. Vice Adm. Charles A. Lock wood, former commander of U. S. Pacific submarine opera tions, revealed details of the plan at a press conference here. Nudist Is Pleased By Prediction For Revealing Dresses Chicago, Feb. 2 (U.R) Alois Knapp, America 's No. 1 nudist, said today the prediction that women were going to wear even ir.g gowns with exposed bosoms was the most wonderful news he' had in years. "It's interesting, it's wonder ful," he said. "But if they do away with the tops, why not do away with the bottoms, too' Clothes are immoral. Knapp, president and founder of the American sunbathing as sociation, said Hollywood de signer Rcnie had advanced civilization "a thousand years with her prediction. Farm Labor Office Places 70 On Jobs Seventy men applying at the farm labor office in the court house have been placed on farm jobs in the county since Jan. 8, according to R. G. Fowler, county agent. The number equals the total placed in the first four months of 194S. Twenty-one of the men obtain ing work last month were veterans. Fowler says that farm jobs are still plentiful. The labor of fice is maintained in conjunction with the Oregon State extension service. Yokohama, Feb. 2 UR) Former Japanese prison camp commandant Capt. Hiroji Hon da today was sentenced to 20 yeara imprisonment at hard labor for failure to prevent his men from committing atrocities against alli-d prisoners. AUTO INDUSTRY ' GETS BLAME FGit SETTLING DELAY UAW Charges Attack On Price Control Policy Causes Delay Detroit, Feb. 2 (U.R) CIO United Auto Workers, in a tele gram to President Truman, to night blamed industry's attack on price controls for delays in settling the strike of 175,000 workers against General Motors corporation. In the message, Walter P. Reuthcr, UAW vice president in charge of the GM division, asked the president "to speak out and call upon the American people to rally behind you in support of price control." Wage Topic Deadlocked Negotiations, resumed this week by GM and the UAW under the guidance of a federal medi ator, were in adjournment until Monday. The disputing sides still have not reached the topic of wages, deadlocked with a 13'. -4 cent GM offer and a 1BV4 cent UAW demand. Reuthcr told Mr. Truman to night, however, that labor was willing to accept pay increases recommended by presidential fact-finding boards "as a down payment on what it is justly and equitably entitled to," and in dicated that further wage in creases would be demanded later. Prices Mjor Issue "Wages are no longer the major issue in the dispute which is holding up reconversion to civilian production and our prog ress toward the goals of full employment, full production and full consumption," Reuthcr said. "The major issue now is prices. "Industry spearheaded by steel and the General motors corporation, is determined to hi jack the American people and the American government into accepting unjustified price in creases mat would provide the most outrageous profits in his tory. "The conspiracy of big busi ness to wreck price control, to which GM is a parly, is the rea son that no progress has been made in negotiations to settle the General Motors strike since the intervention of the special representative of yourself and the Department of Labor, Mr. James E. Dewey." SIPLE UNDERGOES TESTS ON SANITY Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 2 (U.R) A board of psychiatrists today began an examination which will determine whether the Rev. Frank E. Siple, 53-year-old Church of God pastor, will face murder charges in the poisoning of his daughter six years ago. Siple already has confessed that he killed 17-year-old Doro thy Ann Siple in 1939 because she was mentally incompetent The psychiatrist said they would submit a report on re sults of their sanity cxamiiatlon to the state health commission Monday. ASHLAND POLICE CHIEF ON TWO MONTHS' LEAVE Ashland, Feb. 2 C. P. Talent, Ashland chief of police, has been granted a two month's leave of absence because of 111 health Mayor T. S. Wiley said today. The leave of absence will be come effective Feb. 10. Captain Phil Stansbury, who recently returned from two years service with the army In Europe, will be acting chief of police during Talent's absence No other changes on the force are contemplated, Wiley said. ADD HIGHWAY HAZARDS Ontario. Cal., Feb. 2 (U.R) A horse with inclinations toward steepiechasing today proved one of the latest hazards of the high way for Mrs. Ida Mae McClen then of Upland. The horse be longing to A. G. Soreman leaped over the fence of its pasture and Jumped over Mrs. McClenthen's moving automobile. The only damage wns to Mrs. McClen then'a nerves. BULLETIN Oregon 63, Washington 55 California 49. UCLA 25 Klamath Falls 52, Ashland 26 MAN REQUESTS .SPEED IN ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL President Proposes Five Point Legislative Plan; Warns On Drastic Control Washington, Feb. 2 (U.R) President Truman today called on congress to enact "with ut most speed legislation for domestic control of atomic ener gy by a c i v 1 1 1 a n commission which would promote private use of man's newest source of power. Such legislation, he declared, holds "fast promise for our peo ple and all people." In a letter to Chairman Bricn McMahon, D., Conn., of the sen ate atomic cnerby committee, the president said "it is a mut ter of urgency that sound do mestic legislation on atomic energy be enacted with utmost speed." Warns on Controls He warned, however, against controls so drastic that they might "stifle scientific pro gress." Proposing a five point legis lative plan, Mr. Truman said that "domestic and international issues of the first importance wait upon this action. McMahon said he hoped to complete hearings on domestic control of atomic energy In about 10 days. The committee will take up international con trol problems later, he said. The president asked McMa- hon's committee to approve a bill that would: ,, 5-Point Program 1. Establish a three-man civil ian commission to control atomic energy. 2. Give the government the exclusive right to own and pro duce fissionable materials such as-Uranium 235 or plutonlum. 3. Make devises utilizing atomic energy "fully available for private development through compulsory, n o n-exclusive li censing of private patients, and regulation of royalty fees to in sure their reasonableness." 4. "Assure genuine freedom to conduct Independent research and guarantee that controls over the dissemination of infor mation will not stifle scientific progress." 5. Put the commission, "In position to carry out at once any International agreements relat ing to Inspection, control of the production of fissionable mater ials, dissemination of informa lion, and similar areas of inter national action." Mr. Truman's letter was in re ply to a request by McMahon for White House comment ..n a measure now before the com- miMee. CORVALLIS NAMED FOR OREGON GOP CONCLAVE Salem, Ore., Feb. 2 (U.R) Corvallis today tentatively was selected by the Oregon Rcpubli can clubs' executive committee as site for the state GOP con vention next fall. Plans for a campaign to in crease voters' registration, espec ially for veterans, topped the yearly program outlined by the committee at its meeting here today. Watch Over Crater Given Up; Snow Slides Disrupt Recorder "Watchful waiting" for Crater Lake to "burp," ended Friday with Geologist F. W. Cater of the United States Geological Sur vey returning to Mcdford from his lonely vigil on the third floor of the lake lodge. Cater had been at the snowbound re sort nearly two weeks watching for possible reappearance of the strange smoke clouds which were reported hovering over the water last fall, and also keeping an eye on the sound recording device attached by cable to a microphone-like Instrument In stalled in the lake. Cater said Friday that on Wed nesday he discovered the sound recorder was not working and he sent word by his portable radio for Crater Lake National Park Service men to come and help trace the trouble. With ar rival of Daryl Palmer and Paul Herron, dispatched by Chief Ranger J. Carlisle Crouch. It was found that the 1,500-foot Groundhog Gets Look At Shadow; Bad Weather Due Little Marmota Monax, groundhog to you, came out late yesterday afternoon to see his shadow and to prom ise valley residents six more weeks of winter weather. Reports from the local U.S. weather bureau sub stantiate the little fellow's prediction .with a forecast for showers or snow flurries the next few days for Mcd ford and vicinity. Legend is that If Mr. Groundhog arises from his winter slumber Feb. 2 and sees the sun, he returns to his home for six weeks to sleep and await the arrival of spring. MEAT PACKERS IN T Chicago, Feb. 2 U.R) A re quest by 3,000 members of the CIO United Packinghouse Work ers for a renewed walkout at the Chicago plant of Armour & Company, now being operated under a government seizure or der tonight awaited action by the union's international presi dent. The request for a new strike was voted at a mass mooting which followed a two hour sit- down strike yesterday by 2.000 Armour employees. The union members charged the company w'th "unnecessary stalling" In calling some i.000 of its 9,000 members back to work. Company spokesmen, operat ing the plant under federal supervision, sniil all departments wcle working with a full force lody excepting the cattle de nartmont. which was slowed down because of the lack of livestock. Herbert March, director of the un.on's disflct No. 1, said no aclion on the strike threat could be expected until International President Lewis Clark studies the case. Clark, who arrived in Chicago today, will decide whether to call the unions strike strategy committee to gether to consider the request. If he does, the committee then will decide whether a new strike should be called. Siskiyou Highway Reported Slippery San Francisco, Feb. 2 (U.R) Snow falling generally in the Sierra Nevada and Siskiyou ranges has made tire chains com pulsory on all automobiles traveling Into Nevada and Ore grn, the California Automobile Association reported tonight. U. S. Highways 40 and 50 Into Nevada and U. S. 97 iind 99 in to Oregon arc particularly dan gerous, the association said. State police headquarters here la" Ight reported that packed enow and ice covered highway 09 in the Slsklyous and that chains were "absolutely neces sary " Vehicles not so equipped we'e being turned back, accord- ing to the report. Upland, Cal., Feb. 2 U.R) The Snyder & Son fruit packing plant was almost totally destroy ed by fire here late today, with damage estimated at $200,000. cable connecting the Instrument dangling from a raft In the lake to the recording mechanism in the lodge had been broken by heayv snow sliding down the steep Inside wall of the crater and 50(1 feel of cable had slid into the water. Installing of the instruments and cable had proved an ex tremely hazardous task and it was decided that attempts to keep the cable in repair would be at too great a risk of life. It had been hoped that if the reported smoke clouds mean' re turn of activity on the floor of the long extinct volcano, the sound recording mechanism would provide indisputable evi dence. Further watch over the lake, however, will have to wait the coming of spring, with easier access to the water and less like lihood of the cable being car ried away by snow and boulders plunging down the inside of the gigantic crater. Cater declared. STEPS TO T TO STEEL STRIKEJALKED Strike of 365,000 Workers Expected "At Any Min ute" In General Tie-Up Washington, Feb. 2 (U.R) President Truman conferred to day with his top domestic pol icy advisers in preparation for an unexDectcd govern m e n t move to end the 13-day old steel strike. Mr. Truman and Reconversion Director John W. Snyder spent 45 minutes with Price Adminis trator Chester A. Bowles, who was summoned back from southern vncation by the presi dent. Earlier the president had con ferred on the country's econo mic plight with Snyder's prede cessors, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson. Bowles smilingly declined to discuss the conversation with reparteds as he left the White House. He brushed aside ques tions about reports that he would resign if Mr. Truman overruled him on the amount of a price increase to be allowed the steel industry as part of a strike settlement. Bowles favors an Increase of $2.50 a ton, but Snyder reported- . ly already has offered a $4 a ton increase and is understood to favor increasing that figure somewhat. The president talked also to day to Charles E, Wilson, presi dent of General Electric Co., who told reporters that he had made "certain suggestions with respect to wage-price policy." Wilson said he has asked spec ial mediators in the strike of 100.000 GE employes for an in crease In tho price ol electrical items to cover the wage In crease demand of the United Electrical Workers (CIO). The- union seeks a $2 a day pay boost, but this week settled with the Radio Corporation of America at Camden, N. J., for 17V4 cents an hour. Meanwhile a government fact finding panel in the meat in dustry's wage dispute carried on conferences with the agriculture department, office of economic stabilization, office of price ad ministration and procurement agencies of the armed forces. A panel member said "all of them" are in on discussions pre liminary to a report next week In which the panel will recom mend a basis for settling the dispute. Washington, Feb. 2 (U.R) Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veteran administrator, appeared to night to have won as decisive victory In his tilt with Ameri can Legion Commander John Stclle as he ever achieved on a World War II battlefield. Stclle charged Bradley with responsibility for a "tragic breakdown" in the veterans ad ministration and demanded his replacement. Bradley countered by inferen tially tracing the accusation to an argument over location of a hospital In which Stclle was In terested personally. The veterans' chief won Im mediate support from other veterans organizations, from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, and from President Truman. The Whito House volunteered a statement that Bradley had the "complete and unqualified support" of Mr. Truman. Sun Spots Bombard Earth With Noises New York, Feb. 2 (U.R) Two sun spots large enough to be seen by the naked eye were bombarding the earth with myi tcriotis hlsing noises today, dis rupting cross-Atlantic communis cations. Gordon Atwatcr, chairman of the Hayden planetarium of tho American Museum, said the sun spots, the -biggest seen In 19 years, first appeared yesterday morning. He said they may cause brilliant displays of north ern lights within the next three, or four days and may affect radio, telephone and teletype communications for two days.
