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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
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...
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.