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Weather FORECAST: Partly floudy to cloudy with rain showers in valley and mow ahoweri tn mountains tonight and Wed nesday. Little chance In tem erature. Temp. Highest yesterday , , 44 Lowest this mnrnlnw 34 Tribune Subscribers If you do not receive your paper telephone 3141 49&t at fore 7:30 p.m. On flundav call am or 4IS before 12: p.m. United Freta FuH & Wire United Prtss Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1946 NO. 269. More War Brides to Make U. S. Homes M MB (nPs aaaaaa'si, amemmmmmmmr-y "mi (Acme Telepholo) Arriving In New York City aboard S. S. Argentina, en route to Join their husbands in American cities, these British brides of U. S. soldiers, and their children, wave from ship's banister. They are (left to right), Eileen Coll and Sonia, bound for Chicago; Irene Dickson, Muskogee, Okla.; Jean Dzieglewlcs and Melvln, Detroit, Mich.; Olive Chambers and Susan, Arkon, Ohio, and Irene Crosswhite, San Diego. Ickes Repeats Bribe Offered Washington, Feb. 5 (U.P.) Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said today that Edwin W. Pauley told him on Sept. 6, 1944, that oil interests would contrib ute $300,000 to the democratic party if the government would drop a suit for title to oil-bearing tidelands. Ickes appeared for a second time before the senate naval af fairs committee, which is consid ering President Truman's nomi nation of Pauley, former Demo- L! FEB. 12 Program for the 32nd annual Banquet of the Jackson County Lincoln club was announced to day by George R. Carter, presi dent. The banquet will be held at the Ashland Elks' club Tues day, Feb. 12, at 6:45 p. m. Delivering the main address of the evening will be Lamar Tooze, prominent Portland at torney and well known repub lican of Oregon. Dick Martin, Ashland high school student, will give Loncoln's Gettysburg Address, a traditional feature of the program. Also slated Is the annual elec tion of officers, with Eugene Thorndike presenting the report of the nominating committee, Frank P. Farrell will give the report of the memorials and resolutions committee and Herb Grey will read telegrams and letters. The Rev. L. F. Belknap will deliver the invocations and a musical program will be present ed by Harry Young. In addition to Carter, officers who served the association for the past year are Henry G. En ders, Ashland, first vice-president; Robert F. Kyle, Medford, second vice-president; Robert Dodge, Ashland, third vice-president; William Perry. Eagle Point, secretary and .treasurer; Mrs. G. Q. D'Albinl, historian. $6000 HOME CEILING VETOED BY COMMITTEE Washington, Feb. 5 (U.R) The house banking committee in a stormy meeting today voted against placing price ceilings on existing homes. The vote was 14 to 11. It was a major provision of the new housing legislation sponsored by Rep. Wright Pat man. D.. Tex. Patman also proposed to fix price ceilings on new homes at S6.000. Hep. William B. Barry, D., N. Y., said, "if the $6,000 pro posed ceiling is passed there won't be a home built here, in New York or anywhere." MOTORISTS! SAVE A LIFE KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS Hera is law for today. Somewhere in the state of Oregon, failure to obtervt this law will cost someone hit lift, or serious injury: (b) VEHICLES ENTERING A THROUGH HIGHWAY. Tht driver of any vehicle who has stopped required by law at tht entrance to a through highway shall yitld to tht other vehicles within tht Intersection or approaching so clottly on tht through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver hav ing to yielded may proceed, and other vehicles approaching tht intersection on tht through highway shajl yield to tht vehicles to tpproachinq Into or across tht through highway. (Section 115-337 Oregon Motor Vehicle! Lawk Declaration By Oil Men cratic national .treasurer, to be undersecretary of navy. . "Raw Proposition" Lost wee Ickes told the com mittee Pauley had tried to per suade him to drop the proposed suit which ultimately was filed and is now before the supreme court. j Today, amplifying his state ment, he said Pauley suggested the "rawest proposition ever made to me." For his second blast, Ickes brought along and read a memo randum he said- he had made on the occasion when Pauley made the alleged proposition. Meanwhile the committee, at the request of Sen. Charles W. Tobey, R., N, H., sent a telegram easing Harry Sinclair of "New York, president of the Sinclair Oil company, to testify in the hearings on Pauley. Memorandum Read ickes read from his memo randum that he told Pauley, "I don't intend to smear my name in oil." In the course of the con versation he also observed, ac cording to his notes, that "no oil man ought to be treasurer of the r nocratic party." Pauley, the memorandum ad ded, "came here frankly avow ing to collect for oil interests and wanted me to give assurance of party." "This," Ickes read, "is the rawest proposition ever made to me." OREGON LEW BACKS STELLE Portland. Ore., Feb. 5 (U.R) The executive committee of the Oregon Department of the American Legion today support ed National Commander John Stelle in his criticism of the vct terans' administration under Gen. Omar C. Bradley. Department Commander Neil Morfitt disclosed here he had received telegrams from the nine state district commanders and from other department of ficers, a majority of whom de clared their support of Slelle's stand. "This thing comes as a shock to the average Legionnaire who has not been following the situ ation and does not know the pic ture," Morfitt said. PACKING HOUSE RABBIS JOIN UNION MOVEMENT Los Angeles. Feb. 5 (U.R) The 12 packing house rabbis who preside over Mosaic slaugh ter rituals for this area's Kosher meat were on strike today for the right of collective bargain ing. The walkout presented 175, 000 Los Angeles Jews with the prospect of a meat famine. The Kosher butchers prepare 50,000 to 100.000 pounds of meat weekly. KNOWN 11 MM: NO CORPliS DELICT Downtown District Buzzes With Gossip of Alleged Auto Mishap Involving Girl . A Medford high school girl, Virginia Long, suffered the unique and unpleasant experi ence last evening of being "killed by rumor." Springing from an as yet unknown source, one of those weird, rapidly growing stories swept the town last night and by dinner-time friends of the bewildered girl and her family were calling to inquire into Vir ginia's "untimely death." The family could offer no possible reason as to how or why the story started. , An unidentified man called the Perl Funeral Home to find out if the victim was anyone he knew. Perls called Conger-Morris, but they knew nothing of the accident. By morning the story was that one of the am bulance drivers had struck the girl in front of the Medford Center building. Another man stopped Capt. Paul Parson of the state police and described the gory details of the accident. He hadn't seen it, of course, but had just talked to some ope who had. A lawyer repeated the , tale at the Elks club, No.-he hadn't eecn it, but the elevator operator In his of fice building told him and he heard it from someone who did. Housewives heard it while they shopped for groceries and sten ographers heard it at the lunch counter while they had a "coke." Everyone who came into the Tribune office this morning, or met a reporter, inquired for the latest details. The girl had been killed at Camp White, on South Central, on East Main and Fir street as the tale rolled on. A little back-tracking this noon and a phone call to the S. F. Long home on Kings' High way brought out the fact that Virginia was home last night when the telephone calls began td come, and that she had not been in an accident and that she most certainly is not dead. ROUTINE BUSINESS ON COUNCIL AGENDA Routine business, according to Mayor C. A. Meeker, will fill the agenda when councilmcn convene at the city hall this eve ning at 7:30 for their first meet ing of the month. Tokyo, Feb. 5 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today or dered the Japanese government to take "immediate and exten sive measures on a nationwide basis for prevention of dip theria," which he termed a "ser ious health hazard in Japan." (Acme TcUphntot LUtralrat to testimony at Pearl Har bor Investigation U Seth W. Richard son, (elected as new chief counsel, turreedlnc William D. Mitchell. Mitchell and three assistants re tinned on "rounds that Investigation aa taking more time than tht-y t-ouid devote to it. Richardson was formerly aMUtant attorney general . .-'.ii Y Palmer Hoyt to Become Publisher Of Denver Post Denver. Colo., Feb. 5 (U.R) Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Portland Oregonian, will be come publisher of the Denver Post,- succeeding W. C. Shep herd, who is retiring after more than 40 years with the paper, It was announced today. Hoyt will be both publisher and editor of the paper, succeed ing Shepherd in both positions. Shepherd, who has been pub lisher and editor for more than 13 years, told the . other direc tors shortly after the first of the year that he wanted to re tire at the next stockholders' meeting on Feb. 20. "I'll be 72 years old next fall," he said today. "That's past the age when most corporations retire' their executives, and I think it's time to turn this Job over to a younger man." FIRST STEPS IN Washington, Feb. 5 (U.R) Navy Capt. L. F. Safford said today he took the initiative in setting up a defense for Adm. Husband E. Kimmel in the Pearl Harbor disaster. Safford told Congress' Pearl Harbor committee he met Kim mel in New York in February, 1944. But, he said, he didn't tell the deposed Pacific fleet com mander of his efforts in Kim- mel's behalf. The meeting took place about a month after Safford had writ ten a letter charging that the army and navy high command "framed" Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the deposed commanders of naval and. army defenses in Hawaii. Safford was questioned by Rep. John W, Murphy, D., Pa., about his associations with Kim mel and his interest in assem bling defense evidence for use in the event Kimmel was court martialed. Safford said he met Kimmel for the first time during a per sonal trip to New York. "I was In New York," he said. "I took advantage of the trip to call on Admiral Kimmel. I took the initiative." Murphy, asked if he told Kim mel "about the letters you were writing." Safford said he did not. The committee sought from Safford substantiation of his charge that the army and navy high command "framed" Kim mel and Short in the Pearl Har bor disaster. UNO SITE CHOICE London, Feb. 5 U.R) -An In terim committee today approv- cd an inspection group's recom mendation that permanent head quarters of the UNO be estab lished In the Stamford-Green wich area of New York and Connecticut. The recommendation will be sent to the permanent headquar ters committee of the assembly, together with the Inspection group's recommendation that interim headquarters be in New York city. The full assembly committee will begin debate on the loca tion tomorrow. London, Feb. 5 (U.R) Aus tralia served notice today that she would reopen the debate over location of United Nations headquarters and begin I new attempt in favor of San Fran cisco. MRS. SARAH RH0ADS DIES OF HEART ILL Mrs. Sarah Rhoads, 435 S. Grape, wife of John Rhoads. passed away during a heart at tack at her home Monday eve ning. Arrangement' ate in care of the Conger-Morris Funeral Parlore. T DISTRICTS SLATED T Ashland, Prospect to Get Posts in Reorganization of Rogue River Forest Set-Up Reorganization of the Rogue River National Forest service, with subdivision of the present four ranger districts into six, was announced today by Karl Janouch, supervisor of the for est. New stations will be estab lished at Ashland and Prospect, and the present districts of Un ion Creek, Butte Falls, Klamath Falls and on the Applegate will be maintained. Work Increatt Cautt "This reorganization results from a very heavy increase in the work load," Janouch stated this morning. "The increase in lumber production in Jackson county during the war will be maintained to some extent in the future, and it will be neces sary for the Rogue River Na tional forest to furnish the full sustained yield capacity of the forest to maintain the lumber industry so far as possible. , "Very heavy recreational use Is also anticipated. Present fa cilities have deteriorated and must be reconstructed, in addi tion to providing many new fa cilities at suitable places. More Intensive " management - of the grazing resources must also be exercised, since many parts of the forest have been overgrazed during the past due to the In ability of the forest service to regulate it properlv because of a lack of personnel. Personnel Addtd . "It is also planned to reorga nize the supervisor's office in Medford to meet these prob lems. New personnel, both in the supervisor's office and on the ranger districts, will be pro vided at this time. New person nel will be announced as se lected and will be chosen from forest service employees now In the milltnrv forces. All new per sonnel will consist of men of long experience and with the highest . qualifications for the positions to be occupied."- The new districts will be established within the next two months In order that they may be in operation before the field season starts, lt was stated. A ranger, assistant ranger and per haps a clerk will be stationed at Ashland, and if personnel can be secured, the Ashland office will be opened March 1. STOLE FROM FRIEND IS MAN'S ADMISSION Robert D. Griffith of Medford was given a 30-day sentence in county Jail yesterday after pleading guilty In Justice court to a charge of larceny. Griffith was arrested Friday evening by city police after stealing $12 from a friend's home, police said. Chiang Hints He May Give Up Leadership When New Coalition Government Secure Chungking, Feb. 5 (U.R) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said today his responsibility to t: Chinese people will be fin ished when the new coalition government has been established. Suggesting that he may relin quish the leadership he has held since 1927, Chiang told a press conference that he "hasn't thought" yet whether he will be candidate for election to the presidency of China. Negotiate With Soviet Chiang revealed at the same time that China is conducting new Informal negotiations with the Soviet Union regarding con cessions to Russia beyond pub lished terms of the Sino-Soviet treaty. lt was the first press confer encc the generalissimo has grant t-d since Oct. 15, J!M.- With Msc'amr Chiang at hli side, he received newsmen in bis large House Beats Down Attempt To Weaken Strike Control Washington, Fab. 5 (U.R) Tht houst today baat down tht iirtt major attempt to weaken a twteping ttrikt control bill btfora It. By voice vota It rajtctad an amendment to wipe out tht bill's ban on union boycott!. The provision thus preserved would make it unlawful for any labor union to refuse to handle the goods of any manufacturer or farmer because he had a collective bargaining agreement with another union. The amendment was offered by Rep. Gerald Landis, R., Ind., to the bill introduced by Rep. Francis " se, R., S. D. Landis told the house that the boycott ban was unnecessary. He said jurisdictional disputes would be '.aly taken care of in other sections of the bill. The case bill, under which unions would be liable for strike d.. Tinges in the courts, also would ban foremen's unions and violence by pickets, and would provide a 30-day cooling off period In Industrial disputes. It is before the house as a substi tute for the house labor commit tee's watered-down version of President Truman's fact-finding proposal. LIFE IN PRISON URUGUAY'S PLEA London. Feb. 5 (U.R) Uru guay asked the United Nations today to rule out the death pen alty for Hermann Goering and the other top -lazl war lords on trial at Nuernberg and limit their punishment to life impri sonment. The Uruguayan delegation proposed that the United Na tions organization recommend amendment mf the war crimes charter to outlaw the death pen alty for the nazl leaders. The surprise move threatened to touch off furious debate in the UNO general assembly. The Uruguayan resolution, presented on orders from the Montevideo government, said public execution of the Nuern berg defendants would be a "de moralizing spectacle" and would be apt to create world-wide sympathy for them. GILDERSLEEVES GIRD FOR DIVORCE COURT Hollywood, Feb. 5 (U.R) Harold Peary, the "great Glldcr slecve" of screen and radio, and his wife hired rival attorneys to day with divorce as an object. The Pcarys, married 17 years, have no children. Jerry Gieslcr, Mrs. Peary's attorney, said he did not know exactly what her plans were. HARRIMAN RETURNS Tokyo, Feb. 5 (U.R) Former United States ambassador to Russia W. Averlll Hartman re turned to Tokyo today after a trip to Korea. hilltop wn house. Chiang said he thought the new agreement for a coalition government, bringing together his Kuo Min Tang and the com munists for the first time, was "Just the beginning of coopera tion i unity amoi.i the politi cal parties." Continuance of Uie coalition, he added will depend upon the national assembly actions after establishing constitutional gov ernment. To Reitore Sovereignty Asked how much power the I Min Tar . ;; nmrnt party was obliged to give up under the new system. Chiang said It was not the degree of power that was involved, but the degree of responsibility. The Kuo Min Tang, he said, in tends to restore the sovereignty of the people. "This Is the Initial stage. After constitutionality, the responsi TUGBOAT SEIZURE TO INSURE FOOD By Unitad Praia Federal seizure of New York harbor tugboats was expected t lay, as government officials wr ' 'd with the wage-price problem, basic cause of a na tionwide irike wave Idling 1, 5 '6,000 workers. v ivernment olzure appenred inevitable after New York mayor William O'Dwyer failed in day long efforts to negotiate a wage settlement. New York city was threatened with critical food and fuel -hortag 1, . In other strikes: 1. Fifteen thousand CIO mine, mill and smelter workera left their Jobs in Connecticut brass plants, and 5,200 more threat ened to join them unless their wage demands were met. 2. "Representatives of 175,000 striking CIO United Auto Work ers warned General Motors Corp. that they had no Intention of re- linqulk ng union security gains won during the past years. 3. Plane production at Con solidated Aircraft, San Diego, Calif., was halted when 3,000 AFL machinists struck to enforce wage demands. 4. Scuffling between CIO steel worker pickets and non-strikers flared briefly at steel plants in Milwaukee and Jancsville, Wis., yesterday. No one was Injured. H0MMA ADMITS SEEING BATAAN DEATH MARCH Manila, Feb. 5 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma admitted at his war crimes trial today that he traveled along the route of the Bullion death march and saw one "tired and haggard" column of war prisoners moving toward San Fernando. He denied, however, that he saw any bodies of march victims along the road. SEEK RADIO PERMIT Boise, Ida., Feb. 5 (U.R) Articles of Incorporation were on file here today with the sec retary of state for the Interstate Radio, Inc., of Lewiston. Incor porators of the radio firm, capi talized for $50,000, are Ci A. Sanders, Seattle, Wash.; Ted R. Farrier, Spokane; Elbert A. Stell mon, Lewiston, and Mabel J. Mc Allister and M, J, Gladstone, both of Tacoma. FLEET HEADQUARTERS Washington, Feb. 5 IU.R) The navy plans to make San Francisco headquarters for the third Pacific reserve fleet, navy officers said today. bility of the Kuo Min Tang to Help reconstruct the country re mains, but lt will be shared." Asked when the reorganized government will take office, Chiang replied that the second i ennry session of the Kuo Min Tang's central executive commit tee was schi 'uled for March 1. Aft. r that, he said, the political parties of the reorganized gov ernment will take office as soon as possible, Candidacy Unpondtrtd Asked whether he will be a candidate for the presidency when elections are held, he said "I haven't thought yet." Chiang said the question of limiting communist troops to a definite number of divisions was "being considered." Asked whether the communists eventu ally will give up their private armies in return for concessions, ho said this must be accom plished." 67 LOST AS TWO BOATS GO DOWN ;t Coastal Freighter and Fish ing Boat in Tow Both Re ported Sunk During Gale Ensenada, Baja Calif., Mex Feb. 5 (U.R) A Mexican coastal freighter and the American fish ing boat she was towing sank In a howling gale 20 miles south of here yesterday, Gen. Abelardo Rodriqucz reported today. First reports said 67 lives were lost. Nine bodies, Including those of two unidentified Americana were recovered. Several other Americans were reported to have been aboard. The Mexican combination freighter and passenger ship Santo Tomas had thrown a line to the fishing smack Mabel, In response to a radioed plea for help. Both Founder The storm grew in fury and both ships foundered. The Mabel operated out of Lot Angeles, while the Santo Tomaa was registered to the Mexican Mercantile Co., owned by Rod riquez, also governor of tjie state of Sonora. Three Americans were readied- Police listed them aa Henry Mulklns, 51, of Bell Gar dens, Cel.," John Smith, 46, of Los Angeles, and Caryl San borg, 36, of Corcoran, Cal. All were aboard the Mabel. Police said they have been returned to their homes in the United States. MNTYlSSING MANY STILL ON ED Seward, Alaska, Feb. 5 U.R Twenty persons were listed aa missing today as seven craft battled heaving oily aeas to re move about 380 passengers and crewmen from the shattered Llinor Yukon, wrecked and torn in half during a raging blizzard, survivors said today. Rescued from swirling rip tides that swept them against the base of towering cliffs over hanging the Jagged rocks of Johnstone Bay, 48 miles east of here , three crewmen of the Yukon were rushed to a hospi tal here to be treated for ex posure. Fifty Rticutd Suffering from effects of 30 minutes Immersion in chilling seas, the trio told how two small, bobbing rescue craft snatched about 50 terrorized women and children from the tilted decks of the wreck last night, a few minutes before the Yukon snapped In half on the rocks. "The Yukon was pounded by 50-foot waves after we went on to the rocks. I saw some of my buddies washed overboard a few minutes before I was thrown In to the water myself." the liner's storekeeper Roger Bassette said. The 5,746-ton liner, carrying 371 passengers and a crew of 124, from Seward to Seattle, broke Its back on the reef, the stern half capsizing after hours of buffeting by 60-mile winds and raging aeas. Some Didn't Make It "Everybody had been ordered to move toward the bow half of the ship which remained firmly wedged on Hie rocks. But some of us didn't make it," he said. Swept overboard with Bassette was Army Stuff Sergeant Jack Reinhold and the Yukon's assist ant purser Jack Scrivener. The three' men were brought here aboard the coastguard cut ter Onondaga, along with the 50 women and children rescued last night. Another coastguard cutter, Cedar, moved In through driving snow to replace the Onondaga and continue rescue ooeratlobi today. a
