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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1946
NO. 269.
More War Brides to Make U. S. Homes
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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-
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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
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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.
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