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FORECAST: Moitly eloudy to
night and Thursday with
showert. Snow In mountains.
Little chance In temperature.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday
Lowest this Morning 41
Prec. to 4:30 a. m. Today .03
Fortieth Year
SECURE, SIMPSON
TELLS MEETING
Jackson, Josephine Lumber
men Hear Discussion of
Vital Problems At Banquet
Some 60 Jackson and Jose
phine county lumbermen heard
w V Rimncnn. executive vice-
president of the West Coast Lum
bermen s association, discuss
problems vital to lumber in the
4mmoriinfi nnstwnr vears at a
banquet at the Holland hotel last
eveninc.
"Those dire prophets who
were predicting that lumber
would give way right after the
war to a host of substitutes ana
hnt lumber bs a building ma
terial was all through, guessed
wrong, Simpson said as ne can
ed attention to the fact that to
f49v i,imhr te recoenized as the
most Important raw material in
the American recovery scene.
District Important
"Here in southern Oregon you
have built an important produc
ing district in the west L.oasi
region, almost without many
people being aware of your
growth," the former Ashland
resident observed. "You have
many years of production ahead
of you, especially since we have
learned to get more values and
more jobs from each thousand
feet of stumpage in the woods."
Simpson gave the assembled
lumbermen an inside picture of
,v,nt the lumber industry is
thinking and doing in other
regions of the nation. Me poiniea
ik.t turn lumber-industry is
one of the most sensitive baro
meters in our industrial life ana
as an example said that many
.AAm4r,Mlv ramntjt nets on the
international scene very shortly
are reflected in the increased or
decreased orders sent to saw
mill. n cited the proposed
British loan which he stated
would open up more markets lor
lumber in the world, and while
that is not important right now
when the demand domestically
is at great as the mills can sup
ply, it will be valuable in the
years ahead when business lev
els off to normal.
Association Work Told
Simpson advised the local
millmen some of the jobs being
done by the West Coast associa
tion for the industry, citing the
work being done in forestry to
improve realization from our
forests, and in the association's
traffic department where large
savings In freight on car stakes
will soon be realized by the in
dustry which has been paying
freight on this car bracing item
for years.
Lumbermen themselves took
part in the meeting at Simp
son's request and in a lively
manner discussed OPA regula
tions and many points which di
rectly affect every operation to
day. H. J. Cox, secretary-manager
of the Willamette Valley Lum
bermen's association, told the
group what his organization
does, which is an affiliate of
the West Coast. The Willamette
Valley handles all matters of
local interest, such as legislative,
freight rates and other matters
which the larger regional or
ganization could not touch.
Bridge Timbers Needed
Pleading for local millmen to
give top priority to the recent
urgent request of the Oregon
state highway commission for
timbers and plank for repairing
of bridges damaged in the New
Year's floods. Floyd Cook, field
representative of the .highway
advisory committee of loggers
and lumbermen, pointed out that
this was good public relations
with a state body with which
the industry has much contact.
Cook works on problems of the
loggers and lumbermen involv
ing stale departments and is
meeting with local industry lead
ers to find out what their prob
lems are in highway transpor
tation. B. L. Nutting, general mana
ger of the Mcdford Corporation,
presided at the local lumber
gathering in the absence of A.
A. Lausmann, who is ill. The
meetings" will be held about
every second month with top
industry leaders as speakers,
Simpson announced.
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Dorothy Siple (left), 18, daughter of Rev. Prank E. Slple, 53, pastor of Church of Ood, Graritl Rapids, Mich.,
who, according to her father's confession, was fatally poisoned In 1939 by Rev. Siple, who believed she was
mentally incompetent. Rev. Siple Is shown (right) with his wife, Dorothy, 48, just belore entering court to
plead guilty on murder charge. The pastor signed over all his property and savings to his wife before he
pleaded guilty.
FIREMEN BUSY IN
Winds which reached a peak
velocity of 45 miles per hour
kept city firemen and residents
alerted for fires yesterday and
last night with four alarms be
ing sounded at the station dur
ing the evening. The wind began
at about 9:30 a. m. yesterday
and continued through last night.
The local U. S. weather bureau
reported the gale grew worse
after 3:30 p. m., reaching 45
miles per hour at 8:46 o'clock
and continuing strong through
the night until 6 a. m. today.
Only slight damage resulted
to the roof of the A. Brown
home, 616 Beatty street, at 7:14
p. m. yesterday when chimney
sparks ignited shingles on the
house top. At 7:27 p. m. trash
burning in an incinerator at
Refer Fruit company caused
alarm during the high wind and
firemen extinguished the blaze.
A third run was made at 8:32
p. m. to the home of S. M. Tut
tle. 232 Valley View - drive,
where firemen extinguished a
flue fire which caused no dam
age. Fourth and last run was
made at 9:14 o'clock to 226 North
Front street, where a trash fire
was extinguished.
Ed Flynn Denies
Gagging I ekes On
Portland Speech
Washington, Feb. 6 U.R
Former Democratic National
Chairman Edward J. Flynn de
nied today that he "gagged"
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes in 1942.
Ickes charged yesterday that
Flynn cancelled a speech which
Ickes had scheduled for Port
land, Ore., in 1942. Ickes said
that was one reason he contri
buted only $500 to the demo
cratic party that year instead
of the $1,000 usually given by
cabinet officers.
Coming out of a conference
with President Truman today,
Flynn volunteered the state
ment that democratic leaders
in Portland "refused to hold a
meeting" for Ickes.
'That's why the meeting was
cancelled." Flynn said.
MURDERS CONFESSED
Mountain Home. Ida., Feb. 6
(U.R) A transient who gave his
name as Lester D. Johnson to
day told sheriff's officers here
that he had committed two un
solved murders in Topcka, Kans.,
in 1927 and 1934. Topeka au
thorities, however, told the
Boise, Ida., Evening Statesman
by. telephone that they were in
clined to regard the "confession"
as a hoax.
MOTORISTS! SAVE A LIFE
KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS
Here l a law for today- Somewhere in the state ef Oregon,
failure to ebierre this law will cost nomeene his life, or serious
injury:
(c) VEHICLE TURNING LEFT AT AN INTERSECTION. The
driver of a vehicle within an intersection intending to turn left
shall yield the right of way to any vehicle approaching from the
opposite direction which it within the intersection or to close
thereto at ts constitute an immediate hastrd, but laid driver hav
ing to yielded and having given a tigntl when at required by
lew may make tuch left turn, and other vehicle approeching the
intersection from teid opposite direction thell yield to the driver
miking left turn. (Section 11J-337 Oregon Motor Vehicle Law).
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British Reject Compromise Formula
In Dispute With Reds Over Greece
London, Feb. 6 (U.R) British
sources said the cabinet today
rejected an American proposal
for a non-commital compromise
n the Anglo-Soviet dispute over
Greece, insisting that Britain
have a clean bill of health from
the UNO security council.
British quarters said the com
promise formula proposed last
night by Edward R. Stettinius,
Jr., was "out of date." They
hinted that a new formula
BAN WHEAT USE
Washington, Feb. 6 (U.R)
President Truman today banned
the use of wheat in the produc
tion of alcohol and beer as a
means of helping meet critical
food shortages in war-torn coun
tries. Mr. Truman outlined a nine
point program as this country's
effort to prevent "mass starva
tion" abroad.
He said the cooperation of all
Americans is, necessary to make
effective the measures he out
lined. The president's program in
cluded: A vigorous government cam
paign for food conservation,
especially of bread.
Discontinuance of the use of
wheat in the direct production
of alcohol and beer. Beginning
March 1 the use of other grains
for the production of beverage
alcohol will be limited to five
days' consumption a month.
The president estimated that the
saving of grain in alcohol and
beer production would amount
to about 20,000,000 bushels of
grain for food by June 30.
Steps will be taken to export
during this calendar year 375,
000 tons of fats and oils, 1.000,
000.000 pounds of meat, and in
creases in exports of cheese and
evaporated milk.
Full Employment
Bill Passes House
Washington, Feb. 6 (U.R)
The house today approved and
sent to the senate a diluted ver
sion of the controversial full em
ployment bill, one of the "must"
items on President Truman's
leiislative program.
The compromise measure,
worked out in a senate-house
conference, is expected to meet
with the president's approval,
although Mr. Truman had ask
ed for the stronger senate ver
sion of the bill. He had said that
the original house measure was
wholly unacceptable.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
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possibly a variation of the Stet
tinius proposal was being dis
cussed, but refused to indicate
its nature.
The cabinet, meeting to dis
cuss the UNO crisis precipitated
by the firm stand of Britain and
Russia, was reported to have re
affirmed the position taken by
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.
Stettinius had proposed that
the council dispose of the Greek
case with a statement by Chair
man N. J. O. Makln, wllh no
jUesolutior. and no ..-.jte,.. The
statement was understood to con
template no mention of the with
drawal of British troops from
Greece and to omit any general
exoneration of Britain.
HENRY BLACK IS
FIRST CANDIDATE
Salem. Ore.. Feh. ft (IIP)
Henry Black, Portland, today
oecame Oregon s first candidate
for governor in the May pri
maries election when he filed
declaration of candidacy on the
Republican ticket.
He pledged himself to "con
sider it my duly to protect every
man in his right to work and
in the right to sell the products
of his labor" and said that he
believed that "too much money
goes for taxes but the only way
to reduce taxes is to cut out a
lot of things that tax money is
now spent for.-'
Witnesses Place
Accused Slayer
Santa Cruz, Cel., Feb. 6 (U.R)
Thomas H. McMoniglc, stony
faced laborer charged with the
murder of bobby-soxed Thora
Chamberlain, sat sullenly drink
ing beer in a nearby cafe a few
hours before the 14-year-old high
school girl disappeared Nov, 2,
witnesses testified today.
This evidence was developed
as Santa Cruz county district at
torney presented four more wit
nesses in an attempt to link Mc
Monigle with the alleged slaying
of Miss Chamberlain.
"THE BULL" SENTENCED
TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON
Yokohama. Feb. 6 UR
Kitaro Ishida, former Japanese
prison camp commandant
known as 'The Bull", today
was sentenced to 30 years im
prisonment at hard labor by an
American military commission
that found him guilty of "cruel,
inhuman, brutal atrocities"
against American prisoners.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE HEPORTERS
Lucile Lenox receiving offers
from envlout friends to buy her
fashionable plastic hat.
Attorney Gus Newbury accus
ing County Treasurer Ralph
Sweeney of loitering too long
with a couple of feminine visi
tors and thereby neglecting hit
county duties.
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ARMED GUARDS FIGHT
SHOOTING STARTS
DURING ATTEMPT
TO HALT TRAIN
Violence Flares For Second
Time Since Advent of Rail
road Strike on Jan. 18.
Springfield, 111., Feb. 6-U.R)
Two pickets were reported kill
ed and three others wounded in
a gun battle with armed guards
riding an eastbound Toledo,
Peoria and Western freight train
shortly before noon today, state
director of public safety T. P.
Sullivan said.
All available state police from
two Illinois districts were sent
to Gridley and Eureka, 111., to
halt violence between strikers
and non-strikers on the railroad.
Try To Halt Train
State police at Pontiac said
the shootings apparently occur
red when pickets sought to halt
the train. Eight of 10 automobile
loads of pickets were reported
to have followed the train from
Peoria to near Gridley.
" At Springfield Sullivan was
unable to give any details of
the trouble.
Mayor W. E. Froellch of Grid
ley, also the town undertaker,
said that two yad had been
orougiu 10 nis junerai punur.
He said he did not know wheth
er they had been pickets or
members of the train crew.
Froelich said the trouble be
gan at El Paso, west of Gridley,
when "about 50 men" attempted
to stop the train as it pulled into
a siding. He said windows in
two cabooses on the train were
broken when the men began
throwing rocks.
Froelich said that the shooting
occurred when the train entered
a siding at Gridley. The train
was made up of one empty coal
car, one full coal car and two
cabooses. Froelich said.
Second Violence
It was the second violence in
the strike which began four
months ago. On Jan. 18 a picket
was shot by a railroad employe.
That shooting occurred when the
railroad moved several empty
cars from the Peoria and Pckln
railroad yards.
The strike by the Brother
hoods of Railroad Trainmen and
Locomotive Engineers and Fire
men started Oct. 1 when the
government returned the rail
road to its owners after a war
time seizure.
The railroad it a feeder line
running across central Illinois,
with headquarters In Peoria,
about 30 miles west of Gridley.
Bay Area Campaigns
For UNO Selection
San Francisco, Feb. 6 (U.R)
Communities and citizens of the
Bay area 'vere urged today by
the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce to bombard the Unit
ed Nations organization meeting
in London with cablegrams re
newing this city's plea that It be
chosen at the permanent UNO
capital.
Brayton Wilbur, Chamber
president, announced he was ap
pealing to all communities and
residents to dispatch cablegrams
within the next eight hours as
the Chamber launched Its 11th
hour campaign.
FATIGUED BOOKKEEPER
ADMITS TAKING $1500
Los Angelet, Feb. 6 4U.R1
Mrt. Loretto Catherine Gecr,
who dumped $90,000 of her em
ployers' money in the back of
her car because she was loo tired
to stand in line at the bank, to
day pleaded guilty to grand theft
of $1500.
An accounting of the books of
the Cal-Ray Bakery showed that
$1500 was missing from the
money entrusted to Mrs. Geer
for deposit and the admitted the
must have taken it.
About 70 per cent of the
nation't 1944-45 citrus crop was
consumed at fresh fruit and 30
per oent in processed form.
Tribune
United Prett FuU
6, 19-16.
George Arlisi, above, veteran
stage and screen actor, died( in
London last night at the age of
77. Death followed an attack of
bronchial trouble. Arliss had
played doient of rolet, Shylock,
Disraeli and Rothschild among
them, in both England and the
United States.
Y BALKS AT
Washington, Feb. 6 (U.R)
The war department today re
jected congressional suggestions
that all drafted fathers be re
leased by July 1.
Secretary of War Robert P.
Patterson wrote to the senate
military affairs committee thut
the department could not con
sider releasing all drafted fath
ers unless the inflow of replace
ments exceeds the present ex
pectations. The release of all
fathers had been urged, by a
subcommittee.
He said about 120.000 fathers
would remain in the army of
draftees on July 1.
The largest of the flying rep
tiles had a wing spread of nearly
30 feet.
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Medford Still Falls for Gossip;
Girls Plant Story to Prove It
We proved It, folks. The old
home town still falls for the
gossip. But definitely. The re
sults amazed even the girl who
won $3 in the process.
This morning two contrite
young women confessed that in
an effort to settle a wager, they
started the story which swept
the city and the hintcrinnd In
practically nothing flat Monday
night and yesterday, resulting in
scores of telephone calls, many
to the home of a Medford high
school girl whose name just hap
pened to be the same as one of
the perpetrators.
Started Monday
The whole affair started Mon
day noon when Virginlii Longc,
who left Medford about 10 years
ago and is here from San Fran
cisco for a visit, was talking with
her friend, Barbara Stone, who
Is employed in the office of Dr.
O. A. Welsh. "Does the old home
town still fall for the gossip
line?" she inquired and Miss
Stone answered something to
the effect that it wasn't so bad
any more the pIhco was n little
bigger and more sophisticated.
Mi.ss Longc said she bet it hadn't
improved a bit and after B bit
of discussion they cooked up a
little plot, with Miss Longo bet
ting Miss Stone $3 that she could
start a first class rumor.
And to they did. While con
fessing this morning, Miss Stone
said that originally they told the
story to three people, relating
that Virginia Ixinge hud been
struck by an aulomoliite in front
of Uie Bohemian club. Tuati
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REFUSE TO WORK
'El
Action of New York Union
ists Puts Next Move Up
To President Truman.
New York. Feb. 8 (U.R)
Striking tugboatmen meeting
in emergency testlon voted to
day not to return to work on
450 government-seiied harbor
craft which form the food and
fuel lifeline of the nation's'
largest city. .
It wat the first time in the
present teriet of ttrlket that
workmen have decided not to
return to work in an industry
which had been taken over by
the government. The action
by the 2,000 tugboatmen left
the next move tquarely up to
Washington.
By United Prett
Signs of new labor unrest ap
peared today as the nation look
ed to the White House for a
wage-price policy in the steel
dispute which has accounted for
nearly half the 1,550,000 ttrlke-
Idled U. S. workers.
An estimated 800,000 CIO
members were tchedulcd to
'stage a two-hour work stoppage
In New York next Monday, ty
Ing up radio and cable com
munication with Europe, Africa
and South America in sympathy
with Western Union strikeri.
Drop Phone Strike
On another communications
front, however, a national feder
ation of telephone workers re
presentative said at Washington
that a strike probably would
not be necessary to support the
union's demand for a $2 a day
wage boost.
Also In the capital, CIO ship
builders union president John
Green said that unless a wage
deadlock were dissolved he
would recommend a slrlke vote
by more than 500,000 shlpward
workers.
And at Philadelphia. CIO
leaders prepared for a cltywidc
transit strike, set for next Mon
day, after they rejected the
Philadelphia Transportation
Co.'s offer of 11 cents more an
hour. .
all, but that's not the way we
henrd It!
Story Embellished
Everyone knows the result
From those three people the
story spread like the proverbial
"wild fire" and by dinner time
friends of the second Virginia
Long were being told all the
harrowing details of how she
had been struck (by an am
bulance driver) the place of the
accident shifting with every
third or fourth repetition.
By morning the city and state
police, ambulance drivers, the
county coroner and hit assist
ants, to say nothing of harassed
reporters, were all trying to find
out what had become of the
body of the young woman who
had been killed in the terrible
accident.
Secret Kept
The two plotters stuck to their
agreement not to reveal the
source of the hoax until Wednes
day morning, but weren't quite
prepared for the way their little
rumor grew and grew. Of course,
they hadn't counted on Miss
Longe's name being Identical
with that of anyone in Medford,
and confessed this morning that
they were sorry to have caused
the second Virginia and her par
ents to much trouble. Miss
Longe said today she wat send'
Ing a check for the $3 to the
polio fund.
Miss Stone, who hat lived In
the city most of her life, and
Mist Longc are college friends.
Tho former, recently released
from service with the Waves,
livui at Ike M allot d Uulcl.
SLIDESOF EARTH
Columbia River Route To
Stay Plugged for 2 Days;
Steamers Safe After SOS
Portland. Ore.. Feb. 6 (II
Oregon and southwestern Wash
ington communication and traf
fice facilities were returning to
normal today after heavy gales
from the Alaska gulf raked the
Pacific northwest for 24 hours.
Slides alnn? ihm PnliimhU
river highway and coast high
ways WPrP hnlnv I'lon-n nu,aw
But state highway, commission
spokesmen said the large earth
and rock slides which cascaded
over tho Columbia river high
way Tuesday would take two or
inree days to be removed. More
than zoo long-distance telephone
Circuits Were ntt nff urhan fha
slide severed a heavy cable.
Trains Rerouted
Union Pacific trains were tlll
being rerouted over the SP&S
tracKs on tne Washington side
of the river until the tracks were
cleared with the rtptnnp pmulntf
only "negligible" delay in sched
ules.
Ferry service between Astoria
and Meglcr, Wash., returned to
schedule following a letup in
the gale which struck the north
shore of the Columbia river.
Communications were report
ed normal throughout the state
after many coastal communltiei
reported all telephone llnei
down. United and Northwest Ai
Line officials reported their
flights were being maintained
with moderate delays.
Vessels Safe
Two vessels which were forc
ed to call for assistance during
the height of the storm Tues
day were reported safb by th
coast guard. The S.S. Henry Ausv
tin, a Liberty ship, was reports
ed proceeding under its owri
power after flashing an SOS tow
"immediate assistance" Tuetdav
night. The ship being towed tf
Portland from San Pedro, Calif.L
Dy tne tug oanciy A.ey, . DroKer
loose In the storm. I
Another steamer, the wnitney
Olson, which had to jettison ita
deck cargo Tuesday was report
ed to be safe by the coast guard,
which had a cutter standing by
most of Tuesday night as the
ship battled the sea off the
mouth of the Columbia river. .
PARKING METER
WORK TO START
With the breaking of concrete
for Installation scheduled to
start tomorrow parking nietert
in Medford ahould be ready for
operation about the 15th of this
month and full information on
their use will be given prior to
thai t:.ne, Frank Rogers, city su
perintendent, stated this morn
ing. Meter installers with Glenn
Nelson in charge from the Dun
can Meter company of Chicago
met with the city council street!
and roods committee thlt after
noon to discuss exact placement
of the devices.
General area of location will
be between Sixth and Eighth
streets on Main, Central, Bart
lett, Riverside, Fir and Grape.
The 470 metert which arrived
last week are combination pen
ny and nickel machines allowing'
parking for one cent for each
12-minute period.
New Speed Record
New York to Paris
Paris, Feb. 6 (U.R) Transcon
tinental & Western Air, Inc.,
airliner "Star of Paris" arrived
at Orly airfield at 3:52 p. m.
(9:52 a. m. CST) today with 38
passengers and .1 new commer
cial speed record of 15 hours
and 54 minutes for the New
York to Paris fl.ghv.
The airliner is scheduled ts
leave Paris tonight for the re
turn flight.
ALASKA FUND ASKED
Washington, Feb. 6 (U.R)
The house appropriations com
mittee today recommended $543,
000 to operate the civilian and
military communications in Alas
ka during the fiscal year begin
ning July 1.
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