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Weather FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy tonlfht and Saturday. Morning tog. Llttl change In temperatur. Temp. Highest Yesterday 47 I.owett thin Morning 27 Prec. to 4;30 a.m. Today, Tract MEDFORD United Press Full Luted Wire Subscribers if yoa do ut reeelva ymr paper te It 11 hone 2Ut er 4IS1 before 7:30 p.m. On Sunday call XUl or 4ISC before 12:3t p.m. RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1946. NO. 272. Rescue vessel (right) stands by in Johnstone's Bay, near Seward, Alaska, where S.S. Yukon sets broken in half on rocks (left) following furious arctic storm Sunday night. Small craft (in circle) plies between rescue boat and stricken liner, which was bound for Seattle from Seward with 371 passengers and crew of 124. (AAF Depot Photo). ALASKA t2. SEWARD ' jfCANADA Pociftt Ocean UNITED STATES (Acme Telephoto) Map shows where liner Yukon lies wrecked on jagged rocks of Johnstone Bay (see arrow), 40 miles south of Seward, Alaska, Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 8 U.B) A sunspot 28 times the size of the earth is garbling trans oceanic radio and coble corn munitions, Dr. Seth B. Nichol son of the Mt. Wilson observa tory said today. Dr. , Nicholson said the sun spot, largest in history, is gen erating a vast magnetic field and bombarding the earth with an ultra-violet rain which turns the whole earth into an electric field. Teletype and wire-photo transmissions and other long distance signals just disappear, Nicholson said. Television and walkie-talk ies, using line-of-sight transmis sion, are unaffected, he added. PASTOR HANGS SELF IN BASEMENT ROOM Riverside, Calif., Feb. 8 (U.R) Dr. Ezra J. Egly, 52, pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian church and former head of the Califor nia synod, hanged himself in his Sunday school room because he was despondent over ill health, coroner's officers said today. Dr. Egly's body was found in the classroom in the church base ment last night by the church caretaker. Doctors said he ap parently had been dead since noon. . . CRESCENT HARBOR ON PROJECT SCHEDULE Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) The house today approved and sent to President Truman a measure clearing the way to be gin construction of 291 rivers and harbors projects when and if funds are made avail able for the work. Projects, with the amount ultimately to be spent include: Crescent City harbor, Calif., $1,610,000. Willamette River, Ore., 83.600,000. MOTORISTS! SAVE A LIFE KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS Here U a law for today. Somewhere in the stale of Oregon, failure to observe this law wUl cost someone his life, or serious OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON APPROACH OF AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES Upon the approach of any authorised emergency vehicle giv ing audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle, the driver of eery other vehicle shall immediately drive the same to a position s near as possible and parallel to right-hand edge or curb of the highway, clear of any intersection of highways and shall stop, and remain in such position unless otherwise directed by police of ficer until the authorised emergency vehicle shall have passed, and the motorman of every street car shall immediately stop such car clear of any intersection end keep It in such position until the authorised emergency vehicle shall have passed unless otherwise directed by a police officer. (Section 115-339 Oregon Motor Ve hicle code). SLEEPER SERVICE MARCH 1 BY OUT Establishment of sleeping car service between southern Oregon points and San Francisco which was scheduled for February 15 has now been postponed until March 1 according to an an- nouncement by J. A. Ormandy, Southern Pacific general passen ger agent. "Previous announce ment," Ormandy said, came about through a misunderstand ing of the ODT order which re leases, effective February 15 sleeping cars for runs where the distance between terminals is more than 350 miles and since the distance from Grants Pass to San Francisco is 446 miles we presumed we' were within the requirements of the order. ."The ODT has ruled, how ever, that the line of sleepers which we proposed to re-establish was operating between San Francisco and Dunsmuir at the time of cancellation. Less Than 350 Miles "Since the distance San Fran cisco to Dunsmuir is less than 350 miles we are prohibited un der the order from re-establishing this service until March 1, Ormandy continued. According to the ODT order on March 1 we will be permitted to re-establish service where the distance is greater than 250 miles. The dis tance from San Francisco to Dunsmuir is 293 miles. We will, therefore, on March 1 be per mitted to re-establish this serv ice and will extend the run to Grants Pass. Therefore, on March 1 we will establish sleep ing car service between southern Oregon and San Francisco. Through coach and mail express and baggage cars will be estab lished between southern Oregon and San Francisco on the same date. , "At that time, March 1, train No. 8 Dunsmuir to Grants Pass will be changed to connect with train No. 18 which leaves San Francisco at 6:30 p. m. and ar rival in Ashland will be at 9:50 a. m., Medford 10:30 a. m. and Grants Pass 11:30 a. m. No change will be made In the schedule of southbound train No. 7. Also, as already announced, we will on March 1st re-establish standard sleeping car service between southern Oregon and Portland on trains No. 329 and No. 330. We regret the misinformation which was given to the public in connection with the establish ment of sleeping car service be tween southern Oregon and San Francisco, but I assure our good friends in southern Oregon that it was purely a misunderstand ing of the order. Incidentally, copies of the above ODT order are in the hands of our southern Oregon representatives in the event anyone interested should wish to see it." Rescue Crews Probe Shore For Seven Yukon Missing Seward, Alaska, Feb. 8 U.R Rescue craft probed the jagged shoreline of Johnstone bay today for seven persons still missing from the wreck of the liner Yu kon. The bodies of two persons, be lieved to be a passenger and a soldier, were brought ashore SENATE COOL TO STRIKE CONTROL Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) The senate gave a cool reception today to', the two-fisted- - Case strlke-contrpl bill, which won overwhelming approval yester day in the House. The bill got hardly a nod from the Senate Labor committee which was about to start writing its own labor measure. It plans something far milder than the House bill, which was approved by a 258-155 vote Some senators saw a strong possibility that the senate would reject the Case bill completely. In any event they believed it was in for at least a major over hauling to eliminate some of its teeth. 7-UNIT MOTEL IS HAWLEY'S PLAN Building of seven stuccoed mo tel units with locking garages will be started within the next ten days by V. B. Hawley on four lots opposite the Bates Can dy company on N. Riverside ave nue. Staking of the area for the foundations Is being accomplish ed now, Hawley stated this morning. The units will measure 14 by 24 feet and will consist of one room and bath. Cost of the pres-i ent project is $15,000 according to Hawley who contemplates erection of four additional units. He has seven lots at the site in cluding one, 619 N. Riverside avenue, on which is his resi dence. Hawley, a valley resident for the past 35 years, formerly op erated the Hawley Transfer and Fuel company, giving up the business at the outset of the war. TO WHITE HOUSE Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) The senate today passed by voice vote and sent to the White House compromise maximum employ ment bill. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O.J said passage of the measure in its present form was "not a vic tory for President Truman." Mr. Truman asked congress last year for a bill establishing full employment as a federal policy and providing machinery for federal works programs to take up any slack in psivate em ployment. Rochester and St. Paul, Minn., operate municipal hog farms as a means of off.-tting at least part of the cost of garbage collecting. Stern view of broken S.S. Alaska, where the 5. 746-ton liner Survivors can be seen on the deck of the doomed vessel awaiting rescue. Wednesday night. A third body was reported aboard a rescue craft which still was combing the bay. 485 Taken Ashore The coast guard reported that 485 passengers and crew mem bers had been brought ashore since Tuesday, when recue craft first reached the reef where the Yukon went aground during an arctic blizzard. Officials of the Alaska steam ship line originally had listed 31 persons as missing, but later an nounced that 24 passengers had been listed mistakenly through bookkeeping errors. The Yukon's passenger and crew roster of 495 included 180 returning service men. The 5,716-ton liner went aground last Sunday night. Most of the dead and missing wert swept overboard when the bat tered ship cracked in two. HUMAN FLESH IS SOLD IN BERLIN Berlin, Feb. 8 U.R) Offi cial announcement that two German women had been mur dered and their flesh sold on a black market aroused fear to day that organized gangs of human butchers were at work in the famine-ridden city. Spokesmen for the criminal investigation department of the German civilian police revealed that a search was underway for the killers. They said only two cases of murder-for-flesh' had been es tablished thus far but that it was possible the butchers were operating on a much larger scale; killing their victims and peddling the flesh in local black markets. The Identities of the two known victims were withheld pending further investigation, police said. Big Bomb Fuse Rattles London London, Feb. 8 (U.R) A heavy explosion at the site of the Donald Duck bomb excava tion in St, James park today rat tled the windows of Buckingham Palace, the House of Commons and the meeting place of the United Nations. The explosion was caused by the buried bomb's fuse and the TNT used to destroy it. The bomb Itself, was neutralized last night when Jets of steam melted out its internal organs. LUMBER FIRMS FINED FOR BREAKING CEILING San Francisco, Feb. 8 ttl.Ri Five Northern California firms have been fined $7,065 for over-1 ceiling lumber sales, the district j office of price administration i announced today. The concerns and the amount of their fines or out-of-court i settlements were the Solano j Lumber Co., Vallejo whole-; salers, $3,724; Foster Lumber. Yard, Vallejo, $416; Ilumbolt Bay Construction Co.. Kureka wholesalers, $1068: Carl W. Watts, San Francisco, $742, and L. E. Crowe, Dobbins, $144. BERLE RESIGNS Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 8 (U.R) The resignation of Adolf A. Berle. Jr., as United Slates am basador t Irn-M was announc ed officially today. Yukon on rocks near Seward broke in two in a vicious gale. (AAF Depot Photo). LITTLE BUTTER, IS S Medford housewives who tramp from store to store look ing for butter shouldn't get the idea that someone is "holding out" on them. A survey of part of the city s large food stores re veals that while some are receiv ing 20 per cent of their normal supply, others are getting even less than that. What's more, a considerable share of what housewives do find on the shelves is being brought from Eugene, Portland and San Fran cisco, where other housewives also find it difficult, or impossl sible, to get the precious prod uct. .. , .. .: , Three stores reported they were getting less than one-fourth of their normal supply and a fourth reported that his market is able to buy about a case a week, 60 pounds, instead of the 15 cases which they formerly could buy. "And we could sell more than 15 cases if we could get it," he added. Pictures Alike Dairymen, creamery operators and County Agent R. G. Fowler II agree that the picture here coincides with the national sit uation. The lack of butter is laid to the fact that while a ceil ing of 52 cents a pound for but terfat for churning is set by OPA, there is no ceiling on whole milk and butterfat for what is termed "market milk," which goes into cheese, pow dered milk, ice cream and other products requiring milk. Price of "market" milk in the Med ford area now Is 74 cents. It is obvious that dairymen who can produce market milk will do so, resulting In the diversion of but terfat away from the butter manufacture. Fowler explained that while a differential has always existed between the two, the price of market milk has gradually in creased over the past few years. It is further pointed out that creameries have never found the making of butler highly profit able, and that now It is produced either at a loss or at a very slight profit. One large Medford dairy reports that butter production for January of. this year was 33 per cent below that of 1B45, and that production has been slowly declining for the past few years. To Other Uses This dairy formerly separated much milk for butter, but now all. whole milk received goes for Grade A bottled markets or ice cream, and butter is made only from butterfat supplied by a few local producers who are unable to supply whole, sweet milk. It is thought the situation might Improve slightly with the coming of spring, when milk pro duction usually increases some what. Contrary to the belief of some retail customers, no butter produced here is going into stor age, it is reported. Some predict serious disrup tion of the dairy Industry If steps are not taken to remedy the sit uation. In Portland earlier this week some 600 Oregon and Washington members' of the i Dairy Co-opr-ratlve association petitioned OPA for an increase in price for Grade A milk from 95 cents to $1.20 a pound of but terfat, declaring that unless it was granted, the entire supply would be diverted to "market milk" sources since the cost of producing milk which will qual ify for "Grade A" is much above the other. Snag in Steel Peace Effort Rumored As Truman Drops Florida Vacation Program WAR DEAD RETURN STARTS IN SPRING IE PLANAPPROVED $500 Million and 18 Months Time Required for Project Is Newspaper's Claim. San Francisco, Feb. 8 (U.R) The San Francisco Chronicle said today that the army has completed plans for returning America g war dead to the unit ed States and that ships loaded with caskets would leave for European and Pacific ports this spring if congressional authori zation is granted. The project is expected to take 18 months and cost the govern ment an estimated $500,000,000 the Chronicle said. The army will bring homo as many of the nation's 250,000 war dead as de sired by the next-of-kin. Now In Senate The house has already passed a bill, Introduced by Rep. Robert Sikes (D., Fla.), authorizing the project. The bill is now before the senate military affairs com mittee. "The army is prepared to dis patch the first burial ship, her holds filled with thousands of empty caskets and disinterment supplies, from San Francisco on about April 1," the newspaper said. - ' Thereafter, It continued, one ship a month will leave both San Francisco and ' New York to return the dead "from 454 sites In 86 countries and islands throughout the world." The Chronicle said its infor mation "Is based on official but unrestricted plans," adding that "although the navy plans are not known It is believed they correspond closely to the army's." ". ... The army's determina tion to repatriate the dead Is based, not on its own decision primarily, but upon the desires of 40,000 next-of-kin who have already made known their wishes. "Ninety per cent of these 40, 000 have asked that the fallen be returned to American ceme teries." Liberty ships, painted white with a single purple band around the hull, will be used to carry the dead from concentration areas to American ports, the Chronicle said. "Because present plans call for no military cemeteries In 'Iso lated areas,' all the dead will arbitrarily be returned from China, Burma, India, the Mnlay state, and the Dutch East Indies; from Central and South Amer ica, except the Canal Zone; from Africa, except in the North Afri can theater of action; the Middle East, and frflm all Islands in both the Atlantic and Pacific, except Hawaii, the Philippines and Puerto Rico," the Chronicle said. NEW EUGENE RADIO Portland, Feb. 8 Construc tion of a radio station at Eu gene by the Valley Broadcasting company will begin "right away," C. S. Fisher announced here Thursday. Fisher, owner of Tower Sales & Erecting com pany, Portland, said he and B. N. Phillips, Port Angeles, Wash., banker, owned the broadcasting company In partnership. Japs Used As Slave Labor in Camp At Tide Lake, Liberty Union Claims San Francisco, Feb. 8 U.P The American Civil Liberties union announced today that It would file a protest with Secre tary of Interior Harold Ickes against "slave labor" In the Tule Lake Japanese segregation cen ter. Ernest Bcsig, attorney for the civil liberties group, charged tht white employes jf the camp were hiring Japanese nurse maids, cooks, cleaning help and other worker at $30 month, of which $19 went to the federal government and $11 to a recrea Sugar Price To Go Up Unless Loss Is Taken On Subsidy Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P, Anderson said today that un less congress gives tho govern ment authority to incur a finan cial loss on its 1946 sugar sub sidy program, the price of sugar will rise "substantially." He said in a letter to Rep. J Harry McGregor, R., O., that either tho price of sugar must rise or the government must take a subsidy loss "to assure prompt availability of this year's sugar production. Anderson said there was noth ing tho government can do to Increase sugar production in 1946, because the harvest is al ready underway. ON PRICE HELP San Francisco, Feb. 8 U.R) The Ford Motor company Is gambling its entire war earnings on an early solution of price celling problems, whllo taking losses on present production Henry Ford II announced today Speaking before the Common wealth club, Ford said his plants would "do the utmost to pro duce" because only high produc tion, can save the nation from whirlwind inflation. The youthful executive, who replaced his grandfather as head of the family s vast factories, said his company's only alter natives to full production were closing down or fighting the Office of Price Administration. Rabble Rousers Arrested After Riotous Meeting Chicago, Feb. 8-(U.R) Ger ald L. K. Smith surrendered to police today on a warrant charging him with disorderly conduct In connection with a riot staged outside a rally he addressed last night. Arrested with Smith were Arthur W. Terminiello, Bir mingham, Ala., and Frederick Kister, national director of the Christian veterans of America. They were charged with dis orderly conduct and Inciting a riot. Smith was released on $100 bond, and the others on $700 bonds. On arrival at the police sta tion, Smith took off his coat and hat and handed them to a policeman. God save America," he said. "God save the police depart ment when they can arrest people for a bunch of Russians?" Pork Set-Aside Order Reinstated Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) The agriculture department to day reinstated an order requir ing federally Inspected packing plants to reserve a part of their pork output for government pur chase. At the same time the depart ment boosted Its set-aside on lard. Both actions, the department said, are designed to "help as sume procurement of food for meeting critical needs abroad. The requisition orders become effective Feb 10. tion club to benefit white mem bers. "WRA employes are exploit ing the Japanese under their charge as virtual slave labor," Bctlg said. R. B. Co7.zen, assistant direc tor for the WRA in northern California, scoffed at the "slave labor" charge. He said profes sional Japanese employes were paid a $19 wage set by congress for work Including doctors, teachers, lawyers, nurses. Skilled workers receive $16, Cozzens said, and unskilled employes, $12. NDUSTRY HEADS T RECONCILED IS ONE REPORT Resignation of Bowles if New Price Policy Adopted Gains Increasing Credence. Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) President Truman today abrupt ly called off his Floridb vaca tion, and It was learned that the steel strike was one big reason for the cancellation. The president said only yes terday he intended to leave for Florida on Monday as sched uled. Today the White House said the trip had been abandoned because of "the immediate criti cal situation." The trip decision was an nounced shortly after an early morning conference with Price Chief Chester Bowles. Snag Seen This caused speculation that a snag had developed In formula tion of a strike-settling wage price policy which Mr. Truman' said yesterday he hoped to an nounce today or tomorrow. One government source said he still . believed the policy would be promulgated tomor row, but another remarked, "that's not the latest I hear."' Reports were heard that the wage-price formula had been drafted and would be Issued, but that steel officials were not re conciled to Its price Increase pre visions. There has been Inereaebis; speculation that ,he would re sign if a new wage-price poller should be adopted which he con sidered dangerous to stabilisa tion. By United Press Two new wage agreement raised hones tnrlnv that ruymt. war strike wave, which has Idled i,4hu,uoo American worker., might soon subside. A negotiating committee rep resenting 3,500 AFL longshore men announced that It had reached cnmnlnls with New York harbor tugboat operators, and the Brlgga Manu facturing Co. signed a contract with the CIO United Anin workers. The meat furf-flnUr,, nnHi 4. . ......... n 1 1 V 1 LW- day recommended a 16-cent an hour wage Increase for packing house workers. The AFL Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's union said it would recommend that the proposal be accepted. The CIO Packing House Work crs union was to consider the proposal next week. Decision Deferred On Henie Divorce Chicago. Feh n film v..a Edwin A. Rnhsotl fnrlnu rlt 1 J UUCI1BU until next Wednesday a decision in wie suit 01 Blonde skating star Sonja Henie to divorce New York sportsman Dan Topping. Miss Henie. whn rhm.,, .1. scrtlon, drew a throng of fans and curious to the superior court for the hearing. County building attendants ran special express elevators to the 11th floor to ac commodate the crowd. MEXICO-CANADA SIGN Mexico City, Feb. 8 "1.10 Mexico and CnnnHa 1,,. - commercial treaty today design- ea to increase the trade be tween the two nations from a 1939 average of $3,500,000 to a yearly average of $40,000 000 tn $60,000,000. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mai riaskctt hurriedly depart ing for other placea after discov ering the woman at whom he mode faces wasn't Leona Bestul but a total stranger. The JayCce "membership" goose having a terrible time try ing to stand up on the slippery floor of the US bank while Jerry Latham formally delivered him into the hands of Bob Schenck.
