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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.