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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST: Partly cloudy. Lit tle chins e in temperature. Temp. IllEhett yesterday ; 47 Lowest yesterday 28 Tribune Subscribers V yon do not recelvo your paper Ulephono 1141 or 49 S$ beforo 1:30 p.m. On Sunday call SMI or 4931 before 12:39 p-m. EDFOED Pree. To 5 p. m. yesterday Trace United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wit Fortieth Year M' .,D, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1946. NO. 273. fo) M s T PRICE INCREASE FOR WAGEB00ST End Seen Coming Week General Motors, Electrical Union Sign Pact Washington, Feb. 9 (U.R The administration is rushing its steel price calculations in an ef fort to bring a settlement of the industry-wide steel strike next week, it was learned tonight. With proposed changes in its wage-price policy in a snarl, the White House shifted attention back to the steel dispute in an effort to find a solution for that specific industry before adopt ing broad policy changes. It was understood that an ef fort was made to get the pro posed price order drafted for release tonight but the draft was not completed. The forthcoming order is expected to call for a steel price increase of about $5 a ton. An informed source said the administration hoped the strike could be settled without waiting for the new wage-price policy. Industry sources have said they wanted assurance which they expected the wage-price policy to give that they would be al lowed to ask for further price re lief in less than six months. It was uncertain how soon the steel "strike could be ended after the price announcement, which now is expected early next wecK. If the industry should agree to President Truman's proposed 18 Vi cent wage increase on the basis of the price order, wage contracts for the basic steel in dustry would follow swiftly. Those contracts still would have to be submitted to the union's wage policy committee for approval before the United Steel Workers (CIO) would call off their strike. Industry and labor sources said that the delay in announcing a price increase probably would prolong the stoppage at least an other week. Detroit, Feb. 9 (U.PJ Gen eral Motors Corporation reach ed an agreement with the United Electrical Workers Union today, granting lB'-i cents an hour in creases to 25,000 employes who had been on strike since Jan. 10 This was the first break in the nationwide strike of the CIO UEW which tied up the giant electrical appliance manufactur ing industry. The settlement came as a sur price in view of General Motors' long holdout against the United Auto Workers, whose strike has been in progress since Nov. 21 Company spokesmen would not comment on the possible ef fect of the agreement on West inghouse and General Electric, the two largest firms strikebound by the UEW. Neither would they comment on the. possibilities of a speedup in negotiations be tween the ' company and the United Auto Workers. These have been at a stalemate for al imost two weeks despite the ef forts of veteran labor depart ment conciliator James F. Dew ey. Rtuther Adamant Walter P. Reuther. vice presi dent of UAW and chief strate gist in the GM controversy said. "General Motors is not going to settle with us for.18'4 cents you can be sure of that. But I feel that the corporation is get ting close to a settlement. They have been dragging their heels for several days waiting for the steel strike to be taken care of." The settlement affected only General Motors refrigeration and appliance divisions. H. W. Anderson, vice presi dent in charge of industrial re lations at GM. and James Matles. organization director of t'EW. announced the settlement. "The agreement has been reached through collective bar gaining and forms the basis for termination of the strike," their statement said. 'The agreement is being submitted to the local union for ratification. Bjf2LS'Bsrffi! :m 16 BILLION LOAN NO (Acme Telethorn) As UNO site committee reveals its recommendation of Greenwich-Stamford area in Connecticut as perma nent seat of the council and New York City as temporary location, the full committee sits around desk of Mayor O'Dwyer in New York City hall. Committee chairman Dr. Stoyan Oavriiovic of Czechoslovakia (be hind desk facing camera) announces plana. At his right is Huntington Gilchrist, U. S. aide to committee, .and Mayor O'Dwyer Is at chairman's left. YOUTH, 18, KILLED IN CYCLE CRASH WITH ARMY AUTO Keith Lawrence Larson, 18, of route 3, died in a local hospital early Saturday morning as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident while try ing to elude police According to a state police report, about midnight Friday night, Larson was seen speeding on North Riverside avenue on his motorcycle, wlrch had no tail light, by Officer Seth M, Bullis, Jr. Bullis gave chase and pursued Larson to the B's Y 'intersection, where the cyclist tried to turn onto the O d Cen tral Point hgihway. In makin the turn, Larson's motorcycle r-truck the left rear dual tire of an army air base truck driven by Max Ward, which was com ing into the intersection. The police report said Ward pulled ovei to the side of the road In an effort to miss hp motor cyclist, who was leaning far over in making the turn. Larson was thrown across the road and suffered a broken left leg. extensive sca'p lacera tions and was knoc'.ed uncon scious. He was taken to the Community Hospital m the Conger-Morris ambulance, where he died without legaining con sciousness. Warrant Pharmacist W. W. Denny, Camp White hos pital, rode with Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris, who was driving the ambulance, and kept Larson from choking to death by de pressing his tongue with his fingers. Jerold Doty, 1222 Locust street, who witnessed the acci dent, told state police he estimat ed Larson's speed at over 75 miles per hour. Larson was born at Sioux City, la., and had lived at route 3. Medford, for the past three years. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Lena Larson, iwo sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Triggs of Cottage Grove and Mrs. Earl Coleman of Sioux CUy: and five brothers. Leo. Cottage Grove: John. Sioux City; Lewis, Med ford; Olc. Medford, and his twin brother. Kenneth, serving over spas with the Merchant Marine, Funeral services are'in charge of the Perl Funeral Home andj will be announced later. NEUBERGER HITS STATE'S Portland. Ore.. Feb. 9 U.P.i The Oregon board of control was criticized today "for going to the remote past" to select figures for Statuary Hall. Richard L. Neuberger. Port land writer, declared that per sonages of a more immediate and controversial nature actual ly contributed more to tne building of Oregon than p'heri Dr. John MCLOugnnn or Jason; Lee, the choices of the commit tee. The names of Charles L. McNary, Oswald West. Walter Pierce. Harvej Scott, were sug gested as- "more appropriate" for Statutory Hall. The writer said .oo many i Orcgoiuan 'glorify the past." TUGBOAT STRIKE PEACE, Coal and Fuel Rationing Fol low Union Rejection of Wage Boost New York, Feb. 9 (U.P.) The department of health de clared tonight that a state of peril existed in the nation's largest city where a deadlocked six-day old tugboat strike had reduced fuel supplies to rock- bottom, The department warned that "civil disorder with further dangers to life and health" may be added to the present "discom fort, distress and suffering," and empowered hospitals to seize any building in the city for use as a first aid center. It also set up a priority sys tem which added coal to the already stringently-rational fuel oil. Public utilities, transporta tion and communications and hospitals were granted first rights to all coal supplies. Homes ran sixth. All amuse ment places were banned from any fuel supplies. Their fuel rationing orders came as negotiations were ad journed for the day between the AFL tugboat union, which walked out Monday in a bid to double the workers' 67 cents an hour wages, and the 91 indepen dent companies operating the small harbor towboats. The federal government mean while redoubled its efforts to man or replace 400 struck tug boats and barges which were idle in the harbor. With only 44 government tugs running in coal and fuel oil and only 29 carloads coming direct ly into the city by rail, ration ing committee? set up by Mayor William O'Dwyer began handl ing fuel oil applications at police stations shortly after noon. Householders were limited to an on-hand supply of 100 gal lons and larger users to a larg er quota. The order, followed a 2 to 1 rejection Dy ine union oi me i wi lUgOUBl COI II pel 1 1 It; a Ul 1CI ui " 15 cent an hour wage increase. TO NORTH URGED San Francisco, Feb. 9 (U.R) The entire Negro population of Mississippi 1.000,000 persons was asked today by the National Negro council to move north out of their state as "a peaceful an swer to the homespun Hitlers in congress.' Council Director Edgar Brown, in a side-note to the council's circulation of petitions seeking impeachment of Sen. Theodore Bilbo, D., Miss., railed upon the black population to "come north where thfy can votc and be hnuscd wjth the millions of fam ilies and friends of army and navy veterans.' London, Feb. 9 (U.PJ An Australian-French attempt to postpone the selection of a per manent United Nations head quarters site until September lailcTJ today, FARM AND.LABOR GROUPS BACK UP Washington, Feb. fl (U.R) Farm and labor groups rallied tonight behind the administra tion's new program to provide 2,700,000 new homes for veter ans in the next 23 months. Some congressional support appeared, but key sections of the program outlined by Housing Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt apparently faced rough going in the house and senate. Wyatt offered his plan to Mr. Truman who relayed it prompt ly to congress as an alternative to chaos in the field of housing He said 1,200,000 new units must be started this year and 1,500, 000 in 1947. He called for stiff price ceilings on nil homes and lots, a tripled labor force and strict priorities on building ma terials. The congress of industrial or ganizations gave the program full endorsement. "Only those who have no faith in American democracy and American production genius will doubt America's capacity to meet these goals," said a joint state ment by CIO President Philip Murray and R. J. Thomas, presi dent of the United Automobile Workers (CIO). "Such defeatists are the same ones who only a short time ago attacked wartime aircraft and shipbuilding goals." SEEK REVISIONS OPA MEAT RULES San Francisco, Feb. 9 (U.R) More than 250 meat packers of nine western states have organiz ed into a federation to attempt to force revision of OPA meat regulations, it was announced here today. The group, tentatively named the Western Federation of Meat PackoI.s. win rpprcsent ,jrrns California, Ordgon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wvomins and Montana. Thev w demand that costs be averaged over a six-month rather than 30-day period and that penalticn be assessed only against meat bought "of compliance," a trade term for OPA violations. Dan C. McKinney, spokesman for the new organization, said packers could not. at present, rectify violations within 30 days by selling sufficient meat at low er prices to balance their ac counts. As a result, he said, they are rieorived of their subsidy on the entire amount sold during ! the 30-day period. He said that violations often , were committed accidentally be-j cause a drove of steers, bought ' "in compliance," may weigh less . than provided for by the act, once dressed. ' 6 DIE AT CROSSING Salinas .Cal., Feb. 9 'U.Ri- Six persons were killed and three others seriously injured this afternoon when a Southern Pacific troop train an.ashed Into .-. crowded automobile at Cas troville, two miles north of herx. First Official News of Re quest Given Soviet Pressure Noted Washington, Feb. 9 (U.R) A house committee report dis closed tonight that Russia ap parently has asked this country for a $6,000,000,000 loan and that the request has been refus ed. The disclosure was made in an unrevised version of a report by the house postwar economic com mittee. The report is scheduled to be made public in a few days, but there may be some revisions before then. No official announcement ever has been made of a Russian re quest for a loan from this coun try. The state department has denied persistent reports that the Soviet Union sought a $6, 000,000,000 credit. The committee report said; "In addition to the largely po litical questions as to Russian ability to pay the $6,000,000,000 loan requested, a difference of opinion as to Russia's request to borrow at rates lower than those at which money could be raised in the United Slates has entered into the negotiations regarding the proposed loan. In a footnote, the committee added that "negotiations are now going on on the basis of $1,000, 000,000." "The conviction was currently expressed In the Soviet press that the United States would be' forced to make such a loan on terms advantageous to Russia in order to relievo unemployment in the United Stales. "It was further pointed out that if Russia were enabled to meet its domestic requirements for reconversion through Ameri can credit, and were granted large-scale UNRRA aid without payment, the pressure of Russia on the surrounding economics of Europe would be diminished." The committee added, how ever, that It saw no evidence that such alterations in trade agreements would be made. BOWLES SEEN AS L Washington, Feb. 9 (U.R) Price Chief Chester Bowles is on his way to becoming the admin istrator s No. 1 wage-price boss, government sources said tonight. They repeated earlier asser tions that Bowles had won a complete victory within the ad ministration in his stubborn fight to keep prices under con trol. The White House, meanwhile issued a statement denying that Bowles' prospective elevation I meant mat ne would uixe over I John W. Snyder's post as head of the office of war mobilization and reconversion, The statement did not, how ever, deny that Bowles would be given top authority to direct the administration's battle against ; inflation and to make price con- trol work. Nor did It deny re ports that Bowles would be suc ceeded as OPA head by Paul Porter, now chairman of the fed eral communications commis sion. WITH KING, QUEEN London, Feb. 9 (U.R) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was j luncheon guest of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth today at Buckingham palace, where the royal family was making ready to receive 450 UNO delegates tonight. OF ON THIS IN JAP1SSAGE Capt.' Kramer Testifies No One In Government Knew Attack Details Washington, Feb. 9 W.R) Navv Capt. Alwiu D. Kramer told the congressional Pearl Har bor Investigating committee to day that Japanese messages in tercepted lnte in 1941 gave no indication at all that Japan in tended to attack Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. Kramer, who was communica tions security officer in the navy department at the time, was questioned on this ponu oy ovu Scott W. Lucas, JJ., in. uuL-as niicstiorus came after Kramer had reiterated that he saw message implementing Japan's so-called "winds code' but mat his best recollection now is that it Indicated only a break in Japanese-British relations. "In all the magic (Intercepted Japanese code messages) you saw, was there anything to In dicate the Japs would attack Pearl Harbor?" Lucas asked. "There never was, sir," Kra mer replied. "Do you know of any naval strategist who interpreted the 14-part message as meaning the first bombs would full on Pearl Harbor at 7 a. m.7" "I do not know of any," Kra mer said. The 14-part message was the final Japanese communication breaking off diplomatic negotia tions here. It was handed to then Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the very moment Japan was bomliing the U, S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. It had, however, been Interpreted and decoded some hours previously by the army and navy. Lucas also asked if Kramer "knew of anyone higher in the government who knew when and where the attack was coining." Kramer replied that he did not. CHURCWLIES TODAY FOR TALK T Washington, Feb. 9 (U.R) Winston Churchill, former Brit ish prime minister, will fly to Washington from Florida to morrow to see President Tru man. The White House announced Churchill's trip today. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross ex plained that Churchill was com ing here because Mr. Truman had been forced to cancel plans for a southern vacation during which he was to have seen the British wartime leader. Churchill has been vacation ing in Florida since last month. He returned to Miami yesterday by air from s week's visit to Havana, Cuba. Ross said he did not know when Churchill would arrive. how long he would stay or whether he would be a guest at the White House, as he occasion ally was during the war when he came to this country to con fer with the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Soldier's Wife and Her Lover Murdered Coffcyville, Kan., Feb. 9 (U.R) The nude bodies of a pretty, young wife of a soldier and her illicit lover were found today in a blood-spattered tourist cabin, and police said tonight they had been beaten to death by a mania cal killer. The victims were 22-year-old Mrs. Opal Scott, mother of three young children, and Carl Ben- nlng, also 22. Mrs. Scott's hus band Is a soldier, now serving overseas. Rennlng was discharg ed from the army about "four or five months ago," Police Capt. Arthur Gamble said. BULLETIN Pullman. Wash., Feb. 9 U.R) University of Idaho pulled In to a tic for first place in the northern division Pacific Const basketball conference tonight by dumping Washington State 35- 33 with a spectacular lasi-min-ute goal. Idaho staged a scoring spree early In the second half and came within one point of tying the score after 10 minutes, un balance of the game was neck and neck, with the score being knotted at 29-29 and 33-33 with the minutes ticking off. Cur- baugh, Idaho guard, doooped a fancy lnst-mlnute shot for the final (ally. Berkeley. Cal.. Feb. 9 (U.R) The University of California bas ketball team practically cinched the championship of the Pacific coast southern division tonight bv soundly thumping second nlaco University of Southern California 51-35 before a sell out crowd of 7,500 fans. NAZI PLANS FOR EXILE, SLAVERY OF TWO LANDS TOLD Poles and Czecks Targets German Hate Hitler Treachery Shown Nuernberg, Feb. 9 (U P.) Adolf Hitler sought to wipe Czecho slovakia off the map and reduce tha Pnles to slavery, a soviet prosecutor charged today as U. S nrmv authorities took new se curity measures at the prison and courthouse where 21 nazi leaders are on trial before an international tribunal. Assistant Russian Prosecutor Col. Yury V. Pokrovsky said that in the summer of 1U4Z Miller an nounced a rjlan to colonize the Czech-Moravian basin with Ger man peasants and exile, the Czechs to Siberia or elsewhere In ntwtrrn ElirOOC. Pokrovsky also charged thut nearly four months beforo Ger man columns rolled into Poland at a time when the relch was insuring Poland that It hud no nueiesslve Intentions and Intend ed to stand by its non-aggression nnrt Hitler warned high-rank- iiur stuff officials that an attack was contemplated on Poland which would "mean war. After Hitler told a conference on May 23, 1939, that there was no question of sparing Poland the German staff Wcilt on to plot a lightning campaign and to or ganize a fifth column within the Polish armed forces, Pokrosvky said. In October, 1940, after the conquest of Poland, Pokrovsky added Hitler told guests durin a dinner purty at his Berli apartment that the Pole was "born to hard labor there ca be no question of Improvement for him. ANTI-STRIKE ACT Washington, Feb. 9 (U.R) CIO President Philip Murray told the senate labor committee today that the Case anti-strike bill should be scuttled and tha management not labor "should be brought to bar of Justice." The Case bill, passed by the house, would make union's sub ject to civil damage suits and court injunctions against viol Hons of contracts. "Why Case bills designated shackle labor when labor has comported itself In accordance with every rule of law and de cency?" asked Murray. "It Is the guilty that should be brought the bar of justice." NEW SLIDES HAMPER Portland, Ore., Feb. 9 (U.R) Union Pacific railroad executives announced today thut trucks along the Columbia river east Multnomah Falls would not be cleared for traffic before Mon day due to rains which hav caused additional slides. L Supt. Hedrick Submits Spec ial Report Early Action By Voters Asked In a special building report submitted to the Medford School Board by Superintendent E. H. Hedrick, a repair, remodeling and building program for the city schools ha., been recom mended at an estimated cost of $525,000. The report asks for early action In submitting the matter to the voter. . No new buildings are contem plated, Tho program calls for some extensive repairs and ren ovations ot old buildings on tha one hand, with some remodel ing and additions to be added to present buildings to bring them p to date and provide addition al space needed for the enroll ment increases. Grandstand Cover Aim All buildings are listed for painting inside and outside, im proved lighting, new. window shades, stair and' floor repair, new heating plants where need ed, new toilets and lavatories In the old building, a health room at each school and a number of other things designed to put Mcdfords school buildings In good modern condition. Im provements of grounds is pro jected with outside lighting of buildings, and a covered grand stand at the football field is also on the list. The report points out that tho total school enrollment has In creased 25 percent In the past two years. All buildings are full and some are considerably over crowded. Congestion is worst in tho Junior high school. In addition to repairs and some re modeling of present plants, tho additions recommended to pre sent buildings are as follows: Jackson School Four room addition with new lavatories. toilets and health room with ad ditional stairway and outside entrance. Lincoln School Two room addition with toilet, lavatories, health room, additional stairway and outside entrance. Roosevelt School Four room addition with new lavatories, toilets and health room with ad ditional stairway and outside entrance. Washington School Six room addition, which also provide space for special children and crippled childrcns rooms, cafe teria, avatories. hcaltn room, additional stairway and outside entrance to tho building. Junior High Eight room ad dition, boys gymnasium with showers, locker rooms, toilets and other appointments, he-.llh room, cafeteria-study hall. AH ditional stairways and outside cntrunces are provided as well as some re-vamplng of the old building to make it more work able. Senior High A d d 1 1 1 o n to north and east of main building to provide four additional class) rooms, a cafeteria, study hall, lavatory, stairway and addition al oulsiric entrances. A covered stadium at the football field to seat about 1500. How Financed The report recommend financing tho school Improve ment project by floating a ten year bond Issue, with equal yearly payments to amortize both principal and interest In that time. It Is figured that the annual payments over the period will average $56,831, which on the present assessed valuation of the district oC $12,643,000 would mean tax of 4'4 mills. Three reasons are set forth in the report for favoring tho 10-year bond Issue over the 20 year Issue as sometimes used in the past; The 10-year bond means less: Interest to pay. It also carrier a lower Interest rate. Feclcts put out to the bond market Indi cate the school district might expect an Interest rate of 114 percent, possibly lower, on 10-year bond.