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M' .,D, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1946.
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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
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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.