Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 12, 1946, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmm ms. aiii : i Weather FORECAST: Th.ckenlnf eloudl neit tonight and Wedneiday with occasional light snow or rain Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Temp. Highest reeterday 45 Lowest thli morning 23 Fortieth Year Selection of Exact Perma nent Headquarters Post poned Until September. London, Feb. 12 (U.R) Aus tralia proposed today that the United Nations should establish temporary headquarters in San Francisco instead of New York until the proposed permanent teat in Westchester - Fairfield counties is constructed. Col. W. R. Hodgson made the Australian proposal to the UNO assembly's headquarters com mittee. The committee last night voted 22 to 17 to establish the permanent headquarters at an unspecified place somewhere in the adjoining counties of Westchester, New York or Fair field, Conn. Atlantic City Urged Opponents of the Westchester Fairfield site predicted they could defeat the committees's recommendation when it comes before the plenary session of the assembly. The Iraq delegation followed Hodgson with a proposal to lo cate temporary headquarters in Atlantic City. The headquarters committee was considering a recommenda tion by an" Inspection sub-committee to establish-interim head quarters in New York,- using a theater for assembly meetings and part of a war factory on Long Island for secretariat of fices. Last night's committee vote in effect postponed selection of the exact site for permanent headquarters until September, after the next assembly session hears a detailed report by. a planning commission. Initiation will be held by the American Legion auxiliary at a meeting Wednesday at the ar mory at 8 p. m. New members to be initiated are Evelyn Craih, Betty Flchtner, Esther Slaats. Effie Baize, June Smith, 1 Mary Webster and Florence Mc Knight. All have been taken into membership through World War II classifications. The ceremony will be in charge of Bernice Alford, chap lain of the Medford unit. Following Initiation a short business meeting will be held and the auxiliary will join the Lesion for refreshments. Eve Prentice's Accordianna Girls will entertain. t Auxiliary members are re minded by the president, Doris Baize, to bring a dish towel for the auxiliary kitchen. CUMMINS APPOINTED ON NAM COMMITTEE Appointment of A. S. Cum mins, president of the California Oregon Power Co., Medford. to the Oregon advisory committee of the National Association of Manufacturers has been an nounced by Dean Johnson and Ernest G. Swigert, Oregon NAM directors. In making the appointment, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Swigert pointed out that "in its 1946 pro gram, NAM will, more than ever, carry on its aggressive program to uphold the princi ples of competitive enterprise and present industry's story to the public." MOTORISTS! SAVE A LIFE KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS Her Is a law for today. Somewhere in the state of Oregon, failure to observe this law will cost someone his life., or serious injury: STOP BEFORE EMERGING FROM ALLEY OR PRIVATE DRIVE WAY The driver of a vehicle within the business or residence dis trict emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle Immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalks area extending across any alleyway. Section 115-352 Oregon Motor Vehicle Code). Medford United Press Full Leased Wire General Homma Was Polite in Court ' ilk' iJM Lt Gen. Masharu Homma, once arrogant conqueror of Philippines, In last picture to reach U. S. before military commission sentenced him to execu tion by firing squad for 80.000 atrocity slayings In conquest of the Islands. Here he turns sweetly on army court reporter to explain answers to ques tions, In sharp contrast to wartime brutality. LARGEST OF AREA A total of 130,116,000 board feet of timber at cost of $667, 772 was cut on the Rogue River National Forest during the 'cal endar year 1945, it was an nounced today by Karl L. Janouch, forest supervisor. Janouch added that approxi mately 90,000,000 board feet were cut in Jackson county. This was the largest cut from any national forest in the north Pacific region (Oregon and Washington) and although it was a slight decrease under 1944 it greatly surpassed any other pre vious year, the supervisor said. He pointed out that 25 per cent of all national forest receipts is paid in lieu of taxes to the coun ties in which the national forests are located, and an additional 10 per cent is spent for road im provements within the forest. War Needs Met War lime needs were met by permitting a greater volume to be cut in certain limited areas than would normally be allow ed under sustained yield prac tices, Janouch said, and cutting must now be suspended in those areas until growth provides ad ditional mature timber, but for the entire portion of the forest in Jackson county the total an nual cut need not be reduced. He estimates the county's total sustained yield allowable cut is about twice that of the national forest lands, Indicating a very substantial permanent timber industry , , PORTLAND TO BE UAL FLIGHT HUB Portland. Ore., Feb. 12 (U.R) Authority to opefate non-stop flights between Portland and other large western cities was sought today by United Airlines in applications to the civil aero nautics board at Washington, George Hatch, district traffic and sales manager, announced. Hatch said that UAL proposed to operate four-engined. 220-milc-an-hour Douglas C-54 trans port planes between Portland and such cities as Denver. San Francisco. Los Angeles and Cheyenne. Wyo. He said the air lines also planned increased flights between Portland and Intermediate cities such as Sa lem, Ore., Eugene, Ore., Med ford, Ore., Red Bluff, Calif., Sac ramento, Pendleton, Ore., Wal la Walla, Wash., and Salt Lake City. v MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946. (Acme Telephoto) Snowmobile Makes Successful Run in Utah Preliminary Salt LakeCity, Feb. 12 (U.R) A unique vehicle with a propel ler in front and a propellor be hind today had passed prelim inary tests in Parley's Canyon near here as its California in ventor, Ralph B. Simmons, boasted he has found the answer to transportation over snow. The Simmons machine is pow ered by a five-cylinder airplane motor, turning a big pusher-type propellor. In front of the all aluminum, three-passenger cab is a plastic "prop" that runs a generator to furnish an electri city supply. The vehicle runs over the snow on four wide run ners. Simmons said that if the tests are completely satisfactory, he plans to attempt to have the snowmobile manufactured by Henry J. Kaiser. DARK BREAD DIET ILK SUPPLY LOW Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) Americans may remain on their dark bread diet even longer than scheduled because of shrinking world wheat reserves, govern ment officials indicated today. At the same time, consumers got another foretaste of the fu ture food picture in a report showing that January milk pro duction sagged to a new five year low, the result of a sharp decrease in the number of dairy cattle. The new government order di verting grains from livestock feed to human consumption was expected to curtail milk produc tion even more in coming months. Decreed By Truman The emergency order for dark er flour was officially decreed by President Truman only for the first half of 1946 or until the U. S. fan meet its wheat com mitments to hungry nations. Sec retary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson told millers that they probably could return to the manufacture of white flour by Aug. 1. Nevertheless, the possibility of a small wheat crop next sum mer and still high foreign de mands may force retention of the dark flour order beyond that date. The milling Industry al ready Is convinced that the or der will be extended. Pauley Hearings Resume Monday Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) Hearings will be resumed Mon day on the nomination of Edwin W. Pauley, California oil execu tive, to be undersecretary of the navy. The hearings originally had been scheduled to reopen tomor row, but the Senate Naval Af fairs committee said the further postponement was necessary be cause of the absence of a num ber of senators. Many Republi can senators are out of town for Lincoln day activities. The REA uses about three mil lion line poles every year. '37 Adm. Ingersoll Reveals Lon don Trip for Discussion of Problems With British. Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) Adm. R. E. Ingersoll disclosed today the late President Roose velt sent him to London in 1937 to discuss with the British ad miralty problems that would face them in the event of war with Japan. Ingersoll, former assistant chief of naval operations, was head of U. S. navy war plans division at the time of his trip to London. He described the assignment to congress' Pearl Harbor inves tigating committee, which is in vestigating the Japanese attack Dec. 7, 1941 that put the United States into the war. "Dead Cat" Later Ingersoll said the work he did in London conferences in 1937 became a "dead cat" later, however, when the United States, Britain and Canada en tered an agreement known as "A-B-C-l." The A-B-C agreement set up a western hemisphere defense arrangement and Included a de cision that if the United States went to war it would seek the defeat of Germany and Itajy In the Atlantic before turning the offensive against Japan. Ingersoll said the London con versations were based on the "assumption" that the United States and Great Britain both might find themselves at war with Japan in the Pacific. Earlier Ingersoll told the com mittee that if Hawaiian defenses had been properly alerted, Pearl Harbor would have been the safest place for the U. S. Pacific fleet. E Oakland. Cal., Feb. 12 (U.R) A jurisdictional dispute over the bargaining agency in California canneries neared the boiling point today as AFL Teamsters opened 1946 contract negotia tions with a threat to blockade every canning plant In northern California if the CIO is named to represent the workers. (Coincident with yesterday's opening of negotiations between the AFL and California Proces sors and Growers, Inc., the state senate adopted a resolution ask ing federal Intervention to settle the dispute, pointing out the pos sibility of a serious strike threatening the nation's canned food supply). The CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultural -W o r k e r s union challenged the right of the AFL to negotiate, claiming that the FTA won an NLRB Jurisdictional election last October. The NLRB is reviewing the election, vali dity of which is being contested. Lovesick Whale Gives Up Ghost Under Navy Pier San Francisco. Feb. 12 (U.R) Small boat skippers in the Hay area were breathing ".isier to day all because of "Don Juan," the late lovesick whale. The amorous mammal had been mooning around the bay for the past two weeks making coy, 50-ton passes at small boats and keeping their skippers in a constant state of jitters. According to Dr. Robert T. Orr. whale expert of the Cali fornia academy of sciences, Don Juan probably wandered through the Golden Gate in search of a lady whale. Constant rebuffs from India nant boatmen apparently broke his heart, because Don gasped his last yesterday leaving his 40 feet of earthly clay beneath pier three of the Alameda Naval Air Station. Lincoln Admirer Unable to Guide Visitors at Tomb Springfield, 111., Feb. 12 (U.R) Everyone missed him the little man who has watched over the tomb of Abraham Lincoln for 25 years. But for the first time in a quarter of a century, 87-year-old Herbert Wells Fay was absent on Lincoln's birthday from his post as custodian of the 117-foot granite monument in Spring field's Oakridge cemetery. .From his hospital bed where he nursed a shoulder, dislocated when he tried to protect a pic ture of Lincoln during a recent fall, the thoughts of the old man were at the tomb. As custodian of the tomb, Fay has registered more than 3,000, 000 visitors during the past 25 years, including kings and queens, the great and the near great, the haughty and the humble. PHOENIX, TALENT SET FOR FEB; 21 Elections on Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Phoenix and Talent schoolhouscs have been called by the Jackson cruinty school district boundary board to de cide whether the two school dis tricts will be merged, County School Superintendent C. R. Bowman said yesterday. The action follows filing of petitions for the vote and bal loting will occur between 6 and 9 p. -n. on the designated day. Problem of over-crowding in the two schools has arisen and consolidation Is sought as a means of alleviating- the condi tion. At the request of Phoenix school natrons the board there is holding an open .meeting Thursday, February 14, to ex plain Its actions so far and to answer questions on consolida tion. Principal Lyle Llndlcy said today. The meeting will be In the gymnasium where a public address system will be set up Mr. Bowman will be present. Qualifications Listed Officials of the two schools stress that In addition to having age. citizenship and residence qualifications, a person to be able to vote In the election must have had his name entered on the last tax assessment rolls. Mr. Llndley states that Phoe nix residents doubtful of their eligibility may check with him as the school board has obtain ed a copy of the rolls from the sheriff. Chairman FranK uun kln of the Talent board empha sizes that the listing will be used to challenge voters at the polls. Authorities from both dis tricts explain that one does not necessarily have to be a regis tered voter to cast a ballot in the school election. LIGHT JOLT FOR ERRING SHERIFF San Jose. Cal., Feb. 12 (U.R) Former Santa Clara County Sheriff William J. Emig. con victed with two other defend ants of conspiring to violate slot machine regulations, was sen tenced today to four months in the county jail and fined $2,000. Superior Judge William F. James, in imposing the admit tedly light sentence, said It was justified because "Mig already has suffered a far greater pun ishment than I can administer here." John Pacheco, former high way patrol captain, and William Morgan, alleged slot machine operator, both were fined $3,000 Bnd sentenced to six months In the county prison farm. Joe Re gallo, a former deputy, was sen. fenced to 20 days Imprisonment and fined $500. All four defendants were ad mitted to ball when Defense At torney Leo Friedman filed oral notices of appeal. The defendants were openly exuberant al tha light sentence. Tribune United Press Full 40,000 CASES OF TAX AWAITING PROBE Many Involve Black Market Operators; Surface Only Scratched Says Treasury. Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) More than 40.000 cases of war time tax evasion, many of them involving black market opera tors, arc under Investigation or awaiting investigation by the treasury, it was revealed today. And these "only scratched the surface" of such violations. The disclosure was made by the house appropriations com mittee as it approved an outlay of $8,786,189, 17 for fixed and continuing expenses of the treas ury and post office departments in the fiscal year, beginning this July. Intereit Huge The total included $5,000,000, 000 for interest payments on the huge public debt. In addition, the committee ap proved estimated disbursements of $2,840,254,870 by the treas ury from various trust funds administered by the department but not involving its funds, in cluding the old-age and surviv ors insurance trust funds. Treasury officials told a house appropriations subcomm 1 1 1 e e that the drive on black market operators and other tax evaders, which began last March, should Tecover better than $1,500,000, 000 In unpaid revenues by the end of June, 1947. W. H. Woolf. chief of the In (ernnl revenue bureau's tax In telligence unit, aid that 2,168 cases are now under investiga tion and that 39,000 other "leads" are awaiting check-up. Among the "active" cases, he added, are 1,449 involving black market operations in the textile industry. Chain Outfit Cited Woolf said the treasury's drive is only now picking up speed. He told the committee "probab ly the outstanding case" uncov ered so far was that of Henry Lustlg, "head of New York's swanky Longchamps Restaurant chain who, with four associates, was indicted on Dec. 6, 1945, on charges of attempted evasion of income and profits taxes aggre gating $2,872,000 from seven controlled corporations." PLAINSWES By United Press Sub - zero temperatures, ac companied by heavy snow in some areas, were recorded throughout the northern plain states today and scheduled to move Into the midwest region by nightfall. The weatherman said that ex tensive snow fell during the night in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the upper lakes area, with a low of 21 degrees below zero registered at Dickinson, N. D. ' Elsewhere, unusually mild February weather was report ed. Democratic Solons Silenced for Day After Bitter Wrangle Over Winchell Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) Rep. Hugh Dclucy, D., Wash., and Rep. John E, Rankin, D., Miss., were barred from speak ing In the house for the re mainder of today's session after a bitter exchange of words over Rankin's attack on Radio Com mentator Walter Winchell. Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Tex., held that their remarks constituted personal attacks on certain members of the house namely, Dclacy and Rankin. The dispute started when eld erly, white-haired Rep. Adolph Sabath, D., III., protested the phrase "slime-mongering Kike" directed at Winchell by Rankin on the floor yesterday. Sabath called Winchell a "loyal. American citizen" and Leased Wlr NO. 275. Arrested f: (Acme 'ielephoto) Lou Fromm, who beats It out on the skliis for Harry J times' band, was ar rested In Los Ajigeles on suspicion of violation of narcotic act. Fromm, who Joined James' band two weeks ago at $260 a week, said James was unaware that he, Fromm, was on the needle. Officers found 46 bindles and hypos for administering heroin. The drummer said It made him feel better, but didn't hop him up. BAIZE WOULD BE E First Jackson county veteran of World War II to declare his intention of seeking public office in the coming elections Is Dick Baize, city truffle policeman, who announced today that h would file for the democratic nomination for county sheriff. Previously Sheriff Howard Guult and former Deputy Verne Smith both announced their in. trillion of running for the sher iff's office on the republican ticket. Bulze, with the city police for five years, served with the Navy Construction Battalion for more than a year after which he was given a medical discharge and returned to the Medford police work. Ho Is commander of Med ford Post No. 15 of the Ameri can Legion. The candidate has lived In the county 18 years and was grad uated from Medford high school with the class of 1935. Baize is married and has two children. BIG CITRUS CROP T "Washington, Feb. 12flJ.R) Tho agriculture department said today that citrus fruit produc tion this season will establish a new record, 5 per cent larger than last year and 50 per cent above average. Production of all kinds of cit rus was estimated at 187.000,000 boxes. A record grapefruit crop of 62,800.000 boxes was In pros pect which would be 21 per cent larger than in 1044-45. The crop reporting board said the orange crop will total 100, 000,000 boxes compared with last season's record of 109,000,000. said the "fact that he was born of Jewish Dorcnts did not re flect from his achievements." As Sabath was leaving the chamber, Rankin shouted he was ready to debate the Issue any time. "When Mr. Sabath, who has left the house, comes here to de fend some slime-monger who gets on the radio and lies about me, 1 m ready to meet him any where." Sahnth turned and demanded that "the gentleman's remarks be taken down." This is a parliamentary re quest and if a representative's remarks arc found to be dero gatory to another member of the house the speoker may order him to remain silent for the rest of i lh day. i. JT r ft. wiiiiMi tmmm li.in.ii NEW YORK PUT ON EMERGENCY BASIS IN FUEUAMINE Pennsylvania Utility Seizure Refused by Truman; CIO Spurns G.M. 'Pay Offer. By United Press Strikes tied up most business activity In New York today and shut off public utilities and transportation in two other large cities as a new company offer failed to break the deadlock in the General Motors strike. GM offered to settle the strike of 175.000 CIO United Automo bile Workers with a raise of 18V4 cents an hour at a negotiating session held a few minutes after the company announced It waj raising pay of salaried employes. UAW negotiators walked out of the negotiating session im mediately alter the offer was made to the production workers. 1914 Or Nothing "We are not going to meet again with General Motors un til they are willing to bargain in good faith and meet President Truman's fact-finding board pro posal for 19V4 cents an hour and other conditions of a new con tract, UAW Vice-President Wal ter P. Reuther said. Charles E. Wilson, GM pres ident, said salaried employes: would receive five per cent in creases amounting to at least $15 per month, effective Feb. 15. He said the raise was In addi tion to the 10 per cent increasa given non-production workers last Nov. 1. Further adjustments will be made In starting and minimum rates of employes In lower sal aried groups, he added. 2.4 Cents Apart The overall 15 per cent wage Increase was only 2.4 per cent less than the minimum 19V cents per hour demanded by the UAW which has been on strike against GM for 84 days. Meanwhile, the federal gov ernment appealed Individually to 3,500 striking New York City tugboatmen to return to work: and end a fuel supply crisis which has halted all activities ex cept those essential to sustain life In the world's greatest city. In telegrams to each striker, ODT Official Lawrence C. Turn er asked that they return . to work for the government lm. mediately, pending settlement o! the nine-day-old strike. Capt. William Bradley, pres ident of local 333, International Longshoremen's association (AFL) replied: 'This strike will not be set tied until we settle with the owners." Truman Refuses President Truman refused the plea of Mayor David L. Law rence of Pittsburgh to seize the crippled facilities of the Du- quesne Light company and end the nation s latest major walk out. Tho utility strike, which be gan In powcrplants In two west ern Pennsylvania counties at 4 a. m. (EST), slashed electric power In the Pittsburgh district more than 50 per cent. It boosted the number of workers Idle because of strikes and shut down to 1,475,000. In New York City, the tugboat strike forced Mayor William O'Dwyer to virtually close down the nation's biggest city. All business not considered vital to public health was suspended by an emergency order In an effort to conserve fuel. Philadelphia Afoot In Philadelphia, a strike of 9,655 transit workers halted all public transportation for the second consecutive day. Mayor David L. Lawrence ot Pittsburgh said government lab or officials had assured him they would confer with President Truman on the. sitratlon early today. Lawrence -.aid he could obtain no assurance from the union, however, that members would return to work, even If the government seized the elec tric plants. STAR RECOVERING Hollywood, Feb. 12 (U.R) Film Star Ingrid Bergman, who underwent a tonsillectomy, Sat urday was recovering ranirilv in. day, her physician said. Subscribers If jrott do not rci?e jrettr paper telephone IH1 or 5 before f :30 p.m. On Sunday call 2 HI or 43 before 11:39 p.m.