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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
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(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.
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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.
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