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Pauley Confirmation Chance Believed Shattered by Ickes' Attack WESTERNER MAY Weather FORECAST: Cloudy ton If lit and Friday with llfht rain late tonight and ihowert to morrow, slightly warmer tonight Temp. Highest Yesterday 52 Lowest this Morning 27 EDFC iD Tribune BE NEW CHOICE FOR ffiETARY Capital Predictions Have Wallace on Way Out Also; Ickes' Future Indefinite. United Prete Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wit Fortieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946. NO. 277. 'No Fuel -No Fun' 65 Cent Minimum , Wage Favored M (Acme Telephoto) Pretty entertainers at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub in New York City tell prospective customers they'll have to spend quiet evening at home as Mayor O'Dwyer closed bars and entertainment clubs in order to con serve luei Oregon Asked For 9,784 Men In New National Guard Plan Washington, Feb. 14 U.PJ State governors today were called upon to raise a national guard of 622,500 officers and men, more than twice as many as were in the pre-war organiza tion. Tentative allotments of guard personnel, as announced by the war department, provide for re activation of all the national guard units existing befora DRAW JURY LIST FOR SESSIONS 10 STAR! ON FEB. 25 The jury list for the February term of court, starting Monday, Feb. 25, was drawn yesterday by the sheriff and the county cierk. The 31 names were drawn from the recently drawn county Jury list for the year. The court term will open at 10 a. m. on the opening day, as provided by law. For the balance of the term 9:30 s. m. is the opening hour. A new grand jury will also be drawn from the list. The Jurors drawn by towns are: '. Ashland Dorothy Dickey, Walter Engberg, route 2: Jess Eldridge, John S. Eaton, George W. Rose. Theodore H. Elliott, route I: John I . Daugherty, Clin ton H. Dunlap, Charles A. Brown. Medford Orville A. Eaton, Richard Payne. Donald H. Cruik shank, John S. Dodge, George F Davis, Neil C. Davidson, Willis C. Duncan, Frank Croucher. John M. Eby, James Elliott, Earl E. Taber. Dale Cummings, Ar thur M. Putney. Harold E. Tolle, Charles W. Nutter. Jacksonville. Arthur C. Davies. Anna F. Coleman, Ar thur Davis. Gold Hill Frank Carter. Butte Falls J. Frank Carson, Ralph E. Peyton. Talent Frat cis W. Craig. Snow Swirls Over Lower Lakes Area By United Press A swirling snowstorm, riding on winds of up to 50 miles an hour, swept throufth the Ohio valley and lower lakes region during the night and was mov ing into the St. Lawrence valley today. ' , The storm, which developed in southeastern Arkansas and headed northward rapidly in creasing In intensity, blanketed Indiana. Illinois and lower Mich igan with three to six inches of snow. Subscribers If roe ao eol receive row paper telephone 2141 or before : p m. Oo Innatf tell JH1 or Se kef ore l!:J p.n World War II and the formation of many new ones. The proposed force would have 571,000 officers and men In the ground forces and 47,600 in the air forces. This compares with the pre-war strength of 295.000 in the ground forces and 5,000 in aviation. The ground forces would comprise 29 infantry divisions, two armored divisions and 18 tegmental combs V mi'- The air force would have 12 wings, 27 groups and 84 squad rons, in addition to 12 control and warning groups. Governors were requested to report to the war department on their ability to recruit and main tain the national guard as al lotted tentatively. In the past, the states have pro vided armories and provided personnel for guard units; and the war department has provid ed equipment and funds for pay ing the guardsmen. Among the proposed state quotas were: California, 39,568; Idaho, 5, 616; Montana, 4,100; Oregon, 9,784; Washington, 12,238. Oregon outfits will include one regiment of the 41st division, elements of the 50th armored division, one control squadron, one fighter squadron. E NABBEDJN.SALEM Salem, Ore., Feb. 14 U.R) Andrew Jasper Stewart, 18, is being held in Marion county jail for Jackson county authori ties on charge of larceny from a store building. According to Sheriff Denver Young, Stewart has confessed to the theft in Ashland of three March of Dimes milk bottles containing nearly a total of $10. He was arrested here by city police and turned over to the sheriff yesterday. Young said Slewart also admitted he had escaped from Ashland police last month. Bail was set at $1,000. Jackson coun ty sheriff's deputies are expect ed to return Stewart tomorrow. Food Failure and Price Policies to Be Investigated Washington. Feb. 14 (U.PJ The special house food commit tee set out today to learn if food production has failed to keep pace with demand because of government price policies. At the top of the committee's list was butter which the agri culture department said would bv short throughout the year. Several other items also will be scarce at times, the department said, but Americans still will eat better than before the war. Committee members said they were not "out to cut any throats," but the investigation was expected to spill over to in clude the administration's new food program and the question of price control and food subsidies. E E PROPOSED BILL Committee Expects to Have Measure Ready for Senate Action by Next Monday. Washington, Feb. 14 U.R) The senate labor committee to day approved a bill to raise the minimum wage to 65 cents an hour. The present statutory mini mum wage is 40 cents an hour. Chairman James E. Murray, D., Mont., saia the bill probably will be ready for senate action next Monday. For Two Years In its present form the bill provides for an immediate change In the wages and hour law to put the minimum wage at 65 cents per hour- for two years. At the end of that time the minimum would rise to 70 cents an hour for the next two years, after which it would go to 75 cents, at the beginning of the fifth year following passage. An amendment Introduced by Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., extends coverage to include cer tain types of retail establish ments. Murray said the bill as it now stands would bring an immediate pay increase to nearly 6,000,000 workers. The committee also approved an amendment exempting any daily newspaper having a circu lation below 3,000. The present law covers all daily papers. SPRAY MEETING SLATED FRIDAY The annual spring spray meet ing of the pear industry will be held at the county courthouse auditorium Friday afternoon, starting at 1:30 p. in. Prof. F. C. Reimer and L. G. Gentner of the State experiment station at Talent will review pest control methods and spray ma terials. I The snrav Droeram for the control of scab, blight, rust mite and others will be discussed, al- the use of DDT, Assistant County Agent C. B. Cordy stat ed. IKE TO INSPECT Washington, Feb. 14 U.R) ! Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, left today on a three-week inspection or army installations extending to the Pacific coast. His first stop was scheduled at Kansas City, where he was due to arrive at 1:47 p. m. EST. Editorial Comment on Ickes PORTLAND OREGONIAN It is here surmised that Mr. Ickes retires companioned by public support of his devotion to principle above politics, that the only rejoicing will be among democratic rtgulars who have long looked askance at his party loyalty, and that Mr. Truman will discover that In permitting the Pauley nutter to produce the rift it has. Is a major error of yiis administration. www OREGON JOURNAL Presi dent Truman has erred, e PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER The fireworks. In a rip-roaring 2.000 word letter to Mr. Truman, have now exploded with the in tensity of a political A-bomb and a heat which, unless the party workers man the pumps, may ignite all the political oil f cm Maine to southern Cali fornia. ooo PHILADELPHIA RECORD Ickes' resignation and the rea sons he gave put the democratic party at the crossroads. Truman can best demonstrate his inten tion of following the true court Main Mystery in Pearl Attack Is Absence of Brass Washington, Feb. 14 U.R Rep. Bertrand W. Gearhart, R., Calif., said today that "the great mystery" of congress' Pearl Har bor investigation is the where abouts of the army and navy high command on the evening preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor. ...... He called for a "common dis trict attorney's, investigation", to establish how Gen. George C. Marshall. 1941 army chief of staff, and Adm. Harold R. Stark, 1941 chief of naval operations, spent the evening hours of Dec. 6. "This mystery has been going on for five years and no one has tried to make a common district attorney's investigation to try and help Gen. Marshall remember where he was," Gear hart said. FOR OPERATION Installation of 541 parking meters in the Medford business district, which was begun Febru ary 4, should be completed about February 19, City Superintend ent Frank Rogers said today. Meter operation and enforcement of the pay-for-parking rule is to take place following the enact ment of a city ordinance whicn, it Is assumed, will be done at a regular meeting of the city coun cil next Tuesday night, accord ing to the superintendent. . "The council, together with an installing engineer, selected locations for the meters follow ing a survey of city traffic and it is expected that some changes may be made, in the future, if they are proven advisable," Rog ers said. It was stressed that present location of the meters is on a trial basis and changes will be made to accommodate changing traffic problems in the city. Film Strike Leader Under Arrest For Contempt of Court Burbank, Cal., Feb. 14 U.R Herbert Sorrel!, leader of the recent eight-month movie strike and president of the conference of studio unions, was taken into custody today on a bench war rant charging contempt of court. Sorrell was arrested by sheriff's deputies when he ap peared at the Burbank justice court with eight other union ists accused of rioting during studio picketing last October. Sorrell was taken to county jail where he may be forced to serve a 16-day jail sentence im posed for violating a court order against mass picketing. by cleaning out of his adminis tration those political marplots who seek to serve big business under a false cloak of liberal ism. e e e NEW YORK TIMES Mr. Truman wanted Mr. Pauley so much that he was willing to lose Mr. Ickes. Many of us be lieve that Mr. Pauley could have served the government well In some other post. o e NEW YORK HERALD TRIB UNE The oldest, and in many ways, the mightiest oak of the Roosevelt-Truman years, has fal len at last Mr. Ickes was not known ai "Honest Harold" for nothing. e o e LOS ANGELES TIMES As Ickes smart-cracked In his some what discursive epistle, "the poli tical gnats in Washington are al ready swarming." and it may be generally agreed that his action yesterday tended to accelerate their flight. Perhaps he has done the country a service. The same -eannot be said for the peace of mind of the president and the democratic administration. FORMULA READY Increase in Alloy and Carbon Steel Allowed; Wage and Price Hikes Need Okeh. Washington, Feb. 14 (U.PJ President Truman today sum moned his top economic advisers to a White House conference for another effort to reach agree ment on a new government wage-price policy which would lead to settlement of the steel strike. Out of the conference the President hoped to bring to the nation word that the administra tion had established a new pat tern for settling labor-management disputes over wages and prices. The new formula was on pa per, it was said, and barring un anticipated changes, it will be completed and ready for an nouncement with 24 hours. Ups Steel Price The new formula would pro vide a price increase of $5 a ton for alloy as well as carbon steel. Previously it had been reported that the increase would apply only to carbon steel, which re presents around 75 per cent of the industry's production. The formula, as it now stands, would require government ap proval for both wage and price increases. Wages and prices would be considered by the gov ernment in the light of Indus tries' costs and profits. Unless Price Administrator Chester Bowles changes his mind and resigns, it was expected to be announced in a few hours that he succeeds Economic Sta bilizer John C. Collet as econom ic stabilizer with full authority over the nation's economic sta bilization program. Paul A. Porter, if tbe changes go through on schedule, will be the new price administrator. Three Announcements The President as soon as pos sible will make three basic an nouncements a statemcn ex plaining the new wage-price for mula, an executive order putting the change in effect, and an an nouncement of the change in top flight economic personnel. -The administration, according to highest authority, has definite word from the U. S. Steel Corp. and the United Stcelworkcrs (CIO) that they will sign a wage agreement ending the steel strike immediately upon an nouncement of the steel price in crease,, or assurance in a public statement that It is forthcom ing. Youth Survives 10 Days in Cold Yosemite Valley, Calif., Feb. 14 (U.R) William Jacobs, 26, whose parents had given him up for lost, was in W. B. Lewin Me morial hospital today, only a little the worse for his 10-day ordeal in mountain blizzards. Forest service rangers found Jacobs yesterday huddled in a rude shelter made of blankets and a toboggan. He was weak from lack of food and had two slightly frost-bitten toes. U. 5. Archbishops Arrive in Rome Rome, Feb. 14 (U.R) Arch bishops Francis J. Spcllman of New York and John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis arrived in Rome today after a 4,500-mile aerial Journey from the United States, completing the roster of four American prelates who will be elevated to the sacred college of cardinals next Mon day. Pope Recovering From Flu Attack Rome. Feb. 14 (U.R) Pope Pius XII was reported almost recovered today from a slight attack of Influenza as the date neared for the Consistory at which 32 new cardinals from 19 nations will be elected formally. Greek slaves wore a delta seared upon their foreheads, Were Victims Before a U. S. military commission in Shanghai, a Chinese eyewitness identified Sgt. Henry W. Wheaton, left, Milwaukee, and 2nd Lt. Lester R. White, right, Slicksvllle, Pa., as B-29 crewmen burned alive by Japs In December. 1944, after their plane was shot down over Hankow, China, area. Nationwide Labor Crisis Seen Due for Early End Br United Press New York tugmen returned to their jobs today amid growing Indications that the nationwide labor crisis which has idled 1,529,000 workers might ease within the next week. : The major labor develop ments: 1. New York harbor tugboat crewmen called off a 10-day strike which had brought the NAVY LISTS NEW T Washnigton. Feb. 14 U.R The navy today announced new cuts in demobilization point scores effective April 15 and May 2. Vice Adm. Louis E. Dcnfcld, chief of the navy's personnel bureau, estimated the new point reductions will make 13,800 of ficers and 153,500 enlisted per sonnel eligible for discharge. Point scores for male commis sioned and warrant officers will be reduced from 37 on April 2 to 36 on April 15 and to 35 on May 2. Enlisted men's scores pegged at 30 on April 2 will be reduced to 20 and 28 on the next control dates. Point scores for navy nurses and Wave officers will not change on April 15. They will be reduced one point on May 2 to 25. Scores for enlisted women will also drop one point on May 2 to 19. Exceptions to the male officer point scores were made in the cases of doctors and naval avia tors. UNO Adjournment Planned Tonight London, Feb. 14 (U.R) The United Nations assembly pre pared to adjourn sine die tonight, ringing down the curtain on five weeks and one day of work in London. But all of the UNO work will not be done when the assembly adjourns. The security council will sit for two or three days more to consider charges by Syria and Lebanon that the pres ence of Anglo-French troops there threaten the peace, NEXT CIVIC CONCERT SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 19 Jackson county Civic Music association will present the Le-Ruy-Fostcr-Scholz ensemble as the next concert series attraction it was announced today, the con cert to be Tuesday, Feb. 19 at the senior high school audi torium at 8:15 p. m. The con cert was originally scheduled for Feb. 15. aiso announced was the ap pearance of the Markova Dolin ballet troupe on Monday, Feb. 25. of Jap Atrocity (Acme Tclcttliotot city's 7,454,995 residents to the brink of a fuel famine. 2; The magazine Iron Age predicted that 750,000 CIO steel workers would be back on their Jobs by early next week. 3. Ford Motor Co. announced that it had laid off 40,000 U. S. workers because of steel short ages. Eight thousand Canadian workers were to be sent home at midnight tonight. 4. Twelve hundred AFL mill workers left their jobs at a De troit Chrysler Corp. plant In a jurisdictional dispute. 9. The four major rubber companies and the United Rub ber Workers union (CIO) agreed to meet In Washington, Feb. 18 to work out a settlement of their dispute on an industry-wide basis. Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York announced the end of the tugboat" strike last night. He said the 3,500 AFL crewmen and the 94 tug companies had agreed to arbitration of their wage dispute by a three-man board. , Iron Age, authoritative trade paper of the steel industry, said U. S. Steel Corp. and the CIO United Steel Workers had reach ed agreement on practically all points except retroactivity of a proposed wage increase. E Portland, Ore., Feb. 14 (U.R) Two convicts one serving time for murder tind another for bur glaryescaped from the slato prison at Sulem today, Portland police were notified. The fugitives were Identified as Allen D. Brumfield, a lifer convicted of the 19.19 Portland murder of Mis. Ifntlic Hooker and Harold W. Manning, 20 sentenced from Clackamas counl ly for burglary. Police hero were told the men escaped over the prison wall in a thick fog about 9:30 a. m. but were not missed until the noon check up. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Marian Fisher wishing "side glances" didn't write about the same people all the time. Ernlo Kofoed waiting patient ly at thp Holland coffee shop for his breakfast of ham and eggs only to find out a considerable time later that Waitress Thelma Andrews had forgotten him and hurried off home. Democrats Violet Whittle and Ruth Morris remembering the good neighbor policy and pre senting Earl Ncwbry with enough pineapple for the Lincoln club banquet, same having been secured after much trouble, Washington. Feh 1J nisi The chances nf sviu,,.. -or Pauley being confirmed as unl dersecretnrv nf ... lay shattered today in the wake " oia curmudgeon's depar ture from the Truman cabinet. The old curmudgeon is Secre tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. He will cease to be secretary of interior tomorrow. Doubt Pauley Chance The immediate result was growing doubt that the senate would go along with the PresI dent and okay his controversial choice of Pauley for the navy post. It was Ickes' differences with Mr. Truman over Pauley's qualifications that led the old curmudgeon to resign in a huff. After an exchange of letters adjusting the matter of resigna tion, and a press conference in which Ickes foresaw no future for Mr.. Truman other than trou ble, there were further develop ments. These consisted of the distribution by the retiring cab net officer of an exchange of letters between himself and the President. Here they are, just as they came from the Interior department mimeograph: The White House Washington February 13, I94S My Dear Haroldi I have your letter of February twelfth tendering your resigna. tion as secretary of the Interior. The letter leaves me but one choice of action. I therefore accept your resig nation, effective at the close of business on Friday, February flf. teenth next. I also consider that inn terminates all of your other governmental activities. Under th 1 - ... Kf- - r -- ... w.iar L. Chapman, assistant secretary. . c,ing secretary of the interior. With every goad Very sincerely yours, (Sgd) HARRY TBUMAW. Washington February 13, 114. My Dear Mr. President! I deeply anorectal, eh eroslty and graciousness die played by your letter of Febru ary 13. What Dertlr.M.rl. ... peals to me is your statement "I iso consider that this (my resig nation) terminate! ell f other governmental activities." xou win pardon me If I remark that this is in the nature of su pererogation. I assure you that I have had no secret design, ha, ing resigned as secretary of the interior to hold t ..i... office under your jurisdiction. oincereiy yours, (Sgd) HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior. Westerner Talked IckeS told Preslrtnnt Tn,m.. In an earlier 3,500 word letter he Would milt nn Murfh 91 - sooner as the President wished. ivir. iruman said tomorrow would be about right. The town is speculating on Ickes' succes sor. Almost any western demo crat in or out of office may ex pect to figure In the pre-nomina-tion stakes. There was snneulullnn tr,n about the future of Secretary of vuinuicrcc nenry A. Wallace. He and Ickes were thi iinnHnnt dealers in the cabinet as Mr. .iruman nod reorganized it since Franklin D. Roosevelt died 10 months ago. There were predic tions ncre mat Wallace would be gone before the year is out. ickcs- own future was indef inite. He has been asked to do a newsminer mlumn tin ia in dependently wealthy, lives In iiciuuy jvinryiana Willi a pretty young wife and their family. Ickes docs not have to work if he does not want to. But he Is not one to rntiri at 71 There was speculation that Ickes would Join the CIO's National Political Action mmnilttna In some way possibly as its chief tain, itevcugc is sweet to Ickes. That would be a good spot in which to get some. Can t Commit Perjury Ickes drnnrtoH In a hlnet prose and oratory In which ha submitted his reasons for resign ing to the President and to the Dress. To Mr. Trtimnn ha wnm. ed of the danger of submitting to mo Rind of polilictil pressure which IrH in thn Tau.wit rwm. scandal In the Harding adminis tration 25 years ago. He further said Mr. Truman has expressed "lack of confidence" in him in the Pauley affair. To the press the sharp-tongued cablncteer said he did not "care to stay in an ad ministration where I am expect ed to commit perjury.' He said the President had asked him to "go easy on Ed (Pauley )." i
