Pauley Confirmation Chance Believed Shattered by Ickes' Attack
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Capital Predictions Have
Wallace on Way Out Also;
Ickes' Future Indefinite.
United Prete Full Leased Wire
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OREGON JOURNAL Presi
dent Truman has erred,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 )."
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