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New Wage - Price Formula Opposed By A. F. 1. President
TRUMAN'S PLAN
GREEN'S CLAIM
Program Would Be Blow
At Collective Bargaining,
Union Leader Declares.
By United Preu
President Truman's new wage
price formula designed to break
the nation's reconversion crisis
ran into opposition today from
the American Federation ol La
bor. President William Green, of
the AFL, said the President's
plan was unacceptable. Mr. Tru
man's program was aimed at set
tling strikes Idling 1,529,000
American workers and was spe
cifically directed at walkouts in
the steel, electrical, and automo
tive industries.
CIO-GM Resume
Shortly after the President's
plan was announced General
Motors and the United Automo
bile Workers Union (CIO) pre
pared to resume negotiations in
the 87-day GM strike.
GM President Charles F. Wil
son planned to attend the nego
tiations for the first time since
the strike began, Nov. 21.
In attacking Mr. Truman's
program, Green said it was a
"body blow at free collective
bargaining." .'.,...
He predicted it would "create
widespread social, industrial,
and economic discontent and up
heavals." U. S. Steel Corp. and the CIO
Steel Workers Union reportedly
had reached agreement on all
major issues. Mr. Truman's new
policy 'would permit a steel price
increase of $5 a ton in return for
an 18V4 cent an hour wage boost.
The steel walkout has kept 750,
000 workers idle for 26 days.
An additional one cent an
hour has constituted the major
stumbling block to ending a
t i . . i .nil nnn rir r- . 1
Motors employes, now in its 87th
day. CIO auto workers officials
earlier this week rejected a prof
fered I8V2 cents raise and an
nounced they would not settle
for less than 10Mt.
The wage-price question has
been the critical issue, too, in a
strike of 200,000 CIO electrical
workers against General Elec
tric, Westinghouse and General
Motors' electrical appliance di
vision. GM electrical workers
are voting this week on a com
pany offer of an 18',4 cents an
hour increase.
The President's policy, based
on higher living costs, permits
somewhat higher wage increases
than previously, as well as easier
relief for employers who raise
wages.
Other labor developments:
1. Ford Motor Co. reported
that its last operating plant at
Richmond, Calif., would close
tonight because of the steel
shortage.
2. Three persons were injured
yesterday when AFL pickets
clashed with non-strikers at the
Hicks Body Co., Lebanon, Ind.
TAC0MA ELECTRICIANS
PLAN MONDAY STRIKER
Tacoma. Wash.. Feb. 15 U.R
Larry Thaller, business agent
for the electrical Workers' union
(AFL). said today the organiza
tion had rejected the city coun
cil's request for a week's delay
In striking in support of wage
demands at Tacoma city light
installations.
Thaller said approximately
200 workers would walk'off the
job at 12:01 a. m. Monday un
less the city granted demands
for a 15 per cent across the
board wage increase and double
time for overtime work.
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Bowles Agrees to Slight Price Increase
Gains Added Power As Inflation Fighter
PI BOWLES 3 col hed
Washington, Feb. 15 (U.R)
Hold-the-Line Chester Bowles,
the government's foremost in
flation fighter, won new power
today and a bigger job as eco
nomic stabilization director.
The OPA chief had to let the
'.'line" bend in order to do it.
CHINA ASKED FOR
Chungking, Feb. 15 (U.R)
The United States has asked
China for a full explanation of
reports that Russia is stripping
all Manchurian industry as "war
booty" without consulting the
other allied powers, an authori
tative source disclosed today.
Chunking. Feb. 15 (U.R)
Competent observers forecast
today Russian troops may re
main in Manchuria a long time
instead . of withdrawing on
schedule.
This informant said Washing
ton has asked Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek's government
for a detailed account of Rus
sian activities in the liberated
Manchurian territories, includ
ing the alleged looting of indus
trial equipment.
Reds Queried Also
Persistent but unconfirmed
reports circulated in Chungking
that the United States dispatched
a similar request to the Soviet
government.
The American action was un
derstood to have been taken aft
er Chiang expressed concern to
the United States over the con
tinued presence of the Red army
in Manchuria. The Russians
originally were scheduled to
leave the territory last Decem
ber, but their departure has been
postponed several times and no
definite date has yet been fixed,
U. S. Kept Out
American concern apparently
centered on the reported indus
trial looting by Russian troops in
Manchuria, particularly since the
United States reparations com
mittee headed by Edwin W.
Pauley only recently was refused
permission to enter the Russian
held territory.
It was pointed out that an al
lied reparations committee al
ready is functioning in Germany
on disposition of German indus
trial equipment, whereas the
United States has no voice in the
disposal of Manchurian indus
tries, although it was the prin
cipal foe of Japan throughout
the war.
VETS GET PREFERENCE
Sacramento, Feb. 15 The
state assembly voted today to
give veterans an added chance
at state jobs, passing a bill in
creasing the veterans preference
in civil service examinations
front i to 10 points.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1946.
Sile Selection Debated by
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He agreed to a policy of more
liberal price increases than he
previously had favored to offset
wage raises.
But he got the stabilization
position, in which he will have
control over hotti wages and
prices in carrying out President
Truman's new wage-price policy.
From that command post he will
now fight a new campaign to
hold the somewhat inflationary
line to which he has retreated.
Mr. Truman announced that
Bowles would succeed to the
stabilization post in which Judge
John C. Collet has been having
an unhappy time trying to recon
cile conflicting pressures. Col
let will return to the. federal
bench in Missouri.
Under Bowles in charge of
OPA, will be Paul A. Porter, an
other advocate of a firm hold-the-line
policy. Porter recently
has been chairman of the Fed
eral Communications commis
sion, but previously was rent ad
ministrator in OPA. FCC Com
missioner Charles E. Denny, Jr.,
will become acting chairman of
the FCC.
Also under Bowles, on the
wage side of the picture, will be
the wage stabilization board. W.
W. Wirtz will continue to head
Bowles' new office as stabiliza-
DOG SAVES CHILD FROM
"BIG KITTY" IN YARD
Kane, Pa., Feb. 15 (U.R)
Four-year-old ClmiHr. t.tii,,,i
er, Jr., today owed his life to
nis daddy's mongrel watch dog
Who Was killed ua hn hD.k
a warning when a "big kitty"
came imo me yard where
Claude was playing.
The "big kitty" was a moun
tain lion.
The lion had escaped from a
nrivate 700 nhnill nnn milA frnm
the Mollander home in a heav
ily wooded section near here.
, BELL BUILDING SOLD
Los Angeles, Feb. 15 (U.R)
Louis Newman, of Los Angeles,
today was the new owner of the
Continental building, one of the
properties of Arthur L. Bell's
bankrupt Church of the Golden
Rule, now being liquidated.
Newman paid $410,000 for the
building.
Destruction of Navy Supplies on
Guadalcanal Told by Ex-Officer
Los Angeles, Feb. 15 (U.R)
Merchant Capt. F. K. Williams,
a former lieutenant commander
in the navy, charged today that
hundreds of navy Jeeps in good
condition had been driven into
the bay at Guadalcanal.
"I saw hundreds of navy jeeps
driven into the bay." the skipper
of the Lilxrty ship Morgan Hob
ertson said after docking here.
"I saw two enormous cranes,
scores of small cranes and 50 or
more trucks dunked into thous
ands of fathoms of water."
William said 10 new fire
trucks were destroyed on the
ground at Guadalcanal, 3,600,000
UNO
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tion director falls under the
technical jurisdiction of John W.
Snyder, the reconversion direc
tor. Their exact relationship is
still to be defined by the pres
ident. It was plain, however, that
Bowles had been assured of a
substantially free hand in ad
ministering the new wage-price
policy or he would not have
taken the job.
L
IN SLOW FLIGHT
New York, Feb. 15 (U.R)
Transcontinental and Western
Air inaugurated non-stop cross
country air service today, and
such an inauguration you never
did see.
The pilot was a young man,
named Howard Hughes, with
$125,000,000 in the bank. The
passengers ranged from the
brightest stars of Hollywood,
such as Paulcttc Goddard, who
got on the plane laden with
Mothersill's seasick remedy, to
photographers and newspaper
men. Hughes wanted to set a rec
ord but he didn't make it. The
trip from Burbank to LaGuardia
field, New York, took eight
hours, 38 minutes, or more than
an hour longer than the com
mercial record set Feb. 3 by
another TWA constellation..
COLD WAVE SWINGS
TOWARD NEW ENGLAND
By United Press
The severest cold wave of the
year tightened its grip on the
Great Lakes region today and
began swinging into New Eng
land. The U. S. weather bureau said
Intensely cold air was pouring
over the Ohio and Mississippi
river valleys toward the Allnntic
seaboard and the gulf states.
The 100-mile ara surrounding
Chicago was covered with a lay
er of Ice under three to five
inches of snow. M Chicago the
mercury dipped to three below
at 4 a. m., a drop of 27 degrees
since yesterday noon.
feet of lumber and countless
wooden buildings burned and a
warehouse 150 feet long emptied
of thousands of good tires which
took six bulldozers three days to
bury-
"The navy scuttled a landing
craft tank loaded with pumps.
engines, concrete mixers, pipe
wrenches." Capt. Williams said.
"In fact I raided their big two
door ice box and salvaged 47
pounds of butter, several slabs of
bacon and numerous hams be
fore they sank the ship. Canned
goods galore, including aspara
gus tips and pineapples, were
dktroyed witb ths ship.
ON PEARL GUILT
Chairman Barkley Says Re
port Will Be Ready June 1;
Extension Will Be Asked.
Washington. Feb. 15 (U.R)
The Pearl Harbor committee
heard today that tHe late Presi
dent Roosevelt saw part of
Japan's final intercepted diplo
matic note the night of Dec.
S, 1941, and immediately an
ticipated war.
A naval officer who deliver
ed the Intercepted message to
the White House, told the com
mittee Mr. Roosevelt read It
for 10 or 15 minutes, turned
to the late Harry L. Hopkins,
his confidential adviser, "and
said, 'this means war'."
Washington, Feb. 15 (U.R)
Chairman Alben W. Barkley of
the congressional Pearl Harbor
inquiry said today his committee
plans to wind up public hearings
next Wednesday and present its
report by June 1.
Barkley announced after an
executive session of the com
mittee that he will ask congress
to extciid-the inquiry deadline
to June 1, but that all "present
prospective -witnesses" would .be
heard by Wednesday.
This - remark indicated that
some committee members may
wish to call other witnesses not
yet announced for further ques
tioning later.
Non-Delivery
Earlier the committee learned
that a breakdown in the war de
partment's message delivery
system prevented the army's
high command receiving an in
tercepted Japanese response to
a last minute U. S. peace pro
posal on the evening preceding
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Col. Rufus S. Bratton, 1941
chief of the army's Far Eastern
intelligence section, admitted
that no delivery of the 13-part
intercept was made to Gen.
George C. Marshall, then chief of
staff, until nearly noon on Pearl
Harbor Sunday.
Committee members, counsel
and Bratton clashed repeatedly
with edgy tempers in connection
with changes in Bratton's testi
mony.
GOLD HILL'BOY HIT
BY AUTO ON HIGHWAY
Gold Hill, Feb. 15 Steven
Bauer, 6, returned to his home
here today from a Grants Pass
hospital where he was taken
Thursday after being struck by
an automobile near McDonald's
Cabins, two miles west of here.
His mother, Mrs. Hazel Craig,
said the boy was apparently re
covering satisfactorily.
The first grade pupil was
struck by a Ford coupe driven
by i. e. Yannayon of Sacra
mento when he ran in front of
the car while crossing the street
to meet a school bus. The boy
suffered bruises and shock and
was rendered unconscious.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ed. Canoosc trying to tie a
ribbon on "Snafu" the parrot.
with much noise from Snafu dur
ing the process.
Florence Dean thinking it
worthy of mention, since Crater
Lake is so often credited to Cali
fornia, to note that yesterday
a broadcasting company kindly
moved Seattle down into Oregon.
Charlie Hoover so pleased
over certain new services ren
dered him and fellow Route 4
residents that he even parted
with a pound of butter.
Oris Crawford celebrating his
birthday yesterday and being
tcasingly referred to "as a comic
valentine.''
United Preu Full
Stettinius Urges j
Troop Withdrawal
In Syria, Lebanon
London, Feb. 15 (U.R) Ed
ward R. Stettinius, Jr., of the
United States appealed today be
fore the United Nations security
council for the early withdrawal
of Apglo-French troops from
Syria and Lebanon.
Stettinius threw the support
of the United States behind a
Syrian-Lebanese demand for the
unconditional with d r a w a 1 of
Anglo-French troops from the
Levant in the closing hours of
the security council's work here.
This was the lust problem before
the council.
Rvrin nnH T.phnnnn Hpmnnd-
ing the withdrawal from their
territory, asked the council to
supervise it.
AMERICAN LEGION
CONVENTION HERE
JULY 29, 30, 31
Mcdford will be host for the
big slate convention of the
Oregon department of the
American Legion, July 29, 30,
and 31, It was announced today
by Glenn Jackson, convention
general chairman.
' It will be the first post war
Legion convention In Oregon
and It Is expected to be the
largest In the history of the
state department. Over 150
posts will be represented. Many
of them new posts and some are
made up entirely of World War
II veterans. .
World War II members, who
already outnumber the War 1
members are expected to take
over the convention.
Chairman Jackson will an
nounce committee appointments
and general convention plans in
a few days.
Bengtson Files For
Legislative Return
O. H. Bengtson, Medford at
torney who served as represen
tative from tills district to the
stale legislature the past two
years, has filed his declaration
of candidacy for the coming elec
tion according to a news dis
patch from Salem. Bengtson, re
publican, stated several days ago
that he planned to seek re-election.
KIDNAP HOAXER FREE
OF MURDER CHARGES
Boston, Feb. 15 (U.R) Mrs.
Rose Carlan, 23-year-old mother
who aroused the nation's sym
pathy for 16 days with the hoax
that her baby son had been kid
naped, was freed today of a
manslaughter charge in the in
fant's death.
Mrs. Carlan was arrested
Dec. 14 shortly after police
found the body of her 6-month
old baby Ronald hidden beneath
the drawer of a China closet In
her tenement. The discovery of
the body ended a 16-day kidnap
hunt in which Mrs. Carlan had
said the baby was stolen from
his carriage outside her home.
Tremblor Not Felt in This Region;
Crater Activity Check Impossible
Earthquake shocks which
shook coastal points in Washing
ton and northern Oregon last
night apparently were not felt
in the Rogue River Valley.
Weather station attendants at
the airport stated this morning
that there was no evidence of
the quake at the station, and that
the staff had no indication of the
disturbance until reports began
to come In on the teletypes.
Many stations north of here re
ported the quake, and one naval
weather station reported that
the staff had been forced to va
cate Die station, It was said.
Crater Lake National Park
service employes stated that
jinca no one is now at the park
Leaied Wire
NO. 278.
4-F'SFOR ARMY
Most of Inductees Will Be
Non-Fathers 250,000
Draftees Needed Is Word.
Washington, Feb. 15 (U.R
The nation's draft boards began
combing their registration lists
today for younger 4-F's to meet
the army's critical need for oc
cupation troops.
The army, admitting defeat
in its efforts to obtain fully fit
men, asked selective service to
funnel 75,000 physical rejects
into uniform by the end of
April.
These will be in addition to
the 50,000 men a month the
army has requested from the
draft system to meet Its dis
charge program and still retain
a strength of 1,500,000 men on
June 30.
Mostly Non-Fathers
The 4-F's for the most part
will be taken from the ranks of
non-fathers between the ages of
18 and 25 who previously quail
fled for limited service but
wore not taken because of over
flowing quotas. -
The draftees also will in
clude some with physical dis
abilities at present deferred for
agriculture and occupational
reasons.
The army admitted the new
order would lower efficiency
and result In a larger percen
tage of disability discharges but
It said there was no alternative.
It was pointed out that the
army must have 250,000 draft
ees during the first five months
of the year.
STOLENCARCLUE
IN CONS' ESCAPE
Salem, Ore.. Feb. 15 (U.R)
State police today were investigating-
a stolen car report as a
possible clue in their hunt for
two "dangerous!' Oregon State
convicts who escaped over the
prison wall yestcrduy. '
The automobile was reported
as stolen from the Kciser dis
trict, five miles north of here.
Police said the vehicle may have
been used by the two convicts,
Allen D. Brumficld, 31. and
Arnold W. Manning, 24, as a get
away car after they broke out of
their cell and scaled the wall in
a thick fog.
The fugitives were described
by Warren George Alex
ander as "dangerous." Brum-
field a convicted murderer, was
serving a life sentence, and
Manning was serving time for
burglary and for arson within
the prison.
Using soup and green Ink to
cover up their work, the two had
sawed through a baron their cell
door.
headquarters or lake, there was
no way of determining what
might have taken place In the
crater or that vicinity. Since
the United States Geological
Survey sent a geologlist to the
lake this winter to Install a hy
drophone in an attempt to de
termine if there is a recurrence
of volcanic activity in the crater
regret was expressed that the
instrument was not working and
under observation last night
during the quake. The cable
connecting the hydrophone and
the recording drum was broken
by a snowslide shortly after Its
installation and the dangerous
task it repairing It was post
ruined and the geologist departed
fur the wkL
EVER RECORDED
Seattle Damage Between
Quarter and Half Million
Dollars Several Injured.
Seattle, Wash.. Feb. 15 U.R)
An earthquake described by
seismologists as the worst In th
history of the Pacific northwest
rocked a 60,000-square mile area
last night and caused damage
that may run Into hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
In Seattle alone the city en
gineers department estimated
damage at between $250,000 and
$500,000.
Several persons suffered slight
Injuries when the quake rumbled
along a 300-mile coastwise front,
tumbling merchandise from the
shelves of drugstores, restaurants
and taverns.
Second Shock
A second "after-shock" quake
of minor intensity occurred at
4:16 a. m. today, lasting two
minutes, but passed unnoticed
except by relatively few all
night workers throughout Wash-.
ington state.
Although no serious casualties
were reported, cities from Salem,
Ore., to Vancouver, B. C, re
ported cracked walls In build
ings, falling plaster, broken mer
chandise and shattered plate
glass windows.
Startled residents ran scream-'
Ing into the streets In several
northwest cities, Including Se
ultle, Tacoma, Bremerton, Olym
pia and Wenatchee, Wash. Thea
ters in most cities were emptied
within a few minutes when
frightened patrons scurried for
exits.
The shock, recorded by the
University of Washington seis
mograph at 7:18 p. m, (PSTJ, was
reported to have been felt In
more than 30 cities along the
coast and 300 miles Inland to'
Spokane, Wash.
Needle Thrown Off
The seismograph needle at the
university's geology laboratory
was thrown completely off Its
cylinder by the sudden tremor
for the first time since it was in
stalled. Professor G. E. Good
speed said.
"It was the strongest shock
In my 27-year experience at the
university," Dr. Goodspeed, ex
ecutive director of the geology
department, said. "Disturbances
kept registering on the seismo
graph for 16 minutes after the
actual quake."
Goodspeed and Assistant Ge
ologist Howard A. Coombs classi
fied the tremor as "plus-six" In
tensity, twothlrds as strong as
the disastrous 1906 San Fran
cisco earthquake. Goodspeed and
Coombs at first had logged the
tremblor as "plus five."
Olympia Center
Coombs said the direction ot
the quake was unknown but
scismographic recordings indi
cated that its epicenter was
"slightly north and west" of
Olympia, Wash., where the most
extensive damage was reported.
Authorities In Olympia, Wash
ington's capital city, reported
100-foot cornice fell from the
lop of a downtown six-story
building and crashed on a first
story roof. One drugstore closed
after hundreds of bottles toppled
Into the aisles and another re
ported that Us cntlro perfume
counter was shattered by the
force of the quake.
Cities and towns throughout
the area reported extensive dam
age in homes, confined mostly
to broken dishes, wall pictures
and floor lamps. One Seattlo
family narrowly escaped Injury
when a new eight-foot-high stone
wall crumbled into the back
yard.
Smith Tower Sways
Heaviest single damage was
reported at the Seattlo Fisher
Flouring mills where a 100.000
gallon tank of water burst atop
the 14-story elevator and seeped
through thousands of bushels of
stored wheat. An old two-story
brick building crumbled In south
Seattle and water mains burst In
several sections of town.
Coast cities, Including Tacoma,
Olympia, Bremerton and Seattle,
reported the most severe effects.
Observers saw the 42-story
Smith tower, Seattle's highest
structure, sway "several feet"
north and south. A radio station
In the tower shut off Its power
for 10 minutes.
BUS DRIVERS RETURN
Spokane, Wash., Feb. 15 (U.B
Overland Greyhound bus drivers
In Spokane and Walla Walla
have ended their 137-day strike
with a 28 to four vote In favor
of returning to work.