Anti-British Riots Bre? V Out in Madras As Bombay Mutiny Quelled
STRIKERS BATTLE
CIVIL POLICE AT
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1946.
NO. 286.
New Trouble Threatens to
Disrupt Uneasy Truce
Gandhi In Effort to Pacify
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.Bombay, Feb. 25 (U.R)
Anti-British rioting broke out
in the Indian east coast port of
Madras today as authorities re
stored order in Bombay after
four days of mutiny11 and mob
violence in which 231 persons
were killed and 1,066 injured.
Dispatches from Madras said
striking transport and factory
workers stoned British military
trucks and battled civil police
forces around the city railway
station.
Protest Strike
There was no immediate
word on the casualties at Ma
dras, where the workers de
clared a general strike in pro
test against the British suppres
sion of the Indian navy mutiny
and civilian rioting in Bombay.
The outbreak threatened to
disrupt the uneasy truce pre
vailing in Bombay, where Brit
ish headquarters ordered five
courts of inquiry established to
investigate last week's mutiny
and the subsequent rioting.
Mahandas K. Gandhi was
scheduled to meet this after
noon in Poona with ,the Aga
Khan and the Newab of Bhopal
in an effort to work out a
peaceful settlement of the dis
orders. Cairo, Feb. 25 U.R) A high
ranking senator said today that
Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha has
sent a note to the British gov
ernment blaming British troops
for causing the fatal rioting in
Cairo last Thursday.
Sidki succeeded in getting
student and labor leaders to
call off a general strike schedul
ed for today, promising them
that he would do his utmost to
fulfill their demands for with
drawal of British troops from
Egypt.
The Premier promised the
youth leaders that political de
velopments "ia.lhe.Jiext few
days probably would ease the
present tension between Bri
tain and Egypt.
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J. Frank Carson of Butte Falls
was named foreman of the new
grand jury drawn at the opening
of the February term of circuit
court today. Other members are:
Frank Carter, Gold Hill; Don H.
Cruikslfank and Orville A. Eden,
both Medford; John P. Daugher
ty and Clinton H. Dunlap, both
Ashland, and Arthur C. Davies,
Jacksonville. i
It was expected that the grand
jury session would conclude its
work late today.
The auto damage suit of Billie
Ekeetcrs and husband against
Fred Svinth, all' of Prospect,
scheduled for jury trial today,
was settled out of court. The
petit jurors called for service
were excused by the court sub
ject to call.
INJURED BY CAR
James H. Owen, 15 Keene Way
drive, is in Sacred Heart hos
pital with injuries sustained
when struok by a Rogue Valley
bus driven by Joe E. Kingsley,
on Central ave. near the Cratcr
ian theater at about 2:10 p. m. to
day. Mr. Owen, former superin
tendent of the Medford corpora
tion and widely known in the
valley, was said to be uncon
; scious and to have head lacera
tions. i Owen had just arrived in the
UI3UIII, UUVIIIg
brought to town by his wife who
returned home immediately.
Doctors were summoned from
the Fluhrer building and the un
conscious man was later taken to
the hospital in the Conger-Morris
ambulance.
There are about 96 million
seres of sagebrush lands on the
western range.
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Questioned
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(Acme Tetephoio
Alonzo Flores, 30, was arrested in Loa
Angeles, Calif., for questioning in
connection with kidnaping of six-year-old
Rochelle Gluskoter, missing
since Friday. Flores served a five
month sentence In 1940 for a sex
offense.
ILLEGALLY TRIED
Washington, Feb. 25 (U.R
The supreme-court today declar
ed unlawful the wartime mili
tary trials of two civilians under
martial law in the Hawaiian is
lands. Justice Hugo L. Black deliv
ered the 6 to 2 opinion.
' The two Hawaiian civilians
were convicted io provost courts
that were established by the U.
S. army in the islands during
the war.
Embezzlement Charged
Harry E. White, a Honolulu
stockbroker, was sentenced to a
five-year prison term for em
bezzlement. He was tried before
a military court on Aug. 25,
1942, but sought freedom on a
writ of habeas corpus in 1944.
Lloyd C. Duncan, a naval
worker, was tried by the mili
tary on March 2, 1944, and given
a six-months prison sentence for
assault and battery on two ma
rine sentries at the Pearl Har
bor navy yard.
The U. S. district court for
Hawaii granted writs of habeas
corpus to both White and Dun
can ruling provost trials in both
instances invalid. Hie ninth cir
cuit court of appeals reversed
their judgments, remanding the
men to the custody of the army.
No Military Offense
In appealing to the supreme
court. White contended that he
was tried by a military tribunal
for an offense in no way related
to military operations and that
the suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus in the territory
was illegal in 1944.
Duncan claimed that the rul
ing against him would create a
precedent which would permit
"the complete suppression of
civil government in time of war
after a declaration of martial
law."
Stalin Supreme
Over Red Forces
London, Feb. 25 U.R The
Moscow radio announced to
night that Premier Stalin had
been appointed commissar for
armed forces and supreme com
mander in chief of all Soviet
forces by a decree of the
Supreme Soviet.
BEBE HAS BABE
Chicago. Feb. 25 iU.RI
Bebc and her offspring were do
ing nicely today, but the stork
was exhausted from his swim.
Bebe, the 3.500 pound hippo
potamus at the Brookfield Zoo.
gave birth to her sixth calf
yesterday in the tepid water of
the hippopotamus pool. ,
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COST OF L
BY NEWjflCY
Eccles Sees Possibility Ten
Per Cent Rise Now 30
.Per Cent Above Pre-War
Washington, Feb. 25 (U.R)
Federal Reserve Board Chair
man Marriner S. Eccles said to
day there was a possibility the
cost of living may increase by
another 10 per cent under Pres
ident Truman's new wage-price
policy.
Eccles told the house banking
committee that the cost of liv
ing now is 30 per cent higher
than during the period imme
diately preceding the war.
May Reach 40 Pet.
"I should think that with the
increased wages and prices un
er the new wage-policy," he
said, "there is a possibility, ac
cording to some estimates, of an
increase to a maximum of 40
per cent.
"I think that if the cost of
living can be held to 40 per
cent over the pre-war cost then
we will have done a good job
in view of the large public
financing."
- Eccles testified in- support of
a bill to continue the price con
trol law for another year after
the June 30 expiration date. He
told the committee that "wage
increases can only be justified
when they can be met out of in
creased productivity and pro
fits without increasing prices."
, Control Needed
He said it would be highly
dangerous to remove price con
trols in an effort to increase
production, as some groups, in
cluding the national association
of manufacturers, have propos
ed. "To argue against all price
controls," Eccles said, "is like
arguing against all vaccination;
that it is better to contract
smallpox and take a chance on
recovering from it rather than
to take preventative measures."
Eccles testified at committee
hearings on extending price and
rent controls beyond the pres
ent June 30 expiration date.
Eccles said the supply of
money in the hands of those
who want to spend is greater
today than ever before
Majority of
Think New
, In spite of the "griping" com
monly heard in recent days
about the installation of parking
meters in Medford, a majority of
motorists believe they will ease
the parking situation and are re
signed to their use, a survey
made this morning by Tribune
reporters indicates. Some main
tained they were "a nuisance"
and would result in many people
paying fines because they would
forget, but a large majority
thought the good points over
shadowed the inconvenience. .
The prediction that many
"would forget" to put the neces
sary coins In the meters was
borne out by city police who
cited about 50 persons before
noon today.
It was noted during the sur
vey that almost all of the per
sons had used the meters in
other coast cities, indicating their
widespread use by other munici
palities. Some of the comments were
as follows:
WARREN MEE, 1600 Crown
street, parking In front of
Adrienne's: "Thi'y're a good
thing but a lot of people who
never paid fines in their lives
will be paying because they
(meters) are so- easy to forget."
Mee has experienced meters be
fore in Richmond, Cal.
A. N. POTTER, 32 Myrtle
street, stopping in front of
Mann's department store: "1
Russian Freezeout
F ostered By Big-4
Fascists Is Claim
Washington, Feb. 25 (U.R)
Elements within the American,
British and French governments
were accused today of deliber
ately fostering Big Four disunity
in an apparent effort to create
a three-power western bloc
against Russia.
Russell A. Nixon, former of
ficial of the American Military
government in Germany, told a
senate subcommittee that this
trend was evident in the fact that
the United States, Britain and
France had squeezed Russia out
of the Allied hunt for German
assets in neutral countries.
If Russia were allowed to join
in, Nixon said, it would "lay
bare the Fascist or reactionary
regimes in countries such as
Spain, Portugal, Switzerland,
Sweden and Argentina and
would reveal all the elements of
collaboration of certain interests
in the Allied countries with these
regimes."
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Central Point, Feb. 25 Bids
for the work of installing new
water mains and the main con
necting the city with the Med
ford water system will be open
ed at 7:30 p.m. today when the
council meets here.
Submission of nine or ten
bids is expected according to
City Recorder Guy Tex who
states the exact number can not
be predicted since a majority of
the bidders may apply in per
son. Tex has received 17 re
quests for plans on the project.
Survivors Taken
From Russian Ship
Kodiak. Alaska, Feb. 25 U.R)
Three Russian rescue ships
have removed survivors and
stores from the wallowing bow
of the storm-halved tanker
Donbass, wrecked by north Pa
cific storms, and have refused
offered American aid, navy
headquarters here said today.
The American tanker Pucnte
Hills Friday had removed 23
Russian crewman and women
from the stern half of the Don
bass, and after making tow
lines fast has started to haul
the aft-section to Seattle, or
Portland.
Parking Motorists
System Improvement
guess they're all right. You can
find a place to park now." He
stated that he had used parking
meters a good many times while
traveling in the northwest.
KENNETH KAMBURG, 740
W. Jackson street; parking in
front of Anders' photo shop:
"Personally, I don't like them.
They're Just a nuisance." Ham
burg has previously experienced
the devices in Portland.
LOUISE PHILLIPS, 1104 W.
Fourth street, parked In front of
The Shack: "I think they're all
right. I'm kind of used to them.
I've used them before In
Eugene."
R. E. GILMORE, 735 W. 14lh
street, stopping in front of
Adrienne's: "I don't mind them
They're all right with me. At
least you can find a place to
park." He has utilized the ma'
chines In Sacramento.
MRS. J. O. COOKSEY, wife
of Cooksey Motors owner, de
positing her first coin In front of
the Nu Way Cleaners: "1 think
they're swell." She thought the
devices eased the parking situa
tion and particularly liked the
necessity for having to put pen
nies, only, in for short time park
ing. W. C. LATOURETTE, J317.N
Riverside avenue, commenting
on the non-existence of loading
zones for commercial vehicles as
he hailed briefly in front t
Walt's Radio Shop, thought: "It
OF
FAVOR OVER AFL
Stabilization Director Asked
By Sen. Bridges To Com
ment On Letter Sent CIO
Washington, Feb. 25 (U.PJ
President Truman today form
ally ordered the re-establishment
of the Office of Economic
Stabilization.
Chester Bowles, former price
administrator, will be stabiliza
tion director.
He will take office facing a
demand to confirm or deny that
he committed himself in advance
lo a wage increase policy favor
able to the CIO and unfavorable
to the AFL or unaffiliated
workers.
Board Re-Established
The executive order also re
established the Economic Stabi
lization board. It will consist of
Bowles, the secretaries of Treas
ury, Agriculture, Commerce and
Labor, the Federal Loan aamin-
istrator, the chairman of the
Federal Reserve board, the uua
get director, the chairman of the
Securities and Exchange commis
sion, the Price administrator, the
National -liapslng -administrator
and the chairman of tne jvauonai
Wneo Stabilization board.
The board also will include
two representatives each of
labor, management and agricul
ture to be appointed by the pres
ident. The request tor a statement by
Bowles on his wage-price policy
was made by Sen. Styles Bridges,
R., N. H., on the basis of a letter
he said Bowles sent to CIO Pres
ident Philip Murray.
Bridges charged that the "out
standing feature" on the letter
was a "definite promise that,
upon becoming stabilization di
rector, you would Issue a wage
order of great advantage to all
steel workers belonging to the
CIO and to the distinct disad
vantage of all steel workers be
longing to the AFL or other
unions, or none.
If that promise were intended.
Bridges wrote Bowles, "do you
now consider that you had any
right to make such a pledge of
favoritism to Mr. Murray before
assuming the high office to
which you have been named?
doesn't make much difference,
though, perhaps, It's really too
early to tell."
MRS. NAOMI HOWARD,
housewife who resides on Route
2, and formerly made her home
in Portland, said, after deposit
ing two coins in front of 128
West Main street with slight dif
ficulty: "They're OK, although
I've always found parking space
before. They will cut out all
day parking for purely sight-seeing
reasons but It is alright with
me.
M. R. LEONARD, new city
resident now employed at the
city reservoir site, pulled up at
the curb in the 200 block on
West Main and prepared to pay
the machine. Ho said: "For
short-time parking, meters are
fine. Shopping time is cut
greatly by finding parking space
within a reasonable time."
MEAT CUTTER, employed by
Quality Market, said: "Deliveries
are made with more ease because
I need not waste time finding
parking space. Then too. I am
in favor of paying for parking in
Hint it aids customers."
DRIVER, for Marsh and Bak
cr painter's truck, parked on
North Grape street near Main:
"I believe the city was very wise
In stalling parking meters. My
work requires many short stops
in the business district and I'll
save time and with enforce
ment of the new ordinance."
Sister Kills Brother's Sweetheart
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Mrs. Amelia Muriel Zambik, 37 (right), who told Los Angeles police she
shot and killed her 35-year-old brother's sweetheart, Mrs. Lucille Logan,
26, mother of five, because she thought the girl was ruining his life. The
brother, Robert Hnthcock (left), said that he "didn't understand It at all."
Commies Look to Unions and Farms
For More Members During Turmoil
Washington, Feb. 25 (U.R)
American communist leaders are
calling today for a left wing re
cruiting drive looking to a third
party movement in the 1048
presidential elections. -
Party Secretary William t.
Foster has passed the word that
"the difficult political and eco
nomic problems in lite United
States provide an opportunity
for recruiting drive whicn will
greatly increase the number of
his followers. The communists
are looking to labor unions and
the farms for their recruits.
They are depending on the
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BALLOT COUNT IN
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Buenos Aires, Feb. 25 (U.R)
Argentina, once again under a
state of siege, today began check
ing the estimated 3,100,000 bal
lots cast Sunday to determine
whether Col. Juan D. Peron will
be its next president.
First returns In Pcron's con
test with Dr. Jose Timborlnl,
candidate of the four-pprty demo
cratic union coalition, are not
expected for two or three days.
A complicatec procedure of as
sembling and checking ballot
boxes comes first.
Both Peron and Tamborinl
headquarters claimed victory.
Dr. Enrique M. Mosca, Tambo
rini's running mate, said, "We
have won everywhere." Rear
Admiral Alberto Tcsalrc, one of
Peron's managers, said his re
ports showed that Peron had
swept the country.
Washington, Feb. 25 (U.R)
State department officials today
adopted a strictly wait-and-see
attitude toward the Argentine
elections pending announcement
of the results.
Despite high Interest In the
balloting, officials declined to
speculate on possible future de
velopments In keeping with the
policy of non-Intervention in do
mestic affairs of other American
republics.
It Is no sb te secret that If
Peron becomes president, rela
tlons between Argentina and the
United States arc likely to con
tlnuc strained The United States
"Blue Book" issued on Feb. 11
condemned Peron as a nazl-fa-scist
collaborator, whose follow
ers sought creation ot a totali
ty r i n n state In this hemisphere
Bulletin
Pentacola. Fie., Feb. 25
(U.R) Riy Mangrum, of Los
Angeles, defeated Ben Hogan,
of Harsher. Pa., by three
strokes to win the $7,500 Pen
tacola open golf tournament
play-off.
political action committee mach
inery set up by the Congress of
Industrial Organizations to give
their third party plans a big
boost toward reality.
The plans were revealed pub
licly yesterday In "The Worker,
the Sunday edition of the com
munist newspaper organ which
Is published In New York.
The program means a gradual
break with the Truman adminis
tration which inherited the sup
port of American communists
from the late President Roose
velt. As of now the communist do
mestic program is substantially
parallel with Mr. Truman's poli
cies although he often is bitterly
denounced for failure to go as
far as Foster and his advisers
desire. But the break is wide
open on foreign policy. Amer
ican communists take their basic
party line from Generalissimo
Josef V. Stalin who earlier this
month laid the blame for World
War II on "monopoly capital
ism," which Is the Russian name
for private enterprise.
With that In mind, the Com
munist National committee vot
ed for a mass party organization
for the mass struggle, the ulti
mate objective of which Is stated
to be the nationalization of all
United States Industry. The re
cruiting campaign Is the first
step In this program, 'The
Worker" explains.
few Bates
officially filed
Final date for candidates to
file for nomination in the May
17 primary election is Friday,
March 8. under chnntfrMi navenH
by the last session of the legisla
ture, lo date In this county, the
following filings have been
made:
For county Judge:
J. B, (Blln) Coleman, Incum
bent, Ralph Billings, and George
R. Carter, county clerk, all on
the Republican ticket.
For sheriff:
Howard Gault, Incumbent, and
Vera Smith. Anhlnnrl Rnr.til.ll.
can, and Dick Baize, Medford,
Democratic. Baize is the only
Democrat filing to date.
Circuit Judge Herbert K. Han
na has announced he will seek
renomlnation for the Judicial
district embracing Jackson and
Josephine counties. Circuit
judges In this state run on a non
partisan ticket.
HEDRICK TO SPEAK AT
JUNIOR CHAMBER MEET
E. H. Hcdrick, city superin
tendent of schools, will explain
the city school expansion pro
gram at a meeting of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce at 8 p. m.
Tuesday.
The meetlnff will hn h1,1 In
the Chamber of Commerce office
on West Main street and all men
between 21 and. 35 years of age
are invited, it was stated.
PORT PARALYSIS
IS
Break Comes When CIO Su
percargoes and Checkers
Union Contract Cancelled
Portland, Ore., Feb. 25 (U.R)
A strike expected to paralyze
the Portland waterfront began
at 10 a. m. today when members
of the CIO Supercargoes and
Checkers union walked out after
cancellation of their contract by
the waterfront employers of
Portland.
Contract cancellation by the
Employers' association followed
failure to reach an agreement
with the union over arbitration
of the union's demands as to
number of checkers to be em
ployed. Formerly AFL union 38-78,
the unit transferred as 1-40 In
ternational Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's union (CIO) but
failed to obtain war labor board
certification. The employers Sun
day night agreed to recognize
the CIO affiliate as bargaining
agent as soon as labor relations
board certification Is forthcom
ing.
PITTSBURGH FACE
MIDNIGHT STRIKE
By United Press
Two great American cities
were threatened today with para
lyzing strikes.
At Pittsburgh a power strike
was scheduled for midnight to
night. The government made an
eleventh-hour effort to avert the
walkout.
At Houston the AFL Building
Trades council ordered 40,000
AFL workers not to report for
their jobs tomorrow In a one
day sympathy demonstration
supporting 700 striking munici
pal employes.
886.000 Idle
Across the nation, 886,000
workers were kept idle by
strikes.
At Washington, Secretary of
Labor Lewis B. Schwelleubach
asked Duquesne Light Co. and
union spokesmen to submit a
wage dispute to arbitration if it
were not settled before the strike
deadline. -
Detroit was faced by a new
food shortage when 15 bakeries
shut down following the strike
of AFL teamsters ugalnst one
company to support wage de
mands. Delroitcrs continued to
line up to buy milk in the wake
of a dairy workers walkout.
In the major developments:
1. Acting City Manager J. M.
Nuglo ordered final pay checks
made out for striking city em
ployes of Houston, whom he said
were "considered as having cjult"
because they did not report for
work this morning.
2. Federal Labor Conciliator
Walter Green reported both par
tics were making "an honest ef
fort" toward settlement of the .
Detroit milk strike which hai
halted deliveries to nearly two
million persons since last Thurs
day. Call Off Bus Strike
3. AFL bus drivers for the
Chicago and Calumet District
Transit company called off a
strike, set for 3:30 a. m. today,
and agreed to submit their wage
dispute to arbitration.
4. Gcncinl Motors and CIO
United Auto Workers officials
resumed negotiations with at
least three major issues barring
immediate settlement of their
tengthy dispute, now in its B7th
day.
The same man, A. J. Mussel
man, who Invented balloon tires
for airplanes also Invented the
zipper golf-bug.