Russia Sidesteps Big 3 Agreement on Iran Withdrawal
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PARTIAL FORCE TO
STAY IN COUNTRY
IS BLUNTiTICE
Red Control to Continue in
Northwest Area Where
Radicals Have Set Regime
London-, March 1 (U.R)
Russia today sidestepped the
Big Three agreement calling
l.n ,.,;tU4caiira1 nt nil
f J allied troops from Iran by
March 2, and announced inai
part of the Soviet occupation
force would remain "until the
situation has been cleared."
All American troops already
v,rf left the troubled little
V country through which United
7 f States lend-lease supplies flow-
' ed to Soviet Russia during the
t ni it nnn
British soldiers in southern
Iran were . scheduled to be out
by the week-end.
No Date Set
But Radio Moscow announc
ed bluntly that only part of the
Red army's occupation force
would "begin withdrawing" on
tomorrow's deadline and it set
no definite date for final evacu
ation from the country.
The Soviet broadcast said
word of the Kremlin's decision
already had been communicated
to the Iranian delegation head
ed by Premier Ahmad Ghavam
Sultaneh which is now nego
tiating the dispute in Moscow.
The broadcast indicated that
the areas which would remain
under Red army control were
in northwestern Iran, in the re
bellious Azerbaijan district
where left-wing elements al
ready have broken with the
Tehran government and set up
their own autonomous regime.
Trouble Point
Azerbaijan was the focal
point of the Soviet-Iranian dis
pute which for a time threaten--ed
to wreck Big Three unity at
the recent United Nations or
ganization meeting in London.
t. wont before the UNO
security council to accuse Rus
f airline the Azerbaijan re-
j volt and of interfering with the
f r'country's Internal - affairs. A
security council snowaown on
the issue was avoided when
Iranian delegates agreed to ne
gotiate the issue directly with
Russia, with the stipulation that
the UNO could take up . the
problem again if no settlement
were reached. ....
U. S. Will Battle
To Keep Charter
Byrnes' Warning
New York, March 1 U.R)
The United States will fight if
necessary to defend the princi
ples of the United Nations char
ter, "the only road to peace,"
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes said last night.
"In the interests of our com
mon and traditional friendship
we must make it plain that the
United States intends to defend
the charter," Byrnes said in an
address at the overseas press
club dinner.
Byrnes stated the Unit e d
States' interpretation of certain
of those principles which have
been involved in recent interna
tional developments.
"We have no right to hold our
troops in the territories of other
sovereign states without their
approval and consent freely giv
en." "We must not unduly prolong
the making of peace and con
tinue to impose our troops upon
small and impoverished states."
"No power has a right to help
itself to alleged enemy proper
ties in liberated or ex-satellite
countries before a reparation set
tlement has been agreed upon
by the allies. We have not and
will not agree to any one power
deciding for itself what it will
take from these countries."
"We must not conduct a war
of nerves to achieve strategic
ends."
(Byrnes did not name any par
ticular nation in connection with
these principles, although Rus
sia has been revealed to be re
moving heavy industries from
Manchuria, and Russia. France
and Great Britain have been crit
icized for keeping their troops
in other countries.)
Movie Commentator
Jimmie F idler Sued
Hollywood, March 1 UP1
Movie Commentator Jimmie Fid
lor faced a $1. 000.000 libel and
slander suit today for allegedly
referring to the movie "Scarlet
Street" as immoral and censor
baiting. The suit was filed by Producer
Walter Wangcr and Diana Pro
ductions and alo named as de
fendants the American Bread
carting Co.. Fidler'i radio spon
sor. Carter Products, and agents
&ffiU, Seifier, In
M
United Press Full Lease Wire
Fortieth Year
Admits Murder
r
(Acme Telephoto)
Newsboy LeRoy Harris Geiger, who
confessed to Los Angeles police that
he killed Mrs. May Desparo, 31, beat
ing and stabbing her 22 times in
breast because he "wanted to see
blood after she spurned his ad
vances." Mrs. Desparo, who has been
arrested for drunkenness numerous
times, was allegedly picked up by
Geiger In a skid row bar and was
found dead In a busline parking lot.
L BE E
T
Washington, March 1 (U.R)
President Truman indicated to
congress todav that it probably
should not be necessary for this
country to lend over $3,250,000,
000 more to meet minimum needs
of foreign nations. " "'"
The president's position on fu
ture foreign loans was made
clear through his wholehearted
endorsement of a report of the
national advisory council on in
ternational monetary and finan
cial problems.
The council said the $3,250,
000,000 figure was exclusvie of
the proposed $3,750,00C,000 loan
to Britain which it described as
a special case of utmost import
ance to future world peace and
prosperity.
EXTORTION TRY
San Francisco, March 1 U.R)
The federal bureau of investi
gation today announced the ar
rest of Way Linn Tom, 29, Sacra
mento, Cal.; on a charge of at
tempting to extort $100,000 from
Bock Hing Chan, wealthy San
Francisco Chinatown business
man, on a threat of death and
destruction of his home.
Clinton W Stein, special agent
in charge of the San Francisco
office, said Tom wrote a letter
to Chan Dec. 20, 1945, demand
ing payment of $100,000. He
threatened to kill Chan and blow
his house apart with hand' gre
nades. Stein quoted Tom's letter that
a "group of ten" had determined
to obtain $1,000,000 from
wealthy men throughout the
United States.
Tom, according to Stein, wrote
subsequent letters Dec. 14 and
31. making the same threats but
reducing the amount demanded
to $50,000.
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First Consideration Urged
For Vet Housing Projects
Seattle, March 1 (U.R) Fore
casting new regulations from the
Civilian Production administra
tion, H. V. Simpson, executive
vice president of the West Coast
Lumberman's association, today
urged building groups to give
veterans' housing first considera
tion. Simpson predicted that new
regulations would divert scarce
building materials from "worse
than useless kinds of construc
tion into the housing our veter
ans need and deserve."
"All over the United States
there is what amounts to a riot
of new construction on race
tracks, roadhouses. night clubs,
saloon halls and gambling halls
and other underworld 'spots.' "
b said. "Tney compete lor the
DISCUSS CRISIS
IN FOOD SUPPLY
Former President to Aid In
Fight Against Starvation
Abroad; Would Halt Waste
Washington, March 1 (U.R)
Former President Herbert Hoov
er spent 20 minutes today dis
cussing the food crisis with Pres
ident Truman and Secretary of
Agriculture Clinton P. Ander
son. Later today Mr. Hoover and
Anderson will participate with
others in a White House confer
ence called by the President to
develop a program to encourage
less food consumption in this
country in order to fight starva
tion abroad.
Second Visit
Today's White House visit was
Mr. Hoover's second since Mr.
Truman became President.
Twelve other prominenfAmer
icans assembled here for the food
conference.
President Truman, who called
the meeting, asked them to work
out an "aggressive voluntary
program" to prevent waste of
food here so more could be sent
to the "war torn countries of
Europe and Asia."
The White House conference
got underway as other parts of
Mr. Truman's food conservation
program went into effect.
Wheat Conservation
Beginning today, millers start
extracting 12 per cent more
flour from each bushel of wheat.
The result will be a somewhat
darker shade of flour, although
it will be a few weeks before
consumers - generally - notice a
slight difference in the color of
bread.
Also beginning today, brewers
stopped using wheat or any
whea't product in making malt
beverages, including beer. The
same order also restricts the to
tal use of other grains to 70 per
cent of the amount used by the
brewing industry last year.
MURDER OF GIRL
Columbia. Mo., March 1 (U.R)
Col. Hugh H. Waggoner, super
intendent of the Missouri high
way patrol, announced today
that Floyd Cochran, 34-year-old
negro, had signed a full confes
sion in the rape-strangulation of
Marylou Jenkins, 20, pretty
Stephens college graduate.
Text of the confession was not
revealed but Waggoner said that
Cochran, who was well known
to the Jenkins family, had ent
ered the home about 10:30 on
the night of the slaying Feb. 6,
on the pretext of collecting
money for his garbage service.
The negro, an odd-job worker,
recently had been employed by
the city as trash and garbage
hauler. .
A short time before Waggon
er's announcement, Cochran was
arraigned tvfore Justice of the
Peace George S. Starrett on a
double charge of first degree
murder the first in connection
with the shotgun slaying of his
wife and the second in the death
of Miss Jenkins.
A total of 178.000 persons
visited Yellowstone park In 1945.
sucker money that is in circula
tion literally by the billions.
"No other kind of construc
tion in the Pacific Northwest or
elsewhere has taken so much
materials and labor out of the
channels of the legitimate home
building industry." he asserted
Simpson continued, "there is
much other construction which
is needless at present, although
legitimate. Everywhere In Seat
tle. Portland, and other cities.
large steel-framed structures are
going up or are about to be
started. They take little lumber,
but they do take enormous
amounts of plumbing pipe and
equipment, electrical supplies.
plastering materials and labor
out of the channels of supply for
I veteran huujmg.
MEDFORD,
PAID LEGISLATORS
WITNESS ASSERTS
Two Given $200 Month as
Public Relations Men For
Oil Company, Testimony.
Washington, March 1 (U.R)
A Los Angeles advertising man
told the Senate Naval Affairs
committee today that he hired
two California state legislators
as public relations men for $200
a month on behalf of Edwin W.
Pauley's Petrol corporation. The
men were hired on Pauley's
authorization, the witness said.
The witness, Chet Crank, said
the legislators were John W.
Evans and Cecil R. King. King
is now a democratic member of
the U. S. house of representa
tives. Crank said they were cm
ployed as public relations men in
order to help get approval by
the city of Los Angeles for im
provements in the filling stations
which used Pauley's gasoline.
Withdrawal Declined
The committee is considering
Pauley's nomination to be under
secretary of the navy. He has
declined to withdraw his name
despite strong democratic pres
sure. Under questioning by Sen.
Millard E. Tydings, D., Md.,
Crank related that many state
legislators had outside jobs.
Their pay as legislators averaged
only about $1,200 per year, he
said.
T. S. Petersen, vice-president
of the Standard Oil company of
California, testified that politi
cal practices during a fight over
California oil legislation were
"not decent and..that's an
understatement."
"We did things that' no man
should be asked to do." Peter
sen was revealed to have told
Sen. Charles W. Tobey, R N. H
in a private conversation in the
senator's office. "If we ever
enter into a program like that
again, we would resign."
Tobey's secretary took notes
on the conversation, and read
them to the hearing today with
Petersen on the stand. Petersen
confirmed that they were accur
ate. Rotary Selects
Frisco For Meet
San Francisco, March 1. (U.R)
Word was received here today
from the board of directors of
Rotary International that San
Francisco was selected as the
site of the Rotary convention
from June 8 to 13, 1945. An
nouncement was made by the
San Francisco Convention and
Tourist bureau.
Fifteen thousand delegates will
come to San Francisco from all
parts of the world.
James J. Jeffries
Making Recovery
Burbank, Cal., March 1 (U.R)
James J. Jeffries, 70, former
world's heavyweight boxing
champion, today was showing
continued improvement since
suffering a stroke here last
week.
His physician. Dr. Winston
Nethery, said the ex-champion
was in the convalescence stage
and if all goes well should be
released from the hospital here
in a few weeks.
Cigarette Blamed
In Woman's Death
Marysville. Cal., March 1
UR) A fire apparently started
from a cigarette was blamed
for the death today of Mrs.
Helen May Lemieux, 32, of
Marysville.
Mrs. Lemieux was found
burned to death In the front
room of her home. Coroner's
deputies said she apparently
fainted while smoking a cigar
ette. CORN FREEZE SOUGHT
-BY OPA REGION CHIEF
Omaha. Neb., March 1 U.R)
Rac E. Walters, regional admin
istrator of the OPA at Chicago,
asked today that a freeze order
be Issued stopping all sales of
corn.
"Unless action is taken imme
diately, all corn will be off the
farms and away from the ele
vators and feeders," Walter said
in a telegram to Paul Porter, ad
ministrator of OPA, and Chester
Bowles, economic stabilization
director.
OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1946.
AFL TEAMSTERS TIE UP
California mm
mm smiKE
Detroit, March 1 (U.R) A
conference of CIO United
Auto Workers delogates repre
senting 175,000 strikers voted
unanimously today to reject
the latest terms offered by
General Motors Corp. to end
the strike.
By United Press
The General Motors strike,
one of the most costly in U. S.
labor history, appeared near an
end today but the threat of a
nationwide railroad tieup in
creased. Negotiations were resumed at
Detroit In the 101-day walkout
of 175,000 CIO United Auto
Workers after an unprecedented
past-midnight session. It was re
ported that only a few minor
issues blocked settlement.
300 Ll. es Involved
From Cleveland came a re
newed threat of a strike by 300,
000 members of two railroad
brotherhoods, which would stop
trains on 300 main lines. Presi
dent A. F. Whitney of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen
said nearly complete returns
showed the workers unanimous
ly in favor of a walkout.
Whitney said ' a strike date
would be set March 6 unless
there was a settlement of the
dispute, involving changes in
operational rules and a 25 cent
wage' increase, asked by train
men and locomotive engineers.
Meanwhile, fear of a third con
secutive day of picket violence
at Philadelphia was eased. Un
ion leaders, considering "other
actions," called off an expected
demonstration But the possibili
ty of a sympathy strike of 150,
000 CIO workers In the CIO
General Electric wage dispute
remained.
MORElEWFOR
OTHER NATIONS
Wn.hlnolnn March 1 (U.R)r
The Bffricultural department to
day ordered increases In the
amounts of meat to be earmarK
ed for government purchase to
send to the underfed peoples of
other nations.
The department's order in
creased the pork set aside for
the government from 10 to 13
per cent of the live weigm ui
hogs slaughtered in 37 states. It
aim extended to 10 states, pre
viously exempt, the earmarking
of beef, veal and mutton ior
government, purchase.
The order becomes effective
next Sunday.
The new states affected by
the beef, veal and mutton regu
lations are:
Arizona, California, Idaho,
Montana. Nevada, Oregon,
Utah, Washington, Wyoming
and Florida.
SPAINSEALEDOFF
Paris. March 1 (U.R) Spain
was officially sealed off by land
from the European mainland to
day amid continent-wide protests
against the Franco regime.
Just at midnight French bor
der guards ceremoniously sealed
the International bridge at Hen
daye to the cheers of exiled
Spanish republicans gathered in
the frontier town.
France was reported to be
ready to put the Spanish Issue
before the next UNO security
councjl meeting single-handed,
if the United States and Britain
refuse to make a joint move.
The frontier shutdown was
carried out without incidunU
Tribune
Bus Crash Kills Three, Injures 12
Pacific Greyhound bus Is moved from scene of crash with automobile
driven by Jose Santos Aguilar, San Rafael, Calif., at Corte Madera, Calif,
which took the lives of three persons and Injured 12. Witnesses to acci
dent said the enr driven by Axullar clipped pnsslng car, went out of con
trol, crossed an eight-foot center lslnnd to crash Into bus. Agullar and
two riding with him were killed.
Anti-Catholic Terrorism Campaign
Waged By Russia in Eastern Europe
Is Declaration of French Cardinal
Vatican City, March 1 (U.R)
French Cardinal Eugene Tisser
ant charged today that Russia
was engaged in a deliberate cam
paign to stamp out Catholicism
in eastern Europe and that thous
ands of Catholic refugees faced
death or Siberian exile if they
were forced to return to the
Soviet zone.
The French prelate's out
spoken charge of anti-Catholic
terrorism by the Soviets was
made in a formal statement is
sued on his appointment to the
Holy Roman Curia as secretary
of the sacred congregation for
the oriental church.
Destruction Aim
"East of the Curzon line
(roughly representing the new
eastern boundary of Poland)
Soviet policy alms at the de
struction of Catholicism," Card
inal Tisserant declared.
The cardinal spoke pointedly
of the refugee camps In the
American and British occupation
zones, where, he said, the Rod
army whs trying "often at the
point of a gun" to force unwill
ing exiles to return to their
homes in the east.
"If the end of the war means
an end of the 'right of asylum,'
then mankind has lost every
ideal of justice and charity," lie
added In an obvious appeal to
the United States and Britain.
He reviewed In detail the
plight of Ruthenian Catholics
who, the Vatican has charged,
arc being persecuted by Ihe Rus
sians, and asserted that the
Soviet actions were a direct vio
lation of one of the four free
doms proclaimed by the late
President Roosevelt and former
Prime Minister ChurchiJI.
Schism or Martyrdom
Since only the Moscow-controlled
Orthodox church is per
New Measure Would Credit
Farmer's Family With Wages
Washington, March 1 (U.R) I
Rep. Stephen Pace, D Ga., who
believes the fanner's family
should be credited with some
wages in figuring farm prices,
said today that he hoped for
early action on a bill that would
do just that.
Pbcc said he hoped the rules
committee would okay the bill
next week and that the house
would act on it soon afterward.
Rep. E. E. Cox, D., Ga., Influen
tial member of the house rules
committee, said there was a good
chance that was what would
happen.
In figuring parity prices for
farm products at the present
time, the government considers
as farm expense only such items
as food, machinery, seed, inter
est and lax payments.
United Press Full Lease Wire
( Acmn Talenhnto)
mitted In Russia, the cardinal
said, "the order of the day Is
that the Ruthenian Catholic
church must disappear."
He said the Riithcnlans, whoso
lands recently were transferred
from Czechoslovakia to the
Soviet Union, face either
"schism or martyrdom, and mar
tyrdom means arrest and depor
tation to Asia, prison, forced
labor and death."
Cardinal Tisserant snid com
munist agents were urging all
Catholics in Ruthcnla and the
Ukraine to Join the Moscow Or
thodox church and that priests
in those areas were being de
nounced as "enemies of tho peo
ple" with "all the terrible con
sequences such a designation
carries."
VETO CEILING ON
Washington, March I (U.R)
The House today rejected an ad
ministration plea fur price con
trols on both old and new homes.
It tentatively adopted an amend
ment to the Pntman housing bill
to restrict ceilings to new con
struction. The amendment was offered
by the House banking commit
tee. It was adopted by a teller
vote of 154 to 08 but is subject
to a roll cnlj vote later.
Rep. Wright Payman, D., Tex.,
author of the administration
supported bill, fought vigorous
ly against the amendment. But
a solid bloc of republicans com
bined with a group of southern
democrats to put It across.
The Pace bill would require
the government to also consider
labor costs including tho farm
er's family as well as the hired
hands which the Georgia legis
lator feels have gone sky-high
since the beginning of the war
Pare said the original Idea of
parity was to provide a yard
stick for judging "fair" relation
ships between the farmer's costs
and profit. But he added, farm
wages have gone up so sharply
that it no longer provides a fair
yardstick.
"If Chester Bowles is going
to raise the price of meat to pay
higher wages for meat workers
why can't we adjust the farm
er's pay to lake care of his al
ready increased labor costs?" he
demanded, "It isn't fair, it isn't
juiU"
Weather
FORECAST: Increasing eloudl
ntu tonight with light rain
Saturday morning. Slightly
warmer tonight.
Temp.
Hlthett Yeiterdar 53
Low tat thla Morning ., 29
NO. 290.
Demand for Recognition as
Bargaining Agent Instead
Of CIO Basis of Action.
San Francisco, March 1 (U.R)
The Teamsters Union (AFL) tied
up the multi-million dollar fruit
and vegetable canning business
in northern and central Califor
nia today with a work stoppage
of approximately 98 processing
plants.
Einar Mohn, International rep
resentative of the Teamsters
union, announced members had
ceased hauling to and from 68
canneries operated by members
of the California Processors and
Growers association, and 30 in
dependent plants with which the
teamsters hold contractual rela
tions. Would Oust CIO
The work stoppage was called
to support demand that the
teamsters be recognized as
exclusive bargaining agent for
.15,000 cannery workers, in oppo
sition to the food, tobacco and
agricultural workers (CIO).
The dispute arose when th
CIO won a plurality oyer .tjjsj
AFL In bargaining election re
cently set aside by the National
Labor Relations board. Th
NLRB said each union could bar
gain for its own members but
that neither was to be recognized
exclusively pending new elec
tion which probably will ba
called about July,
Ihe embargo caught many
canneries as they were prepar
ing to operato for the 1D46 sea
son. The first major crops of the
processing season asparagus
and spinach will start matur
ing within the next two or three
weeks.
In Sacramento, William Ross,
Llhby, McNeil & Llbby plant
manager said the shipment of
canned goods out of the cannery'
and delivery of maintenance and
repair materials had been
stopped.
BACKED BY VFW
Washlnetnn. March 1 (11 PI
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
today asked congress to give
World War If veterans a bonus
based on the length and type of
service with a maximum of $5,.
000 for those who served over.
seas and were wounded.
Omar B. Kotchum, the VFW'i
legislative renrpsrnlntivf. mnrls
the proposal to the House Veter
ans committee.
He suggested giving veterans
$3 a day for domestic service
and $4 a day for overseas
service.
The VFW suggestion would
Impose a ceiling of $3,500 for
veterans who served only in the
United States and $4,500 for
those with overseas duty. The
combat premium would be addi
tional. Ketchum estimated "the aver
age payment to all who apply
will not exceed $2,500."
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Heinle Fluhrer living up to
his obligations as president of
the chamber of commerce and
assuring Gov. Karl Snell that in
Meclford the sun shone every
day.
EB1E8
SQUABBLE OVER
JURISDICTION IS
STOPPAGE CAUSE
H. H. (Hap) Gillette feeling
very proud of his new bronze
selective service medal and de
ciding not to mingle with the
common people any more.
George Carter reminding
Una Inch that unless she ate
her vegetables at luncheon she
i wouldn't ba given an dessert
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