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Newspaper Page TextWeather FORECAST: Partly cloudy Sun , day, tew showen. Slightly colder Sunday night, Tfrap. Hi chest yesterday 55 Lowest yeiterday . 40 Prec. Medford Tribune Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune, phone 4938 between S and 7:30 p. m. daily, aud 8 a.m.W12;30 p. m. Sunday. United Press Full Lease Wire United Press Full Lease Wire Fortieth Year MEDFORD,- OREGON, SUNDAY, IU H 3, 1946. NO. 291. wivi u lunar t. r t . ;vxw x "i4iS3S S. CRATER LAKE TO REMAIN OPEN ON FULL JEAR PLAN Leavitt Announces Changes Marriages Mixed Flag Object of Picket Struggle TORNADO BLASTS CAVEMEN, 42-36, FOR SALEM TRIP Ashland Bows to Pelicans 46-40, In Opener Med ford Surges at Finish. PRICES 6 W i)R GRAINS P. STED TO FEEDHUNGRY Increases Effective Monday Expected To Move Wheat For Export LEWIS THREATENS APRIL STRIKE IF IDAHO CAPTURES NORTHERN TITLE; STATENOSED OUT Oregon Defeats State, 42 41, in Overtime Vandals Beat W.S.C., 37-35. T Considered and Improve ment Program After the opening of Crater Lake National park next summer it will remain open under a year round plan if funds are appro priated for the program Superin--4 tcndent E. P. Leavitt stated Sat- urday upon liis return from a -1 nnrAPar.nA nf n-rlr nt. iicials held in San Francisco. Decision to operate the park on a full-year basis was announced at the meeting by the federal di- rector of parks. Park officials will immediate ly draft plans for rebuilding of the Annie Creek and Good-Bye Creek bridges, the superintend ent stated, and for re-routing and improving of the approach road to the rim and also improvement of a section of road near the Annie Spring campground. In addition, preliminary plans will be made for eventual removal of park headquarters to a site at the south entrance. Leavitt explained that if the park is to be operated on a year round basis, location of the head quarters at a lower elevation was most necessary, since the extremely heavy snows at the present headquarters makes the work of a winter crew very bur densome. The present headquar ters buildings are at nauo ieet, while the new site is only 4400 feet, he ctated, and snowfall at the present location is from 12 to 15 feet as compared to but two or three feet at the south entrance. While the present headquar ters' buildings will be used for a considerable period, new shops and other buildings will be placed on the new site and in time the entire headquarters will be moved. All park officials expect a "tre mendous travel" into national parks this coming season, Super intendent Leavitt declared, ad ding that it was expected the amount of visitors would be con trolled only by their ability to find a place to eat and sleep. With this in mind, the park will be opened as early as possible, Leavitt stated. One of the first projects this spring will be replacing of the underground cable which carries electric power to the park lodge at the lake rim. Superintendent Leavitt said. This cable failed during the war and its replace ment was an impossibility. New cable has now been purchased, he said, and will be installed with all possible speed when condi tions permit. The Crater Lake Park com pany, which operates the lodge and bus lines between Grants Pass and the park and Klamath Falls and the park, plans to re sume full operation," the super intendent reported. He added that some type of "on call" ser vice would be arranged for Med ford, but that most of the travel from Medford in pre-war days had been by personal car and the bus, lines had been found im practical. Since the entire plan is de pendent upon the appropriation of sufficient funds. Superinten dent Leavitt said that it would be "up to the communities af fected" to see that the appropria tion was made. Because of the reports last fall of a strange gas or smoke j cloud over the lake, with subse quent installation of a hydro phone in the lake water in an effort to find if there is a re currence of volcanic activity, much interest was aroused among park officials from all parts of the nation, Leavitt said, and the subject was much dis cussed by those attending the San Francisco conference. Columbia Highway Opened To Traffic Portland, Ore., March 2 (U.R) Traffic moved over the Colum bia River highway again today as work crews finished clearing away the tons of dirt and rock that poured from the mountain side near Multnomah rails in Wednesday and T h u r s d a y's slides. The highway was pro nounced clear at 4 p. m. today by C. H. Baldock. state highway engineer. AIH CHIEF TO FARM Washington, March 2 VPJ Gen. H. H. Arnold, retired chiei of the army air forces, called on President Truman today before leaving for California "to become a farmer." ' (Acme Trtciihato) Police and General Electric pickets tussle over flag that was being carried t head of strikers' parade, Philadelphia. Penn. Pickets were violating court injunction issued recently prohibiting mass picketing. SOUTHED EALLS IN FAINT Hamilton Field, Calif., March 2 U.R SSgt. Frank Hirt, 31- year-old air force mechanic, was acquitted tonight by an army court martial of charges he con spired with nazi agents to trans mit U. S. military secrets to the reich. An 11-man court martial pan el deliberated four hours and 17 minutes before deciding the American born sergeant had no intention of carrying out an elab orate espionage plan with a worldwide network of Hitler operatives after he returned from Germany just prior to Pearl Harbor. The verdict came as a com plete surprise to courtroom ob servers. The verdict was returned at 7:17 p. m. and Hirt fell to the floor in a dead faint just after shouting "Oh, thank you, sir," and embracing his wife who rushed from her chair situated at the rear of the courtroom. He was speedily revived. Under normal court martial procedure he will be returned to the guardhouse for the formality of signing out and then is free to assume his former status, in cluding his previous post at the nearby Fairfield-Suisan airbase where he was stationed when ar rested nearly a year ago. T E British Headquarters. Ger many. March 2 (U.R The Brit ish Intelligence corps, in an ef fort to establish conclusively that Adolf Hitler is dead, began a search of Germany and Europe today for an SS sergeant said to be the only living person who saw the" former fuehrer's body burned. The sergeant, whose name was withheld by headquarters, re portedly told Col. Nikolaus von Buelow Hitler's Luftwaffe ad jutant since 1937 who was pick ed up by the British in the Rhine land two months ago that Hit ler shot himself, and his bride Eva Braun swallowed poison on the afternoon of April 30. 1945. Guards later burned both bodies. Union Offers Dock Strike Arbitration Portland, Ore., March 2 U.R) An offer to arbitrate the employer-checker dispute which had slowed up Portland waterfront activities for more than a week was made today by R. J. Wolf, president of the Supercargoes and Checkers union (CIO). In a letter to R. E. Ferguson, manager of the waterfront em ployers of Portland, Wolf "de manded" a meeting be called im mediately of the joint labor re lations committee and expressed the union's willingness to accept Blair Stewart, Reed college pro fessor of economics, as arbitra tor. GREENWICH VOTES NO Greenwich, Conn.. March 2 ttJ.Pj Greenwich residents voted two to one today. in opposition to the United Nations organiza tions choice of their locality a-- the permanent world capitol K t ' I M HOUSTON BATTLED 16 ENEMY SHIPS E Washington, March 2 (U.R) The full story of the mysterious disappearance of the U. S. S. Houston was revealed tonjght, four years to the day after she went down fighting in the mid dle of a powerful Japanese task force near the Sunda Strait lead ing out of the Java sea. For an hour and a half, the Houston engaged the 16-ship Jap force. The Houston finally sank 45 minutes after midnight. March 2. 1942. Her fate remain ed a complete mystery until dis covery of 260 survivors in pri son camps at the end nf the war The navy released tonight the first connected narrative of the Houston's last days. Seeking escape from a grow ing concentration ol enemy forces after the battle of the Java sea. the Houston left Ba tavia after dark on February 28. 1942. At 11:15 p. m., on March t two largo enemy ships were sighted in the entrance to Sundo strait. The Houston radioed this news, but it was the last word from the cruiser. Altering course, the two al lied ships came upon nine more enemy vessels. They changed course again, but ran into a number, of transports and escort vessels. Alcne and surrounded, the Houston stood off the entire Jap anese force for almost another hour. Most of the time, her crew also battled fires started by en emy shells, while the cru?ser was dodging torpedo attacks repeat edly launched by enemy destroy ers and motor torpedo boat In the smoke laid down by their own destroyers, the Jap anese fought each other while attempting to find the American crusicr. Several more hits on the Hous ton caused huge fires which lo cated the cruiser for the i iy. Meanwhile, however, the enemy inadvertently spotlighted their own transports and a largo com batant ship The Houston sent one more enemy vessel down be fore her last guns were put out of action. POPE PIUS AT 70 Vatican City, March 2 (U.R) Pope Pius XII observed his 70th birthday and the seventh anni versary of his election to the papacy today with little public ceremony. Reliable Vatican officials said the "inner Vatican circle" re garded the pope's birthday as a "family affair" and they prefer red to wait until March 12, the anniversary of the pontiff's cor onation, to stage public displays. Dr. Riccardo Galeazzl Lisi, the pope's personal physician and a specialist in homeophatic treats mcnts. said that the pontiff was in surprisingly good health. TUGWELL USES VETO San Juan. P. R March 2 U.R) Governor Rexford G. Tugwell today vetoed legislation which would have given Puerto Rico a voice in selection of its next gov ernor and would have authorized a plebiscite next year to decide the iclanH'c n.rmanfn1 rvlifial status in relation with the United i States. Medford high school's Black Tornado won the district four basketball title and earned themselves a trip to the state tournament at Salem when they pasted Grants Pass 42 to 36 in a playoff game held at the South ern Oregon college gym at Ash land last night. The Tornado, weakened by chest colds which had bothered most of their first string for over a week, got off to a slow start and were trailing 9 to 5 at end of the first quarter. The Cave men led 8 to 2 at one time, in the opening canto. Three minutes after the sec ond stanza started Medford surg ed into a 10-9 lead, first time in the game that they were out in front. Grants Pass knotted the count at 12-12 at the five min ute mark of the second period but the Tornado whirled ahead to find themselves on top of a slim 16 to 15 halftime lead. The Cavemen grabbed the lead again in the third period when they went out in front 25 to 24 but a free throw by Dar rell Riggs and two buckets by Bob Watson gave Medford a 29 to 25 third quarter bulge. The Tornado settled down to the business at hand in the final stanza and gradually kept in front of the Cavemen to earn the coveted jaunt to the state tournament at Salem March 13 16 inclusive. Carl Reich left the game in the fourth quarter on personal fouls and Grovar Mull and Charles Bertram of Grants Pass also were ejected for too many infractions. Klamath Falls grabbed third place when they halted Ashland 46 to 40 in a game that was close all the way Halftime score was tied at 25-i5. All Star Teams Medford placed two men on the All-Star team, chosen by a vote of coaches. Derrell Riggs and Bob Watson were placed on the first squad while Jim Pal mer and Leroy Coleman of Klam ath Falls, Jim Jandreau of Ash land and Jack Lutz of Grants Pass were others selected. Second team berths went to Dommie Provost, Ashland; Jerry Thorn and Gene Hover, Klamath Falls; Tom Everton, Grants Pass and Jerry Ross, Medford. Lineups: Medford 42 Pos. G. Pass 36 Watson 6 f Lutz 9 Ross 14 f Everton 9 Riggs 13 c Mull Reich g Brown 5 Stelle6 g Bcrtrand 1 Substitutes: Medford House 2. Cave 1. Grants Pass, Orr 12. JAP WAR CHIEF'S Tokyo. Sunday, March 3 (U.R) The indictments against former Japanese Premier Hidcki Tojo and those to be tried with him as Japanese war criminal sus pects will charge them with the responsibility for actual attroci tics as well as conspiracy to vio late treaties and start a war of aggression, it was learned today. Reliable sources told the United Press that a list of 21 possible defendants had been prepared and the evidence against these persons was being considered to sec exactly which will be tried first before the Far Eastern International Military tribunal. It was understood that the final decision on between 15 and 20 of the names would be made soon and that indictments against these would be drawn for the first trial. HELD TOUGH JOB Washington. March 2 U.R Randolph Churchill, newspaper columnist and so nof Ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, said tonight that it will be "very dif ficult" to oust Spanbn Cenoral issimo Francisco Franco. "He has no intention of leav ing." Churchill to'd the United Press. "Ever time someone out side of Spain assails r'tanco, they make him stronger. The Spanuh are a very proud peorle." Washington, March 2 (U.R) The government tonight an nounced increases in the prices of six major grains as a step in carrying out the nation's pro gram to help feed hungry peoples. Effective Monday the price of wheat will go up three cents a bushel; corn three cents a bushel; oats two cents a bushel; barley four cents a bushel, and grain sorghums nine cents a hundred pounds. When rye ceilings go into effect June 1 for the first time, they will be four cents higher than previously an nounced. The announcement was made jointly by the Office of Price Administration and the Agricul ture department. The price changes are expect ed to accelerate the movement of wheat from farms and Into ex port channels to meet the U. S. goal of shipping to Europe and Asia 6,000,000 tons of wheat by July 1. The other changes are ex pected to bring Into line market prices farmers receive for meat as compared with the price they can get for grain. During the war, the government set up a price pattern that made it more profitable for farmers to feed grains to cattle and hogs than to sell the grain. At the same time, the govern ment said that it does not plan to break any price promises it has made previously to farmers. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson had indicated pub licly that it might be necessary to adjust ceiling prices and sub sidies on hogs in order to obtain sufficient quantities of grain for overseas shipment. NEW TOOTHPASTE THAT IS WONDER Moscow, March 2 (U.R) The monthly magazine Og'onek today reported two soviet medical dis coveries, one of which has been developed into a toothpaste which, it was claimed, would protect teeth from decay indefi nitely. The other discovery was the presence of microscopic sensory organs inside the animal and human body where it was believ ed none existed. "Ftor," applied to the teeth of Leningrad school children, protected the enamel for six months, the magazine said. Lu komsky claimed the toothpaste was inexpensive and easily pre pared. Ogonek also said a physiolo gist, identified only as Professor Kekcheev, claimed the existence of microscopic sensory organs in side the body would vitally af fect general health. TO AID VETERANS Wausau, Wis., March 2 (U.R) Joseph M. Stack, national com mander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, tonight called upon the home town folks of America to help discharged vet erans find homes and jobs. "We must not depend alone on congress or the president to do the job that must be done," he said. "The people in your home town and mine must re member there arc scores of ways In which we also can help the men who are coming back to civilian life." Teacher Emergency In State Keeps Up Salem, Ore., March ZJU.f.) Stale Superintendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam declared today that Oregon probably will have to depend on emergency certification of teachers for some time in order to keep its public schools open. Putnam said more than one-fourth of Oregon's 8,000 teachers are teaching with emergency certificates. Soft Coal Meet Called Hits Reconversion Offer Made to G. M. Washington, March 2 4U.R) President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers today asked soft coal operators to meet him March 12 to negotiate a new basic wage contract. At the same time he filed notice of a strike by 450,000 bituminous miners on April 1, if his demands are not met. Edward K Burke, president of the Southern Coal Producers' as sociation and member of the operator's negotiating committee, said the producers would meet Lewis here at the time suggested. A general coal strike in April could choke off reconversion pro duction which by then will just be getting under way in many basic industries after a series of long and bitter strikes by other unions. In his request to the operators for the conference, Lewis stated the purpose as "negotiating new arrangements affecting wages, hours, rules, practices, differen tials, inequalities and all other pertinent matters affecting or ap pertaining to the national bitu minous coal industry." Detroit, March 2 (U.R) Dele gates of 175,000 General Motors strikers proposed to GM tonight that President Truman be asked to name an arbitrator in the 102 day GM strike and agreed to send the strikers back to work if GM accepted. The offer came from the sec ond session of a national confer ence of CIO auto workers' locals and was addressed to GM Presi dent C. E. Wilson. It came shortly after GM Vice President Harry W. Anderson charged that union politics were stalling a strike settlement and that he did not believe the strike would end before the national UAW convention March 22. The conference said that if the corporation would accept the proposal, the union would rec ommend that the strikers return to their jobs in GM's 92 plants under terms of the latest corpora tion offer. A corporation spokesman said It was "very unlikely the com pany will reply to the arbitration proposal tonight. E Paris. March 2 U.P.) France has reiterated her demand for the separation of the Rhlneland and the Ruhr from the rest of Germany and proposed a four- power conference with the Unit ed States, Britain and the Soviet Union to canvass the whole problem of Germany's future ad ministration It was reliably re ported tonight. The French proposals were said to have been contained in a note whicn French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault sent to American Ambassador Jefferson Caffery Friday night. The French note was a reply to a let ter from Secretary of State James F. Byrnes some weeks ago urging France to relax h.r h is- tility to allied plans for central administration of Germany. France was said to have Indi cated in her note that she would not object to certain measures of centralization in the admin titration of Germany. However, it was said, she sti'l is flatly op posed to Including the Rhlneland and the Ruhr In the scope of a eentrrlizcd admin:ttiation TRAGEDY AT SEA San Francisco, March 2 (U.R) Mrs. Marjorie C. Bialck, 21, one of 562 Australian and New Zea land war bridei enroute to join their husbands in the U. S., died of natural causes aboard the SS Monterey Feb. 21. port of em barkation authorities said today. SAILOR SURVIVES Long Beach, Cal., March 2 (U.R) James M. Ownes, 22-year-old Negro sailor, rallied tonight from a delicate operation for removal of a .32 caliber bullet from his heart. Pi 1 (Acme Tclpphotol Mrs. Bette L. D. Bowman, San Fran cisco, must explain to Federal Gov ernment why she accepted five allot ment checks from her third husband, Robert L. Bowman, Navy, when the annulment of a second marriage, to Coast Guard Lt. Kichnrd N. Hot master, was not final. Her first mar riage, to William N. Richards, Ma rino corporal, has not been com pletely dissolved, either, says FBI. Says Bette, she got mixed upl T CHURCHILL PLAN MISSOURI JAUNT To Use Special Train Tough Speaking Schedule After Busy Week-End. Washington, March 2 (U.R) When President Truman and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave for Fulton, Mo., Monday afternoon to keep a date at Westminster college, they won t be traveling In privacy Nor will they be going by plane, a mode of travel which won Mr. Truman considerable criticism when he flew to In dependence, Mo.t in a storm last Christmas. They will go by special train, and the Whito House announced today that about 100 persons will accompany or join them en route at St. Louis and Columbus, O. For Mr. Truman, the long train ride will come at the end of a busy week-end. He mndc four speeches yesterday and had to stay up Into tonight at the an nual dinner and show of the White House Correspondents association. Even after they get to Fulton and Churchill mokes his Tues day speech at Westminster col lege, the president will have a tough schedule ahead of him. On Wednesday he speaks in Columbus to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America on the place of religion In demo cracy. Ho and Churchill will then re turn to Washington, and the Briton will leave on a tour of his own which will take him to Richmond, Va., where he will speak to the state legislature, and then to Williamsburg, Va., He will return to Washington as a house guest of the Trumans and a week or so later will go to New York ond await the ship which will lake him home. CRITICS OF C.I.O. Washington, March 2 (U.R) President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tion hit back tonight at critics of the CIO campaign for higher wages which, he said, "is ap proaching a successful conclu sion." Murray's counter-attack appar ently was aimed at the National Association of Manufacturers, American Federation of Labor, and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (AFL), who today began his own drive for higher wages In the coal In dustry. Vacaville. Calif., March 2 (U.R) Three armed Mexicans to iilght held ip a tavern, taking $150 from the cash register and forcing 20 patrons to lie on the floor and surrender their bill folds. Moscow, March 2 (U.Ri Gen eralissimo Josef Stalin today pro moted his son, Col. Vassily Io sifnvich Stalin, and a number of other alrforce ofliccrs to the rank of general. Moscow, Ida., March 2 (U.R) University of Idaho won Its first northern division Pacific Coast conference basketball .title in 23 years tonight by defeating Wash- ington State 37 to 35. while Ore gon State lost to Oregon 42 to 41. Idaho, which hsd with Oreeon State fnr iho loarf each with 10 wins and five losses, won the right to play Uni versity of California at Berke ley March 8 and 9 for the Paci fic Coast conference rhnmninn. ship. The Vanrinls fnim. u,;it.;.. nn ace of losing 1h.A fitio n,itt.n.. Oregon's help when a fighting u,iiiiKiun oiaie squad, minus their scoring a ni. di.w who Joined the Boston Braves uns wccki pared down a 24 to 16 halftime lead by the Vandals to two points before the gun end cd the contest. Washinstnn Slnta 4rlmmA, 4k. SCOre to 34 to 32 In fnvn ho with eight minutes left in me game, uuard Len Pyne then sank a free throw fm- Tiat.A the Vandals stalled out their slim ieaa, adding two more free throws enroute. Center Jack Phoenix of Idaho was high point man with 11, Bob Elliott led the visitors with nine points. Corvnlllll Clrn MafnU mm T . ' -i """'.'i u.rj A heartless University of Ore- kuii uusKeiuau quintet ended all Orctfon Stntn nnpfhom 4!.,l.t title hopes tonight by sinking the iigming ucavcrs, 42 to 41, in five minutes of overtime. Oregon State bowed out of the conference title picture after . Idaho took the measure of Wash ington State, 37-35, at Pullman. Oregon State led throughout the first half and looked like a championship squad, holding an 18-13 margin at halftime. How ever, within three minutes of the second neriod. Or nffnn rnlllA to knot the score at 18-18. At the end of regular playing time the two squads were tied at 38 all. Ken Hays, Oregon center, tipped one in to moke It 40-38, oui a iew moments later Cliff Crandall. OSC eiinrri fulling . point on a foul shot to make it 1U-.JW, With OnlV 20 flprnnrla remain ing, Williamson, Oregon guard, dribbled under the basket to sink a sure shot to make the score 42-30. Fnllnwino him .n,,nn . onds later was Ron Esplng, OSC guura, wno rang the basket to make the tallv 47.41 Th. re maining seven seconds Oregon iook possession of the ball to never let go until the whistle. Oregon State salvaged the northern division icnrino iiii out of the game as Red Rocha, OSC center, tallied 10 points, to toke the northern conference scoring title with 194 points. The box: Oregon 42 FG FT TP Wilkins, f 3 1 7 Bray, f Oil Hay, c 5 2 13 Williamson, (j 4 0 8 Hamilton, g 15 7 Rosmusson, I . 2 15 Kerg, f 1 0 2 Oregon Slate 41 . Anderson, f 3 0 8 Warren, f .' 3 ' 1 7 Rocha, c . 4 2 10 McGrath, g . . 3 2 8 Crandall, g 0 3 3 Hcnningson, c ........ Oil Esplng, g . 3 0 8 Neale, f ...... 0 0 0 Totals ...I6 9 41 Halftime scores OSC 18, Ore gon 13. Free throws missed: Oregonj Wilkinson, Hoys 2. Williamson 2, Hamilton, H'lsmursen Oregon State: Andernon 3, Kocha, Mc Grath 3, Crandall 3, Hcnning- TRUE FOR LOVERS Wakefield, Mass., March 2 (U.R) A fortune teller's predic tion that two lovers would find happiness only "in another ( world" came true today as two girls and two married men were asphyxiated accidentally in a parked car on the outskirta of this town shortly after gar birthday party;