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a Last shine Maximum RAINFALL 24 in OAKLAND TEMPERATURES Wednesday cloudiness hours. afternoon; AND this with Normal continued VICINITY- afternoon, considerable cool. -Variable tonight sun- 9.05 Oakland Tribune WEATHER HOME Seasonal Complete .13.94 Weather Last Report year 13 10.35 ASSOCIATED CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FOREIGN SERVICE EDITION Page CXLIVS DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1946 'IKE' BESIEGED BY IRATE ARMY WIVES Dwight Eisenhower hears Mrs. of soldier fathers in office of Rep. A.

J. May (right). Irate on his way to tell program WOMEN HECKLE EISENHOWER IN DEMOBILIZATION DEMANDS Chief of Staff, Forced Into Corner, Tells Need for Occupation Forces By WILLIAM WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. hower told a group of irate war today on Capitol Hill that if all the Army "there will be no Crash Kills Fire Captain Pictures on Page 13 Fire Captain Joseph F.

Pimentel, 53, widower and father of two children, was killed and three firemen were injured at midnight, when a eight-ton fire truck, answering an alarm, skidded out of control at Taurus Avenue and Broadway Terrace pinning Pimentel against a tree. Pimentel was killed almost instantly. His body was wedged between the heavy apparatus and the almost a half hour before firemen, using jacks, and two. tow trucks to free him. enanaged the accident occurred, Dr.

Avenue, James MacDonald, heard the 120 crash, ran from his house with his emergency kit and gave the dying fire captain a hypodermic to ease his pain. His pulse had stopped before he was removed to the ambu- lance, however. THREE MEN INJURED Injured in the crash and taken to Merritt Hospital were: Patriek S. Doyle, 38, 6408 Valley View Drive. John Baratini, 54, 2832 Brookdale Avenue.

Wells, 33, 3730 Fruitvale blaze. HURLED TO PAVEMENT. All are members of Engine company No. 24, situated at 6226 Moraga Road, and all were under observation at the hospital today. They reportedly suffered only cuts and bruises.

The fire truck was headed for a small blaze at the home of Otto R. Johnson, 6356 Crown Avenue, when the accident Battalion Chief Pat Gaynor, was following. the equipment, assigned Engine Company No. 16 at 13th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, to fight the The impact of the crash hurled Doyle, who was driving, and Baratini and Wells, who were stationed at the rear end', to the pavement. Captain Pimentel, who was seated beside Doyle, was hurled against the tree and pinned by the truck as it heeled over on its side.

Captain Pimentel lived at 2434 11th Avenue. He is survived by two daughters, Lorraine, 21, and Adelaide, 18; his mother, Mrs. Mary Pimentel, 1735 Foothill Boulevard; five brothers, Albert of Berkeley, and Alfred, Frank, Ernest and John, all of Oakland, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Giesal. Pimentel was eligible for retirement -last November, his daughters said.

Funeral services will be held the Grant D. Miller parlors at East 14th Street and 24th Avenue at 9 a.m.- Thursday with requiem mass following at 9:30 at St. Anthony's Church. Interment will beat Holy Sepulchre cemetery. Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.

tomorrow. SUNDAY: NO. 22 Dictograph Names Emig For 'Payoff Alleged Voices of Pacheco, Morgan in Court Recordings wouldn't have their machines long. REGALLO NAMED By NANCY BARR MAVITY SAN JOSE, Jan. dictograph.

record of an asserted conversation between William K. Morgan, so-called "slot machine king" John Pacheco, liquor dealer and former Highway Patrol captain, played court today allegedly linked Sheriff William J. Emig, their fellow defendant in a "payoff" in their reported organized county-wide gambling racket, The record in a voice reportedly Pacheco's said "we'll give sherand the voice attributed to Morgan replied "all right and some day we will probably have to come 'up 150 or 200 for the D.A. I hope." conversations showed that if The the slot machine operators got out of hand and did not follow instruc-1 tions they were told that they Morgan allegedly told Pacheco that if they failed to obey he would Joe deputy, sheriff tell. fourth defendant conspiracy trial--to go out and get the machines.

The prosecution's case against the quartet is scheduled to close today, Dist. Atty. Leonard Avilla said this morning. "conspirators" discussed their plans in and at length in Pacheco's office. used as headquarters, unaware that a hidden dictograph and amplifier were carrying their voices on wires strung across the street to be recorded on phonorecords which are now being played to the jury of 10 women and two men in the courtroom of Judge William F.

James: While Warren Holmes, foreman of the Grand Jury, was keeping a close tab on the "ups" and "downs" of slot machines in the county. Pacheco, as heard on the why them graphic keep fooling with the slot machine business." PROTECTION MONEY the Morgan voice said. WEEKLY INCOME According to the dictograph Mor-. gan summed up weekly income to "Maybe to see who the operator is that still has them," a voice that sounded like Emig's suggested. During the conversation, the Emig complained of Nate Thorpe, voice, the slot machine operators who, according to records previously played, paid Morgan, as ring leader, $100.

a week for the privilege of operating under protection. "He came down to see me the courthouse yesterday He shouldn't come around that goddam courthouse," Emig was recorded saying. In the same conversation the voice identified as Pacheco's discussed with full candor the gambling room built by Morgan." "Some fellows are running a little game in there. Starving themselves, but it's all right. They're going to try it runhing all the time.

Bill's only renting to them. He told them to take care of us." RENT COMES HIGH Bill Morgan's "rental," as revealed via dictograph, was to. be 50 per cent of the receipts of the crap game assertedly set up by Vincent Mannina on Morgan's property. If the receipts were insufficient Mannina would be ousted in favor of another arrested, Morgan would simply dehenchman But if Mannina were clare that he knew nothing of the purposes to which the rooms were put by his renter, according to the dictaphone. "Joe knows where it's at," voice like Morgan's said.

Deputy Sheriff Joe Regallo, however, according to this recorded conversation, was not wholly concerned with mere money. He also yearned for a piano--and 'Mannina had one. "He's got a piano that Joe wants pretty bad and we're going to try to talk him out of the piano on this deal some way. The 's worth about a hundred dollars, I guess. Joe wants the piano pretty.

bad," Pacheco: "Adam (Vagts) took in $2500 in two weeks-I made $300. I got Allen for $300 for two weeks. Whenever we start going again Nate's, coming I'm going with to a tell hundred them and 200 bucks Make him 200, Adam come 200, Nate will 200, Frank (Marty) will come hundred, and Tony (Gianotti) will come a Continued Page 2, Col. 3 WHERE TO FIND IT. Classified Advertising 17 Comics 16 Crossword Puzzles 15 Editorials and Columns 22 Financial 21.

Gardens 8 Geraldine Lippmann 22 Radio Schedules 16 Society and Clubs 10 Sports 14 Theaters: Wood Soanes 11 Uncle Wiggily Veterans' Guide Vital Statistics 15 THE TRIBUNE If your Tribune does not arrive, phone TEmplebar 6000 before 7:30 p.m. (Sunday, 11:30, a.m.). Paper will be once. DELIVERY SERVICE GUARANTEED U.S. May Seize Packers; Steel Paralysis Grows More Industries Feel Effect of Strike as Production Shrinks By PITTSBURGH, gripped America's the C.I.O.-United 750,000 idle for The biggest nearly 1300 plants, aluminum iron ore mines Today its effect to construction, and public Benjamin F.

the United States today the industry Steel workers in negotiations sponsibility for the the union." Fairless said developments in and that he had from any. CHARLES WELSH Jan. 22: (AP) Paralysis today as Steelworkers' strike kept a second day. walkout in U.S. history closed steel-making and fabricating mills and in 29 States.

is spreading to railroads utilities. Fairless, president Steel said met the United "more than half way" and that restrike "rests with there were no new situation recelved no word governmental agency regarding the Nation-wide walkout. MAY GO ON AIR said he might make radio address tomorrow night, "not answer Mr. Murray" but to present his own Production version of of steel, the contenvent sinew of industry and reconversion. has dwindled to less than 5 per cerit of capacity, a 53-year low.

Two instances of violence flared in Ohio but in the main' the gigantic stoppage, begun Sunday midnight, was carried out in complete good order. Philip Murray, C.I.O.-U.S.W. president, said in a radio address union's strike in support of wage increase demands was precipitated by "an evil among American big business" which has "set out to destroy labor unions, to provoke strikes and economic chaos and mulct the American people through uncontrolled profits and inflation." There was no report of negotiations between the union and major steel producers. Management of a handful of smaller plants agreed to pay the cents an hour wage increase suggested by President Truman and accepted by the union. These companies, including seven in Pennsylvania and a few others far west as California, kept their as plants in operation.

TOTAL OUTPUT SMALL But the total output was pitifully small. The American Iron and Steel Institute, estimated producing tion 89,700 tons, only 4.9 per cent of capacity and the lowest level since 1893 when the average weekly rate was 86,352 tons. Across the Nation pickets trudged their circling paths before gates to mills where smokeless, stacks jutted stark" against wintry skies. Heavy snow and near temperatures in some areas made picketing a chill job. First effects of the.

strike on industries, in not New directly York, involved Indiana and apPennsylvania. Charles H. Sells, New York commissioner of public works said bulk of that State's post deferred public because works of program the steel will walkout. Among projects he said will be delayed are $40,000,000 in contracts for institutional buildings, and a $100,000,000 low-rent $125,000,000 to be spent on highways program. RIVERMEN LAID OFF At Pittsburgh 4000 railroad workers and 400 employees on river barges were furloughed because of declining and coal shipments.

Most large steel mills operate their own intra-plant railroads, and with the mills idle they. had little or no work to do. A fuel gas famine appeared averted negie-Illinois at Gary, when CarSteel Corporation announced it would utilize management personnel to continue manifacturing gas after the Independent Foremen's Association of America, acting at C.I.O. request, notified members not to continue to operate the plant. In Washington, the Civilian Production- Administration late yesterday suspended all outstanding priorities for the warehouses purchase of ration steel instructed all deliveries so that no customer will receive more than is needed for immediate use.

White House Ready to Act in Meat Walkout If Shortage Grows A glumly attentive Gen. Dorothy Galomb ask for return Sproul Curbs Reds' at U.C. Dismissal Penalty Applies to Faculty Members, Students questioner. UNDERGROUND SEEN BERKELEY, Jan. communistic or other unconstitutional activities will not be allowed students or faculty members of the University of California under penalty of dismissal, they had been warned by President Robert Gordon With Maurice E.

-Harrison, San Francisco attorney and university regent, as a fellow spokesman, President Sproul outlined the university's position at a meeting of more than 1000 students at Wheeler Hall yesterday afternoon. The meeting, an orderly "question and answer" period, followed a Communist rally Sather Gate in which a group of U.S. Marine Corps students drowned out the speaker by singing the "Marine Corps Hymn" and other martial airs. STUDENT They overpowered a speech by Celeste Strack, suspended from 1T.C.L.A. for alleged communistic activities, whp reportedly was challenging a January 4 resolution by the regents against any unconstitutional action by any person affiliated with the university.

was based on the that persons Action of the regents, reportedly carrying banners saying they were U.C.L.A. students had participated as pickets in the Warner Brothers movie strike. Nothing in the resolution is aimed curtailment of the rights of students as guaranteed by. the Constitution, Sproul and Harrison said. The regents took the stand, they explained, that no student or facmember.

could belong to any organization seeking to overthrow the Government other than by constitutional means and said that the Communist, party has been cited by the regents as just such an organization. Students may picket if they wish to, Sproul and Harrison told them, but they may not do so as official students of the University. No' student or faculty member has yet been. expelled from U.C.L.A. for such reason, Sproul replied to a Asked if such a resolution might not result in underground activities, both admitted such a possibility existed, but asserted that university action does declined hamper free speech.

Sproul to state whether the regents' resolution was aimed specifically at the Communist party. tie party said feels only that that it if the applies to Communist them, then it does. He emphasized that a regents' resolution made in 1940 said that membership in the Communist party and a position on the faculty were "incompatible." Miss Strack, said to be the spokesman for the "Merriman Communist Student Club," reportedly has been active in the party for years. She is not a university student. Full-Crew Railroad Law to Be Revived The full-crew railroad law will become effective in California on March 1, L.

Harold Anderson, dent of the State Railroad CommisSion. announced today. During the war the railroads were: allowed to deviate from the law and use less than the required number of brakemen. WASHINGTON, Jan. House acknowledged for the first day that Government seizures in industry are under consideration.

Press Secretary Ross, told a news conference that similar the steel industry is not as yet Russia Tests UNO Powers Reds Demand Ouster, Of British Troops From Greece, Java. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Jan." 22-(P)--The explosive problems of Greece and Java were tossed of the by Soviet delegates, providing a United Nations, organization, today. full-scale test of the ability of the great powers to cooperate within the U.N.O, Referring to the Soviet action, British Prime Minister Attlee answer to questions in Commons said that the British aimed only amicable settlement" today, between the Dutch government and Indonesian Nationalists in Java. He made no mention of Greece which also has a British occupation force.

Soviet delegates earlier had asked the Security Council. to investigate and take measures against the maintenance of British troops in and Java. 'HONEYMOON OVER' that the against Britain. U.N.O. officials, privately agreed made by delegates representing the Soviet Union and the Ukraine, coupled with earlier charges made by Iran against Russia, had ended the honeymoon period of the U.N.O.

American delegates were playing down talk of a crisis in the world peace agency, but it was organization was confronted with some of the toughest problems it could be asked to meet. Some Americans said privately that the United States apparently was movinto a middle man position between Russia and Britain. Observers said the twin moves by the Soviet Union and Soviet Ukraine undoubtedly posed the greatest test yet faced by the United Nations Organization, which already had been handed the explosive Russian-Iranian dispute. FIRST ACTION They also constitute the first instance of' action by one member of the 11 nation security council against another member. In weighing the moves, some 'official emphasized that the new peace agency's success depended largely upon unity among the major powers.

There was (no immediate official comment from the' British. One British spokesman said, however, that his first reaction was that the Russians were playing "tit for tat" -introducing complaints against. British to balance the protests against alleged Russian interference in northern Iran. Some United States sources said they were not alarmed by the developments, although officials had hoped to avoid major issues while the UNO remained in its formative stage. "After all," one American official said, "this is the kind of thing the council was created to.

cope with." British Here With Our OK, Says Greek ATHENS, Jan. 22-(P)-Premier Themistokles Sophoulis said today "British military -forces are in Greece with the full consent of the Greek government and in earnest collaboration with it- in maintaining order." This assertion by the head of the government was the first official Greek reaction to Russia's request the United Nations Organization to give early consideration to the situation in Greece: sidered. In reply to questions he told reporters there might be some development on meat during the day. "It's impossible to at this time what will be done," Ross said. "The seizure has been under consideration." Ross made public a letter in which President Truman instructed the steel fact-finding board to continue its "study of governmental data" and "remain available for further consultation." Despite the dubious general outlook, President Truman sounded hopeful note.

PRICE FORMULA -The White time tothe meat however, action in being con- mothers cornered "Ike" today to Wirephoto. Buck Passed, Short Charges Hawaii General Says War Department Made Him Goat for Blame WASHINGTON, Jan. Gen. Walter C. Short contended today that the War Department in four of silence had attempted to single him out as "the Scapegoat for the disaster" at Pearl Harbor, In a statement placed before the Senate, Investigatling Committee, retired Hawaiian, Army commander said his superior officers in Washington had "passed to him until the Congressional inquiry "forced the revelation Short asserted the War Department had "four years to admit" it should acted before December 7.

1941, his November 27 report have, that he had alerted his troops only against sabotage. But the first such "admission of responsibility," he said, came from Gen. George C. Marshall, former Chief of Staff, and Gen: L. T.

Gerow, former war plans head, in the current hear- ings. FIRST PUBLIC TESTIMONY This is the first time the general has had an opportunity to testify in public. Records of his previous testimony before the Roberts Commission and Army inquiry boards already have been released by the committee. In a separate opening statement today, Short said he was "sure that I would have arrived at the conclusion that Hawaii would be attacked and would have, gone on an all-out alert" if he received all the information Washington had on the situation. Short asserted he was not permitted to hear other witnesses nor to cross-examine them in the Roberts Commission investigation.

He did not read the evidence taken by the commission until August, 1944, he said. LEARNED 'TOP SECRET' He added that after he appeared before the Army Pearl Harbor -Board, where he did not hear or question other witnesses, he was allowed to read the "top secret" part of its testimony only when the congressional committee began its hearing. In his longer, main statement Short followed closely the line he had taken previously in making these contentions: 1. He was not given the information from intercepted Japanese messages by which, he said, the War Department "knew definitely at 9 p.m., December 6th, that the hour had struck and that war was at hand." 2. If General Marshall felt there were security reasons why he could not 'be given this information, he should have directed specifically an all-out alert as he did on a false alarm in 1940.

BOMBERS FROM MAINLAND The action in dispatching unarmed bombers from the mainland to Hawaii on the night of December 6, 1941, "confirmed me in my belief that an air raid was not 4. The Navy did not ask for any Army planes from November 27 to December 6 to aid in reconnaissance and "to me this meant that they had definite information of the locations of Japanese carriers." 5. Had he been given by telephone General Marshall's December message which arrived too late, Continued Page 2, Col. 1l Sources close to the meat industry reported the new price formulavigorously opposed by the OPA but favored by the Agriculture Department- might involve a Government commitment to purchase some 000,000 pounds of meat at a price in-crease of 35 cents a hundred pounds. In addition, the price of meat to civilian wholesalers would be increased 25 cents a hundred pounds, these sources said.

Previously the Government's proposed civilian price increase was set cents a hundred pounds, with wholesalers either to absorb the raise or receive higher subsidies, so no increase would result for consumers. There. was no information on whether this arrangement would be F. ARBOGAST (AP) ---Gen. Dwight, D.

Eisenmothers who confronted him fathers were discharged from Army." A score of women, representing units of the servicemen's wives and children's association, met the chief of staff outside the office of Chairman May Ky.) as he arrived to explain demobilization policy to the House Military Committee. BACKED INTO CORNER They told him bluntly they wanted to talk to him and followed him into May's small office in the House office. building. Backed into a corner against a window, the five-star general tried for a few minutes to answer assorted questions fired at him simultaneously by almost all of the women. May finally insisted that one of them.

do the talking and Mrs. Dorothy Galomb, secretary of the group, was designated spokesman. She said that mothers whose husbands are in service are dissatisfied with demobilization procedure and claimed that one out of every marriages is ending in divorce, with service families involved in most of them. Declaring that mothers, while trusting their husbands, look with alarm at pictures of fraternization of servicemen overseas, she asked Eisenhower: ISOLATION RUINOUS "How do you think we mothers feel? Marriage won't stand this isolation." Eisenhower, when he got a chance to get in a few words, the women there are about 700.000 fathers in the Army and everything is being done to get them out in an orderly manner as rapidly as possible. "If I drop them out regardless of their eligibility for release, he said "there will be no Army." Eisenhower said replacements are being obtained and trained as rap'idly as possible.

He promised the delegation he would personally handle any formal program they submitted. mothers who want their husbands back. But, he added, single men in the Army claim they have a right to go home, get married and get their families started. Mrs. Nancy Muller, Pittsburgh, who said she has two children and identified her husband as an overseas serviceman, proposed to Eisenhower this five-point program: 1.

Raise the draft age to 38. 2. Re-induct young men previously exempted or declared surplus to Army needs. 3: Provide dependency allotments for young men age and arrange for their education while in service overseas. CONTINUATION OF DRAFT 4.

Continue the draft law beyond its May 15 expiration date. 5. Lower the Army's physical standards. After about half an hour of questioning, May broke up the meeting with this statement: "The General of the Army is in the corner and only one thing can corner a general of the Army and that is a group of women." The women said they came from Pittsburgh, Chicago, Beckley, Continued Page 3, Col. altered.

WAGE SOLUTION The meat industry, it was plained, probably would aceept the new formula as the basis for granting wage demands of the striking C.I.O. and A.F,L. unions. The C.1.0. is demanding a cent hourly ing 20 cents, after withdrawing wage increase and the A A.F.L.

is seekconditional offer to settle for 15 cents. The price formula, it is understood, would include commitments by the Government to buy 000. 000 pounds of meat for overseas commitments, and 1,500,000,000 for Army consumption. Although top-level White House advisers kept tight-lipped silence on the Government's next move, it is learned that action, when it comes, will be directed first toward restoring meat to the dinner table rather than relief of steel-hungry industry. A series of strike strategy conferences, held yesterday between Reconversion Director John Snyder, OPA Administrator Chester of Agriculture Anderson, Stabilization Administrator John C.

and. others, reportedly are to continue today. TWO INDICTED; NAMES WITHHELD Indictments against two men, each containing 10 counts of grand theft and one count of conspiracy, were returned by the Alameda County Grand Jury shortly after noon today in the court of Superior JudgeS. Victor Wagler. Following legal procedure when the their men indicted are not in custody, names were placed on file.

Bail was set by Judge Wagler at $25,000 each. The Grand Jury has been investigating grand theft and conspiracy charges against Frederick W. Menderson. 28, and Jack Moore, 35, who, according to Dist. Atty, Ralph Hoyt, have swindled Metropolitan Oakland would-be home builders of $100,000.

The men, already charged in lice court, are free $10,000 bail pg: each. (More on Page 13) Patterson in Berlin BERLIN, Jan. -Secretery of War Patterson arrived in Berlin I today on his world tour. Fact Finding Bill Is Approved to House WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.

(AP) The House Labor. Committee today approved a modified version of President Truman's proposal for fact-finding boards to handle major industrial disputes. The 10 to 8 vote came after the committee had rejected, 13 to 5, a motion to approve without change the legislation asked by Truman. The measure accepted by the group was drafted by Rep. Landis It would set up the factfinding boards but would not give them the' power to subpena witnesses, books and records.

It also would eliminate a section banning strikes for 30 days while the boards deliberate. Both the subpena power and the "cooling off" period had been urged by the President. Acting Chairman Randolph W. Va.) told newsmen he will seek a floor vote on the new bill soon, -but probably not until next week. He said the committee, put no restrictions on him regarding what rules should prevail during floor action on the legislation.

Several committee members said they voted for the modified version in order to insure a vote soon by the House on some type of strike control legislation. Along this line, Randolph asserted: "My position is that I was favor of reporting legislation with the principle of fact finding to the floor, so the House might have the through its individual membership, to approve or disapprove the request by the Chief Executive." Landis told newsmen "we owe it the people to take some action: to halt these strikes." He added that "it is quite Whely that broader legislation" will offered in the House as an ment to his measure. Before adopting the Landis substitute, the committee defeated by a 9 to 9. tie vote motion by Representative Hook Mich.) to aels the House for authority to condunt investigation of the entire labor-management question..