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Trygve Lie Calls On UN Assembly For Settlemerf Of Spanish Question MEDFORD Tribune THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1946. ESS!" 5 i VvH 111 SL I sum PEACE, SECURITY SAID THREATENED BY CTAT0RSH1P Secretary General's Action Expected to Insure Full Dress Debate on Problem. United Nations Hall, Flushing, N. Oct. 24 (U.R) Secretary-General Trygve Lie called upon the United Nations general assembly today to act on the question of Franco Spain which he declared will continue to "remain a constant cause of mistrust and disagreement" as long as Generalissimo Francisco Franco remains in power.

Lie called upon the United Nations to "find ways and means by which liberty and democratic government may be restored in Spain." Under Special Power Lie's action in bringing the Spanish situation to the attention of the general assembly in strong terms constituted the exercise of his special powers as secretary-general of th li tn call to their attention situations threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." Lie's action was expected to insure a full dress thrashing out of the much-debated Spanish question. "I cannot fail to draw the attention of the general assembly to the Spanish question, arising out of the existence of the Fascist regime, which was imposed on the Spanish people with the armed intervention of the Axis powers." Lie said. Veto Unmentioned Lie did not touch on the veto question on which battle lines between the delegations already were being drawn with Russia opposed to a debate of the issue and the United States insistent that there be a full discussion. Lie declared that progress in solving the major issue of atomic control had been "strictly limited and it has been slow." Lie joined President Truman and other world leaders in deploring loose talk of another war and reminded the assembly that the United Nations charter was based "upon the assumption that there would be a proper peace and that there would be firm ilia uijuiitin uureemeni among the great powers." MEDFORD, OREGON, Advertising Is Key That Unlocks Full American Ingenuity Chicago. Oct.

24 (U.R) President Niles Trammell of the National Broadcasting Company told the nations broadcasters today that advertising is the key unlocking the full resource fulness and ingenuity of Ameri ca economy. "Advertising, because it has made mass consumption and production possible, has raised our standards of living and increased employment," he said in an address at the national association of broadcasters convention. ILORDS. VETS IT STRIKE By United Press Striking apartment owners and angry veterans groups consulted attorneys today to determine whether plans for a nationwide strike of landlords against OPA violated federal statutes by refusal to rent vacant apartments. Portland's American Veterans committee demanded that U.

S. District Attorney Henry Hess give an opinion on validity of the rental strike touched off by Seattle owners Tuesday, while the latter hired legal counsel before proceeding with'demands for adoption of a five-point re lief program from OPA ceilings. Meanwhile, 650 members of the building service employes union, terming the rental strike "conspiracy," bluntly warned one Seattle landlords group that the union was considering a counter-strike. "We are unalterably opposed to your action." union Vice- President Ward Coley said. balem.

owners also declin ed to immediately join, the Seattle landlords. Roseburg Hospital Addition Canceled Washington, Oct. 24 President Truman has approved sites for 13 new veterans hospi tals in 11 states, the veterans administration announced today. The new hospitals authorized for construction include a bed neuropsychiatric hospital at Los Angeles; a zuu-Dea general medical and surgical hospital at San Diego. a 1.000-bed neuropsychiatric hosiptal for the San Francisco Bay area; and a 500-bed general medical and surgical hospital for Denver, Colo.

VA also announced cancellation of construction plans for an addition to a neuropsychiatric hospital at Roseburg, Ore. LANl CONSULT ON RE) HfW. i VyiJlTlIIVK.H iI Iti. -r ,1,1,1 atfsasLi Thompson Creek Rancher Gets Deer The Hard Way With Hammer, Axe UN Plans News He revealed that the UN planned to "establish informa-tion centers at strategic news canter -throughout the world, tn addition, a broadcasting network is being developed to enable people in all parts of the world to receive broadcasts from our hcadauarters. to reach millions of readers and listeners who, at the present time, receive little or no news regarding our activities." The American attitude on the veto question wn ot nt Forty-first Year.

RUSSIAN PEOPLE KEPT SEALED OFF ATTLEECHARGES British Prime Minister Says Wall of Ignorance and Suspicion Raised by Reds Brighton, Oct. 24 U.R) Prime Minister Clement Att- lee accused the soviet government today of sealing- off the Russian people behind a "wall of ignorance and suspicion" of the outside world, and pleaded for universal cooperation to make the United Nations a success. Attlee, chief of Britain's socialist government, sharply attacked both the Moscow government and the communist party. He accused the communists of recognizing as democratic regimes only those in which their party wielded the power. Second Day of Criticism It was the second straight day that a British forum had rung with criticism of Russia.

Yesterday in the house of commons the Russians were accused of breaking their Yalta pledges, of misusing the UN veto power and by implication of maintaining 200 divisions of troops "on a war footing" in occupied eastern Europe. Today Attlee addressed the British trades union congress in convention here. He said the British "would like to know fully and undestand our Russian friends" but charged bluntly: "It is one of the tragedies of the world situation that the Soviet government appears deliberately to prevent intercourse between the Russian people and the rest of the world. Knowledge Withheld "They are not allowed to know what is being done and thought by their fellows in other parts of the world. The growth of Dersonal friendship between individuals is frowned upon.

Russian newspapers give fantastic misrepresentations of the world outside of soviet ttussia. "A wall of ignorance and suspicion is built up between the nations." Attlee said that while maintaining the objectives of estab-lishins neace on firm founda tions, "we cannot ignore the dis turbing features in the world today." Until more progress has been made in building up the UN, he said, "we must maintain the armed forces necessary to fulfill our obligations." Sharp Attack He denounced the communist version of "democracy" as a one sided philosophy which calls every opponent a fascist. His at tack On the Moscow government was one of the sharpest made in official British Quarters. "One would have thought the rulers of Russia, proud of their achievements in peace and war, believing that their system is the best for the workers, would have welcomed every opportunity of close intercourse Dei ween in-' workers, but a contrary course is followed. I deeply regret this policy and i am sure you ao, We must hone for a change." Observing that democracy was becoming a much abused word, Attlee continued: "It often is used by those who have never understood or practiced the democratic principles to mean the achievement ot power by hook, or more often by crook, by the communist party while freedom means the denial of libertv to all those who refuse to accept the communist philoso phy-Greece Cited "If in anv part of the world the communist party, by no matter what means, is in power, that is democracy.

If anywhere the communists fail, then however fair the conditions it is re-garded as fascism. "Thus an election in Giee-i supervised internationally which results in an anti-communist ma jority is at once renounced. On the other hand a rjlebiscite taken where the communist party is in power is regarded as the sacred voice of the people. Red Commentator Lauds PAC Effort Moscow, Oct. 24 (U.R) Poli-tial Commentator Benjamin Lan in an article in Izvcstia today praised the Political Action committee's attempt to elect American "progressive personalities." The examples cited were Sen.

Harley M. Kilgore, W. and Sen. Joseph Guffey, Rep. John R.

Murdock. Ariz, and former Representative Gerald O'Mahoncy of Wyoming. Weather FORECAST: Fir tonight nrl Friday. Cooler 1 warmer Friday. Temp.

Illchrit YMterdar 57 Uwnt thtt Morning 45 NO. 181. PLANS TO CALL EXTRA SESSION Congress Must Reconvene Itself if Desires, Says Executive; Mum on Coal Washington. Oct. 24 (U.R) President Truman told a news conference today he has no intention of calling congress back into session.

In a generally news-less meet ing with reporters, the president rejected rumors that he would call congress back into special session. He pointed out that if congress so desires it can recon vene itself. The new congress will meet Jan. 3. The president brushed aside questions about the soft coal strike threatened by John L.

Lewis. He said Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug is handling this matter. Beyond that he would not comment.

Mum On Wage Control Neither would the president discuss the prospects of wage decontrol. Asked whether controls on wages would be lifted by Nov. 1. the president referred to his meat decontrol speech of 10 days ago and said the reporter would find the answer there. (In his meat decontrol speech Mr.

Truman noted "the close relationship between wages and prices." "As we speed up the removal of price controls," he said, "the removal of wage controls also will be accelerated." Mr. Truman seemed to reopen the door on possible participation in the closing stages of the election campaign. After he told a reporter he had no plans for any political speeches, someone asked him, "Why aren't you going to speak for the democrats?" The president remarked that he had not said he would make no speeches: that he just did not have any plans to do so at pres ent. STEEL SHORTAGE Detroit, Oct. 24 (U.R) The Ford Motor company said today it would be forced to shut down virtually all operations tomorrow because of the steel shortage.

The 80,000 workers affected will return to their jobs Monday. A similar shutdown occurred throughout the Ford network two weeks ago. M. L. Bricker, vice president and director of manufacturing, said the action resulted from a "critical shortage of steel aggravated by the recent unauthorized strike in the company's open hearth (department) "The recent 10-day strike in our open hearth cost us enough steel to build about 14.000 cars," he said.

"As a result of this strike wage losses to our employes during the next few months will amount to $2,618,000." Continued Prayer Saving Life Of Paralysis Victim Kansas City, Oct. 24 (U.R) Mrs. Fred Bowers said today that round-the-clock praying by members of the congregation of the In the Name of Jesus church is saving the life of her 11-year-old son, Philip Bowers, who became critically ill Sunday with infantile paralysis. "My boy will walk again within a few days," she said. "His breathing is normal and he is continually eating now." A doctor two days ago went to the house.

After his study of the case, he said the boy was critically ill and might not live more than two or three more days unless placed in an Iron lung. If he did live, the doctor said, the boy would be crippled. "Our prophet at the church, Mrs. August Klinge, called me last night and told me that, while she was hanging out some washing, Jesus came to her and said that my boy would be well and walking." the mother said. Six Die in Path Of Streamliner Lacon, Oct.

24 (U.R) Authorities today sougnt the cause of a railroad crossing accident which killed six persons, four of them small children. The dead, members of two families, were riding in an automobile which was struck by the Santa Fe streamliner Chief late yesterday. The dead were Mrs. Catherine Perry, 27, and her two children, I. eland, two.

and Joan, five; and Mrs. Klien Warnick and her two daughters, Barbara, eight, and Janet, five. TWINE DECONTROLLED Washington, Oct. 24 (U.R) The OPA removed binder twine and baler twine from price controls today. EATING COSTS UP OPA'SJMROLS New Highs Expected Generally When Present Stocks Exhausted, Say Grocers.

By United Press Tlitt nnci nt aatini utdtil nn inrlnv ornmn anrl roetaiirniit operators threw away their price ccuiug usis iur me iiLai, time since 1942. Tn trrc! fittAe inrlfinpnHont and chain grocers, as well as restaurant operators, said mey would hold prices as low as pos- ctHla hut hiirh wholesale nrioes already had forced some sharp mamups in scarce uuiiiiiiuuniua. Only sugar and rice remained under OPA ceilings. Changei Spotty Increases were spotty. There aha cUm-it fiens in wipm nf few commodities in some sections of the country.

Prices held monf ihn nlri rpilines in Others. a United Press survey showed. Grocers generally agreed, however, that most prices would an tn npw hiphs ns soon as pres ent stocks are exhausted. Margarine and other scarce shortenings were taken from un der the counter lor ine ursi nine in weeks and the prices shot up. But soap was as scarce as ever.

Scarce canned tomatoes and baked beans also reappeared on grocery store shelves and at The story was the same throughout the nation, uema which had been so scarce they were sold only to favored customers were brought out of hiding, At Houston, Grocer Austin Warmock, disgusted because buyers were not shopping around lor oargams, laciteu una ai6n "Butter $1 pound. Too damn high to buy. Faulty Fuel Takes "V-2 0hty63 Miles White Sands Proving Ground, N. Oct. 24 U.R) A poor fuel mixture resulted today in the inv.

V.9. rnrkpr. fired at White Sands Proving Ground going only oa miles nign. Burning time of the fuel was an armv officials said, and probably was caused by a poor tuei mixture. The short burning time to-ith ih fnct that the mis sile was heavier than usual ac counted for the comparatively low altitude, army authorities explained.

FOOTBALL SCORE At Columbia: South Carolina 26, Clemson 14. school attendance laws of the state, shall, where said private or parochial school is along or near the ruote designated by said board be entitled equally to the same rights, benefits and privileges as to transportation that are so provided for by such district school board." This is quoted from Chapter 352, Oregon law for 1939. Kindergarten Refused Mrs. Phipps stated that requests to transport kindergarten pupils had also been refused by the board of her district and that some parents, alarmed by the crowded condition of the bus, were voluntarily driving their children to and from public school. The bus is operating without a PUC license, she said, since its overcrowded condition disqualifies it for such a permit.

Every effort has been made to buy a new or second hand bus or to rent one for a time, the clerk reported, but so far none has been secured. Other districts are also seeking additional buses without success, it was said. An alleviating condition is the fact that the bus has but a com paratively short trip to Roose velt school, wnere about 40 pupils disembark, it was said, and is consequently not so heavily loaded for the remainder of the trip. First Tims Raited Mr. Bowman stated that so far as he knew, this was the first time an issue had been made in this county of the transportation problem for pupils outside of public schools and that in many districts, where the buses are not crowded and the routes concide, parochial and private school pupils were being transported.

He stated that the decision by Neuner probably would not affect any other district and that as soon as district 29 secures another bus. the problem would automatically solve itself. Neuner's decision was given to the state board of education, with a copy being forwarded to the county district officials here. President Harry S. Truman ad- dresses the United Nation Gen eral Assembly, warning dele gates that they must wipe out fear of war which has spread all over the world.

Shown on dial are (left to right) Trygva Lie, secretary general of the UN) Paul Henri Spaak, of Belgium, presi dent ox the general assembly, and Cordier, executive assistant to Lie. Shown chatting at the Assembly opening are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Vyacheslav M. Molotov. Russian foreign minister.

Andrei Gromyko, Russian delegate, is in center background. Spurious checks have been flooding the county in recent days, George W. Nellson, district attorney, said today. Some business houses in this area have been cashing any kind of check, Ncilson stated, with stores giving money on checks was fantastic names and even different names for endorsements. Persons "16 to fi8 have been cashing, bum checks," he asserted.

In justice court this morning Billie Gene Cathcart, 17, and Willard Jones, 22, both of Grants Pass, were bound over to grand jury under $1,000 bail each following arraignment on bad check charges. Cathcart is involved in the passing ot five checks valued-! ituuroximately $25 each, according to the dist rict attorney, and Jones is charged with passing two of the five. John R. Duffcy, 68, alias James Smith, who appeared in justice court yesterday on a charge of forgery, is being held in county jail under $2,500 borut awaiting grand jury appearance. Duffey allegedly obtained money from three Medford hotels and done in Ashland as advances on bad checks of large denominations.

By United Press Unauthorized work stoppages idled more than 14,000 steel and rubber workers in Ohio today and Ford Motor Co. officials announced plans to lay off 80,000 workers because of a steel shortage which the company said was aggravated by a recent strike. On other labor fronts hopes fell for an early settlement of the nationwide shipping strike, the threat of a coal miners' walkout hung over Industry, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor seemed to be squaring off for a major jurisdiction battle in Pittsburgh. VFW May Change Stand On Wyatt Housing Program Washington, Oct. 24 (U.R) Housing Expediter Wilson W.

Wyatt, whose veterans housing program was vigorously endorsed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars national encampment in Boston on Sept. 4, today appar ently had Inst the backing of VFW national leaders. National Commander Louis E. Starr. Portlnnd, attorney, said the VFW council of administration would decide in Chi-mim In November whether a convention endorsement of the Wagner-Ellendcr-Taft long range housme bill was binding.

Starr, at a press conference, labeled the bill "socialistic" and said VFW "has never stood for such things." Ho said the endorsement .8 "rammed through" the convention by parliamentary maneu vers and that delegates, orrauw of noise, "didn't know what they were doing." He called for immediate re mrwnl nt PoilillffS On Ollild ing contending OPA regulations "have hampered e-struction." OLD SOAP APPEARS Weymouth. Oct. 24 (U.R) Samuel Schofield opened a rarton of army surplus commodities he had purchased recently and found it contained 04 bars of soap originally intended for troons of the Union army in I the Civil War. Jackson Co. School District Must Haul Parochial Pupils Bud Turnbough of Thompson Creek probably won't enjoy eating the deer he killed last Friday for Turnbough hi1, to.

kill his -the hard, way with- an axe and hammer, to be exact. The story of the deer slaying is quite a long one, and Mr. Turnbough wouldn't be surprised if people didn't believe it. But here's the story, and he's going to stick to it. It seems he was returning to his ranch home about 4 p.

m. after a fence mending job, with a hammer in his pocket and an axe in his right hand. Walking along with his head down, Turn- BOY GETS $44,375 FOR PRIZE CALFi Kansas City, Oct. 24 U.R) In exchange for his prize- winning calf, 13-year-old Jack Hoffman today pocketed 544,375 the highest price ever paid for a meal animal in tne united States. Hoffman, a gum-chewing, high school sophomore from Ida Grove.

saw his 1.200-pound, Hereford calf, T. O. Pride, converted into gold before his eyes last night in 15 minutes of spirit ed bidding at the American Royal livestock and horse show auc tion. The price set a new all-time American show stock record and more than tripled the old record of 511.15 per pound paid for the champion of the tastern states Exposition at Springfield, in 1933. Don Harkness, 20, of Golden, sold his reserve champion, an Angus, for $10 a pound on the auction block, receiving approximately $10,000.

Retail Lumbermen Oppose Controls Seattle, Oct. 24 (U.R) Twenty-four hundred of the nation's retail lumber dealers were en route home today after unanimously pledging themselves to a finish fight against government building and construction controls. The delegates to the four-day National Retail Lumber Dealers association last night passed without a dissenting vote a resolution opposing "price controls, subsidies, allocations, guaranteed markets and all other regulations and restrictions, obstruction flow of materials to veterans homes and other essential building." INJURED FOREST MAN FLOWN TO HOSPITAL Grants Pass. Oct. 24 Rob R.

Peterson. 17, Siskiyou National forest service fire fighter, was rushed by plane from Crescent City to San Francisco yesterday for an operation in an attempt to save his life. Peterson was injured when he fell from a building at Gasquet ranger station while cleaning gutters. lie sustained a double Jaw fracture, loss nf several teeth and a tkull fracture. bough had just come even with a large blackberry bush at the bottom of a steeo incline when.

without warning, he was knocked- lat--n- his back-by -large buck deer. Horns Pass Body Turnbough is a small man and the animal's antlers curved around his body without piercing the flesh. He grabbed a horn with his left hand and struck at the deer with the axe in the meanwhile calling to his father-in-law, S. Johnston, working in a field below. Turnbough managed to get to his feet and attempted to elude the enraged buck which pursued him over logs and 'around trees.

Striking at the animal with the axe, he cut its nose and horns and broke one leg, but could get in no killing blows. In desperation ho threw the axe as the deer jumped into a ditch and after vainly trying to find a stout stick to end the fight, Turnbough at length remembered the hammer in his pocket and with this he killed the deer. Johnston Gets Gun Johnston in the meantime had raced to the house for his gun but returned to find his son-in-law had finished the battle with the hammer. Turnbough is keeping the horns for a souvenir, since they show several cuts made during the struggle. Turnbough suffered no ill effects, other than scratches and bruises, the family reported, but is hoping that another time he can just shoot his buck, like everyone else does.

While cases of bucks attacking humans are not unknown, neither are they common. Turnbough believes that the animal which attacked him had been chased by dogs, since just before the buck charged him he had heard dogs barking some distance away. ARTIE TOLD AVAT0 SHUT UP, SHE CLAIMS Hollywood, Oct. 24 (U.R) When Movie Queen Ava Gardner tried to converse with friends, Hubby Artie Shaw usually told her to "shut up," she testified today in winning a default divorce from the band leader. "A month after our wedding he changed completely," she told Superior Judge Harry R.

Arch-bald. "He became utterly selfish, disregarded even my simplest wish and humiliated me continually before friends." The SIkiws were married in Los Angeles October 17, 1045. PRAVDA CHARGES A.F.L. LEADERS BACK CAPITAL London, Oct. 24 (U.R) Prav-da, official organ of the communist party, said today that "American monopolistic capital" had found "reliable and faithful support" among the leadership of the American Federation of Labor.

Hndio Moscow broadcast a Pravda article, signed by one Sergeycva, which said "The lackeys of American reaction are trying to weaken the lorces of organized workers in the United Slates" at the behest of American capitalists. morning meeting of U. S. assembly delegation. Official sources said Sen.

Warren R. Austin and ins L-uneagues decided to fight efforts to bar any of the matters proposed for di as-mbly's six week session suurce said tne Americans, while apparently ready to support the Big Five's security council veto power, feel the 51 na-lions of the assembly should be given an ODnnrttmitv in fail about it. TO FINISH CHEST Contributions to n. nual Community Chest drive to date total more than $30,274.66 it was announced today, leaving but 52,865.74 to be raised in order to reach the quota of the drive goal. Officials state that because of the excel lent work of the committee and the "grand cooperation" of the public, the drive will probably be concluded in record breaking time.

It is hoped to be "over the top" and to bring the drive to a close by Nov. 1. Members of soliciting teams are now busily engaged in cleaning up their various districts. Committees re quest that citizens who have been over-looked and who have not as yet made contributions send their checks to Community Chest headquarters at the chamber of commerce building or to telephone 5684. Goering Probers Continue Effort Nuernberg, Oct.

24 (U.R) U. S. army spokesmen said to day that a three-man military board investigating the suicide of Hermann Goering still was in session, its work incomplete. LADY POLITICIAN URGES LOVE LIFE END AT 40 Vancouver. B.

Oct. 24 (U.R) Women should forget their love lives at the age of 40 to concentrate on politics, according to Mrs. H. M. Johnson, first vice president of the North Vancouver Council of Women.

Speaking before the women's school for citizenship here, Mrs. Johnson said, "it would be a good idea if girls, after graduating from high school, found husbands and got their love lives out of their systems." "Then at 40 women could decide what they wanted to- do with the world," she said. Pursuant to an opinion by Attorney General George Neuner to the effect that school boards of Oregon providing transportation for public school pupils must also permit pupils attending private or parochial schools to ride the busses, district 29 of Jackson county is again allowing paroachial school pupils to use the district bus, it was stated today. The opinion was asked because the board, worried over the problem of crowding as many as 70 pupils into a bus with a seating capacity for 42, was endeavoring to cut down the number of passengers, it was said. "There can be no discrimination between children attending public school and those attending private or parochial schools, as far as transportation is concerned," Neuner's opinion reads according to news dispatches.

The opinion was requested by Mrs. Mary E. Phipps, clerk of district 29 which is located north of Medford on the Eagle Point star route. Decision Contested When the board first considered the matter, Mrs. Phipps reported this morning, the law was interpreted by both members of the board and C.

R. Bowman, county superintendent, to mean that transportation of private and parochial pupils in public school busses was not mandatory under certain conditions, and the parochial pupils were informed that they would have to provide their own transportation. The decision was contested by one family, whose daughter attends a parochial school in Medford. it was said, and an opinion was then asked of Neuner. Superintendent Bowman stated this morning that the law concerning the matter reads 'that whenever anv school board shall, pursuant to any laws of the state of Oregon provide for transuortation for pupils attend ing public schools, all children attending any private or paroch ial school under ms compulsory.