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I f 4 ; PAGE. TWO The OREGOH STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Thursday Morning. August 2, 1945 Leahy Pctain Wished PARIS, Aug. 1 -(P)-1 A letter from Admi. William D. Leahy, President Truman's chief, of staff, to Marshal Henri Philippe Petaih wu dramatically introduced by the defense today into Hi aged Vichy thief trial for treason., j ; Leahy, American ambassador to the Vichy government i tke cru cial days after the fall of France, ' said Petain, "often expressed the fervent hope that then an invad er would be destroyed? But Leahy added that at times the marshal declined to -oppose - the nazts during the German-occupation. )-. I A statement attributed to for mer British Prime Minister Chun-hill also was Introduced by the defense; to support the argu ment that j the Tranoo-German armistice benefitted -bott France and the allies. ChurchiUMs quot ed as saying that the armistice did Britain "a good service.' These were the highlights of the ninth day of Petain's I trial on charges of intelligence with Ger many and plotting against the se curity of France a day marked by sharp, bitter recriminations between the military and political leaders of France In 1940 and the Jury's lack of interest j Czechs to Get Butclier for Atrocity Trial FRANKFtJRT, Germany, Aug. I.-(P)-Authority for the immedi ate surrender of Karl Hermann Franck, the "butcher of Iidice," to the Czech government was re ceived from the US state depart ment today by Dr. Bohumil Ecer, Czechoslovak representative on the United : Nations war crimes commission.' Ecer said - arrangements had been completed to transfer Franck from an interrogation center at Wiesbaden to Prague, where he wilj be tried by the Czechs on atrocity charges, probably, late in August, or during the first week of September. The transfer was agreed upon by Ecer and Robert H. Jackson, chief US counsel on the war crimes commission, hi London and was approved by the US state department and the Czecho slovak government ervicemen Lack Dorms PORTLAND. Aug. 1 About 500 servicemen who were-forced to sleep on floors and -stairways last Saturday night will be pro- vided beds from -now In the Swan island; dormitory. 1 Carl F. FreQinger, chairman of , xne u&u Touncu, announced the dormitory will have rooms-for the soldiers and; sailors at 75 cents a night Special buses will -run from Swan island from 1 to 4 anv The shortage of hotel mom has j been accentuated since more- serv 5 icemen, many from Camp- Adair, ! swarm into Portland en-weekend ; passes. German Submen ; Arrive ! MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 1 --Four teen members of the crew "of the German submarine, the - U-JTO, which surrendered at Maori Del I Plata, Argentina, July 10, arrived in Miami by navy plane " today. ' They were j turned over to the army and placed in prisoner ef war compound. CUBA ALLOWS 'TOVASXON'' HAVANA. Autf. -l.-tirwriM United States army fees -been -authorized to hold landing -maneuvers "it certain point feng the Cuban coast,", the ministry of the presidency announced tonight Rainier 6 Seal 1 SAN FBANCISCO, Aug. , -The Seattle Rainiere -behind the six hit pitching of veteran Hal lurpin lomgnt mode it two- in i tow by defeating the Seals, f-1 In a Pacific Coast league game. ttl '. I I4SS 00ft S U 8n rraadaeo so on aoo I S ; Turpi and Tinier; Bartbelaon. Pier cey (t) and Offrodawakl NOW! SHOWING i ' .- .a. - The Fannlesi Ilctara Ever Set U Mask : r uin Mil- Hi l 9 r Pins "Gangs ei Water Front TCDAT AIH FEIDAY German Defeat - Battleship Mississippi Blasted By Suicide Jap, tyackiin Fight I WASHINGTON, Aug. l.-$Pf-Tne battleship Mississippi pun tured by a suicide plane January 9 at Lingayen gulf in the Philip pines, is back on the prowl for Japanese with 300 per cent more fire power. ' -i'-r-- . '. -I The navy -waited ,until today to tell about the action. Twenty-two men were killed on the "old Miss." Eighteen, more were injured, and so was the 28-year-old battlewagon. But she went right on fighting for three months, then went to Pearl Har bor for permanent repairs and general overhaul. The extra fire power, added dur ing, the overhaul, the navy said, "probably will save the lives of hundreds in the future." It wa early in the afternoon when a carrier-based dive bomber danced around on the Mississippi's superstructure, grazing -the navi gation bridge, damaging several anti-aircraft guns, putting two larger guns out of action tempor arily, and ripping out some com munications channels. Before the enemy, plane went over the side, its Domtx nppea loose. and exploded IS feet from the battleship's side. Seventy-five shrapnel holes were found in the skin of the old Miss, and the bomb blast bashed in 'four water tight compartments along the port side. . Fixing the partly floored blis ters was the first consideration. 'A , cofferdam was constructed of metal, marula, canvas and mat tresses,' the navy said, "and rigged to conform to lines at the ship's side. "Forced into position by flota tion pressure, the cofferdam stop ped the leak long enough to en able welders and cutters to repair the shrapnel holes, and eventually empty the flooded areas. 'Holes lower in the water were plugged with special wooden plugs, wedges and oakum." It took but 20 minutes to douse fires started by the suicide plane. Rescue Pilots ave Airmen AtJavs'Door GUAM, Thursday, Aug. MJry- Two army air force rescue pilots, using the army air and sea rescue facilities in support of the navy carrier plane attacks against Japan for the first time, saved two Third fleet airmen witMhr k few miles of Japan July 30. " ' Lt. John E. Kairigh,' Pittsburgh, Pa, flew his Catalina plane across one of Honshu island's hottest flak belts into the sea of Japan' to pick up a navy pilot on Honshu's north shore. Rairigh, flying out of Iwo Jima, received word the pilot was down in the Japan sea. Despite the fact he knew his gasoline supply was insufficient to get him back to his j base he flew across Osaka and Nagoya and landed in a rough sea. ; He then flew back across the main- island, set his plane down near, the Third fleet, which, picked uprthe fliers. :. . - "' V lA: Stuart -M. McCabe, High land Parkv N. J,flew ras CataUna into Suruga; bay. about 60 miles southwest of Tokyo, to -help an other! pilot He crashed in landing but another plane of the' emerg ency rescue squadron dropped a motor launch, and the fliers headed toward Iwo and were picked up later by navy-craft- .' j Plane Plants' To Be Rated WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -(JP)- A survey of west coast aviation plants to determine which should be retained in the interest of na tional security after the war will be undertaken next week by the senate's committee investigating the war .effort A subcommittee headed by Sen ator Mitchell (D-Wash) will ex amine possible postwar, facilities for maintaining an adequate air force.! li ' Chairman Mead (D-NY) com mented that "if we had had ade quate plant facilities for turning out airplanes we could have saved a lot of lives. Instead, we had to spend six months building before we could turn out the planes." The committee also will inouire into the effect of production cut backs. DISEASE FIGHT FINANCED PORTLAND, Aug. 1 -(ffV Ore gon has more than $100,000 to fight veneral disease during the next fiscal year, Dr. W. H. Au franc, veneral-disease control of ficer, said today. Too Late to Classify . Jb5Y to 00 Sundry la home at WS Broadway. ! NOTICE r THE JEWEL BOX r CLOSED i v For about a month to tnlargt ttor' ... v Vcrtch for the opening dale V - S. Muchnick LasIdiOutliiies Labi IOCS P. ' - ; I : ForEMand! LONDON, Aug. l.-pi-In a frank discussion of social and ec onomic retorm punned - by 1 cue iw British,! labor, government. Prof. Harold J. Laski, one of the party chief ! intellectuals, assert ed today - that the - people- had come into power and intended to benefit by it, - 1 Labor's sweeping victory in the general election, Laski said; in an interview, held as much econom ic and aociali significance aa em ergence of the middle class in England in the 1830's. i He said public ownership, of the ancient bank-of England was the "key" to the labor party's nation alization program and that legis lation would be proposed ai once to take it ova. ; He said the party then would proceed with the na tionalization of coal mines, all forms of Inland transport ' and the iron and steel industry.! Laski spoke with authority, for he .is chairman of the party's na tional executive committee, an in fluential body which shapes the policy of the laborites and .will have a persuasive voice in de velopment of its legislative pro gram. Parliament Gonvehes for! HistorlcMeet LONDON, KAug. l.--In an atmosphere of age-old tradition, the British parliament convened today for a historic session under control of the labor party, h The house of commons sat for exactly : one ,hour . and reelected Pnl . Cliftnn Bmwn , tnoaVar The house of lords met to swear in new- peers.! Parliament will not consider legislation until ' King George VI opens it formally Aug ust 15 with an address outlining the new government's program. ; With 388 members in a house of 640 seats, Prime Minister: Cle ment R. Attlee's government goes to work witti! the strongest labor majority in British history.! , His lieutenants were prepared to plunge at once Into their program of nationalizing the country's ba sic industries.! i ' -S ; German POWs ShotinBrealir COLORADO SPRINGS, ; Cole. Aug. 1 -VPi- An American army guard shot and killed three; Ger man prisoners of war who ap parently threatened to rush! him. after refusing to work in a field 14 miles . from Ovid, Cola, thU morning, the Camp Carson public relations office -announced. , The guard, Pvt Harold W. Gar land, Columbus, IndL, who had been wounded in combat overseas, told Camp Carson prisoner of war ckmp officers that the three pris oners had made threatening re marks before the shooting, i He said he fired his carbine at them when it appeared they were going to rush him. Outsider Pays Well at Longacres SEATTLE, Aug. l.-vf)-Be Lis to romped home in the air force handicap, $920, feature at Long- acres racetrack today, but his gal lob was forgotten In the excite ment over tha' victorv of an.! null aider in the second. Saltese Bud dy, in his first start at Longacres, copped the second race and naid $182.10, $82.80 and $21.60 at the mutuvt windows for the high mark of the meet to date. Be Lis to; paid $17, $7 aad $3.90. ; ' "iii i i i I Evans Hurls No-No SmVERTOtfIn an exhibition girls softball game played at Me Ginnis field last night. Lind and Pomeroy of ' Portland, national women's champs, ' defeated' -'the other Portland entrant lnr the northwest women's softball loop, 12 to 0. Betty Evans hurled a no- hit, no-run game for the L-Ps. Und-Pomeroy H ' " " ' ' is Tonseth - --- - 0 j t ' I . Evans and ' Moore: - McGtnais and Churchill. . -- ... Newj Federal Budget Drops. To 85 Billions WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -(JrV revised federal budget of 83 billion dollars was issued today the assumption the war in the Pacific will roar tn I until next Sunxser or longer. i Government soendinff nnw forecast at 63 billions in the fiscal year "1948; which began a month ago. A record-breaking 100 bil lions were spent'ln fiscal 1943. The new estimate I is allehtlv above the S3-billion estimate sent Here's a qmick look at the new f odaral W4cet esttmates for the fiscal year IMC. shewlnr ekaawea freea the fiscal year that carted a Total tnmnlT Arrrnia froan $lMM,M.aa to Ss5,iiM4. SM.0M.t0f 4ft ts ITff.OIMsT 5M.IAt.IM to $S9,t0Mtt,Mt. to congress last Januarv. mamlv because- of this country's brand- new obligations In the field of in ternational finance. f The January estimate! of 70 "bil lion dollars of war spending still stands, though the European war has collapsed in the meantime. Smith said the administration Is sticking to the 70-biUion war- spending figure "on the assump tion that the Pacific war will con tinue throughout the fiscal year 1MB or longer." I He added that "if the war should end earlier, the outlook: would be drastically; altered." War spending in the fiscal year just ended was 90 billion dollars. Thus a 20-billion drob is con templated.! , ; Smith said war production is sinking to a one-front j leveL He declared that even on ;this level, war production will be "enorm ous" enough to, assure U. S. troops "overwhelming Superiority in weapons and fire power." ' In addition, the 70 billion dol lars will pay for redeployment of our forces. tlus reauirsmenta ffir occupation and relief in' Europe Senate Post ; Vacalncy to Be PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. l.-Pl -A recommendation to., fill , the state senate vacancy left - by. ao- Dointment of Coe McKenna to the state - tax commission ! probably wiu pe maae rjy tne executive comraitteee of the Multnomah county republican central com mittee within a week." 1 . Jack Lynch, nosed out by lie Kenna in ther last I election, was named . in political circles, as. a likely choice. The board of coun ty commissioners, all republicans. will make the final choice. They Lneed not take a cue from the par ty committee, however, nor - ,- under a 1945 -law - - need thev name a republican. With only faint hone, some democrats '.suggested : Ren. Uan ley-J. Wilson as a prospect. Wil son, now employed here, would be IneUgible if stlU a Columbia county resident Nippon Planes Raid Borneo MANILA, Thursday, Aug. 2HPi Japanese-planes lightly raided al lied positions at Miri and Brunei bay, northwest Borneo,! on Tues day but caused no damage, -Gen era! MacArthur said today. This was tho ficst reported-Japanese-aerial attack on either area since Australian troops landed there June 10. I Meantime, long, range patrols of the Australian seventh and ninth - divisions probed ! Japanese defenses in the Balikpapan and Brunei bay sectors, extending their gains further inland. ; Bombers of the 13th AAF and Australian fighters attacked Japa nese- airdromes, small craft and minor installations In coastal sec tors. :i ' - . ! Shortly hwm Body and Fender Men Auto Glimmers . Auto Painters Ji -. Permanant j Positions - - Post-War Future. ' - Work in Portland Apply Today cX Your Local - GREYHOUND DEPOT iTliutiibnaii off I7cr! Bj the Associated Press ' Japan Record flight of 800 B 29s. drops more than ' 6000 tons of bombs on four Honshu cities Mito, Hachioji, Nagaoka and To , yama and on Kawasaki petrol eum center near Tokyo. ' . 5 . ;i ' . '"' " -' ' Fleet r- Carrier planes and ships, including battleship, bom bard and shell Wake island in stallations. ; -. '' - Other Aerial Navy, privateers damage airfields, factories and Tail facilities on Korea and bomb Sakishirna islands. Several Jap. planes raid Miri and Brunei in Borneo, causing some native casualties. ' -l CHINA Chinese troops cap tore Pinglo, Jap supply . base in -south central China, and send spearhead toward lingjmg air field. Sen, Downey Praises Goast longshoremen WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -(ffV- Shiploading accomplishments of Pacific coast longshoremen com pare favorably with those of any other porta in the United States, Senator Downey (D-Cal) told the senate-today. Downey referred to an April 28 speech by Senator Willis (B-Ind) which, he said, accused Harry Bridges, president of the Inter national Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, of' en couraging a slowdown in stevedor ing activity on the Pacific coast The accusation, Downey said. "is wholly without foundation." He said a comparison of tonnage per gang which Willis used failed to consider the fact that a gang on the, west coast is smaller than those- at other ports. - Downey ' Quoted "Undersecretary of . War Patterson as saying : "it would be improper to assume that any particular labor group in the longshore industry engaged in a concerted slow-down.' - Sivim Leches 4 Boy Vninjured W ASHTNGTON, Aug! ' 1 1 -ffr- JTifteen-year-old Daniel Wilkins is taking it easy today after being washed half a mile through an underground storm sewer. '; Daniel was wading in the flash floods overflow last night tf ; a little?' creek feeding . into a storm sewer. Suddenly his was swept from .bis feet and battered against the Iron j grating rof the sewer opening. . . - The grating swung pen.' He f clung to it until tho water rose above bis head. His only chance was to let the torrent sweep' him through and out of the sewer. Re took it and quickly found himself out in the Anacostia river, a half mile from where be started. ,; When he swam ashore after his harrowing, trip he was. minus his swimming;; trunks.- -e Mrs. Alillie Smead Funeral Set for ; Friday Afternoon BROOKS, Aug. 1 Mrs. Millie Smead, 73, long time 'local resi dent, idled Tuesday, July 31, at the home, of her daughter; Mrs. Althea Krai, at Wheeler, Ore, af ter a long Illness. ' Funeral services will be held at 3 pjn. Friday, at the Pioneer church and burial win be made in the Pioneer cemetery north of Brooks ' beside her late husband. Survivors . are two -daughters, Mrs. Mriam Ballannan of Set side and Mrs. Krai. - MAKUAGES. DTTOECES 80AE PORTLAND, Aug. 1 -P)- Mar riage license applications hit a new July I high last month 349, but divorce applications totalled 493, the county clerk's office revealed today; , . - -. Underground mrii hi General Arlwld Maintaining StronL NEW YORK, Aug. l.-W-Gen. H. H. Arnold said tonight the future of America may depend" on maintaining a con stantly revitalized air force capable of "inflicting instant deadly blows at the heart of an aggressor, anywhere -in 'the world. -MSurery We must lace the fact that a thie love of peace is not enough for decent ' peoples of the world to count on," said Ithe army air forces ; chief. "We must maintain the strength to enforce that peace.- ': i la Temarka "prepared for a din ner celebrating the 38th annivers ary ; of - the- air force, Arnold - out lined ' a' five, point nUional. air policy" to assure this country an air component' strong enough f or . immediate use, when and . if - These' were ; Arnold's "cardinal points':'., :S:r------:: "L Wt must have in being pre eminent air forces able to handle any eventuality that arises, t ,1 Wi must have; within the airforces trained personnel ade quate for rapid expansion.' S. We must have adequate re search and development so that our . equipment will be the best in the world. . "4. We must have strong In dustry also capable of rapid ex pansion to produce enough of the best possible equipment in the shortest time.- ; - : " - '' 1 "5. We must have bases stra tegic springboards from which ft can operate effectively. - !-: ; - Arnold warned against "public apathy , which is bound to come when Japan finally is defeated. It Is then that we must carry; out a well-formed, j well-thought-out pro gram tor our -future security. These are hard facts which wt cannot avoid." I ! ' r i Chinese Take : Pinglo, Nippon Supply Base; CHUNGKING, Aug. 1 -JP) Chinese troops have captured the bomb-battered :. Japanese supply base oflPinglo! in south-central China and have - hurled - a new spearhead at the old Flying Tigers airfield at .Lingling, 370 miles southeast of Chungking, the Chin ese high command said today. ? Pinglo, blasted repeatedly by U, S. 14th air force bombers and fighters, was one of the most im portant Japanese supply depots in Kwangst province. It was reoccu- pied last Friday by Generalissimo Chiang .Kai-Shek's troops who had "been 'pushing for' aJmonth toward the highway center from Liuchow, 74 miles west southwest One hundred and ; thirty j three miles north of Pinglo. Chinese, sol diers launched a new blow toward ingling from the northwest -in -a developing two-pronged 4 drive against the key Japanese strong' hold in Hunan province. . ' ,- More POWs Slated For Hopyard Help - V !-. CORVALLIS. Aug. 1 -UPh- A shortage of Mexican laborers due to a halt in recruiting will be par tially offset by more prisoners of war and perhaps borrowing- 60S Mexicans- from Washington,' farm labor supervisor' J. R. Beck: said today.-:;: - -.. . .. p ., - He said about 5001 additional prisoners would be obtained for Marion and Polk county- hop yards, and 500 for the Medford pear harvest, but 750 now in Mal heur county will be retained there. GKAXX ELEVATOR PLANNED MIBILL,.Aug.il-ffr-A erain elevator to hold I aoDroKimatelv 700 sacks will be- batilt eJontf the Southern Pacific right of : way soon, John end Frank Kirzo an nounced today. r- Holak iii Comfort Lciizro Jsickcb S?:cidly Priced Make your leisure mo ments smart ones in these loos fittiiKj leisure lock ets. Perfect for summer, fall and winter wear. r:.l ' :.''-,': l-v.--''-'--. f",: lW S12JS0 to $190 . w Now ' , : I ;-:!;" -" 'U 9.95 to 14.93 Now U fhs tns to buy yoor foil - ' . ; Sdi ti lc-zzzl: 7cUe our stocks ere cospltts. ' ' 29-50 b Speaks-Outfor r Air I1 orce on-:.; U. President . ; Appreciation and values, rather than skills and abilities, which now receive the major emphasis, "will be stressed, in the) education of to morrow, Dr- Harry IC Newburn, new president of -University of Oregon, predicted here Wednes day And 1 the shift toward new educational policies are slow but steady across the nation, he de clared In his first address outside Eugene since, his arrival in Oregon a month ago.-.;, , . Salem Rotary dub, which heard President A. L. Strand of Oregon State college deliver his maiden Oregon' . speech, .was host for the luncheon meeting Newburn ad dressed yesterday. ! . - "Educators must redefine and clarify their goals . , change the ways .of measuring educational growth' and recognize the potency of fte goods -they handle in the days Yimme&ately following the war. Newborn maintained. The great-influx of students al ready, has come to the. colleges and untverslties; he 'said, and edu cators mhst recogruzer the' military influence, -that federal, aid is on the way -whether we like it or not, creating i problem of handling it without .being -too closely regu lated by it, and that the pinnacle on which this nation rests in the eyes of the world is high. Only with, a well-educated people can the United States hope to retain its position and to fulfill the great expectations . of; other nations, Newburn, said. j ' - eAir Vet&rjcinsto StayinUtS WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. OPV-i The army, air forces disclosed to- s a ai'-A Aa - .1 mgni piai u per cent oi iu com- bat veterans .from Europe and the Mediterranean will be as- signed'f iq duty; thr the United Statek." S- I " - ' j Mal. 'Gen. Frederick L. Ander son,, assistant1 chief of ' alr'sUff for personnel, said in a talk over the Mutual Broadcasting system that the other 20 per . cent will go to the Pacific to provide a nu cleus of experience -for airmen and ground -crews without combat experience. " - ' Anderson said ' the AAF win need 2,130,000 men for the ham mering of , the Japanese, , whereas its strength on V-R day for the two-front war was. L30CL000. Thus he scuttled, the idea that the air arm willhave a "xmaU job to do, will be cutting down in size and discharging large numbers of mm into civilian elothing. Trusty; Escapes From Sute PeniteritJarj ?." ' Escapee from a work gang today was state penitentiary inmate Jesse le Webb. Webb,- 31, eluded guards at a. project' near Keiaer school at 3 pun. 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