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TbY OREGON STATESMAN, Salenx Ongbn. Thursday Morning. August 15. 1945
Petain Taken
To Pyrenees
To
. PARIS, Aug. 15 Marshal
Petain, convicted of treason and
sentenced to death, was removed
to remote Fortress Portalet high in
the Pyrenees mountains today
with his fate death or life im
prisonment -squarely in the hands
of Gen. de Gaulle.
He will remain at the prison
pending ?de Gaulle's decision re
garding disposition of the sentence
which was imposed on-the aged
marshal early today.:
The court, which deliberated
seven hours, recommended that
the death sentence against the for
mer chief f the Vichy state not
be carried out.
De Gaulle, now president of. the
French provisional government, is
a former protege .of Petain who
was once his regimental command
er. Intimates of de Gaulle said the
French leader was almortt certain
, to commute the death sentence
to life imprisonment De Gaulle's
associates said Petain always took
a "fatherly interest" in the young
er soldier. The preface to a book
de Gaulle wrote and dedicated to
Petain was written by the former
hero of Verdun. ' '. '
Fortress Portalet formerly held
former Premier Paul Reynaud and
Georges Mandel, who were im
prisoned by Petain's Vichy regime.
Mandel, former minister of the
Interior, later , was slain.
Meanwhile an official of the
ministry of justice said former
officials of the Vichy government
probably would be tried together
as a result f Petain's conviction.
The most important of these is
Pierre Laval, former chief of gov
. eminent
SERGEANT TAKEN ILL.
Technical Sgt La Marr Shep
ad. 33, became ill suddenly in
downtown Salem Wednesday eve
ning, and was taken to the Salem
Deaconess hospital, at 8:45 p.m.,
to be released later to the Camp
Adair ambulance. His address was
given as Ft Lewis, Wash. j ;
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Civilians Join! with service personnel In a serpentine Cones line on
as watchers la front of the White House celebrate the Tokyo radio
allied surrender terms. (AP Wirephete) ' U
Nation Operating Today on
Part-Open Part-Closed Basis
By the Associated Press
The White House mix-up over whether Wednesday and Thursday
were legal holidays threw the nation's business onto a mostly-closed
but partly-open basis yesterday (Wed), with the prospect that today
would present even more of s hodge-podge.
The banks in a dozen or more sizeable cities were open for
business as usual yesterday. More
will be open tomorrow including
those in New York.
A handful of war and industrial
plants continued to operate on the
first day after victoi notably the
atomic bomb works at Oak Ridge,
Tenn., the nation's biggest rocket
producing plant at Camden, Ark.,
and two big shipyards in the San
Francisco bay area.
It appeared likely that some
other plants and businesses might
try to call their workers back, if
possible following the White House
explanation that it was in "error"
in giving the impression that a
two-day legal holiday had been
proclaimed. A presidential secre
tary said Mr. Truman intended
only to give federal employees
two days off with pay.
A considerable number of busi
ness firms kept skelton staffs on
the job yesterday. But for the
most part America's businessmen
and workers celebrated victory or
recovered from earlier celebra
tions. With one exception all stock and
commodity markets were closed
here and in Canada, and will re
main closed tomorrow. The Lon
don stock market also shut down.
The exception was the Chicago
livestock market
AUTOS GET GKEEN LIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug. l-yP)-Automobile
manufacturers got a
green light from the government
today to produce as many auto
mobiles as they want insofar as
control over their raw materials
is concerned.
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CLACKAMAS COUNTY ; SALEM GUARD .
TA: PORTLAND MOUNTED T YAMHILL COUNTY
IX THRILLING SPECTACULAR DRILLS
COUNTY GROUNDS MJ4:'
in Front of White House
Jap Predicts
No Trouble in
tion
WITH SIXTH DIVISION,
Northern Luzon, Thursday, Aug.
lt-JP)-A Japanese naval officer
in this division's prisoner-of-war
camp said "there will be no trou
ble when American soldiers go to
Japan if it is the wish of the em
peror. The army, navy and Jap?
anese people exist only by the
will of the emperor."
Questioned about the reaction of
Japanese soldiers in the ! hills to
their nation's surrender, most pris
oners agreed all enlisted men
would lay down arms, but ex
pressed : doubt that high-ranking
officers would surrender : as wil
lingly.. Some will commit hara
kiri, some will surrender, and
some may continue fighting, they
predicted. N j
An infantry sergeant who hasn't
heard from hi family in Yoko
hama for more than three years,
expressed the belief soldiers who
had surrendered previously now
could return home without feeling
shame or disgrace, "With his uh
conditional surrender (by the em
peror) everyone Is in the same
class," he said. !
There still is no information as
to . whether word of Japan's sur
render Is reaching Isolated Japa
nese in the hills. i 1
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Adair to Continue
Despite Surrender
Japan's surrender will have no
bearing on military installations
at Camp Adair unless orders to
the contrary . are received from
Washington, D. C, it was an
nounced here Wednesday, j '
Camp officials .said the rede
ployment program would be con
tinued and pew buildings now
under construction would be rush
ed to completion as fast as possl
blcThey added that a large num
ber of men were scheduled to
arrive at the camp within the
next few days, while others now
in camp are scheduled for ship
ment to other bases. j
There also was speculation that
the camp may be used as a sepa
ration center to care for service
men to be returned from the Pa
cific j
MILITARY CUTS KAIL; USE
WASHINGTON, Aug.) 15-(
The Association of American
Railroads said today that the
army and navy have halted move
ment of all military freight by
rail except solid fuels and perish
able foods, i
CELEBRATION KILLS S
BUENOS AIRES, Augj 15-(F)-
Two persons were killed and
injured in wild celebrating and
rioting last night precipitated by
Japan's surrender.
U.S. Had Atom Bombs Ready
If Peace Negotiations, Failed
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 15. -
atomic bombs ready to drop on
production ' of the new super-weapon has continued since Japan
surrendered,; CoL Franklin T. Matthias, director of the Richland,
Wash., atomic bomb plant, said
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Speaking at a civic dub meet
ing, CoL Matthias speculated that
Japanese j delay in surrendering
might have resulted from a, belief
that the United States! had only
two atomic, bombs. However, he
said, "more-were ready and could
have been dropped." j 1
jThe 5000 , workers at the Rich
land plant,! he added, I "have no
instructions, about slowing down
production and will produce until
ordered to quit.'' 1
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i Plutonium produced at Rich
land, i Colonel Matthias said, . was
put into bombs which were as
sembled in New Mexico just be
fore they were sent overseas. He
said the Washington operation is
wholly independent of, the Oak
Ridge development in Tennessee.,
Their main . job is separation of
U-235 from - the metal i uranium.
Ours might - be more accurately 1
likened to transmutation of met
als, which scientists tried for cen
turies." - -j ; j ,
He said "there are elements of
danger in intermediate processes'
of bomb construction. !
By-Frodocts Stored v i f
"Several by-products of manu
facture are being . stored. What
we will do with -them -we do not
know," he added. "Commercial
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Bring Troops j
By the Associated Prna i
The following army units are
scheduled to arrive in the United
States from Europe today: -' J
At New York (aboard Cape
Flatterly) 4th infantry replace
ment detachment; 418th air ser
vice group' headquarters and base
service squadron; 668th air ma
teriel squadron. (Aboard James G.
Squires) j reassignment troops.
(Aboard Robert Hunter, Hannis
Taylor land Nash bulk) undesig
nated units. ?
At Boston (aboard Timothy
Dwight) 737th amphibious tractor
battalion; 733rd medical hospital
ship platoon. (Aboard Hilary A.
Herbert) 844th air engineer squad
ron; 4th infantry replacement de
tachment. (Aboard I Walter R.
Ranger) 4th infantry detachment;
896th chemical company, air op
erations. (Aboard John E. Schelt
zer) 5th 'depot repair squadron;
5th depot supply squadron; 872nd
chemical company, air operations.
These army units arrived in the
United States from Europe yes
terday (Wed):
At New York (Board Freder-
ick Victory) Casual troops.
(Aboard James W." Barbour)
643rd j bomber- squadron (light) ;
casuals. (Aboard John Mitchell)
640th, 641st, 642nd bomber squad
rons. (Aboard Fort Royal) reas
signment troops. (Aboard Edward
Hurley) reassignment troops.
(Aboard John S. Williams) jcas
uals. (Aboard Guadeloupe) cas
uals. ; i
At Boston (Aboard Benjamin
R. Milan) 709th, 7Uth bomber
squadron (heavy). Eighth air
force; 756th chemical depot com
pany (aviation); 10th veterinary
detachment (aviation); 4th infan
try replacement detachment.
At Charleston, S. C (Aboard
Elbridge Gerry) 484th medical
collection company i
EISENHOWER RETURNS
LONDON, Aug. IS -() -The
Moscow radio said tonight that
Gen. . Eisenhower and Marshal
Georgi K. Zhukov had returned
to Berlin after visiting in Russia
for . several, days.
ELLIOTT NOW INACTIVE
NEW YORK, Aug. 15 -&)- Brig
Gen. Elliott Roosevelt, son of the
late president, today was placed
on inactive army duty.
(P - The United States had more
Japan when the war ended, and
use is possibly a long way offe
All the atoms except hydrogen.
are exceedingly complex.'
The colonel said Dr. Enrico
Fermi, an Italian scientist who
later ; participated in developing
the bomb in the United States
"was so close to discovering the
secret of plutonium back in 1935
that he probably- would have
published his knowledge to the
world had it not been for a little
platinum in his test tubes which
nullified the action he was look
ing-for.
Glad He Failed
"He .told me that he was very
glad his experiments then had
failed, for there is no doubt the
nazis would -have loosed the ter
ror of the atomic bomb on the
world if the fascists in Italy had
possessed 'the knowledge and pass
ed it on to them.
"Germany - had all the basic
knowledge long before we started,
but lacked the facilities and know
hoW for putting the facts together
In the United States 2,000 top
flight scientists worked anony
mously to bring scattered bits of
knowledge into effective military
use.'
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City, early the morning of Aogaat 14 as crewds celebrated the
Tokyo radio broadcast annooneiK the aeeeptoavees ef the Petodaae
preclamatioBS. (AP Wirepheio) '
Fiesta for Mexican Nationals
Held at St. Vincent de Paid Hall
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By Margaerite Gleesoa
Church Editor, Th Statesman
Interest and good will seemed at their height last night when
an Italian-American boy played an Irish jig on his violin at the fiesta
for the Mexican nationals at St. Vincent dePaul halL ,
Elmo Innocenti,-. Just home .with-his honorable -discharge from
the UJS. navy following eight
months in the Aleutians, played
two violin numbers accompanied
at the piano by Wayne Meusey.
The group came directly from
the church where Father Wand,
a Franciscan priest from Port
land who has worked in southern
Arizona, preached a sermon in
Spanish and then gave benedic
tion, j
. The program in the hall opened
With the Mexican national hymn
and closed with The Star, Spangled
Banner. Rollando Porfas, Nica
raguan engineer in the Oregon
state highway commission, intro
duced the performers, first in Eng
lish and then in Spanish.
Mexicans Take Part I
Several of the Mexicans took
part in the program, singing and
playing accompaniments on the
guitar- One of the Mexicans de
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arms ia Times Square, New Terk
livered an impassioned oration in
Spanish to be roundly applauded
by his fellow countrymen as well
as the others present: -
The affair was sponsored by the
Knights of Columbus and the
Catholic Daughters of America,
and after the program light re
freshments were served. It was
explained by Senor Porras that
since the Salem - bakeries were
closed there would be no cake.
The fiesta was the finale for the
feast of the Assumption, a . feast
dear to the hearts of Catholics all
over the world and observed in
Salem as in other parts of the
world yesterday with masses of
thanksgiving for the peace.
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