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Laval Fails In Effort To Cheat Justice-Dies Before Rifle Squad Weather FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Little chance In temperature. Temp. Hifheit Yesterday 87 Lowe it this Morning 44 Fortieth Year Father Takes V f -'hi t 1 : I ' 1 i t i Mrs. Marion Emerson. 24, Oakland, Calif., mother, looks disconsolately at empty crib from which her 10-month-old daughter, Adrian (center), is missing since her husband, Abe Emerson (right!, left home, taking the baby, leaving a note explaining that he is a failure, could not support his family as he would like. As the search continues, Mrs. Emerson frets because her architectural engineer husband knows nothing about spe cial formula required by the baby. Battle-Scarred On Arrival In San Francisco, Oct. 15 (U.R) Battle-scarred but victorious war ships of the U. S. third fleet swept under the Golden Gate bridge today, giving San Fran cisco its first glimpse of the pow er that drove the Japanese navy from the Pacific and reduced far flung Nipponese bases to rubble. Ten thousand persons jammed , the sides o -the. longest single " spanned bridge as the USS South Dakota, flagship of Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey, led the naval unit into San Francisco bay at exactly noon. Their roaring cheers, however, were drowned cut by the shrill noise of ship nd shore sirens. Fog Shroudt Scent A heavy, low-lying fog, which hrouded the towers of the E IE Spokane, Wash., Oct. IS (U.R) A strike of union employes of 10 J 'lied a "breadlcss Tuesday" as 37 members of the Bakers' union walked out for a 15 per cent wage increase. Walter James, business agent for the local, said that the bakers had been negotiating for a mouth for the 15 per cent pay raise and that it had been refused by 10 of the 13 affiliated bakeries. One bakery in Coeur d'Alcr.e. Ida., was also hit by the walkout. The strike vote was taken at a special meeting Saturday night and the walkout was effec tive at 12:01 a. m. today. Three Spokane bakeries, the Victory Baking Co., (he Hillyard Bakery and the Desert Hotel, agreed to the wage increase and employes did not strike. James said. Anti-Fog Invention May Also Eliminate Orchard Smudging San Francisco, Oct. 15 (U.R' , fog on highways, as a refrigerant A former WPA worker' who lik-jand air conditioning aid and as ed to putter around with chemi cals in the basement of his horiie disclosed today he plans to start mass production of a S'20'J inven tion which promises cheaply and effectively to dispel fog. The invention is a combination of a colloidal carbon and calcium chloride, or any similar water- absorbent, mixed in a burner which forces the chemicals to rise into the air. It dispels fog by changing the humidity and by causing the dew point of the atmosphere to absorb some fog and drop the excess like rain. Clellan Ross Pleasants, the soft-spoken inventor, indicated the invention might be used to air condition cities. He declined to make a flat prediction but said he was "highly enthusiastic" over the invention's possibilities. ' Something could be worked out to controi the weather of a nt."' he said. 'We might study ili Uits Si a uicaus to disperse M Unlt.d Pratt Baby Leaves Note Fleet Given Noisy Acclaim San Francisco From Pacific bridge prevented visibility be yond 1,000 feet and the South Dakota's fog-horn sounded before she could be sighted. The deep mist did not prevent sailors, who jammed the decks of the battleship, from .seeing and whistling at the girls who waved from the span. Two navy blimps, bearing wel come banners, circled over the flagship while Helldivers zoomed under the bridge to fly over the South Dakota before continuing out to sea to greet the other ships. An additional 75.000 persons thronged the shores of the bay on both the San Francisco and Marin sides to cheer as the South Dakota dropped anchor off pic turesque Fisherman's wharf. California's Governor Earl Warren, Mayor Roger Lapham of San Francisco, Gen.. Willis H. Hale, fourth air force command ant; Adm. Royal E. Ingersoll, commander of the western sea frontier, and Rear Adm. Carleton H. Wright, commandant of the 12th naval district, boarded the battleship to review the other fleet units. Led By Sub The procession of combat ves sels and transports, representing more than 177,000 tons, and car rying 45,000 allied fighting men to shore leave, furlough or dis charge, was led by the submarine Puffer. . She was followed by her sister ships, Baya, Kraken, Logger head, Pilotfish and Stickleback: the destroyers DeHaven, Samuel Moore and Blue; the cruisers Vicksburg, and the battlewagons Alabama, Wisconsin and Colo rado. The flag bedecked ships sailed through the Golden Gate 1,000 yards apart, passing the flagship and anchoring farther up the bay. The crowd greeting the third fleet was one of the largest In a substitute for smudge pots in orchards." Two of the machines have been operating successfully for the past three months on army proving grounds off the Golden Gate. Officials who have observ ed the demonstrations say the i machines produce as good results for $1 an hour as the Fido, an English invention which burns 6.000 gallons of gasoline to en able a plane to land at a foggy airfield. According to Allan R. Archi bald, Grass Valley, Calif., mining engineer, the invention contains colloidal carbon particles coated ! with calcium chloride, a water absorbent. The carbon particles are saturated with the calcium chloride in a burner at 1600 de grees. The heat causes the pro duct to rise into the atmosphere. A complicated chemical reaction causes the fog vapor to condense , and disappear. EDFftD Full iVlre JFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER Yi Worries ( Acme Telenlinto ' San Francisco's history and the uproarious welcome was for sailors and landlubbers alike the most inspired since the "ar rival of the "Great White Fleet" in 1908. Roar Deafening The roar of sirens was so deaf ening it stopped traffic in down town San Francisco. The welcome was not only for Halsey, but also for his ships and men who roamed the Pacific at will and, In the closing months of the war, taunted the Japanese by broadcasting the names of cities at which they would strike and U. S. units participating in the attack. Aboard the transports which arrived today were 7.801 allied personnel, including 6U0 Brilish soldiers and seven British civil ians, 14 Norwegians, and 28 Ca nadians. x Tomorrow units of the fleet will parade up Market street to the city hall for elaborate wel coming ceremonies to be follow ed by a civic luncheon. Halsey will be honored at a banquet to morrow night. F PERON'S ENEMIES Buenos Aires, Oct. 15 (U.R) Argentina's new ruling trium virate freed today the last of the political prisoners jailed by ex strong man Col. Juan Peron and moved to replace the old mili tary government with a civilian- dominated cabinet. War Minister Gen. Eduardo Avalos visited the federal police headquarters this morning and personally ordered the release of Communist Leader Victorio Codovilla, who was arrested when the military clique assum ed power more than two years ago. Codovilla was the last of 210 political prisoners set free In the upheaval of the past few davs. In announcing his release avoios reiterated his own op position to communism but de clared that he wanted complete ireedom of political expression Anti-Freeze Ceilinz Upped21 Cents Gal. Washington Oct 15 'U.R' The office of price admlnistra t'on announced today that the retail ceiling price of glycerine base onti-freeze is going up 21 cents a gallon or five cents a t'uart The new ceilings will be S2 88 n gallon and 72 cents a quart. The '.r.creasi-d ceiling apply to nnti-fuczes containing at least "5 per cent glycerine, a type ised chiefly In the Rocky Moun tain md northern Prairie states. AIRLINE SOUGHT San Francisco, Oct. 15 (U P) A resolution urging establish ment of a direct airline from San Francisco to Great Falls. Mont., via B )ie. Ida., and Butte. Mont., was urged today by the ; San Francisco chamber of com 1 nicrca. MAC ASSAILED BY AUSSIE PAPER FOR PUZZLINGORDERS' Restriction on Number of Correspondents and 0c cuation Force Draw Fire San Francisco. Oct. 15 (U.R) The Melbourne Herald today bit- terlv assailed Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur for restricting the num ber of allied correspondents in Japan and for assertedly order ing the delay 'of the departure of the Royr. 1 Australian Air Force occupation forces of Ja pan." Melbourne .radio quoted the Herald as saying MacArthur's reported order "came as a bomb shell to the first tactical air force on the eve of the advance. par ties leaving Labaun in northwest Borneo." Melbourne had report ed Saturday that the "vanguard of a 10.000-man Australian occu pation force already was en route to Japan from the southwest Pa cific. Llkei Own Publicity In a biting editorial the Mel bourne Herald assailed MacAr- thur's restrictions on the number of correspondents permitted in Japan and the Pacific war the ater. The Herald assailed the order as "a very nuzzling action by a commander who throughout his camnaicn . . . freely bathed in the personal glory of news pub licity which he passed out about himself." The editorial said it was "not at all possible to accept the ex cuse that there were difficulties about accommodating allied newspapermen in Japan".' "General MacArthur's order to reduce severely the number of correspondents in Tokyo has not been well received in Aus tralia." Melbourne said In broadcast recorded by United Press. TORTURED, SLAIN Pontiac, Mich., Oct. 15 (U.PJ A fiendish killer who tortiued his victim with icepick stabblngs for hours before her death was suspected today in the slaying of Mrs. L. V. Thompson, an ultra wealthy Detroit suburbanite whose entertaining was a fabul ous neighborhood legend. Shortly after the mutilated body was Identified as that of the 47-ycar-old Highland Park socialite, her husband was taken into custody for questioning in connection with her death. Authorities said Thompson 48, an automobile salesman, had not been living with his wife for nearly a year, although he was a once-a-week visitor at her Or chard Lake estate a sprawling country house complete with swimming pool, ballroom and re creation rooms. Thompson denied knowledge of the slaying. T VOTED BY HOUSE Washington, Oct. 13 OJ.P.) The house today passed and sent to the senate a bill to establish a term of federal district court at Klamath Falls, Ore. The measure, introduced by Rep. Lowell Stockman, R., Ore provides for a court session at Klamath Falls on the first Tues day in June. Henry P. Chandler I director of the administrative of 1 tice of U. S. courts, recommended : j adoption of the bill and it was ' endorsed by District Judges ; James Alger Fee and Claude Mc- j Colloch. REALTY BOARD TALK AT ARMORY TONIGHT Second of a series of lectuies being sponsored by the Medlord Realty board will be given to night at the armory at 7.30 o'clock. Discussed will be the GI Bill of Rights and the hew Oregon veterans' loan law, it is stated, and anyone interested in these subjects is invited to dt - l lend. 15, 1945. Even Stupid Japs Know War is Lost Declares Halsey Aboard Third Fleet Flagship, USS South Dakota, Off San Francisco, Oct. 15 (U.R Adm. William F. Halsey said today that "the man in the street in Japan is a stupid animal, but I can't believe he doesn't know he is defeated." Returning triumphantly to a mighty homecoming celebration with major units of his third fleet, "The Bull" soberly warn ed: "The atomic bomb was sup posed to end all wars, but it is like all new weapons they nev er do. The army and navy will remain as potent forces as ever before." Halsey vehemently called for retention of all American naval vessels during the era of peace, adding: "I hope to God we don't scrap any ships as we did after the last war. I hope we've learned our lesson now and that is to sink only enemy ships. And we have sunk plenty of them." Information on repatriation of civilians just released from enemy prison camps in the Far East and of interest to relatives has been received by the home service department of the Jack son county Red Cross chapter. Relatives are urged not to at-' tempt meeting repatriates at ports of debarkation, it was said, since all details are handled by the Red Cross and those arriving' will be given opportunities to communicate with relatives at once. Relatives who wish to send mail or messages to internees known to be en roule to the United States may do so by ad dressing the communication to the internee, care of Home Serv ice, Pacific Area, American Red Cross, Civic Auditorium. San Francisco, it is stated. Money may be sent to the same address for delivery to Internees. Miss Lillian Roberts, director of home service for the local chapter, obtained 20 messages for returning civilian and mili tary ex-prisoners In August. One of these went to Emil E. Mcrkel, brother of Dr. A. E. Merkel of Medford, and a message from the released prisoner said he was ar riving in San Francisco tomor row. Another former prisoner, Buren C. Konney, whose wife, Lucille Kenney, lives at 117 Mistletoe street, was reported to be arriving today. Advice on the sending of emer gency funds and other informa tion may be obtained from the chapter office by telephoning 5919. JOURNALISM HEAD DIES South Bend. Ind., Oct. 15 (U.R Dr. John Michael Cooncy, 78, head of the Notre Dame school of journalism, died unexpectedly todav. He was found dead in bed by his widow. Margaret. MacArthur Says Success In Depends On Integration Of Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Tuesday) !U.R Gen. Douglai MacArlhur said today that "the great lesson for the future is that success in the art of war depends upon com plete integration of the services." In a radio address to the American people on the occasion of completion of Japanese demo bilization MacArthur declared that the Pacific -victory was a triumph of integration of "the three dimensions of war." Strength In Unity "In unity," he said, "will lie military strength. We can not win with only backs and ends, and no line, however strong can go alone. Victory will rest with the team." Japan's war effort, he said, suffered from lack of coordina tion. He paid tribute to the Amer ican occupation forces in Jipan and said they might well be taken as a model for all time. Japanese civilians, he said, ate ; learning great sont from the i American troops. J ' Tbcy b.ve Xvr Ihe lull tuae," Tribune Onittd Ptttt Full ATSTUD10GATES Screen Actors Guild Recom mends Not Passing Lines If Violence is Threatened Hollywood. Oct. 15 (U.m Minor skirmishes occurred today on massed picket lines at film studios as the powerful AFL Screen Actors Guild recommend ed to its 23,000 members that they need not pass the pickets if there is danger of violence. The new stand of SAG was taken early today after an all night meeting of the guild's board of directors. If members decide conditions of violence ex ist, the movie industry faces a possible shutdown in the 30 week old walkout of craftsmen in an AFL jurisdictional dispute to represent 78 set decorators. Three arrests and two minor injuries were reported as mass picketing was resumed at War ner Bros, studio, Universal, Co lumbia and RKOPathe today, By United Pren Thousands, of dock workers began handling cargo along the New York waterfront today, breaking a strike which had tied up shipping In the nation's larg est seaport for 15 days. A union official said about 10,000 strikers had returned to the docks by noon, Bnd the back-'.o-work movement reduced the number of strike-idled workers to 444.500. As the stevedores trooped back to the piers, striking em ployes ' of the eastern Massa chusetts -street railway company met to dccldo whether to go back to work The company was seized by the state last night in an effort to end the transporta tion tieup which effected 600, 000 persons Meanwhile, additional Pitts burgh steel mills were closed by a shortage of fuel caused by a strike in eastern soft coal fields. Steel production at Pittsburgh dipp"d to 47 per cent of capa city, ibe lowest operating rate rlnce the depression of more than h decade ago Before the strike started In the coal fields, production was at 74 per cent of capacity, LOS ANGELES LAWYER HEADS NEW VET GROUP Chicago, Oct. 15 U.R Jack Hardy, a Los Angeles attorney and navy veteran of the Pacific uir theater, todav was national commander of "the American Veterans of World War II. Hardy's election, at the final session of the Amvets first na tional convention yesterday, came as the organization's Texas delegation threatened to walk out over defeat of a resolution which would have recorded op position of the group to the clos ed shop. Burying your campfire Is a poor policy. Leave it out in the open where everyone can sec that It is out. Keep Oregon Green. he said, "seen a free man'i way of life in actual action and it has stunned them into new thoughts and new ideas." He declared that "a revolu tion or more properly speaking an evolution" which will restore the dignity and freedom of the average Japanese already has be gun. Patitnct Repaid "It will take much time and require great patience," he 'aid. "but If world public opinion will permit it from these two essen tial factors mankind will be re paid. Herein lies the way to true and final peace." 'Today Japanese armed foiecs throughout Japan completed their demobilization and ceased to exist as such. These forces are now completely abolished. I know no demobilization in his tory either in war or in peace by our own or by any other country that has been accom plished so rapidly or so without friction. "Every Uiinj military, naval oi Leased Wlr NO. 175. 4 4'W1 Pierrt Laval, arch-traitor of France, who died before a firing squad today shortly alter h had taken poison in an unsuccessful attempt to cheat juitice. SHOWN AT TRAIL Lueneburg, Oct. 15 (U.R) Russian documentary films of horrors found at the Oswicclm concentration camp were shown in court today as evidence against 45 nazi former guards and commanders. The defendants sat unmoved as the pictures flashed on the screen. A narrator voiced a de scription to go with the silent film, made by red army photog ranhors. The scene showed plans for gas chambers where, according to previous evidence, perhaps 4, 000.000 humans were kill" 1. Other shots included plies of human hair, cut from victims' heads for German Industrial use and of twin children collected from all over Europe for. ac cording to the commentator, bio logical experiments. Death Ends Wife's Search For Husband Idaho Falls. Ida., Oct. 15 (U.R) Shot through the heart buy a gunman who carefully shrouded his victim with a macklnaw, then dropped the death weapon in his haste to make b getaway, the body of a 25-year-old woman Identified as Mrs. Ernest Norris, n.ldross unknown, was found to- ! dav in an isolated area oi mc Idaho Falls city park. The young woman is believed to have come to Idaho rails to participate In the spud harvest and "to search for her husband." PATTON AT GAME Wiesbaden. Oct. 15 (U.R) Gen. George S. Patton, com mandcr of the 15th Army, ap peared at football game m Frankfurt spiking rumors he had been iniured In an automobile accident Saturduy. Gen. DwKht D. Eisenhower, celebrating his 55th birthday, also attended the game. Art Of War All Branches air is forbidden to Japan. This ends its military might and its military influence in interna tional affairs. It no longer reckons as a world power either large or small. It's path for the future if It is to survive must be confined to the ways of peace. 7.000,000 Disarmed "Approximately 7,000,000 arm ed men including those in out lying theaters have laid down their weapons. In the accom plishment of this extraordinarily difficult and dangerous surrend er In Japan, unique In the an nals of history, not a shot was necessary and not a drop of Al lied blood was shed. "The vindication of the great decision of Potsdam was com plete. "Nothing could exceed the ab jectness, humiliation and finality of this surrender. It is not only physically thorough but has been equally destructive on Japanese spirit. From swagger and arro gance the former Jupanese mili tary have passed to servility dad Xear." El h g , - WEAK POISON AS Doctors Pump Out Stomach Doomed Man Half-Car ried To Death Stake Paris, Oct. 15 U.R) A French firing squad executed Pierre Laval today, pumping 11 bullets into his sagging body at he cried "Vive la France" after he had tried to cheat Justice by gulping a vial of poison. The arch-traitor, crying his In nocence to the last, was shot in the courtyard of Fresnes prison at 12:32 p. m. (6:32 a. m., EST). In a final gesture of bravado he asked permission to give the fire" command to his execution ers, but the request was denied. After Laval s body was carted off to the cemetery, his defense lawyer revealed that he had left a would-be suicide note protest ing that he was dying "because I loved my country too much" and had "chosen my death the poison of the Romans." Potion Weak But the poison he had car ried with him In his wandering! from French Justice was weak. He was revived and hustled to the Fresnes courtyard, lashed to a stake, and shot to death. Laval used his final moments of life for Jerky admonitions to those around him. The prose cutor, Andre Mornet, he voiced pity 'for having carried out such a task." He told the firing squad that "I pity you for being obliged to carry out this crime." And he asked his lawyers to linger nearby "so I can see you when I am dying. Then he faced the firing squad and cried: "Aim at my heart. .Vive la France." Bliarre Suicide Try At 12:50 p. m a motor hearse passed through the prison gate and headed for Thlals cemetery with a plain black coffin con taining the body for the former butcher bov who sold out France to Adolf Hitler. Four hours earlier at 8.30 a. m. Laval had gulped down a vial of poison in a bizarre 1 1th hour attempt to cheat Justice. He staged his abortive death try Just as high court Justices, police officials and attorneys en tered his death cell at Fresnee to take him to the firing squad. I.bvbI was In bed. When the cell door swung open, he hastily pulled the covers over his bead and In one convulsive movement so fast no one could stop him, emptied a vial of poison into hl mouth. ' Stomach Pumped He lapsed Into a coma. Doe tors were summoned from the prison hospital and went to work with, a stomach pump. They found that, as In so many other things during his career, Laval apparently had not been even sincere in his attempt at death. The poison was so weak that It probably would not have been fatal even if not removed, doc tors said. ' By 11 a. m., Laval was pro nounced recovered. Originally, it had been planned to take him to Fort Chatillot a mile away to be executed, but authorities decided to take no further chances with their wily prisoner. Pearl Inquiry To Produce Surprises Washington, Oct. 15 (U.R) Senator Owen Brewster, R., Me-, hinted todav that the public ii due for some surprises when the specl'i! congressional committee completes Its Pearl Harbor in vcstlnMion. Brewster, a member of the committee, refused to elaborate, but tidcd: "We've seen enough already to Indicate that we're going to eive a verv different complex ion of Pearl Harbor inanw picture the public now has. THREE NAZIS GUILTY IN MASS DRUG MURDER Wiesbaden. Germany, Oct. 15 U p)Three of the seven Nazi defendants in the Hadamar hor ror t.-tal were condemned to death today for the drug murder of 400 Russian and Polish pris oners. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Elinor Payne sighing over the collection of livestock ac cumulating on the Payne farm. Walter Leverette promising to stop the camera and call out "here he is" when Flash Fldler appears on the screen in "Can yon Passage." Francis Walker complaining too soon about his speech not be ing properly reported in the yrcss.
