Laval Fails In Effort To Cheat Justice-Dies Before Rifle Squad
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FORECAST: Clear to partly
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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.
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Full
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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,"
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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."
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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.