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Nozi-Ordered Lies Hid Facts
About France, Reynoud Says
War Premier Asserts
World Wants Truth
And He Will Give 1t
First Article of q SerteS.)
BY PAUL REYNAUD,
War Prennier of France.

France has experienced the
greatest disaster of her history
since the Hundred Years War.
She has been conquered, in
vaded, occupied, pillaged,
mauled, trampled and humil-
lated.
For more than four years the
world has been submerged in a
flood of German-ordered lies about
us.
Today it wants the truth; ii
must have the truth.
When, after destroying Czecho-
slovakia, Hitler invaded Poland on
September /, 1889, France sprang
to arms by the side of Britain.
She went to war with firm res
olution and clear conscience. Was
this French declaration of war on
Germany an act of criminal
folly" inspired by the "war-mon-
gers" In the government of that
time-men such as Paul Reynaud,
Georges Mandel, Champetier de
Ribes and Cesar Campinchi-as the
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Veterans Official Say.
D. {. Sponsorship Of
Center Is Inadequate
Diekensheets Proposes
Joint Drive to Set Up
Better Service
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Howard Dickensheets, regional
director of the Veterans Ad-
ministration, today charged
that the District government
had failed to provide "smpa-
thetic, wholehearted. purposeful
and helpful sponsorship" for the
Districts Veterans Information
Center.
He told a committee meeting on
the information center that bet
ter directed and more complete
center" for veterans and war work
ers is possible and necessary" and
added that if the present setup at
1850 Pennsylvania avenue NV. isn't
going to be such a center, II rec
ommend we abandon the present ex-
pertinent"
Mr.. Dickensheets suggested that
if the District does not provide
more genuine sympathetic spon-
sorship" the section on veterans
should be sponsored jointly by all
veterans organizations in the city
who would collect funds for its
maintenance by single drive. He
recommended that If the District
government gave up its sponsorship
of the section on dislocated wal
workers function of thf
present center-it should be spon-
sored by the Washington Board Of
Trade, the Council of Social Agen.
cies and similar civic groups.
Receives Support.
Mr.. Dickensheets was supported
by the two other members of the
State Veterans Service Committee
Frank Norton of District Selective
Service and Charles Farmer, United
States Employment Service-in urg-
ing more adequate quarters than
the present bungalow, and staff
(See CENTER, Page A-4.)
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|Winunt Moy Be Shifted
From Ambussudorship
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tIc ASaOClaLeu FIeSSs
LONDON, July 19.-Diplomatic
quarters heard reports today that
John G. Winant might be replaced
as the United States Ambassador to
London soon after President Tru-
man returns to Washington from
PotSdam.
One informant said Mr.. Winant,
former Republican Governor of New
Hampshire, might be offered a post
as American representative on the
Economic Council of the new World
Security League. 1t was noted that
MIR. Winant was not included in the
list of presidential advisers for the
Potsdam Conference.
Evening star., 1945-07-19
Explosions DWindle
As Fire Subsidies at
Halifax Arms Depot
Known Casualties Are
II Injured, I Missing;
Thousands Evucuuted
Ry the Associated Press.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 10
Canadian Navy munitions set of
by jetty fire rocked the Halifa,
area overnight with four huge ex.
plosions and series of lesser dis
charges which ended only after
dawn today.
Damaging and crippling blast.
persisted for more than 13 hours al
the depot in nearby Dartmouth
One was felt in Saint John, New
Brunswick, 125 miles away.
Fear had been expressed that the
main magazine, containing $4,000
depth charges, would go up but the
explosions dwindled and the flames
died down this morning. A dull
thud about am. appeared to bt
the last of the series.
1917 Disaster Recalled.
For a time the blasts aroused
fearful memories of the Halifax ex-
ploSion of 1917. Then about one.
tenth of the city was laid waste
and 1000 persons were killed after
French steamer carrying TINT
collided with a Norwegian vessel.
Firef1ghters were powerleSs agains
last nights flames, but from acros.
Bedford Bay this morning only one
fire could be seen still burning anc
this appeared to be dying out.
There were Is known casualties
II persons were injured and ! wa.
missing.
The whole civilian population O.
Dartmouth, approximately 17,00I
persons, and others living in the
north end of Halifax were evacuated
on official orders.
Fireworks dotted the sky. window
glass was shattered. Buildings were
rocked on their foundations. A vet.
eran naval officer said the intensity
of the explosion was worse thar
anything he had ever seen in battle
Flames Rise $50 Feet.
The first of the major explosion.
occurred at 5;35 pm. Eastern wal
time. Others followed at IL: 20 pm.
2:55 am. and 3:02 am.
Lac bAtsAC oCit PA4uAo OA Ill z 4Os
feet into the air.
About 10000 persons had beer
evacuated from the danger ares
after the first of the major detona.
tions.
Every available truck. both mill.
tory and civilian, was pressed intt
service to move people from ths
danger zone.
In the wake of each successiv,
explosion projectiles were hurlee
through the air and into the Bed.
ford Basin. Snowflake rockets, usee
for illuminating targets during tn,
war at sea, flowered over the scene
with weird brilliance.
A thick pail of smoke billowee
over the basin, partially obscrrine
the chaotic scene from watcher,
who gathered ON the hills in tht
north end of Halifax.
Virtually every store window IL
Halifax and Dartmouth was be
lieved to have been smashed by tn,
series of detonatlons, but principa
damage to Halifax itself appeared
(See BLASTS, Page A-3.)
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deroga to reduce the fire damage,
refusing for u hours to go below
for medical attention.
Among those killed on the carrier
was Comdr. Clair L. Miller, U. S. N,
81, who formerly lived in Arlington
and who was a well-known ath-
lete at the Naval Academy, where
he was graduated in 1929. He was
one-time flight officer of the famous
carrier Lexington, sunk in 1912.
The commanders widow lives in
Reading, Pa. He has two children
by a former marriage-Barry, 10,
and Dale, 8-who now live with
their mother, Mrs. Rubylee Miller,
at 1415 North Scott street, Arlington.
Her gallant crew brought the big
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the general feeling of insecurity
that is causing the japanese people
to hoard their funds instead OF
banking them. He pleaded for i'm
mediate deposits.
The Tokyo newspaper Asahi ex-
horted the government to forget
cliques and convention in the ma
tion's crisis and take "world-shak-
ing" step to give the people a greater
role.
Even small towns are feeling the
effects of Allied fire raids. Domei
reported that Kouchi, a little COM
munity on Southern Kyushu, had
to move its 40,00O-book library to
safety.
Plane Story Mixed Up.
Brighter words came from 1t.
Gen. Saburo Endo, director of air.
craft ordnance. He boasted that
plane production had made remark
able progress despite frequent raids
and soon would be numerically
superior to that of the Allies. An
hour later this was reduced to
numerically equivalent
Apparently Gen. Endo and his
right-hand man, Vice Admiral
Minetaka Sakamaki, got their sig
mails crossed, because Admiral Saka-
maxi wrote newspaper article
declaring there was an aircraft pro-
duction 'bottleneck." He said the
tense situation was making it worse
and called on all workers to show
a fighting spirit.
The Tokyo commentator who
termed the fleet attacks on the
Honshu coast insane and spas
modic" contended the results were
so trifiing that they could better
have been achieved by B-29s. he
asked:
How did they understand the
fact that the japanese command
did not send out a single special
attacking pilot to meet the obvious
challenge?
Says Attack Was Unworthy.
What other explanation can be
possible that the enemy tactic, both
in its political and military sense,
has been entirely sized up by the
Japanese command and was found
not worth meeting?"
The unidentified radio strategist
said the action was intended to
counteract "a general slack in the
(See JAPS. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1945-07-19
Society for Bombing
America Packs Hall
At Rally in Tokyo
nv tho As,ociatod pres,

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.-
The Japanese Society for
Bombing America" held an en-
thusiastic bomb America"
rally in Tokyo yesterday.
Domei agency told Of the
rally in broadcast directed to
America and recorded by the
Federal Communications Com
mission.
The hall was packed to
capacity" Domei said, adding
that speakers included Shaichi
Noyori, identified as publisher
of a business magazine, and
Rear Admiral Toshio Matsun-
aga, retired, vice president of
the Society for the Defense of
the Fatherland.
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clear of water after reaching a depth
of feet on Route 5 at Great Mills
in st. Marys County. Virginia au-
thorities also reported roads, flood
ed in some sections, passable this
morning.
Park Fprds Closed.
In the District, National Capital
Park officials reported Rock Greek
IL inches above normal, but added
that stream was still in its banks
All roads were open in East and
West Potomac Parks and in Rock
Greek Park. Fords, however, were
closed in Rock Greek Park.
The Weather Bureau said rains
we're light in the upper Potomac
watershed, which made a river food
here unlikely. The water here was
reported running about l foot above
normal.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad of
ficials reported a washout at Cen.
tralia, Va, last night delayed north.
bound trains for from 2 to hours
They reported trains were resumine
schedules this morning. No othel
lines reported trouble.
In Richmond yesterday the bodie.
of a 3-month-old baby and soldier
were recovered from the swirline
waters of Gillies Greek after {
Greyhound bus carrying so pas.
sengers crashed through a bridge
weakened by flood waters, and wa.
swept 300 feet downstream.
Soldier, Baby Drown.
The dead were listed by Richmonc
police as Donna Jean Hammell
Delta, Pa. and Pvt. Julius r. Slof-
kin, 20, of Brooklyn, formerly sta
toned at Camp Patrick Henry.
The body of another soldier. a!
yet unidentified. was pulled from
the bus this morning.
officials of the Bladensburg Fire
Department reported that so col
ored persons who left their homes
in the area yesterday as it appeared
that rising waters would enter Their
houses, had returned.
Officials in Edmorlston, where sew.
eral streets were flooded yesterday
said waters receded later in ths
day, leaving all streets in the towr
dry this morning.
The Maryland State Roads Com.
mission reported roads in tn,
southern section of the State wer,
hardest hit by the floods, with
numerous washouts and slippery
shoulders. Roads blocked by higl
waters included Route between
Elkton and Route 40, Route 81
near Calvert, the Bowie-Laurel roaS
in Cecil County, Route near Grea
Mills, the Compton road near Chap
tico and sections of the Budd
Greek road, the last five in South
ern Maryland.
Route 2 Is Blocked.
The Virginia State Highway De
partment reported route 2, which
parallels route from Fredericks
fSee RAINS. Pare A-f,.l
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Rain Since Saturday
Totals $40 Inches;
More Is Forecast

The Washington area today
seemed due for a modern ver-
sion of the st. Swithin's Day
legend as rain continued to fall
for the sixth straight day. The
legend is that if rain falls on
the saints day-July 15-it will
fall for 40 days thereafter.
The Weather Bureau, pre-
dieting continued showers to-
day and tonight. said the rain
fall since Saturday totaled $40
inches at 1890 pm, with 0.S3
inches of precipitation since 8
am. yesterday.
This brought the total for
July to 754 inches, far above
the All inches which is the
normal fall for the entire
month.
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High Waters Recede,
Leaving Heavy Crop
Damage in 7 States
Traffic Moves on Roods
In Nearby Maryland;
Flood Here Unlikely
picture on Page BIZ

High waters, caused by six
days of almost incessant rains
throughout Virginia and Mary
land, were receding today, leav-
ing in their wake three known
dead in Virginia and severe crop
damage in some sections.
In the Washington area, traffic
again was moving through Bladens-
burg after waters from the north
west branch of the Anacostia River
reached crest yesterday Of feet
at Peace Cross. Water was 8 inches
deep on the highway this morning
Maryland State police reported
roads in Southern Maryland were
Evening star., 1945-07-19
Germon Potent Office
And 200 OF Stoff Seized
By the Associated Press.

81 the Assoclated Pfess.
BERLIN, July ls.-American au-
thorities have seized the 700-room
German patent Office in Berlin and
found almost all" the patent rec
ords intact in deep basement,
1t was announced today.
Two hundred German officials still
were on DUTY when the American
officers, led by Col. Ernest McLen-
don Of Baltimore. arrived.
Evening star., 1945-07-19
Proposal to Coin
| S35 Gold Piece Is
Rejected by Senate
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate today rejected a
proposal to create a $35 gold
piece in United States coinage.
The suggestion, offered by
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma as an amendment to
the Breton Woods agreements,
was defeated on a voice vote.
1t would have created a coin
known as the gold ounce"
minted of 480 grains of gold
with a $35 value.
Senator Thomas withdrew
another amendment which
would have directed payment
In silver of the American con-
tribution to the proposed inter
national stabilization fund.
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German press in Paris and Vichy
claimed for four whole years?
Was our crime not rather that
we had not prepared ourselves for
this war, which for years had been
gathering on the horizon?
A military alliance between
(See REYNAuD, Page A-3.)
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Huqerstown Results

FIRST RACE-Purse. $500: 3-year-olds
Van Tryst fEdens) $50 $50 ESQ
Shailleen (Bakhsh) $40 340
Wayuma kelly 2Sfl
Time, 1882.
Also ran-Happy Vixen, Miss Defiance.
C'herna, Hazemont and Heath Cliff
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(See TICONDEROGA, Page A-3D
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(See BIG THREE, Page A-6)
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(See POLAND, Page A-4.)
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(See FLEET, Page A-4.
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Guide for Readers

An Associoted Press Newspop,
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(See CENTER, Page A-4)
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(See COMMUNISM, Page A-4J
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tSee RAINS, Page A-60
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(See JAPS, Page A-3.)
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Racing
Continued from Page u

tutional without hearing any ev-
idence and then later took tes-
timony on the reputed nuisance
to bolster his original decree.
Edmund E. Shepherd, State
Solicitor General, argued the
litigants had a right to mainte-
nance of the status quo while
the suit was being heard but
that Miller's injunction upset
the status quo and destroyed
both a State Agency (the State
Racing Commission) and State
revenues.
Former Supreme Court JUS
tice Bert D. Chandler, counsel
for the property owners, said
the association virtually admit
ted it was operating a nuisance
and fire hazard near the homes
of his clients. He said the null
sance had been accommodating
and reached peak several
years ago, denying his clients
were lax in asking relief.
The property owners, Chand-
Ter said, have to sleep with their
windows closed in the summer
time and cannot use their porch
es because of the odor of ma
ntlre
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France Would Back
H. s. on Veto Issue
Delegates Declare

SAN FRANCISCO, June s.
(F) - France would go along
with the United States in event
of a showdown between this
country and Russia on the veto
issue al the United Nations Con-
ference. Chairman Paul Bon
dour of the French delegation
said today.
Any break between the United
States and Russia would be ag-
onizing to the French delegation,
Boncour said in an interview,
but France would vote with
America, however reluctantly.
Another French delegate, com
menting on this possibility. said
1t would be very annoying but
we would support the Ameri-
cans. X We have been with
the Americans all along on this
point" France and Russia have
a 20-year alliance.
Boncour declared that should
the Soviet and the United States
run counter in the veto ques-
ton voting, the American posi-
ton would be upheld IS to 5,
with Russia, the Ukraine, White
Russia, Yugoslavia and Czecho-
slovakia in the minority
L. S. Secretary of State Stet-
tinius was looking today to the
White House for a decision on
whether a showdown with Rus
sia should be forced on the right
of free discussion in a world
security council.
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M.C.H.S.
II OleS
by
Barbara n
MacLachlan

The Mirror staff for the COM
ing term has been announced
with Wanda Wright taking over
the editors position replacing
Isabel Millar. who is a gradual
ing senior. The rest Of the staff
consists of Shirley Levine. asso-
ciate editor: Bette Jean Krick-
stein. society editor; Shirley
Woodruff, feature editor; and
Grace Sagara, exchange editor.
The business and advertising
staffs will remain the same. Ad-
ditions to the editorial staff of
the school paper may be made
next semester.
The Masque and Wig dramat-
ic club held their elections Mon
day night and selected as their
new president, Jodie Place.
Wellman Millar, the retiring
president, took charge Of the
meeting at which in addition the
Miss Place, Doris Lester, Shir-
ley Levine and Dorothy Kandt
were elected to the offices of
vice-president, secretary and
treasurer, respectively. The club
will not meet again until next
fall.
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Bandits
Continued from Page ~

they asked him for a ride as he
was leaving his shop and, at the
point of pistol, had been forced
to drive TO the intersection of
CreScentWood and l. ynw o o d
avenues in East Detroit where
he was pushed from the machine
which then sped toward the De-
troit city limits.
The bandits, however, failed
to take $500 in. currency that
Ostrowski had hidden away in a
pocket.
The victimized storekeeper
then called to Frank Bailey, of
22348 Hayes, who lived nearby,
"a had the report of the holdup
telephoned to East Detroit po-
lice headquarters where an i'm
mediate broadcast alerted police
officers throughout St. Clair
Shores, Roseville, Warren town.
ship and Center Line.
DARING CAPTURE
Deputy Beard, patrolling the
Eight Mile road area, spotted
the stolen car 10 minutes later,
gave chase and although alone
and aware that the bandits were
armed ran the escaping pair
from the highway and took
them into custody.
AID IN HUNT
Patrolmen Carl Parrish and
Bruce Drummond, of the Center
Line police department, also
participating in the hunt for the
pair arrived on the scene follow
ing t. capture.
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held au-
thorized warrants charging the
two suspects with robbery arm
ed on Monday.
NAVY DESERTER
The prosecutor said tn a t
Kraushaar admitted being de-
serter from the u. S. Navy. He
said the youths told a rambling
story of having purchased the
holdup weapon from a weep
ing girl" they had met in a
Woodward avenue bar Friday
night and had told of a round of
taverns throughout Friday night
and Saturday that ended in their
being stranded at Eastwood
Park in East Detroit late Satur-
day evening.
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Girl-Bride
Continued from Page ~

trailer home. Lola and James
had spent their honeymoon at a
swank summer hotel on the
shores of Lake st. Clair, Prose-
cutor Wilbur F. Held, who au-
thorized the groom's arrest, said.
Markle made his home at
1928 Audrey street, in Van
Dyke while Lola lived with her
mother and step-father at the
General Grant Trailer Camp on
Van Dyke avenue, just north of
Center Line.
GOLD STAR HOAX
The perjury count to which
Markle has pleaded guilty stems
from his Justification of Lola's
age, which he gave as 10, when
he applied for the marriage IL
cense. Markle, one year ago, had
been jailed for 90 days following
his plea Of guilty to having at
tempted to defraud Mrs. Frank
Ballobraditch, a Warren town.
ship Gold Star mother, on the
false claim that he could supply
information that her son, Lieut..
Harry Ballobraditch, still lived.
He later admitted that his story
was a brutal hoax.
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Landmark



more recently by his wife, Glad
Us, once housed what was be-
lieved to be Michigan's first pri-
vate academy.
Built in 1850 and operated for
many years as the Disco Acade-
my for boys and girls, the struc-
ture later served as a meeting
place for various religious
groups, then-for a time AS a
public school, next as a justice
court room and, finally, as a
tavern.
Recently re-decorated and re-
modelled the Disco Tavern was
one of the better known and
more widely patronized night
spots in the North Macomb area.
The flames which destroyed
the old building were discover
ed by Corp. Paul Frederick of
the Romeo Post of the State Po-
lice at 100 a. m. Saturday as he
drove by on patrol. Hurriedly
informing Mrs. LaVigne of the
menace the trooper helped di-
rect patrons from the hall, but
although the Utica and Roches-
ter fire departments responded
promptly to the call, the fire
had gained too great Roadway
to be brought under control.
Officers believed that light
ming may have caused the con-
flagration that completely WHIP
ed out the famous landmark.
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Mail Theft
CONTINUED from Page IL

boys 60 to a mail box and take
something out.
He phoned police and Sgt.
Fred RAIDER responded, arresting
the boys, who were on foot, a
short distance away. Nearby,
RAIDER found a torn envelope adj
dressed TO Adam L. Bell, of 21561
Crusade avenue, East Detroit.
ADMIT THEFTS
Later, when questioned by
Postmaster Fred Schroeder and
Postal Inspector Donald School,
of Detroit, the boys admitted
taking the letter.
They said they were on the
lookout for soldiers allotment
or pension checks, but denied
any previous thefts here or in
Detroit.
A deputy United States mar
shall, armed with Federal war
rants, took the pair to Detroit
where they were to be ques-
toned by Federal Investigators.
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Capt. Fast
Continued from Page u

duty several months ago, Capt.
Fast has been graduated from
the Central Instructors School
for bombardiers at Midland,
Texas, and also from the Off
GERS Command Training School
at San Angelo, Texas, where he
received his discharge.
Capt. Fast left his engineer
ing course at Michigan State
College to enter service in
April. 1912.
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Pacific

Continued from Page ~
British through minefields in the
Burma cleanup.
American Marines were sur
prised at the ease with which
they seized a 1000 yard beach
head south of Naha in a surprise
landing on Western Okinawa
yesterday morning. During the
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Germany
CONTINUED from Page u

worthy of the professional OPEN
air speakers of 40 or so years
ago."
Strong signs of interest in the
French dispute with Syria and
Lebanon w exhibited by
Turkey, and rumors circulated
i'm Istanbul of forthcoming lin
ternat y meeting" there. The
Istanbul press declared the
Turkish government should be
represented in any international
conference summoned to settle
the controversy.
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day they captured an island in
Naha Harbor, built bridges 10
the captured capital city. and
drove southwark over the best
airfield the enemy had built on
the island. They were slowed
only by minefields and mortar
and machinegun fire on the left
flank.
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Luther Dummy" Taylor, the
only deaf mute ever to become
Major League baseball star, as
pitcher for the New York
Giants, now is a house father"
at the Illinois school for the
deaf.