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MOTORIST CLINICS
TO TREE BRANCHES
OVER FLOODED CREEK

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-(P93--
A 75-year-old motorist, caught in
a flash flood in nearby Delaware
county, saved himself today by
e1inging four hours to tree limbs
few feet. above raging waters
which covered his. automobile.
Jacob Carter Of Fort Washing
ton. Pa, grocery salesman,
watched several rescue attempts
by volunteers fail before firernen
reached him in a. rowboat, -. :
Carter said he was taking a
short cut when the flood, caused
by heavy rains, struck. LIZ.
Before I reached a. bridge, the
water was over the road he
said. I'm less than five minutes
it was UP to the flood boards.
Luckily, I had stopped under the
only tree in the vicinity that had
low limbs so I managed to pull
myself UP into the tree.
Fifteen minutes after the flood
struck, the car was out of sight
under the water"
The Chester Creek, normally 81
feet wide, spread to 500 feet. 1t
Hooded cottages and farmhouses
along it's route. The water, how
ever, started receding late today.
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JOHNSON DEMANDS
BIG ARMY SLASH

WASHINGTON, Aug. !. - Up -
Senator johnson D-Colo) demand
ed today that the Army discharge
100000, men, shortly after the
government promised addition
al Army aid to ease the railroads
manpower situation.
Asserting in a speech prepared
for Senate delivery that an Army
of 100000 or 100000 men never
can be used against Japan, john
son said the War Departments
lack of cooperation" in returning
surplus troops to civilian life is
blind, stupid and criminal.
The promise of further Army aid
to railroads, taxed with the job OF
redeploying troops from the At
lantic to the Pacific, came from
War Mobilization Director John w.
Snyder. He said the War Depart
ment will furlough 1000 men tenn
porarily to take railroad jobs. Ear.
ly discharge of more than 5000
men with railroad and shop ex-
perience was forecast by the Army
yesterday.
"The maximum number of men
that we can transport, supply and
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500 SUPERFORTS HIT
{ FOUR JAP CITIES IN
PRE-lNVASION BLOWS

: GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 3.-P)-
Eight hundred Supe-fortresses
made probably the biggest ar
raid in history today, burning and
blasting four, forewarned japanese
cities and an oil center in Tokyo
bay. -.....
AS their more than 5000 tons
Of fire and demolition bombs
burned and blasted the homeland,
these new pre-invasion blows were
disclosed by official sources:
Planes of Gen. George c. Ken
ney's Far East Air Force knock
ed out two more of Japan's ha-,
bor-hiding naval remnants.
Fighter planes of the U. $
Army Strategic Air Force ripped
factories, airfields and railroad
facilities around Kobe and Nagoya
Both the numbers of the B-29:
and the extent of their bomb load!
IN today's assault were records
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Enemy Takes
Shangkao In
Hot Battle
CHINA ADMITS LOSS
japanese Forces ATTEMPT
ing To Facilitate
Escape Program

CHUNGKING, Aug. / - UP
Japanese troops have captured
Shangkao, on the main highway to
Nanchang in Kiangsi Province &C
miles to the Northeast, the Chinese
High Command admitted today.
A Japanese relief column, driv-
ing from the West to protect the
flank of the enemy retreat from
Southern Kiangsi, was intercept
ed by Chinese forces, a communi-
que said.
Shangkao is on the Changsha-
Nanchang road. Enemy operations
in this sector apparently are de-
signed to facilitate the escape
of his forces in the South, original
ly estimated at 10000 troops and
number of civilians.
The conmunique said merely
that the Japanese relief column
had been intercepted" indicating
that fighting was in progress. 1t
was revealed yesterday that the
same column had made unspecified
advances.
Other Chinese forces, driving
Northeastward from newly-liberat-
ed Kweilin, reached the vicinity of
Tajungkiang, Sc miles Southwest
of Lingling, former American air
base abandoned by the U. S. l4th
Air Force in September, 1914. Re-
capture of the city would pave the
way for a drive on Hengyang, key
communications center in the LOO
mile japanese corridor which cuts
China in two.
More than 100 casualties were
inflicted on the enemy Southeast
of Shining, As miles West OF Ling
ling, the communique said, n d
five junks were destroyed in the
Slang river during series OF
skirmishes.
(The japanese Domei News
Agency, heard by the FEC, said
that Chinese troops along the
French Indo-China border h d
been checked from making posi-
tive operations and were only
carrying out localized activities,
waiting for supplies from the rear
or readjusting their positions.")
Quoting a dispatch from Honai,
Domei said that japanese troops
on July 26 had attacked and COM
pletely repulsed' some 700 Chinese
soldiers who had attempted to in
filtrate into the Tunghing-Moncay
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CZECHS WILL GET
LIDICE BUTCHER

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug.
1.-R)-Authority for the immedi-
ate surrender of Karl Hermann
Franck, the Butcher of Lldice,
to the Czech Government was re-
ceived from the U. S. State De-
partment 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
Wiesbade to Prague, where he will
be tried by the Czechs on atrocity
charges, probably late in August
or during the first week of Sep
TENDER.
The transfer was agreed upon
by Ecer and Robert H. Jackson,
Chief U. S. counsel on the War
Crimes Commission, in London
and was approved by the U. S.
State Department and the Czecho
slovak government.
Frank is a Czech citizen of Ger
man origin and was a member Of
the German government.
Regardless of the trials out
come, Franck will be returned tc
the United Nations War Crimes
Commission for international
prosecution at Nuremberg. Ecel
said in the event Franck should
be convicted of a capital offense
at either trial he would be return
ed to Czecho-slovakia for execu
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ATTlyz LONG BYPASSED WAKE ISLAND WITH
HWY BOMB LOAD; FIRES RAGE ON KYUSHU
LETTER BY LEAHY
PRAISES PETAIN
Missive However, Says His
Actions Were Harmful
To France

PARIS, Aug. 1.-WR,-Adm. Will
liam D. Leahy, former U. S. Am
bassador to Vichy, said in letter
Tread at the treason trial of Mar.
shall Henri Philippe Petain today
that the old Marshall seemed sin
cerely concerned for the welfare
of the French people but that his
refusal to resist the Germans was
harmful to the nation.
The letter, while introduced dra.
matically, had no apparent effect
on the trial except to interrupt q
loud exchange of insults between
Gen. Maxine Weygand and former
Premier Paul Reynaud.
Leahy's letter was written to
Petain June % in response to pleas
from Petain that he testify for the
defense. 1t pointed out that as chief
of staff to President Truman,
|Leahy could not interfere in French
internal affairs.
my knowledge of your personal
and official attitude to the Allied
and Axis powers was strictly limit
ed to the period between January
1941, and April, 1872" the letter
stated, when I had the honor OF
being United States Ambassador tc
France.
During that period helc your
personal friendship and devotion
TO the welfare of the French PEG,
pie in very high regard.
''You often expressed 20 me the
fervent hope that the Nazis would
be destroyed. During that perioe
you did on occasion at my reques
take action in opposition to the
desires of the Axis and Favorable
to the Allied cause.
ION every instance when vol
failed to accept my recommends
tons to oppose the Axis by refus
ing its demands, you stated tn:
reason was that such positive &C
ton by you would result in add
tional oppression of your people
by the invaders.
IT had then and have now the
conviction that your principal con
Germ was the welfare and protec
ton Of the helpless French PEG
|ple."
However, Leahy said, Il must il
all honesty repeat my opinion
that positive refusal to make an!
concession to Axis demands, Whll'
it might have brought immediate
hardship to the French people
would in the long run have beel
to the advantage of France
Leahy reaffirmed his persona
regard for the Marshal and SAT-
he hoped Petain's actions woul
be "accurately evaluated' by tn
French people.
When Defense Attorney Fernan
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Guns Offer
Opposition
NO DAMAGE SUFFERED
MacArthur's Fliers Blast
q Jap Ordnance Plants,
Dromes
By EDWARD L. THOMAS

UNITED Press War Correspondent
GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 2.-W.D
u. S. Pacific Fleet carrier
planes and warships attacked long
by-passed Wake Island yesterday
as Adm. william F. Halsey's
Third Fleet remainded under
security blackout now almost 10
hours old.
The tiny island where a few
Marines held off the Japanese in
a heroic 14-day stand at the start
of the war was blasted by war;
plane bombs and battleship shells,
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz ANNOUNCE
ed.
The attack, first in months by
major fleet units on Wake, was
designed to harass the hunger
weakened garrison cut off from its
homeland by the Allied advance
to the threshold of Japan.
Several weeks ago U. S. war;
ships intercepted Japanese hos
pitals ship carrying troops and
civilian workers suffering from
malnutrition back to the home
land. The Japanese were per-
mitted to continue the voyage after
the Americans inspected the ship
to make certain no important
military personnel were being
! evacuated.
Ninftz said a U. S. battleship
steamed up close to the island
and battered it with heavy shells
while warplanes were attacking.
The japanese offered "slight op-
position from shore batteries and
anti-aircraft guns. There were no
American casualties and damage
to our ships was extremely
minor" Nimitz said. Warship
damage was caused by shell
fragments, indicating that the
Japanese did not score any direct
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Big Three Farley Closes As Truman
Reported Satisfied With Results
President Flies To Ply.
mouth to Meet King
George; Sails Today

BERLIN, Thursday, Aug.-WH-
President Truman, Premier josef
Stain and Prime Minister Clement
Attlee ended their Today Big Three
Berlin conference at 1890 am. to-
day after a final session of nearly
9 IL hours at which they agreed
on a joint communicate to be is.
sued Friday.
President Truman, reported to be
happy over concessions he wor
for the United States, prepared
to fly to Plymouth this morning
to meet King George vi and sal
for home late today on the Cruiser
Augusta to report to the Ameri
can people in a broadcast speech
1t was believed the final com.
munique-the only one issued since
the opening communique July II
would outline the Big Three
position on the future of Europe
but any agreements with Russia
on the Pacific war would be kept
secret.
That the Pacific war was dis
cussed in full seemed certain be-
yond doubt. But Russia is neutral
so far and it was believed that
any developments affecting her
relations with Japan would be re-
vealed-to Japan and the rest Of
4bo would c;y,o,11t areO11 S1v-When the
time for action came.
j.. AS the delegates ended the third
Big Three conference : previous
ones were held at Tehran and Yal'
tat was disclosed at last that
the meeting place was the Schloss
Cecilienhof, low timbered home
on English manorhouse lines bull
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Former Ace G-Man Hunts
D01u1 German Murderers

Seven of these German killers
were sentenced to hang yesterday
after the first mass war crimes
trial in the American zone. The
Army has made a number of I'M
finished cases available to 4.urvis'
including that of the American flier
whose eyes were gashed out with
crowbar and the murder Of a
British flyer by 10 Rhine Maid
ens'' who killed him by kicking
him in the groin.
brought to trial, it may result in
brought to trial, itmay result in
the largest mass hanging of con-
victed women in modern times.
The Seventh Army Military Com
mission last night established
precedent by ordering the hanging
of grey-haired, 50-year- old Marga-
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Mystery Explosions
Kill Many Persons

PRAGUE, July 31.-Delay.
ed)-P)-Troops of the Prague
garrison were ordered to the
Aussig region today after
mysterious explosions and fires
that police said may have been
a Nazi Werewolf sabotage ex-
plot. Part of factory town
was wrecked.
Many persons were reported
to have persisted in the fires,
which from late afternoon 70
midnight burned uncontrolled
in the Aussig suburb Of
Krasneo Brezn0, about so miles
North of Prague.
Defense minister Ludvik
Svoboda and Interior Minister
Vaclav Nosek rushed to the
scene fppm the capital and an
nounced that all Germans In
the Immediate vicinity had
been "placed in security"
Wind spread the flames
through factory district and
workers homes
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ARNOLD STRESSES
AIR POWER NEEDS

NEW YORK, August 1.-R-Gen-
eral H. H. Arnold said tonight 'the
future OF America may depend"
on maintaining a constantly revita-
lized Air Force capable Of Sin
flicting instant deadly blows at
the heart of an aggressor anywhere
in the world"
''Surely we must face the fact
that a true love of peace is not
enough for decent peoples of the
world to count on said the Army
Air Forces chief. 1--WE must main
tain the strength to enforce that
peace"
In remarks prepared for din
ner celebrating the 38th anniver-
sary of the Air Force, Arnold out
lined a five point national air
policy to assure this country an
''air component strong enough for
immediate use when and if needed.
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Senate Bill ADVOCATES
500, OOOHomes Yearly

in the National Housing Agency
and greatly extend the low-rent
public housing program in cities
and on farms. 1t presents two plans
for rural housing:
l. Loans by the Secretary Of
Agriculture to farm owners who
want to repair, rebuild, or replace
their homes.
2. Federal-aid housing for very
low income farm families with pro-
vision for eventual home owner
ship.
1t also provides for sale of gov
ernment-built permanent war hous-
ing projects to local agencies for
low-rent housing, stipulating that
veterans would get preference as
prospective tenants. It would pro-
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shooting Star" Covers
$50 Miles In 81 Minutes

NEW YORK, Aug. 1-R-Travel-
ing nearly as fast as sound, jet
propelled P-80 Shooting Star"
roared in from Dayton, Ohio, and
Kissed to a stop at La Guardia
Field today after covering the 589
miles in one hour and two minutes.
The trim gray superstreamlined
craft, described by the Army as
the worlds latest, touched the run
way and hour and "a IL minutes
after leaving Wright Field, Day
ton. The pilot, Col. William H.
Council, said the extra 80 IL min.
utes were taken up by land
ing preparations.
Displayed publicly for the first
time, to mark the Army Air
Forces 38th anniversary, the Jet
propelled fighter flew most of the
way at 10000 feet because of adj
versed weather. Its top speed has
been announced as more than 55C
miles an hour and it's ceiling as al
least $4,000 feet.
Grinning DIS he stepped from the
pressurized cabin - 'sYou cam
hear your engine and there is nc
vibration" he said = Col. R
Council, veteran of South Pacific
combat, said he had flown every
type Of Army fighter developed ir
recent years and this is the best
OF all"
No smoke or flame was visible
from the kerosene-powered plane s
exhaust but heat waves, like those
arising from a pavement on ho1
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TWELVE LOSE LIVES
In AIR CRASH NEAR
BORDER OF ARIZONA

MEXICO CITY, Aug. L. R -
Twelve persons were killed today
when an airliner en- route from
Mexico City to Nokales, on the
Arizona border, crashed in the
state of San Luis Potosi, Contra.
Mexico.
The dead were listed as Theo-
dore Simons, Jesus Vargas, Con-
stantino Celorio, Ralph Hopey, Ra-
miro Wales, Francisco Wolf, Fritz
Burch, Carlos Valencia and Carlos
Rojas, passengers; c. Hinojosa,
plot; R. Paniagua, co-pilot, and
Miss S. Rangel, stewardess.
The operating company, Lamsa
Gineas Aereas De Mexico, S. A.
reported Simons was a U. S.
mining engineer who had lived in
Mexico many years. There was no
immediate information about the
other victims.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-WD-
Legislation to build 1,500,000 city
and rural homes a year, clear
away disease and crime-breeding
sluns, and provide millions Of jobs
in the uncertain postwar era was
introduced jointly today by Sens.
Robert. F. Wagner, D., N. Y,
and Allen ). Ellender, D., La. The
measure repeatedly has President
Truman's endorsement.
One of many bills being offered
to guarantee postwar prosperity,
It calls on private enterprise to
undertake most of the job, and,
through Federal aid, would bring
private enterprise into slum clear
ance and redevelopment for the
first time.
It permanently would consolidate
all government housing activities
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ATTLEE CABINET
PLANS .UPHEAVAL
Public Ownership OF Bank
Of England One Of
Aims. Laski Says

LONDON, Aug. l - (P. - In a
frank discussion of social and eco
nomic reform planned by the new
British Labor government, Prof.
Harold J. Laski, one of the party S
chief intellectuals, asserted today
that the people had come into pow
err and intended to benefit by it.
Labor's sweeping victory in the
general election, Laski said in an
interview, held as much economic
and social significance as emer-
gence of the middle class in Eng
land in the 1905.
He said public ownership OF the
ancient Bank Of England was the
key to the Labor party's nation
alization program anG that legis
lation would be proposed at once
to take il over. He said the party
then would proceed with t he
naturalization of coal mines, al
forms of inland transport, and thu
iron and steel industry.
Laski spoke with authority, fol
he is chairman of the party's ma
tional executive committee, an in
fluential body which shapes the
policy of the Laborites and will
have persuasive voice in develop.
ment of its legislative program
He said the Labor party abhored
any system of government Sin
which a small class, living by
privilege, tries to exploit, as ir
Spain it has exploited for centur-
les, the mass of the community
I'VE believe the masses in any
community are entitled to an equal
share in the gain as well as in the
toll Of living
If l may be irreverent for a
moment, ne added With smile,
England was conquered twice II
Its history - once by William the
Norman in 1866 and again by
Montsgu the Norman in 1884," The
latter reference was to the crisis
Which caused the downfall of ths
last British Labor government
When Montagu Collet Norman wa:
governor Of the Bank of England
In the fullest sense" he assert
e0' We are trying to fulfill thu
lour freedoms - and in fulfilling
mem we hope Americans will re
gard 1t as our monument to Frank
I'm Delano Roosevelt"
This is the arrival of the peopl,
M power" said Laski, a professor
VI political science in the Universe
v OF London since 1926 and a form
81 lecturer at Yale and Harvard
universities in America. 1--WE ar
"o" prepared to give the little maj
within the framework of tn,
british Constitution - all the pro
sresslve chance that he required.
"Sannued on Page Two; Col.
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BY ROBERT MUSEL

DARMSTADT, Germany, Aug. l..
The former ace Oman who
caught John Dillinger and Arthur
(Pretty Boy) Floyd is searching
the Bavarian hills and villages to-
day for the ruthless murders OF
hundreds of American and Allied
airmen slain after para chuting or
crashing into German territory.
Col. Melvin Purvis, who, as head
of the Chicago office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, captured
or killed such notorious public en-
emies as Dillinger, Floyd, "Baby
Face" Nelson and Roger (The Ter
rible) Touhy, is working here for
the Army's War Crimes division,
studying methods and introducing
some of the technique which was
responsible for the success OF the
F. B. I.
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BANQUET H0NORS
AIR FORCE GROUP

Wilmington's official observation
Of Air Forces Day, marking the
38th anniversary of the Army Air
Forces, was brought to a close
last night with banquet at the
Cape Fear County Club in honor
of the days official guest, Maj.
Gen. Samuel E. Anderson of the
Army Air Forces.
Other honor guests at the ban
quet, welcomed by city and county
officials, were the staff officers and
Their guests from Bluethenthal Air
Base, Cherry Point Naval Air Sta
ton, Camp Lejeune and Camp Da-
Wis.
A buffet supper was served IN the
ballroom of the club to more than
200 guests at o'clock, and there
was informal dancing later in the
evening.
Wilbur R. Dosher, who had pre-
sided as emcee at the earlier
events of the day, made brief
welcoming speech to the visitors
and announced that there would
be no formal entertainment for the
remainder of the evening, and NO
speeches. The banquet was planned
as an opportunity for Whining
tonians to become acquainted with
some of the officials Of the near
by military posts.
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Tilne)
tby U. 5. Weather Bureau)


y, NY U. 5. Weather Bureau)
,pa nie'eofologcal data for the "a hours
$50 pm, yesterday.
, Temperature
,.1 nv am: rs; 1880 am. rs; 1850 pm. "a;
Normal 70. w. -A'iii'"'''n ~ MEAN o0'
Ina Humidity
7,3o Law am. 80; 7:30 am. SO; 1870 pm. r.;
ro.-, PRECIPITATION
40 'sal for "a hours ending 7:30 PM
90 1O'aI since the first of the MONTH
Fro Tides For Today
& Cn Inc Tide Tables published by U.
~0aS1 and Geodedtc Survey.
Wilr,; High Low
'''''ins'on ------ 4:2s am. 11:41 am
Masonbo. o:ll pm. $500 pm.
'"ooro Inlet - 2:24 am. 8:38 am
su,n,- sos pm. 1923 pm.
l2:9, o:24; Sunset 7:12; Moonrise
am; Moonset 2:32 pm.
N0nslnued on Page Nine; Col. y
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PAN-AM LICENSE SOUGHT

WASHlGNTON, Aug. I.-IU.H-
Thirteen members of the Senate
Commerce Committee Wednesday
released in an interim report rec
ommending that Pan-American
Airway Inc, be licensed for do
nestle operation. The report was
an outgrowth of Civil Aeronautics
board action licensing Transconti-
mental Western Air, Inc, and Amer
lean Export Airlines. Inc, to enter
the foreign field in competition with
Pan-American. s.:
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North Carolina: Partly cloudy and not
much change in temperature Thursday,
widely scattered thunder showers n after
aeon.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-01
6 WISHING WELL q

I-t"43
By Wall Disney
The Detroit Times
neNt'
BY Jimmy Halo

ERE pleasant little game give message
day II numerical puzzle designed TO spell out
Count the letters first the number
letters II the number Is less than
result key number Start at the left
check Of
right the the letters
The checked figures give you. ii