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Government In
Manchuria By
Communist Forces
NANKING, Aug. 21, —(£>)—Chi
na’s Communists announced today
establishment of their own gov
ernment of Manchuria, and said
they would not discuss partici
pating in any coalition government
of China until all of the current
fitting is stopped.
Some informed quarters here
said that establishment of such a
coalition had become “the last
hope” of mediators seeking a per
manent peace.
Communist spokesmen denied
that their party was calling for
allout mobilization against Chiang
Kai-Shek’s forces, and said they
“have no desire” to overthrow
his national government—which
is Strictly a one-party regime now.
But they added:
“The first thing is to stop fight
ing. Then we can talk about
reorganizing the government.”
Some observers here said that
General George Marshall and Am
bassador John Leighton Stuart,
having failed to stop the shooting
and talk politics later, now
were trying to reach a political
accord first.
Chiang, these sources said, had
asked Marshall to request a list
of ministries which Communists
would demand in any coalition
government.
Two Killed
Ten Injured
Plane Crash.
MOLINE, 111., Aug. 21—(£*)—Pilot
Captain James Steen and co-pilot
Marvin Fox of a chartered plane
were killed and 10 passengers were
injured, none seriously, early to
day when the craft crashed a mile
s<^th of the Moline airport while
attempting to make an emergency
landing.
The two crew members were
thrown out of the plane. Steen
was instantly killed and Fox died
shortly after being taken to Moline
Public Hospital.
Two babies among the passen
gers were unhurt.
Pasengers said one of the plane’s
two engines caught fire about 50
%iles from Moline and that the
pilot shut it off and headed for
th* airport. He circled the field
J three times, the last time only
a few feet from the ground.
I The plane was over the runway
vn the last round and when the
Wot gunned the engine a wing
Newsmen Leave For Europe
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WASHINGTON, D. C.— (Soundphoto)—Twelve US. editors and publishers leave Washington
on a month’s tour of Europe td study Military Government problems in occupied areas, as guest of Sec
retary of War Patterson. They plan to spend 20 days in Germany, 5 in Austria, 3 in Italy and 2 in
France and England. Photo shows them before boarding ATC plane in Washington. L-R front row —
Ludwell Denny, Scripps-Howard; Lee Hills, Miami Herald; Ed Kilman, Houston Post; Roy Howard,
Scripps-Howard; W'alter Christendon, Omaha World-Herald; John G. Oestreieher, I N S.; Arthur Sulz
berger, New York Times. Back row — Lyle Wilson, U.P.; Hugh Robertson, Mncy Westchester News
papers; W. S. Gilmore, Detroit Times; J. D. Ferguson, Milwaukee Journal; ami Hcibcrt Coin, Washing
ton Evening Star.
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Traitors To Face
Trial In States
Says Tom Clark
NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug. 21
—(/P)— Three Americans whc
broadcast for Germany have been
judged sane and will be sent tc
the United States to face trial as
traitors, U. S. Attorney General
Tom Clark said today. He did
not name them.
Only one of the original ten
indicted for treason—the aged po
et Ezra Pound, who broadcast for
Mussolini—has reached the United
States. He has been adjudged
insane but the treason count still
stands should he regain his men
tality, Clark said.
44 Entrants In
Nat’l. Air Races
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 21, —(i^P)—
Forty-four entrants, including
six women, have been accepted
for competition in the National
Air Races, Ben T. Franklin, gen
eral manager of the 1946 air class
ic to be held here over the Labor
Day week-end, announced today.
The entry deadline was reached
at midnight last night and bar
ring llth-hour applications which
must bear postmarks before the
the midnight time limit to be eli
gible, these 44 will compete in
qualifying trials which start Mon
day at Cleveland airport.
dipped and struck the ground.
The impact split the plane in
half, hurling some of the passen
gers to the ground.
Airman Is Shot
From Plane
DAYTON, O., Aug. 21—(/P>—'The
Air Materiel Command disclosed
today that First Sgt. Lawrence
Lambert, 29, of Berkeley, W. Va.,
was the first human in the United
States to be shot out of a high
speeding aircraft with the aid of
the newly developed pilot ejec
tion seat.
Lambert was shot from a P-61
flying at a speed of more than
300 miles per hour at an altitude
of 6,000 feet over Patterson Field.
He squeezed the handle setting
in motion the automatic appara
tus that catapaulted him from
the plane, separated from his seat
in the air, caused the parachute
to open and landed him safely.
Fire Damages
Calif. Mining Town
MOKELUMNE HILL, Calif., Aug
21—(fP)—Fire wiped out nearly
a fourth of the business section
of this old mining town, which
last month was rocked by 3 bomb
explosion.
No one was injured in the blaze
which swept the main block in
the center of town and destroyed
four buildings—a two-story build
ing which housed the post office
and a library, a two-story build
ing of stone which housed the
Calaveras Electric Company, the
John A. Rollins Refrigeration Co.,
and a building used by the assay
office and the printing plant of
the Calaveras Weekly.
American Legion
For Retaining
Atomic Powers
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—(/P>
—The American Legion in Cali
fornia today was solidly behind a
program of military preparedness
and absolute control of atomic
secrets as the third day of the
Departmental Convention con
vened.
A resolution introduced yester
yad by L. Burr Beldon of San
Bernardino and adopted unani
mously called upon President Tru
man to retain United States sec
rets of atomic military power and
to scrap plans for international
control of atomic weapons.
Petition To Unseat
Senator Bilbo and
Outlaw Ku Kluxers
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 21— (/PI
—Petitions to unseat Senator Bilbo
(D-Miss.), to “outlaw the Ku Klux
Klan in the United States” and
to pass a federal anti-lynching
law have been signed by several
hundred physicians attending the
convention of the National Negro
Medical Association here.
The petitions were circulated
at the convention session yester
day by Edgar G. Brown of Wash
ington, Director of the National
Negro Council. He said they had
already been signed by 400,000
persons all over the country.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — <£»)—
Pork chops, beefsteak, hamburger
and all other meats are going back
under OPA ceilings “at or close”
to June 30 prices.
Milk, butter, cheese and all other
dairy products remain free of ceil
ings, but controls will be slapped
back on if prices of those items
jump further.
Those main decisions of the
Price Decontrol Board prompted
widely varying reactions.
The meat industry spoke of dan
gers that black markets might
spring up again and that public
would find less meat to buy.
And the CIO cost of living com
mittee said the decision to keep
dairy products free of controls
“will bring greater inflation to
the American people.”
On other points in its first de
cision, the Congressionally crea
ted Decontrol Board:
1. Ruled against restoring ceil
ings on nearly all grains.
2. Authorized livestock and meat
subsidies to be paid again, at June
29 rates.
3. Ordered price controls re-es
tablished on soybeans and cot
ton seed products, including sa'.; d
and cooking oils.
Shortly after the three-man pa i
el announced its unanimous rul
ings last night, OPA chief Paul
Porter told a reporter:
“Restoration of subsidies on
meats we can re-establish ceil
ings at or close to June 30 levels.
“This is the case on beef, pork
and veal. We have not decided
yet on lamb.”
Gen. Nobile
Prepares 3rd Trip
Across North Pole
NEW YORK. —(DELAYED*—Gen.
Umberto Nobile is preparing for
his third dirigible expedition to
the North Pole, the Rome corres
pondent of the Stockholm Afton
bladet reports..
Gen. Nobile has only recently
returned from Russia, where he
was given access to much Soviet
Polar information. He intends
to fly to the pole on a new air
ship, christened the “Republica."
Nobile, Italian aeronautical en
gineer, flew across the North Pole
in May 1926 in the Norge, which
he designed. Two years later
he commanded a polar expedition
in the dirigible Italia, also designed
by him, and which was alao
wrecked.