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Seven U. S. Marines
Captured By Band
4 Armed Chinese
NANKING, July 15, —(TP)—Fight
ing flared in Manchuria and North
China again today as the nation’s
sporadic peace negotiations were
stifled by the summer heat.
Meanwhile, American Marine
Corps headquarters in Peiping
reported that seven Marines had
* been captured by a band of 80
armed Chinese north of Chin
wangtao and held prisoner since
Saturday. The band was not j
identified.
Associated Press correspondent
Tom Masterton, also reported
from Peiping that Communist
troops had struck at a railroad
stations on Shangtung peninsula.
There are American Marine bases
Tientsin and Tsingtao.
The reports were carried in the
Independent Peiping Press, which
late last week reported 20,000 Red
troops had opened attacks on Na
tionalist outer defenses at Tien
tsin.
Other Chinese press reports
said that 10,000 Communists had
assaulted Chiengchang in Man
* churia and reportedly had com
pleted encirclement of the city
while others captured Hungfan
tzu, a bridgehead on the north
bank of Manchuria’s Sungari riv
re.
Strong detachments of Ameri
can Marines were scouring the
countryside north of Chinwangtao
searching for the missing men.
Veteran Loans
Over 27 Million
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SEATTLE, July 15, —(>P)— The
Veterans Administration guaran
tee office announced today that
lending agencies have made 7,054
loans to veterans of the four
► Northwest States and Alaska for
a value of $27,285,662. Of the
total of the loans, the Veterans
Administration has guaranteed
$13,133,935.
In addition, 3,043 loan applica
tions for loans, with an estimated
value of $11,784,759 now are in
the process of being consumated
by VA regional offices in Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana
and Alaska.
p Home loans constitute the bulk
of those made by lending agen
|) cies of the Northwest, with bus
iness second and farm loans third.
Total amounts of these loans re
corded to date are home $23,503,
635; business $2,857,408 and farm
$024,810.
Fortunate Miss
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — (Soundphoto) — One of the lethal souvenirs of the war, a live
torpedo, was found near the Golden Gate Bridge and traffic over the bridge was halted temporarily while
ft was disarmed. An unidentified “beachcomber” found the live torpedo, armed with a detonating head,
resting on the sand in a foot of water. The warhead is shown here just before it was blown up by Na\v
Ordnance experts, who said it was a Japanese torpedo probably fired from an enemy submarine in the
•‘•rhr days of the war
Final Effort
Extend OPA
General Authority
WASHINGTON, July 15, -(^Pi
Democratic leader Barkley (Ky.)
indicated today that Congress is
making its final effort to pass
OPA revival legislation by tell
ing reporters he hopes for ad
journment by July 27.
Barkley’s statement was made
at Whitehouse after legislative
leaders held theig customary Mon
day morning conference with
President Truman. It promptly
was interpreted at the capitol as
a sign that if Mr. Truman does i
not sign the bill next sent him by
Congress, no further effort will
be made to extend OPA’s gener
al authority.
Congressional leaders hope to
remove, in a Senate-House con
ference committee, many of the
bans voted by the Senate against
the placing of ceilings on major
commodities.
Edwards Manager
Alaska Airlines
SEATTLE, July 15, — (A3)—1The
Alaska Airlines today announced
the appointment of Lieutenant
Commander B. B. Edwards, as
General Traffic Manager, with
headquarters at Anchorage.
Edwards served with the Naval
Air Transport Service during the
war, for a period of 41 months.
Says ‘Veto Power’
Illogical
NEW YORK, July 15, — (JP)—Dr.
Herbert Evatt, Australian foreign
minister, today attacked the veto
procedure in the United Nations
Security Council as “undemocra
tic and unjust” and declared there
must be “no veto” in the Paris
peace conference.
Evatt, who is retiring as chair
man of the United Nations Atom
ic Energy Commission, said in a
broadcast heard here and in Aus
tralia, that the “illogical system
of voting in the Security Coun
cil” is the “most serious disability
under which the United Nations is
now working.”
Evatt, who sat in the Security
Council and watched the Russian
delegate invoke the veto power
three times in one session on the
Spanish issue, said:
“It is a travesty of democratic
procedures when any one nation
can block the unanimous opinion
of the remainder of a council of
eleven when it is endeavoring
solely to conciliate and adjust in
ternational disputes and situa
tions.
SEASONED DRIVER8
SALT LAKE CITY, —UP)_Pol
ice Sgt. F. Clark Sanford believes
he’ll turn out some well-seasoned
drivers in his current driving
class. Among the 64 students
are Melba Sugar and Dale Salt.
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Jap Invasion U. S.
From Manchuria
By Balloon Brigade
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TOKYO, July 15, —(/P)—A Jap
anese repatriate from Manchuria
asserted today that at the end of
the war Japan was preparing to
invade the United States from
Manchuria with balloon brigades
ferried across the Pacific in man
carrying free balloons.
Lance Cpl. Isamo Takgi, who
said he was captured by the Rus
sian army and escaped, told the
story to Kyodo News Agency, add
ing that the man-carrying bal
loons, similar to the explosive
carriers which were launched in
great numbers, were perfected too
late for use.
The man-carrying balloons, Ta
kagi said, were in reality double
units, one which was to be de
tached to permit the soldier to
land on United States soil to car
ry out sabotage.
Takagi said he was with the
Japanese forces in Manchuria,
where 5,000 of the explosive-car
rying type were released to be
wind-borne toward the United
States in the last three months
of the war.
A five - square - mile, under
ground plant at Kirin was used
for the balloon manufacture, he
asserted.
He said the balloons cruised at
from 20,000 to 40,000 feet.
BELGRADE, July 15, — i/Pl—Gen.
Draja Mihailovic, former Chetnik
leader and 10 of his 23 co-defend
ants were convicted today by a
Yugoslav military court on char
ges of collaborating with the Ger
mans and were sentenced to die
before firing squads.
The bushy-bearded defendant,
the first underground leader to
attract wide attention during the
war, was given eight and a half
hours to appeal for leniency from
the Presidium of the Yugoslav
parliament.
Unconfirmed reports said the
execution will be private, provi
ded the sentences were upheld,
and that the penalties would be
exacted swiftly.
Mihailovic became minister of
war to former King Peter’s exil
ed government in England. Am
erican and British officers served
at his mountain headquarters as
liaison officers during the last
years of the war.
Prison sentences ranging down
ward to 18 months were imposed
on the remaining defendants.
It was not immediately announ
ced how soon the death senten
ces would be carried out. Two
of those sentenced to die were
tried and convicted ‘in absentia.’
Sentenced to be shot with Mi
chailovic were: Redoslav Rade
Radich, 56-year-old former com
mander of the Bratislav Chetnik
unit; Milos Glisch, 36-yea,r-old
Chetniozlu Boy; Oskar Pavlovich,
54, former Zagreb Police Chief;
Tanasje-Tasa Dinich. 55, former
Minister of the Interior in the
puppet government of Milan Ned
ic ;Dragi Yovanovich, 44 former
Belgrade Police Chief; Kosta
Musicki, 49, former Aide-de-Camp
to King Peter and Queen Mary;
Mladen Zujeich, 51, former Chet
nik commander, believed to be in
Paris, and sentenced in absentia.
Alaska Freighter
Aground
Near Juneau
JUNEAU, July 15. —CP)—The
freighter NORTHERN VOYAGER
of the Alaska Transportat ibn Co.
ran aground on a sandy beach a
half mile below Juneau early this
morning.
The vessel may be refloated at
high tide.
The Northern Voyager passed
up Juneau on its northern trip
last week because of the long
shore strike and discharged its
cargo at Skagway. It was pro
ceeding to Juneau when it went
! aground.