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Russians Delay
Four-Power War
Crimes Tribunal
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BERLIN, Oct. 8— (/P) —Uncer
tainty over the status of the
French, Russian members of the
four-power war crimes tribunal
threatened to delay the scheduled 1
filing indictments tomorrow,
against twenty Nazi defendants in
* Nuernberg.
The United States Office of mil
itary government said the ap
pointment of Francois de Monthon
as France’s chief prosecutor has
not been confirmed. The French
delegation is not complete in Ber
lin, and American headquarters
also lacked information on the
Russians.
Cubs Take Sixth
> In Chicago To
Tie World Series
WRIGLEY FIELD, Oct. 8—{&)
—The Chicago Cubs beat out the
Detroit Tigers by one run in the
last half of the twelfth inning in
* today’s game, the sixth of the
World Series, to tie up the series
3 to 3.
The seventh game will be
played in Chicago on Wednesday.!
In the last half of the twelfth
inning, Sam Hack of the Cubs,;
poled a two-bagger with one man
on, driving him in for the winning
run.
The score, tied 7-all in the
eighth inning, went three extra
1 innings through the last half of
the twelfth, when the Cubs gath
ered in the necessary run. I
Supreme Court
Denies Rehearing
In (AP) Case
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8— (/P) —
The Supreme Court refused to
grant a rehearing on its decision
that the Associated Press must
amend its by-laws affecting ad
mission of members. The Court
by a five-three decision in June
affirmed lower court findings that
the by-laws were a restraint to
trade, thereby were a violation of
) the Sherman anti-trust Act, and
directed an amendment to the by
laws so as to prevent <7P) members
from considering the competitive
aspects of an application for mem
bership.
The court gave no reason for its
refusal to grant a rehearing.
RAY KNOTT KILLS MANY
COYOTES IN NORTH DAKOTA
Ray Knott, who killed many
wolves in the Teller district last
w year as well as teaching flying in
^ that district is now pursuing coy
otes in North Dakota using the
same tactics.
CARRYING EXPLOSIVE S—Four POW’s carry “ammo’*
onto a barge at Breraerhaven, Germany, where the 17th port unitr
Is dumping the explosives barges into the North Sea. More than
1,000 tons of enemy explosives were destroyed by this method.
United States
Must Maintain
Carrier Supremacy
ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 8—(>P)—Vice
Admiral Marc Mitscher, deputy
chief of naval operation of the air
said our carrier supremacy should
be maintained in the post-war pe
riod. He declared “Carrier based
air power is the present day me
dium for enunciating the princi
ples of naval warfare,” in a
speech before midshipmen of the
United States Naval Academy
which is celebrating its centennial
this week.
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The former commander of Task
Force Fifty-Eight said “In seek
ing bases upon which to establish
the composition of the navy of to
morrow, we must not for a mom
ent lose sight of the fact that our
carrier supremacy defeated Ja
pan.”
Telephone Strike
Stops Local, Long i
Distance In States
—
NEW YORK, Oct. 6—(/P)—The
work stoppage of telephone me
ployees over most of the nation
began at eleven a.m. PST., Satur
day and is affecting local service
and long distance calls and also
service to foreign countries.
Premier Shideliara
(Completes ‘Safe
And Sane’ Cabinet
TOKYO, Oct. 8 —(/P)— Aging
Premier Shidehara completed his
“safe and sane” government for
hungry and restless Japan, and
planned the first meeting of his
fifteen-man cabinet immediately,
even before reporting its roster to
the Emperor, which is an unpre
cedented procedure Domei said.
He would outline bluntly the
headaches ahead of the new gov
ernment. Most observers say it
cannot survive more than a few
months, and there is brand new
trouble ahead which have added
to Shidehara’s burden. Strikes of
more than six thousand Korean
coal miners in the Yubari mine
near Sapporo on Hokkaido the
cause of which was unannounced
Domei said.
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Police Occupy
Most Of University
Buildings
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 8—4/P)—
Armed police today occupied the
universities at Cordoba and Lito
ral, leaving only two of the na
tion’s six universities in the hands
of students striking in protest of
Argentina’s military government
rule.
Lumber Companies
Shut Down Bv
AFL Pickets
—
PORTLAND, Oct. 8—(^—Port
land’s two biggest lumber com
panies, both CIO operated, were
shut down by AFL pickets who
are determined to throttle the en
tire northwest lumber industry.
About two hundred fifty CIO
workers in the Inman Poulsen
Lumber company turned back
when they were confronted by the
pickets, and a hundred men em-1
ployed by the Coast Basket Ve
neer company, also CIO, followed
suit.
Meanwhile in several Washing
ton cities CIO attorneys went to
court asking for permanent in
junction against AFL picketing
which temporarily disrupted work
in CIO plants last week.
Tigers \\ hip Cubs
On Saturday;
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Evening Series
' WRIGLEY FIELD. Chicago.
! Oct. 6—(/P)—Detroit was brought
lout of their hitting and scoring
1 doldrums with a loud crash in the
big fourth inning Saturday and
scored four runs, whipping the
Chicago Cubs four to one to even
1 up the world series.
Dizzy Trout, strong-armed right]
hander put on a five-hit pitching
show, while his mates found Ray (
Prim for four safeties. Winning
pitcher was Dizzy Trout, losing
pitcher was Ray Prim.
Josef Kramer
Swears Innocence
Of War Crimes
LUENEBEHG, Germany, Oct. 8
—(TP)—Josef Kramer swore on a
Bible he was innocent of the war
crimes and atrocities committed
in Oswiecim and Belsen concen
tration camps he commanded on
orders of higher-placed Nazis.
Kramer was described as the
“Beast of Belsen” and was sealed
in a prisoners cage, trotted before
the court and said he was a loyal
Nazi, and as such, only carried out
obediently the orders of the Hitler
heirarchy.
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Marines Land To
Help Restore Order
TIENTSIN, China, Oct. 8^/P)—
United States Marines, veterans
First Division heroes of Pacific
campaigns from Guadalcanal to
Okinawa, landed at three points
in north China today to assist the
Chinese in restoring order.
Syria, a former province of the
old Turkish empire, was made an
independent state in 1920.
Gen. Yamashita
Pleads Innocent
To War Crimes
MANILA. Oct. 8—f/P)—Boast
ful Lt. Gen. Yamashita, erstwhile
“Tiger of Malaya" pleaded inno
cent of war crime after his coun
sel said the American Army had
no case against him. Immediately
the prosecution countered with a
bill of particulars which accused
the men under his command of
sixty-four atrocities in the Phil
ippines in the torture, mutilation
and massacre of more than twenty
five thousand non-combatant men,
women and children listed. The
atrocities are not attributed to
Yamashita himself.
Since his trial, scheduled to be
gin October twenty-ninth, will be
the first of a round-the-world
cries involving war criminal sus
pects the question of responsibil
ity held by the Imperial general
for acts of troops under his com
mand will need precedent to set
tle the point.
Ma jority Alaskans
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Favor Immediate
Statehood
KETCHIKAN, Oct. 8—<7P)—The
majority of persons interviewed
by the Ketchikan Chronicle were
in favor of immediate statehood
for Alaska the paper said Satur
day. Opponents showed the great
est concern over Alaska’s ability
to finance statehood without a
more permanent population and
a tremendous development of re
sources needed to overcome the
present seasonal industries.
Old Glory FI ies
Over Fu jiyama
TOKYO. Oct. 8—(/P)—Old Glory .
flies over Fujiyama, planted there
September twenty-first by a val
iant band of ten officers and en
listed men of the Twenty-Seventh
Infantry Division after a torturous
climb in snow, wind, hail, fog,
rain and rare atmosphere to the
top of Japan’s twelve thousand
three hundred sixty-five foot sac
red mountain.
The rare atmosphere played
tricks on the vision of the climb
ers who said stones and shoes ap
peared green and blue and their
eyeballs burned in the heavy fog
which cut their vision to arms
length.
Martial Law At
Kunming Lifted
CHUNGKING, Oct. 8— UP) _
Martial law has been lifted at
Kunming, the recent scene of Chi
nese civil strife during which
three American soldiers were
wounded, the Central News
agency said today.