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“Neither Military
Nor Justice”
CtANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 12
i/P)—Captain Earl Carroll of San
Bruno, Calif., denounced the U. S.
Army’s legal system today after
receiving a smuggled appeal for
help which resulted in the dis
closure that 13 American soldiers
and civilians had been held in
army jails for as much as two
months without facing formal
charges or receiving legal coun
sel.
Carroll, who blasted the army
court martial system once before,
said it was “neither military nor
justice.”
The smuggled appeal was writ
ten by Pfc. Daniel P. Walczac, 22,
of Detroit, who was jailed June
11 for investigation in the killing
of a German girl.
Rt)b LaFollette In
Wisconsin Race
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, -(/Pi
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.,
takes his politically famous name
and 20-year-Senate record into
Wsiconsin’s primary tomorrow ag
afcfst a bitterly opposing Repub
lican organization. The race has
strong overtones of national im
port.
LaFollette is seeking the GOP
Senatorial nomination in a battle
with Circuit Judge Joseph R. Mc
Carthy, former Marine Captain
who carries the party’s state con
vention endorsement.
Was To Meet Her
Husband - He Dies
In Plane Crash
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12, —(/P)
—The U. S. Army had arranged
everything.
Mrs. Phyllis Badelate, 20, mar
rjftd less than a year, was to have
flown from Philadelphia today
to meet her husband, Vincent, an
Air Force Lieutenant.
“We regret to inform you. .
began the telegram that told of
his death in the flaming wreck
age of a flying boat that crashed
Friday into the sea off Oahu.
There’s been a mistake,” Mrs.
Badalate cried. “They’re wrong,
somehow. He is alright and I am
4$iing to see him. . . If he is dead
I shall weep at his grave.”
Hut today the young widow
cancelled plans for the flight.
She will mourn her husband at
home.
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OJIBWAY DOMICIL E—This Ojibway Indian home is just beyond the city limits of
Pickle Lake, Ontario, one of the Canadian gold-rush towns pushing back the frontier.
Two More Ships
Jewish Immigrants
Outside Haifa
JERUSALEM, Aug. 12—(^P)—Two
more immigrant ships crowded
with Jewish refugees anchored
just outside Haifa harbor today,
adding an explosive pressure to
the Palestine situation already
tense with reports of a pending
British blockade.
Arrival of the two ships brought
to 3,900, by Jewish estimate, the
number of refugees aboard ship
at Haifa or enroute who may not
be allowed to land because they
are without immigration certifi
cates.
Soldier Is Fired
%
Upon Near Trieste
TRIESTE, Aug., 12, — (/Ph- The
U. S. 88th Division announced to
day that Pvt. Sutton Fetterman
of Glen Campbell, Pa., was fired
upon yesterday on the Trieste
Gorizia road. The incident took
place at about the same point
where another American soldier
recently was ambushed and killed.
Fetterman was not hit but a
bullet punctured a tire of the Red
Cross jeep he was driving.
Fisheries Produce
$63 Million In ’44
WASHINGTON, Aug., 12, — </P)—
The Fish and Wildlife Service
reported Saturday that products
of the Alaska Fisheries in 1944
totaled 331,135,071 pounds with
a wholesale value of $63,270,100.
This was a decrease from the
' preceding year of 1,584,543 pounds
in quantity and $3,246,217 in val
ue.
Salmon products represented
76.2 per cent of the 1944 product
ion.
Youth, 19, Plays
“Russian Poker”
ST. PETERS, Pa., Aug. 12,—(/P>—
A 19-year-old merchant marine
staked his life in a game of Rus
sian poker yesterday and drew a
losing hand.
The victim was John D. Bald
win, of Pottsb/wn, Pa.
In “Russian Poker” a single
bullet is placed in the chamber of
a pistol. The “player” spins the
chamber, points the gun at his
head and pulls the trigger. The
bullet is supposed to carry it past
the hammer of the gun as the
chamber revolves.
Chester County Deputy Coron
er Jack MacShip issued a certifi
cate of accidental death. He said
the youth was sitting on the porch
of his grandmother’s home here
showing friends how the game
was played.
Secy Byrnes Is
Criticized By Soviet
News Agency
MOSCOW, Aug. 12 — (/P|—'The
i Russian press criticized Secretary
of State Byrnes today and said
the peace conference should go
ahead with its work even if this
meant postponing the United Na
tions Assembly meeting from Sep
tember 23, until the end of the
year.
“This simple, logical way, how
ever, apparently does not suit
those who already are planning
to postpone the Paris conference
in order to play some new game
behind the back of the confer
ence,” said a Tass dispatch from
Paris.
Cannery Workers
Have No Union
KETCHIKAN, Aug., 12, —(/P)—
Cannery workers in Southeastern
Alaska were without a certified
bargaining agent today following
announcement by Ira Polley, ex
aminer for the National Labor
Relations Board, that neither the
CIO nor AFL had received a maj
ority of the 1,142 eligible voters
in a recent election.
The CIO received 481 votes and
the AFL 451, Polley said.
Yugoslav Fighter
Planes Force Down
Army Transport
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 12
—(/P)—Yugoslav fighter planes
forced an American C-47 trans
port to land Friday at Ljubljana
and soon uf/erwards, the Tito
government protested to the U. S.
Embassy against “ever increasing”
violations of Yugoslavia “state sov
ereignty.”
The note said of the latest in
cident:
On August 1) at. 1:10 p.m. an
American plane of the type C-47
flew over the airfield in Ljubl
jana at 3,000 meters altitude and
circled twice. Despite a call from
j out fighter planes with interna
tional signals and even hand wav
ing for the plane to land, the
; plane’s crew did not heed these
| calls but attempted to withdraw
| in the direction of the frontier.
“Only after determined steps
I were taken by out fighters was
the plane forced to land. The
j huge plane contained eight mili
tary and two civilian persons.
“A detailed inquiry has been or
i dered. This case reveals the
j sad fact that certain crews not
only wilfully violate Yugoslav
| sorereignty but. just as wilfully
refuse to submit to calls from
Yugoslav planes.”
No comment has come from Am
erican sources.
Rockets Fall On
Swedish Territory
Stockholm Reports
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 12 —(/P)—
Swedish authorities plan to pub
lish within the next few days a
communique on an investigation
they have been making of the
“ghost rockets” that have been
streaking daily over Sweden since
early July . . . leaving little doubt
that the country has become an
experimental target range.
Official sources have declined
to speculate on the source of the
mysterious spool shaped missiles,
but it is generally believed that
the rocket-propelled objects come
from some place along the Baltic
coast of Germany. Only in a few
cases is it known that the missiles
actually landed in Sweden.
Swedish newspapers have been
cautioned not to publish the
names of places where the rock
ets appear, so that the senders
would not be provided with im
portant data.