2 PortI-MONDAY.AUG.4,i;47 Ltg JllgCltg CjmCS ured S.S. Colonel Describes How is Glider Troops Rescued II Duce Cqpt C r T 7 .1- V. Nazi War Crimes Prisoner Recalls Episode of 1943 J Aug ian i i was - i' ' v 9 . DEAD Phyllis Peterson, left, shown talking with friend.. f Miss Peterson died mysteriously after spending Saturday :"- . night cafe partyirig with Galen W. Bay, attorney. r:Muorney, neiu,in. Leurn of Woman After Partv A, 36-year-old attorney and Air orces veteran was DooKea yes- terday oh suspicion of murder ! pending irivestigatlori,: after he : wheeled the body of a .red-haired waitress into the Georgia Street ; Receiving Hospital and- asked : for help. j He" Is Galen W. ' Bay, 3854 J Third ' Ave., husky Insurance counsel and a former' military trial judge advocate. The dead '. woman, identified throiigh fin- gerprlnts ' In' police files, was ' Thyllis Peterson, 29, also known ;as - Mary, Murphy, of 205 N-; Broadway. Bay appeared at the hospital shortly before 7 a.m., attendants said, and sought aid from one of the . nurses, Miss Marilyn Stein-hoff. He asked for a wheel chair. Pead or Drunk K " inirSCeinhoff .quoted- Bay as r. saying: "I have a girl in my car "outside. ' She's either dead or ;;dead drunk." :l She was dead. 1; ; Bay told a story of making a f 'pickup and then visiting a num-ber of bars when questioned by Det. Lt. Roy Vaughn and Det. Sets. Stewart Jones, Gene Stein .and Richard Hobson. 1- He met Miss Peterson he couldn't remember that he had ever heard the name, however, at a Vermont Ave. cafe just off Wilshire Blvd. She was with a friend called "Hazel" and "Larry," the attorney said. There was an argument and he escorted the two women from the restaurant, : !. . Autopsy. Today When they stopped at another bar for a drink, they became separated from "Hazel," Bay told the detectives. He took Miss Peterson to his home for the night. She was in a drunken condition, he said. "When I woke up this morning, well I thought .the best thing was to head for the hospital," Bay said, v At the hospital doctors examined the woman's body. It was completely clothed in slacks and sweater. The doctors said that a rupture may have been a contributing cause to the death; An autopsy will be held toda3 Detectives found Bay's cottage home in dishevelment, many of the furnishings being packed in cartons. There was, however, no sign of a struggle. Estranged from his third wife, Bay had been occupying the premises alone. v . . . . 400 War Frauds Boat GqpsizesiRoyall ReporS Man reared Lost, One Safe ; Ona man,wa3 feared drowned ;and another1 swam more than 'four miles to safety yesterday .after the small boat from which ' they were fishing capsized off Las Flores Point. Alan V. Moore, 32, of 313 S. Ave. 69, told deputies at the Sheriff's Malibu substation that he and hi3 cousin, Otis Harrison, 40, a resident of the Sawtelle Veterans' Hospital, were in the boat. which capsized in the early .'; afternoon. V j '. - .r ; - They clung to- the overturned -craft for a time, he -said but -when they appeared to be drift- -ing to sea they decided to swim fon shore, a distance of more 'than four miles. ", Thatwas at 2:30 p.m. At 9:25 p.m. Ned Oshkins, 21644 Roosevelt Highway, found Moore exhausted in his patio and tdokhim to the Sheriff's substation. ... ; , Lifeguard stations dispatched several boats to search for Har-.rlson, but lifeguards expressed doubt that he could have survived. Moore, who was treated for shock and ' immersion, said the older, man ' was' a strong swimmer". ' California Youth Up for 'President' ; WASHINGTON, Aug. '3. (V- :The Boys Forum of National Government, an American Legion-sponsored event, tonight chose Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates to head a mythical Federal government. The 103 boys divided into 'Tederali.n" and "Nationalist" parties. The "Federalists" nominated Ed Gong, 16, of Miami as their Presidential candidate. The Nationalists" named Thomas W. Bush, 17, of Huntington Park, Cat- - - - i Times Dhoto QUESTIONED Galen W. Bay, attorney, held after driving body of Phyllis Peterson to hospital. Wildcat Rubber Strike Brings Union Warning DETROIT, Aug. 3. U.R) In an unprecedented action, the C.I.O. Rubber Workers Union International, clearly worried by the penalty clauses of the Taft-Hartley law, publicly warned a group of wildcat strikers to return to work immediately. j A progressive walkout by 450, U.R.W. members at the Detroit! plant of the U.S. Rubber Co. July i 24 broueht idleness to 7500 work-! ers within two day3 and a shut-j down of the plant.- The company has maintained during the 11-day strike it would ! not negotiate on the dispute over work standards while the strike jf went on. j The international, in an ad-if vertisement in a Petroit paper, said the strike was unauthorized and in violation of contract. In an obvious reference to the new law, the statement added that the strike "may result in irreparable damage to j-ou as indi viduals and to your organiza tion." DACHAU (Germany) Aug.. 3. (P) A romantic Ital- merchant who thought he as only playing cupid helped Adolf Hitler rescue Benito Mussolini, according to a story told here today three years after . the death of II Duce. The story came from the prison cell of S.S. Col. Otto Skor-zeny, giant paratrooper whose feats made him the most publi cized German soldier of the war. I The 6-foot 5-inch Skorzeny wrote ! a 42-page account of his abduc-: j tion of Mussolini on Hitler's ! orders. j Meeting the press in advance of his trial on charges of violating the laws of war, Skorzeny also denied he ever tried to kid-', nap Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. I , But he said he snatched Hungary's Adm. Nicholas Horthy 1 ' from the advancing Russians. I I Hitler's Orders J Skorzeny's personal account of I his capture of Mussolini after a I crash glider landing high in the 1 Apennines is a lurid tale of der- lr Hitler in the spring of 1943 after the Italians installed Marshal Badoglio as head of the state. "He (Hitler) informed me," saM Skorzeny, "that he was firmly resolved not to leave his friend Mussolini in the lurch and to prevent under all circumstances his extradition to the Allies. Mussolini was for him not only an ally but he also called him his one and only great friend, 'the last of the ancient Romans of the Caesarean tradition.' " Long Search Under Gen. Kurt Student, the S.S. colonel said, he set out with a staff of five to find II Duce, well hidden by the Badoglio gov- J U.N. to Press Balkan Plan in Face of Red Veto LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Aug. 3. (U.R) The United States will revive its vetoed plan for a Balkan border watch in the United Nations Security Council tomorrow and serve notice to Russia that another veto will not block the western powers' efforts to check the strife between Greece and her neighbors. A fresh proposal for long-range trouble-shooting machinery will be laid before the council by acting American Delegate Herschel V. Johnson, an official source said. Russia killed the original plan with the great-power veto only five days ago. The American resolution will be introduced this time under the punitive chapters of the U.N. Charter in support of the formal request by Greece for U.N. enforcement action against Com munist-governed Albania, Bul garia and Yugoslavia for their alleged attempt to upset the Greek government and .install Communism in the country. New Veto Expected It was expected to bring another Soviet veto and then another series of maneuvers by the western powers to keep the grave Balkans case alive until the 55-nation General Assembly convenes here Sept. 16. An American official said Johnson will re-emphasize America's stake in Greece under the Truman Doctrine, but that he will promise to exhaust every ave nue of the U.N. before consider ing any move outside the U.N. to build a fence between Greece and the three northern neighbors. This would amount to rejection, for the time being, of a Greek plan to invite countries which favor the Balkan border patrol to set up a commission on the Greek side of' the border in defiance of Russia's refusal to let the Security Council keep border-watchers there. Soviet sources said, meanwhile, that Deputy Foreign Minister Andri Gromyko is ready to make a foredoomed fight for his pian to clamp U.N. controls on American aid to Greece, to force the withdrawal of all foreign military . personnel;; f ro m Greek territory and to-bar any military aid to the Greeks. ft- WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (U.R) Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall reported tonight that 400 cases of fraud on war contracts have been reported to the Justice Department, resulting in the indictment of 3S8 persons and 31 corporations. The individuals and corporations indicted were involved in 71 war fraud cases. They paid fines totaling $386,412 and a large number of prison sentences were imposed. Reporting on his activities as Undersecretary of War, Royall said that : 56 civil cases- involving War Department contracts have been disposed of with set tlement or judgment for a total of $10,508,871.49. 1,188,029 Contracts Let He reported that the depart- ment awarded 1,188,029 contracts during World War II. Renegotiation and settlement have resulted in a saving of $2,100,000,- 00Q gross and $633,000,000 net recovery of excess profits the last two years. With renegotiation SS'i per cent complete, he said, recoveries during and since the war now amount to - $6,900,000,000 gross and $2,100,000,000 net, including $3,250,000,000 in savings from voluntary reductions. JFire Sweeps Sequoia Area PO.RTERVILLE, Aug. 3. (ZD-Twelve hundred acres of good timber have been destroyed by the fire back of Grasshopper Flat in the Sequoia National Forest, Fire Dispatcher Robert McGee said today. McGee said 130 men are on the fire line but that there is little chance of bringing the blaze under control earlier than tomorrow. Carrying food, bedding and other supplies for 120 men fighting a fire in the Sequoia National Forest, a plane piloted by Paul Mantz, Southern California air pilot, is scheduled to take off tomorrow morning from the Lockheed Air Terminal, Bur-bank. The flight is to be the third to drop material to the crews battling the blaze in an area difficult of access. Col. Otto Skorzeny SUICIDE SUCCEEDS AS 'HUMAN TORCH' MIAMI (Fla.) Aug. 3. (JP) Mrs. Marie Batista, 27, died in a hospital today five and a half hours after she covered her body with a paint thinner and made herself a human torch, Det. Thomas B. Lipe reported.. Quick-Thinlcing Policeman Saves Life of Armed Fugitive John E. Nagle, 23-year-old escaped trusty, owed his life to a fast-thinking policeman yesterday.' - Nagle escaped from Los Ange les Harbor General Hospital Saturday night. Carrying a gun police said was stolen from a. home at 1319 Pllza del A mo, .he was cornered in a field near Nor-mandie .Ave. and Sepulveda Blvd. As Officers Roy Haber- man and L. O. Riggs called on him to surrender Nagle drew his pistol, saying, "You'll not take me alive." . Haberman drew his. gun and pulled the trigger. At the same time, Nagle dropped the stolen gun so Haberman iammed a finger beneath the falling hammer of . his own gun, preventing the shell from exploding. Nagle was booked at San Pedro station on suspicion of burglary. ernment. Skorzeny scoured Italy for four months. In September, he heard Mussolini might be held in the Apennines near San Grasso. He spoke to an Italian merchant: '"I invented a girl friend from Rome who had fled in fear of Allied bomb attacks and begged him to help me send her a love letter. The Italian informed me that the San Grasso Valley wa-? entirely cordoned off and that the resort hotel evicted its per sonnel and the only way of ac cess was out of bounds of all traffic." Secrecy Gitcs Cine The man, still anxious to try to deliver the "love letter," reported to Skorzeny later a rumor that all the secrecy had something to do with Mussolini. Skorzeny prepared 12 gliders, each with nine men, and took off for the 6000-foot aerie. The first two crashed almost as soon as they took off. Behind a cloud bank the others dove on the mountain. Skorzeny landed 50 feet from the hotel. The Italian guards were too surprised to act and "the hotel was surrounded without resistance." ' ' " rianned Suicide "I reported to Mussolini: 'Duce, the Fuehrer ha3 sent me as a token of his loyal friendship.' Mussolini embraced me and assured me that he had daily expected his extradition to the Allies but that he would have put an end to his life beforehand." Skorzeny decided to take off from an improvised field in a Storch plane, built for one or two passengers. "We almost reached the brink of a cliff when a ditch suddenly cut straight across our path. We hopped over the ditch and coasted over the brink. After a drop of perhaps 1000 feet the pilot succeeded in gaining control. The plane flew over the valley just above the ground." Tn Patlca de Mare, they transferred to Luftwaffe transports and flew to Vienna, thence to Hitler's headquarters. Skorzeny goes on trial Aug. 18 with eight of his fellow S.S. men charged with using American uniforms in efforts to spread confusion behind the Allied front lines. 'Flying Disk' Reports Lost in Plane Crash SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. (U.R) An .Air Forces general tonight indirectly admitted that "classified material" regarding . the mysterious "flying disks" was aboard ? B-25 bomber which crashed in Washington Friday, but declined to comment on reports that the plane , carried pieces of a crashed "saucer," Brig. Gen. Ned Schramm; ,4th Air Force. chief of staff, admitted the two Aimy pilots who died in the crash were investigating the saucer episode. At the time "of the crash Schramm said, Capt. AVilljam L. Davidson of San Francisco and 1st Lt. Frank M. Brown of Val-lejo, were en route back to Hamilton Field following an interview with Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Ida., and United Air Lines Capt. E. J. Smith. (At Boise a newspaper quoted Smith as saying that he gave the two officers six pieces of metal or lava which may have been parts of a crashed ' disk, Smith, according to the newspapers, said the pieces were ex tremely heavy and Showed evi dence of having been subject to extreme heat.) r . i i ; 1 1 hj r'i J.;' 1 ' ' - K v..'i: - - Wlrephoto WITNESS Elliott Roosevelt, left, and" Atty.' Joseph Sharfsin arrive in Washington. Former will testify before ; Senate committee on Howard Hughes' wartime contracts. EHiotf Won't Gomment Pend irig His Testimony NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (U.R-.El-liott Roosevelt 'said tonight that-until he testifies at the Senate hearing on the Howard Hughes war contract he has no comment to make concerning reports that he was lavishly entertained on Hushes' money. . . Roosevelt, who left LaGuar- Elliott Expense Bills Sought by Committee WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (U.R) A Senate War Investigating Committee source said tonight that the -committee has asked, the War Department to furnish copies of some of Elliott Roosevelt's Army expense vouchers for trips pn which he allegedly was ' lavishly entertained at the expense of Plane Maker. . Howard Hughes. This source said the committee . wants to know "just where : Elliott was and did" on the dates mentioned by Hughes' party-giving press" agent, John W. Meyer, in hi sensational testimony yesterday. - dia. Field tonight a board a Washington, plan e, described himself as a "voluntary" witness in the War Investigating Subcommittee inquiry.' .' His wife, the former Faye Emerson, who also . figures hi tes timony of entertainment . supplied by Hughes In his bid for a war contract, was not at the field. Roosevelt said she is in Dennis, Mass., and' "is appearing next week at the Cape Cod Play house." .. Wearing a mustache, glasses and a bow tie with a white shirt and dark suit, the son of the late President was in an affable mood while he waited with his attorney, Joseph Sharfsin, former Philadelphia City Solicitor, to board his plane. "I saw. a lot of headlines today," he told reporters in reply to questions about John W. Meyer's testimony that $5083 ,was spent on entertaining ; him. 'I haven't read, anything carefully. I have no comment until I've had a chance to speak for. myself. I will be very glad to answer all inquiries at that; time." Silent on Inqftiry vvnen ne arrived m. Washington he was smiling and , to all appearances completely care free, but declined to discuss the case with . reporters who met him : at National Airport. He said he is prepared to 6tay as long as the committee wants me." It was learned, however, that he hopes his stay will be short.; Officials of the American Airlines said he had booked return passage for New York at 8:40 p.m. tomorrow. Store Bandits Take $10,000 Two bandits last night escaped with an estimated $10,000 in cash and checks, the week-end receipts of a food market at 6130 S. Western Ave., after tying up a woman clerk and. forcing the manager to open the store safe, police reported. Manager John McCafferty, 264S S. Carolina St., San Pedro, told police the two men apparently had been hiding in the store when he locked the doors at closing time. The clerk was Dorothy Clark, 2138 W. 109th St. Four tie as Plane Crashes Into Sea CRESCENT CITY. Aug. 3. (U.R) Four persons were killed when a small btinson monoDlane crashed and sank in the ocean here late today. Coast Guard officials said the bodies of Mrs. Walter Hale and Mrs. Clyde Evans, both of Redding, Cal., had been recovered. The other bodies had not yet been brought from the light plane. It was believed, however, they were the husbands of the two women. PEPPER GALLS ELLIOTT'S FUN 'BAD JUDGMENT' Storm Hits Wires YUMA (Ariz.) Aug. 3. (JP) A windstorm knocked out radio and wire communications three miles east of Aztec, Ariz, (about 50 miles east of Yuma), this afternoon, disrupting communications for about an hour. Continued from First Page tal argument continued between Hughes and Sen. Brewster (R.) Me., chairman of the full committee. Brewster said today he hopes to expose "what I .would term the whites of his lies" when Hughes takes the stand this week. In a radio interview he said he is waiting to see "how far he (Hughes) - would - be willing to go" in reiterating under oath the - charges he has ' made against Brewster. Brewster ' took, occasion to deny that he has any direct or indirect connection with- Pan American Airways. Hughes has charged in California that Brew ster put offers to call off the investigation into Hughes' contracts if a merger were arranged between Pan American and Trans World Airline. Hughes owns a major share of stock in T.W.A. "I think the records of the committee will show there is nothing whatever to that suggestion," Brewster declared. Started in 1942 He said that the investigation of the Hughes :contracts began in 1942 with a public hearing by the committee July 30 of that year under the. chairmanship of President Truman, then a Democratic Senator from Missouri. He said the committee has acted unanimously on all aspects of the inquiry, with the four Democratic members going along with the six Republicans. Told there was a report that Sam Pryor, former Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, had agreed to back Brewster actively for- the 1948 G.O.P. Vice-Presidential nomination" if Brewster would aid Pan American, the Maine Senator said in the interview that he thinks Pryor would be otherwise "preoccupied." J A lot of people would be inter- ! . j -i : .u. i esieu in Allowing me man who might be able to "deliver" the Vice- Presidential nomination, Brewster said, indicating that he does not believe any such individual exists. The chairman said the committee is primarily interested in the Hughes inquiry in finding out . why the government spent or committed approximately $40,000,000 and "up to this time hasn't received any-thing for 'it.' ' ; ' . .Tells of. nans Ferguson, announced: that Roosevelt,, appearing' without subpena, ; will be asked to sit down alongside Meyer on the stand and supply answers where the former found his memory at fault. He kept Meyer under subpena for appearances through Friday, apparently as part of a determination to have him available for testimony when Hughes appears. Hughes has said he doesn't want to go through any such dual witness procedure. He" has said " he will be here Wednesday, ignoring an order to appear "forthwith." Meyer's wartime draft record also may be laid before the committee, tomorrow. Sen. Cain (ft.) Wash., who brought up the sub ject, said he wants to know whether Meyer actually entered into the negotiation of contracts as Cain said was stipulated in a draft deferment affidavit signed by Gerald Coxe of the Hughes company. Lam said Mes'er had six de ferments. Meyer replied that he had four dependents, , father, mother and two . aunts. . Pepper told a reporter he thinks that , the names of others who enjoyed entertainment paid for by Meyer on Hughes' expense account ought to come out. adding: ' " ! ( ' ' . "Elliott Roosevelt was not the only one entertained during the war." - . Germans Pillage Harvest Fields ; in Gun Battles BERLIN, Aug. 3. (JP) Germant pillaging crops fought gun battles with German vigilantes and police assigned to guard the harvest in the American zonet-Gen. Lucius D. Clay's semimonthly report to Washington disclosed today. ; Seven shooting affrays oc- curred during the last two weeks of July in Hesse. In Wuerttemberg-Baden, mors than 400 persons overwhelmed a small German police force protecting potato harvesters -and su pervising the collection of potatoes. Reinforcements were sent into the .area .to establish roadblocks and seek to recover the potatoes. . With winter approaching Germans are roving the countryside by bicycle, rattle-trap automobiles and train to lay in food supplies.. Considerable of the absenteeism in industry is attrib-" uted to this search for food. : Coal Needed' The Military Governor said that more than one slice out of every two of bread eaten by the Germans in the British-American zones during the year . ended June 30 came from American farms. It was paid for on a 50-50 basis by American and British taxpayers. . , r On the industrial front, - tht Military Governor said production of iron and steel and chemicals, which had been rising since spring, dropped abruptly because of the coal shortage. Steel output dropped about 10 per cent during the month when coal allocations were reduced by 30 yizi. vein. - Although hard-coal production in the British-run Ruhr has been sufficient to support an industrial output which would make-Western Germany self-sufficient. Authorities are looking to forthcoming conferences in Washington-to devise methods of raising the coal level. v Boots Mallory : and Actor Marshall Wed Film Actor Herbert Marshall and Eleanor (Boots), Mallory,-former 'screen actress, were mar-' ried yesterday in Santa Barbara.: Actor Nigel Bruce -served as. r' I -1 i I Roots Mollorv Dest man ana Airs. &. mcnara Rill of Montecitn was matron nf honor. A small group of Holly-' wood personalities attended the Dlace in Memorial Charjel of the First Presbyterian Church.. Dr. Joseph Ewing, pastor of the church, officiated. The bride, a onetime Ziegfeld Follies beauty, is the former wife of William Cagney, film producer and brother of Actor James Cagney. She obtained a di- . r MM ... t- t..i.. yo 194o, after 12 year? of marriage. It was the third marriage for Marshall. He was formerly wed to English Actress Edna Best and Lee Russell, a professional model.": .-, ' Long Overdue Biplane Sought The Coast- Guard and Army, last night were searching for a biplane long overdue at its destination. - Piloted by Gene Timpe, 20, ; former Navy airman of 531 N. Gramercy Place, the plane left-Central Airport in Compton at 9:30 a.m. Saturday for a three-hour flight to Las Vegas. With; Timpe was a friend, Bob Birnie. They planned to fly to- Bryce Canyon via Xas Vegas, Boulder City, Cedar City and St. George, returning today. Bad Wiring Delays Odom World Flight ' CHICAGO. Auz. 3. U.PJ Capt. Bill Odom's round-the-world solo flight in a converted attack, homhpr todav was postponed tin- til tomorrow because of defec tive wiring in the plane's direction finder. - No Bread iii Strike BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3. (U.R) Buenos Aires and its environs were without bakery bread today as the strike of 10,000 bakers went into its third day.