The Havre Daily News from Havre, Montana • 1

if Vol XXXII No 43 HAVRE MONTANA RIDAY EVENING JULY 20 1945 PRICE IVE CENTS leet Seeks New Ta ts IN WASHINGTON Same Old Battle Aims trn 7 A thPkM There followed a typical rench Evacuees letuined to theh stretching and narrowing of the plosion rocked homes today as arw8 to in(jfcate of "Bv nai in correspondents But no names GreatestNumber Of Returning sentatives agreed that an unpre Soldiers Arrive Provision I narrow squeeze but make 1 it if he gives up potatoes for at the the trial (UPJ Aug Lake Liner Burns Hurting 200 was coming of two thirds 19 08 Remember ToThfc (NEA Telephoto) MMwfiM4eMwMWer 5 sti can af national com to urre state Vandenberg Wants Charter A of the reported incendiaries stoked tremendous fires In the flimsy cities that merged swiftly into general cqn flagations visible for 100 miles and more battalion held for many crit a vicious Ger 65" 46 66 59 65 10' 61 67 53 general of army was the first off He hustled into a his aide Col Rob (NEA Telephoto) his first honest to good Max 86 82 90 89 A THANK YOU! Twirling ness self grown mustache comedian Charles Chaplin sits placidly in courtroom again where he faces an other skirmish in his now famotu paternity battle with Joan Barry Both sides are appealing Chaplin the jury verdict declaring him fathert Miss child: she thf amount of compensation 675 net week Coal and Ore Miners To Get Extra Red Points Starting in WASHINGTON July 20 (UP) An extra 50 red points and an additional pound of sugar will be authorized monthly "Starting in August ftri all coal and ore it was disclosed today The office of price administra tion had decided to make the ex tra rations available to miners throughout the country after pitt ing the plan through a test in two selected localities It was adopted as a means of stimulating production in the two industries By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Easiest way to get a Hue on this new United Natlops organization and charter which the Senate will be arguing about for the next few weeks is to personalize it by seeing what Mr Edward Stet new job will be as head man of the American delegation to UNO' The Stettinius appointment is still subject to Senate confirma tion so he In yet But he has been designated by President Tru man ns representative on the interim organization which will function till UNO gets going Af ter that he has been designated as representative on the top 11 natlon Security Council and as head of the five man delegation whldh will represent this country in the 60 natlon General Assem bly1 i i i tn all there will probably be several hundred1 members of the delegation at UNO head quarters If you count the deputies alternates technical experts translators secretaries and mili tary mon But there will be about 10 top jobs one member of the Security council one or two mem bers of the Council' Military staff committee of generals and admirals five members of the of the General assembly probably one member of the Economic and Social council one member of the Trusteeship council one member of the International court of jus tice These top men will probably have the rank of ambassadors or maybe Stettinius will rank as an ambassador and the others none of whom has yet been named will be ministers There is no protocol to decide what they will be called Mr Ambassador Mr Minister Mr Councillor Mr As semblyman Mr Member or what Mr Stettinius will officially be holding two of these jobs as mem ber of the Security council and head of the five man delegation to the General assembly though he will get only one paycheck Just how much authority Coun Please turn to Pagq 5) TO PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ''V' Th Ve Under Way were mentioned inally Laguerre said he would estimate 15 inches Monsieur Le President pointed out that it was 13 miieB southeast nf Hitachf x'aliin 7 '2 Coordination of Missouri River (Basin HOUSE COMPLETES BILL AUTHORIZING PART IN INTERNATIONAL BANK WASHISGTON July 20 (UP) The house today completed leg islative action on a bill authoriz ing United States participation in the international bank and stabil ization fund contemplated under the Bretton Woods fiscal agree ments Only Mr signature on the bill remains to make this country the first nation ready to join the proposed $8800000000 monetary stabilization fund and the $9101) 000 000 international bank of reconstruction The would put a maxi mum of nearly $6000000000 in to the two funds The seriate passed the bill late yesterday by a vote of 61 16 As soon as the bill was received by the house today Chairman Brent Spence Ky of the banking committee asked the house to accept three minor sen ate amendments The house agreed without a dissenting vote The senate meanwhile began debate on another phase of the international ec onomic a bill to give the export import bank an addi tional $2800000000 for Its lending Operations That bill al ready has been approved by the house and the senate Is expected to pass it without change The two measures Involving $8800000 are keystones In the administration's program for in ternational economic cooperation Of Brutality irt Army Jail Are Published LONDON July 20 resh charges of brutality on the part of American army jailers at the U'? 8 lOth replacement depot guardhouse in England were pub lished' by the army newspaper Stars and Stripes today An anonymous Infantryman in serted in a letter to the news paper that 'American soldiers in the depot guardhouse were lashed and beaten as they stood naked in an icy latrine struck in the kidneys with clubs and made to dig holes with their teeth The soldier who signed him self said he hao not been beaten himself' but that he had witnessed brutal punish ment inflicted on the other mili tary prisoners A similar letter published in the Stars and complaint column yesterday led to official statements' that the inspector gen was investigating the incidents' The beatings were said to have taken place last December at the 10th replacement depot near Birmingham An editorial note appended to the latest Complaint by the Stars and Stripes staff said and a number of similar letters have been sent to the Inspector gen anonymous Infantryman In complaint repeated the allegation that guards at the jail were often drunk and that they said they had been authorized by the post commander to beat the prisoners "Since I know nothing will ever come of this except the possibility of a few transfers of the writer concluded "I suggest that these men handle German SS troops instead of ruining the out look on' life for our own GIs 65 70 o5t 15 68 i wo Hiiperiortresses less man one half of one per cent oftjtlpB striking force were lost attack One was shot down in flames and the other was Ws seriously wounded Thursday mornihg when he attempted to break into a night club one mile west? of Deputy sheriff 8am Pesley aaici hotel room would be searched this morning for evL dence of other recent burglarfee' Nahatawas shot byCal Witt man ovrner of the night club af 1 ter the railroad worker had cht through a screen broken a dowand half why into the ciub In NY Today NEW YORK July 20 Seven shins were arriving New York port of einbarkatton today with a total of 31465 troops from Europe the greatest num ber of American soldUra to ar rive home in a single day since VE day The entire 44th infantry di vision 14766 of ficerh and men was due aboard the huge liner Queen Elizabeth Six other trans ports had docking' orders and army reception centers in this area buckled down to the busi ness of preparing steak dinners for 26779 GIs The other 1661 arriving on the hospital shipr rances Slanger will be taken to Halloran general hospital in Staten Island for rest and treatment Most of the 44th division sol diers will be bomb when they enter the harbor because the out fit was composed originally of New York and New Jersey na tional guard units A Salt Lake City officer Maj Gen William Dean 1 their commanding general Men of the 44th were attached to the Seventh army and were deep in at Imst Austria at day They met their bitterest test in Vosges mountains where the 2nd a 4000 yard front leal hours against man attack Th Monticello home with 7037 soldiers Includ ing the 23rd and 38th regiments of the Second (Indian Head) di vision The Second was organized at Bourmont rance for WorldWar I and was in at the finish in the tide turning battle of Meuse Argonne OMAHA Neb July 20 (UR) Coordination of the Missouri river basin development programwas underway today after he first executive vsession of i the in ter agency committee composed of' four governors and representa tives of the corps of engineers department of interior federal power and the depart ment of agriculture The committee met yesterday arid to "coordinate the planning construction and ad ministration of the mul tiple purpose development pro It was formed March 29 as an on the spot group fo make plans and decisions for develop ment of the river under the Pick Sloan program evolved by the corps of engineers and the bu reau of reclamation Inter agency committee includ ed Govs Dwight Griswold Ne braska Sam ord Montana and Lester Hunt Wyoming and Duffy appearing foi Gov Phil Donnelly Missouri Brig Gen Roscoe Crawford corps of engineers Corn stock interior department Greene federal power commis sion A McClymonds depart ment Of agriculture and more than a score of other representa tives of the bureau of reclama tion federal 'power commission brireau of Irrigation department of' agriculture department of in terior and assorted state groups The committee will make a con solidated report of all going projects in the basin Gen Craw Mrd chairman of the group said the report probally would be available within 60 ays He periodic reports as Possible Easing of Shoe Rationing Is In Prospect Today WASHINGTON July 20 A luuit piriiciiui supply Ol leather shoes and a possible eas ing of shoe rationing were in prospect today for American civi lians The war production board and the office of price administration announced last night that 10 500000 more pairs of leather I shoes would be made for civilians in the fourth quarter of this year than in the current quarter An OPA official said the civi lian shoe situation "looks a lot and that rationing would be eased "when the supply war He declined however to be more specific Th next shoe coupon airplane stamp no 4 becomes valid 1 ranco May Break With alange and i a A Reorganize Govt MADRID Ju) 20 sweeping reorganization Spanish government was today in an apparent move by 'Ten rancisco ranco to break the falange and smooth way back into the good graces of the United Nations Autori tatives sources said ranco might announce the shakeup today and thnt it definitely would be made public within the next three or tour days There Informants said only four members of the falangist eabinefwould survive the purge the ministers of labor finance education and interior Even these holdovers reportedly were to be retained only because ranco feared too sharp a break with the falange might arouse popular resentment Chief victim of the cleanout was expected to be' Jose Luis Arrese qniniater without port folio and secretary general of the falangist "party whose two posts were slated to be eliminated com pletely' One puzzling aspect of the re organization was the scheduled removal of Jose Lequerica as for eign minister Lequerica was named to tho post last August and under his guidance Spain severed relations with Japan embarked should not he said be placed in ment with the Allies and more importantly began cutting down the power of the falange Well informed quarters be Ani sacrificed to counterbalance the removal of Arrese his main opponent in thefalange Soong Predicts War Will Be Over Late in 1945 or Early in CHUNKING July 20 Premier Soong who recent ly conferred in Moscow with Generalissimo Josef Stalin pre dicted today the war against Japan will be finished late in 1946 of early in 1946 He made the prediction to cheerinr delegates at the neonle 'pdlftltal cdiiticil meeting in their i closing session Soong told the delegates his conferences with Stalin were not yet completed They were broken off temporarily prior to meeting at Potsdam with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman Soong withheld formal com ment on results of the conference He told the PPG the entire Chinese governmental machinery will he reorganized shortly ADVERTISING IS THE VOICE THE PRESENT NOT THE PAST Mlq Pep Campaign for Two Term limit Will Commence Soon WASHINGTON July 20 Republican committee headquart ers here is expected shortly to open the national campaign to Impose a two term limit on pres idential service ssHouse republican7 leader Joseph Martin Jr Mass already has put the party leadership on record for a limit He argued that thijrd fourth terms could lead to abuse of power such as to be destructive of our institu tions The line of argu ment wis so phrased as to he an indirect accusation that de struction had begun during the late President latter administrations The will seek the limita tion from two directions both ie quiring a constitutional amend ment An effort will be made to persuade congress to submit such an amendment to the states But since a democratic congress might be expected to shy away from a republican proposal of this kind an effort also will be made to initiate a constitutional amend ment among the states There will be some democratic support a constitutional limi tation upon the period a President may serve But to submit a pro posed amendment 'to the states a two thirds majority of both house and senate are required The alternative method of sub mission is upon the application of the legislatures of the states The democratic it tee is exnected legislatures to take the initiative Seventeen states already have tenure limitations upon their gov ernors It is argued that if a state sees fit to limit service of its governor it should be agree able io limit the service of a President Prison'er Strangles 'BILLINGS? July 20 (UP) Donald Walrod 38 strangled himself in the city jail today af ter he was arrested for driving while under the influence of liquor He was found by police officers when they opened his cell to con fine a new arrest Walrod they said had tied his belt arQUmj the cel crossbar only four feet from the floor and strangled to death' The offi cers also discovered that Walrod had attempted to cut his wrists with a belt buckle Telephoto) Universal starlet Poni Adams and Lt Tom Turnage Houston Texas embrace after their surprise mar riage at' irst 'Mhodist Church Hollywood The honeymoon will save to wait until' she finishes her role in in Paradise" Great Lake pauenter liner after it caught fire at Port EdwardOnt with 225 paiaengera aboard Small boat ihown in foreground stands tjy to take off survivors ire spread to vesiel from the 1000 foot long freight docks which were kvelcd by the blaze Huge ires Rage Through ive War Centers On Honshu Island New Blows rom 150 American Battlewagons Cruisers Other Ships May Be Impending 'GUAM July 20' Adm I I Truman Speaks Of United Stars and Stripes Hoisted Over Berlin In Ceremony Thursday POTSDAM July 20 Pres ident Truman speaking briefly at a Symbolic hoisting of the Stkts and Stripes over Berlin today that oplya)mwas world wide peace and pros perity' involving no territorial ambitions Mr Truman speaking against the backdrop of the historic Big Three conference said want a single piece of territory from this war We want peace and prosperity that is what we are fighting for and that is what we propose to Truman was flanked by the American chieftains who took leading roles in the defeat of Ger many Geh Dwight Eisen hower Secretary of Henry Stimspn Gen Omar Brad lev and Gen George Patton whose presence in Berlin for the Big Three conference was revealed for the first time The flag was raised at th over group control council headquarters in a former air de fense barracks in the Dahlsm suburb was the one lifted over Algiers and Rome It fluttered over the capital when a state of war wijh Germany Italy' and Ja pan was declared Truman spoke for five minute at the ceremonv wedged itfhV th1 round of Big Three conferences pver which the obscuring veil of secrecy still hung Adm Emory Land American war shipping administrator and' his staff were revealed to1 have arrived to join the Big Thred Cori sultatlons They reached the clos ly guarded Potsdam compound yesterday is a historic occasion! 'rrumar ceremonv: ly proven that a free people successfully look after the fairs of the were blasted into the sky The (Interoffice memo: I have just uiter 1 main dump containing hundreds measured Herbert Kin who jULo'ihi Vu '3 of thousands of tons of TNTJ expects to sit in on the trial for P0881 by Bomber pilots returning from for I the five way strike said their OR VICTORY BUY United States Savings Bonds and Stamps 4 Space at Petain Trial at Minimum Writers ight Battle of The Bulge PARIS July 20 (UR) Mon sieur Le President of the high court of justice asked Monsieur Le Ditecteur of information to day for a formal opinion on the average width of the foreign cor respondent measuring across what the rench delicately call the "Derriere The request was incidental to to preparations for the trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain where space will be at a premium Since the European war ended thfe correspondents have done a lot of sitting around This con tributed to the so called middle age spread which the rench fear will hamper coverage of the trial That the sharp eyed rench had been observing this battle of the budge was quite evident when the question arose as to how many correspondents could be accommodated in the Petain courtroom Andre Laguerre of the ministry of information told the court he thought he could squeeze In 40 rench and 40 foreign' correspond ents Pondering judicially for a mo ment Pierre Mongibeau presi dent of the court remarked: Le Directeur in your opinion how big across the seat is the average foreign cor at the Burnside naval arsenal in 'the1 wiike of a series of explosions which killed one person and in 1 jured at least 17 others under control and the possibility A compromise on 20 inches aiders disappeared bla8tS waS Sma11 and was reached and press repre President Would Have To Notify Congress Of Authorization WASHINGTON July 20 Sen Arthur Vandenberg Mich suggested today that the President be required to not ify congress any time he author hjos his delegate to the new world organization to vote" for use of torceTigainst an aggressor Vandenberg said he believed such a provision should be writ ten into legislation setting up the office of delegate to the United Nations Security Council It should not he said be placed in the United Nations charter itself which the senate expects to rat ify next week Vandenberg a delegate to the San rancisco conference where the charter was drafted outlined his views after Sen Moore Okla introduced a resolution proposing that the delegate re port to congress before voting for the use of sanctions Moore offered his resolution with the suggestion that the sen ate adopt it as a statement oUnromised policy before ratifying the treaty progress is made in development He proposed that the policy of the huge basin (Please turn to Page 2) The aatie Daily DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE DEVELOPMENT NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA IjrUAlU iJUiy ZU MJrJ HUIU William marauding fleet was reported prowling the Japanese coast for a new air pea strike today While huge fires still raged through five Honshu war centers gutted during the night by a record force of 29 Superfortresses Shaken by 11 days and nighta 3 of intermittent naval attack's dur ing which Anglo Amerl can raiders sent 7500 tons of 7 bombs and shells crashing into 600 mile strip of Pacific coast Tokyo warned that the as sault might be resumed at any moment The Japanese said 150 battlewagons carriers cruisers and supporting warships were still maneuvering off western Honshu after thrusting into the mouth of Tokyo bay rly Thursday morning in an effort to lure the battered imperial fleet into bat 5 tie leet Adm Chester Nlmltz gave no additional details on the bombardment ot Nojima cape western arm of Tokyo bay or the prelimlnliry air 'strike on the Yokosuka naval base Wednes day indicated Halsey had imposed radio silence on his ar mada possibly covering a new blow at the enemy coast v' More than 600 Marianas based Superfortresses the biggest 29 fleet ever sent aloft sowed a 3 IQ mile trail of fire and ruin across central Honshu before dawn this morning to carry thepre invasion bombardment into its 45th con secutive day Thundering In tq the attack A around midnight the giant sky raiders splattered almost tons of jellied gasoline fire bombs 4 on the teeming industrial cities of Hitachi Okazak! Chqshlarid ukui and the Nippon oil refill ery at Amagasaki in the suburbs fYcolro i i e' Tdky6 west of Nagoya and TakahkiL A Aussies Push Toward Rich Oil Belt Around Samarinda MANILA Juiy 20 Ans toward the rich oil belt around Samarinda and the moqth of the Makaham river in eastern Borneo today after capturing Sambodja 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan Both Australian' and Dutch East Indies troops smashed two stub born Japanese counterattacks in the area north of Balikpapan and grip on Borneo's rich oil' supply appeared tristly weakened' Before the war Sambodja and the Mahakatn river delta to the north produced 7000000 barrels ot oil each year from 400 wells Sambodja has a sriiall refinery as well as a pipeline leading to the Mabakam delta The Dutch began destroying wells in the two areas three days prior to the Japanese invasion in 194 2 but It is believed that all but a tew haye been put back into operation Australian in the Balik papan area fqund an enemy 200 millimeter homemade mortar with 100 pound bomb The mortar was built from oil pipes but there was nothing of how the Japs planned to fire it WEATHER Bulletin prepared by the US weather juiy au Maximum yesterday 90 Minimum last night 62 Temperature at 1:00 to day 91 i Prefcipitatlon for the 24 hours ending at 12:30 today 0 Sunrise tomorrow 5:38 a Sunset today 9:14 HAVRE ORECAST Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday scattered thunder storms tonight continued warm? MONTANA ORECAST By United Press i West Of the continental divide Cler to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with widely scatter ed thunderstorms over mountains Saturday afternoon Slightly warmer tonight tonight 65 to 65 East of the continental djvide air to partly cloudy this af ternoon tonight and Saturday with widely scattered thunder storms extreme south portion this evening spreading to northeast portion tonight Warmer this af ternoon Continued warm tonigiit ana saturaay Low 55 to 65 Temperatures station Billings Butte Glasgow Helena Kalispell Lewistown Miles City Missoula National: Bismarck Chicago Minneapolis NewYork Seattle 84 83 85 78" 89 89 81 77 Lt Gen Ben Lear Gets Chorus of rom Troops BOSTON July 20 (UP) Lt Gen Ben Lear strode down the gangplank of the transport Mari posa today while behind him echoed a chorus of from hundreds of home coming aboard the ship Staring sternly ahead the de puty commander of the European theater of operations and former commanding ground forces the troopship staff car with ert Griffin Behind them echoed the of the remaining personriel aboard the ship 2833 veterans of the European (war experiences dated from early war dayswhile he was golfing on a course In Tennessee where some girls were playing in shorts riding past in trucks at the girls The general Ordered the soldiers out: ot the trucks and made them march 4'" Jap Laborer Caught BILLINGS July20 (UP) Yellowstone county authorities today believed a series of Billings burglaries had ended with the ar rest of James Nahata 27 Japan ese railroad laborer who was i Daily News Evacuees Return To Halifax Homes ire Under Control HALIAX Juiy 20 KUR) of further blasts was I remuie Explosions rocked the city for cedented qualification for jour 18 hours Wednesday night and nalistic' ability had been achieved yesterday as tons of explosives interornce memo: and other ammunition was the United Press it will be a spared rrliz atararl ohnarrl a tied up at the Arsenal pier Naval spokesmen said the one lead was a naval sentry on duty when the first powder blew up at 6:45 Wednesday His name was withheld pending noti rication of the next of kin ive of the injured were listed as soldiers They were treated for burns and aboard the hospital ship Letitia More than a dozen civilians were injured most of them by flying glass City officials estimated the loss in broken windows lm Halifax Dartriiouth and nearby towns would run over $1000000 The evacuation of city residents be gan soon after1 the first blast ships 1 IfMP tew I 1 I r' ff SZ A i 53 v' x' 5 I ''X SV rVi a'' 4 oooeOW MW Ml av Mglfgk.