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Show I TAH THE PAYSON rHHOMri.E. PVYSON. Parachutes, Jeeps, Halftracks, flamethrowers, 1 Plan Just and Speedy Trials for Nazi Bigwigs J'EIPJIJ, Methods Devised for War Are Cases of High Leaders; Local Officials to Prosecute W.NU pus Annly$t and Commentator. Washington, I). C. The legal profession is about to riieet the great! st challenge It has ever fated The Moscow declaration, published November 1. 1913, and signed by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin, declares that those German officers and men and members of the Nazi party who are responsible for or who have taken a consenting part in atrocities, evidence of which has been received from authoritative quarters In many countries," will be tried, Judged and punished according to the laws of those countries. This same declaration also declares In Its final paragraph that "major criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization will be tried and dealt with by Joint decision of the Governments of the Allies That is where the United States and the challenge of its legal profession comes In, The body which will try these "big shots is an International military tribunal, to be designated by an official title, probably by the time these lines are printed, and It Is before this court that a member of the Supreme court of the United States, Associate Justice Robert H. Jack-sochosen ss American chief of counsel, will appear as prosecutor. He will act jointly. It is presumed, with the counsels of the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Legal Body Without Precedent Never in history has such a legal body been convened Never has such task as the one it has bifore it been of such potential significance to of the social and political the peoples of the earth never at least, gince the day of a certain Roman procurator of Judea in Tabs tine. Pontius Pilate was unable to face his responsibility, and finding that he could prevail nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took and washed his water, hands. . . The United States docs not intend to wash its hands of the responsibility before it. There seems to be a welter of confusion as to just what the function of this military tribunal" Is; as to Just what. If any, policy has been established by the "Office of the Chief Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality," which Is the title on the letterhead before me. The permanent address of this office is. at this writing, a little uncertain, but It car be reached care of the PentaSoon it will esgon ir Washington. tablish foreign headquarters. Despite the confusion, this institution has a definite policy and I shall Interpret it Informally hereunder: (1) We shall avoid the law's delay" which so annoyed Hamlet. My reason for this assumption is the fact that Justice Jackson did not retire from the Supreme court The fdll term of the court begins in October Alieady he has made one trip to Europe for the purjnise of rounding up key witnesses and documents nd is now beginning final prepar Ron for the prosecution His staff has been assembled for several weeks and he has coordinated the other government agencies interested in war crimes (war department, navy department. Office of Strategic Services, and others). Authority for this action is vested in Executive Older 9547 of May 2, 1945, which named Justice Jackson as Amer-Jnprosecutor Jackson himself said when he was There will be no delav appointed on 'he part of the United States, and we hmk undue delay is itself a failwell-bein- n ure. There Is no confusion as to United States policy with respect to the 5ype of offender to be tried Many individual cases have alrtadv been prepared, though not yet announced As I mentioned eailier, what the United States is concerned with is the big shots, that Is Jackson's Jot) -to try the men whose offenses are bio ider than those ci mnutu d ip nnd against members of any single community To put it bioadh, those chaiged with crimes against human-it- v as a whole (2 BA wm B S Tins rules out the persons brought back to the scene of their crimes, tin trials of spies and saboteurs which are coming up daily, offenses American nationals or against against Germans, or individual acts of persecution against Jews or oth- ers other words, Jackson is after big game and he will not be content to fiddle with minor otic rises even if committed by major criminals His Job will be to nail those leaders who are responsible for engineering the whole general criminality of the program. The smaller fry will be taken care of by other legal authoritns at the scene of the individual crimes or elsewhere. In Nazi-Fasci- Jackson Versed As Prosecutor Justice Jacksons reputation and his record are a pretty good guarantee that he will not be stumped by any hurdles that international lawyers might try to put in his way. But that docs not mean he will "railroad" the accused. He will not let the trials sink below a dignified judicial level They must be, he says, trials In fact, not merely trials in name, to ratify a predeterOn the other hand, mined result. he does not believe that every step must be taken in accordance with technical common law rules of His record shows that he proof. Is a "direct actionlst" he can be expected to pull no punches I said this was the greatest challenge the legal profession had ever faced I said that because upon the manner in which these trials are conducted will depend just how clearly Nazusm will be revealed to the people of the world in its true light These criminals must convict themselves and their philosophies out of their own mouths They must not be allowed to stand before the win Id with their testimony and that of their accusers as a background, as martyrs to what Jackson himself calls "farcical judicial trials which rationalize previously settled opinThis would destroy the conions fidence of the people in the whole case for democracy, he believes. Nor must the case against them be presented in such a manner as might give even the skeptical a false suggestion that the enemies of democracy have a vestige of right on their side The small but efficient staff which Justice Jackson has selected is worth looking over. There Is Maj Gen. William Donovan, colorful World War I hero and successful lawyer, now head of the OSS; Sydney Alderman, a distinguished trial lawyer and general solicitor of the Southern Railway; Francis Shea, assistant attorney general and well versed in complicated litigations; Naval Lts James Donovan and Gordon Dean Donovan Is general counsel of the OSS. Dean, a former assistant attorney general under Jackson when he was head of the department of justice, is a brilliant and successful lawyer who is being transferred from active duty by the navy for the job There are no handwashing Pontius Pilates among them. e years Godwin already has investigated the possibility of forest fires, using bombs which m reality were exploding fire extinguishers. Thdt, however, was a number of years ago, and didn't meet with much success. It was difficult, the experimenters found, to hit the exact spot where the would do the most good, and there was difficulty in covering a sufficiently large area. Aviation enthusiasts, however, are counting upon effective bomb-sigh- t and other precision instruments to change this situation. As an alternative, they believe there may be great possibilities in the use of helicopters. No doubt a fleet of bombing planes could be used to advantage in blasting a fire out of a forest, especially with ground support from a paratrooper battalion. The use of parachute-droppetroops to fight forest fires was first tried a few years ago, and they have been seeing action in this capacity ever since. But there never has been enough of them to combat a really big fire. This number can be expanded greatly after the war, and the wartime training of paratroop combat units can bring about the organization of a formidable firefighting force. Jeep Will Be Fire Engine. When it comes to post-wa- r techniques in forest fire fighting, however, it may be not only the use of waves of bombing planes, and parachute troops to .. igment the present acforces. The ubiquitous "jeep customed to the jungle trails of New Guinea and the difficult terrain of Africa and Italy is already recommended by professional foresters as highly suitable for service as a miniature fire engine. Likewise, the "walkie-talki- e radio unquestionably will be used by the thousands to keep in contact between fire chiefs, their crewmen, aviation spotters, pilots and paratroopers overhead. "Half-trackwhich combine automobile speeds with tank and tractor ability to negotiate swamps and rugged land, can serve efficiently as big brother to the jeeps, and for use as bulldozers to scrape fire trail s to the progiess of flames Bulldozers already are essential firefighting equipment. s Even developed by the chemical warfare service may be called upon for building "back d bar-riei- flame-thrower- The rise In income payments to Individuals in the United States from nn annual figure of $66 168 000 000 in the prewar year of 1938 to a record high total of $156 794 000 000 in 1944 was extended during the first quarter of 1945, according to the Alexander Hamilton Institute Income payments during the first thiee months amounted to $39 825 000 000 this vtar as against $17 726 000.000 last year, an increase of 5 6 per cent Income from every source showed expansion Salaries and wages rose from $27,357,000,000 to $28 628,000,000, an mciease of 4 6 per cent, while dividends and interest rose from $2 454 000 000 to $2 770 000,000. an increase of 12 9 per cent Although spending bv consumers was at a record high late during the first qua i ter. it Is evident from preliminary information that consumers' income exceeded spending by an amount sufficient not only to meet taxes but to add to consumers' wait me savings thus inci easing the threat of inflation when peace returns au k b v Son e Gern an Push ess men re- American military cently aked guv ei nor of one of their c.tles how to make out an application for a loan jo rebuild the town tl e i haze I.ntish Bre idi anting of a young i omp my etfietive than calculated lying May be Goebbels was wiong after all - f 1,1 hi- - X . . ,11 b' II .'is ' nu. I i -,- a. - over ,M,S h r' s ' An til' a as i J.g li enters rc n't "g lands -- i to it i! it oui tins Ol'it m. 'o 'hi 'i,g' bid they kPf.v 'h it foe need wrap menu' e U) growth dney ton and onx w l tn whih h thev exp. ci "use th it ties war pro to K.ep a bettor vides w .11 ht over this jersistent emrry fi , ' ho ' ')' 1 1 ot ' on-tr- coniferous On Land or Sea. Navv I 0. Got? Mail Delivered fires, burning out areas in the path of spreading flames Accorrq anv-mthem would be men with fne extinguishers, to guard against the back fires getting out of control The paratrooper, however, will doubtless have a glory and a duty ail his own. His greatest service will come from the fact that he can get there first. Once a watcher from a or from a pati oiling plane spots smoke, it need be only a few minutes until a paratrooper can land within 50 or 100 yards of the blaze, and by getting there while the fire is just starting, he will be able in many cases to extinguish it without additional help g SvMeni of ..000 Brandies Roadie Remotest Islands One of the most gigantic wartime tasks confronting postal men is delivering mail to mobile units of the fleet The mounting tempo of operations m the last year means not only that greater distances must be spanned to effect delivery but that a greater number of men are involved in combat activities increasing all classes of mail to an unprecedented volume During March, 1945, 86,131,623 pieces of letter mail passed through Hoot Fost Office, San Fram isco to navy , marine and coast guard personnel in the Pacific. In March, 1944, there were 36,686,937 pieces of letter mail dispatched to the Pacific showing clearly that the mail volume increased well over 100 per cent in one year. It is expected that it will rise even farther. The nerve center of the navy mail service is in the navy department, Washington, D. C. Here, ship and plane movements are traced and communicated daily to the fleet post Inoffices by wire and airmail formation on ship and plane movements come in from all over the world by radio, letter and messenger. Throughout the world, there are over 5 000 navy post offices, varying greatly in size and appearance-so- me within the United States but the vast majority are on board ship or at advanced bases or on captured and liberated islands The large ones serving the mobile units are desig nated as fleet post offices What Navy Men Want. t Extensive surveys show that guard and rnar.ne corps per sonncl overseas above all want letters loti ei s giving local news and tolling of things done and things planned Secondly, they want objects with a personal senhmental appeal such as photographs, snap shots, drawings made by the.r youngsti rs, and ne.isjaper clippings that can be enclosed m these letters Such sun evs also show- that thev pos.tiv elv kn. w thev don't want They don t want cakes, s0f candies, cookies (igt-eeand fancy toilet kits These foods do not survive 'he trip to the Puttie a 'd amve in a ba'tcrtd moldv condition To make suro vn ,r pacx-g- e arrives ip goon cond hen folDi-msues- stums are ou'l ned 1. I e a strong container (special boxes are designed fnr thjs purpose! Hundred. But when long periods of diyness have rendered the forests highly inflammable and fires spread quickly, a radio summons from the spotters can bring reinforcements in a hurry. A single big plane may bring a score or more paratroopers; a dozen planes could bring them by the hundreds. With their faces protected by plastic masks, heads covered with padded helmets, and bodies covered with fabrics, io spare them injuries in case of tree-tolandings; and with coils of rope handy for quick descent from the trees, the paratroopers can reach a fire many precious minutes sooner than men on trucks or horseback can generally arrive. Portable devices that are strapped to a man's back are already standard forest equipment suitable for the paratroopers Somes times these are with a small tank of water. An alternative device uses water but builds the pressure behind it with carbon dioxide, either in its liquid form or in the form of dry ice " Some portable extinguishers use carbon dioxide itself to play upon the fires It snuffs them out by driving away the oxygen. Extinguishers of greater capacity and other supplies will be attached to parachutes and dropped from other planes. Meantime, the jeeps and halftracks, trucks and bulldozers will be moving up with other reinforcements and supplies. They may bring the flame throwers to build back fires, if necessary They'll bring ions; by g p g hand-pump- e artule , it with strong When about to bury Its on a h t r After landing the "smoke jumper unstraps his parachute and goes to work with his portable fire extinguisher. He carries other tools such as axes and spades. The heav'er equipment can be dropped bx pura-ihut- e when neeessarv. if age new ' -- v t ... s - r tough foii".t hie is a teruble enemv to combat It sometimes tacks on a froi t fuin one to more than twenty nulcs it) wid'h It can ee to overswiep forward at a It detake a man on homcbick velops a boat that can ignite a stun p nn re th.. l IP- v. . i removed f: m i r ear: euN to tlu spun of a toi i o Tne gnat h rtM t es. the ones we rea i about ore tie nine spectacular and do tin. fie dan age b it there ate in uhk fires, hie 000 times as many h we seldom hear about. hi !! r , e ,, . r f O f A ; Hr 1 P erful ' " h. mot f'eit.ent ansts people who ''a, l"crd start fires (x s ' tv, ? cu"-- e .1 . a C..0 .am Lincoln wroteexperience, five sen- trces wh ci, a'l of us would do eh to stuiy: If I tried to read, much ,iso anstr al, the criticIsms n" ,le attacks levpn.af n '' al against n e, this office would c' J r a" other busi-nacT r iP e Dost I know how, the mean to keep '''n on dr ne ,s dov 'o the very end. H lhe r o out all Tong I f 1 li' - f, li nf t. 'j r Js - "5d a b f. fr, J HA VI OlVjljh DEUCm FROZEh , DESSZm ViLCONOJI CinderBlock li, tit. W j prff Idrol dir'" cop, Available"' site al with H pound to relief regularly itJ c j enh,,, .BriTk "v,ann 1 had been difference. If S rr? Ut aU trewh,. ' lS said arainst meright' now will mt amount to anything." n.h . r ake no Encrf? It a nev preP1'.'th when A Slllv Rfing around. siVl'P ,s,r"-- 'r' ho was f I t v - e WE Btl Office Furniture lug M ichmes 5 SALT LAKE W Weal Broalwir overhtard f acc ,."ts cent of , th, , service is tl, ss tossu g of bim'. n ati i cs or tobacco is d sci ibed t1',- - 9, at is the fi" cd J m c 1 I Slrrt CM1 leadership based on Soviet-10which "finally overcame a (larger of defeat far greater than the one facing the Japanese at present " When the Item was carried In the Russian q was the cause for some ironic con ment by the down-t- o - earth Muscovites. One gray- - ej rip ' n SCHOOL Main . Ours t, QUISH 336 So. Ct Jo a .n e v in yoaClM log and training;! at any time. I) min OVflia The Love Letters of a Columnist: In a broadcast from Tokyo, the other day (hoard by the FCC) the Mikadomei News Agency heaped praises on Joe Stalin for his "pow- P i Success "The School Himmler, Out of a long, painful ( f-- YOUR the fox begms toremarking: praise the ter, and t.V, him he is a fine bird the rmster had better be ady ti fly for his life." C,r eat 1 bus-- To which the sergeant Intoned: IMiat do you expect from a skunk pi Hume?" 'C, I as ,u Barbt ring taughi; , a perm ment b I T LAKE I Edw. F. Gilltln top-kic- k. Trvd delay ", r j) ' v , "2 "f ti,M ,, r INST! bvrbers "Yes, indeed, mused the I will now say a few words," and he began: Dear Lord, we are now delivering up at which point he was yon stopped by one of the Tommies, who spat and said: "Lets get im underground, e smells awful! man I'm "or D mor .lo li ) c.ad,- , UNE1! ceased?" ord, thrn r and ,lt -- K. B. BOWLING said that a British soldier assigned to the job speculated In Ironic vein: "Dont you think, sergeant, that we ought to pay some touching tribute to the de- -j nrd PRINT the address In ink direitlv on the wrapping; don't use gummed labels winch fall off when tin y arc subjected to r' Eight complete with plaver benchev i bowling billj ebave for insult for fall and wins for put "Dont worry," counselled the other. "Davies is a wise and honest man. Trouble with most of our diplomats is that we appoint them to avert situations which would never occur if they werent our diplomats in the first place. ( h s Mi t .i f i. RtH,! guess-what-f- 5. moisture. Fxper 21018 London-Washingto- n in shred- pip, with ment ACTOS( anti-Sovi- ded papi r or some tiller material to prevent movenunt inside the p.u kage 3. Inside each pukigo put a sheet of paper with a list 0f the contents and the li II adonss of the person to whom it is v,,nj Plus your return iddnss 1 le the box with it in In aw employ Co . m MISCE1 t'-- e k eac h Vaeat'on ed s Pai tree Vane According to the gossip, Joe Davids flying trip to see Churchill was for the purpose of the hys- teria which has been emanating from the pipe- line in recent weeks. Capitol pohti- cos have dug deep into "the basket. In a discussion between two Administration Senators, one remarked: "I doubt if Davies will be as successful with Churchill as he has been with Uncle Joe " navy-coas- lines of hose and pumps, powered by motors which are twins to those used on row bo its With the high pressure equipment, they'll be able to combat fires m snags, dead trees which are an especial menace because they tend to carry ground fires upward to the tops of other trees. Ground Rcinforcemenfs. When a forest fire goes into the tree tops it is about as difficult to check as any fire can possibly be In an old fzrest a crown fire maybe as high above ground as the 1.5th story of a skyscraper with no automatic sprinkler system to help helpTv ers and rn,tltes i British soldiers who witnessed the capture of Lord Haw Haw gave him the English equivalent of the Bronx cheer. One yelled derisively: "Boys, the take a look at Lord Hee-Haman who brayed like a donkeyl (in the group Another Tommy commented: at ease) standing "That reminds me of the time all drivers In Britain the donkey-car- t went on strike They sent a delegation to 10 Downing street, and the man who was spokesman told Winnie: Were going to stay off the job until you do something about that fellow in Berlin, named Lord Haw Haw Our donkeys have been listening to his broadcasts, and now every jackass thinks he can be a radio commentator! fire-tow- Paratroopers Russian delegate to the Securiwas trying to throw! Conference ty sone l'ght on the muddled situation In China (for a perplexed journalreist) bifore Chiang "technically signed his premiership. B- -t why," asked the writer, "is unitv so hard to establish in Ghina, Gov't and if both the Chungking Communist guerrilla forces want to destroy the Japanese? "Perhars it is best explained by saving that it is an old custom for Chiang to fight the Communists," replied the delegate, "and he has auch love for ancient institutions that he will not look at the new moon, out of respect for the old one. A i'b "f 5 tr ti e P ( a luj i T'T Dipt Li York City. nr- - a' ex e 'he b l.m'ii t ... the t ,,f 11 I ' ,Ua"unprJ; - J l(h- - wi , paritJ Toeall00 p ".!- t it 4 A sais it t is proved during the war tli .t it ding tl e trvith can be more i- - I Host of Small Fires Do More Damage Than the Fen F.old Marshal Mannerheim, commander cf the Fii ns in their wars with Kusna, congratulated Stalin on his victory over Get many m 73 wordi S'al.n replied in 19 T' D g "KU at- The government has sold the camp In New Jersey seized from tl e Bund. It will be made into a boys' camp not a con centration camp the tops growth. M j t! li t I - the plowshares of peace, and this time Mars has some weapons that are point; to come in miehtv handy in the never ending battle against forest fires. Some very logical questions are being asked today: Why not use bombs to drop on forest fires? Why not use bombers, equipped vith precision sights, to aim these bombs? Why not use firefighting parachute troops to soon as a lorest ranger spots drop behind enemy lines or a As lire be radios for tile flying fireto transport to fire regions diffighters. Here a smoke jumper" is ficult to negotiate bv land? in The man who is expected to take making a "feather bed landing charge of this progiam is David Godwin, a veteran of the forest service, who has been active in anti-firexperimental work for a number of 1 , 'a t The swords of war become BALKIIAGE Sen lip, Union Trust Building, iid t an Minor Offenders. A to Being Adapted you s paperman : . Poetic Justice. The Teh grain of the Reichstag rcvois.il dramatic Georgi tnil Goering prosecuted blaming Dm ,tri 'T in the frame-ulivtrufT for starting the Reichstag,, Dimitroff is prose-cu,,f, e And to'tnv "leu'i Goering1 Isn't it Ralph Berendt, New worJerful? .fes of a Save Timber Resources Allied Commission to Handle I5y Fires Be Used in Peacetime to Bailie Forest sj-- e us a u y exar-l- Tv, but kept star-wl- r tf "nately at a man " H "Kn The feIlow at became 'lor ' ' 'trap-hange- i .I. ' -- r bt t i,e tT- - , the 11 other's r , at y'u so for tb r hs?c Pr 5,M' n ( lf locking 11 would be '!Wn sald: .s' ,, le "I m.yrBp;eTr'anSAered: 'No' ar ,1s blood. kldWf d m I ttrl |